Solan Holy Country, located in the south of the continent of Ares, borders the southwest desert to the west, and the mysterious country Phoenix State to the east is separated by the tall Ailan Mountains and the elven forest inhabited by the white elves, and is the largest country on the continent (although the Northland Alliance's sphere of influence is larger than that of Solan Holy Country, it is a joint organization of countries rather than a single great power after all). Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, despite this, this large country with a total area equal to the total area of the western plains of Loris and Prud is not actually as powerful as its land area, nay, or in terms of ordinary military strength, the army of the Holy Kingdom of Solan can be said to be the weakest among the great powers.

Here we must clarify the concept that although the Holy Kingdom of Solan and the Cult of Solan are inextricably linked, and although Pope Solan is also the supreme leader of the two and Archbishop Solan is also in charge of the functions of Minister of Military Affairs and Internal Affairs in the Holy State, these two are indeed two separate beings conceptually.

In fact, as early as the late Douqi Era, the southern part of the continent, like the Western Plains and the Northland Snow Fields, was in a situation where dozens of vassal states, large and small, stood side by side and fought with each other. Unlike the Northland Snow Fields, where there was no absolutely strong country in the end, and the Northland Alliance, and the Western Plains, where Loris Sprud came out in the midst of the turmoil, the southern part of the continent fell into the worst situation that the people living in the other two places could not have imagined from the very beginning.

At that time, it was as if the creator gods had abandoned the southern part of the continent, and there were the remnants of the Soul Society of the Fighting Age gathered here, as well as the base of the two leaders of the dark believers, the headquarters of a group of the most notorious necromancers, and the invasion from the western orcs, and even the southern part of the continent became the main looting ground for the hundred-year beast tide several times in a row, if the people of the western plains and the northern snowfields hated the war that caused them so much, then the people of the southern continent could even be said to be extremely eager for the war- At least they are facing a threat from humans, not unintelligible monsters, savage orcs, and mad dark mages or necromancers.

In such a desperate situation that is almost hell on earth, the people in the south of the continent finally ushered in their own hope at the end of the Douqi Era.

The last recorded eighth-order powerhouse on the continent - The seventeenth Pope of the Cult of Solan, Hanik, led the Cult of Solan, which was originally just a small sect dedicated to the two brothers of the God of Light and the God of Fire, from a small southern town that was still unknown at the time (now it is the Holy City of Solan, which everyone knows about), eliminated the remnants of the Soul Society, expelled the dark mages and necromancers, established the famous Solan Knights of the Temple, defeated the invasion of the orcs several times, and even carried out a counterattack that made the Lothar Alliance quite palpitating, and finally led the southerners who saw hope and light again to resist and defend the century-old beast tide together。

The Solan Cult has completely become the only faith and hope for all people in the southern part of the continent, especially Pope Harnik is not only powerful but also has a very approachable personality, which makes the people of that era highly respect Harnik and the Solan Cult he represents, and even people in other regions who have not actually experienced the earth-shaking upheaval in the south of the continent have begun to admire and even worship this last Eighth Order, and a large number of Solan believers who do not live in the south of the continent have appeared.

Although in the end, the death of Pope Harnik in the last few years of the Fighting Spirit Era caused the death of the cultists throughout the continent due to overwork and the old wounds accumulated from constant battles with powerful enemies, it did not have much impact on the huge influence and deterrence of the Cult of Solan in the southern part of the continent. Under the careful governance of several generations of popes, the Solan Cult has firmly established the throne of the first light sect in the mainland, and at the same time, it has also become the only overlord in the south of the continent by relying on the three major forces of the Knights of the Templars, the Saints, the Inquisition of Faith, and the extensive base of believers in the south.

Since there is no one in the south of the continent who can compete with the power of the Solan Cult, and no one can provide long-term shelter for this troubled land in the south of the continent like the Solan Cult, the people of the entire south and the original small countries that are trying to survive in the gap hope that the Solan Cult can establish a formal state like Loris and Prude.

However, it is clear that the state and religion are completely two different concepts, and the Solanist Cult has been a very orthodox religious organization since its initial establishment, and even the most powerful Hanik pope has never had the idea of establishing a state, so how to establish a state is a completely unfamiliar subject for the Solanist Cult.

