Knight Commander Job was the first to arrive at Bili City. He did not take the initiative to attack Bili City.
He knew very well how terrible the defense of a principality capital was. Unless a crushing force was used to forcefully open a gap, otherwise it would fall into a bloody battlefield.
Therefore, he will not use the three thousand knights of the Principality of Taikos to attack the city. On the one hand, he has to wait for the subsequent siege machinery to be transported here. On the other hand, he also has to wait for the actions of the other three principalities.
When the other three principalities also arrived, a strange phenomenon occurred under Bili City. No one of the four principalities had the idea of attacking first.
The Grand Knight Commanders leading the armies of the four principalities all know one thing very well. They are knights, and attacking cities is not their strong point, and the first batch of people to attack the city will receive the strongest resistance.
They have two choices before them:
First, the four principalities fought together to capture Bili City and then distribute the spoils;
There are many problems here. The four principalities do not have a friendly relationship. There is too much turmoil between them. No one can guarantee whether they will be cheated by their teammates when fighting together.
You must know that these knight corps are the national fighting force of each principality. Once the losses are too large, it may reduce the national strength.
In an extraordinary period when crop yields continue to decline, once the national power is reduced, they will become the second Keen Principality. This is something no one wants to see.
Therefore, the feasibility of coordinated operations is not high, and it is more likely to operate independently.
The second is to wait for the arrival of reinforcements. At the same time, siege machinery will also arrive, and the subsequent army will attack Bili City.
This is actually the best method. No principality can afford the losses incurred by knights in siege, so professionally trained siege shield soldiers must complete this task.
But the disadvantage of this is that you need to wait for the shield soldiers who are infantry to come, which takes a lot of time.
The four principalities gathered here and formed four different camps outside Bili City, monitoring each other. The mutual distrust between them made no principality want to take the initiative to attack Bili City at this time.
It was while waiting that the commanders of the four principality legions received information that the Kingdom of St. Ellis had sent troops.
Now it is a race against time. If the siege shield soldiers and siege machinery of the four principalities can arrive first, then the four principalities can completely break open the last capital of the Principality of Keen, Bili City, and destroy the Principality of Keen. .
At that time, even if the army of the Kingdom of St. Ellis came, there would be no way to reverse the final result.
On the third day of waiting, the hot weather and tense atmosphere made people both in the city and outside the city anxious.
Knight Commander Job suddenly felt panicked. He asked the adjutant next to him in a deep voice, "Isn't the scout back yet?"
"Sir, three groups of scouts have been sent out, but none of them have returned yet!" the adjutant replied with a puzzled look on his face.
"Damn it, send it again, send all the scouts out!" Knight Commander Job shouted loudly.
His palpitations just now were a natural reaction of his spiritual sense, which meant that danger was approaching, but he didn't know where the danger came from.
Just as he roared, the ground began to tremble, and the experienced man immediately shouted: "Attention, form formations, and prepare to defend!"
As he said that, he rushed out of the tent and jumped on his horse outside the tent, while several messengers waiting outside the tent were already riding their horses, shouting loudly: "Your Majesty's order, form formations and defend! "
This knight army composed of three thousand knights reacted extremely quickly. In a short time, all the knights were already on their horses, rushed to the temporary camp, and formed a formation outside the camp.
The same is true for the other three principalities. Those who came here early were all Knight Legions, and only the strength of the Knight Legion could attack here so quickly.
The four principalities combined have a total of more than ten thousand knights, forming four defensive formations. Their eyes are looking at the knight army marching in the distance.
The army of knights that came was almost boundless, with as many as 10,000 people, it was boundless. The full 20,000 knights were enough to make the legions of the four principalities only have a maximum of 2,000 or 3,000 knights.
The fluttering battle flag of the Kingdom of St. Ellis led the 20,000 knights at the forefront of the knights.
The marching speed of the Knight Legion is not fast. All the war horses advance in a trot. This method saves horsepower and can travel for a long time. In addition, the knights can use fighting spirit to nourish the war horses, which makes this kind of trotting war horses possible. You can run almost continuously for more than ten hours.
This technique was learned from the wolf cavalry of the Orc Empire, and was later popularized by the knight legions of the three major human empires.
"The Knights of the Kingdom of St. Alice are here!" Knight Commander Job now knew where his scouts had gone and met the Knights of the most powerful empire in the Holy Continent. How could those scouts compete with this Knights? compared to the scouts.
All the knights in the entire knight corps of the Kingdom of St. Ellis wore uniform black armor. No knight spoke during the advance, and even the war horses could only hear breathing, not neighing.
