Since the fall of Herin City, Karin has led her army to rest in the city for a few days, taking advantage of this time to take a good inventory of the tens of millions of stone of grain piled up in the city. At this moment, these grains are very important strategic resources, and when they are transported to the outskirts of the imperial capital and to the hands of those who are affected, it will be transformed into the heaviest attack on the "emperor" of Iken.

However, tens of millions of stone of food sounds like a lot, but if it is not properly disposed of, it is likely to be consumed in the blink of an eye. As a result, her army remained under the city of Herrin for nearly ten more days.

During this time, the main force of Duke Jon, who had been facing Duke Uverick in the east for nearly two months, was withdrawn from the front line, and the 10,000 cavalry of the vanguard, led by Count Rickard, had rushed to the city of Herring. In addition, most of the second-rate princes who had been watching finally saw the situation clearly and began to raise troops in response to Karin. Duke Ufrik also organized a force of over 30,000 men to leave Eagle Helm - of course, no one would think that he had risen up to pursue Duke Jon. Before the Eagle Rudder City Lord raised his army, he honestly sent a letter of allegiance to Karin, explaining that he had already seen that Her Royal Highness the princess was the real Lord of Destiny Auckland, and the reason why he fought so hard was to fight for you early until the death, but it was only because of the instability in the territory that it was delayed to this day, so it was a pity that it also caused a misunderstanding among Duke Jon......

Everyone knows that this old guy is too undisciplined, and such a serious remark makes everyone a fool, but everyone can't find anything wrong. After all, since the beginning of the Civil War. The Duke of Eagle Helm City has never taken a stand, at least not officially.

Due to the addition of the lords of the princes. Even if you don't add the main force of the two dukes who are still lagging behind, sixty or seventy thousand, and stay in Herlin City to maintain the supply line. The 30,000 elite soldiers guarding the prisoners of war and food and grass still exceeded 200,000 when Her Royal Highness the First Princess of the World left Herin City and continued south.

Of course, the 80,000 soldiers under the city of Nahrin escaped at the last moment, and some people were ready to change their families to continue to serve as soldiers and eat the emperor's food in order to express their gratitude. However, even Her Royal Highness the World's No. 1 Princess was arrogant, and at this time, she would not look forward to the combat effectiveness of these surrendered troops, so she chose a reliable scattered and organized into some auxiliary troops. Responsible for some transportation and supplies, building roads and bridges, etc.

There were still 10,000 people stationed in the Lion's Throat Pass, the last military stronghold north of the imperial capital, but when the military vanguard of Her Royal Highness the World's First Princess was still half a day away, the whole army abandoned the city and fled. The defender, Baron Gobol, did not even have the courage to appear in the imperial capital, and his whereabouts have not been known ever since, and then it has become one of the secrets of the world's military history.

Then the army stopped again and began to prepare for this very important sacrifice. This is what the wind is talking about.

The ancient Herols, the majority ethnic group of the Holy Auckland Empire. Thousands of years ago, the discovery of vast and fertile land at the confluence of the Solmis and Grona rivers made it his home. They held up the fertile soil of the two rivers and bowed down to the goddess of light in the sky, thanking her for giving the people of Auckland such a hard-won imperial foundation. After thousands of years of multiplication. The ancestors of the Auckland people used this Lianghe Plain as the ruling core and base, and began to expand in all directions, and slowly established their hegemony as the world's strongest empire during the period of the human-dominated Black Iron Civilization. Thereupon. The area of the Two Rivers Plain is also known by the Aucklanders as "Seredith", which means central. The administrative units here are theoretically on the same level as the provinces. However, the governor of the province has always been held by the close branch of the royal family, the prime minister and even the crown prince himself.

Even today, when maritime commerce is extremely prosperous, the tax burden of Seredith has been surpassed by the coast. He is also still the most densely populated area of the entire empire.

Of course, there have been many wars in Auckland in history, and in addition to the long imperial era, the control of the Seredith region has naturally changed hands several times. However, every warlord who leads his army into Seredith will spend more than half a day performing a ritual of worshipping the heavens, which is also in keeping with the long-standing tradition of the Aucklanders. The people of Auckland believe that thanking and honoring your ancient ancestors and the goddess of Radiance who sits in the sky will give you the respect of this fertile land of Seredith so that you can secure the throne of the Radiant City, or you will be quickly driven out and even wiped out.

Karin and her rebel leaders believe that it is legitimate and legitimate to seize the throne and start a civil war, but it requires an ancient ritual tradition to be followed in order to show their righteousness to the world and to the gods of heaven and earth. This is the same reason that the emperors in Lu Xi's hometown often make some auspicious things, or go to Mount Tai to worship the heavens with money and money. What's more, more than half of the more than 200,000 troops currently gathered under the banner of the world's first princess are lords from all over the Aucklands, who may be ignorant, brave, or despicable, but at least they are traditional enough, and they are of course full of sacred fear and sense of mission for ancient rituals.

Of course, it is all the more necessary for Karin, as their lord and representative, to complete this sacrifice in person.

The ritual is simple, as a warrior commander, Karin must travel single-handedly to the confluence of the Solmis and Grona rivers, where the Aucklanders call the "Source of the Empire".

