leonardwarren Chapter 1521 - 115: Reality (8)
Chapter 1521 - 115: Reality (8)
Moreover, Lu Hong was smart enough not to kill the civilians; instead, he infiltrated the city, slaughtering the political center and the high-ranking officials’ residences entirely.Wherever Lu Hong went, the high officials were completely wiped out. Such slaughter made the family leaders of the Serpent Man Plane utterly terrified. The death of ordinary people didn’t matter to them, no matter how many died. But when it concerned their own safety, they were truly afraid.
The Serpent Man Plane dispatched strong warriors three times in a row, even entirely composed of Third Transformation powerhouses. However, under the suppression of the plane, they still couldn’t kill Lu Hong and were even killed by Lu Hong instead.
Realizing they couldn’t kill Lu Hong, the Serpent Man looked at the precedent set by the Dragon Pond and chose to surrender.
After resolving the Serpent Man Plane, Lu Hong stepped into the Canglan Thirteen Paths.
It wasn’t like the challenges in the Dream Realm; Lu Hong boldly pushed through, leading his army to kill his way through.
The ruler of the Canglan Thirteen Paths, Soron, even personally engaged in a battle with Lu Hong. Although he didn’t lose, he didn’t win either.
And in the face of survival guides from the Dragon Pond and Serpent Man Planes, Soron swiftly surrendered. He personally led the army to the Continent of God’s Grace to assist the Empire in resisting the Naga invasion.
The three most rebellious planes were reintegrated into the Empire, causing other planes, observing the situation, to submit one by one.
It can be said that Lu Hong completed his mission very perfectly this time.
Konstantin highly praised Lu Hong.
The elite group that had previously followed Lu Hong’s mad city slaughter had long fallen into madness in the repeated merciless slaughters, becoming a feared killer Demon King that even a dog in the military would tuck its tail to flee from.
This kind of force was no longer suitable for rejoining the main army. Although very strong, it would also have a significant impact on their own side.
Therefore, Konstantin specially approved this force of more than ten thousand as a personal elite division under Lu Hong, named the Blood-colored Divine Might Army, with "Blood-colored" referring to the frenzy and bloodiness of Lu Hong’s force in their slaughter.
And in the Dream Realm, the Blood-colored Divine Might Army transformed into a loyal force secretly built for Lu Hong by his former self’s cheap mother.
Taichu wanted to provide family ties to Lu Hong, but unfortunately, as always, Taichu didn’t understand these things, making it neither here nor there.
Lu Hong returned to the Continent of God’s Grace with substantial reinforcements. With this living force, the Sacred Empire united with the Snowy Region to initiate a counterattack against the Nagas.
In the fierce battles, the Empire’s strongest Master of the Seven Towers returned at this moment, cooperating with the Empire’s army, penetrating deep into the Naga’s heartland.
Later, the Seven Towers of the Empire, along with five top-level supremes from the Snowy Region, jointly battled the Naga Queen. Ultimately, the Naga Queen died under the siege of these individuals. Actually, Lu Hong wasn’t the core of this battle because, at that time, he hadn’t advanced to the Third Transformation, and even if he had, he wouldn’t have played a critical role.
Unlike in the Dream Realm, where Taichu molded Lu Hong into a savior hero, instilling in him an incredibly righteous worldview.
Therefore, under the real war, Lu Hong became almost not a focal point, nor could he influence the course of the battle. Lu Hong temporarily did not have this strength.
However, on the lower battlefields, Lu Hong was the hero in everyone’s eyes, storming solo into the Naga’s camp, unleashing bloody slaughter like a living War God incarnate.
With such a ferocious figure as Lu Hong around, the troop following him suffered significantly fewer casualties.
As the Naga Queen died, the chaos triggered by the Nagas this time was completely flattened.
And Lu Hong, unlike in the Dream Realm where he dueled the Naga Queen to the death and then mysteriously reincarnated into the Star Domain World, didn’t have such an experience.
So, in this place, Taichu made a super modification to Lu Hong’s growth trajectory, entirely different from before.
The reason is simple, because the events that happened here were bound to have a huge impact on the future.
