Chapter 326 The war begins
Landslides and landslides.
Faced with such horrific energy aftermath, the entire city began to shake, and the orcs' terrified voices echoed in the air, a mixture of fear and disbelief.
"What's this!"
"What happened? Am I trapped in an illusion? Otherwise, how could such a ridiculous thing happen?!"
"God of the Orcs, this can't be true. How could Skarn suddenly..."
"There was an attack from outer space, why didn't Skarn's defensive magic circle react at all?"
This sudden change, like a thunderclap, directly broke the original tranquility in the city and overturned everyone's cognition.
They couldn't believe what they saw.
The citizens of the kingdom in the city, both nobles and commoners, fell into unprecedented panic. They fled everywhere, looking for a refuge. However, in the face of this catastrophe, any refuge seemed so fragile.
This is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.
Natural disasters can be avoided, but man-made disasters will find you.
In the huge dark vortex, with the sound of orderly footsteps, a tall undead horse came out first, with an undead commander who had reached the demigod realm sitting on it. Then, death knights in black armor followed behind, rushing out in an orderly manner.
"My fellow men, follow the orders of our Lord and capture this realm!"
The Undead Leader raised his spear high and roared, "There are no restrictions in this battle. You can kill as you please!"
If you want to occupy a piece of land, the first thing you need to do is to clear out the native creatures there.
In the past, the Eternal Night Empire still had very high moral standards, and was relatively restrained when conquering planes and would not carry out mass slaughter.
But that's because they want to spend less effort to recruit local creatures, and the Dark Lord is more merciful.
The situation today is slightly different.
The first and most important point is that the supreme leader of this army is the Eternal Night Empire, not the Dark Lord. This time Su Xingyu did not interfere with their decision-making and allowed them to make their own choices.
And given the situation of the high-level officials of the Eternal Night Empire, they will not show any mercy to other creatures in the void plane.
Even if they want to use local creatures as the foundation of their religion in the future, it does not mean that they must use a conciliatory policy.
It is extremely difficult for these creatures who have been influenced by the belief in local gods to convert in a short period of time.
Therefore, if you want to break through their psychological defenses and destroy the beliefs in their hearts, fear and doubt are better than appeasement.
"kill!"
"Fight for the God of Death!"
"Fight for the Lord of the Dead!"
The undead knights rode on tall nightmare horses, with green flames burning in their eyes, which showed their contempt for life and desire for death. They roared hoarsely, as if declaring war on this world that belonged to the living.
In this city pierced by darkness, the Undead Knights rode on nightmare horses, like messengers of hell, quickly shuttling through the battlefield, wielding long swords, constantly reaping the lives of the kingdom's citizens. The shadow of death instantly submerged all living beings in this city.
No matter they were ordinary citizens of the kingdom, warriors of the kingdom with impressive strength, or believer knights guarding the temple, they all seemed vulnerable to the attacks of the Undead Knights and would shatter at the slightest touch.
In just one confrontation, the kingdom's legions, who suppressed their fear and barely formed a regular legion to launch a counterattack against the Undead Knights, were defeated and slaughtered.
This is not surprising. After all, this Death Knight Legion that came out first and led the charge for the Empire is a truly high-level legion.
There is a huge gap between the two sides in terms of extraordinary rank, weapons and equipment, organizational ability, combat skills, etc. It is too difficult to resist them with only the garrison force of a kingdom's main city.
Moreover, elite warriors continued to emerge from the temporary portal.
This kind of temporary portal, which relies on brute force to open up space, puts great pressure on the user and is not suitable for ordinary soldiers to pass through. Therefore, the legions that can use this portal to descend on [Skarn] are all elite legions of the empire without exception.
When the last elite warrior walked out of the dark vortex, the transmission channel was completely closed with a loud bang.
At the same time, the dark pillar of light from outside the sky also dissipated.
"kill!"
The terrifying warrior from outer space turned his head towards the creatures in the city, his eyes flashing with a violent red light.
Three days later.
The whole city fell completely silent.
