Twin Cities, above the ruins.
The living believers knelt quietly in a circle, clasping their hands in front of their chests, lowering their heads and constantly chanting and praying.
In the center of the circle they formed, there were nearly 20,000 corpses. The corpses were covered in white robes. One after another, believers walked into it, lay down quietly, and covered themselves with the clothes of faith.
What can be seen is that almost every believer lying on the ground has a crack in his head, while the believers who are alive and praying around have their heads intact, and at most they have bloody terror on their bodies, but under Healing Art, their injuries are nothing.
They prayed quietly and followed their calls, passing through Twilight, passing through the dark night, and arriving at Dawn the next day.
When the first ray of Dawn's light shone down, all the corpses on the ground, those dead Dawn Believers, began to burn with holy flames.
"The great Lord, the glory of Dawn, will lead them into Kingdom of Heaven and enjoy the life of Eternity."
Pastor Soto stood here solemnly with gray hair, devoutly watching Dawn's power take away all his dead believers.
In this extraordinary world, a world where Deities truly exists, such Miracle makes the surviving believers even more pious and fanatical.
However, Pastor Soto knows that these believers may not live long. Their vitality has been consumed too much in this war. After surviving, they can only live for two or three years at most. Those who consume less may be able to live for seven or eight years, but any longer will be impossible.
They will not have any doubts, but will think that it is Lord of Dawn because they participated in the holy war, so they call and take them to Eternal Kingdom of Heaven to serve the great Lord.
They will spend the next days without illness and disaster, and then go to Lord of Dawn's side peacefully.
Each Miracle will make the majesty of the Church even greater. This holy war will ultimately be their victory...
Thinking of this, Pastor Soto fell silent. He didn't know whether this holy war was a victory. Although they solved countless Twilight Kin, he still escaped. There is also the Williams, the guy who was watched and blessed by Twilight. He may not necessarily die.
Such a result was not what he wanted to see, and he didn't know how to explain this to Holy Mountain.
Pope may not know that Twilight Otherworldy God has lost part of his consciousness, and his own Divine Art has lost his divinity. Pope may not be able to sense the Otherworldly God of this world through Holy Mountain.
"As long as I don't tell, no one will know..."
Someone saw Hernan leaving... Thinking of this, Pastor Soto had a headache. He couldn't wait to go back to Holy Mountain to bathe Holy Radiance and wash away the attention on Twilight.
But he may not be able to leave now. If Hernan and Williams come back, he may never be able to leave Holy Mountain and will be imprisoned under Holy Mountain to atone for his sins.
Thinking of that ending, Pastor Soto couldn't help but feel fear.
He looked at Twin Cities. Most of the city had been broken, but it seemed that it was still not enough at this moment.
"This is the place of Otherworldly God's faith. The evil existence spreads faith here and spreads mortals to become his dependents. This is an unforgivable sin. This land has been contaminated with the breath of heresy."
He opened his mouth to speak, and soon there were clergymen shouting enthusiastically around him.
"Burn it!"
A fire burned in the ruins of Twin Cities. Except for the city wall with a huge gap, all the buildings were knocked down and destroyed. The only remaining Twin Cities survivors watched the Church destroy their homes. Apart from pain, they did not dare to resist in any way.
They are afraid that they, like those who clamored, will be thrown into the flames as heretics and burned into Ash.
The fire continued to burn for three days after tens of thousands of the Church believers left. During this period, Twin Cities and Natives tried to extinguish the flames. However, with limited manpower, they were unable to extinguish the increasingly raging flames. Instead, a number of people died again in the fire and thick smoke.
The mighty sky was also tainted with a layer of haze because of the fireworks in this city. The Church's holy war would not lose anything in the Church. Instead, it would be Andara Kingdom who completely lost a big city that connected the east and west sides.
Thousands of civilians were displaced, and their final destination may be to become slaves in a certain territory, or to continue living in another place with the last bit of money obtained from Twin Cities.
Under the thick smoke, only the superficial glory of the city remained. No, even the superficial glory was no longer glorious. The large gaps in the east and west walls were the remains of the Holy War of Faith.
The army of the Church will go to the west to help the Noble Army regiment of Daryl against MacReynolds, but it will not include those believers, only the knights, priests, and missionaries belonging to the Church who are truly extraordinary. The number will not be too many. After all, the Church in the Andara Kingdom does not have its own army.
Their power is paid by South's Holy Mountain and Andara Kingdom, and they often borrow the army in the kingdom to help them do things, but this time it is a holy war, and they are facing a Andara Kingdom civil war, plus the relationship between the Church and the empire led to South The balance between Royal Authority and theocracy is tilted, so the Church needs to use his own power to solve the problem of heresy.
However, the blessings and blessings brought by Divine Art may allow the war in the west to gain the upper hand. The Church is so entangled with the kingdom that it is difficult to tell them apart. Priests in wars are not uncommon.
Now Grand Duke McReynolds has chosen the empire, and King has chosen the Church. Of course, the priests are on the side of King, blessing the army's combat effectiveness.
