Berserk, Total War: Second Son of Nobles

By the next morning, the soldiers guarding the city were tortured by the continuous noise at night. They leaned their heads against the wall and stood guard with their eyes closed.

But John didn't want to let them rest like this, and continued to order the artillery to bombard the opposite city gate. The soldiers defending the city still had to continue to stay alert to guard against possible attacks from the Midland army at any time.

Inside the castle, the Distorted Count was still processing lengthy clerical reports from various regions. Even though these places had been lost long ago, he was still reviewing the articles one by one.

It was not until the high priest entered the room that the Count of Distortion looked at him with a few eyes and asked, "Have the believers from all over the world replied?"

Although the high priest's face was expressionless under the mask, he still spoke in an anxious tone:

“Believers everywhere still have no information.”

After listening to him, the Count of Distortion looked at him and continued to look at the documents. He then said while reviewing the documents:

"Then it is highly likely that those believers have already returned to God's kingdom. It seems that we must prepare for long-term defense."

However, the high priest knew that if they continued to defend like this, they would probably fall in a few days, so he said in an admonishing tone: "Lord God's Messenger, why don't we quickly lead the main force back to the woods and wait for an opportunity to counterattack."

Hearing this, the Count of Distortion stopped approving the document. All eyes were on the high priest, and he slowly said:

"Didn't you say that this battle was a test from God? Then how could I not fight?"

The high priest was also a little panicked at this time. After thinking for a few seconds, he said:

"My Lord, this is not the only test from God. If you fail to complete one test, don't worry. As long as you remain loyal to God and remain faithful to Him, you will not be punished by God."

After listening to this, the Count of Distortion continued to review the documents, and then said without raising his head: "I have made up my mind. I will not retreat from this battle. You should go to the front line to encourage the believers and ensure their faith in God." Then the only sound of writing was heard in the whole room.

The high priest had no choice but to go to the city wall to preach to the believers. However, as he got closer and closer to the city wall, the rumbling sound of artillery fire became louder and louder. The high priest also understood that this battle was doomed to be a failure, and everyone in the castle would be buried with the deformed count.

Outside the city, John saw that the defenders at the city gate were not making any movement, so he ordered the shelling to stop because there were not many shells left.

"It seems that we need to give those cultists some powerful weapons, otherwise the siege will surely cause huge losses."

So John ordered his men: "Go, bring over those cultists you captured earlier, place them in front of the battle line, and then find a soldier next to them and chop them all down in a moment."

The defenders in the city did not hear any sound of artillery fire for a long time, so at the urging of the officers, they began to climb the city wall. As a result, they saw outside, rows of cultists kneeling on the ground, with a soldier next to each cultist.

John saw that there were more people on the city wall, so he asked the cavalry to spread the message to each unit:

"After a while, when you hear Lord John speaking, just follow him."

After seeing that all the troops had been informed, John shouted loudly: "I! John, the Governor of Midland!"

After hearing John's shout, the soldiers below also shouted: "I! John, the Governor of Midland!"

The defenders on the city wall were frightened by the soldiers' shouting and had no idea what they were doing.

"You evil cultists! You commit all kinds of evils, such as burning, killing, and looting!"

"Those kneeling in front of my formation are your accomplices!"

"Now! I sentence them to death! Execute immediately!"

"Execution!"

Upon hearing the execution, the soldiers next to the cultist immediately raised their knives and chopped off his head, ignoring the cultist's pleas for mercy. Instantly, a large amount of blood spurted out from their necks, staining the ground in front of them red.

Some cultists dodged and thus escaped the first blow, but were still hit in other parts of the body and screamed in agony, before their heads were chopped off as they screamed.

Then all the soldiers placed the heads in front of the formation, forming a mountain of heads. Then the soldiers began to spread hay. Finally, with one fire after another, the fire directly engulfed the entire mountain of heads. In the horrified eyes of the defenders, their compatriots were directly consumed by the flames, and the screams of those people before rang in their ears.

"The defenders in the city! If you continue to resist, you will suffer the same fate as them!"

"You'll have one night to think about it! When the sun rises tomorrow, we'll attack!"

"Then we'll just massacre the whole city! No one will be left alive!"

"Oh my god, my throat hurts. Give me a glass of water." John cleared his throat, then took the water handed to him by his subordinate and drank it all. He thought that he should get a sound amplification device as soon as possible, otherwise his throat would definitely have problems if he shouted like that every day.

After hearing everything John said, the high priest in the city thought of the miserable plight of his men outside the city. He really didn't expect that these Midlan people were even more terrifying than them, killing hundreds of people at a time.

After a few seconds of ideological struggle, the high priest called all the confidants with brains together for a meeting.

"This won't work. I want to talk to General Midlan and ask him to let us live." After the high priest finished speaking, he looked at his confidants. After getting their consent, the high priest selected one of them and said:

"You negotiate with him tonight. Let's quickly load some money onto the carriage."

So at night, the cultist, under special escort, was placed in a basket under the city wall, and then used a ladder to cross the moat and came directly to John's camp.

