The Kingdom of Mithra, the northern frontier, the Duke of Sterling.
In the past, it was once one of the best territories and powers in the Mithra Kingdom.
There is no other reason, just because it is a duke who dominates here, a relative of the royal family who has blood relationship with the Mithra royal family.
Moreover, the status of the Duke of Sterling in the Kingdom of Mithra is not comparable to that of the ordinary duke's family.
It borders the territory of the Ragnar Empire. When the Ragnar Empire and the Mithra Kingdom are rivals, once the Mithra Kingdom is invaded, it will be the first to be trampled by the Ragnar Empire. Into the place.
It has fought against the army of the Ragnar Empire and the Imperial Knights several times, fought many small-scale wars, and finally successfully repelled the army of the Ragnar Empire.
It can be said that the Duke of Sterling is the first line of defense to guard the kingdom from the hands of the Ragnar Empire.
The kingdom's territory has not been invaded by the Ragnar Empire in these millennia, and the contribution of Duke Stirrim is indelible.
Of course, the status of the Sterling family in the kingdom has become extremely good, and even the king has to give the Patriarch a three-point face.
Unfortunately, the brilliance of the Sterling House is no longer there.
The Patriarch, who is the Jagged General, disappeared about half a year ago, his life or death is unknown.
The only son of the Sterling family, who is the heir to the family, also disappeared in the Cosmos incident.
Even the first knights, the knights commander, and the knights commander, who was the strongest man in the realm, disappeared together.
The disappearance of such a group of important people and important combat forces has completely pushed the Strim family into the abyss.
They exhausted countless manpower and material resources in the process of searching for the Patriarch, family heir, and the first knights of the territory, and eventually returned to no avail.
After they gave up the search, in order to decide the next Patriarch, they started a very serious infighting, and even infighting, which caused the family to be unable to gain peace and ease this huge loss.
Coupled with the various bad consequences caused by the Cosmos incident, as well as the territorial mismanagement and mismanagement caused by the serious internal strife between the family owners, half a year later, even if this territory has not become a livelihood, it is not far away. .
If it wasn't for the empire to have a coup d'état a while ago, then the former emperor would definitely take the opportunity to send an army to attack the Duke of Strim, and use this as a springboard to attack the Kingdom of Mithra, right
The Strim family escaped because of the imperial coup.
But one calamity passes, one robbery regenerates.
This time, Helemis led the [primitive demon] to collectively dispatch and spread the countless army of refining demons and legions of demon larvae cultivated over the millennia to the human world, allowing them to attack cities all over the human world, which directly created The destruction of the Duke of Sterling.
If Barry, Limjo and others are still there, and the Strim's house is still the former Strim's house, then maybe we can still find a way to survive.
However, the current Strim family lost the Patriarch, Heir, First Strong and First Knights, and after a serious internal fight, it is no longer possible to stop the attacking monster legion.
As a result, as early as a month ago, the Duke of Sterling fell.
This place is completely reduced to a paradise for refining demons and demon larvae.
City after city was destroyed one after another.
People flee for their lives, sacrifice for their lives, and have to avoid the slaughter of monsters outside. It's just like being in hell.
As a result, lucky people can still escape to the city next door, and be taken in as refugees by the city that can barely survive. Unfortunately, they can only be chased by monsters and floundered and disturbed all day long. They are not dead in the hands of demons. , Is to die of hunger, very miserable.
Of course, there are many people who are still lingering.
They worked hard to survive, and hoped to reach the territorial border under the threat of monsters, enter a safer city, and get rescued.
Sheen encountered many such refugees after entering the Duke of Sterling.
Then Sheehan shot.
"Puff!"
Accompanied by a golden slash traversing the air, a refining demon was chopped in half by the bright sword light, turned into a corpse, and fell into a pool of blood.
"Roar!"
"Oh!"
As if they had seized the opportunity, the surrounding few refining demons rushed towards the mysterious swordsman who was holding a holy sword, wearing a black robe and a hood on his head.
But this is in vain.
The mysterious swordsman in the black robe slid forward, not retreating but advancing, swiping in the direction of those refining demons like a gust of wind, before they could not react, deceived him to face them.
"Puff!"
The leading demon was slashed by the golden sword light and split into two. It actually ran a certain distance along the inertia before falling down with blood all over it.
"Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!"...
The mysterious swordsman in the black robe turned into a ghost in this way, and while passing by the few refining demons, the holy sword in his hand also cut through their bodies, beheading them all on the spot.
