The war between the two empires escalated into a full-scale war.
The Southern Continent has a vast territory with a wide variety of terrains and landforms. Even with its rapid advance, the Northern Continent has made slow progress, not to mention that some areas have been repeatedly contested due to their terrain, which has consumed a lot of time.
The current war pattern in the Northern Continent is too entrenched to be controlled. Once they stop advancing outwards, internal conflicts and a heavy logistical system will completely drag the entire empire down. Therefore, they have no choice but to advance recklessly, regardless of sacrifices.
In the beginning, the reputation of the Northern Continent soared, and its themes and ideas attracted wave after wave of people from the Southern Continent to seek refuge there. Many even began to follow suit themselves, using this to smear the reputation of that Pale God.
This caused the people of the Southern Continent to lose all support, while the occupied territories of the Northern Continent became united and genuinely believed they had welcomed a wise and benevolent emperor.
The Pale God was further vilified, with some saying he ate people daily, particularly young children, and that the entire imperial city was a hunting ground for that pale monster.
Some say he was a womanizer, raping and then eating women, indiscriminately treating men and women, young and old, which terrified people.
Some say he actually treated the entire Southern Continent as his sheepfold, and everything he did was to raise food for selection and slaughter.
In short, the Pale God Norton was attacked from all sides, and his reputation was ruined.
This made the Northern Continent more popular, with a large number of people going there to seek refuge. In other words, the occupied cities did not resist at all, but instead the vast majority submitted directly.
After all, in their view, the Northern Continent were indeed one family, all separated from their own, so there was no reason to kill or harm the poor.
This is also thanks to the Northern Continent's truly powerful control over public opinion and its exceptionally strong intelligence system.
In contrast, the Southern Continent, which was at a complete disadvantage in every aspect from beginning to end, did not stand out at all. Even its only spiritual leader, the Pale God Norton, remained secluded, as if he were dead.
This situation has completely eroded the resistance spirit of the people of the Southern Continent. There are virtually no armed resistance forces in the region, and only the Pale Holy See is constantly organizing people to resist. However, this forced conscription has made everyone feel insecure, and the people's hearts have been completely lost.
In this state, three years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Over the course of three years, the Northern Continent has been encroaching on the territory of the Southern Continent, causing tens of millions of deaths and injuries. The territory it occupies has also expanded dramatically, making it difficult to reshape and brainwash the occupied territories as thoroughly as it did at the beginning.
Its warfare model is like a massive machine; once started, it's hard to stop, and it expands rapidly.
This situation has led to a shift in the newly conquered territories of the Northern Continent, resulting in a different model: brutal conscription.
The urgency of time and the fact that the regime itself was too powerful to control meant that the upper echelons of the Northern Continent could no longer maintain their previous gentle purges. Instead, they resorted to coercive oppression. Those who entered were "reformed," and those who refused were sent to concentration camps for obedience training. After a week or two of training, they would be sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
These people are not issued weapons, but only serve as scouts to explore, trigger landmines, or destroy the trench defenses of the Southern Continent.
Such behavior has tarnished his own reputation, and his cruelty has become a frequent topic of conversation among the people of the Southern Continent, who are deeply terrified by it.
Even so, due to the vast territory of the Southern Continent, the Northern Continent has only managed to nibble away at the entire Far East and some coastal areas of the Southern Continent in the past three years, and is still far from swallowing up the main force of the Southern Continent.
Even though during these three years, the intelligence system of the Northern Continent infiltrated the core of the Holy Empire, and the assassination organizations occasionally carried out some assassination operations that were famous Southern Continent, killing many high-ranking officials of the Southern Continent, their effect was nothing more than to entertain the people every day.
One high-ranking official dies, but there are many more high-ranking officials to come.
As long as that Pale God does not die, their superiors will be inexhaustible.
This intimidation campaign involving the assassination of high-ranking officials not only failed to shake the main body of the Southern Continent, but also branded the Northern Continent as cruel.
