If the Grand Knight Captains weren't so greedy and didn't attack first, then the 14,000 Knight Battle Formation would've been able to hold on for a while.
But now, all 15 Knight Captains were dead, and the 14,000 knights didn't belong to the same Duchy. Without a unified leader, they began to scatter.
Abel didn't do anything. He just stood on the Sky Ship and watched the massacre on the ground. Yes, it was a massacre.
No matter if it was the Sky Ship's Bursting Crossbow or the Lightning Spiral, these Knights couldn't handle it. On top of that, the 14 Griffin Knights were harvesting their lives like the Grim Reaper.
Although the number of knights that could be killed with each attack was limited, this situation where they could not fight back caused the 14,000 knights to collapse very quickly.
When the Five Kingdom Alliance collapsed, the Grand Knight Of The Bodley led the 300 Knights back to the battlefield.
The 300 Knights used combat qi recovery potions to recover their combat qi. Only Abel could make these potions himself, so he could provide so much combat qi recovery potions at once.
Under the leadership of the Grand Knight Of The Bodley, the 300 Knights rushed towards the defeated Five Kingdom Alliance.
The strength of a Knight was in their discipline and battle formation. Once their battle formation was broken, their combat power would be greatly reduced.
Among the 14,000 knights, some of them had thought of that. However, even if they wanted to form a battle formation, they couldn't stop the other knights from interfering and colliding with them.
In addition to the attack from the sky, the knights of the five kingdoms began to retreat. On the carriages behind the knights of the five kingdoms, the beginner wizards were stunned. They wanted to control the carriages to turn around, but it was not easy to do so in a situation like this.
Soon, the Griffin Knight in the sky discovered these valuable prey and began to shoot arrows towards the carriages.
If they were normal arrows, the beginner wizards' defensive spells would've been able to block them. But these arrows were shot out from the attributed Harry Bow, and each arrow contained powerful elemental energy.
Beginner wizards didn't have high elemental resistance, and with the attributed Harry Bow's unparalleled speed, the beginner wizards were killed one by one as soon as they got out of the carriages.
By this point, no one had time to care about the most important wizards. Everyone was running for their lives.
"Use your swords for glory!" The Grand Knight Of The Bodley yelled as combat qi flashed on his body.
After that, the three hundred knights also flashed with their Battle Qi. Their Battle Qi was connected, and the battle formation changed again. It became a row, and the Battle Qi was transmitted to each other, and the knights in the row were wrapped in Battle Qi.
The 300 Knights turned into a giant combat qi scythe, and the Knights who were running for their lives were like a piece of straw.
The Knights of the Five Kingdoms Alliance were running for their lives, but their speed was far slower than the Griffin Knights and the Sky Ships in the sky. The fastest knight was killed one after another, and the fallen Knights affected the speed of the ones behind them.
More and more Knights began to feel despair as they ran. Their biggest enemy was the flying mounts and the three unknown flying objects in the sky.
War horses couldn't outrun the Griffin Knights and the Sky Ships in the sky, so running for their lives was futile.
A Knight jumped down from his war horse, threw his weapon aside, and raised his hands high to show that he had no weapon.
After one Knight did this, more and more Knights followed suit. Some Knights leaped over the surrendering Knights, but they were quickly killed. The surrendering Knights weren't hurt at all.
More and more Knights surrendered, and groups of Knights threw their weapons to the ground. They were here to fight, not to die.
They were no match for the crossbows and lightning in the sky. This was an unequal battle, and they didn't expect to see war machines of this level.
War machines of this level should only appear in wars between empires. In order to fight the Sky Ships, one would need a giant crossbow at the very least.
The Griffin Knight could only be defeated by the Winged Cavalry. Moreover, the Griffin Knight in front of them was even more terrifying than the Griffin Knight of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis.
When the whole battlefield quieted down, all the Knights surrendered. It wasn't hard to accept a Knight's surrender.
According to the Knight Code, knights could choose to surrender to protect their lives if they couldn't defeat their enemy. Therefore, even though there were still tens of thousands of Knights on the battlefield, they surrendered after being attacked by the Duchy of Carmel a few times.
The main reason for this was that the Grand Knight Captain and the intermediate wizards were all dead. Without a commander, the entire alliance of the five kingdoms was in a state of chaos.
Abel didn't expect this to happen. There were at least 13,000 Knights on the battlefield. Although his Sky Ships and the Griffin Knights kept killing them, and the 300 Knights formed a formation to chase after the Knights, they only managed to kill about a thousand of them.
