Chapter 440: Pope Sigmar
It was not beyond Levi's expectations, after Emperor Karl personally participated in the battle, the strength of the imperial forces increased to varying degrees, and the green-skinned army, which was already at a disadvantage, became even more embarrassed.
Levi estimates that the emperor is either equipped with some particularly high-level battle treasures, or his battle level has exceeded level 20, otherwise there is no way to explain why he has such a powerful attribute bonus to ordinary imperial troops, it is not only the morale boost effect attached to the Sigma Warhammer, it is a real attribute crushing, it is really strange why he was not so powerful before, could it be that this is still special for the green skin?
But no matter what doubts Levi had in his heart, under the command and encouragement of the emperor, the imperial army fought harder and harder, and after about an hour of fierce fighting, first all the greenskin leaders were killed, and then the greenskin army was finally completely defeated, just like the beastmen before them, they also began to scatter and flee all over the mountains.
It's just that now without those wood elves, the imperial side is relatively powerless to encircle and pursue these greenskins, not to mention that chasing them is not a particularly important thing, the top priority is to rescue the reinforcements from the Talabek Leader first, after all, there is an Elector and a Sigma Pope there!
Seeing that the battle was almost over, Levi gave orders to his troops in the rear, and at the same time, Reinhardt and the others began to approach the place where the generalissimo was, because he wanted to see what kind of person the Pope of Sigma would be, and following the generalissimo would definitely be the first to see each other.
Levi soon got his wish, and he met the famous Pope of the Sigma Sect, known as the Heartless, or Hardened Walkma.
Although the other party looked like an old man in his forties and fifties, he carried a strange staff more than 2 meters tall with a pure golden griffon inlaid on his head, and Levi estimated that it would not be a problem at all to use it as a long-handled warhammer.
He wore a heart guard on his chest, which looked very valuable, and the emerald green griffon statue that kept glowing green, and he was wearing a priest's robe on the outside, but a pair of chain mail on the inside, all of which showed that he was definitely not a crispy priest who could only cast spells in the back, but more like a powerful warrior who could charge at any time, and the overall look was very strong.
And like most of the priests of the Sigma Sect, he was also a big bald head, and Levi reckoned that this should be the principled order of their sect, and even the Heavenly Lone Star, who was the chosen hero of God, was not exempt from vulgarity.
And when Levi saw him, the Sigma Pope was standing in front of a gorgeous and solemn Sigma altar, directing a bunch of Sigma priests to cast healing spells on the injured Imperial soldiers around him.
Don't ask Levi why he knows that this is Sigma's altar, because in the middle of the altar, in addition to several golden griffin statues standing up with the same style as the emperor, but magnified several times more than the Sigma Warhammer, more importantly, in the most conspicuous place in front of the altar, there are three big words written very clearly: Sigma!
Levi was very surprised at first, he didn't know how the other party had built such a very solid altar of dozens of square meters in such a short period of time, and he was indeed worthy of being the boss of the Sigma Sect, and he prayed to his god as soon as the battle was over.
But when he looked closely, he found that the altar was immensely movable, and it was actually set up on a huge carriage, and there were more than twenty horses pulling the cart alone, and this thing could definitely be used as a war machine.
Not to mention anything else, just these dozens of square meters of altar can directly crush a large number of enemies!
However, Levi still thinks this thing is very stupid, because most of the territory of the empire is covered by dense forests, and if there is any battle in the field, there is very little chance that this super giant chariot can really use its strength.
But if it is changed to a smaller one, it is not much different from a normal vehicle, so the first impression of this thing to Levi is that it is too fancy and not very practical.
And if the Sigma Pope had traveled to Talabek in this altar carriage, Levi would have understood why the enemies of the Chaos Camp knew about them, because it was so conspicuous!
As for another important person, the Elector from the Talabek Domain, Levi also saw that from the outside, the other party should be a general who can fight well, but now the blood stains on his body make him look a little embarrassed.
The only thing that attracted Levi's attention was the rune dragon tooth sword that emitted a faint light in the other party's hand.
