Sally, or rather, Roddy, already knew that the Viper Cross would attack him, and he also knew that it was the Milnor Family who was behind this.
Count Milnor did not know that his letters to and from Elsen City had long been monitored by Roddy, so the contents of his negotiations with the Viper Cross had long been leaked. Those seemingly secretive actions had long become a joke.
Roddy had made ample preparations for this, but when the attack really came, he realized that he had underestimated the viciousness of these cultists.
When the violent fire elements rapidly gathered above his head, Roddy immediately realized that the power of this spell was probably no less than the dragon breath he had faced before!
A strong sense of danger made him subconsciously pull out an ancient orange scroll and tear the seal on the spot!
Through the Witcher's Vision, he could see the "fire elements" in the sky rapidly condensing and shaping in less than a minute. When everyone could feel the scorching heat above their heads, giant fireballs were already crashing down.
"Don't move!"
When the "Meteor Storm" was about to destroy everything, Roddy shouted for the soldiers around him to not run. At the same time, an octagonal barrier suddenly rose above his head, blocking in front of the meteor …
Following that, there were five loud bangs that could be heard throughout the entire Da Vinci territory.
Bishop Frando held his breath slightly, his gaze fixed in front of him.
When the bangs sounded, his heart that had been hanging in suspense finally felt like it had been lifted off the ground. Looking at the large patch of trees in front of him that was directly destroyed by the shockwave, there was only one sentence echoing in his heart:
"This attack is in the bag!"
"Meteor Storm" was one of the high-level "strategic" spells that an elementalist could cast. It was not cast by the two elementalists who came to help this time, but was summoned by the scroll that the Pope handed over. After all, this was a level-6 spell, and the caster had to be at least a "Magister" to cast it out of thin air.
And at this time, in order to eliminate Sally, the Viper Cross had definitely used their trump card.
Waves of heat blew in his face, but Frando did not move an inch on his horse. He narrowed his eyes as he looked ahead, and he couldn't help but feel pleased with himself.
Compared to the stupidest "encirclement" method, he didn't let the soldiers run to the predetermined location and wait. Instead, he divided them into teams and waited for orders. With the help of Sienna's subordinates and the help of the mages' "Elemental Sentries", they would confirm Sally's position before taking the initiative to attack. This method was especially effective against Sally who didn't hide her whereabouts.
What made him even more pleasantly surprised was that another unit had appeared out of nowhere and attacked Rody first. Although they did not succeed, they managed to 'blow up' the trump card that they had set up beforehand. They even managed to get Sally's unit to join them...
This was an opportunity!
There was only one Meteorite Storm scroll, and it was supposed to be used to end the battle with one strike. But now that there was such a good opportunity, Bishop Frando made a prompt decision and immediately used it to start the battle.
"Next … we just need to clean up the battlefield."
"There are less than two hundred of them. If this goes on, more than half of them will die …"
"I reckon we just need to charge in and chop off their heads. Those targets probably won't even be left with their ashes."
The red light in front of them had faded, and the black smoke had spread. This kind of straightforward attack greatly boosted the morale of the Viper Cross soldiers. They originally thought that they would have to fight a hard battle, but now they only had to "harvest the heads" to complete their mission. Many of them were already shouting the slogan "The Viper God Punishes Everything".
Half a minute after the spell took effect, Bishop Frando smirked and ordered the soldiers to pass on the order, "Infantry, advance! Cavalry, cover the flank! Mages, get into position and cover with spells!"
Compared to Viscount Anru's incompetent but arrogant private soldiers, the Viper Cross's troops could be called a "combat force". One hundred and twenty infantry were divided into two groups, with fifty cavalry advancing from the flank. From the beginning to the end, not a single person was left behind or disrupted in formation. They began to slowly accelerate from three hundred meters away, and when they were about a hundred meters away, they collectively began to charge. At the same time, several "fireballs" flew out from the rear, landing directly on where Roddy and the others were, exploding into a ball of orange sparks amidst the thick smoke.
The mages did not stay at the back, but were in the middle of the troops, constantly casting buff spells in all directions. Their footsteps were swift, and they were all mentally prepared for the enemy's "corpses to litter the field".
But when the sulfuric smell of smoke dissipated, a dazzling white light in front of them caused the soldiers in the front row to collectively stagger a step!
"How is this possible!?"
The image of the enemy being utterly defeated and the ground littered with corpses did not appear at all. Instead, there were two rows of two meters tall soldiers in full metal armor. They were dressed like iron hedgehogs, and the giant tower shields in their hands were at least 1.4 meters tall. After the formation, it was as if they had formed a steel wall!
