Chapter 824: Empty City
The descendants of the servants of God were lying on the ground, silently chanting devoutly in their hearts.
Such sacrificial prayers have been going on since they were old enough to understand. Although there has been no response for dozens or even hundreds of years, they believe that one day their main god will wake up and return again.
Under the leadership of the priestess Nabel, everyone prayed devoutly, and soon this monthly event came to an end.
Just when the descendants of God's servants finished praying, opened their eyes and prepared to get up, they were all stunned the next moment.
"The holy...the holy object is glowing!"
The holy object, which had never shown any abnormal behavior, now underwent unprecedented changes.
There were dots of light flickering around the holy vessel.
Buzz! As the light became brighter and brighter, a buzzing sound suddenly came from the field, and a halo appeared on the holy staff, rippling like waves! "The Lord God has awakened and returned! Our Angelina has returned!"
As the only priestess on the scene at that moment, when she saw the halo appear on the staff, Nabel's face showed unprecedented surprise.
She immediately whispered to the descendants of the servants of God who were kneeling on the ground in confusion! "What! The Lord God... has returned?"
Hearing Nabel's words, several descendants of the gods' servants nearby were filled with astonishment, as if they were in a dream.
Their main god had been gone for many years, and they never expected to actually witness his reappearance.
Buzz! Just as the natives were beginning to feel endless surprise, a buzzing sound was heard again in the field.
Afterwards, there was a buzzing sound, and the shining staff dimmed again, returning to its original appearance.
"this……"
"Priest Nabel, what's going on? Didn't the Lord God awaken and return?"
"It has awakened! The High Priest once said that countless years ago, when the Lord God's glory was still there, all the objects in the temple were shining with holy light!"
"Especially the holy vessels used by the Lord God! They are full of divine power! Full of holiness!"
"It was only after the Lord God died that these holy artifacts lost their brilliance!"
"However, the chief priest said that one day when the Lord God returns again, these holy objects will shine again!"
Nabel is worthy of being a priestess. Although she is not very powerful, she remembers everything about the Lord God.
The staff suddenly emitted holy light, and she knew that this must be a sign of the Lord God awakening.
As for why the holy light of the staff went out again, Nabel thought for a moment, thought of a possibility, and immediately whispered to comfort everyone.
"The Lord God has just awakened, and his strength has not yet fully recovered! If we want the Lord God to fully awaken and return! We need to continue to pray to the Lord God devoutly!"
"Yes, what the High Priest said makes sense! It must be like this!"
Following Nabel's explanation, the descendants of the gods' servants in front of her instantly understood, and then showed affirmative expressions and began to agree.
They were all looking forward to the awakening of their main god, so that they, the descendants of God's servants, would no longer be afraid of invaders.
"Then, Master Priest, shall we continue to pray to Lord Angelina now? This way, Lord Angelina will wake up faster!"
The descendants of God's servants, who were filled with fervor in their hearts, immediately looked at Nabel. As long as she nodded, they would close their eyes and continue to pray.
"No! We have already prayed once today, and Angelina God has responded. However, the God is very powerful, and it will take some time for him to fully wake up, so we don't have to be too anxious!"
Nabel also wanted to pray continuously to awaken the Lord God as soon as possible.
But as a priestess, she knew that the Lord God was the supreme being, and if he could wake up immediately, he would have been able to do it earlier.
But the holy light of the staff only lasted for a moment before going out, which meant that Lord Angelina was definitely still in the process of awakening.
If we continue to pray to the Lord Angelina, it may affect her awakening.
More importantly, the invaders of Saint Ann City would definitely not agree to let them do this. The guards who were responsible for guarding them had already seen the condition of the staff.
The intruder's manager will definitely come to stop this, so they need to try to keep things as they are and not let the intruder notice anything unusual.
"Wait a minute, you will all follow the invader's instructions. We cannot allow any accidents to happen when Angelina awakens!"
Now, the staff is the key to whether the Lord God can be revived. If the invaders know the situation and destroy the staff, they will be the sinners of their own people.
Nabel figured everything out and immediately gave instructions to all the descendants of the gods' servants, especially Commander Kenchel, who had a stubborn temper.
