big devil holmes

Chapter 539 History and the War Maniac Waiting to Die
Two and a half years ago, the second gate to hell opened at the top of Mount Elbes.

Countless demons fell from the sky and the empire fell into chaos again.

However, after that, people gradually discovered that the second gate of hell did not seem to be that scary. It was not like the first gate of hell that kept spewing out demons. Only a few appeared from time to time. In fact, for more than two years, not even a demon tide had formed.

As a result, people's attention gradually shifted to the internal war within the empire.

But no one expected that the opening of the second gate of hell on this day would usher in an invasion that no one could have imagined.

Later historical records recorded that it happened on a certain day at the end of the holy calendar.

Suddenly, countless terrifying machines appeared from the dark sky, poured out of the gate of hell, and spread out above the towering mountains.

Countless birds made of steel flew rapidly towards the far end of the sky, and a huge flying object carrying a movable military base made of shiny materials landed abruptly on the top of the snow-capped mountain.

Some missiles that the people of the empire could not even imagine exploded between the mountains. The flames were not afraid of the low temperature and burst between the rocks. In just a few hours, a huge gap in the mountain range was dug out. The cold wind that had been blocked for tens of millions of years rushed out of the man-made canyon and rampaged in the continuously expanding col.

During the Great Crusade, the entire empire spent huge amounts of money to successfully build a military base within a few months.

This is undoubtedly a feat.

But in people's cognition, how could a military base be like a big box, directly airdropped to the ground, and then scattered like building blocks, countless engineering vehicles automatically began to build without driving, and when the sun shone on the ground the next day, a high-tech military base that surpassed the empire by hundreds of years was completed.

This is just one place.
In fact, if you look down from a high altitude, you can find that almost the entire mountain range below the Hell's Gate has been razed to the ground, countless military bases have been built, and there are even giant elevators that people can't even understand, which rush directly into the sky and penetrate into the darkness of the Hell's Gate, constantly transporting all kinds of supplies.

It was at that moment that people truly began to understand.

It turns out that the demons before were so amiable, but those terrible species that now fly down from hell are the ones that can truly bring catastrophe to the world.

Oh, by the way, what is even more incomprehensible to the people of the empire is that in this sudden and imminent war, the invaders who appeared from the other side of the gate of hell seemed to be different from the demons they had known before and all the creatures described in the records of the church.

Because those guys are clearly humans!
The entire empire was stunned and bewildered, and felt that their understanding of the world had completely collapsed.

Why did humans emerge from hell? Why did humans start a war with the Empire? There was not even any negotiation. It was as if the hatred between the two sides had been accumulated for centuries and could not be reconciled. They would start slaughtering each other as soon as they met.

But the people of the Empire were completely confused.

What are those flying things and why are they so fast? What are those guns shooting out bright beams of light and why are they so powerful that they can even penetrate steel?
Forget it, now that this inexplicable war has begun, it can't end.

The empire was established because of war, and the entire history of the Holy Land is actually a history of war. The empire has never been afraid of war from the beginning to the end, because they have never experienced what an era without war is like.

that's it.

A great war between humans has begun.

At this point, people seemed to suddenly understand why Emperor Moriarty had been increasing taxes and using bloody means to maintain conscription in the two years since he took office, why he was still overdrawing to strengthen the empire's military strength when there were obviously no enemies, and why he used religious brainwashing to conduct loyalty tests across the empire.

Until this day, when the entire empire entered an unprecedented war trend, in just half a month, it was incredible that under a short decree from Emperor Moriarty, the entire nation became a soldier.

The history of war is the bloodiest and cruelest history of mankind.

However, in historical records, it is always briefly mentioned, as if all historians prefer to use space to record the splendor of those prosperous times, while blood and gunpowder are scenes that they cannot bear to recall.

One month after the war began
The entire Elbes Mountains have become a bloody dividing line.

The technological gap of eight hundred years was displayed here vividly, the Hell Legion tore through the Empire's troops with ease, and the dead Empire soldiers didn't even have time to make their last cry. There was only continuous bombing and the roar of powerful ammunition, which was definitely not one after another, because there was no break at all.

Six months after the war began.
The Elbes Mountains, which stretch for more than 2,000 kilometers, are no longer recognizable from their original appearance. Blood and steel gather in the gullies, and countless mushroom clouds rise into the sky. But what is surprising is that this front line has not retreated at all.

It seems to be just as Moriarty predicted at the beginning, that human beings, no matter which side they are from, are like the most paranoid madmen when it comes to life and death.

One year after the war began.
The offensive of the Hell Alliance began to weaken. The Imperials didn't know why, but Moriarty knew, and he had known it for a long time.

In the initial records of the Holy See, hell was a barren land without any resources, and war, to put it bluntly, was a war between resources. As long as the people of the empire were able to survive the initial and most tragic period at all costs under Moriarty's bloody rule, the people on the other side of hell would never be able to defeat the empire in terms of resources.

So, a year and a half after this unprecedented brutal war began, the Hell Alliance seemed to have sensed the crisis and began to retreat back to hell in an orderly manner.

The Imperials were victorious once again.

Compared to previous centuries of war, this war lasted less than two years.

However, the death and injury rate increased 400 times compared with before.

At this time, the military strength of the entire empire had been reduced to a precarious point.

However, what everyone felt was somewhat impulsive, absurd, and difficult to accept was that the great Moriarty, who had used the "filling the pit with blood and flesh" tactic to repel the enemy with his life over the past year, actually issued another extremely bloody order.

That is. The war is far from over.

They're going to fight back!

All Imperial troops!
Counterattack on Hell!
It's like a fight between stubborn children. If you push me, I will push you back. That's reasonable. If you come to my world to start a war, then I will also go to your world to start a war.

They completely disregarded what such actions would lead to, human lives, resources, broken families, and an empire that had just experienced a war and was already battered and bruised.

The Imperials are not afraid of war. As I said before, this is a country that rose through war. Every Imperial, even the bar girls picking up customers in the alleys on the streets, would take out their own pockets and donate military expenses to the Imperial soldiers during the Great Crusade.

This is because everyone is looking forward to the end of the war.

But after the Great Crusade, the second opening of the Gates of Hell, and another victory, people found that they had to continue fighting.

War, war, war.

This human empire, which had never feared war and even associated war with glory, seemed to feel for the first time that war was so disgusting.

If war never ends, why do we continue to fight?
One day, a thin old man came to the capital of the empire in a magnificent palace train.

He was wearing a tattered military uniform, his face was covered with years of frostbite scars, and his eyes were filled with fatigue from endless wars.

General Patton, after the Second Hell's Gate began, he naturally took over as the commander-in-chief of the front line again, and perfectly achieved the war results given by Emperor Moriarty.

but!
Although a soldier's duty is to obey, General Patton's decades of military career also perfectly fulfilled the duties of an imperial soldier.

But today, he dragged his tired body to the ancient Roman city of law, with the only thing he wanted to do.

It means praying to the emperor of the empire.

"Stop fighting, the war is over."

In fact, when a person born for war says such words, it proves that in the hearts of the imperial people, war is no longer related to glory.

And the next morning.

General Patton was shot in Victory Square.

The reason is [pre-war defectors will be shot immediately.]

(End of this chapter)