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Chapter 283: The War between Light and Earth, Visitors from Star Town
Western part of the continent of Semrio.

This place belongs to the Holy See, the holy country of Esot under the protection of the Father of Light.

The territory of the Holy Kingdom is ten times larger than that of Nolant where Cloya is located. It can be said that the entire plain area in the westernmost part of the continent is almost entirely occupied by the Holy See.

Further out is the wild grassland of the orcs.

Of course, there are many knight territories in this land blessed by light, but they are all controlled by priests, bishops and missionaries of the Holy See.

The fanaticism of faith makes it almost impossible for this land to tolerate anyone who has objections to the light.

But locusts don't care whether you believe in light or not.

Perhaps they are the fairest beings on this continent—whether rich or poor, noble or commoner, they treat everyone equally.

The Holy Kingdom is facing an attack by locusts at this moment, just like other countries that have suffered disasters.

The locusts covered the sky like dark clouds, blocking out all the light from the sun, as if it had fallen into night.

Each locust is as big as a rabbit, and its cold, insect-like eyes make people shudder.

All you can hear in your ears is the sound of locusts flapping their wings. This sound, which is made up of tens of millions of locusts, is comparable to some magical sonic attack.

Wherever they passed, everything was eaten away, leaving only bare earth.

"Evil thing!"

"Your end is coming!"

In order to deal with the locusts, the Holy Kingdom sent out a group of war priests led by the God of War. During this period of time, they traveled to many places and finally arrived at the border area of ​​the Holy Kingdom.

The priests in silver-white robes stood in line.

Everyone was stroking the metal scriptures in their hands and praising the glory of God loudly.

The dark clouds in the sky were dispersed, and beams of light descended from the thick clouds one after another, really like sacred swords piercing through the evil spirits.

The locust swarm certainly had no room for resistance against the attack of the "Fist of Heaven" and was directly purified by the holy magic power on the spot.

All that was left in the air were the ashes of the locusts.

Their souls and spirits were collected by the saints in the choir waiting nearby and sacrificed to a statue in some way.

The woman holding the statue is wearing a gorgeous vestment and golden mittens, and her expression is extremely pious, even fanatical.

She whispered to the statue: "My Lord's God of War, the master of thousands of swords, the initiator and terminator of all wars..."

"Where on earth have you been trapped by this vile land?"

"May this war awaken your will."

After she finished speaking, a light flashed in her eyes, and she cut her arm directly, and the pure blood of a virgin fell onto this majestic human-shaped statue.

The golden statue made of holy metal was instantly stained with a dark color by the blood, but the statue seemed more vivid, like a warrior fighting in blood.

There is a reaction!

"My Lord..."

Just when the woman felt joy.

The light on the statue suddenly disappeared, along with the souls and spiritual light of the exterminated locusts, and everything became ordinary.

The person standing nearby couldn't help but say, "These are the spirits and souls of hundreds of millions of locusts. Why is Your Excellency the God of War still unwilling to respond to us?"

These are locust kings that are almost level one magic beasts, and there are even some level two magic beasts. They are different from ordinary locusts and have been considered a rare sacrifice in recent years.

If the situation wasn't special, finding hundreds of millions of level one and level two monsters for sacrifice would be very stressful even for them.

But even so, the God of War did not answer them.

The man who asked the question put down the scripture in his hand with some discouragement, sighed deeply, and revealed undisguised loss on his young face.

Since the locust plague broke out, they have been traveling around various regions of the Holy Kingdom, killing all the locusts with the power of Deimos and then offering sacrifices.

They hoped to obtain the oracle of Deimos in this way, or at least to find out where Deimos was imprisoned. As long as they knew the specific location, no one could stop them from welcoming back the messenger of light.

But the problem is that there are already hundreds of millions of locusts!

Moreover, in order to keep the locust swarms alive and allow them to be harvested, they did not allow the knights from all over the country to eliminate the locust swarms.

