Knut's face was livid as he waited for his priests to count the losses. The losses were huge, very huge.
Half an hour later, the priest took out the report:
"High Priest, in this attack on the furnace, 1 Level 6 priest, 2 Level 5 priests, 32 Level 4 priests, 56 Level 3 priests, and 189 Level 2 and Level 1 priests died in the poisonous fog."
This number frightened Knut. He didn't know what stimulated the furnace. The furnace actually stopped dealing with high-level priests. The only time it attacked with all its strength, it only killed a Level 6 priest. Most of the furnace's attacks were aimed at low-level priests.
The huge purple beast and the thick purple poisonous fog were excellent means of slaughtering low-level priests.
He asked his men with a grim expression: "Can't you find where the furnace is?"
"High Priest, the wizards said that the furnace did not revive in the Martini Islands. There was a fluctuation of star power in the distant seabed. The furnace has escaped from the bottom of the sea."
"Aren't the ancient sea wizards mainly composed of Pisces wizards? Why don't they chase from the bottom of the sea?"
"The people of the wizards explained that although the furnace has the title of a fire wizard, it is his disguise. The furnace is actually a water wizard. His Starlight South Ship is highly recognizable. They have no confidence to catch up with the Starlight South Ship on the bottom of the sea."
Knut didn't believe what the wizards said. Bellath was a level 7 water wizard. He couldn't catch up with a level 6 water wizard in the water. This excuse was somewhat perfunctory. It was nothing more than Bellath was unwilling to take risks because the furnace might kill Bellath.
Knut closed his eyes in pain. The Crucible was fighting a security war. It was slaughtering low-level priests, thus destroying the organization of the church and completely paralyzing the church on the Martini Islands.
The number of low-level priests dropped sharply, and the plan to transport believers to the North Continent had to slow down. Bellatrix could not arrange these things by himself. In the end, he had to wait for more priests from the South Continent to maintain the order of the believers.
It would be great if there was a temple. The South Continent was not afraid of high-level apostles fighting a security war. Because of the existence of the temple, other apostles did not dare to go too far. The denser the temples, the more honest the other apostles were.
However, in the Martini Islands, the Ancient Sea Wizards would always refuse to build temples, causing them to be like wearing shackles. They had powerful power but could not use it.
Knut asked again: "Did the Wizards' Association suffer heavy losses?"
"No losses."
"No losses?"
"Yes, High Priest, the Wizards' Association suffered no losses. The furnace did not affect the Wizards' Association, and no wizards of the Wizards' Association died."
The muscles on Knut's face twitched, and his expression was ugly. However, the following news made Knut feel even worse.
"High Priest, we have collected some new information about Rudolf. Rudolf is wanted by the Elba Royal Family and has become the most wanted criminal of the Elba nobles because he killed the messenger sent by Werewolf Ancestor Mountain to the Elba Royal Family, a level 7 werewolf.
The reason why Rudolf killed the werewolf messenger was that the people of the Ancient Sea Wizard Association told the werewolf messenger that there was a wandering werewolf next to Rudolf, and a conflict broke out between the two sides. In the end, Rudolf directly killed the werewolf messenger, which led to a change in the cooperation between the Elba Royal Family and Werewolf Ancestor Mountain.
We suspect that Rudolf He came to take revenge on the Ancient Sea Wizards, but we happened to be on the archipelago and were implicated. "
"But why did he only attack our low-level priests and not the Wizards Association when he was taking revenge on the Ancient Sea Wizards Association?"
Faced with the question of the chief priest, the reporting priest did not know how to answer. He just thought that the Furnace was a psychopath. It was true that there was a conflict between the Pantheon and the Furnace, but now the main enemy of the Furnace should not be the Ancient Sea Wizards Association. Even if he attacked the Werewolf Ancestral Mountain or the Elba nobles, he could understand what it meant to focus on the low-level priests of the Pantheon.
Knut got up and prepared to find the North Sky Wizard Bella, hoping that Bella would agree to let them build a temple here. However, he returned empty-handed again, and Bella refused Knut's request without hesitation.
The whole day was spent in this kind of anxiety until the evening, when two ships carrying believers appeared on the sea.
The two ships were supposed to arrive in the afternoon, but they arrived only in the evening. The church priests, who were already in a state of panic, were worried that the furnace had played tricks.
Their worries became a reality because they saw believers crying at the side railing.
When Knut himself came to the port, he had a premonition that something would happen at night, and after seeing it with his own eyes, he was in great pain.
After the gangway was built, the believers could not wait to squeeze down from the gangway, trying desperately to leave the ship.
The priests could not maintain order. Some priests asked several believers to repeat what happened on the ship, and the believers just kept shouting: "The priests are all dead! All dead!"
After the believers got off the ship, Knut took people on board. As the believers described, the cabin was full of dead priests.
The priests escorting the ship were only level 5 priests, no match for the furnace. Letting the furnace board the ship would be a one-sided bloodbath.
The faces of these priests were like violets, they were deeply poisoned, and their bodies were full of blood holes left by snake fangs.
Knut could guess how these priests died. After boarding the ship, the furnace released a large number of starlight water snakes on the ship. Starlight water snakes were all over the deck, all over the cabin, all over the walls, and even on the ceiling.
The believers knew that once bitten by a poisonous snake, they would be poisoned to death, but there was no place to step on the ground, and every step would step on at least 5 poisonous snakes.
The slippery, elastic, and cold starlight water snakes were the nightmare of the priests. The living conditions in the southern continent were not good, and at least half of the believers had no shoes to wear.
This feast of poisonous snakes instantly broke the psychological defense of the believers, which is why many believers were frightened and screamed until they reached the shore.
The believers were fine, and there was no large-scale death, but the priests were miserable.
The furnace began to fight a security war. What he wanted was to destroy the organization of the evil god cult and kill low-level priests on a large scale.
The priests were bitten to death one after another, and the level 5 priest who was escorting the ship was the last to die.
When the furnace finished dealing with the low-level priests, the level 5 priest had already lost the will to resist. In front of the believers, the level 5 priest was strangled by the furnace and then hung on the chimney.
Knut looked at the level 5 priest nailed to the chimney with steel nails, and his heart was even more depressed.
Once a high-level apostle puts down his face and fights a security war regardless of everything, the church will also be very troubled if there is no temple.
What's more, it was a furnace that could be resurrected 20 times. He wanted to fight a security war. Knut didn't know who could stop him, and he didn't know how to stop him.
He had already applied to the church to ask an 8th-level cardinal priest to clean up the furnace, the wizard who always blasphemed the church. However, this application had not been approved because it was rumored that the furnace had 8th-level alchemical bullets, and the 8th-level cardinal priest did not want to take this risk.
What should be done then?
Knut didn't know the answer either. He could only bear it first, and then send people to communicate with the church, hoping that the church would send forces that could fight against the security war as soon as possible.