Chapter 823 Conquering Shengye City
Crash!
The giant crocodile didn't hesitate at all and dived directly into the moat.
"With a little brother like this, attacking the city is really easy!"
Standing on the giant crocodile's back, Gervis could cross the moat without even getting his shoes wet.
Boom!
The next moment, the giant crocodile easily crossed the 30-meter-wide moat and stepped onto the ground again.
"Giant crocodile, break open that city gate for me!"
When they reached the other side of the moat, Gervis immediately jumped off the giant crocodile's back, and then he ordered the giant crocodile slowly! "Roar!"
The giant crocodile immediately looked towards the city gate of Saint Ann City, then roared, accelerated suddenly, and crashed directly into the city gate.
Rumble! Crash! As the giant crocodile's huge body suddenly exerted force, it crashed into the gate of Saint Ann City like a train.
Suddenly, the ground at the city gate shook, and a lot of the plaster on the city wall fell down! "Okay! Giant Crocodile, continue!"
When Gervis saw this scene, he immediately cheered loudly and urged the giant crocodile to continue attacking.
"not good!"
Gallagher on the city wall felt the vibration of the city wall and looked down. Seeing the giant crocodile's huge body of more than ten meters, his face changed! At this time, the city wall had been climbed up by the enemy. If the city gate was broken again, Shengye City would fall under the attack from both sides.
"Intruder, die!"
At this moment, a woman in white jumped down from the city wall. It was Jenny, the priestess of Shengye City.
"Priest Jenny!"
Gallagher watched Jenny jump and couldn't help but roar.
There are thousands of invaders outside waiting for the city gate to be opened. If Priest Jenny jumps down, she will never come back.
"How dare you! You actually offered yourself up here!"
When Gervis saw the priestess from Shengye City jump down on her own initiative, instead of being nervous, he shouted happily and then rushed towards the priestess like lightning.
"Lord Angelina, your pious servant begs you to bring down divine punishment to punish these blasphemers!"
"God's punishment is coming!"
The priestess named Jenny began to chant immediately after she landed.
However, her target was not Gervis, but the giant crocodile's little brother that was constantly hitting the city wall.
Jenny didn't even frown when Gervis rushed towards her. When she finished chanting, she pointed her finger at the giant crocodile.
"Damn, this divine punishment is much stronger than that priestess Dilia."
After Jenny finished casting the spell, Gervis immediately realized something was wrong. He saw that the sky was originally clear, but now a large black cloud suddenly appeared above their heads!
The giant crocodile's little brother also felt the threat at this time and stopped hitting the city wall. He looked up at the dark clouds above his head, like a kitten with its fur standing on end, and kept making low roars from his mouth.
Boom! As the giant crocodile's younger brother roared, a flash of lightning suddenly appeared in the dark clouds above his head. The lightning that appeared was as thick as a bucket.
"Damn! It's scarier than the forbidden spell!"
When Gervis saw the thick lightning, his hair stood on end and he felt a slight itch on the top of his head.
At this time, he dared not delay any longer, and immediately opened the system panel and exchanged for a kiwi fruit! Boom! The dark clouds came quickly, and the attack was imminent.
When Gervis had just exchanged all the kiwifruit, the thunder in the sky had already fully brewed. With a deafening explosion, a dazzling light that was impossible to look directly at appeared in the sky.
"I am coming!"
The moment the dazzling light appeared, Gervis changed his body shape and jumped towards the giant crocodile's younger brother.
Boom! The thunder that fell from the clouds hit the city gate directly, causing pain in the eardrums of everyone within a radius of hundreds of meters.
The next moment, when the dazzling light disappeared, the originally fierce fighting field was filled with a short silence, and everyone stopped the terrifying momentum.
They wanted to see what kind of killing effect this terrifying thunder had.
However, when everyone saw the appearance of the city gate clearly, their eyes widened immediately.
The giant crocodile at the city gate was intact at this time, but on the giant crocodile there was a "person" as red as a braised iron plate hanging there, and this "red person" was Gervis.
“Ahem! It’s really powerful. Even my armor was burned red! It really deserves to be called God’s punishment!”
Seeing everyone looking at him, Gervis couldn't help but laugh.
At this moment, the armor on Gervis' body was glowing red, as if it was burned red by the lightning.
However, Gervis himself showed no signs of injury.
"How is this possible!?"
When Priestess Jenny saw this scene, she covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes full of confusion.
