(December 2nd, second update)
Elena was the one who told Salin about the idea of using metallized rock to make magic stone cannons. In the end, the design and manufacture of the experimental magic stone cannon cost more than one million gold coins.
They had to redo it several times, from magicians drilling into the cannon to carve magic circles, to using large-scale magic circles to make molds to cast magic circles directly in the cannon. After so much effort, magic stone cannons could finally be mass-produced, but the cost was still high.
If it was used to defend a stronghold, the well-developed alchemy crossbow would be more suitable. If the magic stone cannon fired too quickly, the magic circle would become unstable.
Fortunately, Nelis didn't expect to win the final victory with this thing. The demon army quickly collided with the Blood Knights. She swung her spear horizontally, and there were no more enemies within thirty meters.
Nelis's spear swept across, and the Blood Knights' limbs flew everywhere. Only the cavalry on both sides fought with the demons. The Blood Knights couldn't gain any advantage at all. The demons were two meters taller than the Blood Knights on horseback. No armor could withstand the giant battleaxes, and they were split in half.
On the battlefield, Nelis used both her hands and feet, her eyes fixed on the distant mages.
The one commanding the Blood Knights was the black-robed priest of the Inquisition. When they saw the scene in the distance, they were extremely shocked. There were demons!
Demons!
The priest was in a panic. Even the stone-hearted people of the Inquisition were a bit afraid of demons, even if they used to be humanity's most loyal partner.
After all, humanity's power had declined, and they couldn't command this race like before.
Something frightening happened. That twenty-meter tall demon raised his spear and charged at the back of the Blood Knights, where the black-clothed Divine Priests were.
The priest was surrounded by more than two hundred prison guards, all wearing blessed armor. The priest screamed. He knew that these prison guards couldn't protect him at all. The problem was, he couldn't retreat. There were still ten thousand Blood Knights behind him, and if he escaped, the cardinal wouldn't let him go.
The priests around him also trembled. In the Vatican, they didn't have high positions, and were only equivalent to level-three human mages. The cardinal could punish them at will, but desertion was a capital crime.
The people from the Inquisition Hall didn't believe in Heaven. They could command the Blood Esquires, but they definitely couldn't send themselves to their deaths like the Blood Esquires.
Neris was wearing giant metal war boots, and she had sent countless blood esquires flying with a kick. Amidst the stench of blood, her legs were covered in blood, bone marrow, armor fragments, and the enemy's internal organs.
Neris had gone a little crazy from the excitement of killing. Two arms slowly grew out from her back and began to grab the blood esquires and toss them forward. The blood esquire who had been grabbed by her giant palm was squeezed so hard that his flesh and blood were seeping out from the gaps in his armor. He was thoroughly dead.
The corpses of these Blood Esquires were tossed out and smashed into the Blood Esquires that were charging at her from behind. Neris walked all the way through and arrived in front of the black-robed priests without any obstruction. There were ten thousand blood knights under the command of more than twenty black-robed priests, and more than two hundred prison guards protecting the priests.
Under normal circumstances, even a Silver Sword Saint wouldn't be able to kill his way through the Blood Knights like a hot knife through butter. Moreover, this wasn't the center of the army. The true commander hadn't arrived yet. Two rank eight red-robed bishops were dispatching ten thousand blood esquires and two corps into battle positions.
These black-robed priests were only the vanguard. They didn't have any powerful combat ability. Under normal circumstances, ten thousand blood esquires were enough to drown the enemy.
Neris laughed wildly as she kicked away, flattened, and crushed the blood esquires that dared to approach her. Salin had spent a lot of money to forge the armor on her body. It didn't need any function, as long as it had strong defensive power. This was the first time Neris had used the Demonic God Incarnation in battle. Although it wasn't a real Demonic God, its destructive power was much stronger than that of a Great Demon.
Neris couldn't be bothered to deal with these weak blood esquires anymore. She leaped twice and arrived at the center of the black-robed priests' army. She bent down and swept her spear horizontally, sending the prison guards in front of her flying into the sky. The prison guards' armor was obviously much better than the blood esquires'. None of the prison guards broke into two. The black armor of the prison guards was smashed by the spear, but only blood spurted out.
The Demonic God Incarnation was unexpectedly powerful on the battlefield.
More than twenty black-robed mages started chanting prayers at the same time. Only the leader of the mages was smart enough to take out a magic scroll. It was too late to chant prayers at this time. The huge demon was raising her spear.
The black-clothed priest took out a very special divine scroll – the Prayer Scroll.
This was a probabilistic magic. Because its level was too low, the success rate wasn't high. The problem was that the demon was about to attack. The priest could only pray that fate would take care of him.
