Chapter 03: The Empire's Crisis

In the year 801 of the Guangming calendar, in early winter, the first snow of the year fell in the sky.

The Sea Clan warriors had never seen snow before, and they were curious about the snowflakes falling from the sky. When the snow stopped, it quickly turned from curiosity to fear, and the snow brought about a sharp drop in temperature. The cold weather caused great suffering to the Sea Clan warriors who had not prepared any supplies to protect them from the cold, and they had never lived in such a cold environment, let alone fought.

The Empire of Light's first counterattack against the Sea Clan army began in the cold after the snow stopped.

The fire meteor that fell from the sky and covered a radius of dozens of miles kicked off the counterattack, and the forbidden spell-level fire magic "Fall of the Burning Sun"!

The Terran Magician Guild opened the first round of attacks, and the dense fire meteors almost covered the entire sky, and each fire meteor exploded a huge crater of nearly 100 meters when it fell to the ground, and no matter how powerful the Sea Clan warriors were, they did not have any resistance under such a vast heaven and earth power, and a large number of Sea Clan warriors were blown to pieces.

After the fire meteor, it turned into a raging blizzard, and the forbidden spell-level ice magic "Ice and Snow World"! The ice and snow storm swept by, and the low-level warriors in the center of the storm directly turned into crystal ice sculptures.

After the ice and snow storm, there was a dense lightning that fell from the sky, and the thunder forbidden spell-level magic "Thor's Fury"! Thunder and lightning with the thickness of an arm formed a golden sea of thunder, almost plowing the land in the first ten miles of the imperial capital city inch by inch.

The city of Alantis is by no means in vain, these three forbidden spell-level magic arrays are built at the head of Alantis City, and each magic array is activated by ten great magicians of the department at the same time. Only the Wizards' Guild has the ability to gather so many great magicians!

The Terrans may have the worst individual combat power of any race, but thanks to their extraordinary control of magic and fighting energy, the Terrans have become the most powerful of all intelligent races.

Three rounds of forbidden spell-level magic attacks directly killed tens of thousands of Sea Clan warriors closest to the city.

After the magical attack, the gates of Arantis were wide open, and the Terran cavalry swarmed out, and several torrents of steel were separated from the gates and crushed towards the Sea Clan camp.

The Sea Clan has gradually reacted from the magic attack just now, and the Sea Clan at the general and commander level is quickly organizing the treatment of the wounded and mobilizing the army, and in the face of the impact of the Terran cavalry, they have transferred the Sea Demon Beast and the heavy armored infantry to the front of the military formation.

Before the Terran cavalry rushed into the Sea Clan barracks, monstrous waves poured out of the barracks, and the Sea Clan also had a magical profession, the Sea Priest, all of which were water magic professions.

The turbulent sea water blocked the speed of the cavalry's impact, and even directly overturned the cavalry in the front row into the waves. When the follow-up cavalry bypassed the waves and rushed up again, the sea clan's demonic beasts and heavy armored infantry had already pushed back, and the two sides immediately fell into a melee.

The Terran cavalry regarded death as home, and even if there was a huge small lord-level sea beast in front of them, they also pounced on it and attacked the sea clan military camp wave after wave.

The Sea Clan warriors were equally strong, relying on the defensive power and huge strength of their scale armor, wielding large blades such as tridents and maces to meet the fierce counterattack of the Terran cavalry.

As the subsequent Terran infantry continued to join the battlefield, the battlefield became larger and larger, and the scope of the fight became wider and wider. In the land of nearly a hundred miles outside the city of Arantis, every place is fighting and desperately.

In this bloody battlefield, death has become insignificant, and only instinctive blades are left to kill. The battlefield behind the snow was littered with the corpses of the warriors of the two clans, and the blood that flowed melted the ice and snow, turning the entire battlefield red.

There was a river of blood on the ground, and the battle in the sky was just as fierce. The warriors, the great magicians, the sea clan generals, and the sea priests fought each other, and the fighting spirit in the sky opened and closed, the magic burst, and people kept falling from the sky.

