After the great victory in Town Leith, the Dark Moon, which had been low-key in the military, finally made a big move.
That was to send troops south to the Blue Lava Estate.
In the war of lords, the Red Spirit Lord Josh still had the righteous reason that his "heir", Joseph, was killed, then the Blue Lava Estate, which jointly sent troops, had no reason at all to take advantage of the situation.
Back then, the Lord of Midnight Sun wanted to behead the Blue Lava Estate Lord Titan in a rage. It was Jía's father, Crown Prince Grimm, who protected him. As a result, Titan seemed to be friendly to the 2 generations of lords, Grimm and Jía, but he was secretly smuggling the Dark Moon's population and resources. This time, he sent troops with the Red Spirit Estate. He was obviously an ungrateful person who returned kindness with ingratitude.
However, the Dark Moon sent troops to the Blue Lava Estate not for revenge, but because the son of the former Blue Lava Estate Lord Titan, who was currently the temporary lord, Chandler, sent a letter to Princess Royal Jía of the Dark Moon for help a few days ago.
In the letter, it was claimed that the Blue Lava Estate was now in huge difficulties. The capital had not even returned a single white crystal coin that was in arrears. The people were facing the threat of famine, and there were rebels like Sumen who were causing trouble. He begged Royal Highness Jía to send troops to support and give certain economic assistance.
Chandler's letter also specifically mentioned that even if the Blue Lava Estate had wronged the Dark Moon, the blood of 100,000 people plus the death of the former Blue Lava Estate Lord Titan himself was enough to compensate for the mistake. Princess Jía asked for the sake of the Blue Lava Estate's people to help the Blue Lava Estate through this difficulty. In the future, the Blue Lava Estate would follow the lead of the Dark Moon.
This was already a hint of surrender. If the Blue Lava Estate, one of the 4 major estates, surrendered to the Dark Moon, the influence would definitely exceed the sum of those small and medium-sized estates.
Princess Royal Jía considered for a long time, and she finally decided to send troops to support the Blue Lava Estate. Before that, the Dark Moon had supported and helped the nearby small estates many times. In addition, Chandler's letter was pleading, so this move did not cause any particular agitation in the surrounding areas.
This time, the Dark Moon dispatched the elite forces of the original garrison army, which had been renamed the Flame Legion. A total of 10,000 troops were personally led by the legion commander, Athena. Financial Officer Chen Rui was also on the list. He temporarily held the position of military adviser. His main task was to help the Blue Lava Estate reorganize its economy and business.
To be on the safe side, Jía also sent the current deputy head of the Red Blood Legion, the leader of the Cloak Gang, Aguile, to accompany the army to further ensure the safety of important personnel including financial officer Chen Rui.
The identity of this Aguile had always been mysterious. It was said that no one had seen his true face. He once played a vital role in Joseph's downfall and showed extraordinary wisdom. In the battle of Town Leith's wilderness, the mysterious cloaked man who defeated the Red Spirit Lord Josh and killed the capital's envoy, Rus, was likely to be the leader of the Cloak Gang.
Whether it was civil or military, the Dark Moon had dispatched all its elites. They were determined to assist the Blue Lava Estate.
When this Flame Legion elite, which was jokingly called by Chen Rui as the "peacekeeping force", passed through Town Yankou, Athena did not order a detour or a rapid advance. Instead, she ordered the army to station on the spot. The elites of the legion showed considerable vigilance and even nervousness for this mysterious dead place that once buried 100,000 Blue Lava Estate Army. They were on guard all night. Although the white mist was terrible at night, and there were mournful beast howls from time to time, fortunately, there were no changes. The army embarked on the journey again the next day.
These elite troops had used the extermination of bandits to train in the nearby small estate. After experiencing this courage training, their experience and tacit understanding had increased. Of course, Athena chose to stay in Town Yankou not only to train the courage of the army, but also because of Guradam.
This time, Chen Rui brought a lot of equipment to arm Guradam's undead army. Many of them were even excellent grade equipment. When the corpse necromancer saw this batch of equipment, his eyes flashed with a huge surprise. The concept of an undead army in ordinary battles was that they would be used as cannon fodder in the ocean. There had never been such a concept of an elite armed force. Of course, this was related to my new undead army, but it was mostly because my Lord valued them, or perhaps it could be called respect.
In particular, the basis of this "respect" was still based on the fact that the Dragons had recovered to the terrifying strength of the peak stage of the Demon Overlord. Although Chen Rui did not say this clearly, the corpse necromancer, who was at the peak stage of the Demon Emperor, had clearly sensed the breath that made him tremble from the poison dragon. No, it seems to be much more terrifying than 2000 years ago!
The 100,000 army of the Blue Lava Estate had all been transformed into undead. Among them, Mallorca, who had the strength of the early stage of the Demon Emperor, was also made into the strongest elite terror knight. As for the Blue Lava Estate Lord Titan of the intermediate stage of the Demon Emperor, there was a little problem during the transformation. Fortunately, Titan was transformed into a vampire by using the vampire making secret technique provided by Sulfur.
Guradam greatly appreciated Sulfur's talent and intended to accept him as a servant. Unfortunately, he had already signed a master-slave contract with Chen Rui, so he could not sign a contract with a second person. Therefore, he proposed that Chen Rui accept Sulfur as a servant. After Chen Rui upgraded to five-star evolution, the spiritual link was also upgraded. The number of slots for the equality link rose from 4 to 5. Currently, there was only Paglio alone.
