Chapter 53: The War Begins

The great priests of the major temples were also dispatched to participate in this battle, and the dispatch of the great priests was nothing more than the most eye-catching thing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The High Priest is a person who has dedicated his whole life to the gods they worship, and is also a bridge between the gods and the world, and their departure is not trivial, the Grand Priest of the Temple of Dawn Alonso, the Grand Priest of the Temple of the Brave, Rochester, and the Grand Priest of the other major temples are quietly praying to their respective gods. Around them were the high-ranking sacrifices of the major temples.

The army slowly started, and each headed towards the Demon Gate in units of Count and above, and Cecil and the others also marched towards the Demon Gate in the ranks of Count Cassikud. Unlike the last time he went to the south, this time Cecil was following a large force. Not as casual and free as the last time, every move had to keep up with the speed of the big army, for which Sanders adapted well to all this, and even a little happy. This was the holy life of the regular army that he had been looking forward to for a long time, but Anne, a dragon warlock who had always been characterized by maverick behavior, was extremely uncomfortable, but she also endured it for the sake of Cecil.

The location of the Devil's Gate is really in the northwest of the empire, and after more than a month of marching, Count Cassikud finally arrived at the front city of the Devil's Gate - Trith City, which is the largest city in the Sololand Kingdom on the front line of the Devil's Gate, and is stationed in the kingdom's most elite dragon knight regiment all year round. Cecil couldn't help but be amazed when he saw the 30-meter-high wall, thinking that the walls of Wharton City were like toys.

There are countless defenses on the walls of Trith, the walls are covered with poisonous mandalas like poisonous stingers, which are the result of the great druid of the elven kingdom personally cultivated, and the water in the moat is all blessed holy water, which has almost an instant killing effect on low-level demon creatures, and even has 4 magic cannons! This kind of cannon can bombard the Holy Rank Great Demon and even suppress the attack of the legendary-level demon lord, of course, the consumption is also extremely amazing, and 10 magic crystal nuclei will be lost without firing a single cannon, you can imagine how much resources are needed to support this hopeless war with just these 4 cannons.

The acting city lord of Triss City, the head of the dragon knight unit, Gustav, personally received the earl and his party, the dragoon regiment is an elite unit in the kingdom and the past Praetorian Guard regiment, and the three commanders of the first and second deputy are all legendary powerhouses. They hold on to the city of Trith, and are under constant constant attack by a large number of demons every day.

After resting in Triss for three days, Count Cassikud received orders from the kingdom to send his troops to a small city called Solo City in the northwest of Tris. As a small branch of Triss, Solo City is a city that demons and humans have repeatedly fought for. With years of war, the human kingdom gradually abandoned this small city with the depletion of troops, in the vicinity of Triss City, there were at least a dozen abandoned branch cities, with the kingdom's large-scale conscription, these dozen abandoned small cities were quickly recovered by the human kingdom.

Count Cassikud led his army and quickly drove to Solo City, after the humans abandoned here, the demon was not interested in occupying this place for a long time, and after killing the soldiers and civilians who did not have time to evacuate, the demon left some servants below level 20 to stay, and then led the troops to leave here. The Count's army easily swept away the remaining armies and then captured the long-abandoned town hall.

Solo City was originally a city where the battle between humans and demons was fierce, and the soldiers and civilians here either died in the war or had long since been evacuated. The Count couldn't even find a decent man, there was no way. The Earl had no choice but to find all the soldiers below level 20 in his army to serve as people's husbands, and these soldiers happily accepted this suggestion, after all, not everyone wants to make a meritorious career, and these weak soldiers think most about how to save their lives in war.

Fortunately, Baron Curresta has always been strict in his military management and extremely demanding in himself, and there are no soldiers under his command who are less than level 20, although there are only two professions under him, he and her daughter, but at least the soldiers under him are standard warrior templates, and they are all above level 30, and they are also qualified soldiers. Therefore, the soldiers under the command of Baron Curesta were not transferred to civilian forces, and the formation was preserved, and after removing the civilian husbands, the count reorganized the troops, got 700 men, and then sent 200 men again to maintain the logistics line, and then got 500 soldiers.

Cecil could see that Count Cassikud was also trying to keep the soldiers who were not capable of participating in the battle away from the battlefield and try not to lose his manpower. Because the scale of this mobilization was too large, in order to gather the number of people perfunctory to the king, so some people with very poor quality were also transferred into the army, in order not to let these people lag behind on the battlefield, the earl had to strip them out of the army on the front line to re-elite the army, which was also a kind of helplessness.

