Chapter 742, The Strigg Undead Empire

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Many people have an inherent impression of the Badlands, that is, the Badlands are composed of greenskins + a small number of dwarves. Well-informed people also know that there are occasional tomb kings and undead haunts here, but for the badlands that once appeared Little is known about the great empires of the past.

This matter begins with Nagash, the Lord of the Undead. As early as more than a thousand years before Charlemagne rose in the Old World, Nagash led his army of undead and the last Tomb King Akadiza In the final battle, Nagash was defeated and fled, but the lord of the dead quickly used the plague to finally wipe out all the living people of the Nicohala civilization (the dead are not affected by the plague), and finally captured Alkadiza alive. Nagash did not kill or transform Alkadiza, but wanted him to witness the destruction of the entire human world.

Nagash plans to carry out a huge awakening ceremony. It wants to awaken all the dead in the entire mortal world and become the king of the dead in the world. After learning the news, the Skaven decided to prevent Nagash from destroying himself. Gash, the Ratmen rescued Akadiza and gave him a warpstone dagger. Akadiza used his last strength to give Nagash a backstab, and Nagash was cut into pieces , then Akadiza took off the crown of witchcraft, fled to the Badlands, and died of exhaustion.

Incidentally, even though the Skaven released and helped Arkadizar for their own sake, they did save the world to some extent (the Skaven salvation theory holds!).

So how did the Stryker Undead Empire come about?

Almost 1,200 years before Charlemagne established his empire, and more than 3,000 years ago, a human shaman named Kandon, the chief of an ancient human primitive tribe, discovered in the middle of the Badlands, near the Blind River. Akadiza's body and the witchcraft crown in his hand, the young shaman was immediately fascinated by this crown and put it on his head, so Nagash's thoughts eroded and controlled his soul, just in Akadiza. At the location of Kadiza's body, Kandon established a city and named it Mulcain. Under the power of the crown of witchcraft, almost all the shamans of the tribe became necromancers, and this primitive tribe soon became became very powerful and began to expand and conquer other tribes.

It took more than a hundred years, and the city under Candon's rule gradually became a powerful city-state empire after years of development.

One of the five vampire families, Ushoran, head of the Strigg family, was attracted by the power of the crown of witchcraft. This powerful blood ancestor killed Kandon and led a group of vampires and necromancers to seize the rule of Mulcain Right, established the famous Strigg undead empire, these people are called Striggni people.

In all fairness, it was an extremely glorious and prosperous empire. Ushoran was well-versed in both martial arts and martial arts, and had illustrious political achievements. The blood patriarch of the Strigel family was not only outstanding in personal martial arts, proficient in undead magic, but also had excellent experience in governing the country.

Through promoting the power of the blood nobles and the blood ceremony, Ushoran made the commoners worship the Midnight nobles headed by Ushoran as gods. All the Strigani will accept the "blood ceremony" and become the blood nobles as their own. The highest reward, the empire prospers, the people submit to Ushoran's rule, and take pride in their Strigani identities.

In its heyday, the Strigg Undead Empire was bordered by the Border Prince Land in the north, the Hell Swamp in the south, the Roof of the World Mountains in the east, and Blackwater Bay in the west. For hundreds of years.

In addition to literary and martial arts, this blood ancestor is also proficient in diplomacy and scheming. After investigating, Usoran chose to form an alliance with the dwarven kingdoms in the Roof of the World, because the dwarves keep their promises and are not affected by undead magic. For the increasingly large group of midnight nobles, Ushoran ordered that vampires be prohibited from attacking his own people. Instead, he chose to obtain blood food from captives, slaves and criminals. Therefore, the Strigani never felt that the midnight nobles were very Horrible, on the contrary, they are always willing to accept the rule of Ushoran, the midnight nobles and necromancers have always been lightly paid (money and food are just decorations for vampires, and they also have countless undead servants to provide free manpower).

"In this way, the entire Stryg Undead Empire has formed a very stable ruling structure." Belle took a sip of the dwarven beer: "And according to the book of hatred, Ushoran is quite a trustworthy guy."

After hearing the story of Belega, Ryan is fine. Carrad, Fedmond, Juan Carlos Sunwatcher and others are all ashamed of it. Many knights and nobles can't help but ask themselves, this group of undead The nobles actually do better than us?

What's the point?

