Chapter 331: Give Him a Trick in His Own Way
"Aigrem himself is not that strong. His greatest ability lies in devouring and assimilating... He will create an endless number of Fallen."
Although she was using Oswood's broken body, Medea still looked quite energetic. It seemed that she really didn't mind whether she had skin or broken limbs.
"Can you explain devouring and assimilation in detail?"
Li Ang asked.
"It can devour souls. The more souls it devours, the stronger its army will become. After a person with evil thoughts comes into contact with it, he will soon be attracted to it and will actively offer his soul to it, and then be assimilated by it into a fallen ghost."
Midya glanced at Leon with his big bare eyes: "Each Fallen Ghost is a powerful warrior, a slave who has completely lost his self-awareness, can execute any order without compromise, and will not die unless his brain is destroyed..."
"I can see that it will become stronger...so how can we kill it?"
Leon didn't mind the Fallen Ghosts too much. Since they couldn't think, they were just brainless monsters. Since Aigrim was the only one with intelligence in the entire Fallen army, there was an opportunity to take advantage of him.
"The black mist on Aigram's body is actually his soul. If he loses his flesh and blood body, he can't do anything with his spirit alone. Of course, swords and knives can't harm his spirit either . However, if you can make his body unable to move and escape, just like my current body, I can use the magic of expelling souls to make him roll back into the abyss..."
Midya replied, "But the problem is that only people without evil thoughts can get close to it, otherwise they will be attracted and assimilated by it. Moreover, if all the fallen people around it are not eliminated, as long as its soul body touches any corpse, it can be resurrected again... Even if it touches anyone with impure thoughts, it may occupy their body."
So that's how it is. Aigram itself is not that strong. If it's a one-on-one fight, the prophet Media is confident that he can deal with it.
But the problem is that no one can get close to Aigraim - everyone has some evil thoughts to a certain extent. Even for a gentleman like Roland, it is difficult to guarantee whether things like "peeping at girls taking a bath" are considered evil thoughts. This is the main reason why the Devourer is difficult to deal with.
This is indeed a difficult matter.
Armies and swords cannot harm souls. Only spirits like the Three Prophets can deal with spirits like Aigram. This is normal. Similar logic exists in every world.
It is understandable that Aigram must lose his fighting ability and have no corpse around him, so he cannot be resurrected again, before Midya can expel his soul back to the abyss.
This is similar to Medea herself. When she has no body, she can only return to the Gate of the Abyss, but as long as she is given a broken body, she can be resurrected.
However, if we don’t get close to Aigrim first, how can we kill all the Fallen around it?
We have to make sure there are no usable corpses around it, and we have to beat it to the point where it has no fighting power... but we can't get close to it casually...
This condition is a bit harsh.
"Can you fight the Fallen with the Fallen?"
Li Ang asked with a frown.
"If we do this, it will only strengthen Aigrim's army... We three sisters only know how to summon the fallen, but we can't control them. I'm afraid all the fallen will turn around and attack me. In fact, we learned the prayers in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice, and we don't know how to control them."
Midya shook her head. "The best way is to let a person with no evil intentions capture it and take it to a deserted place. That's how the Devourer that appeared in the area of Kaineburg nearly thirty years ago was dealt with. Pure and kind souls are the natural enemies of the Devourer. The one who exiled it back then was a girl named Helen. She was an incomparably pure soul, much purer than you... People like you had better not get close to Aigrim!"
Helen?
Li Ang was stunned.
So that’s how it is…
Although Helen did not ask the Noldor for help, she still stirred up the entire Sarleon Kingdom and was followed by the Lion Knights and Griffin Knights. It seems that there is a reason for this.
Extreme kindness can probably really ward off all evil.
Unfortunately, good people who can deal with evil spirits and demons find it difficult to deal with evil people because of their kindness.
"A pure and kind soul...Does Roland count?"
Since he couldn't get close to Aigram, Leon had to confirm Roland first.
"Just barely... He is indeed a decent man. However, you have to kill Aigrim's army first, and then let Roland capture it before it creates another army."
That means we have to fight a head-on war first?
But how many people would die...
Moreover, it is impossible to carry out a decapitation battle such as capturing the leader first.
"Is there any way to get rid of the spirit directly? Is there anything its soul is afraid of? For example, can a strong wind blow away the black fog?"
