Of course, the premise of this victory is a complete Paladin who has been strengthened twice.
Ordinary people cannot withstand such a strong infusion of power. In his imagination, he needs to strengthen twice to be a complete Paladin of the Church. Now Alfonso has only strengthened once, and has the physique and strength equivalent to that of a great knight.
It should be noted that this division is based on the situation of equal combat skills. The knights of the church are strengthened and improved through abnormal means. Their combat skills are definitely not as good as those of the knights who have been through hard training and experienced hundreds of battles. In a real fight, the knights of the church who have just been promoted to the same level will be slightly inferior.
But this is just a recent promotion. If they are promoted long enough and have enough combat skills and experience, they will be stronger than knights of the same level with better equipment.
A month later, the construction of the Forle Village Temple was completed, and the statue of the God of Life and Wisdom carved by Lin Xiao himself also stood in the temple.
On the day when the statue was erected, the whole village of Forle held a large-scale mass. He took out all the faith power he had collected during this period and moved it to the statue. The limited faith power covered the statue with a faint glow, which was particularly obvious in the early morning, like a miracle.
Lin Xiao took this opportunity to use the statue as a medium to perform a great blessing spell that affected all believers. The actual angel descended on the temple and the miracle came.
So far, all the villagers in the whole village of Forle have become believers of the God of Life and Wisdom. They have witnessed the miracle with their own eyes and have been affected by the great blessing spell. The stubbornness and discomfort of all the villagers have been swept away. The actual miracle has made them devout. Now the whole village is at least true believers, and a considerable number of them are devout believers.
Two months later, Lin Xiao, who had been waiting for Gould for a long time, received news that a major event had happened in the family of Viscount Marston next door on the other side of Baron Gibson's territory.
Some robbers sneaked into the castle during the internal gathering of the Marston family and killed most of the Marston family members in one fell swoop. Just when the huge family was about to fall apart, the eldest daughter of the Atom Lord, Ms. Julia, and her husband stood up and defeated other competitors at a very fast speed. They successfully obtained the recognition of Earl Dyson to inherit the title of Viscountess and became Viscountess Julia.
From the information obtained, Lin Xiao recognized that the husband of the Viscountess must be an Adventer, but he didn't know whether it was Gulda or another Adventer.
Three Adventers appeared in this small place, which was quite lucky.
Fortunately, this was not a big deal. As his strength became stronger and stronger, he was not afraid of any number of Adventers.
However, he was not prepared to wait forever. He could not just sit there and wait for Gulda to come. In the third month after the temple was built, Baron Hermann, who went to inspect the family mine, was besieged and killed by bandits. His son Alfonso quickly inherited the baron's position and immediately put the blame on Baron Galton next door, who often had conflicts because of coveting the mine. He announced that he would avenge his father and declare war on Baron Galton's family. The
Galton family naturally did not recognize it, but it didn't matter whether they recognized it or not. Everyone knew the conflict between the Galton family and the Gibbs family. There had been many small-scale conflicts in the past. It was reasonable to blame them for this incident.
After burying Baron Hermann, Alfonso summoned the family knights and soldiers, and borrowed two paladins and ten church knights from Lin Xiao. Together with the troops summoned by the territory, there were a total of 150 people.
Any church knight has the combat power comparable to that of an ordinary knight, not to mention two paladins who are comparable to great knights. This high-level force is comparable to that of an earl, and it is completely crushing to deal with a baron family.
Anyway, after waiting for only more than half a month or two days, he received the news from the front line that Alfonso had broken through the castle of the Galton family.
Then he stayed in the castle for a whole month and defeated several support troops of the Galton family in succession.
A month later, according to the unspoken rules among the nobles, the Gibson family officially annexed the Galton Baron family, including its territory.
This is the role of the noble identity. If it is replaced by a non-noble, it will be useless even if it occupies for a year. The noble class will not recognize it. As long as you leave, other lords will send troops to grab it.
Even if you are strong enough, other lords will not recognize it if they can't grab it. You can't keep guarding like this.
And if you occupy too many lords' territories without justification, it will arouse the vigilance of the noble class, and at this time, the great nobles will send troops to fight you.
The occupation of the Barony of Galton was just a small episode. After the two territories merged, Lin Xiao sent holy knights to preach in the villages of the Barony of Galton.
Now he dare not go to the town to preach, but the village is no problem.
Anyway, the Holy Church doesn't care about the village at all, and may not go there once a year.
In the past few months, he has already sent people to preach in several villages under the command of the Barony of Gibson, and has achieved remarkable results. There are as many as eight or nine hundred shallow believers, and there are also this number of pan believers.
This is just the beginning. Preaching is a long-term process. As long as you find an opportunity to make a few miracles, these pan believers and shallow believers can easily become true believers or devout believers.
