After waking up

"Dilga submitted a formal note to us, asking us to eliminate the cult Life Cult, or bear the cost of disrupting Dilga together with the Life Cult, and asked us to hand over their lost sacred objects."

In the capital of Kingspia, the diplomat explained Dilga's request in an uneasy tone, and everyone in the palace felt that something was not good.

"What does Dilga mean?"

"Your Majesty, they gave us an ultimatum, only forty-eight hours."

Everyone panicked instantly.

"What? An ultimatum?" "Forty-eight hours?"

"They are using this as an excuse!" "Your Majesty, what should we do?"

The king also panicked and looked at an old man in black robes on the side.

"Archbishop, the Dilga people seem to have a lot of objections to the divine religion. This may be a misunderstanding. Can you clarify it?"

The old man in black robe sneered.

"The conditions given by Dilga are not intended to be satisfied by us at all, and the holy object was just born. How could it be lost by them? Prepare for war, Your Majesty the King."

"But how can the Dilga Empire be something we can contend with?"

"Your Majesty, Dilga has many enemies, and can use up to four or five legions. We have more than 200,000 regular troops, and we can recruit more troops at any time. The followers of the God of Life are absolutely willing to sacrifice themselves for the country, as long as we are willing , hundreds of thousands of troops can appear at any time!"

"In the last war, we all saw the weakness of Dilga. They are no longer the great empire they used to be. If we can beat them hard, it will be an excellent opportunity for us!"

A young military official also stood up and said.

"That's right, Dilga's army is not that scary. We may not be at a disadvantage in a head-to-head confrontation. Moreover, we have local advantages, which makes it easier to supply and attack and defend."

"As long as we can defeat Dilga, and even as long as we can delay them from realizing that using force against our country is not worth the loss, then both international reputation and our own stability are very meaningful!"

The younger military officials are eager to prove themselves, while the Life God Cult hopes to stabilize their status and gain real recognition. This undoubtedly requires force to maintain, and they are already prepared for conflict.

At the end of winter, on the border between Dilga and Goldspear, the forces of Dilga's five legions were deployed here, with the advancing legion in the center.

Mulan has been here with his people for several days. There is no movement because he is waiting for the follow-up troops and ammunition supplies to arrive completely.

The weather was fine tonight. Mulan walked out of the military tent, followed by a man in military uniform with an exaggerated build. It was the Avenger named Patton who had not been seen for a long time.

Barton's body has become unstable before, so he is in the stage of re-repairing with curing potions. However, the curing potion is only effective for one year, and is no longer effective after that. It needs to be refined by the human body. In order to extend his time as much as possible, Barton is usually in Sleep state.

It wasn't until he arrived at the border that Mulan woke up Barton who was lying in the wooden box. After waking up, he didn't know which soldier he heard about the legion commander being easily beheaded, so he was like Mulan's shadow that never left him. , this physique made several other personal guards and messengers feel stressed.

At this moment, Mulan looked at the night sky in the direction of Kingspea. Tomorrow was the deadline.

A noisy sound came from afar, and Mulan frowned slightly.

"Fire out flares."

The messenger immediately shouted to the surroundings. After more than ten seconds, three flares were launched into the air, and then flares were launched from other directions one after another.

But in the eyes of ordinary soldiers, there seemed to be nothing special in the night, but their illusion was quickly shattered.

Just a moment later, dark clouds seemed to gather in the sky, and countless bats rushed towards the direction of the military camp. The entire military camp was instantly in chaos.

"bat--"

"Ah!" "Kill them."

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang" "Bang"

Gunshots and roars were mixed in with the noisy cries of bats. Someone directly threw incendiary bombs, igniting a large number of bats. However, the burning bats flapped their wings and ignited many barracks with flames.

“Du, du—”

The bugler blew the horn, but was instantly surrounded by a large number of bats, and was turned into a mummy in just an instant.

The students in Black Castle were all in chaos, but at least they were physically strong and the chaos was limited. Instead, they quickly began to organize themselves to help ordinary soldiers.

A large group of bats rushed directly to Mulan's main camp, but Mulan just stood there and did not move.

"Here comes the beheading!"

The big man Barton immediately became nervous, roared and pulled the barracks tent behind him directly, and the ground nails could not stop it at all. Then he waved the exaggerated tent and suddenly swung the bat in the sky.

"Woo, woo"

The strong wind brought by the tent blew away the hats of the surrounding soldiers, and many people subconsciously fell to the ground. The bats were swept away, but they did not feel the softness of the tarpaulin at all, and they were all swept into pulp.