Now, apart from himself, the only thing Grand Duke McReynolds can rely on is the empire's Rampaging Elephant Legion, as well as some magic Mages and Alchemist borrowed from Imperial Noble, to fight against the Church's clergy.
If Griffin Legion were not still powerful, there would be almost no possibility of the Archduke's victory.
It is impossible for the Griffin Legion to fight against the entire kingdom on his own without suffering heavy losses.
The Grand Duke had not thought of this yet, but Ryan had already figured it out.
After Otherworldly God Surtr's family members were all wiped out, in Ryan's opinion, the only internal threat to the kingdom was Grand Duke McReynolds. Even the four nobles in the south were defeated by the Rampaging Elephant Legion and were no longer within the threat range.
"In the war of the kingdom, only the compromise between King and the Grand Duke is left. Either the royal authority will no longer exist, or the Grand Duke will lose the powerful Griffin Legion."
But any result represents the weakening of the Andara Kingdom's national power, and I am afraid it will directly become the weakest kingdom among the eight kingdoms.
At that time, either they will fully rely on the Church, or they will become puppets controlled by the empire...
King chose the former, because at least King's power would not disappear too much, and it would be a tradition to be ridden by divine authority. Old King had not yet tried the feeling of being controlled by Royal Authority, so it was not a surprise to choose the Church.
"Currently, it seems that King will win against Grand Duke McReynolds, but the price will be high. Andara Kingdom will lose countless sovereignty. The Church's authority in the world will reach a higher level. It may recruit an army directly under the Church in the Andara Kingdom territory."
This is almost foreseeable. Ryan I don't know if there will be any extra variables.
Frozen Earth Territory, it is rare for him to come back because the snow is difficult to deal with, Rhino Horn Mountain can no longer pile up the Northgar River, the weather is still cold, and the snow will not melt.
There are piles of Snow Mountain piled up on the glacier. If they are transported to a farther place, the cost will be high, and many people may die.
"Burn it."
Ryan ordered that the snow be melted with flames, which wasted a lot of firewood, even Magic Crystal's expense.
"If the ice and snow don't melt, it will only bring more snow."
Ryan went to the mountains that were cleared for land reclamation. Most of the snow on these peaks that were designated as terraced fields was piled up around them, leaving open land.
"When the weather gets warmer, go to the Swamp to dig out the silt. The road will have to be rebuilt anyway, and the excess silt will be used to bury the land to fertilize it."
"All seeds, when planted, must be spaced one palm apart!"
The arrival of Ryan made the land reclamation team very nervous. He didn't need to say anything reasonable. He only needed to show the majesty of the lord, which would naturally scare these serfs and seize the time to reclaim the land.
"After Northwind Avenue is repaired, we have to use those construction workers to repair Frozen Earth Territory, as well as the houses in those villages. This snowstorm winter has destroyed a lot. We must also build more solid and reasonable villages for them."
Ryan had a headache. The more people there were, he still felt in a hurry even if he was just setting a general direction.
No wonder the nobles are either powerful themselves or hold the authority in their territory, so their path to transcendence is short-lived.
He has not exercised as a knight for several days. Northwind Avenue is experiencing the final relief, traveling through the short-lived Griffin Mountains. Even without Magical Beast, Mountain Forest has not had any human interference for hundreds of years. is still rugged and random. I asked Count Pascal for a batch of Gargoyle but still felt that it was not enough. Ryan just threw those Gargoyle into the piles.
There are countless underground holes in Mountain Forest, and even the knights don't know how many have been emptied, and they are in a state of embarrassment.
Sometimes Ryan couldn't help but feel happy that his people were not the native and pampered empire Natives, but the people in Other Plane who had lived completely through years of Northlands disasters.
Even after becoming knights, they still worked hard and without complaint, and would not have much resentment or dissatisfaction because they were left to build roads by Ryan. If it were the knights who were born and raised in the empire, they would probably have been talking behind their backs about him, a noble lord, who did not treat knights as human beings, but as cattle and horses.
After Frozen Earth Territory went back, he didn't even stay in his castle for long. Ryan continued back to the east avenue. The war horse galloped on the new road. Feeling the cold wind blowing by his ears and cheeks, Ryan also felt much more relaxed.
The news from the Andara Kingdom in the east is coming faster and faster. He can now receive letters from Viscount Fragoso in the construction team almost every day. The other party writes letters so frequently because he is worried about the situation in the kingdom. If he fails, he, the viscount, will also die in front of King.
He was scared and panicked. Even though he had been preparing for several years, he still felt uneasy about this rupturing civil war and betrayal, so he wrote to Ryan to vent his emotions.
Ryan doesn't mind, at least through these letters, he is always paying attention to the situation of the Andara Kingdom. From the beginning when his eyes were black, he could count the information on one hand, and now he can skillfully name more than 80% of the nobles in the kingdom.
The more he knows and the more information he has, the more accurately he can analyze the direction of the Andara Kingdom and how he can participate in it and seek benefits.
His initial idea was to wait for the road to be repaired and then obtain the wealth of the kingdom in the name of friendship, commerce, and helping the kingdom regain its vitality and prosperity.
