Chapter Seventy-Eight: The War Has Ceased
The mystery of the curse that has plagued the giants for nearly a thousand years has been solved, but the obstacles to the giants' return to the continent have not been completely cleared.
"The legend of the curse has been passed down for thousands of years among the giants, but we only left here hundreds of years ago, and the curse is not the direct reason why we left here. ”
Facing everyone's puzzled gazes, the Giant Flying Shield pointed to the ruined buildings around him and smiled bitterly, "Do you know who destroyed our ancestral land Giant City?"
Everyone was at a loss, the frozen plateau has always been rare, and even the Star and Moon Guardian didn't know the mystery of the sudden disappearance of the giant clan back then.
Fei Dun then told an untold story: "All this was done by our giants themselves, and the previous giant king Rondo suddenly fell ill, or to be exact, insane. When he was sick, he even did things like destroying ancestral temples and wantonly slaughtering his own people. As a result, many giant warriors tried to stop and detain the giant king under the call of the strongest King Kong giant, Knoro. Rondo is not completely insane, only occasionally losing control, and there are still many giant warriors who support the giant king. When Rondo spirals out of control once again, a civil war breaks out between the giants. ”
"As a result of the civil war, Rondo was killed and Knoro became the new Giant King, but we were left with a ruined city. Because of that curse, Knoro led the surviving giants on a migration journey, eventually establishing a village on the edge of the Black Sea at the end of the ice field. The first few hundred years of the Giants have indeed escaped the fate of the curse, and our population has not decreased again. Until eleven years ago......"
"What happened eleven years ago?" Arthur couldn't help but urge.
"Knoro also had the same illness as the giant king Rondo, and suddenly lost control of his mind during a hunt, he thought that the giants still did not escape the curse, so he planned to take the giants into the dark sea and escape the continent completely. So the giants began to prepare for their departure, building large warships, stocking up on a large amount of food, and sending Buku's father, Lien, on a secret mission. ”
The mission involving the "Broken Seal Stone" is too secretive, and Flying Shield obviously doesn't know the details of the mission.
"We didn't wait for Lien to return, but the Giant King's plan won't change, and we've gone through a lot of hardships to finally find Storm Island where we can stay. The Giant King's illness has worsened over the years in Storm Island, and because he knows the danger of losing control, he locks himself in a cave and hardly sees anyone. That's why I didn't allow you to go to the island in the first place, the Giant King is in a state where he could get out of control at any time, and you can't convince him at all. ”
After listening to Feidun's storytelling of this history, everyone was confused, Knoro was indeed a hurdle that could not be bypassed, and without the order of the Giant King, it would be impossible for the Giant Clan to be moved to return to the continent.
"Is there no other way?" asked Arthur, still not giving up.
"If it was before, there really wasn't any hope, but now there is hope, because the hero Saisi is still alive. He has the same prestige among the giants as the king, and as long as Saisi knows that the mystery of the curse has been solved, he can also bring the giants back to the mainland. ”
"Where is Saisi now?" Arthur blurted out impatiently.
"I don't know, he just said when he left to find a new place to live. ”
The hope that had just been ignited was extinguished again, there were no clues, and the difficulty of finding Saisi was even higher than that of the giants.
By the end of the long story of Flying Shield, the sky was already slightly bright, and everyone had lost the direction of their next move.
Shalene first offered her farewell, "I think I should go back to the alliance first, report the situation here to the elders, and also mobilize the forces of all races through the alliance to find the whereabouts of the giant Saisi." ”
After Sharin, Flying Shield was also ready to leave, "The mystery of the curse is solved, I will go back to Storm Island and tell everyone, even if everyone doesn't believe and don't want to leave, I will tell them the truth." If Saisi returns to Storm Island, I can also notify him as soon as possible. ”
When Charlene was gone, the Flying Shield was gone, but Buku was left behind, and Arthur suddenly felt dazed, he looked at Shino and then at Aretha, "So where are we going?"
......
When Arthur remembered to return to the mercenary group, he was shocked to find that the war had stopped.
Arthur had been gone for nearly eight months, and the war had stopped a month earlier. After all, the Sea Clan and Norman armies could not bear the united Terran parties, and fought and retreated along the way, and were finally forced back to the Norman border.
After more than two years of fighting, more than 2 million soldiers from various countries have died on the battlefield, countless cities, villages and towns have been ravaged by the flames of war, and tens of millions of people have been displaced.
This is war!
There are no real victors in wars, but there are gainers. Isaac occupied the entire territory of the Kingdom of Locke, while the Empire and the Kingdom of Kil'dan each occupied half of the area of the former Kingdom of Rouge.
When the Sea Clan and the remnants of the Norman army retreated to the border of the Norman kingdom and defended the danger, the war naturally stopped. Because Isaac did not move his army to the Norman border at all after occupying Locke, the empire and the Kildan army were afraid that Isaac behind him would take the opportunity to make small moves, and on the other hand, they were unwilling to take the initiative to attack and be cannon fodder for the other party.
The intrigue of all sides of the Terran once again gave the Sea Clan a chance to breathe and recuperate.
The Church of Light, which had seen through the minds of all parties, once again came forward and demanded that each of the three parties send 300,000 troops to the Norman border. Coupled with the 100,000 church knights, the Terran side has piled up a million troops on the border, and even if they don't take the initiative to attack, they won't be able to make any waves with the remaining forces of the Sea Clan and Normans.
As for Arthur's Blue Enchantress mercenary group, they never went to war after being raided by the Inquisition that night. The Isaac army, under the command of Prince Rex, completely broke the northern defense line of the Sea Clan army in three days, and the mercenary group returned without hindrance.
Huey did not choose to return to the town naval regiment, but instead broke up the mercenary regiment and secretly returned to Huaorez.
The Blue Enchantress Mercenary Group is also the beneficiary of this war, and the harvest on the battlefield makes them earn a lot of money, and the first batch of mercenaries to join, as long as they survive, they have earned at least a reward equivalent to ten years of mercenary tasks.
For the mercenary group, in addition to the glory on the battlefield, the legendary story, and the increase in strength. Because of the experience of life and death on the battlefield, many mercenaries and rangers took the initiative to apply to join the Blue Enchantress after they returned, and even a few small mercenary captains applied to merge the whole group into the Blue Enchantress.
The registered mercenaries of the Blue Enchantress Mercenary Group are directly thousands, and the newly joined combat school-level mercenaries also happen to gather the number of people required by the A-level mercenary group.
A war has turned the Blue Enchantress into a veritable A-rank mercenary group!