Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 385 The Holy Grail Army and the War of Annihilation

Chapter 384

In the Holy Grail Kingdom, Rosen stood atop the highest point of the royal castle, overlooking the garden square directly in front of the palace.

At this moment, the army of the Holy Grail Kingdom, which was about to embark on this expedition, was already assembled and ready to set off after the spatial expansion of the Garden Square.

Standing at the very front are 173 Grail Knights, each of whom has leveled up to Rank 0 through killing monsters in the player sequence and the King's Game.

Behind the Holy Grail Knights were a thousand Bloodline Knight commanders.

The strongest have a Sequence 0, and the weakest have a peak Sequence 1.

Moreover, all the mounts of the Blood Knight commanders are dragons transformed from Sequence 0 slimes.

Behind these leaders are as many as ten million demigod bloodline knights.

This is just a bloodline knight cultivated by the Holy Grail Kingdom over several years. Looking at the entire King's Continent, whether it is a demigod or a god, whether it is a true god or a great true god, the King's Continent, which has developed for 23,000 years, is dozens of times larger than the New World.

This isn't because the King's Continent is more powerful than the New World, because none of these ten million Bloodline Knights are players.

The leveling up is all based on the most basic monster-killing leveling up in the King's Game. Their strength is just a facade. This is why Rosen only discovered that the strength gained from killing monsters and leveling up was an illusion when he brought some of his resurrected subjects into the Ancient God Realm.

The only truly formidable forces in the entire Holy Grail Kingdom are the Grail Knights, Grail Attendants, and Bloodline Knight Commanders.

"Your Majesty, the army is ready to march."

Leader of the Holy Grail Knights, Ren Collins, gazed fervently at his faith, awaiting command.

"The entire army marches forth..."

As Rosen gave the order, he initiated a large-scale data transmission through the main god network covering the Holy Grail Kingdom.

All the Grail Knights and Blood Knights were teleported to the edge of the kingdom.

The Holy Grail Knight's current mount is the unified Purgatory Blood Dragon God, which Rosen cloned using the Dragon God Law of the Yinglong Avatar and the Flesh and Blood Mother Nest. As for the Dragon Soul, it is actually the Holy Grail Knight's soul and divine origin.

The mounts of the Grail Knights are not only mounts, but also their divine manifestations.

At this moment, the Blood Knights, riding their Infernal Blood Dragons, took to the air. Following closely behind, the entire Blood Knight army, each riding their own Infernal Blood Dragons, also took to the air. Although these Infernal Blood Dragons were just slimes transformed, their speed was not much slower thanks to the various Knight Aura skills.

Just then, Rosen appeared directly in front of the Grail Knight, riding on the dragon form of the Little Dragon Girl.

In the blink of an eye, Rosen activated the King's March skill, a profession skill from the King's Sequence.

The knight aura skills of all the knights behind them were instantly combined into a giant aura by the King's March, which increased the marching speed of the entire knight legion by more than ten times, and they approached the Golden Lion Kingdom in an instant like a blood cloud.

If you want to launch a covert attack, the best way is to hide your legion within the territory and carry it with you.

However, this method is only suitable for assassinations and sneak attacks, and not for direct warfare to destroy a nation.

The reason is that the legion, hidden within the domain, cannot effectively mobilize the laws and energy of heaven and earth.

The laws and energy in a local area are limited in total; every bit consumed diminishes them.

If the energy in a region is depleted by a superhuman, energy from other places will flow in to replenish it, like water flowing downhill. However, the replenishment speed is very limited. Therefore, when two true gods fight, they rely more on the power of the laws, and their own reserves are often consumed for energy.

If we rely entirely on manipulating the limited energy in the universe, then we will soon run out of energy to manipulate.

The legion, composed of tens of millions of demigod bloodline knights, can obviously manipulate astronomical amounts of energy.

If all the spiritual crystals you carry are used up, no amount of spiritual crystals will be enough to sustain the war.

Therefore, they can only manipulate the free energy in the world. As Rosen led his army from the Holy Grail Kingdom to the Golden Lion Kingdom, all the energy in the world along the way was absorbed by the legion and then transformed into various legion skills ready to be unleashed.

When the army marches all the way to the Golden Lion Kingdom, all the energy gathered along the way for millions of miles will be used for war.

