Throne of the North.

Chapter 309 Breakup
Under the Grand Duke's feet, storm whirlpools were gathering, and he could release the terrifying legendary magic again at any time.

He looked at the world crossbows on the fortress walls. These things had the greatest deterrent effect on the Griffin Legion.

then……

"Feather of the World!"

The blue magic power rippled in the sky, and after a moment, a pair of huge blue wings bloomed in the sea of ​​clouds. They were the wings of a bow and arrow, waiting for the strong wind to gather into an arrow.

A light blue spot of light condensed in the middle of the wings and gradually turned into the shape of an arrow. In an instant, the cry of a griffin broke out, and the arrow flew off the bow, turning into hundreds of arrows halfway and landing on the city wall.

Originally, half of the thirty world crossbows were broken under the attack of this legendary magic. The remaining half was intact thanks to the desperate defense of the magicians in the fortress.

Faced with the legendary magic of the Griffin Duke, they could only defend passively.

"Blessing of the Storm..."

Grand Duke McReynolds murmured, and a green wind surrounded the vast sky. This time it was no longer a legendary magic, but a sanctuary-level magic, and it was still terrifying when released from his hands.

"attack!"

He gave the order personally, and the griffins of the Griffin Legion flapped their wings and took off into the sky. The blessing of the storm doubled their speed, and the remaining half of the World Crossbows could no longer defend against the huge Griffin Legion.

"Kill me!"

On the city wall, Otto roared loudly, and then withdrew from the battlefield with the Holy Land Knights.

The McReynolds family is not without Sanctuary Knights.

He jumped down from the edge of the city wall, and his griffin flew over and caught him in mid-air. Then he jumped again and landed at the gate of the fortress.

"Step aside!"

He roared and came to the city gate with a sledgehammer in his hand.

This fortress has two gates. Facing the first one, Otto held the hammer in both hands and smashed it down with all his might.

The city gate originally had magical inscriptions, but Emperor Feng's legendary magic had previously defeated the fortress's magical defenses, causing the entire fortress to fall into a state of temporary magic power shortage.

What was in front of him at this moment was nothing more than an ordinary solid door.

boom! ! ! ! ! !

The sledgehammer hit the city gate, and a huge dent appeared in an instant. Before the shock ended, Otto swung the sledgehammer again.

"Open it for me!"

After fifteen consecutive blows, the city gate was broken and hundreds of soldiers rushed into the city gate. The next moment, they were greeted by the extremely cold wind under their feet that froze their bodies, and then stones fell from their heads and smashed them to pieces.

"Push the siege vehicle up!"

The siege vehicle not only has a battering ram, but also a roof to protect against overhead arrows.

At this moment, the magic trap at the city gate had dissipated, and the siege vehicle rushed in. However, the second layer of the city gate was not as strong as the outermost layer.

Hammer after hammer, there seemed to be a large number of soldiers on the opposite side resisting Otto's power, including some golden knights defending the gate.

But every time Otto struck, he avoided the golden knights on the opposite side, and each time, he struck the weak point of the inner city gate.

Finally, the material of the city gate itself could not withstand the impact and it broke into pieces.

Otto, holding a sledgehammer, laughed grimly and rushed towards the soldiers behind the broken door.

"An impenetrable fortress? Ridiculous."

Thousands of troops rushed into the city, and from the sky, a legion of griffins descended. The power of this extraordinary legion was unstoppable.

When night fell, the Unicorn Fortress was still ablaze with flames. Countless people were wailing and running inside, but they were caught up by the soldiers of the McReynolds family and were killed or captured.

The whole night was filled with noise and excitement. When the next day came, only plumes of black smoke remained to tell of the tragedy of the previous night.

……

"The Carlos family is so stupid."

Standing next to the Archduke, Otto said this.

"If the Kamikaze Corps were stationed here, it would be almost impossible for us to capture this fortress, but they only let a bunch of useless troops defend the north."

Otto's tone was full of sarcasm. The Carlos family and the kingdom had reached an agreement. They thought that under that agreement, McReynolds would not dare to attack here.

Maybe many people would not think of it.

"You are defending this fortress with 50,000 soldiers. In Carlos' hands he can't stop our attack, but I hope that in your hands, this fortress will be truly unbreakable."

The great public spoke, and Otto knelt on one knee and said:
"Your will is followed, Father."

To the south of the Andara Kingdom, there are four noble territories, two duchies and two earls. With this fortress, Grand Duke McReynolds is confident that he can stop all wars in the south and completely block the way for several noble territories to go north to the Griffin Mountains.

The king signed a contract with four noble lords using his hereditary power and gave away most of the Griffin Mountains. McReynolds wanted to see if these noble lords had the ability to get that vast land.

"This belongs to McReynolds, and not even the king can take it away."

There was a cold look in the Archduke's eyes, and the war here quickly swept across the entire world like a storm.

"There was a civil strife in the Andara Kingdom. The Griffin Grand Duke actually ignored the king's orders and started a war against the nobles in the south."

