The Dark Forest, for the vast majority of the Bolton Dynasty, was a mysterious and dangerous place.

If the Northern Barbarians were to the dynasty like a strong hunter and a hungry wolf peeking at fresh flesh, with a shotgun and fangs and claws always in delicate balance, the dark forest was like a giant sea monster dormant. Hunters know what it really is, but it's powerful from the tip of the iceberg at sea level.

Amos the Great had exiled the forces of evil to the Dark Forest, and when he died suddenly, the forest suddenly became agitated. Yes, restlessness does not come from a specific creature, or a race that has been designated as evil, but from a vast land.

"The light buries the shadow of the night, but cannot extinguish its existence, so it summons hurricanes and dark clouds, thunder and hail, and drives the filth to the far west, so that it can be returned to its roots in the endless primitiveness and savagery. Repent and tremble—— "The Book of Ages: The Beginning and End of the Emperor". ”

This is a text handed down from the very beginning of the establishment of the Holy See of Seamo, which vaguely mentions the Dark Forest, but for some reason it is difficult for future generations to know, the Emperor's actions during this period of time are brushed aside, leaving only room for the reverie of future historians.

Of course, the Bolton dynasty always had a certain obsession with the unconquerable land, and for nearly a thousand years, it has continuously sent troops deep into the primeval forest that devours life, planting flags wherever they walk, and encroaching on this criminal domain little by little.

However, perhaps because of the relationship between Emperor Amos and the exile of the remnants of the alien race, coupled with factors such as the ecological environment, all kinds of fierce beasts appeared in the dark forest in an endless stream, far from being comparable to the direct wilderness of those city-states on the territory of the Central Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that a large number of soldiers remain here every day forever. Burying the corpses in the loess is their best ending, and most of them have become the food of the fierce beasts of the forest.

Because of the need to suppress the fierce beasts in the forest all year round, a new organization was born - the Expeditionary Force.

The major legions are stationed in the dark forest, but they all implement a rotation system to train the quality of the army, and every year new recruits are brought here to see blood, and the expeditionary force is the "native" armed force here.

In the Bolton dynasty, the word "expeditionary force" did not refer to the collection of legions that had temporarily gathered to raid the South Seas or to march to the steppes, but rather a tangible organization, stationed on the border of the Dark Forest with about the strength of a legion, and expanding inward.

In the beginning, garrisoning the Dark Forest was a form of military glory, symbolizing the legacy of Amos the Great, and the Templar Cavalry Regiment of the Royal City was known as "the gathering place of the best soldiers of the two dynasties".

However, time passed, and the Templar Cavalry Regiment became a combat unit armed with cutting-edge technology, with fine traditions and teachings, but also a gilded pedal for the children of the nobility, and arrogance and extravagance gradually made a dynastic sword rusty.

On the other hand, the expeditionary force has become a "cancer-like existence, in which ruffians and madmen are mixed, but because of their historical status and extremely high actual combat power, they also play an indispensable role."

And all because of its extremely high casualty rate, as well as a "joke" by a certain cardinal. At a meeting of cardinals that year, some people pointed out that the huge military system had many drawbacks, the most obvious of which was the frequent occurrence of violent incidents, and that many figures with outstanding achievements were also troublemakers, and that there was no good way to deal with such people, and that it was impossible to indulge them, but they would encounter obstacles and controversies in strictly following military law. It's a pity to discard it.

At this time, a cardinal said that it would be better to put the thorns who violated military discipline into the expeditionary force, and throw them into the dark forest, where they could not be seen and left to fend for themselves.

At that time, most of the cardinals laughed good-natured at this proposal, but they did not expect that His Majesty the Pope would agree to this proposal, and they did not expect that a year later, the cardinal who proposed this "joke" was transferred from the military department and promoted to marshal of the expeditionary force.

Whether "joke" is a joke or not, many people finally have an answer in their hearts.

Since then, countless soldiers who should have been court-martialed or offended their commanders, and even exiled prisoners, formed the main body of the expeditionary force. This part of the people is naturally wild and untamable, and it adds a bit of fierceness in places like the dark forest, but at the same time, all kinds of irrepressible evil spirits are also prevalent in the expeditionary force.

As a special existence, the establishment of the expeditionary force is still in the military department, but the files of the previous marshals and high-level backbones are directly under the papal hall, and the progress of the battle, that is, the situation in the dark forest, is also directly reported to the papal hall.

At the same time, the expeditionary force has never been called an "airborne commander", it is all promoted from within the officers, and even the ranks are not unified with the military department, and it is an independent kingdom under the jurisdiction of the Pope's Office and parasitic on the military department.

This has contributed to some of these trends. However, the Pope's Hall was not restrained, only in some cases where it went too far, the Holy Men were sent to suppress and inspect, and after killing a group of people, it would be stable for a while, and finally the expeditionary force basically figured out the bottom line of the Pope's Hall, and never touched the red line, but the behavior within this bottom line was even more unscrupulous.

There was a saying in the Bolton dynasty: "Do you want to destroy an upright soldier, send him to the expeditionary force!"