Eight hundred and fortieth chapters are lucky not to die on the road
At the same time, in the Duke's City more than ten miles away from the coalition forces, the church and the dark creatures finally ushered in the moment for the start of their plan.
In the castle complex halfway up the mountain, the originally spacious front courtyard has been occupied by all kinds of strange-shaped stone carvings.
These stone carvings have strange shapes and complex golden lines on their surfaces.
If you sense it carefully, you can find that the essence of the earth is flowing in the golden lines.
The placement of the stone carvings is divided into two parts, one on the left and one on the right, which is extremely symmetrical, leaving a space of about a hundred meters in the middle.
At this moment, the pope of the church and the archbishop were standing at the front of these sculptures.
Of course, standing next to the Pope was an armored knight wearing black armor and glowing with black air.
The face of the armored knight was not visible. At a glance, only a pair of scarlet eyes appeared under the black air.
"Your Majesty the Black Envoy, the Earth Essence has been prepared. Shall we start now?"
At this time, the Pope actually asked the armor next to him.
"let's start!"
Although no facial features could be seen under the helmet of the black-armored knight, when the Pope's inquiry was heard, a low and strange sound of promise came from under the helmet.
"Start activating the teleportation array!" After receiving the armor knight's affirmation, the Pope directly issued the order.
Immediately, a group of church members took out balls of earth essence and threw them into the pool in the center of the stone statues on both sides.
As the essence of the earth is invested, these essences of the earth become like streams and begin to spread towards the sculptures everywhere along the ditches dug in advance.
During this process, the throwing of earth spirits did not stop.
In just over half a minute, hundreds of groups of earth spirits were thrown into the two pools.
As time went by, the numerous ditches around the pool gradually filled up.
Buzz!
At this moment, when the last sculpture was connected by the earth spirit in the ditch, a buzzing sound immediately came from the place.
With the buzzing sound, the inscriptions on all the stone carvings became brighter and brighter, and finally they gradually became impossible to see directly.
When the Pope and a group of dark creatures saw this situation, instead of being nervous, their faces shone with excitement.
"Quick, continue to invest in the essence of the earth!"
At this time, the Pope urged his subordinates again.
Following the Pope's instructions, those church members who dared not neglect began to speed up and throw in the balls of earth essence.
boom!
About a minute later, the light in the castle vestibule reached its peak, and at this moment, there was a sudden sound like glass being broken.
And with this sound, the dazzling light from before finally disappeared.
Only then did the Pope and others regain their vision, and then looked intently at the field.
"Your Majesty the Black Envoy, we succeeded?!"
When he saw the scene in front of him clearly, the Pope asked excitedly and slightly nervously.
I saw that at this moment, there was a wide black curtain in the vestibule.
This black curtain is located in the center of the sculptures on both sides, more than 100 meters long and 20 meters high.
There are ripples on the surface of the black screen, as if the lake water was blown by the breeze.
"Success, I can already smell the smell of the abyss!" The armored knight opened his arms and raised his head slightly, as if he smelled something familiar.
Buzz!
The moment he finished speaking, the black screen in front began to shake violently, as if stones were thrown into the calm lake water.
With a buzzing sound, a death knight actually appeared in the black screen the next moment.
Roar!
The death knight walked through the black screen and came to the vestibule, as if he was very curious about the world, and his eyes were constantly scanning the surrounding environment.
The same thing happened to the dark horse beneath him. The moment it appeared, it couldn't help but raise its hooves and look up to the sky with a long neigh.
"I've met the Commander-in-Chief!"
After a while, the death knight finally adapted to the environment he was in. When he saw the armored knight, he immediately rode forward, jumped off his horse, knelt on the ground and greeted him.
If everyone in the Holy Alliance saw this scene, their jaws would definitely drop.
Because in their eyes, death knights are simply low-level dark creatures without intelligence.
The death knight in front of him not only knew how to treat people with superiority and inferiority, but also knew how to greet people from all walks of life. His speech was even smoother.
The Pope on the side looked at the death knight with some surprise at this moment. The appearance of this death knight was no longer much different from ordinary people.
"Get up, are the Dark Legion ready?" The armored knight nodded to the death knight, and then asked.
