Tauren Overlord

But no matter what, the seeds of resistance have been sown.

Perhaps before long, a spark will start a prairie fire.

Before that, Lu Heng must first focus his attention on the war in the East Continent.

Since Lu Heng and the vampire king Degar established diplomatic relations, they have indeed reached some deals.

The most important one is that no one should actively attack anyone else.

Degar's Kingdom of Volachia can only attack the Kingdom of Cat-Earvia to the west and the Kingdom of Forest to the north.

He could neither go south to attack Lu Heng's Shanhai College nor go north to attack Lu Heng's Xincheng Republic.

The girls who stayed behind in the new city could also be used at will by the Tauren Overlord.

In exchange, Lu Heng would not launch an attack on the Kingdom of Volachia - this would be beneficial to both parties.

Vampire King Degal also knew that he had to expand his undead army as much as possible before the empire turned against him.

Only in this way can he have the capital to confront the empire.

Ever since this kingdom of the dead betrayed the Sea Alliance, its diplomatic environment has become quite bad.

Lu Heng has even become the only person who promised not to actively eliminate them - even if this promise is just a secret agreement.

During this period of time, Lu Heng did not intend to devote his limited troops to the cause of exterminating the undead.

He did have more important things to do, such as retaking the Thunder Academy that had been occupied by the Empire, which was the richest province in the entire Luna Academy State.

New Luna City, the capital of Jinglei Academy, is also the capital of the entire Luna Academy State.

If Lu Heng could recapture the city first, he would be more qualified than any other competitor to become the head of the academy.

In the war against the Empire, New Luna City is also a very important super fortress.

As long as the city was still in the hands of the Empire, they could land from the southern edge of the Eastern Continent and deliver a steady stream of supplies to the Imperial Army;

On the other hand, once this huge fortress city is recaptured by Lu Heng, Marshal Selron who goes deep into the East Continent will only be able to lead a solitary army.

Even if the total size of this isolated army is very large, they will find it difficult to exert their full combat effectiveness due to lack of supplies.

Their ghost allies were also of limited help to them, after all, the living and the undead needed different supplies...

Selron was also worried that the Vampire King would take advantage of his lack of supplies to turn against him in advance.

After all, the Empire formed an alliance of the living, and it was only a matter of time before they destroyed the Kingdom of Volachia.

Temporary collusion is really just temporary.

Selron was not worried that the New Luna City behind him would be occupied by the rising Tauren Overlord.

After all, that megacity has seven layers of city defense, including four layers of towering physical walls and three layers of magical defense barriers.

It was the combined efforts of the Empire's navy and army, as well as the instigation of the Empire's God-Emperor himself, that finally enabled them to conquer this great city.

There are still tens of thousands of people from the imperial headquarters defending the city, so there is no need to worry about the city falling.

But Selron was worried that the Tauren Overlord would bypass the city and cut off his supply line to New Luna City.

Once there is a lack of food, the spiritual energy of the entire demon army will reach a bottleneck.

Of course he wanted to solve this problem, but Marshal Selron could not focus his main attention on the rear at this time.

Now the entire empire is a chess game. The Emperor of the Empire asked him to attack Cat-Eared Via, so he can't do anything else.

Selron's plan was to capture the Cat-Eared Via Kingdom as quickly as possible, especially to attack the capital of Cat-Eared Via.

As long as we can meet up with the Imperial Navy landing force in the west, a steady stream of supplies will arrive on land from the sea.

By then, the empire will be able to fully seize the initiative in the war.

Whether it is to eliminate the remnants of the Sea Alliance in the north or to clear the remaining remnants of Lunayuan State in the south, it will be much easier.

With Selron formulating such a strategy, Queen Cat-Eared Via and Queen Golden Dragon Aurelia, who were being attacked from both sides, became anxious.

If the capital of Cat-Ear Via, Cat-Ear Glade, falls, the Sea Alliance will not only lose another powerful member country.

More importantly, this place is also the only production center of Rune Bombs.

So their situation is also very bad.

Even before the army of demons and undead arrived, King Tesna of Cat-Eared Via had to complain to Aurelia:

"We have a new traitor in our midst."

"Ogres have begun to attack our towns. Our outposts and small fortresses are no longer safe..."

Then, Tesna shrugged her orange cat ears again:

"Of course, our large fortresses can't stop the combined forces of the Empire's demons and vampires. Even our king doesn't know how long he can hold out..."

Lu Heng also noticed the ogres' unusual movements and created illusions to try to understand their situation.

It turned out that it was indeed the Imperial Emperor who influenced them, and this time the Emperor seemed to vaguely sense that someone was interfering with him.

Therefore, this time the God-Emperor was more cautious and prudent in his attempt to deceive the ogres.

He no longer directly asked the ogres to lead the way for him, but instead let them plunder the Kingdom of Cat-Eared Via.

This undoubtedly effectively accelerated the collapse of the Cat-Eared Kingdom.

When Lu Heng tried to make the ogres more "neutral", he found that the Imperial Emperor did a pretty good job this time.

The ogres who keep slaughtering the cat people are just doing it for their own enjoyment, not to "sacrifice for the empire."

