Age of Adepts

Haysas City.

It's not the harvest season yet, but the residents of Haisas these days are as excited and happy as a festival.

When the paladins with bright armor and majestic demeanor escorted the rattling wooden cage of the prison cart through the street, the whole city boiled.

Witch... So this is a witch!

Since the alien witches invaded the Envik plane, the Zambes Empire has been plagued by witches.

They plundered mines, robbed high-level resources, and acted recklessly as if the entire Envik plane was their own back garden. Sometimes, even in order to punish some places that refused to allow the witches to enter, they still release the plague there, without any regard for the casualties of ordinary people.

It is these bad deeds and terrible crimes in the past hundred years that made the people of Zambes hate these foreign witches, and they are filled with endless hatred from the bottom of their hearts.

Therefore, when the just and strict paladins, who are the embodiment of light and justice, successfully captured the terrible witch from the dark forest, and stuffed her into the wooden cage of the prison cart, and when they rumbled through the streets of the small town, all the sea Residents of Sass rushed to the streets, welcoming the witch with broken vegetable leaves, cold dirty water and sharp stones.

People chased after the prison cart, cheering and throwing stones at the shivering witch hiding in the wooden cage. It can be seen that this witch was once an exceptionally beautiful woman, with a proud figure and a delicate and perfect face.

It's a pity that the deep-seated hatred made her suffer a lot in the hands of the paladin, and now she is locked in a cage like a wild animal by the paladin, allowing ordinary people to scold, attack and insult her.

This kind of extreme injury and fear of death made Lena no longer radiant and charming before. Her hair was loose, and the cloth robe on her body was broken into strands of rotten cloth strips, unable to cover her body at all.

The exposed skin was covered with dense scratches and black and blue bruises, and the once smooth and white skin had begun to wither, and wrinkles and scabs appeared like dead tree bark.

With loose hair, Lena glanced numbly at the cheering crowd around the wooden cage, letting the tattered vegetable leaves and sharp stones hit her body, but she didn't even have the intention of covering or dodging.

"Burn her..."

"Send her to the stake..."

Whenever similar loud shouts erupted from the crowd, Reina's body couldn't help twitching violently.

Her heart is full of hatred, her heart has been filled with boundless hatred.

It's a pity that her wrists and ankles still wear terrible prison shackles, made of metal, made of special magic metal, which is difficult to be damaged by corrosive spells such as acid. And on the inner edge of the shackle, there are countless fine metal spikes pierced into the flesh, and a slight movement will cause severe pain like piercing the heart.

A special mouth mask was worn over Reina's cheeks, and a metal walnut the size of an egg was inserted into her mouth. With these, Reyna lost the ability to chant spells and gestures to guide spellcasting, even without guards.

As for those instant low-level witchcrafts, they couldn't be used in this wooden cage filled with all kinds of strange runes. Although the Envik plane is a low-magic world, the study of magic has not relaxed at all.

They can still research this kind of anti-magic enchantment that uses holy light as the source of power!

The cage where Lena was held was sent directly to the Holy Light Chapel in Haysas City, where more and more paladins came from all directions, and there were as many as five third-level golden knights alone.

There are so many golden knights, of course, not to guard a rookie witch who is no more than level 2, but to protect the core materials of the witch formation that were found from Lena.

The attack on the Witch's Tower at the Dabire Heights has been going on for half a year. Although the Zambes Empire side suffered heavy losses, the Witch's side is also at the end of its battle. If the current trend continues, as long as the paladin coalition with a powerful empire behind their backs bites the bullet and is not afraid of the necessary sacrifices, it is possible to break through the Witch Tower in three or four months.

If at this time, the Witch Tower is allowed to obtain this batch of witch formation materials and repair the internal cross-plane teleportation witch formation, it means that the huge casualties of the Zambes Empire in the past few years have been sacrificed in vain. Therefore, even though the battle on the front line was so tight, the paladins and the empire's coalition forces still sent back three powerful golden knights to join the paladins near the city of Haysas to protect the witch and the materials of the witch array.

And the 4th-rank holy knight Ade Kale, who was heading to the northern part of the empire, also started to turn around and come to join the holy knights in Haysas City. Once there are 4th-level holy knights in the formation, they will be able to spare enough manpower to escort the witches and materials back to the imperial capital.

Only in the imperial capital, there is nothing to worry about in terms of safety!

Therefore, on the third day after Witch Reina was escorted into Haisas City, seven days before the arrival of the fourth-level holy knight, Greem in disguise also sneaked into Haisas City with the flow of people.

The city of Haysas is now under martial law, and the Chapel of the Holy Light is closely guarded by the paladins who came from all directions. The guards and checks on the periphery are in charge of the Haysas city guards, but there are still small teams of paladins in key positions such as city gates and passes.

