South-west, Filip Province

The province of Filip has become occupied by the Covenant forces, and it is divided by the three kingdoms according to the order of occupation.

Whoever invades first and occupies the city will be the one who owns the city, and at the same time, with the Prophet's prior coordination, the other areas will be conquered by the later ones.

Today, the province of Fili has been occupied by all three kingdoms, and the kings of the three kingdoms have jointly divided a port area as a commercial area of the alliance.

In the vicinity of the Union business district, there is also a port station reserved for the army.

A few hundred meters away from the port, on a cliff, a group of people were standing here looking down on the garrison troops.

These people were not from the Dawn Church, nor were they passing merchants, but military personnel of the garrison.

Violence is still the main feature of the Land of the Stars, and while the Great Prophet's merciful name is known across the continent, not many have died at the feet of the barbarians.

Unrelated people were forbidden to approach the port troops and some military buildings, and whether outsiders came in on their own or insiders were not allowed to bring women in, they would die.

From the cliff with the craftsmen and soldiers of several countries, Quiray looked at the garrison harbor and the sea in the distance.

The location here is not suitable for building a commercial city, but it is good for garrisoning and defending.

In particular, the seaside cliffs extending from the mountains can effectively observe and protect the seaside area.

The general of the Kogiac Kingdom asked the sturdy dwarves beside him, "Master Quirre, will that dragon not dare to come?" ”

The bearded Quirey's face was full of indifference, "Don't worry, if that big lizard dares to come, we'll shoot its wings into a sieve!" ”

After hearing Quirre's wild words, Lacey, who was born in the aristocracy, nodded reassuringly, showing a look of satisfaction and reassurance.

The more the masters of the country of stars around him didn't take the dragon to heart, the more relieved Lacey became.

On the hill behind them has been built a watchtower for archery, as well as artillery for dealing with ships and dragons.

The range of the artillery has been increased to two kilometers, enough to smash those wooden galleons before the ships arrive.

Even the heavenly fire dragon, under the earth-shattering threat of the barbarians' throwers and artillery, did not dare to get too close here.

The port area has gathered hundreds of lunatics who want to slay dragons, and there are also a large number of warriors in the army who want to become dragon slayers.

Ever since the dragon appeared, Quirre had been assigned here to help defend him.

Because the dragon has appeared a few more times since the last naval battle, each time wreaking havoc on the villages and towns by the sea, the garrison of Quirrel and the Kingdom of Stars has become very popular.

The armies of the three kingdoms are far less powerful than the soldiers of the Kingdom of Stars, and when they encounter trouble, they naturally hope that there is a reliable big brother by their side.

In fact, it was precisely because of the presence of the Ice Force that the fire dragon and the people of the church stopped harassing them.

If the fire dragon dares to fly above these people's heads, these people dare to jump up and grab the fire dragon's feet and climb up!

***

In the Land of Ice, Lawrence receives a report from the front.

After a few seconds of silence, he decided to let the people below act.

What the Church of Dawn does best is not to take the elite and the Covenant forces against it, but to instigate and control those at the bottom to resist and destroy the rule of the infidels.

This kind of thing often happens in both the Kingdom of Gran and the Kingdom of Io, although this group of people does not dare to confront head-on, but they have a strong intention to make small moves, and often engage in things that destroy production and construction.

Lawrence thought about Sadie Island, which and the province of Filip had long been under the rule of the Church, and there were so many families of believers in it, and it would take a long, long time to change the minds of these people.

"Forget it, I don't have time to worry about this, after reducing their taxes and labor, they are still willing to die for the Dawn Church, then it's better to die."

Lawrence shook his head and allowed his men to solve the problem in the traditional way.

Quietly thinking about what was going to happen in his chair, Lawrence felt he had to hurry up and improve his protection.

"The Dawn Church has been forced by me now, this group of people can do anything, it would be a bit naïve to think that as long as they stay in the cold land, they will not be affected by the war on the front line."

"Now it seems that the Church of Dawn lacks high-end forces that can change the tide of battle."

