According to the conditions mentioned by Richard, it is completely impossible for the Mage Guild to accept it. In this way, war is completely inevitable.

In the Battle of the Vertical Line, Richard had already demonstrated an incredible talent for warfare. However, the Mage Association is different from ordinary forces, and the sixteen archmages make people feel heavy just thinking about it. Therefore, even the nobles who had followed Richard in the bloodstained land were not optimistic about Richard's prospects in this war.

Those who are smarter will also think that Richard is actually advancing and retreating, and the ultimate goal is to negotiate with the Mage Guild, and finally share the interests of the Sequoia Kingdom. It's like what politicians often do.

But the next day, a statement from the president of the Mage Guild Theodore shattered this speculation. Theodore's manifesto is succinct but unpretentious: "The Mage Guild will do its best to completely eliminate the order-breakers!"

Richard disagreed, and only sent a request to all the nobles of the Sequoia Kingdom to pass freely within the nobles' territory in order to wage war with the Mage Guild. Anyone who stands in the way of Richard's army will be attacked by Richard as an ally of the Mage Guild.

In just a few days, the flames of war began to burn in the Redwood Kingdom!

The scale of this war, the ferocity of its attack, and the wide range of its involvement made war fanatics like Iran and Russia boil with their blood! For the first time in his life, the battle officer felt that Richard did not look so unpleasant.

The Mage Guild gathered more than 30 nobles and nobles to form a coalition of up to 40,000 people, and the most remarkable thing was that the alliance included the Knights of the Kingdom. The Knights of the Kingdom are the most elite forces of the exclusive royal family, with a total number of up to 2,000. They have made up for the lack of high-end combat power on the ground of the Mage Guild, and although the Knights, from the deputy head to the knights, claim to participate in the war in their personal capacity, they have already made the royal family's position very vaguely clear to the nobles in the kingdom.

Coupled with the many years of prestige of the Mage Association, as a result, more than half of the nobles in the kingdom have joined the coalition, and many of them have participated in the Richard Vertical Line Project. Although they also had interests in the trade route, they were not optimistic about Richard and the Mage Guild.

Surprisingly, all three dukes remained silent during the war, and even the Duke of Glasburg, who was close to the royal family, did not say anything.

As soon as the alliance of the Mage Guild was formed, Richard immediately sent people back to the Blue Water Oasis to keep an eye on all the noble armies in Oasis City. Richard had already said that all the armed forces of Oasis City would be requisitioned, or that they would be allowed to abandon all weapons, armor, and horses and return to the kingdom's territory. Those who dare to resist will be killed on the spot, and no prisoners will be left. If you want to remain neutral, you need to hand over all your weapons and horses, and you can keep your armor.

Most of the nobles and generals who remained in Oasis City had fought alongside Richard, and they had long developed a deep fear of Richard. Therefore, most of them chose to wait and see, but there were also a very small number of generals who relied on their own force, and Richard and his generals were not in Oasis City, only a girlish quicksand, so they brazenly resisted.

Quicksand personally went into battle, leading the humanoid knights to fight the rebels, just outside the oasis city, a hundred humanoid knights charged back and forth, killing three times as many opponents as they were, and finally almost killed the rebels, and only paid a few casualties.

Such a result, although there is a strength factor that is more than a step higher than that of the humanoid knight, it is more because of the magic of quicksand gushing like a spring. Quicksand taught the nobles that a strong priest could turn the tide of a skirmish.

After stabilizing the situation in the rear, Quicksand led the remaining troops to leave Oasis City, leaving only the more than 1,000 troops who were all slaves. The nobles united, and their forces were almost ten times that of Richard's remaining forces, but after the leader was killed on the spot by Quicksand, the others were much more settled. It is very easy to kill Richard's thousand defenders, the question is how to face Richard's next revenge? Moreover, in addition to the nobles of the Longitudinal Line Project, the Blue Water Oasis also has the preserved members of the original Oasis Council, such as the Jin Hui Battle Banner and the Demon Hunting Spear, and other big merchant groups are still eyeing over.

After stabilizing the rear, Richard gathered all his forces in his territory and reorganized.

There are also kingdom nobles in Richard's camp, but there are no more than ten, and there are only three people who are really powerful. In addition to Baron Chuckett, what is surprising is that Viscount Sim is firmly on Richard's side, which is not enough, the white and chubby Viscount is like a little bull in estrus this time, jumping on his feet and shouting that he wants to send all the mages of the Mage Association to the abyss to feed the demons, even more excited than Richard.

The viscount did not shout empty slogans, but directly brought out all the warriors who could be taken out of the territory, and did not even leave the most basic guard force. Not only that, but the viscount even detained the knights of the Hundred Eagle Banner belonging to the Duke of Glasburg, using his own safety as a bargaining chip to blackmail them into obeying his orders.

