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Half an hour before Medici drank the "Conqueror" potion, Hobert sat on a mountain in the south of Caesar Harbor, looking out at the distant harbor.
Beverly and her younger sibling, wearing matching "Order Crystal" jade pendants, arrived first, followed by Sharron, a delicate-featured "Ancient Bane," and Christian, with a solemn expression, and finally, the Sanguine Duke Olmer.
Originally, Hobert had also planned to invite "Old Huang" to help, but since the "Pale Empress" had already been eliminated by the Evernight Goddess, there was no need to invite another Sequence 1.
The five angels silently looked towards Caesar Harbor, waiting for Hobert to issue his orders.
At this moment, Trunsoest's figure suddenly appeared in the air not far away. He smiled and said, "I think we should have one last talk."
"There's nothing to talk about," Hobert said coldly. "When you planned to revive in the body of your descendant, there was nothing left for us to discuss."
Trunsoest still maintained his smile: "Don't be so absolute. Although the orthodox churches support you, there are many, many beings in this universe that are even more powerful than the orthodox gods."
Hobert sarcastically said, "Do you feel honored to be a lackey of the Outer Deities?"
Trunsoest said, "All of this is your doing."
Hobert finally stood up: "You're just comforting yourself! Every time you say you want to talk to me, but you never show any sincerity.
"It's as if I've driven you to a dead end and don't plan to let you go."
"I must admit, you are an eloquent 'lawyer'," Trunsoest said with a smile. "Don't you think I haven't made any preparations during this time, right?"
After speaking, a mass of sticky hair appeared in his hand. After infusing spirituality into the hair, the strands stood up and connected together, forming a rectangle taller than a person.
This rectangle suddenly became illusory, turning into a full-length mirror.
A figure emerged from it, whose face could not be seen clearly, but everyone's spirituality felt that it was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Each strand of her hair was like a venomous snake, with an eye on the top, either open or closed. Everything living that they saw would instantly turn into grayish-white stone.
It was "Primordial Demoness" Cheek!
The angels behind Hobert didn't dare to look directly at this god, otherwise they would also be petrified.
Her arrival was not surprising.
In the next moment, the surrounding plants and creatures that had turned into stone suddenly broke open from the middle, and strange creatures crawled out from inside like chicks breaking out of their shells.
Some had the head of a rat and the body of a rabbit, some had the limbs of a pig but the head of a sheep, and the sheep's horns were two branches.
Some stones had plants growing out of them, and insects or small animals grew on the positions of the plant's leaves, looking very hideous and terrifying.
Immediately afterward, a hazy figure appeared opposite Cheek. This figure quickly solidified. It was Lilith, who had easily accommodated the Uniqueness!
Similarly, Lilith's appearance was not surprising.
At the same time as Lilith appeared, a torrent of information appeared not far from Trunsoest. Finally, this stream of information converged into a beam of light that seemed to have no substance.
As soon as He appeared, the petrified creatures and the mutated creatures that crawled out of the rocks immediately turned into clusters of information streams.
This was the "Hidden Sage"!
His appearance surprised Hobert somewhat, but after thinking about it, it wasn't too surprising. After all, Hobert and Klein had rescued Roselle, so the two sides were bound to be on opposite sides.
At this moment, a mysterious and powerful being sitting on a high-backed chair appeared in the air behind Hobert. He slowly stood up and stepped in front of the "Hidden Sage".
All the objects that had been turned into information suddenly turned into clusters of flowers and patches of lawn.
This was a miracle created by "The Fool"!
Hobert smiled and asked Trunsoest: "Is that all? I don't even need to invite the orthodox gods!"
In fact, Trunsoest had also invited Adam and Amon, but at this time, Adam had already gone to the "Forsaken Land of the Gods" to "meet" the "True Creator".
And after Amon became a god, he was no longer interested in containing the Atlantis Kingdom.
Moreover, he was at a critical moment of accommodating the Uniqueness of the "Door" pathway, so of course he wouldn't be distracted by the affairs of the Southern Continent.
After being said that by Hobert, Trunsoest's smile gradually became gloomy: "This is enough!"
