Chapter553 I woke up naturally from sleep, and my back hurt and my legs cramped
Powerful magical energy slammed into the scythe's surface like a spinning razor, until the magical energy tore through the bloodlines that bound the scythe, and the bony scythe that had been freed was about to fly towards the scarecrow, but was grasped by Mage Meimi, who had dropped the obsidian staff.
"Smack!"
The strange blood line that spread to Meimi's waist suddenly exploded, and a wave of shock qi swept from the female mage's feet in all directions, and the blood lake began to surge.
The sudden appearance of a white circular shield imprisoned Memi and the sickle, and everyone heard the mage's somewhat hoarse growl.
"Do it!"
Milton's gaze, which had been waiting for him for a long time, sank.
The hand was raised, the sword fell, and the broken wooden stake did not turn into flesh and blood like the other wooden stakes, but instead exposed a gray wooden structure at the fracture.
The half-human-high strange wooden stake was cracked open by a sword, and the moment the stake broke, everyone except Meimi heard a strange foreign murmur in their ears, which seemed to come from the incomprehensible abyss and the alien void, and the incomprehensible rhythm and bytes entered the cochlea, and then automatically transformed into a strange picture in their minds, and the vision attracted everyone to it.
It was a desperate world with a gray mist in the sky, and each witness was on the ground from a fixed perspective, forcibly looking up at the sky.
Morning, dusk, spring and summer, the sun never appears, the gray sky is like the deep sea, rippled clouds, strange fish with human eyes live in the sky, and above there are other marine animals with human limbs swimming from time to time.
As if noticing the sight from the human, an eye that covered half of the sky slowly opened, and in an instant, the indescribable despair made the person staring at the behemoth lose all reason, and just wanted to kneel down and surrender to the majestic figure.
When the others chose to kneel and surrender, Milton, one of the witnesses, straightened his knees and insisted on staring at the giant object in the sky, and in an instant, the man's eyes gradually shed blood and tears, and the darkness in front of him was not until his knees were bent and prostrate on the ground, and the irresistible weight disappeared from Milton's body.
"Goo Du Goo Du"
The churning lake of blood began to evaporate in place, and the gray mist that spread outside the inner fort began to dissipate, remaining only within the outer walls of the inner fort.
The unconscious people opened their eyes, but the imprint in their minds could not be dissipated for a long time.
Before everyone outside the door could breathe a sigh of relief, the scarecrow, who had not moved, suddenly let out a scream, and while everyone's brains were still dazed, the scarecrow jumped towards Meimi, who was sealed by the elemental shield, and slammed straight into the shield.
Then the scarecrow fell to the ground in full view of everyone, turning into a puff of black smoke and disappearing.
"This monster, is it gone?"
Having struggled to accept the fact that the Sword Captain was gone, Tina looked at Memi, who was holding the scythe and catalytic stone, and Memi shook her head.
"He's not leaving, but don't worry, his weapon is with me, and I can feel his anger.
I'll contain the Dreaddemons here, so you go now, take Milton with you. ”
Hearing the quiet voice of the female mage, Milton, who had been blinded, got up from the ground and grasped his sword, and the man put the sword around his neck.
"I'm already blind, it's better to die here if I go back like this......"
"Lord Milton, as long as people live, there will always be hope, let's go! Back to the Emerald Collar can always find a cure! ”
"Captain Milton, we managed to survive, but are you going to do such a cowardly act?"
The sound in his ears made Milton move, and the man, recalling the difficulties and dangers of the journey, gradually let go of his hand, and the hilt of the sword slipped from his hand.
It's a bit ridiculous to die here when it's over.
"It's better to live than to die."
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In 436 A.D. in the Noxian calendar, Milton, the commander of the first legion of the Noxian Black Iron Guard, invaded the royal city of Leinland, and when Leinland fell, a mysterious gray fog disaster suddenly broke out in the city, and the gray fog swallowed thousands of Emerald Leader Black Iron Guards, and the first legion suffered heavy casualties, including the Dragon Bird Knight Legion and the Dragon Lizard Knight Legion, more than half of the Emerald Army's army was lost, and the first legion was greatly injured.
After a fierce battle, Captain Milton withdrew from the Lord's Castle at the cost of losing his sight, bringing with him the eight surviving Emerald Lords soldiers and mages to contain the spread of the Grey Mist.
