Chapter 461: End of the [Forsaken War]

March, Year 3 of the Transmigration Era.

After eight or nine months of intermittent back-and-forth fighting.

This war, called the [Forsaken War] by the World Channel, ended with the retreat of the transmigrators besieging the major cities of the Forsaken Territory.

This suddenly erupting war had an immense impact on the entire Karim Continent and the entire transmigrator society.

After all, this was the first large-scale war sparked by transmigrators on the Karim Continent.

During the course of the battle, whether it was the attacking transmigrators or the defending witches, they all exhausted their methods.

Witches possessed extremely high magic abilities and stats far exceeding ordinary people.

While the transmigrators possessed an absolute advantage in numbers.

The number of people participating in this war reached over ten million, but more than nine million of them were transmigrators drawn in wave upon wave by the allure of evolution items.

Moreover, the vast majority of this three million death toll occurred in the early stages of the war.

The further time went on, the fewer people 'dropped' on the World Channel.

Logically speaking, a war of this scale on Blue Star would definitely tally casualties, not just deaths.

But on Karim, a place where one could be saved as long as they had a breath left, and even saved after dying, tallying deaths was the most correct choice.

And according to the statistics of some unknown individuals, the death toll of witches was around 100,000.

In other words, the final battle damage ratio of this Forsaken War was as high as about 1:300.

Even higher than the 1:200 in the early stages of the war.

However, although it seemed like the Witch race won, in reality, the death of around 100,000 people was still a very damaging matter for the Witch race.

After all, after the Clan Leader Lan Qingyou was trapped, there was no longer anyone who could make Witch Potions.

Although there was still Elisa's line, the other party was the Witch Clan Leader of the Workshop Clan, having absolutely no connection with their Tower Clan.

So, right now for the witches of the Tower Clan, every death was one less witch.

Losing a quarter of the population in just over half a year, no matter how you look at it, was a very damaging matter.

However...

"This kind of death toll is way too abnormal, isn't it?"

"Right, a ratio of 1:300 is truly too exaggerated."

"Just a reminder, this battle damage ratio was produced even under the circumstances of being ambushed."

"I heard from some people who retreated from the Forsaken Territory that the Witch race has magic capable of resurrecting the dead, which is why the numbers are so low."

"Heh heh, if I recall correctly, before the war there were also people like you coming out to say how formidable the Witch race was to provoke people's desires, right. The result is that over three million people died in the same place in a little over half a year."

"Now that you mention it, that's really true. They still haven't found that Pure Origin Sect, it's clear how deeply they've hidden."

When someone on the World Channel once again spoke of the Witch race's advantages, no one believed it anymore.

After all, everyone wasn't a fool; how could something like resurrection be achieved?

Moreover, setting 'resurrection' aside, the various actions and speeches of people secretly pulling strings behind the scenes on the World Channel previously had also been dug up.

Smart people knew there was a problem with this at a glance.

So now, whenever this kind of rhetoric was encountered, it was uniformly treated as inciting speech.

As for those millions of transmigrators who charged forward wave upon wave, it could only be said that desire was at work.

In reality, when the initial battles ended and entered the stalemate phase, quite a few people pointed out some suspicious points.

But as the war continued, especially after photos of the Witch race's guerrilla units, like Pandora and Nangong Lengyue, were exposed, even more people came to the Forsaken Territory attempting to get a share of the spoils in this rule-less war.

After all, whether it was the figure riding on the dragon's back, or the Demon Eye capable of creating a massive alternate dimension with a wave of a hand, they made people yearn for them.

As for how these guys arrived when the teleportation arrays in the Forsaken Territory had all been destroyed, they had to thank those teleportation arrays in the Adventurer's Guilds in the surrounding areas.

In some aspects, although Lan Qingyou was absent from this war, her shadow influenced the battle situation at all times.

Whether it was the teleportation arrays or the potions.

However, if these latecomers wanted to get a share of the spoils, they had to display an even more life-risking posture than those before them.

After all, at this time, the majority of the witches had already retreated into various sanctuaries and the like to fight defensive battles.

Only the guerrilla units were left to attack.

Yes.

It could be said that the vast majority of the deaths in the middle and late stages of the war were caused by these few guerrilla units.

Under the circumstances of heavy casualties and basically self-funded supplies, these people still maintained a fiery passion for battle.

Or rather, the fact that this war could drag on for so long was entirely sustained by the desires of those transmigrators.

But to say the Witch race was victorious was somewhat deceiving oneself and others.

Apart from losing a quarter of their personnel, and aside from traditional potion making, the vast majority of their previous profit models had basically been destroyed.

Not only were the auction houses burned to ashes, but even the industrial zone and academy zone weren't spared.

The maritime trade fleet docked at the Abandoned Harbor, which had finally been built and which Shang Chuan constantly thought about, had all been destroyed.

Even several mines were directly 'harvested' clean by people.

After all, they only needed to kill those monsters and then take the ore away.

But these were only external things.

What could truly be described as a 'heavy loss' had to be the Roosting Giant Tree.

Due to the scorched-earth policy of clearing the fields and fortifying the strongholds, in Typhon City, apart from Lan Qingyou's sanctuary, which was the Central Habitat, everywhere else had been occupied by the enemy.

Therefore, those transmigrators only needed to attack this single point, after all, there were over a hundred thousand witches in this small plot of land.

But under the protection of the Five Dragon Rebirth Magic Array, no matter how the other party attacked, they couldn't succeed.

Apart from the efforts of the witches, this naturally couldn't do without the contributions of those War Treants.

The moment invaders appeared, these treants tied them up firmly and then threw them into the air to serve as targets for the witches.

It was precisely because of these treants that the defensive circle of the entire habitat was directly expanded by hundreds of meters, making the invaders not dare to cross the boundary line a single half-step.

But it was also exactly for this reason that if they wanted to attack the habitat, they first had to eliminate these annoying treants.

This time, all the treants became the targets of everyone's focused attention.

For a time, all sorts of magic, skills, and tactics were used on the treants, resulting in the witches actually having nothing to do.

But the results were significant.

Although the War Treants were difficult to deal with, after all, they could only move within a designated small area.

So after spending a month finding a breakthrough point, everyone began clearing out the War Treants.

Fortunately, the [Witch of Thorns] Cynthia was present.

Otherwise, these treants would probably have all been uprooted.

And this 'breakthrough point' was exactly that Roosting Giant Tree where the flying magic beasts lived.