A pure white slim armor, with a pure white supple cloak behind him, riding on a white war horse that is not stained with a trace of miscellaneous hair, the faint light appears on his body, and the holy guard knights are tightly guarding the left and right, their momentum is powerful and amazing, ordinary people can't resist this powerful aura at all, only from the fusion with Kelgen, Leluxiu's physique is really getting closer and closer to the demigod physique, coupled with the demonic holy guard around him who has been upgraded under the full force of the Demon Academy, Lelouch really has a trace of the feeling of a god in the god realm now。

The people who were originally cheering were quickly impressed by this aura, as the first person knelt down, countless people behind him knelt down one after another, and the procession of kneeling quickly spread to the entire city with Leluxiu's passing, the original uproar turned into silent piety, even those elves and dwarves were stunned to watch this scene, although they were not yet kneeling, but they also fell to one knee and showed their attitude.

Silent piety is more impactful than the lively noise, and the human beings who have never seen Lelouch are now seeing Lelouch's true face, and in the depths of their minds, the first real image of Lelouch is frozen, Lelouch, who is a well-deserved son of God, a demigod.

It took Lelouch more than three hours to walk through the Red Dragon City, and this was still unimpeded along the way, which shows the actual scale of the Red Dragon City, and it was not until Lelouch left the Red Dragon City that the crowd slowly came back to their senses, but then looked at the crowd of the parading army, and there was no longer the joy of the first day, after they were severely shocked by Lelouch and the holy guards, they completely had a qualitative change in the army, how could they be disrespectful to the army of the gods?

This kind of change was something that Lelouch didn't expect, and now I can't feel whether this feeling is good or bad, but seriously, this feeling of being madly worshiped by others really makes Lelouch fluttering.

The parade in Red Dragon City is just a passing move, Leluxiu's real destination is still the gray swamp, in order to stabilize the gray swamp is the real purpose of this trip, so in the next journey, Lelouch has too many stops, except for the occasional casual inspection in a certain village, their itinerary has almost no stops, and Wang Zifeng has long been waiting for Lelouxiu's arrival in the provincial capital of the gray swamp, only from the successive defeats of the aborigines and beastmen, the development of the gray swamp has returned to the normal speed, and the cutting speed of the entire jungle area is also carried out according to the predetermined plan。

In Wang Zifeng's opinion, the things in the gray swamp are already on the right track, and all that remains is to wait for the fermentation of time, and then create a new 'fog and ash province'.

In Lelouxiu's opinion, the role of the Beastmen in the empire is far greater than that of those elves and cat people, and what characteristics the cat people have now Lu Luxiu is not clear, but the beastmen are much better than other races in terms of combat effectiveness and versatility, if the versatility of the human race ranks first, then the versatility of the beastmen is definitely second.

For the study of the beastmen, Lelouch also checked the records of the empire about the beastmen, but in which records, there are only some ancient legends, in the ancient legends, the beastmen are a very, very ancient race, the footprints of these crusty creatures have spread all over the world long before the appearance of any species, long before the elves, dwarves and other powerful peoples set foot in this world, the beastmen have been the most loyal subordinates of these ancient gods with divine powers.

When the Old Gods established their first stronghold in the Grey Swamp, they chose the amphibians that had lived here for a long time as their first experiments, giving them great power and transforming them into a group of absolutely loyal warriors to defend the loyal followers who traveled with the Old Gods through the world. The Old Gods transformed into three different types of creatures based on the characteristics of Middle-earth creatures: Dwarves, Elves, and Beastmen.

Over the millennia, as the earth took shape according to the will of the Old Gods, and the followers of the Old Gods gave birth to their offspring in this new abode, armies of the Old Gods carried out genocidal operations, making room for their supreme masters to create new creatures: humans, orcs, and other natives.

The Old Gods have been entangled with feud-demon gods in this world for hundreds of years, and eventually, they chose to leave the world. The responsibility of protecting the world from the Demon Gods falls to the races created by the Old Gods, including the millions of powerful Beastmen who have been left behind on this planet.

At the moment when the ancient god left, the maddening energy of the demon god immediately swept the world, as the first guardian, the beastman shouldered the task of fighting with the demon god in the early stage, although the beastman won the advantage in most of the battles, but the demon god's demons continued to emerge from the other space, and the power of the beastman has declined since then...

Alone and struggling through the chaos for centuries, the Beastmen's young brothers, the Azurs, came into contact with the Followers of the Old Gods, who granted them the knowledge of occult knowledge, the Azuls were born with a brilliant grasp of such knowledge, and the elves quickly absorbed the ability to use magic. A few years later, an archmage of the High Elves induces the energy of the Old God's retinue that has stayed on the Isle of Death, and successfully defeats the Daedric energy. After the end of the war, the retinue of the ancient gods seized the rare opportunity to build defenses to expel the distorted energy of the demon god from the continent, and then only a few demons in the area where the demon god's energy was thick could break into this world from another space with impunity.

This millennia battle has come to an end, but the Beastmen have not been able to share the joy of victory with the other races in the final victory. They were quickly forgotten by the other races for their best efforts in battle, and no race remembered the hardskin warriors who shed their blood in the world except the elves. They retreated to the ash swamp and waited for their master's next instructions.

Three thousand years after the Great War between the Ancient and the Demon God, Mordor invaded the Grey Swamp, and the Beastmen started the second millennium war in history, but in the end they were outnumbered, and with Mordor's strong era advantage, they were finally completely defeated, and this ancient species became the remnant of the Grey Swamp.

With the exception of Mordor, the only forces that came into contact with the Beastmen during this period of closure were the Inland Sea pirates who occasionally came to harass the coastline, and a few exiled mages.

