Chapter 246 The end of the decisive battle
It wasn't until the church's "high priest" rode the golden Pegasus and landed back on the ground that Baines came back to his senses from his dazed state.
"You are here, Lord Luo Xiu."
Baynes nodded and thanked Luo Xiu:
"You came just in time. On behalf of 'Bianting', I would like to thank you for your assistance."
Luo Xiu got off his horse, walked up to Baines, and checked his injuries first.
The "Grand Judge" of the side court has dozens of new wounds on his body. His originally gorgeous open robe is now dirty and torn, and bright red blood is constantly pouring out from his wounds, staining it. A large part of his shirt was red.
But his life was not in danger, and he could even continue fighting after taking a short rest.
"It should be said that we came too late."
Luo Xiu shook his head. He looked around, roughly confirmed that the knights in the "side court" were in good condition, and then said softly: "I heard a noise and felt some ominous 'spiritual' breath, so I hurried Come over. There are other clergymen of the church, they are killing those blood-stained hyenas."
"So, Mr. Baines."
After a pause, Luo Xiu asked Baines: "What happened here?"
"...I don't know." Baynes shook his head.
"I also heard the noise and led the knights from the 'Bianting' to rush over. After that, the enemy's 'tamer' appeared here. He said that he was the one who released these 'disasters'.
"Is this the 'animal tamer' you're talking about?" Luo Xiu glanced at the half-head on the ground, while Baines nodded lightly.
"It was him, and then you killed him, Mr. Luo Xiu."
Baines said slowly:
"Before that, there were many people who claimed to be the apostles of the 'Holy Abyss'."
"Among them, there are [Red Lotus], [Ku Tu], [Nihility]... and even believers of your [Glorious] destiny. Before the group of terrifying hyenas swallowed us up, they suddenly appeared and blocked us. In front of those 'hyenas'."
As he spoke, Baynes raised his eyes and looked around, looking for the "werewolf" and "assassin" from before.
But Baines didn't see them. At the same time as "Beast Tamer" Krall disappeared into the bright golden mist, the figures of "Werewolf" and "Assassin" also disappeared in it, leaving only one place. The remains of the "Blood Corpse Hyena", as well as Baines, Frosa and a group of scarred "Side Court" knights.
"Hmm...?" Doubts appeared on Baines's face. Just when he was about to say something else, he heard Luo Xiu say from the side:
"I did see some new faces here. Do they call themselves 'Holy Abyss'? I have never heard the name of this organization."
"Let's investigate these after we return to Red Maple City, Mr. Baines."
"Now that 'Trainer' Crowl is dead, and these ownerless 'hyenas' are left, it is only a matter of time before they are completely wiped out."
After saying that, Luo Xiu grabbed the holy flame mane of "Golden Pegasus" Pegasus, got on his horse again, and galloped back towards the camp of "Executioner" Afatak.
"Grand Inquisitor" Baines and his "Side Court" knights, after taking a short rest, rushed towards the surrounding "blood corpse hyenas" to make a final clearing of these monsters.
The "tamer" Krall who induced and controlled these "blood corpse hyenas" is dead, and these monsters that originally swept the battlefield like a tide lost their last restraint and fell into complete madness.
Their "abyssal beast" nature exploded. In addition to attacking the "side court" and "church" extraordinary people on the battlefield, they also fell into the ultimate "civil war".
Countless hyenas showed their claws to each other towards their kin. They killed other "blood corpse hyenas", tore and devoured their flesh and blood, turned it into their own flesh and blood and strength, and then pounced on other kin.
In the short time since Krall's death, the tide of "blood hyenas" has descended into complete chaos.
Taking this opportunity, the knights in the side court and the clergy of the church launched a fierce counterattack against the tide of "blood corpse hyenas" and pushed the battle line back.
And those apostles who claimed to serve the "Holy Abyss" mysteriously disappeared after the situation was almost stable.
Until Baines led the knights of his "side court" to kill the last "blood corpse hyena" and wanted to look back for the apostles of the "Holy Abyss".
Except for a few "killed" apostles, Baines could no longer find any remaining traces of the "Holy Abyss" apostles.
It was as if they had never been on this battlefield.
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Luo Xiu rode the "Golden Pegasus" Pegasus and rushed back to the high slope where the "Executioner" Afatak was.
He has killed "Beast Tamer" Krall, and apart from "Guillotine" Bagri, "Executioner" Afatak is the enemy's last "fourth level destiny" transcendent.
——Pursue victory! While the opponent has not escaped the surveillance of "Raven" Wuying, killing the enemy's last "leader" will completely establish the victory!
Luo Xiu planned this. Now that he had played the biggest trump card of the "Holy Abyss" and solved the chaos caused by the surge of "Abyss Beasts", he would eventually get greater results from other places.
And he has also discovered the situation of the previously high forest fire - the Black Vanguard Army buried a large amount of black powder there in advance and detonated them after the "Curse of the Curse" was breached.
