Chapter 511: Seven Years Later After the January offensive, the demonic offensive began to slow down in the 6th year of the Imperial calendar.
And the angels of Angel City also began to shrink with all their might, protecting Angel City from being attacked by the human air force, and almost no longer went out.
Although everyone knew that the demons and angels must be brewing a larger-scale war, they did not take the initiative to attack these enemies.
From the fall of the imperial capital at the beginning of the third year of the imperial calendar, until now, a full three years have passed, and in these three years, at least nearly 20 million people in the Longmian Continent have died due to the invasion of demons and angels, and in the turbulent years, the number of population increases has also decreased significantly.
Although humanity has begun to adapt to war over time, and civilian casualties in war are decreasing, the replenishment of soldiers has begun to become overstretched.
With the strength of the Demon Seeking Army, as the first leader of the Demon Seeking Army, Atri is very active in the will to fight against the demons, and the lords have to provide more troops for the Demon Seeking Army under the oppression of righteousness, and the lords who cannot provide the resources of troops have to promise the Demon Seeking Army to enforce the decree of increasing the population in the territory.
Almost all the realms forced the people to have unlimited children, and polygamy, a special system that was originally only allowed by the aristocracy, began to be popularized.
Families who were able to send their children to the army were given special tax privileges, and those who were unable to have children were heavily taxed, even by wealthy merchants and officials.
However, these measures are far from quenching the thirst of the near, and it will take at least sixteen years for a baby to become a soldier who can fight, and during these sixteen years, if he leaves the protection of the defense line to fight the demons, this practice is tantamount to reducing the future source of soldiers.
In this case, even the Bright Star eventually had to abandon their overly radical ideas, and after not being able to recruit sufficient numbers and quality of troops, the only recourse left was to strengthen their defenses.
It is still the most classic tactic of human beings, from ancient times to the present, the high wall has been protecting the human race, and let them finally defeat the race far stronger than them, the establishment of the defense system can greatly reduce the defects caused by the lack of personnel, in the face of the vast majority of demons whose intelligence is not even as good as the orcs, the defense strategy of the high wall plus long-range weapons has become the most suitable choice for today's form, and the city wall, which has been countless times simpler now, has become the common choice of everyone, and the entire Longmian Continent has set off a wave of crazy wall building craze.
Build taller walls!
Thicker walls!
Let the cement and steel bars block the demon's magic and swords, faster cannons, stronger cannons!
Let gunpowder and metal tear the demon's flesh apart.
All of a sudden, the entire Longmian Continent was like a huge construction site, with well-defended walls and fortresses being built everywhere, and in this era when resources belonged to the lords, this kind of project that only required the expenditure of energy and manpower was fully supported by all the lords.
Even if the peaks of the entire Longmian Continent are hollowed out, as long as they can survive, human beings will not hesitate.
In this way, the landscape of the Longmian Continent changed dramatically in the following years, and some of the mountain peaks disappeared completely, and the walls made by humans replaced them.
In the spring of the 13th year of the imperial calendar, in seven years, the nightmare brought by the demons to mankind has gradually dissipated, although every spring and autumn, there will still be wars on the bright defense line, but the demons have never been able to cross the bright defense line and cause harm to the people of the bright country.
That's right, the kingdom of light, this term was coined five years ago with the completion of the lord's defense line, because the four counties occupied by the demons almost completely cut off the empire in the northwest from the Longmian continent, and the nominal subordination between the lords and the empire was finally completely torn apart by time.
The Empire's officials stationed in various places have now been largely recalled, and the Empire no longer has any contact with any noble lords except for the City of Light.
Although there is no announcement, the empire has indeed recognized the status of the seven heroes of the Light Star, the founders of the Demon Raider, with actions, and the empire no longer collects taxes from the lords, but exchanges resources from the demon raiders in the form of energy transactions.
With the Bright City in control of the source of energy and the important components of the 3D printer, their position became unshakable, and the lords finally had to start paying taxes to the Bright City in the ninth year of the imperial calendar, and with the establishment of the tax system, the subordinate relationship between the lords and the Bright City became clear.
Although the lords still have the vast majority of the rights in their territories, no one in the middle of the Longmian Continent dares to have any doubts about the messengers of the City of Light wearing cross armor, due to the personal charm of the Star of Light and the fact that the Demon Warrior Army itself is a military organization full of ideals, their attitude of almost zero tolerance for justice and evil has been unanimously supported by almost all civilians.
