Chapter 0968 The Witch's Fate

Haisha City.

It is not the harvest season yet, but the residents of Haisha have been excited and happy every day like a festival these days.

When the paladins in bright armor and majestic demeanor escorted the rattling prisoner car through the streets, the whole city was shocked.

Witch... So this is a witch!

Ever since the witches from other worlds invaded the Envik plane, the Zambis Empire has been poisoned by witches.

They plundered mines, snatched high-level resources, and treated the entire Envik plane as their own backyard. Sometimes, in order to punish some places that refused to allow witch forces to enter, they also released plagues there, without caring about the casualties of ordinary people.

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

Therefore, when the fair and strict Paladins, 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, which passed through the streets of the small town, all the residents of Hessus rushed to the streets, welcoming the arrival of the witch with tattered 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 extremely beautiful woman with a proud figure and a delicate and perfect face.

Unfortunately, the deep hatred made her suffer a lot in the hands of the Paladins, and now she was locked in a cage like a beast by the other party, allowing ordinary people to curse, attack and insult her.

This extreme injury and fear of death made Reina no longer as radiant and charming as before. Her hair was loose, and her robe was torn into tattered pieces, which could no longer cover her body.

Her exposed skin was covered with dense scratches and dark blue bruises. Her once smooth and white skin had begun to wither, with wrinkles and scabs like dead bark.

With her hair loose, Reina looked numbly at the crowd of people cheering around the wooden cage, letting the tattered leaves and sharp stones hit her without any intention of covering or dodging.

"Burn her to death..."

"Send her to the stake..."

Whenever similar loud shouts broke out in the crowd, Reina's body could not help but twitch violently.

Her heart was filled with hatred, and her soul was filled with endless hatred.

Unfortunately, she still had terrible magic shackles on her wrists and ankles. They were made of metal and made of special magic metal, which was difficult to be destroyed by corrosive spells such as acid. On the inner edge of the shackles, there are countless fine metal spikes that pierce into the flesh, and the slightest movement will cause a heart-wrenching pain.

A special mouth mask is worn on Reina's cheek, and a metal walnut the size of an egg is stuffed into her mouth. With these, even without guards, Reina has lost the ability to chant spells and use gestures to guide spells.

As for those instant low-level witchcraft, they cannot be performed in this wooden cage painted with all kinds of strange runes. Although the Envik plane is a low-magic world, the research on magic has not been relaxed at all.

They can still research this anti-magic barrier with holy light as the source of power!

The cage holding Reina was sent directly to the Holy Light Chapel in the city of Hesas, where more and more paladins came from all directions, and there were as many as five level 3 gold knights alone.

Of course, so many gold knights are not to guard a rookie witch who is only level 2, but to protect the core materials of the witch array searched from Reina.

The attack on the Witch Tower in Dabire Highlands has lasted for half a year. The Zambes Empire suffered heavy losses, but the Witches are also at the end of their strength. If the current trend continues, the Paladin coalition, which has a powerful empire behind it, can break through the Witch Tower in three or four months as long as they grit their teeth and do not fear the necessary sacrifices.

If the Witch Tower is allowed to obtain this batch of witch array materials and repair the internal inter-dimensional transmission witch array at this time, it means that the huge casualties of the Zambes Empire in the past year will be sacrificed in vain. Therefore, even though the battle on the front line is so tight, the Paladin and the Empire's coalition still sent back three powerful golden knights to join the Paladins near Haisas City to protect the witch and those witch array materials.

And the 4th-level Holy Knight Ade Kalai, who was heading to the north of the empire, also began to turn west and rush to join the Paladins in Haisas City. Once there are 4th-level Holy Knights to support them, they can spare enough manpower to escort the witch and the materials directly back to the imperial capital.

Only in the imperial capital is there no room for security!

Therefore, on the third day after Witch Reina was taken to Hesas City, and seven days before the arrival of the 4th-level Holy Knight, Grimm, in disguise, also mixed into Hesas City with the crowd.

Hesas City is now under martial law, and the Holy Light Chapel is closely guarded by the Holy Knights who came from all directions. The outer perimeter is under the responsibility of the Hesas City Guards, but there are still teams of Holy Knights at key locations such as the city gates and passes.