Of course, there are also drawbacks to doing this. By carrying away the energy of heaven and earth along the way, it will obviously cause a huge disturbance. Therefore, the marching speed must be fast. For this reason, Rosen took out a Sequence 7 miracle treasure, the marching banner.

This item has a special attribute: it can increase marching speed, but it only works on units at Sequence 7.

However, things were different when they fell into Rosen's hands. He directly used the Fantasy Armament to enhance the marching banner to Sequence 0, which not only improved the speed of the troops to the Sequence 0 level, but also added a miracle characteristic of amplifying the Legion Aura skill.

Even if detected early, speed can still shorten the enemy's pre-battle preparation time.

That wasn't enough. Rosen used his Omniscient Eye to clear a path from a god-like perspective, then used it to project the Mind Canvas, projecting the normal environment replicated by the Mind Canvas into the void, thus concealing his own legion's energy extraction as much as possible.

After marching for half an hour and covering millions of miles, the Holy Grail Legion was already approaching the Golden Lion Kingdom, tens of thousands of miles away.

Rosen no longer cared about the energy that could be contained over such a long distance. He directly deployed a spacetime domain to cover the entire Holy Grail Legion, then distorted spacetime to initiate a spatial teleportation, and then stepped into the interdimensional gate to reach Lion City, the eastern fortress city of the Golden Lion Kingdom.

The moment the spacetime barrier dissipated, the Holy Grail Legion's combined attack was already underway.

The aura and energy that enveloped the entire legion materialized at this moment into a giant knight composed of divine and battle energy. The dragon he rode was thousands of miles long, and the dragon spear in his hand was thousands of miles long. He had already hurled the dragon spear at Lion City.

The dragon spear, formed from divine battle aura, collided directly with the elemental barrier erected by the mage tower of Lion City.

However, the elemental barrier that could withstand the fierce attack of the true god was shattered by the divine battle aura dragon spear. This was the destructive power brought about by the superposition of the divine battle aura of ten million demigod bloodline knights. Under Rosen's guidance, quantitative change led to qualitative change.

The moment the dragon spear pierced the city, the Little Dragon Girl's dragon language incantation had already ended.

A shower of meteors fell from the sky, engulfing the entire Lion City like a dense downpour.

That's not all. The Grail Knights stormed into Lion City, specifically targeting those superhumans with divine strength, giving those divine organizations no chance to retaliate. Without forming a military formation, they couldn't unleash their war skills, and no matter how large their army was, they were just a disorganized mess.

Of course, this only refers to ordinary legions. Ordinary troops are simply unable to mount a counterattack when faced with such a surprise attack.

However, the elite are different. As one of the four gateways of the Golden Lion Kingdom, Lion City not only has the Lion Legion composed of ten million demigod bloodline knights, but also the Golden Lion Knights led by the Duke of Golden Lion.

A full thousand Sequence 0 bloodline knights, clad in golden armor and riding flaming golden lions, have assembled.

Duke Golden Lion directly commanded a thousand Golden Lion Knights, charging out of the range of the meteor shower on golden holy flames. However, just as he was about to charge, Duke Golden Lion saw Rosen, wearing a crown, at the very front of the legion.

Without any hesitation, Duke of the Golden Lion led the Golden Lion Knights in a direct charge.

On the battlefield, even with only a 30% chance of winning, the Golden Lion Duke would shed his last drop of blood for his family and for honor.

However, they were not facing opponents of equal caliber, but rather the king of the Holy Grail Kingdom personally leading the expedition.

Lion City is beyond defense; a direct confrontation would only lead to certain death.

Therefore, fleeing is the best option. If the enemy does not pursue, the elite forces can be preserved and retreated to the rear. If the enemy pursues relentlessly, ordinary demigod bloodline knights cannot catch up with the Golden Lion Knights; only the enemy's elite forces can catch up.

Even if they are caught up and forced into battle, at least they won't have to face the enemy's main force directly.

The Golden Lion Knight can fight to the death against the enemy's elite, but will not die alongside the enemy's ordinary bloodline knights.

Rosen had no intention of letting the Golden Lion Duke go; the Royal Sword in his hand dissipated and materialized into the Wrath of the Dragon God.

The Wrath of the Dragon God can be inlaid with divine elements at will, thereby endowing the Wrath of the Dragon God with different powers.

Rosen directly embedded his own Eternal Godhood, which then simulated the photographer sequence.

The All-Knowing Eye locked onto the Golden Lion Knights in mid-air, and the Dragon God's Wrath roared the moment the trigger was pulled.

