CH 156 Decision

"The impact range of the explosion is smaller than in the experiments in hell, and the influencing factors... the terrain, the climate of hell and the human world are different..."

Moore watched with a twitching face as Mr. Raul and the Rogers brothers stepped on the broken arms and limbs all over the ground without a change to their expressions, and searched for shell fragments in a pile of bloody mud. He prided himself on being brave and fearless, but the scene in the valley right now gave him a chill down his spine.

A total of 4,000 Eternal Knights all died here, and a short section of the valley was piled with corpses, the blood pooling up to people's ankles. Moreover, these corpses were completely different from previous wars. In the place bombarded by the "Bloody Rose" in the middle, it was almost impossible to find a complete corpse. Meat scraps and bones were mixed together, and human eyes and brains were splashed everywhere.

This battle was won. Looking at the valley in front of him, Moore had a vague feeling:

Today's battle seemed to herald the end of an ancient era, and a new and strange era had revealed itself in the mist.

The torrent was raging.

"Hey! Moore! Come and help drag this dead horse away!"

During the march, Mr. Raul, who gradually became familiar with Moore, stood near the explosion crater, stepped on the bloody mud that submerged his ankles, and shouted loudly while stretching out his hands and struggling to drag the half-horse's corpse.

Moore twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, and walked over to help while trudging through bloody mud.

After he helped Raul drag the horse away, Raul suddenly bent down and reached out to pick up something from the bloody belly of the horse: "Aha! I found it! The explosion fragment of the Bloody Rose!"

He pulled out his hand, a long string of intestines hanging on the back of it, and showed it to Moore excitedly.

"Look! It's a big guy!"

Moore turned his head abruptly, resisting the thought of beating up this lunatic,

Say it again!

The muscles on Moore's face convulsed.

——He hated being with this group of psychopaths!

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At noon, the King led a victorious vanguard across the plain and arrived in Yoringshire.

Yoringshire County was originally the territory of the Earl of Pligney. After the death of the Earl of Pligney in rebellion, the King appointed a new county lord. After the royal army arrived, the county lord, who was under pressure from the approaching Holy Legion of the Holy Land during this time, was relieved, and the suspension bridge was quickly lowered, letting the bloody knights into Yoringshire County.

The news of the Eternal Knights' demise was reported to Yoringshire County in the morning.

When the King and his army marched into Yoringshire, they were warmly welcomed by the people. At times like these, there was nothing more reassuring than a victory, and cheers of "God Save Legrand" and "God Save the King" were heard throughout Yoringshire.

In the taverns, people gathered around those who had the privilege of seeing the King on his horse ride through the long street, and heard him describe in vivid detail how the sun shone on the King's hair, how His Majesty's crown shone brilliantly, and how handsome his face was which was even more beautiful than that of an angel, how elegant and noble his movements were when he turnes over and dismounted.....

In short, their monarch was here, and had blocked a fatal attack for them and won a great victory.

Then, there was nothing that Legrand could not defeat.

While the people of Yoringshire were rejoicing, the King received a letter that weathered a hard journey.

This letter came from the other side of the Abyss Strait, and it was written by their ally, Hermóðr', the leader of the Gulundi heavy cavalry.

However, it was time to call the Gulundi heavy cavalry the "Nujin Empire" now. According to reports from overseas spies, when the Holy Legion gathered, on the other side of the Abyss Strait, many nomadic warriors suddenly left their original grazing lands and gathered in the Gulundi Grassland.

The banner of the Nujin Empire, which had disappeared from the eyes of the world for hundreds of years, was flying again.

In the letter, Hermóðr' gave a formal reply on the alliance, and briefly provided Legrand with some information about the Holy Legion of the Sea, the Holy Frontier Legion, and the Holy Legion of the Holy Land. The barbarians believed in "demon wolves", and they were also one of the heresies in the eyes of the Holy Court. However, because the nomads were too scattered, it was difficult for the Holy Court to attack them intensively and forcefully. Conversely, the barbarians scattered all over the world have a certain grasp of the situation and trends in various places.

"The barbarians are about to launch an attack on Holy Spirit Bay."

The letter was short and written by Hermóðr' himself.

The King once had an encounter with Hermóðr', the current emperor of the Nujin Empire, who was the leader of the Gulundi mercenaries on the battlefield in the north. At that time, the retreat of the Gulundi heavy cavalry contributed a crucial impact to the entire Northland campaign. Now it seemed that the reason the Gulundi heavy cavalry accepted the employment of the northern states, might've also included the intention of inquiring about the Holy Court's movements.

Hermóðr' led the Nujin Empire to attack Holy Spirit Bay and provided indirect support to Legrand who was welcoming the main force of the Holy Legion.