Only then did Grand Knight Commander Job realize the gap between the principality and the empire. His three thousand knights were already the full strength of the principality, but when the empire dispatched it, it would only have 20,000 knights.
And just looking at the momentum of the marching knights of the Kingdom of St. Alice, it is not comparable to his three thousand knights.
Perhaps his three thousand knights couldn't even resist a single charge from the other side, which wiped out the confidence built up by his recent consecutive victories.
The Kingdom of St. Aires has not shown its fangs for many years, causing many principalities to forget its terror.
The Knights Legion of the Kingdom of St. Alice stopped four hundred meters away from the defense formations of the four Knight Legions of the Principality. This is the best distance for a knight to attack each other.
If the Knights of the Kingdom of St. Alice want to launch an attack, then this four hundred meters distance is enough for the Knights to run and completely increase their speed to the peak.
And stopping here is just outside the long-range attack range of the knight legions of the four principalities.
Among the knights of the Kingdom of St. Alice, the eldest prince Alec, wearing a golden armor and a red cloak, rode out on a pure white horse, followed closely by four great knight captains. .
"His Majesty Emperor Ambrose of the Kingdom of St. Ellis ordered the Principality of Techos..." The eldest prince Alec glanced at the knights of the Principality of Techos, and then said: "Withdraw from all territories that have invaded and occupied the Principality of Keen!"
"Follow the order!" Knight Commander Job sighed softly and bowed on his horse in response.
The Kingdom of St. Alice had not sent troops before, so they could delay it no matter what, but the entire 20,000 knights army was right in front of them. If they didn't give in now, the knights they brought would really not be able to go back.
The consequence is that the strength of the Principality of Taikos is greatly reduced, and then it is squeezed by other principalities. Even like the Principality of Keen, it is almost destroyed.
"The Principality of Larvi withdraws from all territories that have invaded and occupied the Principality of Keen!" The eldest prince Alec's eyes turned to the Principality of Larvi, with a stern look in his eyes.
"Follow the order!" The commander of Larvi Principality bowed helplessly and responded.
The behavior of the Principality of Larvi this time made the eldest prince Alec very angry, because the Principality of Larvi is closely adjacent to the Kingdom of St. Ellis, and the empire has always taken good care of it, but this time the Principality of Larvi has a plan. A handful of the Kingdom of St. Ellis.
The Kingdom of St. Ellis is at its weakest at this time. There is no problem with defense, but it is unable to send troops. If it were not for Abel's help, the empire might lose its dominant position this time.
"The Principality of Raqqa withdraws from all territories that have invaded and occupied the Principality of Keen!" The eldest prince Alec turned his eyes to the Knights of the Principality of Raqqa and said in a deep voice.
"Follow the order!" the commander of the Principality of Raqqa responded.
"The Principality of Koror withdraws from all territories that have invaded and occupied the Principality of Keen!" The eldest prince Alec turned his eyes to the Knights of the Principality of Koror and said in a deep voice.
"Follow the order!" the commander of Koror Principality responded.
"At the same time, the four principalities should compensate the empire for the cost of sending troops this time!" the eldest prince Alec continued.
This is a very stingy request, but the premise of this request is that the Kingdom of St. Ellis did not require the four principalities to return the loot they took when they withdrew, but chose to keep part of the loot as their own.
On the city wall of Bili City, King Kenneth also saw the extremely powerful knight army, and the gloom on his face for many days was wiped away.
"The Kingdom of St. Ellis has not abandoned us, His Majesty Ambrose is victorious!" King Kenneth roared ecstatically.
"Your Majesty Ambrose is victorious!" All the knights and warriors on the city wall roared loudly. The imminent war suddenly disappeared, making them ecstatic.
In the hearts of King Kenneth and his people, the Kingdom of St. Ellis came to save them like a savior.
They never imagined that this legion of savior knights who came to save them was dividing their lost wealth with the invaders.
The eldest prince Alec did not bother to ask about what happened next. He had the relevant knights to hand over to the four principalities. As for the cost of sending troops, naturally it was the powerful Kingdom of Saint Ellis that had the final say.
Within half a day, Grand Knight Commander Job of the Principality of Tekos left with his knight corps. When he left, he did not feel too happy in his heart.
The Kingdom of St. Ellis was so ruthless that after the battle against the Principality of Taikos, little was gained.
His family was not the one who was injured, and the other three principalities were not in a good mood when they left.
Although the four principalities had harvested a lot, the food in them was more than enough for their consumption along the way. In addition, the principality of Keen itself had insufficient food stocks due to reduced production, so the amount of food received was not particularly large.