You have to know that although the Church of Light is relatively united, there are also various factions. It is naturally impossible to allow such a locust plague to run rampant and let the people of the Kingdom of Light die.

Today is the last day given to them by other factions. If they cannot awaken the messenger of God today, such efforts will be in vain, and they must start to clean up the locust plague.

You, the gods of war, are very important. But are we, the gods of wisdom, blessings, and joy, not important at all?
If things really get out of hand, we can all ask for help from the gods of our respective faiths, or at worst, the great and supreme Father of Light will make the final decision himself.

The Holy Kingdom is inhabited by believers only. It is the most important base of faith of the Father of Light in the main plane, and nothing must be lost here.

They have even figured out how to showcase the miracles of the gods' messengers and harvest another wave of faith.

Disasters are troublesome, but if they are well planned and handled, they can also become a means of harvesting faith.

There were several chaotic periods on the continent of Semrio, and it was during those times that the belief in the seven gods was finally established.

As for the gods of faith, if you influence them to absorb faith, they will definitely turn against you, even if you are a fellow messenger of God.

——Of course, the two chief priests of the God of War were aware of these things, so they felt it was very tricky.

Is there no other way but to go outside the Holy Kingdom?
Just when they were feeling helpless and depressed, a powerful wave of divine power suddenly came without any concealment.

The chief priest and the members of the priest group all looked over.

Outside the borders of the Holy Kingdom.

An army wearing thorn armor emerged silently from the soil, growing more and more like mushrooms after rain.

Soon an army of tens of thousands of people was formed.

Each of them was wearing armor of thorns, and the prickles of the thorns pierced deeply into their exposed skin, turning it blood red.

Holiness and blood red are intertwined.

Just standing there, this army makes people feel chilling.

The head priest Bellamond, who was holding the statue of the God of War, suddenly changed his expression:
"..."

"The Thorn Tribunal?"

What are they doing here?
The so-called Thorn Tribunal is the most violent organization in the Church of Mother Earth. Every member is a fanatical believer who sows the Mother Goddess's pain, that is, thorns, on himself.

It can be said that almost every one of them is a strong person above level six. If they are captains, they must be at least level ten, and the legion commander is directly at the legendary saint level.

Although she was the high priest, she was still not at the level of a cardinal. She didn't know where Lord Deimos, whom she believed in, had gone, so she would definitely not be able to defeat him.

So she thought of delaying it for a while and waiting for the legend from the Holy See to come.

"you……"

Before she could ask, the army actually marched towards the border of the Holy Kingdom. The man in the lead was holding a large flag and marching with firm steps without any hesitation.

How dare they?
The Church of Mother Earth and the Holy See of Light have an agreement. It is a contract signed by the two gods, and the land of faith must not be violated.

And they actually broke into the border like this?

Now she could no longer remain calm and gave an order:
"attack!"

No matter what their reasons are, as long as they dare to enter the border, they are unforgivable.

The war priests immediately began to chant hymns.

"boom!"

The Fist of Heaven, which was at least dozens of times more violent than before, dropped from the sky, carrying with it the scorching holy flame, and fell towards the members of the Thorn Tribunal.

However, the Tribunal of Thorns did not move.

The terrifying Fist of Heaven was bounced back by the thorns the moment it landed on them, and instead smashed the War Priests into pieces.

Then they unceremoniously broke through the border of the Holy Kingdom, each man drew his weapon, and like a tiger among a flock of sheep, began to kill the members of the War Priests.

It was real killing, and the blood instantly dyed the ground red.

The priests who were usually high and mighty were like sheep being slaughtered at this moment, wailing and screaming in pain.

The clouds that had originally dispersed in the sky gathered again, blocking the sunlight. It was unknown whether their Father of Light did not want to see such a tragic scene.

In the end, in just less than ten minutes, an entire corps of war priests numbering a thousand was wiped out, and the two high priests were captured and brought before the cardinal.

