The last group to step into the portal were the researchers, and Nicknicker, the director of the Lightning Research Institute, looked a little dazed and hesitated in front of the portal.

"Nickna, are you reluctant to be here?"

Otto joked with him: "It's easy to stay, just take a red pill." ”

Nickner waved his hand: "I'll eat when I'm old enough, I hope I'll be qualified to see you then." ”

"Of course you qualify," Otto said, "not for your contribution to lightning technology, but for your beliefs. The cardinal has said that you are a wise materialist, and there is a plus a thousand after which I don't quite understand what it means. ”

Nickner smiled bitterly: "Don't whitewash it for me, the cardinal's exact words are...... Stupid mechanical materialists plus a thousand, full of fundamentalist mortalism, do not know how to seek truth from facts, and cannot distinguish between objective and subjective. ”

His expression turned to pride again: "But this insistence has expanded the dimension for us to explore the cause of Datongism with Finn's characteristics, and has also laid a more solid foundation for the crimson light to shine on Finn and even the multiverse." He hoped that I would continue to persist in the applied research of fundamental forces on the premise of having a deep grasp of scientific materialism. ”

Otto said with some reluctance: "Yes, so this place of hell can no longer satisfy your further research, and the void is waiting for you." ”

Nickner wistfully, "That's a bigger challenge......

Otto patted him on the shoulder: "I will go to Epsilon occasionally, and we will meet more often in the future." ”

The two said goodbye, and this time Nickner's steps became firm, and he entered the portal in two steps.

Sending off the living, Otto took Mins and the thousands of Heroes to the Underworld Dock on the other side of the Homecoming Fort.

The Fort of Return is no longer what it used to be, and the three areas that were originally divided into the living, the undead, and the Crimson Heroic Spirit have been merged, and the expanded protective barrier covers a vast area with a diameter of nearly five kilometers.

Backed by the Styx Lake, which has accumulated an area of hundreds of square kilometers, overlooking the great rift caused by the impact of the original purgatory and the abyss, and facing the blood river surging in the great rift, from the Styx River upstream, and can go deep into the underworld, the Homecoming Fort has become a well-deserved hub of the inner plane.

Even Alishan, the goddess of the river Styx, also moved the throne from the river Styx to the fort of homecoming, of course, this is also related to the fact that the god of death Nairo broke with the Red Union and cut the Hades region from the underworld.

At this moment, the goddess's doppelganger, little Alishan, is talking to Skeletron on the dock, Skeletron's eyes are shaking with dark gold soul fire, and his body is also filled with a faint golden light dust, which reflects the golden crown on the skull, which does not look terrifying at all, but is very sacred, which makes the painting style weird.

Behind Skeletron, thousands of Death Knights on skeletal horses occupied the small half of the dock, and their eyes flashed with dark gold. When Ottomins arrives with the Crimson Spirit, the two forces converge as one, blending in and subtly different.

Skeletron and his Death Knight are already equipped with Heroic Arms, but they still maintain their old-world attire, with Soulfire and Heroic Bodies being a little darker. Ottomins and Crimson Heroes are both simple outfits for the new era, with brighter soul fire and spirit bodies.

The more obvious difference is that Skeletron and Death Knight have condensed their prenatal appearances.

Even Skeletron's memories are mixed, and his subordinates have lost all their memories. The Crimson Force freed them from the power of death, but only erased the alien will transmitted through the power of death, leaving them no longer driven by the high-level undead and the Grim Reaper, and now they fight for peace.

Ottomins and the others retain the memories of their lives, and the crimson power keeps them alive with their passion and desire to fight. They endure the pain of the power of death and fight for the complete liberation of Hell, the inner plane.

Skeletron and Otto are both demigods, and the two may share different priesthoods of the Crimson Death. But that's for the future, and now that the Red Union are launching an all-out counteroffensive on the main plane, they will also embark on their own journeys.

"Alright, now it's up to the Red Devils......"

Alisa nodded in satisfaction, and the Stygian Lake behind her churned violently, surfacing huge submarine-like Stygian Stone ships. The Styx Spirits roaming the boat were very different from Otto's, and the soul fire fluttering in their eyes was crystal brilliance.

The Stygian ship docks, and Skeletron and Ortunmins lead their respective Heroes aboard.

"Let's go first, I wish Your Majesty all the best!"

"Oh cluck...... Oh!"

Ottomins says goodbye to Alisa and the Skeletron and sails upriver in the Stystone ship.

Their destination is the underworld, where they will build a fortress where the River Styx meets the Necropolis and the underworld, and monitor the movements of the god of death, Nairo.

Alisanne and Skeletron descend the river, deep into the depths of purgatory and the abyss, searching for a way to the bottom, while trying to communicate with the Demon King Aroman and the Great Devil Lord Esmodeich.

