The Sun King's Evidence

PS: I have something to go out today, so I will update early.

Many people have an inherent impression of the Badland, that is, the Badland is composed of greenskins + a small number of dwarves. People who are well-informed also know that Tomb Kings and Undead occasionally appear here, but for those who once appeared in the Badland Little is known about the great empires that once existed.

This matter begins with Nagash, the Lord of the Undead. More than a thousand years before Charlemagne rose to power in the old world, Nagash led his army of the undead and the last Tomb King Alkadiza. After the final battle, Nagash was defeated and escaped, but the Lord of the Undead quickly used the plague to finally wipe out all the living people in the Nicohara civilization (the dead were 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 planned to conduct a huge awakening ceremony. It wanted 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 stop Nagash in order to prevent themselves from being destroyed. Gash, the rat people rescued Alkadiza and gave him a warpstone dagger. Alkadiza used his last strength to stab Nagash in the back, and Nagash was cut into pieces. , then Alkadiza took off the crown of witchcraft, fled to the bad land, and died of exhaustion.

By the way, although the Skaven released and helped Alkadizza for themselves, they did save the world to some extent (the Skaven salvation theory is true!).

So where did Strig's Undead Empire come from?

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

It took more than a hundred years for the city under Canton's rule to gradually develop into a powerful city-state empire after years of development.

Usoran, the head of the Strigg family, one of the five major vampire families, was attracted by the power of the Crown of Witchcraft. This powerful blood ancestor killed Candon and led a group of vampires and necromancers to seize the rule of Mulcairn. He established the famous Strygni Empire of the Undead, and these people were called Strygni people.

To be fair, it was an extremely glorious and prosperous empire. Wu Suoran had great achievements in civil and military affairs. The blood ancestor of the Strig family was not only outstanding in personal martial arts and proficient in undead magic, but also had excellent experience in governing the country. By promoting the power of the blood nobles and the blood ritual, Suoran made the common people worship the midnight nobles headed by Usoran as gods. All Strigni people will accept the "blood ritual" and become the blood nobles as their own. The ultimate reward is that the empire prospers and the people submit to Ulsoran's rule and are proud to be Strigni.

In its heyday, the Strigg Undead Empire was bordered by the Border Princes to the north, Hellswamp to the south, the Roof of the World Mountains to the east, and Blackwater Bay to the west. It was extremely powerful, and Uthoran and his Strigg family dominated the entire Badlands. For hundreds of years.

In addition to his martial arts skills, this blood ancestor was also proficient in diplomacy and maneuvering. After investigating, Wu Suoran chose to form an alliance with the dwarf kingdoms in the Roof Mountains of the World because the dwarves kept their promises and were not affected by undead magic. At the same time, he faced For the increasingly large group of Midnight Nobles, Usoran ordered to prohibit vampires from attacking his own people, and instead chose to obtain blood and food from captives, slaves and criminals. Therefore, the Strigni people never felt that the Midnight Nobles were very important. Terrifying, on the contrary, they are always willing to accept the rule of Usoran. The midnight nobles and necromancers have always been frivolous and poor in gifts (money and food are just decorations for vampires, and they also have countless undead servants to provide free manpower).

"In this way, the entire Strig's Undead Empire has formed a very stable ruling structure." Belega took a sip of dwarf beer: "And according to the Book of Hatred, this guy Usoran is quite trustworthy."

After listening to Belega's story, Ryan was fine. Kalad, Fedmund, Juan Carlos Sungazer and others were all ashamed. Many knights and nobles couldn't help but ask themselves, these undead people The nobles actually did better than us?

What's the point?

Are the undead the race destined to rule the world?

"Then why did this undead empire finally perish?" Kalad asked with great interest: "According to your description, King Belegar, it is obviously 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 cannot take blood from the residents of the Undead Empire, so they must continue to launch wars and expansion to satisfy Vietnam. More and more midnight nobles are hungry, and there is an upper limit to the expansion and conquest of an empire."

"Brother Ryan is right." Belegar nodded repeatedly, and the King of Eight Peaks slowly explained what happened next: "Because blood is needed and cannot be obtained from the citizens, Usoran and the Midnight Nobles under his leadership have to maintain their Expansion and conquest. The territory of the empire is getting larger and larger, and the border lines are getting longer and longer. This has caused the entire army of the Strigg Undead Empire to be severely scattered. As time goes by, expansion and conquest become more and more difficult. , the greenskin tribes and some human tribes around the long frontier were constantly at war with the Strige Empire, and the entire empire's army was exhausted and its numbers were gradually decreasing."

"When Usoran led an army to the current location of the Border Princely Territory and fought with armies led by many human wizards, disaster struck. A green-skinned warlord named Doc-Red Eyes launched a very huge giant waaagh! The greenskin frenzy quickly overcame the sparse border guards and advanced into the heart of the Strigg Empire, laying siege to the capital city of Mulkain."

"When news of the attack reached the ears of Usoran, who was leading his army to fight in the north, he immediately turned his troops to defend the capital. After continuous battles and long marches, Strig's army was exhausted, but The greenskins had no intention of giving the Striggs any chance, and the two sides fought an epic battle that lasted for several days on the Dust Plains."

"Ultimately, Usoran and his army were unable to fight against the endless greenskins. They failed, and the remaining remnants were forced to retreat towards the gates of Mulkain, and the greenskin warlords soon discovered that the gates were for Opened in response to Usoran and his defeated army, the cunning Dok-Red Eyes immediately ordered a general attack. Usoran decided to make the final resistance. He guarded the gate alone and fought against more than a dozen greenskin warlords and shamans at the same time. The duel was like an epic. Usoran failed after persisting for a long time. Mulkain fell. The greenskin army destroyed and slaughtered everything except the greenskins. The Strigg undead empire was destroyed. It was once incomparable. The ruins of the glorious Strigg undead empire are filled with the echoes of the greenskins' jeers and the unwilling screams of the vampires."

