Chapter 290: Phoenix Burns the City, Aedirn Is Destroyed

The King of Aedirn ordered the assembly of heavy troops, and the nobles below also began to assemble a large army. After seeing the witches rebel, the northern countries also sent mercenaries, witch hunters, and the Zoroastrian Knights to support them.

As Richard led the witches to gain a foothold in Eisenland, Richard asked the witches to send messages to more witches and let them come here to join. Those who are willing to join the witch mutual aid association can join, and those who are unwilling to join can live normally here.

Even if these witches do not join, they are considered advanced productive forces in this era.

The witches have been actively learning spell knowledge during this period of time. Basically all witches have completed spell model casting and mastered the [Combat Casting] super magic expertise. It is also from here that they can be called witches.

The original strength of these witches is mostly around level ten according to the level classification. After training, mastering a large number of super magic expertise, and integrating into the dragon vein, the most powerful witch has reached level sixteen.

The strength at this stage is called the master level, and it is also the last threshold before the legendary level.

These witches have very fast learning ability, after all, many of them have been immersed in magic for decades. In the past, they relied on feeling to cast spells, and after being pointed out by Richard, they made rapid progress.

During this period of time, many witches from the northern countries began to flee here. In just one month, the number of witches gathered in Eisenland has reached 100.

There are also some witches who cannot come here because of the long distance or various reasons. Richard speculated that even if all of them came, there would be at most 150 witches here.

You must know that the population of the entire northern countries exceeds 10 million, but there are only so many female sorcerers left. You must know that there were several sorcerer academies for female sorcerers in the past, with a total of 400 to 500 people.

All these female sorcerers who came to Eisenland agreed to join the witch mutual aid association and learned new spellcasting modes. Most of these witches have a craft.

Some witches know how to grow potions, some are proficient in potion refining, and some are proficient in enchantment. Richard had someone allocate a piece of land nearby as a plantation to grow potions. Give these witches work.

At the same time, he appointed many witches as officials to help him manage Eisenland. These witches have good knowledge and some management skills. It can be said that witches of this era are more competent than 90% of officials.

Richard didn't want to waste time on these complicated affairs, so he assigned those witches to be responsible.

At the same time, Richard also replanned the city. The city used to be unbearable for him. The streets were full of sewage, the roads were muddy, and the air was even more eye-irritating.

The streets were narrow and all kinds of feces were dumped randomly. Richard directly forcibly recruited civilians to renovate the city. The crooked streets were corrected and flattened, the road surface was paved, and the dumping of human and animal feces and various garbage was prohibited, and drainage ditches were dug.

After a month of renovation, the city was finally passable, and the city needed to continue construction. At the same time, after a month of training, the 20,000 troops finally looked like a bit.

Just as Eisenland was developing rapidly, the Kingdom of Aedirn finally completed the assembly of soldiers. In addition to the 10,000 troops recruited by the king, the nobles also brought their own troops, about 10,000.

In addition to these, there were witch hunters, mercenaries and the support of the five northern countries. In the end, the number of troops exceeded 30,000, plus the civilians who transported food. The number of troops exceeded 50,000.

The Kingdom of Aedirn was no more than this.

After completing the assembly of the army, the King of Aedirn led the nobles and led the army to Eisenland. He wanted to annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop, kill all the witches, and shock the southern countries and elves.

The 50,000 troops marched towards Eisenland, and almost all the countries on the continent focused their attention here. Soon the army arrived in Eisenland after a long journey of half a month.

Richard led 10,000 troops, a dozen witches, and hundreds of blood knights to fight.

The two sides were extremely jealous when they met. Those witch hunters, Zoroastrian fanatics and the Knights of the Church shouted to kill all witches and send them to the stake.

"Your Majesty, let me teach those scum a lesson!" Seeing the constant shouting and cursing from the opposite side, Ye Funi was furious. In the past two months, she has ruled a place and held great power, and has cultivated the momentum of a superior.

"Aren't they going to send us to the stake? Then let's send them first." Richard sneered.

