"I have disappointed you this time, Your Majesty Lucia... I will look for other candidates." The Pope shook his head and sighed. This candidate is not that easy to find. Faith and talent are the key, but not everything.
For nearly a decade, the only qualified person was Edwell.
Unfortunately……
Just as the Pope was thinking about it, the presiding judge Joshua stepped forward, looked at the saint of the Holy See, and saluted respectfully. "Your Majesty Lucia!"
Saint Lucia put the dragon fruit that she had taken a few bites back on the altar table, and whispered that she would ask them to change the tribute next time. Then she looked at Joshua and said casually. "It seems that even you failed."
Joshua seemed not to notice the saint's offensive act of putting the gnawed dragon fruit back on the altar table. He knelt down on one knee and recited the results of the war like a monotonous machine. "The Imperial Fleet lost a total of 143 warships and did not achieve any substantial results..."
Listening to Joshua's report, Lucia's beautiful green eyes narrowed and her tone became extremely cold. "Tell me what's going on... As far as I know, most of the powerful wizards have already gone to the kingdom. Now the protection of the wizard's land should be empty as never before..."
The entire empire's first fleet has more than 300 warships, all of which are the latest sailing warships. There are more than 80,000 elite troops of the empire on board, as well as a priest group of nearly a thousand people. It should be necessary to pacify the poorly protected wizarding land. There is no difficulty at all!
And what does it mean to have no results?
With so many people dead and half of the entire Imperial fleet destroyed, it’s not like the opponent is still safe, right?
Even if a stupid camel beast is used as the commander, he can't achieve such a record!
Joshua began to talk about his experiences at sea. "In fact, we encountered obstacles on the Sea of Mist before we reached the land of wizards. The wizards developed a new type of steel warship. It is conservatively estimated to be at least thousands of tons. It can sail at the speed of a sail warship. More than three times the size of the ship..."
"Wait...a steel warship weighing thousands of tons is suspended on the sea? It can also run very fast. Are you sure you read it correctly? Isn't that some kind of visual illusion?" The Pope frowned and couldn't help but interrupt. Joshua's words made him wonder if the other party was telling a ridiculous story.
How can a ship made of steel float on the sea and run several times faster than a sail warship? This is not in line with the laws of the world!
"I'm sure!" Joshua said decisively, and told the entire battle exactly.
Especially the peculiar over-the-horizon tactics used by the opponent. With a sailing speed of more than three times, they will always stay about one kilometer away from them, and then use strong firepower to continuously suppress them, preventing them from getting close or getting close at all. A chance to escape.
This is the reason why the fleet suffered heavy losses but achieved nothing.
"These are simply a bunch of cunning hyenas!" the Pope said coldly, but if he tried to put himself in Joshua's situation, he couldn't think of any good way to break the situation for a while.
Joshua has already tried to use powerful legendary magic, but those ships ran away in a flash and could not be hit at all. Within half an hour, the steel ships would reappear from the fog and continue to fire on them. suppress.
It's not a good idea to let the flying cardinals chase them, because they can't run as fast as the steel warships, and they will only be bombarded one after another to consume their magical energy.
Of course, the First Fleet would not have been suppressed so miserably, and the barrier of the Sea of Mist was also very important. If there was no fog covering the entire sea area, the situation would have been much better.
"Then I designed to surround the fleet of those wizards at the cost of thirty ships, but their reinforcements came too fast..." Joshua said with regret, that was his only chance to severely damage the steel fleet. .
However, after weighing the pros and cons, Joshua could only choose to retreat. He had seen this kind of alchemical creation suspended in the air in a secret report from the kingdom. It not only flew high and fast, but also had the ability to project to the ground. With the "Hellfire" ability, if he insists on pursuing him, everyone except him and a few cardinals may die there.
This is undoubtedly a losing business...
"It seems that we all underestimate these wizards." Lucia snorted.
In her eyes before, the wizards hiding on that dilapidated island were just scabies. A group of rats crawling into a hole, which did not affect the overall situation. As long as the other party dared to show up, they could be easily wiped out.
Only those extraterritorial evil gods and strange demons outside the gate of time and space are the real enemies of the Holy See...
So this time, after learning that the wizards had captured the kingdom, the empire sent out two expeditionary armies in succession, attacking from both sides, in order to eradicate this threat in one fell swoop!
But I didn't expect to encounter such a disastrous defeat...
These novel weapons made Lucia extremely curious. She remembered that when Cassimo reported to her a few years ago, he did not mention this kind of steel warship, that kind of alchemical creation called a sky airship. It is said that the speed of Only twenty or thirty kilometers.
Now this value has increased five or six times.
All new weapons seem to have appeared suddenly in recent times...
"Nowadays, most of the God's Punishment Army is still fighting those evil spirits in foreign lands. Do we need to bring them back?" the Pope suggested. The threat posed by the wizards has reached a point where they must deal with it with all their strength. They must gather their strength. , completely eliminate this threat!
"No!" Lucia shook her head, "Those wizards do have some skills in group battles. Don't waste our accumulated elite power anymore."
"Didn't the empire discover a tribe of giants during the war in the Western Region two years ago? Since they have no magical talent, they can be used as consumables in this war." Lucia said in a deep voice.
The giant has rough skin and thick flesh, and is extremely strong. With the blessing of divine magic and equipped with special iron armor, he should be able to withstand the attack of artillery fire and smash those iron boxes that can run away.
It’s just that I ate too much, which put a lot of logistical pressure...
"This time I will do it myself!" Lucia straightened her face and said solemnly.
"Your Majesty Lucia, although those wizards are difficult to deal with, they are not that bad..." Joshua persuaded them. It was undoubtedly their incompetence and dereliction of duty to allow the saints of the Holy See to fight.
"It doesn't matter, this body has reached its limit, it's just a good use of it." Lucia said casually, a cold light as if seeing prey appeared in her star-like eyes.
(End of chapter)
