Xuanweizi's rapid elimination of spies within Dreihem aroused the vigilance of the Senate of the Western Empire, and the war broke out before the Central Empire could complete its military mobilization.
The territory occupied by the Western Empire has always been the longest-running and most densely populated area of the Greater Londinium Empire, and the accumulation and reserves of military resources are also the most sufficient. Therefore, when the Western Empire mobilized a hundred thousand troops, it marched in many directions
When the blitzkrieg was launched, the central empire was almost completely defeated.
Even the so-called 100,000-strong army is mostly composed of temporarily mobilized militiamen. They carry a spear, wear a thick cotton coat, and don't even have a few helmets and breastplates. They are taken to the front line to form an array without even being used as cannon fodder.
Too qualified.
The offensive of the Western Empire is very fierce, with hundreds of thousands of troops advancing every day, and there is no sign of the offensive slowing down. So Master Usetin temporarily put aside the work of resetting the Magic Council, and brought a group of mages and elite manpower to temporarily
Strengthen the defense line.
Later, after reconnaissance and combat report compilation from all parties, it was discovered that the Western Empire's army did not have a hundred thousand "people" at all, but it had an undead army composed of more than one hundred thousand skeletons and zombies.
Facing the endless tide of corpses, the troops of the Central Empire simply could not hold their line. Without the protection of city walls and fortresses, the soldiers of the Central Empire did not dare to engage in field battles with the undead army.
These undead creatures do not need to eat or sleep, they can march day and night, and are even more energetic at night than during the day. Even in the face of solid city defenses, there are various large undead creatures in the undead army, and if a few corpses fall into the city, they will spread
Plague and disease quickly weakened the city's defenders.
What's even more troublesome is that the undead army can be replenished through the corpses of enemy soldiers. After several battles, the undead army grows bigger and bigger like a snowball. It can divide its troops independently, go to large and small villages and towns to harass, and continue to expand its strength.
Since the undead disaster, there has never been such a large-scale undead swarm on the continent of Garad, so that all parties lack effective strategies to deal with it.
In the past, undead creatures required the control of a mage. Low-level skeletons and zombies were like animated objects, without intelligence. Once they lacked control and command, they would just wander around blindly.
But the undead legion now cultivated by the Western Empire does not require nearby control by a necromancer, nor does it require additional maintenance. It is as if someone is remotely commanding it from a distance.
Even when Usetin saw the undead army with his own eyes, they were already able to advance in an orderly array like normal soldiers, holding weapons, shields, and wearing armor. At the same time, there were even death knights riding skeleton horses, leading the ghouls to launch attacks.
Flanking attack.
Although Usetin led a group of mages at that time, relying on arcane bombardment to blast an undead army to pieces of flesh and bones, it could not fundamentally reverse the decline of the war situation.
There were so many corpses that even if all the priests in the Central Empire were mobilized, there would be no time to purify them. Even corpses in the military camp that had not yet been buried might suddenly turn into undead creatures and attack others.
"I have contacted the head of the Scribing Academy of the Kingdom of Ansel."
Xuan Weizi looked at the crystal ball in front of him and said: "The Holy Bishop will severely condemn the Western Empire's extensive use of necromancy to drive undead creatures, and they will send a group of combat priests to assist."
Usetin's face was reflected in the crystal ball: "I don't have any objections to this myself, but won't you come and help? I'm afraid we won't be able to hold up the front line with mages like us. There is even a legendary ranger on the opposite side, and the arrows are coming from the other side of the mountain.
It was projected from one side, and it was several miles away, directly hitting the head of a high-ranking mage. It made many mages afraid to go to the front line of the battlefield."
"I know your concerns, but the situation in the east is not optimistic now." Xuan Weizi said: "The Senate seems to have some secret agreement with the marshal of the army in the east. Their mobile war fortress has been displayed on the border. I would like to
Ask, can’t you control Nazareth’s floating city?”
"To control the floating city, you need the key to connect to the arcane energy core. That thing is only in the hands of Nazarui." Master Usetin added: "Don't expect my teacher to help, I also expect Yeager
Mr. Er can call for more help."
Why didn't Xuan Weizi understand what Usetin meant? He clearly wanted the Mutual Protection Alliance to join the war in person.
Nowadays, the Mutual Protection Alliance has been greatly changed. It cannot even be regarded as an "alliance". It is not impossible to join the war, but the prerequisite is that both Vanua and Jarnod must launch an attack on the Western Empire.
