Chapter 62: The Agricultural God Church's Battlefield Divine Art Successfully Takes Flo Cunzi

"Witnessed by the great Agricultural God, even those who toil in the fields possess strength! Sprout, transform from bean seeds into extending vines, and immediately restrain these evil monsters!"

The leading middle-aged Priest shouted aloud, while the other four young Priests accompanying him stood by his side, each holding high their Agricultural God Wooden Statue, performing a crude ritual in a structured battle formation?

It was not a ritual, but a Battle Divine Art. Yes, the Agricultural God Church actually possesses offensive Battle Divine Arts, but limited by the Agricultural God's Divine Essence, for His subordinate Priests to cast a Battle Divine Art, a minimum of five people is required.

Furthermore, the Agricultural God's Divine Art skirts the edge of the rules; strictly speaking, the Battle Divine Art the Priests released at this moment does not have the ability to harm others. It merely uses the plant sprouts produced by the bean seeds, supported by Divine Power, to entangle and restrict the movement and activities of the targets being attacked.

A comical scene appeared: the beans grew rapidly, producing a large number of slender vines that bound those parasitic monsters, which were themselves also Parasitic Vine Monsters!

The slender bean stems were barely thicker than hemp thread, yet they were exceptionally tough; no matter how the Parasitic Vine Monsters, whose strength exceeded that of ordinary people, struggled, they could not break free.

"Good chance! Everyone spread out, kill these trapped monsters, be quick!" Jier shouted urgently, because he saw that as the monsters struggled hard, the Agricultural God's Divine Power on the bean stems entangling their bodies was rapidly diminishing.

This Divine Art is clearly a Battle Divine Art for restraining human soldiers on the battlefield. In terms of human strength, it would take at least several minutes to exhaust the Divine Power on the bean stems and break free, but for the Parasitic Vine Monsters, even half a minute is a bit tight.

Hearing Jier's words, the Warriors rushed forward bravely, and before the Divine Art lost its effect, they cleverly cut off the monsters' legs.

Exactly, without legs, even if these monsters were no longer restricted by the Divine Art, they wouldn't be able to run!

But after all, there were more monsters, and the number of Warriors was insufficient. After the monsters broke free, more than twenty of them still scattered and ran out, either rushing onto the Flo Cunzi wall and jumping down in one breath, or opening the village gate and fleeing outward from the gate.

Jier directed the mounted Priests to pursue in one direction, the Warriors concentrated on pursuing in two other directions, and he himself rode his horse to pursue in the final direction.

The pursuit process was not very smooth.

The monsters that ran out of the village were still scattering and fleeing, so Jier had to prioritize pursuing the monsters closest to him, striving to reduce the number of monsters as much as possible so that even if some escaped, they wouldn't be able to stir up any trouble later.

Just like that, Jier killed the last Parasitic Vine Monster he could catch, and only then did he return to Flo Cunzi, panting and dragging several corpses.

Returning to the open space in the center of the village to assemble, as expected, except for the Priests' team, everyone else failed to intercept and kill all the Parasitic Vine Monsters. As for the Priests, because they were all riding horses, when facing the monsters that dispersed after leaving the village, they also dispersed, each riding their horse to pursue one or two targeted Parasitic Vine Monsters, and then used the Metal Long Staff and Agricultural God Wooden Statue they each carried to cast Divine Power Impact, killing all these monsters.

They even brought back the monsters' corpses and handed them over to Jier for disposal.

The Priests had already noticed yesterday that the monster juices extracted from the bodies of the Parasitic Vine Monsters seemed to have other uses, but since Knight Jier didn't say anything, they felt embarrassed to ask. They simply brought back the monster corpses and handed them to Jier, which counted as a simple way to improve their mutual favor.

Jier naturally thanked them for their kindness and accepted the corpses of the Parasitic Vine Monsters that had been beaten to pieces by the Priests.

Of course, the monsters in Flo Cunzi had not been cleared out yet. Like Banjiu Cunzi, there was also a large house here that had been blocked from light from the inside, which served as a small nest for the Parasitic Vine Monsters to breed.

Unlike Banjiu Cunzi, there was actually a 【Breeder】 among the monsters in the house here. Its body was bloated and covered with temporarily carried Core Human Faces. When Jier and the others broke into the house, it was stuffing a Core Human Face into the mouth of a human corpse. After waiting for the Core Human Face to crawl into the torso of the corpse along the mouth and neck, it then used a rope to hang the successfully parasitized corpse in the house.

When Jier and the others broke in, it was startled, and it couldn't hold the rope in its hand steady; *plop*, the corpse that had just been parasitized fell from a height, and the corpse slammed heavily onto the room's floor.

The monster was stunned, and Jier and the others didn't expect to see this scene as soon as they entered.

But he reacted quickly. With the experience of the battle at the Lumber Yard, Jier knew that he could not give this kind of monster time and opportunity, otherwise it would cast a spell to self-destruct, allowing the flesh and blood after its self-destruction to activate other monsters still in the process of parasitizing nearby, and making those monsters even more powerful and difficult to deal with than ordinary Parasitic Vine Monsters.

