"In that case, you will be the vanguard, Earl Joyce!" Rickman patted him on the shoulder and said encouragingly.
"Lord Rickman, this... this, isn't this too bad? The conquest of these miners is related to the candidate for the crown prince, and the credit should be given to other people..." Joyce said hesitantly. He only had a few hundred borrowed men under his command. If he rushed too far and was surrounded by the enemy, these people would not risk their lives to protect him.
"If you don't have the guts, just get out of here, Joyce. No wonder you were driven out of your territory by these lowly miners!" A young earl said mockingly.
"Johnson, you..." Joyce was furious, but before he could finish his words, the earl looked at Grand Duke Rickman and offered to fight. He was willing to lead the cavalry brigade personally to crush these rebels!
"Okay! I'll give you two thousand cavalry brigades, and you must disperse them as quickly as possible!" Rickman said in a deep voice. "If you fail, I think you should know the consequences!"
Johnson patted his chest confidently and assured that the cavalry had a strong suppressive power over the infantry. What's more, his opponents were just a group of poor people holding hoes and pickaxes. All they needed was a group charge, and the rest would be a massacre!
The other nobles also looked at Johnson with envy and jealousy. They did not want to lose too many of their guards, so they had no intention of vying for the first credit. However, they did not expect that Grand Duke Rickman would be so generous and allow Johnson to lead the entire cavalry brigade.
It goes without saying that after this battle, Johnson, who had taken the lead, would surely be praised and rewarded by the new king! "Bishop Nord, I'll trouble you from now on!" Rickman turned his head and looked at the priests in white robes, and said politely.
"Get ready to cast the spell, everyone!" Nord nodded, and together with the priests and bishops, he placed his hands on his chest, made a strange prayer gesture, and chanted in a vague, singing tone.
"Great Lord of the Stars, Goddess of the Moon, creator of all things in the world, we pray that you will have mercy on us and grant your humble servants endless courage and strength..."
Waves of loud hymns resounded across the wilderness, and dazzling white light shone on everyone's body. No matter whether they were nobles or soldiers present, they all felt their bodies filled with energy, and the fatigue from the long march was instantly swept away...
This was the fourth-ring spell - [God's Gift - Hymn of Courage]! Compared to the first-ring spell [Eliminate Fear], the casting range was increased by a thousand times, and it required seven bishops as guides and dozens of priests to cast the spell together to barely work.
In just two or three minutes, tens of thousands of people were enveloped in the Lord’s divine light!
"Go, warriors of the Lord, and crush those blasphemers with the most heroic battle. The Lord will be watching you from the other side of the majestic kingdom of God!" Nord's loud voice resounded on the battlefield.
"For the great Moon Goddess!" "God is with you and me!"
Fifteen thousand soldiers, each one of them was shouting words of praise to the Lord as if they were injected with chicken blood!
Johnson took the lead and led two thousand cavalrymen to charge towards the miners.
The ones responsible for operating these cannons are none other than the apprentices from Yieta Academy!
Elroc, Peirce, Johnny and others were quickly calculating the wind speed and distance in their minds, and building mathematical models in their minds to draw parabolas...
All this sounds very complicated, but it only takes a dozen seconds for an apprentice to calculate. After doing mental calculations, Johnny was the first to light the fuse, followed by Alok and others who also completed their calculations...
"Cover your ears!" Alok shouted loudly.
But the people present could no longer hear it. Waves of fierce roars directly drowned out the vibrations caused by the horses trampling on the ground. It was the sound of artillery fire!
It was the power of technology from another world! Huge shells whizzed in, and the fierce sound of artillery fire could be heard clearly even by Grand Duke Rickman who was hundreds of meters away.
"Sure enough, it's a wizard!" Nord's expression suddenly became very solemn. He obviously regarded the roar of artillery as some kind of powerful magic, but he quickly spoke to comfort him.
"Don't worry too much, Grand Duke Rickman. I have already considered this. The four-ring magic I just performed has a strong demon-breaking effect. Under the protection of the Lord's divine light, those weird witchcrafts will not have much effect..."
Rickman's nervous expression suddenly relaxed a little, and just as he was about to shout for God's blessing, continuous artillery rain fell from the sky!
Not far in front of them, a cavalryman who was charging was unfortunately hit head-on by a shell, and the whole person was directly smashed into pieces. The shock wave and the dust that was blown up threw the cavalrymen around him to the ground, and the splashing blood and mud directly stained Rickman's luxurious clothes...
Tragic scenes were played out in every corner of the battlefield... Rickman was stunned for a moment, and looked at Bishop Nord beside him with a grim face.
Is this what you call the magic-breaking and divine protection? Nord was also shocked at this moment. He could see that this divine art used to resist magic had no effect at all. Could it be that the followers of the evil god had developed a sorcery that could circumvent the divine protection?
Nord's expression turned a little ugly, but he still said firmly, "It seems that these followers of the evil god are more powerful than I thought, but they can't hold on for long. Such a powerful magic must consume a terrifying amount of magic power!"
There couldn't possibly be an entire army of wizards hiding behind the valley, bombing indiscriminately, right? This was inside the kingdom, there was no way so many powerful wizards could sneak in...
(End of this chapter)