During the five years of the Holy See Empire's cataclysm, the number of people who died is unknown, and the number of souls intercepted by the Holy See in the battle is unknown, but the number of souls brought back by the secret forces led by the Eternal Night Army and sent to the Second World is known - 2,345,682 Dao.

This number far exceeds the total number of lords of the Eternal Night, who have died in the five years of the Great Tribulation.

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"In the East Odin Grassland Resettlement Area, last year 103,000 new resettlement migrants, planning nomadic herding, has achieved initial results, so far, not only has not asked for a grain of grain from the territory, but has fed back 300,000 heads of various livestock to the territory, we are confident that even if the year is not ideal, we will still resettle more than 100,000 disaster victims, and the number of livestock will not be less than 500,000. ”

"The reclamation area of the Danube Plain has been restored to seventy percent before the disaster, although there have been several small disasters and small disasters this year, but our grassroots personnel have done a very good job of preparation, and actively led the people below to save themselves, most of the areas have crossed by virtue of their own ability, and now they are in the stage of grain harvest, if there is no big accident, the grain harvested here this year can not only meet their own self-sufficiency, but also have rich storage. ”

"On the Andes Basin side, this year's recultivation has reached 90%, but the weather is generally dry, most of the mountains cannot be fully irrigated, and the yield is relatively serious. ”

"The cultivated area under our new control increased by more than 300,000 square meters last year, and this year we are expected to be able to provide 80,000 tons of grain to the territory. ”

Just after the autumn harvest, the situation in the various areas of the Eternal Night Army was summarized to Sean for the first time.

On the whole, the situation of the Eternal Night Army Leader has improved in an all-round way, and the shadow of the disaster year is far away from them, but the shadow of war is getting closer and closer to them.

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"Some people have compared the hunger, war, Death, all blame on the head of the true God, this is a great rebellion, the true God is leading his own army of angels, in order to protect our souls, not to be tempted by the devil, not to be eroded by nightmares, not to be devoured by the devil and fight, if there is no protection of the true God, the devil's conspiracy has already run rampant among us, nightmares will erode our dreams, so that we will no longer be at peace in our sleep, the demons will wreak havoc in the world, the true God has done so much for us, what reason do we have to criticize the true God again?"

"This calamity is neither the fault of the true God, nor the fault of our simple and good believers, all the faults originate from those heretics in the east, this is the wrath and punishment of the laws of nature for their blasphemy of natural magic, look at this tree, is this the product of nature?"

"Oh my God, how can there be a giant tree in the world bigger than a town?"

"This is an existence that goes against the will of the true God!"

"How much energy does it need to absorb when it grows to such a big size? Could it be that it is the main culprit that has caused our disasters for many years, that it has absorbed all the energy that originally belonged to our food?"

"It's not all, it is said that its underground root system is ten or even a hundred times larger than that on the surface, and it is spreading at a terrifying speed, it has almost spread throughout the Odin grassland, as long as its root system goes, the grass and trees there will become extremely luxuriant, even if it is the same as us, there are many disasters!"

It is said that from south to north, it takes a fast horse a month, and from east to west for three months, and no matter how large the tree is, it is impossible to do this. ”

"Under normal circumstances, of course it is impossible, but those infidels use evil magic, it is possible to make the impossible possible, do you imagine, when did the disasters of these years begin? You think again, what do those evil heretics want to do when they wantonly intercept the souls of the victims of our territory in our territory a few years ago? Where did the souls that they took with their evil magic end up?"

"You mean to say that the souls that the Eternal Night Leader took from us were all used by them as nourishment for that giant tree?"

"It is quite possible that there is nothing in this world that cultists who worship their lords as gods cannot do? ”

"My poor grandmother, my poor mother, was so unfortunate that she had no soul at rest when she died, and she was to be enslaved and become the nourishment of a tree. ”

"My three children are not going to be in this situation, are they? It's so wicked, it's a blasphemy, and it's unforgivable. ”

"No wonder, no wonder, even if those heretics are in a disaster year, there is output in the land, and this year is a year of great abundance, but our territory is still full of disasters, it turns out that everything is their ghost, they stole the food that originally belonged to us with evil magic, and the food in their hands originally belonged to us. ”

"We must not sit idly by, we must do something, for our food, for our relatives whose souls have been robbed, we must do something!"