Did more than 10,000 Knights surrender just like that?
Abel didn't want to take so many captives. First, the alliance of the five kingdoms violated the Knight Code. He killed all the Grand Knight Captains and intermediate wizards in the shortest time possible because he didn't want to give them a chance to surrender.
Now that the Knights had surrendered, he couldn't kill them anymore. If he did, it would be hard to explain to the human world.
Abel said to the Grand Knight Of The Bodley, "Take all their equipment and horses back. Tell Murray City to arrange for people to deal with them immediately!"
The Grand Knight Of The Bodley didn't immediately ask his subordinates to take the equipment. The job of a surrendered Knight was very troublesome. It wasn't as simple as taking the equipment.
Most of the Knight's equipment here were inherited from their respective families. Every Knight's equipment had to be recorded clearly before they could be stored in the warehouse. This way, when the Knight was redeemed later, the equipment would be redeemed together with the equipment.
If the battle formation of his subordinates was messed up, it was very likely that the 10,000 Knights would fall into chaos. If that happened, he wouldn't be able to do anything in time.
Head Commander Bodley was very experienced. He led the three hundred knights and weaved through the ten thousand captives. The knights who had already dismounted and had no weapons in their hands saw a team of knights fully equipped with magic equipment. They were riding on war horses and had formed a battle formation. All the thoughts in their minds disappeared without a trace.
Soon, a group of people came to Murray City and began to register the names and families of the Knights one by one. They also recorded their weapons, armor, and horses.
Murray City wasn't big, and they didn't have enough manpower to guard so many Knights. Therefore, these Knights could only be taken back to Bakong City.
The disarmed Knights were pushed aside, and the team of surrendered Knights was getting bigger and bigger.
No one dared to cause trouble under the control of the Sky Ship. That seemingly decorative lightning spiral had killed 5 intermediate wizards and 15 Knights in front of these surrendered Knights. No one wanted to be the next one to be killed.
Captive Knights were constantly sent to the side, but there were too few Knights in Murray City. By the time the sky turned dark, only 3000 people had been registered.
Abel saw this speed and couldn't help but frown. He ordered, "Use the teleportation circle and ask Bakong City to send a group of officials here. I want to deal with these Knights as soon as possible!"
The order was quickly passed down. In Bakong City, many officials who were asleep were woken up. They didn't know what was going on, but they were sent to the teleportation circle.
"My God! Long live the king!" The first group of officials from Bakong City used the light of the bonfire to see the knights sitting on the ground all over the mountains. The knights from Bakong City were sitting on their horses, watching over them. This was a victory, a big victory.
Although the officials didn't know when the war started, they knew the Duchy of Carmel had won an unprecedented victory.
The officials immediately threw themselves into their work, which sped up the registration process. More and more Knights were brought to the side.
When the first ray of dawn appeared in the sky, the last surrendered Knight was placed in the captive team.
A huge team of captive Knights headed towards Bakong City. They were guarded by the captain of the Grand Knight Of The Bodley, the Griffin Knight, and the three Sky Ships. This was probably the first time in history that a team of captive Knights had been captured.
Abel couldn't do anything about this. This was different from his original plan. He was going to go after the five duchies as soon as the war was over, but now he was held back by these captives.
These captives were a big problem. If they were not guarded carefully, and if one of them tried to stir up trouble, the Duchy of Carmel would suffer a huge loss.
There weren't many Knights in the Duchy of Carmel. If these 13,000 knights went out of control and ran away in all directions, the Duchy of Carmel wouldn't be able to handle the remaining Knights even if half of them were killed.
Therefore, Abel had no choice but to postpone his revenge on the five duchies. Right now, the 13,000 Knights were being escorted to Bakong City.
He didn't take over Neking City. The city's fall this time was mainly due to the fact that the nobles and citizens of Neking City were loyal to the Duchy of Thunder. He didn't want to let this matter rest. After all, under the current circumstances, no one would dare to take Neking City away from him.
However, he had already ordered the Duchy of Carmel to stop sending food to Neking City. A city that had betrayed the Duchy of Carmel didn't deserve to be fed.
What pleased him the most was the fact that these 13,000 knights didn't even need to consume the duchy of Carmel's food. This was because the food transport team that was made up of tens of thousands of people was captured as well.
The captives were once again part of the transport team, but this time, they were transporting food to the 13,000 Knights who were also captives.