The shattered Cardinal Iona looked at the two young officiants sinisterly.

The latter also looked at him fearlessly. Iona suddenly smiled, then swung the long sword wrapped in thorns in his hand and chopped off the young priest's head with a "swish".

The action was quick and decisive, without any hesitation at all.

Until his death, the young priest never thought that he would dare to do this! His head fell into the mud mixed with blood and dirt, and he died with his eyes open.

"younger brother!"

The eyes of the other high priest, Bellamond, were suddenly filled with tears.

She gritted her teeth and forced herself to calm down, and angrily shouted at the cardinal: "You despicable hound of the earth, you have entered the kingdom of my Lord and will be judged by the knife and sword!"

The cardinal remained unmoved by her curses.

He snatched the statue of the god of war, Moss, from the woman's hand and sneered, "That's exactly what you planned in the Yavana Sacred Mine."

"Then the disappearance of the Abyss Lord Zugmoi is also caused by you, right? These locusts were bred by you!"

During this time of walking on the earth, he also captured some locusts for research. After all, the Church of Mother Earth is the most in-depth force in the human world in terms of the cultivation of magical beasts and plants.

As a result, he discovered that these locusts actually contained the magic power of the insects and mycelium created by the Abyss Lord Zugmoi in the Holy Mine of Yavana.

After consulting with the church's top brass, he determined that the Holy See of Light was the only one in the entire continent of Semrio that might possess the magic fragments of that insect.

At that time, the situation at the Yavana Holy Mine was obviously a conspiracy set up by the Angel of the Lyre and one of their saints of the Holy See.

They said that some god caused Moss to be captured by an unknown powerful being. Are they treating them as fools?
Who else can command the angel who plays the harp?
The current situation is obviously that they use the excuse that Deimos was captured to deliberately use the modified locusts to start a war, in order to use war and death to enhance the power of the god Deimos.

Such despicable behavior is committed with such a high-sounding excuse. The so-called light is really despicable!

The cardinal became angrier the more he thought about it, so he threw the statue of the God of War to the ground.

"boom!"

Even the statue made of holy metal could not withstand the wrath of the legend. It shattered into pieces on the spot, and the broken fragments fell next to the head of the young high priest.

It quickly lost its luster.

At this time, the cardinal no longer needed to obtain any information from the high priest of the God of War. What he needed was to directly penetrate the Holy Kingdom.

Use the thorns of the Mother Goddess to make the despicable light feel pain, and let the saints and cardinals come to talk to him in person.

No one else is worthy of communicating with him.

So he simply raised his knife and chopped off the head of the high priest, then continued to wave the flag and steadily advanced towards the heart of the Holy Kingdom.

Behind them, with every step they took, dense thorns grew out, as if the earth was gradually invading the kingdom of light.

The bodies of the priests and the two high priests who were killed by them were buried in thorns and bloody mud. The head of the statue of Deimos fell to the ground, and there seemed to be some anger in his eyes, but also some anger.

After the cardinal walked away, a faint colorful light appeared in the eyes of the statue, which drew the souls of the two high priests into it.

Then it completely lost its luster, as if it had never appeared.

……

As time passes slowly.

The situation outside is getting worse and worse.

Except for the Kingdom of Nolant, which was relatively stable, several countries outside the kingdom were all invaded by locust plagues and had no harvest.

People were displaced and hunger was the most unbearable thing. The harsh environment made it impossible for them to survive.

The lack of food leads to the collapse of order. If a person cannot even get enough food to eat, power, status and order will mean nothing to him.

So large-scale riots broke out in many places.

Why can the nobles eat things that they can never eat in their lifetime? Why can the nobles enjoy a stable life in the castle?
You have to know that Croa has his own abilities and the resources of the entire sea area influenced by the power of the mermaid virtual god, so he can cultivate extraordinary people in this way.