Subsequently, this plot is linked to the current Terran invasion of the Grey Swamp, and there is also a legendary group that has attracted Lelouch's attention, that is, the Old God Followers, because according to the legend, the Old God Followers may be a group of beings with high magic, and Lelouch even suspects that maybe Lilith is one of the few remaining Old God Followers.

The Followers of the Old Gods are the stewards of the world appointed by the Old Gods, and they are also the rulers of the Beastmen Realm. The creatures of the Old Gods' followers are an extremely powerful group of spellcasters, but their flesh is too weak to withstand the blows of any creature.

The powerful followers of the old gods recorded in their minds the plans drawn up by the old gods for this world, and they used it as the mantra of the gods to transform the world again and again. Driven by the powerful magical energy of the Old Gods' followers, the continent was cut into several continents (rumors have it that the Great Earthquake in the Dwarven Calamity Age was caused by the Old God's followers, but the dwarves didn't know about it), and even the planets' orbits were corrected according to their will, bringing the planets closer to the stars, ensuring that the new races that were still swaddling in the arms of the Old Gods could survive at the right temperature (the main reason for the dragon's slumber was also due to the fact that the Old God's followers put the world back to its original position, causing the temperature to drop to the point where the dragons could not survive) 。 It's a pity that the transcendent magical knowledge of many of the old gods' followers is buried in the trajectory of the great wheel of history along with the departure of the old gods...

The followers of the old gods in this world lasted for a total of five generations, and although the first generation of the followers of the old gods had died in their bodies, their souls were still connected to the world, and despite the loss of their bodies, the followers of the old gods could still use their souls to inform their fellow people of impending crises, and these powerful spirits would also possess the volunteers and fight with their descendants for the ultimate goal of their masters.

The exalted High Priest of the Gulag was not only the best in the use of magic by the retinue of the Old Gods, but also the first retinue of the Old Gods to set foot in the world with the Old Gods. While he was alive, a city would disappear from the world at the slightest glance, and because the Gulag had such great powers, the ancient gods gave him many huge projects that opened the world, and through his ingenious skills, the world was shaped. His mythical life ended in a great battle with the Demon God, on that day, the Demon God defeated the Solo Legion to attack the Beastman City, and the High Priest of the Gulag single-handedly built a mana protection net to prevent millions of Demon God and Demon from invading the Beastman City for several months, and the battle finally ended when the High Demon Legion broke through the defensive net, and the Gulag body was killed by the demons, but the stubborn Old God's retinue spirit refused to leave the dead body. In the following important battles of legend, the former Beastmen legions would still carry the mummies of the Gulag to the battlefield. The lifeless mummy is still a powerful magician that cannot be ignored by the enemy, and the energy and obsession left on it can still easily fight these weak intruders when facing the enemies of the beastmen.

It's just that this beastman's holy relic, lost its trace under the invasion of Mordor, the beastmen thought that Mordor had plundered their holy relics, but Mordor denied this statement, Lelouch also asked the mages of the Demon Academy, for this magic holy relic, the mages also have a very high esteem, what a powerful mage, can only rely on the corrupt body for thousands of years, can exert a magic power far higher than theirs, but as for the location of this holy relic, the mages shook their heads, because of this thing, they really have never seen it。

The remains of the High Priest seem to exist only in legends.

So Lelouch felt very sorry for not being able to recover the beastmen, although Lelouch didn't give the beastmen any chance to negotiate peace at the beginning, but before, after weighing it in every way, Lelouch still felt that the beastmen were not suitable for the society of the human empire, some races could accept it, but some couldn't, so the beastmen appeared earlier than humans, and the ancient race of the same period as the dwarf elves, Lelouch must be eliminated, or completely driven out of the ash swamp.

After all, the era of the Old Gods is long over, and now it is a new era of steampunk, where machinery and magic coexist.

...

Fog Ash Province, the new name of the Ash Swamp, as the temporary capital of the Fog Ash Province, the scale of the border colony is not small, and the number of flying people in the city is almost the same as that of humans, and the most important species among them are elves and cat people, elves as mentioned earlier, in the eyes of humans, they are a miniature version of humans, but they are more cute, and the IQ of elves is also higher than the average level of humans, in school, the speed of elves learning new knowledge Yao Yuanyuan exceeds that of humans.

Cat people, on the other hand, take on a lot of low-level work, but because they are not humanoids after all, they do not have access to too many high-level creatures, and their talents seem to be limited to low-level physical work, which is a situation in which cat-people can almost only find the lowest jobs to support their families.

Tom, the most common name in the cat-man family, is a name that exists in almost every cat-man family, just like Tom, who is responsible for dumping garbage in the blacksmith shop, he is also the cat-man named Tom in their family.

After a busy day's work, Tom wore a blacksmith jean, took off his thick black gloves, carefully put the gloves away in his backpack, and took the dinner prepared for him by the boss who hired him, ready to go home, the amount of this dinner is actually rich for the cat people, although there is not much meat, but at least, and it is covered with lard, but if this meal is only for one person, it is definitely enough, but if you want a wife and three children in the family to eat, plus yourself, it is really too little。

But Tom never complained, because his family was able to eat every day, which was too happy for them cat people, so what reason did they have to complain?

"By the way, Tom, remember to wash your clothes and gloves when you come tomorrow, tomorrow Your Majesty will be in the Fog Ash Province, maybe tomorrow we will have the honor to be able to witness the great dignity of His Majesty the Son of God." ”

"Okay boss, I know, then I'll go first. ”

Tom and the boss finally said hello, put on a more formal set of shabby cotton clothes, the temperature in the fog and gray province is still very cold, Tom's work is outside the main road of the city, there are countless cat people on the road today to clean the road, Tom smiled and met the cat people bowed their heads, towards their home, walked back!