Although he was captured during this period, he was still unwilling to accept the situation. Fortunately, I kept persuading him and he was able to suppress it temporarily.
"Okay, Priest Nabel!"
When Kenchel knew that the goddess was about to revive, he saw hope of regaining his freedom and agreed immediately.
"Priest Nabel, what's going on here?"
At this moment, Caroline and Lolita arrived in front of the temple under the escort of a group of elite sea guards.
The guards had already notified them when the light from the staff appeared earlier.
"Hello, Miss Caroline, the holy object just emitted light on its own! This is the holy object automatically absorbing the power of our devout faith. This scene happens every once in a while!"
Nabel bowed respectfully to Caroline and then began to explain.
"The power of faith? Does it appear every once in a while?"
Caroline didn't know much about this, and was skeptical about Nabel's explanation.
Because the prayer place was in the square, the scene was quite noisy and the guards were standing far away to help the natives maintain order, so they could not hear clearly the whispers of Nabel and others.
"In that case, Priest Nabel, your sacrifice for this month is complete. You now need to go to work as agreed! I also need to put away this staff!"
Caroline first looked at Lolita, and Lolita shook her head at her, indicating that she didn't know.
So Caroline took the initiative to clear out the natives and let them go back to work.
"Okay! Miss Caroline!"
Nabel did not object. The more critical the moment, the more important it is to remain calm.
Then, the group of natives, escorted by Laurie and others, headed towards the gold crystal mine in the west of the city.
"Lolita, don't you know why this staff glows?"
Holding the staff in her hand, Caroline took Lolita towards the small building behind the temple.
"Sister Caroline, I know very little about the natives of the God's Falling Land!"
Lolita nodded in response.
"However, I don't think the priestess's explanation is necessarily credible!"
Lolita paused and added.
"Yes! We need to send someone to inform Gervis about this matter. During this period of time, we also need to strengthen the supervision of those natives!"
Caroline nodded in agreement.
Then the two of them took the staffs and sent them to the sacred tree in the garden of the small building again.
And when the two put down the staff and left, the staff, which had originally dimmed, made a low humming sound again.
Then, many white spots of light appeared on the staff and slowly gathered towards the holy tree. "Hey! What is that?"
Wall-E was playing among the branches of the sacred tree, and when he saw these lights appear, he curiously hovered in the air.
After four or five seconds, all the white light spots merged into the sacred tree, and then the garden fell into silence again. Only Wall-E had a puzzled look on his face.
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Gervis had no idea that strange things were happening to the holy tree and staff in his city of Saint Ann.
The next morning, he asked one of the sea tribe captains to lead 300 sea tribe soldiers to escort more than 2,800 captured natives towards Saint Ann City.
They were also asked to take back the sacred objects seized from Shengye City - a pair of metal wristbands, and more than a hundred seriously injured soldiers.
Because the road behind leads directly to St. Ann's City, Gervis is not worried about what might happen to them on the road.
After the team escorting the prisoners left, Gervis left only one hundred sea creatures as the force to protect Shengye City, and then led the team to the next city again.
Because of the siege of Holy Leaf City, Gervis discovered that his seemingly weak military force was actually no worse than that of other holy cities in terms of siege.
First, use long-range attacks to destroy the enemy's crossbows guarding the city, and then use the magician's firepower to suppress the enemy's longbowmen.
He also had thousands of sea soldiers under his command, so he didn't have to worry about the moat outside the city, and avoided the need to deploy a large number of manpower and risk their lives to carry out the river filling operation.
More importantly, he also has fifty swift dragon birds as air force.
In the battle to capture Saint Leaf City, Gervis chose to let the Swift Dragon Bird rest in the rear.
But as long as they encounter a tough bone to chew, Gervis will let Long Yi and others ride on it, and then launch an all-round coordinated attack by the three armies to attack the city.
"Set off!"
Looking at the closed gates of Saint Leaf City, Gervis gave an order and more than 5,000 people set out on the journey again.
…
Two days later, outside a small city, Gervis frowned as he looked at the city gates that were open.