Because these enemies were not something Hobert could eliminate immediately, they would definitely give Hobert a headache for a long time!
Then Trunsoest took a stance and rushed towards Hobert from the air. He held a ball of gorgeous and colorful mist in his hands, preparing to fight Hobert to the death!
Beside him, "Abomination" Suah, the two angels of the Numinous Episcopate, and an angel brought by the Hidden Sage also followed up after appearing.
In an instant, a battle at the level of angels unfolded!
Beverly and her younger sibling were still fighting the only Sequence 1, Suah, while the other six angels chose their opponents and engaged in a melee.
But in fact, the most crucial thing was still the battle between Hobert and Trunsoest, the two Kings of Angels.
Facing Trunsoest's attack, Hobert's doppelganger reached out as if grabbing something in the void.
Trunsoest had a smile on his face, because he was waiting for Hobert to grab the "0-80" Book of Law. The colorful mist from the "Uncertain Mist" in his hand was prepared to capture the Uniqueness of the "Justiciar" pathway.
In the eyes of the Evernight Goddess, Trunsoest seemed to have completely leaned towards the "Uncertain Mist", but this "Night Emperor" who had been polluted by the "Uncertain Mist" knew very well how to "get along" with "Uncertain Mist".
Currently, he was only using the "Uncertain Mist" to achieve his own goals.
As long as he obtained the "Justiciar" Uniqueness, no matter how polluted he was by Hobert, he planned to immediately accommodate it, in order to gain the capital to bargain with Hobert.
This was also the situation that the "Uncertain Mist" was willing to see, so even though he knew that Trunsoest was using him, he was willing to provide some help.
But what surprised Trunsoest was that Hobert took out a wheat stalk with gorgeous colors from the "Nation of Disorder".
But that didn't matter, because the mist in Trunsoest's hand could also suppress the Uniqueness of the "Black Emperor" pathway.
But in the next second, Trunsoest found that he couldn't move at all.
The wheat in Hobert's hand was emitting a dazzling light. He smiled and said, "Don't you think I haven't made any preparations during this time, right?
"Have you forgotten? Your current body was shaped with the help of the 'Mother'! Hahahaha!"
After Hobert laughed twice, he pinched the wheat in his hand, turning it into a dazzling light.
At the same time, Trunsoest also seemed to be pinched by someone. In his surprise, his body became very illusory and gradually disappeared.
Of course, he knew that there might be a "trap" left by the Earth Mother in his body, but he had used the power of "Order" to reconstruct himself several times. Why was he still affected?
What Trunsoest didn't know was that the Earth Mother had once controlled the "Moon" Uniqueness. Even if he gained "new life" through reconstructing himself, he still couldn't escape the Earth Mother's authority.
But it was too late to say anything at this time. His physical body disappeared, and he was at an absolute disadvantage from the beginning of the battle.
Hobert didn't take it lightly because of this, but instead indulged his spirituality to expand. His size also increased, becoming as huge as a giant.
At the same time, his majesty filled the earth, and the surrounding humans spontaneously knelt down, and even animals and plants within hundreds of kilometers showed their submission to Hobert.
Hobert was surrounded by a strong black aura, which gradually condensed into breastplates, shoulder pads, knee pads, etc., and finally formed a heavy and majestic armor.
Whoosh—
The black cloak spread out, and an outfit different from the culture of this world showed a certain degree of submission to the surrounding natural laws.
The surrounding angels were also affected and had to move their battlefield to a farther distance.
This was the first time Hobert showed his Mythical Creature form, because he felt that the mist in Trunsoest's hand was very unusual.
At the same time, Trunsoest's body turned into a wisp of spirituality again. This body was shaped by the Earth Mother using a wisp of Erebus's spirituality.
The two Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics of "Hand of Order" in Trunsoest's body began to precipitate from the air around that wisp of spirituality.
Hobert was about to speed up the precipitation when a mist-like hand stretched out from the void and grabbed the two Beyonder characteristics that were about to take shape.
Trunsoest allowed himself to instantly transform into a Wraith and once again devoured the two Sequence 1 characteristics that had a strong connection with him.
