Chapter 239: Multiple Parties
Old World, Sigma Empire, Altdorf.
The Reik Guards stopped the ragged Truthsayer Dailan. The emperor of the empire is not someone a beggar can see casually.
The Imperials who passed by pointed fingers at the primitive Orbians, using ridicule to gain superiority.
Under the watchful gaze of Rick's guards, the mournful druid took out the statue of the old god and swore an oath under the witness of his lifelong faith.
"Gods above! Imperials! There is movement in the north again. Darkness has fallen on Albion Island. This is a sign of the beginning of Chaos invasion!
Have you forgotten the horror of Chaos in just nineteen years?"
The loud roar caused the street to suddenly become quiet, not because of shame, but because of the word "chaos".
In the year 2301 of the Imperial Calendar, the Kingdom of Kislev, which borders the Empire, suffered an unprecedented Chaos invasion.
The Great Crusade begins with the Chaos forces besieging the city of Praag.
The Kingdom of Kislev was unable to resist the Chaos army and turned to the Empire, which was in turmoil, for help.
But the provinces of the Empire, having just ended the Vampire War, did not respond to the northern neighbor's request for help.
The major churches were at loggerheads with each other, the electors were suspicious of each other, and some even declared themselves emperors.
The imminent crisis failed to awaken the fragmented empire. Some nobles even threw themselves directly into the arms of the Chaos Gods, trembling in fear.
No reinforcements have arrived in the Kingdom of Kislev!
When the towering dragon demon slowly came from the end of the snowy north, Kislev's desperate patriotic war was doomed to failure from the beginning.
The majestic walls of the fortress city, which were more than ten meters high, were directly broken by the ancient dragon demon that overlooked the city. The ruins left by the giant beast still exist in the city of Prager.
After the fall of the Northern Fortress, this backward kingdom fought hard to the end, but the enemies they faced were not opponents that could be defeated by cold weapons.
Even after Pragg was destroyed, many powerful demons and monsters became bored and returned to the Far North.
The entire territory of Kislev was slowly devoured by the Chaos Legion, inch by inch, while the Empire was still in the civil strife of the "Age of Three Emperors".
Sensing the impending disaster, Magnus the Pious lobbied the divided provinces.
In order to gain the support of Middenland and resolve the conflict between the Church of Sigmar and the Church of Ulric.
Magnus von Bilhofen even stepped into the Holy Flame of Ulrich and walked out of it safely, just like the great "Founding Father" Sigmar Umbrogen.
Magnus went through many hardships to rebuild the divided empire.
Fortunately, the tenacious Kislevites fought for a whole year, buying precious time for the reunification of the empire.
When they realized that the Chaos army was invincible, many Kislevites retreated to the capital, prepared to live and die with their country.
Tsar Alex of Kislev once again asked the Empire for help. Not only did the Sigmar Empire respond to the battle for humanity's survival, but the dwarves in the mountains and even the high elves overseas also sent support.
The Mountain Kingdom's armies helped Kislev hold its capital, and the largest Imperial army ever assembled arrived in the hard-pressed North at dawn before the decisive battle.
In the year 2302 of the Imperial Calendar, Asava Kul, the "Eternal Chosen", was killed by Magnus the Pious in the "Great Battle of Kislev".
Nineteen years later, people still mourn the heroes who died in that war.
In Ulthuan, mourning for war is still the main theme of the northern elven kingdom.
But today, the Kingdom of Charis welcomed a special visitor.
Using the secret methods passed down by the ancient saints, Aeneas the Truthsayer passed through the fog covering Ulthuan and arrived at the kingdom of the Elf Hunters.
The Kingdom of Chrace was originally just a forest where hermits retreated to, but the winds of magic caused the beasts in the forest to mutate, and the hermits were forced to pick up their axes and become hunters in the forest.
The most terrifying beasts in the forest are white lions. Their nature has been changed by the magic of chaos. Their iron-like lion skins and terrifying brute force make them invincible.
A hunter who can hunt white lions is called a white lion warrior.
The martial spirit means that Chrace is unlike other kingdoms that define nobility by bloodline; only the best hunters are qualified to pick up the battle axe passed down from generation to generation.
Since Caledor I, these warriors wearing lion skins and holding huge axes have stood beside the Phoenix King as his guards.
The Phoenix Kings of all generations were always generous in bestowing magical weapons upon their guards, but the White Lion always proudly refused the rewards and continued to carry the traditional battle axe.
This was the weapon that these crude woodcutters used to save Caledor I.
In the past, when Caledor I was on his way to the Temple of Asuryan to inherit the Phoenix Throne and was assassinated on the way, it was the woodcutters of Chrace who fought desperately to block the Druzi assassin, repelled Druzi's countless attacks, and sent Caledor I to the Temple of Asuryan unharmed.
The best warrior of Chareth is Captain White Lion, champion of the Phoenix King.
After the former White Lion Captain Corin died at the hands of "the Witch King's Champion Warrior" Julian Venomblade, Koler of Chrace was elected as the new captain by the hunters.
Valin is the hunter second only to Kohler. After Kohler went to the Phoenix Court, Valin became the de facto leader of the Kingdom of Chrace.
Prince Valin had just returned to Tal Achar from Lothern when he ran into the Truthsayer who had regained his human form.
Like the other Truthsayers who came for help, Aini stated the fact that darkness had come and revealed the terrible consequences that would result if the forces of Chaos succeeded.
Valin was unmoved at first, for he had just fought a great war and the Kingdom of Chrace needed to recuperate.
But when he noticed the sincerity and pleading in Aini's eyes, and heard about the dark future after the fall of Orbian Island.
This moral model of the elven nobles gave up resting, called a team of white lion warriors who had just finished hunting, and started a new journey.
He could not mobilize a large-scale army because the Phoenix King had not given permission, and now was obviously not the time to wait for the Phoenix King's order.
Humans may not be able to hold the fortress for a long time. When it is not related to interests, Valin is not optimistic about the efficiency of the Phoenix Court's operation.
Old World, west of the Empire, Kingdom of Bretonnia.
"Truthsayer" Sabu walked into the capital of the Kingdom of Knights, the city of Gollonni.
A beautiful woman greeted the visitor from Orbion, and under the guidance of the Fairy of the Lake, the slovenly druid entered the palace unhindered.
No matter how much the knights disliked the primitive people of the north, they had to restrain their prejudices in front of the human representatives of the Lady of the Lake.
King Gaston de Bogost listened to the voice coming from Obion, and the result was beyond doubt.
Here the Lady of the Lake appears, and her presence reveals the will of the Lady of the Lake.
Although the expedition against the vampire knights of the Dukedom of Musillon consumed a great deal of the kingdom's national strength, King Gaston still extended a helping hand.
The holder of the "Hero's Sword", the master of the "Shield of Confusion", and the Holy Grail Knight "The Great" Henry will return to Albion with Sabu.
(End of this chapter)
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