Chapter 1035 - 319: Sword of Victory (Part 2)

War is like a rolling snowball; a small gap, with reasonable arrangement, can be swiftly magnified, forming an avalanche and crushing the opponent.

Although ordinary demons are fools, with wisdom inferior to humans, the higher-ups of the Demon Race are extremely cunning beings, possessing wisdom comparable to mages, capable of arranging various tactics, fully aware of their own race’s strengths and weaknesses.

The demon army advanced step by step into the city, leaving behind corpses and devastation in their wake, with flames blazing on the tattered banners.

The demon army was stronger than anticipated, having already occupied a quarter of the outer city by noon, firmly establishing their foothold. However, the demons also suffered considerable casualties, with nearly half dead by now. Every moment, magic storms swept down from above, and countless demons died under the legion magic.

The leader of the Mage Legion, Davidlian, also felt uneasy upon seeing this situation. He turned to Linda, who was continuously bestowing blessings, and said: "Saintess, at this rate, it’s just a matter of time before the demon army breaches the city. More than half of the mages in the legion have exhausted their magic power. If the battle continues, we cannot sustain the legion magic."

Although legion magic is powerful, its consumption is also enormous. Even thousands of mages find it difficult to support it for a long time, and recovery of magic power takes time.

At this moment, Linda instead remained calm, steadily saying, "No need to worry, our All Beings Sect still has a backup plan."

Faith in the city is accumulating, and it just needs a bit more for her to release a large-scale blessing.

Su Changxing has been paying attention to the situation here, but he hasn’t provided excessive support, delegating the ability to bestow blessings to the church. As long as enough faith is accumulated, the corresponding blessing can be released.

He doesn’t need to actively intervene in this world’s affairs, letting the All Beings Sect operate on its own, observing from the side, and intervening only when necessary. In his understanding, a Divine Spirit should be a hands-off manager, with other matters left to the followers below.

Soon, a visible white light shot skyward, continuously spreading out, covering the entire outer city. The warriors receiving blessings gained more powerful strength and unwavering courage, sharply increasing the combat power of the entire legion, immediately halting the demon army’s advance.

[Large-scale Blessing of Resilience: Grants courage, enhances power, physique, defense capabilities, and magic resistance.]

"What is that?" The demon grand marshal gazed from afar at the white light rising again, showing a thoughtful expression, "Previously, one white light made those magics more lethal, and this time it made the human warriors even more courageous..."

He couldn’t figure out what that thing was making what should have been an easy war so unusually difficult.

This situation left him with an intense headache.

Then, another white light shot up into the sky; a part of the front-line warriors were covered with illusory white armor, enveloping their bodies, making them heavy and steady enough to resist the demons’ impact. It even shielded them from the shrieks of the swamp crawlers, protecting their spirits.

[Blessing of Protection: Forms armor with faith, protecting the blessed target, significantly reducing received damage, and immunizes against most negative effects for a certain time.]

With the double blessings, the human legion astonishingly stood against the demon army, not retreating a single step, making the battle even more brutal.

"Grand Marshal, if this keeps up, we might not be able to breach Luo Han, should we consider retreating for now?" A demon fully clad in black feathers carefully suggested to the demon grand marshal beside him, feeling fearful of the white light descending from the sky, thinking that if they continued like this, they would certainly fail to breach Luo Han.

The demon grand marshal kicked him to the ground without hesitation, coldly saying, "Do you know what you’re saying? No matter how weak humans are, they can’t withstand our attack. Today, we will take Luo Han!"

He knew there was no way back, this attack on Luo Han had already cost dearly, and retreating now would waste all previous efforts, making it difficult to mount another attack in a short time.

"Even if we have to fill this city with corpses, we’ll take it!"

Immediately, the demon army launched an even fiercer offensive, regardless of their casualties, colliding violently with the blessed legion.

In fact, the demon grand marshal was not wrong; it seemed that both sides were equally matched, but the Mage Legion was near exhaustion, and the frequency of legion magic had slowed.

The outcome of the war remained unclear, with a layer of shadow cast over the hearts of every human in this war, striving forward yet also seeing the hope of victory.

The war lasted day and night, fought from day into night, and into day again.

Ten miles of corpses, ruins of crumbled walls.

The outer walls were 70-80% damaged, barely qualifying as a wall, a ruin of piled rubble, burying numerous corpses.

Linda crouched in front of the walls, her face full of fatigue, half covered in black ash. One hand propped on the ground, the other holding a magic staff, with over a hundred church mages standing behind her.

During this time, they had released blessings nearly a hundred times. Although divine art doesn’t consume much spiritual power, releasing it so many times had nearly drained Linda’s spiritual power.