Chapter 0248: The End of the Dynasty
Thirteen days later, the wizard's camp.
The last time I left, the camp was a terrible scene after a bloody battle.
The terrible bushfires burned nearly 70 miles of mountains and forests in the southern part of the Greenland forest, and the dust raised by the burning trees and plants obscured the sky and the sun, and even the city of Blue Hill had three days of black snow!
And in this smoky scorched land, the corpses lying horizontally and vertically can be seen everywhere.
In the heart of some of the fires, the remains of the Pony and the Demon Hunter were charred, leaving only faint traces on the dark earth. It was only at the edge of the battlefield that the thick layer of grass and wood ash on it was possible to find some strange material formed by the melting of bones and metal armor.
To be honest, when the Radiant Knights sounded the horn of retreat in the last war, there were still nearly a thousand remaining Demon Hunter Knights. However, they lost their horses and lost their hope of victory, exhausted their physical strength, and their mental breakdowns could not run past the raging forest fires on their two legs.
So seriously, there are only a handful of Demon Hunters who can escape from the last plane war. This is also the main reason why the Knight Kingdom has been unable to obtain the latest information on the front line for a long time.
Of course, among them, the defection of Count Winriel, the lord of Blue Hill City, also played a crucial role!
As the first native power of the knightly plane to defect to the Sarubo family, the Earl of Winriel was immediately rewarded by the wizard. According to the nobles who participated in the Earl of Winriel's surrender ceremony, the Chosen Wizards were a group of wise men and sages who had mastered profound knowledge and the highest truths in the world.
An amiable and powerful wizard even personally promoted Count Winriel's bloodline, transforming him from an ordinary human into a noble immortal. From then on, he will be able to get rid of the shackles of birth, old age, sickness and death, and he will no longer have to worry about the threat of death!
Therefore, when the Earl of Winriel was "baptized", he was able to fly freely in the sky with his own power. The frightened nobles immediately changed their flags, and their tone changed dramatically to praise the greatness and nobility of the wizards.
And the knightly kingdom that the nobles were originally loyal to immediately became a puppet regime that only knew how to follow the dragon and beg for mercy and brutally oppress the people.
And these propaganda corroborated each other with the dragon disaster that has been raging wildly in human cities recently, and it has quickly spread widely among the people of the Knight Continent.
For a while, "Greet the wizard and expel the dragon" became the loudest and loudest voice at the bottom of the Knight Continent!
When Grim returned to the southern Greenland forest from the Knights' Domain's controlled area all the way, he was amazed by what he saw and heard along the way.
Originally, he thought that the wizard's plane conquest would only come hard, and in the eyes of the great wizard of Sarubo, he would not care about these humble and insignificant people as little as dust. But now it seems that even the powerful Great Wizard is fully aware of the power of the people.
Bewitch the people, induce the people, and then pull the people at the bottom to their side!
This is the quickest way to eliminate the resistance of the plane in a short period of time.
Otherwise, even if the knight kingdom is wiped out by thunderous means, there will always be some stubborn forces who miss the old dynasty hidden in the shadows and constantly provoke the people's rebellion. Once the order of the plane is turbulent for a long time, then the benefits that the Sarupo family usurped from this plane will inevitably suffer.
So along the way, Grim couldn't help but be secretly impressed when he watched the changes that had taken place in the natives.
Cracking down on and absorbing those in power is the easiest way to usurp the greatest benefits in a short period of time! And absorbing the middle strata and bewitching and inducing the people at the bottom is a necessary means to eliminate the soil for the survival of the resistance forces!
From the use of these methods, it can be seen that the wizards of the Sarubo family do have their own profound insights in the control of the plane.
Based on the current situation, Grim can even make a bold guess. As long as the wizarding camp sends some good-looking wizards to perform some nominal "miracles", it will be easy to win the hearts and minds of the people. At that time, the dragon will be successfully expelled under the watchful eyes of everyone, and then this plane will truly fall into the hands of the Sarubo wizard family!
During the previous plane war, Lord Sarupo had a secret conversation with the green dragon patriarch for a while, could it be that time that set the tone of the war? Otherwise, from any point of view, the dragons' actions at this moment are like a "show" with the wizards!
Anyway, this plane can't belong to them anymore, and taking advantage of the last time to leave and make a fortune is also a kind of compensation for the dragons! And this kind of behavior also provides an opportunity for the new plane ruler, the wizard, to clean up the hearts of the people and win over the hearts of the people.
As a Grim Rank 1 wizard, of course, it is impossible to have access to such a family core secret, and he has only made a preliminary assessment and speculation through what he has seen and heard along the way. Although the inference drawn by the chip is somewhat dark and vicious, Grim is convinced.
Maybe it's because he's a veritable wizard now!
The new wizard camp is no longer a camp, but more like a city that is rapidly rising.
The nearby mountains and forests have been burned, so it saves the wizards the trouble of cutting down.
