Chapter 288 Tyrant? This is the Empire!
The wind howled.

Richard used the art of flying to bring everyone into the sky.

"what!"

Suddenly appeared in the sky, startling several sorceresses, and they hugged Richard, and then it appeared that five witches were hanging on Richard.
"Relax, I've mastered the flying skill, I won't fall." Richard comforted everyone.

After realizing that they were flying and would not fall, the girls breathed a sigh of relief and reluctantly got off Richard.

"Is this the place?" Richard asked.

When Jenny saw the castle building, hatred and fear appeared in her eyes: "It's here! This is the Zoroastrianism's lair in the Kingdom of Aedirn, specially used to imprison witches!"

"Let's get started. This time it will be your actual combat test!" Richard said, waving his hand gently. A ray of light flashed, and everyone's figures disappeared.

"This time we have to destroy this stronghold directly. You guys attack from the outside, I'll go rescue people first!"

Richard went straight around to the patrolling guards outside, while several witches were flying in the sky. With air superiority, it was too difficult for those anti-magic bombs and magic-breaking arrows to threaten them.

Richard came to the castle and went to the second floor.

"Squeak."

The door to the next room suddenly opened, and then a man dressed as a priest came out.

——"Dominate humanity!"

A flash of light flew out instantly, and the priest in front of him stiffened instantly. Then he turned around with a dull expression and said, "Master, what do you want me to do?"

Domination of Humans is a coercive spell that can completely control the other person's mind and make him obey one's orders.

"Where is the witch you captured being held?" Richard said calmly.

"They are locked up in the dungeon. Archbishop Victor and Captain Jacques are interrogating the witches." The priest told him what he knew.

"Take me there."

"Yes, master! Please follow me." The priest's eyes were dull, and he turned around and took Richard to the dungeon.

With someone leading the way, Richard went straight to the dungeon. Some guards along the way saw the priest but did not doubt him. It was obvious that the priest controlled by Richard should have a very high status.

Soon, the two of them came to the dungeon, and at this time, the witches outside also launched an attack. After having the ability to fly, these witches can be said to have the upper hand, and directly used spells to attack the patrolling soldiers.

"Clang clang clang!"

The bell rang quickly, and the guards in the castle rushed out immediately, but they were dumbfounded when they saw the witch flying in the sky. Spells were cast one after another, and these guards had no means to attack the witch, and could only passively take the beating.

"Quick, use the crossbow!"

"Archers, shoot them down!"

The guards were in chaos and wanted to attack with bows and arrows, but the arrows fell after shooting a few dozen meters and posed no threat to the witches. Seeing this, the witches began to vent their anger wantonly.

Richard soon arrived at the dungeon, where the smell of blood, stench, and mold mixed together. The light was dim, the air circulation was poor, and the environment was very bad.

At this moment, several people hurried out of a cell and saw Richard and the other man at a glance.

"Wayne, who is he? Why did you bring him here!" The leader seemed to be the archbishop, who scolded Richard and the others sternly after seeing them.

"I'm your father!" Richard said nothing and threw a fireball directly at the faces of several people.

At such a close distance and in such a narrow aisle, there was no way for them to dodge.

"Boom!"

There was an explosion, and flames splashed everywhere. Seeing the fireball coming, the archbishop was quick to pull the attendant next to him to use as a shield. The powerful flames burned him to ashes, and the people behind him were also affected.

The magical flames directly burned off their flesh and blood, and even their bones were burned black. They were burned horribly and lay on the ground screaming, losing the ability to resist.

Richard walked over and came to the cell inside. At this time, four witches were nailed to the cross with bruises all over their bodies, and their bodies were covered with various marks of whipping and burning.

The four people were tortured to the point of being on the verge of death.

"Who are you?" One of the witches asked reluctantly when she saw Richard coming in.

"I'm the president of the Witch Mutual Aid Association. Jenny brought me here to save you." Richard looked at the condition of the four people. All four were still alive, but they were severely tortured.