It took about 5 days, and basically the Count had almost cleaned up Solo City, so he sent people and horses to clear the nearby beasts that were polluted by demonic power, and there were many strongholds of beasts around Solo City, and the demon's blood polluted them, and they exchanged their loyalty for demonic power. Beasts evolve into monsters to strengthen themselves, and when the demon army attacks, these monsters also act as accomplices to destroy humans.

Baron Kuresta's squad was regarded by the Earl as a strong team, so it was sent with the heaviest mission, and Cecil and his party had to deal with a magical beast called the Blue Light Cave in the northwestern part of Solo City. This group of beasts that were originally level 20 and were similar to wolves and dogs were all demonized into ferocious demon wolves. The average level has increased by 10 levels all at once.

But there is no difficulty for Cecil and the others, this kind of demonic beast can't even block Cecil's sword, and Annie's can kill five or six demonic beasts with a fireball. Even the so-called Demon Wolf Leader didn't bother much at all. When he fell, he didn't even resist. After all, unlike those demonized creatures that were contaminated by the blood of the gods in the Chengguang Forest at that time, these demonized creatures contaminated by the blood of the demon lord did not even go berserk, and Cecil even had a feeling of simple mode when he fought.

Although the combat power of the others is slightly weaker, but with the blessing of Cecil's powerful aura, the ability has been strengthened by more than 60% at once, and the combat power of a single person is far beyond that of ordinary magical beasts, plus the baron and Talis and Saunders, and soon the demon wolf in the cave was cleaned up.

After the battle, Cecil took a look at his experience and was disappointed to find that he didn't have any experience, and it seemed that he didn't have any experience in killing monsters below his level 10. You have to challenge monsters that are stronger than you or about the same level as yourself in order to gain experience points. And the monsters here didn't drop any equipment. It seems that the things dropped by the monster are also related to the level of the monster you kill. Anyway, he has hardly gotten any equipment since the last big explosion of 3 pieces of silver equipment, including the powerful Titan who has not dropped equipment, of course, the Titan may not drop things in special missions, and in fact, the attribute rewards he gets from the Titan are far more than any equipment.

While Cecil was still thinking about these things, Baron Curesta was already gathering up his team and going back. Anne proposed to go to the front to investigate, and this opinion was immediately rejected by Baron Curresta, in fact, the Blue Light Cave was already at the forefront of the war, and before that, it was completely out of the combined area of the two sides and completely occupied by demons, where there had been no human footprints for at least a few decades, and it was actually extremely dangerous. As a captain, the Baron would never allow his soldiers to venture into unknown risks.

But Anne did not back down at all, and insisted on reconnoitring, and Cecil suddenly wondered in his heart, Anne rarely expressed her opinion on this kind of military action, and she had spent far more time on herself since she joined the army than on thinking about the military action of the army. Cecil was surprised by such a persistent proposal for military action this time, and Cecil wondered why. He wanted to persuade Anne first.

But just as he was about to speak, he felt his hand being held tightly by a small hand, and Cecil saw that it was Anne who was holding her hand tightly. Anne's insistence on asking for a search must have made something special about it, and Cecil changed his mind. He said to Baron Curesta: "Lord Baron, I think so, I will take Anne and Saunders to the front to reconnoitre, and you will go back with your own troops first." As soon as something is discovered or a danger is discovered, our capabilities should be able to be withdrawn immediately.

Baron Curesta knew that Cecil and the three of them were all extraordinary, and if they went to reconnoitre, even if it was ineffective, at least there would be no problem in protecting themselves. In addition, he also knew that Anne was a senior apprentice of Archmage Antonio, so he was not too good at restraining him, but he had always had a sense of guilt towards Cecil, so he didn't want him to take risks. But now, since he insisted on going, he couldn't say anything, so he had to say a thousand words and then lead the team back.

The Baron and his squad gradually moved away from the battlefield, and Cecil took Anne and Saunders to sneak in the direction of the Devil's Gate. Ahead was a valley, and on the other side of the valley was the territory of the demons. The three of them quietly crossed a valley, and on the way they also encountered some idle demonic beasts or low-level demons, and the three of them all started their knives and fell directly in seconds, until they reached the top of the mountain and turned over to another mountain.