395. The end of the Southern Theater of Operations

Cazes. Prince Hodgdy sat down in his chair with a dejected expression, his eyes glazed over.

The Scarlet Knights, which he had worked so hard to build almost all his life, ended up in the end of a total annihilation today, on this kind of battlefield that he had not put in his eyes from the beginning? And all of this is still based on the fact that Thaddeus breaks through the limits of the realm!

So Cazes couldn't figure it out anyway, why didn't the other party die after being hit by Thaddeus?

Although this kind of breakthrough that suddenly surpassed the limit of the realm at an emergency moment was essentially different from the Sacred Domain powerhouse that developed step by step, but even so, the blow that Thaddeus had just now was an attack with all the strength of a genuine Sacred Domain level powerhouse.

"For what?" Cazes muttered to himself, his eyes no longer focused, "Why didn't you die?" This...... How is this ...... Probably ......"

On the other side of the battlefield, William watched Raina pull out the spear that pierced Thaddeus's eyebrows, and let Thaddeus's body slowly fall, William knew that they had won this war. Although there was such a variable as a breakthrough in the Thaddeus realm halfway, fortunately, he did not break through from the realm of a quasi-holy realm powerhouse who could basically use the power of the rules, but because he was forced to a near desperation by Reina.

There is an absolute difference between the two.

If the opponent who broke through the realm today was Ah Yaer, then he would definitely not have the situation of losing his strength like Thaddeus, even if he couldn't completely stabilize the relationship because of the temporary breakthrough realm, but at least he could exert the strength of seventy percent of the lower Sacred Domain powerhouses.

As a result, it is really very difficult to predict how the war will be won or lost today.

But even so, to say that William is not heartbroken. That's also impossible.

Affected by that blow, the loss was a full 1,500 Northland barbarians!

In William's eyes, these 1,500 Northland barbarians were no more valuable than the Crimson Knights in Cazes. Prince Hodgday's eyes were low. It's just that the situation on the battlefield has always been ever-changing, so when encountering this kind of sudden situation that is completely not expected by logic, William is also powerless. However, according to his prediction, the last scene that will determine the end of this war should also appear soon.

"Woo-woo-"

Almost as soon as William's guess fell, the sound of a loud military trumpet began to blow from the perimeter of the battlefield.

Immediately after, the sound of neat footsteps began to sound, and mercenary groups holding different flags began to appear in all directions of the battlefield!

Six mercenary regiments entered the battlefield at this time from different angles. It seems to be a war of encirclement and annihilation in an urn.

At the time of seeing the appearance of these six mercenary groups, Cazes was still at war. Prince Hodgdy's three legions immediately knew that they were gone, and no matter how much they fought to the death, as long as the enemy's encirclement was formed, they would eventually die.

There was an immediate subtle change in the mentality of all those on the battlefield.

The legion that was originally entangled with Cecilia's Guards on the far left battlefield. Although he was willing to help the other two legions of the same affiliation, he faced his former colleagues of the Fourth Legion who were only entangled but did not fight to the death. This legion also has no intention of fighting to the death. For this grasp of human nature. Of course, it is impossible for Clov, who has been fighting in the trading capital for so long, not to know what to do, so he does not order a death battle, but the two legions are entangled with each other, but once this legion wants to break through and join the other two legions, Clov will immediately order a death attack.

So after a few confrontations and temptations, they also knew each other's plans and bottom line. Instead, they were the two legions with the lowest casualty rates on the battlefield.

And the battlefield on the right side, opened up by the convergence of the Thunder Lion and the Iron Wings, the intensity and scale of the war are much more tragic and tragic. Although Alfred used the fangs of the flame lion in his hand to suppress Kuchi for a while at the beginning, the Fire Dragon Legion and the other legion were their own people who had been training together for a long time after all. Therefore, in addition to being suppressed a little miserably at the beginning, once they stood on their heels and joined forces, it was naturally the Thunder Lion and the Iron Wing, which were smaller in number, to be completely suppressed.

Originally, at this time, the 2,000 Northland barbarians who successfully resisted the Scarlet Knights and successfully inflicted heavy losses on them should have returned to help and completely stabilize the battlefield. It's a pity that because of Thaddeus's genius, it almost made this side the only flaw in William's entire plan.