"Your Majesty, we have already patrolled the city on the Swift Dragon Bird, and there are indeed no natives!"
Ik jumped off the Swift Dragon Bird and came to Gervis to report.
"Strange, such a big city is actually empty, not even the God's Servant Guards are there, are the natives really willing to give it to us like this?"
After listening to Ike's report, Gervis was thoughtful.
They arrived at the city called Saint Ni City ten minutes ago.
When they were twenty miles away from Saint Ni City, the reconnaissance team sent by Gervis actually returned and reported that there was no one in the city.
Not to mention civilians, even the guards of the gods who are responsible for guarding the place are nowhere to be seen.
Empty streets, unguarded city walls, and a completely open city.
Such a report made Gervis begin to doubt. Could it be the famous empty city plan in his previous life?
Immediately, Gervis ordered his troops to stay twenty miles away for the whole morning and sent out all the swift dragon birds to begin a careful investigation inside and outside the city.
After a morning of exploration and confirming that there were no enemy ambushes, Gervis led his team to the city of Saint Ni.
"Gervis, could it be that these natives knew they couldn't win, so they evacuated?"
Gandalf interrupted from beside Gervase.
“It’s not impossible!”
Gervis nodded. This seemed to be the only reasonable explanation at the moment.
Now it is not just Gervis who is launching the attack, but the Holy City forces of the entire Holy Alliance.
Therefore, it is possible that the natives are retreating their defenses again.
After all, in such a small city, it would be easy for only two or three thousand soldiers to be defeated by each other.
"Let's go into the city and search again!"
Although Gervis had this idea, just to be on the safe side, he still planned to send people to conduct a careful carpet search in the city.
The swift dragon birds also began to patrol continuously within dozens of miles outside the city to prevent this from being a strategy of the natives to lure the enemy deeper.
…
A team of 5,000 people searched the city of Saint Ni for two hours and finally confirmed that it was an empty city with no one in it.
"Ike, pass the order down. Everyone should rest in the city tonight! We will continue to advance tomorrow!"
Gervis' original plan was to capture the two cities and then defend them, but now that he has encountered such a good thing, he naturally will not stand still.
He didn't care whether he would have enough manpower to defend the captured city in the future, and he just tried to go as deep as possible now.
Because, if the natives really abandon the city, then if we act slowly, these cities may fall into the hands of others.
"Yes! Your Majesty!"
Ike immediately took the order, walked out of the temple and began to convey Gervis's orders.
…
After resting in Saint Ni City for a night, Gervis and his party set out again early the next morning.
This time, Gervis only left ten sea creatures to garrison in the city of Saint Ni.
Gervis was not sure how many cities would be empty next. If he encountered only three or two cities, he would have to divide his troops too much, and it would be difficult if he really encountered the enemy.
The strength is already strong, if we divide our forces, we will probably end up in tragedy.
In this way, Gervis left ten people and closed the city gates of Saint Ni City, and then continued on the road with his team.
As we went deeper into the heart of the indigenous sphere of influence, the distance between cities gradually shortened.
Just one day later, Gervis once again encountered a deserted city.
However, even though there was a precedent, Gervis did not dare to let his guard down and swagger into the city.
Instead, they searched carefully outside the city again for several hours before entering the city.
“Good things happen every year, but I didn’t expect there would be so many this year!”
Standing on the city wall of the city called Holy Germany, Gervis finally confirmed that these cities were voluntarily abandoned by the natives.
Nowadays, these cities are like cabbages on the roadside, first come first served, it is so easy.
"Your Majesty, the team has been assembled and is ready to set off at any time!"
At this moment, Ike quickly came to Gervis' side.
"Well, great! Let's go now! If you're slow, you'll miss it!"
Since there were cities to be picked up along the way and he was sure that this was not some conspiracy of the natives, Gervis prepared to speed up.
Because the Swift Dragon Bird in charge of reconnaissance has reported that there is a medium-sized city more than a hundred miles away that is also deserted.
Gervis is now capturing small cities, and he is a little envious of the medium-sized cities that can accommodate more than 100,000 people.
After saying that, Gervis walked towards the stairs of the city wall.
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