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Although the weather was very good this morning, the eyes were bright and cloudless...

However, Hemu Town was a bit too quiet this morning, and every household closed its doors and windows and couldn't leave. Even the bullies who took to the streets to blackmail passers-by and vendors disappeared. There was no one on the streets of the town, like an ancient tomb of an unmanned ghost creature?

Even the poultry and livestock that are domineering on weekdays are now gone, leaving the town invisibly a layer of unknown and solemn atmosphere, just as the shadow of the ancient tomb on the mountain opposite the river completely enveloped the place.

Of course, if you go to the exit north of Hemu Town to see, it is not difficult to find that the murderous aura here will be more intense! Even those insects, fish, birds and beasts dare not approach here at will?

Because, at this time, more than 1,500 soldiers of the Imperial Army had already formed a formation here early in the morning and were ready for battle!

There is no city wall in Hemu Town. Apart from the stone and wood gate to the south, the other places are at most the village houses and courtyards of the villagers. Therefore, without any danger, the soldiers of the Imperial Army came outside the town and defended in this relatively flat place, setting this place as a predetermined battlefield is normal.

‘Report~!’

‘Report to General Tulius!’

‘The enemy is coming soon! Their numbers are between 320 and 330. No enemy has been found to have cavalry and long-range weapons troops, but their generals have two big dog mounts, and the rest are all walking flame monsters holding sharp blades!’

‘The above is what my subordinates found. Please give me instructions?!’

Soon, an imperial light cavalry in leather armor ran towards this side from the road that was constantly walking and widened by vendors and travelers in the distance, and tied the reins before and after the army formation, and immediately reported to General Tulius, who was in front of the formation and wearing a big red cloak, loudly reported to all the situations he had detected.

‘Are you finally here?’

‘I understand… Thank you for your hard work, let’s go and rest first!’

Tulius did not comment. He first nodded to the scout cavalry and asked the other party to rest behind the formation by himself. He squinted his eyes and looked at the end of the road where he was originally.

Unfortunately, the enemy still has not appeared, so he still has not seen the terrifying flame demons that have been described in detail from some rumors, soldiers and Hadawa and others.

So, now he had to stand firm here with his soldiers and wait for the arrival of those enemies.

‘…’

After a while, he turned around and glanced at the formation behind him. After seeing that the soldiers' arrangements were ready and there were no mistakes, he sighed and continued to wait silently on the saddle.

Although Hadawa and others reported the incident as soon as possible when they came back yesterday and estimated the approximate strength of the monsters, as the general of the empire and the highest military commander of the empire in Skyrim Province, Tulius did not choose not to retreat, but resolutely ordered the soldiers to fight a good battle with the upcoming demon-like enemies here in the north of Hemu Town this morning!

Because they had sent people to reconnaissance many times last night, the number of enemies coming to Hemu Town was actually not very large. There were only more than 300 flame monsters on the left... But now they have nearly 1,500 regular soldiers of the elite Imperial Legion in Hemu Town, and there are more people in the Heergen area behind!

So, this morning, he chose to set up a formation in front of Hemu Town and wait for the arrival of the demons! He had to do this because whether it was for the empire, for the sky, or for anything else, he had to fight with the monsters that destroyed Xueman City and take a good look at the other party's true strength?

In Tulius's view, it is related to the future strategy of the empire to the Sky Province and the security of the empire, and he cannot be treated carelessly! Even if he is willing to take risks, he will face the flame monsters that even the "World Devourer" Oduin who can be cut off his head and hung on the top of the city. He will also get more first-hand information about the demons!

'well……'

‘May the great Eight Holy Spirits protect us!!’

Although he was full of confidence on the surface, Tulius still sighed and prayed silently in his heart.

To be honest, even he doesn’t have much confidence in fighting such a group of ‘fire demon’ monsters. After all, he has never seen such a group of enemies, especially when the other party can even capture the giant dragon Oduin alive and chop off his head?

However, they had no choice, and his intuition told him that he had to fight with those monsters no matter what!

‘Hmm?!’

‘It’s finally here!!’

At this moment, Tulius suddenly felt shocked!

Then, he saw that in fact all the soldiers saw it! In the distance, there appeared a group of monsters walking slowly and firmly towards this side.

Of course, the enemy doesn't seem to be considered walking?

Among them, there were two enemies, as the general said before, as the general said, it seemed to be the general's guys. They were riding on the backs of two strong two-headed monsters that were even tall and mighty, even higher than Tulius' crotch... He didn't know one of them, nor did he want to know them, but the other was the little girl they had seen in Heergen, who claimed to be the Arcane Master!

That is...

The rumored evil demon god who burned the entire residents of Xueman City to death with a fire?!!

‘!!’

‘The Great Eight Holy Spirits…’

After only one look, Tulius couldn't help but sigh in astonishment, and put away his precious monocular lens with a look of ugly expression.

Although he had not fought, Tulius had to admit at this time that by looking at it alone, he knew that the combat power of those terrible flame demons was probably a little stronger than what Hadava, who had experienced close distance, described? Especially... the two terrifying big dog monsters and the little girl in front of the other party!!

Because, remembering what happened in Heergen... So, Tulius suddenly realized and finally knew why the dragon was beaten away by someone at that time! It turned out that everything was actually a good thing done by the little girl?!

Unfortunately, what he never expected was that the other party was a flame demon king or an evil god who had never heard of his name?!

‘…’

‘Formation!’

‘Prepare to take the enemy!!’

After looking for a while, no longer seeing any reputation, Tulius gently tweaked the horse's head, pulled the reins and took Hadava and others back to the military formation, and issued an order.