And the troops behind them were also in an orderly formation. These people did not have any scars at all, and no matter how one looked at it, they did not seem to be injured at all.
Roddy's "Extreme Flame Defense Barrier" scroll had completely offset the magic damage. At this time, other than some people at the edge of the team who were burned, they basically did not lose any combat power!
This was the importance of "strategic resources": when others used high-grade scrolls, Roddy would always have countermeasures at any time. If not for this batch of harvest from "Solomon's treasure", perhaps this battle would not even need to fight before they were completely annihilated!
The soldiers of the "Viper Cross" knew that it was useless to exclaim. The only thing they could do at this time was to grit their teeth and desperately collide with those tall and strong guys …
And at the moment when both sides met the enemy, Sally also finished chanting the prayer. As she pointed the scepter in her hand to the sky, the huge golden "holy seal" suddenly appeared in the sky.
"Purify these heretical lunatics!"
Sally looked at the enemy in front of her, her tone full of anger.
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Catherine's heart was abnormally irritated.
Just a quarter of an hour ago, the troops that rushed over from the nearby towns entered the forest before her eyes. This troop obviously did not belong to any of the lords, because Catherine recognized the rose cross emblem on the chest of the knights.
"What is the Holy War Army of the 'Rose Cross' doing here?"
Not only her, her bosom friends and other nobles were also chattering, but no one could come up with a reliable explanation. The reason was that no one had received any news beforehand …
The thing behind this was very thought-provoking. The nobles had always been very sensitive to information about the church, and any movement of the "Rose Cross" would definitely be known by the nobles. But this time, a troop of 180 suddenly appeared, and no one knew about it from start to end. With Catherine's political sense, it was likely that something big was going to happen.
But right now, she had no interest in such gossip. She only wanted to see her father come out of the Da Vinci Forest as soon as possible. The news of several villages being massacred was like a fishbone in her throat, and Catherine could not sit still.
Come to think of it … In such a huge forest, her father would not tell others where he went. He would casually chase after a prey and change his direction at any time. If they only sent out a small team, there was no hope of finding him in a short period of time.
"Dorim!"
Catherine asked the butler beside her, "How many soldiers are left here that can move?"
The butler heard her words and looked back, "Miss, there should be 20, 20, uh … What, what is that?"
The butler who was counting the number of people suddenly froze, and Catherine also raised her head to follow his gaze. Then … she was also stunned on the spot.
She was looking towards the west, where the few large villages and towns of the 'Da Vinci Territory' were located. At this moment, a few long trails of smoke suddenly appeared in the sky …
Although the nobles did not know how to burn their own firewood, Catherine still knew that smoke was' milky white ', and the smoke in front of her … was obviously the dense black smoke produced after something was burnt.
Two trails of black smoke had already drifted to a high altitude, and a new trail of black smoke was slowly rising closer to it …
"These lowly commoners just like to burn things randomly!"
The people around them also gradually noticed this. Catherine could hear her best friend grumbling, but she wasn't so optimistic at all. Bolton's territory was to the west, and if the few villages and towns that were massacred were marked on the map, they were exactly in the direction that she was looking at!
Something … is coming?
The uneasiness in her heart grew stronger. Catherine, who had always been calm, felt that even her fingers were trembling slightly. She took a few deep breaths and looked around: The servants were pointing at the black smoke, the few noble ladies who stayed behind were talking about the vulgar lifestyle of the untouchables, the soldiers were resting leisurely under the tents, the horses wagging their tails and lowering their heads to graze on the grass …
Everything was still as harmonious as before, but Catherine's legs were trembling violently.
"Dorim, take stock of all the soldiers now, and leave immediately! Go find my father! "
"Miss, you are …"
"Don't ask for the reason, go! Leave now! "
Fortunately, she was dressed in hunting attire today. Having made up her mind, she ran a few steps to her pampered horse, and almost fell from the other side when she flipped onto it. After stabilizing her body with great effort, she walked towards the forest with the private soldiers who had rushed over.
"Catherine! What are you going to do? "
A few of her best friends saw her leaving in such a hurry, and asked one after another. However, Catherine was already surrounded by the sound of horse hooves, and could not hear them at all. Soon, she disappeared from their sight.
"Really, she doesn't seem to be herself today. Did she fall for a man and go crazy?"
"Who knows …"
The others were still chatting in boredom. After a few minutes, someone suddenly pointed into the distance and said, "That's right.
"Eh? There seems to be another group of people coming over there. "
"What's going on … It was the 'Rose Cross' just now, and now another group …"
"The way they ride their horses is so strange, why are they swaying back and forth?"
"It seems to be true, wait — that doesn't seem to be horses, right?"
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