"Maybe the fire dragon used to be this kind of high-end force, but after the ice troops are assembled, this flying aerial beast is no longer invincible, and there are too many artillery and elite warriors on this battlefield that can kill it."

At present, the high-end power is actually not too outrageous, and there is no super mage who can change the entire battle situation alone.

No matter how strong a samurai priest is, as long as he faces dozens of barbarian warriors on the battlefield, most of them will be besieged to death.

Lawrence thinks about the high-end power on his side, and it's basically the same.

No one, including himself and Dana, is invincible.

The people who used to be the strong Fleis are still a group of people who can fight today, and they have not retired from the environment with the version.

Some people just didn't know much before, such as the one-armed warrior Mandelkru and the shield girl Reglo, who were the first to follow, and they felt that they were strong because they didn't know at the time.

In fact, from the attitude of others towards these people in the early days, it can be seen that these two people are not strong at all.

Mandelkru is Doug's henchman, maybe not even a henchman, just one of his many minions.

Reglo was the heir of the Earl, who assassinated the Earl, and then hid in the mountains and was captured by the Ugers as a slave for a few years, and then heard that Saliel was the daughter of a berserker and obediently obeyed, and he was beaten down after two hits against Keharan, and he was still very humble when he met his old master Olaua, who had not been seen for several years.

Now although he has a high-end combat power like Dana and has also gained strength, Fryce and the others are still the main fighting force.

The existence of Dana and the others could not affect these barbarian warriors.

Lawrence found that the country of stars is now facing a similar problem as the previous Western Kingdom, how to prevent the invasion of thieves who don't know when it will come?

It doesn't take too many people, only a dozen knights to wreak havoc on the villages of ordinary people who are not defended by warriors, and even, as in those days, a dozen people run after two or three hundred people.

Fortunately, after all, he is a barbarian who has done this kind of thing, and he is very experienced in this kind of thing, and he knows how to deal with his former starting methods.

In fact, the Dawn Church did not make a big move, mainly because Lawrence suppressed it in many places in advance.

For example, after learning that there was a group of notorious Freeg pirates in the archipelago of the Stormstorm Sea, he had the troops of the Wave Province train their troops a long time ago, and gradually suppressed and expelled this group of pirates.

In the past, Figuley pirates relied on clippers to evade pursuit, and relied on sophisticated organization and brutal vindictiveness to counter state power.

Lawrence was not afraid of retaliation, and directly let people grab and kill, killing batch after batch.

Because of the regular sweeps, the Church of Dawn can no longer find those people when they want to unite with the remaining Frego pirates to deal with the coalition forces.

The Church lacked the naval strength to confront the coalition forces and the support of the nobility, and the royal nobles who had been suppressed by the Church for a long time took advantage of this opportunity to break free from the control of the Church.

In response to the harassing war, Lawrence sent troops to escort the enemy before they could commit more forces to sabotage his coastal routes.

Now that the trade routes are generally safe, the main thing to do is to protect the towns and land in the coastal areas.

Build a castle estate!

Lawrence soon divided the coastal areas of several of his own districts into multiple sections, separating some meritorious people into fertile agricultural areas as farmers, and the outer areas as his own plantations to produce a variety of commercial crops.

Both merchant ships and armies can dock in the vicinity to provide protection, while also recruiting miners and farmers to address the growing problem of displacement.

As long as the population is concentrated in a few areas, these areas are naturally not afraid of harassment by a dozen people.

The more plantations and mining towns along the coast, the more prosperous the commercial waterway will be and the more people it will be able to feed.

Moreover, in accordance with the pursuit of land in this era, it is definitely a very merciful reward to divide people into areas where there are large tracts of arable land in the interior.

The lack of arable land and population on the seashore was not a good place in those days, and many stories describe a poor place in the countryside as a small fishing village in the middle of nowhere.

Lawrence remembers the promise he made to Saliel to build a big castle with sun, sand, gardens, and pools.

The castle was an early commercial town that provided protection for passing merchants and travelers, and at the same time quickly assisted in the defense of harassment from the outside world, and by the way, it was also possible to store a large amount of supplies to deal with the disaster year.

***

That blue country

A group of saints gathered in the Holy Church, silently responding to the decision.

