When the first ray of sunlight pierced through the darkness and illuminated the land, ushering in the dawn of a new day, the battle outside Augus City had completely ended.
Flocks of crows circled the skies above the battlefield, making unpleasant cawing sounds. The vast battlefield had already been soaked in blood and turned dark red.
Abandoned broken armor and broken weapons were strewn everywhere, and from time to time, burning chariots and siege towers could be seen.
Gruesome corpses could be seen everywhere, densely packed. However, a significant portion of them had already been stripped of their equipment.
The ragged flags of the nobles were either stuck into the ground at an angle, or had been trampled to pieces, or were slowly turning into ashes in the fire like the burning siege equipment.
On the battlefield, tall and slender figures were bustling about, either picking up the equipment that was still in good condition on the ground, or picking up armors and weapons from the corpses that were too horrible to look at in disgust.
Those were the elven players who had participated in the battle.
Most of their equipment was damaged and stained with blood. Many of them had even lost their magical beast mounts in this battle.
However, they had ultimately won this battle.
The entire battle had lasted for a day and a night, and there was no suspense about the outcome of the battle.
Even though the Empire's Northern Legion had built up a massive army of seven hundred thousand, the continuous attacks and internal strife had already exhausted the entire legion, and their cohesion had fallen to rock bottom.
Faced with the charge of the elven cavalry, they could not organize any effective resistance at all …
The most direct result was that the seven hundred thousand strong army was crushed by the players' god-like cavalry.
On the battlefield outside of Augus City, there was a spectacular defeat.
The most ironic thing was that a significant portion of the seven hundred thousand strong army was not killed by the players. Instead, they were trampled to death by their own people in the chaos.
This was also the main source of the corpses on the battlefield.
Other than a portion of the nobles who had barely managed to organize their private soldiers to break out of the encirclement and escape, almost seventy percent of the allied army had been wiped out on this vast land within a day and a night …
Arthur, the commander of Augus City's garrison, stood on a hill and looked at the vast battlefield. His expression was filled with shock, and beyond shock, he felt like he was in a dream.
He had never imagined that the seven hundred thousand allied army of the Empire would be wiped out in such a manner.
That's right, destroyed.
Seventy percent of the army was killed on the spot, and the remaining army completely collapsed. This was enough to be called a total annihilation.
And all of this was achieved by the elven chosen ones through a miraculous method.
He felt that he would never forget the magnificent charge of the elven cavalry a day and a night ago.
He couldn't imagine any army in this world that was more powerful than the Elven Chosen One.
"How is it, Mr. Arthur? How does it feel to win?"
A familiar voice rang out behind him, carrying a hint of a smile.
Arthur turned around and saw the All-Star Dumby standing behind him. In his hands, he was playing with an exquisite weapon that was clearly a Noble Commander's sword.
Arthur was stunned for a moment before he sighed emotionally.
"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it …"
"You didn't expect us to win so quickly?"
All Star Dumby asked back.
Arthur nodded his head and said in a daze, "That's right.
"Yes, I originally thought that we would be fighting a very difficult war, but I didn't expect that victory would come so suddenly …"
"Hahaha, we're lucky, and the empire's army is too weak. To be honest, I didn't expect it to be so easy."
All Star Dumby laughed heartily.
The two exchanged a few words, then Arthur asked again.
"Right, are we still going to pursue those escaping nobles? Duke Rosen and Earl Meese seemed to have escaped. "
"No need."
All Star Dumby shook his head.
As he said that, he laughed.
"Don't worry, they can't escape."
…
At the border of the Western Territory.
A group of hundreds of disheveled Noble Knights were stumbling as they fled towards the North.
Most of them had lost their weapons and were in a sorry state. Their expressions were filled with fear and confusion.
Duke Rosen Joseph and Earl Meese were among them. They were being carried by their own personal guards as they fled. Their hair was disheveled and their faces were pale.
Joseph was no longer as high-spirited as he was a few days ago.
His face was pale and bloodless. His eyes were dull and filled with despair.
Before the war, there were 700,000 soldiers.
Now, there were only a few hundred people who had escaped with him.
Among them, there were less than 200 who truly belonged to the Rosen Family.
As for the other tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, they had already escaped to god knows where …
A crushing defeat …
It was a complete and utter defeat!
In just two days, the allied army formed by all the nobles in the western part of the Empire retreated in such a comical manner.
Joseph didn't even dare to think about what this outcome would bring …
He only knew that he was done for.
