The Holy Knights waited for further instructions from the higher authorities to investigate the Lysa Peninsula, but it was still difficult for them to survey such a vast area with their numbers. Although the ability to act is much higher than that of ordinary people, it also leads to the fact that many times they can only conduct rough investigations, and they are neither good at nor able to do detailed and in-depth intelligence gathering.

At the same time, the top brass of the Holy Cult Army has also sent people from the intelligence organization to the Lesa Peninsula, and now it is almost certain that the Dark Devils already have an army in this area, the only problem is that it is impossible to determine whether this army is the same as the people who attacked the Knights in the valley. If those in the valley were the Dark Devil Society's army, then the Knights would have almost crippled them, but if they weren't, then the trouble might be great, and the Knights' sneak attack would be tantamount to startling the snake.

The worries of the top brass of the Holy Religious Army are not unreasonable, the Lhasa Peninsula in the northeast is too far away from the sphere of influence of the Holy Religious Army, and it will be difficult for the Holy Religious Army to take care of what happens there. What's more, the Holy Cult Army doesn't have that many troops to defend every corner of the continent.

However, the Holy Cult Army cannot do nothing, and some preventive measures are still needed, such as allowing the Magic Guild to set up teleportation wells in several cities close to the Lysa Peninsula, in case of any situation, the Holy Cult Army can send reinforcements to the northeast region in the fastest time.

On the other hand, it depends on diplomatic means, and no matter how powerful the Holy Cult Army is, it is limited, so the defense of the northeast region still depends on local forces. Although Sawan wanted to send people to persuade the local lords to strengthen their defenses and step up the search for the Dark Demons, the Holy Cult Army had no contact with the lords in the northeast, and I am afraid that the effect of persuasion would be very limited.

So after some deliberation with everyone, it was decided to ask the Magic Guild and Correa's Elshira family to negotiate. The Magic Guild naturally didn't say anything, and soon sent a few red-robed ** masters to the northeast to explain the dangers of the Black Demon Guild to the local lords. However, this alone is not enough to get everyone to take it seriously, so Correa also needs to exert some political pressure.

The current Correa royal family is already Elshira, and the first king is none other than Cereya's uncle, the eldest son of the Elshira family, who was a hostage for many years and was finally rescued by the Holy Army. Because of Celia, the relationship between the Holy Cult and Correa is quite harmonious, although there are still some mutual wariness between each other, but overall it is a relatively normal relationship.

Celia wrote two letters to her uncle, one official diplomatic and the other private, both of which expressed the hope that the Elsira family would use diplomacy to unite the lords of the Northeast to fight against the Dark Demons.

Although the Correa Kingdom of the Elsira family cannot be compared with the original, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and Correa is still a behemoth compared to the lords of the northeast region, not to mention that the cavalry of the Elshira family is still the most powerful on the continent. King Carter was grateful for the rescue of the Holy Cult in the first place, so he readily agreed to Cereya's proposal, and soon sent envoys to the northeast.

After the efforts of both the Magic Guild and Correa, some lords in the Northeast began to pay attention to the problem of the Dark Magic Society, especially when they learned about what was happening on the Lesa Peninsula, these lords couldn't help but start to be afraid. As a result, some lords began to form defensive alliances of their own accord, and once one lord was threatened by the Dark Magic Society, other lords would come to their aid.

After doing this, the top management of the Sawen Holy Cult Army was a little relieved, it was far from enough to deal with the Dark Devil Society by relying only on the Holy Cult Army, and everyone had to act to make the Dark Devil Society have nothing to hide.

However, this stability was destined to be short-lived, and one day a month later, the Holy Knights conducted their usual investigation on the Lysa Peninsula. By this time they had already surveyed most of the peninsula, leaving only the eastern coastal area of the peninsula uninvestigated, and as long as this part of the survey was completed, their task would be over.

In the evening, most of the outgoing investigation teams returned to camp on time, except for two teams that were too far away to return to camp after dark. This situation is actually very common, so the whole Order did not pay much attention to it. After dinner, one of the squads finally returned to the camp, leaving only the other squads nowhere to be seen.

At this time, Sherman also began to be a little worried, what they were most afraid of was whether the investigation team would encounter a sneak attack by the Dark Magic Society, although it could expand the scope of the investigation, but it was also easy to be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy. So Sherman called the herald and told him to send a team to answer the order, and report back as soon as there was a situation.

The team in charge of the response soon departed, and an hour later, the team returned to camp with the team that had gone out to investigate, only to bring back the shocking news to Sherman.

It turned out that the team that went out was too far away, and it was already dark when they returned, and because the vision was too poor and they were not familiar with the terrain, the team unknowingly deviated from the direction. Seeing that they couldn't find their way back to the camp, the team temporarily decided to find a place to rest first and wait for dawn to return, which was also a helpless solution.

Just as they had found a hill to spend the night, they suddenly heard a noise of people shouting and neighing horses from the wilderness, which was so prominent in the silence of the night that it was hard not to notice. The Knights had been on the Lysa Peninsula for many days, and had never found a large army, and the sound immediately shocked everyone in the squad into a cold sweat.

The crowd hurriedly flew into the sky again on the Thor Bird, flying in the direction from which the noise had come from, and soon they saw a black army advancing rapidly across the wilderness. The clothes of this army were colorful, apparently improvised patchwork, but in terms of momentum it was no weaker than that of the regular army, and tens of thousands of large troops were lined up in an orderly row, without the slightest sign of confusion.

The most surprising thing was the speed at which they marched, both on horseback and on foot, which was unbelievable. Generally speaking, cavalry and infantry march separately, how can there be cavalry and infantry walking together, and they are still at the same speed, this is simply hell.

Everyone in the squad was terrified when they saw this, this army was completely different from the people they had attacked not long ago, the group in the valley could only be regarded as a rabble, and this army was intimidating.

Several people did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned around to find the camp of the Knights, and they had to report this astonishing news immediately, otherwise it was likely to delay the important warplane.

Several of them had been unable to find the camp because they had lost their way before, but they had been looking for a while longer, but fortunately they had come across someone who had come out to meet them, otherwise they might have to wait until after dawn to discern the direction. Several people followed the team back to the camp and immediately reported the incident to Sherman.

Sherman heard that this was okay, if the Dark Devils really had such an army, then their purpose must be to sneak attack the cities in the northeast that had not yet been captured. He and several of his staff officers searched for maps to analyze, and finally agreed that the Dark Devils were likely to attack Reed Fortress in the Morsad Mountains.

The Moorsard Mountains are the gateway to the northeastern part of the continent from the Lysa Peninsula, a mountain range that clearly separates the peninsula from the mainland and must be traversed to enter the hinterland of the continent from the peninsula. The Moorsard Mountains are densely forested and have complex terrain, with several peaks covered in snow all year round, and only one mountain trail can be passed by a large group of people.

At the most dangerous point of this mountain trail is a fortress called Reed Fortress. Reed Fortress is actually a gateway to the mainland from the peninsula, once this place is captured by the Dark Devils, then they can smoothly enter the hinterland of the continent, and at that time, there must be many places to become a thousand miles of death.

Sherman slapped the table fiercely and immediately ordered, "Everyone pack up their things and leave immediately, we must arrive at Reed Fortress before the Dark Devils!"