Under the Red Dragon

"Meaningless struggle,"

The legion commander of the Land Assault Legion, Gilinis, an outstanding commander of the Golden Empire, exerted a slight force under his feet, staring at the Paladin Leia clad in white-patterned exquisite heavy armor, the dragon horn hammer in his hand already coming to life under its master's will.

As a powerful warrior rewarded in plane warfare, Gilinis not only received promotion awards from the Imperial Central Military Commission after returning to the empire.

The dragon horn hammer in his hand was even personally bestowed with a constant magical blessing by the Emperor of the Golden Empire, Caron Kogmora.

In Gilinis's hands, although this dragon horn heavy hammer could not compare to those legendary holy artifacts that had been circulating in the world of Aikania for a long time, it was still the most powerful weapon in the hands of a Sanctuary warrior.

Those javelins thrown by the noble knights, carrying powerful kinetic energy and the blessing of the knights' power, could easily pierce heavy shields, but under Gilinis's dragon horn hammer, they could not even touch his beloved heavy armor.

The majestic power began to pulsate and rise in Gilinis's chest and body, and the surging power completely shattered those javelins.

Gilinis began to traverse forward from the center of the legion's formation, and the blazing light of his heart had almost condensed into substance and projected out from the commander's visor.

As the commander of the legion, Gilinis did not actually need to personally fight on the front line at the beginning of the war like a warrior.

However, the power of that roaring Paladin Leia was too great, and although the armored cavalry of the Rose Duchy following Leia had lost many warriors under the bombardment of the alchemical legion and had been beheaded by hundreds of armored soldiers by the elven sword dancers and magic archer legions, they still broke through the first line of heavy shield defenses of the Golden Empire.

Originally, without the cooperation of the infantry legion, it was an extremely foolish choice for the cavalry to forcibly charge the formation head-on, but under the bloody and courageous charge of Leia, this Paladin, this elite armored cavalry and heavy armor legion actually saw the dawn of creating a miracle.

At this moment, the noble knights abandoned all tactics, gave up the tactics of drawing back, interspersing, charging, and reorganizing, but instead fought face-to-face with the land legion of the Golden Empire.

In this instant, countless noble knights fell, becoming stepping stones for their companions to leap over the battle line, or becoming stumbling blocks for their companions.

The noble knights who broke into the first battle line threw the spears and halberds in their hands at the heavy shield soldiers of the second battle line.

Then they drew out their swords and slashed through the bloody battle, and the blood instantly dyed the soil under their feet, turning the dry land into a mire of flesh and blood.

The air was filled with the fishy stench of iron and blood.

No matter what kind of war it is, at the moment the war happens, the warriors standing on the front line always bear the greatest pressure and suffer the most painful losses. This is war.

Standing not far away, Caron Kogmora watched all this without any emotional fluctuations.

The knights of the noble legion can die, and the legion warriors of the Golden Empire will naturally sacrifice themselves.

Even though the physical fitness of these human warriors of the Golden Empire has almost surpassed that of most races in the world of Aikania due to the changes in the two or three generations of inheritance in the empire, most of them are still mortals.

Caron Kogmora, as a dragon with the power to fight against divine punishment, can of course forcibly reduce the losses of the imperial legion and directly destroy these noble knights in cooperation with the legion.

However, the reason why he did not take action is not only because his power has been suppressing the Heart of Nagamat, but also not simply because he is an emperor.

It is because a powerful legion cannot be truly formed by training all day long and shouting a few slogans.

Real powerful legions are forged from blood and fire, just like the birth of the Golden Empire.

Caron Kogmora can take action in this war, so what about the next time?

Not all wars require Caron Kogmora to personally come, nor can the legions of the Golden Empire have an overwhelming advantage in every war.

Because Caron Kogmora's vision is not simply on the Northern Continent, nor is it simply on the world of Aikania.

One day, the legions and talents of the Golden Empire will face blood and fire, so let's start from today.

Paladin Leia could not remain as calm as Caron Kogmora, even though he relied on his fearless courage and powerful strength to lead the noble knights to break through the front lines, the impact speed of the entire cavalry legion was almost instantly stagnated by the second and third lines of heavy shield defenses behind them.

Those alchemical wolf beasts that had emptied all their firepower were now baring their fangs and claws, pouncing and tearing at the noble legion knights in the most primitive way.

