From Baron to Lord

Lucy shook her head. “I just want to be able to see Allen every day.”

“Right, Lucy, can you sense the plants under the sea?” Allen suddenly thought of Lucy’s ability.

There are quite a few plants under the sea. If Lucy can connect with them, then this place would be like having a huge boost to the '923'.

“No.” Lucy shook her head. “The ocean here feels very different, like it’s dead. I don’t sense any signs of life at all, but instead, I feel a very heavy death aura.”

Hearing Lucy’s words, Allen was also a little shocked. These undead from the Atyes Empire were truly terrifying, capable of extinguishing life in an entire sea area.

“Allen, am I very useless?” Seeing Allen’s silence, Lucy said somewhat dejectedly.

“How could that be?” Allen hurriedly hugged Lucy. “It’s not your fault. You’ve already helped me a lot.” Allen comforted her softly.

The next morning, while Allen was still eating breakfast, Marco rushed over and reported, “Reporting, Grand Duke, skeleton soldiers have appeared in the sea outside again, and their numbers are much greater than yesterday.”

“They’re here again?” Allen quickly got up. “I’ll go take a look.” Jackson hurriedly followed behind him.

Allen arrived at the city wall and saw that the five marquises were already there. They greeted Allen one after another, “Greetings, Grand Duke.”

“Mm.” Allen stepped forward and saw that there were indeed many skeleton soldiers on the sea below, standing together in a chaotic manner. More skeleton soldiers were constantly emerging from the seabed, as if their numbers were endless.

Many soldiers had already left the city and were standing ready at the defense line outside the city.

Now that he knew that the undead army of the Atyes Empire was attacking, Allen wouldn’t be so arrogant as to think that the Allen Duchy could be safe and sound just by relying on Sphite City.

Since ancient times, in such national wars, no one has ever won by simply guarding one city.

Putting aside other things, if those undead found that Sphite City was too difficult to chew on and chose to bypass it, directly attacking the heartland of the Allen Duchy, then Sphite City, no matter how strong, would only be a joke.

In fact, Allen and the others had mobilized a great deal of the Allen Duchy’s strength for this war, building a full three lines of defense.

Sphite City was only the first line. Of course, Sphite City had the strongest strength and equipment.

The two lines of defense behind were just to ensure everything was foolproof.

That being said, a city wall three meters high stretched along both sides of Sphite City, extending all the way to the sea.

Fortunately, the coastline of the Allen Duchy was not particularly long, and the left side was the Ryan Duchy. Allen only needed to focus on the protection of the sea area on the right.

However, it wasn’t that Allen looked down on the Ryan Duchy, but their strength was too weak. Allen didn’t know if every coastal country encountered so many skeleton soldiers in yesterday’s first wave of attacks, or if he was given special attention.

If all countries were the same, then perhaps the first wave of attacks would have crippled them.

The intelligence of those skeleton soldiers didn’t seem to be very high, so they should be manageable, but if this continued, they would eventually lose.

Although Allen was happy to see this, many people ignored him when he kindly told them the situation before, and some even laughed at him for being alarmist.

Now they were about to reap the consequences, and Allen was very happy.

However, when he thought that only the Allen Duchy would be fighting alone at that time, he felt a headache again.

But he couldn’t care so much. Not to mention others, even he might not be able to deal with them.

Getting back to the topic, the skeleton soldiers by the sea had already begun to charge towards Sphite City. A large, dark mass covered the entire area from Sphite City to the sea, which looked quite eerie.

Today, the soldiers didn’t engage in close combat like yesterday…

Yesterday, Allen just wanted to train their courage. Now, there was no need for that, and there were too many skeleton soldiers today, probably no less than a million.

Moreover, there were many huge ghost warriors among them, each wielding weapons and roaring at them.

Sphite City had undergone great changes in these three months. The entire city wall was covered with iron juice, emitting a cold light under the sun, looking extremely strong.

The city wall and the long walls on both sides were filled with large and small turrets, making people look at them with awe.

However, those skeleton soldiers were not afraid. They still charged forward without stopping.

Allen watched many soldiers busy behind the turrets, all wearing red, which seemed to be specifically responsible for this aspect.

However, he didn’t care much about these aspects, only raising some major points. As for how to implement them, it was Marco, Oliver, and their business.

In the blink of an eye, those skeleton soldiers were only a few dozen meters away from Sphite City, and they could even clearly see the faint blue soul fire flickering in their eye sockets.

Suddenly, a huge turret in the middle of Sphite City emitted a buzzing sound. Streams of white light gathered towards the turret’s mouth. After a while, a beam of white light as thick as a bucket was fired out.

That white light went straight to a ghost warrior. The ghost warrior hurriedly waved his hand to block it, but it was of no use whatsoever.

The ghost warrior’s huge skeleton body quickly turned into ashes, leaving nothing behind.

The white light continued forward without diminishing, rushing forward for several miles before stopping.

The skeleton soldiers along the way were wiped out. It seemed that this turret was indeed a weapon against skeleton soldiers.

As if announcing the start, after the large turret fired this shot, the remaining turrets also fired one after another, but most of them were small turrets.

After all, it was still the early stage of the war, and some trump cards needed to be reserved.

Suddenly, those thousands of skeleton soldiers were stunned by these hundreds of turrets, and the ground also became pitted.

