Throne of the North.

Chapter 606 The Battle to the Heavens (Part 5)

In the legends of the Empire, Grand Duke Rodrigo's elemental legions were born from magic.

Other extraordinary legions have traceable origins, but the Elemental Legion seems to have appeared out of thin air one day.

Furthermore, beneath the armor of the elemental legions, their bodies are transparent, like those of the undead.

The colorful cloaks are a distinctive feature of the Elemental Legion; each color of cloak represents the elemental energy that the elemental knight possesses.

Freud was curious. He remembered his father, Columbus III, saying that the Elemental Legion was a force that Grand Duke Rodrigo used to replace the knights, and that there had been rebellions within the Grand Duke's family.

The extremely serious rebellion caused the magicians of the Grand Duke Rodrigo's family to no longer trust knights, believing them to be potential betrayers, unlike elemental knights.

However, what's strange is that Elemental Knights never engage in any direct combat. They usually transform into elemental forms to break down the enemy's defenses and thus achieve victory.

Can this really replace the perfect combination of knight and mage?
Freud didn't believe it, because he was the legend of the Knight's Path.

On the other side, Brutus had already arrived at his army, which was surrounded by a densely packed elemental legion that seemed to impenetrable even to the wind. They stood in place like puppets, but they themselves did not have much thought.

Brutus walked among the elemental legions, feeling only loneliness and desolation.

Who would have thought that the father of Grand Duke Rodrigo, one of the four Grand Dukes of the Empire, was a necromancer?

They command the elemental legions, and everyone assumed the Grand Duke was an elemental mage, but he wasn't.

Even the Elemental Legion is not a knightly legion created purely from elemental power.

Rather, it was the undead. His father combined the spirits of the knights after their deaths with elemental power, and under the influence of the divine source, even the Philosopher's Stone had to avoid its edge.

That's right, the elemental legions not only possess magical power, but are also related to alchemists.

His father invited a demigod-level alchemist to help create the 'body' of the elemental legions.

That is, the armor they wear is the physique of the elemental legion, while the transparent elemental bodies beneath the armor are flesh and soul.

The Elemental Legion is special; they entered the second stage of the Extraordinary Legion from the very beginning, and under the influence of the divine origin, the power of divine kingdom transformation gradually turned the Elemental Legion into a unified whole.

The vast number of 15,000 elemental knights could be described as 15,000 people, or it could be described as... just one person.

Brutus was proud. His father had told him that he would die, and that he, as his successor, would also die. He also said that none of his future successors would be immortal; they would all die.

But the Elemental Legion will be eternal; they will always exist, and thus the Grand Duke Rodrigo's family will forever maintain its pinnacle of glory.

Yes, unlike all other nobles, Grand Duke Rodrigo was focused on the continuation of his family's legacy from the very beginning, rather than on achieving temporary power.

Other grand dukes of the empire may decline, and even the royal family may perish, but the Grand Duke Rodrigo's family will not; the Elemental Legion will eternally protect them.

"Prepare for the attack."

Sitting in his tall magical carriage, Brutus issued commands through the power of elemental resonance. The next moment, the Elector Freud, far away, saw a restless commotion among the vast imperial army behind him.

Turning my head, I saw that the sky was calm but the sea of ​​clouds was boiling. Thousands upon thousands of elemental beams shot into the sky, blue, purple, white, red... all kinds of colors of light rushed into the sea of ​​clouds and the sky. The storm was gathering, and the rainbow vortex filled the vast sky. Then, the thousands upon thousands of elemental beams shot out from the rainbow vortex, their destination being the religious army opposite the imperial army.

In the center of the Papal army, there were also rows of accompanying churches. Cardinal Mikael raised his head and looked at the thousands of elemental lights that were hurtling towards him like shooting stars from the distant sky. He couldn't help but feel angry.

"Damn imperial nobles, have these blasphemous heretics given them the courage to look directly at a great being?"

"The gods are supreme and great; mortals are never qualified to touch their realm."

