Lord of War

In the southern part of the Millennium Covenant Empire, there were originally only six provinces and eleven aristocratic dominions, and further south was a primitive land. The fourth emperor of the Millennium Covenant Empire was overjoyed. He exhausted all the resources in the treasury to build four huge armies, and attacked in four directions, east, south, northwest, in an attempt to dominate the entire southern continent. He was the first four Dukes of Cidorn.

The battle went smoothly at the beginning, but soon after, the Fourth Route Army encountered troubles one after another, which made it impossible to smoothly implement the expansion of the empire's territory.

For example, the Northern Legion was attacked secretly from the Emerian Empire; while the Eastern Legion was frustrated because of the Warcraft Canyon incident; the Western Legion even encountered Satagastan, which already had a dragon knight sitting in it at that time. The whole principality counterattacked.

However, it was the Southern Army that suffered the most losses.

The Southern Legion, who was the Duke of Nandern at the time, went south all the way, and it was quite smooth at first, but after passing through the commercial city of Meian, it encountered desperate interceptions from various southern tribes, and even some fierce tribes from the wild tribes at that time The tribal orcs also ran out to join in the fun, causing heavy casualties. But this is not over yet. When the southward offensive has become an extravagant hope and is preparing to retreat, the retreat is being ambushed by indigenous tribes from the three southern provinces today. The entire southern army is so thoroughly explained here.

Afterwards, the emperor of the Millennium Covenant Empire was furious, and even spent huge sums of money to launch a counterattack.

After the whole country launched an all-out war, the Meian area was finally captured at a great cost, and the Meian Fortress was built here. Then, they sent troops to the three southern provinces. In the southern land that had not yet formed the size of the three provinces at that time, all the men, whether children, adults, or old people, were slaughtered, and the women were taken away as trophies. It also laid a hidden thread for the first civil strife in the Millennium Covenant Empire.

This civil strife broke out in the later period of the sixth emperor and lasted for nearly a hundred years. At that time, almost the entire southern part of the empire fell into a situation of war. It was quite a scene of melee among the tribes in the chaotic era—three provinces in the south, six provinces in the old land, and eleven aristocratic dominions raised a total of seventy-two anti-flags.

The war lasted until 20 years after the ninth emperor succeeded to the throne, and it was finally settled. The short-lived seventh emperor was assassinated by assassins sent by the nobles in the southern civil strife less than three years after he succeeded to the throne. The emperor had been in power for nearly seventy years, and his greatest contribution to the civil strife in the south was to annihilate forty legions of rebel nobles. And greatly weakened the military power of the other thirty-two rebel nobles.

After the Ninth Emperor quelled the war, the remnants of the rebel nobles crossed the Meian Fortress and fled further south, many of them even fled into the barren land.

And it seems to be deeply aware of the damage and impact this incident has brought to the empire, since the ninth emperor. They continued to send troops to Mei'an and continued to go south until the middle of the twelfth emperor's reign, and finally conquered the thirteen provinces south of the Mei'an fortress.

Owned the entire southern territory today, and even built a wild fortress.

However, due to the division of interests in previous wars and many other factors, in fact, the entire south of the empire is not monolithic.

With the Meian Fortress as the dividing point, the six thousand-year-old covenant empires to the north have existed since the founding of the country, and they are called the old southern six provinces. After the end, the eleven aristocratic dominions became eighteen aristocratic dominions-also known as the Old South Eighteen Houses, which included the Joanton House today.

And the three provinces south of the Meian Fortress. It is called the three southern provinces, and it is also the most important food base of the Millennium Covenant Empire. Although there are no noble fiefdoms, there are seven big nobles in the entire three southern provinces that can be called first-class in the empire, so these seven are also called Known as the Seven Great Families of the South. And the head of these seven families is the family of Antas, Marquis of the Demon Snake. It is precisely because he has been secretly supporting all the old nobles that the civil strife in the empire lasted for so long.

The southeast of Meian Fortress, that is, the thirteen provinces composed of the Golden Left Road and Nugget Road, are called the Thirteen Golden Provinces. Even the twenty-one big families in these thirteen provinces are also known as the Golden Family. But this kind of address, to put it bluntly, is just a self-proclaimed way of raising one's social status, and it is only used in the southern part of the empire. Of course, the most important thing is to distinguish their respective positions.