“Believers of the God of Death, don’t have to worry about anything. Let the grace of the God of Death come here and turn it into a land of destruction!” The Undead Commander sat on a throne made of bones, looked at the warriors below, and issued a pre-war declaration. His voice was calm, but it carried a chilling chill.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"For the glory of the God of Death!"
"For the Lord of the Dead!"
The Undead Knights used the simplest language to vent the violent emotions in their hearts. As high-ranking nobility of the Undead, they were different from those inferior Undead warriors. They had more emotions.
In a sense, there is no difference between them and normal creatures.
As for the newly born undead warriors, they stood there stiffly with knives in their hands. After hearing the call from the undead leader, green flames in their eyes began to flash.
"Wilbur, you lead two legions to guard this city and complete the construction of the cross-border portal as soon as possible so that our large troops can arrive." The Undead Leader ordered another general.
To conquer this plane relying solely on thirteen elite legions and hundreds of thousands of undead warriors is nothing but a pipe dream and totally unrealistic.
Therefore, they must build a stable cross-border portal to allow more dark warriors to descend here.
"As ordered."
The undead general of the Holy Realm took a step forward and replied respectfully.
Soon, the imperial vanguard troops that arrived here first split into two groups.
They stayed in the city of [Skarn] all the way and began to build a cross-border portal to connect to the outside void, so that the Eternal Night Warriors waiting at the Meteorite Transfer Station could come in to provide support as soon as possible.
The other group, led by the Undead Leader, left the city and headed towards the surrounding cities.
At the same time, a piece of news came from [Skagen] and spread to the surrounding cities at a terrifying speed, and soon spread throughout the kingdom.
"An evil god from outside the realm has invaded. The terrifying undead from the abyss has occupied [Skarn]. The residents of the local city have all been slaughtered and become slaves of the Lord of Death."
When the Eternal Night Empire broke through the plane boundary, the noise was so loud that even those on the other side of the plane could sense the noise, so it was completely unrealistic to hide the information of their invasion. "The evil undead lord has invaded the Kingdom of Sesit. The lords of the kingdoms around Skarn need to prepare for battle."
"The damned undead are offending the great orc god. We need to gather the kingdom's army and send out the most courageous knights to defeat them!"
The spread of this news shocked the entire subjects of the Kingdom of Sesit, and then followed by endless anger.
As one of the important religious forces of the orc gods, they have forgotten when was the last time a city in the heart of the kingdom was attacked.
There are less than 200,000 minions of the evil god from outside the region, but they dared to attack them. This is simply too much. They really treat them as soft persimmons.
After some investigation by the Kingdom of Sesit and at a considerable cost, they had a rough idea of the number of warriors that had invaded from the Eternal Night Empire.
The starting price is 130,000 and will definitely not exceed 200,000.
As for their specific strength, they were not clear, because all those who had encountered this dark army and fought head-on had been killed and became their undead slaves.
However, in the eyes of the Kingdom of Sesit, since it is still an organized army, no matter how strong it is, it will not be that strong, at most it will be at the level of the Knights Templar.
Although the 200,000 Knights Templar are very powerful, their Kingdom of Sessite has millions of elite troops and has the advantage of being on home soil, so they can send reinforcements at any time. However, the opponent's transmission channel has been closed, and there will be no subsequent support.
Just two hundred thousand soldiers, I'll kill you!
Therefore, after asking for advice from the temple, the Kingdom of Sesit quickly mobilized the entire country and began to gather the first wave of troops, preparing to give the invading army a surprise.
Half a month later.
The army of the Eternal Night Empire, relying on the advantages of war fortresses and magic warships, conquered cities and plundered territories along the way, breaking through 23 cities of the Kingdom of Sesit, and directly expanding the area of the "land of the lost country" under their feet by nearly a hundred times.
Three seventh-order legions and ten super-elite legions (sixth-order epic level). Even if two legions need to be left to guard [Skarn], the power they unleash is far beyond the reach of the surrounding cities.
The most important thing is that the war came too suddenly, and the Kingdom of Sesit had been peaceful for too long and was not prepared for war at all.