The primal energy bullet fired from the gun barrel flashed through the void and approached the Golden Lion Knights in an instant, sealing the surrounding ten miles of dimensions into a photograph that floated down from the sky. Inside the photograph, the Golden Lion Duke was fighting his way out of the void with all his might.

However, it was too late. Rosen, simulating a thief sequence, had already obtained the photograph through a void theft. He compressed the spacetime domain onto the photograph, and various sealing skills from the photographer and other extraordinary sequences were all concentrated on the photograph in his hand. In just a moment, the Golden Lion Duke, who was still moving in the photograph, was frozen in place.

Rosen, wanting a quick victory, shared the hero sequence with Little Dragon Girl.

The Little Dragon Girl immediately took over the military command of the Holy Grail Legion, and then, through skills such as Hero Commander and Hero Aura, unified all the dragon mounts in the legion to chant dragon language magic together. Soon, the meteor shower falling from the sky had changed.

If the original meteor showers were meteorites, the current meteor showers are miniature stars.

Endless heat, endless solar fire, endless nuclear explosion impact.

In less than fifteen minutes, Lion City had been reduced to ruins, and tens of millions of people within its walls had perished.

Rosen directly divided his forces, assigning them to blood knights of various god-like ranks, to destroy border cities one by one.

He led all the Grail Knights to confront the Golden Lion Kingdom's counterattack head-on.

For three consecutive days, the Golden Lion Kingdom did not launch a counterattack.

Dozens of border cities were reduced to ruins, and very few survivors managed to escape.

Rosen knew that the Golden Lion Kingdom was gathering all its forces.

Then they wait for Lionheart to awaken, because the Golden Lion Kingdom has no chance of winning if Lionheart does not awaken.

According to the course of the King's Game, it was still far from time for Lionheart to awaken.

At this time, the Golden Lion Kingdom was attacked, causing King Lionheart to awaken prematurely. He wanted to wake up from his long slumber and take control of the unfamiliar Golden Lion Kingdom that had developed for 23,000 years. Even King Lionheart needed some time to adapt.

The fact that he could launch a counterattack in just three days shows how terrifying Lionheart's abilities are.

However, the counterattack that Rosen received was nothing more than a scorched-earth policy.

Abandon the cities and relocate the population, then hold fast to Lionheart City in the heart of the kingdom.

In fact, this was the right choice; a clash at the level of a great true god would be enough to easily destroy the entire kingdom map.

Therefore, once the war spreads into the kingdom's territory, no matter how the fighting goes, the outcome is always defeat.

Therefore, after analysis, Rosen concluded that King Lionheart had already sought help from other neighboring kingdoms.

King Lionheart has even concluded that the Kingdom of the Golden Lion is no match for the Kingdom of the Holy Grail.

Because of the vast difference in their development time, it's obvious that the Holy Grail Kingdom's military strength is so strong after only a few years of development. The Holy Grail King is not an easy opponent. How could someone like that dare to invade the Golden Lion Kingdom with his entire nation without an overwhelming advantage?

So King Lionheart held back, preferring to fortify the city and defend it to the death rather than engage in a direct confrontation.

Rosen had no interest in dragging things out with King Lionheart. What he needed was a blitzkrieg, to prevent the nearby kingdoms from joining forces, and to take advantage of the fact that the king had not yet awakened to infiltrate the kingdoms and defeat them one by one.

Otherwise, if a group of kings were to join forces, he would be no match for a group of great true gods who wage war across their entire nations.

Rosen hadn't even reached Lionheart City yet, but protests had already begun within the city.

Before the Lionheart King awoke, the Golden Lion Kingdom had never felt so frustrated.

King Lionheart has awakened, and the Golden Lion Kingdom has been reduced to defending its capital.

Many people in the Golden Lion Kingdom could not accept this. If someone were to secretly incite others at this time, it would not be difficult to stir up a large-scale protest against Lionheart's abandonment of so many cities, or even question Lionheart's rule, and try to use public opinion to push several princes to inherit the throne.

All of this is certainly not a coincidence, but the work of the Eternal Avatar and the Necromancer Queen.

The eternal clones quietly replaced some people, and the Necromancer Queen parasitized the soul worm eggs again.

Not only in Lionheart City, but in all the cities of the Golden Lion Kingdom, parades began.