While Abel was escorting the 13,000 captives back to Bakong City, the entire human world was shocked by the war that had just taken place.
On one side, there was a weak duchy that had just been taken over. On the other side, there was an alliance of five duchies.
On one side, there were only 300 Knights, while on the other side, there were 14,000 Knights and a dozen grand Knight Captains.
Under such a contrast in combat strength, the one who won was the weaker side. This greatly shocked the human world.
The one that was most affected was, of course, the Kingdom of Saint Ellis. Their scouts had witnessed the entire war. After their scouts reported back, a huge troop of Knights hidden in the Duchy of Thunder quickly retreated to the Kingdom of Saint Ellis.
In the Kingdom of Saint Ellis's palace, King Ambrose's eyes flashed with a rare look of panic.
"Derek, go to the Duchy of Carmel. Represent me and tell Guru Abel that we support the Duchy of Carmel. We condemn the actions of the five duchies. We can build a bridge between the Duchy of Carmel and the five duchies!" King Ambrose said to Prince Derek in a deep voice.
"Father, I'm afraid we can't do that now. It will take at least 10 days for Guru Abel to arrive at Bakong City. Right now, he is escorting the captives!" Prince Derek looked at King Ambrose, who rarely lost his composure, and bowed.
"Will Guru Abel know about our plan?" King Ambrose still couldn't calm down, so he asked again.
"I don't think so. Our Knights killed everyone who saw them along the way!" Prince Derek shook his head and said.
With 20,000 Knights traveling, how could they not be discovered? If they wanted to keep it a secret, there was only one way, and that was to kill everyone who saw them along the way.
This time, the Kingdom of Saint Ellis sent 20,000 Knights to the Duchy of Thunder to take advantage of the situation. Prince Derek was the commander, but he was also shocked by the power of the Duchy of Carmel. He couldn't carry out his plan, so he directly returned.
According to the Kingdom's plan, once the Duchy of Carmel lost, the 20,000 Knights of the Kingdom would immediately appear and take the spoils of war from the five duchies.
If the Duchy of Carmel won, the Kingdom's Knights would go and help the Duchy of Carmel.
But what Prince Derek didn't expect was that the 14,000 Knights of the five duchies would be defeated in a short period of time.
Even if he wanted to intervene, he couldn't. He also considered whether the Duchy of Carmel would directly attack the Knights of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis if they found out.
The 20,000 Knights of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis also didn't have any anti-air equipment. If they encountered the air power of the Duchy of Carmel, it would be another massacre.
"I really regret giving the Griffin Knights to Guru Abel. Now it seems that the Duchy of Carmel will have a strong squadron of Griffin Knights in a few decades!" King Ambrose said with some regret.
He knew very well where the extra ten Griffins came from. Because of this, he didn't dare to offend Abel.
After the ten Griffins were taken away by the Orc Empire, they were placed in Niyan City. But look at the state of Niyan City now. 6 elite orc priests died there, and tens of thousands of elite orc warriors were buried with them. Niyan City had become a land of death.
If Abel could turn Niyan City into a land of death, could he do the same to the cities of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis?
Every time this thought appeared in King Ambrose's mind, he felt a chill run down his spine. He felt that he had taken the wrong step. He should have notified Abel as soon as he heard about the five duchies alliance.
"Griffin Knights aren't easy to train. We've been experimenting for hundreds of years …" Prince Derek was about to persuade Abel again when he remembered the four Griffin Grand Knight Captains. They were the loyalists of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis. They were given to Abel because they didn't have any potential.
Now that they had become Griffin Grand Knight Captains, who would dare say that they wouldn't teach Abel how to train Griffin Knights?
Just from the extra ten Griffin Knights, it could be seen that at least the Griffin Grand Knight Captains had trained a group of Griffin Knights for the Duchy of Carmel.
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In the Duchy of Thunder, the king of the Duchy of Thunder had a dull look in his eyes. Because the war was pushed from the Duchy of Thunder to the Duchy of Carmel, he knew the situation the best.
When he heard the news of their defeat, he didn't dare to imagine what would happen in the Duchy of Thunder in the future.
Not a single Knight who went to the Duchy of Carmel had returned. All the wizards had died in battle. This news made his vision even darker.
Knights were the foundation of a duchy. The reason why the duchy could be stable was because there were Knights watching over it. For this war, the Duchy of Thunder, which wasn't very strong to begin with, had mobilized all the Knights in the duchy to form the Knight Squad.
