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Chapter 205 The Final Moment of Crisis
At this time, the morale of the Catalan Sphinx troops that came to attack collapsed.
After all, the last captain was killed by the monks, and those who were "ambitious" and wanted to make military achievements also died in the siege of the monks.
Now the only ones left are those who just want to get by and get paid. When there are centurions, the morale can be maintained, but without them, the morale collapses directly.
Those who had Sphinxes simply rode on them and ran away, while those who had no mounts simply knelt down and surrendered.
The battle on the ground of the floating city was over in an instant.
Xiaobai fell from the sky and turned directly into a human form.
Nini jumped off her neck very smoothly and landed on the ground.
Xiaobai: "Li Guang! My meat! Is my food reserve all right?"
After Li Guang finished his retreat, he replied, "No Catalan or sphinx has ever gotten through my defense. Your meat should be safe."
Xiaobai: "I'll go down and take a look!"
After saying that, she ran away.
As soon as she left, Rosalie came up from underground accompanied by a very young lizard man: "I saw Xiaobai, she said the battle was over, so I came up to see. Is the battle over?"
Li Guang: "Yes, Your Highness, please send the militia to disarm the surrendered Catalans."
Rosalie turned to the lizardman child beside her and said, "Go down and tell the slightly injured members of the vigilante group to move."
However, before the child could pass on the message, the wounded captain and boatswain came up with the wounded members of the vigilante group.
Captain: "I'm ashamed that the responsibility of defense was left to Master Li Guang alone."
Li Guang: "You have tried your best and you have done a good job."
Rosalie gave the order: "Go and accept the surrender of the Catalans, detain them, and interrogate them thoroughly later. Check the ground to see if there are any wounded people who were missed during the retreat just now, and collect the bodies."
After the members of the police group dispersed, Rosalie turned to Nini and said, "What's the situation in Shallow Water City? But with the king here, there shouldn't be any problems."
Nini: "The dwarf is dead, and his body has been destroyed by the Withering Spell. He cannot be resurrected directly using the Resurrection Scroll."
Rosalie nodded. She hadn't reacted yet and continued along the same line of thought: "It's really nothing serious... Wait, isn't this a big deal? In all the heroic hymns I've heard, there's no mention of people dying in the middle of the story!"
Nini: "It's okay. The king has convinced the lich. Tomorrow, when he changes the prepared spells, he will use Limited Wish to restore the dwarf's body, and then use the resurrection scroll."
Rosalie: "Oh, that's good...wait a minute! He convinced what?"
Nini: "A lich, and the same one that attacked us in Monrovia."
Rosalie was so shocked that she was speechless.
Nini said in a senior tone: "You should get used to this kind of development."
Rosalie: "Doesn't he ever pick his teammates? Liches are evil creatures, and they attacked us before!"
Nini: "But in the end, the lich helped us resolve the crisis."
As she spoke, she described how the enemy's master and agent had come directly to attack her and how the situation was extremely critical.
Rosalie exclaimed: "Is it so dangerous? I thought you - our rescue team would always be lucky and successful."
At this time, Xiao Bai came up while chewing a large ham. He just happened to hear the second half of Rosalie's words and said, "As the first person to join the rescue team, I'll tell you one thing. As long as Wang You's eyelids twitch, a very critical situation will definitely occur.
"The last time his right eyelid twitched, he was out of control. He was about to commit suicide and summoned his uncle to rescue him, but Her Royal Highness used Charm Human on him to prevent him from doing so."
Rosalie: "And then what happened?"
"We were able to escape danger in the end, but I still get nervous when I think about it. This time, I didn't feel anything, because I was suppressed by the mighty power of God the whole time and couldn't move or think.
"But this time the dwarf is dead, and it would be difficult to revive him. Who knows what disaster he will encounter the next time his right eyelid twitches."
Rosalie: "Wait a minute, we were attacked as part of the disaster. Many members of our vigilante group died, including humans and lizardmen. My sister almost died.
"Should we just cut off the king's right eyelid in the future? That way it won't twitch anymore."
Nini: "The disaster didn't happen just because of my right eyelid twitching. According to your method, we will lose the 'early warning'. No, this is not good."
"That's true." Rosalie nodded. "So what's the situation now? Is the crisis over? Now that the Nine-ring Lich has joined, the crisis should be over, right?"
Xiao Bai: "When we arrived, he was preparing to bring the lich to summon the undead army and use the undead army to fight against the Catalan invaders - Hey, should I not say this? After all, if it gets out, it will be bad for the reputation of the Savior Team."
Rosalie: "You really shouldn't say that. Fortunately, no one else heard it now."
All the members of the vigilante group have gone to work, and the only ones still standing at the underground entrance are Rosalie, Nini, Xiaobai and Li Guang.
Rosalie: "In short, although the crisis is not completely over, the most dangerous moment has passed? Am I right?"
Nini and Xiaobai nodded together.
**
Catalan Embassy.
General Tullius, the commander of the Catalan Legion, loudly questioned the messenger: "Is there still no news about the Agent and the Master?"
The messenger nodded: "No."
