Game of the World Tree - Chapter 880

880. Chapter 876 Great Holy War

On February 1, 1073 in the Eternal Era, one month after the martyrdom of John the Evangelist,

Pope Benedict II of the Eternal Church convened a religious conference in the Sacred Square and delivered an impassioned speech, denouncing the infiltration and subversion of the Life Church in the human kingdom and condemning the invasion of Maple Leaf Territory and Southern Territory.

On this day, Benedict II solemnly declared that he would call on all the nobles, priests, knights and mercenaries in the entire human kingdom, calling on all devout Eternal believers to fight for their faith, launch a holy war against the Life Church, save the land infected by pagans, and expel the ambitious pagans.

The Eternal Church promised that anyone who fights the Life Church for piety rather than vanity and self-interest to save the Church of the Eternal Lord, this journey is enough to replace all repentance.

The Eternal Church also promised that in the holy war, the land and wealth seized from the pagans will be distributed to the devout believers who have made outstanding contributions in the holy war. No matter whether they are nobles, knights or mercenaries, they all have the hope of obtaining their own hereditary land and the title of nobility personally conferred by the church.

Shocking news came out from the Eternal Holy See one after another, spreading throughout the world, demonstrating the determination of the Eternal Church for this holy war.

For a time, the eyes of the whole world were attracted by this great holy war that was probably unprecedented in the world of Segos.

And as the promises of the Eternal Church were issued one by one, whether it was Holy Mannia or Iris, or the large and small duchies and counties around the two powers, almost all the nobles and ambitious people went crazy.

Land! Wealth!

In the extraordinary world with gods, every time the world order stabilizes, it will become extremely difficult to reshuffle, but now… with the promise of the Eternal Church, many people saw hope.

For a time, the nobles enthusiastically participated in the war and formed their own armies. There were also large and small knights, mercenaries and even free people who sold their property, prepared materials and participated in it.

The entire human kingdom is like a huge war machine, slowly turning.

As the caller of this holy war, the Eternal Church has formed an unprecedented Judgment Legion, with a staggering number of one million.

Each of the one million troops has at least the strength of the upper silver level, and more than one-third of the Judgment Knights have even reached the gold level.

Over the past few years, the powerful legion that the Eternal Church has quietly prepared for war has finally shown its fangs at this moment.

In addition, after the call of the Eternal Church, the entire human kingdom has responded in an endless stream. The number of nobles and hereditary knights who participated in the war alone exceeded 50,000. If the private armies formed by the nobles are included, the number of the entire human army is likely to be close to five million…

Crazy, crazy.

The generous promise given by the Eternal Church has aroused the ambitions of all ambitious people.

Five million troops.

This is an extremely terrifying number.

However, for the Segos world with a population of hundreds of millions and extraordinary powers, this number of troops still does not reach the war limit of the entire human kingdom.

The improvement of magic power has brought about the development of productivity and the further improvement of war potential.

To this day, no one can tell how much force the entire human kingdom can mobilize.

However, at the same time, the more people mobilized, the greater the pressure on the entire society.

Of course, this also means that the war will be unprecedentedly tragic.

However, this is not what the fanatical participants care about.

Ambitious people never consider the whole world.

Because the symbol of the Eternal Church is a platinum sun badge, and all soldiers participating in the war will draw this logo on their shields or armor, so the Eternal Church Legion participating in this holy war is also called the Sun Shining Army. In

addition to the human kingdom, while the Eternal Church was forming the Sun Shining Army, the major dioceses also welcomed miracles, one after another, the angels of judgment descended from the sky, and with the angels descending, there were also angel legions in myths and legends.

Although the power of the true god level has not arrived, the combat power of the demigod level, legend, and gold level has reached a very terrifying level.

Feeling the strong strength and determination of the Eternal Church, the various forces that secretly paid attention to this holy war lost their voices.

This is just the power of the Eternal Church in the Segos world. If the Segos world is not still closed, no one dares to imagine what kind of army the Eternal Church can mobilize if other planes are added.

For a time, many mythical beings suddenly felt a little sympathy for the Life Church and the revived ancient god behind the Life Church.

Even though this legendary world tree has developed its power into the second largest force in the Segos world.

