Chapter 798: Imperial Intervention (Three Chapters in One)

Grand Knight Job's was the first to come to Billy City, and he did not take the initiative to attack Billy City.

He knew very well how terrible the defenses of a principality's capital were, and unless he forced a breach with a crushing force, he would be caught in a bloody battlefield.

Therefore, he will not take these 3,000 knights of the Duchy of Taikos to attack the city, on the one hand, he has to wait for the follow-up siege machinery to be transported here, and on the other hand, he has to wait for the actions of the other three principalities.

And when the other three principalities also arrived, a strange phenomenon appeared under the city of Biri, and none of the four principalities had the intention of attacking first.

The Grand Knight Chiefs of the four principalities were all very clear in their hearts, they were knights, and siege was not their forte, and the first to attack the city would be met with the strongest resistance.

There are two options in front of them:

First, the four principalities fought in concert to capture the city of Biri and then distribute the spoils;

There are a lot of problems in between, the four principalities are not friendly relations with each other, there are too many filthy between them, and no one dares to guarantee that they will not be cheated by their teammates when they fight together.

You must know that these knight legions are the combat power of each principality, and once the loss is too large, it may reduce the national strength.

In an extraordinary period when crop yields have been declining, once there is a reduction in national strength, they will become a second Duchy of Keane, which no one wants to see.

Therefore, the feasibility of coordinated operations is not high, and it is more likely that they will fight independently.

The second is to wait for the arrival of reinforcements, and at the same time, the siege machinery will also arrive, and the successor army will attack the city of Biri.

This is actually the best method, and no principality can afford the loss of knight siege, so it is still necessary to complete this task by professionally trained siege shields.

But the downside of this is that you have to wait, waiting for the shield soldiers who are infantry to arrive, which takes a lot of time.

The four principalities gathered together to form four different factions outside the city, watching each other, and the mutual distrust between them made no one want to attack the city at this time.

It was at this time of waiting that the commanders of the four principality legions received information that the Kingdom of St. Ellis had sent troops.

Now it is a race against time, if the siege shields and siege machinery of the four principalities can come first, then the four principalities can completely break the last capital of the Principality of Keane, Biri City, and let the Principality of Kean destroy the country.

At that time, even if the army of the Kingdom of St. Ellis came, there would be no way to save the final result.

On the third day of waiting, the hot weather and tense atmosphere made people both in and outside the city anxious.

Grand Knight Commander Job suddenly panicked in his heart at this time, and he asked the adjutant beside him in a deep voice, "Hasn't the scout come back yet?"

"My lord, three groups of scouts have been dispatched, and none of them have come back so far!" replied the adjutant with a puzzled face.

"Damn, send them again, send all the scouts out!" the Grand Knight of Job yelled.

The palpitations he had just had just had been a natural reaction of his spiritual sense, which meant that danger was approaching, but he didn't know where it was coming from.

Just as he yelled, the earth began to tremble, and the experienced one immediately shouted: "Attention, form a formation, prepare for defense!"

Saying that, he had already rushed out of the tent and jumped on his war horse outside the tent, while several messengers waiting outside the tent were already riding war horses and shouting loudly: "Order, form a formation, defend!"

The knightly legion of three thousand knights reacted extremely quickly, and in a short time, all the knights were already riding on their horses and rushed to the makeshift camp, forming a formation outside the camp.

The same is true of the other three principalities, all of them came here in the early stage, and only the strength of the knight legion can attack here so quickly.

The four principalities combined had more than 10,000 knights, forming four defensive formations, and their eyes were all looking at the knight legion marching in the distance.

The legion of knights who came was almost boundless, with a population of 10,000, boundless, and a full 20,000 knights was enough to make each of the four principalities have a maximum of two or three thousand knights.

The fluttering battle flag of the Kingdom of St. Ellis led the 20,000 knight legions at the forefront of the knight legion.

The speed of the knight legion is not fast, all the horses are advancing in a trot, this way is very economical, and can travel for a long time, plus the knight can use the fighting spirit to nourish the horse, which makes this trotting horse can run for almost more than ten hours in a row.

This technique was learned from the wolf cavalry of the Orc Empire, and was later popularized by the knight legions of the three major human empires.

"The knight legion of the Kingdom of St. Ellis is here!" Grand Knight Commander Job knew where his scouts had gone at this time, and he had encountered the knights of the most powerful empire in the Holy Continent, how could those scouts be compared to the scouts of this knight order.

All the knights of the knight legion of the entire kingdom of St. Ellis wore uniform black armor, and none of the knights spoke during the advance, and even the horses only heard the sound of breathing, but not neighing.