At this time, people and horses rushed towards the dock in a chaotic manner, all of them were big men with horns and tails, with strong bodies, their eyes shining with golden light, and their bodies overflowing with gold dust.

These gangs, like Anne Mina Marie, are the real "Red Devils".

It is not entirely unfounded for the Dawning Empire to call the Red Union "Red Devil", and the Red Alliance has both Crimson Heroic Spirits and Crimson Demons and Devils. However, whether it is a demon or a devil, whether it is an inferior demon, a horned demon, a small devil or a succubus, after being purified by the power of Crimson, it will change into a new race.

The body of the new race is based on humans and retains some traits that belong to demons and devils. For example, the skin is hard, the bones are thick, the joints are scaly, and they all have horns and tails. Their image not only returns to the normal range that is acceptable to humans, but even like the crimson succubus, the beauty of a handsome man and a woman, and the average appearance is higher than that of a half-elf.

The Red Federation refers to this new race as the "Majin", though they prefer to refer to themselves by the informal name "Red Devil".

There are still many divisions within the Red Devil, and the skin of the Red Devil purified by the demon is generally red, the horns are straight, the body is stronger, and it has a strong regeneration ability, but the brain is not very good. The red devil purified by the devil has a bluish skin, curved horns, a more coordinated body, a more sensitive sense, and a more intelligent one.

Succubi are another major category of red devils, and they are the benchmark for the appearance of red devils. Needless to say, female succubi, all of them are stunners, and male succubi also have their own charm field.

These differences are limited to physical characteristics, personality and ability differences can be changed, and there is no essential difference between them. The latest research results from the Flesh Research Institute show that there is no reproductive isolation between the Red Devils of different races, and if the Red Web can further stabilize and wrap their souls, they will be free from the control of Purgatory and the Will of the Abyss. By mixing with each other, they will form a more unified racial identity and become a new race in the true sense of the word.

Of course, that was at least a few generations later, and the number of red devils was still very small, and the demons and demons that could be successfully purified by the red net were almost one in a thousand, and those who succeeded in purification all hated purgatory and the abyss, and regarded demons and demons as enemies who were different from each other.

Therefore, except for some Red Devils who were transferred to the main plane, most of the other adult Red Devils joined Alishan's Hell Expeditionary Force and took on auxiliary and support work.

There were also some special members of the force, and Alisa didn't see them.

"Taha!"

She summoned the supervisors of those guys: "What are those guys still grinding? If they don't cherish the rare opportunity to let off steam, then don't take them!"

In the voice channel, Taha shouted in a panic: "Immediately, immediately!"

I vaguely heard a woman next to Taha calling: "The last two hands!"

On the other side of the fort, in the building made of dark stone, a bunch of strange puppets are crowding and bumping.

The puppet's body is similar to that of Yuzan, with a few more gimbal tentacles, but its head is a transparent ball containing hideous heads, the common thing is that they all have horns and are ugly.

There were exceptions, where an unusually beautiful head was shouting through the microphone of the ball, "Wait!

The director of the Soul Research Institute, part-time warden Taha, let out a crimson lich roar: "If you don't go out within ten seconds, you will be disqualified!"

The lich guard Canny dropped the board in his hand like an electric shock, and slapped his face like urging the kindergarten children: "Hurry up, everyone!

The glamorous head, the succubus queen Mehidas, cried out in despair, "I'm about to win!

The ogre's head in the other ball threw away the board and said without tears: "It's more important, but this is a ladder match, and it will take three months to miss it before it can be bronze!"

"Bronze is a fart!"

The scimitar-horned devil in another ball snorted, "I'm almost a legend!"

The ogre is naturally the ogre king Goddock Zuo, and the cut-and-tangle devil is the dissociation demon lord Edmunt, and together with Mehidas, from chess, Go, backgammon, bridge, mahjong to "Adventurer's Commune Dungeon OL", and then to "Legend of the Rubik's Cube", one game after another, they have now become friends and cellmates.

After months of being alone in the special prison of Fort Home, they were not cut off from news, and the changes in the outside world were clear. Their state of mind has also changed now, especially after seeing that there are constantly demons and demons purified into red demons and gained soul freedom.

In this Hell Expedition, they have all applied to join the Expeditionary Force, acting as a bridge between Alisa and the devil and the devil. If all goes well, and Alishan's communication with them is effective, they will be able to accept the purification of the Red Web and change their fate of eternal enslavement to Purgatory and the Abyssal Will.

Now they are not really greedy for playing "The Legend of the Rubik's Cube", but they are about to embark on the road of changing their fate, and they are all nervous and even afraid. After all, they will face their former kind, their colleagues, and even their masters.

