Noble Emblem

It was almost noon when the waiters discovered that Beta and others were missing the next day.

Looking at the empty floor, the leader of the waiters was so frightened that he almost peed his pants. When the situation was reported to the Papal Hall, the Pope was quarreling with the archbishops. He was already extremely agitated. When he heard the news, he almost fainted on the spot.

Holding on to the edge of the table and barely standing upright, Pope Gus asked with a blue face: "How could it be possible to disappear? How did they do it? Our barrier is activated, even if they can break it with brute force, but It should also cause a shock to the barrier, but now the barrier is fine, but their people are missing!"

"Could it be teleportation magic?" An archbishop said, "Beta is very good at teleportation magic. The large teleportation arrays we have in Hollevin are his handiwork."

"Even teleportation magic must pay attention to the basic principles of magic." An archbishop said: "Magic enchantments can affect space. Teleportation magic will cause obvious waves of time, space and magic power whether it enters or exits the enchantment. As long as you are not a spellcasting idiot, , you can feel it.”

Gus looked left and right and said, "He must still be in the city. Search and find a way to find him."

Several archbishops nodded at the same time.

In the following two days, Nata City conducted an intensive search, but even though the entire city was turned upside down, Beta and his three women were still not found.

The Wealth God Cult army outside the city has begun to advance towards Nata City.

"What is going on?" Pope Gus felt incredible: "He should be in our city, but why can't anyone find him? I even used the little luck trick, but it had no effect."

The so-called little lucky spell is actually a kind of cause and effect magic that can solve some very weird and weird problems. After all, it is like asking people for directions and the future.

Although it is said to be a small lucky spell, it is actually a fifth-level magic, which is quite advanced.

The reason why it is called the 'Little Lucky Technique' is because there is also the 'Great Lucky Technique', which can even resurrect the dead. It is a forbidden technique at the legal level and can only be mastered by people above the demigod level. Even gods can master it. Many people cannot learn the 'Great Luck Technique'.

Beta doesn't know the little luck trick and doesn't have that talent. After Gus became the Pope, he mastered the Little Luck Technique, but when he used it, it was at the cost of his own life, so he rarely used it.

Two days later, the Fortune Cult completed the siege of Nata City, with nearly 10,000 troops stationed outside the city.

A letter of challenge was handed to Pope Gus, to the effect that Pope Beta had not contacted them for three days. They suspected that he had been detained by Nata City, so they must release the Pope as soon as possible, otherwise they would immediately attack Nata City. .

"These despicable bastards." Gus angrily tore the letter of challenge into pieces: "It's none of our business that they disappeared! We also want to know where they went. No wonder they disappeared. Was it for this excuse? ?”

A group of archbishops stood and looked at the furious Pope Gus.

After a while, Philip took the initiative and said: "Let's fight. The war has come. It's useless for us to just retreat. Your Majesty, please make a decision immediately. Every day that passes, the strength of our soldiers will decrease by one point." , If this continues, within ten days, we will have no power to fight back. "

Philip's reputation among the archbishops is quite high, and his opinions can, to a certain extent, guide the thoughts and concepts of other archbishops.

There was some silence in the house, and Gus's breathing was very obvious.

After a while, he gritted his teeth and said: "No matter what, we can't just admit defeat, otherwise how will others view our Storm God Cult in the future?"

The archbishops nodded. They had to resist symbolically for five or six days, otherwise they would not be able to live up to their reputation.

In the mansion magic space, Emma looked at Beta with a speechless face: "You are too bad. You deliberately hid yourself and didn't let anyone find you. In this way, you gave your army commander a reason to attack the Temple of Storms. ”

Beta chuckled: "There is no way. The Storm God Cult and the Zoroastrian Cult have secretly formed an alliance. If we don't deal with the Storm God Cult, we will have to guard against sneak attacks from behind when dealing with the Zoroastrian Cult. It's too troublesome. Let's just take this opportunity to get rid of it once and for all. ”

Emma thought for a while and asked: "So, how many days do you think the Temple of Storms can last?"

"No more than ten days."

In fact, Beta still overestimated the resilience of the Storm God Cult.

After handing out the letter of challenge and still not seeing the Pope, the troops from the Waking Temple immediately launched an attack early the next morning.

Huge boulders and giant wooden spears were thrown at the city from three directions. Although they were blocked by the magic barrier of Nata City, people in the city could feel that every stone hitting the magic barrier would cause damage. There was a sound like thunder.

And the continuous throwing of boulders and wooden guns caused a seemingly endless thunder.

The Cult of Wealth was not in a hurry to send soldiers to attack the city. After bombarding it with giant trees and boulders for almost a day, they temporarily retreated one kilometer to camp and rest.