But the Segos world is not the Segos universe after all.

However, as the vortex center of this war of faith, the Life Church was not intimidated by the terrifying power displayed by the Eternal Church.

On the seventh day after Benedict II announced the holy war, Sophia, the CEO of Maple Moon Free Territory, and Frank, the leader of the Way Seeker Alliance, issued announcements one after another, calling on all life believers in the territory to fight against the invasion of the fallen Eternal Church.

A large number of life believers actively participated in the war, fugitive slaves, farmers, free people, mercenaries, merchants… Whether ordinary believers or professionals with extraordinary powers, they all joined the army formed by the two territories that believed in the Life Church.

Soon, the number of participants in the two regions exceeded one million.

This is an astonishing number.

You know, the entire Maple Moon Free Territory plus the Southern Territory, which has not yet recovered, has a population of no more than 10 million.

It is almost one-tenth of the population, which is a very exaggerated number even in the extraordinary world.

Most of the participants are people from the lower class, and many of them simply escaped from human kingdoms such as the Holy Mania Empire and the Kingdom of Aris.

Especially after the Eternal Church announced its commitment to the holy war, more and more people escaped from human kingdoms.

On the one hand, it is natural that in the past month, under the secret promotion of Demacia and a large number of players, the widespread spread of Old John’s story has aroused the lower class people’s yearning for the Church of Life and hatred for the Eternal Church.

On the other hand, the war mobilization of the nobles once again brought a heavy burden to the people of the territory.

The mobilization of the army, especially this large-scale mobilization, always brings pressure to the local area.

In particular, the promise given by the Eternal Church has made many nobles crazy.

The wealth of the Elf Forest and Maple Moon Free Territory was well known to the world, and owning a piece of territory there was a fatal attraction for many nobles, especially those who did not have enough territory.

Many small nobles risked their lives.

The price of this naturally shifted to the lower-class people.

The division of the entire human society was further strengthened with the opening of the prelude to the Great Holy War, and was even laid bare on the stage…

On the second day after the Maple Moon Free Territory and the Way Seekers Alliance announced their resistance to the invasion of the Eternal Church, the Forest of Elves also issued a notice.

The High Priest of the Church of Life, Taylor Yansha, announced that the Church of Life and all the elves would defend the Forest of Elves, every citizen of the Goddess, and every temple of the Church of Life to the death.

The Chosen Legion, composed of the legendary Elf Chosen, who were like living heroes, and the Elf Legion, composed of elves and half-elves, totaling about two million troops, announced their participation in the war.

And this fact suddenly dawned on all forces. Although the population of the elves was still weak compared to humans, they could actually mobilize such a large number of troops.

Not to mention, a considerable number of them were the legendary immortal Elf Chosen, the powerful legion that defeated the demon army that invaded the world of Segos…

For a while, as the Life Church gradually showed its strength, the nearly overwhelming advantage of the Eternal Church gradually became subtle.

This Segos world is likely to be an unprecedented great holy war in a thousand years, and its future direction has become even more confusing.

Every force is speculating whether the Eternal Church will win in the end, destroy the Life Church, and defeat the World Tree again, or whether the Life Church will win, the World Tree will regain control of the Segos plane, and the Eternal Church will be expelled from the Segos world…

However, just as more and more eyes are turned to the Segos world and this great holy war, new changes have occurred.

In mid-February, half a month after the Eternal Church announced a holy war against the Life Church, another piece of news that shocked the whole world came from the city of Pasha on the Arctic Icefield…

The high priest of the God of War Church issued a holy order, announcing an alliance with the Eternal Church, and also launching a holy war against the Life Church, calling on all God of War believers to march to the Forest of Elves.

The Orc Alliance, the Lizard Kingdom, the Troll Tribe, and the Free Half-Dragon Council that broke away from the Dragonborn Kingdom, and other forces that believed in the God of War, as if they had made an appointment, announced their participation in the war at the same time.

Seeing this series of changes, the ancient beings showed astonishment, and then their eyes became complicated.

For a moment, they seemed to see the war that swept the entire Segus world a thousand years ago.

This time, almost all the forces that had participated in that war ended up again.

And their goals seemed to be no different from those a thousand years ago.