"Sir, there is a cultist outside who says he is here to negotiate with you."

After hearing the soldier's report, John heard that they had finally arrived, so he ordered:

"Disarm him and bring him in."

After a while, the cultist knelt a few meters in front of John under the guard of two soldiers.

"Are you here to surrender?" John asked.

Upon hearing this, the cultists quickly said: "My Lord, I surrender to you on the orders of our high priest. We were forced to do this by that monster. In our hearts, we have always believed in the God of Light..."

"Okay, okay," John waved his hand and said:

"It's already been like this. What were you doing in the first place? Just tell me what you can do for me."

After hearing John's impatience, the cultist quickly said:

"Sir, we can open the east gate and welcome you to the castle."

"What about the defenders in the city? You welcomed us in and then surrounded us directly?" John asked.

"The garrison... we will let our own people deal with the garrison, and we will give you a signal when the time comes." Seeing John's unfriendly expression, the cultist hurriedly explained in a trembling voice.

"Well... it sounds like you're sincere. Then let me tell you my conditions. After you're done, you must go out through the west gate and you're not allowed to go back to Midland. That's my condition." John stated his conditions.

The cultist was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately kowtowed and said, "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir..."

"Okay, okay, tell your priest quickly that if I don't see your signal tomorrow morning and the east gate is not opened, we will attack directly." After John said this, he ordered the soldiers on both sides to escort him out of the camp.

The cultist crawled back to the castle and told the high priest about John's conditions.

After hearing this, the high priest took out a bag from his arms and whispered to the crowd:

“You guys are like this…”

In the early morning of the next day, when the defenders of the four city walls were standing guard in a tired state, some cultists carrying large buckets rushed towards the city gates.

"The Earl has ordered that all the soldiers guarding the city be given extra meals. Everyone, please come down and eat."

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat!"

Hearing that there was food to eat, the soldiers were no longer sleepy and quickly got down from their posts to eat.

"Wow, there's meat." After seeing the meat, each soldier hurried forward and got a bowl.

"Don't fight, don't fight. Everyone has a share," the cultists said, and then some of them secretly climbed up the city wall.

"Hey, why does this meat taste so strange?"

The soldiers felt unwell after eating for a long time. Then their faces turned pale and they started foaming at the mouth and fell to the cold ground.

"Open the city gate and give a signal to the people outside."

After a while, as the gates opened and the drawbridge was lowered, thick smoke billowed out of the city.

"Soldiers, follow me, charge in and kill that monster, charge!" John took the lead and rushed into the city under the protection of the Knights. With the guidance of the cultists along the way, they soon arrived at the city wall. At this time, the cultists in the castle were fighting with the earl's personal soldiers. It was obvious that the cultists were very weak and could not stop the monster soldiers.

"Soldiers, dismount and rush in to avenge our dead compatriots!" John raised his knight's sword and followed the knights into the castle.

No matter how strong those monster soldiers were physically, they were beaten and covered with wounds by the knights' superb swordsmanship, and the battle line was gradually retreating.

John wielded the knight's sword. Thanks to the development of the blacksmith shop, the quality of weapons equipped by John's troops was better than that of Midland's regular troops, especially the equipment of the Knights. After the last battle with the apostles, John began to improve the equipment of the Knights. After a long period of improvement, the weapons of the Knights are now very good at breaking armor. Therefore, although these pseudo-apostles have all kinds of armor grown out of bone hyperplasia, it is still a piece of cake for the knights.

The knights used their shields to block the attacks of the pseudo-apostles while looking for opportunities to deal them fatal blows. The pseudo-apostles' limbs were constantly chopped off. These pseudo-apostles were also transformed from humans, so they naturally felt the pain. Taking advantage of the gaps, the knights directly chopped off their weak points such as the heart and head.

With the last false apostle being killed, the battle in the hall was over. Then, under the guidance of the cultists, John came to the room of the Distorted Count. When the knights opened the door, they found that the monster in front of them was writing something on paper.

Seeing someone coming, the Count of Distortion took a look and said, "Who are you?"

John was not vague either. He looked at him and said directly: "I am here to kill you."

"Oh," the Count of Distortion exclaimed, and then said:

"Then wait a moment, I will..."

Before he could finish, John stabbed him with his sword. Then a group of knights started hacking at him. Blood splattered everywhere. Under the hacking of the crowd, the Deformed Count changed into his original form. He was an adult male with well-groomed hair and beard. Behelet, the source of all evil, was hung around his neck, and John's sword was stuck in his body.

John took off Behelet and let the system recycle it, then pulled the sword off him, and said to the cultist around him:

"You can go."

The cultists quickly ran out to tell the high priest, who had already been prepared at the west gate. As soon as the west gate was opened, he drove the carriage out and headed west.

"I will never do this job again. I'll find a place to buy a few acres of land and settle down to start a family." The high priest thought so on the way towards Yoda.

Then he noticed that dozens of cavalrymen were chasing him not far away, getting closer and closer.