The twenty-one golden families, the thirteen golden provinces, the seven southern families, the three southern provinces, the eighteen old southern families, and the six old southern provinces constituted the southern pattern of the entire Millennium Covenant Empire.

However, as the Mayan Fortress was captured. Now this tripartite pattern has really been cut apart.

In terms of overall apparent strength, the Golden Twenty-One, which holds the real right to speak in the Thirteen Golden Provinces, is undoubtedly the strongest. Therefore, even in the face of the fierce attack of Lucas Jr. and Lake, they will not fall completely in a short while, but as time goes by, it will only be a matter of time before they fall completely.

The second strongest in terms of strength. It is the old southern six provinces and eighteen aristocratic dominions. However, with Pusius Joan settling down as the Duke of Nandern, all the old southern six provinces and the old southern eighteen nobles must obey the orders of the duke. In addition, the old duke's wrist is indeed unique, so after integrating all the forces in the old south, he has become the strongest existence in the south of the empire.

If it weren't for the old duke's astonishing skills, and he immediately launched a fierce attack on Meian commercial city without hesitation, the three southern provinces, which are the weakest both in terms of apparent strength and real strength, would have been trampled by the army of the undead long ago.

After all, although there are seven families in the three southern provinces that can be called top-notch, the one who really possesses extraordinary background and strength is actually only the Marquis of the Demon Snake.

It was precisely because of the onslaught launched by Purseus that the undead army that was penetrating into the three southern provinces had to retreat back to the commercial city of Meian to resist.

The speed of the counterattack from the human empire was slightly faster than what Lake and Lucas Jr. estimated.

And the progress of the Second Army of the Undead is much slower than expected. Aside from the fact that there were several sanctuary powerhouses in the province, which made it impossible to sweep away after the defeat in the first battle, another key reason was the loss of 50,000 undead due to Sean's meddling. .

All these changes in the situation have caused the southern war situation of the Millennium Covenant Empire to appear extremely strange.

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The Green Castle was originally an outpost-type acropolis built to cooperate with the Meian Fortress.

However, after the war value of Fort Meian was changed, this fortress was gradually abandoned. It was not until the golden heresy flourished and the status of this province was officially established that it was repaired and carried out by a nobleman privately. rebuild.

The entire Green Castle covers an area of ​​about 32,000 to 35,000 square meters. The specific area is no longer known, because in the process of multiple repairs and reconstructions, some additions and deletions have been made to the original design drawings. In addition to the reinforcement of the city wall, the number of arrow stacks has also been increased. However, the arrow tower has been slightly reduced, and at the same time, a lot of greenery has been added in the Green Castle, taking into account part of the beauty of the castle.

As we all know, there are five extremely famous castles in the Southern Continent.

This Emerald Castle, commonly known as the Green Castle, is one of the five great castles in the Southern Continent on par with the Black Swan Castle of the Void Principality and the Black Rose Castle of the Fascist Kingdom. Two other castles. They are the Dragon Castle in the Principality of Satagastan, and the Ancient Castle of Liuyeling in the Principality of Ekiri.

The Emerald Castle was built against the forest, although it was not against the mountain, but only three towering city walls were built, and no city wall was built on the side surrounding the forest. The main reason is that this forest is a primeval forest, not only has an extremely vast area, but also has a very complex terrain, and there are even natural dangerous places such as bottomless swamps and places filled with poisonous fog, and there are even many extremely powerful monsters, so It doesn't really matter whether the city wall is built or not.

certainly. The location of the castle was chosen here, and naturally these dangerous locations were used. It was absolutely impossible to go deep into the forest and go back to the back of the Emerald Castle to sneak attack on the castle through this side where the city wall was not built. And the side next to the forest, in fact, the owner who built the castle was unable to break out from the front in order to prevent the castle from being besieged, so he deliberately left such an escape route for the defenders in the castle to retreat.

At this time, a team of teams that had already lined up gathered in front of this primeval forest.

