The female devils I saved came to my door

Judging from the tone, this guy must be coming for me, and he seems to have known about his existence for a long time.

And the battle is still going on.Although the warriors summoned by Sharlanna were also powerful creatures from the underworld, they were still too weak against Monro.Monroe then slashed twice with his sword, easily smashing the black knight's shield, and by the way, shattered the black knight into a ball of black mist, and drove him back to the Netherworld.

Sharlanna looked at the powerful enemy in front of her and knew she was in trouble.

She could only do her best and use her strongest Nether magic to summon the largest Nether World creature she could summon.

Soon, huge beasts, tall and mighty warriors, arrogant and ugly demons, and horrifyingly twisted aliens took shape around her. Under her command, these monsters howled one after another, and then swarmed up. , swooping towards Monroe.

Sharlanna herself summoned a mount again and prepared to escape from this place.

However, she still underestimated Munro's power - this guy didn't use any magic, he just held up his heavy sword and moved dexterously among these roaring Nether World creations. His casual slashes seemed ordinary, But every move must be able to accurately banish a nether world creature.

Within a few dozen breaths, all the underworld creatures who had helped Sharlana easily defeat thousands of enemies and stabilize the order of the Great Black Sund region were all wiped out by Monroe.

However, Sharlana still seized the opportunity and escaped.

But Monroe was not angry. He put away his weapon and returned to the forest. He took out his horse and looked at the direction in which Sharlanna was escaping. He planned to follow her slowly and then follow the clues to capture the child and her brother. The sisters caught them all and brought them back to the Holy See.

This happened two weeks before Katrin's death.

113. What I experienced after leaving the Holy See

Charles didn't know that his daughter was almost killed by her father-in-law.

After Catherine's death, he immediately left the Holy See and headed east.

His words to St. Ann IV were, "I hope to forget the pain caused by Catherine's departure through my mission. I want to assist the Holy See and contact those dioceses in the east that have not had contact with each other for several years to rebuild the glory of the Holy See."

In this way, he can legitimately go to the Principality of Beztan to find the mysterious child.

The Pope also allowed it.

Although Catherine's departure made him feel suffocating pain, it also lifted his shackles.

From now on, after leaving the Holy See, he will no longer worry about returning.

He drove his mount towards the east without looking back.

After traveling for more than three months and truly leaving the Holy See's influence, the places I saw were still quite depressed and dilapidated.Raging thugs and gangs, manors that were as wary of outsiders as hedgehogs, desolate fields... But he was used to it and no longer felt sad about it.

For several months he kept on the road, occasionally using force to assist some of the distressed residents.When you see those lords and nobles you don't like, you don't have to help them for the Holy See's grand plan.

It was as simple and pure as when I first traveled to the world of Yalan, without any acquaintances or friends, and was alone.

This put him at ease.

In late autumn he reached Beztain with reasonable success.

The Principality of Beztan was originally a densely populated and prosperous plain area, but due to the first outbreak of plague, it suffered heavy losses.Just after the plague subsided, the devil incited a serf uprising that spread throughout the country.Several marquises in the duchy then started to make trouble - recently, the grand duke passed away, and several sons were fighting among themselves, so the situation became increasingly worse.

The situation in this area is quite bad. In many areas, half of the population has even been reduced. It is even more miserable than North Germany in the middle and late stages of the Thirty Years' War.But Beztan is also an important hub leading to the northeast of the mainland. The situation here has deteriorated, and even areas such as Great Hessend will lose contact with the Holy See.

After encountering several robbers and bandits, and wandering on dilapidated paths for a long time, Charles found out the location of a monastery.

In that dilapidated monastery that had been in disrepair for a long time, the local priests and monks were so happy that they cried when they saw the knights from Glory City. They thanked the Holy See for not abandoning this "sinful place punished by Heavenly Father" and cried to him. These years have not been easy.Ciel comforted him for a while, and then began to ask for information in a roundabout way, asking if they had ever seen a child riding a unicorn.

Of course these priests had never heard of a child riding a white unicorn.They usually hide in the monastery, relying on their only land and the reputation of their Heavenly Father to survive double exploitation by greedy gangsters and even greedier lords. They can barely survive, barely have food and clothing, and have no stable source of information at all.

The priest claimed: "There are robbers everywhere. They even scrape off the gold powder from the holy emblem hanging in the preaching hall. Every once in a while, lords come to ask us to 'borrow' things - in fact, they rob us. No believers have come for a long time. We didn’t dare to go out even after worshiping.

"What's worse is that we heard that during the attack on Zeyuan in the east last month, a group of barbarians emerged, ran over and looted for a while, and caused a lot of trouble. Some lords used this as an excuse, and everywhere" The reason for borrowing money to collect grain is to defend against these foreign enemies. I'm afraid... they will even take away the few grains we have."

"Zawayuan in the east?" Charles was a little puzzled: "The Great Swamp area in the east of the principality? Doesn't that mean that the group of bandits came from the Great Hessend area? They robbed the barony of Betztain?"

