Four-Armed Divine Emperor

When the dust settled on the civil war and the victors emerged, most of them tactfully offered at least verbal loyalty to the new master of Iskhanfa. The Romans seemed very "magnanimous" and were not in a hurry to centralize power. In other words, they had some "communication" and "contact" with these autonomous regions within a normal range, and seemed to have no intention of weakening the power of the vassal states.

After the Siege of Ctesiphon, the White Tower Edict was issued, an anti-Roman encirclement was formed, and the Canaanite uprising broke out. These former Alan garrisons were trapped in a vast sea of ​​Canaanites. Few of them had the will to resist. They either laid down their weapons and were captured, or transformed themselves:

"I've been a Canaanite for a long time! Look at my felt hat, authentic Canaanite clothing!"

"Long live the uprising! Long live a free and independent Canaan!"

"Resolutely oppose the pseudo-Roman traitor who stole the throne of Ishkhan! Restore the orthodoxy of Azad!"

Some people used the banner of the previous dynasty to try to join the law-protecting coalition, while others simply joined the local people and joined the Canaanite camp.

After all, their morale was not high to begin with, and Rome had "not taken them seriously" in the past. Now that they saw something big happening in their hometown and were labeled as public enemies, there were basically no people willing to work for Iskhanfar, who didn't know what was going on.

These former Alan - "Roman" garrisons, originally had voices in Canaan and other places that wanted to send them as the first vanguard in the Eastern Expedition to prove their loyalty, but because they were afraid that these people were not reliable enough and might just run over and surrender, thus damaging the morale of the Eastern Expedition, they postponed their contribution and sent out the "scraps" from their own country instead.

After all, their fighting ability may not be that great, but their loyalty is guaranteed, and they can at least fight a battle.

......

So, how many "military forces" does Seleucia have now in the conventional sense?

The answer is 70,000.

The main forces of the Roman First and Third Legions were stationed in this fortress.

After the failure of the Northern Expedition and the civil war, the original Parthian Legion had almost declined to the brink of destruction. Normally, the new empire would probably restore their organization and rebuild this main legion with a glorious heritage, but the Romans did not seem to care about them. In a sense, the "Parthian Legion" was once their "defeated enemy."

Thus, the main legion, which was one of the inheritances of the empire, disappeared quietly in the long river of history. Its remnants were dismantled, turned into nutrients, and incorporated into the numbered legions brought by the Romans from the north.

From the perspective of conventional forces.

Seleucia's military strength was more fragile than ever before.

Fortunately, they have a magnificent fortress to rely on. Normally, it seems that it is not a problem to block the 150,000-strong coalition forces in the vanguard. As long as the subsequent reinforcements can catch up, it is in line with military common sense to use this place as an outpost to resist the enemy's eastward expedition.

However, the commander in charge of the defense of Seleucia did not seem to want to simply hold the city.

Before the Eastern Expedition Army arrived at the gates of Seleucia, they set up camp outside the city and expelled the cavalry scouts outside the city, as if they were preparing to attack the vanguard army on the flat ground outside the fortress?

This behavior made the commanders of the Eastern Expedition Corps somewhat unable to guess the enemy's thoughts. They intuitively believed that the enemy must have some means, but no matter what, behind the scenes,

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There were eyes watching from the sky "supervising the battle". At this point, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and fight the enemy.

The commander of Seleucia was called "Caesar" and seemed to be an unknown person.

Chapter 87: To Those Who Do Not Have the Blessing of the Reverend Father...

"That is the third offspring of the evil god conceived in the chaos. After corruption and lies, he is named 'Slaughter'..."

"A monster born from a womb filled with venom and lava..."

"The 'Evil Serpent' was born into this world. Its first cry after its arrival caused venom to drip from its fangs onto the earth. As a result, the land cracked and became barren. Corruption and toxins filled the land, crops withered, and the sunlight retreated..."

"It is the evil god's curse on the world, bringing death to every place filled with joy!"

.........

He bent down, grabbed a handful of soil, and felt it crumble into dust between his palms.

Caesar raised his head and glanced towards the sky.

He knew that there were many cowardly eyes watching the battlefield anxiously.

This battlefield has become a slaughterhouse.

