Grace led the army and successfully came to the main city of this city-state from the fog with the help of Anke's magic.
This is a land of about eight karat lights, definitely not up to the 10-karat standard size of a city.
But compared to the remote areas of this city-state and the fact that it is just a small city-state, a place of light of this size is not bad.
Grace looked at the city critically and considered whether to move here. However, when she thought of the huge area of the God-given land, this thought was immediately cut off by her. Instead of running to this small city-state to develop, it would be better to Just right next to the land of God's light, develop it into a giant city with potential far greater than any city-state!
The most important thing is that she is still not sure how big the main god's divine domain is, and even... she doesn't know whether the main god's divine domain can cross the boundaries. If she doesn't understand this, then she will never give up the divine gift easily. Amaterasu, because the main god is her foundation. Even if this modern army is trained, there is also a subtle blessing from the main god's power. Otherwise, how could such god-given soldiers be humanly capable in more than half a year? Can it be practiced?
She should glorify the gods and congratulate the Lord God with her complete victory!
"Send someone to call the door. After three drums, if there is no sound, attack them. The city will be destroyed. Five of them will be drawn and one will be killed!"
The five-and-one sacrifices here are not just for farmers or free civilians. Other sacrifices come from these groups. At most, they include lower-class nobles who have failed in political struggles. I think that Grace was afraid of being political because of her gender. If the struggle fails, the most it will be is a cup of poisoned wine in secret. It is absolutely impossible for her to be used as a sacrifice. This will mess up the order of hierarchy.
If even nobles like her, who have the blood of the city-state lord, were sacrificed, then everyone in the nobles would be in danger.
But the situation here is different when the city is defeated. Generally, this kind of order and statement will be issued only when one side has a great advantage and the other side has already been defeated. This is a potential hidden danger in city-state wars. The rules are in place. In fact, it is to reduce the number of people killed. Therefore, as long as the situation of both parties is like this, they will basically open the city and surrender. After the surrender, the original high-ranking nobles can basically be preserved. Even the lord of the city-state can also receive a knight. Lead (village) to gain continuation.
This kind of seemingly cruel attack is aimed at the stinking and tough city-state lord. He has obviously been defeated, but he wants to drag everyone to death together. When encountering this kind of situation, the nobles in the city will first react. It is absolutely impossible for the lord of such a city-state to survive.
Anke and the secretary naturally knew this unspoken rule. The secretary immediately volunteered to go, and Grace sent twenty army soldiers to protect it.
Clerks are also high-level nobles. They are usually distant branches of the bloodline of the city-state lord. They have been separated by several generations, but they have blood relations and knowledge inheritance, so they are clerks.
The scribe came to the city gate and looked at the soldiers and some knights running in panic on the city gate. He sneered and announced Grace's words.
Not to mention the soldiers on the city gate, several knights remained silent. Then, without waiting to inform the Lord of the city-state, they lowered the city-state's emblem and flag by half.
This is actually an unspoken rule. It means telling Grace's team that they, the high-ranking nobles, have agreed to surrender. No matter what the lord of the city-state thinks about it, even if the lord of the city-state is unwilling to surrender, they will chop off the head of the lord of the city-state. Come to surrender, but at the same time, this is also an unspoken rule that only high-ranking nobles understand, that is, asking who the owner of the incoming team is.
City-states and civilized territories attach the greatest importance to bloodline. The noble will always be noble and the lowly will always be low. This is the truth that belongs to the high nobles.
If the owner of the incoming team is a savage, the serfs revolt, or some soldiers, low-level nobles and the like suddenly gain power... This is not unheard of. In the city-states with gods and extraordinary power, this has happened in the past countless years. There are past events that happened.
If this is the case, then the flag will be raised again, or even replaced with a bloody flag, which will mean that there will be no end to the death. Even if one is drawn out of five, no, even if they are all slaughtered, the high-ranking nobles in this city will not die. Probably surrender.
This scribe naturally knew these unspoken rules. After all, there were countless examples in the past records. When a city-state faced lowly people who suddenly gained power, or some serfs and rebels who gathered in large numbers, they were sure because of the overwhelming power of the enemy. They surrendered, but the result was extremely tragic. His wife and daughter were raped and killed, and they were tortured to death by extremely cruel torture. Rather than doing this, it would be more cost-effective to die in battle.
However, both the secretary and his master came from the noblest people, and were the inherited bloodline of the lords of large city-states, so naturally there was no such problem. He smiled slightly and immediately ordered the soldiers to set up a flag with grids on it. Of course, Lace's family emblem, because she lost her heir qualifications and her status as the head of the city-state, naturally lacked the castle pattern, but instead had a ball of light pattern held high at the top of the emblem. This overriding All the patterns represent gods, and also mean that the master of this army is a priest, and he is the chief priest of the god, the one with the highest position.
These noble emblems and family emblems cannot be scrawled or scrawled on. These are the most elite culture inherited by the nobles for thousands of years. Only the top retainers of high-ranking noble families or the scribes of the lords of the city-state can do this. Totally understand.
The knights on the city wall looked at the flag attentively. After just a brief glance, they all felt relieved, and then they immediately memorized the flag's badge pattern, shape, details, and symbols. , two knights immediately went to the castle inside the city... The reason why there were two knights was to supervise each other and prevent one of them from having bad intentions and falsely passing on orders.
The news of Grace's army's attack had already reached the castle. In the hall of the castle, a middle-aged man wearing a crown looked dull and pale. This was the lord of the city-state who had escaped. His army was because of There were heavy casualties, and a large part of them were lost in the fog. In the end, only more than sixty people followed him back. Now his strength is no longer as strong as the gathering of high-ranking nobles. At least the high-ranking nobles can still gather five or six hundred people, and he Even if they squeeze manpower, they can only get one or two hundred people together at most.