At the same time, because it was affected by the "Uncertain Mist", its overall form was that of a misty human figure, with only its eyes resembling two red light bulbs.
This action caused Trunsoest to almost lose all reason. Currently, it only had one thought: to attack Hobert.
However, it didn't have much reason, so it didn't use the mist obtained from the "Uncertain Mist". Instead, it used the Beyonder abilities of the "Justiciar" pathway to attack Hobert.
Only then did Hobert's Mythical Creature form take out the "Book of Law" from the "Nation of Disorder".
He did not open this Sealed Artifact, but strengthened the "connection" between the "Book of Law" and the two Sequence 1 characteristics.
Evil Spirits are different from Beyonders. They are only borrowing the power of those two characteristics, but they don't have as close a connection with the characteristics as Beyonders do. They are merely using the power of the characteristics.
Therefore, after Hobert used the ability of "Connection", the connection between the two Beyonder characteristics and the Evil Spirit had problems. Immediately, both sides fell into a state of tug-of-war.
The Trunsoest Evil Spirit had to stop attacking and try to control the two Beyonder characteristics.
The avatar stepped forward and, with the hand not holding the "Book of Law", reached into the Evil Spirit's body and pulled out the two Beyonder characteristics!
However, the mist that made up the Trunsoest Evil Spirit also mutated the avatar, giving rise to the thought of betraying Hobert.
Therefore, Hobert terminated the existence of this avatar. A new avatar appeared, one hand catching the "Book of Law", the other holding the two "Hand of Order" Beyonder characteristics.
Without the influence of the Beyonder characteristics, the Trunsoest Evil Spirit immediately regained some reason. Without thinking, it turned around and ran.
In its current state, hiding somewhere would still make it a high-level Evil Spirit!
But Hobert certainly wouldn't let it go. The avatar first put the two "Hand of Order" characteristics back into the "Nation of Disorder", and then, holding the "Sword of Disorder", slashed upwards. Although it didn't touch the Evil Spirit, the Trunsoest Evil Spirit had already begun to collapse.
In Trunsoest's shrill cries, its spirit body completely dissipated.
Because it was currently in the state of an Evil Spirit, this great figure of the Fourth Epoch didn't even leave a last word.
Hobert habitually said, "Rest in peace, Night Emperor!"
Immediately afterwards, where the Trunsoest Evil Spirit disappeared, that mass of mist flowed and turned into a ball, like a small cloud floating there.
Originally, its purpose was to suppress the Uniqueness, lacking sufficient reason. Now that there was no intelligent being to use it, this cloud of mist seemed a little at a loss.
For safety's sake, Hobert did not absorb this cloud of mist. Instead, he manipulated the power of the "Nation of Disorder" to dissipate it.
At this time, the battle between the "Primordial Demoness" and Lilith and the other four had already stopped. The "Primordial Demoness" and the "Hidden Sage" did not expect Trunsoest to die so quickly!
Therefore, from the beginning, they had been choosing to wait and see.
Lilith and Klein certainly knew their psychology, so they didn't take the initiative to attack, but quietly confronted them.
When Trunsoest was eliminated, the "Primordial Demoness" immediately transformed into a mirror and shattered and disappeared in an instant.
The "Hidden Sage" also left with the angels of the Moses Ascetic Order. Suah and the two angels of the Numinous Episcopate also wanted to run, but the former was "distorted" in his thoughts by Hobert, and the latter two were blocked by Hobert's released "Hundred-Eyed Devil Monarch" and the other three helpers.
Hobert would never let these three guys go.
After Hobert simply thanked Lilith and "The Fool", he remained in his Mythical Creature state and rushed towards the "Abomination" Suah, intending to first eliminate this lackey of the Outer God.
Lilith and "The Fool" saw that they didn't need their help here, so they left one after another.
When Suah saw Hobert rushing towards him, his eyes narrowed, as if he had made some determination. His whole body swelled up and expanded, becoming bloated and tens of meters tall.
Beverly and Raymond's spirituality had a strong warning of danger, and they immediately chose to retreat temporarily.
