Chapter Seventy-Four: The Blood War Returns! [Request for Monthly Ticket]
February 14, 2017
Author: Floating Tower
A blood-red portal opened.
Under the dark red sky, the entire world seemed to have split open a terrible seam. Through this rift in the planes, a horrifying land could be seen, filled with raging fire, poisonous gas, icy cold, and hurricanes—a place that mortals greatly feared. Even the fiercest of thugs could not guarantee their survival in this dreadful land. The portal directly connected to the Hell of Bartok, and as the space gate gradually stabilized, countless hell creatures surged forth from it: Hell Cats, Hell Dogs, Little Demons, Chain Demons, Nightmares, Evil Beast Ghosts, Ba Bama, Korna, Lust Demons, Chiru Demons, Hama Demons, Osei Demons, Hell Alchemists…
Asmothiels finally decided to attack the Material Plane.
In just one day, a duchy in the Material Plane was conquered, leaving horrific scars across the world. The entire land was polluted and transformed into a hellish environment.
Hundreds of thousands of demons destroyed a kingdom in just one day, pushing the frontline closer to the territories of elves and dwarves.
This time, the heavy casualties were not limited to humans. The Southern Emerald Forest turned into a sea of flames, and more than a hundred thousand forest elves saw less than thirty percent escape to the Dreamland. The dwarves’ fortresses hidden in the mountains were breached, and the powerful Hell Alchemist bloodied the homes of hill dwarves, gray fortress dwarves, and mountain rock dwarves.
Faced with the terrifying threat of demons, numerous races had to retreat to a safer position.
And at this moment, there was very little time left until the end of the Saint’s Cataclysm. No deity knew when the Saint’s Cataclysm would end; it could be that tomorrow the terrible surge of energy would disappear, allowing them to return to their realms, or it could drag on for another ten days to half a month. If that was the case, they would have to face the incredibly powerful Blood War Legion.
The entire defensive line of the Material Plane collapsed in just one day.
No mortal could stop the advance of the demons, not even the most elite forces of the Material Plane could do so.
This was a terrifying force entirely composed of Blood War elite legions of Challenge Level 15 and above, and even the armies of Modo would be instantly destroyed in front of them!
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In the Frozen Kingdom, Arendelle.
Before the Blood War Legion of demons arrived, the Princess had already sensed danger.
She ordered her subjects to gather in Arendelle, while abandoning most towns and villages, concentrating hundreds of thousands of troops near Ice River City.
This was the final battle!
The Princess used divine power to raise a 150-meter tall wall of ice and snow in Icewind Valley to block the advance of the demon army. At the same time, nearly five million people gathered near Arendelle, as she tried to concentrate the populace within a range she could protect.
A similar scene unfolded in various places.
The gods sensed that the Saint’s Cataclysm was about to pass; at this crucial moment, almost no deities were willing to engage the demons in a fight to the death.
They concentrated their churches and believers and set up lines of defense, waiting for the end of the Saint’s Cataclysm, so they could regain the immense power of the divine!
As for the other mortals, they could only pray for their own safety at this moment.
At this moment.
The selfishness of the gods was fully exposed, and only a very few deities remained to personally resist the demon offensive.
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In the City of Radiance.
When the Blood War Legion from the Hell of Bartok appeared, the entire city fell into a state of high alert, with holy warriors and clerics gathering spontaneously from all directions. In just a few days, over fifty thousand holy warriors and clerics gathered here.
A colossal portal opened at the temple of the City of Radiance.
Countless angels appeared within it, including many angels from Mount Heaven, the Love Stabbing Celestial Clan, and the Arakong Gods, all being indigenous residents of the upper planes.
The Lord of Radiance used divine power to break through space barriers, seemingly summoning the angelic army to block the terrifying Blood War Legion.
In this world, there should be no fearsome demon army able to crush the spine of the world with three hundred thousand holy warriors holding it up!
In the face of the terrifying Blood War Legion, only the angels summoned through the Lord of Radiance’s own power could slightly hinder the demons’ advance.
However…
What Soren had once done ultimately changed history. The terrifying demon army was blocked in several locations.
In the Misty Forest.
Thousands of demons surrounded this location, and at the edge of the forest, there were countless demon corpses, yet they still could not step one foot into the forest. Even the elite demon army was held back by countless treants outside the forest.
High-level treants flew within the Misty Forest.
They used their power to heal the ancient treant guardians, and more than a dozen towering golden oaks approached the forest’s edge. Even the third of the Eight Demon Generals of Hell that attempted to take this place was repelled by some incredibly powerful divine energy. He sustained severe injuries, forcing him to retreat dozens of kilometers away from the Misty Forest.
This was the power of Father Oak.
Soren awakened the residual divine power of Father Oak, but he could not completely absorb it. This powerful divine energy remained in the Misty Forest, and the high-level treants who performed the awakening ritual with Soren could activate it.
The entire Misty Forest awakened thousands of war ancient trees!
In response to the call of the wise ancient trees, thousands of Druids gathered here, along with Arborists from the east. The entire Misty Forest became the last sanctuary within the demon-infested area.
It sheltered at least three hundred thousand intelligent beings.
The advance of the Blood War Legion did not proceed as swiftly as the demon lords expected. They encountered the snow puppet legion created by the Princess in Icewind Valley, were held back by the powerful war ancient trees in the Misty Forest, and faced the holy warriors holding the Holy Avenger and Pale Justice in the desolate wilderness.
These three locations served as solid boulders, firmly resisting the pressures of the demon legion.
At the same time, the witches from the Northern Tower also launched a counterattack. Soren provided them with the technology of the Floating Tower, enabling the Maze of the Northern Tower to operate again, protecting the northern frontline of the Spearwind Hills.
While the demon legion continued to advance in the southern region, the enemies from the northwest were like a thorn in the throat, making the demon lords feel extremely uncomfortable!
The angelic legion and the Blood War Legion waged a great battle in the Arthur Plains area.
Hundreds of thousands of troops were投入到战场.
For humans, this was a large-scale battle, but for the demons of the Hell of Bartok, it was merely an appetizer.
Because battles of this scale were hardly worth mentioning in the grand scheme of the Bottomless Abyss!
The demon lords also had absolute confidence in defeating the enemy; they just needed to wait until the true elite of the Blood War gathered, as they needed to alter the Power of Laws in the Material Plane and create a demonic military fortress here.
Without Soren’s presence.
This battle would inevitably drag on until the Saint’s Cataclysm ended, after which the restored deities could slowly reclaim these lost lands from the demons. This process could take a very long time, and the pain left by the entire war would linger for a long, long time—perhaps even hundreds of years would not be enough for the Material Plane to recover.
However.
Soren had long predicted all of this, and the layouts he had prepared were unleashed after the demons launched their attack.
In the mid-March of the New Moon Era 1678.
The demons of the Bottomless Abyss stirred, summoned by an incredibly powerful demon lord, a forward army of over one million demons began to advance from the lower levels of the Bottomless Abyss towards the first layer, the Ten Thousand Abyss Plains.
The Abyssal Blood War was calling!
After nearly a thousand years of oppression and beatings by the demon army, a powerful demon overlord launched a counter-offensive against the Ten Thousand Abyss Plains!
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