The demonic legions have come up from the ground to fight Saint Laurent.

One can only understand the great changes that have taken place in the holy city of Frankfurt.

At least one thing was different from what the professor thought, and that was that the news of the fall of the Holy City did not destroy the will of the people of the Saint Laurent Empire. For they did not resemble sectarians in the usual sense of the word, but the personality cults of the faithful and fanatical Roland.

From the beginning of their belief in Roland, the idea of doubting Roland never came to their hearts again.

Realizing the threat of the enemy, the priests and bishops scattered throughout the Saint Laurent Empire left their affairs behind. Spontaneously organized, the imperial capital of the Yves Saint Laurent Empire gathered.

This disaster even alarmed Queen Ivana.

In the early morning of the second day after the fall of the holy city of Frankfurt, Ivana summoned the military headquarters, bluntly stated the threat of this incident, and ordered them to start preparing for war.

Everyone is aware of the seriousness of the problem. They did not delay as usual, but did not hesitate to convey Ivana's order. and supervise them to begin their execution immediately.

From the founding of Bansar to the current Saint Laurent Empire, they have never faced such a terrible catastrophe.

Taking a step back, even the exclusion of religious aspects is enough to call it a catastrophe.

You must know that the holy city of Frankfurt is actually not far from the imperial capital, and it is less than a day's trip. If you take a fast horse, you can even get there in about three hours.

And the enemy, who is roughly defined as a demon, is probably enslaved by some terrible plague or curse, and has the ability to get the people who have just been killed back up and up in battle. Those who have been resurrected by this evil means have almost all the abilities of their previous life, and at the same time, they also have an extremely troublesome immortal body that can hardly be killed.

More critically, it is incomparably stealthy, swift and deadly.

Even if the enemy happens to be stuck in the absence of Saint Laurent, Gahalad, Claudia, and others, there should theoretically be three or four cardinals in Frankfurt.

But in fact, until the complete fall of the Holy City, no one heard of the invasion. Even now, Ivana learned the news from the defenders of the East.

Until now, no one knew who the demon was, what it looked like, and how many people there were. They just knew that the demon had a strong purpose.

Ivana was extremely sure that if the demon had chosen to target the imperial capital in the first place, there was probably no chance that she would have escaped. But he not only chose Frankfurt as his target, but after turning everyone in Frankfurt into that terrible monster that resembles an undead, he didn't have the slightest idea of going west to occupy the imperial capital, but marched east very urgently.

Ivana keeps receiving messages from front-line wizards. In just half a day's effort, those monsters had already run out of one-sixth of the distance of the Saint Laurent Empire. At this rate, they would be able to reach the territory of the Principality of Saya before the sun rose the next day.

Faced with such a situation, Ivana did not act rashly.

Now that several great sages have not returned to Bansa, Bansa's top-level combat power is not high. Those ghasts who have been captured by demonic magic and cannot be killed by mortal swords are far more powerful than they were born.

Although Frankfurt was quite empty at the time, as a holy city, it also had a large number of professionals in it. It can even be said that the proportion of professionals among them is incredibly high.

If you challenge them without any strategy, the final result will only be to strengthen the enemy's strength.

After realizing this, not only the military of the Yves Saint Laurent Empire, but even those believers who had returned from all over the empire spontaneously avoided the enemy's route of march. As a result, the devastating army met no resistance on its way eastward. Except for the villages and towns at the beginning that could not avoid being crushed and swallowed by this terrible legion, the casualty rate of the following towns was basically not more than one-tenth under the emergency evacuation.

However, these monsters did not have the slightest idea of stopping. All the lives that appear in their field of vision, they will be ruthlessly killed. But on the contrary, as long as they were not allowed to see it in the first place, they would not have searched for these people at all.

It's like a golem mechanically executing the order to kill everyone it meets.

For half a day, the empire was running at full speed with unprecedented tension, and it was not until dusk that it improved slightly.

Because the two cardinals, Gahalad and Cyra, as well as the Virgin Claudia, finally returned to the Empire.

They were joined by a group of holy warriors in full armor.

They wore the formal attire of the clergy, and wore a pure white cloak over the robe with the emblem of reverence.

The long-handled scepter was entangled in thorny chains that spread out like wings on either side of the scepter. At the tip of the scepter, it is decorated with a slender cross, just like Roland's scepter.

Above the scepter, an eye-like mysterious pattern floats, wrapped in a concentric ring surrounded by chains that spread out to the sides.

It was the emblem of the Three Sages, and with the scepter that symbolized Roland, their identities were already self-evident.

That is the believer of Saint Laurent—the keeper of the three holy rites, who believes in the righteousness of the world, and who keeps the commandments of Roland's "Commandments".

They reverberate with a huge amount of divine grace that is visible to the naked eye. The faint silver-white ripples fluttered behind them like ribbons as they moved, forming ripples like water waves.

They are both Roland's knights and Roland's sacrifices.

In the words of the game, the Warden is equivalent to a silver level of advanced transfer. It has some of the traits and magic of the mourners, but it is not as weak in melee combat as the mourners.

In return, however, they must obey Roland's commandments at all times and not break them. Otherwise, on the third offense, you will lose all of your Commandment Keeper ranks.

It could be said that this was an army made up entirely of Roland's fanatical followers.

Even if the Holy Land was occupied by demons, there was not the slightest despair in their eyes. Only the burning anger burned under their eyes.

How terrible the enemy is, it has nothing to do with them.

Rather, if the enemy is too strong, it can make them feel glorified.

They are merely the sword of Saint Laurent, the shield of Saint Laurent, his tongue, his disciples. The meaning of life is to protect the glory of Roland.

The moment Ivana saw them from the high platform, she understood what was going to happen.

-- Jihad. They are so desperate for a holy war to appease their angry souls.

She could already smell it, the smell that had excited her so much but hadn't tasted it in years.

That's the smell of war - (To be continued.) )