His companions were already chanting prayers. He only hoped that they could stop the demon for a moment. Then the magic of more than twenty companions should be able to kill this thing, right?
"Stop!" The black-robed priest opened the scroll and was delighted to see that the scroll glowed white. The magic was successful!
Neris felt pain in her hand. The spear in her hand was frozen in place. Her body was still moving forward. The spear wasn't Neris's usual weapon. It was just a temporary equipment for the Demonic God Incarnation. Unlike the armor on her body, the quality of this spear was very good. It surpassed the Demonic God Armor. However, Neris wasn't familiar with this spear. She couldn't treat it as a part of her body like the armor.
Under such circumstances, the Prayer Scroll was successful. It successfully froze Neris' spear.
Ha … Ahhh!
Neris laughed strangely. She loosened her hand and took out another weapon from her bracelet. It was a huge shield. This shield was made for the Demonic God Incarnation. Neris's current form was a good target for the alchemy crossbow. This shield was eighteen meters high. It was completely made of metalized steel rock. Neris could defend against the alchemy crossbow by supporting the shield. There was no shield that was close to two meters thick.
Neris used the two extra arms to slap away the remaining prison guards. Neris laughed wildly and smashed the huge shield down.
The level of the Demonic God Incarnation was very high. How could it be frozen by a low-level Prayer Scroll? The shield smashed down. More than twenty black-robed priests were all enveloped in the attack range.
With a pfft, the black-robed priests, who didn't even wear armor, were smashed into meat patties by Neris along with their Holy Shields.
Third-level nobodies couldn't resist the Demonic God Incarnation at all. Neris now had a super strong defense and a terrifying physical attack ability.
Neris waved her shield wildly and smashed everything she saw into meat paste. This scene stimulated the human cavalry that followed. They saw Neris's tall figure sweeping through the Blood Knights. There were no more opponents. There were still many weapons thrown by the Blood Knights stuck in the armor on Neris's back. However, these weapons could only penetrate the armor and couldn't hurt Neris's Demonic God Incarnation.
The Blood Knights weren't targeting creatures of this level. Their target was the human army.
The heavy cavalry of Kushui County penetrated into the demons. These heavy cavalry didn't rely on charging power to win. Instead, they relied on slow charging and the reversed blades in their hands to cut the weak parts of the enemy.
A pure-blooded warhorse was at least a level-two magical beast. It had great endurance and its ability to carry weight was more than ten times that of a magical beast of the same size.
The Blood Knights retreated slightly. Neris suddenly raised her head. More Blood Knights appeared in the distance. Behind this Blood Knight army, there were tens of thousands of Vatican troops.
Neris took a deep breath. She felt that she could fight for at least two more hours. However, the power of the Demonic God Incarnation was exhausted. It would take a few days to recover. She put away her shield, picked up her spear, and retreated slightly.
There were two level-eight Mages in the enemy's army. It would be too much for her to deal with them alone.
At this moment, another army of the Vatican came from behind Neris's army, trying to cut off Neris's retreat. The south gate of Three Links City quickly opened. Troops poured out of the three gates at the same time. The infantry behind Neris immediately turned around and quickly arranged themselves in formation.
This infantry was not going to support the south city at all. They came out to help Neris defend the rear.
The battle was chaotic, but Neris did not panic at all. The Demonic Army basically did not suffer any losses. Her six cannons had killed more than two thousand Blood Knights. If she could do it again, she was confident that she could kill three thousand or more.
She rolled her eyes and continued to retreat. She squatted down and slapped away a few blood esquires. Then, she grabbed a six-meter tall demon. Very soon, this demon's height expanded and was almost twenty meters tall.
Of course, this was a transformation spell. It could not improve the demon's combat power. Neris only wanted a substitute. The armor on this demon that had transformed into the image of a Demonic God was fake. Not only did its defense not increase, but it was greatly reduced because its armor was broken.
Neris threw her spear to the demon. Her body quietly turned into a human. She also summoned her armor and replaced the weapon in her hand with a scimitar that she had randomly grabbed.
Unless she was in close combat, her huge body would be a good target when facing a senior mage. Although Neris was fighting crazily, she had not become a fool.
Among the human heavy cavalry, a few hidden fellows had an elven alchemy crossbow in their hands. Salin did not have many of these things, and even fewer were allocated to Three Links City. This time, in order to deal with the Mages, he had taken out eight.
The battle situation was still no different from what Neris had expected. The Vatican's army attacked from both sides, wanting to completely annihilate this powerful reinforcement army. Although the appearance of the Demonic Army was beyond the Vatican's expectations, the result was the same. Whether it was the human army or the Demonic Army, the Vatican had to work hard to destroy them.
In Daliang, Salin and Rex, who had already rested, were called up by the life mages, saying that someone had asked to see them.
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