Mount & Blade War Chronicles
Chapter 334

Returning the Favor in Kind

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"Aigrem itself is not too strong. Its greatest ability lies in devouring and assimilating... He will endlessly produce Fallen One."

Although Oswood has a broken body, Media still looks quite energetic. It seems that she really doesn't mind whether she has skin or whether her limbs are broken.

"Can you elaborate on engulfment and assimilation?"

Li Ang asked.

"It can swallow souls. The more souls it swallows, the stronger its troops will become. People with evil intentions will soon be attracted to it after coming into contact with it, and will actively sacrifice their souls to it, and then be assimilated by it into Fallen Ghost."

Media glanced at Li Ang with his big bare eyes. "Every Fallen Ghost is a powerful warrior, a slave who has completely lost his self-consciousness. He can execute any order without compromise, and his brain must be destroyed to die..."

"I can already see that it is getting stronger... so how can we kill it?"

Li Ang doesn't really mind Fallen Ghost. Since he can't think, he is a brainless monster. Since Aigrem is the only one in the entire Fallen One army who is smart, there is an opportunity to take advantage of it.

"The black mist on Aigrem is actually its soul body. If it loses its flesh and blood body, it can't actually do anything with Spirit Body alone. Of course, similarly, swords can't do anything to Spirit Body causes damage. However, if you can make his body immobile and unable to escape, just like my current body, I can use the soul-expelling Divine Art to make him roll back into the abyss..."

Media replied, "But the problem is that only people with no evil thoughts can approach it, otherwise they will be attracted and assimilated by it. Moreover, if all the Fallen One around it are not removed, as long as its soul body comes into contact with any corpse, it can be resurrected... Even if it comes into contact with anyone with distracting thoughts, he may occupy their body."

It turns out that Aigrem itself is not that powerful. If one-on-one, Media, the prophet, has the confidence to deal with it.

But the problem is that no one can get close to Aigrem - people have more or less evil thoughts. Even a decent man like Roland can't guarantee whether things like "peeping on girls taking a bath" are considered evil thoughts. This is the main reason why Devourer is difficult to deal with.

This is really difficult to do.

The army and swords cannot cause harm to the soul. Only Spirit Body like Three Prophets can deal with Spirit Body like Aigrem. This is normal. No matter which world there is, there is a similar logic.

It is understandable that Aigrem must be made incapacitated, and there is no body around him so that he cannot be resurrected, so that Media can expel his soul back into the abyss.

This is similar to Media herself. When she has no body, she can only return to Abyssal Gate, but as long as she is given a broken body, she can be resurrected.

However, if you don't get close to Aigrem first, how can you kill all the Fallen One around it?

We have to make sure that there are no usable corpses around it, and we have to make sure that it is beaten until it has no fighting power... but we can't get close to it at will...

This condition is really a bit harsh.

"Can you use Fallen One against Fallen One?"

Li Ang asked with a frown.

"If you do this, it will only increase the strength of Aigrem... We three sisters can only summon Fallen One's spells, but we cannot control those Fallen One-I'm afraid all the Fallen One will turn around and attack me. In fact, we learned the prayers in the Goddess of Justice temple, and we don't know how to control them."

Media shook his head. "The best way is to let an innocent person capture it in a deserted place - this is how the Devourer that appeared in the Kaineburg area was solved nearly thirty years ago. Innocence A kind soul is the natural enemy of the Devourer. The one who banished it back then was a girl named Helen. She was an extremely pure soul, much more pure than you... It is best not to get close to people like you Aigrem!"

Helen?

Li Ang was stunned.

That's how it turns out...

Helen did not ask Noldo Elves to help at first, but still stirred up the whole Lionheart Kingdom, and got Lion Knight Order and Griffin Knight to follow him. It seems that it is not without reason.

Extreme kindness may indeed be immune to all evil.

It's a pity that good people who can deal with evil spirits and demons have difficulty dealing with evil people because of their kindness.

"Innocent and kind soul... Does Roland count?"

Since he couldn't get close to Aigrem, Li Ang had to confirm Roland first.

"Let's just say... He is indeed a decent man. However, you have to kill Aigrem's army first, and then let Roland capture it before it creates another army."

That means we must fight a frontal war first?

But how many people will die...

Moreover, there is no way to engage in beheading battles such as capturing the thief first and capturing the king first.