Priest: "Isn't it? That group of people were not ordinary gangsters. It was said that they were very large, with thousands of people! They were quite powerful. Moreover, it seemed that they not only robbed, but directly occupied two border baronies. I won’t leave!”

Charles: "Then do you know any details? For example, the weapons and equipment used by that group of people, who is taking the lead, whether there are mages, and whether there are any rules for marching and formation..."

The priest shook his head. He only knew something through hearsay.

Somewhat disappointed, Charles left some money for the priests, helped them briefly repair the monastery, and stood up to say goodbye.

He is very strange.Because as far as he knew, it was impossible to pull out a team of thousands of people in the loose and remote backwaters of the Great Blacksend area, let alone launch a war of plunder through the great swamp.Could it be that other gangs entrenched in the east were mistakenly identified?

He was a little worried. After all, Ipoli was his second hometown in this world, and he didn't want it to suffer the scourge of war.

He continued to go east, intending to put his own affairs aside and find out what the origins of the armies emerging from the swamps were.

Soon, his doubts were explained.

He passed through shabby villages and desolate fields, and finally came across a small village with a few hundred people.This village is like a hedgehog, surrounded by sharpened wooden piles and surrounded by a high stone wall.

Villagers with ferocious faces patrolled the wall with spears raised - the point is, this town was hoisted with a flag, a flag that Ciel had seen countless times in Iboli in the past.

That is the royal flag of the Ipoli State.

These villagers also saw Charles. After seeing this knight riding a war horse and carrying a heavy sword, the villagers thought he was a tax collector sent by the local lord.

So they raised their weapons angrily, shouted at him in common language with a strong local accent, and told him to get out of here.

They shouted: "Kannan Village will no longer be the territory of you bastards, we are now a village under the rule of Da Yiboli!"

"We won't give you a bag of moldy oats!"

"Tell the Baron to go eat shit!"

"The taxing dog will kill the whole family!"

Charles looked at these excited villagers in astonishment. After finding that they were unable to communicate, he could only ride away.

The villagers burst into cheers, like warriors who had won a victory.

Later, he saw many scattered villages and towns.They were all heavily guarded and hung with the Ipoli flag. The villagers were also very energetic, like children who had support. They felt that by hanging this flag, they would no longer have to endure the exploitation of the lords.

This made Ciel even more surprised.

In order to find out the truth, he speeded up and gradually reached the eastern border of the principality.

Here, he encountered a group of soldiers blocking the road.

A bearded old baron who was nearly seventy years old, riding a war horse and leading a group of soldiers with playful smiles and no formal faces, blocked the main road. After Charles stopped, the soldiers took advantage of the situation and surrounded him. retreat.

These people planned to ask for a large amount of "war donations" from the Shire passing through this place - to put it bluntly, they were robbery on the road.

Even though Charles moved out of the Holy See as a knight, these people remained unmoved.

"Now we are very short of supplies. The group of barbarians from Ipoli are attacking our territory. The war ahead may have broken out. Those rough barbarians also used despicable methods to confuse many residents under our rule. In order to deal with them, We had no choice but to take this step.”

The old baron spoke righteously: "Those evil barbarians were led by a red-haired female devil. She was probably the red-haired witch from previous years! The lingering devil is back... When we pay donations, we are helping to suppress the devil. Sir Knight of the Holy See, you should have this awareness."

"The red-haired devil... the war has broken out?"

These words gave Ciel a bad feeling.

Everything he saw along the way made him unwilling to delay any longer.

He simply drew out his heavy sword and chopped down a soldier who tried to steal his money bag. Then, he jumped over the roadblock set up by this group of people on horseback.

After getting rid of this annoying group of pursuers, he continued to move towards the east.On the subsequent road, he met deserters, civilians taking refuge, nobles searching for and suppressing defeated troops, and soldiers escorting baggage... Some of these people were afraid, some panicked, some cruel, and some numb.

Their appearance showed that a war of considerable scale was breaking out not far ahead.

Eventually, the charr reached the eastern plains of Beztan.

He rode his horse and stopped on a hillside some distance away from the plain, and saw two groups of men and horses fighting on the plain.

One group is the Beztan coalition holding various flags and huddled together in a chaotic manner; while the other side is an organized army with a relatively small number carrying the flag of the unified Kingdom of Ipoli.

Although the leader of the Ipoli Kingdom's army was wearing neat armor and covering his face with a helmet, Charles still relied on his intuition to recognize her at a glance among the thousands of troops.

"Lovna?"

-------------Lovna's experience-------------

After Sharlanna left Great Black Sende to look for Charles, carrying Lovna on her back, Lovna became a little anxious after learning the news.

"What is Sharlanna thinking! Didn't I warn her not to do stupid things? Her father is now... alas!"

She planned to find the child immediately.But the other six children from the Nether Realm explained: Sharlanna's concealment spell is the strongest, and it is difficult to find her. We can only rely on the blood induction of the six of them.

However, due to the long-term peace in the Great Hessende region, the strength of several children has been weakened.Only war and death can allow them to regain their strength and sense Sharlanna's location.

