Harudel was one of the largest counties in the Tristram Kingdom, and was one of the most populous in its unabandoned state. As the main city of a large county, the scale of Harudel City is naturally not much smaller. Not to mention the vast area under the jurisdiction of the entire main city, there is also a subsidiary town almost the size of a small city on the four main roads in the east, west, south and north that are less than 10 kilometers away from the main city.

According to the scouts, only those demons are entrenched in the main city, and the large number of kobolds, goblins and other humanoid races that have been subdued inhabit the surrounding four towns, while the undead driven by demons roam the area between the secondary towns and the main city.

According to the information obtained by the scouts, there are nearly 100 demons, most of which are Marg and Setus, who are of the lower and middle demon races, as well as a few humanoids with demonic blood, such as ogres and trolls, and at least one of the upper demons exists, but the information of the upper demons is unknown, and their races and abilities are unknown.

At the same time, there are nearly 10,000 humanoids in the four towns, but more than ninety percent of them are weak kobolds and cowardly goblins. Only a hundred or so relatively strong gnolls and porcupines serve as leaders of these demon-clinging humanoid races. Strictly speaking, these humanoids are not under the command of demons, but more like those raised by demons, ready to serve as food rations at any time. After all, according to the records of the history of Iber, the demon race is almost always unproductive, and their food source is other races and even other demons. The most direct example is that the Demon Goblin of the inferior demon species that the Crossing Crowd had killed was actually a 'ration' in the Demon Clan, which was used to feed the other demons when there was really no food.

On top of that, the Rog Knights have to deal with tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of undead creatures. At its peak, the city of Harudel had a population of nearly 800,000. Most of them fled when the demons invaded them, but at least 200,000 civilians and 30,000 city guards who guarded the city against the demons still died in the city. Even if half of the corpses of the dead have been used as food for the demons for nearly a decade, there are still more than 100,000 corpses. For such a long time, a region where so many grievances have accumulated, coupled with the chaotic demonic aura spread by the demons after establishing a stronghold here. If it is said that tens of thousands of undead have not been transformed, no one will believe it.

Nearly 100 demons, nearly 10,000 human creatures, and tens of thousands of undead. That's all the Rogge Knights have to face.

Look at the side of the Knights of Rogge again. This time, Kasha mobilized all the Knights sent to the Rog camp, with a total of more than 400 elite warriors (some of them were mobilized from the territory in two months), 25 warriors (level over level 30) with the official title of 'Knight', and 19 warriors with the title of 'Trainee Knight' (level more than level 20 but not above level 30). Among them, Kasha and her deputy, 'Flavi Quinn', the second chief of the Rogge Knights, (the chief knight is Sebastian Varif who is also the archdeacon of the Leopold family) have the strength of high-ranking warriors.

In addition to this, some mercenary groups and adventurers employed by Kasha (unlike mercenaries who are mercenary, adventure groups are not the first priority to make money, but rather a group of like-minded warriors who like to enjoy the adventurous life or travel abroad for the sake of training and sharpening themselves, although they are often considered mercenaries by outsiders). Or all kinds of people who hope to accumulate enough merits in the mission to recover Harudale County, get the kingdom's reward, or even a knighthood, and squeeze into the ranks of the kingdom's aristocratic circle (mostly some lone warriors who have no power to attach, and some side descendants of noble families who are not valued and can only try to stand on their own). There are about two or three thousand of them. Among them, Li Xiang, Yang Qianyu and other teams that crossed the crowd were one of the adventure groups that were nominally employed by Kasha.

The main city of Harudale County, near the outside of Harudel City.

Teams begin their final pre-battle preparations after receiving their respective missions.

Kasha's tactics were simple, ignoring the humanoid populations in the affiliated towns, and breaking through the defenses of the undead to attack the city of Harudal, searching for and destroying all the demons, and destroying the altars set up by the demons to spread the chaotic aura of the demon world. In this way, the territorial environment of Harudale County will be restored, and the Kingdom will be able to relocate and rebuild its homeland.

After all the pre-battle preparations were completed, Kashya gave the order and the battle began.

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The damage to breaking through the undead wandering zone was much lower than expected, which was also due to the fact that the distribution of the undead had been surveyed in advance, and because it was a daytime attack, the undead were suppressed due to the daytime sunlight. After breaking through the undead zone and attacking the city of Harudal, the team spread out according to their assigned tasks. The team on the mission of holding out built a defensive belt from local materials to prepare for a possible attack from the undead and the humanoids who surrendered to the demons, and Kashya, with the entire force of the Rog Knights, was tasked with searching for the demons and destroying them, as well as destroying the altar. Other teams are responsible for searching the city, providing the Rogge Knights with enemy detection and intelligence to ensure that no demon escapes.

In the abandoned city, Li Xiang and his party marched cautiously, always paying attention to the surrounding movements. From time to time, there were sounds of fighting and howling in the distance.

"Where are we now?" Li Xiang asked. Hearing this, Yang Qianyu took out the map and spread it out, pointing at the map while comparing it with the surrounding buildings. "Hmm...... We're in the south of the city, and there's still a half-section of the statue here, and that's ...... Over here! We are now in a park in the southern part of the city. ”

"Be careful, there should be demons around here!" Li Xiang looked left and right, and said with a serious expression: "At the same time, pay attention to searching for the altar set up by the demons, this thing may be in any area of the city." ”

Everyone nodded silently, becoming more and more vigilant.

Destroying the altar set up by the demons is an important mission goal for the reconquest of Harudale County, and the mission credential for the reconquest is to obtain the soul sigil stones that the demons use to run the altar!

The soul is the purest form of energy!

Demons slaughter intelligent creatures, sacrifice their flesh and blood, and then condense their souls into a variety of soul stones that serve as a source of power for themselves and a prop to open the altar to spread chaos!

Those intelligent beings who were slaughtered became the tools of the high-level demons under the sacrifice of flesh and blood, and then they were condensed into soul stones, and the altars of the demon realm were established. Only by removing the Soul Stones, which are the core energy of the altar, can the altar be destroyed, thus stopping the spread of chaotic aura.

And those souls who were slaughtered can finally rest in peace!

A breeze blows.

There was a faint pungent smell of sulfur in the air, which meant that there were or had been demons in the vicinity, and only in places where they were active would there be such a sulfur-like smell escaping into the air. The creatures here have long been slaughtered by the demons, and due to the erosion of chaotic energy, the land in many places has even become dark. As long as the altars set up by the demons in the city are regularly infused with flesh or soul energy, they will constantly and continuously release chaotic energy outward.

The power of chaos will gradually devour and transform the dimensional energy of the world of Iber, and the imbalance of dimensional energy will cause everything to dry up, the earth to lose its nutrients, and finally become a cursed land.

This is the transformation plan of the demons of the Demon Realm!

They want to make this plane no longer habitable for humans, and completely become a cursed place adapted to demonic habitation! Become a paradise for demons!

It's just that the territory of Harudel County has not been eroded for too long, and the invasion of chaotic forces is not too serious, plus the intelligent beings used to provide refining soul stones in the county have been killed, and the existing strength of the demons is not enough to expand to the surrounding areas, so these demons entrenched here can only lie dormant and wait for the opportunity.

So, although the land here has been barren by the curse, there are still traces of plants and other life that have survived.