Such a huge loss would definitely arouse the dissatisfaction of the Empire's Parliament.
Even more seriously, the Rosen Family might even be stripped of their Kurfürst title.
This battle had dealt a huge blow to the Rosen Family.
The army that the family had painstakingly gathered after the previous annihilation was gone once again.
They probably wouldn't be able to gather enough strength to resist the Empire's Parliament for a long time.
It was painful.
The price … was too heavy!
Thinking about it, Joseph couldn't help but feel sad. He actually started to cry.
As a Duke, when he cried, the nobles and personal guards who followed him couldn't hold it in anymore. Sobs gradually rose and fell in the ranks.
When Joseph's voice was hoarse from crying, he raised his head abruptly and glared angrily at the defeated Earl Meath on the other side.
"It's you! It's all your fault, you idiot! If not for your stupidity, how could we have suffered such a crushing defeat?! "
Hearing Joseph's reprimand, the other nobles also cast angry and resentful gazes at Earl Meese.
Feeling the venomous gazes piercing into his body, Earl Meese numbly turned his eyes away.
He didn't say anything, but the hand holding the broken sword trembled even more.
"Think on the bright side, at least … we all escaped. As long as we escaped, we can continue to recruit new troops and fight our way back …"
A noble sighed and said.
Hearing this, many of the dispirited nobles pulled themselves together and started to think about how to salvage the situation after the defeat to minimize their losses …
However, at this moment, a loud dragon's roar came from the sky.
"Megalosaurus?"
Some of the defeated soldiers raised their heads and looked at the sky like birds startled by the twang of a bow.
In the sky, a majestic Megalosaurus was constantly circling, and on the back of the Megalosaurus, a tall and slender figure could be vaguely seen.
Seeing that familiar figure, the expressions of the nobles and the defeated soldiers changed, and their faces turned pale.
The previous battle had already left a deep psychological trauma in their hearts towards the Elves.
"Not good! It's the Elven Dragon Knights! "
"They saw us!"
"Run! Run! "
In an instant, the defeated troops fell into a great panic and instantly increased their speed of escape.
However, before they could escape too far, the familiar sound of iron hooves came from all directions. Along with the billowing dust, the Elven Cavalry that struck fear into the hearts of every noble and soldier appeared before them once again.
This time, the Elves didn't come from the rear, but from the front.
They were wandering around the western territory and didn't participate in the battle. They were in charge of hunting down the defeated soldiers.
Soon, the defeated nobles were surrounded, and long spears were placed against their necks.
A player who was clearly the commander of the army dismounted from his dragon scale horse and walked out of the crowd.
He looked at the ashen-faced Joseph, then looked at Earl Meese, who had a blank look in his eyes. After comparing them with the screenshots in the battlefield channel, he laughed heartily.
"Hahaha! Look what we've found! "
After laughing, his expression turned serious, and he gave an order.
"Capture them and bring them back to Augus City!"
After saying that, under the desperate gazes of the nobles, the Elves swarmed forward and tied them up.
…
When the news of the annihilation of the Northern Army reached the center of the empire, the entire upper class of the Holy Mania Empire was shocked.
In less than two months since the start of the war, an army of 700,000 was wiped out in just the first battle.
If this unbelievable news hadn't been confirmed by many parties, no one would have believed it at all.
However, the shock of the upper class of the empire was just the beginning.
Because soon, they were shocked by one bad news after another until they became numb.
The northern battlefield was only one of the battlefields of the entire Great Sage War.
At the same time as the northern battle came to an end, battles broke out in the eastern battlefield, the southern battlefield, and the Desert of Death Battlefield.
On each battlefield, the players faced the allied army of the nobles that numbered in the tens to millions. On each battlefield, the forces of the Church of Life were far inferior to those of the Church of Eternity.
However, it wasn't just the northern battlefield. After the battles broke out in all the other battlefields, the situation of the battles shocked everyone.
On the Desert of Death.
With Sandstorm City as the core, the Mengmeng Committee's army of more than 200,000 players and the 100,000 reinforcements of the Dark Silence Alliance from the Underworld fought the invading allied army of the Kingdom of Ayres in the desert.
Although the army of the Kingdom of Ayres was far more numerous than the allied army of the elves, the players relied on the geographical advantage and the resurrection advantage to beat the army of the Kingdom of Ayres until they were almost driven out of the Desert of Death.
On the eastern side of the Maplemoon Free Territory.