What the Divine Emperor originally stimulated was their selfish "neutral" attribute, which was simpler than just asking someone to lead the way.

Ogres do not have strong mental resistance like stubborn dwarves, noble gold dragons or outstanding centaur warriors.

After being deceived by the God-Emperor, these ogres seemed to think that the Alliance between the Seas was over.

They can burn, kill and loot to their heart's content and will not be punished.

So they can just focus on the pleasure of the moment and keep attacking one Cat-Eared Via village after another, just to plunder more women and boys.

Ogres also have very strange habits. Some of the purposes of their prey plundering are to satisfy their poor physiological needs...

What’s even more terrifying is that some ogres’ raids are purely based on the “spiritual need” to torture people.

They would tie people up and repeatedly beat them with sticks, gradually increasing the force, to see when the victim would "break through".

Apparently, this is something in their nature, and the Imperial God-Emperor simply amplified it, so the effect is particularly good.

The ogres also said that the God-Emperor had made a promise to them, "They are not the enemies of the Empire, and the Empire will only let them enjoy their bliss."

Lu Heng couldn't change their stance directly, so he had to plant a seed of doubt in them in the illusion:

"The Empire's tolerance towards them now is only temporary. Once they completely destroy the Sea Alliance, they will definitely deal with you."

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The author's words:

293. Loyalty!

Whether Aurelia likes it or not, a "traitor alliance" consisting of vampires, goblins and ogres seems to be forming.

She was becoming increasingly haggard, and could only pray that these races that openly stood against the Sea Alliance would turn against them as well.

There was nothing wrong with the direction of her prayers, because each of these traitorous forces did have ulterior motives.

Vampire King Degal is fully prepared to face the Empire in a decisive battle, so he temporarily cooperates with the Empire.

The ogres knew very well that after the Empire's victory, their carefree days would probably be over.

Only the goblins marching at the front of the team appear to be particularly loyal to the empire.

A new goblin leader always prefers to wear white robes, while his most trusted subordinates often wear red.

In the following days, they also imprisoned all the pagans - this also helped to distinguish who were the "good goblins" with orthodox beliefs.

Good goblins always encourage each other, which boosts the morale of the entire goblin team.

However, neither the necromancers nor the demons of the empire could understand what these goblins were saying.

After all, they don't understand the language of the goblins, and this world doesn't have a universal language like Lu Heng Gu Qiu's English.

Even if they really asked what the goblins were talking about, the Goblin Pope Gobgolin would tell them:

"We are trying to convince all the goblins to worship the great God-Emperor together!"

“Whenever we invest our emotions in this infinitely loyal cause, we are deeply moved!”

Selron and Degar also sent a few people who knew goblin language to try to eavesdrop.

The conclusion is that these places are actually worshiping a certain master.

Goblin words such as "It's great!" and "Great, no words needed!" are always heard in the goblin camp.

It seems that the goblins really have infinite loyalty to the God-Emperor, but this undoubtedly makes the Vampire King Degal more nervous.

He thought that his combat power was not much different from that of Marshal Selron's elite imperial army.

If he were to turn against the Empire directly after defeating Cat-Eared Glade, the capital of the Cat-Eared Kingdom, he would have a good chance of winning.

The goblins are naturally no match for either the demon army or the undead horde, but these little green men are an important variable.

Once this weight is added to either side, the scales of victory will tilt.

In order to restore the balance, Degar also tried to engage in diplomacy with the ogres, but to no avail.

The reason is simple. Ogres also know that necromancers need a large number of living people as consumables in order to expand their undead power.

So does the ogre intend to let himself die in order to expand the size of the undead army?

They have absolutely no such desire.

This undoubtedly made Degal walk on thin ice, and he needed to cooperate more with his only ally, Lu Heng.

He even agreed to fully listen to Lu Heng's "opinions" when making important diplomatic decisions.

For example, Lu Heng took the initiative to remind the Vampire King not to join Marshal Selron in destroying the goblins.

This directly interrupted Degal's established plan. He really intended to invite Selron to share the goblin's "legacy" equally.

After that, Degar became more and more awed by the Tauren Overlord.

He knew that his only ally was also a smart man and might have guessed what he was thinking.

But he really didn't expect that the goblin also had some kind of connection with the minotaur, and even seemed to be on his side.

This minotaur is truly unfathomable!

As a result, the vampire king cared more and more about Lu Heng's opinion.

……

As Lu Heng had more and more "friends", the situation of the Golden Dragon Queen Aurelia and the Cat-Eared King Tesna became increasingly difficult.

They are about to face a joint encirclement by the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Army and the Undead Guides.

Even if we ignore the capabilities of the goblins and ogres, it would still be difficult for them to win.

The remaining two powerful allied countries that had not suffered any casualties did not send many troops. Only the elves in the northwest sent 700 people.

Not a single tree person from the northeast came.

On the military level, their choice cannot be said to be wrong.

Once they leave their own country, the Imperial Alliance located in the center of the Sea Alliance can completely change the direction of their march and destroy them instead.

In order to protect themselves, both elves and tree people must first ensure their own safety.

In addition, the tree man's movement speed is also very slow.