The three-line formation of the war mammoths finally broke through the Chaos Dwarves' formation mercilessly.
Following closely behind were groups of Eternal Chaos and Divine Chosen Warriors of Nurgle. These Kurgan warriors who had sacrificed everything to Chaos were fully clad in heavy armor and wielding heavy weapons such as battle axes, halberds, and even two-handed hammers. They charged into the Chaos Dwarves' formation and began a massacre.
These Chaos Warriors and Divine Chosen Warriors of Chaos no longer needed to eat or rest. They had already sacrificed everything to the Evil God. While the human warriors who had been fighting for a long time could find comfort in the delicacies, fireplaces, and women at home, the Chaos Warriors could no longer find comfort in these actions. The only thing they could feel was the joy of following the will of the Evil God.
However, these believers of the Evil God had also received astonishing power. Their full-body armor was the most powerful proof. These armor were not made by the inferior metallurgy of the Kurgan. Instead, after they had devoted themselves to the faith of the Evil God, the armor naturally grew from their skin and became full-body armor.
The Evil God's bestowment was far more than that. Even the huge fleet of Northka dragon ships were not made by the Northka people. Instead, after a sacrificial ceremony, the dragon ships floated directly from the ice lake, the fjords, and the Chaos Sea.
What? Someone said that this was unreasonable?
Chaos had never talked about reasonableness with mortals. From a certain perspective, mortals could not understand the essence of Chaos. They only knew how to use their superficial knowledge and childish logic to infer the thoughts of the Evil God of Chaos. However, this was destined to be futile.
The leader of the Chaos Dwarves, Gray Prophet Drazihoth, was not such a fool. He was neither a fool nor an idiot. He quickly realized that he was losing and that he and his army were in danger. Therefore, Drazihoth immediately ordered the army to retreat. The most elite Inferno Guards and himself would be in charge of covering the rear.
The auxiliary troops on the two flanks finally played their role in this battle. Large groups of goblins and various slaves were driven to the frontlines to die under the orders of the Chaos Dwarves and Demon Blacksmiths. They completed their mission very well, but they still could not stop the Chaos Dwarves' army from collapsing.
This was because there was no army that could stop the rampaging Chaos Mammoths.
The Inferno Guards tried their best to stop the Chaos Mammoths' attack, but these Chaos Dwarves ended up being stomped into the ground. Facing the Chaos Mammoths' War Trample, the Inferno Guards suffered heavy casualties. Gray Prophet Drazihoth ordered the Inferno Guards to fight to the last man.
Thus, on this day, all of the Purgatory Guards sought the glorious death they had always dreamed of.
Many of the remaining Chaos Dwarves chose to self-destruct with their beloved war machines. They bought enough time for the main Chaos Dwarf army to retreat. Drazihoth even released a large-scale Chaos spell that drowned the entire battlefield in volcanic ash and thick smoke. While Tarim Khan and the Army of Chaos that he could not control were busy chasing the remaining enemies and looting the spoils of war, the Gray Prophet and the main forces of the Chaos Dwarves had successfully retreated into Onyx Castle. Then, the entire Chaos Dwarf castle was firmly besieged by the Chaos Army.
The battle had since fallen into a stalemate. Facing the Chaos Dwarf castle, Tarim Khan's Nurgle army did not have enough siege weapons, and the Chaos Dwarves could not break out. They were trapped in the castle alone.
Therefore, a peace negotiation came to fruition. A letter was sent from the Nurgle army to Onyx Castle.
"I'm Tarim Khan, the son of Emperor Kurgan, the builder of the ruins, the King of Armies, the Father of Decay, and the Chosen of Gods champion of Nurgle. I have a proposal now."
"Mr. Gray Prophet Drazihoth, we have surrounded your castle. Do you want to watch us destroy it? Do you want us to turn your castle into ruins? Today's battle was wonderful. Under the witness of the gods, the battle of the Chaos Dwarves really made our eyes shine! You have won the honor, and now our peace negotiation will not cause any damage to your reputation! "
"The children of the loving father do not want to fight with the people of Hasuth. They want us to form an alliance to conquer the land of humans and conquer Charlemagne's Empire! We have powerful beasts, invincible cavalry, and rock-solid warriors, and you have steel, gunpowder, and faith. Our combination is the will of the gods! "
"The warriors of Kurgan are eager to fight together with the children of Zar!"
