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Chapter 443: The Scarlet Wasteland

"Boom-"

The desolate wilderness suddenly bloomed with a massive amount of magical light, reflecting the brightness of the radius for several miles! Immediately after, a large number of figures appeared from the magical light, and the number of people was as high as 200,000!

Through the magic light, it can be seen that these 200,000 people are divided into two distinct parts--100,000 people on the left side are wearing golden steel plate heavy armor, each of them has a standard long sword hanging from their waists, and in their right hand they are holding a huge heavy shield that is at least one meter and two long and ten centimeters thick!

There was no doubt that these 100,000 gold-armored infantry were the Roland royal infantrymen who enjoyed a prestigious reputation in the entire Valley of the Dawn! In addition, each Roland royal infantry carried a whole bag of javelins behind him, and the number was about twenty.

The 100,000 people on the right are wearing jet-black armor, a jet-black full-cover helmet on their heads, the same jet-black handguards and leggings, and a jet-black cloak behind them.

Like the Roland royal infantry next to them, the Black Knights also carried a shield in their right hand and a one-handed weapon from their waists on their left side. However, compared with the heavy and unspeakable shield of the Roland Royal Emblem, the shield in the hands of the Black Knight is only a light knight's shield, in the shape of a symmetrical hexagon (composed of two isosceles trapezoidal pairs together), and the shield is also engraved with a golden scale representing the Roland royal family, which also indicates the identity of these black knights - the Roland Royal Knights!

However, unlike the one-handed swords of the Roland royal infantry, these knights are hung with maces around their waists, and the head of the hammer is about the size of a melon, with dense sharp spikes distributed on them! In addition, each knight also carries a slender ebony two-handed sword behind his back, with a length of about one meter and three - the existence of the two-handed sword shows that even if these knights are on the ground, they are also terrible murder weapons!

In fact, the most commonly used weapon of the knight is the knight's gun, a two-meter-long, conical barrel knight's gun, under the gallop at high speed, can easily stab a heavy infantry in the heart! But now that you don't ride a horse, the knight's gun will naturally not be used.

At the forefront of the 100,000 Roland royal infantry and the 100,000 knights of the Heavenly Scale, there were the Roland Emperor Saint Pepaul and Black Earth.

"Is this the Scarlet Wasteland?" St. Pepao asked, frowning at the scarlet hue around him.

"That's right, this is the most dangerous wilderness in the continent of Blanca, the Scarlet Wasteland!" Unlike St. Pepao's unhappiness, Black Earth's usual hoarse voice was obviously a little excited at this time.

Scarlet stones, scarlet sand, scarlet plants...... Even the sky above me was a scarlet color! It can be said that everything I saw here was all scarlet, as if it were stained with blood!

"It's always the night here, the sky has always been like this?" Obviously, the blood-colored sky overhead made Adrian feel extremely unhappy.

"No," Hearing this, Black Earth smiled strangely, "My Honorable Majesty, there is no day or night in the Scarlet Wasteland, and the sky here has always been like this!"

10,000 years ago, the Fast Empire claimed to be the co-lord of the continent, but in fact, this statement is not accurate enough, because the territory ruled by the Fast Empire does not include the Scarlet Wasteland! The Scarlet Wasteland occupies one-fifth the size of the entire Blanca continent, which is already equivalent to the Valley of the Dawn, equivalent to the Storm Mountains, or twice the size of the Bird Swamp!

Located in the heart of the continent of Blanca, the Scarlet Wasteland divides the continent into four regions: Valley of Dawn (east), realm of the Seven Kings (west), Storm Mountains (south), and Bird Swamp (north), and is said to have been considered the most dangerous wilderness area on the continent since the Second Dynasty!

The vast Scarlet Wasteland must have hidden many secrets, and there has never been a shortage of adventurers entering it to explore the truth since ancient times, but so far, for many living races on the continent of Blanca, the Scarlet Wasteland is still a mist that cannot be seen clearly, and there is not even a complete topographic map of the Scarlet Wasteland!

This seems a little incredible, for ordinary people, the Scarlet Wasteland is indeed too vast, but for an arcane with the ability to fly, or even a Saint-level powerhouse who can teleport in space, it shouldn't be difficult to explore the Scarlet Wasteland, right?

But in fact, the air ban is not the main thing, the biggest problem is that the Scarlet Wasteland has no fixed terrain! And behind this conclusion is to bury a whole elite army of the once powerful Fast Empire!