In this war, more strong generals of the two races fell than the previous Terran civil war and died in a year, and the tragedy of the war can be seen.

Nearly a million soldiers on both sides fought on the vast battlefield, and although the Terran warriors were not afraid of death, they still could not gain an advantage in the face of the powerful Sea Clan army.

What changed the situation of this war was the participation of the Knights of the Church of Light, and a phalanx of knights of 10,000 people suddenly entered the battle formation from several directions at the same time.

Every church knight is an elite warrior cultivated by the Church of Light at a great cost, with a single combat power comparable to that of a sea clan warrior, and the knight charge is blessed by the aura of the battle array, when the 10,000 knights enter the battlefield, the sea clan army is no longer able to resist.

Once the battle formation is broken through, the charging knights will exert the greatest killing effect, and the huge sea clan army formation will be shattered by the impact of several knights shrouded in white light.

The general trend has gone, the commander of the Sea Clan did not choose to hold on, the clarion call for retreat sounded, and the Sea Clan army retreated in a hurry. The Terran army took advantage of the situation to chase and kill all the way, and finally let out a vicious breath of defeat one after another.

The Empire of Light won its first victory against the Sea Clan, which left more than 100,000 corpses in front of the city of Arantis.

The casualties of the Terran army were even higher than those of the Sea Clan, but considering the difference in the combat power of the two warriors, it was still a big victory.

A grand celebration was held in the city of Arantis, where the corpses of many Sea Clan warriors were piled up in the streets. The people of the imperial capital rushed to the streets to see with their own eyes what these vicious alien races looked like? For a while, the streets were full of people, and it was even more lively than the New Year's lantern festival.

The Bright Emperor also wanted to take advantage of this victory to revive the declining prestige of the Imperial Family, and the celebration was held for three consecutive days, and the Emperor, who had not even set foot at the head of the city, actually participated in the parade.

The banquet that Arantis celebrated was still singing and dancing, and a sudden bad news completely extinguished the enthusiasm of the Bright Emperor's celebration.

The Sea Clan army, which was defeated from the battlefield, did not take any rest, but marched continuously from behind to kill the border of the Rock Kingdom.

The main forces of the armies of the Locke and Isaac kingdoms were hoarded in the border area of Locke and Rouge, confronting and entangled with the repulsed Sea Clan army.

The military defenses in the northern part of Locke were almost undefended, and only the royal city was stationed with a 100,000-strong Praetorian Guard. When the route of the Sea Clan's army is figured out, it is too late to draw the legions back from the border.

Although the Sea Clan army was a newly defeated remnant army, the number of remaining warriors still exceeded 200,000, and in the face of the Rock King City, which was only guarded by 100,000 people, it took only one day to enter the city, and the tragedy of slaughtering the city was staged again.

What's even more unfortunate is that the monarch of Locke, who went into battle in person, was captured alive by the Sea Clan, and the monarch of a country became a prisoner of the Sea Clan.

When the news of the destruction of the city and the capture of the king came, the two legions that Locke had ordered to return to the reinforcements were still a day-and-a-half-long march away from the royal city, and they stopped in place for a while, not knowing whether to advance or retreat.

At the same time, the Hai army, which had stayed in Rouge, once again launched an attack on the border of Locke. Although this battle was still Locke and Isaac teamed up to flank the Sea Clan army, there was only one legion left on Locke's side, and because the king was captured as if he had lost his soul, he was attacked by the Sea Clan army, and was defeated by the Sea Clan on the frontal battlefield.

When the Sea Clan army turned around and attacked Isaac's army again, the two legions, Iron Flow and Blazing Fire, who knew that they were invincible, quickly broke away and quickly withdrew.

In just over ten days, the Sea Clan army occupied the entire territory of the Locke Kingdom.

In less than two months since the Sea Clan landed, counting the Normans who took the initiative to surrender to the enemy, half of the six countries of the Terran Race had fallen into the hands of aliens!

The shattered Empire of Light has encountered an unprecedented crisis......