Tear—
Suah's viscous skin was cut open like a piece of cloth by some sharp weapon. Inside was not flesh and bones, but a bizarre towering tree!
Suah's skin was thrown on the ground like a rag and quickly turned into nourishment for the "Bizarre Tree".
The branches and leaves of the "Bizarre Tree" spread out, with eyes full of bloodshot on the branches, and tongues with sharp teeth. In place of the leaves on the branches were skulls, mouths with only teeth and no lips.
On the highest branch grew two eyes full of malice. These eyes belonged to Suah. Once he entered this state of the "Bizarre Tree", he might not be able to maintain his self all the time, and he might not be able to return to his original state.
The state of the "Bizarre Tree" was not a true Mythical Creature state of the "Chained". This state made the spirituality of the two angels, Beverly and her brother, feel uncomfortable.
"Get behind me," said Hobert's avatar in Mythical Creature state.
Beverly and her brother breathed a sigh of relief and retreated again.
At this time, the mouths without lips on Suah's branches opened together, uttering a common silent curse.
Hobert's avatar suddenly turned into a goat wearing black armor. Hobert did not immediately end the summoning of the avatar, but ordered the "Goat" to rush up fiercely. The two goat horns turned black, which was the "Sword of Disorder"!
The "Goat" rammed into the "Bizarre Tree", knocking the towering tree down at the waist. Only then did Hobert break the connection with the avatar, and the "Goat" quickly disappeared into the void.
Crack—
The "Bizarre Tree" broke off a branch on its own, which fell to the ground and quickly rotted, but the wound that had been broken at the waist healed.
Hobert entered the "Shadow of Order" again, and had the avatar raise a hand and build an "Air Furnace" around the "Bizarre Tree". Raymond was quick-witted and immediately threw a wall of fire into the "Furnace". Hobert's avatar immediately "enlarged" it, preparing to burn the tree to death.
However, the flames that burned in the air were immediately affected by the "Bizarre Tree" and turned eerie green, with no temperature at all.
Hobert did not continue to attack actively. At this time, he was not in a hurry at all. Anyway, Suah would not be able to escape, and he could slowly look for an opportunity to kill him.
At this time, four balls of flame flew from the north, and finally formed four figures in the distance. Immediately afterwards, a "Underworld Gate" opened, and a "Death Consul" walked out from inside.
Two more "Balancers" stepped from a distance.
They were the angels of the northern continent countries.
The angels behind Hobert immediately adjusted their state. The three "tool people" were in the front, making a defensive posture. Beverly and her brother, and the Sanguine duke Olmer also stepped forward to confront the other side.
Sharron and Christian continued to deal with the two injured "Death Consuls".
Hobert's avatar continued to confront the "Bizarre Tree", and Hobert himself also looked towards the northern continent countries' angels.
Alexei Einhorn, dressed in classical clothes, took two steps forward and said, "Honorable King of Atlantis, we have no malice and only want to help you deal with these common enemies of mankind."
Suah's reason was not much at this time. Hearing this, it was nothing, but the two "Death Consuls" immediately felt a chill in their hearts, knowing that they had been completely abandoned.
While Hobert's avatar was "twisting" Suah's thoughts of escaping, he coldly said, "I'm afraid your purpose is not just to help, right?"
Alexei took a deep breath: "Please spare some of our mercenaries. Our three countries are willing to submit to Atlantis."
The soldiers of the northern continent countries all participated in the war on the southern continent as mercenaries.
If these mercenaries all died on the southern continent, or were captured, the news that the official Beyonder forces of the northern continent countries was very weak would soon be known to everyone, and then the rule of each country might be difficult to maintain.
If the elite of the army were all buried on the southern continent, the Feysac royal family and the Loen royal family, and the Intis parliament would likely be overthrown, which forced them to come to the southern continent to plead.
Hobert's avatar asked knowingly, "Why did the mercenaries of the northern continent appear on the southern continent?"
Before the other party could answer, Hobert said again: "Do you think now is an opportunity to threaten me? Mr. Fool and the 'Sanguine Ancestor' have already invited me once and sent me away. Suah has also entangled me, so I have to agree to your conditions?"