After receiving the letter, Gray Prophet Drazihoth sneered and threw the letter aside. The children of Hasuth, the Father of Darkness, were never afraid of war. If Tarim Khan dared to attack Onyx Castle, the hundreds of Chaos Hell Cannons and Demon Lava Cannons on the castle would let Tarim Khan know who was the master of this land.
But then, the Gray Prophet suddenly felt that Tarim Khan's proposal was not without merit. Deep in Drazihoth's heart, he had always coveted Charlemagne's Empire in the west. Legend had it that it was a country built of gold, ore, and steel. More importantly, there was a large population there that he could plunder.
Most importantly, as everyone knew, Drazihoth was an exiled Chaos Dwarf Demon Warlock. He was exiled from Zar-Naglund, the capital of the Chaos Dwarves. From an exiled Warlock to the ruler of Onyx Castle, Drazihoth had spent centuries.
Did it mean that Drazihoth would have to spend centuries to return to the capital to become the supreme leader of the Chaos Dwarves and the favorite citizen of Hasuth, the Father of Darkness?
No, the black magic and war machines of the Chaos Dwarves were far more powerful than Charlemagne's Empire. Drazihoth would have to prove his excellence and rightness through a real war. Humans? A bunch of worthless scum. That's right. Perhaps Tarim Khan's suggestion was not unreasonable. Drazihoth should form an expeditionary force to conquer Charlemagne's Empire and take all the secrets of human engineering and magic into his grasp. When he returned with victory and glory, he would become a rising star in front of Hasuth. He would shoulder the heavy responsibility of the Chaos Dwarves' Dark Empire. This should be his mission.
Drazihoth nodded in satisfaction. He had made his decision. He would form an expeditionary force and form an alliance with Tarim Khan to conquer the West.
Khagan Tamu was very satisfied with this result. The two sides formally signed the covenant. The Chaos Dwarves put forward many conditions, and Khagan Tamu accepted them all. So these people of Hasuoth joined his army, and he seemed to be one step closer to the Throne of Chaos.
By the time Draz Hoss, the Chaos Dwarf Fiend Warlock Lord, realized that this expedition to the west was full of hardships and tribulations, and how terrifying and despairing the silver fiend was, it was already a year later.
… I'm the dividing line between the Chaos Dwarves and the Kurgan men …
Of course, Laing was unaware of what was happening in the Dark Realm thousands of miles away. At this moment, he, Suria, Al, Frey, Emilia, Olica, and Silvia were approaching Nur.
"Nur has a long history." Emilia stood on the bow of the Rick Navy's warship and gazed at the city in the distance. Laing's maid held the hand of her son, Frey Derick Jr., and explained to Laing, Suria, and the others. "It is generally believed that Nur is one of the greatest cities in the history of the Empire. It is known as the jewel of the Rick region and was once the capital of the Empire for a long time."
Everyone listened attentively to Emilia's introduction. The maid's words were filled with pride for Nur. She was extremely proud of being the ruler of Nur. She grew up here and had deep feelings for the city. Therefore, when the Nur representative came to invite her back, her feelings for the city also played an important role in Emilia's final decision.
Laing smiled and didn't say anything. He looked at the wide Rick River. It was February, and the weather was still a little cold. However, the river had thawed and could be sailed.
He was going to Nur this time to use this city to open up a new situation for all of Brittany. The plan to send five hundred young children to Nur to study abroad was decided by his personal relationship with Emilia and the order. In simple terms, the Nur didn't want to accept these people, and it was Laing who forced them in. Today, although the nobles of Nur didn't hate or hate Laing, it was certain that the most arrogant nobles of the Empire didn't have a good impression of Laing.
This was normal and understandable. After all, Laing didn't marry their Countess Emmanuel and they had a child out of wedlock. Even though Laing brought a large number of orders to Nur, they still had a child out of wedlock.
Therefore, Laing decided to visit Nur with Suria. He wanted to appear in front of the nobles and citizens of Nur. He wanted to make the name Laing Macado not just a symbol or a story told by bards, but a real person with flesh and blood.
This was the only way the children who came to Nur to study abroad wouldn't be looked down upon and bullied easily. Laing felt that he should use his personal prestige when necessary, and this was an important opportunity.
