(4,000 words, lazy into two chapters.) ）

Outside the Cardina Grand Canyon, there is a scene of lush vegetation and trees, and the sky is full of white clouds.

Between thousands of mountains and mountains, there are thousands of beasts galloping, and there are also hundreds of birds singing hooves.

Inside the Grand Canyon of Cardina is a different story, with the valley floor, which does not get direct sunlight all year round, full of all kinds of moss and even some small mold.

All the shade plants are a faint green, which makes people can't help but feel a hint of coldness when they see it.

But today, this cold, lifeless valley has ushered in a group of creatures with extreme vitality.

It was Saga and his party, about a hundred people, standing under this valley, which seemed rather sparse.

Saga came from the city of Blago and left behind the mountains of affairs in the province, so he naturally did not come here for the sake of sightseeing.

Zaga wanted to see for himself the "first dominoes" of the fall of this previous empire.

In the previous life, it was from the Battle of Cardina that the empire began a series of defeats on top of foreign wars.

It's as if an empire that has reached its peak is falling at a rate faster than it is rising.

In the later period, countless people of insight in the empire even began to despair and say: This is the world's abandonment of the empire.

But Sachar understood that in fact, a mere battle of Cardina did not have a major impact on the Empire.

Don't say that it's just this battle of Cardina Grand Canyon that was lost, even if the empire's army in the entire southern territory was defeated, even if the soul of 200,000 troops returned to the Jingling Temple.

Even if the empire loses the entire southern territory of the empire, as long as the eight central provinces of the empire, the western and northern borders are still there, the empire can launch wars to regain the territory again and again.

Because in the entire empire, the power from the south only occupies about one layer.

Of course, Sachar understood that this was because the fertile lands in the south had not yet been opened, so in the hearts of the empire, the southern border was far less strategically located than the central and northern provinces with their vast plains.

Even the Western Territory, because it controls the trade routes between the empire and the countries of the Western Regions, can bring a lot of benefits to the empire every year, so its status is not weaker than that of the northern territory at all.

Moreover, if you don't count the citizens of the Empire, compared to the people of the north and the west who live in bitter cold all the year round, which makes their physical fitness and fighting spirit extremely strong, the indigenous peoples of the south are really unable to do it.

It is for these reasons that the Empire does not pay enough attention to the South.

Zachar can now clearly remember how the empire went from a heyday to a decay.

That's a short time, less than twenty years.

It all started with the Battle of the Grand Canyon of Cardina in 1442 AD!

In the twenty years that followed, as if providential, countless coincidental events occurred on the land of the empire, and countless seemingly inevitable events occurred.

The crushing defeat of the Cardina Grand Canyon was inevitable.

The fall of the entire province of Blago was inevitable.

It was inevitable that a war would suddenly break out between the major provinces of the south and the two kingdoms of the south.

But!

The flawless eastward appearance of the elven kingdom is not inevitable!

But the Empire's non-coming rescue is not inevitable!

How did that happen all of a sudden?

It seems that a war for the throne suddenly broke out in the elven kingdom, and although that war did not spread, it involved the energy of the entire elven kingdom royal family.

What about the Empire?

Of course it's a civil war!

A wry smile suddenly appeared on Saga's face, and everyone had the idea of "outside must first settle inside".

Turning a blind eye to everything that happened in the province of Blago is actually a kind of disdain that comes from the depths of the heart.

The ownership of the empire is an idea, and it is just a barbarian, but it is a disease of ringworm.

When we have our hands free, we can easily teach those jumping monkeys how to behave, and then we will naturally tell them that your father will always be your father.

However, no one expected that a new god had appeared in this world, and he had brought to this world something that had never appeared before - the plague!

This deity is the god of plagues, Ertri!

The gods are the embodiment of the rules of the world, although in the past few years, the god of disease has been born, as well as a large number of gods related to disease.

But the most terrifying plague god did not appear in this world.

This means that in this world, there is no such thing as plague that kills a large area.

On the day Ertri appeared in this world, the strongest people in the world clearly felt that the demons in the abyss were also beginning to be restless.

Even those demons who seem to be the embodiment of evil have such a feeling of impending calamity, and the power of this god can be imagined.

Originally, if it was a simple plague god born, it didn't matter.

After all, if there were no conditions for the plague to occur, the plague would not have occurred on its own.

After all, the gods in the great world of Lablar have no feelings of their own, and the god of plague will not go to the world to deliberately spread the source of the plague because of his priesthood.

But humanity itself has spread one of the great sources of the plague – and that is war.

War and plague! Always a pair of brothers!

Under such circumstances, the wars that broke out in the empire for many years, and the mountains of corpses, finally caused the plague to break out completely.

One game after another!

The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

The scene of hell on earth is really hard to believe, it is the once prosperous Emerald Empire.

The country that once had a population of 40 million and a million armoured soldiers no longer exists.

The empire has finally entered the era of the Brandon dynasty, and the purple thorn flower flag finally flutters in the sky above the empire.

But at that time, the empire was already a lion that was almost dead.

The blood of the Empire, those precious citizens, those magicians, those temple priests, are not forged in a short time.

Even if Sachar was fully mobilized, several extremely powerful legions were summoned by him, but the huge gap in hard power still failed to save the empire from falling into the sky.

In this Lablar world, the great destruction of power makes the accumulation of power in each country extremely slow, but the consumption of power is extremely fast.