"Don't talk, I'll save you." Richard waved his hand lightly, and the nails nailed into their bodies flew out directly, and the ropes and shackles were automatically untied.

Then another flash of light appeared, and the injuries of these witches recovered quickly.

"Can I still leave?"

"Okay!" Feeling their bodies recovering in the blink of an eye, several witches had a look of surprise in their eyes, and they immediately nodded when they heard Richard's words.

"Let's go!" Richard said as he led the four witches out of the cell. When he saw Victor and Jacques still wailing on the ground, his eyes immediately turned red.

He picked up the torture instruments in the cell and beat them crazily. They paid back the money they had been tortured with interest. He smashed their bones and finally killed them.

After dealing with these people, Richard led a few witches and fought his way out of the dungeon. All the people they met were killed by the witches' spells. As they fought their way out, the five witches outside the castle attacked from above, causing heavy losses to the guards.

A large number of Zoroastrians and witch hunters were killed, and the Knights of the Blazing Rose were also used as targets and dismembered by various magics. In just a short time, the entire castle was flooded with blood.

Many people wanted to escape through the gate, but Ye Funi blocked the gate directly, and all those who wanted to escape from here were killed.

Soon all the Zoroastrians and their lackeys in the castle were killed.

The battle in the castle attracted a lot of people's attention, and some lords even brought people to support. Richard waved his hand and summoned a dozen fireballs, throwing them at the castle.

"Boom!"

A huge explosion was heard, and the tall castle was directly turned into rubble by more than a dozen fireballs.

Those people were stunned when they saw the huge castle razed to the ground. After they came to their senses, they immediately turned around and ran away. The army that had just gathered scattered in the blink of an eye.

Seeing the nobles and soldiers who were frightened out of their wits, Richard sneered and immediately teleported everyone back to the manor.

After returning to the manor, Richard immediately called the witches together and said, "I think we can't stand it any longer. As spellcasters, we should be the masters of this world!" "Those cultists, greedy and despicable nobles, and evil witch hunters should all be killed, and those stupid farmers must surrender to us!"

"We wizards shouldn't be hiding and being hunted! We should bask in the sunshine and stand at the top of the world. All evil cults must be eliminated! Those secular kings must also kneel at our feet!"

"We should build an empire of our wizards!"

After hearing Richard's declaration, the witches who were influenced by him and saw how powerful he was immediately excited and expressed their agreement.

"Sir, you are absolutely right. For thousands of years, we have killed a large number of monsters and maintained the stability of the world, but what have we gained?"

“Being regarded as an alien, being boycotted, discriminated against, and slaughtered!”

"Now we must unite and return all the oppression imposed on us! We are the masters of this world!" Ye Funi said loudly.

"We are the masters of the world!" the surrounding witches shouted loudly.

"From today on, we officially establish the United Empire of Arcane! I will be the king, and all the sorceresses who pass our assessment will become members of the Imperial Parliament!" Richard said directly.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" All the witches bowed and saluted.

Richard nodded and began to assign tasks, sending people to take over all the surrounding villages and towns.

"All towns must be taken, and those who dare to resist must be killed on the spot! Then, recruit civilians from the towns to form an army!"

After being trained by Richard, the female sorcerers immediately started to move out. They had been hiding from people and being hunted down for years, and they were already full of anger. Now that they saw Richard backing them up, they immediately followed his actions.

Baishi Town, as the largest town in the surrounding area, has thousands of residents. The town is very wealthy because of its abundant white marble.

At noon that day, the town was living as usual. Suddenly, several witches flew directly into the town and demanded that the entire town surrender.

Upon seeing these witches, the mayor of the town immediately notified the guards and cultists to organize manpower to kill these witches.

A team of witch hunters in the town heard that a witch had appeared. They grabbed the servant who came to report with a chair and said, "What did you say? Say it again!"

The servant who delivered the message was so frightened when he saw the ugly face covered with burn scars that suddenly appeared in front of him that his body began to tremble involuntarily.

