On the high mountain ridge, the golden battle flag of light fluttered in the wind, but below it was a neat military formation.

At the forefront were the noble knights, the king's waistcoat reflected a dazzling golden glow in the sun, and the horses, shields, and swords were all worn with the help of the squires, and they were ready to charge.

But judging by their jagged armor and vests, it is clear that they are not from a single country, but they are fighting under one banner.

At this time, the horn of the charge had not yet sounded, and the knights tightened their reins to avoid the impulsive horses from disrupting the formation, while behind the knights were heavily armored dragoguns, and the escort warriors with tower shields were constantly cruising, and the archers and catapult troops were nervously calculating the trajectory.

At the end of the procession, the priests were singing chants, the air was filled with the scent of holy water, and even a few big figures in red archbishoprics were among them.

Although the cardinals are obviously the top of the army, at this time the battle flag of the Holy Light is not only the warriors of the Holy Light, but also the battle flag of the crescent moon, the emblem of the golden serpent, the seal of the three-headed dog, and countless famous and unknown emblems and banners are all emblems here, and under the call of the Templar Church, the camp fighting for the Holy Light includes countless devout believers, local lords, and even just an ordinary farmer, who may also raise their own wooden spears to participate in it.

And on the other side of them, it was not an easy opponent to deal with, it was an imperial frontier legion.

They may not be as well-armed and prepared as the other side, nor are they a tenth of the number of the other side, but they have a reason why they must not retreat, this is their homeland. They were the First Regiment of East Eikenfeld guarding the area. He is also a soldier of the city of Eikenfold, a hundred kilometers away.

"Jihad? No. It's just another ordinary war that hates each other and aims to kill each other. ”

They had been surrounded by surprise attacks, and they would never be able to outrun these knights in the plains, and even in the face of opponents ten times or more, perhaps their feet trembled instinctively, their hearts were still as hard as a rock, their shield-holding arms were not strong enough, and the rookies even dropped their weapons to the ground, but no one flinched.

"All of them. Prepare for the charge. ”

The battle order has been issued for a long time, and in the face of an army that is impossible to defeat, every border guard of the Bair Empire is waiting for his own death.

Finally, the silver-haired general of the invaders completed the final preparations, and the paladin marshal in lion-patterned gold armor rode back and forth in front of the formation, his eagle-like eyes searching for the weakness of the enemy formation, but still unable to wait for the opponent to flee and waver.

Finally, he gave up the extravagant hope of winning without a fight, and made a psychological preparation to pay the same amount of sacrifice, and his eyes were still sharp. But there was a momentary change in the old man's countenance, and he first nodded in agreement with his opponent. He shook his head in pity at the imminent death of the warriors on both sides.

He made up his mind to fight quickly, and the sword representing the beginning of the war was unsheathed, and it was stimulated by the holy light, shining golden in the sun.

"Woo!"

When the command sword inlaid with blue tearstone fell, the ancient horn horn sounded, the holy priests completed the final mass, and the golden swords of the participating warriors were droplets of holy water.

The mixed battle formation had always been a little noisy, but when they did act, the sound of horses' hooves, footsteps, and battle cries mixed together, and finally formed an earthquake-like roar, and the huge army formation slowly slipped down like a landslide, pressing down on the position below the hillside.

"For the Light!"

All the shouts mingled into a single sentence, and the name of the Light sounded again in the holy war, but this time, both sides were still human beings of the same race.

"Byer! Wansheng! “

The spear of kingship and the scepter of divine power intertwined in the void, and when the landslide collided with the rock, time condensed at this moment.

The cross-patterned tower shield slammed into the carved dragon's head of the warhammer, the golden throwing spear nailed the crossbow shooter to the ground, and the neatly roaring catapult flogged the land in its own way.

Bayer's warriors were not brave send-offs, they did their homework for the most difficult knight strikers.

The onslaught of the knights was stopped by the pit and the tripping horse, and the ten-meter-long super dragon spear array reaped the lives of the noble knights, but the quantitative gap between the two sides was really huge, just like if the small flames could not burn the river, when these obstacles and distances were filled by the corpses, the double gap in quantity and quality made the first legion the object of harvesting.

There were screams and wails everywhere, and within five minutes of contact between the two sides, the war was out of balance, and it was already a many-to-few massacre.

The flesh mill was harvesting life, and the screams that did not dare to close their eyes were one after another, and dark clouds gathered in the sky, as if the gods did not want to witness such a tragedy.

Honor? Splendor? Guts? The Favor of the Light? There is no such thing on such a battlefield, and all the warriors have to do is to plunge their long swords into the opponent's chest before they die.