But at this time, because the six mercenary groups had begun to press on this side of the battlefield, the reactions of the three legions were different.

The legion entangled with Cecilia's Guards obviously began to slow down the offensive, in such a situation, Clov naturally did not intend to force too much, anyway, as long as the army surrounded, even if the other party still wanted to resist, it was estimated that he could only wait for death. So naturally, the two armies began to slow down the intensity of the fighting under this tacit understanding, until finally both sides stopped fighting, and then resumed to the level of confrontation with each other like a watershed.

On the other side of the battlefield, another army that had been cooperating with the Fire Dragon Legion to carry out a fierce counterattack also suddenly slowed down its offensive, but this legion was not as calm as the other legion, and many soldiers directly discarded their weapons and turned around and fled, as if they would become lambs to the slaughter if they ran slowly. Affected by this, even the movements of many soldiers of the Fire Dragon Legion began to slow down, and many people who didn't even know the situation looked at their companions a little inexplicably, why suddenly everyone gave up attacking, and it was not until they saw the enemy reinforcements in the distance that the encirclement was shrinking, and these soldiers finally understood that the situation of the war was beyond their control.

However, some people fled, some stopped or even surrendered, and of course, some people are still fighting with their lives and deaths.

For example, Kutch is still the pious who follow him.

This group of people was the smallest in number, but the attack was the most frenzied, and it seemed that it was because they had despaired of their lives that they had decided to burn their lives completely in this most difficult moment. It's just that if they still have the support of their companions, maybe they can really beat the Thunder Lion and the Iron Wings to the point of completely canceling the formation, but unfortunately they don't have such a chance anymore.

The Thunder Lion and the Iron Wings, who had already been pressed back to the brink of collapse, were finally completely gasped because of the stoppage of more than half of the soldiers of the Fire Dragon Legion and the other legionnaire. The counterattack that followed was naturally extremely unfavorable to Kuchi and the others. Especially the combination of Alfred and Anno, this typical combination of attack and defense directly completely cut off Kachi's suicidal thoughts, but as the battle lengthened, Kachi's injuries became more and more, and the guards who followed him to the death were basically dead.

At such a time in the war, even a blind man finally realized that it was completely impossible for him to win.

Sean, on the other hand, led the members of the Holy Roman Order and the Scarlet Knights to the enemy base camp. Prince Hodgdy still has several powerhouses in the Golden Realm around him, but the number of powerhouses on Sean's side will not be less. At least Shefanio and Tiny. Basically, they are all strong people who can fight one against two, coupled with Sean's simple and rough way of fighting and crushing, if there is no strong person in the Holy Domain, it is really impossible to block Sean's attack.

It's a pity, Cazes. Prince Hodgdy's only Sanctuary powerhouse has been stopped by the coachman Boy next to Florence.

As the muffled sound of the earthy yellow semisphere grew. The dispute between these two Sanctuary powerhouses was obviously about to be separated. And as long as these two people get the result, then they can give the most decisive conclusion to this battle that will determine the final result of the southern theater - if Bode wins. Then Cazes. Prince Hodgdy is gone; If it's Cazes. Prince Hodgdy's Sanctuary powerhouse won. Then they can still struggle a little.

But that's just the struggle.

Because Sean has the biggest and most important hole card in this war: Andrew.

If it weren't for this hole card, how dare Sean spread so big?

So in this battle straight to the local base camp, Sean also didn't press too hard, and the two sides just broke out in a fierce melee halfway up the hill with more than enough to die - of course, causing such a situation. Most of the reason is that in the face of uphill battles, the advantage of the Knights has to be weakened by at least half, and if it weren't for the strong men borrowed by Tini and Shephaño, Sean and Florence, this charge battle is probably impossible to fight.

As for Sean himself. He didn't make a move, but stood with his sword on his sword and looked at the battlefield of the powerhouse of the Holy Domain.

There was a deep frenzy hidden in the depths of his eyes, and it was the desire for strength!