In fact, Hadawa told him about this matter last night, but he subconsciously refused to believe that kind of thing... But now, the facts are in front of him. Even if he doesn't want to, he has to believe that the little girl who can sit on a big double-headed lava dog that is on fire but looks completely unharmed, isn't a monster evil god?!

'yes!'

‘Everyone pays attention!’

‘Array!!’

‘The gun and shield soldiers come forward!!’

clang!!

With the stern shouting of a certain imperial commander, the waving flags and the sound of war drums conveyed, soon, the forerunners of more than 1,500 elite imperial legion vans were in front with rows of long spears diagonally facing forward gun shields, sword and shield soldiers were in the middle, archers, generals, and a few catapults behind, two teams of less than 100 cavalry on both sides firmly controlled the flat place on the north side of Hemu Town, firmly guarding the enemy's route to the south.

‘…’

‘…’

Then, the entire formation soon became quiet.

The soldiers of the Empire began to silently pass through the gaps in the helmets and the shoulders of their companions, watching the fired human-shaped flame monsters that were emerging from the end of the mountain road in the distance, and slowly rushed towards them like a large ball of flowing magma.

At this moment, the soldiers were no longer distracted from worrying about other things except for silently feeling the heavy breathing sounds between each other and staring at the figures of the fiery red enemies gradually approaching in the distance.

??????????

The fire element people stopped a long distance from the phalanx of the Imperial Legion who were waiting for the treacherous eyes of the soldiers of the Imperial Legion who were waiting for the staggering battle. Then they listed three phalanxes of hundreds of people.

"I will definitely not help you with this kind of thing!"

o(′^)o

If those messy gods or demons come out to fight, then if you don’t say anything, Anne will definitely get into it and beat those guys all over the head! But if it’s such an ordinary person fighting and snatching territory, then forget it.

"goodbye!!"

(????-)?

After saying that, before waiting for a guy who thought he would help, Annie made a big face at the other party regardless of her identity, she suddenly flashed and disappeared completely, which made both her and the imperial soldiers on the opposite side stunned.

‘!?’

‘Wait, wait!’

However, after Virgina Grayman came to his senses and spoke, there was still the little girl there?

At this moment, beside him, except for the two-headed lava giant dog that turned his head to look at his back with some confusion, there were only more than 300 soldiers from the Gray Maned Family behind him.

'this……'

'snort!!'

After struggling for a while, Virgina Grayman, who seemed to be able to win easily without the help of the adult, kicked the belly of the double-headed dog under his crotch, and asked him to carry him slowly forward a few steps. After watching the enemy's formation, he stopped the big dog with satisfaction.

Then, after first looking ahead and seeing a familiar figure in the enemy formation who was also riding on a horse, Virgina Grayman tried to restrain the flames on his body, revealing his relatively clear smeared face, he shouted loudly to someone in front:

‘Tulus old man!’

'Do you still recognize me? I am Virgina Graymane of the Graymane family! Back then, when I was fighting with the Somos in the province of the Hammer, I led my Nord children under your command to obey your orders!'

‘Hmph…’

‘We died so many people back then, and we finally won the battle soon, but you damn imperial people, the damn emperor and the damn Senate, were going to sign that kind of bullshit agreement with the enemy… I don’t understand why you are still serving the idiot emperor Titusmaid II?!’

‘Look, what did he make a huge empire look like?!’

After seeing clearly that the enemy's general was indeed General Tulius he knew, he was surprised that the other party was actually here, Virgina Graymane shouted loudly.

In Virgina's opinion, the empire was still fine, but after a damn emperor was in chaos, the province of Shark and Black Swamp declared independence one after another. Valen Forest and Isville were directly merged into the third ancestor Shenzhou and merged with the damn Somo people. I won't talk about the morning breeze. The high rock was even higher than the emperor. As for the sky that was close to the point, it was now even more chaotic. The entire empire was only the province of Selodir and was still firmly controlled... Things have reached this point. The emperor actually had the face to stay on the Ruby Throne and sent troops to the sky province to quell the rebellion?

Talos was the founding emperor of the Seputin dynasty of the Tamriel Empire, and what about Titusmaid II? He was just a warlord who usurped power after the death of Martin, the last emperor of the Seputin dynasty! I know that today, not to mention other provinces with ambiguous attitudes, even Selodir and many people in the imperial capital do not think that he is still the emperor of the Tamriel Empire!

Because he is neither the dragon blood nor the dragon blood talisman, and he is not worthy of inheriting the great Tamrier Empire, which is legally wise!

However, he is indeed an emperor now, and there are no reasons for each province to oppose him, so he had to let it go.

However, as an emperor of the empire, he naturally wants to justify himself...

The example of the Seputin family in the previous dynasty, the ninth Holy Spirit Talos, undoubtedly bothered him at all times... So it seems to be a good idea to lead the hatred of the people to the Somo Empire, which will surely fight again in the future, and at the same time overturn Talos's beliefs and lay the foundation for the legitimacy of his imperial power.

So, the agreement of the Platinum Agreement was signed under the slightest guild. He even acquiesced to the Somos to send a trial team to the sky to arrest and suppress and persecute the Nords who still stubbornly believe in Talos and still stubbornly admire the old dynasty?

Perhaps, in Tulius's view, His Majesty the Emperor must have felt that doing so would transfer a lot of risks, gain a lot of benefits, and still have a great chance of winning. When he was in a standstill with Somo, he would once again unify the entire territory of the Tamrier continent to the undertaking of his new dynasty bit by bit?
To be continued...