"Haha!" Hobert suddenly smiled, and then coldly ordered: "Kill them all!"
Alexei almost begged: "Please wait a moment, we can continue to talk."
The "tool people" and Beverly immediately launched a charge against the angels of the northern continent. They were very clear that the six angels on their side were not the opponents of the enemy, but they also knew that Hobert could not let them die.
Hobert's doppelganger coldly stated, "It's too late. Since your mercenaries came to the Southern Continent, we have already been enemies. After the official start of the war, you have lost the qualification to negotiate with me."
As he spoke, Hobert, within the "shadow," crushed a glass bottle containing a glimmer of light. This light instantly transformed into a stream of information, disappearing into the void.
The next second, Roselle and Bernadette arrived on the battlefield. After a brief observation, Roselle immediately rushed towards Alexei.
Bernadette also found an opponent and immediately joined the battle.
Hobert no longer paid attention to that side, withdrawing his focus to concentrate on dealing with Suah.
In the short time he had been speaking, the evil aura emanating from Suah had caused varying degrees of mutation or cursing to the creatures within dozens of kilometers.
Suah had also been trying to escape, so Hobert simply "tampered" with the state of the surrounding spirit world, temporarily preventing it from opening any entrances to the real world.
At the same time, he kept "twisting" Suah's thoughts of escape. In the face of a King of Angels in mythical creature form, Suah had no power to resist.
Hobert's doppelganger had been observing Suah for a while, and on the surface, there seemed to be no flaws.
However, the branches "picking" skeletons reminded Hobert of the bone-white, thorned staff of high level Suah had previously possessed.
He suspected that Suah's current state was related to that thorned staff.
Finally, Hobert turned his gaze to Suah's tree trunk.
The doppelganger immediately took action, forming a "Domain of Shadows" around itself and approaching Suah.
The "Domain of Shadows" almost completely blocked Suah's curses, roars, corrosion, spiritual solidification, and other attacks.
The doppelganger came to the trunk, and Suah's other branches immediately surrounded it, as if to "hug" it.
However, when these branches approached the doppelganger, they would always move backward when moving forward, and upward when moving downward, always completely missing the doppelganger.
The doppelganger, holding the 'Sword of Disorder,' pierced the tree trunk. After slicing upward, the black, viscous bark revealed the bone-white, thorned staff inside.
Suah seemed to realize Hobert's purpose, and the bone-white thorns struck the doppelganger like a club.
The doppelganger raised the longsword to block, but the bone-white thorns shattered the 'Sword of Disorder' and directly struck Hobert's doppelganger.
The moment the doppelganger was struck by a vicious curse, Hobert emerged from the "shadow," and the doppelganger disappeared.
Hobert raised his hand, and a tremendous force snatched the bone-white thorns from Suah's "hand." Hobert immediately sealed it with an 'Order Crystal' and wrapped it with the "cloak" formed by his spirituality on his back.
All the mouths on Suah's body opened, emitting screams filled with unwillingness and rage!
Gradually, the tree transformed back into a human shape. Hobert re-entered the "shadow," and the doppelganger stepped forward, re-summoning the 'Sword of Disorder' and beheading the now very weak Suah.
Suah's spirit struggled to reach the spirit world, but Hobert's doppelganger struck again with a backhand sword, completely killing this "Abomination's" spirit.
In just this short time, Suah's Beyonder characteristics had combined with his hand bones to form a sealed artifact.
Hobert collected the two spoils and "tampered" with the mutations and curses caused by Suah, restoring the surrounding area to normal.
He also decomposed Suah's corpse, which was a curse in itself. Surprisingly, his strangely shaped liver had formed a Grade 1 sealed artifact.
Immediately afterward, Hobert did not linger. The doppelganger "tampered" with a "Death Consul," changing him from "1" to "0." The angel instantly vanished, leaving only his Beyonder characteristics behind.
This was not an ability like "exile," but rather a "tampering" with the person of the "Death Consul"!
However, because the Beyonder characteristics of an angel level were difficult to "tamper" with, and it was impossible to "tamper" them into a state of "nothingness," only his Beyonder characteristics remained in place.
