Mount & Blade: Wind of War

The battle for hegemony on the continent is based on different means.

The Sims Royal Court relied on its own military strength to break through the two human kingdoms of Raymond and Saint Laurent, and captured millions of slaves, which greatly made up for its own shortcomings.

Raymond and Saint Laurent relied on cultural and racial segregation to maintain their geographical advantages.

The Styak Empire has been established for nearly three hundred years, and it has a deep foundation. For such a force, what needs to be done is not innovation, but preservation.

The Mage Kingdom has introduced the concept of "all people are born equal, only mages are noble", and has introduced rye and other strong reproductive food, claiming that magic is the first productive force. If the continent is ruled by mages, there will be no more war and hunger on this continent.

This has attracted a large number of ambitious young people and talented people to join.

The Holy Kingdom was established on religion, and its predecessor was the Styak State Religion, which has a far-reaching influence. Their Holy Legion is really not afraid of fighting to the death. They firmly believe that after dying for God, their souls will ascend to the Kingdom of God and enjoy eternal happiness and joy.

The Merchant Alliance is a country of merchants. It has no other abilities, but it has a lot of money and its jurisdiction is more prosperous. Compared with the feelings of homeland, great ideals, and eternal life after death, it seems that the happiness of the present is more important.

Therefore, the combat power of the Merchant Alliance is not weak. Merchants do not produce famous generals, but they can hire, poach, and use various means to make others work for themselves. This is what merchants are best at.

In addition, there is the Fishman Empire in the east, the underground world in the south, and the northern province of the Styak Empire, which seems to have been occupied by elves.

These complex forces are intertwined and conflicting with each other. The civilians in the world suffer, especially those who are drawn on the borders of various forces. When collecting taxes, they are taxed many times. When they need protection, no force is willing to send troops to protect them.

There are even cases of killing innocent people to take credit. If they are attacked by some terrible existence, no one will deal with it.

Most of Rhodes' attention is focused on his four cities, and at most it is expanded to the entire northern province.

However, now the entire northern province is divided into two, basically divided by the Hart family of Lonely Mountain and the KaLS family of Bright Moon.

Although there are a large number of ancient orc bandits in the northern province, resulting in extremely poor public security in the wilderness, the public security is excellent in places where civilians live.

Both the Hart family and the KaLS family chose similar governance methods, sending out elite cavalry from their respective forces to patrol and eliminate ancient orc bandits. When Airen led the Dark Knights to make the 10,000th orc corpse pile with wooden sticks, those scattered, leaderless ancient orcs would rather kill and devour each other than dare to approach the human territory.

There are also some who are so hungry that they are wild and domesticated, and they take the initiative to run to the human territory and kneel down, and then become slaves, choosing to become large animals and give them a bite to eat.

But after talking with the Death Knight O'nila of the Howling Mountains, Rhodes vaguely realized that something was wrong, and he began to expand his vision beyond the northern province.

Because both Lonely Mountain Castle and Bright Moon City are well-developed and powerful forces. Although they are in a chaotic era, the people under their rule live well, which leads to a relatively strong power of order, and it is difficult for lower-plane demons to tear through cracks and enter such areas.

But outside the entire northern border, this is not the case.

Burning villages, crying and screaming women and children.

There are still some men who are fighting hard, but their courage is too weak in front of these hell creatures that attack at night.

Every demon grows up in killing, even if the strength and speed are similar, it is difficult for humans to be their opponents.

Little demons, horned demons, hellhounds, and succubi are not strong in front of the elite forces of the northern provinces, but in human farms, they are terrifying creatures that can destroy everything.

In the sky, Rhodes and Cress stood on the back of the griffin Gale, watching everything happening below.

The next moment, a figure accompanied by a griffin broke through the air and swooped down, tearing apart all the demons in sight.

"It seems that what Ounila said is true. The larger the scale of the war, the more deaths, the weaker the barrier between the two worlds, and the greater the chance of demons appearing."

"The reason why this situation did not happen in Lonely Mountain Castle is that most of the dead were ancient orcs. The power of the Holy Grail plus the people's faith made the power of order stronger, suppressing the demons from appearing."

While Rhodes was thinking, the demons burning around the village saw that there were only two humans, a man and a woman, and two griffins in front of them, and they rushed over with murderous intent and roared.

However, seeing this, Rhodes just closed his eyes slightly. The next moment, his body was full of light, and with his hands pushing to both sides, the flames like a sea of ​​fire came out from his body and spread out in all directions.

For a moment, it seemed that there was only a vast flame between heaven and earth. The hot and dazzling platinum sparks quickly devoured everything, even the wailing before the dying life.

Soon, the only evidence that the demons around them had ever lived was the piles of ashes on the ground where even the bones had been burned to pieces.

The land with a radius of more than 30 blades around Rhodes' body was completely scorched, with no grass growing. In the rising white smoke, Rhodes' cloth robe stood there, as if it would be blown away by the wind. It was hard to imagine what kind of amazing killing he had caused in that moment.

When he jumped down just now, Rhodes chose to jump with the demons as the center, so just this explosive attack basically killed most of the demons. The remaining demons, seeing such momentum, immediately turned around and fled away with their tails between their legs.

But they couldn't escape at all. The two huge griffins in the sky would not give them a chance to survive.

"We are warriors of the Lonely Mountain Castle in the north. If you want a peaceful life, you'd better go there. We are passing by here and can't protect you."

After Rhodes took action, Cress told other surviving farmers in the village about the stability and prosperity of the Lonely Mountain Castle in the north.

As a legendary warrior, he saved their lives. Now he made a small request, or pointed out a clear way for them. This was not too much.

Of course, objectively, Cress was also very clear that in this era, long-distance travel was a very dangerous and difficult thing.

If these civilians were not lucky enough, half of them might die on the way to Lonely Mountain.