It is precisely because of this that although the country has not been officially established, the name "Kingdom of Light" has already appeared.
As for the empire that was once a flash in the pan, few people can remember it now.
On January 25, the thirteenth year of the imperial calendar, the giant tower of water, the once prosperous tower is now gone, and the town that is extremely prosperous every January has long been completely buried by the wind and snow.
However, the water tower that had stopped the water elemental riot was not lonely, and a group of children as young as eight years old and as old as sixteen were making their way to the second floor of the tower.
"It's so high, I knew I would have come with a ladder!"
A little boy who looked to be only about eight years old was being dragged by his companion to climb the steps used for the Titans, and each time he climbed the steps to look overhead, the little boy would complain in grief.
"William Wright, the purpose of this trial is to exercise the body and mind, if you use tools, then how can you become a powerful warrior!?"
A little girl with curly blond hair and an exaggerated aristocratic hairstyle stood in front of William Wright and reprimanded the little boy.
The little girl was dressed in a child's alloy armor, and a delicate aristocratic sword hung from her waist, "Sister Lyti, I'm not like you as an all-round genius, and I'm an intermediate fire mage, I don't think exercising my body is any good for a mage."
The little boy was not afraid of the little girl in front of him, and after a serious quibble, the little boy grinned and smiled with several gaps.
"At least you should work on your ability to resist hits."
The little girl, known as Litty, was instantly enraged by her companion's performance, and the small figure rushed towards the little boy with a phantom, and then punched the little boy in the stomach.
"Ahem!
Again, just use your fists!
The little boy was not injured, but the little girl's excellent fist made him fall to the ground in pain and roll, and after the pain had subsided a little, the little boy got up and complained to the little girl.
"My father said that fists are much more effective against clever fools than tongues."
After the little girl slapped the dust on her fist, she jumped upwards and landed on the next staircase, and then she crouched on the edge of the staircase and once again stretched out her hand to the little boy with a bitter face below.
"If we can't get to the camp before dark, I'll hang you on the stairs for the whole night, fire intermediate mage William Wright~~~" "Good!
I'll just crawl......"
In the Tower of Water, at dusk, the little boy William Wright collapsed in dust before the camp, where a large group of children were preparing their supper in dozens of groups, and of course for some reason, all these children had to do was light the prepared firewood, heat the canned stew, and bake the bread and sausages they had brought with them.
As the last group of children to make it to the second floor, Lyty and William could no longer find a good place to rest, and the little girl and boy arrived near the entrance to the labyrinth, where they lit a campfire and began to prepare their dinner.
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After a night of silence, William was woken up by Litty before five o'clock the next morning, and the little boy and girl were the first to rush into the maze full of mist and unable to see in the distance, and of course they were the first to encounter the endless water elemental creatures.
When a large wave of slimes jumped towards the two Lori Shota, Xiao Shota first pulled out a small magic wand like a baton from his waist.
Before Shota reached the pitched child's voice, balls of fire flew out of his magic wand and struck at the slimes.
There are constantly slimes that are hit by fireballs and turn into puddles of liquid with smoke and pungent smells, but the little boy's attack speed is nowhere near as many as the number of slimes pouring out of the hole.
As the slime approached the two children, the little girl Litty drew her rapier from her waist and began to chant the incantation.
After a brief spell, Lydy's rapier burst into flames, and then the little girl slaughtered the slimes that approached with her unhuman speed.
The two children tacitly fought with the slime, their fighting style is sophisticated and accurate, I am afraid that it is not inferior to the adventurers who are over thirty years old and in the golden period, as for the strength of the two children is also very shocking, if they are placed in the country of light, these two children will definitely be sent to the city of light by the lord, so that the disciples of the seven heroes who have become legends can be cultivated in an elite way.
After killing all the slimes, the two children continued to advance towards the center of the labyrinth, and at the same time, the labyrinth, which had been silent for a whole year, was once again in the hustle and bustle of swords and swords, and the other children who had eaten breakfast also began to enter the maze to fight, and each of them showed no less strength than Lidity and William.
Although Lyty and William were the youngest of all the trial children, the other children were not a few years older than them, and the appearance of such a large group of geniuses in the Water Tower would inevitably cause endless scramble if known to the outside world, but now that the doors of the Water Tower were tightly closed, no one could disturb them.