"Almighty Mentor" Adrian the Great, as one of the most outstanding emperors of the Brass Age of the Fast Empire, during his reign, he created countless glorious firsts for the Fast Empire - the completion of the first plane breeding farm and the construction of the first underwater crystal palace...... Even the brass tower, which is claimed to be enough to slaughter the gods, is Adrian's handiwork! It can be said that even in the Faste royal family, Adrian is definitely one of the most accomplished emperors!

In Adrian's later years, Adrian, who had already become the co-master of countless planes, set his sights on the Scarlet Wasteland - he wanted to conquer the Scarlet Wasteland, truly realize the unification of the whole continent, and complete the great cause that the previous emperors failed to do!

Although Adrian was already in his twilight years at that time, he was not stupid, and he did not take it for granted - before he really began to conquer the Scarlet Wasteland, Adrian sent a large number of royal agents to conduct a year-long reconnaissance of the Scarlet Wasteland before starting the war!

At that time, almost one-tenth of the soldiers of the major expeditionary forces came from shell pickers, so the shell picker regiment was nicknamed the expeditionary force without void warships! And the shellfish picker regiment wanted to pick up refers to the countless planes in the sea of stars! It can be said that although the shell picker regiment does not go to various battlefields all year round like other regiments, it enjoys an extremely high prestige in the entire Fast Empire army system, and the soldiers who come out of the shell pickers do not live up to the name of elite at all!

At that time, Adrian made a promise to the Shell Picker Corps that as long as they could successfully conquer the Scarlet Wasteland this time, the Empire would allocate Void Warships for them, so that they would become a real Star Sea Expeditionary Force from now on, and no longer a reserve!

At the beginning, with the topographical map detected by the royal agents, the advance of the shell pickers was extremely smooth, and on the first day, they advanced three hundred miles, planting the Fast flag all the way, and there was no attrition!

After that, the shell pickers advanced 320 li on the second day and 315 li on the third day...... In the first week of the Conquest, the war went so smoothly that the whole empire was jubilant, and Adrian seemed to see that there was more to be added to his biography!

But on the eighth day, there was no news from the Shell Pickers, and the engineering troops who followed up on the development of the Scarlet Wasteland were also attacked inexplicably and suffered heavy losses—a very bad sign!

And the facts proved it, for the next twenty days, the shell hunters did not send back a single message, and the royal agents who were sent into the Scarlet Wasteland to follow the traces of the army did not find any of their tracks, as if the shell pickers had suddenly evaporated out of thin air!

Until the last day of the month, a soldier of the Shell Pickers was discovered by a dwarven miner in the Storm Mountains - the location where the soldier was found was completely off the established route of the Shell Pickers' advance, and thousands of miles away!

In the end, the Empire received only a few words from the remaining soldier, and based on the soldier's words, the Empire finally came to an incredible statement - the terrain of the Scarlet Wasteland is changing! And this change is irregular! In addition, the Scarlet Wasteland is extremely dangerous, and any outsider who tries to enter the Scarlet Wasteland will be mortally attacked!

The battle that lasted less than a month and ended hastily to conquer the bloody wasteland was called the "Battle of Blood Shells" by historians of the Fast Empire! The Battle of Blood Shells was regarded by the historians of the Fast Empire as the only stain on Adrian the Great, and it was also one of the most bizarre battles in the history of the Fast Empire! And the once famous Shell Picker Regiment was canceled because of this battle and finally disappeared into the long river of history!

It is precisely because of this battle that the entire Blanca continent realizes the horror of the Scarlet Wasteland!

However, a mere wasteland could not shake the confidence and ambition of the Fast Empire - after Adrian, thousands of years before the Battle of the Dragons, the Fast Empire launched four major battles to conquer the bloody wasteland!

Of course, compared with the Battle of Bloodshell, although the next four battles also cost the Fast Empire extremely much, there was no tragedy of the destruction of the whole regiment again. But with the defeat of five conquests, the Scarlet Wastes are considered one of the most dangerous areas in the entire continent of Blanca!

Therefore, it is not difficult to find that when they learned that they were now in the Scarlet Wasteland, even the Roland Royal Infantry and the Celestial Knights, who had gone through countless baptisms of war, couldn't help but change their expressions slightly!

"Your Majesty, you must also know that the Battle of Bloodshell launched by Emperor Adrian to conquer the Scarlet Wasteland was not for nothing. As he spoke, a mysterious smile appeared on Hei Tu's face, "Even, the four battles launched by the Empire after that were only to verify something!"

"Something, something we're after!"

(End of chapter)

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