However, nearly a quarter of the internal magic stone reserves in Nata City's magic barrier have disappeared.

The next day, the bombardment continued.

Although there is no giant wooden gun, things like giant rocks are very easy to make. The army chaplain can easily make it by turning mud into stone, and then throw it out by the trebuchet, saving time and effort. Some priests with extraordinary talents can also "turn mud into stone" to make giant stone guns.

Another day of constant bombardment.

The tactics of the Wealth Temple army were formulated by Beta himself.

The Wealth God Cult is very rich, so naturally they will not treat their own people badly in terms of military equipment. The guards and priests of the Wealth God Cult use the best standard equipment, and the logistics are also the best. The dry food is not only available in many styles, but also can be eaten freely. The most important thing is... siege armament.

Beta stipulates that, except for special forces, any field force must be equipped with breaking crossbows and trebuchets. For every fifty men on average, there was a trebuchet and a lathe crossbow.

Moreover, the trebuchet and bed crossbow have been modified, not only miniaturized, but also able to be disassembled and transported. Divided into ten parts, each part only weighs about fifteen kilograms. It is much lighter than armor. A stronger soldier can carry it all over the mountain.

Once at your destination, it can be reassembled in three minutes.

Therefore, any field force in the Temple of Fortune has long-range firepower not far away.

Beta's philosophy is: if you can overwhelm the enemy with long-range firepower, you will never engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Based on this concept, the Wealth God Cult has a high proportion of long-range weapons. He even encourages melee soldiers to carry more simple and easy-to-use long-range weapons, such as hand crossbows.

Reality is not a game, it has professional balance. For example, melee soldiers have higher health and damage, long-range soldiers have higher mobility, and weaker defense.

Maybe there is some scientific basis in the data, but the reality is really not calculated in this way.

The game allows for countless trials and errors, but in reality you only have one life. You can hit others, but others can't hit you. This is your advantage.

All in all, the soldiers of the Wealth God Sect are not expensive, and the military expenditure of each soldier is five to eight more than that of other forces.

At the same time, this is also a military training. It is the first time that the Wealth God Cult has dispatched such a large-scale army.

Compared with the relaxation of the Wealth God Legion, the atmosphere in Nata City is quite bad.

After being bombarded by a barrage that lasted all day, the amount of magic crystals in the entire city was now less than half, which meant... that Nata City would be destroyed in at most two days.

"They might be out of ammunition."

"How is that possible? There are rocks all over the ground. If it doesn't work, there is no problem in casting a spell to make them pile up."

"The problem is the trebuchets. Where did they get all these trebuchets?"

As we all know, trebuchets are expensive to build, are huge, and are difficult to transport. Only armies with strong logistical capabilities can transport more than a dozen of them to the front line. According to the number of stones thrown by the opponent, there were at least one hundred to two hundred.

This does not include the bed crossbows that are fired from time to time.

Magic barriers have good resistance to physics and magic, especially to magicians. After all, magicians have limited mental power and are scarce in number. It is impossible to compare the magic capacity with a magic circle with a large reserve of magic crystals.

And the physical attack methods are relatively weak... Generally speaking, the number of trebuchets and bed crossbows determines the quality of the siege.

Things like Arrow Rain... have almost no effect on the magic barrier.

The only exception is the army of the Wealth God Cult.

On average, there are fifty people per miniaturized trebuchet and bed crossbow, and only a few people are needed to operate it. It can completely cover the barrage.

"No matter how their trebuchet came, we still have two days and we must find a way."

The conference room became noisy again.

Gus felt his head start to hurt.

This is a sign of too much pressure.

"Is it possible to ask for help from Zoroastrianism?"

"Far water cannot save near fire." Philip said calmly: "We have no way out now, Pope, let's fight. At least we can retain our dignity."

Retain your dignity. In other words, Philip no longer has any hope for this war.

Thinking about it, it is true. If the high-end military power does not have an advantage, and the strength of the army is far inferior, there is no way to fight this battle.

It's just that Gus always felt that there would be some chance.

"You must be able to think of a way out of this situation." Gus pressed his head and continued: "Everyone, please do your best. Let's work together to get rid of the current crisis. Any method will do."

"Otherwise, surrender..." Finally an archbishop said this word.

Gus' expression suddenly became extremely cold.

"Rommel, what do you mean by this?" Gus stared fiercely at the archbishop who just spoke: "Don't you even want the last bit of dignity?"

"But I think we shouldn't offend the God of Wealth too much. They are a member of the neutral order. As long as we show sincerity, they won't do anything to us!"