The number of high-low contracts rose from 12 to 15. Guradam and Samuel signed the master-slave contract; 7 people including the imp Slee, Dodo, Tim, Royce, and Celine signed the master-slave contract. Now with Sulfur, there were a total of 10 people. There were still 5 vacancies.
As for the puppets, there were still only 2 slots. Now it was Kanita and Snowden. In a sense, these 2 were a bit repetitive, but there was no need to make changes for the time being.
The spiritual link not only provided a detailed sketch of the contract, but it also had a link strengthening function. Chen Rui was now a five-star Star Lord, so he could already use strengthening. It was divided into 2 types: star strengthening and battle strengthening.
Star-level strengthening was permanent. Just 1 star strengthening required 100,000 faith crystals, and it was currently in a gray state. Battle strengthening was time-limited. It required 100 faith crystals each time.
At present, in the Super System, the population of the blue planet was still too small, and the growth of faith crystals was slow. Coupled with the Pillar of Faith that automatically grew 1 crystal every day, there were only a little more than 300 crystals in total.
Chen Rui had always wanted to experiment with the strongest [Royal Star Transformation] combat skill, but faith was not like aura. It could not be obtained by converting certain materials, so he could only let nature take its course. At present, he wanted to accumulate 1,000 faith crystals first, then try this link strengthening function.
The undead army was fully equipped with weapons. The ordinary cannon fodder skeletons were naturally equipped with common goods, while the elite troops were equipped with advanced equipment. Many of them were even magic equipment. For example, the newly developed skeleton archers were all armed with magic bows; the skeleton magicians were equipped with magic bracelets that increased magic power and quickly recovered spirit power; the skeleton cavalry, including the skeleton warhorses, used light armor and horse armor that increased speed and enhanced defense; as for the terror knights' equipment, it had reached the excellent grade. The elite terror knight Mallorca and the elite vampire Titan were even equipped with quasi-legendary grade armor and weapons.
Facing the powerful equipment of the undead army, Guradam was extremely excited. His Lord's promise was indeed true. These equipment were no different from the regular army. Chen Rui gave the corpse necromancer a quasi-legendary grade cloak and a legendary grade magic wand, as well as 2 auxiliary excellent-grade magic accessories. There was a lot of knowledge in equipment matching. Although the magic accessories were only excellent-grade, they could allow the corpse necromancer to steadily cast magic and maximize the power of the overall equipment, greatly increasing Guradam's spirit power and dark magic power.
Traditional necromancers used spirit power to control the army, while Guradam used a self-created secret technique similar to the soul chain, which could greatly increase the number of control, but it was also inseparable from the foundation of spirit power. Now that he had the equipment given by Chen Rui, in addition to his own magic power being greatly enhanced, his ability to control the undead army was greatly enhanced. He immediately expressed his gratitude with sincerity.
The army passed through Town Yankou and went all the way to Town Soto, the southernmost part of the Dark Moon. A new line of defense had now been set up there. Athena expressed her condolences to the garrison of Town Soto, then she continued to the south with the 10,000 legion elites and entered the Blue Lava Estate in a mighty manner.
The northernmost barrier of the Blue Lava Estate was Town Pesa. A scout reported: Town Pesa is already on standby, and all the magic protection circles are activated.
Compared with the well-equipped Flame Legion, the garrison of Town Pesa could only be described as shabby. Many of them didn't even have armor and weapons. They only held simple weapons and even farming tools. Obviously, most of them were not regular soldiers.
After the war of lords, the elites of the Blue Lava Estate were all killed. Moreover, the temporary lord, Chandler, was muddle-headed and incompetent. He levied exorbitant taxes, which led to internal rebellion and the collapse of the people's morale.
Town Pesa's military pay had been in arrears for 2 months. The soldiers either ran away or scattered. This important place that was usually heavily guarded now had less than 1/10 of the regular troops. Even if the magic circle was still effective, it could be said to be not much stronger than a muddy wall in the face of the Dark Moon's 10,000 elites.
As for the townspeople with farming tools, they spontaneously came to participate in the defense under the leadership of the town elder, Old Ryan. The Blue Lava Estate ungratefully invaded the Dark Moon back then, so it was reasonable for the Dark Moon's elites to retaliate now. With the ruthless means of the Dark Moon to completely destroy the 100,000 army, once the town was breached, perhaps all the townspeople would be slaughtered.
The women and children were trying to move. Since the "enemy" came too fast, they must buy time first. Demons were mostly brave and ruthless. They would die anyway, so it was better to fight with the enemy for their wives and children.
Looking at the hostile soldiers and civilians of Town Pesa, Athena, who was riding on the horse, frowned. With the power of the Flame Legion, it was not difficult to wipe out Town Pesa. It was just that the reason for this deployment was not for the so-called occupation and killing, but for "help".
If this first stop was not handled well, it was likely to encounter more difficulties and even unnecessary losses later.
The well-trained and well-armed Dark Moon Army caused strong pressure on the defenders and residents of Town Pesa. The terrifying haze and fear shrouded everyone's heart. A resident who was pulling a bow trembled. He did not hold it steady, and an arrow immediately left the string and landed in front of the Flame Legion.
Although the arrow did not hit the target, this was already a blatant provocation. The Flame Legion elites all showed a strong fighting spirit. They rubbed their palms, ready to start a fierce attack when the legion leader, Athena, gave the order.
"Wait a minute!" Chen Rui's voice sounded in time.
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