Chapter 283 283. The war between light and earth, guests from Star Town
The western part of Semrio continent.
This place belongs to the Holy Holy See, the Holy Kingdom Esote under the blessing of the Father of Light.
The territory of the Holy Kingdom is ten times larger than that of Norland, where Croya is located. It can be said that the westernmost plain area of the entire continent is almost entirely occupied by the Holy See.
Further outside is the wild grassland of the orcs.
Of course, there are many knight territories in this land blessed by the light, but they are all controlled by the priests, bishops and preachers of the Holy See.
The fanaticism for belief makes this land almost intolerable to anyone who has any objection to the light.
But locusts don’t care whether you believe in the light or not.
Perhaps they are the fairest existence on this continent - they will treat everyone equally regardless of whether they are poor or rich, nobles or commoners.
At this moment, the Holy Kingdom is facing an attack by locusts, just like other countries that have suffered disasters——
Locusts like dark clouds covered the sky and blocked all the light cast by the sun, as if it was dark night.
Each locust is as big as a rabbit, and its cold insect eyes make people shudder.
All that can be heard in the ears is the sound of locusts flapping their wings. This sound is gathered by tens of millions of locusts, and it is comparable to the magic of some sonic attacks.
Wherever they passed, everything was chewed away, leaving only the bare earth.
“Evil thing!”
"Your doom is coming!"
Facing the locusts, the Holy Kingdom sent out the War Priest Group of the War God. During this period, they traveled to many places and finally arrived at the border area of the Holy Kingdom.
Priests wearing silver-white cassocks lined up.
Everyone was stroking the metal scripture in their hands and loudly praising the glory of God.
The dark clouds in the sky were dispersed, and beams of light descended from the thick clouds one after another, really like sacred swords piercing the evil spirits.
Of course, the locust swarm had no room for resistance when faced with the "Fist of Heaven" offensive, and was directly purified by the holy magic on the spot.
All that is left floating in the air is the ashes of locusts.
And their souls and spirits were collected by the saints in the choir waiting aside, and sacrificed to a statue in some way.
The woman holding the statue is wearing a gorgeous cassock and golden mittens, and her expression is extremely pious, even fanatical.
She whispered to the statue: "My lord's god of war, master of thousands of swords, initiator and finisher of all wars..."
"Where are you trapped by the despicable earth?"
"May this war awaken your will."
After finishing speaking, a light flashed in her eyes, He directly cut his arm, and the pure blood belonging to the virgin fell on this majestic human-shaped statue.
The golden statue made of holy metal was instantly stained darkly with blood, but the statue became more and more vivid, like a warrior fighting in blood.
There is a reaction!
"My Lord..."
Just when the woman felt joy.
All the light on the statue suddenly disappeared, and together with the souls and spiritual light of the exterminated locusts, they disappeared and became ordinary.
The person standing next to him couldn't help but said: "This is already the spirituality and soul of hundreds of millions of locusts. Why is the God of War still unwilling to respond to us?"
This is almost a disaster. Level 1 World of Warcraft, and even some Level 2 World of Warcraft Locust Kings, which are different from ordinary locusts, have become rare sacrifices in recent years.
If it weren't for a special situation, finding hundreds of millions of first- and second-level monsters to sacrifice... would be a lot of pressure even for them.
But even so, the War God did not answer them.
The man who asked the question put down the holy book in his hand quite dejectedly and sighed deeply, with undisguised disappointment on his young face.
Since the locust plague broke out, they have been traveling around various areas of the Holy Kingdom, killing all the locusts with the power of Deimos, and then making sacrifices.
They expected to get the oracle of Deimos in this way, at least to find out where Deimos was imprisoned. As long as there was a specific location, no one could stop them from welcoming back the light. messenger.
But the problem is that there are already hundreds of millions of locusts!
And in order to keep the locust swarms alive and harvested by them, they did not allow the knights from all over the place to deal with the locust swarms.