The whereabouts of the accompanying Mage Meimi are unknown, the survivors choose to keep silent, and the eight survivors are nowhere to be found under the arrangement of the Demon Lord, and the explanation given by the Emerald Leader is that the strange gray fog that erupted in Leinland Castle is 'a runaway dark magic disaster caused by strangers in the Western Continent', and on this reason, the area around Leinland Castle has been completely blocked, and no one knows what happened in Leinland's royal city.
At the same time, the Emerald Lord's war craftsmen began to build guard towers and improvised fortresses to the west of the Forest of Tranquility, close to the Forbidden Demon River embankment of Demacia and the Greentooth Peak, and east of the Emerald Peak.
Since 445 AD, the Demacian Legion has successively marched to the Eastern Front, gathering troops and preparing logistics materials to deal with the threat posed by the Emerald Leader.
Demacia named the new city defense system built on the mountain and standing by the water as the "Wall of Glory".
When the Emerald Leader was restraining Demacia's attention, the war between the countries of the Eastern Continent did not stop, and even the warlords of the Shurima Continent and the Freljords in the north began to intervene and began to attack the exhausted Noxian Empire, and the Noxus that demolished the east wall to make up the west wall leaked everywhere like a broken sieve for a while.
As far as the eye can see, the territory of Noxus is full of smoke, the army is stretched, and there is a danger of extinction at any time.
In this case, more than a dozen new aristocratic family heads in Noxus put forward a proposal for land cession peace talks in the Supreme Command, and after serious discussions and resolutions by the Command, a string of heads connected with hemp rope appeared on the walls of the immortal fortress, and the nobles' family scrolls and family forces were reduced to slaves, and no one in Noxus dared to propose peace talks again, and the major families decided to follow the empire to the death.
In the following war, Noxus, which had lost its numerical advantage, successively abandoned the outermost Black Iron Fortress, Fort Norscar, Fort Chiyan, Fort Edmund and Fort Rusyett, and took Fort Vercarid, Fort Northumbr, Fort Thunder, Fort Thorns and Immortal Fortress as the inner ring of defense, so that the Thorn Fortress was the core defense point and closely deployed troops to deal with the counterattack of the alliance.
In the face of high walls and the terrible firearms of Noxus, the offensive of the anti-Noxian city-state alliance eased, allowing Noxus, who was frantically recruiting young soldiers, to expand two legions of recruits, mixing the three legions with veterans educating recruits, and long-range infantry armed with muskets to make up for some of the legions' shortcomings.
With a strong will to fight, the Noxians held off the Alliance's advance with inexhaustible soldiers.
On the battlefield in the hinterland outside the Thorn Fortress, the Black Axe War Regiment led by Burnham Darkwell, the Marshal of the Noxian Empire, with one enemy and ten, paid two-thirds of the casualties to kill the two-country coalition army composed of the Guards of the Duchy of Valks and the Kingdom of Glen Kingdom.
The morale was crushed by the Black Axe Battle Regiment, the two coalition forces were defeated all the way, and the Grand Duke Grinton, who had seized the command, could only lead his troops to retreat [Elnyx], and someone proposed to Grinton to retreat that night, so as not to fall into the hinterland of Noxus and die in an isolated city, but was rejected by Grinton on the grounds that 'we have enough food and grass, and the reinforcements of the coalition will come soon, so there is no need to retreat',
Greenton's decision gave Noxus a fleeting siege opportunity.
Smelling the fighter plane, Burnham immediately organized the Supreme Command to formulate the next step of repairing the plank road in the open, secretly displaying the warehouse, and encircling the point to send reinforcements.
In the year 461 of the Noxian calendar, the two armies of Noxus attacking the Kingdom of Grand and the Duchy of Valks resisted the attack of the coalition forces, and secretly divided their troops under the leadership of the Assassins to intersperse the logistics supply lines of Elniks from the rear, and concentrated their forces to uproot several defensive strongholds.
After losing logistical supplies, the morale of the El Nix coalition army plummeted, and then the Noxian soldiers surrounded the El Nix regiment that protruded from the coalition army formation, and then fought with a small number of mages to exhaust the enemy, and besieged for several months without attacking, making the strong defenders miserable, and finally realized that they had made a serious mistake, and the coalition army broke through at night three times under the leadership of Grinton, but unfortunately was blocked back by the Noxian soldiers who had been prepared for a long time, and suffered heavy losses.