Goddock and Edmund resolutely put down the game board and drove the puppet out of the house.

"Alright!"

Mehidas threw away the game board as if she had given up on herself, trying to make excuses for herself: "That guy on the other side burns the rope every turn, it's either a bad guy with no taste, or a kobold with a limited IQ!"

The moment she stepped out of the prison, the former succubus queen also gritted her teeth, as if she would never turn back if she took this step.

Then she snorted: "When I am purified, I will also start a live broadcast, go on stage, and run for a red star! I will also form a succubus group to let those pseudo-girls know what is a soul-shocking song!"

..................

In the center of the weeping sand sea, pillars of light are dropped from mid-air, reflecting the vast sand valley as bright as day.

The hidden enchantment supported by the Crimson Force Field occasionally rippled through the crystal, obscuring most of the Sand Valley, and the headquarters of the "Second Front Army of the Red Alliance Revolutionary Army" was in a magic guide car in the center of the Sand Valley.

The Second Front was initially in charge of the war zone bordering Hadron, but later extended to the Weeping Sand Sea, and now includes Redstone, Norton, and the Forgotten Forest.

In the magic car, the commander of the front army and the commander of the Western Assault Group, but Lieutenant General Finn was complaining to Li Qi: "There is not even a naval detachment, and everything is stuffed over...... I don't mean it's rags, it's that the equipment is too miscellaneous, and the first batch of salmon is still there!"

"The shortage of manpower is even worse, and all those with better brains will fly planes, and the ground forces will rely on kobolds, werewolves, half-orcs and even orcs to supplement the troops!"

"The Navy has also pulled the good conditions into the Marine Corps, and all that has been left for our Army is crooked melons and cracked dates!"

"Especially those green-skinned orcs from the High Alliance, it's just amazing!"

"Most of the people are divided into the aaagh faction and the Lokta Ohga faction, and they carry tweeters and dance awkwardly to each other all day long, making the army like a circus!"

Li Qi replied angrily: "You are now the commander of the front army, not a member of the army, so don't still engage in discrimination between different branches of the army! The situation faced by the Second Front Army is different from that of the First Front Army, there will be no large-scale fleet warfare, and the garrison force is also very weak, so you are more engaged in the work of law and order warfare!"

Finn gave in with a hint of interest: "At least add some more black whales and ghost whales, as soon as Rimako runs, the situation here is too complicated." The military and civilians are mixed, and the largest resistance force, the Scattered Tallinn Society, is a patchwork organization, and it cannot be killed. ”

Li Qi said: "The legion committee is still adjusting the establishment of the air force, and in the future, the air force will only be responsible for the Tianyan system and intelligence logistics support, and most of the combat units will be assigned to the army, so let's wait for the adjustment to be completed." Now you can only work harder, and you can only keep an eye on the intelligence work by yourself, and it will only take two or three days. ”

This is something that Finn has known for a long time, and the old pilot Linde has been in charge of the adjustment of the Air Force before, and now it is coming to an end. This guy who was born as a combat mage couldn't wait to transfer to the Navy, take Randall's place, and start preparing for the Second Fleet.

The elite squadrons of the Air Force have been transferred to the Navy, and the remaining ordinary squadrons, plus the "reserve squadrons" of the Aviator Commune, are mostly left to the Army, and the Air Force is left with some emergency, life-saving, reconnaissance, transport and support units.

With Richie's promise, Finn was finally relieved.

After asking for resources from above, Finn began to focus on his mission.

"Hessler ......"

Finn contacted the commander of the Sharp Knife Force of the Upper West Assault Group: "Can the 2nd Armored Brigade complete the encirclement of Emerald Fort in the early morning?"

"Report to the Commander!"

The new commander of the 2nd Armored Brigade, Army Colonel Hessler, responded forcefully: "The air assault battalion has arrived at the Imperial fleet base west of Emerald Castle, and the reconnaissance battalion is carrying out surveying and mapping of the base and Emerald Fort, and in the early morning we can not only surround Emerald Fort, but also take out all the heavy firepower!"

Finn instructed, "Very well, take Emerald Fort down first, and use it as a stronghold in the Redstone Warzone." However, you must be careful that our most important task is not to destroy the enemy, nor to occupy territory, but to stabilize the hearts and minds of the Redstone people and make sure they do not convert to the enemy, and remember to work closely with the Intelligence Bureau and the local branch. ”

Hessler's side went well, and Finn was a little relieved.

"Aketea!"

He called another subordinate: "What about the 1st Armored Brigade?"

The commander of the 1st Armored Brigade, who had just been transferred to the Hadron front, the commander of the Eastern Assault Group, Aketya, responded: "The units have entered the sortie position and are doing the final checks. ”

The young female major general was very dissatisfied: "I promise to complete the mission, but what is the difference between this place of Hadron and a ripe apple? As long as my troops advance to Iron Crown City, and Her Highness Catherine and Aurora come forward, Kevin Donn will raise his hand and surrender immediately!"