It was precisely because Hobert had noticed the loopholes between Beyonder characteristics and the real world that he had thought of this method of attack.
The doppelganger immediately stepped forward and collected the Beyonder characteristics.
At this time, Hobert's "tampering" effect ended, and the "Death Consul" returned from "0" to "1," reappearing in the real world.
However, because he had lost his Beyonder characteristics, he instantly lost control and was killed by the doppelganger with a single sword.
Immediately afterward, the doppelganger used the ability of "Disorder" on another "Death Consul." The target was immediately surrounded by "Disorder," raising his hand became raising his foot, using Beyonder abilities became turning his head, finally using a Beyonder power, but not the one he wanted to use!
Soon, he was killed in the encirclement of Hobert's doppelganger, Sharron, and Christian.
After these two enemies were dealt with, they went together to Roselle and the others' side.
Alexei and the other seven angels had no intention of fighting after the negotiations broke down and immediately turned around to run. Fortunately, Roselle and his daughter arrived in time, or they would have escaped.
At this time, seeing that Hobert was also coming to join the siege, Dlink Augustus, the "Balancer" of the Loen Kingdom, shouted loudly, "Our two countries have never declared war on each other. Even if the negotiations fail, it shouldn't be to the point of driving us to extinction, right?"
Hobert sneered, "I think you are used to being arrogant and have forgotten how to beg.
"If you want to negotiate, sending one person is enough. Coming with so many people is obviously a show of force!"
He snorted, "Now you know how to reason? When you were flaunting your power just now, why didn't you reason with us?"
Dlink suddenly didn't know what to say. Of course, they also knew that it was best to send one or two people to negotiate, but who to send became a big problem.
They were very clear that whether this negotiation was successful or not, it would be fraught with danger, so none of the angels from any country were willing to come.
Moreover, their timing of arrival was not very good. If they had arrived when Trunsoest had not yet been killed, Hobert would have prioritized killing Trunsoest and Suah, and perhaps he would have really talked to them.
But coming after Trunsoest's death, in Hobert's view, they were just sending characteristics.
Alexei was more pragmatic, loudly saying while resisting Roselle's attacks, "The Feysac Empire is willing to offer a Grade 0 sealed artifact in exchange for our departure."
Hobert did not immediately join the battle. He suddenly realized that this was an opportunity to completely digest the potion, so he coldly said, "Okay, but only one Sequence 2 can go back. You choose who goes back."
Alexei felt his scalp tingle, "Don't go too far. The gods are watching in the Astral World!"
He didn't know if the gods were watching this side in the Astral World, but he suspected that such an important war would definitely be watched by the gods.
Hobert's doppelganger sneered, "I see, it seems like none of you want to leave."
The doppelganger stepped forward and besieged Alexei with Roselle. The doppelganger first used the ability of "Disorder" on him. The attacks of this "Conqueror" became chaotic, the "Conqueror's Sword" in his hand turned into a charming flower, and the "fireball" thrown casually turned into fireworks.
Roselle took the opportunity to stuff a large amount of knowledge into his brain. Alexei was immediately stunned, his brain constantly analyzing the massive amount of knowledge.
Hobert's doppelganger reached out and "distorted" this "Conqueror" into a ball.
The outstretched hand grabbed hard, and he was instantly squeezed to explode.
Alexei's spirit was somewhat flustered. In the mythical creature state of a King of Angels, it was difficult for him to escape.
So he also wanted to transform into a mythical creature state. Although he no longer had a physical body, performing such an operation was very easy to lose control, but now there was no time to think so much, he would rush out first.
But soon Alexei discovered that his spirituality was leaking rapidly like a deflated airship!
This was because Hobert's doppelganger had used the ability of "tampering." Alexei's spirituality used to transform into a mythical creature state was all overflowing to the surroundings, not a trace of it was used in the right place.
At this time, the doppelganger made a "tearing" motion, and Alexei's spirit was instantly torn apart, and the Beyonder characteristics quickly precipitated.
After cleanly resolving an Archangel, the other six angels immediately compromised and were willing to offer a Grade 0 sealed artifact in exchange for one Sequence 2 to return home.