And the Kingdom of St. Alice almost all needs food, and the wealth harvested from the noble castles and cities does not require much.
The main reason why the four principalities attacked the Principality of Keen was food. They needed food. It was their strategy to destroy a principality to feed them. However, seeing that everything was successful, they were directly robbed by the Kingdom of St. Ellis. achieved victory.
But they did not dare to resist. They recognized the gap between the empire and the principality, and this gap allowed them to pay the price as required.
"They're leaving!" On the city wall of Bili City, cheers rang out again. The people on the city wall watched the knights leaving one after another, and their joy was beyond words.
King Kenneth had also been worried. He was afraid that the Kingdom of St. Alice would change its mind. When he saw the knight legions of the four principalities leaving one after another, he felt relieved.
He saw the eldest prince Alec in golden armor coming towards the city gate with four great knights, and he hurriedly ordered loudly: "Open the city gate quickly and welcome the envoy from the Kingdom of St. Ellis!"
He also quickly adjusted his robes, walked down from the city wall, and waited outside the city gate.
The behavior of the eldest prince Alec made King Kenneth feel relieved, because the eldest prince Alec only brought four grand knights, which in itself expressed the good intentions of the Kingdom of St. Ellis.
At this time, if he asked to bring thousands of knights into the city, King Kenneth would not dare to refuse, and in that case, King Kenneth would put his life in the hands of the eldest prince Alec.
"His Royal Highness Alec, welcome to your arrival!" King Kenneth took the initiative to step forward and bowed.
Although his behavior seemed very humble, having just been saved from the brink of annihilation, his arrogance had long since disappeared.
"His Majesty King Kenneth, on the orders of His Majesty Emperor Ambrose of the Kingdom of St. Ellis, I came to rescue the Principality of Keen. Please forgive me for the delay in rescue!" the eldest prince Alec bowed and said in return.
"I don't dare, I don't dare. I am deeply grateful to the Principality of Keen for being able to see the powerful legions of the empire and save the Principality of Keen from the fire and water!" King Kenneth hurriedly bowed and saluted again.
The polite tone of the eldest prince Alec made him very uneasy, because he heard a request in his tone.
Yes, a requirement. This requirement is the rule of the Holy Continent. In rescues between countries, the country being rescued should bear all the expenses of the country coming to rescue.
In fact, as the sovereign state, the Kingdom of St. Alice did not come to completely rescue, but to clarify its own status. As the eldest prince Alec said, the only purpose was to ask the Principality of Keen to bear the burden of 20,000 knights. The consumption of the army.
The consumption of an army of 20,000 knights was a huge expenditure for the Principality of Keen, which had retreated to only one city. It was almost unbearable.
"His Majesty King Kenneth, the Knight Legion cannot stay outside forever. We will return to the empire immediately. Please transfer the cost of the rescue to my deputy, so that I can let the Knight Legion set off immediately!" the eldest prince Alec said directly.
He didn't care too much about King Kenneth. As long as the Principality of Keen was not destroyed by other principalities, even if the other principalities were destroyed due to lack of food and caused civil uprisings, it would not have much to do with the empire.
Without an official wizard in the Principality of Keen, there is no final means of protection. If we don’t exploit it more now, we don’t know who this advantage will be given to in the future!
This is the idea of the eldest prince Alec. Before he came, he had already decided the final fate of the Principality of Keen. It would be fine if the country was not destroyed immediately.
"Your Highness Alec, I am afraid that the Principality of Keen cannot afford the consumption of 20,000 knights. Please can you reduce the amount or allow me to return it in years to come!" King Kenneth bowed and begged.
"King Kenneth, do you think that our Kingdom of St. Ellis is easy to bully? No one dares to rely on our empire. The consumption of 20,000 knight legions. If you dare to miss one gold coin, I will send my knight legion. Go to the city and get it yourself!" Alec, the eldest prince, said sternly with a cold light in his eyes.
When the great prince Alec left with an army of 20,000 knights, what was left behind was the desperate look in King Kenneth's eyes.
In this war, which covered five principalities, no one benefited in the end. The final winner was the Kingdom of St. Ellis. They only received food from Abel to send troops, but in the end they more than doubled their consumption.
As a result, the Principality of Keen became extremely weak. They lost countless troops and civilians, and suffered huge losses in food, so much so that even the next season's seeds became a problem.
The Kingdom of St. Ellis also demonstrated its strength through this war and suppressed the ambitions of various principalities.
But this war was like opening Pandora's box, and the entire human world was affected.
All the principalities discovered the current predicament of the empire from the initial hesitation of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis, and the lack of food in their own countries became more and more serious, which made many principalities turn their attention to the weak principalities around them.