Although the claws and fangs of these wolf beasts could not break through the armor of the noble knights, the moment the noble knights' wrists were bitten by the wolf beasts was the moment of death.

Some wolf beasts, driven by their animal instincts, cooperated with the warriors of the Imperial Legion to knock down the war horses of the noble knights who relied on charging, biting and injuring the horses' hooves and fragile abdomens, and hundreds of noble knights died in this entanglement in a short period of time.

Even those powerful elven sword dancer legions were as thin as weeds in front of the tall armored cavalry, but these thin elves flashed back and forth in the army formation, and their thin bodies could explode with amazing power.

Cooperating with these elves' sword dance could easily tear and shatter the strong knights, but even if these elves were strong enough, their influence was very limited in a battlefield of tens of thousands of people.

In the era of war without over-the-horizon firepower strikes and comprehensive coverage, all wars are slaughterhouses of flesh and blood.

"Surround and kill, surround and kill them!"

"Raise the heavy shields, don't tilt them, those knights can't borrow strength from the heavy shields to stand up!"

One by one, the Imperial Legion captains roared loudly in the fierce shouts of killing, but the orders of these captains were suppressed by the beast-like roars of Paladin Leia.

"Charge with me, don't stop, the eagles of the South are not afraid of death, victory is in sight!"

Leia noticed that the speed of the charging noble knights was getting slower and slower, and those knights who followed him roared like beasts in their throats, trying their best but were forced to stop, knocked down, and knocked off.

The knights' armor cracked, dented, and shattered, and the flesh and blood inside had long become a piece of mud.

Leia was not much better. His heavy armor was damaged in many places, and several spears with broken ends pierced through his heavy armor and body, and the steaming blood flowed down the broken shafts of these spears like water.

Every time he wielded the great sword, every time the seed of power burst forth, the Paladin's body suffered unimaginable tearing wounds.

However, the adrenaline in his body and the Paladin's courage to regard death as home made Leia forget the pain, and his eyes only saw the huge royal flag fluttering.

At this moment, he was like an ephemeral mayfly, wanting to see the gorgeous sunset in the evening.

He is one of the many civilized races in the world of Aikania, one of the billions of creatures. Leia, who is so small, fragile, and short-lived in front of the Golden Empire and the dragons, must burst out with persistent sound at this moment.

The seed of power in his body also burst to an unprecedented degree at this moment, and the intensely surging power almost turned the great sword in Leia's hand into a gushing beam of light, directly cutting through rows of heavy shields in front of him.

The afterglow of the great sword turned into cone-shaped sword energy like light and penetrated out of his body, cutting the warriors behind the heavy shields and their armor in half.

But before he had time to take even a breath, the warrior who leaped up from the legion's formation smashed down the heavy hammer in his hand.

The power seemed to be a beast awakened from sleep, roaring out of Gilinis's body, and the violent fluctuations rolled away in all directions from Gilinis's body and weapons.

At this moment, Gilinis completely abandoned all skills and bombarded the Paladin who was leaping on horseback with pure violence.

The heavy armor stepped out of the turbulent dust waves, unstoppable.

Paladin Leia also roared violently, waving the heavy sword and sweeping towards the heavy hammer that the terrifying warrior smashed down, with an indomitable momentum, the heavy sword in his hand could hardly see the original cold steel body.

In large-scale wars, complicated dueling skills are insignificant. There is no probing or tact. The frontal battle and fight are only in an instant, and the victory, defeat, life, and death are only in this instant.

Clang!

The collision between the heavy sword and the heavy hammer was like a thunderclap resounding in the ears of all the warriors. The fierce impact made Paladin Leia let out an unwilling wail, and his body, along with the reins that bound him, left the war horse under him.

The huge body was like a leaf blown away by the wind, knocking away several noble knights who were following behind him and beside him.

The huge force caused the bodies of both sides to explode in the first instant of the impact.

Several noble knights who were hit by this powerful force suddenly exploded, and broken armor fragments and residual limb blood splattered everywhere.

And Leia's body fluttered in the air, flying over those heavy shield lines that were re-encircling, and then the entire body was pierced by those spears that were erected, hanging in mid-air.