Could it be that the undead are the race destined to rule the world?

"Then why, this undead empire finally perished?" Karard asked with great interest: "According to your description, King Belegal, it is so powerful and popular..."

"Because of blood." Ryan frowned, and the King of Knights said lightly: "Vampires need to drink blood after all, but they can't get blood from the residents of the undead empire, so they must continue to wage wars and expand to satisfy more and more people. The hunger of more and more midnight nobles, and the expansion and conquest of an empire has an upper limit after all."

"Brother Lane is right." Bellegar nodded again and again, and the King of Eight Peaks slowly explained the following things: "Because blood is needed and cannot be obtained from the citizens, Ushoran and the Midnight nobles under his leadership have to keep Expansion and conquest, the territory of the empire is getting bigger and bigger, and the frontiers are getting longer and longer, which makes the army of the entire Stryg undead empire seriously dispersed. As time goes by, expansion and conquest become more and more difficult , the greenskin tribes and some human tribes around the long frontier are constantly at war with the Stryg Empire, and the army of the entire empire is exhausted and its numbers are gradually decreasing."

"When Ushoran led the army to the current position of the border princes and fought against the army led by many human wizards, disaster struck. A green-skinned warlord named Doc-Red Eye launched a very large giant waaagh! The Greenskin Frenzy quickly overwhelmed the few frontier guards and penetrated into the heart of the Strigg Empire, laying siege to the capital, Mulcaine."

"When the news of this attack reached Ushoran, who was leading his army to fight in the north, he immediately transferred his army to defend the capital. After continuous fighting and long marches, the Stryg army was exhausted, but The greenskins had no intention of giving the Striggers a chance, and the two sides fought an epic showdown that lasted several days in the dusty plain."

"In the end, Ushoran and his army were no match for the endless greenskins, and they failed, and the remnants were forced to retreat towards the gates of Mulcaine, which the warlords soon found to be open to Opened in response to Ushoran and his defeated army, the cunning Doc-Red Eye immediately ordered a general attack. Ushoran decided to make a final resistance. He guarded the gate alone and fought against more than a dozen green-skinned warlords and shamans at the same time. The duel is like an epic, Ushoran failed after persisting for a long time, Mulcaine fell, the greenskin army destroyed and slaughtered everything except the greenskins, the Stryg undead empire was destroyed, the once incomparable The laughter of the greenskins and the screams of the vampires are echoed above the ruins of the glorious Strigg undead empire."

"At this time, there are still two hundred years before Charlemagne established his empire." Bellegar finished the long history, and the king of Eight Peaks sighed: "A small number of humans escaped, that is, the Strigani, They became nomads and wandered with their caravans, and their myths and legends still record the golden age of wealth and power when their empire was ruled by "undead kings", and prophesy that one day Ushoran will come. Return and lead his people to reclaim their ancient land and restore it to its glory."

"I know, the Strigani." Anthelm said with a smile: "A group of Strigany once came to Winford, and the leader of the Strigany claimed to be a mysterious devil and wanted to ask The cousin showed his magical power, and the cousin's answer was simple and quick, he ordered the capture of the group of Strigani, and all those who could be confirmed to have magical ability were executed, and the rest were expelled from the country."

"Normally, no one wants a group of vagrants who sing about the vampire king and spread vampire myths and legends all day long wandering around in their own territory, spreading all kinds of remarks that are not conducive to social stability and harmony." Ryan nodded helplessly: "They are always unwilling Settling down is also hoping to see their vampire king again one day, right?"

"I heard that there is a large group of strigger vampires who have fully turned into beasts gathered in Mulcain." Bellegar nodded: "These lyric and crazy vampires gathered in the ruins of Mulcaine They are always obsessed with the glory and fantasy of the past, they still feel that they are living in that glorious history, imitating the scenes of the ancient court of Stryg, as if they call themselves the carnivorous royal court, anyway, no one dares to approach There."

Carnivorous court? Strigger? Mulcaine? Ryan bowed his head and thought for a while.

In fact, he has obtained part of the wealth of the Strigel Undead Empire. A large part of the wealth given to him by the ancestor of the blood dragon, Aibo Wallace, came from the former Strigel Empire. Suo Ran's empire served him, and Abbot Wallace wasn't there when Mulcain fell, and the blood patriarch was forced to wander after that.

