Heavy tracks thundered across the swamp-ridden lands of the Southlands, the Mana Engine deafening. Whenever that terrifying sound appeared, it was often accompanied by countless explosions and a landscape left in ruins.
Countless farmers, serfs, and slaves died in this war, just like the nobles and knights from various territories whom they had killed not long ago.
For a time, the most sought-after profession in the entire Southlands became corpse collector.
Yet for some reason, the Dawn Kingdom's three armies, along with those transporting arms and weapons, had already killed who knew how many enemies, but it seemed as though they had made no progress at all. At any moment, a huge group of enemies could suddenly emerge... Even more unsettling was that the mass graves where corpse collectors dumped and buried bodies actually... contained no corpses at all. However, hardly anyone noticed this.
Under this horrifying pressure, the Dawn Kingdom issued two more conscription orders in succession, recruiting soldiers across the nation to reinforce the Southlands. Naturally, territories whose populations had been slaughtered clean by the Holy Crusaders would become their spoils of war.
Even the Dawn Kingdom was in such a state; the smaller surrounding nations were even worse.
The small nations near the border between the Graycastle Empire and the Dawn Kingdom were being steadily devoured by the War God Church at a rate of nearly one per day.
Even in the Divine Realm, the gods sensed that something was wrong. Nearly every god could clearly feel that their harvest of Faith Power was declining. Only Roger, the Magic Goddess, and the Writing God could offset it to some extent through the Magic Net, though their growth had slowed.
As the War God Church's largest "stronghold" in the mortal world, the Graycastle Empire was not in good