Now that all the Knights had been captured, the Duchy of Thunder couldn't afford to ransom these Knights at the normal price.
These knights had been recruited by the Duchy of Thunder to fight for the Duchy of Thunder. Now that they had been captured, the Duchy of Thunder should pay to redeem them. Otherwise, who would be willing to risk their lives for the Duchy of Thunder?
However, there were too many Knights. The price of ransoming them was enough to bankrupt the Duchy of Thunder a few times.
In the Duchy of Thunder, such big news couldn't be blocked. All the noble families had already sent people to the palace to ask the Duchy of Thunder to ransom their Knights.
This was only a part of it. There were more noble families and Knight families who hadn't received the news. Once they received the news, the palace would be surrounded by nobles.
In the Duchy of Thunder's wizard circle, a group of low-ranking wizards were discussing leaving the Duchy of Thunder. There was only one beginner wizard left in the Duchy of Thunder. The rest of the wizards had all died in the Duchy of Carmel.
As soon as he got the news, the beginner wizard left his magic tower and disappeared without telling anyone. He didn't even want his magic tower. He just disappeared like that.
This beginner wizard couldn't be blamed. Abel was too vengeful. Back in the day, the Duchy of Keyen attacked his family's castle and wiped out the entire Duchy of Carmel's wizard circle.
Then, an advanced wizard issued an arrest warrant for him. When he returned a few years later, that advanced wizard was killed as well.
No matter if it was the Wizard Union or the other wizards, they all knew very well who was the one behind this.
The beginner wizard knew full well that he wouldn't be able to withstand Abel's wrath, so he chose to run away. Many people had been killed during the robbery of Neking City, and many of them had been killed.
As a beginner wizard, he could've gone anywhere. He could've left the Kingdom of Saint Ellis and joined a duchy in another kingdom. Why wait for Abel's revenge?
It wasn't just the Duchy of Thunder. The Duchy of Laka, Rohr, Larvid, and the organizer, the Duchy of Tex, were all in a panic.
Almost all of the Knight's in the Duchy of Carmel had been captured. Under these circumstances, the situation in the Duchy of Carmel became very serious. The food shortage was still ongoing, and with such a huge incident, the Duchy of Carmel was no longer peaceful.
Without the suppression of the Knight, some starving civilians began to organize and steal the food of the nobles. This happened countless times every day, and the entire society was in chaos.
At this point, the Duchy of Tex wanted to contact the other four Duchies to come up with a solution. However, the Duchy of Tex's suggestion was rejected, and none of the Duchies dared to form an alliance.
As the organizer of this war, the Duchy of Tex would be in more trouble than the other four Duchies. At this point, the other four Duchies couldn't have too much contact with the Duchy of Tex.
The other four Duchies even thought that if the Duchy of Tex took on more responsibility, the other four Duchies would have less responsibility. With this thought in mind, the five Duchies no longer had any contact with each other.
If it was in the past, 6 of the 7 Duchies of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis were at their weakest. This would be the best time for the other 2 Duchies to invade. Even if they didn't invade, it would be normal for them to get some benefits.
However, none of the Duchies dared to touch these Duchies that couldn't defend themselves. At least, before the Duchy of Carmel paid the compensation, they wouldn't dare to do so.
Thinking about the strength of the Duchy of Carmel, the invincible aerial combat ability, and most importantly, the extra 10 Griffins, every Duchy couldn't help but think about the dead Niyan City of the Orc Empire and the 6 Soul Lights in Niyan City.
As long as they thought about this, all the Duchies and even the 3 Empires would give up on the idea of taking over the Duchy of Carmel.
While the 5 Duchies were still anxiously waiting for the Duchy of Carmel's decision, 10 days had passed. The 13,000 Knight that Abel was escorting had arrived at Bakong City.
The gate of Bakong City was wide open, and countless people were standing on both sides of the road.
When the sky ship appeared in the sky above Bakong City, and Abel stood on it, the entire Bakong City began to cheer.
"Long live the king!"
The cheers were so loud that Abel could feel a tremor in the sky ship. The Duchy of Carmel had been known as a weak Duchy for a long time, and for the first time, it was the first time that a powerful Duchy had captured a Duchy.
The strong sense of honor made the people of Bakong City go crazy. They looked at their king with the most fanatical eyes. It was the great King Abel who led the weak Duchy of Carmel to defeat the alliance of the 5 Duchies.