At the same time, as fewer and fewer bandits invaded Great Blacksend, the resistance of various states to maintaining standing armies became stronger and stronger.Although Lovna can suppress their opinions, she does need a victory and real gains to silence these people.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Lovna led more than 1000 people through the dense forest in the west, cut a passage, and launched a tentative attack towards the Beztan border.

The original plan was to raid the castles of several baronies and rob a few nobles.This way, we can make some seizures and restore some strength to the six children.

But everything went so well.

The territories of those border barons were quite depressed and their defenses were very lax.They were also busy guarding against other nobles in the west and ignored the threat from the east.

Lovna easily captured their castle and transported the gold, silver and grain of these nobles back to Ipoli.The few local residents of villages and towns were actually happy about this, because Lovna did not intend to tax them, and also killed their tired lords and distributed some old grain in the castle.

Lovna asked several children from the Nether Realm to quickly find Sharlanna, while she was thinking about countermeasures in the face of this sudden simple victory and the cheers of the conquering people.

The cheers of these people in front of her reminded her of her experience when she was bewitched by the devil.

But looking at the fertile plains of Beztan, but uncultivated due to chaotic governance, she made a decision - she wanted to make this place truly useful.

Facing this enemy that suddenly emerged from the east, the nobles of Beztan also responded. These people gathered an army in the east of the ruined principality, vowing to destroy this annoying group of invaders.

The war that Charles saw was the beginning of the destruction of the Principality of Beztan.

114. The second reunion of Lovna and Ciel

In the chaotic battlefield, Charles saw a completely different person from the Lovna in his memory.

The woman wore a heavy helmet and shining silver armor. Her long fiery red hair emerged from the connection between the helmet and breastplate, draped over her shoulders and fluttering as she galloped.

At her waist was the alchemy dagger that Ciel had commissioned in the past, and she carried a three-person-long spear under her arm as she walked through the chaotic battlefield.Behind her was a group of cavalry, holding high the royal flag of Ipoli, guarding her left and right.

Her appearance is an important weight that overwhelms the balance of war.

Due to the internal chaos of the Principality of Beztan, the command system of this hastily formed coalition was quite stretched and was jointly commanded by several sons of the former Grand Duke.Therefore, as soon as the battle began, they and their respective supporters began to act on their own, failing to truly take advantage of their numerical advantage. Instead, they hindered each other and gave the enemy opportunities to defeat them one by one.

There seems to be no unified and coordinated command among the various nobles.Therefore, even in this quite open plain battlefield, they still failed to set up their positions. Instead, they blocked each other's roads and made a mess.

The nobles commanding the soldiers shouted curses, but their shouts were lost in the noisy crowd.After the leading "red-haired woman" from Ipoli appeared, the situation of the Beztan coalition became even more chaotic.

Several nobles who wanted to kill the red-haired witch all failed. The nobles who wanted to retreat and those who wanted to continue the attack collided again... The red-haired witch successfully killed several nobles who led the team and broke through the cypress. The front of the Ztan coalition.

Standing on a high ground in the distance and looking at the scene, Charles could see that although the Beztan coalition still had soldiers holding on, it was in decline and had lost effective command.

The Principality of Beztan is probably going to lose this time.

The woman leading the Ipoli army raised her spear high and shouted something to the crowd behind her. Then, a burst of cheers sounded like an explosion, covering the noisy sounds on the battlefield, which seemed to be an announcement. Cheers of victory.

…………

After winning, Lovna returned to her base, a manor house in a barony.

Her subordinates have controlled a considerable territory in the eastern part of Beztan, established military camps of considerable size, and obtained the attachment of many villages and towns. Many local exploited villagers regard Lovna as Become a liberator.

They also requisitioned the farms and castles of local nobles as command posts and temporary hospitals.The manor where Lovna now lives was once the private property of the local nobles.

Now, this place has been converted into a barracks.

Passing through the open space filled with seized supplies, she greeted the logistics workers who were busy transporting the wounded, and then gave a simple speech to the excited soldiers. Finally, amid the cheers of the people, the tired Lovna replied Arrive at your temporary residence.

She took off her helmet and threw it aside, while she slumped down on the armchair, breathing heavily and thinking wildly.

In a corner of the hut, two or three children with black hair and black eyes gradually emerged from the void.

They walked up to Lovna and asked curiously: "Sister Lovna, did we win today?"

"Well, we won." Lovna replied absently: "You don't need to do anything else. Just wait for Sharlanna and the others to come back."

"Then why aren't you happy?"

"...I'm thinking about something. Leave me alone for a while, and you can go outside and play by yourself first, okay?"

"Ok."

The smaller children nodded and disappeared again.

Lovna was left alone in the room thinking.

At the beginning, her purpose in invading the Principality of Beztan was just to grab something so that the countries in the Greater Hessend region could benefit from it. They would no longer oppose her and come out to look for Sharlanna.It's that simple.

But he easily occupied so much land in the eastern part of the principality, and even fought a battle with the allied forces of the principality, and actually won.

She really didn't know what to do for a while.