Chapter 383.

Chapter 383 – Prison Hijacking
“Ah! It hurts!”

“Someone help me!”

Miserable cries rang out as the four strong men who were being burned by the flames screamed and flung themselves to the ground rolling around in an attempt to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

But the companions around them hesitated, for they too did not know if they would also fall prey to the witch’s evil sorcery if they rashly approached.

Three of them gradually lost their movements because of the torment of the flames, and only one of them rolled a little farther to the feet of his companions, who, coincidentally, happened to be at a construction site of a new house, and threw a large amount of sand and earth on him, and only then were they able to salvage a life.

“Wicked witchcraft! Wicked witch!”

Watching his men being killed in front of him, Veleus was furious.

But his mind was not controlled by his anger, Velaeus, who had been trained by the church for many years and had often dealt with wizards, knew that magic followed the principle of “equal exchange”, the more powerful and effective the magic, the greater the price paid by the caster. Rare materials and long preparation time are the prerequisites for a powerful magic, and the preparation process is often accompanied by a huge mental drain on the caster.

In the past, the relationship between the wizards and the church in the Horned Bay area is a kind of mouse and cat, wizards in the church’s severe search and capture under the life of the precarious, hear the slightest movement will immediately hide away, it is too late to escape will be the church’s armed forces to break into the hiding place blocked because of the power of the single force, even if the preparation of offensive spells can not withstand the numerical superiority of the church, so they are also often well-prepared spells focused on the concealment and escape. So their carefully prepared spells tend to focus on concealment and escape.

Because there were almost no witches who prepared their spells with the purpose of killing or wounding a large number of church personnel, in the long run, they could not help but make the armed personnel of the church have a kind of contemptuous mentality towards witches. So after receiving the signal of a witch sighting near the church, although they were surprised, they didn’t do anything too much to prepare.

However, it was obvious that the witch in front of them had planned this for a long time, as she had just said, “Don’t underestimate a well-prepared witch”. The chain of explosions, the protection spells that were invulnerable to swords and spears, and the flames that ignited the enemy’s body in an instant were not simple tricks, and could not have been accomplished in a hurry. She must have been secretly setting up this street for quite some time, laying out those spell traps that would be difficult for normal people to detect.

Her purpose was to strike the church hard at a certain moment, to kill the church’s people, and to make the church completely disgrace itself. That moment could be at some point in the future, or it could be right now – Velaeus suspected that the identity of the Witch was most likely revealed on purpose. The latter possibility was more dangerous, and it meant that the Witch was ready for an all-out attack.

For a long time, the church’s attention has hardly been put near the cathedral, because this is the stronghold of the Church of Nisborough, how can a mouse go to the cat’s nest, the wizards to this place is not to throw themselves into the net, the people are accustomed to think that this place is the “forbidden domain of the devil”, which creates a dangerous loophole, if a wizard with the idea of dying together wants to kill in the cathedral, the wizard will be able to kill in the cathedral. If a wizard with the idea of dying wants to make some noise in the vicinity of the cathedral, as long as they are a little more careful, it is not difficult to make some preparations for casting spells. And even since the witch hunt movement was launched, there has never been such a wizard who was clearly going to attack the church on his own initiative, so people have unconsciously ignored this loophole.

More than the casualties of the ministry, what angered Vileius was – the sorcerer who was actively attacking the church had finally appeared! This was a dangerous sign that their enemies were no longer willing to passively resist, but were going to actively attack. The witch in front of her eyes would give a huge demonstration to her kind, and with the first one, there would be a second, a third …… until more and more witches joined the ranks of those actively attacking the church.

Velaeus thought of something more – after determining to take the initiative against the Church, the wizards harboring such thoughts would contact each other, no longer fighting individually, they would embrace the group, and they would be more tactical ……

“I will never let you go!” The lance in the knight’s hand projected out viciously.

Powerful brain power made Vileius determined to kill the witch in front of him, absolutely not letting her go, making those who decided to follow her example understand the price of actively provoking the church.