However, not long after the Church of the God of War announced its participation in the holy war, a more shocking news came from the underground world of Segus Continent.

The follower of Hela, the Lord of Death and the Underworld, the demon wolf Fenrir, announced in the Holy City of Death Itkazaar that the Church of Death and the Church of Life had formed an alliance and would advance and retreat with the Church of Life. The Church of Death,

which had never fought against the world and had almost never participated in the war of faith between the gods of heaven and the ancient gods, joined the war.

With the fall of the God of Darkness and Shadow, the entire underground world, which had almost become the back garden of the God of Death Hela, announced in a high-profile manner that it had formed an alliance with the Forest of Elves and officially joined this holy war.

From this moment on, except for the dragons of Dragon Island, which were far away from the continent, and the ancient gods who lived in seclusion, almost all the major forces in the entire Segos world were involved in the battle between the Church of Life and the Church of Eternity.

Even the Dwarf Kingdom, which had always been in seclusion, was not left behind. Although it did not declare war on the Church of Eternity, the dwarves in the southern mountains strengthened their exchanges with the Forest of Elves and began to secretly provide various supplies to the Forest of Elves…

And outside the northwest of the continent, deep in the isolated Dragon Island.

The ancestor dragon Ulinos woke up from his sleep and looked at the platinum dragon king Reinhardt, who came to report the changes in the Segos world, with a look of astonishment:

“What? That guy Iteo officially declared war on Her Majesty Eve?”

“Yes, Her Majesty the Mother Goddess, not only the human gods, but also the God of War pantheon declared war on Her Majesty Eve.”

Reinhardt replied.

Ulinos’s expression became more and more ugly.

“These guys! After a thousand years, they are still like this!”

He said angrily.

“Your Highness the Mother Goddess…”

Reinhard hesitated for a moment and said:

“The war can no longer be stopped. The elves are friends of our dragons and have helped us a lot. You see…”

Ulinos was silent.

After a moment, he sighed softly:

“Always pay attention to the development of the war. If the situation is critical, you and I will go together to rescue Her Highness Eve and the elves that can be rescued…”

“We…don’t want to join the war?”

Reinhard couldn’t help asking.

Ulinos smiled bitterly:

“Join the war? What’s the point of joining the war at this time? The number of dragons is already small enough…”

After saying that, He looked at Reinhardt’s hesitant look, and finally thought for a moment, and chuckled again:

“Speaking of which… I remember that guy Tistan’s Dragonborn Kingdom, haven’t they always hated those tribesmen who betrayed the Church of the God of War? It is understandable that they want to take revenge on the Church of the God of War at this time.”

“Well… I’m not participating in the holy war, I just happen to want to take revenge on the Free Half-Dragon Council at this time…”

Ulinos said meaningfully.

Reinhardt was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up slightly.

In a sense, the Dragonborn Kingdom is a subordinate force of the dragons.

The dragons don’t participate in the war, but they can, and they don’t involve Dragon Island.

Ah, this… It’s worthy of being the Mother Goddess. Just like the elves said, ginger is still spicy when it comes to ginger.

Although Reinhardt didn’t know what ginger was.

“In addition, if any dragon has friends in the elves and wants to join the war as a dragon, then let them go, but the Dragon Island officials will not give in.”

Ulinos pondered for a moment and said again.

Reinhard’s eyes brightened.

However, while his eyes were shining, his expression was slightly strange.

He coughed lightly and couldn’t help asking:

“Ahem, are you sure? Your Majesty the Mother Goddess, can any dragon who wants to help the elves join the war?”

“Of course, this is their own business, not the will of Dragon Island. Anyway, there won’t be too many dragons, and it’s their own idea. Even if they are dissatisfied, Iteo can’t say anything.”

Ulinos shrugged.

However, after hearing his words, Reinhard’s expression became more subtle.

The platinum dragon king didn’t say anything more, but nodded gently:

“I will obey your oracle.”

After speaking, he left briskly.

After Reinhardt left, Ulinos looked at the direction He left in a strange way, and said to himself:

“Huh? Are there still many dragons who want to join the battle?”

After pondering for a moment, He stood up and walked out of the cave.

(End of this chapter)