Grand Knight Commander Job only knew the gap between the principality and the empire at this time, his three thousand knights were already the full strength of the principality, but the empire was twenty thousand knights as soon as it was dispatched.

And just looking at the momentum of the knight legion of the St. Ellis Kingdom in the march, it is not comparable to his three thousand knights.

Perhaps his three thousand knights could not resist even a single charge, and this evaporated the confidence he had built up from his recent succession of victories.

The Kingdom of St. Ellis has not shown its fangs for many years, and many principalities have forgotten its horrors.

The Knights of the Kingdom of St. Ellis stopped four hundred meters away from the defensive formation of the four Duchy Knights, which was the best distance for the knights to attack each other.

If the Knights of the Kingdom of St. Ellis were to attack, the distance of 400 meters would be enough for the Knights to run and fully increase their speed to the top.

And stopping here, it is just outside the ranged attack range of the knight legions of the four principalities.

Among the knights of the Kingdom of St. Ellis, the eldest prince Alec, dressed in golden armor and a red cloak, walked out on a pure white war horse, followed by four grand knights.

"His Majesty Emperor Ambrose of the Kingdom of St. Ellis decrees that the Duchy of Tykos ......" The eldest prince Alec's eyes scanned the knightly legions of the Principality of Tykos, and then said: "Withdraw all territories that have encroached on the Principality of Keene!"

"Obey!" Grand Knight Job's sigh and bowed down on his horse.

In the past, the Kingdom of St. Ellis did not send troops, so no matter how they spoke, they could delay, but the entire 20,000 knight legions were in front of them, and if they didn't give in at this time, these knights they brought with them really couldn't go back.

The consequence is that the strength of the Duchy of Tykos will be greatly reduced, and then it will be squeezed by other principalities, and even like the Duchy of Keen, it will almost be destroyed.

"The Duchy of Larvi withdraws from all territories that have encroached on the Duchy of Keen!" said Grand Prince Alec's eyes turned to the Duchy of Larvi, and there was a stern look in his eyes.

"Obey!" replied the commander of the Duchy of Larvi, bowing helplessly.

The Principality of Larvi's behavior this time made the eldest prince Alec very angry, because the Principality of Larvi is close to the Kingdom of St. Alice, and the Empire has always taken good care of it, but this time the Principality of Larvi has calculated the Kingdom of St. Alice.

The Kingdom of St. Ellis was at its weakest at this time, and there was no problem in defense, but it was unable to send troops, and if it were not for Abel's help, the empire might lose its dominance this time.

"The Duchy of Raqqa withdraws all the territories that have encroached on the Duchy of Keen!" said in a deep voice as Grand Prince Alec's eyes turned to the Knights of the Duchy of Raqqa.

"Obey!" replied the commander of the Duchy of Raqqa.

"The Duchy of Koror withdraws from all territories that have encroached on the Duchy of Keen!" said Grand Prince Alec's eyes as he turned to the Knights of the Duchy of Koror.

"Obey!" replied the commander of the Duchy of Koror.

"At the same time, the Four Duchyes should compensate the Empire for the attrition of this expedition!" continued the eldest prince Alec.

This was a very petty request, but it was based on the premise that the Kingdom of St. Ellis did not demand that the four principalities return the loot when they withdrew, but chose to take a portion of the loot for themselves.

On the walls of the city of Biri, King Kenneth also saw the mighty army of knights, and his face could not help but be swept away by the gloom that had been on his face for many days.

"The Kingdom of St. Ellis has not abandoned us, Your Majesty Ambrose wins!" roared King Kenneth in ecstasy.

"Your Majesty Ambrose, all the knights and warriors on the city wall roared loudly, and they were ecstatic that the imminent war was suddenly gone.

In the hearts of King Kenneth and his people, the kingdom of St. Ellis came to their rescue as a savior.

Little did they know that this legion of savior knights, who had come to their rescue, was sharing their lost wealth with the invaders.

The eldest prince Alec didn't ask about the next thing, he had his own relevant knights to hand over with the four principalities, and as for the consumption of troops, it was naturally up to the powerful St. Ellis Kingdom to decide.

In half a day, Grand Knight Commander Job of the Duchy of Taikos left with his knight legion, and he didn't have much joy in his heart when he left.

The Kingdom of St. Ellis was so ruthless that after the battle of the Duchy of Tykos, the gains became very few.

It wasn't his family who was hurt, and the other three principalities didn't feel much better when they left.

Although the four principalities have harvested a lot, the amount of food in them is worth their consumption along the way, and the grain of the Principality of Keene itself is also insufficient due to the reduction of production, so the amount of food obtained is not very large.

