Warlord: King of All Clans

The Holy Order is not omnipotent. They can block the Gate of Calamity and fight against the Frost Dragon and the Holy Order Ghosts, but they cannot extract the invisible death magic from the air and stuff it back into the Gate of Calamity.

Moreover, the number of Saint-level extraordinary beings is very small, and it is impossible for them to chase after the undead that crawled up from the ground one after another and kill them one by one in the vast northern snowfield.

These things, which they see as cockroaches, need to be dealt with by the mortal races themselves.

Thinking of what Master Bobak once said, Leo smiled bitterly and said, "In fact, the Undead Legion is easy to deal with. It is just caused by the aura of the Scourge Gate. The earls in the northern border will each send a legion north, and the southern border will be responsible for logistics and supply. Within ten years, the Undead Legions can be wiped out one by one and the spread of the Withered Land can be controlled."

"But who would?"

Upon hearing this, Antonise also remained silent.

When he established the Scourge Defense Council in the Imperial Capital, he actually thought of some solutions and sent a message to the City of Holy Light, hoping to gain the support of the Pope.

If the Pope of Holy Light launched a call to let the Knights Templar and the Crusaders lead their troops north, or supervise the southern earls to provide logistics, and then let the holy orders of the Scourge Defense Council come forward to "persuade" the northern earls to send troops to the snowfields one by one, Leo's strategy might indeed succeed.

But as I said, some people are willing to be the pillars of a prosperous age, while others just want to be the savior of the end of the world.

When the Pope of Holy Light received the request from the second-in-command of the Church of Holy Light, he simply responded in a formal manner and said he would discuss it later.

After all, the undead threat is far away in the northern snowfields and has not even reached the northern border. It is not the time for the Church of Holy Light to use its trump card.

To some extent, it is not entirely a good thing that Master Bobak brought the Saint Stage to block the door. As long as mortals are not harmed, they will not be able to realize the seriousness of the situation. The separatist forces in the north and south are still fighting each other.

Seeing the heavy atmosphere, Anthony laughed, which immediately brightened up the whole house. Everyone felt inexplicably happy, as if basking in the spring breeze, and all their worries and pressures instantly disappeared.

This is the ability of a holy priest. There is no need to cast spells. Just through daily actions, one can mobilize the senses and emotions of mortals.

He stood up and walked out. "Master Bobak thinks highly of you. Could it be that he thinks you have the ability to deal with this natural disaster? He repeatedly told me to come to the river bend. I want to see what is so special about the river bend that the elven demigod would think it is good."

Then he saw the train.

On the west side of the River Bay Peninsula, along the peninsula's canal, two railway tracks emerge from the Gnoll Valley and extend all the way to the River Mouth Town.

A steam train, with its whistle blowing, passed through the valley, emerged from the jungle, and appeared before Antonisse's eyes.

Antonis had been reading for more than a hundred years. He had memorized all the classics collected by the Church of Holy Light, the sealed heretical doctrines, and the works of all kinds of religions and schools of thought.

The memory of the Holy Order is comparable to that of a computer, and the ability to comprehend is extraordinary. The knowledgeable Archbishop Antonisse can be said to be the embodiment of human knowledge.

But no such creation had ever appeared in his mind.

According to the thinking of traditional alchemists, alchemical creations are expensive to make and have sky-high maintenance costs, so it is not cost-effective to use them as a means of transportation.

Even if they have seen the convenience of rails, they will only think of breeding a high-level magical beast that is obedient and eats grass to replace the locomotive to transport goods.

Of course, someone in Hewan had proposed such an idea, and it was successfully implemented - Freya secretly acted as a locomotive and pulled five carriages of burning stones for three days while Leo was away. In the end, she was exhausted from having too much fun and ended up overturning.

Looking at the billowing smoke and the sharp and melodious whistle of the steam train, Antonisse spent a minute analyzing the working principle of the steam train and the technical difficulty involved. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "What a clever idea."

Such an alchemical creation with simple principles and common materials can actually be made with the current level of technology in the imperial capital, but no one has ever thought of it.

In other words, even if someone thought of it, no one would think it was worthwhile.

The railroad from the Gnoll Valley to the River Mouth Town has been laid and put into use. The wooden tracks from Buck Fort to Isenpol are also being replaced after the autumn harvest.

By the beginning of next spring, Hewan’s latest steam locomotive will replace the hundreds of wooden-track horse-drawn carriages traveling between the two places and become the main means of transportation for coal trade.

In addition to the Baiyi railway, there is also the Xingwu railway, which was explored this year and started construction next year - that is, the railway from Ulangal City in the west to Xingtao City in the north.

Hewan’s steam locomotives have also made new breakthroughs in the past two years, with steam parameters doubling.

Originally it could only pull three cars of coal and move slowly, but now it can pull ten cars and move steadily at a speed exceeding that of a horse-drawn carriage.

Seeing Antonice's eyes following the steam train away, Leo smiled and said, "There are many such new creations in Hewan, such as steam engines, printing presses, and textile machines. With them, the work done by one Hewan person can be equivalent to that of a hundred people in the past."

Antonisse is not only well-informed in science, but also in social sciences. Hearing this, he reminded: "These tools are indeed good, but we also have to consider people's livelihood. If a large number of civilians lose their jobs, the unrest they will cause will not be small."

Leo nodded and said, "Of course I have considered it, but the pain of adaptation is inevitable. If we want to develop, we must do so. Otherwise, how can the Free State of the Islands have such advanced sea vessels? Isn't it better to use canoes to transport goods?"

As Leo spoke, he gave Antonisse another grand idea, "Give me five years, and I can build a railway from the southern border directly to the Aeolus Fortress. By then, 10,000 people will be able to handle the logistics of a 100,000-man army. Fighting the Undead? That's easy."

Even a Saint-level warrior was shocked by this idea, but after careful consideration, he found that it was not impossible.

The reason why no one agreed to the army's march north and only asked a few saints to come forward was not only due to political reasons, but also economic foundation.

The northern border is a bitterly cold place, sparsely populated and short of food, and it is unable to provide enough supplies to the expeditionary force.

All the earls led their troops north, and logistics became the biggest problem.

Without sufficient food, cotton clothes and other supplies, not to mention fighting the Undead Legion, a night of ice and snow on the banks of the Arctic Ice River could cause more than half of the human legion to be killed or injured.

The plan to mobilize the southern population to provide logistics is simply a fantasy in the eyes of most people.

There have always been only two ways to transport supplies from the southern border to the banks of the North Glacier.

One way is to travel by sea, risking attacks from sea monsters, to reach the northern main city of Oleynik, but the Arctic Glacier is frozen for half of the year, and the waterway has not been opened up. If one wants to continue to the Aeolus Fortress upstream, one must open up a land route between the mountains.

One is to travel by land, cross several continental mountains, reach Isenpol, and then use the flat and straight World Tree Avenue to go directly to the Wind God Fortress in the upper reaches of the North Glacier.

No matter which route is taken, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources. For every thousand miles of transportation, the logistical costs double.

To support 100,000 soldiers on the banks of the North Pole requires the joint efforts of millions of civilians, and the logistical costs alone are astronomical!

Given the current situation of the Orlantis Empire, this can only be achieved if the north and south are united.

When the Orlantis Empire was at its peak, there was a portal between the imperial capital and Ancestor to transport supplies, and the distant Aeolus Fortress only maintained 20,000 heavy armored soldiers.

Unable to hold out for a hundred years, they began to reduce their armaments. When the orcs invaded a few years ago, there were only a thousand troops stationed in the Wind God Fortress, which was completely reduced to a decoration.