"He unilaterally tore up the contract signed between the king and the nobles two years ago, and vowed to defend his Griffin Mountains to the death."

"What happened in that kingdom to the north?"

For a moment, countless eyes looked over. In the war between the Empire and the Church, the Kingdom of Andara managed to absorb a lot of attention on its own.

boom!
In the royal city of Andara, the elderly king smashed a large number of treasures even while lying on his bed. The court servants cleaned up in silence and then sold the fragments to merchants outside at a high price.

Many people are afraid of the angry old king at this moment, but not many people really care about him.

The old king was dying, and everyone knew it. He had not left his chambers for a long time, and even his queen had only seen him from a distance.

"Let Leta send out troops, let him lead the witch and ghost army to attack McReynolds and take back the power that belongs to the kingdom!"

"Declare McReynolds' betrayal. From now on, he is a traitor to the kingdom. He betrayed the kingdom and betrayed me!"

"Issuing an order to the entire southern continent, the kingdom will deprive the McReynolds family of all its honor and glory from now on. His land and all his wealth will no longer belong to him!"

The old king roared angrily. He had not expected that the Grand Duke of Griffin would actually dare to betray and ignore his existence, veto all decisions of the kingdom, and secretly send troops to the southern fortress.

He was also angry that the Carlos Family was so useless that they lost the sturdy Unicorn Fortress in just one day. There was no extraordinary legion stationed in it, and it was taken down so easily by the Grand Duke of Griffin.

But now, they even dared to question themselves as the king, why the Grand Duke of the kingdom started a war against them!
"Damn Carlos! Go and tell them that I allow them to declare war on McReynolds. After winning the war, they will get the entire Dukedom of McReynolds!"

"All of Griffin Mountain belongs to them. They must kill that traitor for me!"

In his opinion, McReynolds' betrayal was a shame for the Andara Kingdom. Even after his death, historical records would not praise him too much as a king, because a huge rebellion broke out in the kingdom during his time.

"The traitor must die." The old king said loudly, and then began to cough violently. The court servants were in a hurry to hide the blood.

……

Twin Cities.

With the help of the magician, just one hour later, the army stationed here and Grand Duke Leta's witch and ghost army received the order.

"You want us to attack McReynolds immediately?"

Leading the army of sorcerers and ghosts is Alla Leta, a powerful being who transformed his warlock bloodline into a legendary sorcerer and ghost. He is also the uncle of the current Grand Duke Leta and the only legend in the Leta family.

He was in charge of the witches and ghosts army and used blood to maintain his extraordinary life. Now that he received the king's order, he couldn't help but reveal a cruel smile.

"We have finally waited for this day. Let us see whether the Griffin Legion is the strongest or the Witch and Ghost Legion is the most powerful in the kingdom."

The sky was gray. Fifteen thousand witches and ghosts, with an average height of three meters, rushed out of the Twin Cities and headed towards the territory of the Grand Duke of Griffin. Three hours later, they arrived at the first town. More than 30% of the eight thousand people of McReynolds were slaughtered, and the rest were driven into cages, waiting to be captured by the witches and ghosts.

From a distance, the whole town gradually turned gray, just like the gray skin of the witches and ghosts. They did not stay for too long and launched another attack towards the heart of the Grand Dukedom, launching a massacre of witches and ghosts in another town.

In the sky, the griffin army returned. Tens of thousands of griffins were overwhelming and densely covered the sky. They charged towards the witch and ghost army on the ground. Their claws, sharper and more powerful than those of lions, tore into the bodies of the witches and ghosts. But even the witches and ghosts with missing limbs would not die completely. They would use all their strength to attack the griffins.

But although they are tall, there is still a gap between them and the griffins, not to mention the fully armed knights on the backs of the griffins swinging five-meter-long sickles.

Allah was shocked by the strength of the Griffin Legion. Their family was located in the easternmost part of the kingdom and had no military contact with the McReynolds family. At this moment, looking at the witches and ghosts who continued to die in front of the Griffin Legion, he couldn't help but doubt whether his family's extraordinary legion was really extraordinary?

"retreat!"

Watching the war in the town, Allah began to give orders, and the army of witches and demons slowly retreated, but there were still thousands of witches and demons who disobeyed the orders and fell into a frenzy, and were eventually overwhelmed by the griffins.

In a short battle, the Witch and Demon Legion lost three thousand soldiers. For Allah, this was not a big deal, because in the two different dimensions controlled by the Leta family, they could extract the witch and demon blood again and integrate it into the bodies of slaves, and they could be transformed into witch and demon warriors within three days.

The Leta family never worried about the cost of war; they only cared about whether there was enough blood to feed these witch and ghost warriors.

Five days later, the army from the kingdom approached McReynolds' territory. A prince questioned the Grand Duke to no avail, and then a civil war broke out in the kingdom on the plains.

The noble coalition of the kingdom, with a total of 80,000 soldiers plus the Witch and Ghost Legion, faced McReynolds' 50,000 troops and the Griffin Legion. They fought for three days and three nights, and three full-scale wars broke out, but the results surprised everyone.

