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The rain of ice and ice flew down, diluting the bloody aura in the Holy City, and Eretia stood with her great sword, gasping violently.

It wasn't the first time she had been involved in the battle for the Hermes Line, but she never thought that the New Holy City might also fall one day.

The walls are completely finished.

Eretia had never seen such a terrifying monster, a huge insect-like hybrid beast emerging from the ground, its body pressed against the glacial cliffs, its bony claws embedded in the wall like barbs, and its body was not yet fully exposed to the ground.

If it was just a huge body, it would have been fine, but everyone didn't expect that the monster would open its bloody mouth and spit out a large number of mixed evil beasts from its mouth, and the city wall suddenly exploded.

The otherwise orderly team was shattered by the beasts, and the advance camp of the Inquisitor Army, where Eretia was located, was also divided, and she watched her comrades being swallowed up by the beasts, but she could not do anything. The warm human blood mixed with the black blood of the monsters, flowing along the crevices in the stone floor.

As the horn of retreat sounded, the trebuchets placed in the holy city were activated, and half-man-high granite blocks fell from the sky, completely ignoring the fact that there were still many of their own people and the kingdom's army at the head of the city.

All she could remember was that a boulder had hit Captain Dicato guarding her side, and when she got up from the ground, she saw that he was embedded in the cracked stone slab, along with his armor, his body like a wrinkled piece of parchment, his intestines gushing out of the cracks in his abdomen, and the steaming blood forming a small puddle under him.

If she hadn't jumped before the stone hit the ground, I'm afraid it would end up like him, she thought.

As for how she finally managed to break out of the siege and retreat under the walls, Eretia doesn't remember much. Screams and curses were everywhere, and everyone was slashing and slashing with their weapons, not knowing if they were fighting the beast or their companions.

Of a team of more than 100 judges, only 12 survived, including himself.

"What's next, Captain!"

"Captain Eretia!"

Eretia came back to her senses, yes, according to the rules of the Inquisitor, if the captain is killed in battle, the vice-captain should take over the position of captain and lead the team to continue the battle.

She bit her lip until an iron smell filled her mouth, "Let's go to the north gate of the Holy City, where the evil beasts must pass if they want to attack the new Holy City. This order meant giving up all the residential areas between the city walls and the inner city, but she had no choice but to do so than the Cathedral of Hermes, the center of the church.

And there was another sentence she didn't say, the glaciers and cliffs couldn't stop this group of monsters, what role could she and the remaining eleven people play?

Perhaps today is the day of her dedication to Heaven, be merciful, she prayed in her heart as she cried out, "The Inquisitors will never give up!

"The Inquisitors will never give up!" shouted in unison from the others.

Twelve people lined up in a column and trotted all the way to the north gate, and the sound of fighting in the city wall area gradually weakened, and finally disappeared into the sound of wind and rain.

Arriving at the North Gate, Eretia felt a little better when she saw that a number of Inquisitors had gathered in front of the drawbridge, and it seemed that everyone was thinking the same thing.

But in this moment of crisis, the drawbridge was lowered. Eretia frowned, walked up to a handsome warrior wearing a red robe of the presiding judge, clenched her fists and saluted, "Judge Chief, I am the leader of the fourth squad of the advance battalion, Eretia Quinn!"

"I'm Tucker Thor, head of defense at the North Gate. Thank you for your hard work," the man nodded, "We have set up a first aid station behind the north gate, and if you have a wounded in your team, you can send them over." ”

"My lord, I don't understand, why don't we raise the drawbridge at this time, the evil beasts on the city walls may swarm at any time, and we must ensure that the inner city is not lost. ”

"Calm down, Captain, I know you and your team are not afraid of sacrifice, but senseless sacrifice is meaningless, and the church is far from its final moment," he reached out and wiped the rain from his forehead, "Go to the assembly place and stand by, if you run out of cold warming pills, remember to ask the quartermaster for it." ”

As soon as the presiding judge said this, Eretia realized that she was so frozen that after she broke away from the battlefield, the sweat on her body mixed with the cold rain, and her whole body almost froze in ice. The biting cold wind blew in her face, and she couldn't help but shiver.

He pulled out the sheepskin bag from his underwear pocket and shook it into his palm, but only some viscous liquid flowed out. Apparently having accidentally crushed the pill during the battle, she sighed and looked up, only to find a maroon Hearthwarming Pill handed to her.

"Eat mine first," Tucker Thor smiled at her, "and you'll pay me back then." ”

Eretia was not polite, she took the balls and chewed them and swallowed them in one gulp, "Maybe we won't have a chance to eat this again." ”

"yes, that's pretty good," Tucker nodded in agreement, "it's too unpalatable." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, a strong fishy breath rushed from Eretia's stomach, even the battlefield full of corpses would not emit such a disgusting taste, she felt that what she had eaten was not a pill, but a mixture of flesh and blood that had been rotting for a long time, and the unbearable sour numbness continued to pour from her abdomen to her whole body, the chill suddenly faded, and then a scorching warm current flowed down her veins. The temperature of her body gradually recovered, the sweat that had been frozen began to slide again, and bursts of white air appeared above her head, and her numb toes regained consciousness.

"But not today," the presiding judge waved his hand as she took the Chill Warming Pill, "the Divine Punishment Army is coming from the cathedral, and the evil beast can't pass through the north gate." Take your men and go to the staging area, and remember to check their pills. Don't be like you, only to find out when you use it. ”

The Divine Punishment Army, the most elite army in the hands of the Church!Eretia had heard of it for a long time, but she had never seen it with her own eyes. But...... Even if the Divine Punishment Army is as powerful as rumored, it is still a human after all. With this body alone, no matter how much you train, you can't easily defeat a large group of mixed evil beasts.

But since the presiding judge said so, she had no choice but to leave the north gate with eleven members of the team and move closer to the assembly place to the west.

Hundreds of retreating Inquisitors had gathered here, standing in the rain in twos and threes, letting the rain flow over their cheeks, and some even sat directly on the ground, looking listless. Only a small number of people were still lined up, waiting for the enemy to appear at any moment.

If it had been a few days ago, Erecia would have stood up and scolded them, but now, she was at a loss. In order to establish this new holy city, countless compatriots died here, and it can be said that in every brick and tile here, the blood of believers and inquisitors is condensed. The bishop often said that to occupy Hermes is to have the kingdom of God on earth.

Today, however, it seems that the kingdom of God is about to fall into the hands of the devil.

"The beast is coming!" someone shouted, "Prepare to meet the enemy!"

Eretia pulled herself together, raised her greatsword, stared at the rapidly approaching dark shadow in the sky, and shouted, "For Hermes!"

"- For the new holy city!"