The army of Froststone City has set off.

There were 13,000 warriors, and if you count the slaves, the army of nearly 30,000 people was divided into three routes, and embarked on a mighty journey to the north.

Before parting, Evie, who was riding on a griffin in the sky above Froststone City, looked at Todd in the form of a dragon and stopped talking.

"If this war is won, everything in the north will be settled. Todd waved his dragon wings, looked at Evie, and said, "By that time, there will be only one Froststone City on this land. ”

Evie grabbed the griffin's reins and bit her lip, "Even if the war is over here, you will still be needed in Twilight, right?"

Todd was a little surprised by Evie's question, and after thinking about it for a while, he said: "The Southern Empire has conquered the Holy City, and the Orthodox Church exists in name only, and Pope Alexander of the Church of the Heavenly Father has been dead for a long time, and the position of the head priest has been in a quarrel and has not been decided. All the pressure to fight against the Empire fell on the Protestants in Twilight......"

Evie shook her head slightly, "Todd, have you ever thought about settling down?"

"Stability?" Todd asked, holding his dragon head high, with some surprise, "This sentence doesn't seem to come from the mouth of a Valkyrie." ”

"In the past, I was shouldered with the expectations of my people, and I always thought about following in the footsteps of the gods. ”

Evie's expression looked a little confused: "But when I learned that the age of the gods was long gone, my faith collapsed, and the name Brunhilde no longer meant anything to me. In the face of this world full of fighting, I began to wonder, wondering what is the purpose of this war after war?"

Todd was a little moved: "Evie......"

Valkyrie raised her right hand, touched the crown of feathers on her sideburns, her long silver hair danced in the wind, and she said softly: "So, in the midst of this long night, I found a reason for myself to continue, and that is your ......"

"Me?"

Evie closed her eyes and nodded: "Whether you want to end all wars, or want to become the emperor of the whole world, or simply for the ultimate in power, I am willing to be by your side until my body turns into mustard powder, until my soul becomes nothing." ”

Todd's dragon eyes slowly dilated, and he forgot the words for a moment.

Evie continued: "There is no reason, nothing righteous, just ...... Just because you ......"

One last deep look at the black dragon in front of her, as if to carve it into her soul, Evie turned her head, tugged hard at the reins, and flew away on her griffin to the far north.

Looking at the smaller and smaller figure in the sky, Todd stayed above Froststone City for a long, long time.

A week later, the first battle reports came from the front.

The vanguard of the Northwest Route Army, a light cavalry of about 400 people, had already approached the city of Guwei City before the main force.

According to the report of the commander of the front-line battle, the Ulsters in the city have lost the will to resist at all. On the first day of the engagement, there were people in the city who wanted to surrender to Froststone.

If it weren't for the fact that the defenders were afraid of Cúchulainn's tyranny, the light cavalry of 400 men would have taken the city without bloodshed.

The Northern Route Army, which was attacking the capital of Ulster, had a little trouble on the way.

The Ulsters faced the Froststone Warbands and chose to put up a desperate resistance. Having already seen the power of the Silent Spear, they would rather be hacked to death by a sword and axe than killed by a magic spear capable of destroying souls when faced by a Froststone warrior.

As for the Eastern Route Army heading to the Connaught border, their march route passed through the villages and towns of the "Six Circles Massacre".

In the exact words of the warlord of war.

"Before my eyes, there is a living hell unfolding. 』

"Thick black smoke rises above the ruins of the village, collapsed charred houses are everywhere, corpses are everywhere like stones, and a large number of eaten human bones can be seen beside the open stove. 』

In the last paragraph of the report, the Warband Leader addressed Todd.

"We found a survivor who was not very mentally conscious, who said that he had escaped from the Cúchulainn army, and who said that he had seen the mob eat his wife and children...... We confirm from him that Cúchulainn is northeast of the Kingdom of Connaught, slaughtering the remaining small nations. 』

After reading the reports, Todd knew it was time for him to act.

Todd first held a meeting with the shamanic assembly, instructing them to maintain order in Froststone City. At the meeting, he made a point of emphasizing that if the shamans had any urgent matters, they could go directly to the pilgrimage so that they could contact him immediately.

Then he went to the small building to say goodbye to Deirdre and the child in her womb.

After doing this, Todd waved his dragon wings in the temple square and flew towards the kingdom of Connaught in the north.

Along the way, Todd, flying through the air, surveys the land with Eagle Eye and clairvoyance.

The slaughter of those cities on the way made Todd truly understand what the "hell" mentioned in the report was.

Mass graves were buried around the city, and large numbers of unarmed civilians were driven into the pits, then burned alive and finally buried in the earth.

In each of the thousands of buildings, there are victims of different genders and ages, and judging from the wounds on their bodies and their dying expressions, it is not difficult to imagine how much suffering and torture these people suffered before they died.

In the forest outside the city, leaves and twigs have been artificially cut off, dense corpses are hung from tree trunks and swayed in the wind, and crows and wolves feast around the forest.

Todd, who was flying in the air, looked at the miserable situation on the ground, and his anger made his pupils turn red: "Cú Chulainn...... This is what you call a hero?!This is the path you have chosen as a tyrant?!"

Todd turned the dragon's head to the north, where the sky was cloudy and thunder could be faintly heard.

After listening closely, Todd realized that it was not the sound of thunder and lightning at all, but the roar of explosives.

The army of Froststone is fighting the army of Cúchulainn!

Todd swung his dragon wings violently, and his huge body flew in the direction from which the sound came from, like a detached cannonball.

In front of the pass of a canyon, the soldiers of Froststone City set up a large shield, raised their spears, and took advantage of the terrain to firmly defend the canyon.

In the canyon, a large number of archers and throwers threw arrows and explosives out of the shield wall and threw them at the enemy troops outside the canyon.

On the plains outside the canyon, there are people everywhere as far as the eye can see, and at a cursory glance, it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of people.

These people are poorly clothed, the weapons in their hands are extremely rudimentary, and there is no order to fight at all, and they are completely launching suicide charges again and again, regardless of life and death.

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