They are enemies, no doubt about it.

Anyone who does not immediately submit to the Star Dragon is a stubborn thief who must be eliminated immediately!

He drew up his spear and thrust it towards the sky, flames burning on the spear. His guards looked at the spear in awe. In the burning flames, every member of the Four-Armed Clan could intuitively feel the shining of the sacred and great spiritual power from the Father.

The flames of his spear echoed Caesar's restless heart, his fervent desire for battle... Caesar yearned for that place, longed to ascend those floating cities that were unworthy of soaring into the heavens, longed to see the mages tremble under his missionary wrath, longed for the "sky" to burn beneath his spear, longed to purge all those who did not belong to the great race...

"To all those who are not blessed by the Father——"

Caesar lowered his spear, and a huge war beast, as big as a mountain even with its wings folded, fell from the sky and landed behind him. The earth shook violently and cracked, but Caesar's body did not move at all.

"Bring down death!"

His burning heart, his burning will, his fanatical shouts accompanied by psychic vibrations spread to every corner of the battlefield!

The energized legionnaires were even more resolute and unmatched.

Caesar used the psychic power granted by El to plunge the entire battlefield into a huge vortex with him as the core.

All Four-Armed Ones and Four-Armed Followers, those believers who have voluntarily or "forced" to express their faith and loyalty to the Father from the bottom of their hearts, have felt the fanatical belief of the Third Son.

Their physical strength was replenished rapidly, and their morale, which had already reached a level difficult to increase, grew again. To match this, their offensive became increasingly fierce.

On the other hand, the coalition forces marching eastwards under the banner of "protecting the law" were already losing ground in the fierce battle!

When Caesar's desire spread throughout the battlefield through psychic vibrations, many soldiers who had been frightened and demoralized in previous battles dropped their weapons, knelt on the ground, and surrendered to the east.

They have completely lost confidence in victory, because in this war, they are not fighting against mortals!

They are in awe, they are afraid, they feel unable to understand - the unknown great existence!

They exclaimed that what they were facing was not a "mortal army" at all, but monsters, puppets, remnants of hatred that crawled out from the cursed past, and grotesques that came out of the wildest fantasies of mankind!

In the known and unknown past of the world of Il, there has never been an army that can do what the Romans do today. The entire legion is "like one person", everyone's thinking is highly connected, coordinated and cooperated, superbly trained, orders are strictly enforced, and their war machines and armor are extremely sophisticated, and even have the luxury of "enchantment" for all members.

During the offensive, the two Roman legions, whose number was less than half of the coalition forces, displayed almost "supernormal" combat power. They defeated the left and center armies of the coalition forces in just one hour, almost at the beginning of the battle. It can be said that the defeat was almost a foregone conclusion. However, what is unimaginable is that the Romans on the opposite side did not pursue the victory, but withdrew from the positions they had captured and returned to their camp to re-form their ranks.

This gave the officers' alliance, which had previously controlled the Eastern Expedition Corps through various means, time to regroup the troops, gather the defeated soldiers, and prevent the front line from collapsing directly, so that they would be qualified to withstand another blow.

They were originally puzzled by the enemy's unexpected behavior, and even speculated that the enemy was exhausted after such a swift and fierce attack, and was afraid of being counterattacked and repelled, so they took the initiative to retreat. However, after the second formal battle an hour later, this speculation could only be regarded as a ridiculous fantasy.

Caesar's purpose in retreating was simple:

The coalition forces were defeated too quickly. He believed that defeating them in this way would not have any deterrent effect and would only cause the defeated soldiers to scatter all over the place, making it inconvenient for him to annihilate them.

Arrogant, arrogant, arrogant!

If the allied commanders knew Caesar's thoughts, there would undoubtedly be no other word that could replace their evaluation of Caesar.

However, it turned out that Caesar's "arrogance" was not wrong at all.

No matter how many times he came, his army could easily crush the resistance of the enemy in front of them, not to mention the enemy was twice as strong as him.

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Three times, five times, ten times, as long as their level is still limited to the "mortal" stage, no legion can survive for half a day against the troops of the Four-Armed Commander!