In addition, their brutal acts of conquering cities have been exposed in recent days, which actually coincides with the views of some political figures or wise men who have been assassinated or arrested in the past.
In addition, the quality of the once-highly trained regular army of the Northern Continent has plummeted after being scattered and dispersed among various units.
The newly recruited troops were all untrained new recruits, and they were all soldiers sent to their deaths for the sake of their families.
These new recruits lacked the qualities of the veterans of the past; instead, they were only thinking about having a wild time before they died. As a result, incidents of bullying men and women, robbery, and shootings in the streets increased wildly, becoming more and more outrageous.
It even gradually evolved into the act of killing innocent people and claiming credit for their deeds.
Even if they enter a city and the local residents do not resist, they will still be arbitrarily labeled as rebels, and used to bully and kill at will, completely unleashing the bestial nature in their hearts.
Such actions were widely publicized, and the reputations of the Northern Continent were reversed once again. People in the Southern Continent lived in fear, afraid that the army of the Northern Continent would attack their cities. Their resistance increased significantly. The Pale God's past reputation for cruelty was no longer mentioned. Instead, people were filled with fear of the arrival of the Northern Continent's army. Many people even went to the Pale Church every day to pray to the Pale God they had once despised, begging for the god's descent.
The people of the Southern Continent were so arrogant at first and then obsequious, which was truly laughable. What was even more laughable was that the Pale God had not made any statement in these three years, yet his reputation had reversed back and forth, which was truly invincible.
In this way, the will of the people of the Southern Continent awakened itself.
Day and night, in the cities of the Southern Continent that had not yet fallen, people raised the banner of resistance, held aloft the plaque of the Pale Holy See, proclaimed the atrocities of the Northern Continent's army, spread the idea of resistance, and shouted the holiness of the Pale God, which made the people's belief in resistance even more magnificent.
Finally, Norton seventy-three years.
Seemingly attracted by the benefits of aggression, the East Continent Empire, located on the other side of the Gobi Desert, suddenly dispatched troops.
Using the excuse that its ambassador had traveled thousands of miles to the Southern Continent to meet the Pale God, only to disappear thereafter, it forcefully joined the war.
In just three months, armies came one after another, crossing the vast Gobi Desert and traveling thousands of miles to invade the northern border of the Southern Continent.
Who in the Southern Continent could have imagined this?
The northern cities were originally located in the rear of the war, and almost all available troops had been transferred to the eastern front. Now that the city was poorly defended, it was easy for someone to invade, as if taking candy from a baby!
In just six months, the army of the East Continent had already invaded the heartland.
Their invasion encompassed the entire northern border of the Holy Empire, and these people from the East Continent were far more savage than those from the Northern Continent.
They would slaughter indiscriminately when conquering cities, showing no mercy due to racial differences.
Countless treasures of gold and silver were transported out of the city by this bandit-like group and sent back to their homes via supply lines.
Such beastly behavior was actually considered by them to be acting on behalf of Heaven, killing these despicable barbarians with white skin.
Such a sudden change left the people of the Southern Continent completely bewildered. Caught between two forces, the Southern Continent, which had been severely damaged, was now in grave danger.
At such a dangerous level.
In the seventy-fourth year of Norton, the Pale God Norton, who had been in seclusion for a long time, suddenly awoke from his silence.
Enraged by the invasions of the Eastern and Northern Continent Northern Continent, they issued a call for war, determined to drive the invaders back to their homeland!
In this way, the two-way power structure was fully established.
From the perspective of the Northern Continent, their actions were a struggle against the orthodoxy of humanity.
From the perspective of the people of the Southern Continent, their actions were a struggle for their own survival and for their country.
From the perspective of the people of the East Continent, they were avenging their envoy, acting on behalf of Heaven, and slaying these rebellious barbarians ruled by monsters to prevent them from wreaking havoc on the world.
As a result, all three parties believed themselves to be the true righteous ones, which escalated the war to its extreme and caused complete chaos in the Garden of Eden.