The Lion King of Middenland, Warhammer

() "His Royal Highness Catherine has understood her fault, please forgive her."

Having a premonition that the form is not good, Cicero, the sword director of Tubaro Principality, hastily knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty to the big baggage officer.Seeing that Catherine was still standing stupidly, he was so angry that he pulled her violently, so the savage princess had to half-kneel and lowered her head in dejection.

"The Director of Yujian of the Principality of Tubalo, you can be regarded as a person who has experienced decades on the battlefield. You will not pretend that you don't understand the military law of the imperial court and the rules of the Great Holy War?"

The imperial court's baggage officer named Guz coldly responded to Cicero's apology. When he talked about the "imperial court's military law", the Rick guard beside him simultaneously held up the dwarven mithril rune The fine steel war halberd suddenly hit the ground with its handle, sending out astonishing shock waves.These Rick guards all covered their faces with masks, so they couldn't see their true faces, but they exuded a sense of majesty that was completely out of proportion to their number.Hyde noticed sensitively that there seemed to be inexplicable magical fluctuations resonating with these guards. These people are by no means ordinary halberd-wielding warriors!

"I understand...but we have apologized to His Highness Hyde, and Tubalo is an autonomous principality..."

Cicero became incoherent, and the air he had not long ago was wiped out under the pressure and anger of the big baggage officer. Beads of sweat appeared on his wrinkled forehead, and even his voice became quieter.This surprised Hyde as well. He didn't expect that this big baggage officer, who usually always smiles, possesses such amazing power.

"This matter is not a matter of apologizing to His Royal Highness Hyde, nor is it a matter of kinship. This is the military law of the empire. The holy imperial court respects the autonomy of each principality and municipality within their legal territory, but this is not self-government The place where power can spread! Don't you understand?"

The voice of the imperial court's heavy-duty officer was extremely stressful, and everything around him became silent, only his old and stern voice echoed in the air.

"From the time when the Hammer of the Great Holy War was lifted, anyone who participated in the expeditionary army-whether he was a handyman in the army kitchen or the heir of the elector prince, whether he was a bandit in the border mountain area or a priest of Didu, all Everyone must obey the edict of the holy emperor and the scepter of the commander of the imperial court. The military law of the imperial court is their irreversible rule! This is the imperial law since Marshal San Mario formulated the imperial legal code 200 years ago .”

When "Marshal San Mario" was mentioned, the old man's voice became dignified, because this name is the sacred existence of the empire, that is not a nobleman but a mortal who is on the top of the di du temple alongside the emperor, that immortal The Father of the Reconstruction of the Motherland, this is—Gedaus Marius the Holy Marshal! The true legend of the empire 200 years ago!

When the chaotic storm set off by the maggot lord of Nurgle more than 200 years ago ended with the death of the champion warrior Theodore Bruckner and the darling of chaos Tamur Khan, the empire was almost a piece of scorched earth, and the army of the maggot lord Wherever it passed, most of the empire's territory, including the holy di du Altdorf, were destroyed, ravaged, and polluted, just like hell in this world.The cries of the disabled, the roars of mutants, and the whispers of remnants of demons are everywhere. Two-thirds of the entire empire's population has been reduced to a mountain of corpses in the midst of war, famine, and plague.The prosperous city has become a cemetery of death, and the noisy market is only left with the whining of ghosts.

Fifty years after Tamur Khan's demise, the magic power of the God of Nature gradually healed the wounds of chaotic pollution, the plague of death dissipated, the forest recovered its gentleness, clean grains grew on the earth again, and the terror of the devil Forgotten, but the Empire has all but ceased to exist.That was the era of great chaos recorded in gray letters in the parchment chronicles, and it was also the era when the empire was on the verge of disintegration and extinction, an era that was heading towards barbarism.

The remaining electors have established themselves as kings. The countless civil wars in the past 50 years have tortured the empire into an empty shell, and even the magic schools have split. The authority of the emperor is gone forever, and the imperial court has become one. Ridiculous decoration, his control range does not exceed half a league beyond the soles of the so-called emperor's feet, he is not so much an emperor as a gorgeously dressed clown.Emperor Rick's domain became the domain of hordes of small warlords, each claiming to be the orthodox.

But other places are not much better, bandits and beastmen are rampant everywhere, the spies have captured hundreds of leagues of the coastline, established huge colonial black cities, thousands of imperial people were killed Putting on iron shackles, becoming a slave under the perverted desire of the spooks, groaning under the torture of the brutal master.The dark madness is so persistent, they can even go deep into the ruins of the holy di du Altdorf to perform blood sacrifices and gladiatorial ceremonies, and their feet covered with sea beast scales trample on the broken marble floor of the holy Sigmar temple, which was once Remnants of the glorious sanctuary.