Li Ang began to consider targeted solutions.
"...If you can attract lightning, that would be useful, but forget about the wind, it's not just smoke..."
There was a hint of sarcasm in Midia's tone.
"Can lightning kill its soul directly?"
Li Ang's eyes lit up.
"I don't know if it can kill me, but no spirit can resist the might of heaven and earth. Under thunder and lightning, even the most powerful evil spirit will lose all its power... But, except for the God of Creation, who can cause thunder and lightning?"
Midya replied unhappily.
"So... the so-called immortal demon isn't that hard to deal with..."
Li Ang suddenly became excited: "It seems that I have to try to be the messenger of the God of Creation..."
Lisa Dilan next to him looked confused: "Sir, can you just be the messenger of the Creator God?"
"It's summer now, and there are many thunderstorms. We can give it a try... Now I understand why His Majesty Kavala built such a tall tower!"
Leon glanced at the remains of Medea, Oswood, and said to Lisadiran, "Find her some clothes and food. You stay here and keep an eye on her to prevent Roland from killing her. Lightning may not be able to kill the evil spirit, so we still need her to exile Aigrim."
After saying that, Leon took the Gate of the Abyss away first to prevent Media from causing any trouble.
It is not that difficult to attract lightning. It just requires the cooperation of God and finding the right terrain - which means it takes a lot of time to arrange.
But fortunately, Li Ang had been buying time before this.
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The next day, King Vidis, who had been trembling with fear in Lion Lake City, received reinforcements.
The Knights of the Dawn have arrived.
Along with the Knights of the Dawn came the troops of Count Edin the Red Sword.
Aidin was originally reorganizing the Queen's Guards that he had just acquired in Long Howl Castle. After learning that Vidis was trapped by heretics, he found the Knights of the Dawn - to deal with heretics, of course, he had to find professionals like the Knights of the Dawn, and as the lord of Light Howl Bay, Aidin had always had a good relationship with them.
Just at this time, the large force of the Knights of Dawn returned from Singal.
This is because the Knights of Dawn learned that the traitor Roland was in Lion Lake City and had an army, so they prepared to send people to fight against the rebellion.
But Aidin was worried that the Knights of the Dawn would ignore Vidis after dealing with the rebellion, so he reached an agreement with the Knights of the Dawn - he helped the Knights of the Dawn capture Roland, and the Knights of the Dawn helped him rescue Vidis. At the same time, Aidin promised that if they could rescue King Vidis, the Knights of the Dawn would be given the privilege of legally collecting church taxes.
Aidin still had some face, and the most important thing was that the privilege of collecting taxes legally was very important, so almost all the Knights of Dawn came out.
Leon had previously asked Roland to lead Aigram to the east of Lion Lake City, which allowed the Knights of the Dawn to easily break through the Fallen Army to the west of Lion Lake City and successfully contact King Vidis.
But when they were attacking the Fallen from both inside and outside, preparing to let King Vidis break out, a small accident happened on the periphery.
Sir Roland appeared behind the Knights of the Dawn with a small team, and Aigram also appeared behind them with a large number of Fallen, chasing Roland - Aidin and the Knights of the Dawn were surrounded together.
From Aigram's previous performance, it can be seen that it is determined to catch up with the Gate of the Abyss - it has always believed that the Gate of the Abyss is still with Roland. Unless there is really no hope of catching up, it will chase Roland relentlessly once it sees him.
For Roland, the mission of the Knights of the Dawn is to fight against heresy, and he is happy to bring more fallen people to the Knights of the Dawn...
But this time, Vidis definitely couldn't break out. Even the Knights of Dawn failed to break out successfully.
Fortunately, they broke through the Fallen defense line to the west of Lion Lake City at the beginning, so they were not trapped and died outside the city.
So, the Dawn Knights and Adin, who were originally supposed to help Vidis break out, became Vidis helping them break out into Lion Lake City...
Vidis felt a little relieved - at least his best friend risked his life to save him, and there were suddenly more than 3,000 troops in the city, so there were enough people to defend the city, and safety was guaranteed.
But the people of the Knights of Dawn were not relieved at all... It was really difficult to get out of the city once they entered it. There were Fallen on all sides, and they were all Fallen who could obey orders, cooperate and form military formations, and there were also many Fallen ghosts among them.
Of course they knew what such a large army of the Fallen meant - if they had known in advance that this was Aigrim's army, they would never have come here.
