In the autumn of 318 in the Redemption Calendar, the Fei Lie Empire launched a massive attack on the Saint Solan Empire in two groups.
One group was led by the border general Marquis [Warren] and attacked the Prussian province located in the northwest of the Saint Solan Empire. The invasion force numbered up to 25,000 people.
These include 600 knights from two frontier knights and 3,600 cavalry including knights' squires and retinues.
The other group was led by Duke Benson, who was also a famous general in Philip's frontier army, and attacked Longmen, a border town located in the center of the St. Solan Empire, two hundred kilometers south of the Prussian province.
The total number of this army exceeds 40,000, including three frontier knights with 900 knights and a total of more than 5,000 cavalry. One of them is the prestigious [Greedy Wolf] Knights of the Fei Lie Empire.
For this attack, Emperor Peter I prepared for a long time.
Whether it was the material preparations in the early stages of the war or the mobilization and assembly of troops, they were completely kept secret. Not to mention that the Saint Solan Empire was not aware of it, and even the aristocratic circle of the Fei Lie Empire was shocked to hear about it after the war broke out.
Because they were fully prepared and the attack was launched extremely suddenly, in just one day, Fei Lie's cavalry broke into the Saint Solan Empire to a depth of more than 50 kilometers, conquering the city and conquering the territory invincibly.
And the border of the Saint Solan Empire, which was caught off guard, saw a scene of overwhelming defeat.
The two baronies in the Prussian province were occupied by the enemy with almost no resistance. A 3,000-strong Saint-Soulan border army stationed to the west of the border town of Longmen collapsed at the first touch. The fleeing soldiers ran all over the mountains and fields.
, there are corpses left by hunted soldiers everywhere.
This news quickly spread throughout the entire Redemption Land, causing an uproar.
Not only humans were shocked, but also elves, dwarves, orcs and other races.
Because everyone knows that the Fei Lie Empire, which has long been sharpening its sword, launched this time is not just a small-scale harassment, but a real large-scale invasion.
In addition to the current invading army, there will be more Fei Lie troops heading towards the Saint Solan Empire. The war will spread from the northwest and central borders of Saint Solan to the southeast of the entire Land of Redemption.
What's worse is that everyone can be sure that the bellicose Pompeii Empire will never watch the Philip Empire annex Saint-Soulan.
And whether they send troops to Saint Solan or attack the Fei Lie Empire, it means a disaster that will sweep all races.
No one can survive this disaster alone. The world will become increasingly unstable as the war progresses. Just like before the unification of the Roman Empire more than two hundred years ago, or after the collapse of the Roman Empire more than a hundred years ago.
At that time, lords large and small attacked each other.
You may be sleeping peacefully in your own castle today, but when you wake up tomorrow, you will be on the guillotine.
They may be allies today, but they may become enemies tomorrow. Even lords of the same country will attack each other.
The originally barren land was abandoned due to the outbreak of war, and civilians without food, wandering knights and deserters turned into bandits.
Bandits are rampant in the world, and the land is full of hungry people.
All social norms and moral standards have collapsed. In order to have a full meal and survive, people rob, cheat, sell their children and daughters, and do any heinous thing.
Except for the jungle law of the jungle, humans will not abide by other rules. Those who are strong can survive and be prosperous.
The weak ones will only freeze to death in the wasteland and starve to death on the streets!
The Fei Lie Empire's invasion of the Saint Solan Empire was a slowly opening curtain.
Whether it is a human standing on the city street, an elf standing on the top of a jungle mountain, a dwarf standing in front of an iron furnace, a bare-chested barbarian, or an orc whose body is covered with various bones, all are at this moment.
, through the curtain, I saw the hellish scene of the coming troubled times.
However, few people know.
When they set their sights on the two advancing armies of the Fei Lie Empire, outside their sight, there was a Fei Lie cavalry unit with only more than a thousand people, bypassing the rugged southern mountains where monsters were rampant, and was heading towards
Attack a remote town that no one can find on most maps.
No one knew that the small town that happened to welcome the princess had far more affected the hearts of the Saint Solan royal family and all the nobles, including Prime Minister Donald, than the war between the Prussian province and the border town of Longmen.
The entire imperial capital was sleepless all night.
On the roads leading from Lulian Province to Borabel, hundreds of knights, under the rare unanimous orders and urgings of the empire's top officials at the peak of power, were heading from different directions towards the one that had been flying in the air with countless numbers.
The small town illuminated red by the rockets gathers together.
