Hunter's Ascent: Starting in the Hunter x Hunter World
Chapter 827

The Holy Kingdom's Crisis

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The Kingdom of Lobul was a peninsula nation located southwest of the Kingdom of Re-Estize.

Because its territory formed a distinctive U shape, the vast sea completely divided it into northern and southern regions.

On a map, it looked like a giant's arms embracing a bay roughly forty kilometers long and two hundred kilometers wide. It possessed fishing and shipbuilding industries so advanced that other human nations could only look on in envy.

Geographically isolated by wastelands, hills, and mountain ranges, the Holy Kingdom had little contact with other human nations.

Aside from occasionally conducting trade by sea with the northern Kingdom, it remained largely self-isolated.

Coupled with religious differences that often led to disputes and conflicts with the Slane Theocracy, it had little presence among the many human-dominated nations.

Only after the demi-humans of the east launched a massive invasion and breached the over one-hundred-kilometer wall built over generations did they send envoys to other human nations for aid.

However, today, the atmosphere inside the royal palace of Hergath, the capital of the Kingdom of Lobul, was exceptionally oppressive.

The supreme ruler, Queen Calca Bessarez, sat upon her throne, anxiously staring toward the doors.

She was not alone. Everyone else in the hall showed varying degrees of panic and anxiety.

Earlier that day, bad news had shattered the original calm.

According to border scouts, a demi-human army numbering over one hundred thousand was rapidly approaching the Holy Kingdom's border, followed by an endless sea of undead.

For the Holy Kingdom, whose military forces were already stretched thin, such numbers were nothing short of a catastrophe.

Even with the Great Wall to rely on, there was no way they could hold them back.

Clearly, the country's executives had no idea that all of this was a chain reaction caused by

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