Looking at the nobles from the Elder Council who were chasing after them.
Ning Cuo, riding a common warhorse, let out a cruel smile.
Many things that seemed heretical to others.
Were considered quite reliable and feasible by Ning Cuo.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, who had come to them, filled the last gap in this plan.
They provided a large amount of equipment for the Judgment Knights.
Allowing Ning Cuo to complete his final disguise.
The Judgment Knights had absolute faith in God.
But Ning Cuo, who grew up under the red flag, didn't believe in any of that.
The soldiers under him naturally felt the same.
So when everything was in place.
There was no need to think about how to follow the vine and find the Elder Council nobles’ weakness.
Just use force to overpower them.
This group of disguised Judgment Knights didn’t care if these people truly believed in God or not.
They were only concerned with how to wipe them all out in the shortest time.
Nero would deliberately stall for time.
But obviously not for too long, otherwise, it wouldn’t make sense.
And Ning Cuo deliberately ordered his troops to retreat.
This was to make these nobles lose their home field advantage.
Once they left the buildings.
In the open streets, a cavalry unit could easily kill these unarmed nobles.
If they were lucky.
Perhaps they could even gain some benefit from this process.
Anything they picked up now was a gain!
So under Ning Cuo's leadership, all the Battania Oathsworn disguised as Judgment Knights galloped forward.
While continuously roaring and cursing at these nobles.
They simply called them all traitors who had abandoned God and the holy faith.
Being unfairly slandered like this.
These nobles were truly exasperated.
Plus, the threat to their lives.
They could only run while repeatedly saying there must be some misunderstanding.
Stating that they were also faithful believers in God.
So a comical scene unfolded.
The cavalry was constantly retreating, while the unarmed nobles chased after them on their two feet.
They chased and were chased, and in a short while, they were completely out of the range of the surrounding buildings.
Now.
The cavalry's role could be fully utilized.
Without the protection of buildings and cover.
Plus, Ning Cuo deliberately toyed with these people.
These nobles' stamina began to rapidly decline, and their running speed slowed down considerably.
Everything was prepared.
Under Ning Cuo's constant insults and accusations of them being heretics.
These Elder Council nobles were becoming increasingly agitated.
And since these Judgment Knights hadn’t attacked yet.
They seemed to have found confidence again.
They didn’t care why they, a large group of people, were able to catch up to the cavalry on foot.
They just stubbornly followed closely behind.
On Ning Cuo's command.
Suddenly, all the cavalry that were retreating stopped their retreat.
They quickly adjusted their direction.
And turned around to charge towards the nobles.
Karlis Edward felt very strange.
He couldn’t understand why this group of Judgment Knights behaved so bizarrely.
But he couldn't explain it.
But at least he didn't have to run anymore.
It perfectly suited his wishes.
It wasn’t that he wasn’t afraid of the cavalry charge.
But they had already stalled for so long.
Even if these Judgment Knights acted quickly, they wouldn't be able to wipe them all out in the short time it took for Nero and his troops to catch up.
As long as he survived, it didn’t matter to him.
But just then.
A noble beside Karlis Edward suddenly exclaimed loudly.
“How can there be Germanic barbarian cavalry here?”
“No, these people are here to help us!”
“Bloody hell! They’re popping up like this at a time like this, how is this helping us? This is clearly here to harm us!”
Karlis Edward immediately felt something was wrong.
Originally, the identities of the heretics in their large group of nobles hadn't been identified.
Now they were colluding with barbarians and Germans.
Whether in Rome or in the religious world, wasn't this equivalent to digging their own graves?
But obviously, these barbarians, plus dozens of German knights, didn’t care about his thoughts.
They roared and charged towards the Judgment Knights.
The two sides immediately clashed.
“It’s over, it’s all over!”
Karlis Edward sat down on the ground in a daze.
This was something he couldn’t explain even with eight mouths.
Who else in the Roman Empire could have quietly placed such a large number of barbarian and German cavalry here?
Besides the great nobles of the Elder Council, only Nero and the Papacy.
Nero, as the Roman emperor, had personally visited the frontlines several times, eager to wipe out these enemies.
What about the Papacy?
They were already split into three major factions.
The Eastern Orthodox Church was trying to obtain a higher position.
Pope John XII of the Catholic Church was eager to move to Rome.
As for the most mysterious Protestant Church, they didn’t care at all, just waiting for the Pope's call.
So it was equally impossible.
All options were ruled out, leaving only one possibility.
There really were some heretics with muddled minds in their group of great nobles.
And they were actively colluding with the Germans and barbarians.
With Nero's temperament.
How could he possibly let them go?
Moreover, even if they wanted to run now.
Unless they could all defect to foreign countries.
Otherwise, the Papacy wouldn’t let them off easily.
It was just that Ning Cuo's performance was too good.
John, who played the German knight, wasn’t wearing his own armor.
But wearing the barbarian armor made him look even more ferocious.
The bloody colors combined with the skull decorations.
As they ran, the warhorses' armor was full of protruding, hideous spikes.
They pushed the Battania Oathsworn disguised as Judgment Knights back.
Blood, viscera, various severed limbs, and the whinnying of horses.
All proved that this was a brutal battle, a war very much in line with barbarian warfare!
Ning Cuo was behind everyone, clutching his reins.
Trying to comfort himself with the thought of one's success being built on the bones of countless others.
After all, things had gotten so big.
If they fought and no one died, no one would believe it.
To achieve his goal.
Ning Cuo could only harden his heart and forcefully divide his forces.
So these people were truly fighting.
Fighting with all their might.
Taking a deep breath, he drew his weapon.
He galloped forward, his roar, filled with pain and anger, was particularly ferocious.
“You dare to argue that you are not heretics?”
“It’s so funny. The great nobles of Rome are actually colluding with barbarians and Germans. These people came to support you personally in Rome! How blasphemous! In the name of God, I sentence you to death!”
“All my compatriots, fight with me! Charge! Even if the Roman emperor comes today! We will avenge our compatriots!”