"Is there a way to directly get rid of Spirit Body? Is there anything its soul is afraid of? For example, can strong winds blow away the black mist?"

Li Ang began to consider targeted solutions.

"... If you can attract thunder and lightning, that would be useful. Forget about the wind, it's not smoke and dust..."

Media's tone was a bit sarcastic.

"Can lightning directly kill its soul?"

Li Ang's eyes lit up.

"I don't know if it can be killed, but no Spirit Body can fight against Might of Heaven and Earth. Under thunder and lightning, no matter how powerful the evil spirit is, it will lose all its mana... But, except Creator God, who can cause thunder and lightning?"

Media replied angrily.

"So... the so-called unkillable demon is not that difficult to deal with..."

Li Ang suddenly became excited. "It seems that I have to try to be Creator God's messenger..."

Risadiran next to him looked confused. "Sir, can Creator God be the messenger casually?"

"It's summer now and there are a lot of thunderstorms. You can try it... Now I understand why His Majesty Kavala built such a tall tower!"

Li Ang glanced at Media, which was Oswood's broken body, and told Risadiran: "Find her some clothes and food, and you keep an eye on her here, lest Roland kills her. Thunder and lightning may not be able to kill the evil spirit, and we have to rely on her to exile Aigrem."

After saying that, Li Ang took Abyssal Gate away first to prevent Media from causing any trouble.

It's not that difficult to trigger thunder, it just requires God's cooperation and finding a suitable terrain - which means it takes a lot of time to arrange.

But fortunately, Li Ang has been buying time before this.

The next day, King Vidis, who had been frightened inside Lion Lake City, ushered in a supporting force.

Dawn Knight Order has arrived.

Along with Dawn Knight Order came the troops of 'Red Sword' Aiding Earl.

Aiding originally reorganized Queen's Guard Ruffians, which he had just acquired, at Longhowl Fortress. After learning that Vidis was trapped by a heretic, he found Dawn Knight Order--Of course you need professionals like Dawn Knight Order to deal with heretics, and as Lord Light Roar Bay, Aiding has always had a good relationship with them.

Just at this time, Dawn Knight Order's large army returned from Xingar.

This is when we learned that the traitor Roland was in Lion Lake City at this time and had an army. Dawn Knight Order was preparing to send people to attack the traitor.

Aiding was worried that Dawn Knight Order would ignore Vidis after dealing with the rebellion, so he and Dawn Knight Order reached an agreement - he helped Dawn Knight Order catch Roland, and Dawn Knight Order helped him rescue Vidis. At the same time, Aiding promised that if King Vidis could be rescued, Dawn Knight Order would get the privilege of legally collecting church taxes.

Aiding's reputation is still good, and the most important thing is that the privilege of legally collecting taxes is very valuable, so Dawn Knight Order almost came out in droves.

Li Ang had previously asked Roland to lead Aigrem to the east of Lion Lake City, which allowed Dawn Knight Order's people to successfully break through the Fallen One army to the west of Lion Lake City and successfully make contact with King Vidis.

But when they were attacking Fallen One from both inside and outside, and preparing for King Vidis to break out, something happened to the outside.

Sir Roland appeared behind Dawn Knight Order with a small team, and Aigrem also appeared behind Roland with a large number of Fallen One - Aiding and Dawn Knight Order were surrounded together.

From the previous performance of Aigrem, we can see that it must recover Abyssal Gate - it always thought that Abyssal Gate was still there with Roland. Unless it really had no hope of catching up, otherwise it would pursue Roland when it saw it.

For Roland, Dawn Knight Order's mission is to fight against heretics, and he is happy to bring more Fallen One to Dawn Knight Order...

But now, Vidis is definitely unable to break through, and even Dawn Knight Order failed to break through successfully.

Fortunately, they broke through the Fallen One defense line to the west of Lion Lake City from the beginning, so they were not trapped and died outside the city.

Therefore, Dawn Knight Order and Aiding, who originally came to assist Vidis in breaking out, became Vidis to assist them in breaking out and went inside Lion Lake City...

Vidis actually felt a little relieved - at least his best friend risked his life to save him, and there were more than 3,000 troops in the city at once, so the manpower to defend the city was sufficient, and safety was somewhat guaranteed.

But the Dawn Knight Order people are not happy at all... It is really difficult to rush out after entering the city. There are Fallen Ones from all directions, and they are all Fallen Ones who can obey the command and cooperate with the military formation, and there are many Fallen Ghosts among them.

