Chapter 596: Coming Again to Inno
The Night Empire, or Yu Fei's manifesto, was clearly aimed at humanity. Although all human nations are now mired in the quagmire of struggle for power and profit, they cannot ignore this kind of declaration that clearly wants to destroy the foundation of mankind.
Once outside the Holy Imperial Capital, the Holy Emperor wanted to kidnap the Night Empire into the Holy Alliance in the name of "maintaining peace in Ezrazze". At that time, Yu Fei said that if you want to achieve true peace, everyone can be unified under the command of the Night Empire. Now, to be precise, this declaration is just a rehash of the past.
The top leaders of the various human nations are not just people who have been blinded by power, and there are many people of insight who understand that it is time for them to unite against foreign enemies. Humanity was only facing orcs before, but now with the addition of the Night Empire, the disaster of annihilation may appear in the near future.
But knowing is knowing, and sometimes even if you know what to do, you can't do what you should do. After some of the forces calling for an armistice to defend themselves against foreign enemies were seized by other forces to destroy and seize some of the power that belonged to them, everyone fell silent.
The threat of the Night Empire is great, but it is not imminent. However, within various human countries, in order to compete for the throne, the threat of princes and princes is imminent. In the face of the declaration of the Night Empire, the human world only calmed down for a short time before continuing to return to the state of the previous strife.
It's not that the humans don't know that if they continue to fight like this, they will be picked up by the Night Empire, but they can't help themselves. What those princes and princes, or the forces that support them, want to take over the ruling power of the country as soon as possible, and then fight against the Night Empire as a unified country.
For this situation, Yu Fei is naturally happy to see it. Even if a few human nations were indeed unified and pacified in a short period of time, they alone would not be able to fight against the Night Empire. Yu Fei didn't believe that those human countries could be pacified at the same time. And join forces.
This is how humanity reacted to the Night Empire's manifesto, vigilant but powerless. The rest of the race is mostly in a wait-and-see state. The attention of the new orcs is now drawn to the original territory of the orcs, and there is no time to care about the Night Empire.
The dwarves of the underground dwarves and the hill dwarves have already joined the Night Elves, and the opinion of a branch of the Black Iron Dwarves is irrelevant. Not to mention, now that there is the Dwarven King of Gagant, the Hill Dwarves have once again become the orthodoxy of the Dwarves, and Gagant has already indicated the Dwarves' corresponding "call for peace" of the Night Empire after the declaration of the Night Empire.
As for other small races like the Amazons and the Gnomes, their opinions are not of much concern. In the world of Eslaze, or in all worlds, arrogance is not a sin. Weakness is. These small races are not strong enough to influence the big picture, and therefore have no say.
The only thing that might have to be weighed by the Night Empire might be the Dragons. If the dragons participate in the struggle for supremacy in the continent of Ezraz, as they have done historically, then the Night Empire may have a hard time.
However, the dragons are far away in the south of Dragon Island. And it is relatively closed, and the news on the Eslaze continent is difficult for the dragon clan to know for a while. So the dragons haven't reacted yet.
No matter what the various races and forces think. The Night Empire's march continues. The surrender of the acquaintance of the three kingdoms did not stop the troops of the Night Empire. Millions of Night Elves have joined forces, and thousands of Chimera have been dispatched, and even the appearance fee of this army is not enough for the three kingdoms.
As for the territory of the three surrendered kingdoms, it was easily digested by the Night Empire. The large number of grassroots officials that the Night Empire has vigorously cultivated in the past few years may not be enough to manage the entire human world, but it is more than enough to integrate these three kingdoms into the ruling system of the Night Empire.
The direction of the Night Empire's troops was all the way to the east. The three surrendered human kingdoms further east. It's the territory of the Holy Lion Empire. Two years ago, the forces of the Night Empire had invaded the country, which had long been the first empire of mankind, and now they had begun to invade again.
Compared to the kingdoms that were still in chaos, the Holy Lion Empire did seem relatively stable now. As an empire with a long heritage, the Holy Lion Empire naturally has a set of countermeasures when faced with the current special situation.
At that time, Yu Fei outside the Divine Imperial Capital killed the lords of various human countries. Although several princes of the Holy Lion Empire began to compete for power and threaten the position of the crown prince for a while, they were quickly pacified.
This is because the Holy Word families in the Holy Lion Empire chose to support the crown prince to ascend to the throne, and with the support of several Holy Word families, those princes who wanted to seize the crown prince and the position of the Holy Emperor could only be hated, and the original prince also became the new Holy Emperor.