You must know that although the Holy See of Light is relatively united, there are also various factions. It is naturally impossible to allow such a locust plague to run rampant and let the people of the Kingdom of Light die.
Today is the last day given to them by other factions. If they cannot awaken the envoy today, such efforts will be in vain, and they must start cleaning up the locust plague.
You war envoys are very important, aren’t we, the wisdom envoys, the blessing envoys, and the joy envoys important?
If it really gets ugly, the worst we can do is ask the divine envoys of our respective faiths, or the great and supreme Father of Light will personally make the decision.
The people living in the Holy Kingdom are all believers. It is the most important belief base of the Father of Light in the main plane. There must be no loss here.
They have even thought about how to show the miracles of the gods and gain another wave of faith.
Although disasters are quite troublesome, if they can be well planned and operated, they can be turned into a means of harvesting faith.
There were several periods of chaos on the continent of Semrio, and it was during those times that the beliefs of the seven gods were finally determined.
For gods who believe in you, if you influence them to absorb faith, they will definitely turn against you, even if they are also envoys of gods.
——Of course, the two chief priests of the War God are aware of these things, so they find it very difficult.
Can we only go outside the Holy Kingdom?
Just when they felt helpless and depressed, a powerful wave of divine power suddenly came unabashedly.
The chief priest and the members of the priesthood looked at each other——
Outside the borders of the Holy Kingdom.
An army wearing thorn armor quietly emerged from the soil, growing more and more like mushrooms after the rain.
Soon an army of tens of thousands of people was formed.
Each of them was covered in thorn armor, and the thorns of the thorns dug deeply into their exposed skin, which was already blood red.
Holy and blood red intertwined.
Just standing there makes people feel chilled by this army.
The chief priest Belamond, who was holding the statue of the God of War, suddenly changed his expression:
"..."
"The Trial of Thorns?"
What are they doing here?
The so-called Trial of Thorns is the most violent organization in the Church of the Earth Mother. Every one of them is a fanatical believer, and they have planted the pain of the Mother Goddess, that is, thorns, on themselves.
It can be said that almost everyone is a strong man above level six. If he is a captain level character, he must be at least level ten. The legion commander is directly at the legendary saint level.
Although she is the officiant, she is still not at the level of a cardinal. The Lord Deimos whom she believes in has gone somewhere, so she is absolutely unbeatable.
So she thought about delaying it for a while and waiting for the legend of the Holy See to come over.
"You..."
As a result, before she could ask anything, the army was actually walking towards the border of the Holy Kingdom. The man leading it held a big flag and walked firmly without any hesitation.
How dare they?
The Church of the Mother Goddess of the Earth and the Holy See of Light have an agreement. It is a contract signed by the two gods. The land of faith is absolutely not allowed to be violated.
In the end, they actually broke into the border like this?
Now she could no longer remain calm and gave the order directly:
"Attack!"
No matter what their reasons are, as long as they dare to break through, it is unforgivable.
The War Priests immediately began singing hymns.
"Boom!"
The Fist of Heaven, which was at least dozens of times more violent than before, fell from the sky, carrying the scorching holy flame, and fell towards the members of the Trial of Thorns.
However, the Tribunal of Thorns did not move.
The terrifying Fist of Heaven was rebounded by thorns the moment it fell on them. Instead, it smashed the War Priests to pieces.
Then they unceremoniously broke through the borders of the Holy Kingdom. Everyone pulled out their own weapons, and like tigers entering a flock of sheep, they began to kill the members of the War Priests.
It was a real slashing, and blood stained the earth in an instant.
The normally aloof priests were slaughtered like sheep at this moment, making painful wails and screams.
The clouds that had dispersed in the sky gathered again, blocking the sunlight. It was not known whether their father of light did not want to see such a tragic situation.
In the end, in less than ten minutes, an entire group of thousand-member war priests were wiped out, and the two chief priests were caught in front of the cardinal.
