Andre ordered the fleet to dock and search the place.
He discovered that the Iron Fist Army that had been stationed in the fortress had been slaughtered by the steam army. The only thing left was the dried blood on the ground.
Following the blood trail, he found that the broken bodies of the Iron Fist Army had been piled into a high tower by the steam army not far away from the fortress.
They had even placed an enormous gear at the top of the tower.
The steam army was showing off to the Fist God Temple in such an arrogant way, declaring their strength and appealing to the people everywhere. Look, the Fist God Temple is nothing special. The dark age where the Fist God ruled the world for ten thousand years is about to be over, and it will never return!
The further south they went, the more frequent such scenes became.
This place was already a war zone. The elite priests and the Iron Fist Army that had been transferred from the various Fist Temples in the north had gathered here incessantly, forming an army that claimed to have a million soldiers. They were actively searching for the steam army that claimed to have a million soldiers and waiting for a strategic final battle. It would also be a battle that would decide the fate of the Fist God's World.
It was like two enormous beasts roaring and baring their fangs and claws to test each other's strength before they crashed into each other.
Both the Iron Fist Army and the steam army had sent countless scouts, suicide squads, and other small-scale armed forces to various places in the south as their eyes and ears.
Those small-scale armed forces often ran into each other without warning.
Every time they ran into each other, the battle would be particularly fierce and even cruel.
Except for the interrogation, almost no one was left alive.
As for the captives who had been interrogated, they would not be able to find a single piece of undamaged flesh even after searching through every bone in their bodies. They would rather be killed on the battlefield with a single slash of a blade.
The 'sights' made of the corpses and skulls of both parties could be found everywhere. Often, one would see the miserable state of the Iron Fist Army in one town, and in the next burning town, one would see countless smashed machines, as well as the bodies of the steam soldiers who had been guarding the machines and turned into minced meat and mud.
The battle between the Iron Fist Army and the steam army had reached the climax.
Almost all the order in the south had been lost. Beasts and bandits were rampant. The demons in human skin were often crueler than the Iron Fist Army and the steam army.
More and more towns along the river became empty tombs. Anyway, for the residents of the towns, even if they stayed in their homes obediently, they would be killed as heretics or tortured by ferocious beasts and bandits when the Iron Fist Army came.
Since he was going to die either way, he might as well join the steam troops as soon as possible. Even if he died, he would die with a bang.
As a result, the steam army's base in the south was surprisingly good.
Even in the barren land that seemed to be burning furiously, seeing that Andre's fleet was flying the flag of the Church of Machinery and Steam, the most delicate rudders had been set up at the rear of the ships. Steam was even popping up nonstop. Very soon, "believers of machinery and steam" in the guise of civilians would crawl out and provide information and assets to them.
With the help of these Steam Believers, Andre and the other Steam Army troops from the north finally connected with the 'headquarters' in the south.
After leaving some of the wounded in the homes of the southern believers for treatment and obtaining sufficient supplies, the visitors from the north could finally breathe a sigh of relief and recover most of their combat power.
However, the southern Steam Believers that they met could not tell them where the main force of the southern Steam Army was.
It was said that the main force of the steam army was playing hide-and-seek with the Iron Fist Army, which was marching south aggressively and trying to finish the war in one battle. While wearing down the enemy's assets, strength, and fighting will, the steam army was looking for an opportunity.
This was the final battle. The location of the main force of the two parties was a top secret of great importance. Naturally, it could not be revealed easily.
Several squads of the southern Steam Army warmly invited Andre and his team to work with them in the peripheral battles. When the final battle really began, there would be plenty of opportunities to make contributions and serve the God of Steam.
Andre was unwilling to lose the independence of the team in his hands, nor did he want to do the dirty work at the periphery of the battle area. Therefore, he pushed Gus and Grey out and solemnly introduced them as' Holy Son 'and' Saintess'.
The southern Steam Army's attitude toward the two 'Holy Son' and 'Saintess' was very ambiguous.
They did not 'kneel down', but they did not deny the authenticity of their identities either.
Such rebellions that were launched in the name of gods and devils were often mixed with very strong elements of feudal superstition. Often, when the believers were extremely crazy, they would say that they had heard the 'teachings' of the true gods and even asked for the power of the true gods to help them.
The southern Steam Army had seen a lot of such things. It was not appropriate for them to simply and rudely condemn it as a scam in case the enthusiasm of most of the believers would be affected. However, it was also impossible for them to admit it immediately. This involved the ownership of each other's power, the distribution of interests, the status of each other, and all kinds of troublesome things.
In the end, after many discussions and compromises, the northern steam army led by Andre was temporarily stationed near a tributary of the big river in the south, near a small river called the Crimson Sand River, as an independent detachment that listened to the tune but did not listen to orders.
This area was the rear of the Steam Army. The seven or eight towns within a hundred kilometers were all controlled by the Steam Army. They could provide supplies for Andre's team. The condition was that if the Iron Fist Army invaded this area, they had to fight side by side. When the news of the final battle came, they had to immediately follow the surrounding allies to the battlefield to eliminate the 'false gods'.
Gus, on the other hand, did not care whether or not his identity as the 'Holy Son' was acknowledged by the southern Steam Army.
After all, he had seen a vaster world of a higher level.
He knew that everything before his eyes was an illusory scam. It was just a chessboard of data and information.
These days, Gus had been considering the authenticity of Demon Lu Qingchen's words.
After careful consideration, he came to the conclusion that, even though Lu Qingchen had ulterior motives and had certainly concealed his real purpose, he did not lie about the truth of the World of Fist God.
Also, the World of Fist God was really about to be destroyed.
On his way to the south, Gus had seen more and more evidence.
First of all, more and more frozen lightning appeared in the sky.
It was fine during the day, but one night, dozens of lightning bolts crisscrossed the sky, making it look like a shattered bowl. It made people very worried, not knowing when it would be unable to hold on and shatter with a bang, collapsing with a loud rumble.
Secondly, there were all kinds of abnormal phenomena that violated the laws of nature.
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