There was no dripping blood, because the blood of this Paladin had already flowed almost to dryness.

"Uh..."

At this time, Paladin Leia realized that the once strong body that could conquer more than a dozen girls overnight was already overwhelmed, and even the small movement of turning his head became extremely difficult.

In Leia's afterglow, he saw the noble knights who followed him being divided and strangled by the legions of the Golden Empire one by one, and countless knights were directly stabbed to death by spears.

He also saw the noble coalition knight legions who had not yet broken through the heavy shield formation of the Golden Empire being annihilated one by one in the siege, division, and repeated charges of the Dark Knight Legion and the heavy armored knight legion of the Golden Empire.

The commanders of the Golden Empire were calm and fierce, and still maintained an organized assault in the melee, cutting off the remaining ten thousand noble knights.

The entire battlefield was divided into areas that could not support each other, and those noble knights were quickly swallowed from the flanks and behind by the heavy armored cavalry legion of the Golden Empire.

All the knights roared out the most courageous battle cry of their lives in the flying dust waves, waving steel knives and iron swords.

Everyone was fighting desperately to survive, and the plain was full of the corpses of the people of the Golden Empire and the warriors of the noble alliance.

The afterglow in Leia's pupils also completely dissipated when the heads and bodies of those noble knights fell, and the last scene reflected in his eyes was the figure of the Dragon Emperor's ferocious bone-spurred claws gently stroking the huge head of a young red dragon.

In this second before his death, he could no longer determine what he was fighting for, perhaps for his country, perhaps for his own interests and status, perhaps for justice.

But it didn't matter anymore, he had done his best anyway.

The sun sets in the west, and the setting sun is like blood.

This battle was fierce but extremely short. When the war on the plains came to an end and countless recuperating warriors re-equipped, the gate of Dorabi City also opened with a bang at this moment.

The Dorabi City, which had never been breached since the establishment of the Principality of Marino, and the Marino Line, which had been built for thousands of years and then re-fortified, known as the Marino Line that could not be breached in the mortal world, thus marked the end of the sequence in the history of the world of Aikania.

Compared to the losses of the Southern Noble Alliance, the losses of the Golden Empire and the Kings' Alliance were almost negligible.

This battle not only emptied the most powerful mobile legion force of the Southern Noble Alliance, including the Rose Knight Order of all extraordinary knights and the air legion cultivated and trained by the nobles at great expense.

Half of the hundreds of thousands of noble legions died under the claws of dragons and giants, and then the Golden Empire and the Kings decided to accept the surrender of those surviving warriors.

This may be a massacre, but Caron Kogmora and the Kings don't care, because there is no justice, kindness, or mercy on the battlefield, only victory, defeat, survival, and death.

The losers have no power to define, and the dead have no power to clamor, that's all.

Under the royal banner of the Golden Empire, the imperial legions and civilian labor camps began to orderly step into Dorabi, this fortress city.

As for those monster legions and giant legions of the Godforsaken Mountains, they were left by the multi-armed giant Mogues on the walls of Dorabi City as a force for vigilance and defense.

Even the multi-armed giant Mogues did not have the confidence to maintain good order after these giants and monsters entered the city.

After all, it is too early for the monsters and giants of the Godforsaken Mountains to accept the constraints of order, and they cannot develop the strict military discipline like the legions of the Golden Empire.

The bustling people in the fortress city that originally connected the north and south of the border had already hidden in their homes, peeking at the dragon legion of the north through the cracks in the doors and windows.

These legions of the Golden Empire, as expected, did not break into the homes of the residents of this city to kill, plunder, and loot, as in the propaganda proclamations, which turned the fear and worry of the residents of the city into confusion.

For Caron Kogmora, these residents, although they are future leeks, are obviously not as good as the wealth accumulated by those nobles and rulers.

The city's food, ordnance, and other material reserve areas, as well as the household registration-related registers and various data knowledge for governing the city, are the primary goals of the Golden Empire's legions' occupation. The wealth accumulated by those surrendered petty nobles and knights is far greater than that of ordinary residents.

And as the royal banner of Kalon Kogemora stood tall in the city center, a continuous roar echoed from the surrounding city walls.

"Long live the Empire!"

The dragons bowed their heads, the giants stood tall, and in the first battle of kings, they advanced with irresistible force.