Chapter 69 - 69 : Confrontation 1 (1/2)
At the Holy Church Headquarters in Holy City, guards were running around in panic and warning each other, the undead army was only several kilometers away from the city and it is visible.
Holy City was kind of situated in a deserted area, so all its surroundings is void of any trees or forests which allowed the guards to see the army from some distance away.
The Pope, who was in his office handling some matters, was disturbed as by a very burly middle-aged man, he was covered in armor from head to toe and had a golden spear in his back, his appearance looked quite domineering.
The Holy General walked in front of the Pope and bowed respectfully but you could see his eyes flashing coldly, he then spoke in a somewhat hoarse voice.
”Our Lord, an army of undead was spotted marching toward Holy City, their numbers are in the thousands.”
Although he looked a bit in a hurry, he didn't show any anxiousness about that matter, he stopped for a second before he resumed
”... there was also a bone dragon and apparently a strong one at that.”
The Pope already heard the commotion before the Holy General came, he was sure something must have happened, however, never did he expect an undead army to invade his city!
He pondered for a moment
”Deploy the first division, I'll immediately tell the second division to help with the army too.”
The Holy Church was divided to two divisions, one with which his like an army, and the Holy General was in command of it, as for the second one, it's commanded by the Archbishop, it included priests and mages as for the first one it has the soldiers and warriors.
Usually, each division handled its own matters, but in times of crisis like this one, they would obviously join hands, after all, they were from the same Church.
Without further talking, the Holy General, Uguria, nodded at the Pope and left the room.
The Pope stayed alone in the room, his hand stroking his long beard and his eyes emitting a white light which pulsed every now and then.
'Demons? No, it can't be, although they have necromancers, they can't summon this amount of them.. who could it be?'
The Holy Church has several enemies, so he couldn't exactly guess the one who is currently attacking, nevertheless, it doesn't matter right now as he will try to fight them back anyways.
The undead army was slowly approaching the Holy City, Arthur and Lucy were on the black cloud which floated a couple of meters in front of the army.
By their current speed, they would arrive after approximately 20 minutes, more or less, Arthur didn't rush ahead and wanted to invade with the army.
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Time passed slowly but finally, the army was just 200 hundred meters away from the city, there were countless white armored soldiers from the Holy Church, there were formations and spells prepared, mages and priests at the back prepared to bombard with their magic and several cannons which didn't look quite impressive.
Arthur already guessed they would be prepared, so he just gave a single order to the dark knights and in just a second, the skeleton army which was slowly walking as if crawling, completely changed, all skeletons rushed at the enemy with insane speed, while the mage skeletons and skeleton archers already launched their spells and attacks.
The sky was filled with all kinds of attacks, from afar, it looked like fireworks.
Soon, the two sides clashes and although the Holy Attribute was lethal to the skeletons, they overcome this weakness by their numbers and strength, they were easily crushing the lines of the Holy Church soldiers.
In mere minutes, the ground was red from the blood of all the dead soldiers, as for the skeletons, they would fight until the end, even if their legs were crushed, they would slowly crawl toward the enemy, they had infinite stamina and felt no pain so that was in itself a huge advantage.
Arthur and Lucy didn't linger there that much, since the undead army was doing a great job taking care of the small fries, he flew away from the battle and headed toward the HeadQuarters of the Church.
It was actually a very tall white building with a golden bell on its roof, there were several buildings glued to it which almost made it look like a gigantic castle.
Excluding the army which was fighting outside of the city, there were thousands of soldiers still in the city, either keeping their position and guarding or waiting to see if there is any skeleton which managed to invade the city.
Arthur previously saw 4 cardinals in the fight outside, however, the dark knights alone were more than enough to finish them, those dark knights have immense strength and were quite ruthless, with a wave of their axe dozens of soldiers would be cut in two or turned into minced meat, the sight was very gory and brutal, but Arthur gave the order to spare those who do not resist, it's not his fault that those soldiers are fighting.
What if they are doing their job? It's not like he forced them to fight, one must know when to give up, when they saw how powerful the dark knights are, they must be wise and concede or else only death awaits them.
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While he was slowly roaming the city and seeing those guards, he would summon quite a few skeletons on the roof, which would jump on the cautious soldiers and start a fight with them, he already summoned more than hundred skeletons which managed to ambush quite a few soldiers.
He could summon dark knights, but unlike skeletons, they required Mental Power, and he didn't have that much of it, a single Dark Knight would requite 150 Mental Power and for it to completely recover, it needs around 30 minutes, so he didn't recklessly summon them, for now, skeletons were enough.
As he continued flying with Lucy, who kept silent from the very beginning, he spotted something that caught his interest.
In a somewhat big square, there stood 10 rows of well-armored soldiers, each had a golden shield and a white saber in their arms and each row had about 50 of those soldiers, so in total it was 500 soldier.
And in the very front, was a burly man with a long spear on is back, his back was facing Arthur so he couldn't see his appearance, but it was easy to guess that he was their commander.
He seemed to be talking to them but when Arthur jumped from the dark cloud followed by Lucy, they landed 100 meters from the soldiers, Uguria, who was previously ordering his subordinates was startled by the sudden noise behind him and when he turned his head, he was shocked to see two individuals.
One silver-haired woman who wore white leather clothes which suited her perfectly, and next to her was a man who was smirking at him.
The first thought that crossed Uguria's mind is how those two managed to come here, moreover, the fight only started several minutes ago, so it's near to impossible to have made it here unless they could fly?
His eyes then landed on the strange dark cloud above them, but it only lasted a short moment before it disappeared into thin air.
Being the Holy General, Uguria obviously knew about Lucy and how the Pope insisted several times for him to memorize her appearance, so after calming down, he guessed that it's definitely her, although she looked a bit different from the previous image he saw of her.
She now had blood red piercing eyes, and she looked more pretty, the atmosphere around here seemed completely different from what he was told.
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Arthur looked at Lucy and softly said
”I really don't want you to dirty your hands with them, but I also know that you want to do it personally, so I would only stand by your side and assist you, if you don't want to do it, all you got to do is say it, I'll handle it all.”
As he said that, he gently patted her head as he resolutely looked at her, a smile was blooming on his face.
Lucy returned his smile with a more enchanting smile as he stared at his deep red eyes, she nodded her head and replied to him
”Um! I want to do myself, thank you....”
”Silly... still thanking when we are already husband and wife? There's nothing to thank me for, now go on, do whatever you feel like doing”
Lucy nodded yet again before she turned her head to look at the still dumbfounded Uguria, her gentle and breath-taking look suddenly changed, as she gazed at the burly man, killing intent emanated from her to the point of making all the white armored soldiers shiver non-stop, even Uguria couldn't help but slightly tremble, but he was able to somewhat resist her killing intent.
He was a warrior who fought countless battle, unlike those Cardinals or normal soldiers, his job was to conquer cities or do the dirty job of the Holy Church, he murdered countless people, so when he felt this strong killing intent he couldn't help but be amazed yet at the same time a bit fearful.
”Yo-you're Lucy, right? Why did you come here? Is the undead army yours?”
Lucy's hatred was mainly focused on the man who betrayed her and the Pope as they were the main ones who caused the suffering, but this Holy General also caused a bit of trouble of her as several of his trained soldiers chased for her quite some time, so how could she spare him? She already knew he slaughtered innocents without care, and the only excuse he would declare is that 'it's for the sake of good' or 'It's the Lord's orders'.