He was too lazy to waste time on this level of war. If there were not enough people to manage it, he could conquer the entire continent in three days.

He waved his hand lightly, and the powerful magic power burst out directly. The next second, a phoenix cry resounded through the sky.

—— [Summon the Phoenix! ]

A large amount of elemental energy quickly gathered in the sky, and then these energies instantly burned, and a huge phoenix was born from the infinite flames.

"Oh my god! So beautiful!"

"So powerful!"

"What kind of creature is this?"

"What is that?"

"It's called a phoenix, also known as an immortal bird!" Richard said, and then waved his hand gently, and the flaming phoenix immediately attacked the army of Aedirn.

"Cry!"

A giant bird with a wingspan of more than 20 meters descended from the sky and flew towards the Aedirn army. Countless fireballs fell directly from its wings, and immediately fell into the army formation like a meteor shower.

The flames rose, and countless fireballs fell. The originally neat army formation immediately became a mess. A large number of soldiers wanted to break the flames on their bodies, but these flames were all magical flames and could not be extinguished at all. They could only wait for them to burn out.

And the end of burning out was basically that the whole person was burned.

The phoenix opened its mouth and spit out a flame, and then flew forward all the way. Countless flames rose instantly, directly splitting the army in two, and the flames quickly extended to both sides. Thousands of people were buried in the flames.

The army was in chaos, and countless people wanted to escape. The King of Aedirn desperately ordered archers to shoot, but those arrows could not get close to it at all, and were directly ignited by the high temperature.

After just a few dive attacks, the 50,000-strong army of Aedirn was completely in chaos. Originally, this army was pieced together from all sides. Under such circumstances, they would naturally not obey orders.

Everyone rushed to escape. The flames that kept falling from the sky were like the fire of hell. If they were touched, they would die.

The flaming phoenix dived again, and endless flames fell from him. The entire battlefield was full of flames. The 50,000-strong army had completely collapsed.

Next, Richard directly ordered the army to pursue the enemy and kill all the resistance.

The collapsed Aedirn army ran faster than one another, and did not dare to stop at all. Even a large number of soldiers attacked each other because of the competition for the road. There were countless people trampling on each other and killing each other.

Richard ordered the army to attack, and these collapsed armies dropped their weapons and surrendered one after another, and the civilians on the other side surrendered, and even the army's supplies were not damaged.

Those Eternal Fire believers, fanatics, Knights of the Church, and witch hunters all whipped their whips frantically and tried to escape, but the army was jammed and their speed was not fast enough.

They were soon caught up by the witches' army. Seeing these enemies, how could the witches let them go? They directly ordered the army to take action.

Countless arrows fell, and the gathered fleeing soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Some Knights of the Church wanted to counterattack with armored horses, but they were burned to charcoal by a fireball from the witches the next second, and the steel armor was directly burned into molten iron.

On the other side, seeing the witches chasing them, those people drew their swords and chopped the fleeing soldiers who blocked the road. As a result, those fleeing soldiers also fought back, and the situation became a mess.

Ordinary soldiers surrendered one after another, while the witch hunters and Zoroastrians who had a deep hatred for the nobles and witches fought back desperately. But the entire army had lost all morale, and they were no match for the witches.

What's more, the flaming phoenix in the sky would attack from time to time, scattering a lot of flames. Those people didn't dare to gather together at all, and in the end they could only be divided and defeated and killed.

The whole battle lasted until the evening. Richard's 10,000 troops had almost no casualties, and the Aedian coalition was completely wiped out. Only a few thousand escaped, and the remaining more than 30,000 surrendered. Nearly 10,000 were directly burned to death by the flaming phoenix, and thousands were killed by witches. The rest were all killed by each other and trampled to death.

It can be said that after today's battle, there was almost no force in the whole territory of Aedian that could stop them.

Next, all these captives were escorted to the prisoner-of-war camp. After some screening, all the Zoroastrians, fanatics, and witch hunters were found and killed.

The others were sent to the mines, or repaired roads and built cities.