The cracked Cardinal Iona stared at the two young officiants sinisterly.
The latter looked at him without fear. Iona suddenly pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, then waved the long sword wrapped in thorns in his hand, and chopped off the head of the young priest with a "swish".
The movements were crisp and neat, with no hesitation at all.
Until his death, the young officiant never thought that he would dare to do something like this! His head fell into the mud mixed with blood, water and soil, and he died with his eyes open.
“Brother!”
The eyes of Belmond, the other officiant, were suddenly filled with tears.
She gritted her teeth and forced herself to calm down, and angrily yelled at the Cardinal: "You hound of the despicable earth, you will break into the kingdom of my lord and you will be judged by the sword and the sword!"
The Cardinal remained unmoved by her curses.
He snatched the statue of the God of War Moss from the woman's hand and sneered: "This is indeed what you planned in the Yavanna Sacred Mine."
"Then Is the disappearance of the Abyss Lord Zugmoi also due to you? "These locusts were cultivated by you!"
While walking on the earth during this period, he also captured some locusts for research. After all, the Earth Mother Goddess The Church is the most in-depth force in cultivating Warcraft and Demonic Plants in the human world.
As a result, he discovered that the bodies of these locusts actually contained the magic power of the bugs and mycelium produced by the abyss lord Zugmoi in the Yavanna Sacred Mine at that time.
After consulting with the church's higher-ups, he determined that only the Holy See of Light in the entire Semrio continent could possess the magical fragments of that insect.
The situation at the Yavana Sacred Mine at that time was obviously the result of a game between the Angel of the Piano and one of their saints created by the Holy See of Light.
To say what kind of god caused Moss to be captured by an unknown powerful existence, is this to deceive them as fools?
Who can instruct the angel who plays the piano?
The current situation is obviously that they used the excuse of Deimos being captured and deliberately used modified locusts to launch a war to use war and death to enhance the power of the god Deimos.
Such a despicable act has to use such a high-sounding excuse. The so-called light is really bad!
The more he thought about it, the more angry the cardinal became, and he threw the statue of the God of War to the ground.
“Bang!”
Even the statue made of holy metal could not stop the anger of Legend. It fell apart on the spot, and the broken pieces fell next to the head of the young priest.
It quickly lost its luster.
At this time, the Cardinal no longer needed to get any information from the priest of the God of War. What he needed was to directly penetrate the Holy Kingdom.
Use the thorns of the Mother Goddess to make the base light feel pain, and let the saints and cardinals come and talk to him in person.
No one else is worthy of communicating with him.
So he simply raised his knife and chopped off the head of the officiant, and then continued to wave the banner and steadily moved towards the hinterland of the Holy Kingdom.
Behind them, with every step they took, dense thorns grew out, as if the earth was gradually encroaching on the kingdom of light.
The bodies of the priests and the two chief priests they killed were submerged in thorns and blood mud. The head of the statue of Deimos fell to the ground. There seemed to be some anger in his eyes, but there seemed to be no anger.
After the cardinal walked away, the eyes of the statue glowed with a faint seven-colored light, drawing the souls of the two officiants into it.
Then it completely lost its luster, as if it had never been there.
……
As time passes slowly.
Things are getting worse outside.
Except for the Norland Kingdom, which is still relatively stable, several countries outside the kingdom have all been invaded by locust plagues, leaving no crops to be harvested.
People are displaced, hunger is the most unbearable, and the harsh environment makes it impossible for them to survive.
The lack of food brings about the collapse of order. If a person cannot even eat enough, any power, status and order will be nothing to him.
So large-scale unrest broke out in many places.
Why can nobles eat things they can't eat in their lifetime? Why can nobles enjoy a stable life in the castle?
You must know that Croya has his ability and the supply of resources in the entire sea area affected by the power of the mermaid clan's virtual god, so that he can cultivate extraordinary people in this way.