In addition to Sim, the Marquis of Power, Enlek, although he did not publicly announce his faction, acquiesced to Luofu to join Richard's side, and handed over all his forces in the Bloodstained Land to Richard. Because of his faith, Luofu has long been firmly tied to Richard's chariot.

In the end, one of Richard's most powerful and surprising allies was Countess Catherina, who not only openly sided with Richard, but also personally led 5,000 elite warriors armed to the teeth to Richard's station.

Countess Catherine went to war in the name of protecting the father of the future child in her womb. She can't give up hope of having a child with unicorn blood no matter what. This is a reasonable reason, but what makes Richard speechless is that the countess even claims to appreciate Richard's bloodline, and she doesn't mind letting Richard take advantage of the excellence of her future children.

But Richard minded.

The accession of Countess Catherine directly allowed the noble allies to outnumber Richard's private armies. This was not quite in line with Richard's idea, and to put it mildly, if they did not listen to the command, it would be better for Richard to fight on his own.

Richard's reorganization was simple this time, he broke up the noble army into several 2,000 troops, each equipped with a knight in scarlet armor. Whether it's marching or fighting, just listen to this knight. Richard personally led part of his troops and began to penetrate directly into Lausanne!

In the royal capital and Lausanne, the Mage Guild is still gathering troops. The war came very suddenly, and the coalition forces were numerous, and in such a short time, only two-thirds of the nobles were able to rush to the assembly area, or the main force did not include logistics and engineers, and in a hurry, all the war potential was not mobilized.

Richard's territory was less than 400 kilometers from Lausanne, and Richard advanced extremely quickly, advancing 150 kilometers in only four days. Along the way, they passed through the territories of six large and small nobles, and the local lord's private army, whether it was more or less, whether the lord himself had a good reputation for war, was about to collapse in front of Richard's soldiers. Except for a direct vassal of the Duke of Hamilton, one of the three dukes, Baron, who was very happy to accept a symbolic borrowing fee when Richard sent the transit notice, and was able to do it intact.

Richard's soldiers were sharp, and immediately caused the mages of Lausanne to be in a mess.

The Mage Elders' Council and the Coalition nobles are still arguing over the leadership of the Alliance, but under the imminent pressure of the Great War, the Guild hastily decides to send the Archmage of Zaku as the commander, assisted by the other two ArchMagisters. On the aristocratic side, the deputy head of the Kingdom Knights was elected as the deputy commander to assist the Grand Magus Zaku.

At the same time, the Mage Association sent dozens of mages to accompany the army, and the Temple of Nei'an, the God of Courage, also sent a huge group of twenty priests. However, except for a fourteenth-level great priest, the rest were all junior priests who were less than sixth, and in a large-scale battle, they could not be said to be completely useless, but they were only better than nothing, better than making up the numbers.

The coalition army hastily gathered an army of 30,000 to meet Richard, and sent 500 light cavalry and 2,000 infantry as the vanguard. As a result, the vanguard and Richard's vanguard cavalry encountered, and as soon as the two sides met each other, Richard's two hundred knights immediately turned around and ran. The 500 light cavalry of the coalition army pursued wildly all the way, and soon left the infantry far behind. The five hundred light cavalry just disappeared from the infantry's sight, and then there was no news.

The Vanguard's defeat in the first battle did not alert Zaku, but instead made him angry, and denounced the incompetence of the Deputy Head of the Knights of the Kingdom. Because it was the deputy commander's men who led the forward.

The coalition army continued to advance, and this time the forwards did not dare to advance again, and the three thousand forwards marched in unison.

On a high ridge in the distance, Richard was stationed at the top of Mount Ma, looking at the enemy advance on the horizon. On either side of his unicorn, there are two huge war horses that are nearly two meters long on their backs, their bodies are dark, and patches of purple-black scales can be seen on their necks and sides, and there is a long curved horn on each horse's head, which is different from the thin and long unicorn horn of the unicorn, and the two demon horsemen have some similar horns on their heads to the demon's curved horns.

The knights on the back of the magic horse are Gangde and the ogre mage. They finally got rid of the fate of running on two legs and had their own mounts.

Tiramisu blessed himself with a sharp magic, stared into the distance with round eyes, and then said angrily, "It's only three thousand! Master, let's go and serve it!"

"It's a sanctuary that leads the troops, and there's a great magister. Richard said with a smile.

"The Farro Sanctuary is a bird!" Gang De spat on the ground with a mouthful of saliva, raised the epic two-handed giant axe in his hand, and said, "My hungry and thirsty axe...... Well, that...... Seems to be able to ...... too."