None of this has anything to do with Abel. The Principality of Camai has always maintained a stable state. The sufficient food supply has given the people of the Principality a strong sense of belonging to the Principality, and the Principality has also exerted a strong attraction to residents of other principalities. .
This has also caused the population of the Principality of Kamai to keep growing. Although Abel had formulated strict immigration policies before, the intermarriage between nobles over the years has caused many relatives of foreign nobles in the Principality of Kamai to come. defect.
The arrival of foreign nobles will not be a family, but an entire family, which will bring a large number of warriors, knights and other combatants, as well as countless non-combatants.
This is a process of slow change. Unknowingly, the Principality of Kamai is slowly becoming stronger.
Especially in the past two years, the magical bread provided by the wizarding circle of Harry Castle and a large number of knight training potions have caused an explosive growth in the number of knights in the Principality of Camai.
And with Abel's help, and with the help of powerful promotion potions like the 'Dragon Blood Wall-Breaking Potion', the number of Grand Knight Commanders in the Principality of Camai has increased by five.
In the sky of Harvest City, fourteen griffin knights are guarding the secrets of this land. Among them are four gryphon grand knights and ten newly grown gryphon knights.
Although these gryphon knights are not powerful yet, with the attributes of their equipment, the Harry Bow, enemies under the Grand Knight Commander are basically instantly killed.
The Principality of Kamai is like a growing tiger at this time. Although it is still immature, it has already begun to show its fangs.
After trading food with the Kingdom of St. Ellis, Abel stopped interfering in the affairs of the principality. He returned to the Magic Tower and continued to live a life of cultivation.
On the second underground floor of the Lu Gaoyin Palace in the dark world, Abel spent nearly half a month in the Holy Continent to clean up all the hellish creatures here and collect all the artworks into space objects.
At the same time, Abel also discovered the passage leading to the palace prison. The palace prison has three floors, and the hell creatures here are even more powerful.
The terrifying archer can attack with magic arrows.
The terrifying mage can cast fire, electricity, ice, and poison spells to attack enemies, and the spells can be cast extremely fast.
Intruders can use 'Fire Strengthening' to strengthen their attack power.
The three terrifying hellish creatures forced Abel to be cautious here, moving forward bit by bit, cleaning room after room.
As time goes by, his strength is also improving at a visible speed. This improvement is mainly due to the consumption of daily meditation.
After becoming an intermediate wizard, he could already use the golden-quality Blue Roaring Rabbit crystal core for meditation practice. At the same time, in a small building next to Lu Gaoyin's tavern, a large magic gathering array enveloped the entire small building, letting the magic power inside The concentration is almost **.
This small building is where he practices. For every opportunity to meditate once a day, he needs to hold two golden crystal cores in both hands and meditate in a large magic gathering array. The Dark World itself is bigger than the Holy Continent. The magic power that is countless times richer brings the effect of the large magic gathering array to the extreme.
Abel felt that in just a few months, he would be able to upgrade his wizard level again. His cultivation speed had not slowed down due to the increase in wizard level.
Days passed day by day, and more than a month passed. It was already August in the Holy Continent, and Abel had already advanced to the third floor of the palace prison.
At this time, his body was filled with mana again, but he was not anxious about promotion because he was almost finished cleaning up the third floor of the palace prison.
Carefully using telekinesis to open a wooden door, this was the experience he gained after experiencing several dangers.
Because the hell creatures in the palace prison are often densely packed in a room, and the action of opening the wooden door will alert all the hell creatures at the same time.
If you encounter a terrifying archer or a terrifying mage, what awaits you will be hundreds of elemental attacks flying at the same time.
Of course, 'teleportation' should be used as little as possible here, because the mental power has some kind of interference in this prison, which affects the distance of the mental power.
The wooden door was opened, and sure enough, more than a hundred fireballs flew out from inside. Since he was still some distance away from the wooden door, those fireballs did not cause any harm to him.
Due to the opening of the wooden door, his mental power could extend into the room. As soon as his mental power entered, he found dozens of intruders holding double knives. The first few intruders had activated the 'Fire Enhancement' 'Ability, the whole body is wrapped in fire elements, flashing red light.
'Fire wall', Abel directly threw a wall of fire in, blocking the door. He would not let the ghost guardian knight rush in directly at this time. Hundreds of spells concentrated fire attacks, even if the ghost guardian knight's body was full of runes, it would be difficult to withstand.
"Naga!" Abel shouted to one of the ghost guardian knights.
The figure of the Naga with four arms on its back flickered for a moment, and it came to the gate. It was blocked by a 'wall of fire', and the hell creatures inside could not detect it for a while.
