Chapter 126 Religious War
The war for humans, from the release of the mobilization order to the official start of the battle, requires a long preparation work.
Diplomacy, internal affairs, food and grass, training, command and other things must be handled well, otherwise the country's strength will not be fully mobilized, and a war may even be lost.
However, for undead creatures, everything becomes much simpler.
Undead creatures have no diplomatic and internal affairs, no food and grass training, and no mobilization. They are warriors from the moment they are born. They exist for the sake of fighting and do not need to boost morale at all.
It is easier to command. Whether it is the lord's privilege or the summons of the necromancer, the undead creatures under control can absolutely obey the commands, just like using their arms to make their fingers.
No well-trained human soldier can do the same movements as the Undead Legion. Attack at the same time, retreat at the same time, completely between the controller's thoughts, and there is no need for anything like flags, gongs, drums, etc. to issue orders.
If it was Lei commanding the battle, he could not even say a word and rely entirely on his soul to command the army.
Therefore, from the moment Lei decided to let go of his hands and feet with the Light Church, what he was worried about was not the soldiers, but how to bring these soldiers who were not afraid of death into the human world.
As long as they can travel back and forth unimpededly to the human world, unless the gods descend, thunder can use the bone sea tactic to eliminate the enemies one by one.
The easiest and most direct method is to create a teleportation array. However, due to the limitations of materials, the giant magic array in the mine has not been completed for a long time. According to Deya's estimate, it will take at least two months for this magic array to be officially put into operation.
Moreover, even if the magic circle is successfully built, the undead creatures teleported from the magic circle have time limits. They stay in the human world for up to one day and one night, and their range of activity is only within a hundred kilometers. They are more than enough to defend against Hannovi City, but they are far beyond reach to fight against enemies in the distance.
If you want to fight in another place, you can only rely on magic summoning.
Lei now has many summoning scrolls in his hand, and he can summon more than 200 skeleton lords from the abandoned land to participate in the battle. The summoning time limit is about one hour. If necessary, he can continue to peel Mufasa's dragon skin to let Dea create more summoning scrolls.
But this is far from enough. Although hundreds of skeleton lords are terrifying, they will not have much effect on tens of thousands of well-trained human legions of humans.
Fortunately, Cynthia's joining was timely, and Lei could use dozens of undead mages.
The Necromancer has always been the ultimate power of the Goddess of the Nature. After waiting for a hundred years, the Goddess of the Nature finally had a real base for them to preach and preach, and they had to use all their money.
More than 30 undead mages followed Cynthia to Hanovi City, and thousands of warriors arrived one after another. Hanovi City was really like returning to the embrace of the Goddess of Nature, with the power of the Goddess of Nature everywhere.
More than 30 undead mages jointly release the summoning technique, which can summon more than 100,000 grey bone skeletons at one time to participate in the battle. As the skeleton level becomes higher and higher, the number of people can be summoned is also smaller and smaller. The white bone skeleton can only summon 50,000 or 60,000, while the golden skeleton can summon at most two or three thousand.
Don’t underestimate these two or three thousand golden skeletons. They are all strong people above level 11. Facing human soldiers with an average strength of only four or five, it is definitely a destructive force.
If you don’t consider the sacred flame of Master Guangming, three thousand golden skeletons can sweep across the entire human continent!
When a necromancer summons undead creatures, the summoning coordinates need to be determined. Otherwise, there will be no undead creatures in the area where the magic takes effect, and the magic will fail.
More than a hundred years ago, the Church of Light and the Goddess of Nature started a decisive battle in the Grand Canyon of Seyatchenza because their summoning coordinates were located in the area where the thunder was born. In that area, the skeleton warriors had been exhausted in previous wars, which led to a sharp decrease in the number of undead creatures summoned by the Goddess of Nature. The elite of the Goddess of Nature were wiped out by the Church of Nature.
The coordinates are no longer a problem now, because thunder is the living coordinates of the abandoned land.
Thunder ordered more than one million skeleton warriors in the abandoned land to gather around the five ancient tombs at the same level. At that time, according to the needs of the battle, the necromancer will selectively summon skeleton warriors to participate in the battle.
In addition, there is another advantage of having a necromancer participating in the war, that is, it can cover up the truth about the skeleton warrior participating in the war.
After all, the target of Lei is only the Church of Light. If all humans know that there is a skeleton lord intends to send tens of millions of undead creatures to the human world, the war between Lei and all humans will inevitably break out.
Unless Lei gives up the human world, he is dormant in the abandoned land.
However, the abandoned land is no longer the abandoned land of yesterday. The sun, which represents destruction, is burning day and night. Thunder must ensure a firm foothold in the human world before the sun burns to the territory, or find a way to extinguish the sun.
It seems now that occupying the human world is much easier than extinguishing the sun.
