Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

The pillar of light slammed into a carriage, melting it on impact.

The pillar of light served as more of a demonstration. After its release, a team of Paladins rushed in, some holding their heads, others their feet. They hurriedly wrapped the holy spirit, who had just released Holy Light and was in a state of stagnation, in a shroud and quickly carried it to the back of the formation.

A large group of Silver Knights gradually stopped and began to form a battle line.

At the rear of the formation, Terek, the God’s Knight of the Silver Knights, was already roaring in anger: “Fools! Fools! Fools! Why did let the Holy Spirit run to the front? You know he’s single-minded, what if the fight starts?”

The subordinate knight reluctantly replied, “We couldn’t catch up, sir. When the Holy Spirit starts running, he doesn’t pay attention to anything else. We couldn’t stop him.”

“You’re upset? You’re upset? Then why did you let him run? Why did you let him run?” Terek was so furious that he began to strike his subordinate with his whip.

The subordinate knight shrank his head, not daring to block the blow, and grit his teeth, taking the punishment.

Terek vented, his anger subsiding slightly. He leaped off his war horse, his eyes flashing white. He surveyed the Dark City’s chariot formations in the distance.

“Those old Immortals of Dark City are acting faster and faster. We haven’t even arrived, yet they have already prepared defenses. This is a bit tricky.” Terek spoke, showing his predicament.

Frankly, the response speed of Dark City’s chariot formation exceeded his expectations. He didn’t expect that it was due to a Cardinal informing the enemy.

Seeing Terek in distress, a young knight who had just been transferred from headquarters volunteered: “Sir, we can strike at the point broken by the Holy Spirit to breach the enemy’s defense.”

Terek slapped his thigh, exclaiming, “Good idea! No wonder you’re a young man from headquarters. Brave, energetic, and bold! The main attack duty will be given to you. Lead your men, break through the enemy’s defenses, we’ll cover you.”

“What?!” The young knight was dumbstruck.

With the attack duty unexpectedly falling on him, the dumbfounded young knight also dared not defy military orders. He had to prepare, cursing under his breath.

Terek looked around. The remaining men were all old colleagues. He didn’t bother to pretend anymore and grumbled: “The guys now sent down from the curia are all dullards, always trying to make a name for themselves, even want to break Dark City. But have they ever thought, we are the Silver Knights alive, and Silver Wraiths once dead? If we break Dark City, what will we eat in the future?”

“Yes, yes, yes, they’re all fools.” His men echoed in unison.

“By the way, what’s the situation with the Fallen Angels? There’s news from the curia that his Holiness the Pope may be considering deploying us to encircle the Fallen Legion.” Terek asked.

His quartermaster knew this best. Intelligence was also a kind of military supply, handled by logistics. Eventually, all of it ended up with him.

“No one dares to provoke the Fallen Legion right now. Fewer people means throwing ourselves into the muck with no way out. Their numbers are increasing. They have been expanding from Klun Town, and many clerics have been corrupted, becoming part of them. It’s possible the people we sent out yesterday became our enemies today.”

Terek listened with a grimace. The influence of the Fallen Angel, Shamara, was growing. She wandered around looking for clerics, plundering their Power of Holy Light and then corrupting them.

Those who had been corrupted couldn’t return to the curia because they would be the first ones to be Purified.

Those who were corrupted and gathered under a veteran priest named Fala declared themselves Observers. They held onto their inner peace, even though corrupted, they yearned to return to their original selves. They pleaded with the curia to understand their plight and send people to dispel the Power of Fall.

However, within the curia, they were known as the Fallen Legion. The curia indeed planned to dispatch people to disperse them, but the method would likely differ from what they had in mind. Burning them alive was the simplest approach.

However, due to Nicola’s death, the Western District couldn’t find a successor for the moment. No one could consolidate the district’s power, so nothing effective was done for some time.

This prompted his Holiness the Pope to consider directly deploying the Silver Knights, bypassing the district.

Of course, this order hadn’t been given yet. The Silver Knights had been working hard to maintain relations with the influential figures within the curia and had simply received some advanced news.

The current Fallen Legion and Fallen Angel are like a cesspool. No one wants to stir trouble voluntarily. The principal reason was that ‘corruption’, this method of theirs was too disgusting. Not only do they plunder your power, but they also fill you with the Power of Fall.

In an instant, your allegiance changes, and previous allies become enemies while past enemies become comrades.

Even if your former comrades knew you were forced, what difference would it make? Would they not purify you? And if they did purify you, how would they do it? If purification was out of question, would they burn you alive? Even if they don’t burn you, would they lock you up for life?

Such questions almost always had the same affirmative answer, so how could anyone dare return?

With no choice but to band together for warmth, numbers grew. The basic needs of food and sanitation had to be met. Klun Town couldn’t support too many people, so they had to expand, inevitably causing conflict.

However, the Fallen Legion wasn’t much of a threat for now. What was really troublesome was Shamara. The power of the Fallen Angel was growing stronger.

Through constant plundering of the Holy Light, at first, she was chased around by an ascetic monk named Ange. A few days ago, she broke into a monastery and encountered two monks who were also practicing asceticism with the saints. Despite being outnumbered, she ended up plundering the Holy Light from the two monks.