The tall white city walls and every stone are engraved with the teachings of Dawn. This glorious city is called Wall of Dawn, and at this moment it belongs to Ryan.
Royal City War ended and a new day arrived. Ryan's army could not rest. They hunted down the Church clergy from one battlefield to this place.
It is not difficult to conquer this city. Perhaps the Church never thought that one day this city would be attacked.
The army flooded the city, and then everyone, yes, everyone in the city, without exception, was arrested.
"Dawn's believer?"
Ryan stood on the ruins, bearing the angry gazes of thousands of people here.
Because the ruins under his feet were once the church that served Lord of Dawn, and the ground Ryan stepped on was the land where they knelt down in piety and reverence time and time again.
"There are a total of 120,000 people in this city. According to the rules, I will kill you all because I am not sure that you will no longer serve Dawn."
"In this case, you will always be enemies of the Empire."
"As long as you live, more soldiers of the empire will die."
Ryan didn't care at all about the countless angry and murderous glances. He kicked down a priest the Church next to him, and cut off the opponent's head with Knight's Greatsword in his hand. The priest struggled, but he was too weak.
"The great and immortal light is the faith that we should truly serve. Dawn is only short-lived. Only light can Eternity."
"The Church of Light of the empire are the true servants who believe in the great Deities."
"I think if I escort you back to Imperial Capital, I can gain more."
Ryan One sword after another fell, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen heads fell to the ground. He stood in front of a female missionary, but did not draw his sword again.
"I'll give you three days to go back and tell the Church behind you, and ask them how many Gold Coin they plan to use to redeem the people in this city."
The female missionary stared angrily at Ryan, her sharp voice filled with hatred and heartache for the city being destroyed.
"Dawn will not let go of any heretic."
She ran towards the city gate, but the next moment, the long sword that pierced her chest turned blood red. Ryan looked back empty-handed and shrugged helplessly.
"Her faith is too devout, and I am afraid of having such an enemy who is not afraid of death."
He looked at the next person, an old man with a gray beard, looking at Ryan with infinite hatred.
"You killed my daughter."
Ryan blinked and raised his hand to find that Knight's Greatsword was still inserting himself into the woman.
A Knight Retainer came up from behind and chopped off the old man's head with a sword until a new priest knelt in front of him.
"I, I, my faith is not religious, I can help you deliver the message."
The priest said loudly, he was scared and prayed to Ryan to spare his life.
Around the priest, there was a circle of more than a dozen clergymen shouting. This might be their only chance to survive. They were so frightened that they could not control themselves. At this moment, they kept telling what they could do for Ryan.
In the distance, some people are also ready to make a move.
But Ryan glanced at them and laughed.
"Isn't this how you can tell the difference?"
He looked at these people and said in their frightened and desperate eyes:
"Your beliefs are not religious at all. If you run away, how can I trust you to ask the Church to pay the ransom?"
"Only devout believers will risk their lives for these hundreds of thousands of people, because they are all believers of Dawn, and they can make Lord of Dawn feel more served."
"You don't look like someone who could give your life for Dawn."
"You are not religious enough."
A group of priests and missionaries fell to the ground in despair. They looked at Ryan in horror and kept mumbling.
"Devil, you are simply a devil!"
"If you can see the devil after you die, say hello to him for me."
Ryan stopped looking at these people and continued to walk forward. There were screams and wailing behind them, but they quickly disappeared.
He walked among the people who were kneeling on the ground. These people were all believers who served Dawn. It could even be said that their devout beliefs were far firmer than everyone else in the Andara Kingdom, because only in this way could Pastor Soto allow them to enter the city and enjoy a better life.
This city is like a flag, allowing believers in the kingdom to strengthen their faith in order to enter this city.
And the believers in the city, in order to live a better life, naturally strengthen their beliefs impeccably.
Over time, I got used to it.
Ryan walked among the crowd. He pointed and shot at random, just like a list of the God of Death. The person he pointed out was dragged out by the soldiers behind him, and then killed mercilessly.
Just when he pointed at a woman, the soldier behind him rushed out. A young man next to the woman suddenly bumped into the soldier, and then rushed towards Ryan with a dagger in his hand.
The next moment, Ryan's palm crushed the dagger in his hand, and he pinched his neck and raised it while the latter was horrified and looking at him.
"Ah, I found it, the indomitable soul."
"You are more worthy of my respect than the fanatics who serve Dawn."
He threw the young man onto the woman's body.
"Is she your mother?"
Ryan asked, looking at the reaction of the young man and the woman and nodded.
"It seems so."
"You heard what I just said. Leave this city, go find the Church, and tell them that there are hundreds of thousands of Dawn devout believers in this city. Ask them whether they want the people in this city to live or die."
"I can guarantee you that as long as you can do this, your mother, and your family, will survive, no matter what the final result is."