As for Aidin - he didn't care. His main purpose was to support Vidis. Now his goal had been achieved. He felt that there would always be a chance to break through.
Sure enough, just a day and a half later, they had a good opportunity to break out.
A large-scale battle took place to the east of Lion Lake City.
As a result, the Firdsvain troops in Lion Lake City and the Knights of Dawn launched a breakout from the west.
The battle in the east was caused by Sigismund.
To be precise, it was caused by Boris, the 'Lord Crow', who was brought in by Sigismund.
The guy who calls himself the 'Wolf of Omens' in Ravenstern is indeed not the real Wolf of Omens. This is just a lie that Boris deliberately used in order to plunder the southern part of Misty Mountains and the northern part of Ravenstern.
But Sigismund was indeed very capable, and the way he lured Boris here was very technical...
He also lied about having a 'Wolf of Omen'...
Then he had Andongjia dress up all of his ragtag group of men as Bear Claw Berserkers, and he himself pretended to be Wolfbird, the Wolf of Omens, and claimed that he wanted to kill the Son of Prophecy.
He also made a large flag with a wolf's head, and asked Andongjia's men to learn howling like a wolf. Amid the continuous howling of wolves, they held up the flag and charged towards Boris...
This effect was exactly the same as the legendary Wolf of Omens, Wolfbird. Boris was frightened and fled in panic - he fled to the south, and the north was filled with the howling of wolves.
Obviously, Boris thought that his impersonation had attracted the real Wolfbird. The legendary Wolf of Omens was the chosen hero of Misty Mountain. Boris didn't want to fight a battle he was not sure of, and he even gave up the spoils he had snatched before...
Seeing Boris running away, Sigismund followed him and began to chase him, all the way south.
This is in line with the saying of "hunting down the son of prophecy". After all, Boris calls himself the son of prophecy...
Moreover, this also made Boris firmly believe that the one chasing him was the real Wolfbird - otherwise, would the current Raven Realm still be chasing him?
As a result, the chase lasted for more than 300 miles, all the way to the eastern part of the Jatu grassland. There was no cover on the grassland, and Sigismund was exposed.
In fact, it was mainly because Andongjia's men revealed their true colors - long-distance pursuit was very tiring, and they could not maintain such difficult movements as imitating wolf howls, and people would always have to breathe when they were tired.
Then, the clever Sir Crow saw the clue.
This made Boris so angry that he almost vomited blood - he pretended to be the Wolf of Omens to commit crimes, but was deceived by another group of guys pretending to be the Wolf of Omens?
Boris was a feared ruthless character in Ravenstern. He had never been fooled like this before - if he didn't kill the army chasing him, where would Sir Crow put his face?
Besides, Boris ran away when he heard Wolfbird's wolf howl, abandoning all the spoils he had taken, and the people in front of him picked up the spoils...
Moreover, Boris almost caused the morale of his troops to drop during his escape. A few of his men even deserted, causing considerable losses.
Boris wants to kill Sigismund and Andonga's team, take back the spoils and make up for the losses.
So, the two parties in pursuit exchanged roles...
Speaking of which, Sigismund was indeed very good at running. He and Boris made a half circle on the grassland, and then continued to flee south.
It was not easy to tell the direction in the vast grassland, and Boris was determined to kill Sigismund, the liar, so he kept chasing him.
After another two days of chasing, Sigismund led him in a detour, passing between Eagle Claw Castle and Payne Village, and directly to the east of Lion Lake City.
After all, Sigismund had been here twice. Familiar with the terrain, he ran straight towards Lion Lake City and escaped to the southeast before the Fallen Army surrounded him.
The experience of being chased by the Fallen for hundreds of miles played a big role at this time - Boris was unfamiliar with the terrain and had never encountered a large army of Fallen, so he was caught off guard.
As a result, Boris was forced to fight a head-on battle with the large group of Fallen that Aigrim had left in the east of Lion Lake City...
To the southeast of Lion Lake City is the direction of Payne Village. There are many woods in the middle, and with the support of Leon's troops, Sigismund once again successfully completed his escape mission.
And this time too there was no loss, and they even got some easy-to-carry spoils - spoils that originally belonged to Boris.
Leon felt that Sigismund was truly a genius - this tactic could be called the tactical version of "returning the favor in their own way"!