There are only a dozen or so weapons in the entire empire, each with a unique name, and each one symbolizes a powerful weapon of provincial power, and they are all purple legendary-level. Even the Emperor himself had a Rick Collar Rune Dragon's Tooth Sword, but because the Emperor's Sigma Warhammer in his hand was more powerful, he didn't use it very often.
When he saw the emperor coming in person on a war horse, even if his face was full of exhaustion, the emperor and the Sigma Pope went to greet him in person, although Levi couldn't hear what the other party was saying because of the relative distance, but just looking at the apology and unwillingness on the faces of the two guys, and the emperor's constant encouragement with a smile on his face, Levi knew that these two guys must be blaming themselves for failing to reinforce the emperor and falling into this kind of fate.
However, Levi sighed more and more at Emperor Carl's rules of doing things, at this time, if it was the emperor of the ancient eastern country, for them who lost troops and failed to complete the reinforcement task at all, I am afraid that the first time is to take their heads to sacrifice the flag, and the next step is to send their whole family to meet underground!
At this time, the Lone Star quietly walked over from the side and reported to him in a low voice, "Boss, so far there has been no trace of the Skaven rats, they seem to have retreated directly, and they have not found any movement of the undead. โ
Levi couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard this, when they fought with the beastmen before, the Skaven rats were still hiding near here, planning to come to an ambush, but now they are gone, because the emperor's army has merged with the army led by Talabek, so they are afraid of defeat? This is understandable, but unfortunately some of Levi's previous preparations will not be useful for the time being.
At this time, the Pope Sigma, who was not far away, suddenly roared with emotion, "Your Majesty, this series of ambushes must be a conspiracy of Manfred von Kastein!" โ
Manfred von Kastein, the vampire king who occupies the entire Sylvania, Sylvania was also a province of the empire hundreds of years ago, but now it has long become the stronghold of the undead, although there are still a handful of humans in it, but more are zombies and skeletons all over the ground, those humans are probably deliberately free-range by the vampires, after all, the vampires need their blood for food.
The undead of Sylvania have always been the mortal enemies of the Empire, and even this hatred is stronger than that of the Beastmen.
Successive emperors of the empire have tried to restore their territories, and there are also some followers of the Moor, the god of the dead, at the borders of the empire, who have been working on a crusade against the undead, but no one has ever succeeded.
Hundreds of years have passed, and the sphere of influence of the undead has not shrunk in the slightest, but has gradually expanded, and has even gradually endangered the dwarves in the mountains.
There was even a vampire lord who once said that all the living will eventually die, but whether it is a complete corpse, a broken skeleton or an unyielding soul, it will eventually become the power available to the undead, and the old world will eventually belong to their undead!
The Emperor discussed it for a while, and then he ordered the army to begin its march towards Talabek, and a mission was issued to all the Chosen Heroes who participated in the war, but it was not the Emperor himself, but the seemingly indignant Sigmar Pope.
Wrath of Walkmar: Because of Manfred's intrigues, Walkmar the Ruthless has not only been in danger several times, but has not even been able to complete the task assigned to him by the Emperor, which is absolutely unbearable for Walkmar, from now on, Walkmar will do her best to prepare for war and make the Vampire King pay for this, but before that, the other undead will be the first to meet Walkma's wrath.
This is followed by a series of kill missions, after killing a certain number of undead, Levi will gain the prestige and merits of the Sigmar Sect, which are counted separately from the Empire's merits, and the items that can be exchanged for feats are also very different.
If Levi completes a certain task and makes enough merits, in addition to recruiting a large number of floggers and other troops in the Sigma Sect, he can also recruit the Battle Priests of the Sigma Sect, as well as the Religious Knights unique to the Sigma Sect, the Burning Heart Knights, and even exchange their transfer orders and various skills and equipment.
In the face of such a rich reward, Levi naturally followed as soon as possible, anyway, whether it was because of Landoin's blood, for the continued growth of the Holy Grail Mark, or the title of Probationary Order Guardian given to him by the Lizardmen, he had already become a mortal enemy with the guys in the chaos camp, basically everyone was his enemy, and the undead were naturally no exception!