Seeing that the rest of the people did not speak, the Pope stated calmly and majestically: "This is the safest plan, our believers are not running out anymore, the Holy Light Church does not have the strength to come and form an alliance with us, and if we continue, our believers will only be killed by those barbarians." ”

"Over the past year, those barbarians have plundered our holy land and killed our saints, even though we sent the Holy Dragon to burn their warships, they formed a fleet again after ten days and gathered more barbarians."

The rest of the bishops know how cruel and powerful the Land of the Stars is.

Those people were like demons who were not afraid of death, cruel and cunning, and there were more and more of them.

"Where are we going?" A saint dressed in red looked respectfully at the Pope.

The Pope is not young, and there are few young people here, most of them are gray-haired elders.

The Pope's hair and beard had turned gray, he wore a white and red garment, and a majestic and holy crown of white gems on his head.

"Go to the continent south of the Blue Country, and I will lead you through the sea and the storm to the other side of the world."

The Pope slowly stood up, and a burst of pressure erupted from his body that made the saints around him feel a real pressure.

Although this old man wanted to leave here with everyone and avoid the pursuit of the barbarians, no one dared to underestimate this old man.

The Pope will not accept anyone's opinion, and here he is the supreme God.

God doesn't care at all whether the barbarians are victorious or defeated.

From beginning to end, neither the Dawn Church nor the higher-ups of the Holy Light Church had ever taken those barbarians seriously.

Even now, even if they have to leave the base camp where they have lived for many years because of the invasion of barbarians, only those who are panicked and desperate are those at the bottom.

For the Pope, this is just a necessary experience of walking a little.

"I will lead you to a new holy place, just as I did when I brought your fathers here."

The Pope looks at the sun outside, which is a command to those behind him, but also a statement and memory of himself.

The saints in the hall bowed their humble heads.

This powerful and wise pope is the founder of the Dawn Church, and the bishop who took the Sacred Body Arm from the Church of Light.

Many years ago, a sorcerer mastered the mysterious power of resurrecting the dead and succeeded in resurrecting a dead man.

Later, the Revivalist said that he had seen the God of Light in another world, and that he was a servant of the God of Light, and that he had founded the Church of Light.

But the resuscitator lived only twenty years before he died, and after his death, people established vague communication with the mysterious gods through his body, and mastered some of the divine arts.

This was at least a hundred or two hundred years ago, and it is not clear exactly when it happened, and no one can determine the age of the pope.

After the Pope's decision, only a small number of people knew about it.

The people of the Covenant are severely lacking in intelligence information, and know almost nothing about the affairs of the Blue Country, even the closer island of Saadida.

However, it was such a group of barbarians who succeeded in forcing the wise and powerful Cultists away.

Barbarians are gathering along the coastline of Filip Province like a disaster, and more and more pure-blood barbarians are gathered.

The Pope and the people of the Church thought it was a natural disaster like a snow and flood, so they decided to leave the place for a while and come back to preach in a few years.

The Dawn Church has never governed the country or run the country, they have always occupied a good country and fertile soil.

If you find that no one of your subordinates is fighting for you, or if you find that you can't beat the other party, then you will naturally retreat.

Powerful by faith, Lawrence knows this, but he does not know the nature of the Church of Dawn and the Church of Light.

In the teachings of the Church of Dawn and the Church of Light, there is no such thing as resistance!

Not to rebel against the gods, not to rebel against any suffering, in short, not to resist.

The Pope and the upper echelons of the Church did not feel that it was a disgrace, nor did they feel that it was a desperate thing to do.

It's just a small wave in a long life, and maybe in a few years it will come back and the barbarians here will be gone.

Unbeknownst to Lawrence and the Covenant leadership, a southward journey recorded in the canon of the Church of Dawn quietly began.

The Pope of the Church of Dawn boarded the ship with the Twelve Saints and tens of thousands of believers, bringing with him a large number of books and treasures.

All that was left was the wreckage and bones of a night of revelry, and a group of desperate, depraved, and crazy people.

After a long time, the barbarian troops landed and killed them cleanly. (End of chapter)