The vampires of Sylvania that have been dispersed for hundreds of years climbed out of their long-sleeping tombs and castle towers, the banners of death boiled in the night wind, and the storm of green skins shook the entire south, only because of the Dwarf Federation The existence of the kingdom and the greenskins are fighting each other frantically, and they are not enough to occupy the entire southern part of the empire.The tunnel entrances of the Skavens continued to explode in markets and farms, leaving corpses everywhere and the endless wailing of the missing.Even Bretonnia and Kislev took the opportunity to annex a large piece of land on the border of the empire, and the civil war between the six or seven electors who proclaimed themselves the emperor never stopped. Chaos did not appear, but the world has become a chaotic Colosseum. The Sigmar Holy Empire, which lasted for two thousand years, seemed to be becoming an eternal geographical term.

But two people changed everything, that is Julian, a distant young nobleman of the Rickland family, and his close friend—Gedaus Mario!When they met, Julian was fifteen years old, often scolded by his mother for being an adventurous boy, and Gaedaus did not yet have a surname, because the future Holy Marshal was only twelve years old at the time, the son of a lowly tenant farmer.No one took the friendship between the boy of the ruined nobleman and the tenant farmer to heart, but the friendship between the two teenagers turned into a huge wave and changed the entire empire.

After a year of acquaintance, Julian gave his friend the surname Mario to Gaidaus, which means jingjin, and he hoped that the friendship between the two would be as immortal as jingjin.Soon they disappeared together to take an adventure in a distant place. There are countless stories and legends about all these descriptions.Some people say that they discovered the gold and silver treasury under the ancient dwarf castle, some say that they obtained the magic weapon in the ancient elf ruins, and some say that they sailed to the mysterious kingdom of Cathay—the east ruled by the Holy Dragon Emperor. land.However, all this is a mystery, because no one can determine what is historically true.

Four years later, they returned to the old land of Rickland, and their companions were a pair of archer sisters with half-elven mixed blood.Unexpectedly, Marius married his sister.Soon Julian announced that he had received the revelation from Emperor Sigmar, and he would raise the king's banner again and restore the glory of the empire!That year, Julian was 20 years old and Mario was 17 years old. They had 17 armored warriors under their command, plus their partners and themselves, the total combat strength was [-] people.

The incident was originally spread as a joke.But the rampant bandits soon discovered that this was not a joke. They either surrendered and accepted acceptance, or became ghosts under Julian's hammer and Marius' sword.The little warlords who claimed to be lords originally dismissed this, but it didn't take long for their wooden fortresses and stone fortresses to quickly fall one after another under the eagle flag of Rick's new army, so they had to surrender and became the leader of Rick's army. A loyal fighter under the Keying banner.

The head of the chosen champion of the Tauren was shattered under Julian's war hammer, the body of the great beastman Mork was split by Mario's sword, and the army of 12 beastmen was wiped out. up.Seventeen warriors turned into a steel army of 5000 people. The flag of Rick's new army covered most of the territory that the Rickland Emperor ruled back then, and all this only took three years.People are saying that Julian is the reincarnation of Holy Sigma. From farmers to mages, tide-like warriors threw themselves under the eagle banner of the young Prince Earl Rick, and the ecstatic cries of the ascetic monk shook the earth. <One day, Julian and Marius pointed their military flags at the sacred di du Altdorf that was repeatedly ravaged by the dark spies and greenskins. Less than three months later, the dark spies’ corpses were piled up on the broken walls of Altdorf In the ruins, Prince Julian and his champion warriors, blood brothers, and chief marshal Marius stepped into Altdorf under the flying eagle flag and the Holy Cross of Sigma.The young earl officially declared himself the only holy emperor, and solemnly sat on the throne of the former emperor among the ruins of the imperial palace.His edicts flew far and wide, ordering the electors to come and renew ancient alliances and allegiances.

The electors roared out one after another. They could not recognize a bastard boy of uncertain origin, let alone an unelected emperor.But Rick's army did not stop for a moment. Julian held the flag and led an army of [-] troops into the Principality of Middenland --- the country of wild warriors that has been passed down for thousands of years, the land of the White Wolf God.The principalities in the south and the east were all looking forward to a tragic battle to crush this kid's ambition, but the ending of this march was unexpected.

The distant relative of the Rickland family, the lord of the Northland, the king of the White Wolf---the Earl of the Elector of Rutgers led the 10 Middenland army to meet the Rickland army on the outskirts of Middenheim.The old elector ordered the knights and infantry to stop advancing, and then rode the griffin alone to the endless array of eagle flags. He solemnly swore to the white wolf army god Urik and Saint Sigma, asking for a decisive battle before the gods, distinguishing himself The authenticity of the divinely favored emperor inspired by Saint Sigma.He declared that he was no longer willing to let the blood of human warriors be shed for nothing, and the fate of [-] people would end with two.