The Empire wants to train a Halo legion, and one is to rely on highly talented generals to obtain training methods from the Kingdom of God.

It's like what Saga wants to do, so that the legion that comes out of training is the fastest, and once it's trained, it's a relatively perfect point.

However, where in this world will there be so many generals with good talent and good luck, although many generals are invincible in leading troops to fight, but they have no talent for training at all.

Therefore, most of the Halo legions in the empire are fought step by step from the lowest legions, and such legions have to go through at least a dozen major battles.

But those who can go through so many wars, and in the end, they can still retain their numbers, only those who are really famous through the ages.

Just like the first legion of the empire, the Pompey Legion, the Thorn Legion of the Brandon family is also this kind of existence, and they all went through countless wars to fight all the way up from the bottom.

Sachar's fists clenched slowly, then clenched, and secretly swore in his heart: In this life, I will never set foot on that old road.

It all started in the province of Blago.

"Now that I've been reborn, the Battle of Cardina is definitely not going to happen. Sachar thought silently.

There is no suspense in this, after all, it was a victory that relied on conspiracy and betrayal back then, and now it only needs to be punctured by this conspiracy. Naturally, all the results cannot change from the previous life.

"It's just," Saga looked at the gloomy canyon and rubbed his brow slightly, "it's really a good place to ambush." ”

After Zachar came here, he also wanted to ambush here. This will certainly lead to a significant reduction in losses.

And wouldn't it be complete revenge to win from here, and then to set foot through the city of Ellev and all the way south?

Thinking of this, Saga smiled and shook his head, feeling that his obsession was a little too deep.

As long as you can defeat the coalition forces of the five kingdoms, there is no need to snipe them here.

Still, this idea inspired Zachar a lot.

Originally, the Governor of Chels was already preparing to clean up the Elev family, and he was about to start when the 34th Army Corps had a little success.

But now it seems that the Ellevor family can't move so soon.

It is difficult to find such a high-level spy, especially this kind of spy who has been exposed, and the role they can play is beyond the reach of many spies who have already broken into the top.

At that time, the Ellev family passed on a false message to the Governor of Chels, and this false news was only a little bit of a difference in time, which eventually led to the tragic end of the Governor of Chels.

Although he has a beautiful and gentle wife and two lovely children, he doesn't even dare to run away, so he can only accompany the soldiers of the empire to die here.

If you can use the Elevor family to convey some wrong news to the coalition forces of the five kingdoms, and turn it over and let the coalition forces of the five kingdoms step into the trap of the provincial army, this is not in vain to design this time.

If it is really the seventy or eighty thousand people estimated by Zachar, if this large army can be buried here, then the entire five kingdoms will have no usable soldiers.

If all the seventy or eighty thousand young adults died in a war, it is estimated that the five kingdoms would only be able to rely on women to hunt in the mountains to make a living.

In this medieval era, except for the race of the elves, it is like a human country, once there are not many men to fight, it can really be said that the country will not be a country.

You know, even in the twentieth century, the USSR did not disclose the exact number of its population for many years after the Great Patriotic War.

It is because population has always been an important basis for evaluating a country's strength.

In a country, the total number of people who have the ability to work is the human resources that a country has.

A sparsely populated country has no future.

Everything Saga is doing now is for one thing, to preserve the vitality of the entire empire, and to maintain the number of citizens of the empire from declining.

As long as this basic market does not change, there will be countless possibilities in the future.

Then, on this basis, Sachar hopes to increase the power of the empire, guide the citizens of the empire to become stronger, and gradually guide the free people to free themselves from their original limitations.

Even slaves had to be allowed to play their part.

Although it was impossible for Sachar to betray his class and do the stupid thing of freeing the slaves, after all, the Brandon family was the leading slave owner in the entire empire, but there was no problem in promoting some of the slaves.

Since ancient times, history has proved countless times that one of the favorite jokes of fate is to bury those who have the ambition of Lingyun and the talents of the world deep under the thick and dirty dirt.

Those who are high up and above do not see this, nor can they see the accumulated resentment, and one day, the whole world will be overturned by these people.

Although Sachar had the ambition to lead the empire to the world, he never thought of giving up his current position, nor did he think of reducing his family to dust.

"Evereya. Saga turned to the woman beside him.

The woman standing beside Saga was curvy, tall, extremely beautiful, and exuded charming charm all over her body.

Even in the dark and lightless canyon, the light on her body could not be weakened even a bit.

"My lord, what do you command?" asked Evereya, bowing slightly, a smile on her face like a blooming flower.

"Evereya, look at this canyon, if you have enough time to cast shadow magic and phantom magic here, can you hide tens of thousands of troops?" Saga asked, pointing to the criss-crossing ridges on both sides of the canyon, the caves embedded in the mountains.

Evereya looked up slightly, and couldn't help frowning, the sides of the Grand Canyon in Cardina were really very messy.

Especially between those caves and the protruding boulders, there is not the slightest pattern, and there are countless towering trees growing in between.

Not only were trees growing in the more gentle places, Everea even saw a half-dead tree on a mountain wall that was almost 90 degrees vertical.

In Evereya's understanding, she really couldn't imagine how the tree had persisted for so many years and not completely died in such a dark canyon, and even how the tree was born.

This really can only be described as a miracle of life.

But such a miracle, born here, is very bad, very bad.