The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated

Mithra Kingdom, Northern Frontier, Duchy of Sterlym.

In the past, this place was one of the largest territories and forces in the Mithra Kingdom.

There is no other reason, but because the ruler here is a duke, a royal relative who is related to the Mithra royal family.

Moreover, the status of the Duchy of Sterlem in the Mithra Kingdom is not comparable to that of ordinary dukes.

It borders the territory of the Ragnar Empire. When the Ragnar Empire and the Mithra Kingdom were rivals, once the Mithra Kingdom was invaded, it would be the first to be trampled by the Ragnar Empire's iron cavalry. place to enter.

It has fought against the army of the Ragnar Empire and the Imperial Knights several times, and has set off many small-scale wars, and finally successfully repelled the army of the Ragnar Empire.

It can be said that the Duchy of Sterlym is the first line of defense protecting the kingdom from the Ragnar Empire.

The kingdom's territory has not been invaded by the Ragnar Empire in these millennia, and the credit of the Duchy of Sterlym is indelible.

Of course, the Strim family's status in the kingdom has become extremely good, and even the king has to give the owner three points of face.

It's a pity that the glory of the Strim family is gone.

The owner of the Jagged General disappeared about half a year ago, and his life and death are unknown.

The only son of the Strind family, the heir to the family, also disappeared in the Cosmos incident.

Even the first knight order and the knight leader of the Duchy of Sterly disappeared together with the knight general leader who was the strongest in the domain.

The disappearance of such a group of important people and important combat power has completely pushed the Sterlem family into the abyss.

They exhausted countless human and material resources in the process of looking for the head of the family, the family heir and the first knights of the territory, and finally returned without success.

After they gave up their search, in order to decide the next head of the family, they started a very serious infighting, even infighting, so that the family could not find peace and ease this huge loss.

Coupled with the various bad consequences caused by the Cosmos incident, and the serious infighting between the owners of the territory, which led to the poor management and management of the territory, now after half a year, this territory is not far off, even if it has not become a life-threatening situation. .

If it wasn't for the coup d'etat by the empire a while ago, the previous emperor would definitely have taken the opportunity to send troops.

Attack the Duchy of Sterlym and use this as a springboard to attack the Kingdom of Mithra?

The Sterlem family escaped because of the imperial coup.

But after a catastrophe, a catastrophe is born again.

This time, Herimis led the [primordial demon] collectively to dispatch, and spread the countless army of refining demons and the army of juvenile demons that had been cultivated over the millennium to the human world, and let them attack cities all over the human world. the destruction of the Duchy of Sterly.

If Barry, Limcho and others are still there, and the Strymm family is still the former Stryme family, then maybe they can find a way to survive.

However, after losing the head of the family, the heir, the first powerhouse and the first knight order, and after a serious internal fight, the current Strim family could no longer stop the attacking monster army.

So, as early as a month ago, the Duchy of Sterly fell.

This place has completely become a paradise for refining demons and demon larvae.

Cities were also destroyed one after another.

People flee for their lives, sacrifice for their lives, and have to avoid the slaughter of monsters outside, which is no different from going to hell.

As a result, the lucky people were able to escape to the city next door, and were taken in as refugees by the city that could barely survive for the time being. The unfortunate can only be chased and killed by monsters. , is dying of starvation, very miserable.

Of course, there are many people who are still lingering on.

They work hard to survive, and hope to reach the territory of the border under the threat of monsters, enter a safer city, and get rescue.

After Sheehan entered the Duchy of Sterlym, he encountered many batches of such refugees.

Then, Sheehan shot.

"Pfft!"

With a golden slash across the air, a refining demon was cut in half by the dazzling sword light, turned into a corpse, and fell in a pool of blood.

"Roar!"

"Ow!"

As if they had seized the opportunity, the few refining demons around rushed towards the mysterious swordsman who was holding a holy sword, wearing a black robe and a hood on his head.

But this is in vain.

The mysterious swordsman in the black robe dodged, instead of retreating, he advanced, swept in the direction of the few refining demons like a gust of wind, and deceived them in front of them before they could react.

"Pfft!"

The leading demon was slashed by the golden sword light, split in two, and it ran a certain distance along the inertia before falling down with blood all over its body.

"Puchi!" "Puchi!" "Puchi!" "Puchi!"...

The mysterious swordsman in the black robe turned into a ghost like this, and while passing the few refining demons, the holy sword in his hand also cut through their bodies, killing them all on the spot.