Naga's four arms behind his back generated four green light balls, which were then picked up by his left and right hands and thrown into the room. After throwing dozens of green light balls in a row, it disappeared from the 'Fire Wall' The front flashed out of the way.
After Naga left the door, two 'fire walls' spell patterns were generated in front of the weapons and shields of Abel's left and right hands, and then two 'fire walls' were thrown in, this time from a deeper distance.
He did not stop. The 'Fire Wall' would cause great damage to hell creatures without fire resistance. This is why he likes to use the 'Fire Wall'.
And in a closed room like this, the lethality of the 'Fire Wall' is even more astonishing, and the terrifying mages who just attacked from a distance will rarely move when attacking. Once the 'Fire Wall' is thrown at their feet, what is waiting for them is Continuous cauterization until death.
Sure enough, in the room, the screams of the intruder could be heard, as well as the unique rattle of skeletons and the sound of broken bones.
It seemed that the 'wall of fire' had caused a lot of damage to the hell creatures in the room. Abel did not stop. He kept casting the 'wall of fire' with both hands, and the extremely fast spell casting and the two-handed spell casting were activated at the same time.
At this moment, an intruder with a red light all over his body rushed out of the room holding a pair of knives. What awaited them was the ghost guardian knight's shield.
The 'Clay Stone Demon' stood behind the Ghost Guardian Knight. Although it did not participate in the attack, it just stood there and caused the originally fast intruder to slow down the attack.
In front of the shield in Abel's left hand, the 'wall of fire' continued to be stimulated, and it was continuously thrown into the room. In front of the 'steel' sword in his right hand, the spell pattern of 'chain lightning' appeared, and then a bolt of lightning hit a intruder.
The intruder who came out of the 'wall of fire' only had time to uselessly slash the shield of the Ghost Guardian Knight before being struck by lightning. Then the eight intruders behind it were also hit one after another.
The souls of the nine invaders were absorbed into the Horadric Cube, and the subsequent invaders that came out were no threat at all. They were either killed by 'Chain Lightning' or killed by the Ghost Guardian Knight.
In Abel's mental power, there were not many terrifying mages in the room, and the remaining terrifying mages were standing in places that could not be burned by the 'wall of fire'.
The 'Teleportation' spell pattern on his left hand lit up, and the 'Chain Lightning' spell on his right hand remained. Then he, together with the eight ghost guardian knights and the 'Clay Stone Demon', disappeared instantly, and then appeared in the room.
The room was full of dead skeletons and bone fragments, with only a dozen terrifying mages standing in a few corners throwing fireballs in his direction.
The flying fireballs were blocked by the shield in the hands of the ghost guardian knight. What hit them back was the 'chain lightning' in Abel's right hand. This 'chain lightning' not only took away part of the horror mage's vitality, but also paralyzed them. .
The ghost guardian knights flashed directly in front of the horror mages who were not paralyzed, interrupting the fireballs that these horror mages were about to send out. The horror mages could only use the staff in their hands to hit the ghost guardian knights in front of them.
This ridiculous attack has almost no damage to the ghost guardian knight with extremely high defense.
On the other side, Abel's hands were already using their full strength to use 'Chain Lightning'. The terrifying mage who was hit was almost paralyzed, shaking constantly until his life was emptied.
When there was no hell creature standing in the entire room, Abel's eyes stared at another wooden door in this room.
The white light in his hand flashed, 'telekinesis' was activated again, and the wooden door was opened by a flash of lightning.
After opening the wooden door, no sound was heard, and no attack was triggered. Abel carefully stretched out his spiritual power and breathed a sigh of relief. There were no hell creatures.
When you walked into the wooden door, you saw that the lampstands on the left and right had been replaced by immortal hell flames by hellish creatures, illuminating the entire room in a fiery red.
In the middle of the room, an unactivated portal is particularly eye-catching. It is a portal with an obvious hell style. Evil power flows on the portal, giving the portal a gray and gloomy atmosphere.
Abel couldn't guarantee whether the evil power on the portal would affect him, so he still used 'telekinesis' to guide his mental power to the portal. In an instant, the portal was activated by his mental power. Magic circle.
A dark blue light slowly slid down from the top of the portal, forming a dark blue light gate in the middle of the portal.
Abel was close to the light gate. His spiritual sense did not sense the danger. He wrapped his spiritual power around the eight ghost guardian knights and the 'Clay Stone Demon', activated his 'teleportation', and the target was the position of the light gate.
In an instant, he and all his summons disappeared from the spot, and then disappeared into the light gate.