After the Pale God was determined to wreak havoc on the Garden of Eden, his ways changed abruptly.
The extent of its change is beyond description; it has gone from harmless to ruthless, even tyrannical. Only words like perverted and insane can truly capture His Majesty's mad will.
In the winter of Norton 74, the Pale God of the Holy Empire forcibly conscripted laborers.
All past wealth and status are now worthless, and all people are once again enslaved.
This system of slavery is completely different from the past. Although the Pale God of the past gave the people of the Southern Continent the status of slaves, the treatment they received was extremely good.
Things are different now.
From eight years old to seventy-five years old, as long as you reached the age to work, you were all gathered together and conscripted into the factory. Only pregnant women who were full-term could receive some exemptions and give birth easily.
During this period, the average working hours per person reached a brutal twelve hours per day.
If it were simply that, it wouldn't be so bad; it would just be exploitation.
Its true brutality is manifested on the front lines.
In just three months, that Pale God forcibly conscripted a million soldiers. During this period, the soldiers received less than a month of training before being forcibly thrown into the battlefield to begin a frenzied, bloody, meat grinder war with the Northern Continent.
This war is a total war; the entire border of the occupied areas of the Northern Continent is constantly under fighting, without a moment's rest.
Whether it was day or night, the battlefield was bombarded by a dense barrage of artillery shells and bullets. A constant stream of logistical and frontline troops were rotated back and forth to allow the frontline soldiers to rest briefly. After a twelve-hour rest period, they would be replaced and sent to the front lines again.
Its bloodshed and cruelty are unimaginable; no war in human history has ever been as constant as it is today.
The entire border was repeatedly contested, during which time as many as a dozen people could die on every square meter of land.
The corpses piled up like mountains, but no one was there to collect them, because the war never stopped.
The bodies that died ten hours ago may still be bombarded by artillery shells, and the ground the soldiers are stepping on now may be muddy from the blood and flesh of soldiers from a week ago.
The trenches were filled with corpses, and the soldiers in the trenches pushed the corpses out and piled them up on the side to form a new line of flesh and blood defense.
Once a steel tank is deployed to the battlefield, it may not be long before it becomes stuck in the blood and gore of corpses and unable to move.
Everywhere there were bits of flesh and bones, and everywhere there was a putrid stench.
On a battlefield piled high with corpses, the smell of gunpowder managed to completely mask the stench of decaying bodies, which gives you an idea of just how intense the artillery fire must have been.
The Fifth-Generation Vampire, who were once at the bottom of the Vampire hierarchy, were also formidable warriors on the battlefield. Their immense strength allowed them to withstand tanks even when there were more than ten of them, and they were not easily killed.
However, in today's modern warfare where artillery fire is rampant, the power of the Fifth-Generation Vampire cannot be compared with modern weapons on the entire battlefield.
If one bullet can't kill, then a cannonball can.
If a single artillery shell can't kill it, then the image of God carved on the tank can burn it to death.
The struggles of the Northern Continent over the past few decades have been no joke; they have truly and thoroughly studied all the extraordinary individuals in the Southern Continent.
Most importantly, it also possesses a super soldier— War Machine!
This being, with a body made of steel and a soul powered by it, is the nemesis of all other superhuman beings except for the First-Generation Vampire and the Pale God.
Even if the witch's fire breath could indeed melt her, her agile movements would allow her to easily dodge the flames from a distance and use guns to blast the witch into pieces.
Such evenly matched strength turned the war into a Hell spectacle.
Almost every day, up to 30,000 people on both sides would die on the battlefield, with countless more wounded.
If we compare it to battles on Earth, taking the most brutal example of the Battle of Stalin as an example, the Soviet army suffered approximately 2,038 deaths per day during the Battle of Stalin, while the death toll in the Southern Continent and Northern Continent reached as high as 30,000 per day. This gives us an idea of the ferocity of the war.
The number of logistics personnel on both sides is in the millions, and these millions are just medical staff or porters who are constantly busy behind the front lines. The real logistics are the foundation of the two great empires.
No one could have imagined that this war would escalate to such a brutal and massive scale. After all, war is too horrific, and the casualties too heavy, so the country itself would be the first to refuse to continue the campaign. For example, the Germany in World War I and the Germany in World War II.
However, the two sides in the war are now Pale God with boundless power on one side and Gothic Imperial Family with three million War Machine to intimidate the empire on the other. This leaves the civilians on both sides with no room for resistance and forces them to go to the battlefield to fight each other.
In the face of such a brutal battle, the million-strong army that Norton recruited was merely a drop in the ocean, and he had to continuously conscript soldiers from the rear to fill the gaps on the front lines.
The Northern Continent was in even worse shape. Its national strength was far inferior to that of the Southern Continent, and it was engaged in long-distance ocean warfare. The heavy logistical pressure brought them to the brink of collapse at all times. If it weren't for the three million War Machine being suppressed by the Empire in the rear, the Gothic Empire would probably have already raised the flag of rebellion.
However, despite the brutality of the war, the East Continent, where 350,000 people had been slaughtered, not only did not shy away from its fierce attack, but instead rose to the challenge. After conspiring with the Northern Continent and purchasing a large number of Holy Lord Church relics, it mobilized a massive army and stabbed the Pale God in the backside!