In real-world timeline, Lu Hong stayed in the Empire and spent considerable time dsearching the sea area for clues about Caesar.
After all, when the Naga Queen was killed by the Snowy Region and the Sacred Empire’s Seven Towers’ collaboration, they couldn’t extract any information about Caesar from the Naga Queen.
Lu Hong, of course, would not give up searching for his mentor.
Unfortunately, Lu Hong never found any news about his teacher Caesar.
"So, in the end, is Caesar alive or dead?" Lu Hong asked, inquiring Taichu.
Upon hearing this, Taichu rolled his eyes, "You’re asking me? Who do I ask then? Anyway, you never found Caesar, I can only construct the Dream Realm from reading your memory; for what you haven’t encountered, how could I know?"
"So the reappearance of Caesar in the later Dream Realm was all made up by you?"
"Uh, pretty much, yeah."
Lu Hong was speechless, forcibly adding scenes for Caesar, but not sufficiently thorough; Taichu was definitely not a competent director or scriptwriter.
And with the defeat of the Nagas, the Beastman Empire stirred with ambitions, taking advantage of the Sacred Empire and Snowy Region’s weakened state, to commence their conquest.
Unlike the battle between Nagas and the Sacred Empire, the war initiated by the Beastman Empire was incredibly widespread.
The Tide of Naga, though grand, was, in fact, just a small skirmish from the perspective of the entire Star Sea.
Under the control of the Sacred Empire, hundreds of planes mostly held a wait-and-see attitude. Though reinforcements were increased, according to the management treaty of the Sacred Empire over its subordinate planes, the troops that could be withdrawn according to the law were extremely limited. The Star Sea was too vast, making the control of most planes by the Sacred Empire very limited, mainly relying on self-governance, like an Emperor with his hundreds of vassals.
Moreover, at the early outbreak of the Tide of Naga, most of the small vassal states were observing, wanting to witness the destruction of central authority, thereby achieving their independence and growth.
But under Lu Hong’s powerful suppression against Dragon Pond, the Serpent Man, and the Canglan Thirteen Paths, they had no choice but to have some scruples, ultimately choosing to increase forces to the Divine Grace according to the Sacred Empire’s legal ordinances.
However, the war frenzy ignited by the Beastman Empire was different.
The Beastman Empire, occupying nearly a hundred planes in the Star Sea, launched a comprehensive war not just on the Continent of God’s Grace but also opened wars in all major planes under the Star Sea.
As such, those hundreds of planes, like small vassal states, had to follow the Sacred Empire as their big brother to resist the Beastman invasion, and they had to go all out. There wasn’t even room for a lazy thought, for if there was and resistance was weak, then the planes they ruled would be overwhelmed by the Beastman, losing not only the territories they had cultivated over countless years but also their own lives.
Thus, in this war against the Beastman, the forces under the Sacred Empire’s rule were exceptionally united.
And the scale of the war, compared to the battle with the Nagas, was several hundreds of times larger.
When the war broke out, Lu Hong was assigned a new task.
Thus, under Konstantin’s orders, Lu Hong gathered his own Blood-colored Divine Might Army, setting foot on the battlefield against the Beastman army.
As a bloodthirsty, killer elite cavalry, Lu Hong had no fixed position to defend.
Konstantin maximized the mobility of the unit led by Lu Hong.
Wherever the war needed reinforcement, Lu Hong was the first dispatched to boost the troops.
And this reinforcement army was exceptionally powerful.
With Lu Hong blitzing the Beastman’s position and crushing their formations, his name climbed onto the Beastman Empire’s must-kill list.
And upon learning of Lu Hong’s deeds, Eferot personally went forth to recruit Lu Hong on the battlefield, given the other possessed the Lion Heart Bloodline.
However, Tai’e wasn’t very fond of Lu Hong’s mixed blood, but Eferot, seeing Lu Hong’s astonishing performance on the battlefield, cherished his talent greatly.
But Lu Hong only harbored hatred towards Eferot. Back then, in the Demon Rat’s nest, Eferot almost killed him.
And now, Lu Hong, having reached the Peak of Second Transformation in terms of strength, facing his old enemy, would he surrender? What a joke, he wouldn’t believe himself unless he could kill them!