For Berengar and the Praetorian Guards he trained, the combat effectiveness of the army does not lie in a single charge, but in the continuous attacks with the coordination of various units. He watched the pirates' chaos with cold eyes. Hestein had no time to pay attention to the Spear of Longinus. Berengar waved his finger upward, and the gun flew back to his hand.
He began to let the Spear of Longinus gather strength again, while keeping a close eye on Hestein's movements on horseback. He wanted to throw the Spear of Longinus at Hestein's most vulnerable moment to end the legend of this beast king.
The bloody crow flag in Hestein's army was obviously swaying, and Hestein was struggling to maintain the morale of the troops. At this time, another pirate came in a panic and reported: "Boss, boss! Those horse archers suddenly put on lances and rushed towards us! Each of them was dressed like an iron can, brothers. It’s almost unstoppable!”
The Iron-armored Holy Cavalry was a new unit tentatively established in the Guards by Berengar. They are heavy cavalry who can use bows and arrows. Compared with ordinary archers, they can charge towards the enemy's front with lances without hesitation! Hestein mistook them for ordinary horse archers and made a huge mistake in his command!
The pirate forces suffered an unstoppable rout. Knowing that the situation was over, Hestein sighed, took another long breath, and shouted: "Retreat!"
Not all armies are as well-trained as the Praetorian Guards. For most armies, "retreating" means defeat and flight.
Ella saw the eagle flag symbolizing the Seven Hills Empire approaching her. The Imperial Guards were chasing and killing the retreating pirates. The heroic tribesmen from the north dropped their armor and weapons one after another, and many of them were trampled to death by their companions. She heard the command of "attack and charge" coming from the armored holy cavalry who came around behind them, and the cavalry began to expand the results of the battle as quickly as possible. The entire battlefield was like a raging tide, and she was like a lone stone, overwhelmed by the tide.
It turns out that the Seven Hills Empire can repel the pirates without her having to do anything.
It turned out that her self-righteous devotion meant nothing to the Qiqiu Empire.
It seemed that she had not made any contribution to the Qiqiu Empire in the end.
It turned out that the Seven Hills Empire did not need a Baselisa like her at all.
She saw densely packed javelins being thrown into the air, and one of them flew straight towards her, becoming bigger and bigger in her eyes. She couldn't dodge or escape.
If she could have more powerful power, this wouldn't be the ending.
In her last moments, she saw the eagle flag of the Seven Hills Empire swaying in the strong wind. The eagle on the flag was majestic and majestic.
She didn't dare to look at the javelin anymore and closed her eyes. Her face was mixed with smiles and tears at the same time:
The Qiqiu Empire is still invincible.
May its glory remain forever.
Suddenly, a strong hand pushed her away. Ella opened her eyes and saw the beast named Hestein standing in front of her. He grabbed the flying javelin and broke it with both hands.
She heard the grizzly bear say to her in a deep voice:
"I told you to retreat, didn't you hear me?"
Ella bit her lip. The second time, this was the second time Hestein had saved him. He clearly robbed her country, and he is clearly an absolutely unforgivable person!
Hestein killed five or six approaching Praetorian Guards in a row. He then raised his sword high and focused all his strength on his sword, just as Bjorn had done when he attacked the wall. In a burst of shaking like a collapse of the earth and a mountain, the battlefield was divided into two by a huge trench he drew. The ravine about five meters deep blocked the advance of the Guards, and Hestein exhausted all his strength and fell to his knees, using only his sword to support his body.
Another wave of javelins flew in the direction of Ella, and Hestein cut them all in the air. He stood at the rear of the whole army like an impenetrable wall.
Hestein accidentally noticed that Ella was still behind him.
"You haven't left yet? What does this mean? The glory of the Shieldmaiden?"
He said to Ella in an almost mocking tone:
"I don't know what Dan is thinking. But you are not a warrior to begin with, are you? Do you think you can enter the Hall of Valor after you die in battle? Are you stupid?"
Ella's body began to tremble:
——You are the one who is stupid, right? I want to assassinate you, do you know that?
——Do you think your taunting will be effective at this time? Can you look at your actions yourself? How can a general stay in the rear when the entire army is in retreat? What kind of a good person are you?
——But why did you set fire to my territory? Why do you want to loot all the meager property that people have worked so hard to accumulate?
A dazzling light suddenly flashed in the sky - it was the Spear of Longinus thrown by Berengar taking advantage of Hestein's weakness. Hestein suddenly looked extremely tired, half-kneeling on the ground, and the sword in his hand was deeply inserted into the soil. His tone of voice when speaking to Ella suddenly changed:
"Come on, ordinary people have their own ways of living. My pirates will run to the beach first, because our ship is there. You can get rid of them by running in the opposite direction. After that, find a place far away from the coast. Or settle in a place with a big river!”
After saying this, Hestein closed his mouth. The light baptized Hestein like a holy light. Under it, Hestein knelt motionless, as if he was repenting, and as if he was just a sculpture.
Ella's eyes slowly swept across the other side of the trench, to Berengar, to the Praetorian Guards, to the eagle flag, to the distant horizon with Constantinier's shadow. On the other side was the Qiqiu Empire, which she loved deeply but discarded like trash.
"I want to be a bad boy for a little while..."
Ella stretched out her hand towards the falling Spear of Longinus. The purple robe on her body fluttered so violently for the first time. In the increasingly dazzling flash, she calmly recited:
"Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani! God, God, why did you abandon me!"
This is a spell that has been passed down from generation to generation among the royal family of the Seven Hills Empire in order to contain the commander of the Imperial Guard, which can make the Spear of Longinus lose its power. Its power does not come from the blessing of the gods, but from the blood of the royal family who made a contract with the Spear of Longinus. Anyone with royal blood can use it.
This is also the only magic Ella can use.
In full view of the public, the Spear of Longinus suddenly lost its light and fell into the ditch with a "bang".
--sorry.
--Really sorry.
——I don’t want to die in the rebellion, nor do I want to remain trapped in Constantiniya and become a canary in a birdcage.
——Farewell, Seven Hills Empire.
Ella helped Hestein up and stepped back step by step. For some unknown reason, the Praetorian Guards never took any further action. Ella turned her head accidentally and saw that Berengar had dismounted at some point and walked to the front of the army. Then, he gave a long military salute in the direction she was going!
Tears suddenly overflowed from Ella's eyes.
Ah - well, if the Qiqiu Empire encounters a crisis, I will come back to help.
At that time, what you will see will be a Baselisa who can support the entire empire.