In a blink of an eye, all the refining demons turned into corpses, fell into pools of blood one by one, and turned into broken limbs under the ice and snow, creating a bloody scene.

Then the swordsman in black robe stopped and stood in the sea of ​​blood on the mountain of corpses. The sword in his hand was gorgeous and dazzling, making people dazzled.

Not far away, a group of refugees in ragged clothes and sallow complexions all knelt down.

"Thank you so much for your help!"

"Thank you sir!"

They cried out with gratitude and tears, as if they had seen the savior.

The swordsman didn't turn his head, just said something in a deep voice.

"Let's leave now, take a remote path, and take refuge in the nearest city."

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the refugees changed.

"Sir, won't you come with us?"

"Please come with us!"

"We need you!"

"Without the protection of someone as powerful as you, we will surely die!"

The refugees bowed again.

However, what they greeted was only a sharp gaze.

"Don't go too far, hurry up."

The cold words made the faces of the refugees turn pale.

Realizing that the powerhouse in front of them could not protect themselves comprehensively, they could only leave with disappointment and ashes, even anger and resentment.

It didn't take long for the refugees to disappear.

"Ugh..."

The swordsman sighed softly, and took off his hood to reveal his true face.

That is naturally Xien who hid his identity, left the capital, and came here quietly.

"Is this the twelfth batch?"

Sheehan murmured, looking helpless.

Within half a day of entering the Duchy of Sterlym, Sheehan rescued a dozen batches of refugees from the demons, and the number of refugees encountered was even more numerous.

At first, Sheehan would provide these refugees with food or routes, and even protect them from a distance, allowing them to go to a safe place, but the same thing happens time and time again, and there are people who try to kidnap them with morality and righteous reasons. After coming to let Sean protect them, and even take care of them, Sean is no longer kind. At most, he will only help them when they are in danger. If there is no danger, he will directly avoid it and will not be with the refugees. Team meet.

It's not that he is cold-blooded and ruthless, but that there are real life situations, all kinds of people have them, and it really annoys him.

It can only be said that in the face of life-and-death crisis, there are really too few people who can maintain their true heart and not reveal their true nature.

Sheehan even encountered several waves of refugee groups and saw a very unpleasant situation.

Those people are not so much running for their lives as they are crazy in hell. In order to survive, they use their wives and children as shields, or skin and cramp living people to fill their stomachs. occur.

What's more, some refugee teams are completely ruled by a few bullies. Men are sent out as victims to find food or lure monsters away, and women are used to vent their desires.

For this reason, Sheehan also killed many people along the way.

"Is this human nature?"

Sean's mood is very complicated.

Therefore, even if he can save people now, he will not blindly take care of each other, at most resolve the crisis of the other party, and then let them leave quickly.

Even so, there are still many people like the refugees just now, who resented Sean's unwillingness to protect them to the end.

It can only be said that, fortunately, Sean doesn't have that leisurely mood now, otherwise, he doesn't mind letting those who can't recognize reality know what it means to be grateful.

"I really don't know how many cases of the same thing exist in this world."

Thinking that the entire human world has been reduced to such a hell, Xien's mood is indeed not very good.

"Forget it, let's continue on our way."

Sheehan packed up his mood and continued to turn north.

At this point, he was not far from Cosmos.

In this way, Sean flickered all the way, and the speed was getting faster and faster. As long as he did not encounter refugees being chased and killed by refining demons, or encountering demon larvae that were extremely threatening to ordinary people, he would not stop.

Under such circumstances, Shine finally arrived at Cosmos before night fell.

"Shh!"

With the vibration of the air, Shinn appeared in the sky above Cosmos in a black robe.

Sheehan looked down at the city below.

I saw that Cosmos, which was once razed to the ground by Lilith's hands, has now been fully constructed.

In just about half a year, the entire city has completely recovered to its original appearance like a steel military fortress.

The streets and buildings inside were not as chaotic as the last time Shinn came to Cosmos.

At that time, due to the chaos of space, buildings and even people were randomly transferred, making the entire Cosmos chaotic.

Now, the city has recovered and has become orderly, with distinct streets, and buildings are arranged in an extremely regular manner, not losing to the capital at all.

However, in Cosmos, there were also changes that had not been seen in the past.

That is, the people inside are no longer human figures, but only orcs and dwarves.

That's right.

