Bang, bang, bang......

The train was moving through the snowy tracks when the whistle let out a loud hiss that pierced the clouds, and billowing smoke poured into the sky.

Soldiers sat in a well-seated position in the carriages, and many of the carriages were quite quiet, refraining from their movements and voices even when communicating.

After years of training, the professional soldiers of the Ogordon Empire have basically been able to 'order and prohibit', and they can maintain the most basic order even in peacetime.

This 'style' has been engraved into their bone marrow, so that when they act in their daily lives, they will subconsciously remember their identity and always remind themselves of what they represent.

Clearly, the spirit of the army was successful, and the model learned from the Duchy of Sorrow had created a near-invincible army for their empire, and Caesar XIII knew how much the 'faith' of an army had on the effectiveness of an army.

Although he also knew that the Empire's army could not be as 'Legion of Zealots' as it had been thousands of years ago, if the army had faith, it would be difficult to be defeated, and even if it was defeated, it would be able to regroup quickly, without the situation of a large number of deserters once defeated.

After having faith, if soldiers can carry out orders and prohibitions, obey the orders of their superiors, exercise their combat skills in their daily lives, and obey commands on the battlefield, they can effectively reduce the number of casualties.

The soldiers sitting in the carriages exchanged heads and whispered conversations.

It had been some time since they had retired from the northern battlefield to rest, and the Empire had made a 'covenant of reconciliation' with the orcs, and even if they were not resentful, they could not change this fact, because this agreement was signed by their emperor and the orc god himself, and they certainly could not break it.

This pact cannot bind everyone, so when signing the pact, both the Empire and the orcs must ensure that they are not allowed to do anything to each other for ten years, and if anyone does, then they need to dispose of those who do it themselves.

The soldiers of the northern front did not want to deal with their comrades-in-arms, so they naturally could only try their best to control other comrades-in-arms who were more emotional and short-tempered.

Now they have been resting for a while, and because of the tightness of the southern front, a group of soldiers from the northern front have been transferred before, and now, all the soldiers who were subordinate to the northern front have been transferred to the south.

Not only because the monsters of the Black Forest have been attacking the borders of the Empire, but also because the Arcane Empire has returned to the world of Assatom, and a floating city has descended around Lolandal, blocking the communication arteries between the Radiant Holy City and the Empire.

In addition, the traces of demons have also appeared in the territory of the empire, except for the most basic garrison corps of the military region, the rest of the living forces will be mobilized to the south to participate in the battle.

The southern part of the empire has now become a quagmire, and it is a powder keg that can explode at any time, as long as it is dragged in, it is difficult to get out, and it can only be hit hard with the outbreak of events.

This is the territory of the Empire, although it is also their home field, but as long as everything breaks out, then they will definitely be the ones who are most injured!

Lille's bland gaze kept looking out of the glass window, watching the train sail through the sea of snow, through the plains and woods, through the canyons and rivers, the difficulties and dangers that were insurmountable more than a dozen years ago, and now they have been trampled under the feet of the 'power of civilization'.

The empire is so big that at the current speed of the train, it would take nearly a month to travel from the imperial capital to the north, and if you travel from the north to the south, it will naturally take longer.

The train needed coal to travel, so it needed to be replenished at some stations, and Lille had heard that when the railroad was built, Calvin and Gregory spent a lot of effort to get the lords of the towns where the stations are now located to agree to expand the city and protect the railway stations.

If that doesn't work, you'll have to bypass those towns and choose other towns as supply stations.

Now the nobles who did not agree to this offer have regretted it, and the towns with train supply stations have flourished, and the powerful transportation capacity of the trains has breathed new life into the backwater towns, and when the railway network is initially built, the stations and towns have exploded with great commercial vitality.

The existence of a railway network means that there is a 'communication network', and as long as there is a train station, it means that there is a local 'wireless telegraph office', and even people who do not have access to the 'Internet' can contact people in other towns and cities through unlimited electricity.

This advantage had not yet been fully demonstrated before, but when people accepted the existence of 'unlimited electricity' and 'telegraph', the towns with train stations suddenly became lively again......

No one knew that he had taken this train to the south, and it is estimated that many people were still kept in the dark, believing that he had always stayed with His Majesty.

Lille crossed his legs and took a deep breath, he had come to the south, and the reason why he wanted to hide it was because some people in the Southeast Military Region had already suspected that some nobles had colluded with the bottomless abyss and tried to take advantage of the return of the Arcane Empire to divide the empire.

He was still a little incredulous when he first heard this, and he couldn't believe that the nobles of their empire could be stupid enough to join forces with the demons of the bottomless abyss...... But then some evidence seemed to prove that such nobility did exist in their empire.

It's okay to conspire with the devil, after all, the devil is smart enough, as long as you are careful enough when working with them, you can avoid most of the crises.

But those demons in the bottomless abyss, they may be taken by authority, but if they suddenly think of betrayal, they may really betray their allies directly, even if they have made a 'Styx Contract' before this, it may not make them give up this idea.

Even the most well-known Demon Lords in the multiverse don't have much 'rationality' to speak of, and it's impossible to delineate the patterns of those Demon Lords' actions to speculate on their next moves!

It may be on a whim, and they will do all sorts of unreasonable things.

They are the most 'free' beings in the entire multiverse, freer than anyone and anything.

He didn't come to the south this time to investigate and collect evidence, these things can already be done well enough by relying on the local 'sleepless eye', and he came to the south this time mainly to 'confirm' the authenticity of the information, and once confirmed, he can directly 'execute'!

And his current power has always been engraved on the stone tablet of the "Imperial Code" - as long as it can be confirmed that the nobles collude with the lower planes and try to harm the interests of the empire, after obtaining the emperor's approval, no matter who they are, they can execute the nobles.

This time, there must have been more than one or two nobles to be executed, so he secretly came to the south.

Lille frowned suddenly, withdrew his gaze from the window, and turned his head to look behind him.

There was nothing in his carriage, and he was surrounded by members of the Sleepless Eyes disguised as soldiers, but he wasn't looking at the carriage he was in.

Sitting in his chair and thinking for a moment, Lille took out his suitcase from under the chair, untied the long trench coat he was draping, and stepped out into the shadows.

Like an arrow, the shadow shot quickly towards the carriage behind him, and suddenly, Lille felt an area of shadow power appear in front of him, and he floated from the shadow plane and jumped out of the shadow of the front door of the carriage.

In mid-air, he had already noticed the demon whose body was like a distorted shadow, and the bullets flew through the demon's shadow body and towards the wall of the carriage.

Da-da-da-da!

"Ah!!h

They had been cornered to the other end of the carriage, the severed limbs of the corpses covering the entire carriage, red blood plastering the windows and seats, and the demon still closing in on the soldiers.

At the right time, with a "snap", Lille's feet hit the ground, the buckle of the suitcase was just opened, he pulled out a white short stick from it, and clenched the body of the stick expressionlessly, the incandescent light suddenly bloomed in the carriage, and the shadow demon didn't even have time to turn his head to look back, he was pierced by the holy light, and returned to the bottomless abyss with a terrible scream.

The floor shook violently at his feet, and Lille frowned, walked to the window, reached out to wipe the blood from the glass, and watched a high mountain burst in the distance, and flames rose into the sky, opening a huge door between heaven and earth.

- 'Devil's Gate'!