In order to prevent the witch's companions from sneaking into the city of Hesas, military control has been implemented here. The inspections at the city gates are extremely strict. Ordinary merchants and caravans are refused entry and can only temporarily stop in several nearby towns.

Grimm, who had just heard the news from the Dark Forest, had to intercept a 1st-level Black Iron Knight halfway, then put on the standard armor of the Paladins, rode a tall horse, and swaggered to the gate of Hesas.

Seeing the signature Paladin armor on Grimm, the city guards who were gathered at the city gate and strictly checked the pedestrians in and out immediately saluted, and someone quickly ran to inform the Paladins stationed here.

After a while, three Paladins and a dozen trainee knights rushed out of the city gate and quickly came to Grimm's horse.

"Light is with us! Brother from afar, which chapel are you from?" The three leading paladins were all first-level black iron knights. The leading one was nearly middle-aged, with a full beard, and he enthusiastically knocked his chest to greet Grimm.

Grimm jumped off his horse and also knocked his chest to return the greeting: "Light is with us! Hello, my name is Yederick, I come from Baldan City on the edge of the Avili Mountains, and I am traveling near the Dark Forest. I heard that Haisas is summoning the power of holy light, so I came here specially, hoping to contribute my own little power!"

"So you came from Avili, why do you look so unfamiliar? Welcome, brother, Haisas welcomes you!" The leading paladin asked with a smile on his face: "My name is Hailite, and I am on duty at the city gate today. By the way, I remember that the person in charge of Baldan is old Christopher, I I drank with him before. How is he now? Is he in good health? "

Grimm followed him slowly into the city, shook his head and smiled, "Sir Christopher is too old. He retired five years ago and returned to his hometown, Winterspring. Now the one in charge of everything in Baldan is Sir Alamand Greythorne, but seven months ago, he also led a large number of brothers to Dabire..."

Grimm, who had already obtained key information from the memory fragments of the intercepted Paladin, could not be deceived by the other party's small verbal tricks. He resolved the other party's doubts with a few words and put the other party at ease.

After sending Grimm into the inner city, the leading knight smiled regretfully and said, "I'm sorry, brother, I can only send you here. I still need to receive the Holy Light brothers from all over the world here. Let Totti take you to the chapel! When you get there, you need to report to the garrison commander Ansela first, and he will assign you specific tasks!"

The two of them bowed to each other again, and Grimm, led by an apprentice knight Totti, slowly walked towards the most towering and majestic Holy Light Chapel in the city.

Although the city of Hesas is already under martial law, there are still nearly 60,000 residents in the city, so the streets are bustling with people, and the atmosphere is no less lively than usual. However, seeing two paladins in bright armor passing by, all the residents stepped aside and bowed.

Grimm could see that they all sincerely admired and respected these believers who represented the power of Holy Light. Their respect was not forced at all, but came from the heart.

From this, we can also see that in the Envik plane, the strange power of holy light has indeed been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has become the embodiment of light and justice!

The sincere admiration and respect from the people also infinitely inspired the professional honor of the apprentice knight Totti. He walked beside Grimm, and his young and tender face was full of excitement that was difficult to conceal. He secretly looked at Grimm's exquisite and gorgeous armor with more enthusiasm and envy.

As an apprentice knight, Totti was wearing only ordinary fine steel armor, and there were no complex and exquisite light runes engraved on it. And the paladins above level 1 all wore sacred armor blessed by the power of holy light. Whenever they gathered the power of holy light, the sacred armor would merge with the power of holy light and interact with each other, thus forming a kind of holy light protection.

Grimm has tested that the holy light protection of the first-level black iron knight can resist about 140 degrees of elemental magic damage. When Grimm was still a level 1 wizard, the strongest single explosive fireball he could trigger was only about 115 degrees of power.

This means that a level 1 Black Iron Knight can completely withstand Grimm's fireball attack and rush to his side and chop him down. Of course, the longest time for Grimm to cast a level 1 explosive fireball is no more than 3 seconds. Therefore, if a level 1 wizard fights a level 1 Black Iron Knight, the Paladin will undoubtedly have the advantage in a small indoor space.

However, if the venue is open enough and the level 1 wizard has strong mobility, the Black Iron Knight will be killed by the kite. After all, no one wearing dozens of kilograms of heavy armor can be as fast as a thief!

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