The Lance Continent was an inconspicuous continent among the subcontinents. It was inhabited by elves, dwarves, humans, and orcs. Its basic structure was similar to the Holy Continent where Abel came from.
On the throne of a luxurious palace in the Lance Continent sat an emperor in golden armor with a crown on his head.
All the people standing in the palace were Knight in full armor. Their eyes were filled with passion as they stared at the great Emperor Harvey.
300 years ago, the young Prince Harvey returned to the Lance Continent from the Central Continent, and a legend began.
Back then, Prince Harvey was the only prince. He personally trained a group of powerful knights and united all the human empires. He drove the powerful orcs into the desert, forced the friendly dwarves into the depths of the mountains, and suppressed the peaceful elves into the narrow Shanfu Forest, where they struggled to survive.
Prince Harvey had accomplished all of this in just 100 years. With knights as the foundation, he had overthrown the aristocratic system and established the powerful Holy Light Empire, which was dominated by knights.
The high and mighty adepts didn't care about the changes happening on the tiny Lance Continent. Although the balance between the orcs and humans had been broken, and they could no longer train the adepts, the Holy Light Empire's offerings to the adepts didn't decrease. Instead, they increased due to the strength of the empire.
In the following 200 years, many powerful Knight talents were gathered by Emperor Harvey and disappeared from everyone's sight.
Emperor Harvey sensed the holy energy surging in his body. He knew he would reach his goal in a few days.
He still remembered he was an illegitimate son. His father gave birth to him with a noble woman in the Central Continent. He never saw his father after he was born. He was raised by his mother.
After confirming he did not have any wizard talent, he lived a peaceful life like any other noble child.
One day, his mother found faith, and not long after, he was brought into it as a child.
Without the love of a father, he saw the gods as his father and often expressed his feelings through prayers.
When he was 18 years old, he knew what he believed in. It was the biggest enemy of the Central Continent. The god he believed in was the demon from beyond.
But at that time, he had already become the most devout believer. Even if he believed in the devil, he didn't care.
Of course, in his heart, how could a demon possess such a sacred feeling? It was precisely that sacred feeling, that incomparably dignified aura, and that extremely pure feeling that made him sink deep into it.
One day, a god's messenger found him. The god wanted him to return to the Lance Continent to inherit the throne. He gave him a golden armor. This armor was the divine armor worn by the Demon from Beyond in the past.
There was a strange power in this golden armor. It had the ability to turn 100 Knights into Holy Knights.
Emperor Harvey was very confused. He agreed to the god's request unconditionally, but there was no way he could return to the Lance Continent, let alone inherit the throne.
It had to be known that a super teleportation array consumed an ocean's worth of resources each time it was activated. The empire wouldn't activate a super teleportation array for the illegitimate son of an emperor. At the same time, he knew that his father had 5 official princes.
But two months later, the old Emperor paid a huge price to contact Harvey and bring him back to the Empire.
After the trip through the super teleportation array that left a deep impression on him, he arrived at the Lance Continent.
He realized the reason the old Emperor wanted him to come back was because the 5 princes had died in various accidents. The old Emperor had also lost his ability to reproduce.
Harvey knew this was the work of the Nation of God. Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence? All the princes had died, and the old Emperor could no longer have any children. It was as if this was all done to pave the way for him.
All of his actions were arranged by the messengers of God. First, he used the golden armor to promote himself to a Paladin. Then, he used all kinds of methods and used all of the ninety-nine slots to form a Paladin battle formation consisting of one hundred Paladins.
Even though he and the other Holy Knights had been hiding their true strength and rarely used the skills of a Holy Knight, it was still not something a normal Knight could handle.
This was the true secret of Emperor Harvey's invincibility. Wizards were not allowed to participate in the secular world, so he was able to dominate the entire Lance Continent.
Although the one hundred Holy Knights would be used up, he could increase the number of Holy Knights by making more people believe in the Demon from Beyond and collecting the power of faith through the Divine Golden Armor.
After Emperor Harvey became the emperor of the Holy Light Empire, he had more opportunities to make more people worship the demon from beyond, so he kept increasing the number of sacred knights around him.
Knights only had 150 years of lifespan, and a Holy Knight's lifespan was almost the same as a wizard's. Therefore, it was not hard to spread the faith of a Knight.
Of course, since he was afraid of wizards finding out, he did everything in secret.
The power of the Holy Knight had boosted Emperor Harvey's confidence, but he was also waiting for an opportunity when his Holy Knight power could compete with the wizards of the Lance Continent.
In 300 years, the first batch of Holy Knights, including Emperor Harvey himself, had all become powerful Holy Knights. Emperor Harvey was a rank 20 Holy Knight, and the rest had reached rank 19.
If Abel knew about this, he would realize it was the blessing of the Demon from beyond.
If the soul of a rank 19 or 20 Holy Knight didn't enter the bodies of the first batch of Holy Knights, how could they become rank 19 or 20 Holy Knights in 300 years?
Although there were geniuses, it was impossible for 100 Holy Knight geniuses to appear at the same time.
Not to mention, in a subcontinent like the Lance Continent, the resources were not enough to push an advanced class holder to rank 18.
In the Holy Continent, rank 18 was the highest level a class holder could reach. Even if you wanted to go higher, you would not have enough resources.
Since the Lance Continent had the same conditions as the Holy Continent, it shouldn't be any different. God's blessing was the only explanation.
For the sake of Harvey's growth, the Nation of God had used countless manpower and resources. A large number of people, both in the know and in the dark, had paved the way for Harvey. The Nation of God had even sealed the souls of 100 elite holy knights into a holy armor.
