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Chapter 878 - 1: France, the Coup of the Month of Fog!

However, he respected the fearless courage of the Frankish Holy Temple Knights and the Frankish Dragon Cavalry.

Since he was summoned as a Heroic Spirit, it was necessary to obey the orders of the Master. Eliminating some riffraff was just a matter of lifting a finger.

Boom!

The ground exploded.

This burly man instantly rushed out from behind the rocks, the Roman spear in his hand transforming into a lightning bolt that shot out, instantly locking onto the enemy commander, piercing him on the spot, almost nailing him alive to a tree.

The next second, the rune flashed with a faint glow, and the spear automatically returned to his hand.

Celtic Rune.

Seeing this scene, Napoleon and the others were shocked. He finally believed what people said that during the North American Independence War, the summoned Heroic Spirits could change the course of a local battle.

This was simply not a power mortals could possess.

A burst of intense gunfire sounded.

The burly figure used a Roman shield to protect his body, then drew a short sword. With one leap, he was over ten meters away, a cold flash of light, directly beheading a person, blood spurting. Then, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, he used a cold weapon to crush the enemy in front of him.

The cold light flickered.

A ghostly figure attacked, and the burly man raised his shield to block and counterattack, hacking with great force, pushing back the enemy in front.

A wave of incantation energy surfaced.

More enemies appeared in front of the forest, seemingly wizards from Britain.

After the fall of the Empire, much mysterious knowledge drifted out, even leading to the appearance of some civilian mysticism organizations.

"Where is the Imperial Legion?!"

Facing the sneak attack of the Assassin, the burly man held up a brilliant gold eagle banner. When he thrust it into the ground, Roman Legion elites appeared around him, javelins shooting out into the sky. The elite Roman legion at the front charged with shields, while those behind, after throwing javelins, even picked up muskets from the corpses and skillfully fired them.

Adaptive Law.

They were elite troops in life and were granted the ability to wield military weapons after being summoned.

This is a conceptual ability, targeting any military weapon of the current era.

Boom!

A Roman legion of dozens pushed forward, and the burly man instantly locked onto the Assassin’s whereabouts. Under orders, the Imperial Legion completed an encirclement, and he suddenly pulled out a pistol, blowing the Assassin’s head off with a direct shot.

This was almost a thoroughly satisfying massacre.

Even using weapons from centuries ago, these summoned elite Imperial legions displayed extraordinary military prowess, an almost overwhelming combat power.

All were seasoned veterans who survived numerous battles.

"So these are the military weapons of the current era?"

"They are quite handy."

The burly man blew the smoke off the barrel. The moment the gold eagle banner disappeared, the elite of the Imperial Legion vanished as well, leaving no survivors nearby. From sniping soldiers to summoned Assassin, even the wizards behind the scenes were all slaughtered by the Imperial Legion under his command.

"Who is he?" Napoleon Bonaparte couldn’t help but ask from a distance.

The woman hesitated, pondered for a moment, and said: "It should be the Butcher of Lombardy, the chief legionary of the Second Roman Empire, the Conqueror of North Germanic, the Governor of the Baltic and Alan - Lord Balton."

The Battle of Fame for Balton, during the conquest of the Lombard Barbarians, was won by force. But when he continued to advance, the Lombard Barbarians rebelled again.

In a fit of rage, Balton exterminated the tribe. It is said that back then, the heads were piled into a small hill.

Although he was punished by the Emperor at that time, this matter was recorded in history. Balton later became the Governor of the Northern province, wielding power as great as a king of one region. During his governance, he suppressed the barbarian rebellions, completed preliminary national integration, and was the subject of many legends, even leading the Imperial Legion to destroy the sacrificial Holy Sanctuary of the Barbarians.

However, in his later years, he also had a reputation for being somewhat cruel.

——Balton (Butcher of Lombardy) (Imperial Eagle Banner Legion) (Upper-Rank Heroic Spirit) (Five-Star Gold)!

As the words fell.

The distant burly figure had already severed the Assassin’s head, amidst the blood and corpses on the ground. Many of the Imperial Legion Heroic Spirits gradually dissipated, while he threw the heads of the wizard and the assassin in front of Napoleon Bonaparte.

"Britain’s wizards are quite troublesome."

Balton stared at the small, valiant man in front of him and slowly said: "You seem to have attracted quite a bit of trouble."

But as long as it wasn’t Merlin, he could fight them.

Back then, he commanded the most elite Eagle Banner Legions of the Empire, even having powerful wizards as military advisors. During the conquest of the North Germanic region and the farther northern barbarians, Balton killed countless Barbarian Priests, even forcibly destroying the Holy Sanctuary of divine spirits.

He once pushed as far as the Russian heartland, and had it not been for lagging logistics, he could have marched all the way to the Far East.

Among so many of His Majesty’s subordinates, those who could finally command large-scale battles of the Imperial Legion, Balton would rank at least in the top three.

For non-extraordinary enemies, he was a prominent general in history with great achievements.

Not to mention he had the legendary feats of slaughtering monsters and priests as an added bonus.

Generally speaking.

Without utilizing the Holy Grail ritual or the leylines’ energy to summon, even with the empowerment of Holy Relics as a medium, Upper-Rank Heroic Spirits are the pinnacle of ordinary wizards.

As for higher existences, not even during the American Independence War was an immortal-ranked Heroic Spirit summoned.

Regarding those at the level of Zeus, Odin, or the Enlightened One, they are not within the scope of regular magic.

Though the Holy Grail ritual sounds magical, it is essentially a wish technique derived from another plane or miracle technique of legendary rank or higher.

During Balton’s lifetime, it coincided with the time King Arthur was active. His Majesty’s adopted daughter, once a Holy Grail holder, made a name for herself in history with her military achievements and briefly held the Holy Grail, hoping to use its power to grant her father eternal youth.

After that, the Holy Grail ceremony began to form a system.

One could say that without the efforts of Pope Saint Patrick I, the appearance of the Holy Grail ritual would not have been possible, as there wasn’t just one Holy Grail back then.

Although Balton wasn’t skilled in magic, he had slain Nordic wizards.

Once the Empire’s expedition began, not a handful of Nordic wizards could stop it; even the holy sanctuaries of sacrificial deities were razed!

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