The main army of the Kingdom of Aedian was annihilated in one battle. Richard immediately ordered the army to advance. He was ready to take the opportunity to occupy the entire Kingdom of Aedian. In this battle, 90% of the kings and nobles of the Kingdom of Aedirn were killed or captured, and the king was burned to death.

Only some cats and dogs ran away when they saw the situation was not good. It can be said that Aedirn now has no power to resist.

Only 5,000 of the 20,000 troops were left to guard the prisoners, and the remaining 15,000 people, led by Richard and the witches, rushed directly to the royal city of Vengerburg.

The army was unstoppable along the way, and all the towns and nobles surrendered. The news of the annihilation of the Aedirn army spread quickly, and with the existence of the fire phoenix, all the rebels were burned to ashes.

There were even many towns that tied up all the Zoroastrians, fanatics, and witch hunters in the town and sent them to the army in order to please the army, just so that the army could forgive them.

A large number of Zoroastrian churches were demolished, and Zoroastrian books were burned. Everyone avoided Zoroastrianism like snakes and scorpions.

The army brought supplies all the way and soon arrived at Vengerburg. At this time, Vengerburg was in chaos. The king died, a large number of senior nobles died, and most of the remaining officials fled.

Even the soldiers in the city surrendered directly after seeing the phoenix in the sky. Richard's army easily occupied the capital of Aedirn without bloodshed.

Next, Richard ordered people to clean up the scum in the capital, and at the same time divided the army into five, each with 3,000 people to clear out all parts of Aedirn. All cities and noble territories in Aedirn must be cleaned up.

All Zoroastrians, witch hunters, fanatics, and the Knights of the Church will be burned to death as soon as they are caught. If cities in various places resist, Richard will directly order the Flame Phoenix to give him a wave of fire rain. The whole city was directly set on fire.

After seeing the fate of the stubborn resisters, no city dared to resist. Even if someone wanted to resist, they would be caught and killed by the civilians in the city.

The army swept all the way, and it could even be said that it was a complete armed parade. All cities and noble territories surrendered one after another.

However, in just three months, the entire Aedirn was completely conquered by Richard.

No one dared to disobey Richard's orders. The witches would not be polite to them and burned them to ashes. For a time, burning became the most popular punishment in Aedirn, but this time it was not the witches who were burned.

The news that Aedirn had fallen in just three months shocked all the countries on the continent. Both the northern countries and the unified Nilfgaard Empire in the south were shocked by the witches' strength.

Although Aedirn was not a big country, the 50,000 coalition forces were real. They were defeated and annihilated in one battle, and even the other side had no casualties, which shocked other countries.

The news of the fire phoenix later made those countries even more frightened.

If it were not for the intelligence personnel who swore to guarantee their lives, they would not believe that the witch could actually summon such a terrifying fire bird.

The giant bird flapped its wings, and fireballs rained down. The flames were like the fire of hell and could not be extinguished at all. A city could be easily destroyed by it.

Moreover, bows and crossbows were completely ineffective against it. They would be burned and melted before they could get close, and anti-magic bombs could not reach the phoenix at all. For a time, these countries were helpless against the fire phoenix.

After seeing that the witch was so powerful, these countries also began to look for witches, wanting to control this power, but after decades of hunting witches in the North, the remaining witches were either hiding or had already escaped, and could not be found at all.

Only in the Church of the Eternal Fire were there some so-called saints. These saints were selected from girls collected from all over the country by the Zoroastrianism. After discovering that they had talents, they were trained to become saints.

But these people also had no way to deal with the fire phoenix. On the other side, the northern countries found the male wizard organization to seek help. It's a pity that the male wizard's spellcasting ability is not as good as that of the witch, and there is no way at all.

The situation in the Kingdom of Nilfgaard in the south was not much better. Nilfgaard found many witches, but there was no way at all.

After Richard annexed Aedirn, he officially announced the establishment of the United Empire of Austrian Magic. At the same time, due to the demise of Aedirn, a large number of hesitant witches saw their strength and began to come to them.