At the same time, the Land of Redemption is already in chaos and turmoil.
The news of the demon invasion has finally been further confirmed.
Three days after the gossip spread, the alarm bell of the Holy See finally sounded. Three hundred years later, the bells spread from the Holy See Hill to Vatican Castle, and then to every church and every corner of the continent.
Pope Nicholas II gave a speech.
He stood on the high platform of the church on the Holy See Hill and confirmed the news of the fall of the Holy City to countless noble lords, believers and people who gathered on the Holy See Hill.
Now, the demons have occupied the Holy City and are looking down at the entire Land of Redemption. Their troops are continuously passing through the Holy City and crossing the Duantian Mountains. The nearly 100 square kilometers area near the Holy City has been occupied by the demon army.
It was captured and became the bridgehead for the demons to attack the Land of Redemption.
"I call on all the people of the Holy Emperor to unite and gather under the banner of the Holy See to fight this holy war together. The three knights of the Holy Church will be the first to go to the battlefield, and the Kingdom of Heaven will also send angels to assist in the battle. We will do our best to use our
Our lives to defend human dignity."
“Those who believe in God’s glory and pray for God’s blessing will eventually be saved.”
Nicholas II's speech, together with the warning of the invasion of demons, spread throughout the continent. However, people were shocked and frightened, but they did not get any answer to the question they wanted to ask the most.
"How on earth was the Holy City captured?!"
It was not until seven days later that rumors gradually came out, saying that the strong men from the Holy Domain who were stationed in the Holy City had left for some reason, and the demons gathered more than twenty demon commanders to launch a surprise attack. In just three prayers, the Holy City was destroyed.
Fell.
The news of the fall of the Holy City was actually known to the higher-ups of the Holy Cult as early as when the first witness saw the demons.
However, they tightly blocked the news, so that the lords who were attacked by the demons had no preparation at all.
However, now is not the time to hold people accountable.
Everyone's hearts are tightly gripped by the grim reality.
In the past three hundred years, the terror of the demons has never disappeared from human memory. However, there is the obstruction of Farrington Fortress. In the past three hundred years, there has been a precedent of the demons returning without success again and again, and everyone just went there naturally.
Ignore or even actively hide this fear.
And now, that terrible scene has finally come to reality and has become a nightmare that everyone cannot avoid.
With the invasion of demons, the situation in the Land of Redemption has also undergone significant changes.
Although the war between the Ferret Empire and the Solan Empire was not over, there were no large-scale battles. After the Ferret Empire just suffered a disastrous defeat, Peter I rarely got angry, but quickly recalled Benson and others.
The famous generals discussed measures to deal with the demons behind closed doors.
After the St. Solan Empire celebrated its victory, other than dispatching the southern army to regain the coastal port city of Lulian, there was no extra action.
Although every Solan people want to take back the Pru province and the border city Longmen occupied by the Fei Lie Empire, it is obvious that the more realistic danger now comes from the demons. If the Fei Lie people are like a bad wolf around them,
Then the demon is a giant dragon flying from the sky.
The threats and consequences of the two are not at the same level at all.
The most nervous one is naturally the Pompeii Empire, which is directly facing the threat of demons.
This huge, greedy, tyrannical and decadent country rarely showed efficiency. Almost as soon as the demons invaded, a large number of troops deployed on the borders of the Fei Lie Empire and the Saint Solan Empire were mobilized north.
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At the same time, the major lords of the Pompeii Empire also gathered under the order of the royal family. Troops of armies and fleets of carriages loaded with supplies continued in an endless stream from south to north, from west to east.
In just one week, the Pompeii Empire had gathered an army of more than 60,000 people in the Mostok province where the demons appeared. Among them were five elite knights, a group of earthly dragon knights, and a senior magician.
Thirty magicians supported by the squadron and the Holy See.
At the same time, two strong men from the Sanctuary rushed to the front line to take charge.
A team of tens of thousands of people surrounded the area where the demons appeared. Although no attack was launched, the surrounding roads were cut off.
It is said that the commander-in-chief on the front line is studying and trying to cut off the demons' subsequent passage. The Holy Cult is also discussing how to recapture the Holy City.
This news initially gave some comfort to the nobles of various countries.
Although the Pompeii Empire was decadent, it was the strongest among the three empires in terms of national and military power.
The demons have just occupied the Holy City, and there are not many troops crossing the Duantian Mountains. They are facing difficulties in mobilizing both troops and supplies. Now, they only control a few small noble territories. No matter how strong they are, it will not be possible in the short term.
Directly against a fully mobilized power.
However, people still miscalculated.
Just seven days after the Holy See's alarm bell sounded, a demon army walked out of the area besieged by the Pompeii Empire's heavy troops and headed west.