"We want to take back the food that belongs to us and save the souls of our loved ones, even if it is at the cost of blood!"

"With our hands, we will take back all that belongs to us and destroy the source of our destruction. ”

In such a surge of public sentiment, the Holy See is not a city or a place, nor is it formed in a day, and many deep-rooted concepts need to be reaffirmed and guided by someone who keeps repeating them.

In order to divert the internal contradictions of the Holy See and their own ineffectiveness in resisting disasters, the high-ranking officials of the Holy See Empire have been looking for external objective causes.

In the past, this kind of black cauldron was usually carried by the secret meeting of witches, what black magic, what secret magic experiments, etc., these mysterious things, even if they were witches, there was no way to explain clearly, let alone those ordinary people, most of them believed it.

The Witch Society has a bad reputation in many parts of the Byron League, although there are reasons for their own behavior, and the bigger reason is that the Holy See has been smearing for hundreds of years.

Now that the Witch Society has been destroyed by the Holy See, the Witch Society is considering packing up and escaping from top to bottom, and it is no longer an enemy on the same level, and it is obviously not so convincing to use them as targets again.

The Eternal Night Lord, who is rapidly rising and has surpassed the Witches' Order in the use of magic, has become their new target.

Especially in many aspects of the Eternal Night Lord, even the Eternal Night Lords in it feel that they are developing rapidly, and they feel a little out of touch with the times, let alone watching outsiders.

Among other things, the Ashane World Tree alone would make all the papal seekers who saw it through memory images understand that it was far beyond their knowledge.

Under the conscious guidance of the high-level of the Holy See, the Ashan World Tree, which once sealed the spatial rift and had an indelible duty of guardianship to the Ashane Continent, was transformed into the culprit of this disaster, and all this was the result of the misuse of evil magic by the Eternal Night Warlord and their lord Sean.

The Eternal Night Warlord sent soldiers to secretly infiltrate the territory of the Holy See Empire, using soul gems to absorb the souls of those victims and bring them back to the Second World.

It has also been twisted into collecting soul materials for evil magic, and the souls of those who were taken away by them are now only afraid that they have been imprisoned, and even become fertilizer for that evil magic tree.

The people at the bottom are often blind and ignorant, and are easily deceived by lies.

In particular, they tend to believe in mysterious things that they don't understand, once they can't explain them with a lie that they can understand.

Although the Eternal Night Army Leader has been counterattacking through public opinion, but with little effect, the Holy See Empire has already driven away all the people who are openly active in the Eternal Night Army Leader long before the founding of the country, how can they allow their public opinion newspapers to enter the territory of the Holy See Empire?

This kind of means of bringing disaster to the outside world of the Holy See Empire has indeed played a significant role, and within the Holy See Empire, the hatred of the Eternal Night military leader is far greater than that of the high-level of the Holy See Empire.

They blamed all the hardships they had experienced over the past five years on the leaders of the Eternal Night.

This sentiment reached its peak when the situation of the Eternal Night Commander improved.

A big reason for this is the threat of death from hunger.

They want to wage war for themselves, drag themselves out of the mire of hunger, looking for a high-sounding reason.

Compared to the Holy See, the behavior of wanting to be a bitch and setting up a torii is also a behavior.

The Western Odin Empire was undoubtedly much cleaner, and when the Ashaan World Tree purified the East Odin grasslands, the grass and trees here became fertile again.

There are scattered tribes that have begun to migrate here tentatively, and survival is more important in the minds of these Odin orcs than high-sounding things.

The fate of these Odin orc tribes is obvious, the leaders of the Eternal Night Army have not even sent a regular army, they have been eaten by the brave and warlike Kentana barbarian tribe themselves, and have become their vassal tribes leading horses and herding sheep.