Holy Spirit Bay had been the foundation of the Holy Court for a thousand years. Although the Holy Empire had been established now, the importance of the Holy Land was still self-evident. Holy Spirit Bay was to be attacked by the Nujin Empire. If something happened to the old base camp of the Holy Court, part of the attention of the Holy Empire must be allocated to the Holy Land afterwards. This could share a lot of the pressure for Legrand.

But today's Pope Theolde was an extremely courageous opponent. If it was a slightly weaker Pope, the pace of the Holy Legion's westward march might slow down. However, after these several confrontations, the King was able to be sure that Theolde would not be held back by the battle at Holy Spirit Bay.

They all knew that so long as Legrand was destroyed, the war of the Millennium Kingdom would come to an end.

Not only would Pope Theolde not send troops to support Holy Spirit Bay, he would also launch a more ferocious attack on Legrand.

Moore spread out the map. Before General JohAn and many other generals arrived, he could be regarded as a temporary advisor——although most of the time, the King considered things more comprehensively and farther than them.

On the King's marching map, the marching route of Legrand's army was clearly marked, and the Kriyan archers existed as a supporting role wandering throughout the battlefield. In addition, there were many speculations about the routes of the Holy Legion of the Sea and the Holy Legion of the Holy Land.

This was a map that made people feel a heavy pressure.

Although they won an important victory today, on the entire battlefield of Legrand, this victory seemed insignificant.

The Holy Legion of the Sea landed in the southeast of Legrand from the port of Koszoya. This army, composed of many city-states and sea nations, no matter how complex it was, was still an army of up to 70,000 people. Under the "Wartime Emergency Act", the Legrand army recruited a total, excluding the local self-defense forces, of no more than 40,000 people.

Such a huge army was a group of unscrupulous wolves in the southeast of Legrand. Under the disparity in numbers, the Holy Legion of the Sea caused huge damage in the southeast of Legrand, and it was difficult for ordinary towns to resist their attacks. As an emerging commercial area, the southeast of Legrand had a flat terrain and was easy to attack but difficult to defend.

In the case that the opponent was Theolde, and the Nujin Empire attacked Holy Spirit Bay, then the Holy Legion of the Sea would launch a fierce attack to the southeast of Legrand as retaliation.

The Iron Rose Cavalry stationed in Bubas was led by General Sheehan, and the Iron Rose Cavalry was no more than 5,000 elite. How could an army of 5,000 resist an army of 70,000?

Moore looked at the map and felt despair. This was simply a dead end.

They were fighting against the world, and the heavy pressure made it difficult to breathe. Today's Legrand was like a ship sailing in the wind and waves. The waves were so violent that they might be destroyed at any time. The blood from the battlefield in the early morning was still on him, and for a moment he only felt that the current Legrand was actually full of battlefields and mountains of corpses and seas of blood everywhere.

Moore looked at the King, wanting to see his thoughts from the King's face.

However, the moment he saw the King's expression, he suddenly froze.

The King looked down at the map covered with the symbols of the Holy Legion, his silver hair flowing down under the crown and his ice blue eyes fixed on the southeast, on Bubas, the line of his lips drawn straight. There seemed to be no expression on his face, no tension, no panic, just a shocking calm.

In that calmness, there was an inexplicable determination and coldness.

At that moment, Moore realized that the King had made a decision.

It was about Bubas County, about the southeast of Legrand, and about the fate of the entire Legrand and the entire world.

That decision…

What was it?

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The sky was covered with overcast clouds, and a heavy rain might pour down at any time.

The entire Bubas County was shrouded in a tense atmosphere, and the people's faces were obviously worried.

Unlike the attack on Koszoya Port, which was caught off guard, everyone in Bubas County knew that Bubas would be the next target of the Holy Legion of the Sea. The whole city was in a tense state of preparation, but it was really useless. Even with the local self-defense forces, how many troops do they have?

How would they resist a huge army of more than 70,000 people?

What was even more frightening was what the Holy Legion of the Sea had done these days.

They took the policy of "plundering and feeding soldiers" to a hundred percent. Wherever they passed, the towns looked like they had fallen into hell. Although the Holy Legion of the Sea did not massacre the city on such a large scale after Koszoya Port, but some of the robberies, rapes, and killings they did during the looting... were enough to label them a group of beasts controlled by desire.

Greed, terror.

No one wanted Bubas to become the next Koszoya, and no one wanted to let the Holy Legion loot their own city.

General Sheehan returned to his residence after inspecting Bubas' defense.

A crow flapped its wings and flew down from the sky. After circling twice, it landed on General Sheehan's shoulder.

"His Majesty...?"

General Sheehan's retinue, Saul asked.

General Sheehan unwrapped the secret letter from the crow's leg, and nodded when he saw the rose seal on the letter.

"What does His Majesty say?" Saul asked hastily.

General Sheehan opened the letter.