"My troops and I are better at fighting on the Hessler side, why are you putting me here? Your arrangement is not convincing, I reserve my personal opinion!"

Finn sighed: "Aini, if you want to come here, you can only be a front-line commander, in charge of the direction of Hadlang, and only then can you be in charge." ”

"I don't care about personal growth, I just think I should put the right people in the right place. ”

Finn smiled: "For you, the ground is not suitable anywhere, you aspire to take a battleship, fight in the sky or even in the sea of stars, don't think I don't know, what bet you made with Yuskar." ”

The young female general stammered suddenly: "What, how did you get involved with Yu, Yuskal? It has nothing to do with him!"

Finn said earnestly: "Linde has long taken a fancy to you, the Second Marine Corps still has one less commander, but you have to prove that you can deal with all kinds of problems in an area on your own, and at the general level, the battle is no longer just as simple as guns on the battlefield." ”

"Hadron is indeed a ripe apple, with the influence of the Chief Cardinal and several His Highnesses the Witches, and military means are only secondary. But because of this, how to make military means play their due role and be just right, this will test the ability of many aspects......"

Speaking of this, his tone became serious: "I believe you can handle it before letting you go, but you don't even understand this, it's really disappointing to me." ”

Aketya was silent for a while, and said solemnly: "Although I feel that you are actually fooling me, Commander, these tests do exist, and I believe that I have no problem!"

After calming Actea, Finn stretched and let out a long breath.

The space in the command cabin was cramped, but there were few people in the front command, and Finn could still change to the most comfortable position.

Looking at the three-dimensional perspective image of the theater on the command platform, he once again reviewed his battle plan.

The First Front remained under the personal command of Admiral Wilson, a deputy member of the Legion Council, and the theater of operations included Valentine, the Three Northern Powers, and Sachiton. The composition of the force is mainly the First Fleet of the Navy and the First Marine Corps, as well as the Storm Ocean Sea Spirit, and there is nothing to do with the army.

In addition to the two armored brigades each equipped with four or five hundred heavy mechas, there are two air assault brigades equipped with light mechs and combat vehicles, eight armored infantry brigades equipped with heavy tracked combat vehicles, and ten mechanized infantry brigades equipped with various types of light combat vehicles.

In addition to six army aviation brigades and 10 special operations battalions, the main equipment of the Second Front includes 800 jet fighters, 2,000 propeller fighters, 3,000 light and heavy mechs, and 5,000 combat vehicles. The front numbered as many as 150,000 men, of whom 20,000 were armored infantry equipped with heavy individual armament. If all kinds of floating vehicles, floating motorcycles, and repulsion vehicles are counted as technical equipment, there are 2.7 pieces per capita.

It's a pity that such an armored army, which was enough to sweep through the entire Finn's main plane in the old era, is a hodgepodge of mixed old and new types in Finn's eyes. And instead of fighting another powerful army, this army had to break up into countless small detachments after crushing some insignificant resistance, and set up countless posts like police in the cities and villages of Redstone, Norton, and the Forgotten Forest, to maintain order and prepare for the integration of these three regions under the rule of the Red Alliance.

"...... of law and order warfare"

The more Finn thought about it, the more headache he felt, and he had complained to Richie about being assigned to such a battlefield, just like Actya. The words he used to teach Aektea were just a slight processing of Richie's reprimand.

The cardinal arch spoke the word to him, telling him that after the Red Union switched to a full-scale counteroffensive, the real test was not on the battlefield. Rather, on the premise that it is not possible to greatly improve the living standards of the people in the occupied areas for the time being, a good order should be established in order to gradually transform the various regions into the Red Union model.

In this process, all kinds of sharp conflicts and even guerrilla warfare will inevitably occur. At this time, as an army commander, he was faced with a new form of warfare similar to "law and order warfare."

This is a new subject, and the cardinal admits that he has no practical experience, so he can only pin his hopes on the actual executor.

"First of all, you must have a peaceful mind, neither ignore every detail, nor let the mentality change with the details. ”

Finn muttered, subconsciously turning his wrist.

A small head suddenly appeared in his field of vision, and his black hair was tied into a double ponytail, flicking happily in his palm.

Finn coughed unnaturally, glancing at the empty command cabin to make sure there was no one.

Then the lines on his face softened, his eyes were full of doting, he smiled slightly, and rubbed the little head that was just an image with his palm.

"Josie ......"

He muttered in a low voice, "This time, I will save ...... No, I will liberate you, liberate every single one of you. ”

As his gaze sank, Finn suddenly knew what he had to do.