Chapter 506: The War Spreads

The battle of Silver City was lost in just one day. The commander of the Enwei Demon Kingdom was killed, and about 12,000 casualties were suffered. All the remaining soldiers quickly retreated to the south.

They did not dare to stop, and did not even bring enough baggage, because they needed to run as far as possible before Princess Viola's army caught up.

After all, they fought like this with the advantage of the city wall. If they were intercepted on flat ground, the casualties would not be 12,000.

This run also meant that the pincer attack planned by Viola was declared over. The Enwei Demon Kingdom army that failed to evacuate in the middle was cut off from supplies and was trapped.

And this matter is not over yet.

Since the Enwei Demon Kingdom does not border the Avarus Demon Kingdom, the Enwei Demon Kingdom army originally used Laxuriya and transport ships to directly rush to the eastern coast of Avarus to transport supplies.

The sudden defeat meant that they did not have enough transport ships to bring everyone home, so they could only leave the wounded at the port and wait for the arrival of the transport ships. The main force still had to go through Lakshuria to go back.

But Lakshuria was the first one to defect among the four-nation coalition forces, and now they took advantage of the enemy Tandelong Demon Kingdom to launch a surprise attack and were fighting with them. It was really uncertain whether they would let the Enwei Demon Kingdom army pass through.

The Enwei Demon Kingdom’s high-level officials learned about the army’s defeat at the first time, but now was not the time to ask the reasons and hold accountable.

Since the army’s retreat in the central part of the Avarus Demon Kingdom was cut off, they could only get all the troops that could be transported back first, otherwise the Enwei Demon Kingdom would be defenseless.

So after learning that the transport ship’s capacity was seriously insufficient, the Enwei Demon Kingdom’s high-level officials communicated with Lakshuria as quickly as possible, hoping that they would let us pass through for the sake of our past and current grievances.

No one except the two countries knows how the negotiations went, but in the end, Lakshuriya did agree to borrow the passage, but only added some small conditions.

For example, you can pass, but you have to leave all your weapons and armor behind. We will send people to protect your army along the way, and even give you some rations to survive.

This is not borrowing the passage, it's just like escorting prisoners, but people have to bow their heads under the eaves, and if you keep nagging, Viola will catch up, and then no one can go back.

The original four-nation alliance, one was beaten into autism, one defected, one was busy dealing with attacks from both sides, and another was beaten half-crippled.

When the Avarus Demon Kingdom was breached a year ago, the four countries did consider turning against each other to eat this big cake, but everyone had checks and balances, and no one took the initiative. It is even more impossible to think that they were driven out in just one year, and even their own status began to be precarious.

The war caused by the Avarus Demon Kingdom has a clear tendency to spread to other countries, as if there are wars everywhere, and it has become turbulent.

On Viola's side, only about 3,000 people were killed or wounded, and the main force was almost intact. The most important Silver City was also slightly damaged in this war, and successfully completed the pincer attack, wrapping up the remaining Enwei Demon Kingdom army. They only had two choices, either surrender and do hard labor, or disband and become bandits, because the large army was too conspicuous.

However, after taking over the Silver City, Viola did not immediately send troops to encircle and suppress it again. It was not because she didn't want to, but because she really couldn't spare the time.

The surrendered nobles in the Silver City had to be cleaned up, and a complete government operation organization had to be rebuilt. Military supplies had to be prepared for war use, so after entering the city, the soldiers could have a good meal as a celebration banquet, and Viola immediately devoted herself to the bald administrative work.

So far, Viola has basically completed the restoration of the country in essence, but she still lacks the title of queen, and it is just an empty title, so her priority is ranked last.

So far, Viola's affairs have basically ended. Judging from Viola's appearance, she will not send troops easily for a long time. She has to take advantage of the weakness and chaos of the other four countries to rebuild the Avarus Demon Kingdom that has been destroyed for a year.

She is fine, but Li Chengxi is in trouble.

He found that the faith value is not enough.

So far, three Demon King Rings have been obtained, and the upper limit of the faith value has reached 400,000. Compared with the faith value of a few hundred at the beginning, it is indeed a revolutionary change.

But before the war, the faith value was almost full, and after the war, it was only in the three digits.

A war that requires Li Chengxi's high-intensity intervention, a mere 400,000 faith value is not enough, and with Viola's restoration of the country, the larger the territory, the faster the faith value will increase. In addition, the number of believers will definitely increase significantly after Viola sets the Demon King God Cult as the state religion, and the upper limit of only 400,000 is not enough.

In other words, the water release speed is too fast, and the capacity of the reservoir is not enough.

In addition, the operation is too cumbersome.

This tediousness does not refer to Li Chengxi's intervention, but it is too troublesome to respond to the believers' prayers and grant them divine arts.

Even now, if Li Chengxi wants to see what the believers are praying for, he has to click on the dialog box one by one, and granting believers divine arts is still to right-click to add to the skill bar.

When there were few believers in the past, there were not many people who could become priests with a faith value of over 70, and Li Chengxi was mainly concerned about the prayers of Viola and her guards, so it was not very obvious.

But when Viola killed all the way to the Kaimen City, the number of the Demon King's believers exploded, which was not enough to see.

There are tens of thousands of believers, and it is really hard to keep up with their prayers. Even if only one tenth of them can become priests, Li Chengxi would have to click on them one by one to add divine arts until his hands cramped. Moreover, granting divine arts is not just one and that’s it, usually several are given, and Li Chengxi has to choose the practical ones.

It’s too troublesome.

The true God actually doesn’t have this problem, or the problem is relatively light.

In terms of prayer, the true God will hear the prayers of all believers at the same time, so unless they are believers who pay special attention, ordinary believers will be instantly drowned by a large number of voices whether they pray or ask for help.

As for divine arts, as long as the God is willing to open up the authority to qualified people, there is no need to click like Li Chengxi, who grants divine arts with a whole set of authority.

There will be differences, mainly because Li Chengxi, as the Demon King God, currently has incomplete priesthood and no God’s Domain, and such matters are generally handled in the God’s Domain.

The God’s Domain is the home, office and fortress of a true God, and it is also the place where the souls of believers go after death.

According to Pharasma, after death, a person will first enter the long river of souls and drift to the holy land of the god of death, and then the god of death will decide where the person will go.

Generally, as long as the situation is special, in most cases, the soul of faith will be sent to the divine land of the god he believes in and become a petitioner, which is equivalent to being reborn in the divine land.

Occasionally, when the gods need people to work in the mortal world, they will also send petitioners to help the gods achieve certain goals as messengers.

So Li Chengxi is currently a true god, but a lame true god with incomplete functions.

Don't think that Viola has restored her country now, but in fact it is just a good opportunity. Don't forget that there is an unknown organization operating in secret, and Viola has to face much more dangers than before.

So Li Chengxi is considering whether it is time to take the Demon King's Ring...