However, the proposal to establish a ******** superpower did make the pope and bishops at that time itch, after all, the establishment of the Holy Kingdom of Solan would bring endless benefits to the Cult of Solan. In the end, led by the 22nd Solan Pope and the representatives of the southern regions, it was decided that the Solan Cult would be in charge of the core political and legal power of the Holy State, and the Solan Cult would also serve as the head of the Holy State, but at the same time, the Solan Cult also adhered to the concept of eliminating dictatorship and unreasonable centralization, and delegated nearly half of the military power of the Holy State and more than half of the independent administrative power of each region to the representatives of each region.

At the beginning, the Orc Empire of Lothar in the southwest desert bordering the Sacred Kingdom of Solan, the Purud Empire in the Western Plains (the Kingdom of Loris did not directly border the Sacred Kingdom of Solan), and the White Elves who have always lived in the Elven Forest have all expressed their worries about the emergence of a large country with the largest land area on the continent.

After all, there are such strong neighbors on the side, once it wants to expand its territory one day, it is definitely not good news for the surrounding neighbors. Although the Holy Kingdom of Solan is nominally ruled by Pope Solan, it seems that it will not take the initiative to launch an unethical war of aggression, but ...... Human desires are obviously the most untrustworthy things.

Soon, though, this suspicion disappeared for the simple reason that the military strength of the Holy Kingdom was too poor.

According to the founding agreement, the Solan Cult will not interfere in the sacred **** power, and will not expand other military forces except for its existing Templar Knights, Saint Organizations and Inquisitors. But in fact, due to the reputation of the Solan Divine Cult and the popularity of the folk Solan believers in the Southern Continent, as long as the cultivators who are slightly stronger, almost all of them will choose the three major military forces under the command of the Solan Divine Cult as the first choice.

Over time, the military department of the Holy State, which was independent of the Solan Divine Cult, completely became a role to follow behind the Solan Divine Cult, and even many cultivators who were not able to join the Solan Divine Cult would rather go back and re-cultivate for a while and then sign up to join the Solan Divine Sect again than join the Holy Nation Army to "wrong" themselves.

In the end, even the Solan Magic Advisory Group, which was originally subordinate to the Holy State, was tempted by the excellent magical cultivation resources within the Solan Cult of God and indirectly became a peripheral subordinate organization of the Cult of God by being independent of the Holy State and the military department and obeying the assignment of the Archbishop of the Divine Sect who was in charge of the affairs of the Holy State. This completely made the Holy Kingdom and the Military Department a laughing stock...... In this continent with cultivators with abilities such as Dou Qi and magic, in the army of the country with the largest land area, even if you count the entry-level cultivators, the proportion of cultivators to the total number of troops is only more than 40 percent, you must know that in the armies of other great powers, only the miscellaneous army in charge of logistics can be at such a level.

It's not that the military department of the Holy Kingdom has not tried to resist, but the Solan Divine Cult is too strong in the southern land, both in terms of its control over the high-level political power and its influence at the grassroots level among the people, and the troops belonging to several divine cults, such as the Knights of the Temple, who have absorbed the essence of the cultivators in the entire south, have even deduced the principle that the soldiers are elite but not too many to an extremely high level, so soon the military department of the Holy Kingdom accepted this reality and gave up on what to fight for in this regard.

This result is very satisfactory to the top of the Solan Divine Cult, no matter what the purpose of the twenty-second Pope was that year agreed to cooperate with the representatives of the southern regions to establish the Solan Holy State, but at least now the Solan Divine Cult has completely mastered most of the political power on the open side of the country and the actual military power under the dark side, to use a very appropriate analogy - that is, when the **** and the archway are erected, who is not happy to take advantage.

However, this situation is not all good, due to the incompetence of the Holy Nation and the military department, except for a small number of so-called elites who are still visible to the past as the only hole cards used by the military department, the rest of the Holy Kingdom troops scattered in various regions are actually just a group of ordinary people with weapons, and it is good to deal with ordinary beasts and some hooligan thugs, but when facing real demonic beasts and cultivators, it is not much better than those street security inspection teams.

