The Lionheart Kingdom's defeat
Even today, although the Three-Fork River Region is an exclave of the Kingdom, it has long been excluded from the Kingdom's top Sequence for development.
However, this place is extremely important. To the east, it can form an alliance with the trading city of Wells Port for self-protection; to the north, it can serve as a thorn in the side of the grasslands; and to the south, it can monitor the movements of the Emon Kingdom, the Half-Orc Kingdom, and the Centaur Kingdom.
More importantly...
The Three-Fork River Region is also one of the Ancestral Land of the Lionheart Royal Family.
In that upheaval thousands of years ago, the Lionheart Royal Family lost their Bolek fiefdom and fled north to the grasslands, where they preserved their life and strength in the Three-Fork River Region.
They then developed step by step, eventually moving south to Bolek and re-establishing the nation.
The Three-Fork River Region has always been directly governed by the Lionheart Royal Family and ruled by the Grand Dukes of royal lineage.
The Hasoladi Kingdom dared to wage war without declaring war, enraging the entire Kingdom!
The year is 3624 in the Elf Dynasty Calendar.
Under the overwhelming public pressure, King Spid Lionheart set aside his power struggle with the church, mobilized the Kingdom's army, marched north to the grasslands, and attacked the Hasoladi Kingdom.
However, because the grasslands were too vast, the Kingdom's army was hastily assembled and had not fought for a long time, and the general leading the army was unfamiliar with the grasslands.
After marching across the grasslands for a month, when their food and supplies were running low, they were attacked by the well-rested army of the Hasoladi Kingdom, and Lionheart's Kingdom was defeated!
And because it was on the grasslands, apart from a few Transcendent nobles who managed to escape, the rest of the army was completely wiped out!
The news of the army's defeat shocked the entire Kingdom once again, and this time, the Lionheart Royal Family and the Kingdom's nobles took it seriously.
In the past, during times of peace, the Lionheart Royal Family was renowned as Divine Descendants lineage because of their lineage Lord of Judgment.
The Arona Royal Family in the southern Dawn Kingdom is also known as the royal family of Divine Descendants because they possess the bloodline of the Lord of Dawn.
These two families are considered to possess the noblest bloodlines among mortals.
Therefore, they have lived well and developed smoothly for thousands of years.
But this time, with the departure of the Lord of Judgment and the Lord of Dawn, Paradise Mountain was empty, and the defeat of the Lionheart Kingdom showed the world that even the Divine Descendants lineage was not invincible.
The morale of the Hasoladi Kingdom was greatly boosted after defeating the Lionheart Kingdom's northward-bound army!
The year is 3627 in the Elf Dynasty Calendar.
The Hasoladi Kingdom once again marched south to attack the Lionheart Kingdom.
However, this time, they were repelled.
The year is 3633 in the Elf Kingdom Calendar.
King Mikto Hasoladi of the Hasoladi Kingdom discovered a secret buried for thousands of years by the Behemoth Royal Court of the steppe.
The Behemoth were originally an intelligent race that descended from the Icelands Plateau.
In the Icelands Plateau, besides the Behemoth, there are many other races with enormous physiques, all of which are naturally powerful military forces.
Therefore, the Hasoladi Kingdom slowed down its external wars, only sending elite troops to guard the Three-Fork River Region and occasionally engaging in battles with the Lionheart Kingdom to maintain pressure.
Their main focus was on conquering the large races of the Icelands Plateau.
The Elf Dynasty, 3655.
King Spid Lionheart of the Lionheart Kingdom suffered a decline in prestige year after year due to the loss of the Three-Fork River Region and decades of defeats in foreign wars, during which he had failed to recover lost territory.
However, because he was entangled with the church while fighting against the Hasoladi Kingdom, he aroused the dissatisfaction of the royal family and the Kingdom's nobles.
This year.
Spide Lionheart's younger brother, Helle Lionheart, staged a coup, deposed his brother from the throne, and ascended to the throne of King Lionheart.
This was the first King in the history of the Lionheart Kingdom to seize the throne through a coup.
Fortunately, he did not kill his brother, preserving the last vestige of kinship within the Lionheart Family.
The year is 3656 in the Elf Dynasty Calendar.
Hellett Lionheart married the daughter of a high-ranking noble lord from the Silver Moon Elf Dynasty in the North, and sent envoys to cultivate good relations with the neighboring Emon Kingdom, thus strengthening diplomatic ties.
The Elf Dynasty, year 3657.