In this case, the Kingdom of Glan and the Duchy of Valks could only urgently send the new regiments that had not yet formed their combat effectiveness to the front line to rescue the main coalition army, but because they were blocked by the Noxians at any cost, the coalition recruits who were blocked by the Noxian regiment made slow progress, especially in the newly developed firearms, and did not achieve the expected results.
In October of the following year, the blood mages of the Crimson Order of Noxus used black magic to contaminate the underground water flowing through El Nix, which contained suffocating poison, and the severe food shortage caused the El Nix coalition to mutinied, which had been unable to replenish supplies and rescue them.
The Grand Duke of Glinton, Duchy of Valoran, who proposed to the hungry soldiers to 'eat usable meat and drink non-poisonous water', was tied up and beaten by the rebel soldiers while he was asleep at night, and all the guards who resisted desperately were killed, and none of them survived.
On 2 November, the easily defended El Nicks camp was opened, Burnham Darkwell accepted the surrender of the defenders, and the Grand Duke Grington knelt on the ground and became a prisoner, and under Burnham's orders, the defeated soldiers were spared death, temporarily used as war slaves, and formed a sub-war group of about 40,000 men.
Burnham promised that those who killed ten enemies in the Coalition Slave War Formation would regain their freedom and get the opportunity to join Noxus, otherwise they would lose their freedom after the battle, and the auxiliary legions, which had gained the power to survive, followed the Black Axe Bands south and went straight to the Kingdom of Gran.
In the more than ten years since the Battle of Elniks, the offensive and defensive momentum of the Noxian Empire and the coalition forces has reversed again, and there has been no decisive victory for several years.
Of the Quadruple Alliance, only the Duchy of Valoran opposed the peace talks, arguing that instead of releasing Archduke Glinton, Noxus had publicly executed Archduke Glinton.
On October 12, 479 AD, the Kingdom of Glan, the Duchy of Valk, and the Kingdom of Norsland withdrew from the alliance of anti-Noxian city-states and signed a peace agreement with Noxus, and the four kingdoms ceased war.
In November of the same year, the Noxian Empire shrank its forces, and the new Imperial Legion reorganized with veterans set out for Fort Roland and Fort Deleno under the leadership of the Imperial General Burnham Darkwell, and in less than three years, the soldiers of the Duchy of Valoran, who had occupied all the geographical advantages, finally understood how sharp the blade of Noxus was and how crazy the soldiers were.
Despite the opposition of the Duchy family, the nobles of the duchy jointly proposed peace talks to Noxus, but they were directly vetoed by the general Burnham who was approaching the city.
On February 5, 484 AD, the Noxian army finally threatened the city of Moslian in the eastern part of the Duchy of Valoran.
Caspar Daknis, the heir of the Grand Duke of Glinton, led an army to resist to the death and successfully repelled the attack of Noxus.
Before reinforcements from the old royal capital of the Duchy of Valoran arrived, Noxus abandoned the isolated city of Fort Dereno, which had gone too far into enemy territory.
The soldiers of Noxus plundered the territory of Fort Dereno and the Duchy of Valoran, and retreated to Fort Roland, located in the northeast of the Duchy of Valoran, which became the new frontier of Noxus, like the most stubborn nail in the heart of the Duchy of Valoran.
Maintaining a nominal state of war, Noxus and the Duchy of Valoran chose to rest on their feet, and since then, the Second Continental War, which lasted sixty-one years, has ended, and the eastern continent of Valoran has finally ushered in the dawn of peace.
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Ionia, Vastaya Realm, deep in the sacred tree of the sacred forest of Omikayaland.
Leist, who had thin cheeks, slowly opened his eyes, and the familiar and unfamiliar golden world appeared in front of him, and his mind was chaotic, as if he had had a long dream.
Regardless of the weakness and soreness, the body that seemed to have been completely hollowed out by Lolit, Lyist got up from the golden water lily tremblingly, and after looking around, the man looked blankly at Xia who was lying on the side in a pure natural posture,
Sensing the man's clear gaze, the dragon girl, who was napping on her side, opened her eyes, and a trace of hesitation appeared on her face.
She couldn't tell the man in front of her that she had a share of the credit in this sleep, and after thinking about it, the dragon girl immediately decided to let some of the disappeared guy carry the pot all the way.