Most of these people were old people and children, their faces still had expressions of fear, and many of them were even shivering—not cold, but frightened. If it weren't for the fact that there are still many guards who look like soldiers in the castle at this time. I'm afraid these people don't know how to panic, but even so, there is an oppressive and desperate atmosphere in this empty field near the woodland. But still condensed and not scattered.

And the various shouts of killing that still came from time to time in the distance also showed the situation of the Green Castle at this time.

A middle-aged man with a scar like a ferocious centipede on his face looked at the woodland with worry, and then retracted his gaze, and said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid few of these people can pass through this area." Death."

The scar on the man's face stretched from his forehead to his right cheek. The right eye is crossed in the middle, so he only has one left eye to see things. And the scar was slightly bright red at this time, with blood overflowing from time to time, it was obviously a new wound, probably not more than ten days old. Logically speaking, in such a situation, there would inevitably be abnormal pain, which most people would definitely not be able to bear, but this middle-aged man seemed to have no injuries on his face at all, and he felt as calm as a mountain.

"We've tried our best, and the rest can only be left to fate." The person who replied was a middle-aged man with slightly gray hair. It is a kind of silvery white, but it is similar to the grayish white that has reached the end of its energy, "Although the right side is also extremely dangerous, there are still many strong people sitting in the town after all. If they can successfully pass through this forest, at least they have the hope of surviving." Much bigger than here."

The two of them were talking in this way, but they heard a rumbling sound suddenly.

The sound was like thunder and thunder, and it sounded suddenly again. If you listen to it roughly, you will be shocked.

However, the sound had already sounded two or three times in one night, so not only the two people on the city wall did not respond, even the team at the edge of the forest looked numb. Of course, many people still looked at a certain section of the city wall filled with smoke and dust with a little worry, because their relatives were fighting the enemy bravely there at this time, in order to fight for the elderly and children who had no fighting ability. A time to escape, to avoid becoming the material of the undead army.

"It's my turn." The middle-aged man with a scar on his face said in a deep voice, "When the left city wall collapsed, it was Mr. Moro who turned the tide. It’s very possible. Now that the right city wall has collapsed, and there is the main force of the undead army over there, I’m afraid I’ll have to sit in the town to solve it.… But the fog spirit, I’m afraid it will find an opportunity to attack you soon.”

"I can still use the Death Spell once more." The gray-haired man said lightly, his voice was calm and unwavering, "But it's also the last time."

The middle-aged man with the scar on his face was silent, just sighed helplessly: "I don't know why this group of undead are crazy. They have been fighting to the death since the sudden attack last night, even if they lost more than half Withdrawal, this makes it impossible for us to burn the bodies of our comrades who died in battle, but instead restores some of their soldiers."

"They're in a hurry, I'm afraid something happened." The gray-haired middle-aged man said softly, "Neither you nor Mr. Moro are his opponents. Now that General Hanwens is seriously injured, we must send him away as soon as possible." Going to the right side, there is at least a large sacrificial hall of the Temple of Life, which may be able to heal General Hanwensi. Therefore, the only one who can fight the fog spirit is me who can still perform the Juejutsu gone."

"but……"

"I'm ready to die with him." The gray-haired middle-aged man interrupted his companion, "You should hurry over to reinforce. Otherwise, the pressure there will not be able to withstand the pressure. If those undead army rush to kill Come in, I'm afraid that those old people and children will not be able to escape if they want to escape, so we will have no way to send General Hanwens away secretly."

"Hey." The middle-aged man with a hideous scar on his face chuckled, immediately picked up the long spear beside him, then turned and walked towards the part of the city wall that was filled with smoke and dust, and walked tens of meters away in just one step. "It's my honor to be able to fight side by side with you. ... If I die in battle, I will destroy myself with the self-destruct of the domain, and prevent them from using my body to create any monsters to kill."

Looking at the back of the middle-aged man leaving, the gray-haired man sighed softly: "Me too."

After saying that, he turned his head and looked towards the mid-air not far away.

Because there, there is a black robe that is continuously emitting a thick black mist from the hood, cuffs and the hem of the robe, rising in the air. (To be continued.)