When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#178 - United Kingdom

After a day of effort, Horn, who successfully suppressed the Black Bone Swamp War, rode on horseback, followed by over a hundred division's worth of beastmen, all bruised and swollen.

The commanders of both sides, Hariba and Dong Bi'a, wobbled along behind, their expressions somewhat dazed.

This was over a hundred divisions! They had fought for so many days, and neither side had managed to break through even half a step. But today, with the arrival of His Holiness the Pope, a hundred Holy Knights immediately subdued both sides?

Both of these men were seasoned veterans and came from families with distinguished military service. Although they wouldn't dare call themselves great strategists, they were at least renowned generals of their time.

But everything today completely shattered their understanding. Seeing is believing! So, His Holiness the Pope's army is this powerful?

No wonder the beastmen of ancient times submitted to the El Empire. With such strength, what enemy in the world could stand against them?

Similarly to the two great strategists, a dazed expression also appeared on Horn's face.

Should he have just ignored their affairs altogether?

He thought these wars would affect his resettlement of refugees, but now it seems he was just being presumptuous.

With this scale of warfare, it could only affect his resettlement of refugees if Conqueror and Crusher personally descended to participate.

"Your Holiness, where are we going?" Hariba, who had half a front tooth knocked out by Black Hat's hammer, stepped forward with a swollen face, asking obsequiously.

Horn glanced at him sideways: "I've convened a United Kingdom meeting to discuss your war issues. Beastmen should value peace and not engage in infighting."

"Yes, yes, yes," Hariba nodded repeatedly. "What is this United Kingdom? I've never heard of it."

"It didn't exist before, but it does now."

This United Kingdom was temporarily established by Horn, originally to mediate the war, but with the changing situation, he planned to use this United Kingdom to manage these beastmen.

His suppression was also done after notifying the beastmen nobles. In the end, both sides didn't really want to fight anymore, but couldn't lose face.

Horn couldn't just act unilaterally and directly suppress them with force, after all, he was still on their territory.

Both sides were originally friendly, and it wouldn't be worth it to sour things by using force.

Moreover, Horn still had a use for these beastmen.

While Hariba and Horn were trying to get close, Dong Bi'a and Victor were building relationships on the other side.

Victor was the new legion commander of the Black Hat Army.

Jeshka had been drawn out by Horn in advance to form a new army instructor team with Hakuto, leaving the legion commander position vacant.

Since the Battle of Jeanne d'Arc Fortress, the more senior people had all died, even Bunyan had his head crushed by hooves, which saddened Madeleine for a long time.

And Raphael, who should have taken over the position, chose to join the Children's Army for some reason, becoming an instructor for the third class.

Due to his outstanding performance in the Battle of the Long Bridge, Victor was promoted rapidly, becoming the second Black Hat Army legion commander after Jeshka.

"This Holy Envoy…"

"Holy Envoy?" Victor was stunned, then realized he was talking about himself.

Laughing, Victor patted Dong Bi'a's shoulder: "I'm not a Holy Envoy, I'm just a small legion commander."

Dong Bi'a's Leia language was poor, and he didn't quite understand what Victor meant: "What does 'cheese' mean?"

"It means ordinary," Victor said, deliberately slowing down his speech.

Dong Bi'a immediately shook his head: "You have such a powerful army entering the Black Bone Swamp, remember the principle I gave, have your own strength."

Dong Bi'a's piecemeal words obviously confused Victor, and he had to call in familiar Varangian Guards to understand that Dong Bi'a was praising him.

With the Varangian Guards' translation, communication between the two sides became much smoother.

"So you are the Wolf Fang King's nephew? Is the Wolf Fang Kingdom in Central North Marsh?"

"In Lower North Marsh," Dong Bi'a shook his head.

In the beastmen's context, the lowland swamp where Autumn Dusk Island is located is called South Marsh because it is located in the south.

And the swamp where they live in the north is called North Marsh. North Marsh is further divided into Upper North Marsh, Central North Marsh, and Lower North Marsh, according to the order from north to south.

"So you are a wolf-type beastman?" Victor asked hesitantly, looking at the pointed ears on his head.

Dong Bi'a smiled: "No, no, no. In the Imperial era, our beastmen had different beast transformations. Different beast transformation families would even form families based on their appearance.

Later, due to a large number of marriages between beastmen noble families and human noble families, those obvious beast transformation characteristics gradually disappeared in the mixed blood."

"I see."

At this time, Horn slowed down his horse and walked to a position parallel to Dong Bi'a: "Are you called Dong Bi'a?"

"Yes, Your Holiness," Dong Bi'a said respectfully.

"Your Wolf Fang Kingdom is in Lower North Marsh, it must be very close to South Marsh, right?"

“Yes, Your Holiness.”

“Have you seen those beastmen barbarians and long-haired monsters?”

Dong Bi'a immediately said: “Your Holiness, those barbarians invade every year, so we often come into contact with them.

But the long-haired monsters, we call them fur beasts. Most of the time, if you don’t provoke them, they won’t provoke you.

Those barbarians believe in an evil god, called something blood god. These fur beasts are regarded as envoys of the gods by them, and every once in a while, they have to send some sheep heads to sacrifice.”

“Send them to where to sacrifice?”

“Autumn Dusk Island,” Dong Bi'a said as a matter of course. “There is an altar on Autumn Dusk Island. That evil god has to receive a sacrifice every seven days.”

Blood God? Sheep's head? Horn frowned. When the El Empire entered the East Continent, the local North Normans had a large number of pagan evil gods in their beliefs.

Perhaps this blood god is one of them?

Then these hairy monsters are created by evil god beliefs? It shouldn't be. If it was an evil god belief, it should have been purged by the El army long ago.

Even if there are surviving evil gods, they should have been purged by Missala during the Great Migration era.

It is clearly recorded in "The Gospel - Eastern Tour" that Missala, from the moment she landed, swung her chains and killed any evil god she saw, tied the heads of the evil gods around her waist, and even turned the skulls of the evil gods into crowns and wore them on her head. From then on, evil gods would never be born in the East Continent again.

Since then, the evil gods of the East Continent have indeed disappeared, and traces of evil gods only appear near the Northern Grasslands and the Smelting Furnace Highlands.

“Does that blood god have any symbols? Or representative objects?” Horn asked Dong Bi'a. “If so, copy a copy for us.”

There is a great wizard from the Roan Party in Horn's team. Instead of letting him hang around doing nothing every day, it is better to find something for him to do.

Wizards should be very good at things like evil gods.

After walking for another ten minutes with this group of remnants, a swamp island finally appeared in front of everyone.

And hundreds of queens with leather tents were on this desolate land, divided into two factions, scolding each other while waiting for Horn's arrival.