The people of Bakong City knew what the 10,000 Knight from the 5 Duchies were here for. They were here to steal their food, the food that they relied on to survive.
When the 13,000 Knight walked into Bakong City, curses and trash were thrown at them. These were originally the glorious Knights.
Luckily, food was very precious, so no one threw eggs at them. But even so, when the Knight walked into a military camp in Bakong City, there were not many clean places on their bodies.
This military camp was the prison that Bakong City prepared for the 13,000 Knights. There was no prison that could hold so many Knights.
For the next period of time, these Knights would share a room with 8 Knights. They could only eat 2 meals a day, and 2 meals were not enough to fill their stomachs.
The reason for this was to make these Knights unable to resist. Of course, this was already against the rules of the knight. According to the treatment of a knight waiting to be ransomed, the Knight should at least be given a good place to live and eat.
However, there were too many Knights this time, and the Holy Continent was in a food crisis. It was already very good to have food for these Knights.
Of course, the food these Knights ate was provided by the 10,000 Knights who were also captured, but the price would still be included in the ransoming fee.
A large number of soldiers were arranged around the barracks where the 13,000 Knights were being held. The entire barracks was surrounded by crossbows and arrows.
With 13,000 Knights being held captive in Bakong City, Abel could not leave Bakong City. This many Knights were like a giant bomb that could explode at any moment.
After the Knights were settled down, the nobles of the Duchy of Carmel began to get busy. Each family sent out a large number of people to calculate the ransom of each Knight. After that, the numbers would be directly reported to the other Duchy.
Abel was also waiting for these Knights to be taken care of. After this battle, he clearly understood the advantages of the Duchy of Carmel, and also the disadvantages of the Duchy of Carmel.
The Duchy of Carmel had a powerful air force that no other Duchy had. Even the 3 big empires could not compete with the Duchy of Carmel in terms of air force.
Sky ships and bursting crossbows were strategic weapons that the dwarves would never sell to outsiders. Other than the Duchy of Carmel because of Abel, no other Duchy or Empire had them.
The lightning spiral was even scarier. Originally, the scariest thing about a strategic weapon like the Sky Ship was that an intermediate wizard could move in a flash and get close to it. Most of the time, the bursting crossbows and bursting crossbows could not kill a wizard who could move in a flash.
Therefore, when a wizard moved in a flash and got close to the Sky Ship, it would be a devastating blow to the ship.
However, with the lightning spiral, the situation was different. There were 10 lightning spirals on the Sky Ship. Any wizard who dared to forcefully get on the Sky Ship would be marked as an enemy by the spirit of the Sky Ship. Then, they would be attacked violently by the lightning spirals.
Based on the distribution of the lightning spirals on the Sky Ship, any wizard who appeared on the Sky Ship would be attacked by the closest lightning spiral. The speed of the lightning spirals was so fast that a wizard who had just moved in a flash would not be able to move in a flash for a second time.
No matter how powerful a wizard was, they would be paralyzed as soon as they were hit by the lightning spirals. Even an elite wizard would not be able to withstand the combined attack of 10 lightning spirals.
With the cooperation of the Griffin Knight, the Sky Ship could make up for the lack of detection and long-range attacks. The Griffin Knight could also use the Sky Ship as a platform to rest.
Riding on the Griffin Knight's Sky Ship reminded Abel of the aircraft carriers in his past life. The Sky Ship today was just like this, but there were too few Griffin Knights right now. They could not deploy a large number of them. After a few decades, the Sky Ship would be even more powerful when the Griffins had multiplied.
No one in the Holy Continent knew the power of the Sky Ship better than Abel. He was also trying his best to make the Sky Ship reach its goal.
Compared to the powerful Sky Ship, the Knights on the ground were too weak. Although they had magic knights and powerful battle horses that the other duchies and empires could not even imagine, the difference in numbers meant that the knights of the Duchy of Carmel could only be a supplement. They could not unleash the full power of a knight.
There was still a long way to go.
Abel sighed in his heart. He was now in the palace, which had been empty for a long time. Countless nobles and officials came to report about the war every day.
The war was not over. There were still a lot of things to take care of. Even Abel did not expect it to take this long.
Every day, there would be dozens of groups of nobles and officials going to the other duchies through the teleportation circle. Some rich nobles no longer cared about ransoming their Knight. Instead, they prepared the ransom themselves and directly contacted the Duchy of Carmel.
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