The journey is full of travel and dust, day and night.
The parchment diary was turned over page by page.
When Roy deeply imprinted the arrangement of the elemental array of the last third-level magic into his mind, he closed the note.
Looking at Austin's signature on the cover, all Roy felt in his heart at this moment was endless admiration and adoration.
This guy is a real genius, a master of magic!
Compared with him, other magic gods and paladins are nothing!
What's more important is... I'm rich!
According to the notes, there are not many undead magics that can be used with one hundred magic codes. There are nine first-level magics, six second-level magics, and only three third-level magics.
However, if you add the healing magic derived from these undead magics, the number will increase by a full five.
The added healing magics are [Mental Recovery], [Magic Recovery], [Battle Ring Acceleration], [Minor Healing] and [Potential Inspiration].
What makes Roy sigh is that among these five spells, in addition to healing, battle ring acceleration and mental recovery, which are also spells in the Holy Religion, the other magic restoration and potential stimulation are not available even to the magicians of the Holy Religion.
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But these were transformed by Austin from necromancy.
Not to mention anything else, this peerless talent alone makes people marvel at him.
Roy mobilized his body's magic power and quickly summoned twenty fire elements, sixty water elements and eight hundred wood elements. Then, he arranged these elements into an elemental array that looked like leaves and an eye.
When the elemental array was formed, Roy stretched out his hand. He used magic power to attach the elemental array to his index and middle fingers, and then gently printed it on his eyebrows.
In the silent room, a small black hole suddenly appeared between Roy's eyebrows.
This black hole swallowed up the light from the candlestick in the room, suddenly expanded and enlarged, shrouding the entire room in darkness, and then shrunk again, disappearing between Roy's eyebrows.
In this short moment, the swaying flame of the candlestick seemed to be frozen. The flames changed from fiery red to blue, condensing in the void and motionless.
It wasn't until the black hole disappeared and Roy opened his eyes that the flames of the candlestick returned to their original fiery red color and started to sway again, as if they had received an amnesty.
This is the basic magic of necromancy - the eye of the dead!
Unlike other elements, the blood element existing in the body of life is not naturally noticed by the awakened. Only magicians who have opened the eyes of the undead can perceive the blood element and use it to cast spells.
And when Roy opened his eyes, as expected, what he saw was another color besides the five basic elements of gold, green, blue, red and yellow - the dark red blood element!
Roy lowered his head and looked at the fat dog lying lazily on the ground, with a proud and sinister smile on his lips.
The magic power fluctuated silently, and an elemental array with an outer circle and an inner square slowly took shape as the thin blood elements gathered in the air. Then, it suddenly flashed and disappeared into the fat dog's body.
Potential stimulated!
The fat dog Oliver jumped up from the ground with his hair all over his body, his tongue hanging out, his eyes shining, looking left and right!
After half a prayer time, when Roy walked out of the room, the fat dog at his feet was still jumping up and down, chasing his tail in circles, and he was full of energy.
At this moment, it is already midnight.
Looking up, the blood-red Demon Moon, the size of a millstone, hangs in the sky. It is eerie and cold. Above the head, the stars as dense as gravel form a silvery sky, covering the entire world.
In the castle, people were screaming and their horses were neighing, and the atmosphere was tense as if they were facing a powerful enemy.
Looking around, I could see countless soldiers holding spears running back and forth on the city wall. The officers shouted loudly, urging the transport team to send stones and wood to the city wall like a stream. The knights and retinues put on their armor and pulled out their long spears.
Swords and war horses were also gathered in a safer corner, saddles were prepared, and lances were hung.
Roy led Oliver through the passage and followed the strong people on the city wall.
"Roy?" Hugo saw Roy at a glance and waved to him, "Why are you here?"
"I'm fine now. Let's see if we can be of any help." The smile on the boy's childish face made people feel friendly and comfortable.
"Nonsense!" Mrs. Ellen turned around and frowned.
"Roy, go back quickly!" Baron Bryan, who was standing next to Mrs. Ellen, patted Roy on the shoulder, "Those half-grown men begged me several times and I didn't let them come up. Why don't you come here?"
Give them an excuse?"
"I can help."
"No, hurry up, go back to your room and stay there."
"I can help." Roy lowered his head and used his usual tricks as if there were roots under his feet.
The baroness on the side couldn't help but reach out and give him a slap on the back of the head.