As a result, every time there was an incident caused by a cultivator or a demonic beast somewhere in the Holy Kingdom, there was no way for the local and nearby troops to deal with it, and they could only notify the nearest branch of Solan to ask the Knights Templar stationed there and the expatriates of the Holy Organization to come to the rescue.

This time the same is true in the small town of Eric.

Since a month ago, there have been a continuous stream of inexplicable demonic beasts appearing frequently on the outskirts of the town and even in the town. And the town defenders in the town, who were no different from the security patrols, naturally had no choice but to ask for the help of the Solan Cult.

Because Eric Town is very close to the Holy City, the rescue request was directly sent to Solan Holy City, and considering that there are no hills, forests or fields around Eric Town, there are more fields and plains that have been artificially cultivated, so it stands to reason that the probability of the appearance of Warcraft should not be too high, so the middle-level administrator of the Solan Divine Sect who received the report at that time did not even take this seriously, and only sent an ordinary team of the Templar Knights to the town to solve the incident.

However, soon, the team sent back the news that there were more magical beasts around Eric Town than expected, and there were actually some magical beasts containing a lot of dark energy in their bodies, and it was very likely that there was a dark mage who was conducting dark magic experiments on the monsters behind this matter.

So this matter was really taken seriously, but because the upper echelons of the Divine Cult had been paying attention to the situation of the Nolan tribe in the ***** and the Western Plains during this time, this matter was still left to the original mid-level of the sect to deal with it with full authority, and this time, he sent a ten-member Saint squad and a squadron of Templar Knights led by two fourth-order mid-level saints.

However, instead of stopping the incident, the reinforcements of the Cult seemed to have stimulated the culprits behind the scenes. The mutant monsters in the town of Eric are infesting more and more frequently, and more and more civilian casualties are reported, so that the upper echelons of the Holy City slowly begin to inquire about the matter, and just when Archbishop Ella, who has officially taken over the matter from the panicked mid-level, is thinking about whether to send any more reinforcements, a bad news shocks the entire Holy City.

The previous Cult Investigation Team was attacked by an unimaginable number of mutated monsters on the outskirts of Eric Town because of the false news trap of the mastermind, and all of them were wiped out except for the two knights and one saint who had returned from the report. What is even more shocking is that in the bodies of the three survivors, Archbishop Ella personally detected the same curse as in the small evil curse event that had erupted in the Southwest Desert about a year ago.

The Cult of God immediately paid the most attention to the incident in Eric's Town, and Archbishop Ella, who was more familiar with the Curse of the Southwest Desert, took over the dispatch of the incident, and the fourth squadron of the Temple Silver Legion, which had personally experienced the curse event, immediately set off from the Holy City to Eric, completely took over the town's defense and began the preliminary investigation.

But to the disappointment of Archbishop Ella and the entire Shuai Ke squadron who arrived in the town, I don't know if it was because the previous ambush battle also consumed the strength of the other party or because the name of the most elite silver legion of the Templar Knights was too loud, since the Shuai Ke squadron came to Eric Town, the mastermind behind the scenes and his mutant monsters have never appeared again.

For the disappearance of the mutant monsters, the townspeople are the happiest, during this time, because of the actions of these monsters, many innocent civilians have lost their lives, although the knights and saints before the Solan Cult did not protect them and even lost their lives, but the new arrivals seem to be the knights of the most elite silver legion from the Knights Templar Order, the knights are obviously different, the townspeople can be found out regardless of the mastermind behind the scenes, they only know that those monsters have never appeared after the arrival of the Shuai Ke squadron, which is good.

However, such a result is not what Archbishop Ella wants, and the mastermind behind the scenes and the truth of the incident are still a fog, but now it is clear that the progress of the matter has reached an impasse, and Archbishop Ella has decided to go further.

“...... In a few days, Archbishop Ella will come here with reinforcements to investigate the whole thing, and this is not a secret news, so until then, we have to make sure that the people behind the scenes do not jump over the wall to do anything because they know this, and tell the brothers to guard their posts and not allow the slightest slack!"

Shuai Ke said to the team leaders gathered around him, including Cole, as he walked through the streets of Eric's town. (To be continued.) )