The kingdom of St. Ellis, on the other hand, demanded almost all of its food, and the riches that had been harvested from the noble castles and cities did not ask for much.

The main reason why the four principalities want to attack the Duchy of Keene is food, they need food, and it is their strategy to destroy a principality to feed them, but seeing that everything is successful, the Kingdom of St. Ellis directly robbed the fruits of victory.

But they did not dare to resist, they recognized the gap between the empire and the principality, and this gap made them have to pay the price as demanded.

"They're gone!" the cheers rang out again on the walls of Billy, and the people on the walls watched the departure of one knight after another, and their hearts overflowed with joy.

King Kenneth was also worried, he was afraid that the Kingdom of St. Ellis would change his mind, and when he saw the knightly legions of the four principalities leaving one after another, the big stone in his heart was finally relieved.

He saw the golden armor-clad prince Alec coming towards the city gate with four great knights, and hurriedly commanded loudly: "Quickly open the city gate and welcome the envoy of the Kingdom of St. Alice!"

He also hurriedly straightened his robes, walked down from the city wall, and waited outside the city gate.

The actions of the eldest prince Alec reassured King Kenneth, because the eldest prince Alec only brought four grand knights with him, which in itself showed the goodwill of the kingdom of St. Ellis.

At such times, if he asked to bring thousands of knights into the city, King Kenneth did not dare to refuse, and then King Kenneth would put his life in the hands of the eldest prince Alec.

"Your Royal Highness Alec, welcome!" said King Kenneth as he stepped forward and bowed.

Although his actions seem to be humble, he has just been saved from the brink of annihilation, and his arrogance is long gone.

"Your Majesty King Kenneth, I am on the orders of His Majesty Emperor Ambrose of the Kingdom of St. Ellis to come to the rescue of the Duchy of Keane, please forgive me for being late!" said the eldest prince Alec bowed in return.

"Don't dare, don't dare, the Principality of Keene is deeply grateful to see the mighty legions of the Empire and save the Duchy of Keane from fire and water!" King Kenneth hurriedly bowed again.

The polite tone of the eldest prince Alec made him very uneasy, because he heard a request in his tone.

Yes, a kind of demand, this kind of demand is the rule of the Holy Continent, the rescue between countries, the rescued country should bear all the expenses of the country that comes to the rescue.

And the Kingdom of St. Ellis, in fact, as the suzerain, came not entirely to rescue, but to clarify its own status, and the eldest prince Alec said that there was only one purpose, that was to ask the Duchy of Keene to bear the consumption of 20,000 knights.

The consumption of an army of 20,000 knights is a huge expense for the Duchy of Keen, which has retreated to only one city, so huge that it is almost unbearable.

"Your Majesty King Kenneth, the Knights Legion must not stay out forever, we will return to the Empire immediately, and please hand over the cost of the rescue to my deputy, so that I can let the Knights Legion go immediately!"

He didn't care much about King Kenneth, as long as the Duchy of Keene was not destroyed by other principalities, even if it was due to a lack of food that caused a popular rebellion and eventually perished, it had little to do with the empire.

If the Duchy of Keene doesn't have an official wizard, there is no ultimate means of protection, and if you don't exploit it now, you don't know who this bargain will give to in the future!

This is the idea of the eldest prince Alec, who had already decided the final fate of the Duchy of Keene before he came, and he could not die immediately.

"Your Highness Alec, I'm afraid that the Duchy of Keene can't afford to consume the 20,000 knight legions, can you please reduce it, or allow me to return it in the future!" King Kenneth bowed down and pleaded.

"King Kenneth, do you think that our Kingdom of St. Ellis is easy to bully? No one dares to rely on the account of our empire, the consumption of 20,000 knight legions, if you dare to lose one gold coin, I will send my knight legion to personally enter the city to fetch it!"

When the eldest prince Alec left with an army of 20,000 knights, he was left with King Kenneth's desperate eyes.

In this war, which covered the five principalities, no one benefited in the end, and the final winner was the Kingdom of St. Alice, who only received food from Abel for sending troops, but ended up replenishing more than double the consumption.

As a result, the Duchy of Keene became extremely weak, they lost countless troops and civilians, and the loss of food was so great that even the seeds for the next season became a problem.

And the Kingdom of St. Ellis also showed its strength through this war, suppressing the ambitions of various principalities.

But this war is like opening a Pandora's box, and the entire human world has been affected.

All the principalities discovered the current predicament of the empire from the hesitation of the Kingdom of St. Alice, and the lack of food in their own countries became more and more serious, which made many principalities look at the weak principalities around them.