Then he added cautiously: "Will they be eliminated by the rescue team?"
“How dare you!” General Tullius scolded, “Your Highness, the Princess - the Lord Agent will not be defeated so easily! Especially with a master protecting her! He is a ninth-ring spellcaster, and may even have entered the realm of legendary spellcasters!”
At this time, a messenger ran into the Catalan Embassy library, which was used as a command room by Tullius: "General! Undead creatures are attacking the main entrance of the embassy!"
Tullius: "What are the chaplains doing? Dispel the undead creatures!"
The military chaplain replied worriedly, "These undead creatures are not common undead creatures. Using prayers to disperse the undead creatures will not directly destroy them, but will only cause damage. The number of times a chaplain can use prayers to guide divine power is limited every day.
"Although we can barely cope with it now, as long as the undead army continues to attack, it is only a matter of time before the priests run out of energy."
General Tullius held the sword at his waist and walked to the window to look at his subordinates who were fighting against the undead army in the yard.
His adjutant stepped forward and said, "General, let's retreat back to Catalonia through the portal. His Majesty won't blame you. After all, who could have thought that a lich would suddenly appear and summon an army of undead?"
Tullius said angrily, "Go back now? Tell His Majesty that we abandoned his daughter? Tell the Imperial Master that we abandoned the cult's agent? Do you also want to become a tumor monster of the cult?"
The adjutant immediately fell silent.
The cult's fanatical followers felt that being transformed into that kind of monster was a blessing, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it was being transformed into a monster, a torture more terrible than exile.
There are still many ordinary people in the Catalan army.
Although the number of ordinary people in Catalonia is decreasing.
General Tullius continued to watch the battle below from the window.
The adjutant spoke again after a brief silence: "It is not our job to fight against the undead. This is the duty of the Church of the True God and the Knights. The undead army is endless, and the fallen soldiers will quickly join them."
The chief chaplain of the army said, "The fallen soldiers stood up so quickly, which means the lich is nearby. If we can kill the lich directly, the undead army will lose its reinforcements. This may be our only chance of winning now."
General Tullius: "Can you locate the lich?"
"The place where the breath of death is strongest is here. Every priest can—"
General Tullius interrupted the chaplain and said, "Lord Lancelot, what is that?"
He saw a tall creature covered in a black robe, with knee-length bony hands and a pair of evil, glowing green eyes under the hood!
The key point is that it seems that he has more than one pair of eyes. There is another pair of eyes hidden in the dark below his green eyes.
Tullius: "This thing is so evil, it must be the lich himself! Where are the paladins? Have the paladins in the legion charge it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the holy warrior shouting from outside: "Devil, die!"
The light of the Supreme Saint Slash lit up, like the morning light that dispelled the haze.
**
Wang: “Are we going too far?”
Elzam: "Quack! It's a paladin! Get out of here!"
Wang: "No, you are a lich. People who see you should be panicking. Why are you panicking first?"
Elzam: "Isn't it natural for me, a lich, to be afraid of paladins?"
Wang: “…That seems to make sense!”
Fortunately, the legion's paladins were blocked by a large number of undead creatures and could not get through for a while.
Seeing this, the king quickly retreated.
Wang: "I know how weak you are now."
"I'm not good at fighting," Elzam replied, "I didn't expect there were so many holy warriors in the legion. It seems I can only use the strategy of consumption. I have more people!"
Wang: "Fortunately this is Shallow Water City, where people die every day and there is no decent Orthodox Church. If you were in a city with better security, you wouldn't have so many corpses to pull. If there was a Lancelot or Typhon Church in the city, and a regular knight order, your army might be destroyed by the Holy Knights instead."
Elzam: "What a waste! That's all! Just watch my undead creatures drown them! Then the Savior Squad will show up and let me die in style."
Wang: "It's hard for me to imagine how you're going to die handsomely. I think the last time you were killed by Elizabeth and I's fusion with the enhanced version of the scorching ray was the most handsome way for you to die."
Elzam: "Nonsense! In my long career as a lich, I've died in at least two more handsome ways than this!"
Chapter 206 The Arrival of Another Catalan Army
Just as the king was about to answer Elzam's words, the paladin had already killed through the barrier of undead creatures.
This is a team of five holy warriors, each of whose bodies is shrouded in a pure white, soft light. Seeing that light will remind one of the gentle spring breeze, which will in turn lead to a series of associations.
That association formed a sharp contrast with the bright light of the Supreme Slash.
Wherever the Holy Slash hits, no matter whether it is a skeleton or a ghoul, it will collapse. Even the zombie with the strongest survivability cannot withstand the second blow.
However, the zombies resurrected by Elzam will burst pus, all of which are corrosive and can have the effect of slowing down the paladin.
The king turned and ran.
He never expected that when he was about to reach the final stage, he would be chased all over the street by five holy warriors.
Elzam above him was still stubborn: "Humph, it's just that I don't have high-level spells. If I did, I would kill you with just five paladins."
The lich can speak. After all, his speech is actually telepathy. If you don't want others to hear you, just limit the number of people who can hear you.
As soon as the king opened his mouth, the holy warriors behind him might have heard it.