"This is."
Their subordinates bowed their heads and prayed. The other
side was horrified and shocked. Even Gulda was stunned for a moment and then shouted:
"This is impossible? How can you use extraordinary power?"
Lin Xiao floated in the air, and the light feathers behind him flapped slowly. He looked down at Gulda without answering. He just raised the angel sword and activated the divine art attached to the angel wings - Angel Incarnation.
In an instant, infinite sacred light exploded with him as the center. The dazzling sacred power made it impossible to look directly. Even if you closed your eyes, you could feel the dazzling sun in the sky. Lin Xiao's subordinates below felt this sacred power and became more fanatical, while the morale of the subordinates on the opposite side plummeted when they felt this miraculous power. Many of them knelt down and gave up resistance.
After a few seconds, when the white light in the sky slowly shrank inward, a huge angel of light was finally revealed. As the sacred angel wings slowly flapped, bits of life light drifted away.
This miracle scene had an unprecedented impact on the spirit of mortals. When the angel appeared, all the men brought by Gulda lost their will to fight.
Without extraordinary power to show miracles, his followers did not have a high degree of faith. There were not even a few true believers, only a small number of shallow believers, and most of them were general believers. When they saw the arrival of this real angel, almost all of them lost their will to fight.
And Gulda's face changed back and forth for a few seconds, and then he suddenly jumped up and prepared to escape.
This was of course a delusion. Lin Xiao's own strength was not inferior to his. Now he had the bonus of the angel incarnation magic, and he could fly. How could he let him escape?
In fact, he didn't even do it himself, but took out several scrolls and tore them one by one.
Law. Shock!
Law. Imprisonment!
The angel's sword slashed down, and Gulda, who was shocked and imprisoned, had no power to resist and was beheaded by him with one sword. He died in an extremely aggrieved way.
So this battle that seemed to be extremely fierce ended in such a whimper. When Gulda died, none of the remaining troops escaped and were all captured. Then they were slowly subdued.
Although most of them were militia, there were also seventy or eighty knights, cavalry and professional soldiers, which was a very strong fighting force.
Half a month later, Alfonso captured the castle of the Macedonian Viscount Family and announced the extinction of the Macedonian Family.
Not long after annexing a Viscount Family, Alfonso met the envoy of Earl Dyson, severely reprimanded him, and ordered him to give up the land of the Macedonian Family to other members of the Macedonian Family.
This was a big trouble for Alfonso. If it was not handled properly, it might lead to armed intervention by Earl Dyson.
But Lin Xiao didn't have time to deal with this matter at this time. He was now considering how to face the Holy Church.
How could the angel incarnation be kept secret? As soon as the war ended, no less than ten spies of the Holy Church came around the village of Forle.
It was impossible to keep it secret, and it was impossible to give in. Then there was only one result, he had to face the behemoth of the Holy Church head-on.
Of course, he is definitely not afraid of competition in faith. With extraordinary power in hand, the Holy Church, which has not performed miracles for decades, is definitely not better than him in this regard. As long as he is given time, it will not take long for the Holy Church's faith to be eroded. He is very confident about this.
But before that, he will definitely face the fierce counterattack of the Holy Church.
The Holy Church has ruled the entire plane for so many years, and its family assets are not small. Moreover, the Holy Church must have a group of elite church forces. These are carefully selected and trained to be pious warriors since childhood. The method of summoning angels just now is useless to them. They must use absolute force to defeat the opponent.
The current Church of Life and Wisdom is definitely not able to beat the Holy Church head-on, but he is not facing the entire Holy Church now, but only the Holy Parish force in the area where Earl Dyson is located.
The information obtained through Alfonsona shows that in the parish of Dale Province where Earl Dyson is located, the Holy Church has a force of the Holy Knights.
This force is stationed in the Cathedral of Dale, the main city of Earl Dyson. There are 500 soldiers in total, and the lowest level is professional soldiers. About 20% are elite soldiers. The captains of every 20-man team are all formal knights. Together with the senior commander, this Holy Knights has a total of more than 20 knights and two great knights.
This force is second only to Earl Dyson in the Diocese of Dale Province, and can easily sweep any viscount in the province.
Of course, they can't come out in full force. They have to leave some to guard the house. The Holy Church is not without enemies.
But at least 60% to 80% of the troops, that is, 300 to 400 troops, will be sent. When the main force of the Holy Knights comes, he may have to face more enemies. A large number of devout believers or nobles of the Holy Church, or some speculative noble merchants may take the opportunity to send troops to divide the Gibson family.
