What did you do with the dice?

Rusalka felt a little lost: (I feel like my intelligence is stuck here, like silver. It would be fine if I didn't think about it. But I just can't figure it out now. Which side is she on? Can't we let her share some of the joyful blessings? She's not the only one.)

Sanitita: (It doesn’t matter. I just know that if you believe the bad woman, your life will be ruined.)

Rusalka thought about it and felt that her good brother was right: this bad woman could make her heart waver with just a few small actions. It was really something.

Chapter 486 Water Fairy = Rusalka

After the two of them separated, one on the left and one on the right, the voice of the God of Truth sounded in Theresa's ears.

"Why don't you do it? You're only one step away from gathering all the faiths."

Theresa smiled and said, "I am the Messenger of the End, not your believer, nor a pawn or puppet. I only do what I want to do."

The God of Truth: "You will definitely regret it. If you don't kill him now, he will become even stronger after he recovers. Then you will have no chance at all and you will die at his hands."

Theresa blocked out the voice from God.

In fact, when she pushed Brad toward Rusalka, Theresa was almost ready to kill him, because as the God of Truth said, Theresa could not find any reason not to kill him right then and there.

She originally thought that the Messenger of the End was just like this: only one person could leave this world, and the end of the fate of becoming a god was a brutal fight.

Over the long years, she gave up everything to achieve her goal. Loneliness nearly consumed her, so much so that she was thrilled when she met Rusalka, who shared her goal. A kindred spirit is truly rare in this world. Even knowing they were in competition, and even knowing only one could survive, she still wanted to keep him until the end, to tell him the story of her life, and then kill him—a perfect ending.

So at that moment, she was extremely painful in her heart. In her plan, she should not have ended this long-cherished wish of thousands of years so hastily, and gave the choice to Rusalka.

He would naturally choose to take away my faith, so I would have to kill him. This was fate.

But when he saw that Rusalka did not attack the flame

At that time, she, who had clearly survived for thousands of years and traveled through time, suddenly felt a sense of insignificance, as if she had just been chosen by the Church of Joy to join the war of faith.

He was clearly collecting faith, but he chose to give up based on his own will.

Theresa had thought of all the possible reactions Rusalka might have, except the thought that he would give up.

At that moment, she realized that she, who hated the gods in her heart and wanted to escape the fate of a puppet, had been controlled by the gods when she pushed the Brad Flame towards Rusalka.

The gods forced their rules of the game into her broken heart, making her blind and becoming a puppet chasing after faith all her life.

He keeps picking up things, carrying things, and carrying things again, as if plundering faith has become the meaning of his life, and he has forgotten what "giving up" means.

"I, too, once loved this world. Unfortunately, I can no longer go back to the past."

"At least before I kill you, let me preserve the remaining warmth in your heart. This will also be the final step in burying my past self. After the Final War is over, I will bid farewell to my past self completely. I will kill you first without regrets, and then end this world."

Theresa returned to the Wright Cathedral, looked up at the golden statue of the God of Wright in the center, and then slowly walked up to the platform.

A golden light emerged, connecting her body to the statue. The next moment, her voice rang out in the ears of all the priests, whether awake or asleep.

"I, Theresa Lily, the Grand Saint of Esdi, exercise the authority of God Light and order everyone to enter a state of holy war. Gather all available troops in Esdi and march towards the demon portal! Anyone who has awakened the Holy Light is free to enlist!"

"I will lead all those blessed by the Holy Light, departing from Light City, to expel and annihilate the invading demons, leaving no one behind! Protect this pure world that belongs to the kind!"

-

"Oh, what a loss."

At this moment, Rusalka was sitting on the Guided Detonator and returning to Silver City. As she walked, she was still thinking about how to fight back when she saw Theresa next time.

The main reason why he went back with the ship was because he lost his wings after leaving the battle.

Walking is too slow. It will probably take him a week to get home from the Elf Forest. So he might as well ask Sanita to give him a ride back in the private chat channel.

The elves originally wanted to keep him to hold a celebration party or something, but Rusalka was so confused: Sisters, the regular demon army just arrived outside. Is it really appropriate for us to hold a celebration party here?

It's a pity that the elves who live with plants cannot leave the blessing range of the World Tree, and naturally cannot take shortcuts to enter the demiplane of the Guided Detonator. So they can only pack up some things in the Elf Forest that can still be used in the war, and let him put them in the Guided Detonator and take them back.

Upon returning to Silver City, before even entering the City Lord's Mansion, a group of men dressed as messengers on horseback rode alongside Rusalka's carriage, seemingly unable to wait a second longer. They hurriedly reported, "Your Majesty, the Grand Duke of Pearl Tears, the demon gate has suddenly opened, and the legions of Hell are pouring out of the kingdom. At least 100,000 demons have already arrived in Snidi, and the number is still increasing. The situation is extremely critical!"

Rusalka was just about to ask him why he didn't tell Sanitta about this, when she remembered that her good brother seemed to have not returned yet.