This means that unless these high-ranking nobles are willing to be loyal to him and his family, or the owner of the incoming team is a lowly person, his position as the leader of the city-state will end today.
At this time, two knights ran up, and one of them told the declaration of the army outside the city. As soon as he said this, the high-ranking nobles present were all aware of it, but their focus was not on this. They were still staring at the knights. The knight did not dare to delay and immediately began to describe the family coat of arms of the army master outside the city.
"...This is Grace! No, it's Grace. She comes from the Blue City State and is the direct daughter of the Blue Family. She was originally the first heir and was said to be a very heroic prince. However, after her father's death, It was later revealed that she was a woman, so she had to flee, and her uncle inherited the position of the leader of the city-state. Unexpectedly, she did not die in the mist, but actually trained this kind of god-given army!" Immediately there were senior officials said the nobleman loudly.
And more than one high-ranking noble knew it. Several high-ranking nobles nodded. Obviously what this person said was true. They all knew about it. Obviously, it was true.
It is almost impossible for someone to imitate a heraldic family emblem like this, because it involves the majesty of the city-state gods. Especially since this kind of family emblem has a symbol of the gods above, it is even more impossible to fake it.
The visitor is Grace, a tragic figure who was made a joke among the city-states. Unexpectedly, she has returned! ?
The face of the city-state lord became ugly again, but he still sighed after a moment. He took off the crown himself and said to many high-ranking nobles: "Go and meet our future lord. If you lose, you will lose. This Grace As expected of the direct bloodline of the lord of a large city-state, even if she is a woman, she will soar into the sky as soon as she becomes a priest, so we are not at a loss under her command."
Many high-ranking nobles breathed a sigh of relief.
If the lord of the city-state does not understand what they are saying, then this matter will be difficult to handle. There may not be blood involved, but who will take action? This will lead to the reputation of being a master eater, which will not look good in front of the future master. Although it is impossible for any of the family of the city-state master to stay, their reputation will be damaged and their future will be damaged. It is best to be aware of current affairs now. good.
At that moment, the lord of the city-state and the high-ranking nobles left the castle together, but they did not open the city gate immediately. Instead, they returned to their family quarters, changed into new clean clothes, polished their leather boots, and tidied them up carefully. Hair and beard are smoothed with high-grade childish hair, then put on the ancestral armor, pick up the ancestral swords and weapons, and then bring the most elite and most gorgeous cavalry guards in the family...
After all this was done, more than two hours had passed. Then the high-ranking nobles embraced the lord of the city-state, and a mighty elite team of three to four hundred people came to the city gate.
Grace, who was outside the city gate, was not in a hurry. In fact, there was no response from the city wall so far, so she knew that the matter was stable. At that moment, she also started to arrange her makeup, because she was the leader. She was a priest again, and she boasted about martial arts and the power of gods, rather than women's looks, so she wore priestly robes underneath and men's armor and weapons outside. She also had her hair carefully treated with grease by the eunuchs, and she didn't shy away from it. The fact that she is a woman is also extremely heroic, and then the waiting began.
Until the city gates opened wide, with the city-state's lord taking the lead, followed by the high-ranking nobles, this elite army arrived in front of Grace's army.
Grace's army was still waiting in formation, silent, speechless, and with an aura that was as dull and dull as a robot. This momentum, combined with the previous achievements, immediately forced the elite army behind the city-state lord to start chaos.
However, this is a process that everyone is familiar with. At this point, there is no chance of bloodshed unless Grace no longer wants to stay in the civilized territory. Therefore, the lord of the city-state and the high-ranking nobles move forward with confidence, and these troops Sure enough, he did not attack, but followed the order and separated from the middle. Grace, with the magician Anke and the secretary, also went forward.
What follows is nothing more than dialogue, sacrifice to the gods, oaths and prayers before the gods, the lord of the city-state and the high-ranking nobles half-kneeling to acknowledge the sect leader, and the city-state is replaced by this process.
Suddenly, as Grace approached, the holy power in her body surged involuntarily, and the holy power even turned into light and flames burning on her body, which even ordinary people could see clearly.
In Grace's eyes, the lord of the city-state and the high-ranking nobles were all normal, but in the position of three of them, there were three pieces of rotten, twisted flesh and blood full of distortion and terror that were squirming close to her.
It was unclear whether the flesh and blood was internal organs, bones, blood vessels, or tentacles or mouthparts. Just looking at it made Grace's eyes sting. It was only when the holy power invaded her eyes that she felt better.
This kind of horror was the only thing Grace had seen in her life. She pointed at the three flesh and blood in horror and shouted loudly: "What is this! Guards! Soldiers! Protect me! Protect your master!!"
All the soldiers instinctively raised their weapons and aimed them at the lord of the city-state, the high-ranking nobles, and their army soldiers, and these people suddenly turned pale.
Anke rushed forward and roared: "Lord! Are you crazy!? At this sacred moment, how can you see blood!? Why don't you stop them all quickly!!"
Grace instinctively knew that what Anke said was correct. Now is the most sacred moment for the oath of nobility. If she dares to see blood at this time, it will never be tolerated in civilized territory, but...
The holy power of the gods was boiling, warning her, telling her that it was the enemy of God, no, it was the enemy of life!
"...I am the chief priest of God!"
Grace closed her eyes and shouted loudly, then she opened her eyes, her eyes full of determination.
"Listen to my orders. There are three divine enemies here. Do not accidentally hurt innocent people, but the divine enemies will kill them!!"
Grace finally made up her mind about the world and the gods, and she chose to believe in her main god.