"At this time, there are still two hundred years before Charlemagne established the empire." Belegar finished talking about a long period of history, and the King of the Eight Peaks sighed: "A few humans escaped, namely the Strigni. They became nomads and traveled with their caravans, and their myths and legends still record the golden age of wealth and power when their empire was ruled by the "Immortal King", as well as prophecies that one day Uthoran would Return and lead his people to reclaim their ancient land and restore it to its glory."

"I know, the Strigni." Antelm said with a smile: "There once was a group of Strigni who came to Winford. The Strigni led by them claimed to be the mysterious demons and wanted to attack them. The cousin showed his magical power, and the cousin's answer was simple and quick. He ordered the arrest of this group of Strygonians, and those who could be confirmed to have magical abilities would be executed, and the rest would be deported."

"Normally, no one wants a group of vagrants who sing the praises of the Vampire King and spread vampire myths and legends all day long to wander around in their own territory and spread all kinds of remarks that are not conducive to social stability and harmony." Ryan nodded helplessly: "They are always unwilling By settling down, we also hope to see their vampire king again one day, right?”

"I heard that there are now a large group of fully animalized Strig vampires gathered in Mulcaine." Belegar nodded: "These beastly and crazy vampires gathered in the ruins of Mulcaine. , they are always addicted to the glory and fantasy of the past. They still feel that they are living in that glorious history, imitating the scenes of the ancient palace of Strig, as if they call themselves the Carnivorous Royal Court, and no one dares to approach it anyway. There."

The carnivorous royal court? Strig? Mulcairn? Ryan lowered his head and thought for a while.

He has actually obtained part of the wealth of the Strigg Undead Empire. A large part of the wealth given to him by the Blood Dragon Ancestor Amber Wallace came from the former Strigg Empire. The Blood Dragon Ancestor once joined the Uzbekistan. Suoran's empire worked for him, and Amber Wallace was not there when Mulcairn was destroyed. After that, the blood ancestor was forced to start wandering.

"Perhaps we are a group of evil and twisted monsters in the eyes of those Strigni and undead, but in the eyes of these evil creatures, they themselves are handsome knights and nobles, well-dressed, elegant and decent." Vero Nika said with a smile beside her: "Their cognition has been distorted."

"An empire has a whole historical cycle from its birth, development, prosperity, heyday to decline and destruction." Ryan pulled the reins of his mount Grape and said warmly: "If we don't want to go through this cycle, we don't want to see If you want your country to perish in internal and external troubles, you must reform and innovate yourself. This is what I have always tried to do. Everyone, if you don’t want Britannia to face the same fate as Strig’s Undead Empire, , we must strengthen ourselves! We must continue the reform.”

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

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

"..." After hearing Belegar say that, many knights' faces turned dark.

Most of the knights had heard that rumor.

"The knights of Britannia can only win the battle under the leadership of a dwarf (referring to Belegar), 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 pay attention to those rumors. You know very well how many people in the entire old world are waiting to hear the news of the defeat of our expeditionary force. Now, win this A war is more useful than anything else."

"yes!"

…………I am the dividing line that can only be spoken if I win…………

The expeditionary force continued to march along the Badwater River, heading towards the Iron Rock located in the Roof Mountains of the World.

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

As the march into the Badlands progressed, the environment the army faced gradually became more difficult. There were not so many greenskin fortresses to plunder, and the supply lines began to be harassed by goblin wolf cavalry and some scattered greenskin tribes. The supply of food began to become standardized. The merchants and vendors who accompanied the army felt the danger and left one after another. Some soldiers could not stand the harsh environment of the bad land, or fell ill due to acclimatization, or deserted the army. .

After the army of more than 40,000 was divided and garrisoned and lost during the expedition, now only about 35,000 were left. Seeing that there was no benefit, some knights began to say strange things. They hoped that Ryan would march directly towards the Eight Peaks Mountain. , instead of going around to attack the steel rock, some comments began to be made within the expeditionary army, such as "His Majesty Lane only walks with the back of the bow and not the string of the bow" and "the troops will be worn down if this continues."

Ryan sternly refuted the opinions in the expeditionary force. The king said that before attacking the Eight Peaks Mountain, we must conquer Steel Rock. Otherwise, if the greenskin tribe of Steel Rock flanks the expeditionary army from behind at a critical moment or takes the opportunity to cut off the supply line, then the expeditionary force will It is unsustainable, and the only outcome is the complete annihilation of the entire army. This is a bad land, not a human country!

Moreover, there is nothing wrong with the harsh environment of the Badlands, but along the foothills of the Roof of the World Mountains, there are vast stretches of broad-leaf forest, which is the best place for humans to camp.

Of course, Ryan also encouraged the expeditionary force, saying that there is a lot of wealth within the steel rock that can be plundered. There is also a huge magma lake under the green skin city, which is rich in obsidian. This precious stone is worth a lot of money, and everything is waiting for it. Expedition.

Encouraged by Lane, as winter passed, in April, the expedition army arrived at the broadleaf forest less than 20 kilometers away from Steel Rock. After a small encounter, the army successfully drove out the forest. A small number of goblins and greenskins camped in the forest.

The opponent of the expeditionary force, the master of Steel Rock, was the tribe once led by one of the greatest green-skinned warlords, Gorbad Ironclaw, the Ironclaw tribe.

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

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