In order to prevent the witch's companions from mixing into the city of Haysas, military control has been implemented here, and the checks on the gates of the city are extremely strict. Ordinary business travelers and convoys are refused to enter, and can only temporarily stop in a few nearby towns.

Greem, who had just heard the news from the dark forest, had no choice but to intercept and kill a Tier 1 black iron knight halfway, then put on the armor of the paladins, rode a tall horse, and swaggered to Haysas city ​​gate.

Seeing the signature paladin armor on Greem's body, the city guards gathered at the gate of the city to strictly check the passers-by immediately saluted, and some people quickly ran to inform the paladins who were in charge of stationing here.

After a while, three paladins rushed out of the city gate with a dozen or so apprentice knights, and quickly came to Greem's horse.

"The light is with us! This brother from afar, I don't know which chapel you are from?" The three leading paladins are all 1st-rank black iron knights, and the leading one is nearly middle-aged, with a full beard , enthusiastically kowtowed to Greem.

Greem jumped off his horse, knocked on his chest as well, and said, "The light is with us! Hello, my name is Jedric. I'm from Baldan City on the edge of the Avery Mountains, and I'm traveling around the Dark Forest. We are summoning the power of the Holy Light, and we came here on purpose, hoping to contribute our meager power!"

"So I came here from Aveli. I said why do you look so unfamiliar? Welcome, brother, Haisas welcomes you!" The leader of the paladin asked with a smile on his face: "My name is Helite , I am on duty at the gate of the city today. By the way, I remember that Old Christopher was in charge of hosting at Baldan, and he and I had a drink together. How is he now, is he still in good health?"

Greem followed the other party slowly into the city, shaking his head and smiling, "Your Excellency Christopher is too old. He was disarmed and returned to his hometown of Winterspring five years ago. Now it is Alamand who is in charge of everything in Bardun." ?Your Excellency Greythorne, but seven months ago, he also brought a large number of brothers to Darbyley..."

How could Greem, who had already obtained key information from the memory fragments of the paladins he had intercepted, be deceived by the other party's small tricks of words? A few words resolved the other party's doubts and made the other party feel at ease.

After sending Greem into the inner city, the leading knight smiled regretfully and said, "I'm sorry, brother, I can only send you here. I also need to receive Brothers of the Holy Light from all over here. Let Totti take Go to the chapel! When you get there, you need to report to Vindicator Ansera first, and he will assign you specific tasks!"

The two kowtowed again, and Greem, led by a trainee knight Totti, walked slowly towards the most majestic Holy Light Chapel in the city.

Although Haisas City is already under martial law, there are still nearly 60,000 residents in the city, so people are coming and going on the street, and the lively and noisy atmosphere is no less than usual. However, seeing two paladins in bright armor passing by, all the residents rushed to the side of the road and bowed to salute.

Greem could tell that they all sincerely admired and revered these believers who acted on behalf of the power of the Holy Light. There is no compulsive element in their respect, it is all from the heart, from the heart.

It can also be seen from this that in the plane of Envik, the strange power of holy light has indeed penetrated into the hearts of the people, and has become the embodiment of light and justice!

The sincere admiration and reverence from the people also infinitely inspired the apprentice knight Totti's sense of professional honor. He walked beside Greem, his young and immature face was full of excitement that could not be concealed, and he secretly looked at Greem. The eyes of the exquisite and gorgeous armor are also more enthusiastic and envious.

As a trainee knight, Totti was only wearing ordinary fine steel armor, and there were no complicated and exquisite runes of light engraved on it. The holy knights above level 1 are all wearing holy armor blessed with the power of the holy light. Whenever they condense the power of the holy light, the holy armor and the power of the holy light will merge and interact with each other, thus forming a kind of holy armor. light protection.

According to Greem's test, the first-level Black Iron Knight's holy light protection can probably resist about 140 degrees of elemental magic damage. And when Greem was still a level 1 wizard, the strongest single burst fireball he could arouse was only about 115 degrees of power.

This also meant that a Tier 1 black iron knight could completely resist Greem's fireball attack and rush to his side, chopping him down. Of course, the longest time for Greem to cast Tier 1 Explosive Fireball is no more than 3 seconds. Therefore, if a Tier 1 wizard and a Tier 1 Black Iron Knight are fighting, the Paladin will undoubtedly have the upper hand in a small indoor space.

However, if the field is wide enough, and the level 1 wizard has strong mobility, the black iron knight will be killed by the kite. After all, it is impossible for anyone wearing a heavy armor weighing tens of kilograms to be as fast as a thief!