Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

Using floating airships to drop magic bombs is a very primitive way of air strikes, but it is much better than the previous method of turning the shapeshifter Duncan into a griffin beastman to drop bombs. In this sky area where only high-level extraordinary people can get involved, it can be regarded as an epoch-making super weapon.

Among the three floating airships, only Tommy, the main force, is responsible for carrying and dropping bombs, and the other two are mainly for cover and assistance, to prevent possible attacks from high-level spellcasters.

When the magic bombs fell into the air, the main airship floating over a hundred meters above the palace could clearly see the terrified eyes of the guards and knights on the palace wall. Many people raised their crossbows and shot in vain at the sky, but ordinary weapons had no way to reach the height of the floating airship.

The bomb accurately hit the dome of the palace's council hall. With a loud bang like the collapse of the sky and the crack of the earth, a red fireball suddenly burst out and quickly rose into the air with a thick cloud of dust. The entire council hall was engulfed in flames. The gorgeous architectural decorations carefully built and carved by the palace craftsmen were shattered by the impact of the explosion. The air wave of the explosion swept around the hall, and the blazing flames quickly spread to the palace garden next to the council hall.

For a time, the entire palace was filled with thick smoke and spreading fire. The court nobles and guards fled in all directions. Many people found that the high walls of the palace had the effect of blocking the fire. They crowded and pushed open the palace gate that was completely unattended, and fled for their own lives.

Then, the airship slowly floated over the Glorious Cathedral of Saint Valen...

What surprised them was that only one high-ranking priest flew out of the cathedral to meet the enemy - probably the church forces in Saint Valen had sent their main forces to the border of Daeus to fight against the Federation.

This priest did not seem to be a combatant. He was immediately targeted by several long-range sniper rifles on the airship less than a few dozen meters into the air. Then, under three precise shots, a huge blood mist burst out of his body, and it fell directly from the sky onto the dome of the main hall of the cathedral.

The cathedral also opened its doors, and a large number of believers and low-ranking priests rushed out like frightened birds. The attack of the airship on the palace just now was witnessed by almost the entire city. Staying in the cathedral now was undoubtedly seeking death.

After a loud bang, this Glorious Cathedral, which was famous in the central part of the continent, also turned into a pile of ruins in front of the terrifying magic technology.

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"The defense of the city wall has completely collapsed." Pierce rode the magic car to the flagship on the river bank and reported the progress of the battle to Harvey in person.

After standing up, he slightly turned his head and looked at the two billowing smoke rising from the inner city in the distance with a complicated look, wondering: "My lord, why do you only allow us to control the two sections of the southwest city wall and part of the outer city... Our real enemies, the royal nobles, the church and the royal court dignitaries, are all in the inner city?"

Sending only a few airships into the inner city to carry out single-point bombing of the palace and the church does not seem to play a decisive role in their complete occupation of the city.

Harvey chuckled, "Do you know how many nobles there are in the royal capital?"

Not counting the court nobles who are as numerous as hawks and dogs and have no hereditary and fiefdoms... There are probably hundreds of hereditary nobles with large and small fiefdoms around Jinhui City alone, and Jinhui City, as a super-large city in Saint Valen and even in the middle of the southern border, has nearly 30,000 people living there.

It is almost catching up with the rapidly expanding population of Spark City.

"We only have 3,000 soldiers. If we put this number of troops into the densely populated capital, it will be easy to get stuck in a quagmire that is difficult to escape."

After all, in the eyes of the local people in Jinhui City, these northerners are also "invaders" in the real sense. Moreover, they set off two earth-shattering "big firecrackers" in the inner city as soon as they arrived. Everyone is afraid that the terrifying means that fell from the sky will fall on their heads.

So Harvey made two preparations for how to conquer this city from the beginning - the three floating airships are not all used for bombing missions. The two airships other than the main airship also carry tens of thousands of "public opinion warfare weapons".

When the shadow of the airship passed over the city, the originally terrified and desperate people were shocked to find that countless snowflake-like pieces of paper fell lightly.

As the most prosperous city in the central part of the continent, the literacy rate of the people in the capital is far higher than that of ordinary towns and villages. Many educated small vendors or citizens raised their hands to pick up the snow-white paper falling from the sky and found that it was written in bold fonts - it was actually printed in batches using expensive alchemical printing.

[People of Jinhui City, I am Harvey Floyd, the mayor of Spark City in the north. ]

[As the initiator of this war, my purpose is very clear - to overthrow the corrupt rule and ignorant beliefs of the Church of Light in the country, and to cleanse their slander of the spellcaster for spreading plague and assassinating the Grand Duke. ]

[In order to prevent the harm of the war from affecting ordinary people in the city, I promise not to send soldiers directly to fight in the city, but to send my war airships to the inner city palace every day to carry out precise strikes on the target until the church and the royal court dignitaries declare their surrender to me. 】

【After the war, I will completely reduce all unwarranted taxes imposed on the people of the capital, completely abolish the city entry tax, head tax, additional tax, marriage tax... and completely exempt the people from labor conscription. 】

[Before this, please do not go to the inner city palace and the Glorious Cathedral to avoid being attacked. ]

What does this mean? Many literate people were stunned after reading the content on the paper.

On the gallows platform at a square at an intersection in the outer city, a man dressed as a local ordinary citizen was standing on it, holding a stack of papers that fell from the sky in his hand, and preaching something at the top of his voice.

"Everyone listen to me... Come and see what the northern lord said. He said that he would not send those barbaric soldiers from the north to fight in the city, but would only let his terrifying weapons that can fly in the sky directly attack the palace and the church..."

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"He said that after the war, he would exempt all the taxes previously imposed by the nobles, and would no longer recruit the people to work for the nobles for free. We don't have to worry about being summoned to the battlefield on the border!"

"What if it was just a lie made up by the northern barbarians to win people's hearts?"

"I think it's believable! After the city gate was breached, those vicious black-clad soldiers really only occupied the area near the city wall, and did not rush into the city to burn, kill and loot!"

"Yes, I sneaked close to the city wall, and those soldiers just warned me to leave quickly. God! I almost thought I was going to be killed by them!"

The people in the audience gathered more and more and talked about it. Although many people were illiterate, they could still understand the simple words.

Compared with the dispute between the spellcaster and the church, the promise that His Majesty the Grand Duke was seriously injured and would no longer arbitrarily impose taxes and force people to work... made them feel very excited.

At the same time, such public announcements took place in almost all densely populated areas of the outer city, and soon ordinary people living in the outer city of the royal capital more or less learned about the news.

Many people couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope in their hearts - those powerful people in the palace... just surrender quickly!