"Lord Commander, our dark army is ready!"
"Very good, you return immediately and let the legions come!"
"Yes, Lord Commander!" Immediately, the death knight got on his horse and turned back toward the black curtain.
"Believers of the abyss, don't be too surprised. The death knight just now is what he should have looked like when he was in the abyss!"
After the death knight left, the armored knight looked at the pope.
"Mr. Black Envoy is laughing at me. I have never been to the abyss, so I was a little surprised to see such a powerful death knight for the first time!"
"However, the strength of this Death Knight just now makes me feel that our great cause of conquering this continent will be just around the corner!"
"Haha, believers in the abyss, now that we have this teleportation array that can teleport the Dark Legion over without any damage, it is only a matter of time before we conquer this continent!" Seeing the Pope's excited look, the armored knight chuckled.
"However, you must always pay attention to the matter of the earth essence. If more legions are to come, you must maintain this teleportation array. There can be no surprises with the subsequent investment of the earth essence!"
"Don't worry, Black Envoy, I will have people guard here around the clock. When the team escorting the Earth Essence arrives, I guarantee that it will be sent into the energy pool immediately!"
"Very good! If you complete this mission and let the Abyss completely rule this continent, then the Lord of the Abyss will grant you eternal life!"
Buzz!
But at this moment, the black curtain ahead made a buzzing sound again.
The two people talking immediately stopped talking and looked towards the black screen.
At this moment, the figure of the Death Knight appeared again in the black screen.
However, this time there is not just one death knight, but ten, hundreds, thousands...
Of course, these death knights are also mixed with various other middle and low-level dark creatures.
But whether they are low-level dark creatures or mid-level dark creatures, those who come out of this teleportation array have one obvious thing in common.
That is, the auras of these dark creatures are more powerful than the dark creatures that originally stayed in the Holy Continent.
For example, the aura exuded by the most ordinary skeleton soldier is comparable to the original hell dog or headless horseman.
The soul fire in the heads of these skeleton soldiers is no longer pure green, but has different colors such as green, red, and gold.
…
The Holy Alliance team outside the city didn't know what was happening in the Duke's city.
As they waited, at noon on the second day, all the principality and empire teams had arrived at the meeting point.
After all, compared to the strength of a group of teams, the general gathering of counts, barons, and viscounts simply cannot stop their encirclement and suppression.
At most, it's just the amount of casualties you pay.
Now that all the principalities and empire teams have been assembled, Theodore, Chairman of the Alliance Parliament, finally convened an emergency meeting.
"Have all the principality teams arrived now?"
In the meeting tent, Theodore sat in the main seat and asked his subordinates.
"Mr. President, according to the registration records of the representatives of the principalities just now, all the principalities and empires have arrived at the meeting point, but..."
"However, Baron Nalant of the Storm Territory did not sign the register, so the Storm Territory team should not have arrived yet."
"Narant?" Theodore nodded, not too surprised.
Because the Storm Leader is a separate team, he obviously expected it in advance.
Of course, in order to highlight his sense of responsibility as the president of the Alliance Parliament, Theodore still looked at the representatives of the principalities below.
"Delegates, do any of you know whether Baron Nalant has arrived at our gathering camp outside the Duke's City?"
"President Theodore, we didn't see Baron Nalant's team?"
"We didn't see it either!"
Faced with Theodore's inquiry, all the noble representatives were stunned for a moment, and then several noble representatives from the Principality of Haibei and the Principality of Lot answered.
"Then it seems that Baron Nalant's team is still on the way!" Theodore nodded and said nothing more.
His concern as the president has been reflected.
"Haha, President Theodore, that Baron Nalant is definitely still on the way. With his team of less than 2,000 people and no magician, he is lucky not to die on the way, so we don't have to wait for him.
Got it!"
At this moment, another joking voice came from the tent.
There is no doubt that this voice was naturally made by Prince Eric.
"Indeed, President Theodore, your question is actually redundant. Regardless of whether Nalant comes or not, it will not be of much use to the war in Duke City. I even doubt that Nalant is very useful at the moment.
He may be hiding in a corner with his team, so we’d better start discussing serious matters as soon as possible!”
