Chapter 80: The 2nd Generation - The Foundations of the Holy Light Empire
After browsing through the Fear Demon King’s memory,
Lu Yuan fell into silence.
The Abyss Will, the Undead Amon, and the Magic World Will, what kind of rebellious triangular relationship do they have among the three?
Even the tangled relationships in many melodramatic soap operas aren’t as complex as this!
No wonder Amon acted fearlessly and dared to openly provoke the Will of the Heavens.
After all, the slightest change affects everything.
Although Amon is merely a mortal, he is crucial to the life and death of two worlds.
If he dies, both the Magic World and the Abyss Plane will end up accompanying him in death.
"But this just turns into a death loop, doesn’t it?"
Lu Yuan was quite troubled.
If Amon isn’t killed, he would just continue to encroach, further eroding the power of the Magic World Will.
Yet if he is killed, both low-level planes would be destroyed with him.
Especially after two thousand years of mutual erosion and fusion.
Among the three, they have long been intertwined with one another.
Even the Will of the Heavens couldn’t separate them.
No wonder this is an Apocalypse Level difficulty, because it’s simply an unsolvable problem!
"Wait! Amon just took advantage of a loophole, exploiting a bug, but his true power isn’t that overwhelming."
Lu Yuan suddenly realized something.
As long as the parasitic relationship between Amon and the Magic World Will is dissolved,
all the problems would be resolved! Under normal circumstances,
getting Amon to abandon his erosion of the Magic World Will would be as hard as ascending to the heavens.
But Lu Yuan possesses the Catastrophe Legion!
Moreover, after being blessed by the Magic World Will, he gained the power to seize souls and the World Origin!
With this in mind,
Lu Yuan’s thoughts cleared, and he determined the plan ahead.
Step one, subdue Amon.
Step two, assist the Magic World Will in devouring the Abyss Will,
and step three, merge the Magic World and the Abyss Plane into one!
As for how to subdue Amon, Lu Yuan’s method is simple and brutal.
Kill!
From the Fear Demon King’s memory, Lu Yuan already learned that
the Holy Light Knight Order is akin to a group of parasites, merely tools for Amon to steal the World Origin.
Which means that
the more Holy Light Knights I kill, the more power the Magic World Will recovers.
By then, the balance among the trio can be shattered, making Amon even weaker!
What Hell Demon Corps? Kill!
What Holy Light Knight Order? Kill!
What Abyssal Reconnaissance Team, kill!
In essence, just one thing:
Kill until the Holy Light Empire is soaking in blood!
Lu Yuan had endured for so long, he finally had the opportunity to let loose and do something great!
Soon,
he led an expedition in person.
The vast Catastrophe Legion set forth from the Skeleton Wasteland, capturing and occupying lands on their way, with their goal set directly at the Imperial Capital of the Holy Light Empire!
In a one-on-one combat, the individual strength of the Catastrophe Legion isn’t particularly formidable.
But when it comes to large-scale group battles, the Catastrophe Legion is absolutely a BUG level existence.
As the saying goes,
before the troops and horses move, the provisions and forage advance.
For a military, provisions and supplies often determine the outcome of a battle.
But the Catastrophe Legion gets neither sick nor tired, not even needing provisions for eating or drinking!
Other elite troops would need to consider casualties and how to replenish manpower.
But the Catastrophe Legion only grows more abundant as they fight!
Most importantly,
the Catastrophe Servants are fearless and loyal.
There’s no concern about internal coup, mutiny, or enemy infiltration.
Where Lu Yuan’s sword points, is where the heart of the Catastrophe Legion lies!
No matter how heavy the casualties, they won’t retreat a single step.
No exaggeration to say,
this is undoubtedly the most perfect, strongest, and invincible legion in the history of the Magic World!
When the Catastrophe Legion departed from the Skeleton Wasteland and entered the Laine Kingdom’s border,
this prosperous borderland kingdom was already wailing throughout, completely reduced to a hell on earth.
Only countless Hell Demons remained, roaming in the towns.
With these demons, Lu Yuan naturally wouldn’t be polite.
He absorbed them all, converting them into Catastrophe Servants.
Almost every town he arrived at, the number of the Catastrophe Legion surged extraordinarily!
One billion!
One and a half billion!
Two billion!
...
In just a few days, the number of the Catastrophe Legion broke through the thirty billion threshold!
Along the way,
the Catastrophe Legion, with an overwhelming force, easily captured every city along their path.
Whether it was the Imperial Army or the Holy Light Knights, they were all drowned in the flood of skeletons!
Tens of thousands of Holy Light Knights were killed, though the World Origin within them was weak and negligible,
gathering them still made a considerable boost to Lu Yuan’s power!
And the number of Catastrophe Knights also skyrocketed, reaching an astonishing five hundred thousand!
Besides,
Lu Yuan also gained thirty-seven Behemoths from some nobles’ dungeons!
Even though these Behemoths were still in their infancy, unable to compare with Celestial Calamity Behemoths,
the effect augmentation from the Legion Expedition made these young Behemoths’ power no less than adult Behemoths!
Though the Catastrophe Legion had a commanding presence, the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Holy Light Empire were still kept in the dark.
Because all the intelligence and reports were intercepted by Lu Yuan’s informants.
Even the Holy Light Imperial City was full of Lu Yuan’s Catastrophe Servants.
It wasn’t until he reached the gates of the Imperial Capital that,
the Holy Light Empire finally felt the fear imposed by the Catastrophe Legion.
"Those useless fools of the Laine Kingdom, letting a horde of skeletons reach the gates of the Imperial Capital!"
"Such a serious matter, why hadn’t any reports come beforehand?"
When Louis XIX learned of the news, he roared angrily.
Yet, lost in revelry, he completely forgot that not so long ago,
on the orders of the Undead Amon, he had commanded all kingdoms and cities to take in fleeing refugees.
As a result, many cities became City of Deaths,
else not even the strong Catastrophe Legion could encompass the Holy Light Imperial City in just a matter of days.
"A horde of skeletons daring to challenge the Empire’s prestige is a humiliation to the Empire!"
"Mobilize all Holy Light Knights and all Tier Nine Saint Demon Masters, let them march out and confront the enemy!"
Louis XIX gritted his teeth and roared in anger.
On receiving his command,
the Holy Light Commander Voken didn’t act immediately. Instead, he went to the Royal Mausoleum to seek the guidance of his ancestor, Amon.
For he knew the incoming Catastrophe Legion was formidable beyond the capacity of the Holy Light Knights to withstand.
But Amon was at the critical moment of merging with the Abyss Will and paid no heed to his request.
With no other choice, Voken had to act according to Louis XIX’s orders.
Though the Holy Light Knights stationed in various kingdoms were all wiped out by Lu Yuan,
the Holy Light Empire, standing strong for two millennia, still had terrifying foundation.
All across the Imperial City, massive Spatial Teleportation Magic Arrays were activated.
Amidst the flickering lights,
troops stationed across the Magic World were all urgently recalled.
In merely half a day,
Voken assembled four hundred thousand Holy Light Knight Order, one hundred thousand Royal Griffin Corps, over a million Imperial Guards, and more than eighty Dragon Knights!
Beyond that,
the Imperial Magic Academy dispatched thousands of High-tier Mages and over thirty Tier Nine Saint Demon Masters.
Each Saint Demon Master possessed power to annihilate the heavens and earth.
And the Holy Light Empire dispatched over thirty of them all at once!
Even more unexpectedly,
the Holy Light Empire secretly tamed more than eighty Giant Dragons!