The sense of déjà vu is too strong...
Damn it, why do spirits also feel the temperature rising...
The subsequent story is that the Emaar family continues to grow by following the established policies.
Hitzfeld didn't understand at first why Ou Jincheng had no reaction after the first hound's assassination failed, and why the thing didn't leave any mark on Eric after it died suddenly.
Later, as Imaar's power grew, Eric obtained more and more intelligence information. A large family, the Rod Hughes family, one of the surviving families of the Nine Knights, began to surface, and she also got some answers from this family.
The Nine Knights' descendants today are dominated by two major clans, one of which is Klebatorar. Behind these people - according to Hitzfeld's guess, it should be the body of their ancestor Diat. The body that was polluted and controlled by the evil god may have its own will. It secretly lurked back and hid in the family, secretly controlling all the tribesmen and uniting the Nine Knights' descendants according to its will. The series of actions they took later, including suppressing the Niang family and destroying the Imaer family, were all instructed by it.
Well, even the meeting that Eric mentioned before was most likely initiated by it, with the purpose of testing how much power it can gain. Those that cannot be gained will be suppressed or eliminated.
As for the other big family, it is the Rod Hughes. This surname comes from Qia Rod Hughes, who is one of the Nine Knights and a rare female warrior. Her iconic weapon is a giant sword that is more than three meters long. Before the Rod Hughes family came to power, they were famous for their metal smelting technology.
This large family, which originally played the role of "craftsmen", was able to achieve the same level as Klebatoral. According to Yalian's analysis, they must have mastered some kind of power.
That was an obvious thing to Hitzfeld.
She had seen the images extracted from the hound's corpse. In addition to the "meat pillar tree" and the three evil eyes, there were five twisted shadows. The sum of these things was exactly nine.
So can we assume that these are the evil gods sealed in the bodies of the Nine Knights?
She thought that was the case.
There was a figure in the shadows that looked ferocious. Although the face could not be seen clearly, eight limbs could be clearly distinguished. This should be the evil god in Improl's body.
Another shadow showed four legs, a thin waist, and a head and a large body covered in dark mist. It was obviously the source of those hounds, "Diat-Klebatoral", who should have appeared on the "Horned Throne" in reality, but fell asleep again for unknown reasons.
She only remembered the general features of the other shadows and did not have time to observe them carefully. However, there was one thing that left the deepest impression on her - all the shadows of the evil gods, the miniature images reflected in the air, were centered on the "flesh pillar tree".
The "Meat Pillar Tree" connects them together and even gives them the power of fusion.
This looks just like forging and shaping... So could the "Meat Pillar Tree" be the evil god behind Rod Hughes?
Has the body of Qiya Rodhuis also been completely contaminated? Is there more than one body of the Nine Knights who sneaked back that year?
As the Imaar family's rise gained momentum, Hitzfeld finally heard the forbidden name from Eric.
"'Mother of Pregnancy'?"
"Yes, according to legend, there is a Mother of Fertility at the end of the world... She is the benefactor of all things, and her branches and roots can penetrate cells... No matter what race's blood and bones fall into her hands, they can combine and reproduce. I suspect there are many alien races within the church... They are the newly created species."
"Is the news true?"
"My spies have contacted Rod Hughes's men. They have changed. They all started carrying giant swords. It is an extremely special weapon. How should I put it... It is like a balance ball at the end of the hilt. It is a skull. The middle of the handle is a completely elongated cervical spine. The guard is the shoulder blade extending to both sides, and then the ribs go down layer by layer. The remaining bones condense into a bone blade."
"This isn't a weapon that can be easily mass-produced, right?"
"Yes... they were born from the Mother of Breeding."
At this point, many of Hitzfeld's doubts were explained.
She immediately thought: The Horned King himself might not be able to create his own followers, at least not so many, so quickly... The reason why there are so many hounds is that he puts his own flesh and blood cells into the "Meat Pillar Tree" - the "Mother of Pregnancy", and borrows its power to reproduce.