At this time, Carlisle, who was in front of the representatives of the principalities, also echoed.
When Theodore heard this, there was a hint of helplessness on his face.
I was not prepared to say that I would wait for Narant, but I was ready to start talking about business the next moment. This was just because the two of them were too busy.
However, he did not want to get involved in the personal feud between Nalant and the Bach Empire and the Holy Magic Academy.
He immediately coughed twice and said: "Then let's talk about business!"
"First of all, I believe everyone has understood through the exchange of messages last night that the Land of Death this year is full of strangeness."
"For example, the previous isolation zone was actively attacked by dark creatures, and then these days, every gathering place of dark creatures has an earth spirit altar."
"Regarding this matter, I want to tell everyone that this expedition may be more dangerous than in previous years, so I hope everyone must be careful!"
"President Theodore is right. Although I don't know why there are so many earth spirits, we should be careful. I think those dark creatures are definitely not so kind to give us treasures like the earth spirits!"
Faced with Theodore's reminder, the representatives of the principality naturally took it seriously.
In fact, a group of noble representatives had already strengthened the security of the camp last night.
"Okay, regarding the matter of the Earth Essence, because we cannot find out the cause for the time being, we can only wait and see what happens. After that, our teams will strengthen contact and ensure that messengers are dispatched to adjacent teams every day to communicate and ensure safety."
"Then let's discuss the plan for tomorrow's battle..."
Next, President Theodore and a group of duchy teams began to discuss the battle plan for the duchy city.
In fact, no one has any detailed combat plan to deal with dark creatures. Some of them just arrange a number of principality teams to perform different duties.
After all, dark creatures have limited intelligence and do not have human-like strategies and tactics.
Even if there is a leader of dark creatures to command, they are only commanding those dark creatures with a slightly higher level, because the lowest-level existences such as skeleton soldiers and hell dogs will rush over without thinking as soon as they see the human race.
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Soon, a group of principality teams made arrangements for the division of labor for tomorrow's battle.
Some principality teams are responsible for facing attacks from dark creatures head-on.
Some principality teams are responsible for raiding from both sides to cut off the dark creatures' front and rear teams.
And some are responsible for the surrounding realm to ensure that other wandering dark creatures will not endanger the safety of the battlefield.
In short, all principality teams have a clear division of labor. After all, they go on expeditions every year and have complete experience in dealing with dark creatures.
The time for the attack has also been set, it will be tomorrow morning.
Everyone hopes to deal with the Duke City as soon as possible, and then go to other small gathering places to see if there are more earth spirits.
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Woohoo!
Early the next morning, the marching horn sounded at the Holy Alliance gathering place.
One by one, heavily armed soldiers, led by nobles from their respective principalities, marched towards the Duke's City at the end of the horizon.
There were no disturbances along the way. Almost half an hour later, the alliance team arrived two miles outside the Duke City.
"Everyone, let's begin!" When the team arrived and arranged in formation, everyone did not delay. As President Theodore issued the order, today's battle officially began.
The engineering battle this time was no different from the past. First, hundreds of trebuchets were started and the stone bombs were thrown into the city one by one.
And as the stone bullets hit the city, terrifying roars immediately came from the city, as if the place ahead was not the city, but somewhere deep in the forest, the home of a certain group of monsters.
Ho ho ho!
And as the roars of filial piety came one after another in the city, a louder and more captivating roar also came from the mountainside in the distance.
"It turns out to be a black fire python. This is the most powerful existence among seventh-level dark creatures!"
Following the roar of mourning, a huge terrifying figure suddenly appeared in the castle halfway up the mountain.
It was a terrifying giant snake more than a hundred meters long and five meters in diameter.
The giant snake circled along the castle tower to the highest point and looked in the direction of the alliance team.
When it saw that so many human beings appeared outside the city and actively attacked its territory, the giant python immediately roared.
As it roared, all the dark creatures, whether in the Duke's city or the castle halfway up the mountain, boiled, roaring and rushing towards the outside of the city.
For a moment, no matter on the ground or in the air, everyone in the alliance felt that the dark creatures in front of them were like a surging tide.
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