How to Save Humanity After Transmigrating into a Villainess Princess? Chapter 247 : Prayer

"Soldiers! Stay alert!"

Standing on the city wall, holding a voice amplifier given by the Blood Clan, the man with several knife scars on his face loudly issued orders to the soldiers below.

"The fire bandits could attack at any ti! You must be ready for battle at all tis!"

...

"Look, doesn't our commander seem a bit off?"

A thin and sallow Blood Slave soldier whispered to his comrade beside him.

"What's off about him? I don't see it."

His comrade replied cluelessly.

"It's just... his eyes... seem different from before?"

The comrade beside him snorted softly.

"Co on, stop thinking about nonsense."

"No! I've noticed many officers are like this lately..."

"You soldiers over there! Be serious!"

The rebuke from a nearby officer made him shut his mouth.

Although it sounded strange to say, he just felt—sothing was wrong.

Those officers' eyes... had really all changed...

Especially those high-ranking officers...

The man on the city wall continued his speech.

"All soldiers! Be ready for battle at any ti!"

"Because..."

"Boom!"

Without warning!

A deafening explosion suddenly rang out in the air!

The Blood Slave Army soldiers, their attention drawn by the explosion, looked up—the city wall had been blown with a huge gap!

"This... is a Magic Crossbow!"

An elderly veteran officer shouted loudly!

Didn't the Holy Kingdom only have two Magic Crossbows?

Why would the fire bandits have such heavy weapons?!

"Pre... prepare to et the enemy!"

The soldiers couldn't understand—clearly there were nurous blood fortresses built on all the roads, so why was Northern Fire's attack so fast and without warning.

But they understood—the real fighting was about to begin!

However...

An even more unbelievable scene appeared...

"Others already have such weapons! What's the point of fighting!"

"Retreat quickly! This is just sending ourselves to death!"

"One silver coin a month, why risk our lives!"

"You guys fight first, I have sothing to do so I'm leaving..."

"Um... I think I rembered there's still sothing at ho..."

"Ah! My stomach suddenly hurts so much! I'm leaving first!"

"I sprained my ankle!"

"..."

Suddenly in that instant, voices disrupting military morale arose one after another!

The soldiers looked back in shock... those people were all officers!

And they were all high-ranking officers!

This...

The military police looked at this group of officers who started running back as soon as fighting began, all stunned.

They knew too well—as military police, the swords in their hands were for executing deserters.

However... everyone actually knew—powerless ordinary soldiers could be executed, but... these powerful officers couldn't be touched!

After all, with only one silver coin a month, why risk their lives?

And when they looked up...

The man who had just been standing on the city wall hurriedly rushed down from the wall, then charged directly toward the rear...

Even the supre commander had fled!

Instantly! Even before any real fighting began, the morale of the city-defending Blood Slave Army collapsed instantly due to this sudden massive explosion and the collective retreat of officers!

...

However, the high command of both sides knew nothing of what was happening...

...

"What? The war has already started?"

Evelyn imdiately sprang up from her throne.

The battle had co so quickly!

"What's happening!"

Clearly countless [Blood Fortresses] had been built on all roads leading to the Holy Capital to ensure the Holy Capital's safety...

But if that was the case, why did they have no warning when Northern Fire launched an attack on the Holy Capital?

Having been queen for so many years, she really couldn't understand this.

But she knew—now was definitely not the ti to think about these things!

She grabbed the guard who had just co to deliver the ssage and shouted:

"Quick! Go notify all units to begin defense!"

Now was not the ti to be stunned!

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"I say, where are the enemies?"

Caroline sat on the huge crossbow body of the Magic Crossbow, looking at Adeline standing nearby.

"Indeed... where are the enemies..."

Adeline naturally didn't know either.

In the plan, they needed to bombard the city wall at this ti to attract the enemy.

This way Catherine and the Night Shadow unit could carry out their operations in the city.

But puzzlingly—where were the enemies?

Why hadn't such a sound that even they could hear as shocking from several kiloters away managed to draw out the enemy?

Where were the enemies?

Caroline said sowhat hesitantly:

"I say... should we just attack the city directly?"

"Absolutely not!"

Adeline imdiately rejected her idea.

Although Adeline was now a political commissioner, coming from military background, she was still very clear about the current situation!

"To allow our army to advance quickly before intelligence reached the Holy Capital, we destroyed over a hundred blood fortresses along the way!"

"To have the Magic Crossbow fire over a hundred tis, we've already sent a full thousand [Liberators] back on stretchers!"

"Now we only have less than two hundred [Liberators] left who can fight!"

"Attacking the city at this ti would be suicide!"

Caroline nodded.

Adeline made sense.

The Magic Crossbow's destructive power was indeed quite strong, but each firing of the crossbow would directly incapacitate ten high-level combat units capable of using [Qi] for at least twenty-four hours.

The contest between Northern Fire, which had basically no mages, and the Holy Court, which also didn't cultivate many mages, relied mainly on these high-level warriors.

And Northern Fire's [Liberators], after using the Magic Crossbow for continuous bombardnt along the way, now only had these pitiful two hundred or so left...

If they attacked the city now, it would be troubleso when the enemy's Holy Tribunal Army ca out...

"Then what do we do?"

Caroline asked sowhat puzzled.

Adeline thought for a mont and said:

"I think... it's better to hold our position for now."

"This way, we can still draw the attention of many Blood Slave Army forces."

"If enemies charge out of the city, we'll retreat according to the original plan."

"And if enemies keep acting like this... let's wait for a day first."

Caroline nodded.

"Sigh... that's all we can do."

Originally, Northern Fire's army in this battle was supposed to play the role of a feint attacker responsible for drawing the Holy Court's attention.

They didn't need to actually threaten the Holy Capital, they just needed to make the enemy think they were threatening...

Looking at the blood-red moon in the sky, Caroline said to herself:

"Then we can only cheer for Catherine and the Night Shadow warriors..."

This was all they could do.

Although Northern Fire had long prepared themselves before this operation, they absolutely couldn't risk their real foundation on such a gamble...

If the Night Shadow unit and Catherine were lost, it would indeed be a considerable loss for Northern Fire, but ultimately wouldn't shake the organization's foundation.

But if the army was completely annihilated in this assault, that would be the end.

Now, they could only pray for Catherine...