Because she had known for a long time that invaders would attack Shengye City, her divine power had been accumulating at all times during this period.
The power of that attack just now was enough to kill the high-level monster at the city gate with one blow.
But he didn't expect that he would be defeated by the leader of the invaders.
It would have been fine if it was blocked, but with such power even the Red Flag Knight would be seriously injured if not killed, and there was no way the leader of the invaders would survive.
But now looking at the appearance of the invader's leader, he doesn't have any signs of injury, so how could he have any signs of dying?
A dying person would talk with a smile? With a relaxed look on his face?
"Haha! Surprised? Astonished?"
Gervis looked at the priestess and felt a little annoyed. This guy had consumed 10,000 gold coins of his own for one divine punishment.
Immediately, Gervis fell from the air, and then with a flash, he came directly in front of the priestess.
Snap! Gervis slapped the staff out of the priestess's hand, and then pinched her fair neck with his palm.
"That native leader, will you surrender?"
After Gervis caught the priestess, he did not kill her, but looked at Galahad above.
"Gal...Ra...H! Don't surrender..."
Slap! Hearing that the priestess was still stubborn, Gervis slapped the priestess on the butt with his backhand without waiting for Gallagher to react.
After taking the photo, Gervis raised his head and looked upward again.
"Shameless bastard!"
Galaher on the top was furious when he saw this scene. The priestess was the most sacred being, and the leader of the invaders dared to be so frivolous.
"I'm just asking you if you surrender or not. If you don't, I'll kill her right now!"
Gervis ignored Gallaher's anger and spoke again word by word.
"I……"
In fact, Gallagher wanted to continue to persist, but he saw that the city wall was already full of enemy troops.
Moreover, the other side also has high-level monsters, and the city gate cannot hold out for long. After a lot of thoughts, he finally spoke with difficulty.
"We surrender!"
"Very good! Now tell all your men to stop and lay down their weapons!"
Gervais was very satisfied with Gallagher's choice and smiled immediately.
In fact, even if Gallaher did not surrender, their momentum was gone. In just a few dozen seconds, the city gate would have been breached by themselves.
"Put down your weapons!"
Gallagher's face turned pale, and he finally raised his head and gave an order to his subordinates around him.
When his subordinates heard his words, they immediately stopped what they were doing, hesitated for a moment, and then dropped their weapons.
Bang!
Bang!
Suddenly, the sound of discarded weapons could be heard from the city wall.
…
Squeak!
Dozens of seconds later, the gate of Shengye City was also opened by the captain of the sea tribe who had attacked the city.
"Your Majesty!"
Several sea clan captains opened the city gate and immediately filed out, saluting respectfully to Gervis at the door.
"Very good! Now, let's go into the city!"
Gervis patted the shoulders of several sea tribe captains.
Gervis saw the bravery of several people today, and this can be regarded as their true token of allegiance.
Following Gervis's order, everyone at the city gate immediately followed him into Shengye City.
When Gervis and others entered the city, they found that there were no civilians in Shengye City, and the streets and houses were empty.
"Oh my god, it's so cruel!"
Gervis couldn't help but complain in his heart.
They were fighting fiercely here, but when they finally conquered the enemy they found that they had fought in vain.
Apart from these few thousand local soldiers, the city was cleaner than if it had been licked.
Fortunately, when Gervis and others arrived at the temple in Shengye City, they saw that the holy vessels in the city were still there.
This is because these three thousand elite indigenous soldiers are guarding here, and priests are needed to stabilize the morale of the army on a daily basis.
"I don't know if this holy weapon is effective. For today's siege, I spent 60,000 gold coins just on kiwi fruit!"
Gervis held the pair of wristband-like holy weapons in his hands, but he was weighing the pros and cons in his mind.
Each of the five sea clan captains had a bottle of strength-enhancing potion, which cost five black kiwi fruits. Plus the damage immunity fruit he just took to resist lightning, the cost was 10,000 gold coins.
As for the casualties, we will have to count them later.
"Where have you, the residents of Saint Leaf City, gone?"
While the wanted casualties were being sought outside, Gervis began to interrogate the indigenous priestess.
"Invader, just kill me! One day, the Lord Angelina will punish you blasphemers with divine punishment!"
When the priestess heard Gervis's question, she was a little unconvinced.
"Oh? It seems you have forgotten the slap just now?"
Gervis squinted at the stubborn priestess and couldn't help but raise his hand and rub it.
“You…you are shameless!”