And those "abyss beasts" and "blood corpse hyenas" that should not have appeared came from an "ancient seal" under the forest.
The explosion of a huge amount of black powder buried in the coniferous forest completely tore a hole in the "seal".
Among them, the "abyss beasts" that gathered and wandered around, that is, the "blood corpse hyenas" surged out from the seal and swept towards the battlefield.
As the "Animal Tamer" of the fourth level of [Red Lotus], he had already tamed dozens of the most powerful "Blood Corpse Hyenas" before detonating the seal.
Afterwards, Krall used these "head dogs" to "tame" the other hyenas in sequence. This is also the method commonly used by "tamers" to control the entire group of Warcraft.
Now, Klauer, who was regarded as the "leader" by the blood corpse hyenas, is dead, and the "lead dog" controlled by Klauer's added power is basically dead.
And in the coniferous forest that was still burning with raging fire, no new "Abyssal Beasts" emerged.
In the forest, the aura belonging to the "abyss" has disappeared. Depending on the situation, there should be no new "abyss beasts" emerging from the seal. Luo Xiu is quite relieved about this.
...But why does "Abyssal Beast" appear in "Ancient Seal"?
Luo Xiu thought with some suspicion in his heart. He did not remember that a similar situation had happened in his previous life.
In his memory, the big seal imposed on the "Seven Abyss" should be quite strong. There is no reason for the "Abyss Beast" to escape from the big seal and escape into the upper "ancient seal" go.
Although there are still many doubts in his heart, Luo Xiu cannot tell what went wrong without personally going down to the "ancient seal" to find out the situation.
In the current situation, it was not convenient for him to stay on the edge of the battlefield for too long. He could only consider looking for opportunities to come and detect it later.
Luo Xiu then no longer thought about too many other things, but focused on sensing the direction of the "executioner" Afatak.
Rather than investigating the truth behind the established facts, it is more critical to focus on the battlefield in front of you.
In the foggy shadow perception of "Shadow Raven" in the foggy night, "Executioner" Afatak seemed to be preparing to escape - after "Beast Tamer" Crowl was killed, Afatak They began to retreat to the rear of the vanguard barracks.
There are still quite a few elites in "Executioner" Afatak's "Giant Legion" following him.
Several legions of the Dark Vanguard Army that were stranded on the battlefield seemed to have received some instructions, and there were faint signs of their entire evacuation.
Just above the main battlefield, the warlocks from the Fangbeiyuan have begun to pursue Afatak in the direction of his evacuation.
The "War Golem" of Fangbeiyuan had killed dozens of giant warriors from the "Giant Legion" of the Dark Vanguard Army in the previous battle.
Although they paid a high price for this, they made an extremely outstanding contribution to stabilizing the war situation.
Lord Nelson has also ordered the entire army to pursue them, trying to expand the fruits of victory.
At the same time, the knights in the side court and the clergy of the church have gradually withdrawn from the edge battlefield and devoted themselves to the pursuit of the dark army. The situation on the battlefield has become completely clear. If nothing unexpected happens, this will be a complete victory for the Red Maple City side!
Luo Xiu rode the "Golden Pegasus" and galloped in the air. He looked down at the pitch-black tide on the battlefield and receded to the edge. That was the sign of the defeat of the pitch-black army.
And in the distance, at the forefront of the pitch-black tide, the giant chariot of "Executioner" Afatak was moving at high speed toward the end of the horizon, leaving the pursuers and other pitch-black troops far behind.
In the mid-air behind the giant chariot that Afatak was riding on, the galloping figure of the "Golden Pegasus" Pegasus had almost become an afterimage, and its galloping speed had reached its highest speed.
The giant chariot of "Executioner" Afatak was getting closer and clearer in Luo Xiu's field of vision.
However, just when Luo Xiu was about to let Pegasus make the final sprint and fall into Afatak's giant chariot like a real meteor, several dazzling lights suddenly flashed out in the dark military formation below him. .
--boom! Boom boom boom! Four rays of crimson light suddenly erupted from the Black Army's formation, and shot towards Luo Xiu who was in mid-air!
That was a giant carrying four giant cannons, launching a long-distance bombardment at Luo Xiu!
At the same time, the flying stars surrounding the "Golden Pegasus" Pegasus also shot out towards the four light surges.
--boom! Boom boom boom! Several rays of light collided suddenly, bursting into brilliant light and fire in mid-air.
The burst of fire from the cannon continued, and the increasingly intensive bombardment actually disrupted the rhythm of Pegasus' charge several times.
And the giant chariot of "Executioner" Afatak also took advantage of this moment to speed up its speed, once again widening the distance between it and Luo Xiu!
"...Tsk." Luo Xiu, who was on Pegasus's back, frowned. He looked in front of the Afatak chariot and saw a large area of dense woods.
Once the Dark Army all pours into the dense forest, they will divide into several groups and flee in all directions. It will become very difficult to annihilate them all.