So this kind of reproduction must not happen overnight. It may take many generations of evolution and optimization to finally form the situation you encounter.
So the first time Eric encountered the hound's assassination, that thing should have been just a first-generation experimental subject. It didn't have such freedom in the use of space and diagonals, so it had to launch a killing move from the beginning, and it didn't have the function of leaving a mark after death.
As for the purpose of the assassination, Hitzfeld suspected that the assassination had no fixed purpose.
It might be a random selection, that is, the descendants of the Nine Knights did not want to see any force other than themselves unify the human forces. Under the leadership of Kleba Tolar and Rod Hughes, they ordered the Church of the Mother of Savior to send the first batch of experimental subjects to indiscriminately assassinate the city lords in an area.
Most of these should have been successful, but some failed - otherwise there would have been no "Hound" panic spreading at all.
It may be because this was a random selection after all, or it may be because this generation of experimental subjects does not have the ability to hunt and kill, and their controllers do not know who escaped the hounds' assassination, so there was no follow-up action.
Eric managed to escape.
Maybe she just has some kind of destiny. Hitzfell doesn't know whether her unique sense of "blood race" comes from Imar's bloodline, but she does... As the power of the Bloodthirsty City continues to grow and her territory continues to expand, more and more people begin to come to her and learn the "flesh and blood magic" she created.
These people are mainly untouchables.
They don't have the money to buy the materials necessary for the promotion to the Mystic, nor do they have the initial accumulation of strength to go out to the wilderness to hunt blood beasts to complete the promotion.
They are born without any affinity with mystery, but they can use magic with flesh and blood... who doesn't have a set of bones that can move?
No matter how poor a person is, he can still control his body. The blood, flesh, and bones of this body are the most sacred property left to him by the world. They are inviolable, and only their owner can control them to do something.
And in this land shrouded in gray fog and darkness, what is most lacking is untouchables.
How many people are displaced and how many are like the walking corpses.
The corpses in the small town have been piled up and rotted for years without anyone cleaning them up. The roads are lined with blood and water. Scavengers gather day and night to revel in the stench of corpses, with only numbness in their white pupils.
So Hitzfeld was not surprised - she felt that Eric's rise was so exaggerated that he became a local lord with snowball efficiency. This was an inevitable result.
The speed at which the blood mage group is expanding can only be described as terrifying. Not only humans are joining in, but also blood orcs and some blood beasts that have developed intelligence.
This was the first time they felt that something was as it should be, as if it was a gift of power and authority that they should have enjoyed, but they had been blinded for quite some time and could only see the mystery in the fog.
Some people began to suggest that the person who made this great invention, Eric Imaar, was qualified to be the king.
For the first time, so many lives and tribes gathered together to worship the Human King, which directly caused great panic in Oujin City.
Originally, it shouldn't have been like this. Even Oujin City had been unable to unify the human forces for many years. Apart from the fact that the major forces were cut off by the gray fog, the main reason was that there were so many ethnic groups, and even in some remote corners, the human race was a minority group.
Blood beasts, blood orcs, blood bone trees, blood bone tree people, blood spirits... there are too many factors to consider.
They originally thought that this would be a long struggle that would last for a thousand years, but they never imagined that someone would start such a prairie fire in the dark wilderness within a hundred years - no, within twenty years.
Oujin City, the descendants of the Nine Knights, and the Church of the Mother of Savior cannot tolerate such changes, and they gather all their forces to declare war on the Blood Mage.
Thus, the Hundred Years of Bloody War broke out. After more than ten years of struggle, Eric Imaar was defeated and killed in the military operation to attack the Sea King City, and his head was cut off by Rod Hughes' sword.
But her death was not the end, but rather a catalyst, awakening a demonic figure to Oujin City and the Church of the Mother of Savior.
Eric Imaar's wife, Alain Imaar, officially stepped onto the bloody battle stage.