They almost ran into the intercepting Pompeian army.
The two sides fought in a place called Dragon Blood Forest. After just three prayers, the Pompeii Empire's six thousand troops were defeated by the attack of less than three hundred demons.
What is even more shocking is that among the dead human warriors, there was actually a strong man from the holy realm. It is said that he was besieged by five demon generals and was attacked and torn alive by a demon commander who led the army.
Broken.
Public opinion was in an uproar for a while.
That's a real strong man in the holy realm! A paladin!
Everyone who can step into the Holy Realm has extraordinary strength to move mountains and reclaim seas. They are so powerful and so aloof that to mortals, they are almost god-like existences.
Some of these powerful people from the Holy Realm will be lucky enough to be favored by the Kingdom of Heaven and enter the City in the Sky.
As for the remaining ones, although they live in the mortal world, the secular rules can no longer bind them. They have a set of laws that belong to the strong men in the holy realm, and are only bound by the rules of the holy realm. Not to mention ordinary noble families, even
Even though he is the royal family of the three major empires, he is not in their eyes either.
They can serve the royal family or a certain family or a certain knighthood just because of loyalty, kindness, interests, or boredom.
For three hundred years, every strong man in the Sanctuary has been regarded as the common wealth of mankind. They are the pillars of the human race, the foundation for mankind to rule the redemption continent and resist the demons. They will not be used unless absolutely necessary. No one can
Order them, including the royal families of the three empires.
The war between the Fei Lie Empire and the Saint Solan Empire lasted for more than a year, with nearly a million deaths. Countless civilians fell in pools of blood, countless cities were destroyed, and countless soldiers died on the battlefield one after another. But among them, a strong man from the Holy Domain
None. They didn't even take action.
Even though Edward was in dire straits several times and was almost forced to abdicate, he did not involve the strong men from the Sanctuary who were loyal to the royal family into the war.
It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't.
Once the Sanctuary strongmen of the Solan Empire take action, then the Felie Empire will inevitably take action. The nature of this war will immediately turn into a disaster that will destroy mankind. Not to mention the large number of Sanctuary strongmen killed and injured, even if
The loss of any one of them will be blamed by the Solan family.
But no one expected that just a few days after the invasion of the demons, mankind would lose a saint. The elite troops of 6,000 people and five knights were defeated by a mere 300 demons!
This news is like a basin of cold water poured on the heads of people who are lucky, and it is chilling to the heart.
However, this is just the beginning.
After defeating the blockade of Emperor Pompeii's army, this team led by a magic commander continued to advance.
The next day, another demon army appeared behind them. It was also led by a demon commander and numbered five hundred people.
On the third day, the third demon team appeared, numbering one thousand people.
It was also in the early morning of this day that people were surprised to find that the place occupied by the demons had been shrouded in a dense red mist overnight. Both the lord's castle and the surrounding towns were hidden in it.
Originally, humans could use the gryphon knights to observe the movement, but now when they look over, there is just a red fog. Nothing can be seen.
Viewed from the sky, the red mist at the foot of the Duantian Mountains looks like a huge cocoon.
Later historians called it the blood cocoon.
In this way, every day, a demon army comes out of the blood cocoon.
To the north, west, south, northwest, southwest... In less than twenty days, the war has spread to the entire Mostok Province with the emergence of the demon army.
Demons are a complex race.
The Demon Royal Family is the ruler of the Demon Clan. It is also the most powerful race of the Demon Clan. This race has a small population, but they are born warriors. Even if they do not practice, as long as they age and transform once, their strength will increase by one level.
Especially the geniuses with pure blood in the clan, who are cultivated using secret methods, can possess the strength equivalent to the human glory knight before they are twenty years old.
All the great demon emperors in the past dynasties came from the demon royal family, without exception.
Under the Demon King, there are two major Demon Kings of the royal family. In addition, the Demon Clan has seven vassal races. Each of these seven major races is also led by a Demon King.
Unlike humans, demons completely distinguish their class status based on strength. The strongest demon king is the strongest of the demons. The demon kings of the seven major races are also the strongest of their respective races. If anyone has the strength
If you can defeat them, you can become the new Demon Emperor or Demon King.
Below the Demon King is the Demon Commander.
There are only seventy-two demon commanders among the eight major races including the demon race and the royal clan. And within the twenty days of the invasion of the Redemption Continent, eighteen of them had already appeared!
Within one month, the Pompeii Empire lost twenty games in a row.
On June 20, Mostok fell.
.This chapter is too much. I originally wanted to write more, but I have been arranging the subsequent plot and figuring out various lines all day, and I have no time. Please bear with me.