Chapter 609

The promotion of the Princess Royal to Legend status has only been a few months ago.

But this newly risen Legend, the Princess Royal, is holding her own against the Purple Light Holy Son, not falling behind at all!

On the other side, the fox woman Qing Ling, who has just ascended to Legend, is likewise crushing the Imperial Tutor of the Purple Gold Empire, leaving him unable to raise his head!

The Legend-level battlefield also rages in the sky, where it has become an ocean of magic and divine arts; the ripples from the battles between two Sacred Domains and four Legends have completely drowned the entire region.

Within the imperial capital of the Purple Gold Empire, nearly two million civilians look up at a sky filled with flying magic, their expressions nearly vacant.

It's not hard to imagine that if any of those magics in the sky fell down, the imperial capital of the Purple Gold Empire would be utterly destroyed.

These low-power civilians would likely not survive a single one!

On the ground, both armies have already clashed!

The Purple Gold Empire, a small empire with over two hundred million citizens, possesses considerable strength.

Although their sixty thousand elite royal troops have all been captured and sent to the Flame Empire as laborers, they have mustered another army of one million!

Within this million-strong army, there are fully twenty-five thousand relatively powerful church troops.

The remaining seventy-five thousand troops are also not weak!

During the struggle for the throne, 30% of the great nobles have not yet sent troops.

These great nobles are old-established aristocrats; the armies they have armed are not insignificant.

These troops originally intended to hold the city, but after Tiger Sister Wen Ni scaled the walls and destroyed one section of the wall's magic array, the walls became a burden to them instead!

So they charged out beyond the walls, formed battle formations, and engaged in fierce combat with the Flame Empire's army.

Although Sacred Domains have disrupted the balance, they cannot resolve all warfare.

The role of army battles remains immense.

The simplest truth: if the Purple Gold Empire's army suffers defeat and near-total annihilation, it will inevitably affect the morale of the Purple Gold Empire's Gao Jie, thereby disrupting their rhythm.

"Roar!"

The Flame Empire side has adopted a strategy of elite versus elite.

The Shiwanjiao Society army and twenty thousand beastman warriors face off against the Purple Gold Empire's church troops.

The remaining seventy thousand troops confront the Purple Gold Empire's other forces.

Both sides have launched a massive battle outside the imperial capital of the Purple Gold Empire.

The Purple Gold Empire's church troops are indeed formidable.

After numerous Temple Knights form shield walls, even fox-woman archers armed with explosive flame arrows inflict minimal damage.

They can even block the magical attacks of several Seventh-Rank sorcerers.

They can even block forbidden spells.

"Fox-woman archers, stop attacking the Temple Knights—target the regular troops!"

In the sky, the winged girl Mia delivers the order.

In this war, while Meng Ying must contend with the enemy's Sacred Domain and Qing Ling and the Princess Royal are both occupied, command on the ground falls to the winged girl Mia.

Mia already possesses Seventh-Rank power and is immensely strong.

The Purple Gold Empire side still has many Seventh-Rank combatants.

But Mia no longer needs to fight personally.

The Flame Empire side still has no shortage of Seventh-Rank combatants.

Moreover, there is Eighth-Rank Wen Ni.

After expanding its forces, the Purple Gold Empire now has two hundred thousand Temple Knights and fifty thousand Temple Mages.

This is an incredibly terrifying number.

Whether Temple Knights or Temple Mages, the vast majority are Second, Third, or Fourth Rank.

They have already engaged in fierce battle with the Flame Empire's Temple Knight Corps and beastman armies.

Although the Flame Empire's church army numbers only one hundred thousand, their quality is exceptionally high, with most being Third or Fourth Rank!

The beastman warriors are also formidable.

Both sides form hundreds of battle formations and wage war across the vast battlefield.

"Sister Wen Ni, the Purple Gold Empire's core Temple Knight Corps is powerful—go break their formation."

Mia says.

Tiger Sister Wen Ni says nothing, drawing her twin blades and charging toward the Purple Gold Empire's core Temple Knight Corps.

It is a knightly corps composed entirely of Fifth-Rank and above Temple Knights, numbering only two thousand.

In fact, the Flame Empire side also has a similar Temple Knight Corps, though smaller, with only a thousand or so.

It seems the Flame Empire is slightly inferior.

But the Purple Gold Empire, as an old-established small empire, took over a hundred years to accumulate a two-thousand-strong corps of Fifth and Sixth-Rank Temple Knights.

Yet the Flame Empire, as a newly risen small empire, has achieved such a refined Temple Knight Corps in such a short time—this is already terrifying.

And on the battlefield, though outnumbered by a few hundred, the Flame Empire's core Temple Knight Corps is holding its own against the Purple Gold Empire's Temple Knight Corps!

This is the power of equipment!

"Watch out for magic!"

Within the battle formations, countless Temple Knights raise their shields simultaneously.

"Boom!"

The magic strikes their shields, causing every shield to shudder.

But they manage to block the magic.

This was a surprise attack by a Seventh-Rank sorcerer!

On the battlefield, magic of all kinds flies everywhere.

These Templar Knights had to face enemies ahead while also guarding against magical attacks that occasionally descended from the sky.

One moment of inattention, and you're dead.

"Captain, why are they holding our attacks despite having far fewer numbers?!"

One Templar Knight asked.

"Their armor is too strong, Boming—you lead the charge. I'll break their formation. Once we shatter them, we can turn on the other armies and reverse the tide of battle!"

The captain of this Templar unit said.

This captain clearly possessed Eighth-Rank power!

With that, he leapt upward, Holding a Heavy Shield, and charged toward the Flame Empire's core Templar Knights.

"Come on!"

At the front of the Flame Empire's Templar Knights stood a towering, fully armored dwarf-giant captain, who blocked the captain's charge.

This dwarf-giant had once been the captain of the Hiling Kingdom's Templar Knights; after submitting, he now led this core Templar unit!

Her power had also Reached Eighth Rank!

The moment they clashed, each realized neither could overcome the other.

But then, a swift figure dashed forward, plunging straight into the Purple Gold Empire's core knight legion.

Her movements were exceptionally fluid—she never touched the knights' shields, and her twin blades sliced across a Templar Knight's neck in mere moments.

The armor on that neck offered no resistance to the twin blades' cut.

In less than a second, the figure claimed the lives of several Templar Knights.

"Another Eighth-Rank!"

The Purple Gold Empire's captain's eyes narrowed, a grim expression already forming in his heart.

"Roar!"

At that moment, a bear's roar erupted from the nearby battle line—the captain turned to see countless bear warriors, Holding a Heavy Shield, smashing a Templar unit into retreat.

On the other side, towering lion warriors, one hand holding a shield, the other a blade, were likewise crushing a Templar unit into chaos!

And the ordinary conscripted troops raised by the nobles were utterly helpless!

After the fox archers and vast numbers of human archers shifted their targets to the ordinary troops, long before the Flame Empire's forces reached them, countless Explosive Flames detonated among the conscripts.

These troops lacked the strength and armor of the Templar Knights.

How could they withstand arrows tipped with Explosive Flames?

Instantly, a large swath was blown apart.

The warriors behind turned pale with terror, their morale shattered.

They had collapsed before the battle even began!

"How is this possible!"