In the 17th year of the hundred-year bloody battle, Alian-Imaer led a hundred thousand blood mages to build floating cities of flesh and blood. Eighteen floating cities emerged from the gray fog and launched a surprise attack, crashing into Oujin City one after another.
After this battle, Oujin City was severely damaged, the descendants of the Nine Knights were almost wiped out in one battle, the Lighthouse Project was exposed and leaked, causing more and more creatures on the earth to feel dissatisfied, and the power of the Blood Mage grew stronger.
This is still not the end of history.
In this desperate land, the story of the Imaar family has just begun.
Chapter 140: Double Hearts Back to Three
"The bloody war is not our fault."
At the entrance to the empty city, a woman stood on a high platform, and her penetrating voice spread out.
"We are not the ones who blinded the earth, nor are we the ones who blinded the sky. All we want is a place to stay. We are not asking for anything from anyone. This time we will fight for what we deserve."
"We come from different cities, and even our races are different..."
"Some of us don't even speak the same language, but we have become companions under the guidance of the blood race."
“That is why we are gathered here, under the banner of Emaar, to work together in solidarity and to create a life different from the one we have today, with the only thing left to us: this body.”
"In the long struggle, we have lost a lot, including our relatives, friends, and even our own flesh and blood."
"I know that many people are immersed in pain and suffering day and night and cannot rest. When they close their eyes, they see those tragic scenes. They even fantasize and fear when that day will come and whether our struggle can really be won."
"Then today is the answer—or at least a big step toward the answer!"
The noise here has gradually risen, and more and more people are roaring in a disorderly manner, waving their hands and weapons at the woman, and can't wait for her to make the final decision.
"Let's get started!" Alian-Imaar took a deep breath and pointed to the sky in the Far East. "Oujin City is right there! Let's fight today! Make it disappear from the list!!!"
Humans, blood orcs, and all kinds of monsters that couldn't even be identified howled and screamed as they left the city to join the larger army formation outside.
Many of them are pure warriors. Either because of their talent or their character, their progress in the Way of Blood and Bone is not enough to earn them the title of blood mage, so they can only work hard in this way and become the real carriers of some spells.
As for the others - those guys wearing dark red robes and still wearing armor outside the long-distance running, they are the blood mages. The blood mage troops surrounding Yalian are the main force of this war.
Ou Jincheng certainly would not fight a battle without confidence.
For a city that can fly, the initiative is something that is difficult to give up. Whether it is to run away if you can't win or to float in the sky to monitor, this floating city always puts people under great pressure.
Imar's army was gathering and preparing, and at the eastern end of this vast plain, a number of armored phalanxes emerged, forming a total of nine directions and encircling the isolated city in the center.
In Ou Jincheng's view, this was a siege on rebellion.
Only when it is sure that their greatest enemy has been completely surrounded here and can be killed or captured in a single battle, will it show up and admire everything from a high position.
Hitzfeld noticed that there was no mention of an “uprising” in this massive armed conflict.
This was also what Yalian insisted on formulating. She believed that since Oujin City could never claim dominance over this land from the beginning to the end, it had no right to be the king of all things. This was not a war of rebellion but just a bloody battle on a larger scale.
Hitzfeld could only say that this woman was smart enough... Not only was she good at giving birth to children and fighting wars, she was also gifted in playing politics and gaining claim.
The nature of the war is indeed unimportant at the moment, and no one under her command can see this, that's right... But if the Imaar family wins the final victory in this war, then there is no doubt that a claim of justice can directly help her descendants consolidate their position.
Even though all the untouchables now support the Imaar family to be the king, we should not be so short-sighted.
Just as some people are willing to risk their lives to save you but are unwilling to share money with you or even want to kill you, whenever the circumstances change, the complex human heart will change shape like a kaleidoscope.
Hitzfeld was able to realize this only after modern education, but Alain figured it out on her own through talent and experience.
In terms of pure political talent, Hitzfeld felt that he was inferior to this woman.
Or to put it another way: among all the people she had met so far, the only one who might be stronger than Yalian in this respect was probably King Charuni.