None of this had anything to do with Abel, the Principality of Kamai had always remained stable, and the abundant food supply gave the people of the Principality a strong sense of belonging to the Principality, which in turn had a strong attraction to the inhabitants of other Principalities.

As a result, the population of the Principality of Kamai has been growing, and although Abel had a strict immigration policy in place before, the intermarriage between nobles over the years has caused many foreign noble relatives of the nobles in the Principality of Kamai to come to the Principality.

The arrival of foreign nobles was not a single family, but an entire family, which brought with them a large number of warriors, knights and other combatants, as well as countless non-combatants.

It's a process of slow change, and before you know it, the Principality of Kamai is slowly becoming stronger.

Especially in the past two years, the bread with magical effects provided by the wizarding circle of Harry Castle, as well as a large number of knight cultivation potions, have caused the number of knights in the Principality of Kamai to increase explosively.

And with Abel's help, with the help of the 'Dragon's Blood Wall Breaking Elixir', a powerful promotion potion, the Grand Knight Captain of the Principality of Kamai has five more.

In the skies of Harvest City, fourteen griffon knights are guarding the secrets of this land, including four griffon knights and ten griffon knights who have just grown up.

Although these griffin knights are not yet powerful, with the attribute Harry Bow of their equipment, the enemies under the Grand Knight Commander are basically the result of instant kills.

At this time, the Principality of Kamai is like a growing tiger, still immature but already showing its fangs.

After trading grain with the Kingdom of St. Alice, Abel did not interfere in the affairs of the principality again, and he returned to the magic tower to continue his cultivation.

On the second underground floor of the Dark World Lu Gaoyin Palace, it took Abel nearly half a month for the Holy Continent to clean up all the hellish creatures here, and put all the artworks into the space items.

At the same time, Able also found a passage to the palace prison, which has three floors, and the creatures of hell here are even more powerful.

A terrifying archer who can attack with magic arrows.

A terrifying mage who can attack enemies with fire, electricity, ice, and poison spells, and the spells are cast extremely quickly.

Intruders can use 'Fire Boost' to increase their own attack power.

Three terrible creatures of hell made Abel have to be careful here, pushing forward little by little, cleaning room by room.

As time passed, his strength was also increasing at a visible rate, and this improvement was mainly due to the consumption of daily meditation.

After being an intermediate wizard, he could already use the golden quality Blue Howler Rabbit Crystal Nucleus for meditation cultivation, and at the same time, in a small building next to Lu Gaoin's tavern, a large magic gathering array enveloped the entire small building, making the concentration of magic in it almost liquid.

This small building is where he cultivates, and for the opportunity to meditate once a day, he needs to hold two golden quality crystal nuclei in both hands, and meditate and cultivate in the large magic gathering array, the dark world itself is countless times richer than the magic power of the holy continent, so that the effect of the large magic gathering array has reached the extreme.

Abel felt that in just a few more months, he would be able to raise the wizard level again, and his cultivation speed had not slowed down because of the increase in the wizard level.

The days passed, more than a month passed, the Holy Continent was already in August, and Abel had advanced to the third floor of the palace prison.

At this time, his body was full of mana again, but he was not in a hurry to be promoted, because he was almost cleaned up on the third floor of the palace prison.

Carefully opened a wooden door with a 'telekinesis', an experience he had gained after several dangers.

Because the hellcreatures in the palace prison are often neatly packed in a room, and the action of opening the wooden door will cause all the hellish creatures to be alarmed at the same time.

If you're confronted with a terrifying archer or a terrifying mage, hundreds of elemental attacks will await you at the same time.

Of course, 'teleportation' should also be used as little as possible here, because there is some kind of interference in this prison, which affects the distance of spiritual power.

The wooden door was opened, and sure enough, more than a hundred fireballs flew out of it, and since he was still some distance away from the wooden door, those fireballs did not harm him.

Due to the opening of the wooden door, his spiritual power could extend into that room, and as soon as his spiritual power penetrated, he found dozens of intruders holding dual knives, and the first few intruders had activated the 'Flame Enhancement' ability, and their whole bodies were wrapped in fire elementals, flashing with red light.

'Wall of Fire', Abel directly threw a wall of fire into it, blocking the door, he would not let the Ghost Guardian Knight rush in directly at this time, the fire attack of hundreds of spells, even if the Ghost Guardian Knight was full of runes, it was difficult to resist.

"Naga!" Abel shouted to one of the Ghost Guardian Knights.

The four-armed Naga flickered and came to the gate, blocked by a 'wall of fire', and the creatures of hell inside could not detect it for a while.