The defensive forces of Nature's Heart and the main forces of the Maplemoon Free Territory defended the territory with all their might, breaking out into battle again and again with the strongest army of the Eastern Army.
Although the difference in numbers between the two sides was like heaven and earth, under Li Mu's superb command, the two sides were evenly matched.
The entire eastern theater of operations turned into a cruel meat grinder.
At the rear, the players' Ranger Corps promoted Demacia's tactics and turned the rear of the Eastern Army upside down, almost cutting off the logistics of the Eastern Army.
In the end, the Eastern Army, which was under increasing pressure, had to give up the fierce attack and confront the Maplemoon Free Territory.
The situation in the Southern Territory, where the overall player strength was the weakest, was even more surprising.
The Dao-Chaser Alliance formed by Frank exploded with great combat strength, fighting an intense battle with the Empire's Southern Army together with the players' Calamity Knights.
Although they suffered heavy losses, the Empire's Southern Army was unable to advance after occupying less than half of the territory of the Southern Territory. Instead, they fell into a sea of guerilla warfare formed by the players and believers of life …
Since the beginning of the Great Holy War, the millions of human armies had been unstoppable. However, not long after the war began, they suffered one setback after another.
It was only in the north of the Elven Forest that the First Army of the War God Alliance was facing the greatest pressure.
However, after the War God Alliance's main force, the Draconian Kingdom in the northeast of the continent brazenly launched an attack on the Draconian Free Parliament and many affiliated forces behind the War God Alliance's army, greatly reducing the pressure on the Elven Forest.
More importantly, after the war broke out, the players gradually discovered that the Orc Alliance's fighting spirit was not as strong as they had imagined.
After the fierce battle at the beginning, they seemed to be putting on an act and slacking off.
Apart from the northern battlefield, the situation of the war on the continent had fallen into a strange stalemate.
However, this stalemate did not last for long.
After the remaining Player armies that had not been attacked entered the battle, the balance of the war began to tilt towards the Elves.
Several border cities that had fallen in the Maple Moon Free Territory were quickly retaken, and the Southern Territory also showed signs of a counterattack.
News of defeat after defeat was sent back from the frontlines to the rear of the human kingdoms, and the entire upper class of the human race fell into a state of confusion and panic.
They never imagined that their overall strength would be so much greater than the enemy's, but after the war began, they would be defeated so badly.
A thousand years ago, the crusade army led by the human armies was invincible in the war against the Druidic Order.
And it was only then that the Players realized that they had expected to face a difficult and disadvantageous situation, but they never imagined that it would be a smooth-sailing battle …
The Noble Alliance of the human world was far more useless than they had imagined.
In other words, it was not only the fallen noble soldiers who were too weak, but the players who had the game system and the ability to resurrect were too strong …
News of victory after victory was sent back to the Elven Forest, and the morale of the players became higher and higher.
However, some sharp-minded people faintly noticed the problem.
"Something's wrong … Something's very wrong."
On the eastern battlefield, Li Mu rode on his unicorn and stood on a hill, looking down at the Player army that was chasing after the defeated Imperial Army. He frowned slightly.
"The Imperial Army seems to be too weak …"
"Hey, Brother Mu, it's not that they're too weak, but that we're too strong!"
Beside him, a Nature's Heart player said proudly.
However, Li Mu shook his head slightly.
"No …"
As he spoke, he looked into the distance, and his gaze gradually became solemn.
"Let me ask you, since the start of the war, have you ever seen a legendary profession, or rather, an army of Judgement Knights?"
Hearing his words, the Nature's Heart players were stunned.
They looked at each other, and someone frowned and thought for a moment before saying with uncertainty.
"Perhaps … It's not time for them to appear yet? Like how they're weak at first and then strong at last, they'll only appear after defeating the noble army? "
Li Mu was speechless.
He looked at the other person speechlessly and shook his head gently.
"What time is it now? Haven't you changed your mind? Don't judge 'Elven Nation' by the logic of other games. This isn't a simple game, but more like a 'real world'. All the plot logic is based on the development of reality. "
After saying that, Li Mu pondered for a moment and said meaningfully, "But, it's not a bad thing to do.
"But no matter what, attacking the human kingdoms and weakening the Eternal Church's power is definitely the right thing to do. Right now, most of the human nobles' combat strength is tied down by us. It's time to use the forces that we've prepared long ago."
"The fire that burns the human world can be ignited …"
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