McReynolds won the war in a tragic way!
Eighty percent of the witch ghost army was destroyed. They were as powerless as children in front of the griffin army. The only thing that could hurt the griffin army was the blood toxin in the witch ghosts' bodies, which made the bones of more than 800 griffins turn gray, their flesh and blood rot, and their feathers broke. Then they fell from the sky and died.

As for the deaths of Griffin Knights, the number was less than 500.

Among the Extraordinary Legion, the tenfold casualty ratio shocked the nobles of the kingdom and the south.

Outside of the extraordinary wars, the ratio of ordinary soldiers also ended up being ten to fifteen. The McReynolds family's army had higher military literacy, and it usually took two people from the kingdom's army to kill one McReynolds soldier.

The brutality of the war lay here, and coupled with the indiscriminate attacks and bloodthirstiness of the mad witches and ghosts, the kingdom's noble coalition lost nearly 20,000 people, and more than 10,000 soldiers became McReynolds' prisoners.

The situation in the kingdom became strangely quiet during this war.

……

"For the Andara Kingdom, they don't have too many troops to waste, right?"

"The army belonging to the kingdom will not exceed 100,000, and the combined number of the nobles' coalition forces will not exceed this number."

"In other words, this war can be considered a contest between half of the kingdom's military and McReynolds?"

In the Frozen Territory, Ryan received the news a little late, but he was also surprised by the result.

What surprised him was not the power of the Grand Duke of Griffin, but the weakness of other nobles in the kingdom.

"In addition to the two grand dukes, the Andara Kingdom has eleven earls, ten of whom are powerful earls, but none of them participated in the war. This is very interesting."

Not every earl has his own extraordinary army. The kingdom is not an empire. Among the eleven earls, only four earls have extraordinary army, and their extraordinary army should not be as good as those of the fearless witches and ghosts.

But if you add them together, it can’t be underestimated, right?

It takes a large piece of land to support an extraordinary army, not to mention the resources from other worlds controlled by the nobles.

Therefore, there are no other super legions around the Griffin Mountains. In other words, the super legions of the other four earls in the kingdom are some distance away from McReynolds.

Politics, history and geography can be considered together.

For example, Grand Guild Leta followed the king's order to attack Grand Duke Griffin because of historical issues. They were not inherited nobles of the kingdom, or even nobles from the Norris continent, but nobles from another world, whose noble status was recognized by the Andara Kingdom and granted territories.

Their bond to the Kingdom runs deep.

In addition, there are four other earls who have extraordinary legions. They are either nobles who fled from the north or indigenous nobles of the Andara Kingdom and one of the founders of the kingdom.

They have considerable autonomy and choice.

In the current situation where the royal family is in trouble, they can choose to protect themselves. Given their size, they will most likely be able to withstand the subsequent backlash.

Ryan was cautious and worried that at least half of the earls would obey the king's orders and send troops to face Grand Duke McReynolds, and the remaining half would selectively attack in the future.

I'm afraid there won't be many people who will support Grand Duke McReynolds.

He single-handedly fought against the entire kingdom, no, even the four noble lords in the south.

The four noble territories in the south are not weak either, as they are able to possess independent sovereignty and territory.

Ryan is not optimistic about Grand Duke McReynolds. No matter how powerful the Griffin Legion is, it cannot withstand the long-term consumption.

In addition, Ryan did not forget that there was a Feathered Dragon Legion in the Andara Kingdom. This was the legion of the Holy See. Like griffins, they could fly in the sky, run on the ground, and even fight in the water for a short time.

"How much help did Roland ask the emperor for in the Imperial Capital?"

The reason why an empire is an empire is because it is too powerful.

According to Ryan's estimation, the army of Wing Canyon is fully capable of confronting the Kingdom of Andara.

"What Grand Duke McReynolds wants is nothing more than to defeat the four noble territories in the south, and then force King Andara to tear up the contracts with the four noble territories, to protect his territory, and to ensure that the McReynolds family will always be at the peak and prosperous because of the Griffin Mountains."

"To achieve this goal, he must first resist the attack from the kingdom, and then launch an attack on the noble territories in the south."

"I'm afraid the only support the Empire can provide is in the fight against the Church."

Ryan saw too little to make any effective guesses, but he hoped that the Grand Duke of Griffin could open up the situation. In that case, once the road was repaired, his caravan would be able to enter more places smoothly.

For example, the witch blood of the Leta family. This extracted blood is itself a precious supernatural material. Mage Luna is very interested in it. Master McKen is also curious about the supernatural life that can resist the cold. Mr. Rose will also be interested.

But now Ryan can't even contact that family.

Thinking of this, Ryan once again led his army to Lingdu City to personally supervise the construction of the road leading to the Andara Kingdom.

The North Wind Province was still quiet, the only thing was the arrival of the Marquis's mother. She formed an extraordinary team of only 150 knights, with the purpose of finding the Dawn believers hiding in the North Wind Province.

The key point is that she actually found a few.

(End of this chapter)