Naga generated four green balls of light from his back four arms, and then was picked up by his body with his left and right hands, and threw them into the room, throwing more than a dozen green balls of light in a row, before it flickered open the door before the 'wall of fire' disappeared.

After Naga left the door, in front of the weapon shield of Abel's left and right hands, two 'walls of fire' spell patterns were generated, and then two 'walls of fire' were thrown in, this time at a deeper distance.

He didn't stop, the Wall of Fire can cause a lot of damage to infernal creatures that don't have fire resistance, which is why he likes to use the Wall of Fire.

And in an enclosed room like this, the lethality of the 'wall of fire' is even more amazing, and the terrifying mage who has just attacked from a distance will rarely move when attacking, like the 'wall of fire' once thrown at their feet, what awaits them is continuous burning until death.

Sure enough, in the room, the screams of intruders were heard, as well as the characteristic gurgling sound of skeletons and the sound of bones shattering.

It seems that the 'wall of fire' has caused a lot of damage to the hellish creatures in the room, Abel did not stop, the 'wall of fire' in his hands kept casting, and the rapid spell and the two-handed spell were opened at the same time.

At this moment, there were already intruders with red lights all over their bodies rushing out of the room with twin knives in hand, and what was waiting for them was the Ghost Guardian Knight's Shield.

And the 'Clay Stone Demon' stood behind the Ghost Guardian Knight, and although it did not participate in the attack, it just stood there, causing the originally fast intruder to slow down the attack all of a sudden.

In front of Abel's left hand shield, the 'wall of fire' continued to be inspired, and it was constantly thrown into the room, and in front of the 'steel' sword in his right hand, the spell pattern of 'chain lightning' appeared, and then a bolt of lightning struck an intruder.

The intruder who came out of the 'wall of fire' only came and slashed at the Ghost Guardian Knight's shield with a useless sword, and was struck by lightning, followed by eight intruders behind it.

The souls of the nine invaders were included in the Hradic Cube, and the invaders who came out were not threatening, either killed by the 'Chain Lightning' or killed by the Ghost Guardian Knight.

In Abel's spiritual power, there were not many horror mages in the room, and the rest of the horror mages were standing in places where the 'wall of fire' could not be burned.

The 'Teleportation' spell pattern in his left hand lit up, and the 'Chain Lightning' spell in his right hand remained, and he disappeared in place in an instant along with the eight Ghost Guardian Knights and the Clay Stone Demon, and then appeared in the room.

The room was littered with skeletal fragments of dead skeletons, and only a dozen or so terror mages stood in a few corners, throwing fireballs in his direction.

The flying fireballs were blocked by the shield in the Ghost Guardian Knight's hand, and it was the 'chain lightning' in Abel's right hand that responded to them, and this 'chain lightning' paralyzed them in addition to taking away some of the life force of the horror mage.

And the Ghost Guardian Knight flashed directly in front of those terror mages who were not paralyzed, so that the fireball that these terror mages were about to send out was interrupted, and the terror mage could only use the staff in his hand to knock the ghost guard knight in front of him.

This ridiculous attack is almost non-damaging to the Ghost Guardian Knight, who has extremely high defense.

On the other side, Abel's hands were already using all their strength to cast the 'chain lightning', and the terrifying mage who was hit was almost paralyzed, shaking and shaking until his life was emptied.

When not a single infernal creature stood in the room, Abel's eyes were fixed on another wooden door in the room.

The white light in his hand flashed, and the 'telekinesis' was activated again, and the wooden door was opened by an electric light.

After opening the wooden door, no sound was heard, and no attack was triggered, Abel carefully poked out his spiritual power, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, there were no hellish creatures.

When I walked through the wooden door, I saw that the lampstands on the left and right had been replaced by unquenchable hell flames by infernal creatures, illuminating the entire room in a fiery red.

In the middle of the room, an inactive portal stands out, a distinctly infernal portal with an evil force flowing through it, giving it a dark gray aura.

Abel didn't dare to guarantee that the evil power on the portal would not affect him, so he still used the 'telekinesis' to channel the spiritual power to the portal, and the portal was instantly activated by the spiritual power on the magic circle.

A faint blue light slowly slid down from the top of the portal, forming a dark blue light portal in the middle of the portal.

Abel approached the Light Gate, his spiritual sense did not perceive danger, he wrapped his spiritual power around the eight Ghost Guardian Knights and the 'Clay Stone Demon', and the 'Teleportation' was activated, and the target was the location of the Light Gate.

In an instant, he and all his summons vanished from where they were, and then disappeared into the light portal.