Chapter 544 Broken Sword (I)

(Title... I've been having trouble naming recently. I'll update it. Maybe there is. I really couldn't stand it after adjusting my schedule last night.)

Late February of five years.

After achieving the victory, the Eastern Allied Forces continued to attack along the planned offensive front, knowing that they did not have much time.

They must complete internal integration before the Crusaders launch an attack, and use the tactics of clearing the field to slow down the opponent's advance. Even if they divide the border with the Crusaders, they can accept it.

It just takes time and integration.

A goal.

No one can compete with the lord in terms of development speed.

The Eastern Allied Forces are determined that time is on their side.

"Time is on our side."

Teresa said with a strong voice to the saints attending the meeting.

The Holy Crusade Station.

Three months is enough for an army to build a semi-permanent fortification in the white ground that can withstand several times the enemy.

But this stagnation makes the middle and lower classes of the Crusaders very dissatisfied. They have always won the "holy wars" against other worlds through continuous attacks.

One hundred thousand soldiers.

There was no water, no veteran farmers were recruited, no peasants were recruited, and one hundred thousand soldiers were fully armed.

With a full range of light and heavy weapons, as well as complete combat capabilities of middle-level officers and middle- and upper-level elites, very few people can withstand the first punch of their surprise attack.

After achieving stage victory, they will build a portal to call the main world for support.

And then came the purge, the purge.

Burn their books and replace them with scriptures; confiscate the spellcasting process, drag out all spellcasters and hang them; destroy the original rule, and replace everything in the original world from top to bottom with managers sent by the main world.

The ruins were covered with a management system belonging to the Holy See.

They realized very early that when the number of people in a civilization was not enough to support the civilization itself, they completed their conquest of the world.

Civilization relies on reality to exist, and as long as the reality on which civilization relies is buried, whether it is killing or erasing their culture.

Use God's vision and hatred to drive this never-ending chariot.

Then they get a world.

A world bathed in the glory of God.

Now this normal cycle was interrupted shortly after they arrived in this world, and the vanguard's chariot was forced to stand still in place by an order from the top.

The War Realm Paladin who was responsible for this expedition single-handedly suppressed the dissatisfaction of other saints and believers and ordered them to start building fortifications and build portals to wait for support from the main world.

"Mother Teresa, my troops are here to fulfill the glory of God."

The leaders of the Crusader soldiers and officers protested. Once the portal is opened, their military exploits will end there.

War is the fastest promotion path for civilians. For civilians without assets, if they perform well in war, they may be immediately promoted to low-level believers with church positions.

The Holy See monopolizes all extraordinary powers, and the mortal auxiliary army hopes to become believers through war. After being granted extraordinary powers, whether they choose to continue the war or return home is a good choice.

Priests have more rights, more resources, and even more money.

Before the portal is opened and after it is opened, military merit is evaluated in completely different ways.

After the portal is opened, the Vanguard Army will not be as valuable as it is now... armies from or through the main world will continue to pour in and occupy this world.

The dozen or so fortresses of the Border Lords seem to be a lot, but if the battle merits are divided among 100,000 people...

not enough.

Not nearly enough.

"Our scouts saw that they are still fighting among themselves. As long as we concentrate our forces, we can defeat them at once. This is definitely the best time to launch an attack!"

continued the leader of the Crusader soldiers and officers.

He has no decision-making power. The decision-making power of the army is completely in the hands of the monks of the Holy See. Only by becoming a member of the Holy See can he be considered as a manager.

Maybe it's stupid, maybe it's inefficient, but the Holy See has firmly controlled the army in its own hands through this method.

Failure is tolerated, and they have more than enough resources to fill the gap of error.

And betrayal cannot be tolerated.

"Please go back and tell your troops that this is an order from the paladin. They will be stationed in your defense area and wait for new instructions." Teresa said in a stern tone: "This is an order, and I don't want to say it a second time. "

The meeting is over.

Hound Sister Teresa sighed, her eyes fell on the golden dome, and then looked at the lord who was listening to the meeting.

"Hey, you guys, do you know where these things come from?" She raised the floating stone in her hand.

The Holy See Crusaders found some floating stone fragments in the lord's warehouse that had not been moved in time. They guessed that floating stone was mainly produced by floating stone islands in the sky.

If you want to reach the island in the sky, you must wait for the portal to send the war airship over.

There are floating stones in the castle of this group of people on the ground, which means that they must have a way to obtain floating stones.

Then the Crusaders dug three feet into the ground but could not find the vein of floating stone.

The low-level lords looked at each other. Marginal lords like them were not qualified to touch the production and acquisition of floating stones, but they did know a little bit about it.

Only the lords who control the bottom of the sky island are qualified to negotiate for floating stones.

As more and more lords advance to the fourth era and can make better use of this rare mineral resource, the price of floating stones has also risen.

Only a few worlds produce floating stones, and the demand is still growing exponentially.

That is to collect the carcasses of animals falling from the sky and refine their bones to obtain a small amount of floating stones. The output is very low... and it depends on luck.

The people of the Church don't ask, and the low-level lords who surrender will not take the initiative to say it.

Now the surrendered lords and the arriving Crusaders are like two parallel lines except for the necessary communication.

The middle and lower-level personnel don't want to contact this group of immortal guys at all. The reputation of the lords has become almost the same as that of the abyss demons. This trend has even begun to gradually affect the middle-level monks.

Is this kind of immortal thing really the same as them?

Because the lords are still competing with them for military merits, these Crusaders are even more unhappy with the lords. You don't have much military merits, so why are you competing?

If the paladins and some monks had not thought that these lords were resources worth using, they would have been hacked to death by the Crusaders in the name of pagans and demons.

And Theresa was one of the ones who was kinder to the lords. She asked, and the low-level lords answered her.

"Well... Is this how you get the floating stone... I understand."

She grinned, and she had a plan in her mind.