Because of the witch’s protective spells, Vileius did not hold much hope for the shot that was fired, it was merely a vent of anger.

But to his surprise, after the spear stalled slightly in front of the witch’s body, it actually continued to move forward, but because the shot did not owe some accuracy in the first place, it flew past the witch’s side.

“Her sorcery isn’t working! Seize the opportunity to attack quickly!”

Without the need for Vileius to remind them, the minions realized the change in the witch.

Those who were carrying bows or stone throwers immediately removed their long-range weapons and began to prepare, without knowing what other tricks the enemy had up their sleeves, long-range weapons were the safest choice, they didn’t want to be incinerated by the flames like the four companions at the beginning.

With a “whoosh” sound, the first arrow was fired at the witch, and right at this moment, a large amount of smoke suddenly erupted from the street, and it was thickest at the place where the witch was standing, and her figure disappeared in an instant.

The smoke didn’t just seem to confuse people’s sight, many people’s eyes began to tear up uncontrollably after coming into contact with the smoke.

“Ah!” A miserable scream came out, and then a figure collapsed.

“Rumble”, where another explosion occurred, and several more people were injured.

“Attention everyone! Assemble back to back!”

Veleus ordered his men loudly, he didn’t expect the other side to have this trick.

After several brothers fell consecutively, the fog began to dissipate and the people of the church could finally see each other. But they just couldn’t see the witch from before!
Vileius checked the fallen people, the ruthless ones were directly wiped by someone’s neck, the lighter ones also had horrible wounds on their bodies, and judging from the color of the wounds, the other party’s weapons had a strong poison on them.

And there were many who had been wounded by the explosion.

The knight stomped his foot fiercely, “Darn it, it happens to be this understaffed time!”

Yes, right now they were understaffed, the church had received news that there were traces of a large witchcraft coven in the villages outside of Nisborough, so most of the manpower had been sent out, and had yet to return, and then Nisborough had only left one squad under the command of Velaeus.

“Not good! Lord Vileius! It’s not good!”

Someone came running in a panic in the distance, screaming his name on his lips.

“What happened?”

The knight asked in annoyance, today was already unlucky and humiliating enough, after taking stock just now, the church’s people had been put down by a dozen or so, and they hadn’t even touched the enemy’s body.

The visitor ran to a stop in front of him, bending down to pant heavily, obviously exhausted.

“Cell …… cell ……” he said, coming up for air.

“What’s wrong with the cell!”

At the word, Velleius’ heart seized up, and he lifted the informant up by the shirt in a stern bellow.

“The prisoner …… of the cell has been robbed!”

The visitor finally pieced together a sentence.

“Ah!”

Vileius threw himself to the sky! They were trapped, the other party lured them, the last armed group, out while the Nisborough Church was short of manpower……. It was likely that the news of the witchcraft coven that they had received earlier was also a part of this plot. After they came out, there were only a few guard posts left in the cathedral’s strength, and then they took the opportunity to rob people.

And what is locked up in the prison of the church is a group of witches who are about to be tied to the stake.

“Go after them! Everyone go after the prison robbers!”

At that moment, he couldn’t care about the witch just now, if he let go of the wizards already in custody, he would really have no face to stay in the church, and could only cut himself to thank for his sins.

Everyone realized the seriousness of the matter and panicked after Vileius, and in the blink of an eye, the church personnel on this street ran clean.

At the entrance of a cluttered and shadowy alley, the figure of a woman gradually emerged, and if one looked closely, the cloak she was wearing was like a chameleon, very similar to the colors of the surroundings, making its owner not easy to be discovered, but if one paid close attention, one could still see it.

“Let’s hope that the group of adventurers will do what they promised, please, gentlemen of Lichtman.”

After uttering these words to herself, her consciousness began to blur.

With great effort, she opened her eyes and took a lingering look at the already empty but sunny streets.

“Heh, the next time I open my eyes, all I’ll see is a gloomy dungeon right ……”

The woman couldn’t hold herself up any longer and collapsed to the ground after a bitter laugh.

(End of chapter)