"Say!"

Seeing that the servant in front of her was so frightened that he could not speak, the witch hunter scolded him coldly, revealing her sharp white teeth in her big mouth.

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you," the servant said tremblingly when he saw the horrible and hideous face.

"There are some witches outside who want our town to submit to them. If we don't, we will die!"

"boom!"

As soon as the servant finished speaking, he felt his body flying up, and the next second he fell heavily to the ground.

"Call someone, bring anti-magic bombs and magic-breaking arrows, and follow me to capture all those witches. We'll burn them to death when the brothers get tired of playing with them!"

Soon, a dozen witch hunters, a large number of soldiers, and cultist believers were gathered, and hundreds of people rushed directly to the location of the witches.

In just a quarter of an hour, these people arrived outside the town hall and surrounded the witches.

Seeing the witches being surrounded, the leading witch hunter walked straight forward.

"You evil witches, spreaders of plague, how dare you appear here? Come out and surrender now. I, Cantra, can give you a quick death, or I will let you taste the pain of burning at the stake!" As Cantra spoke, the surrounding witch hunters and cultist fanatics shouted excitedly.

"It's you again, a bunch of damn maggots and running dogs. You are all going to die today!" As the saying goes, when enemies meet, they become jealous of each other. The witches have been hunted and persecuted by these people over the years, and they hate them to the core.

Seeing these people, he summoned chain lightning and threw it at them without any hesitation.

"Crack! Snap. Snap!"

Amidst the flashes of lightning, more than a dozen cultists were directly excited by the thunder and lightning, and a strong smell of burning emanated from those people.

"what!"

"Ah, my eyes!"

"Ah, it hurts me so much!"

Screams suddenly rang out. These witch hunters had never expected that the witches' spellcasting speed would become so fast.

"Hurry up and throw the bombs, and shoot them with the magic-breaking arrows!"

Rumble.

A dozen cultist fanatics and witch hunters threw anti-magic bombs, and a few shot arrows at the witches.

But the witches easily dodged those bombs and arrows. Then several fireballs flew over and landed directly in the crowd, killing and injuring a large number of fanatics and soldiers.

"Damn it, I'm going to kill you!" Seeing his men suffering heavy casualties, Canterlot shouted angrily, pulling out his javelin and throwing it out. Then he rushed forward with his sword.

Ye Funi took out a very strange black and gray weapon and faced the witch hunter who was rushing towards her.

boom! boom! boom!
Accompanied by dull gunshots, several witch hunters who rushed over were shot in the head, and the tops of their heads were blown off by the powerful force of the bullets.

The next few witches went all out and used spells to attack the cultists and soldiers. Ye Funi held a gun in one hand and a staff in the other and kept shooting at those people.

Several witches chased and killed all the fanatics and soldiers. Some fanatics hid in houses, and the witches threw a fireball at them without saying a word, burning the house and the people inside.

Soon, the civilians saw the cultists and soldiers running to hide, and the world caught these people and drove them out, fearing that they would be burned to death if they were a step slower.

Under the crackdown by several witches, all the cultists in the town, including witch hunters and soldiers, were killed, and even many people who believed in the eternal fire were burned to death by the witches.

Seeing the power of the witches, the town quickly surrendered. Everyone was required to report on each other, and all believers of the Eternal Fire were punished as slaves. Then the mayor was ordered to pay taxes to the Offa United Empire from that day on, and at the same time, all adults here were drawn to reorganize the army.

After Richard gave the order, all the witches began to act, and the scene before their eyes was quickly played out in the surrounding towns.

Soon, in just three days, the witches conquered several surrounding towns, and then Richard personally led the team to occupy the nearby cities. All the nobles who dared to resist were killed, the Church of Eternal Fire was destroyed, and all the fanatics were crucified.

Everyone was forced to report on each other, and those who believed in the cult were punished as slaves, and then people were selected to form an army.

(End of this chapter)