It is worth mentioning that after conquering the Barony of Galton, Alfonso did not find any traces of Gulda. After asking the locals, he found that he had not heard of any traces of large-scale robbers for several months.
Based on the comprehensive information, Lin Xiao guessed that the husband of Lady Julia from the Viscount of Macedonia was most likely Gulda.
This man, who was either the son of nightmare or the son of spirit realm, was too alert. He gave up revenge and left immediately when he felt the situation was not good.
It was obvious that Viscountess Julia was just a puppet. The current person in charge of the Viscountry of Macedonia should be Gulda.
"This is a threat!"
Lin Xiao pinched his chin and thought. Although Alfonso's destruction of the Barony of Galton was reasonable and had sufficient excuses, he still received a severe warning from Earl Dyson that he could not continue such actions in the short term unless he was sure enough to ignore Earl Dyson.
However, the current strength of the Gibson family is far from being a match for Earl Dyson, even with the church forces under his command.
The earl is already the upper class of the aristocracy in this plane. He is called a great noble along with the marquis and the duke. Each of them has a huge territory and a powerful army. Ordinary small nobles can only support dozens of professional soldiers, while the great nobles can support hundreds. The overall strength is not at the same level.
Unless Alfonso can accept the second enhancement to become a true paladin, he can still fight, but he has just strengthened for the first time, and it is impossible to accept the second enhancement without one or two years.
In other words, it is impossible to expand the territory on a large scale within one or two years.
But it doesn't matter, it's just a good time to settle down.
However, plans have never changed quickly.
He wants to keep a low profile, but others may not want you to keep a low profile.
Two months later, during a routine mass, Alfonso found Lin Xiao and told him that the Macedonian Viscountry had recently annexed a nearby barony and conquered a barony, and its strength expanded rapidly.
The most important thing is that this Macedonian Viscountess didn't know where she got the confidence from. She didn't take Earl Dyson's warning seriously. Recently, she frequently sent people to harass the villages at the junction of the two territories, and seemed to have plans to attack Gibson's Barony.
"Well, it's really annoying!"
He said to Alfonso:
"Send an envoy to see Earl Dyson and tell him that if Viscountess Macedonia continues to provoke, it will be difficult for you to obey the Earl's orders."
This is not to ask for help, he does not need to ask for help, just to tell the Earl.
However, before the envoy sent to Earl Dyson came back, Lin Xiao received the news that Viscount Macedonia declared war on Alfonso.
"So impatient!"
He was standing in front of the statue and praying when he received the news. After hearing it, he chuckled and said to a holy warrior beside him:
"Call the warriors of my Lord!"
Since you are so anxious, then send you out as soon as possible!
After his subordinates left, Lin Xiao stretched out his hand to the statue, and the stream of light gathered towards him, turning into an angel sword and an angel wing.
Gibson Castle, this is the castle inherited by the Gibson Baron family. It has a history of more than 200 years. The wind and rain have not changed the castle.
Lin Xiao stood on the castle and looked into the distance. In the distant wilderness, a force of two or three hundred people was slowly approaching.
There were no catapults or battering rams for sieges. There were more than 30 cavalrymen, but it was unknown how many of them were knights.
Due to the limitations of plane civilization, catapults and battering rams already existed, but they were not yet popular. Usually, sieges were carried out by lifting stones to smash the doors. Strong knights could lift large stones and smash them far away, or knights could directly use weapons to split thick wooden doors.
The most common way to attack a city was to climb up to the top of the city with a simple ladder.
But this time, before the enemy approached, the castle gate was opened, and a troop walked out of the castle and lined up in the open space in front.
Lin Xiao stood on the top of the city and looked at the approaching enemy army. His eyes fell on a knight in the enemy's middle army who was wearing thick full-body plate armor. The induction from the descender proved that it was an descender from the nightmare world.
The two not-so-large armies slowly approached and confronted each other. Lin Xiao slowly rode his horse out of the crowd, with two paladins and four church knights guarding him.
The son of nightmare on the opposite side also came out of the crowd under the escort of his men. He glanced at Lin Xiao's men and said,
"You stole my weapons and equipment?"
He smiled and nodded,
"You are the one who sent me weapons and equipment?"
Gulda's forehead muscles jumped, and he said coldly,
"I just took advantage of it. Today I will make you pay back with interest."
"Childish!"
Gulda suddenly became furious and glared at Lin Xiao for a few seconds. The anger on his face quickly disappeared. He slowly retreated and raised his sword with his right hand.
With his actions, the troops in the rear began to charge. Dozens of knights pulled down their armor and raised their spears.
At this moment, Lin Xiao drew out the angel sword from his waist and raised it high. The metal sword body quickly lit up with white light and gushed out. He pressed the horse's back and flew into the air. Two thick white lights behind him spurted out from the left and right and turned into a pair of wings formed by flowing light, looking like an angel.
(End of this chapter)