Three Armies

A group of silent knights walked along a road more than ten kilometers away from Laita City, all clad in silver-white armor, with long swords at their waists, walking on foot.

Even after a night of rapid travel, they still had no complaints, stepping out deep pits in the road step by step.

Led by the Judgment Knight, the knights from the Holy City left Laita City and set off for the meeting point they had initially agreed upon for their mission.

The Judgment Knight at the head stopped his steps and looked up at the location of Laita City behind him.

The knights following behind him also stopped knowingly, preparing to listen to what their superior had to say.

Only to see the Judgment Knight withdraw his gaze and wave his hand, saying, “Rest in place for a while, then continue on the road.”

Receiving the order, the knights finally waited for their first rest after traveling all night, they couldn’t care less about their image, found a clean place on the side of the road to sit down and recover their exhausted strength.

The Judgment Knight, who ordered everyone to rest, did not rest himself, but frowned and called the vice-captain Kold aside.

Then, the first sentence he spoke made Kold panic all of a sudden.

“Balun has embarked on the road to heaven.”

In order to confirm his words, the Judgment Knight took out a broken badge, the magic essence fluctuations on it had disappeared.

Now this team is a special squad performing church missions, and everyone who can be selected is a good hand in their respective knightly orders.

In addition, with Lord Uriel, who is a Judgment Knight, leading the team, no one had thought that there would be a possibility of dying before setting off to perform the mission.

In fact, it was as they thought, during the escort mission, no enemy could stop their steps, so that the badge with the magic essence imprint had never been broken.

Unexpectedly, they actually stumbled in the process of hunting witches.

“That’s not right! Balun has the Holy Stone, even a witch who is one sequence higher than him will be suppressed by the Holy Stone, preventing the witch’s power from being exerted. As far as we know, the witch we encountered is only at the level of just entering sequence one, it is impossible to kill Balun.”

Kold realized the trickiness in this, the power of the Holy Stone in the process of tracking down witches is obvious to everyone in the church, not to mention making the Holy Stone invalid, with the Holy Stone bestowed by God, there is no possibility of failure at all from the beginning.

Looking at the facts before him, Kold subconsciously calmed down and began to sort out the beginning and end of the whole thing.

In the process of passing through the village, he unintentionally collected information from the villagers, a witch was bandaging wounds for the villagers or distributing potions.

Then sending a sequence one hound to hunt down the witch will definitely be able to complete the mission with certainty.

Then, the witch advanced to sequence one and killed all the hounds, which can also be explained, after all, human brains are always better than magical beasts.

But after sending Balun with the Holy Stone, everything went wrong.

Balun, who was in sequence two and carrying the Holy Stone, could retreat completely even if he encountered a sequence three witch with combat abilities.

Not to mention just entering sequence one, and a witch who can only use auxiliary abilities?

But now the fact is in front of him, Balun was killed by a sequence one witch.

This alone is enough for Kold to notice something is wrong.

Then he blurted out: “Witch Coven?”

Seeing that Kold had thought of the key point, Uriel affirmed his idea, obviously thinking the same as him.

“In fact, if you think about it carefully, the news we got about the witch is too strange, why would we happen to get the witch’s news from the villagers? And every time the people sent to hunt her down failed.”

Listening to Lord Uriel’s words, Kold vaguely knew his thoughts: “You mean?”

“The news about the witch from the beginning was a trap, the witch we hunted was just bait.”

Uriel’s eyes were burning with raging flames, he had never tasted the feeling of being played around by a witch, speaking with gritted teeth, the calm appearance of the past was gone.

“The witches must have been eyeing what we are escorting, there must be a sequence four or higher witch or magic item next to the bait, their plan is to delay time through the bait, gradually exhaust the people in our group, and then gather manpower to take the thing away from the front in one fell swoop.”

After listening to a speech, Kold also agreed with his superior’s opinion, judging from the current situation, this inference is the most reasonable.

Regarding the sequence level, Kold’s understanding was not much different from Uriel’s, but he felt that sending witches to ambush was more cost-effective than disposable magic items.

“Then should we speed up our time to get to the meeting point?”

Now Kold is seeking his superior’s opinion, judging from the bait plan formulated by the Witch Coven, they must not have gathered enough manpower now.

According to the current situation of their own journey, as long as they reach the destination, the Witch Coven with insufficient manpower will definitely not dare to act rashly.

After all, the birth of a witch is much more difficult than a knight, they will definitely not dare to risk death to get what they are escorting.

“No! The Church has never suffered a big loss in front of the witches, it didn’t happen in the past and it won’t happen now.” Uriel resolutely rejected Kold’s suggestion.

Saying that, Uriel began to order: “Since they dare to send out bait, then we must take the initiative.”

“I will go and meet her, whether there are witches ambushing or not, I will go and destroy her!”

“Arrange two or three people to ask the lord of Laita City to cooperate, go to our previous village and arrest the villagers, take them to the church in Laita City for trial, the apprentice knights brought by Balun should also be completely wiped out, it’s hard for mercenaries to resist magical beasts without knights, we also have to take some responsibility for the death of the apprentice knights.”

“The rest of the people, led by you, Kold, continue to escort the thing, I will report to the Holy Maiden and ask her to sit in the only way to the meeting point, to ensure that the thing does not fall into the hands of the Witch Coven.”

Dividing the entire team into three, Uriel gave different arrangements to each team, obviously not planning to let go of anyone who participated in the bait plan.

“The Holy Maiden?”

Hearing Lord Uriel’s intention to notify the Holy Maiden, Kold, as the vice-captain, raised his head sharply.

Only knights who have entered the Judgment Knight Order have the privilege of seeing the Holy Maiden.

Kold did not expect Uriel to use it here, which also showed Uriel’s determination to annihilate all the witches.

“It’s just that, the witch hiding in the dark may be above sequence four, I remember you…”

Kold didn’t finish his words, but the meaning was obvious, Uriel, who is a sequence four knight, plus the assistance of the Holy Stone may not be able to kill the witch in a short time.

Once the witch finds out that Uriel has left the team, maybe the witches will choose to attack Kold’s escort team in advance.

Hearing this, Uriel did not speak, a soft light appeared from him, with a suffocating aura, pressing Kold to the point where he could not breathe.

“Who said I am a sequence four knight? I am now a sequence five Adjudicator Knight.”

Unknowingly, Uriel has stepped into the ranks of sequence five.

“Entering sequence five, with the cooperation of the Holy Stone, I am confident that I can instantly kill the sequence four witch, and then rush back. If the Witch Coven really takes the opportunity to attack, as long as you can hold on for a while, it will be enough.”

“Kold, now execute things according to my plan!”

Uriel instructed Kold to notify the knights to prepare to divide into three groups and act according to his plan.