It's just that Levi seriously suspects that he may not be able to exchange anything good in the next period of time, because like the Skaven rat people, the undead are all cunning and treacherous guys, and the vampire king who controls Sylvania is the best among them, and it probably won't continue to send troops in this situation, after all, Sylvania is not in the Northern Expedition route planned by the emperor.
At the same time, Levi also had a little doubt, the transfer orders of these special classes and the exchange threshold for various skills are not very high, even if it is just an ordinary chosen hero, as long as you work hard, you can get a certain amount of resources, it seems that it is a little too easy to get them, which does not seem to be in line with the style of the Sigma Sect all along.
This wasn't something that Levi had just noticed, as the Emperor had promised a similar reward for the mission.
You must know that before, whether it was a mage, a priest or any other special class, it was necessary to pay a lot of price, and even complete several tasks to get it, but now it only needs to kill a certain number of enemies, as if they suddenly let go, as if they want to make the Chosen Heroes strong as soon as possible.
According to Levi's speculation, this usually means that they are going to face more powerful threats, and only by becoming stronger in a short period of time can they deal with these threats...
After meeting the remnants of the Talabek army, the Imperial army continued its advance towards the Talabek Territory, and soon reached the capital of Talabbein, where the Emperor himself ordered the army to rest and recuperate for tomorrow.
The Emperor's army naturally had the Elector of the Tarabek Lord, and the troops of many other Chosen Heroes also had a place to go, that is, to be stationed in the fortresses around Talabbein.
Unlike many provincial capitals, the capital of Talabek is not a single city, but a place built in the middle surrounded by large and small fortresses.
In fact, the core area is not necessarily much larger than a normal town, but it is a capital city after all, and although it is far from being comparable to the Imperial City of Aldolf or Nunn, it is still quite prosperous.
And for God's chosen heroes like Levi, there is also a very big advantage here, that is, there are enough soldiers, and they can replenish a large number of troops here.
Although Levi had never been here before, he had participated in the battle to rescue the leader of Talabek in the previous battle, and he had barely amassed a little prestige to recruit a certain number of troops, of course, the price would not be too cheap.
Levi recruited some of the special troops of the Talabek Lord, the Woodland Swordsman, the Tarabek Honorary Hunter, and some Revenant Hunters who believed in the god of nature and the wilderness, Tรกr, although the highest of these three types of troops was only 4 ranks, but all of them were troops that had advantages in the battle with the Beastmen, Levi felt that it could be of a lot of use, after all, the Beastmen were the most common enemies in the wilderness of the Old World, and finally he allocated these recruits to Sienna to manage, which was considered to strengthen her forces.
Reinhardt's luck is very good, there happen to be some knights stationed here, so she directly used the troop recruitment order obtained in the last battle, adding about three hundred cavalry troops to her troops, although these cavalry look a little bells and whistles at first glance, and the armor on her body has any patterns, but the increase in the strength of her troops is real, and the cavalry of these knights is not only stronger than the original imperial knights under her command, but also often has some additional special skills.
It's just that after recruiting troops and meeting Levi again, Reinhardt's expression was very solemn.
"Levi, I have found out that Lorenzo's troops have passed through here, they are one step ahead of us, and their army is said to be over eight thousand in size, and I fear that by the time they arrive in Nordland, the number will likely exceed 10,000."
Lorenzo is the real name of the Northern Eagle, and the reason Reinhardt says that their forces may continue to grow in size is because their sect has a presence in various major cities, and in the name of the Northern Eagle, they will definitely be able to recruit some troops.
In this way, even if they fight repeatedly, the size of the army is likely to increase instead of decreasing, which is a very serious challenge for Reinhardt, although she also has a certain number of supporters within the sect, but in the case of her earl's sister is too busy to give her any support, these supporters, even if Levi is added, and the Northern Eagle, who has held power for many years, cannot be compared for a while, this is purely a matter of background.
But Levi wasn't too nervous, but smiled and comforted the other party: "Reinhardt, although the Northern Eagle can recruit troops, we are not alone, and now I am also a relatively famous figure among the Chosen Heroes, and I also have some friends with good strength... โ