With powerful offspring as nodes, each legion is a miniature "nest". Every soldier has been instilled with fanatical faith in the respected father Aiel through long-term subtle influence and life. They may not directly carry the blood of the Four-Armed Man in their bodies, but there is no doubt that they have become slaves of the Four-Armed Man at the soul level.

This allows them, in special circumstances, such as an army led by an Offspring, to make connections that would normally only be between the Offspring and Gene Servants.

"We are one in mind! We are connected in spirit!"

A commander with psychic vision can instantly project his will onto every soldier and order them what to do. Each soldier can communicate with his comrades around him, knowing when to draw his sword and when to retreat. Their coordination is seamless, just like one person split into two, but their souls are still together.

No mortal could defeat such an army.

What's more, there is Caesar, the third son who was specially "blessed" by El, in charge.

Fanatical Caesar, bellicosous Caesar, he was the most "outgoing" and "lively" of Ai'er's early sons, perhaps because he inherited the wildness of his mother's mountaineer blood.

His respect for his father was also influenced by his mother's clan, and had a clear tendency towards deification.

Chapter 88: Happiness of Offspring

All the descendants' loyalty and love for their respected father, Ai'er, are equally deep and steadfast, and it is impossible to tell who has a higher level of love and loyalty to their father among them.

If we have to say, we can only judge from their outward performance to see who is more "passionate" about it.

Caesar was undoubtedly such an heir.

He is keen to show his "love" for his father in his outward words and deeds. Among Al's three oldest children, Elsa is calm and has a strong work ethic; Cyrus pays attention to rules and details and has an "aristocratic demeanor", while Caesar has a fiery temperament, is aggressive and combative.

He is one of the few descendants who can put his hostility and contempt for the "unblessed ones", that is, those groups that have not yet been embraced by the four arms and incorporated into the big group, into actions. He is keen to use his actions to clear the "unbelievers" from the world map and practice his loyalty to his father - this is a cause that makes him so proud!

On the conquest route of the Kipchak-Black-Altai steppes, which spanned the east and west ends of the Tartarus continent, Caesar, with infinite enthusiasm for Aiel, led his descendants and brothers to fight east and west, and spent several years without a moment's slackness or wasted time to establish a huge "nomadic Khanate".

Aisha presided over the affairs of state on behalf of Ai'er in the land of Thurso, and Cyrus was responsible for conquering the rich Alan Empire. Their environment was many times better than Caesar's, but the third son did not feel too jealous about this - Caesar did have similar emotions, but it was an envy of his other brothers who could accompany their father on a daily basis, which did not hinder him from fulfilling the conquest mission entrusted by Ai'er.

Caesar used fire and steel to baptize the grasslands, which were still in the nomadic and barbaric era. He believed that forceful education was better than conversion brought by words. Therefore, the Purple Tent Khanate never made any so-called goodwill or appeasement to those so-called "neutral" forces with ulterior motives and who were wavering between the two sides. Caesar would even take the initiative to provoke these "neutrals" who could be won over to the camp that opposed the Purple Dragon Eagle, and then ruthlessly eliminate them with a swift offensive.

If they are his subjects, even if they are mortals, because of Ai'er's teachings and the laws he has established, even his descendants cannot violate the law to bully, beat or kill. In the education received by the descendants, of course, mortal believers are inferior to them, but at the same time, they also exist as the cornerstone and worker ants of the father's kingdom and the clan's nest. As absolutely loyal descendants, they have no reason to harm the interests of their father and the clan.

But if they are enemies or prisoners, that is another matter.

After Caesar broke through the Broken Jade City and arrived at the Vast Ocean, he executed hundreds of Altai chiefs and barbarian kings who held the Dragon Eagle Banner at one time during his conquest of the Altai grassland. Those princes with mountain blood, including their bloodlines and loyal followers, totaled thousands of people. Other descendants would have considered this a waste of "resources" because anyone, no matter how much they opposed Ai'er before, could theoretically be transformed into a loyal servant of the tribe in the end.

However, Caesar was different. His fanaticism for his father was exclusive. He would not give these fools, who were deeply hostile to "salvation" through their actions and words, a chance to "repent." They refused to convert, refused to submit, and viciously attacked the "salvation" brought about by "honoring the father" with their words and deeds. This was a capital crime...