Hobert only gave them ten seconds to discuss. After ten seconds, one Sequence 2 from each country left the encirclement.
Looking at their lonely figures, Hobert shouted, "From now on, without my permission, none of your three countries are allowed to have Sequence 1!"
The three leaving angels were shocked, immediately feeling that it would have been better if they had been the ones to die.
In an instant, Hobert felt his spirituality become more lively, and the opposition between the potion and him completely disappeared. He had finally digested the 'Prince of Abolition' potion!
The three remaining angels had no fighting spirit at all and were soon killed.
After thanking Roselle and her father, Hobert immediately rushed to the military camp and displayed his Mythical Creature form in the direction of the Allied Forces' retreat.
Most of the Allied Forces' Beyonders who fled suffered severe shocks to their spiritual bodies and spirits, dying or becoming mentally deceased as a result.
The remaining small portion knelt on the ground, not daring to move.
When Medici led the pursuing troops and caught up, everyone's first reaction was to salute Hobert, but soon, Hobert retracted his power and disappeared from mid-air.
"Get up, you fools!" Medici said, "The King has already stopped all the deserters for us. Go, kill them!"
A Beyonder said, "Commander, but... but they have all surrendered."
Medici slapped the Beyonder on the head: "Pig brain! Have you forgotten my words so quickly! There are no prisoners in Beyonder wars!"
In the following days, under Medici's command, the Atlantis army launched flanking maneuvers and encirclements, eventually surrounding over 400,000 people with just over 100,000.
A large portion of these 400,000 people were elites from the Feysac Empire and Intis elites who had fled during the previous World War. This time, they had no chance of escaping the Southern Continent.
The Allied Forces' Beyonders were basically all officers. Now that the Beyonders were dead, these 400,000 people had essentially lost their command system and began to show widespread signs of surrender.
These soldiers no longer had any desire to fight, and the vast majority would choose to surrender. However, with over 400,000 people, it would take several days just to capture and arrange the prisoners.
Therefore, Medici transferred the main force previously stationed in the Balam Empire to quickly move north and occupy northern ports such as Caesar Harbor, to prevent a large outflow of local wealth.
At the same time, he transferred 30,000 troops to East Balam, telling the colonial army there that nobles from the Paz Kingdom had fled to East Balam and they needed to search across the border.
Now that the Loen Kingdom itself was struggling to survive, it had no energy to manage its colonies.
Thus, 30,000 Atlantis troops entered East Balam under the pretext of searching and occupied it.
With this, the Southern Continent was unified again, all incorporated into the territory of Atlantis.
...
Hobert stood on the summit, watching the Beyonder war come to an end. At the same time, he also knew that although the war was no longer in doubt, it would still take some time to occupy those major cities.
So Hobert returned to Angel City, rested briefly, and entered the "Nation of Disorder" to check the spoils of this battle.
Starting with the spoils from the Balam Empire, there was a Sealed Artifact in the form of a translucent liquid. Hobert could sense its living characteristics, its level slightly higher than Sequence 1, a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact.
Its main ability was to turn natural water into part of its body. Given enough time, the sea could even become its body.
At the same time, it could pollute the water, turning it into a deadly poison with lethal and hallucinogenic properties.
This was the first time Hobert had obtained a high-level Sealed Artifact from the cosmos. Most of the time, it had little corruption, but it was hard to say what would happen if it encountered arrangements related to the "Mother Goddess of Depravity", so it should be used with caution.
Coincidentally, the original first Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, the "Creation Bracelet", had been shattered into Beyonder characteristics. Hobert gave the "Creation Bracelet's" number to this Sealed Artifact, naming it "0-70" Cosmic Fantasy.
Then there were the two "Hands of Order" Beyonder characteristics from Trunsoest, which were temporarily useless, so they were casually placed with the Angel-level Beyonder characteristics.
The Sealed Artifact formed by Suah A had the main abilities of malice and curse, and was named "0-75" Hand of Curses by Hobert.
The original "0-75" was also shattered into Beyonder characteristics for Klein to use for advancement.