Luo Xiu had already foreseen this, and he looked at the battlefield behind the giant chariot.
The main force of the dark army came into Luo Xiu's field of vision.
They kept leaving small groups of remnants behind to delay the Red Maple City army's pursuit.
Behind the main force of the Dark Army, the Red Maple City army was pursuing relentlessly. The distance between them and the enemy's main force was getting farther and farther.
At the same time, from the dark military formation below, crimson light was still bursting upwards. The enemy was still trying desperately to prevent Luo Xiu from pursuing, and was desperately trying to cover the escape of their leader, "Executioner" Afatak.
Although Luo Xiu really wanted to kill Afatak with his own hands and completely establish the victory of this decisive battle, but under the obstruction of intensive artillery fire, he knew that it would be difficult for him to succeed.
But he was not ready to stop there. Instead, while avoiding the bombardment below, he began to chant a few holy prayers.
Soon, Luo Xiu's palm condensed a ball of holy magic light flowing with golden light.
When the brilliance in it reached fullness, he threw the ball of light downwards.
The ball of light flew through the air, then dispersed in all directions, turning into several dense strands of strands that shrouded the heads of the dark army below.
Visible to the naked eye, the soldiers of the Dark Army, shrouded in light, suddenly behaved strangely. They each picked up their weapons and slashed at the other soldiers around them.
——Crazy glow!
Although this holy technique can only affect the minds of the Dark Army soldiers in a small area, it is enough to disgust them for a while.
And at this last moment, the results of the pursuit can be maximized.
After that, Luo Xiu released several holy spells into the dark army formation below. Groups of light carrying different holy spells fell one after another into the formation of the Dark Army.
"Golden Meteor", "Thunder of Judgment", "Dragon Thunder Burning Ember" and other skills were released one after another, harvesting the enemy's fleeing remnants like devastation.
But even so, the giant chariot of the "executor" Afatak at the front showed no sign of slowing down. Instead, under the cover of the giant cannon, it rushed into the dense forest at the end first!
The few soldiers of the Dark Army who were not affected by Luo Xiu's large-scale attack also poured into the dense forest and divided into several small units to escape.
But most of the soldiers of the Dark Army were not so lucky - the soldiers previously affected by Luo Xiu's "Crazy Glow" blocked the way out for a large group of dark soldiers in the rear. This allowed the pursuers of Red Maple City to catch up with them soon and capture or kill them within a short period of time.
Although the enemy's leader, "The Executioner" Afatak, finally managed to escape, the black vanguard army that escaped with him was not even alive.
And Afatak, who had lost such a large army, could no longer make any waves in a short period of time, and his threat to Red Maple City had been reduced to an extremely low level.
When he saw the last small group of the dark army entering the dense forest, Luo Xiu withdrew the holy light group he was about to release.
Afterwards, he drove the "Golden Pegasus" back, meeting up with Anthony, Pamier and other priests on the way, and then returned to the front of Red Maple City and back to the camp where Lord Nelson was.
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Half a day later.
"Grand Inquisitor" Baines, and "Knight of the Throne" Frosa, led the surviving "Side Court" knights to return from the edge of the battlefield one after another.
Inside the temporary military camp in front of Red Maple City, Lord Nelson, who was pacing anxiously, finally had a look of relief on his face when he saw Baines and Frosa returning safely.
He hurried forward to greet them, and after briefly saluting Baines and Frosa, he heard Baines say to him:
"... Nelson. Tell me the result of this decisive battle."
"..."
"We have won, Lord Baines."
Lord Nelson said in a high tone:
"We have driven the enemy twenty-three miles outside of Red Maple City. This victory has far exceeded our previous goal."
"At the same time, we wiped out almost all the enemy's troops and killed one of their 'heads' and one of their 'commanders'!"
"Lord Baines, I think we should be proud and happy, because we have just won a hearty victory that can be recorded in the history of the empire!"
"..."
"...Yes, we should be happy."
Baines murmured, but there was no "joy" color on his face.
"Nelson, there were too many accidents in this decisive battle."
After a pause, Baines said in a low voice:
"...First there was a swarm of strange monsters released by the enemy's 'Beast Tamer', and then an organization claiming to serve the 'Holy Abyss' suddenly appeared... Even though we won the final victory, I always felt that there was a new threat. Already approaching..."
"..." Nelson was speechless. He could only feel the "Grand Inquisitor" in front of him. He was exuding an aura called "anxiety" at this time.
"You're right, though, Nelson."
Suddenly, Nelson felt that the anxious aura on the "Grand Inquisitor" in front of him seemed to disappear in an instant, and he saw an indifferent smile appear on Baines' face.
"This is indeed a hearty victory. Even if there are new 'threats', that will happen later."
Baynes raised his hand, patted Nelson on the shoulder, and told him:
"Get ready, Nelson."
"Go and inform the entire army that we are about to return to Red Maple City."
"—It will be a glorious triumph."
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(End of chapter)