Rusalka was the type who, if he waited for someone else to be late, would inevitably rant: (What's wrong, brother? You're having a blast out west, right? So you don't want to come back? If you don't come back, I'll hang both of your wives from the flagpole and warn the whole Pearl Tears Territory: If one person is afraid, the whole family will be killed; if you delay the opportunity, you'll be damned.)

Sanita: (This is insane! I'm currently outside the Glory of All Races, observing the newly opened demon portal at the End.)

Rusalka: (Hasn't He already opened a portal in the country? That one outside isn't just for show. What's so interesting about it?)

Sanita: (Alas, you're a tactical idiot. Opening a one-way portal in a stable space will definitely create a high probability of encountering turbulent flow, resulting in massive non-combat casualties. Zhongmo knew that the Glory of All Races would be difficult to defeat, so he resorted to this desperate measure. He's also playing a clear game with us.)

(The fact that He has opened a portal in the Seven Sins but hasn't sent any troops here means: If we abandon this western wall now, He will gather troops from the Seven Sins to attack. So you must leave some of your troops here to fight.)

Rusalka: (So if He doesn't come, you'll just stay there forever? Then at the end of the day, you'll say, "Alas, the demon won, but the glory remains intact. Sneidi lost, but I, Sanita, didn't lose?")

Sanita said unhappily: (You think I'm you? I just asked someone to accompany me to set up a "holy dwelling" near the portal to block the door.)

The spell that Sanita mentioned refers to this:

[Holy Residence | 5th Level Shaping School]

Casting time: 24 hours

Spell Materials: Herbs, oils, and incense worth at least 1,000 gp

Duration: Until lifted.

This spell, which requires a whole day of uninterrupted casting, has many effects, so I won't post them all here. However, Sanita only wants to use the most useful one, which is exactly what its name means: "No evil spirits shall enter the range of the spell."

Since it does not require concentration and even lasts forever, it is a very noble barrier: he only needs to put this thing

The kid is blocking the exit of the portal, and the other side is stuck and can't get out.

The previous magical pet also self-destructed due to the countermeasure of the Nine-Ring Spell, and there was no time to sign a new one. Before he returned to Silver City after completing the spell, he could only let Rusalka temporarily take over Silver City for him.

Sanita: (I'll give you command, so be happy.)

Rusalka: (What the hell, why do I have this feeling—"There's a crazy fight going on between Wang Zui and Gillette in the group, and it feels like they're on the verge of being called to the police, and then you suddenly transfer the group owner to me"?)

Sanita: (How could that be?)

Damn, are you serious?

Rusalka would rather not know about Sanita than know now that she was suddenly given a mission in crisis.

Sure enough, war reports can be deceiving, but the front lines cannot. As soon as he sat down on the chair in his office, the front-line express messengers who lined up at the door rushed in and brought him a lot of news.

"No need to say more, I want to hear the bad news first."

After hearing this, the messenger opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything at first.

"What's wrong? Too much bad news?"

"No, Your Majesty, the situation is not as bad as you think."

Ok?

The first report brought by the messenger was the confusing movements of the demon army.

-

The demon army did catch people off guard after rushing out of the portal. The surrounding troops that had formed small groups to clear out the elite troops that fell from the sky had not had time to return to the city, and now the defense force in the city seemed a little empty.

They first attacked the small human settlement nearby that had no time to escape.

However, they are very different from the demon army that is rumored to kill anyone and leave no grass behind. First of all, wherever they pass, there is "lush branches and leaves" and "birds singing and flowers blooming". How can there be no grass at all?

Secondly, they rarely left a few alive and brought them to the Legion Lord.

"Mortal, tell me, where in this kingdom are Pearly Tear Lament, the Narcissus Mermaid, and his mage, Sin Treasure Maleficent?"

"Ah? Sir, I've never heard of such two people. The mermaids you mentioned should live in the sea."

As the Lord of Hell snorted coldly, many climbing vines suddenly grew on the man's body.

Amidst his confused eyes, a weapon pierced his head.

Bang, the headless corpse slowly fell down.

The demon on the throne turned to look at the trembling figure beside him and asked with suppressed anger, "This is the fate of concealing and deceiving the Lord of Hell. Now it's your turn. Tell me his location, and I will give you a quick death."

"I, I really don't know!"

"Humph!"

With a shrill scream, the captured person was quickly dissolved and swallowed by the scarlet mucus.

The leader of this army was the ever-changing Lord Salinas who was defeated in the city of Hendalia.

The first thing he did when he returned to the main plane was to vow to use the power of the final gift and his own powerful hell army to kill Rusalka and Sanita, who had relied on numbers and luck to force him to return to hell in the city with regret.

He was arrogant and stubborn, and he didn't believe that a strong man like Rusalka, who could fight him head-on in the past, would give him a false name at the "glory" moment of defeating him, the lord of hell, which would make him proud for the rest of his life.

