Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?
Chapter 82 - 64 Long-Distance Sniping

Chapter 82: Chapter 64 Long-Distance Sniping

"Does Heaven really exist in this world?" Eleanor asked gloomily.

"Why are you suddenly asking this?" Aske asked in surprise, "Also, weren’t you and Sigrdrifa climbing the stairs together? Where is she?"

"I’m just asking," Eleanor replied.

She couldn’t save that woman, which gave her a strong sense of guilt. If she told Aske, he might dismiss her concerns in a few words.

But she didn’t want to be consoled because it was her fault.

"If you’re talking about the Heaven according to the teachings of the Solomon Sect, then probably not," Aske said as he climbed the stairs, chatting with her, "Our Fire Island is essentially a fragment of what used to be Heavenly Mountain—just a floating island in the end."

"But Medea must have told you what happens after people die, right?" Aske continued, "After death, the id remains in the body, the super-ego sinks into the sea of the subconscious, and the true self will vanish completely."

"So, death is just death, right?" Eleanor’s tone was heavy, thinking that whether that woman died by suicide or because of her, she would never see her dead husband and children again.

The idea of reuniting in Heaven after death was nothing more than a beautiful illusion.

"Yes," Aske said, "That’s why you need to work hard to become stronger, don’t die."

"Mm," Eleanor responded, her voice subdued.

After running up to the rooftop and quickly descending, then starting over from the first floor and doing it numerous times, her nearly overflowing Extraordinary Power finally began to be digested a bit, and everyone’s Physical Strength also significantly increased.

The most notable changes were in Medea and Nora, who had no foundation in Martial Arts and would collapse after running a kilometer; now they could rush up twenty floors before starting to breathe heavily.

Aske sighed, the idea of becoming saturated with Extraordinary Power was beyond his expectations.

In the game world of his previous life, there was no such concept as saturation for players; they just had a cap on the Experience Points, unable to gain more. He hadn’t expected that NPCs would be so troublesome.

After all, this body of his was still an NPC’s body.

To say that a level 2 body, having absorbed the entire Physical Power of a level 4 Transcendent, could completely digest it just by running stairs, that would be cheating.

However, without digesting the remaining power, there would be no way to continue fighting.

Aske stood on the rooftop, looking into the distance, realizing that his original plans would have to be substantially adjusted.

This apartment was located at the top of Third Hill, which was the highest point nearby, so from the rooftop he could easily look down on the Sixth and Tenth Districts, further out to Golden Horn Bay, and even to the Galata Peninsula across the bay.

Through the great distance, he could see the Frank Knights already blossoming within the main city.

To the east towards the palace, their battle with the defending army was most intense; to the south were the Third and Second Hills, which saw few knights due to the need to climb; to the west were the Tenth District, and many houses were already ablaze. In the Lakefront Park along Golden Horn Bay, large swathes of landscape trees were being felled by Knight Squires, turned into rough battering rams and siege towers, aiming to break the Constantinople defenders’ barricades.

Aske sighed again; indeed, this world was a bit different from the past life, the difference lay in the absence of players above:

In his past life, when the Frank Knights crossed the Galata Bridge, they first encountered not the Constantinople defenders but players.

As the Frank Knights invaded the Sixth and Tenth Districts and began to plunder and slaughter en masse, the city players also realized in shock that for every Frank Knight they killed, the Extraordinary Power they absorbed increased exponentially.

This wasn’t like fighting NPC enemies; this was like a big Experience Points giveaway by the game’s official!

So the Frank Knights rushing into the main city area began to face the players’ frenzied resistance, especially the fixed point assassinations by the gaming guilds.

They dared not touch groups of Frank Knights, but had no qualms about attacking those who were on their own; dozens or hundreds of players would swarm over to surround and kill them, resorting to all manners of underhanded tactics.

Faced with the shameless strategies of trading ten or twenty players for one knight, the number of Frank Knights dropped sharply, and the Earl Mongphilat swiftly adjusted tactics, instructing the knights to move in groups of three.

The result was that the players, already bolstered by the Extraordinary Powers they had plundered, recruited a Sharp Blade Team and with a multitude of fearless, rebirth-capable bottom-tier players, ended up completely defeating the approaching Frank Knights then took the Galata Bridge, counterattacked to the Galata Peninsula, and crossed over to the other side of Golden Horn Bay.

In the end, of course, Earl Mongphilat and Governor Enrique, without hesitation, abandoned the Frank Knights not yet on board and hastily set sail to escape back to the West.

The Church Court also spared no mercy for these two main culprits, directly issuing Excommunication.

The latter was still manageable, having some wealth in Venice, but the former was stripped of all his titles and lands by the King and was stoned to death by a group of Bishop Believers when passing through a village.

And in this world... without the existence of a large number of players, Aske had doubts about whether Constantinople could withstand this attack.

If the Frank Knights could not be repelled, would Zoe still scheme to seize Theodora’s authority and confine her to a Monastery as before?