Chapter 241: The Apostle of the Scourge, and the War
The Scourge cultists are putting their plans into motion.
They have deployed personnel all over the world, ready to launch an undead disaster that will sweep across everything.
The Frost Moon Kingdom is their core area.
Because their god, the Apostle of Heavenly Disaster, will descend here.
The Scourge believers prepared six nodes for this coming.
A massacre occurred at each node, such as the haunted iron mine in Crescent Territory. All the noble families that originally lived here were massacred and buried in the iron mine.
Moreover, they have prepared redundancy to prevent any problems.
As long as five out of six nodes can be activated, there will be no problem.
The Scourge Bishop continued to recite his prayers, and their god had already stretched out two hands and a head from the void.
At this moment, the energy transmitted for the ritual fluctuated.
"There's a problem with a node." The believer in charge of the node next to the Scourge Bishop said in a deep voice.
As the host of the ceremony, the Bishop of Scourge continued to recite hymns and keep the ceremony going.
After a brief pause, the bone-white limbs continued to slowly emerge from the void.
The believers of natural disasters in the audience became more and more fanatical.
They also chanted hymns along with the Scourge Bishop, preaching to the world the greatness of the Scourge Apostles and the true meaning of death.
As time passed, soon, one-third of the upper body of the bone-white young humanoid creature appeared on the altar.
"Crack." A breaking sound was heard.
There are six nodes prepared for this ceremony, and this sound means that there is a problem with one of the nodes.
The face of the Scourge Bishop suddenly changed.
In order to ensure the smooth progress of the ceremony, careful preparations have been made at every stage.
However, due to the strength of the Torch Church in the past, many things were done in secret and could not be confirmed repeatedly.
But since the Torch Church split, their actions have become much easier.
But it still failed.
The Scourge Bishop looked at the half of a child's skeleton in the center of the altar. At this moment, due to errors in the supply of energy and rituals, his connection with the void was suddenly cut off.
It was as if it was cut in half, falling from mid-air and landing on the altar.
The silent scream impacted the souls of all the undead present.
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Rand was concentrating on commanding his troops.
He knew that during this period, the Scourge Cultists and the Cult of the God of Struggle were going to cooperate to cause trouble, and it seemed that the Scourge Cultists also wanted to summon their gods, the Scourge Apostles, to this world.
Rand can actually form a team of legendary adventurers to try to thwart the conspiracy of the Scourge. Although Rand was a cloud player in his previous life and didn't know many details, if he investigated in advance, he could still find the place where the Scourge was planning.
But Rand did not do that.
Because even if he did nothing, the Scourge Cult would not be able to make any waves. If they really had the ability to summon the gods, how could they be chased and beaten by the Torch Church like rats crossing the street? This is not right. Before the Torch Church split, all the evil cults in the world, combined, would be suppressed by the Torch Church.
However, these two years were not enough time for the Scourge Cult to grow to the point where they could summon gods.
Even if Rand hadn't interfered, they would have failed.
In fact, the first demigods to appear in this world did not appear until the third expansion pack, after the Grand Prince Vladimir's sacrifice to the gods.
Things are still a long way off. Although the cooperation between the Scourge Cult and the Cult of the God of Struggle will indeed cause trouble, it is still within the scope that human countries can handle.
In short, at present, even if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up, and the power of evil cults is far from being beyond the reach of human countries to handle.
On the contrary, if Rand, a mere viscount, were to handle the matter on his own, he would easily be wiped out by the cult.
"Keep the formation, don't panic!" Rand's voice kept ringing.
The effect of the opponent's personal strength is greater than he imagined.
Some peripheral enemies retreated and were quickly killed by high-powered warlords.
This, to a certain extent, curbed the large-scale retreat of this bandit army.
Moreover, once Rand's infantry charged forward, they would be stopped by some powerful bandits.
Unable to further break through the enemy's position.
The battle lasted until noon. Although we killed many enemies, they were really driven back into the woods.
Rand stood still, watching the bandits slowly retreating into the woods, preparing to order his guards to dismount and fight on foot.
The environment in the woods is indeed more complicated, and you should generally act with caution.
But Rand had already arranged for exploration before launching the attack, and even now, there were still scouts investigating nearby.
Just as Rand was about to give the order, a scout rushed up to him on horseback, but was stopped by Olenna and was not allowed to go any further.
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Olenna said in a gentle voice, "We can say it here. Lord Rand can hear us."
The scout immediately dismounted and reported: "Another army is approaching this way."
"I understand. Go and rest." Rand then ordered, "Retreat and stop chasing."
If commanding more troops, then command flags might be needed, but on this scale, it is more convenient and faster for Rand to use voice broadcasts and then let familiar grassroots commanders to control them.
After Rand gave the order, the soldiers stopped fighting and slowly retreated from the front.
Rand knew exactly what kind of army was coming; it was a coalition force against the Development Committee.
I thought it could arrive later, what a pity.
Rand looked back at the bandit army retreating into the grove in the distance, and ordered the army to head to the town where Shelan was.
But Rand had no intention of going into the city.
According to the continued reconnaissance of subsequent scouts, the overall military strength of this anti-development committee coalition, together with the bandit army, should be similar to that of Rand and Shelan combined.
On the surface, the military strength of both sides is similar.
In this situation, there is absolutely no need to fight a city defense battle.
In fact, Rand was still a little worried that the other side just ran away like that.
After all, although it sounds a bit arrogant, Rand's reputation as a military commander is indeed quite famous. When the strength of both sides is similar, the opponent should not have too much confidence.
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At this moment in the woods, the bandits from the Burning Land were indeed thinking about this issue.
The leader that the bandits had temporarily elected went to meet the chief of the Anti-Development Committee with a gloomy face and said, "What a bullshit strategy you have. This Shelan and that Rand are obviously in cahoots with each other. Their reaction speed is too damn fast."
The chief of the Anti-development Committee remained calm and said in a deep voice, "We will retreat now."
"Ah?" The bandit leader's face turned sour again, "The enemy's military strength is about the same as ours, right? Are we scared now?"
"You should know about Viscount Rand's reputation. With equal military strength, I don't think we can win." said the chief of the Anti-Development Committee.
The bandit leader looked unconvinced. It was clear that their numbers were no less than Rand's before, and they were beaten badly, but now they still refused to accept the defeat.
But they are still needed now. The Burning Land can draw more troops, and their country has finally decided to provide them with support.
The head of the Anti-development Committee softened his tone: "We will get the support of the country, and the share promised to you before will not be reduced. Now, there is no need to fight them head-on. There is a city wall on the other side as a backup."
In fact, the bandit leader didn't really want to fight, as they had no experience in attacking cities. The chief gave him a ladder, and he went down it: "Well, let's do this."
There's another one in the evening
(End of this chapter)