But outside the North, the existence of extraordinary people is still very rare.

It is true that a transcendent has the ability to suppress many people by himself, but should the superior transcendents, knights and wizards be asked to suppress them?
That's unless the situation has reached an irreversible point.

For the vast majority of nobles, they only need to maintain their core territories and the territories of their retainers.

As for the rest of the ordinary people...well, of course they will still be saved, but the way of saving them will definitely be different.

As for the unrest, as long as it doesn't affect them, just pretend it didn't happen. Their status won't be affected anyway.

When they heard that a magic academy had been opened in the North, they immediately became curious - if they could send their children there... would they be able to get protection?

As for what you said about only Croix's apprentices being able to enter the magic academy, that's not a problem at all.

For them, having their children become apprentices of a sixth-level great magician is simply a great thing!

So the nobles gathered together without any prior arrangement and rushed to the north.

Northern Immigration Office.

Well-dressed nobles were gathered here, queuing up obediently in front of the long steel wall.

Waiting to enter the North.

This is the Gate to the North, the only entrance to the North.

It was a huge defense facility built under the supervision of Kroa's apprentice Semir, which built a steel wall between the Telenas Mountains and the only entrance to the North.

It is twenty-five meters high, ten meters thick, and stretches for about thirty kilometers. From a distance, it looks black and hard, reflecting the unique texture of metal.

Anyone who comes here will be amazed by such a towering and majestic building. You know, the castles of the nobles are not built entirely with metal.

But in fact, although it seems to be made of metal, it is actually a magical plant, a special magical plant called "Iron Bush Bush".

This magical plant grows in the barren gray desert and is generally found in iron ore and various metal veins. Depending on the different veins, its strength and magical properties will also vary.

As it grows, it will gradually absorb metals, making itself taller and harder, so as to protect itself from being eaten by some herbivorous monsters.

There are even some natural defensive magic patterns growing on its surface, which is simply the ultimate in hiding.

After the apprentice Jamie brought back this magical plant from the Gray Desert, Cloya observed it for a while, and then he heard the mumbling of their star spirits -

"Not safe enough..."

"To be eaten..."

"I want it to be harder!"

That’s right, this kind of demonic plant really feels insecure, so it tries its best to strengthen itself in the hope of living longer.

But the outrageous thing is that they also look forward to growing taller and bigger, eager to be seen by more creatures, and then use their extremely hard shells to deal with these greedy eyes.

How to put it, it's like being pretentious but also afraid of death.

Kloya was really enlightened. He didn't expect that this low-level second-level magic plant could have such rich emotions.

So he used it as a city wall without hesitation. What could be more eye-catching than a city wall at the entrance to the North?
"What a magical plant."

"The more eyes that watch them, the faster the flow of magic will be. That is to say, if a large army really approaches, they will become dozens of times harder than they are now."

Among the nobles' group, there was a dusty woman dressed as a traveler, who was looking up at the majestic northern gateway.

She suddenly looked forward to this place.

She held her staff and followed the crowd slowly into the northern border and through the majestic gate of the city wall.

Then a huge lake appeared in front of her.

The lake water shimmers and appears to be a full hectare in area, with the magic of space flowing deeper inside.

After entering the lake, every noble and their descendants will be sent to the designated location through the portal inside.

Although this would consume more magic power, it would also be more convenient. At least it would prevent the nobles from seeing the specific situation in the North.

It is temporarily opened.

The woman restrained her magic power, took off the badge of Star Town, stepped into the lake curiously, and planned to experience the peculiarities of the North for herself.

What is so special about this territory, which is not very big at all in the territory of the Semrio continent?
How could her good friend Iriste protect her like this?

As for the mission assigned to her by Star Town...that would have to wait until she had fully experienced and observed the North.

She thought her disguise was so good that she wouldn't be discovered.

But he didn't know that the moment he stepped into the Lake Gate teleportation array, he was located by the tower spirit.

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