Helle Lionheart announced his intention to reclaim the Three-Fork River Region, assembling a coalition of the Kingdom's elite Knight and Kingdom troops, which split into two routes.
One route involved cavalry crossing the grasslands, while the other passed through the Emon Kingdom; both routes advanced simultaneously to attack the Hasoladi Kingdom.
However, things didn't go as planned.
The cavalry legion that traversed the grasslands was blocked by the cavalry of the former Steppe Royal Court, whom Hasoladi had defeated, and failed to reach the Three-Fork River Region in time.
Meanwhile, the army that had passed through the Emon Kingdom successfully reached the Three-Fork River Region and launched an attack, but was blocked by the troops left behind by Hasoladi. They were unable to take the city for several months, and as the soldiers began to grow weary of war and food supplies became insufficient, they were forced to retreat.
This time, the Kingdom's army's expedition to the Three-Fork River Region was fruitless, despite expending a large amount of food and supplies. This caused some of the Kingdom's nobles to no longer support the King in launching another war to reclaim the Three-Fork River Region.
After all, the Three-Fork River Region was land directly under the royal family's control, and it didn't really have much to do with these local nobles.
The Kingdom's major nobles rarely established a presence in the Three-Fork River Region.
Left with no other choice.
Helle Lionheart was forced to temporarily abandon the war to retake the Three-Fork River Region.
Although in his heart he had already cursed those short-sighted Kingdom nobles to the extreme.
But what comforted him was that the Three-Fork River Region wasn't lost during his tenure, but rather due to his unfortunate brother's "achievements."
However, his smile quickly faded.
The Elf Dynasty, year 3679.
After decades of conquest.
The Hasoladi Kingdom has finally conquered a significant portion of the Icelands Plateau.
This part of the Icelands Plateau is located in the southernmost, warmer region; further north, it becomes too cold.
Even the Hasoladi Kingdom would find it difficult to go any further north.
However, even in the southernmost part of the Icelands Plateau, a large number of large creatures live.
They subjugated dozens of Frost Giant tribes, forming an army of several thousand Frost Giant.
There are also some Behemoth tribes that can summon nearly a thousand Behemoth Beast.
In addition, a large number of enormous Icefield Wolf, Icefield Ox, and Icelands Giant Elephant over twenty meters tall were all conquered by the Hasoladi Kingdom and formed a Giant legion.
The year is 3685 in the Elf Dynasty Calendar.
The Hasoladi Kingdom led its army south, and the powerful Hasoladi army, taking the Giant by surprise, conquered the three North counties of the Lionheart Kingdom in one fell swoop.
These three counties were all lands that the Lionheart Kingdom had gradually encroached upon from the north over thousands of years, encroaching upon the Steppe Royal Court.
Hundreds of the Kingdom, dozens of viscounts, nine earls, and one marquessland were occupied.
Large numbers of the Kingdom nobles died in battle, and many Knight perished.
Only a small number of the Kingdom's nobles fled back to the Bolek Royal City.
This was a rare and devastating defeat!
What alarmed the Kingdom's nobles even more was that after conquering the three North counties, the army of the Hasoladi Kingdom did not stop but continued south, preparing to take down the Bolek Royal City in one fell swoop and destroy the Lionheart Kingdom.
Fortunately, at the crucial final moment...
The Emon Kingdom, the North noble lords of the Elf Dynasty, and the church Knight of the western Holy City all dispatched troops to support them, preventing Hasoladi's army from reaching the Bolek City.
This battle.
The Lionheart Kingdom was utterly devastated, and the entire world witnessed the formidable strength of the Hasoladi Kingdom.
A Human Race Kingdom in the far North has unexpectedly acquired the powerful fortune that once characterized the rise of the Goblin Empire and the Troll Empire.
King Heleit Lionheart of Lionheart, fearing the power of the Hasoladi Kingdom, once considered moving the capital to the Western Sea Coast.
But the contemporary Duke Pendragon dissuaded him.
"The southern part of the Western Sea Coast is all noble territory, North is the church's sphere of influence. If the King goes there, there will be no city he can stay in. After that, who will listen to you?"
Heather Lionheart listened and painfully realized that it was indeed true, so he had to abandon the idea.
However, he still sent his youngest son to the southern part of the Kingdom, near the Western Mountain Range of Feland and the North forests of the Dwarf Mountain Range Kingdom, to expand his territory.
He dispatched his second son to the southernmost part of the Western Sea Coast Kingdom's territory to seize the Fish People's lands and expand his own territory.