Human nature is sometimes unchanging throughout the ages, but at other times it is so fragile that it can be changed at any time by external influences.

Only a few could hold firm to their beliefs, and all sorts of rumors about Lionheart began to spread like wildfire.

If it were just ordinary people spreading the word, the nobles in various cities could suppress it.

However, those who spread rumors and caused trouble were all nobles, the upper ruling class of various cities.

This threw the Golden Lion Kingdom into complete chaos. Although the elite forces were concentrated in the royal city, the people's hearts became increasingly unstable. Unstable hearts meant unstable national fortune, and unstable national fortune meant that the Lionheart King's royal authority would weaken accordingly.

Having not been invaded for 23,000 years, the Golden Lion Kingdom has become somewhat complacent in various aspects.

Seeing that he could no longer weaken the Golden Lion Kingdom, Rosen gathered the divided Holy Grail Legion to prepare for the final battle.

He had considered bypassing Lionheart City and annihilating all the cities of the Golden Lion Kingdom.

However, after carefully understanding the sequence of kings, I gave up. Lowering public morale can weaken the laws of kingship, but the destruction of the country and the killing of all its people will terrifyingly strengthen the laws of kingship, because the hostility of the dead towards the invaders will endow the laws of kingship with a powerful force of revenge after death.

The laws of monarchy can not only gather the power of the living, but also the power of the dead.

If Lionheart were truly driven to the brink of destruction, Rosen had no doubt that Lionheart might send an army disguised as invaders from the Holy Grail Kingdom to slaughter cities and frame the Holy Grail Legion, all in order to maximize the power of the dead.

Rosen gazed at the magnificent Lionheart City from afar, which, in the afterglow of the setting sun, resembled a lion crouching on the earth.

Before they even got close, countless magic towers in the city were already unleashing a barrage of spells that blotted out the sky.

If even a true god can arbitrarily destroy land within a radius of hundreds of millions of kilometers, what meaning do cities have in a war?
In fact, it is of great significance because these are not ordinary cities.

All the laws and energy within the Golden Lion Kingdom can converge on Lionheart City and war fortresses like Lion City through the laws of royal power. The Holy Grail Legion needs to carry energy along the way to maximize its combat power, but the troops stationed in these cities do not need to.

Over the course of 23,000 years, no one knows how much energy Lionheart City has accumulated.

Unless the countless layers of defensive barriers surrounding Lionheart Royal City can be instantly destroyed, even if the battle is fought for decades and the area within hundreds of millions of kilometers of Lionheart Royal City is destroyed and everything is wiped out, Lionheart Royal City can still stand in the void and hold out for hundreds of years.

Therefore, a protracted war of attrition is pointless. Rosen's only option is to break through all the defenses of Lionheart City in one fell swoop.

Only in this way can Lionheart be forced to engage in a direct confrontation with him.

Of course, he could also use the interdimensional gate to break into the city, but that would make him an easy target.

Moreover, even if they win, the final losses will be extremely heavy, and the spoils obtained will be meager.

If we cannot grow stronger through war, then wars we initiate will only make us weaker.

Rosen released the Miracle Stone Golem, then took out an Eternal Quality Origin Stone that had been fused with the Law of Curse. This was a special stone that he had transformed by consuming a lot of the Origin Stone's essence. Under the carving of the Miracle Stone Golem, two giant stone sculptures were quickly carved.

On the left is Lawson, and on the right is Lionheart.

Rosen wielded the Holy Sword of Kingship, piercing the heart of the Lionheart King, who fell at his feet with his head pinned beneath his feet. Many superhumans in the Lionheart City, loyal to the royal family, were somewhat disarmed upon seeing the two statues, and countless spells rained down upon them.

However, even if the great true god were to use all his strength, it would take a considerable amount of time to destroy the statue carved from the eternal stone.

Moreover, this statue is not only an insult to Richard the Lionheart, but also contains a terrifying death curse, because Rosen painted the statue with forbidden curses and then used the pollution of the Dark Sun to continuously curse Richard the Lionheart.

Finally, Rosen commanded all the slime mounts to transform into bronze dragons, and then surrounded Lionheart City to launch a massive time acceleration.

King Lionheart wanted to buy time while waiting for reinforcements from other kingdoms, so he accelerated the passage of time around Lionheart's city.

By the time reinforcements from other kingdoms arrived, Lionheart City had already been reduced to ruins.

(End of this chapter)