Chapter 1510: Chapter 270: Demon Army
At this moment, South Ridge is a scene of smoke and fire.
Except for the Xiawei Territory, other territories and cities have encountered attacks of extremely high intensity, and the methods vary.
Some territories were attacked by suicide convoysâa convoy that had passed inspection, theoretically harmless, drove into the city center with a full load of high explosives and detonated.
Black mushroom clouds rose into the sky, and the shockwave crushed all the bewildered people around into fragments, and the subsequent screams and cries echoed throughout the world.
In some villages and cities, they were subjected to some new biochemical attacks.
The originally quiet mountain villages were filled with dark blood and human bones, and the human corpses on the ground were rapidly ârottingâ... no, they were melting.
"Help, help, is there a doctor..."
A person whose entire body was festering struggled to walk out of his house, but before he could take a few steps, he vomited large mouthfuls of black blood and collapsed to the ground like mud.
In the village near the mountains, mud walls were pushed down, fences swept aside, a tiger and a giant bear faced off, and in between them lay incomplete human corpses that had been gnawed.
Most of them resisted; this was evident from the crossbow marks at the edge of the village, but against the power of the berserk magical beasts, a village without Sublimators was mere prey.
Children holding their breath were hidden by their parents in wardrobes, suppressing their tears and covering their mouths, but a hungry wolf, its eyes blood-red, drew closer, sniffing.
No one survived.
Such scenes appeared everywhere in South Ridge, even in Nauman City; though the inner city was intact, the outer city experienced a âskyship fallââthe stationed Spirit Energy Users and a Second Energy Level Knight resisted with all their might, but the wreckage still fell into the harbor, destroying fifteen large and small ships.
In an instant, smoke and flames filled the streets, bloodshed everywhere, and fear and bewilderment spread across the land.
Through data recovery and technological iteration, the special combat techniques of the Fiery Flame Land made another leap.
Moreover, due to the use of the new technology âFusion Demon,â except for the Silverpeak Domain, all the key cities and territories north of Indigo Mountain in South Ridge faced attacks even more intense than before.
Theoretically, South Ridge shouldnât be so severely infiltrated, even with Fusion Demons, for not all Fusion Demons are Rongying, capable of fully retaining the memories of every soul theyâve devoured.
Not to mention, other territories have no souls, even if they devour humans, they cannot obtain all the information from their brains.
But apart from being spies, except for Ian Silverpeak Domain with the Heart of Terra guarding the Domain of Void, other places are basically undefended... and many Nobles in South Ridge secretly have ties with the Fiery Flame Land.
There might have been cooperation before, maybe recent contacts, and they might have even had brief alliances, intending to curb the rise of Silverpeak Domain.
After all, compared to the Fiery Flame Land, trapped in the far-off Western Warzone, an Overlord like Ian is far more terrifying.
If they can slow down the development of Ian Silverpeak Domain, giving them space to breathe, they donât mind conceding a path to the Fiery Flame Land.
But unfortunately.
The appetite of the Fiery Flame Land has never been just one Silverpeak Earlâthe entire South Ridge is their target.
But these Imperial Nobility, who have been staying in the remote borders for too long, have long forgotten this point, and the path they conceded is exactly one that will grind them down to dust.
Moreover... the Fiery Flame Land was not stopped in the Western Plains.
They have long started their advance.
Former Duke Sorinâs Domain, now the âLost Soul Mist Forest.â
When the Duke of Solin turned the entire duchy into a Deceased Monarch and retreated to the Earthâs Core to forge a nation of hell, the former Duke Sorinâs Domain completely became a mist-covered world.
Former cities, villages, hills, and forests, all shrouded in pale white mist... Any conscious being entering it would soon lose their sanity, falling unconscious.
Without a soul, itâs fine, just pulling someone out can wake them, but if they have a soul yet canât withstand the mistâs invasion, the instant they lose their mind, the soul will be forcibly stripped, resulting in severe brain damage.
Death is certain, compulsorily absorbing the soul and mind, thus turning the former Sorin Duchy into another Forbidden Zone on Terra.
At the edge of the mist-covered forest, there are Imperial blockades and fortresses, along with observation posts very close to the mist, specially used for monitoring.
For two years, there had been no anomaly, and Imperial soldiers guarding the mist border had become somewhat complacent.
"Do we really have to stay here always, staring at the vast white mist zone for half a day?"
A scout grumbled as he watched the seemingly unchanging realm of white mist, his gaze like that of a salted fish, "And we have to write three reports daily, Iâd rather go to the Western Front and fight the people of the Fiery Flame Land to the death!"
"Be content." His partner, a soldier in his sixties who had experienced several armed conflicts between the Empire and the Fiery Flame Land, quipped, "Being in such a peaceful place, just writing reports daily to earn military pay is already a blessing. Believe me, you wouldnât really want to be on a real battlefield, where thereâs only meat paste and people destined to become meat paste from artillery fire."