The ancestors of the ancient griffin dynasty once built a 200-metre-high statue of the glorious goddess here, which has become the most famous attraction of the entire Aucklanders. The huge statue of the goddess is so intimidating that from a distance, it seems that the knees of ordinary people may go limp. The idol wore a helmet and armor, a sword at his waist, a scepter in his left hand, and his right hand stretched forward, pointing to the northern wilderness in the distance. At that moment, the goddess of radiance seemed to be the patron goddess of Seredith and the people of Auckland, intimidating the invaders from the north with her supreme divine might.

Even a well-informed traveler like Lu Xi, who is accustomed to seeing spectacular buildings on the surface, saw this architectural and artistic marvel for the first time, looking at the 200-meter-high one. When the lifelike colossus of the goddess came, I was indeed deeply shocked.

The participants in the ritual must be at the foot of the goddess. Use your helmet to pick up the clear water where the river meets, and at the same time mix a little bit of your own blood.

After doing all this. Participants are required to return to the army with their own helmets filled with water mixed with their own blood. In full view of the army, he drank a third of the water himself, showing respect for this god-given land. Then he poured a third of the water into the hundred jars of locally produced liquor and distributed it to all the soldiers, indicating that the whole army would protect the land of Seredith with them. The last third is poured into a fine bottle of fine wine and thrown into the sky, an expression of gratitude and faith in the goddess of radiance.

Overall, there is nothing extravagant about the ceremony, and it is quite rough and primitive. Lu Xi pondered carefully. There is still a bit of the taste of the unity of heaven and man, and I suddenly feel that there is a lot of wood and wood? Although the fact that he offered blended wine to the eldest sister of the goddess and the legendary queen of the gods made Lu Xi feel that he couldn't complain.

However, tradition is tradition, everyone has done it, and for thousands of years, the Seredir region has indeed been in good weather, and there has not even been a major natural disaster...... Maybe Sister Serokhia just likes to blend wine?

Of course, there were some other lip glosses at the ceremony. Due to its proximity to the statue of the goddess, large areas of pasture and woodland have been listed as royal hunting grounds by successive Auckland royal families. It is inhabited by a variety of animals with a particularly rich species. From rabbits, pheasants, wild boars, and stag to wolves and bears. It is said that if a military leader who completes the ritual encounters a large animal in the process of fetching water and succeeds in hunting it with a gun, it is considered a blessing from the goddess of radiance - for example, the stag means that you will rule Seredir for a long time, the wolf means that you will soon defeat the enemy, and the bear means that the faction or empire you are about to establish will be strong for a while, and so on......

All in all, Her Royal Highness the World's First Princess said goodbye to the crowded camp like this. Riding her beloved white horse, Betisha, towards the river. According to ancient tradition, she could only be alone on this journey, and could not bring any of her subordinates to escort her. If it's the kind of commander who can't use all the parts below the neck. This journey is sure to thrill him and his men for a long time. But Karin is different, she has already laid the foundation for entering the transcendent realm by fusing the heart of the holy spring. Now his personal strength has reached the 7th Golden Order, and he can barely do it with one horse. Some ordinary, large carnivores pose no threat at all. And her own mentality is naturally very relaxed.

Her Royal Highness the First Princess of the World was actually very lucky, when she rode through the woodland and was about to reach the river, she looked up and saw that the huge statue of the goddess had really met a brown bear that had just finished hibernation and was so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back. The thinner and hungrier the animal is, the more aggressive it becomes, and the beast doesn't even realize that even the magically bred horse under its crotch can trample itself to death with its hooves, and immediately pounces on Karin with a "whin".

Her Royal Highness the World's First Princess felt a little ridiculous, and she didn't even bother to draw her sword, so she raised her hand, and the magic of the pure holy light turned into a "shock retreat" in the divine art. The bright white light rippled through the air, and in this way knocked the brown bear back, smashed several trees in a row, rolled directly out of the woodland, hit the ground, and fainted on the spot.

Her Royal Highness the First Princess of the World is not a murderer, and of course she is not ready to kill this brown bear, after all, people also hunt for survival. She just planned to stun the brown bear directly, and then symbolically said that she had succeeded in "hunting", and it would be good to leave some dry food.

It was supposed to be such a happy story, but when the brown bear fell out of the woodland, it suddenly let out a stinging exclamation of "oops".

Karin was slightly stunned, and suddenly realized that it was a stranger. Her eyebrows tightened, her right hand already held the "Heart of the Blazing Sun" in her palm, and she rode out of the woodland quickly.

The majestic and majestic statue of the goddess was on the other side of the river, and on the shore on this side, a group of healthy horses were tied to the stones next to it, and a brown bear that had been smashed to pieces was lying half-dead on the shallows, and under the bear's belly, there was a low groan of pain, obviously a person.

If it were an ordinary person, if he was smashed by these hundreds of kilograms of brown bear, he would lose half his life even if he didn't die, but this guy was not only obviously alive, but also had the physical strength to scream, which means that he is still very healthy.

Karin carried the big sword, rode forward, carefully looked at the person under the brown bear's belly, and then opened her mouth slightly, and her eyes widened in surprise: "Huh? How could it be you? ”

“…… Your Highness, Your Highness! The young man under the brown bear showed surprise that far exceeded Karin: "It's finally been you've arrived." (To be continued.) )

PS: So that's it, let's go ahead and ask for tickets