Suah A's bone-white thorns also had the level of a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, but it also needed to be used with caution, and was eventually named "0-76" Vicious Thorns.
The original "0-76" was shattered into Beyonder characteristics for Medici to use.
This battle was a great harvest. Not only were three Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts captured, but also many Angel-level Beyonder characteristics were obtained.
Among them, Hobert planned to continue investing in Medici in the future with the "Conqueror" Beyonder characteristic.
As for the other Beyonder characteristics, the "Death Consul" characteristic from the Intis Republic was suspected to be the relic of a Balam Empire Angel who fell in the Northern Continent during the Fourth Epoch.
Because the Intis Republic had experienced a revolution, their Archangel state was very poor, so they had to use this Sealed Artifact to promote a "Death Consul", after all, "Hunter" and "Corpse Collector" were interchangeable pathways.
The "Weather Warlock" characteristic from the Feysac Empire and the "Balancer" characteristic from the Loen Kingdom were nothing special.
After sorting out the spoils, Hobert returned to the real world and ordered the forces in the rear to receive the massive wealth from the large amount of territory.
Even though preparations had been made in advance, there was still a serious shortage of manpower.
So Hobert ordered the activation of a batch of prisoners of war, not prisoners of war from this war, but prisoners of war from the previous World War in the Northern Continent.
Although these prisoners of war were mainly Intis, they had basically received general education.
After the spring plowing, Hobert realized that there might not be enough manpower after the end of the war, so he began to have this group of prisoners of war learn Loen language and Loen writing, and their learning speed was definitely faster than that of the local natives.
Moreover, they had lived in Atlantis for more than half a year and had a certain understanding of the system here, and could temporarily send those who wanted to stay in the Southern Continent to the grassroots level.
It was precisely because they had received general education that they understood that there were more opportunities in the current Atlantis Kingdom, and the advancement mechanism was more transparent.
So some of the prisoners of war already had plans to stay here, and the large amount of territory acquired this time undoubtedly gave them a good opportunity.
In the following half month, the war in the Southern Continent was finally completed.
At the same time, the Loen Kingdom sent Alice as a special envoy and Earl Hall as a deputy envoy to negotiate with the Atlantis Kingdom.
Saying it was a negotiation was actually to pay tribute.
Georgina, who usually served as the deputy envoy, was not in this delegation because she died in the recently concluded Beyonder war. When Hobert saw her body from afar, he still felt a little emotional.
Immediately afterwards, the Feysac Empire also sent a delegation, saying that they were willing to change the "Empire" to a "Kingdom" and were willing to be a vassal state of Atlantis from now on.
Finally, the delegation from the Intis Republic came and also stated that "the Republic will be a reliable subordinate of Atlantis in the Northern Continent."
Of course they would submit, because the total number of official Beyonders from these three countries commanded by the royal family, nobles, and parliament was less than half of that of the Atlantis Kingdom.
Moreover, they had almost no demigods among them, and the difference in quality was even greater.
Hobert let Audrey talk to them throughout the process, but he demanded that he did not want war reparations in this war, as long as the countries did not restrict the families of prisoners of war from immigrating to the Southern Continent.
There were currently more than 700,000 Northern Continent prisoners of war in Atlantis, most of whom were young adults who had received general education, and Hobert would not easily let them go back.
However, it was possible to bring their families here. The Atlantis Kingdom currently needed this labor force and their knowledge very much. If they were willing to stay here, they would have a good life after only two or three years of operation.
When Audrey read out the King's request, the envoys of the three countries breathed a long sigh of relief. Although the Atlantis Kingdom had not declared war on them in this war, they were afraid that Hobert would ask them for war reparations.
The countries of the Northern Continent were really out of money now.
After handing over Angel CIty to Audrey, Hobert came to Caesar Harbor again. He announced to the soldiers and officials here: "Half a month later, I will hold a coronation ceremony in the palace of the Paz Kingdom."
Seeing that everyone did not react for a while, he explained again: "I am going to be crowned Emperor!"
Only then did everyone seem to come back to their senses and cheer! That is to say, Atlantis was going to become an Empire!
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