The vast majority of the high-ranking members of the Dawn Church harbor deep anger towards the Empire, because the Empire's actions have severely damaged and shattered the system they have established throughout history. Under the Dawn Church's system, the gods are omniscient and omnipotent, and weak mortals should kneel before them and pray for strength and life.

The blasphemous acts of the empire undoubtedly led to the collapse of both the tools of rule and the faith.

Countless clergy members have fallen into depravity or even had their souls destroyed in the breached dam.

Cardinal Mikal was furious, but the power of the Empire's Grand Duke Legion was undeniable, comparable to any of the ten extraordinary legions of the Holy See, and even he had to go all out to deal with it.

"Where are the divine warlocks? Didn't they say they had a way to deal with that elemental legion?"

Of the ten extraordinary legions of the Dawn Church, only half are truly related to the Dawn faith; the other half are the defeated adversaries of the Dawn Church over a long period of time.

For example, the Feathered Dragon Legion, which conquered alien lands during the Dawn Church's rule over human civilization, turned the Feathered Dragons into servants of the Church. Another example is the Divine Revelation Warlock Army, one of the extraordinary legions on this battlefield.

They are descendants of sorcerers who were once imprisoned and tried by the Papacy.

No one, inside or outside the Vatican, liked this monstrous legion.

As Mikal gave the order, amidst the hundreds of thousands of believers, on a clearing, one after another, people draped in black cloaks let out beast-like roars. Then, the cloaks were torn apart by the twisting force of their bodies, revealing monsters with skin as gray as stone, backs covered in decaying wings, and faces made of tree roots and vines as thick as fingers.

The wizards' muscles are stiff and their heavy bodies prevent them from flying; the wings on their backs only help them slow down their weight and increase their running speed.

This was not their complete form. When the elemental beams above them fell to the ground, these divinely inspired sorcerers had already reached the feet of the elemental legion. They looked up, and the next moment, all the matter around them began to grow and twist wildly.

The stones grew into stone pillars, and the wild grass turned into vines and a sea of ​​flowers that clung to the stone pillars. Even the metal deep underground surged into the sky in particle form like a torrent, transforming into a twelve-winged metal angel.

A colossal palace formed of stone pillars stood before a twelve-winged metal angel bound by vines. The barbs of these vines pierced deep into the angel's limbs and bones, and crimson blood flowed from its twelve metal wings, trickling down the pillars and into the depths of the ground. A massive inverted cross was stained crimson by the liquid. The twelve-winged metal angel, tightly bound, gradually became more alert, its gaze turning resentful and crazed as it stared at the thousands upon thousands of divinely inspired sorcerers at its feet.

Faced with the gaze of the metal angel, the divinely inspired sorcerers let out painful howls. Their bodies began to break, as if invisible chains were forcibly binding and snapping their bones, then dragging them toward the enormous angelic temple.

Visibly, the temple came to life. It began to grow hands, binding the divine sorcerers who screamed and howled incessantly. Its chest was not tight; through the gaps between the massive stone pillars, one could see the vast sky behind it. Its feet were pulled from the depths of the earth, carrying scorching lava.

In the blink of an eye, the divine sorcerer created a giant, covered in mud and moss, roaring like a wild beast, and then charged towards the elemental legion.

During this period, the army of the Dawn Church and the Empire's extraordinary legions have had many encounters, including the Elemental Legion.

They knew that the Elemental Legion could alter the void, creating pure elemental domains where any element could appear, but the Elemental Legion possessed the power to restrain any element.

For example, fire can be extinguished by water, and strong winds can be blocked by solid rocks. All power can be elementalized, but the elemental legion can restrain all the methods of elementalization.

This is the power of the elements, but the divinely inspired sorcerers bypassed the process of elementalization; instead, they used divine power to create giants comparable to the form of gods.

This was a clash between warlocks and mages. As the elemental legions' surging flames and tides swept in, the divine giants let out painful howls. Thousands upon thousands of shrill and chilling screams filled the air. The divine warlocks bound to the giants seemed to be enduring the most terrible pain in the world, their faces contorted in agony. Their hideous appearances were unsettling and terrifying.

