Chapter 962

The entire Great Snow Mountain range was equivalent to several kingdoms, even larger than the western section of the Endless Desert.

The Great Snow Mountain completely severed the northern borders of the Purple Gold Empire and the Eternal Night Empire.

The previous dwarf giants had lived on one of the mountains within the Great Snow Mountain range.

These mountains rose one higher than the next, with harsh environments and rarely any human presence.

To cross the Great Snow Mountain, a Fifth Rank warrior with sufficient food was more than enough.

But the problem was, the Star Luo Empire had several million troops.

So they chose to swiftly pass through a road beneath the Great Snow Mountain and were nearly through it.

Their speed was extremely fast.

If they had not detoured around the Great Snow Mountain but instead passed directly through the Flame Empire, they would have saved only one or two days.

Yet once they emerged from the Great Snow Mountain, they would find that the Flame Empire still lay ahead of them.

Of course, they could circle halfway around the Great Snow Mountain again and reach the Eternal Night Empire.

"Report, Your Majesty, the scouts have mapped the northern region."

At this moment, another female official presented a map.

Meng Ying took the map and began to study it.

North of the Purple Gold Empire was neither the Star Luo Empire nor the surrounding Nine Kingdoms.

It was a vast wilderness region.

In this wilderness, beasts and demonic beasts roamed freely; humans existed in tribal forms, alongside many other races.

Such wilderness regions were once the condition of vast areas across the Divine Lands.

The Divine Lands were enormous.

So enormous that not every region was prosperous.

So enormous that the wilderness regions actually covered the largest area across the entire Divine Lands.

Even now, wilderness regions still occupied roughly half the area of the entire Divine Lands.

The Dark Forest, for instance, was also a wilderness region.

Before the Loki Forest appeared, the Dark Forest had not a single spark of civilization.

Even now, though two Elven Empires towered within the Dark Forest, their combined territory was less than one-tenth of the entire Dark Forest!

Many human nations were formed when gods sought out tribes in the wilderness, nurturing them over centuries—from small tribes to large tribes, then to petty principalities, great principalities, and finally kingdoms, one tribe at a time.

Some nations were raised by the most devout followers of the gods.

Wasn't Lin Yan's own nation originally formed this way?

At first, it was merely a single fox-people tribe living in the forest, equivalent to a primitive tribe!

The Eighteen Great Kingdoms surrounding the Eternal Night Empire were once backward regions, only slightly better than wilderness.

Only after many years of development by the Grand Dukes did they become the Eighteen Great Kingdoms of today!

North of this wilderness region, spanning ten to twenty thousand li from north to south, lay the southernmost kingdom of the Star Luo Empire.

South of the Star Luo Empire was only one long, narrow kingdom.

This narrow kingdom shielded the Star Luo Empire from the wilderness, keeping its dangers and troubles outside.

These dangers came from tribes worshipping unknown dark gods and from powerful demonic beasts.

North of this kingdom lay the Star Luo Empire.

It was a vast empire; on its other sides lay Eight Great Kingdoms.

These Eight Great Kingdoms were the same ones that had once agreed to jointly attack the Loki Forest.

That meant, north of the Star Luo Empire lay the Loki Mountains.

The scouts had long since penetrated deep into the Star River Empire and drawn a rough map.

By the time this map was obtained, the Flame Empire's army was already in position.

On this day, as the Star Luo Empire's army was about to emerge from the Great Snow Mountain, countless airships in the Kuibei Province of the Flame Empire were ready and surged forth in massive numbers toward the Star Luo Empire.

The Flame Empire officially launched its northern campaign, preparing to crush the Star Luo Empire in one decisive strike!

Among the army's Saint Domains, besides Meng Ying, there was only one other: Old Lady Hai.

Lucine and the fox-woman Sister Qing Ling remained in the Flame Empire to hold the rear.