When the priestess heard Gervis's words, she immediately remembered the slap he had just given her at the city gate. Her pretty face turned red and she yelled.
"Haha! I have something even more shameless. I'm going to ask you now, will you answer my question?"
When Gervis saw that this trick worked on the priestess, he immediately pretended to be shameless and spoke with a smirk on his face.
When the priestess saw Gervis's appearance, her face turned pale, and she finally spoke angrily.
"Five months ago, all civilians were sent to the main city. Intruder, just kill me!"
Jenny now just wants to die! "Oh? They were sent to the main city five months ago, what about other cities? Were they sent there as well?"
"Yes, the same goes for other cities!"
Jenny continued to answer angrily!
After saying that, he turned to Gervis.
"Just kill me!"
"Ike, send her away and lock her up, and then send her back to Saint Ann City!"
Gervis would naturally not kill the priestess.
To be honest, if it wasn't necessary, he wouldn't have killed these natives indiscriminately. Now conquering their city was just a trend and he was following the actions of other holy cities.
After all, even if he didn't capture these cities, they would fall into other people's hands sooner or later, so it would be better to capture them and lay the foundation for Stormwind City.
Moreover, there must be abundant resources near each of these indigenous cities, and they are all extremely important existences in the Land of the Fallen Gods.
As for these natives, they will either stay and work as laborers, and then slowly assimilate over time and become one of the civilians under his command, or they will be sold to other holy cities.
Of course, Gervis would rather keep them and use them as high-level labor.
Just like the thousands of natives captured in Saint Bridge Castle, they are now working for him obediently.
And all they asked for was to be able to worship their own god once a month! ...
When the native priestess was taken away, Gandalf arrived just in time.
"Father! What are the casualties?"
When Gervase saw Gandalf, he immediately asked.
"Grevith, this is a great victory!"
When Gandalf heard Gervis' question, he did not even have time to sit down. He immediately opened his mouth wide, shook his beard, and answered loudly.
"Oh? A great victory?"
"Yes, Gervis! There was not a single soldier killed, only hundreds of seriously injured. And because of the medical team's treatment, the seriously injured are not in danger of life! So, this is a great victory!"
"To be honest, my father has participated in dozens of sieges over the years, but he has never encountered a battle like this where no one died and a city was captured!"
Gandalf was surprisingly happy.
After all, Gervis is his son. It is natural that he is extremely happy that his son can achieve the greatest victory with the least casualties.
"I see! Father, have you counted the number of the native soldiers?"
Gervis was also quite satisfied with such casualties.
Of course, this is definitely due to the contribution of the magician of the medical team.
Otherwise, according to the normal casualty ratio, most of the seriously injured soldiers would not survive this night.
"We've counted them! Originally, there were a total of 3,000 divine servant guards in Shengye City, all of them were golden knights!"
"Later, when we were attacking the city, more than 20 people were killed or injured by artillery and magicians, and more than 100 people were seriously injured!"
"However, the seriously injured are no longer in danger of death because of the medical team's rescue! There are a total of 2,981 native captives now!"
Gandalf reported the situation of the natives in detail.
"It seems that apart from the holy objects, the biggest gain is the indigenous soldiers!"
Nearly three thousand golden knights would be worth a lot of money even if they were sold as slaves.
Moreover, they can be used as high-level coolies, training them to be the best labor force no matter what they do! "Father, then you give the order and let the soldiers have a good rest for a day!"
"Tomorrow morning, I will have two captains of the Sea Clan lead 500 people to escort them back to Saint Ann City!"
Gervis still needs to continue to advance into the heartland of the indigenous people, so these captives will naturally be taken back to St. Ann first.
Because of the mithril handcuffs, Gervis doesn't have to worry about any accidents during the escort!
"Okay, Gervis! I'll arrange it now!"
Gandalf understood what Gervis meant. After the battle, it was natural to let the soldiers relax and enjoy the joy of victory.
…
At the same time that Gervis captured the City of Saint Leaf, in the Temple Square of Saint Ann City, thousands of natives were kneeling on the ground devoutly, offering sacrifices to the staff that Gervis had seized.
This is the benefit that Gervis promised them. They must offer sacrifices to the holy objects once a month.
In return, they need to work hard for Gervis and promise not to cause trouble, otherwise such sacrifices will be cancelled.
"Lord Angelina, your loyal servant prays to you once again, please come back and restore your great glory..."
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(End of this chapter)
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