So he mistakenly believed that humans were quite united, and after spending two days sweeping the area several times, he finally captured a noble who had no time to retreat.

It was from this noble who happened to know about the Hendalia City incident that he learned that the forces that had gathered in the city that time were the "Esdi Force", the "Drey Family" and the "Pearl Tear Family".

By process of elimination, it can be concluded that the real name of "Pearl Tear Lament Narcissus Mermaid" is actually "Pearl Tear Rusalka." As for the mage beside him, his name is not "Sin Treasure Black Witch", but Sanita.

When Salinas learned the truth, he was furious—if he had seven orifices.

"This bastard!!!"

The roar echoed throughout the grove in the Kingdom of Snidi.

By the way, this place was originally a barren rocky land, but after the demon army arrived, it became a grassland within a day. They circled around and stayed for too long, turning the place into a small forest.

"Legion, raze that Silver City! Pull this cowardly rat who dares not reveal his real name out of his fragile iron barrier!"

"I will devour his flesh and skin bit by bit, regenerate it, and then destroy it, leaving him unable to live or die!"

-

In this way, no accidents occurred until the Sani Tower was successfully transported back.

The battle reports from the front line have been unusually calm in the past few days, as if there is no major situation that requires Rusalka to preside over.

On the one hand, it was because each city had already made certain preparations for the demons falling from the sky, so even if the city defenses were weak, there would not be too much chaos.

On the other hand, the demon army's advance was unexpectedly slow.

The sudden arrival of the demonic portal should have been immense. But what puzzled even Sanita was that, despite the Hell Gate opening right in the heart of Snidi and the reinforcements having no time to return, the demonic army, which should have had the upper hand, seemed to have no concept of "capital's vital points" or "speed is of the essence."

From the perspective of intelligence here, since the demon lord led the army out of the gate of hell, he has kept the army in place.

They stayed there for a long time, sweeping through some small villages and towns that had no strategic significance at all, and stayed there for three full days.

This undoubtedly gave the nearby humans enough time to retreat into the city and prepare supplies for defending the city.

Just when everyone had gritted their teeth and prepared to fight to the bitter end, something even more baffling happened.

This demon army, which finally started to move, actually ignored the capital nearby and the main cities of the three nearby grand dukes, and chose to advance all the way to the right.

At least that's what the battle reports from the front lines say.

Moreover, the bad habits of the Snidi nobles have not been completely eradicated. Just like the previous invasion of the El Empire, the cities and nobles along the way, facing the advance of the demon army, did not have the courage and belief to sacrifice their lives for the country to take the initiative to send troops to harass the flanks. Everyone chose to wait and see which unlucky guy's hometown their troops would stop at.

Sanita looked at the military map with a frown on his face. "Oh no! This time, I can't understand the final plan at all. Perhaps the gods are truly superior."

Rusalka wasn't panicking at all. After letting go of his thoughts, he felt everything became incredibly easy. "Teacher Dafei, get out of class is over! Teacher Theresa next door taught me a lesson that's completely taught me. No matter why they're moving so slowly, just do it and it's done. There's no point in the process of fighting, only in winning or losing. So, if you give me an army, I'll just charge in both directions and catch them off guard."

Rusalka's move was truly unexpected, as she was given away for no reason.

This suggestion, which equates to "I'm in a hurry to give my life away," was definitely not adopted by Sunita.

I drew a straight line on the map and headed east along their marching route. There were only a few small towns along the way, and then I would have to walk to Esdi. I didn't find a place worth fighting.

We can only decide to hold on first and see where the demon army goes. We will decide where the most important hidden strategic point is and then consider reinforcements.

Sanita: It can't be that the opponent is also in a hurry to give up his head, so he chooses to travel a long distance to attack this Silver City which has no strategic value at all and where he and Rusalka are both.

He would never have thought that the reason for the current delicate situation was actually just that Rusalka had a brain spasm in the city of Hendalia and made a few random jokes and called out random names.

Chapter 487: Silver City Defense (1)

Silver City, located in the east of Sinidi, about dozens of kilometers away from the border, was originally a city with relatively developed tourism and smuggling industries.

After several years of hard work by the Sani Iron Tower, it is now the strongest core area of ​​military trade in the Kingdom of Sinidi. It is surrounded by several military industrial belts, and with the newly built Mage Tower, and all financial funds allocated to the city's armed forces in recent years, it has become the strongest military fortress in Sinidi.

It is no exaggeration to say that every brick the soldiers stepped on had gold coins melted into it.

Apart from the size of the city itself, there is already a subtle trend of replacing Alice City's capital function.

Rumors can be deceiving, but the market isn't: at least the land prices in Silver City have caught up with those in Alice City, and permanent resident certificates are in short supply.

But it is developing so well now, but no one is copying it. This is because the core of Silver City is the "Aisidi-style management" + "the Pearl Tear Twins have holes in their brains", which are the unrepeatable prerequisites.