Calamity in the Depths of the Northlands

Through exchanges of interest, the Empire's nobles could not completely prevent invitations to duels.

Quite a few nobles still appeared on the Empire's opposing side, bearing loyal faith in the Lord of Dawn.

But that did not mean the Empire's nobles would abide by the rules of knightly duels.

Across this vast land, small-scale hunts broke out one after another.

After all, individual strength was limited. Not everyone could be legendary.

Beneath the sky, beams of snowy white light shot straight into the heavens. Only after the brutal battles ended did the nobles discover that these people had received Dawn's blessing and gained the power of angels.

"Damn The Church! How could they be so underhanded? Did they want to use angelic blessings to kill our knights?"

"Damn Empire! They have completely lost all honesty and integrity. Shameless and deceitful."

The Church of Dawn's clergy naturally cursed the Empire's nobles for their shamelessness as well, claiming they had rendered the ancient knightly traditions meaningless.

One Angel-powered Judge after another died on the road before they could even approach the Nantes Kingdom. The Imperial cavalrymen who arrived in the Nantes Kingdom rubbed their hands eagerly, only to be greeted by the kingdom's nobles with lavish hospitality.

On the surface, this war of revenge seemed to involve only several thousand Imperial noble knights. In reality, far more people were implicated. The entire southern land came alive. No matter where The Church found believers of Dawn to serve as agents of angelic judgment, the Empire's nobles could always find hunting parties to pursue them.

The respective agents of The Church and the Empire slaughtered one another frenziedly across this land. By the time the Imperial noble cavalry had enjoyed one banquet after another in the Nantes Kingdom, they still had not seen a