Volume 1: The Rise of Elanhill Chapter 0089 Picnic
At the western border of the Higgs Kingdom, close to the Holy Demon Empire in a place called "White Land", several soldiers were standing on the tallest city wall built of huge stones, looking boredly at the desolate plain wilderness opposite them.
Theoretically, the Holy Demon Empire and all the mortal empires are not directly connected. There is a "white land" hundreds of miles wide between them. These places are semi-artificial isolation zones that separate the Holy Demon Empire from other mortal empires.
After passing this almost uninhabited isolation zone, the real territory of the Magic Empire is to the west. Although the magic . On this side of the isolation zone is the forbidden magic area where mortals without any magic live.
The magical aura certainly did not disappear suddenly at some invisible boundary as if blocked by a wall . In fact, there was a bit of magical aura surging on the west side of this white land, but it was weaker and less obvious.
The weak magical aura can only support some small-sized low-level magical beasts, but they prefer to live close to the west and never move to the east side of the Mortal Empire. Therefore, only ordinary wild animals can be seen on the border of the Mortal Empire.
This white land, which is similar to a quarantine zone, is only the nominal territory of the Holy Demon Empire. Although they control this land, they never develop or utilize it. They simply prohibit mortals from living in it.
In fact, it was not an explicit ban, and the Holy Demon Empire had never said that these white lands were not allowed for mortals to enter. It was just that mortals almost never set foot in this area, because this place was actually the "hunting" area of the dragon.
The Holy Demon Empire has a large number of dragon knights. While those dragons are extremely powerful, they are also big eaters. Feeding these dragons is a very tedious task. In theory, a large number of magic beasts are required, and it is best to have high-level magic beasts.
But even relatively cheap domesticated monsters like giant horses are extremely valuable transportation or combat power, so the Holy Demon Empire can only let the dragon riders' dragons go free, allowing these dragons to forage for food on their own near the border and capture anything edible they see.
Over time, the mounts of these dragon riders could only rely on the occasional low-level monsters they caught and the ordinary beasts in the white area for food, so they became so "weak". Rather than saying that they are giant dragons, it is better to say that they are just the degenerated descendants of high-level monsters.
But even these giant dragons, which can only eat large amounts of wild beasts to fill their stomachs, are still an existence that the mortal empire cannot defeat. They are still powerful and can fly, and they are still the demons of the cold weapon army.
The Holy Demon Empire itself knew that it could not drain the pond to catch all the fish. Their dragon riders would never cross the white land to harass the surrounding mortal empires without orders, in order to ensure that those enslaved mortal empires obeyed the will of the Holy Demon Empire.
Of course, once the Holy Demon Empire needed to enter the mortal area to fight, using local materials to feed the dragon riders' mounts, a disaster that often occurred but had no place to complain. When the dragons were hungry, they would eat cattle and sheep, and when there were no cattle and sheep, they would eat other things.
"I say, why do I always feel like something is going to happen today?" The Higgs Empire border soldier holding a spear complained to his yawning companion, "Since this morning, I always feel like something is wrong."
"Ha." His companion sneered after yawning, then looked at his companion and said sarcastically: "Come! Look at the opposite side of us, a dead wilderness! How can you feel good standing in such a shabby place every day?"
"Alright! Shut up!" The leading officer leaned against the battlement of the city wall, looked at the wilderness in the distance, frowned, and ordered his two men: "Be smart, we have more than ten days left before we are about to change our guard and leave, don't cause any trouble!"
The soldiers of the Higgs Kingdom were unwilling to serve in the west, so the border troops on the west side had to be rotated every few months. This was a tradition, a tradition for the sake of fairness.
"Yes, Captain!" The two soldiers raised their heads quickly, expressing their support for the captain's wise decision. But when they raised their heads, they saw something flying over from the horizon.
"Captain! Over there! It could be the dragon knights of the Holy Demon Empire!" A soldier pointed to the distant sky where he saw something and spoke to his captain.
As he pointed his finger, he saw a black dot approaching rapidly. And around this black dot, there were other black dots...
"Oh my god..." The captain raised his head, his eyes widened in surprise, and it took him a long while to squeeze out such an exclamation. This was already good for him, because the two soldiers standing behind him just raised their heads and looked at the sky, unable to even say a word.