In a blink of an eye, all the refining demons turned into corpses, falling into a pool of blood one by one, turning into broken limbs under the ice and snow, creating a bloody scene.
The swordsman in the black robe stopped now, standing in the sea of blood on the corpse mountain, the sword in his hand was gorgeous and dazzling.
Not far away, a group of ragged and sallow-looking refugees knelt down.
"Thank you, this lord for helping!"
"Thank you, sir!"
They were grateful for the runny shouts, as if they had seen the savior.
The swordsman did not turn his head, but said in a deep voice.
"Take advantage of this, leave quickly, take a more remote path, and seek refuge in the nearest city."
As soon as this remark came out, the faces of the refugees changed.
"My lord, aren't you with us?"
"Please come with us!"
"We need you!"
"Without the protection of a powerful person like you, we would definitely die!"
The refugees bowed down again.
However, what they ushered in was just a sharp look.
"Don't take an inch, go quickly."
The cold words made the refugees pale suddenly.
Realizing that the strong in front of them can't protect themselves, they can only leave with disappointment and defeat, and even anger and resentment.
It didn't take long for the refugees to disappear.
"Ugh... "
The swordsman sighed faintly, took off his hood, revealing his true face.
That is naturally Xien, who hid his identity, left the capital, and came here quietly.
"This is the twelfth batch, right?"
Sheen murmured, looking helpless.
Within half a day after entering the Duke of Sterling, Sean rescued a full twelve batches of refugees from the hands of refining demons, and the number of refugees encountered was countless.
At first, Sheehan would also provide food or routes to these refugees, and even protect them from a distance, allowing them to go to a safe place, but the same thing happened again and again, and there were people who tried to kidnap them with morals and awe-inspiring reasons. Come and let Sheen protect them, and even take care of them, Sheen will no longer be kind, and will only help them when they are in danger. If there is no danger, he will go around directly and will not fight with the refugees. The teams meet.
It's not that he is cold-blooded and ruthless, but that he is really life-like, with all kinds of people, and it really annoys him.
It can only be said that in the face of life and death crisis, there are really too few people who can maintain their heart and do not reveal their nature.
Sheehan even encountered several waves of refugees and saw a very unpleasant situation.
Those people, not so much escaping to survive, as madness in hell, in order to survive, like using their wives and children as shields, or using the living people to skin cramps to fill their stomachs. occur.
What's more, some refugee teams are completely ruled by a few bullies. Men are sent out as victims to find food or lead away monsters, and women are used to vent their desires.
For this reason, Sheen did not kill less along the way.
"Is this human nature?"
Sheehan was in a mixed mood.
Therefore, even if he would save people now, he would not blindly take care of the other party, at most resolve the other party's crisis, and then let them leave quickly by themselves.
Even so, there are still many people resenting Sheehan for not wanting to protect them, just like the refugees just now.
It can only be said that, fortunately, Sheen doesn't have that leisure time now, otherwise, he doesn't mind letting those who can't recognize reality know what it means to be grateful.
"I don't know how many cases of the same thing exist in this world."
The thought of the entire human world has become such a hell, Sheen's mood really didn't feel good.
"Forget it, keep going."
Sheehan cleared up his mood and continued to turn to the north.
At this time, he was not far from Cosmos.
In this way, Sean flickered all the way, faster and faster, as long as he did not encounter refugees chased by demon refining, or encountered demon larvae that were extremely threatening to ordinary people, he would not stop.
Under such circumstances, Sheen finally arrived in Cosmos before night fell.
"Huh!"
As the air oscillated, Sheen appeared in the sky above Cosmos in a black robe.
Sheehan looked down at the city below.
I saw that Cosmos, who was once razed to the ground in Lilith's hands, has now been built.
An entire city, in a short period of about half a year, was completely restored to its original appearance like a steel military fortress.
The streets and buildings inside were not as chaotic as they were when Shinn came to Cosmos last time.
At that time, due to the chaos of space, buildings and even people were moved randomly, making the entire Cosmos chaotic.
Now, the city has recovered, it has become orderly, the streets are distinct, and the buildings are arranged extremely regularly, not losing to the royal capital at all.
However, in Cosmos, there have also been changes that haven't been there in the past.
That is, the people in it no longer have human figures, but only orcs and dwarves.
That's right.
Cosmos has become a world of orcs and dwarves.
