Chapter 33 Purification and Rest
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Three days later.
Mercenary City rushes its troops eastward!
This time, the city of Mercenaries mobilized more than 100,000 troops, including 60,000 infantry, 30,000 archers and 10,000 cavalry. Among these 60,000 infantry, there are nearly 20,000 heavy infantry corps, and the military power they dispatched is strong! As we all know, there are only two types of infantry on the battlefield, one is heavy infantry, and the other is light infantry. Light infantry is okay to fight auxiliary warfare, but the only thing that can be done on the front battlefield is to rely on those heavy infantry corps!
Why did the Athenian army be invincible on the front battlefield?
One of the important reasons is that the infantry legions in Athens are almost all heavy-armored infantry, and there are almost no light infantry.
In addition to infantry, during this operation to recover lost ground, the elves also sent nearly 20,000 archer troops, including many elves mages and wild druids. As for the cavalry, the Mercenary City did not have the ability to support such a huge knight order. These heavy knights were all private soldiers gathered by nobles from all over the country, including the Knights Templar of 3,000 people.
After all, the Mercenary City is just a city. Even with the financial resources of the entire southern rear, it is impossible to support an army of 100,000 people. This is not a messenger. Their equipment costs, maintenance costs, daily consumption, military pay payments, etc. are all extremely huge burdens. Even with the financial resources of the Athenian Kingdom in another plane, it cannot be supported at all.
Not to mention other troops, the regular knights of 10,000 people alone can get poor in a city.
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Of course, these are just open troops. Other small-scale elite troops include the Earth Dragon Knights, Griffon Knights, Dragon Knights, Magic Heavy Infantry, Airship Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft and various mage regiments, etc. Although these powerful troops appear, because their number is too small, the total number is not 2,000, so they are not incorporated into the main combat force, but are used as special forces to fight at critical moments!
One day before the army set off, three giant dragons landed on the platform of the Mercenary City!
A red dragon, a green dragon, and an extremely rare bronze dragon. These are pure blood dragon species. They represent the top dragon knights on this plane. With the arrival of the Dragon Knights, various sub-dragon species are hovering over the entire Mercenary City, including bipedal flying dragons, Radodd Pelvicidosaurs, toothed plesiosaurs, ventral and back quadratosaurs, etc.
These are all sub-saurus species that can fly, and more than half of them live in swamp areas.
As reinforcements from all over the world arrived, the morale of the Mercenary City became increasingly high. This was almost the largest counterattack launched in the southern rear in recent decades. In order to successfully capture Zenda, Queen Isabella even sent out three dragon knights who were guarding the royal city! It is said that several ** masters from the Palace Mage Group who were close to the legendary field were also sent over!
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The third afternoon.
A new wave of reinforcements came again, and all orc wolf cavalry appeared in front of them, and the sounds of wolf howls echoed in the boundless wilderness. The orcs, who had been in a rigid relationship with humans over the years, decided to send troops to provide assistance this time. They not only sent a heavy wolf cavalry army of a total of 3,000 people, but also sent a heavy infantry of a scale of 5,000 people and a team of orc berserkers!
The Orc Shaman Order and the Sword Saints of the Fire Blade Clan also appeared on the battlefield!
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The fourth morning.
The giant eagle soared above everyone's heads. The high elves rode Chimera from the southwest of the continent. Armed horned eagles hovered above everyone's heads. The glory of the arcane flashed like stars on the armor of the high elves.
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The fourth afternoon.
A team of nearly a hundred blade ogres joined the team. They held huge battle axes and were heavily armored. Another two-headed ogre shaman led them toward Zenda.
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The fifth day early in the morning.
Hill giants came in the morning glow of the sunrise. Their huge bodies appeared so much that every step would make the earth tremble slightly. These huge hill giants had almost no equipment. They rushed over with their upper bodies, surrounded by a simple animal skin around their waists, and held huge logs. Because of their appearance, the alchemists had to work to cast steel overnight to create handy weapons for them!
You can't let these powerful reinforcements go to the battlefield with their shirtlessness, right?
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On this day, it seemed like the horn of a counterattack sounded.
Army came one by one, and races united one by one. They were heading towards Zenda. They had only one purpose, that is, to win a victory!
They are so eager for a victory!
On this day, Murphy also brought the 300 mercenaries he had just recruited to mingle in this huge team of nearly 120,000 people.
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The army entered the vicinity of Zenda.
The scouts on the front line began to be attacked by scattered demons, and battles began to take place along the way.
After entering the territory of Zenda, the army divided into two groups, and the main forces of each tribe went straight to Zenda's city. As long as they could eliminate the demon legion entrenched in Zenda City, and then closed the giant abyss portal opened inside, the army of the abyss demons would not be able to continue to descend into the original plane through this portal. Once this giant portal is closed, it means that the land has been recovered, and the abyss demons can only open the portal from other places, and humans have time to regroup and arrange the next new line of defense.
As for the mercenaries' mission, they are to close small portals near various towns and villages, and then clear out the demons entrenched nearby.
Demons above the middle level cannot stay in this plane for too long, because this plane is still the main material plane after all, not the abyss filled with chaotic energy. If they stay in the main material plane for too long, their own power will enter a period of decline. Therefore, every once in a while, those demons above the middle level will return to the abyss once.
This plane is already a space that is highly eroded by the abyss. Unlike the plane in which the Kingdom of Athens is located, there are not only many space cracks in this plane, but also the demons have expanded it and built portals connecting various parts of the abyss. These portals are channels, ready for the army of abyss demons to attack this plane at any time.
Only by closing these abyss portals can the demon army not easily descend to this plane!
After all, although this plane has become extremely broken, the powerful law of order and space barrier still exist. Even those high-level demons cannot descend into the material world at will.
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"If the Cenario's druids cannot take down Mount Sauron, then the next step for the abyss demons should be to open portals through space cracks like this plane, right?" Murphy looked at the broken walls around and murmured in a low voice.
The glorious civilization of this plane can be seen even from these broken ridges and broken walls that have passed for decades.
Even now, the broken buildings that have been eroded by time can be seen how majestic and magnificent it was in the past. The broken marble columns and the huge sculpture broken arms scattered around them are extremely illusory to show this once brilliant architectural craft!
"Sir! This was once a big town called Yad. Our current location is the central square." An indigenous mercenary pointed to the broken steps not far away and whispered: "There is the location of the fountain. There was originally a huge hero statue erected there. Legend has it that he was a dragon-slaying warrior who killed a red dragon for evil!"
Murphy looked around and said with a serious expression: "Be careful, there should be demons entrenched nearby here!"
When the mercenary union accepted the task, Murphy also obtained the entire map of Zenda, and the information displayed on it was different from what he estimated. That is, the total area of Zenda reached 15,000 square kilometers, which was almost equivalent to the area of Middle-earth Capital in the previous life. Some of the large towns here were almost the same as a city in the Kingdom of Athens.
There are nearly a hundred abyss portals of all sizes in the entire Zenda territory, and the mission certificate for regaining lost land is to obtain the soul mark stones that closed the portal!
The soul is the purest energy!
The demons slaughtered intelligent creatures, sacrificed their flesh and blood, and then condensed their souls into various soul stones as a source of power for themselves and a prop to open the abyss portal!
During the darkest bloody period, billions of creatures on the continent were massacred!
These slaughtered wise creatures became tools for the arrival of high-level demons under the sacrifice of flesh and blood, and then were condensed into soul stones, building portals along with the abyss. Only by removing the imprinted soul stones that are the core energy of the abyss portal and purifying them with the help of divine power can those portals be completely closed, and those slaughtered souls can rest!
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Chapter completed!