In general, Caesar is like a standard template, a prince or vassal who is "good at fighting" but "brutal" in character and has led troops abroad for a long time.

Normally, people with this template will most likely end up rebelling, or be stripped of their power before rebelling, or die midway and fail in their rebellion.

Of course, that is discussed based on mortals.

Al adored his third child.

To some extent, this proves the saying "the crying child gets the milk".

Just like guarding the forbidden city for him, my father

Chapter 424

Camilla, Al's 36th child, was having fun inside while his father was guarding the gate outside.

First, she is liked by Al because of her special personality and temperament; second, Camilla, like Caesar, also follows her father's will, and her "external expression" is different from most of the heirs.

Immediately, without compromise, and carry it through to the end...

Even if other offspring were to do it, the final result would probably be the same. Since the result is the same, the process is very important. Similarly, two offspring are going to do something, for example, Al asked Caesar and Cyrus to slay the dragon respectively.

Cyrus would probably take the order and leave, remaining silent throughout the entire process, then begin planning, recruiting troops, reporting back from time to time, and then slay the dragon and return to report mission accomplished, without taking any credit or anything special;

On the other side, the kid who received the order was beaming with happiness—"My dad gave me another order!" "Dad spoke to me!" He rushed to gather the troops and delivered an impassioned speech, which would probably be called:

"my father"

My Great Father

The Sacred Mission Entrusted to Me by My Great Father

Then he rushed to the dragon's nest and killed the dragon, expressed his feelings, continued the above speech, and ran back in a hurry, very happy, "Father, I did it!" "Woo woo, I miss Dad"

As a "respected father" who does not have to divide the family property, does not have to consider the issue of heirs, and does not have to worry about his children causing a big birthday celebration or Xuanwu Gate roll call during his lifetime, Al naturally treats his children largely based on his own preferences.

Caesar was the kind of clingy kid who cried a lot. He expressed his love for his father with his passionate words and actions, which really pleased Al. He encouraged Caesar a lot, for example, his many active personalities were often used by Al as metaphors:

"Look at Caesar, he's very lively. We should learn from him and cultivate and develop our own interests and hobbies."

This is naturally the greatest honor and reward for the descendants.

Al once considered transferring Caesar to his side, but on the one hand, he had previously indulged in pleasure, and his old ideas made him feel that this was not a good idea. His grown-up sons were still being asked to guard the door and keep watch for their father, while his daughters didn't seem to be so concerned?

On the other hand, Al felt that keeping Caesar by his side for a long time would "restrict" him, so he didn't do it in the end.

After Caesar perfectly completed the task assigned by El and conquered the territory from Kipchak to Broken Jade, which was vaster than the territory of the Alan Empire, Caesar returned to Thurso with the elite soldiers who had fought in the mortal wars on the grassland. According to his wishes, El assigned him the task of commanding the western territory of the empire.

Chapter 89: Extraordinary Battlefield

Caesar spent a lot of time and energy on training his soldiers. For the extraordinary level, Caesar, as a psychic who already possessed the strength of the sixth ring before receiving the "blessing" of Ai'er, had already stepped half a foot into the threshold of true extraordinaryness. Putting his energy into some mortals' deployment of troops was undoubtedly a waste of talent.

But for the descendants, it is never "secondary factors" such as talent and hard work that determine the upper limit of their strength.

But Al.

But their father.

As long as Al wanted, he could instantly transform an ordinary gene servant into the strongest among all his descendants, or he could deprive his descendants of their power and use it for himself.

At the same time, the strength of his power also determines the upper limit of his descendants.

If El reaches the level of being able to cover the entire world of Neyr with his psychic energy, not to mention becoming a unified being, then his offspring, especially those close to him and the earliest born, such as Aisha and Caesar, will also become more powerful and can easily reach the level of the so-called "Nine Rings" or "Sage" in the wizard's standards.

Fighting, legions, commanding... For Caesar, these are his "hobbies", just like boys always tend to like war games and soldiers. And Al is a loving father to his sons, and Caesar is his favorite child, so it is natural that he will encourage his normal interests and hobbies that are not anti-human.