Commiseration? Justice? Friendship? Under the dark clouds on the stage, the dancers of the blades have only two choices, kill each other, or be killed by the other party.

The huge disparity in numbers made the bloody battle end quickly, but the raid without prisoners turned the battlefield into a sea of corpses and blood, and still on that high ridge, the legendary veteran known as the Eagle of the Vecasso, did not have the consciousness of the victor.

"The whole army was annihilated and did not retreat, and the battle damage caused by more than twice the war casualties, is this the super empire Bayer? Taking the initiative to invade such a country, such a war is not easy to fight. ”

Looking at the dark clouds in the sky, it seems to be predicting the unclear outcome of this war, facing the super empire Bayer among the human race, even if he is the nominal supreme commander of the Holy War Alliance, the veteran Gordon, who is ranked seventh on the list of famous generals, no longer has the certainty of victory, but there is no turning back, and his command sword has already pointed to the next target.

"Eikenfold City. Where is already an empty city. He will be our first result. ”――

"The Bayer Empire took the initiative to negotiate peace? How is this possible? ”

If the other side is Margaret, whose face is covered with frost. I'm afraid I'm not just exclaiming, but just talking nonsense.

This is the café hall attached to the Garden of Thorns, except for me, Heloise, and Margaret, only Adam who is sitting there playing poker with him, he is obviously super bored, and the reason why Margaret looks unhappy seems to be really caused by me.

Of course, I can understand why Margaret is upset, after all, they still don't have much time to spend in their own world after completing their mission, and they don't have long to play alone every time. I repeatedly drove them back, and this time, in order to be able to grasp the tower-shaped shì in the clouds, I called them back again.

I didn't mean to be bad, after all, there were some things that she really needed to do.

Adam is not to mention this addition for the time being, although he was born as a wild mage, but as a heroic mage in the Eternal Night Battle, the reputation of the calm and delicate Margaret in the Cloud Tower is not low, at least her mage organization is also a member of the topmost part of the Cloud Tower.

When I was in the Land of Mages, I could only count as a small shrimp, except for the friends who came into contact with the original Arcane Blade. He doesn't have much contact with the upper echelons of the country, but Margaret is a candidate for the Truth Controller. But having lived here for more than 30 years, you can consider yourself a local.

Outsiders are always outsiders, and that gap needs time and opportunity to slowly heal, and the worst thing we have now is time, but if there is a local archmage to help, many things will be much easier.

I have long known from Adam that if she had hoped, the last time she returned home, she would have had the opportunity to pass the internal selection of the "Star Revelation" and become a member of the Truth Master, but now she has rejected the request of the "Star Revelation" and ran out to wander, and I was pulled back here, and she was a little embarrassed in front of the familiar face, which was naturally very unhappy.

At this time, Margaret not only cheekily returned to the "Star Revelation", but also found out the news for me but I didn't believe it, so naturally I was even more unhappy.

"If there is anything else, if not, I will go back to writing the report. It was the "Report on Whether there Are Signs of the Activities of the King of the Eternal Night" in the Northland, which was half a year late. Hmph, you're super troublesome. ”

Delicate fingers clicked on the table, and it was clear that the sage was not in a good mood.

And in a sense, this is really my trouble, when Margaret and Amira set off in the name of the investigation team of the Tower of the Clouds on the grounds of investigating the signs of "undead" and "eternal night kings" in the northland, and the result is that so many days have passed, but no one has come back to hand in the investigation report

Traveling on public expense? From a certain point of view, it's really true, so isn't Amira, who is sleeping for a long time, just suffered an accident and became a vegetative person when she was on a business trip, and she can still enjoy publicly-funded medical care?

Ahem, seriously, well, obviously Amira can't be expected to deliver the report now, and as the last truth-level mage in the investigation team, Margaret who returned to the Tower in the Clouds must complete this report, even if it is doomed to be meaningless, but the procedure must be done to end the previous work, and even explain why Amira did not come back with him.

So, the unlucky sage Margaret is like those bear children who forget their summer homework because they play too happily, under the urging of the teacher, driven by infinite regret, to do those meaningless homework that is destined to be taken seriously, and it is said that the most annoying thing for this sage is meaningless things.

"I'm busy, and that report has to be handed in by the day after tomorrow."

It's no wonder that her resentment is so deep, and it's no wonder that Adam is pretending that he doesn't know anything, trying to reduce his sense of existence in the corner, just not wanting to be angered by the way for talking nonsense.