Of course they know what such an army of Fallen One means - if they had known in advance that this was an army of Aigrem, they would never have come here.

As for Aiding - he doesn't care. Anyway, he mainly wants to support Vidis. Now that his goal has been achieved, he feels that there will always be a chance to break through.

Sure enough, just a day and a half later, they had a good opportunity to break through.

Lion Lake City There was a large-scale battle in the east.

Therefore, the Fieltzwe troops in Lion Lake City and Dawn Knight Order launched a breakout from the west.

Battle to the East is made by Sigismund.

To be precise, it was caused by 'Raven Sir' Boris attracted by Sigismund.

The guy Raven Territory who claims to be 'Omen Wolf' is indeed not the real Omen Wolf. This is just a lie deliberately used by Boris in order to rob the southern part of the Misty Mountains and the northern part of Raven Territory.

But Sigismund is indeed very capable, and the method he used to lure Boris here is very technical...

He also lied about 'Omen Wolf'...

Then he asked Andongjia to dress up all his gang members as Bear Claw Berserkers, and pretended to be 'Omen Wolf' Wolfberd, claiming to kill 'Child of Prophecy'.

And he also made a big flag with a wolf's head, and asked Andongjia's men to learn howl like wolves. Amidst the continuous howling, they held the big flag and charged towards Boris...

This effect is completely consistent with the legendary 'Omen Wolf' Wolfberd. Boris was frightened and fled - he fled south, and the north was full of howling wolves.

Obviously, Boris thought that his impersonation had attracted the real Wolfberd. The legendary Omen Wolf was Misty Mountains's chosen hero. Boris didn't want to fight an uncertain battle. He even gave up the loot he had grabbed before...

Seeing Boris running away, Sigismund followed behind and started chasing, all the way south.

This is also in line with the saying of "hunting down Child of Prophecy". Who asked Boris to call himself Child of Prophecy...

Moreover, this also made Boris firmly believe that the person chasing him behind him was the real Wolfberd - otherwise, would the current Raven Territory still be chasing him?

As a result, the pursuit and escape lasted more than three hundred miles, all the way to the east of Gatu Grasslands. There was no cover on the grassland, and Sigismund was exposed.

In fact, the main reason is that Andongjia's men showed their flaws - long-distance pursuit is very strenuous. They can't keep learning such difficult moves as wolf howling. People always have to pant when they are tired from running.

So, the smart Raven Sir saw the clues.

Boris was so angry that he almost vomited blood - he pretended to be Omen Wolf to commit the crime, but was deceived by another group of guys pretending to be Omen Wolf?

Boris in Raven Territory is a ruthless character that everyone is afraid of. When have you ever been fooled like this? If you don't kill the troops chasing behind, where will Raven Sir's face be?

Besides, Boris ran away when he heard the wolf howl of 'Wolfberd', giving up all the trophies before, and the people in front of him were the ones who picked up the trophies...

Moreover, Boris almost demoralized the troops during his escape. A few of his subordinates even became deserters, resulting in considerable losses.

Boris wants to kill the teams of Sigismund and Andongjia, regain the loot, and make up for the losses.

As a result, the chasing and fleeing parties exchanged roles...

Speaking of which, Sigismund is really good at running away. He and Boris made a half-circle on the grassland, and then fled south.

It was not easy to see the direction in the vast grassland. Boris was determined to kill Sigismund, the liar, and kept chasing him.

After chasing for another two days, he was led by Sigismund in an arc, passing between Eagle Claw Fortress and Payne Village, and taken directly to the east of Lion Lake City.

After all, Sigismund had been here twice. With his familiarity with the terrain, he ran directly in the direction of Lion Lake City, and slipped to the southeast before the Fallen One army surrounded him.

The experience of being chased by Fallen One for hundreds of miles played a big role at this time - Boris was not familiar with the terrain and had never encountered Fallen One's army, so he was caught off guard.

As a result, Boris was forced to fight a head-on battle with the Fallen One force that Aigrem stayed east of Lion Lake City...

The southeast of Lion Lake City is in the direction of Payne Village. There are many woods in the middle, and with the support of Li Ang's troops, Sigismund once again successfully completed his escape mission.

And this time there was no loss, and we even got some easy-to-carry trophies - trophies that originally belonged to Boris.

Li Ang thinks Sigismund is really a genius--this technique can be called the tactical version of 'repay the other with his own way'!

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