However, as the recent exchanges with Viscount Fragoso deepened, the viscount, whom he had never met before, was almost willing to marry his daughter to him. Ryan also gradually understood that the decline of the royal family did not actually start in recent years.
There were already signs of it more than ten years ago, but at that time King was still strong and strong. He was wise and powerful, which made the nobles in the kingdom unite. No nobles thought about opposing any of King's orders. Even if they stayed in the palace, the nobles respected King's authority and praised his deep cultivation in the past decades, which allowed the kingdom to stabilize its land and wealth.
At that time, no noble would have thought of today, but as King grew older, the hidden dangers of the kingdom that he had suppressed were gradually exposed.
For example, the royal family no longer has Legendary, which is a very serious matter, but if King's authority is still there, this may not be a desperate situation.
The key lies in the fall of the Extraordinary Legion.
It is said that among the Otherworld discovered somewhere, Extraordinary Legion and Demon Kin from Abyss fought for almost ten years, wasting countless manpower and material resources, and all the Extraordinary Legion who belonged to the royal family, and the former Paladin Knights, perished in a war.
The royal family did not have Legendary to make the final decision, and Extraordinary Legion to suppress the armies from all sides, so they paid attention to balance.
It is better to strengthen yourself than to weaken your enemy.
Perhaps at the beginning, King also thought about using the foundation of the kingdom to form Hall Knights Legion again, but it was too late. He gradually realized that he was getting older. If he had been young, he would have been able to unite the new Extraordinary Legion strongly.
But the old King cannot suppress and control the knights of a new era. After all, the summons of those knights must come from the donations of various nobles.
After he discovered this problem, he had only one option left: weakening the overall strength of the kingdom and bringing everyone back to the same starting line, so that he could continue to maintain the authority of the royal family.
Although the offspring is a bit useless, it is not impossible to grow up in such a big environment and wait for the next generation. The next generation of King will allow Andara to rise again.
But the only thing he miscalculated was that times had changed, and Grand Duke McReynolds would never allow Griffin Legion to fall, even if his loyalty to the kingdom remained.
The final result was that the negotiation between the Grand Duke and Old King broke down, and the civil war gradually broke out in a desperate situation on both sides.
"So, Grand Duke McReynolds is not the only one who is dissatisfied and suspicious of the royal family."
"The other nobles in the kingdom only stood on the side of King under the influence of Old King and their loyalty to the royal family."
"In fact, there are already many conflicts in the kingdom, between nobles and nobles, between nobles and King, and between lords and the common people living in the city."
"And... Andara Royal Family's extraordinary powers are constantly decreasing. It seems that they can no longer maintain a strong extraordinary heritage. None of King's descendants, those princes, are knights or demons Mages."
Ryan was thinking about the information sent by Fragoso and couldn't help but be shocked by the result.
The royal family is actually unable to give birth to new extraordinary beings.
Their bloodline, their once-powerful inheritance of knights and demons Mages, was cursed and turned into ruins unable to embark on the extraordinary path.
This is the most terrifying contradiction in the kingdom today. If the royal family is no longer extraordinary, can they still become the object of loyalty to the nobles?
This is also the reason why Old King stubbornly wants to weaken the extraordinary power of the entire kingdom.
He is afraid that the royal family without the extraordinary will no longer be the royal family, so he goes crazy to smash the extraordinary trump cards of other nobles to maintain the majesty of the Andara Royal Family.
"The curse from the devil in Abyss destroyed Hall Knights Legion, and also made Andara Royal Family's bloodline curse unable to embark on the extraordinary path."
"Legendary fell because of this, and the extraordinary power of the royal bloodline has become fragile. Their dominance over the kingdom is constantly disappearing."
"The nobles are gradually dissatisfied with the benefits provided by King, because he suppresses the wealth of the nobles every year."
"If he died..."
Ryan can now imagine that the Church must have tried his best to keep Old King alive.
The new King, Hernan is no longer possible. I don't know whether they are dead or not. Among the remaining highnesses, no nobles will surrender in front of them and kiss the land in front of King.
The loyalty of the nobles is wavering.
At this moment, Ryan suddenly felt that Grand Duke McReynolds might not lose.
At both ends of the scale, the nobles were wavering. They were also thinking and trying to make a choice.
This would make the war less intense.
Ryan seemed to have seen himself entering Andara Kingdom in another identity.
In the camp and in the tent, Ryan collected the letters from the viscount one by one and arranged for them to be sent back to Frozen Earth Territory for storage. This represented the friendship between the two nobles. They were not some shameless assassins who would burn the letters with flames after reading them.
This is the future foundation of the Ryan Family. In-depth communication with every noble represents the trust of both parties, which can become part of the right to speak.
And not long after the attendant left, a roar like a mountain and a tsunami finally came from the front, and soon, Lord Ryan also got the news.
"The road is open!"
When Ryan came to the front, the powerful Saint Realm and Mr. Alchemist Rose were floating in too dense a place. Metal particles surrounded him like long snakes wandering around, and finally sank into the mountain below, stabilizing all the soil, stones and mud.