Devil's Journey

Chapter 160 Preparations before the war
The border between the Verrol Chamber of Commerce and Tranquil Forest is quite long, and the [-]-kilometer-long Tailun River is a natural dividing line.

This time, the resistance was mainly from the northern half-elf villages in the Tranquil Forest, so the Chamber of Commerce and Industry decided to temporarily let the southern half-elf villages go. It’s not that the councilors realized their conscience, but mainly because they didn’t want to exterminate the half-elfs in the forest. Otherwise, if I want to catch half-elves in the future, I will either go to the North Tyrell Mountains or the dangerous Hengduan Mountains.

What's more, the demons are rampant now, and it is delusional to think about going to the North Tyrell Mountains. The members of the Chamber of Commerce decided to kindly leave a seed for the half-elves in the tranquil forest, and then slowly catch and play slowly.

The formation of the crusade army went smoothly, and it could even be said to be very popular. If it was said to go north to crusade against demons, most of them would have shrunk, but the crusade against the half-long ears in the forest has brought interest.

In ten months, the Crusade Army recruited more than 3 people, including more than 5000 Bronze-ranked, 300 Silver-ranked, a dozen Gold-ranked, and even a legendary powerhouse.

However, this legendary strongman who is highly respected in the business alliance did not intend to make a move, but gave up the opportunity to make meritorious deeds to young people. This move naturally aroused the praise of the young and strong factions who were eager to fight, and this 'virtue' was high again A little bit, and the 'look' is a little bit heavier.

In addition, there are more than 5 young and strong recruited from the refugees in the northern territory as labor force to take on the logistics transfer, and at the same time provide relief with work, so that the hundreds of thousands of refugees behind these [-] young and strong are appeased .

From this point of view, the council of the Verrol Chamber of Commerce is still very powerful. Except for sacrificing some half-elves who were kept in captivity, all internal forces have been appeased. Next, as long as the demons in the north are blocked, the merchants will The big and small businessmen of the League can continue to sit back and relax.

It is because of the evil disaster that the business interests may be greatly damaged.

Perhaps because of the contempt for the half-elves, the crusade army was divided into five groups, each with 7000 people. It is hard to say who is the main force, or they are all the main force. It's just the mob of the organization.

Or maybe it's just a hunt.

Sharna didn't expect the situation to become what it is now. Half a month ago, she learned from Liya that the Merchant Alliance was planning to send out a large-scale army to pull out all the half-elf tribes in the north and middle of the tranquil forest. will be killed or enslaved.

The news quickly spread throughout the forest. At first, many half-elves didn't believe it, but as more and more human armies outside the forest, all kinds of frightening news spread into the forest, and some of them lived in the business alliance. The half-elves of the city-state fled back desperately, crying about the atrocities of the Verroleans. Even the innocent half-elves had to admit that the Verroleans were serious this time.

The breath of desperation spread, and the number of half-elves in the forest was no more than 10,000+ at most. Even if the half-elves had the strength of the black iron rank as adults, there were quite a few of the bronze rank, at least not less than the merchant alliance crusade army.

However, the number of silver to gold ranks has dropped sharply, because many half-elves with good strength will choose to leave their hometowns and settle elsewhere. Not even a legendary powerhouse.

And there are only seven or eight Gold ranks, and the number of Silver ranks is far less than this crusade army. What's more, although the crusade army divides the attack, it is still a whole, and there is still cooperation and connection with each other.

But the half-elves are many scattered tribes, even those half-elves of the golden rank, who were afraid of the business alliance before, did not dare to stand up and unite the half-elf tribes.

Such a scattered force is not bad on paper, but in fact it is still a piece of meat. It is no wonder that the Verrol people are so arrogant and contemptuous.

Even if Sharna didn't have the support of her master behind her, she might be in despair at this time, but who gave Sharna a backer?

After receiving the master's explicit support, Sharna sent many envoys to call on many half-elf villages to join the half-elf Wanhu under the Destiny Cult.

It's a pity that not all the half-elves responded to Sharna's call. The half-elves in the southern forest were afraid that their actions would attract the slaughter of the merchant alliance, so they rejected the call of the northern clan to unite.

And even the half-elf tribes in the central and northern regions are not willing to join the demon church. Some half-elves chose to flee to the South Tyrell Mountains. Well, this part is self-inflicted.

There are still many who chose to unite and resist on their own. In addition, a small number of half-elves cowardly chose to surrender early due to fear, and were willing to serve as guides to help the Verolians kill other half-elf tribes in exchange for the survival of their own tribes. .

Life is nothing but the same, and it has also allowed Sharna to grow. It turns out that some things are not so easy, and it is not because of the good intentions she thinks that others will accept them.

Sharna was both frustrated and excited. At least tens of thousands of half-elves chose to trust her, and she didn't want to let down the trust of these tens of thousands of half-elves.

Of course, Sharna still didn't have the confidence to fight tens of thousands of Verolians, so she continued to ask Julian for help as a matter of course.

As for Julian, he certainly wouldn't stand idly by. After all, even if he wasn't the mastermind behind the battle in the Tranquil Forest, he was one of the masterminds behind it.

If Julian hadn't waited for the transformation of the green dragon to complete, he might have made a move long ago, but even so, Julian sent Alice over, and brought with him thousands of demon troops and thousands of wild monster troops.

However, Julian did not send the demons there for the time being, mainly because he did not want to cause panic and overreaction of the business alliance because of the appearance of the demons.

At the same time, the trade in Verol Lake has not stopped, and has even become more frequent. A small part of the materials obtained from the trade are used to support Sharna's half-elven households. It seems that those merchants have also noticed, but But not only did he not stop, he even recommended many good guys to Liya, including plate armor, heavy crossbows, oil refining bombs, magic scrolls and many other military supplies.

Julian suspected that some of them might even be the supplies of the Merchant Alliance Crusade Army, and then they were transferred by these greedy guys and sold to them.

Perhaps those profiteers may think that even with these materials, the half-elves still cannot escape the result of being annihilated, so since the result remains the same, why not take the opportunity to sell more, after all, they have suffered heavy losses since the disaster, and they just took advantage of it. This is an opportunity to make a fortune.

After Alice led the team to accept the purchase trade, Liya was liberated, and with thousands of demon swordsmen, she began to receive troops from various departments.

The first to come were part of the demon's [-] households, about [-] soldiers in total, and [-] wild monster troops, excluding inferior cannon fodder such as wild goblins and kobolds.

Coupled with the more than 6000 half-elves under Sharna's command, it is entirely possible to take advantage of the arrogance of the Verrol people and attack them separately.

(End of this chapter)