Chapter 44: Chapter 44 Raging Faith_l
Translator: 549690339
“Ice City was taken just like that? Are they that weak?” Negris, reflected on the body of the Little Copper Dragon, asked curiosly on their way to the Underground New City.
Feilin didn’t know the background of the Little Copper Corpse Dragon, but as Lord Observer’s mount, it must be of significant origin, so he carefully replied:
“It was too sudden, too professional, their siege methods were unseen before, the Former Demon Valley once attacked Ice City with giant Symbiont Demon Beasts throwing stones, but the stones couldn’t be hurled far and they were shot dead by the city’s crossbows after only a few throws. But these enemies broke the city gate in less than fifteen minutes, without even giving us a chance to block it with sandbags.”
There was nothing more to say about this, even the best defense requires people to act. If people can’t react in time, any countermeasures would be superfluous.
The main issue was their lack of experience. If they were battle-hardened, how could they possibly allow any space for throwing attacks near the city gates?
Countering these throw attacks is actually quite easy, just stack up debris, ensuring the ground is not flat for three feet. When deployment happens, it would get disrupted by physical interference, whether it collides with the debris, or merges with it, either way, it’s deadly.
But, expecting the inhabitants of Ice City who had not experienced a proper siege in more than a thousand years to have the experience was unrealistic.
“What’s the situation now?” Negris asked.
“Thanks to the melt cavities and the Resting Wind, most people managed to escape. We can temporarily shelter them in our underground city, but there are just too many and we are short of food.” Feilin responded with worried eyes.
Ice City was a city predominantly inhabited by humans, with a population much larger than Witch City, boasting a count of fifty to sixty thousand.
Only a hundred soldiers from the Saint’s Edge Army were deployed, conquering the city was easy but controlling it was difficult, and Ice City was a semi-underground city, with the main settlement built on the side of a cliff. The interior of the city consisted of interconnected caves and tunnels specifically built to each cultivation area, making it impossible for the Saint’s
Edge Army to completely blockade it.
Actually, the Saint’s Edge Army realized this problem just after they had broken the gate, many people heard the swearing of the Red Clothed Holy Knight: “F* *k Leonardo and his ancestors, you sent just thirty of us to control this kind of terrain? We can’t even control your ancestors’ graveyard!”
“Weren’t there over a hundred of them? Why did he mention only thirty?” Negris immediately noticed the discrepancy.
“They seem to be divided into two factions. The heavily armored shield bearers, priests, and Paladins are in one, and the remaining seventy soldiers are in the other. When the Red Clothed Holy Knight was cursing, the soldiers began clamoring and almost started an internal conflict.” Feilin explained.
Negris was silent for a while, let out a sigh: “They could take the city under these circumstances, these enemies are too professional, avoid engaging them head-on, make more use of the terrain.’
Feilin nodded: “Your lordship is wise, I had the same idea, using the cave networks and the Resting Wind to outmaneuver them. My only concern right now is them setting fire to our cultivation areas, that would spell the end, as long as they have food, all the survivors will surrender on their own.”
Ange, flying ahead, suddenly stopped, his hollow eye sockets shift to Feilin.
Feilin instantly felt a danger, hurriedly waved his hand and said, “Not me, not me, I’m afraid that they may start a fire.”
Only then did Ange turn his head away.
Underground City New Area is a huge underground space, quite a distance away from the main city, with its own independent entrances and exits, connected to the main city by a cave, which can actually be considered another underground city.
Previously, some reclusive inhabitants relocated here, but the number was very small, probably around ten or so households, just like in a remote mountainous region.
The inhabitants who escaped from Ice City have all been arranged to come here by Feilin, reaching as much as ten thousand. Over the next few days, there will be even more refugees fleeing here, potentially reaching six times the total of Witch City.
Witch City has a total of only five thousand living people and the food grown is also calculated based on this number. However, it is still not sufficient, so they have to buy more from Ange. Now that over ten thousand people, even reaching thirty thousand, have suddenly appeared, Feilin’s last bit of food will be used up quickly.
Since yesterday there have been people who escaped here, so starting from yesterday, Feilin has been providing these people with several meals. However, he really doesn’t have any other options, so he thought about buying food from Ange on credit. Maybe he wouldn’t even need credit, as these starving refugees should be more than willing to exchange their faith for Ange’s salvation.
Seeing Angel s arrival, Lisa quickly waved at him: “Come, come, all the kids, come over here. Uncle Skeleton will treat your wounds. Sir, could you please treat them? I can’t hold on any longer.”
Many of the injured children, either propping themselves up or being carried by their parents and relatives, slowly approached, looking anxiously at Ange.
Different from Witch City, Ice City is a place dominated by humans. Life Species like Tauren Caveman and goblins are occasionally seen, but skeletons are rare. Many people instinctively fear unfamiliar things, if the pretty Aunt Lisa hadn’t called them, these children wouldn’t have approached.
Ange tilted his head, looking at the kids in front of him, hesitating a bit. He doesn’t know healing magic, the only ability with a healing effect was Lisa’s Face Purification Technique. As Lisa borrowed his power, Ange would Imow any ability Lisa used.
Nevermind, let’s just use this one, although the effect isn’t very good.
Ange opened his palm towards the children around him, one after another, bright orbs of light were unleashed from his hand, falling onto each child.
The Face Purification Technique was a modified Divine Art by Lisa that had dual effects, purification and beauty enhancement. Since it could enhance one’s skin, repairing small wounds was just a side effect.
Moreover, Angels Purification had been upgraded, the power of this Face Purification Technique derived from Purification was similarly strengthened. The originally palm-sized holy light became the size of a basin.
At this moment, the children around him would never forget this scene, a skeleton’s hand glowing, as it draws close, all blood, dirt and wounds on their bodies visible to the naked eye disappeared, as if the light had purified all their filth and pain.
The children’s eyes were filled with light, expressing shock and worship, at this moment, Ange’s terrifying appearance no longer seemed scary, instead it seemed mystical.
From each and every child whose eyes were gleaming with admiration, Soul Flames burst forth, heading towards Ange.
There were too many Soul Flames, Ange didn’t mind them, directing them into his leather bracelet. Vaguely feeling that the bracelet seemed a bit hot, but Ange’s hands couldn’t feel temperature so he can only rely on his soul to sense it, he would overlook it if he’s not careful.
The holy light kept flashing, attracting the attention of others. After healing the children, Ange started to transfer food. As he waved his hand, one bag of food after another kept appearing in front of him.
A bag of food weighs twenty kilograms, assuming a person needs one kilogram, the food needed for ten thousand people would be ten thousand kilos, how many bags is that?
Ange couldn’t figure it out, he wanted to ask Nage some questions, but when he looked up he was shocked. He saw a large amount of Soul Flames offered by almost each person, surging towards him like a torrent. Each person’s eyes were sparkling with excitement—there was food to eat.
There was food to eat, when their home was lost and they were displaced, having food to eat was their only faith.
Ange was scared by this surge of Soul Flames, he didn’t dare to accept them himself, and directly channeled them into his leather bracelet, which began to glow, the runes on it one after the other lit up..
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