Three days later, King Imad announced that he would go to the Hukou Pass fortress on the border of Hanover to welcome the Saint of Light, Camilla.
There were almost 10,000 people following Imad, of which 5,000 were orc warriors, including two war monsters, and a new army of 3,000 newly recruited. In fact, these people were all armed forces of the Natural Goddess Cult.
However, the Hanover City Defense Forces had less than 2,000 men, and were only responsible for the logistics of the entire legion.
Because of fear of the Church of Light, the regular soldiers of Hanover fled in large numbers. The city defense force with more than 10,000 people were left in one week.
Fortunately, the king announced in time that he would welcome the Holy Maiden of Light, otherwise the number of people who fled would continue to increase. Perhaps it would not take long for the city defense force to remain.
King Imad is indeed a coward.
The monarch of a country goes to the border to welcome the Pope or the Holy Maiden of Light, which is a long-standing rule.
Because of the strength of the Church of Light, the kings had to do not adopt this way to express their respect for the Church of Light in order to ensure their safety.
When the news that the king announced the welcome to the Holy Maiden of Light came out, the residents of Hanover all breathed a sigh of relief and temporarily stopped the momentum of escape. People seemed to see a glimmer of light again. Maybe the Church of Light would expel the Goddess of Nature when it arrived, and the days might be the same as before.
However, few people noticed that although the king claimed to welcome the Holy Maiden of Light, he did not announce the abolition of the Nation of the Goddess of Nature.
It is indeed difficult for the king to go to the border, and it seems that it is not to welcome him, but to block him.
Hukou Pass is the border between Hannovi and Ultraland. It is a narrow passage sandwiched between two mountains. It is shaped like a kettle. The body of the kettle is located in Hannovi and the position of the kettle faces Ultraland.
More than a hundred years ago, Ultraland and Balotel were independent countries, and wars occurred occasionally between the two countries, so there were always heavy troops guarding the gate.
However, since more than a hundred and ten decades ago, the Church of Light entered the southern part of the continent, and both Ultraland and Balott became vassal states of the Rohan Kingdom. In order to better control the vassal states, the Rohan Kingdom stipulated that the borders must be completely opened between countries and all defensive forces should be cancelled except for necessary security forces.
Therefore, Hukou Pass, like Hosworth Fortress, has become a pass with only a name, and it is hard to regain its glory back then.
Three days later, when the army arrived in front of Hukou Pass, they found that the flag of the Duchy of Ultraland was inserted on the wall of the pass. The 30,000 troops of the Duchy of Ultraland had occupied Hukou Pass an hour in advance and were currently stepping up the repair of the damaged city wall, a posture of guarding the pass.
It turned out that since Hannovi declared independence and expelled the Church of Light, the Duke of Ultraland received a letter of help from the Grand Duke of Barlot, begging the Duke of Ultraland to help him recover control of the Hannovi area.
The Duke of Ultraland immediately sent 30,000 troops and dispatched troops in front of Hukou Pass. Because the Grand Duke of Balotel in the south had not yet prepared, and the Church of Light had not made any statement for a long time, the army of the Duke of Ultraland was worried that it did not occupy the unprepared Hukou Pass.
However, the situation has changed suddenly in recent days. First, Hanover announced that the Goddess of Nature was the state religion, and secondly, the Church of Light and the Kingdom of Rohan jointly sent 50,000 troops to Hanover.
The Duke of Altán felt keenly that conflicts between Hanover and the Church of Light were inevitable.
As a country that believes in the Church of Light and is a vassal state of the Rohan Kingdom, Ultraland was in order to show loyalty to the Church of Light and the Kingdom of Rohan Kingdom and to seek credit, the Duke of Ultraland ordered the entry of Hukou Pass and wait for the arrival of the Holy Maiden of Light here.
If the Duke of Ultraland knew what kind of terrifying masters existed in the upcoming 10,000 Hanover army, he would not dare to take over the three courages of Hukou Pass.
However, the Duke of Ultraland had no chance to regret it. Leigh led the army to Hukou Pass less than an hour after he launched an attack on Hukou Pass.
The soldiers of the Principality of Ultraland thought they occupied a critical pass, and the number was several times higher than that of the opponent, so the opponent would never dare to attack the pass. When they stood on the city wall and were about to ridicule the enemy, Lei's first round of attacks completely collapsed.
Elena's appearance frightened the ordinary warrior who had never seen an angel. Elena flew over the city wall in just thirty seconds, killing more than dozens of Ultraland soldiers, and then tearing a magic scroll specially made by Dea.
Amid the huge roar, the disrepaired city wall of Hukou Pass was blown down by a magic explosion. Then, more than 5,000 orc warriors rushed into Hukou Pass with the support of two war beasts.
Another religious war in human history finally broke out on this day. Hanover and Ultraland fight fiercely at Hukou Pass for an hour and a half.
Chapter completed!