Under Sodifen's layout, the Western Empire exploded with astonishing strength. It can only be said that it is worthy of Xuan Weizi's demon-dyed spiritual platform. The kind of undead army that does not require on-site control and maintenance of the Necromancer is obviously through
Blood River Hellscape's improved undead creatures.
It is also the Xinggang altar, Xuanweizi used it to summon the generals, and Sodifen used it to summon the walking corpses.
However, seeing the actions of the Eastern Empire, Xuan Weizi guessed Sodifen's intention. He was planning to get ahead of Vanua and Jarnod's formal war, and take advantage of the lack of sufficient mobilization in the Central Empire to cause the purge of high-level officials.
In the chaos, they planned to advance quickly and join forces with the Eastern Empire to carve up the Central Empire, so that they could be free to deal with the north-south pincer attack by Vanua and Jarnod.
If Sodifen really succeeds in annexing the Central Empire, then Vanua and Jarnod may have to re-evaluate the situation between themselves and the enemy, and it is hard to say whether they have the will to attack.
Moreover, Sodifen must have sent a large number of spies to these countries and had a clear grasp of their military preparedness, so he could make up his mind to launch a blitzkrieg against the central empire.
But the Central Empire is not a mutual protection alliance that Xuan Weizi has been running for more than ten years. It is hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. The national conditions, military conditions, and public sentiment here do not allow Xuan Weizi to use the manipulation methods to reverse the situation.
"Yeager" has only been in power for less than a year, so it is not unusual for him to be regarded as a jester. If the Central Empire were to be destroyed, future historical records will definitely blame "Evil Yeager" for the destruction of the empire.
I can only lament that even a legendary strongman would find it difficult to move against the tide in the face of a turbulent tide. Nazarui probably saw through this, so he retreated outside the main material plane and concentrated on
How to plot revenge against Xuan Weizi and give up the cause of hegemony?
But Xuan Weizi is not only a legendary psychic. He tapped his forehead. On the other side of the world, he had asked the emperor to summon the top leaders of the Mutual Protection Alliance to discuss participating in the war.
As for the Eastern Empire, Xuan Weizi has also traveled to it in the past few years. It was originally several frontier provinces in the east of the Great Londinium Empire. Not only was it vast and sparsely populated, but it also had fewer people and more monsters all year round.
This situation occurs in the eastern border, mainly because this area was the first to be swept by the undead disaster. Human civilization was once wiped out in this area. Until the establishment of the empire and continuous expansion and expeditions to the east, this area has not recovered.
Human activities on a large scale are basically barren mountains and rivers inhabited by various alien races and monsters.
In fact, it took several generations and hundreds of years for the empire to open up the east. It also continuously moved people, reclaimed land, and established towns and settlements.
However, outside the human towns, there are intelligent races such as centaurs, gnolls, ogres, orcs, and hobgoblins, and they are not scattered here and there, but there are often hundreds or thousands, plundering and committing murders.
In order to fight against these alien monsters, fortresses were built all over the eastern frontier. Human beings mainly lived in fortress-like settlements to keep the alien monsters out and at the same time prevent them from invading westward.
Over time, the people in the eastern frontier became fierce and martial. Although there were imperial legions stationed here, the civilians here could turn into militiamen and defend the city. Therefore, to foreign enemies, the eastern frontier was like a big hedgehog that could not be chewed.
Moreover, due to long-term battles with foreign monsters, several military feudal lords were formed in the eastern frontier. To put it bluntly, they were warlords. Within their own territory, they enjoyed the power of life and death that neither the emperor nor the Senate could interfere with, and they did not collect any taxes.
Turn it over, and the empire must send a large amount of military pay and public funds to them every year to maintain their defense.
The empire has tried to weaken these warlords before, but whenever the empire takes any measures, centaurs and hobgoblins will sneak into the hinterland of the empire, burn, kill and loot.
In short, by the time of Emperor Aleion III, the warlords had to be appeased by the title of Grand Marshal. When a coup broke out in the capital, Queen Kayla was crowned in Dreihem, and the Grand Marshal established himself without any hindrance.
portal.
According to Xuan Weizi's information, the Eastern Empire has reached a peace agreement with the invading Centaurs and Jackals, which is to allow these alien monsters to plunder the border villages and towns of the Central Empire and turn them into its own mercenaries in disguise.