The Blue Axe flashed by, striking the monster that was about to kneel and chant something.

It curled up, twitching all over, but its mouth was still chanting something. However, before it could succeed, its entire body had its energy and vitality sucked dry by the axe, turning into a small, curled-up wooden ball.

Even the other Core Human Faces on its body that had not yet parasitized were sucked dry of their essence and energy one by one.

Jier saw with sharp eyes that the Blue Axe sucking this monster dry was not only time-consuming and laborious, but after completion, the entire surface of the axe was flashing with a brilliant blue light.

It was as if there was an excess of energy.

"It seems that one of this kind of monster is worth dozens of ordinary Parasitic Vine Monsters?" Jier guessed. Thinking about it carefully, it actually made sense; after all, the most core part of a Parasitic Vine Monster is its Core Human Face, while the other parasitized human bodies have long been swallowed and hollowed out by the monsters. The entire human body is just a carrier, an empty shell.

Since most of the vitality comes from that Core Human Face, then this 【Breeder】 carrying dozens of Core Human Faces naturally is worth dozens of monsters in terms of vitality and essence.

"Set fire to this house. Of course, before lighting the fire, make fire prevention preparations for the surrounding buildings."

Jier gave the order, and his subordinate Warriors executed his orders without discount, while the temporarily joined guards and thugs lazily carried a few buckets of water and splashed them on the surrounding buildings, doing it perfunctorily.

Knowing that he couldn't command these guys, Jier told them to get lost and go loot the surrounding villagers' houses as they pleased. Upon hearing this, they perked up, their movements became agile, smiles appeared on their faces, and they walked away quickly in groups with their companions.

Jier snorted and explained to his subordinates who were looking over: "Anyway, they can't help much, and joining in just drags everyone else's movements down. It's better to let them do some things they like; at least I don't have to look at the stinking faces these guys hang all day."

He saw some Warriors looking enviously at the guards and thugs looting the villagers' houses nearby, and he explained: "Don't envy them. How much money can this earn? Don't forget that when they joined, they promised to hand over more than half of their temporary wages to me. So if there isn't some extra income, they won't earn much on this trip."

"Everyone is different. Not only can you receive a portion of money from me these days, but you can also receive an extra portion of money given by the Sasi Family. Isn't this money more than looting the empty houses of the villagers? After all, the truly valuable things were taken away by the villagers who left here at that time, and when those villagers were temporarily living on the outskirts of Yemei Town, their wealth was all harvested by the merchants in the town by raising commodity prices, those black-hearted merchants."

Hearing Jier's explanation, the Warriors finally understood who the real beneficiaries were in this incident. Most of the Warriors were from farming families, so they were heartbroken by the profits of these black-hearted merchants and kept cursing in their mouths.

But Jier actually hadn't told everyone the full truth yet. Did those black-hearted merchants in the town really earn a huge amount of profit?

Not so. Those merchants still had to pay an extra temporary tax to the Yemei Town Government Office, nominally as recruitment fees for temporarily increased Town Guards, but actually, it was just an extra tax collected by the Sasi Family.

Of the massive wealth harvested from the villagers, those black-hearted merchants only kept a small amount, but because they faced the public directly, the infamy was pinned on their heads, while many people did not realize that the Sasi Family and the Yemei Town Government Office behind the scenes were the groups that were the real big winners in the whole incident.

But Jier guessed this kind of thing, yet it was not easy to say. After all, they were currently being hired by Bell-Sasi, and the money that person took out might not necessarily be wealth scraped from the people!

Therefore, this topic stopped here. Jier supervised the fire as it ignited, burning all the semi-parasitized monsters in the house to death, and only then did he let some people watch the place to prevent a sudden wind from igniting the surrounding houses.

Afterwards, he came to the north gate of the village to wait for the Flo Cunzi returnees who were dragging their feet.

It was clearly just such a short distance from the entrance on the west side of the Yemei Town trench to Flo Cunzi on the south side of the town, yet under the escort of the Town Guards and Armed Civilians, the villagers didn't chaotically pour into the village until evening.

The organizational ability of the entire team was really too poor. The Town Guards, who should have organized the villagers into neat rows and urged everyone to move forward, had spent their energy all the way on being vigilant against resisting sporadic monsters. And the matter of organizing the villagers was thrown to the Armed Civilians.

But the problem was, the hundred-plus, seemingly nearly two-hundred Armed Civilians were actually just young people among the returning Flo Cunzi villagers. If you give them a Dagger or a Short Knife, they are temporarily considered Armed Civilians?

What is this? They didn't even have a simple wooden Long Spear. It looked like one or two hundred people were a lot, but in fact, their combat effectiveness was not even as good as a farmer or farm wife holding a hoe.

At least a hoe is a two-handed long farm tool, and it has some metal on it, so it can knock a monster down when swung.

So, he didn't hold any hope for the chaos of the villager team.

Jier just stood on the north gate of Flo Cunzi, watching the chaotic villagers crowding at the small village entrance. Clearly, if everyone lined up in two neat rows, they could have entered the village quickly and smoothly, but because no one managed or organized it, more than seven hundred people were left crowding at the village entrance for a good half an hour.