On weekdays, this little bastard looks like this, making people think that he is naturally dull and slow to react. But now I know that this kid has this kind of virtue. It makes you feel that you can't communicate with him, who is stupid and stubborn, so you give up automatically. Refers to
Maybe, when you walk away with a splitting headache, this wilted bad boy is still laughing to himself.
Recalling that her daughter Anne and the other children in the castle often talked to Roy for a long time, only to find that they were wrong and walked away angrily, the Baroness became amused.
If I hadn't discovered it today, I would have been kept in the dark.
This little rascal, I don’t know where he learned it.
Thinking about it, the Baroness looked at Baron Brian.
Seeing the look from his wife, Brian shook his head and did not persist.
"Come here and take a look." The Baroness stepped aside and warned, "Be careful and squat down immediately if you find anything wrong."
Uh-huh, Roy's big head clicked fiercely, and he raised his eyes to look into the distance of the castle.
In the darkness, the door of the Feili camp was open, and many Fei soldiers were busy coming in and out. The sound of footsteps, knocks, and rallying horns could be heard even from a long distance away.
Less than two hundred meters away from the castle, hundreds of Fei Lie cavalry were moving back and forth holding torches. The rushing fire flow continued from east to west, from west to east.
Roy mobilized his senses, and before his eyes, large groups of dark red blood elements shrouded the sky above the city of Borabel like clouds.
Only the ruins of the town were still burning. The bright fire and dark red blood mist made the familiar city look like a death purgatory.
The corpses of the old police chief and civilians we saw in the afternoon were still piled on the same spot. Some of the women who were dragged into the room fell naked at the door of the house, while others were turned into black humanoid charcoal under the collapsed beams.
Roy's eyes flashed.
No one knows how important this city occupies in his heart. It was here that he showed his fangs at every turn. Even if he disguised himself, it was just to show his weakness to the enemy and look for opportunities to tear the opponent's throat.
The little wild wolf turned into what people call Roy the big head and Roy the little confused.
Although the boy never admitted it, he knew in his heart that he liked that kind of life.
He likes to hear the hustle and bustle of the streets, the market with people coming and going, the big ships sailing on the sparkling sea, the bargaining by the vendors, and having his hair rubbed and his head held, or
Thank you and praise after helping.
All this made this boy, who had never enjoyed maternal love since childhood and was extremely lonely in the wild life of ice and snow, feel a kind of addictive warmth.
Even if he is a small handyman, forking fodder, feeding and brushing horses, and living in a narrow servant's room in the castle, he can still hear the cows braying, the voices of servants and soldiers, and the footsteps walking back and forth every morning.
, I felt happy when I could see everyone busy working, and when I saw Anne teasing those silly aristocratic boys.
But now... the boy couldn't help but clenched his fists!
At this moment, the Fei Lie cavalry who were walking around the city burst into loud shouts.
Amidst the loud shouts, Knight Philip, who was riding at the front of the formation, gently pulled the reins, and the high-speed horse suddenly turned into a trot with its legs raised, turning to face the city head.
The speed of the front row slowed down, and the back row also slowed down and changed direction. Looking from a distance, a long line of Fei Lie cavalry consisting of hundreds of people moved in unison, just like one person.
These knights sitting on their horses have obviously been trained for a long time, and they already understand the movements of the knights as soon as they are made.
One by one, the war horses turned from galloping, and changed from a long stride to a trot with their legs raised high. The pace changed like flowing water, without any force. Rows of slender legs were raised and lowered at the same time, which made people dizzy.
On the city wall, the knights and non-commissioned officers who were accustomed to seeing the cavalry marching in a certain direction were fine, but the soldiers of Polabel and the young civilians were all dumbfounded.
The violent sound of horse hoofbeats, like muffled thunder, came towards the castle. When they approached a hundred meters away, several cavalrymen holding torches in front of the cavalry formation used their torches to ignite the rocket arrows mounted on the longbows of the knights beside them.
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Before anyone could react, Fei Lie's cavalry formation suddenly accelerated. The originally slow-moving formation was pulled apart in an instant, and the war horses were driven out by the knights.
"Enemy attack! Concealment!"
"hidden!"
Before the roars of the sergeants and knights landed, they heard the sound of bowstrings like a rainstorm below the city, and a row of burning rockets soared into the sky. They rose to the highest point and then suddenly dropped, like flaming meteors in the dark night, rushing towards the city.
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The hoofs of the horses are like thunder, and the bow strings are like rain.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
When a row of rockets illuminated the city wall, countless black flying arrows followed closely behind, and with rapid screams, they emerged from the night.