But outside the North, there are still very few extraordinary people.
It is true that extraordinary people have the ability to suppress many people with one person, but let the superior extraordinary people, knights and mage suppress it?
That is unless the situation has reached an irreversible level.
For the vast majority of nobles, they only need to maintain their core territories and the territories of their retainers.
The rest of the ordinary people...well, of course they will still save, but the way of saving will definitely be different.
As for the turmoil, as long as it doesn't affect them, just pretend it didn't happen. Their status will not be affected anyway.
When they heard that a magic academy had been opened in the north, their thoughts suddenly became vivid - if they could send their children there... would they be able to get asylum?
As for you saying that only Cloya's apprentices can enter the magic academy, that's not a problem at all.
For them, having their children become apprentices of a sixth-level magician is simply a great thing!
So the nobles gathered together and rushed to the north.
Northern Immigration.
The well-dressed nobles are gathering here, lining up in front of the stretching steel wall.
Waiting to enter the North.
This is the gate to the North and the only entrance to the North.
It is a giant defense facility built under the leadership of Croa's apprentice Semel. A steel wall was built at the only entrance to the Terenas Mountains and the North.
It is twenty-five meters high, ten meters thick, and stretches for about thirty kilometers. It looks dark and hard from a distance, reflecting the unique texture of metal.
Anyone who comes here will be surprised by such a towering and majestic building. You must know that the castles of nobles are not entirely built with metal.
But in fact, although it seems to be made of metal, it is actually a kind of magic plant, a special magic plant called "Dendrobium Shrub".
This kind of magic plant grows in the barren gray desert. It is usually found on iron ore and various metal veins. Depending on the vein, the strength and magical properties will be different.
As it grows, it will gradually absorb metal, making itself taller and harder to protect itself from being eaten by some herbivorous monsters.
It even has some natural defensive magic patterns growing on its surface, which is simply Gou's perfection.
After the apprentice Jamie brought this kind of magic plant back from the Gray Desert, Croya observed it for a while, and heard the fragmentary thoughts of their astral bodies——
“Also Not safe enough..."
"I want to be eaten..."
"I want to be harder!"
That's right, this kind of magic plant is really insecure, so it tries its best to strengthen itself. Hope to live longer.
But the weird thing is that they are looking forward to growing taller and bigger, eager to be seen by more creatures, and then use their extremely hard shell to deal with these greedy eyes.
How should I put it? It’s like being pretentious and afraid of death.
Croya's eyes were opened. He didn't expect that such a low-level second-level magic plant could have such abundant emotions.
So he unceremoniously used it as a city wall. What could be more eye-catching than the city wall at the northern border entry point?
"What a magical magic plant."
"The more eyes they watch, the faster the flow of magic power will speed up. In other words, if there is really a large army pressing down on the border, they will become more powerful than the others. It’s dozens of times harder now.”
In the noble team, there was a woman dressed as a traveler, looking up at the majestic northern gateway.
She was suddenly looking forward to this place.
She held her cane and followed the crowd slowly into the northern border, crossing the majestic city wall portal.
Then what appeared in front of her was a huge lake.
The lake is sparkling, and it seems to cover an area of one hectare, and the magic of space is flowing deeper.
Every noble and their heirs will be sent to the designated location by the portal inside after entering the lake.
Although this will consume more magic power, it is also more convenient. At least the nobles will not be able to see the specific situation in the north.
It is temporarily opened.
The woman restrained her magic power, took off the badge of Qunxing Town, and curiously stepped into the lake, intending to experience the specialness of the North for herself.
What is so strange about this territory, which is not even big on the Semrio continent?
Can her friend Elister be so protective?
As for the mission assigned to her by Qunxing Town... that will have to wait until she has a good experience and observation of the North.
She thought her disguise was so good that she would not be discovered.
But little did he know that the moment he stepped into the Lake Gate teleportation circle, he was located by the tower spirit.
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