In a year full of starvation, these Odin orc tribes that have become vassal tribes of the Eternal Night Army are not a lucky thing.

As long as they are settled after the surrender, they will usually be included in the planned economy, and although they may not live well, at least they will not starve to death.

This year, the situation of the East Odin grassland has been significantly better than that of the West Odin grassland, and Ulaanbazhi could no longer bear it and issued the Eastern Crusade Order again.

It's just that compared to the ambition of dominating the entire Odin steppe ten years ago, this time they came to the east to survive.

Both the number and quality of the army are more than one or two points worse than in the past ten years.

Ten years ago, the Western Odin Empire claimed to have millions of soldiers, and in the early days, this statement did have water, but in the later period, it was definitely not less than this number.

The soldiers are mainly young and middle-aged Odin orcs who have lived and hunted in the Odin steppe for decades, whether it is riding, archery or their own toughness, they are quite amazing, so when facing the Upper East Odin Empire, they are like a bamboo.

Most of these elites, during the second southward journey, were lost in the Broken Pulse Defense Line, and the largest number of them were killed by the Eternal Night Army.

In this crusade, the army led by the Ulan Bari Emperor was mainly composed of Odin orcs who had only grown up in the last ten years, and although they had the courage not inferior to their ancestors, they still lacked too much experience.

The number is only half of the last time, and the full count is only about 500,000.

Compared with the rapid advance of the last crusade, the Western Odin Empire's crusade was procrastinating.

At the beginning of the year, when there was no thaw, the news that the Western Odin Empire was preparing to crusade east again was known to the whole world, and it was not until early summer that they dragged their feet on the road.

Along the way, dragging the family with the mouth, it is more appropriate to graze cattle than the Eastern Crusade, and the walk is extremely slow, if it is not accompanied by the royal tent of the Western Odin Empire, it is very doubtful that the authenticity of this Eastern Crusade is doubted.

Not to mention the Military Staff of the Eternal Night Military Collar's specialized agency, even if it is someone who understands the overall situation on the Ashane Continent, it is not difficult to analyze the psychology of the Western Odin Empire.

The continent of Ashane is now divided into three worlds.

In the years of war, the Western Odin Empire, which had lost troops, was the weakest.

On the contrary, in the five years of the catastrophe, the best Eternal Night Army leader is the most powerful in all aspects.

The most important thing is that the Xiodin Empire has not been pleased with the Eternal Night Army Leader in several battles, especially the trend of the Eternal Night Army Leader in recent years, which has far exceeded the cognition of their high-level leaders.

If they were not forced to do so, they definitely didn't want to take the initiative to provoke the enemy of the Eternal Night Army.

The current crusade of the Western Odin Empire is more to show a gesture to their neighbors, the Holy Aether Holy See Empire, so that they can rest assured that they will use troops against the Eternal Night Army.

One-on-one, both the Theodin Empire and the Holy Aether Holy See are afraid of the Eternal Night Commander.

If two is one, they still have a lot of confidence.

This kind of thing, there is no need to conspire at all, when the Western Odin Empire makes such a posture, the high-ranking people of the Holy Aether Holy See naturally understand it, and there is no other way to go.

Because at this time, the war against the Eternal Night Lords is not determined by their needs, but by the situation in their territory.

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Odin steppe.

It is biased towards the boundaries of the East Odin steppe.

The division of the East and West Odin steppes is artificial, and there is no significant geographical marking.

Even experienced Odin orcs can hardly tell whether they are in the West Odin Grassland or the East Odin Grassland, and it is precisely because of the difficulty in dividing the border that the disputes between the East and West Odin Empires were continuous.

Now there are two grasslands here, and there are more obvious signs.

That is, from west to east, the more you go, the more vigorous the vegetation becomes.

This feeling is especially profound for the Scambarge group who rushed all the way from the Miracle Peninsula to the East Odin grassland.