This kind of investment was almost beyond imagination, but the results were even more plentiful.
Although the distance between the Lance Continent and the Central Continent and the influence of the ocean prevented the power of faith from being transmitted, it wasn't that the power of faith couldn't be transmitted over such a long distance.
As long as there were enough believers, they could break through the distance limit.
Once the Nation of God took control of the Lance Continent, the faith of a subcontinent would be enough to break through the distance limit. Then the Nation of God would have a few times the number of Holy Knights.
The number of Holy Knights in the Nation of God had always been limited by the number of believers. The Nation of God did not have a large area, so even if they encouraged people to have children, they could not support too many people.
Therefore, the number of believers in the Nation of God could only be maintained at a certain level. The number of believers determined the number of Holy Knights.
When the Lance Continent's believers joined the Nation of God, the number of Holy Knights in the Nation of God would explode in a short period of time. Then, in a hundred years, they would be able to cultivate more Holy Knights to fight against the Central Continent.
The principle of the divine armor was similar to that of an ancient totem. It absorbed the power of faith and gave out a corresponding number of Holy Knights according to a certain ratio.
Emperor Harvey was very strict about the number of believers in the Lance Continent due to his fear of being discovered by the wizards.
But even so, the number of Holy Knights behind him had reached five thousand. Now, it was time to reap the rewards.
The power of the Holy Light Empire's Holy Knights could easily crush the power of the Lance Continent's Wizards. If it weren't for the fact that the Wizards could ask for help from the Central Continent through the super teleportation circle, the Holy Light Empire would have eliminated the Wizards a long time ago.
"Your Majesty Harvey, excuse me!" As Emperor Harvey was thinking, a shadow flashed in the palace. It was an elite wizard. He ignored everyone and bowed.
This elite wizard was very rude, and all the Knights were furious.
There were 9 rank 19 Holy Knights in the palace. They looked at Emperor Harvey and waited for his orders.
"Mr. Wizard Alpert, may I ask why you are here?" Emperor Harvey did not show any anger. Instead, he smiled and asked.
Wizard Alpert glanced at the angry Knights. He looked down on these knights. The ultimate goal of a knight was to become a Head Knight Captain, and a Head Knight Captain was only as powerful as a beginner wizard.
Knights were not included in the class system of this world. They were only a little stronger than normal warriors.
"Your Majesty Harvey, it seems like I'm not welcome in this palace!" Wizard Alpert laughed coldly.
"Please forgive me, Mr. Wizard Alpert." Emperor Harvey was not angry. He was still smiling.
In his eyes, Wizard Alpert could be killed at any time. His plan was about to start, so he didn't need to hold back. He just wanted to know why Wizard Alpert was here.
"Whatever. I'm here for the longevity potion you have, Your Majesty!" Wizard Alpert looked at Emperor Harvey with a greedy gaze.
Emperor Harvey had a strange look on his face, "Mr. Wizard Alpert, what do you mean by the longevity potion?"
Wizard Alpert laughed coldly, "You don't have to hide it anymore, Emperor Harvey. You've lived for over three hundred years. You may be a head commander, but you can only live for two hundred years at most. You might not know this, but you've been targeted by a lot of wizards!" Wizard Alpert lowered his voice and laughed coldly.
"Mr. Wizard Alpert, I really don't have the longevity potion!" Emperor Harvey's voice was no longer smiling.
Wizard Alpert pointed at Knight Kirk, "I don't know what you've been through, Emperor Harvey, but you should know that it's fine if you're the one who drank the longevity potion, but you should know that you're using it on your close subordinates!"
Elite Holy Knight Kirk was one of the first Knights of Emperor Harvey, and he was very famous among them. This was why Wizard Alpert believed that Master Harvey had a lot of longevity potions.
Of course, Wizard Alpert wasn't sure, but he didn't have many years left. His life was coming to an end, and he wasn't going to give up even if there was only a sliver of hope.
Therefore, even though Emperor Harvey had unified the Lance Continent, he still came to threaten Emperor Harvey to take out the longevity potion he thought he should have.
The main reason why Wizard Alpert dared to threaten Emperor Harvey was that Emperor Harvey had invited all of the worshippers out of the palace after he established the Holy Light Empire. Although the worshippers were still there, they no longer cared about the affairs of the Holy Light Empire.
As for where Emperor Harvey's longevity potion came from, Wizard Alpert had already figured it out. It was either brought back from the Central Continent or found in some ancient sight on the Lance Continent.
No matter what, having so many Head Knights living for 300 years was already very eye-catching.
The other wizards knew about this as well, but they were still doubtful about the longevity potion. The longevity potion was too precious. If they were Emperor Harvey, they would've used it as soon as possible.
Wizard Alpert was thinking the same thing before, but he wanted to give it a try one last time. If Emperor Harvey still had some left, he would have enough time to train to the next level.
Emperor Harvey spoke in a cold voice, "You shouldn't have come here, Wizard Alpert. You shouldn't have threatened me. Otherwise, I could've let you live a little longer."
"What? How dare you talk to me like that!" Wizard Alpert yelled in anger. At the same time, a magic staff appeared in his hand. A "fireball" spell rune appeared on the tip of the staff.
At the same time, a spell rune flashed in the hand of Holy Knight Kirk. Afterward, an icy mist aura emerged from his feet.
The "holy freeze" aura had a very subtle attacking ability, and Wizard Alpert didn't expect there to be an advanced sacred knight with a higher rank than him in the palace.
Almost instantly, frost appeared on Wizard Alpert's body, and his movements became very slow.
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