However, Sean is also very clear that it is not the lack of experience points that restricts him from breaking through the limit of the realm now - since the outbreak of the war in the Southern Theater, the soaring experience points of various experience points have directly broken through eight digits and are about to reach nine figures. Even if the experience requirement for each level of the Golden Realm is almost twice that of the Silver Realm, this experience point is definitely enough for him to directly ascend to the lower golden peak in seconds when he breaks through the lower golden realm.

What really restricts Sean's breakthrough is his lack of key props!

Therefore, unless Sean is willing to give up the rank of Curse Mark Swordsman and change to another rank, he can only be limited to the peak of the upper silver until this key factor is found.

At this moment when Sean was slightly distracted, a violent explosion no less than the blow that Thaddeus tried to hit Rena hard just now finally sounded on the battlefield!

The giant earthy yellow semisphere, which had expanded to a radius of several hundred meters, suddenly exploded completely, and the flying yellow sand in the sky even made people mistakenly think that this was a desert. Accompanied by the flying yellow sand, it was vaguely visible that the entire site environment was full of traces of energy that could be captured by the naked eye, and at the same time, a figure flew upside down from this area and crashed into the mountain wall of the White Ice Ridge, causing a small tremor until the countless debris that fell completely buried the hole.

And when the flying yellow sand finally gradually sank, everyone's vision was finally no longer so blurred, and the traces of energy fluctuations in the air began to calm down, and then everyone on the battlefield gasped.

In front of them, there was a huge pit with a radius of nearly 500 meters and a depth of at least tens of meters, and the pit was almost everywhere with scorched or condensed crystal walls, and from time to time there were several extremely hideous and terrifying huge cracks on the stone walls that had been crystalline. Judging from these battlefield traces, one can infer how fierce and powerful the battle between the two lower-ranking Sacred Domain powerhouses was. All this has completely surpassed the extent that a normal strong person can imagine.

This is the battle of the true Sanctuary powerhouse!

Compared with the battlefield environment in which these two Sanctuary powerhouses were fighting, the blow that Thaddeus burst out with all his might was simply pediatric.

It's just that the curiosity about the winner of this battle still overwhelmed the awe of the strength of the powerhouses of the Holy Realm after all, after all, this is related to their next fate.

Soon, there was another muffled explosion of explosions.

However, this time, the sound was much lighter than the sound that ended the decisive battle between the two Sacred Domain powerhouses.

Everyone saw that countless pieces of rubble were blown apart, and then a man walked out of it.

It's a skinny old man!

Bode!

Sean's pupils shrank suddenly, even though he knew that even if Bode lost his battle, he wouldn't lose this battle. But my heart still involuntarily became nervous.

Then everyone saw that Bode went directly to the edge of the great crater, jumped and jumped.

At this moment, everyone's minds couldn't help but become more nervous.

It's just that the exaggerated scene of continuing the war that everyone imagined did not break out again. Everything was unbelievably calm. This time, though, Bode didn't make people wait too long. It was probably only a few minutes later—perhaps because the crater was so deep—so a few minutes later Pod floated slowly from the bottom of the pit again. The people on Sean's side immediately erupted in an earth-shattering cheer.

In contrast, it is the Kazes who has survived. The people on Prince Hodgdy's side dropped their weapons one after another with a tacit understanding.

Even those golden powerhouses also chose to give up resistance.

Because everyone on the battlefield has clearly seen that at this moment, Bode is carrying a human head in his hand.

Many of them did not know who the owner of the human head was. But this was taken out by Bode himself by jumping into that huge pit, so his identity was naturally about to come out - who else could have a fierce battle with Bode in this big pit, except for those who were also strong in the Holy Land?

As for these artificial, why would they choose to give up resistance. Again, the reason is simple.

They all know very well that once the Sacred Domain powerhouses are invested on the battlefield, then the ones who will control the war will no longer be ordinary armies, unless the Sacred Domain powerhouses on both sides are killed together, or the victorious Sacred Domain powerhouses are seriously injured and unable to fight again, otherwise it is those special operations regiments or these Sacred Domain powerhouses who can decide the final outcome of the war.