But in the end, this divinely inspired giant was not transformed into elements. The twelve wings of the metal angel, flowing with 'blood,' firmly locked all the soil, stones, vines, and water on the giant's body.

Even amidst the flames, the Divine Giant was able to withstand the scorching power. In the tide, the Divine Giant swallowed all the water, turning it into a torrent of blood that it spat out, staining the bodies of many elemental knights with a sharp, metallic clanging sound.

"die!"

The giant roared, and the divine sorcerer bound to his body let out an even more painful and eerie howl.

【die】

"This is... a curse?"

Brutus, who was far away, was somewhat surprised. If magicians were on the right path, then sorcerers were on the wrong path. Their methods were similar to magic, but they were all kinds of strange and unpredictable.

"But even so, it's useless. The elemental legion is not just about elements."

As Brutus finished speaking, on the battlefield ahead, within the vast elemental domain, elemental knights began to disintegrate. In less than thirty seconds, the dazzling elemental domain vanished completely.

Tens of thousands of elemental knights vanished from everyone's sight, leaving only the Divine Giant standing there bewildered, unsure of what to do next.

"Where the souls of the dead roam, the living cannot see them."

Brutus chuckled, and ahead, the elemental legion vanished into nothingness, reappearing in the center of another extraordinary legion.

The Oath of Faith is a legacy formed from the original Dawn Church's devout vow to the Lord. It is similar to the Dawn Church's Faith Inspectors, who address issues of faith and piety within the Dawn Church.

What are the elemental legions doing here? This extraordinary legion's combat power is not much less than that of the divinely inspired sorcerers.

An elemental knight appeared before a cultist loyal to the Oath of Dawn. The armor on his face cracked, and the transparent figure of the knight rushed toward the cultist like mist.

Deep within the realm of the soul, the cultist named Gader felt immense fear. He looked around uneasily, with only a single beam of white light illuminating his feet above him. However, in the surrounding darkness, the hazy murmurs of several evil gods echoed, causing his soul to tremble while also generating a strange pleasure.

He recalled his stern reprimand of the nuns at the foot of the holy mountain, and his punishment of sending them alone to the prayer room late at night. He also remembered his complaints to the Lord of Dawn about his insufficient divine magic, during which he subtly mentioned the name of the Abyss. And he also remembered…

Within the Vatican, they say that anyone who is not devout is not devout, and those believers are always terrified when they see them, taking whatever they want from them.

“You have already fallen... Gardel.”

A gentle breeze brushed past his ear, and his soul heard Gardel's own voice. He looked around in fear and shouted:

"Who, who is speaking?"

“I am you, and you are me, Gardel. You no longer embrace the dawn; you belong to… the abyss.”

The voice turned into the murmur of an evil god, and the white radiance that had enveloped Gardel from above vanished, as darkness completely engulfed the cultist's soul.

Outside, Gardel, his mouth agape and eyes wide with terror, knelt on the ground. Before him, the elemental knight returned to his armor, raised his longsword, and with a single stroke, easily slew the extraordinary legion priest.

Their faith has begun to waver, and because their faith is not devout enough, the divine magic they possess has naturally become ineffective.

They are as fragile as ordinary people.

"Launch an attack, Your Highness. Now they can no longer stop the Sunfire Legion."

Brutus approached Freud, still shaken. Fortunately, what his father had told him was true: the faith within the Dawn Church had been severely distorted due to the Dawn Lord's century-long slumber, especially among the Oath Legion responsible for overseeing the faith.

They were supposed to oversee the followers of Dawn, but they fell into depravity because of the power they held.

Seeing the enemy's extraordinary legion in chaos and defeat, Freud was also extremely excited. He directly brandished his knight's longsword and charged towards the divine giant. Behind him, the overwhelming imperial army charged forward with shouts that shook the heavens.

As the sky gradually darkened and the sun's outline was covered by a layer of shadow, the army that emerged from the Void God Kingdom became the most dazzling presence on this battlefield during the solar corona.

(End of this chapter)