It was simply absurd.

The sky was getting dark. Jier shouted for the Town Guards who had escorted them all the way not to enter the village to rest, but to wait on the spot, and let Jier's drivers use horse-drawn carriages to quickly send these fifty Town Guards to Yemei Town.

Letting the Town Guards spend the night in Flo Cunzi and then return to the town tomorrow morning before immediately setting out would tire these Town Guards who relied on their two feet to travel to death. And letting them walk back to the town now when the sun was about to set would make them risk the danger of being attacked by monsters on the road.

Night is not like the day; monsters don't need to carry Torches, while humans need to carry Torches for illumination, so they have to free up at least one hand to carry a Torch to fight, which is too disadvantageous.

Once the battle lasts too long and the Torch goes out, letting the Town Guards fight in the dark against monsters that don't need their eyes to see, then it would really be all over.

Therefore, letting them return to the town by carriage at this time, they would not only be safe on the road, but they could also rest for a whole night in the town and set out with a new batch of villagers tomorrow, which would be enough in terms of physical strength.

As for the convoy returning in the dark, sporadic Parasitic Vine Monsters could not catch up with the fast-moving convoy. Moreover, it was not that Jier didn't have an escort plan for the convoy.

Before the convoy picked up the Town Guards outside the village to head to Yemei Town, Jier had the Mao Maos, who were hiding in the Wooden Box to rest, put a Wooden Box containing Mao Maos on each carriage. In this way, when the convoy returned, the Mao Maos could protect the carriages and the drivers on the carriages within the convoy.

Jier recognized the combat effectiveness of the Mao Maos; ordinary people were really no match for them, and in a one-on-one situation, those Parasitic Vine Monsters were no match for the agile Mao Maos either.

After all, in the mountain range where the Mao Mao live, what they have to deal with all day long are beasts and monsters similar to these parasitic monsters.

That night, Jier looked toward the north and could still see, past the distant Yemei Town, a bright area even further to the north.

While observing carefully, he used his hands to gesture and judge how much the position of the Sun God Church's troop had changed tonight compared to yesterday.

After his imprecise comparison, Jier discovered there was no change.

The Priest's troop was in the same position tonight as it had been the previous night.

He could not tell if he was happy or unhappy in his heart, because it was obvious that the Sun God Priest's troop was facing continuous attacks from monsters, and for the entire day, their whole troop had not been able to move even half a step.

Jier was not clear about what was happening over there and could only wait for the messenger to deliver the letter and news from Bell tomorrow morning.

The next morning, while everyone was eating, the messenger came galloping on horseback from outside the village.

Compared to yesterday, this young man delivering the orders and letters was much more exhausted, because yesterday evening, when the Villagers of Flo Cunzi approached the village, Jier had the messenger take away the news that the troop had taken Flo Cunzi and successfully welcomed back the returning Villagers in advance.

Even though the Villagers had not yet entered the village at that time, Jier had the messenger set off with the news.

And this poor fellow arrived at Yemei Town just as it was getting dark, delivered a message to the Town Guard at the trench, and then rode in the dark toward Celebration Cunzi in the northwest of the town.

By this morning, before dawn, he had received the letter and orders written by Bell overnight; he had not even eaten a single hot meal, and with a blood sausage in his mouth, he rode toward Flo Cunzi.

To avoid being ambushed by scattered parasitic monsters, the messenger traveled along the wide main road the entire way, first going from Celebration Cunzi, which had the best road conditions, to Yemei Town, and only then, taking advantage of the whitening daylight, did he have his horse cross the abandoned fields and head in a straight line toward Flo Cunzi where Jier was located.

He arrived just as Jier and the others were getting up to eat breakfast.

"Hard work, hard work! Give me the letters and orders, hurry over to the campfire to eat something, and find a place to rest for a while; it will be in time if you catch up with us at noon." Jier patted the shoulder of the messenger, who was covered in morning dew, and after taking the letters and other items, signaled for the other party to eat and rest as soon as possible.

Afterward, he summoned Bell's attendant, the two low-level officials from the Government Office in the troop, and Aoni and the others under his command, and unfolded the Scroll sent by Bell in front of them.

【To Knight Qiao-Jier: Upon learning that you fought your way to take Flo Cunzi and successfully accepted seven hundred and fifty Flo Cunzi Villagers to return to their homes, everyone who heard the news was very encouraged, and the supply pressure on Yemei Town has been further reduced significantly. At this moment, upon receiving this order, if there is no Monster harassment at Flo Cunzi, please follow the counterattack plan to attack eastward from Flo Cunzi on the third day, and take Kangkaiqi Cunzi on that third day. And after splitting the troop, lead the Refining Qi to meet and escort the nine hundred and eleven returning Villagers of Kangkaiqi Cunzi halfway. After successfully having the Villagers return, immediately inform Yemei Town via the messenger. Upon receiving this order, the returning Kangkaiqi Cunzi Villagers have already received orders to set off, please Knight Jier take Kangkaiqi Cunzi as soon as possible. Bell-Sasi】

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