Before this, no citizen of the Kingdom of Sesit would believe that one day war would come directly to the heart of the kingdom. It was simply too absurd.
Therefore, the attack of the Eternal Night Army was quite smooth and did not encounter any significant obstacles.
As a result of their wanton killing, at least two million orcs died in the past half month.
The blood flowed like a river, which became a reality rather than an adjective.
The Scourge of the Undead is gradually taking shape.
It was not until this time that the million-strong expeditionary force urgently assembled by the Kingdom of Sesit barely arrived at the vicinity of the "Land of Lost Nation".
We were able to get here in such a short time thanks to the portal system within the kingdom and the strong support of the temple. Otherwise, it would have taken at least half a year to get here.
But it didn't mean much. When the army of the Kingdom of Sesit arrived, the army of the Eternal Night Empire had already been integrated.
Although the vanguard army has only recently arrived, the tentacles of the Eternal Night Empire had already extended into this plane many years ago.
They dare not say that they have full knowledge of the actions of the Kingdom of Sesit, but some major actions cannot be concealed from the Eternal Night Empire.
The mobilization of a large army will inevitably be accompanied by major movements, so it can be said that their every move is under the eyes of the Eternal Night Empire.
Even among this kingdom’s army, many officers came from the Eternal Night Empire.
"Hahaha! What vigorous energy and blood! I can't wait to taste their blood!" Without the supervision of the Dark Lord, the Undead army became more violent and brutal. They were very disdainful of the kingdom's army across the plain and did not take them seriously at all.
"This batch of warriors is of better quality. They are perfect as our servants." Another undead general, feeling the strength of the soldiers from the opposing kingdom, was very satisfied and commented that they seemed to have already secured victory before the battle even started.
The number of troops assembled by both sides was close to two million, almost covering the entire plain, and the celestial phenomena within a radius of hundreds of miles were directly reversed.
As the two armies confronted each other, the tense battlefield atmosphere reached its climax.
Then, at the command of the commander-in-chief of the army, the war was about to break out.
"war!"
"For the Lord of Death!"
"Destroy this army and dedicate victory to the Dark Lord!"
The Eternal Night Legion rushing in the front were not cheap Undead Knights, but the most elite heavy cavalry of the Eternal Night Empire. They laughed wildly and rushed towards the army of the Sesit Kingdom like a black torrent.
As they moved, the ground began to shake.
The armor on his head reflected a cold light in the sunlight, the weapon in his hand flashed with the chill of death, and the sound of horse hooves was like drumbeats, foreshadowing the coming storm.
Soon, they encountered the kingdom's heavy cavalry, which was also armored heavy cavalry, a super elite legion blessed by the gods.
"Open it for me!"
The commander of the Eternal Night Legion, who had reached the demigod realm, waved his halberd in his hand, and the power of the legionnaires behind him gathered.
A kilometer-long energy spear made of a mixture of various energies formed in the sky. Like a divine weapon sent from heaven, it smashed down towards the kingdom's heavy cavalry that was charging towards it with destructive power.
"Oh my God!"
"How can this be!"
"God of the Orcs!"
The orc heavy cavalry that was charging towards them felt unwell when they saw the energy halberds chopping down at them.
"Block it for me!"
The orc legion commander, who was at the peak of the ninth-level holy realm, had a changed expression, and then he mobilized the strength of the legion. He flew into the air, wielding the heavy spear in his hand, and charged towards the halberd.
At this moment, the heaven and earth seemed to stand still, two powerful forces were about to collide, and a suppressed tension filled the air.
bang——
The space of heaven and earth shook, all living things became deaf, and the whole world fell into a brief silence at this moment.
The orc legion commander flew into the air, but he couldn't last even a second and turned into ashes.
The energy halberd fell, turning into a torrent of energy that poured down, directly cutting the oncoming kingdom's heavy cavalry corps in half.
All the orc soldiers within the attack range, whether they were elite warriors of the sixth level of transcendence or centurions of the ninth level of transcendence, were turned into ashes, without even a trace left.
(End of this chapter)