Cosmos has become a world of orcs and dwarves.

"It's the same situation as mentioned in the information Rosie gave me."

Sheehan said so to himself.

According to Rosie, the Cosmos of the present is no longer the Cosmos of the past.

Due to the location and nature of Cosmos in the past, not only people from the kingdom and the empire lived in it, but also tribes of orcs and blacksmiths of dwarves lived in it.

But now, humanity has withdrawn from Cosmos.

the reason is simple.

Gulla used the gap in the world that existed here as a base, and naturally, it would not allow humans to continue to appear here.

He ordered the orcs to expel all the humans in the city out of the city when the human knights resisted the army of refining demons, completely occupying Cosmos.

Therefore, in the current Cosmos, there are only the orcs who are under the control of Gullah, and the dwarves who have formed an alliance with the orcs, betrayed the humans, and joined the newly born [primordial demon].

Thanks to this, it seems that the army of refining demons will not attack Cosmos. It is obviously what the newborn [primordial demon] did, so that the refining demons and the larvae of the demons no longer regard Cosmos as an attack target.

That is to say...

"This can be regarded as the base camp of the orcs, right?"

Sheehan thinks so.

He narrowed his eyes, released the sensing power of [Outer Destiny], enveloped the city below, and began to investigate.

This investigation, Sheehan really found a lot of things.

For example, the enchantment covering Cosmos is obviously not a product of the human race or the god race, but a special nature enchantment produced by the demon race.

For another example, although Cosmos was not attacked, the atmosphere in the city was not lively, but rather heavy.

In the center of the city, there seems to be something "something" exuding strange magic and pulsing strangely.

That kind of pulsation, like the irregular fluctuations emanating from space itself, is quite similar to the fluctuations emanating from the mysterious transfer phenomenon that occurred during the previous Cosmos event.

"Could it be..."

Sean's thoughts went straight.

But in the end, he still decided to go and see it first.

"Shh!"

There was a sudden shock in the air, causing Sheen to disappear here.

Sheehan entered Cosmos, the city that had been missing for half a year.

......

"Qiang-Qiang-Qiang--"

On the streets where people come and go, there are no shouts, no lively discussions, and only the very obvious sound of hammering.

Some blacksmiths seem to have casually occupied the storefronts on the street here, and transformed those storefronts into weapon forging shops, and they are forging all kinds of weapons.

The orcs walked the streets here in twos and threes, but the gazes they looked at the dwarves in the storefronts were definitely not friendly.

Sheehan walked on the street and mixed in with the crowd.

He did not show up, but hid his figure with the super concealment ability of [Lijue Destiny], and was wandering aimlessly in the crowd.

But his [Outer Destiny]'s sensing power was still unfolding, allowing him to clearly hear the voices of some conversations around him.

"The city is getting really boring."

"There are no foreign merchants selling magic items, and there is not much entertainment. Only these dwarves are building weapons every day."

"No way, who told them to prepare us to fight against humans and elves?"

"All these dwarves were brought over by the king of the dwarves. They should all advocate betrayal, and they are enemies of humans and elves, and they can't wait to start a war, right?"

"Damn, a group of blasphemers who betrayed the goddess."

"Shh, don't say it so loudly, the low voice was banned by the law enforcement team."

Many orcs made such whispers when they passed by the dwarf shop.

The eyes they looked at the dwarves who made the weapons were clearly unfriendly, even somewhat hostile, and when they talked about the war, they were obviously sad and reluctant.

But they didn't dare to openly express such thoughts.

Because, from time to time, there will be some orcs armed with weapons and sullen faces passing by, like patrolling or supervising, their eyes are like torches, and they glance at the surrounding orcs coldly.

Being stared at by these orc warriors, those orcs naturally did not dare to make a sound, and could only lower their heads and pass quickly, obviously very afraid of those orc warriors.

Similar to this situation, Sheehan has seen many times after entering Cosmos.

"Sure enough, just like what Lidas and Anima said, not all orcs want to start a war and betray the Protoss and Humans."

Sheehan was thoughtful.

He found that, except for those orc warriors who seemed to be the law enforcement team, they obviously smelled bloody, and it was obvious that they had experienced a lot of massacres.

They were like beasts in a cage, trying to break free, but couldn't.

Because they have scruples and fears.

Since the number of such orcs is still quite large, it can even be said that they occupy most of the population in Cosmos.

"It's interesting now."

Sheehan muttered to himself.