The gray fog is surging, and the clarion call of war has been sounded from many sides.
There were rolling dark clouds in the sky, and raindrops as big as beans fell down, hitting the steel armor and casting a hazy illusion on the enemy.
The wind was crying, as if it couldn't bear to see the end of the bloody battle. The south wind and the north wind rarely shook hands and made peace in the wilderness, and they worked together to blow away the troublesome gray fog.
The phalanx of nine knights is charging.
There was nothing much to say - they had an absolute advantage in numbers, training, and armaments. In addition, the opponent was surrounded by them, so there was no need to test them.
Imar's war phalanx responded quickly. Many people - the kind who were just doing the hard work - quickly came to that side and spread out in a long row, holding up the simple wooden shields in their hands and waiting for the attack.
This is courting death.
No matter how strong the shields made of bloodbone wood and bone core are, they cannot stop the steel armor. The enemy's charge is even more fierce.
But just as the two were about to come into contact, Imaar's army - a handful of "meat paste" suddenly jumped out from behind the front-line soldiers who were seeking death. Each handful of "meat paste" accurately found a soldier and completely wrapped them up.
They have material inside their bodies, including the blood, flesh, and bones of a normal human male... The blood becomes fuel, the flesh becomes fascia, and the bones become supporting frames - as well as shields and weapons!
Blood puppet giant!
Someone vaguely called out some unclear words, but they were quickly drowned out by the roar of the Shock Plains.
A long row of warriors all transformed into blood puppet giants, their number exceeded 500 at least. They used their muscles and bone shields that had expanded several times to block the enemy's charge, gritting their teeth and holding their breath, as if they were desperately enduring something.
call--
Finally, the force from the shield loosened.
This is what they are waiting for.
Without the blessing of flesh and blood spells, the number of blood-slaughterers commanded by the descendants of the Nine Knights is far from enough to form a military formation and charge. Most of these armored soldiers are ordinary people, and if they are ordinary people, they will definitely be exhausted and need to recover.
It's like you are holding an object and trying to push against a door panel. It's impossible to sustain this for long. You need to relax and take a breath, which gives the "door panel" an opportunity to take advantage.
"all--"
Waving the giant shield, four or five unlucky guys were immediately knocked away. The blood puppet giant began to counterattack the front line, like a flesh and blood chariot on the battlefield, and its advancement was unstoppable.
But after all, they were outnumbered. As more and more armored phalanxes joined the battle, even though the number of armed blood puppet giants increased, they were gradually suppressed by the enemy.
Klebatoral's "Hounds of the Horn" were like a ghost cavalry that could be traced back to suddenly appearing from the square corner formed by the corpses and attacking from the flanks and rear.
On the front was Rod Hughes' Juque Sword. The broad-bladed sword could not only chop the flesh of the blood puppet, but also act as a bone shield from the side. For a moment, it actually withstood the breakout attacks from three directions.
Seeing that the situation was about to collapse, Yalian commanded the blood mage troops to introduce changes.
Tens of thousands of blood robes worked at the same time, and through the self-sacrifice of some soldiers, the plain where Rod Hughes stepped on and the mud in that direction were turned into a blood mud swamp.
The heavy armor and giant swords became a hindrance at this time. A large number of armored soldiers fell into the mud and were pulled, crushed and suffocated by the blood and mud.
There were sharp whistling sounds coming from the sky, and one iron slag shell after another hit the crowd, plowing deep trenches among them, and the fragments of the explosion caused heavy casualties.
But soon, a group of blood-bone tree people supported each other and grew up, using their branches to overlap in mid-air to form a net. Most of the subsequent iron slag shells were intercepted by the net, and almost half of them were thrown back by them.
The battle entered a fierce stage.
Roaring, wailing, the fusion of blood and flesh, the collision of steel and bones!
But the difference in numbers was too obvious... Hitzfeld was not optimistic that Alian could win, but real history told her that at least she would not lose too badly in this battle.