Emilia was still introducing the history of Nur. "Nur was the first city of the Empire, and it was also the industrial and academic center of the Empire. In the history of the Empire, Nur was the capital of the Empire much longer than Brunswick was the capital of the Empire. After Charlemagne disappeared at the end of the Roof of the World, the second emperor of the Empire, Emperor Hedrick, ruled for less than three years. The third emperor, Emperor Heydrich, ruled for about fifty-two years. Then, under Emperor Fulk, the capital of the Empire moved from Brunswick to Nur."
"After that, Nur was the capital of the Empire for much longer than Brunswick and Mildenheim." Emilia said proudly, "Until the conqueror Sigismund II moved his imperial court back to Brunswick from Nur, Nur had been the capital of the Empire for five hundred years."
"Sigismund II, right?" Laing nodded with a smile. This emperor of the Empire was very famous.
After Sigismund II ascended the throne and became the emperor, the empire established by Charlemagne had begun to enter its middle years. All kinds of problems emerged one after another. As the Kurfürst and the emperor of the Rick Region, Sigismund II used a special method to solve the problems.
That was, to continue the construction work, to stimulate domestic demand, and to expand outward.
The greatest achievements of this emperor of the Empire included conquering the Judons and their kingdom, establishing the province of Wester (which is now Marlinburg and the surrounding area), conquering a part of the Brittany people, establishing the province of Simak (which is now part of the northern part of the Brittany Kingdom. At that time, it was still a few hundred years before the rise of Arthur), conquering the plains in the south of the Black Mountains, and establishing the province of Lichtenberg (which is now the border prince's territory).
Therefore, Sigismund was nicknamed "The Conqueror". He was considered the greatest emperor of the Empire after Charlemagne, and the Empire entered a prosperous era under his rule.
Unfortunately, his great achievements of conquest did not continue. The territories that he worked hard to expand later fell with the decline of the Empire and were abandoned by the Empire. None of the three provinces survived to this day (Marlinburg is doubtful). This also proved a few facts. That is, the bigger the territory, the better. After expanding to a certain extent, the benefits that could be gained were far less than the cost, and the expansion would stop.
"After that, it is the story of Ludwig, the Savior." Emilia was still introducing. The little maid spread out her hands. Her mature appearance, her High Gothic accent, and her elegant posture showed the cultural etiquette of a Countess of the Empire. "We have told the story of the great Holy War and Ludwig many times. I don't think I need to introduce it again."
"But I think I have to remind you that the Nur people are proud that Ludwig used to treat this place as their capital and home. They see Ludwig's arrival as a miracle that Charlemagne gave to this city. In this city, you can see Ludwig's family coat of arms everywhere, including the two-tailed comet and the golden griffin. Therefore, please do not use an inappropriate and contemptuous tone to talk about Ludwig, or the Nur people will use their beloved muskets to teach you a lesson." Emilia smiled and said, "As a Countess of the Empire and the ruler of Nur, if anyone commits a crime on this issue, I will not stand on your side."
Many people on the warship swallowed their saliva when they heard this. The Nuer Armored Army and Amelia's subordinates were still fine, but the old guards and servants that Leon and the others had brought along knew that Amelia was actually saying this for them to hear.
Not far away, Nur, the jewel of the Empire had been revealed in front of everyone. This city was famous for its majestic walls and forest-like bridges. But the most famous one was the Nur Military Factory.
Even from afar, the entire city was covered in thick smoke, but a large army was ready to welcome the return of the Countess. It was a powerful standing army with thousands of people. The guards standing on the city walls and bridges were enough to ensure the safety of the entire city. There were hundreds of black cannons on the city walls, and this was the result of Laing's rough calculation.
The Nur Empire's army had the most powerful firearms in the Empire. The soldiers of the Iron Legion were always full of confidence. They had already lined up to welcome Emilia and the guests behind her.
Nur's Grand Marshal Urstein, the Grand Commander of the Burning Sun Knights, Nur's Chief Justice Theodor Bruckner, Marquis Orgel Hawke of Wesen, the Blackstone Guards of Nur, a portion of the Armoured Nur, and the nobles of Nur were on standby.
"Salute!"
"Welcome back to your loyal Nur, the respected Countess!"
"And Sir Laing Macado, Madam Suria, welcome to Nur!"
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