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This is actually a problem after the Eye of Mystery has shrunk. Originally, under Nazarui's plan, the Centaurs and Jackals were also used by the Eye of Mystery to check and balance the power of the Eastern Warlords. With Nazarui's methods, how could the Eastern Warlords be allowed to
Is there any chance of colluding with foreign races?
Fingertips passed over the Zhaoying Hanguangjian, and Xuanweizi also deployed a psychic network in the Eastern Empire. Although the number was sparse, the intensity of the spiritual power collected by the psychic network was higher than elsewhere.
Considering that the eastern border continues eastward, across the wilderness and mountains, it is the former Kingdom of Astra. There are still mysterious psychic effects lingering there. According to the "leader", the psychic effects on the former site of the Kingdom of Estra
The field is still slowly expanding outwards. This invisible threat may also be one of the driving forces for various alien monsters to invade westward.
"It's time to test the psychic network." Although Xuan Weizi was still in the city of Dreihem, his thoughts and consciousness spread along with the psychic network, and the psychic devices scattered throughout the Galad continent followed.
resonance.
A silent movement gradually began to play in Xuan Weizi's heart.
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"You have been in Galard Continent these past few years just to set up this... network?"
In the celestial sphere, Sir Weston suddenly noticed a huge energy flowing and gathering in the Galad continent. The scope was incredible, and it was like the seasonal climate changing from winter to summer in an instant.
Sir Weston once privately suggested to Xuanweizi that he should synchronize with the celestial sphere and gain the ability to project legendary spells beyond the distance limit just like Mephisetis and Siddons. However, Xuanweizi did not
This suggestion was declined.
Sir Weston didn't understand it at the time, but he didn't ask any questions. He had some vague guesses about Xuan Weizi's arrangement of the psychic network, but he couldn't accurately grasp the specific intention of this approach, and he couldn't detect it intuitively.
to the existence of psychic networks.
But when the Xuanxini connected the spiritual energy networks distributed all over the place, and the trivial spiritual powers gathered together, the celestial planetary instrument immediately detected unprecedented energy fluctuations, which were more powerful than the "Endless Storm of Revenge" and "The War of Surte".
"Fire" is many times larger in terrifying scale.
"What exactly do you want to do?" Sir Weston asked Xuan Wei Zi in the distance, but received no reply.
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"I didn't expect that I still underestimated you."
In the ice crystal castle, the Lord of Frost opened his eyes and looked through the ice, as if he saw how the traceless spiritual power gathered into a river and flowed endlessly.
"With such power, the title of 'Duke of the Heart' is no longer enough to describe it." The Lord of Frost raised his lips slightly: "The hearts of countless lives are open to you, and gods are nothing more than that. In other words, in your eyes, the people are the
God? Mephisetis, you should take a look, this is another path he shows you."
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"teacher?"
In the mage tower, Nandi, who had grown into a graceful figure, looked at Mephisetis who was suddenly stunned. She asked softly: "What happened?"
Mephisitis was holding a magic wand, and immediately said with a wry smile: "Your father is really capable. He made such a big news without saying a word."
"What's wrong?" Nandi didn't understand. She had been studying arcana in the Tower of Pentagram for these years, and she didn't know about Xuan Weizi's various actions in the old continent.
Mephisitis took a deep breath, shook her head and said, "It's okay, let's continue class."
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Putting down an old slate in his hand, Shadowan raised his head and looked out the window, but his words reached an unknown destination:
"Old friend, have you seen it? He is still making progress. I have to doubt Olanso's identity."
Hesseken's cold voice penetrated the space: "Do you think he is Astra? Did the pile of cultural relics you excavated in the ruins of the Kingdom of Astra predict today's changes?"
"I'm not sure that he is Astra himself, but I'm basically certain that he has a close relationship with Astra." Shadovan said: "I advise you, don't help Nazareth, I can't see your victory.
Chance."
"I'm not doing it for victory, nor for the Eye of Mystery." Heseken's tone showed no fear at all, and was as calm and cold as before: "The level I want to reach requires a life-and-death test. Even without Nazarus
Yes, I will find Olenso sooner or later. If I am defeated by Olenso in the future, you don’t need to mourn for me. Everything about the Eye of Mystery has been entrusted to you."
Shadovan, whose beard and hair were all white, showed his tiredness for the first time in hundreds of years: "Mikosi also said what you said back then, but he will never come back."
"It's a pity that I won't meet him again in heaven." These were Hesseken's last words.