"It's the same situation as mentioned in the information Rosie gave me."
Sheehan said to himself like this.
According to Rosie, the current Cosmos is no longer the Cosmos of the past.
In the past Cosmos, due to its location and nature, not only had kingdoms and empires active in it, but also tribes of orcs and blacksmiths of dwarves lived in it.
But now, humans have withdrawn from Cosmos.
the reason is simple.
Geula regards the gap in the world that exists here as his base, so naturally he will not allow humans to continue to appear here.
He ordered the orcs to expel all the humans in the city from outside the city and completely occupy Cosmos when the human knights resisted the army of refining demons.
Therefore, in the current Cosmos, there are only the orcs that are dominated by Geula and the alliance with the orcs, and they betrayed the humans and joined the new [primitive demon] dwarves.
Thanks to this, the army of demon refining does not seem to attack Cosmos. Obviously, it was the new-born [original demon] that did something so that the refining and demon larvae no longer regarded Cosmos as an attack target.
In other words...
"This can be regarded as the stronghold of the orcs for the time being, right?"
Sheehan thinks so.
He squinted his eyes, let go of [External Jue Destiny]'s induction force, enveloped the city below, and started to investigate.
In this investigation, Sean really found a lot of things.
For example, the enchantment surrounding Cosmos is obviously not a product of Human Race or Protoss, but a special enchantment produced by Demon Race.
For another example, although Cosmos was not attacked, the atmosphere in the city was not lively, but rather heavy.
And in the center of the city, there seems to be something "something" exuding strange magic power and emitting strange pulses.
That kind of pulsation, like the irregular fluctuations emanating from the space itself, is quite similar to the fluctuations emanating from the mysterious transfer phenomenon that occurred during the previous Cosmos event.
"Could it be..."
Sheehan's thoughts turned straight.
But in the end, he decided to go in first and have a look.
"Huh!"
The air shook suddenly, causing Sheen to disappear here.
Sheehan entered Cosmos and entered the city that had been missing for half a year.
... ...
"Qiang—Qiang—Qiang—"
On the streets where people came and went, there was no shouting, no lively discussions, and some only the very obvious sound of iron strikes.
Some blacksmiths seem to occupy the street side shops here casually, transform those shops into weapons shops, and are building all kinds of weapons.
Orcs walked in twos and threes on the streets here, looking at the dwarves in the shops, but they were definitely not friendly.
Sheehan walked on the street and mixed in with the crowd.
He didn't show up, but instead concealed his figure with [Lijue Destiny]'s super concealment ability, and was wandering aimlessly in the crowd.
But his [External Sense of Destiny]'s induction power was still unfolding, allowing him to clearly hear the voice of some conversation coming from around.
"This city has really become boring."
"There are no foreign merchants selling magic items, nor too much entertainment. Only these dwarves build weapons every day."
"No way, who made them prepare us to fight against humans and elves?"
"These dwarves were all brought by the king of the dwarf race. They should all be the ones who advocate betrayal and are enemies of humans and elves, and want to start a war, right?"
"Damn, a group of blasphemers who betrayed the goddess."
"Shhh, don't say so loudly, the low voice was banned by the law enforcement team."
Many orcs made such whispers when passing by the dwarf shop.
They looked at the dwarf crafting weapons with unfriendly eyes, and even a little hostile. When they talked about war, they were obviously sad and extremely reluctant.
But they dare not express such thoughts blatantly.
Because, from time to time, there will be some orcs with weapons in their hands and evil faces passing by, like patrols or supervision, their eyes are like torches, and they scan the surrounding orcs coldly.
Being stared at by these orc warriors like this, those orcs naturally did not dare to speak out, so they could only lower their heads and pass quickly, obviously very afraid of those orc warriors.
In a situation like this, Sheehan has seen him many times since entering Cosmos.
"Sure enough, just like what Lydas and Anima said, not all orcs want to start a war and betray the Protoss and Humans."
Sheehan thoughtfully.
He found that, except for those orcs who seemed to be law enforcement teams, who were obviously bloody, and knew that they had experienced a lot of slaughter at a glance, the atmosphere exuding from the rest of the orcs was only confusion, restlessness, and anxiety.
They are like wild beasts locked in a cage, wanting to break free, but unable to break free.
Because they have scruples and fears.
Since there are still a lot of such orcs, it can even be said that they occupy most of the population of Cosmos.
"This is interesting."
Sheehan muttered to himself.