When Grim returned, construction was underway. Small stone towers have risen from the ground, patches of mountains have been transformed on a large scale, and hordes of witch beasts have toppled debris, leveled the land, and cleared the grounds under the command of wizards...... It's just busy.
Of course, all the previous witch beasts were destroyed in the last war, and this new batch of witch beasts was obviously just made out of the process, and the appearance was somewhat similar to that of centaurs. The beast-like lower limbs are densely covered with black hair and scales, and its hideous body shape and terrifying claws make it look like a magic horse. The beast-like body is spliced with a large and burly human torso, capable of speaking, and able to use weapons and tools flexibly.
Isn't this a hodgepodge of the lower body of the magic horse and the upper body of the demon hunter knights?
And they have a nice name, Rune Knight!
Yes, these witch beasts will be equipped with the most basic rune armament in the future, and they can be regarded as a powerful armed force cultivated by wizards in this world.
Wizards are unlikely to remain in this plane for long, so most of the plane's affairs still need to be left to the local indigenous magnates, and wizards only need them to hand over the resources and wealth they need on time.
To deal with the puppet magnates cultivated by these wizards, on the one hand, it is necessary to lure them to profit, and on the other hand, of course, they must also be suppressed.
The Rune Knight is the most powerful secular weapon left by the Sarupo family in the future to protect the rule of wizards!
Lord Sarupo is still the Grim he receives in the War Witch Tower.
Ever since the War Witch Tower was built, this humanoid projection has actually been indistinguishable from Lord Sarupo's doppelganger. Up close, Grim could barely detect that this was not a real person, but just a projection of consciousness!
The first thing I do after meeting is, of course, to deliver the quest items.
Lord Sarupo sent Grim to the royal capital of the Knight Kingdom with only two missions, one was to kill Edward VII, the ruler of the Knight Kingdom, and the other was to retrieve the complete knowledge of runes.
Both of these were completed without a hitch.
Handing over Edward VII's head, handing over a complete set of rune drawings and scrolls of knowledge, the Lord Sarubo finally nodded with satisfaction after a brief review.
Of course, on the way back, Grim had already scanned all the data and knowledge on the documents, drawings and scrolls into the chip, so he was willing to hand them over.
Master Sarupo picked up the ugly human head that had been manipulated by witchcraft, and with a flick of it, it fell into an eerie witch circle projected from the floor.
The Witch Array was suspended in the void one meter above the ground, and the entire Witch Array was composed of three layers of fluorescent and shining witch rings and countless strange runes mixed in it. And the human head fell into it, and under the analysis of the brilliant witchcraft aura, it seemed that a faint trace of bloodline power was extracted and floated above the human head.
And when this trace of bloodline power was extracted, the Grand Wizard of Sarubo, who had been sitting upright with his eyes closed, swiped his fingers and condensed a powerful spell out of thin air, knocking it into the witch array.
As the War Witch Tower trembled slightly, the huge energy that made Grim secretly frightened poured into this illusory witch array through the defense system.
The power of that bloodline was like a red gossamer, fluttering slowly above the witch array.
For a moment, Grim seemed to see through the hazy phantom shadow, in the swimming red silk, nearly a thousand strange faces. Old, young, young...... Although they are different in age and have different expressions, they all have a deep connection with the power of this bloodline.
Seeing this scene, a powerful and strange name of witchcraft instantly came to Grim's mind.
Bloodline Curse!
It's the most powerful of all sorcery, and it's one of the most vicious of curses.
That Edward VII is undoubtedly the supreme ruler of the Edward family of this knightly plane, and with him as the source of the bloodline, it is difficult to count the descendants and descendants of the bloodline derived from him. If you count the many illegitimate children left behind by the royal bloodline, I am afraid that it is extremely difficult for wizards to wipe out the bloodline of the Edward family!
But now with the Bloodline Curse, it's a different story.
With Edward VII, the source of the bloodline, in his hands, plus the personal control of the Grand Wizard, plus the energy supply of the War Witch Tower. So, under Grim's shocked gaze, the spell that the Great Wizard had just entered was pulled by the power of the bloodline, and it disappeared into the void.
And in Grim's keen perception, it seemed that at the moment when the spell disappeared, some of the laws of this plane were deeply touched!
Inexplicably, a glimmer of realization rose in Grim's heart!
I'm afraid that within this plane, all the lives with the blood of Edward's royal family have come to an end at this moment!
Sure enough, it's like an invisible needle is constantly puncturing illusory blisters. The illusory faces attached to the power of the bloodline suddenly let out a terrible wail of pain, and then began to disappear one by one.
And the disappearance of every human face means the disappearance of a life in the distance!
Grim swallowed with difficulty.
Even though he is also a wizard, even though he is also full of blood, when faced with this game-like method of killing people and exterminating the race, Grim still feels a tremor in his heart.
The Edwardian dynasty is completely over!