With a wave of their hands, the soldiers grabbed the seven or eight people in front of them, then held the young man and threw him outside the Wall of Dawn city.
Ryan stood there and shouted condescendingly to everyone:
"Your life will not be decided by me, but by the Church. Let's see if the Church of Dawn you serve will work hard for you people."
More than half of the army stayed behind, and the entire Andara Kingdom was horrified by Baron Ryan's ruthlessness. At the same time, they also knew that the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in that city would be determined by the Church's response in a few days.
The soldiers were ordered to guard the city so that these Dawn Believers could not escape, and Ryan once again led the other half of the army to the ruins of the royal city.
"Baron Ryan, you will suffer revenge from the Church."
Stuart said next to him, he knew the price of this matter very well. No matter what, the Church would keep those hundreds of thousands of people alive, and at the same time he must hate Ryan.
"They should thank me for saving more Dawn Believers in the Andara Kingdom."
Ryan said this, his face was calm and he did not explain more to Stuart.
On the other side, the only young man who was lucky enough to leave the city of the Church was running wildly in the southern land. He had only one thought in his mind, and that was three days.
He only had three days, and Ryan only gave him three desperate days.
Out of breath from running, he no longer remembered whether he was going the right way or not. He leaned against a tree to rest in despair.
"Lord, please tell your devout believer Warren how I can reach the land of the Church in three days."
After a long time, he did not wait for his master's response, but his physical strength recovered a lot. He looked around the Wilds Mountain Forest and saw a wild boar foraging in the distance.
The war caused humans to appear less frequently, so the beasts also traveled further afield.
Warren rushed towards the wild boar. He held down the wild boar that was struggling wildly, stuck a branch on its buttocks, and forced it to run towards the south.
He finally had a mount and could move forward faster, but there were more troubles waiting for him ahead.
Passing by the fields, villagers surrounded him because they were interested in the wild boar under him, which was expensive meat.
Running around here and there, Warren finally broke out of the encirclement, but the price was that he had some more bloodstains on his body, and the mount he had just acquired was gone.
Sneaking into a territory secretly, this is the territory of a certain Baron, but recently Baron was not at home. He went to the North's royal city and was going to pledge allegiance to King.
Warren sneaked into the stable, and there was only one old horse left here. It was already very old, and even Baron couldn't touch it.
Warren took the horse out and galloped amidst a burst of panicked shouts. He had to leave the kingdom in three days, and then he had to find the bishop of the Church and tell him about the kingdom.
He doesn't care about anything but his own life.
In front of a fast-flowing river, the angry knight found the old horse grazing. His roar made the soldiers behind him bow their heads in fear.
"Damn horse thief!"
After cursing and searching around, the knight took the old horse back, and in the river, Warren suddenly came out, panting heavily. He was very cold, his body was losing temperature, and he had a fever when he walked out of the river.
"Can't sleep..."
Warren continued walking towards the south. Even the darkness could not stop him. The hungry wolf wanted to find food, which eventually became his food. The wounds on his body were scabbed. He wrapped Wolfskin and rested for less than an hour before he continued to set off.
Royal city.
Except for the tall city walls, the place still looked like ruins. Adams stood on top of the ruins and laughed.
"Your Majesty, the nobles are rushing to the royal city. I believe that soon, they will kneel in front of you and swear allegiance to you."
Count Merses said respectfully, and Adams was even more satisfied after hearing this.
At this time, Ryan led the army to re-enter the royal city.
After walking through the ruins, only half of the Royal Palace was left. He frowned and looked at the nobles around him.
"Why is no one cleaning up the corpses in the city?"
"Do you want to wait for those corpses to stink?"
After the nobles fell silent, they whispered to the knights behind them. Soon there was a loud noise outside. Thousands of soldiers began to clean up the corpses of Orcs in the royal city, and piled them on the land north of the royal city, where soldiers dug holes.
"You can't be buried there. This is the royal city. How can you damn Orcs be buried under the royal city?"
"What can't be buried? Their corpses will fertilize the land of the North."
Ryan didn't care about Adams's anger and looked at the half-broken Royal Palace. This was Farrell's masterpiece.
Adams stared at Ryan angrily, but did not dare to scold him. He still remembered the time Ryan killed Legendary Cardinal Archbishop's sword, and he still remembered that during the Dawn time period when Cardinal Archbishop was killed, Ryan led his army to angrily massacre the Church's knights and clergy, and finally kicked McPherson down, dragging them into the royal city like a wild dog.
The battle that night allowed the kingdom to see the military strength of the empire, and in the morning, all the nobles saw the cruelty and ruthlessness of Baron Ryan.
He killed all Holy Guard Legion soldiers, an army of twenty to thirty thousand people, who were ruthlessly massacred by Ryan. The blood flowed into lakes, and the flames where the corpses were piled up still have black smoke rising into the sky to this day.