The remaining soldiers were not idle either. They held alchemical bombs in their hands and threw them at any stragglers who rushed forward, and the effect was also very good.

Chapter 400: Bring Back Cecilmina

The power of the turrets and alchemical bombs made it seem much easier for the warriors to deal with the skeletons than yesterday. They just focused on hiding behind cover and throwing bombs.

On the contrary, the skeletons suffered heavy losses from the barrage of turrets and alchemical bombs.

They couldn't even get close to Sphyt City, with bones scattered all over the ground.

However, the number of skeletons was indeed too large, and they continued to attack relentlessly from behind.

At this time, perhaps seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, they became somewhat anxious.

A very tall skeleton roared and grabbed several small soldiers beside it, throwing them towards Sphyt City, trying to attack with the corpses of its comrades.

But naturally, things didn't go as it imagined. The small soldiers were blasted into pieces by the turrets in mid-air.

On the contrary, it attracted the attention of the warriors and was quickly annihilated by a concentrated fire from many turrets.

Seeing that this war would probably last for quite some time, Allen thought of Ceciliana.

Previously, she had been angry that the gods didn't spare even the undead of the Atyes Empire, and had brought many people here herself.

But not to Sphyt City, but to a small island on the sea, not far from here.

Yesterday, the number of skeletons was not very large, but today it suddenly surged, and he was a little worried about Ceciliana.

After all, these could be considered her people, and she might not be able to bring herself to hurt them.

Thinking of this, Allen couldn't stay any longer. He said to the people around him, "You guard here, I'll go check out other places."

"Duke, I'll go with you," Marco said.

"No need, I can handle any danger myself."

Seeing that they were about to say more, Allen stopped them with his hand.

With a dragon's roar, Phil's figure appeared above Sphyt City.

Allen jumped up and landed on Phil's back, and was immediately taken by Phil to fly towards the sea.

Passing through the skeletons, Allen casually struck again, and a blaze of fire appeared below, eliminating another large pile of skeletons.

Allen smiled indifferently and flew towards a place.

After flying for a while, Allen saw the small island where Ceciliana was. Looking from a distance, the situation there was even more frightening than Sphyt City.

Sphyt City was at least a coastal city, only needing to defend against enemies from the sea, but Ceciliana's place was a small island, surrounded by skeletons on all sides.

There seemed to be even more skeletons than at Allen's place, covering the entire sea, boundless and without end, and no one knew exactly how many there were.

So many skeletons were besieging the island, and the small island looked like it was about to collapse.

Allen was very anxious and flew towards there, but at this time he heard a long song coming from the island.

The song was a bit like a spell, and Allen couldn't understand it, but he could feel the emotions conveyed within it.

The song became more and more urgent, and it also contained the strength of a Saint-level powerhouse. The skeletons approaching the island from all directions stopped.

After a moment, their bodies suddenly turned into piles of fragments.

At the same time, waves rose on the sea, sending many skeletons to the bottom of the sea.

However, this didn't seem to pose any threat to them. After a while, they slowly emerged from the seabed.

Seeing this, Allen landed directly in the middle of the island, and a huge magic circle appeared in the sky.

Streams of flames and lightning appeared in the magic circle, and everything around it, except for the small island, suffered a devastating blow.

Allen reacted to Ceciliana and didn't hold back, clearing everything within a few miles.

"Allen?" A somewhat surprised voice sounded, and Ceciliana appeared in front of him.

However, Ceciliana now looked very tired, with many bloodshot eyes.

As a Saint-level powerhouse, she naturally wouldn't be so embarrassed by these skeletons.

But seeing these former compatriots turned into this way, Ceciliana's heart must be suffering.

"Ceciliana, you've suffered these days," Allen couldn't help but hug her and said.

Ceciliana also hugged him tightly and whispered, "Allen, one day, I will make those gods who think they are high and mighty and can play with others at will pay the price."

Looking at Ceciliana like this, Allen couldn't help but comfort her, "Don't worry, it will happen."

After a while, Ceciliana returned to normal, and Allen took the opportunity to say, "Ceciliana, it's too dangerous here for you, come back with me!"

Ceciliana thought for a moment, didn't refuse, and nodded. "I'll have the others prepare first."

There were still some people Ceciliana had brought here, all knights. Thanks to Ceciliana's protection, there were no casualties.

Seeing Allen, they were all very excited. "The Duke is here, we are saved!"

Allen also understood them. After all, they were isolated overseas and encountered so many undead creatures, with only Ceciliana supporting them. It must have scared them all.

Seeing that there weren't many people here, and that there were still dense skeletons on the sea.

To save trouble, Allen directly had Phil stop in front of them and said, "Get on!"

"Duke, are you kidding me?"

Looking at Phil's huge size and steel-like scales, they couldn't help but say with trembling voices.

You must know that dragon knights are close to the top powerhouses on this continent.

The majesty of every dragon knight is inviolable. Now the Duke is actually asking the great dragon to carry mortals like them?

"Duke, I dare not..."

Allen frowned, saw that the skeletons were about to gather again, and said anxiously, "I told you to get on, what's there to be afraid of, hurry up."

"Duke, this..."

"Shut up, if you don't leave, those guys will come up, hurry up if you don't want to die."