As the place where the accident happened, the Bishop of Dale Diocese will definitely order Alfonso to send troops to attack in coordination. If Alfonso refuses, he will most likely be considered a heretic who believes in a false god, and will be attacked together at that time.
This is the goal of these speculators. With the current territory of the Gibson family, two viscounties, or four or five baronies, or more than a dozen knight territories can be carved out. With so many new nobles being born at once, many speculators are willing to take the risk.
"Hmm! It looks like we're going to have to face it head-on."
He sighed softly and sent a holy knight to deliver a letter to Alfonso.
Three days later, Lord Alfonso of Gibson issued a lord's order, announcing the expulsion of the Holy Church from four towns and more than thirty villages in the territory, and declaring the God of Life and Wisdom to be the legal church in the territory.
Three well-prepared missionary groups, led by two holy knights, each with five church knights and ten professional soldiers, left the village of Forle and headed for the other three towns under Alfonso's jurisdiction to replace the faith gap left after the expulsion of the Holy Church.
Then, all the soldiers under Alfonso's command were gathered, including more than two hundred militiamen, more than fifty professional soldiers and elites, and six knights.
At least they have a certain combat power. With the addition of the church's own fifty or so professional soldiers, one hundred or so militiamen who have undergone certain training, and the Gibson Territory, they can also gather a combat power of more than four hundred.
After all the forces are gathered, they begin to train together.
In order to boost their morale, several instructors constantly use divine power or spells to shake their hearts and increase their faith in the training.
This is very critical. The opponent they are facing is a huge church that has dominated the faith of this plane for thousands of years. The Holy God is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If the remaining faith in their hearts is not eliminated, it is easy to turn against the enemy on the battlefield. He will never allow this to happen.
Fortunately, he still has some time to prepare. Going to war is not a game. It takes months to prepare in advance. What's more, the Holy Church, which is lazy, corrupt, and probably hasn't fought for hundreds of years, will take a long time to raise food and gather. In addition, there are disputes over the distribution of interests of speculators joining the holy war.
Anyway, after a month of training, Lin Xiao's spies who stayed in Dell City showed in the daily information that the expeditionary knights of the Holy Church had not left the city.
This side has been delayed, but the information of the second adventer was found in Dale Province.
Located in the northernmost part of Dale Province, a barony called Hook, at the border with Tassan Province, was occupied by an unknown force. The church of the territory was destroyed, all clergy were killed, and the whole family of the lord, Baron Joren Hook, was killed. Only an illegitimate son escaped and spread the news.
When this news reached Lin Xiao, he also received news from Dale City. After receiving this news, a group of speculative nobles left Dale City and went directly to Hook Territory.
The purpose is naturally to kill the unknown force and inherit Hook Territory.
According to the unspoken rules among the nobles, when all the formal direct members of a family are killed, it means that the noble has been removed from the list, and the illegitimate son will not be recognized.
At this time, a piece of territory and a baron title are vacated.
At this time, a new baron lord will definitely be born, which will naturally attract these speculators to rush over.
There is still uncertainty in Gibson Territory, and on the other side, the title has been vacated, and it is clear how these speculators will choose.
What made Lin Xiao happy the most was that the unknown force destroyed the church and killed all the clergy directly. This was a more severe provocation and a more terrible threat to the Holy Church than Lin Xiao.
After all, he only expelled the clergy, while the other side directly killed the clergy. The severity was completely different.
So, he waited here for more than a month, but finally received the news that the Holy Knights of the Dale Grand Order changed their target to attack Hook Territory.
Although he was happy, he would not stop preparing, and would not stop because the Holy Church changed its target, but would continue training and reorganization.
This time, Lin Xiao directly expanded the scale, selecting strong young men from more than 30 villages in the three towns of Gibson Territory, brainwashing them while training every day, and the real body outside the world prepared alchemical potions and equipment for them.
When they were almost trained and the most critical level of faith reached above that of true believers, they began to select the best from them and give them alchemical potions for strengthening, and batch strengthened church knights whose strength was between elite soldiers and knights.
Then, from the original elite soldiers or knights, or church knights, devout believers were selected and promoted to second-level paladins.
Even those who were not selected, as long as they passed the training, would be prepared with a set of standard armor, which would be equivalent to elite soldiers after wearing it.
After a few months, a total of 24 paladins and priests were strengthened, plus the original 6 paladins, exactly 30.
A total of 80 new church knights were strengthened, plus the original 28 church knights, a total of 108 church knights. After
deducting these, there are still more than 280 people left, and after a few months, all of them are true believers. Lin Xiao is not stingy and distributes a set of standard equipment forged by the Red Furnace Clan to each person, so that they all have the combat power of elite soldiers.
(End of this chapter)