In the face of another invasion by the Night Empire, the attitude of the Holy Lion Empire is to resolutely resist. It's just that the forces of the Holy Lion Empire were originally in the south of the country and even other kingdoms to resist the invasion of the orcs, but for a while, they couldn't muster too many troops to the west to resist the forces of the Night Empire.
Therefore, the Holy Lion Empire made the decision to break the wrist of the strong man. After the millions of troops of the Night Empire invaded the territory of the Holy Lion Empire, they were surprised to find that they did not encounter any resistance and easily occupied a large part of the territory of the Holy Lion Empire.
At the beginning, Illidan led part of the Night Elf troops, and once fought a guerrilla war with the so-called famous mainland general Spencer in the west of the Infinite Pass of the Holy Lion Empire. Then, he used the flying thaumaturgy of the sky druids to transport the Night Elf troops through the Inno Pass and directly to the Holy Imperial Capital.
That short raid was a disgrace to the Holy Lion Empire, even if Marshal Spencer had epic early strength, and his family was second only to the four holy character families in the Holy Lion Empire, and he resigned after this short war, and was suppressed by the angry former Holy Emperor.
And the beginning of all that shame is Inno. The territory of the Holy Lion Empire, which is now easily occupied by the Night Empire, is also a large territory west of Innova Pass.
The Holy Lion Empire reacted in advance and relocated the cities west of Innoguan, but due to time issues, most of the city's inhabitants were unable to flee, and only some of the nobles who had received the news in advance were able to move.
In the face of the invasion of the Night Empire, the inhabitants of the Holy Lion Empire city west of Inno Pass showed an unexpected calm. As the marshal of the army, Illidan found out after some investigation that it was the after-effects of the last time he led the army to invade the Holy Lion Empire.
At that time, Illidan used guerrilla tactics west of Innopass, and it was unspeakably miserable to bring up cities one by one. However, at that time, Illidan's main goal was to attract the attention of the Holy Lion Empire, plundering the property of the merchants and nobles in the city, and did not do anything excessive to the ordinary residents.
And now the inhabitants of these cities can be said to have been abandoned by the Holy Lion Empire, and they have no power to resist and can only accept their fate calmly.
Fortunately, neither Illidan nor Yu Fei had any interest in slaughtering these ordinary humans. Yu Fei wasn't some murderous maniac, he didn't want to see the world he was going to rule inhabited - besides, those ordinary humans didn't mess with him, and they couldn't get a lot of magic crystals and demon cores from them that could be converted into energy, so there was no need to slaughter them.
Therefore, after easily occupying the city of the Holy Lion Empire west of Nainoch Pass, the grassroots officials cultivated by the Night Empire were soon sent here as well, bringing this territory that originally belonged to the Holy Lion Empire into the rule of the Night Empire.
But then, the advance of the Night Empire's forces was not so easy. Just because the Holy Lion Empire has given up the territory west of Innova does not mean that they will have to give up Innova as well. On the contrary, the reason why the Holy Lion Empire abandoned the west of Innova Pass was to shrink its forces and concentrate on Innova Pass to defend itself.
This approach of the Holy Lion Empire made Illidan feel a little funny. He remembered the last time he led an invasion of the Holy Lion Empire. At that time, Marshal Spencer also chose to stick to the Inno Pass, which was equivalent to giving up the city west of the Inno Pass.
It's just that the last time the Night Elf troops easily crossed the defense line of Innova Pass, and even reached the Holy Imperial Capital after sneaking for a few days, why did the Holy Lion Empire still not have a long memory this time?
Or has the Holy Lion Empire taken some steps to prepare for a possible surprise attack by the Night Elf forces? Thinking of this, Illidan simply sent a group of Horned Eagle Beast Knights to tentatively cross the mountains on both sides of Innova Pass like last time.
But at the top of the peaks of those mountain ranges, the eagle knights found huge illusory eyes. When the Horned Eagle Knights flew here, these huge illusory eyes would emit obscure waves of magic.
Illidan knew that this was a rare form of magic in the world of Eslaze, the Mage's Eye. The effect of this spell is somewhat similar to that of the Huntress owl in the Night Elves, allowing it to detect an area and be known to the caster.
When the Horned Eagle Knight was observed by those mage eyes, he was probably already seen by the spellcaster who released the mage eye. In this case, the surprise attack will not be able to do it. However, the Holy Lion Empire actually replaced the spell slots of a large number of mages in the army with mage eyes, which can greatly affect the combat effectiveness of the mages accompanying the army. (To be continued......)
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