Because above their heads, a giant dragon spread its wings and slowly approached the wall where they were standing guard under the clouds. On both sides of the giant dragon, there were other giant dragons flapping their wings from time to time.
Following on both sides of these dragons are still flying dragons, and behind them are still flying huge dragons covered with scales.
"One, two, three..." Watching the giant dragons approaching his position little by little, the sentinel captain of the Higgs Kingdom didn't know what to do. He could only look up and subconsciously count the giant dragons flying over his head.
"Gods above, is the Holy Demon Empire planning to destroy mortals?" A soldier who finally came to his senses, trembling while holding his weapon, sighed in a trembling voice.
He saw the dragon knights flying over his head, the huge dragon roars came one after another, and the majestic momentum made people's legs tremble. At least dozens of dragon knights flew over this checkpoint and flew to the heart of the Higgs Kingdom.
"Did you see it? There are at least fifty giant dragons!" After the giant dragons disappeared in the distant horizon, a soldier who finally regained normal breathing excitedly pulled the arm of another companion and asked loudly.
"Yes, I saw it! I'm not blind!" Another companion shook off his arm and complained with lingering fear: "The lineup just now seemed like a dark cloud covering the sky. Even if you are blind, you can feel the pressure, right?"
"I don't know which place is going to be in trouble again. With so many dragon knights, it is more than enough to destroy a big country like the Alante Empire." The captain retracted his gaze from afar, shook his head slightly, and spoke.
"There are at least fifty dragons! Captain!" The slightly excited soldier hugged his weapon and shouted to the somewhat uneasy captain: "What a spectacular sight! I didn't expect to see so many dragon riders at once when I saw them for the first time."
"That's not fifty! That's more than seventy dragons! It could also be eighty, I got the count wrong." The captain said with some regret: "What the hell is the Holy Demon Empire doing? Why did they send out so many dragon knights at once?"
"You guys stay here and guard! I'll go back! Although we're not as fast as these dragon knights, we still have to send the news to the capital!" As he spoke, he walked down the city wall and quickly walked towards the barracks in the distance.
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"There is a village below!" Irdo, who was flying beside Grand Knight Commander Diderik, looked down at the ground beneath his feet and loudly reminded Grand Knight Commander Diderik, who was in charge of commanding the dragon knight troops this time.
Didrick nodded, signaling the dragon riders to descend. Led by the giant dragon under his crotch, which had a wingspan of 35 meters, more than 70 dragons began to descend.
Without avoiding the houses in the village, these giant dragons began to descend. Their claws easily pushed down the walls of the houses in the village. Under their huge bodies, the crying of children and the panicked shouts of adults made the feast even more exciting.
"We are innocent! Sir! Let us go!" An old man knelt in front of a giant dragon, helplessly opened his arms and begged: "We have never questioned the glory of magic..."
"Yes, I know..." The dragon knight lowered his eyes and looked down at the mortal in front of him, nodded and agreed with the other party's statement: "But we are just passing by here, and we are not targeting you."
As he explained, the giant dragon under his crotch poked its head out and swallowed the old man who was begging for forgiveness. The old man's arm was still struggling outside the dragon's mouth, but after a few seconds, the arm was thrown out and fell beside the collapsed fence with blood.
"If you want to blame someone, blame Elanthir..." Riding on the dragon's back, Irdo silently watched his dragon devour a woman. In the eyes of the dragon, these unpalatable foods without magical aura were no different from cattle and sheep.
These mortals can fill their stomachs and give them the strength to continue flying and fighting, but that's all - eating these mortals cannot increase their magic power, it is just a stopgap measure for activities in the forbidden magic area.
"Too little! There's not enough to eat." A dragon rider looked at the last two mortals being eaten up by the two dragons and complained, "This village is too small. There's not enough to go around."
"It doesn't matter! If there are too few, then let's go to the next village!" Grand Knight Didrik gently stroked the scales on the back of the dragon under his crotch twice, then pulled the reins of his dragon and gave an order that sounded very reasonable.
The giant dragons that had eaten something roared loudly and began to flap their wings. They flew into the sky, leaving only ruins on the ground - the new war had not even begun, but it was already bloody and brutal.