And Bode, this Sanctuary powerhouse from Sean's side was still able to levitate in mid-air with his own strength at this time, no matter how embarrassed his current appearance was, no one would dare to underestimate him, let alone ignore him. Besides, the six mercenary groups from Sean's side have also completely completed the encirclement, so even if they fight again at this time, there will be no result except for a total annihilation.

Therefore, at this moment, except for Kuchi and a very small number of people who are still desperate, no one on the battlefield will choose to resist anymore, and almost all of them have chosen to surrender. After all, for the vast majority of people, the change of lords in the territory or the change of the country is nothing to them, and the real damage to their interests is only those nobles who are usually high.

A few minutes later, Sean arrived at Cazeth with a group of knights and captives. In front of Prince Hodgdy, Sean saw the prince's face that had aged by more than ten in an instant.

Everyone, within twenty meters of the Prince, stopped advancing, and the members of the Order began to position the enemy troops who had surrendered halfway up the mountain, and quickly set up a circle to protect themselves from the possible surprise attack. Only Sean did not stop at that distance, but continued to walk forward, until he and the prince who used to have extremely high royal influence in the kingdom of Dabiang stopped until he stopped.

"I lost." Cazes. Prince Hodgdy sighed, "I'm willing to surrender." ”

Looking at this prince, Sean also had to admit that Cazes was indeed a very attractive middle-aged man.

His image is handsome and upright, especially after people reach middle age, it adds a mature charm, although because of the defeat of this war, he seems a little decadent, but at this moment, when Sean came to him, he still tidied up his appearance a little, trying to make himself look more in line with the identity of a nobleman, and even if it was the tone and attitude of speaking at this time, he also put his posture in a relatively low position, at least he did not give Sean any aristocratic domineering.

From this point of view, Sean really can't use "I don't think you're happy" as an excuse.

It's just, Sean and Cazes. Prince Hodgdi did have an irreconcilable relationship with each other.

Not for anything else, just because of his pact with the devil.

Therefore, Sean shook his head slightly, and said in a deep voice: "I know that you are a very aspiring lord, and whether it is military, political or even personal martial arts, you have reached the definition of genius in this world, but I still can't accept your surrender." …… At the very least, you have to die. ”

It seems that this outcome has been expected for a long time, Cazes. Prince Hodgdi actually smiled elegantly, and then nodded: "With my status, it is indeed a trouble if I live, I can understand this. …… So, may I ask you for one thing? Honorable Lord Panda? ”

Cazes. Hodgdy did not call Sean a baron, but a lord, which in a sense was also equivalent to putting Sean on an equal footing with himself. After all, while he is a prince, he is only a lord of a territory.

"If I can do it." Sean hesitated, but spoke.

"I hope you will spare my heir and my wife." Cazes. "Even exile is fine, please don't embarrass them, after all, they are all innocent." ”

"I can spare your wife, but I'm sorry, I can't spare your heir." Sean's brows furrowed slightly, and then he said in a deep voice, "As for the reason, you should also know the truth." ”

Sighing softly, Kazes. Prince Hodgdi's face looked a little helpless: "I understand, this is also helpless, after all...... This is the only way to avoid blood revenge. ”

"Almost." Sean said casually.

In fact, although the nobles were protected by the ancient aristocratic law when they were defeated, as long as they surrendered, they could avoid death, but in the war of annihilation, this was never taken into account, and whether to spare a nobleman or not was entirely based on the mood of the battlefield commander at that time. But there is one thing that will be dealt with very cleanly, and that is to cut off the source of blood revenge, which is usually not the slightest mercy in the war of annihilation or the civil strife of the nobility.

It's just that even if there is no such excuse as blood revenge, it is impossible for Sean to make Cazes. Prince Hodgdy's bloodline remained, because it conflicted with any of him.

"Still." Almost right in Cazes. At this moment when Prince Hodgdy was desperate, Sean suddenly spoke again, "I can let your little daughter live, but she must promise me one condition." ”

"On what terms?" Cazes. Prince Hodgdi frowned.

"If he's willing to marry one of my followers, then I can spare her."

"One of your followers?"

"Yes." Sean nodded, "This person, I think His Royal Highness the Prince should also know." ”

"Who?" Cazes. Prince Hodgdy did have some doubts.

"Ruud. Mitchlin. (To be continued......)