After that, Baron Ryan led the army to kill Wall of Dawn, the city that belonged to the Church. Everyone knew what he was going to do. He was taking revenge on the Church, and in revenge for Cardinal Archbishop killing a large number of his soldiers with the power of Legendary.
How many soldiers Ryan died in that war, and the Church buried them with ten times their lives afterwards.
Such methods frightened the nobles, so when Ryan asked why no one had disposed of Orcs's body, the nobles were unwilling to refute.
Ryan looked at the Royal Palace here, frowned, and then stared at Adams.
Under his gaze, Adams retreated subconsciously.
"Prince Adams, are you planning to accept the allegiance of the nobles here?"
He pointed at the dilapidated Royal Palace, which no longer had its former glory.
Adams was speechless for a moment and looked around, yes, such an environment is too embarrassing, and how could King's majesty and royal family's glory be in such a broken royal city.
He didn't know what to do for a while. If he accepted the allegiance of the nobles here, I'm afraid he would become the most embarrassed King.
He cares about this.
Ryan waved his hand, and soldiers from afar drove the carriages over one by one.
Ryan stepped forward and tore apart the rotten wooden carriage carriages with a slap. They were originally boxes that Ryan had hastily put together out of wood. Within the boxes, dazzling gems and crystals as well as some precious treasures were exposed.
There are these things in every carriage box.
"This is the royal family's wealth that I plundered from the city of Dawn. McPherson took them away when he left the royal city. They belong to King."
The nobles were breathing rapidly, and Adams was trembling all over at this moment. He stared at the wealth.
"Lai...Baron Ryan."
Adams swallowed and then said:
"Thank you for helping me bring back the wealth that belongs to King. I think I should reward you."
"Just... just Gold Coin in those two boxes."
Adams pointed at a carriage, and he took a look around. Perhaps those boxes containing Gold Coin were the least valuable.
Ryan salutes with a smile. One box costs almost two thousand Gold Coin, which is about the same as the reward for this line of work.
"Thank you Your Majesty for your generosity, but I suggest that you use part of your wealth to hire some demons Mages and knights to help repair Royal Palace."
"Letting the nobles swear an oath to King in the ruins may make the nobles dissatisfied."
"That's right."
Suddenly gaining a huge amount of wealth, Adams became confident and recognized what Ryan said.
"I will use one million Gold Coin's wealth to invite the devil Mages to repair the royal city."
"There are not that many demons in the kingdom Mages. Maybe I can help you think of a solution on this matter."
Ryan said this, thinking how should Northwind Province's chamber of commerce thank him?
There are still many things to communicate between the nobles and the new King. For example, there are disputes over interests between the Count Kantras and King. Of course, these nobles have no choice but to support Adams, but this support also depends on the degree of compromise between the two parties.
After all... the current Adams·King of Andara is weaker than any previous King. If he doesn't seize the opportunity, he may not have another chance in the future.
Ryan did not participate, because no matter what the outcome, his share would never be less.
He is now arranging troops to take back the castle defense lines, but this process is much simpler. There are no enemies. As long as his troops pass by, they can plant the Legion of Light Judgment flag.
A small number of Orcs saw the arrival of the human army and fled back to the North.
Finally, Ryan stood in the north of the kingdom. It was already a little cold here, and the cold wind blew over. He looked at the mountain peak a thousand meters away.
"Is that the mountain peak that grows on Warthog?"
Ryan shocked the misty mountain peaks, and Rose, Farrell and Stuart around him also became nervous.
"No wonder Feather Dragon Legion destroyed half of the army here."
Farrell opened his eyes wide. Even if he brought Rampaging Elephant Legion, let alone dealing with Warthog, even if he wanted to destroy this mountain peak, it would take ten days and a half of non-stop destruction, right?
"Continue?"
The army stopped here. The kingdom's land was still in front of them, at least a few kilometers away, but they could not move forward.
Because I don't know if Mountain-Bearing Warthog can possibly wake up.
"If it wants to wake up, it needs a lot of energy, that is, food. Every day it wakes up is a huge consumption. Warthog Orcs... It definitely can't pay for that energy now."
Stuart said this. This Legendary Mage was still angry at Ryan's insult to him, but after Ryan killed Raymond, he also recognized the strength of this Baron and chose to reconcile.
After all, at that time, as Raymond's opponent, he was fully capable of blocking that Holy Radiance Beam, but he did not do anything to keep his Magic Power strong.
Today is different from the past. If Ryan is just an ordinary Baron, he doesn't have to pay attention to anything. But if Baron can kill a Legendary Cardinal Archbishop, then he is qualified to question his fault.
He paid the price of heartache in exchange for Ryan's understanding.
"Then let's go. Our mission is to help Adams become King of the kingdom, so that Andara Kingdom and the empire can form an alliance to fight against the Church."
Ryan turned around and took the army back, and the Church also learned about Ryan's request on this day.