Mulan still didn't move, and even pressed the brim of his hat with his left hand to prevent it from being blown away by the strong wind caused by Barton.

The screams in the camp lasted for several minutes before Mulan took out his wheel light. Under the fluctuation of magic power, the totem shadow of the Glory Knight appeared behind him. Then the totem slowly stood up and the light began to become stronger.

"boom--"

At the moment when the wheel gun rang out, a strong light erupted in the main camp area. The bullet turned into a spear glowing with white light, bringing up a spiral of light that directly penetrated the large bats in the sky.

At the top of a barracks in the camp, Professor Hessen, wearing a tuxedo, jumped up, took out his mouth organ, put it to his lips and played it gently.

The soothing folk nocturne sounded, and the bat group fell into chaos in an instant.

Throughout the camp, some soldiers took out flamethrowers and sprayed flames into the sky, while some soldiers fired directly into the sky with firearms.

The outer group of bats quickly fled, while countless bats below were killed and injured, and a layer of corpses was spread on the ground.

Mulan put the gun back into the holster and walked towards the outer camp. Along the way, he saw many bats struggling on the ground and would stamp them to death.

"All soldiers, warriors of Dilga, the war has begun. Don't take any chances, because the enemy is the same. After dawn, we crossed the boundary marker-"

The main purpose of the chaos caused by the bats is to disturb the morale of the troops and create panic. It is difficult to cause much effective damage. However, for Mulan, their arrival directly told the soldiers, mainly the naive students of the Black Castle, that the real The war is about to begin.

Although the bats at night did have a certain psychological impact on many ordinary soldiers, most of them were elites who had experienced war. They had also been informed of the existence of extraordinary beings this time, so it did not cause panic.

Before dawn, the entire advancing army had been assembled. When the sun rose, the leading troops crossed the national border.

The steam tank was activated, and the front of the steel monster emitted bursts of terrifying red light. Under the agitation of the steam, these dozens of tons of war machines began to move.

In the first town dozens of kilometers away, a Goldspear defense force and many crazy members of the Cult of Life were ready for defense, wanting to teach the invaders a lesson, but the first thing they saw was The steel monsters glowed red like flames, with countless white gases spurting out from above their heads, like the monster's breath.

"Attack, attack, fire at them!"

"Bang" "bang" "bang". "Bang" "bang" "bang".

Mortar-like high-throwing shells and mobile shells with two grunts were fired at the steam tanks, exploding around them, but the tanks with exaggerated armor thickness were basically unscathed.

This kind of cannon, which generally has a caliber of only forty or fifty millimeters, is just scratching an itch.

"Bang" "bang" "bang" "bang" "bang".

Steam tanks with a caliber generally over two hundred millimeters erupted with fierce flames from their muzzles. The next moment, the outskirts of the town were flooded with explosions of flames.

The tragic situation that happened when Dilga's frontline troops fought steam tanks for the first time was repeated by the Kingspian army, and it was even more tragic.

The first wave of attacks directly defeated the psychological defense line of the defenders, and Dilga's troops quickly advanced. They were told that daytime was the best time to attack, and monsters in the darkness would appear at night.

“I’ll fight you—” “Ah!”

In the corner, several Kingspian soldiers rushed towards the Dilga soldiers entering the town. No matter where the troops were, there would always be some elites.

These soldiers all held bayonets in their hands, and their target was a Black Castle student who clearly looked like an officer. The expression on his face that was even more ferocious due to fear, and the aura of giving up his life in bloodthirsty, made the student stunned.

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang"

The soldiers on the side opened fire, and one person stabbed an assassin with his spear, then threw him aside.

The Black Castle student's heartbeat was a little fast. This was a real human being dying in front of him.

The Dilga soldier had no expression on his face, and everyone around him just glanced at the students and moved on.

Outside a large auditorium in the center of town, the soldiers paused.

Soon, Mulan arrived, accompanied by two extraordinary beings and many students who came with him.

The door of the auditorium was opened, and there was a fishy smell inside, like a slaughterhouse that had not been cleaned for a long time and had been in operation.

The corpses were all corpses, most of them naked, many missing arms and legs, or actually withered limbs, and some with collapsed chests and signs of withering everywhere on their bodies, the total number was probably more than a hundred.

Of course these were not done by Dilga soldiers, even these veterans could not help but retching.

"The Cult of Life is just this kind of thing, and they still want to operate within the empire. As long as they are Dilga people, as long as they are normal humans with a sense of justice, they will not allow this kind of cult to have any space to survive-"

After speaking, Mulan looked at the soldiers beside him.

"It's burned. Let's move on. The real test hasn't begun yet."