"Maybe we are a group of evil and distorted monsters in the eyes of the group of Strigani and the undead, but in the eyes of these evil creatures, they themselves are handsome knight nobles, well-dressed, elegant and decent." Vero Nika said with a smile on the side: "Their cognition has been distorted."

"An empire has a whole historical cycle from birth, development, prosperity, peak to decline and demise." Ryan pulled the reins of his mount Grape, and said in a gentle voice: "If we don't want to go through this cycle, don't want to see If your country perishes in internal and external troubles, then you must reform, you must reinvent yourself. This is what I have been trying my best to do, everyone, if you don’t want Britannia to face the same fate as the Stryker’s Undead Empire , we must strengthen ourselves! We must continue the reform.”

The Holy Grail knights surrounding the king nodded one after another, and many of them showed thoughtful expressions.

"We have all witnessed your contribution to the kingdom, my king." Callard wanted to express his admiration for Ryan seriously, but when he said this, Bellegar couldn't help laughing. Wang laughed loudly, and he shouted towards Ryan: "Brother Ryan, fellow knights, there is a rumor at Haimen Pass recently, have you heard it? Haha, it's so interesting, Valaya's braid, my first Hearing such a funny joke once!"

"..." Hearing what Bellegar said, the faces of many knights turned black.

Most of the knights have heard that rumor.

"A knight of Brittany can only win battles under the leadership of a dwarf (referring to Bellegar), a woman (referring to Morgiana), and a foreigner (referring to Ryan)."

imperial court joke

"Okay." Ryan let out a long breath, and the king shook his head: "Don't care about those rumors, you know very well how many people in the whole old world are waiting to hear the news of our expeditionary army's defeat. Now, to win this battle A war is more useful than anything else."

"yes!"

……… I am the dividing line that can only speak when I win………

The expedition continued along the Badwater River, toward the Iron Rock in the Roof of the World mountains.

Steel Rock is actually not on the way to Bafeng Mountain. On the contrary, if you look at the map, Steel Rock is almost in a straight line with Arsenal Fort and Haimen Pass, but Bafeng Mountain is located in the southeast of Steel Rock. Bypassing Black Rock Fortress, judging from the route, the expeditionary force did indeed take a long detour.

And as the march to the evil land deepened, the environment faced by the army gradually became more difficult. There were not so many greenskin fortresses to plunder, and the supply line began to be harassed by goblin wolf cavalry and some scattered greenskin tribes. The supply of food began to become standardized. Merchants and peddlers who accompanied the army felt the danger and left one after another. Some soldiers could not bear the harsh environment of the bad land, or fell ill due to acclimatization, or deserted as soldiers. .

After the 40,000-odd army was divided and garrisoned and lost, now there are only about 35,000 people left. Some knights and gentlemen saw that there was no benefit, and began to speak strange things. They hoped that Ryan would march directly towards Bafeng Mountain , Instead of going around to fight the steel rock, some remarks began to be made within the expeditionary army, such as "His Majesty Ryan only walks the bow and not the bowstring" and "The troops will be dragged down if this continues."

Ryan sternly refuted the opinions of the expeditionary army. The king said that before attacking Eight Peaks Mountain, we must conquer Iron Rock. Unsustainable, the only ending is the annihilation of the army, this is a bad place, not a human country!

Moreover, there is nothing wrong with the harsh environment of the Badlands, but along the foot of the Roof of the World mountain range, there are stretches of broad-leaved forests, which are the best camping grounds for humans.

Of course, Ryan also encouraged the expeditionary army, saying that there is a lot of wealth in the Iron Rock that can be plundered. There is also a huge magma lake at the bottom of this green fortress, which is rich in obsidian. This precious stone is very valuable, and everything is waiting. Expedition.

Inspired by Ryan, as the winter passed, in April, the expeditionary army arrived at the broad-leaved forest less than 20 kilometers away from Iron Rock. After a small encounter, the army successfully drove out the forest. A small number of goblins and green skins camped in the forest.

The opponent of the expeditionary force, the owner of the Iron Rock, was none other than one of the greatest green-skinned warlords, the tribe that Gorbad-Iron Claw once led, the Iron Claw Tribe.

Thousands of green-skinned boys, green-skinned big guys, and green-skinned pigs are waiting for this group of bearded enemies and canned shrimps to come and die!