"I'm sorry, it's not that I don't trust you, it's that this thing is too bizarre. How did Bair and the Mage Nation meet? It's completely impossible, right? ”

But I can't blame me for making a fuss and doubting him, after all, what Margaret said is too bizarre.

Once a superpower like the Mage Nation and the Bayer Empire enter a state of war, it is like two speeding trains, with so much weight and kinetic energy attached to them that it is impossible to stop at once.

In particular, the losses caused by the previous forbidden bombing are still vivid, and the confrontation between the Dragon Knight and the Archmage on the Eastern Front is still the latest news, although I haven't heard of any heavy losses on both sides. It seems that both sides are still exercising restraint. But it is absolutely impossible for both parties to meet, say hello, and then go back to their respective homes.

Dragon knights fight for honor. The archmage has the confidence of arrogance, since the two sides have met, if there is no temptation to fight each other, I am afraid that no one will believe it, and once the fight is angry, how can it be so shrinking.

And as far as the country of algorithmists intends to negotiate peace, it is impossible for the Bayer Empire to agree, and one of its own country's fortresses is gone. With so many people gone, the dragon knights must find their way back, and the emperor must give the result of revenge, otherwise he will not be able to explain to the people at all.

Even if Bayer's upper echelons can exercise restraint under the threat of the undead, they will inevitably take the initiative to launch a provocation, and it is completely beyond the scope of understanding that the two countries want to negotiate peace in this situation.

But in the face of my doubts, Margaret remained silent, but Adam could not stand it anymore. "Ahem, that's because"

"Don't say it!"

"In the face of the exasperated sage. The two of us exchanged glances, and then we remained silent together.

"At least someone is going to help me write that pointless report." Margaret seemed to be talking to herself. But I almost knew what I had to say.

"I'll write the report. I'm the best at writing reports. ”

Okay, not to mention how incomprehensible and strange it is that the Emperor of the Eternal Night wrote the "Report on Whether or Not there Are Signs of the Eternal Night's Monarch's Activities in the Northland", and how much brains I would have spent on this damn report tonight, but at least during this time period, the Sage finally nodded with satisfaction, and threw out the confidential information that not many people in the Cloud Tower knew.

"The Holy War has begun."

Margaret's words were simple, but Adam added.

"The Holy War coalition gathered by the Templar Church crossed the Arrowton Mountains and raided the city of Eckenfold on the southern border of Bair, and the war broke out."

I grew up with my mouth, and I couldn't have imagined that the Templar Church would actually get involved at this time, and according to expectations, it would be impossible to fight in a short time.

Eikenvelde City? Flip through the map, and their territory doesn't even border!

"The Arrowton Mountains? Isn't that the territory of the Penlin Alliance? They don't believe in Mother Earth, how can they make the coalition of the Templar Church understand. ”

"The day before the start of the war, the high priest of the Penlin Mother Earth God Church converted to the God of Light, and the entire country was converted, and then the coalition army entered, and also brought the top ten mercenary groups of the Penlin Alliance and the Templar Order of the Church."

Well, it seems that there is a lot of misery in it, and Peng Lin has already joined the Holy Light camp, but no matter how unexpected the process is, at least this sudden attack on the Templar Church was very successful.

"How's the battle going?"

"The defenders of Eikenveld have been wiped out, the city has been lost, and there is a holy war, you know."

As an unlucky guy who has been crusaded against by jihad, of course I understand!

The object of the holy war is heresy, and the heretical women and children are evil and must be "purified", and the goods and land will be used to reward the saints who fight for the faith, and the cities that are defeated in the holy war have only one result

"Slaughtered the city?" Although it was a question, it was in an affirmative tone.

"Hmm."

There was silence in the small room, and judging by the magic of Margaret's brows, she wasn't in a bad mood not just because of the damn report.

The reason why Bayer and the Mage Nation are willing to negotiate peace is already obvious, once the holy war of believers starts, it can't stop at all, coupled with the army of undead who are gradually corrupting and growing like a tumor in their abdomen, the Bayer Empire is equal to facing the enemy on three sides, and in the face of such a desperate situation, even the crazy king will find a way to temporarily negotiate peace with one of them to reduce the pressure.

"Hehe, don't keep a straight face, at least there is good news, at least the country of mages can negotiate peace with Bayer, and our plan will become a lot easier."

"This is the second bad news, according to the latest ventilation results, this time the peace will be vetoed, and the war between the Mage Nation and the Bair Empire will not only not stop, but is also very likely to escalate! It seems that the mages want to take this opportunity to solve the always restless neighbor once and for all! (To be continued......)

PS: The second more is 4600, and today's two more are nearly 9000, so continue to ask for annual tickets