Light Fortress Chapter 1949 - 23: Wind Snow of Gu Castle (Part 2)

They began to communicate with each other.

Recently, several saints took away the "core elites" from various districts of the Southern Continent. This kind of thing is actually quite common and not significant.

But now.

These "core elites" have also disappeared!

Reflecting on the majestic Blazing Light that soared from the Ice Sea a few days ago, the mid-level leaders of the church eventually figured out the truth of this matter.

The Storm Church, carrying the "valuable" fire seeds, has left the Southern Continent.

That soaring Blazing Light was proof of the departure of Lord Divine and the saints.

In other words.

They have been abandoned.

What does abandonment mean? It’s not hard to guess... Now the alliance of the three continents has declared war on the Central Continent, but the first battle has been delayed. It’s clear that both the Central Continent and the "allied forces" are weighing how exactly to begin.

And now... the best battlefield has appeared.

...

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Three days later, a small airship slowly entered the territory of Gu Castle Fortress, where snow filled the sky in a silver-white scene.

The airship hovered.

Lin Lin looked at this fortress that had become a ruin.

Due to the strike of the Heavenly Sheath Weapon, a ten-mile radius of Gu Castle Fortress was isolated by a warning line. This crucial part of the land was painfully severed. The heroic spirits sacrificed in the Source Material Storm had their remains burnt completely by high temperatures, along with eighteen Sky Shield Missiles, including [Mount of Flesh], turned Gu Castle Fortress into a total inferno, though the fire has now extinguished.

Yet the snowflakes drifting toward Lin Lin seemed to still carry a scalding heat.

Lin Lin stood silently before the warning line of the ruins.

He appeared dazed, looking at the snowy wasteland before him, hoping to see a "living" figure, but after standing for a long time, all he saw was swirling snowfall...

In mere days after leaving the fortress, his former comrades had already turned into ashes.

War, is so cruel.

On this airship, there was another person, a woman draped in a cape slowly opened the cabin door and approached Lin Lin.

Purple Rain Commander stood silently with Lin Lin.

"The elite forces of the Third Legion have officially landed on the Southern Continent."

She spoke softly, "The cloud ship from Upper City has also arrived in the western part of the Southern Continent... Currently, the Storm Church has internally divided into three major factions. One faction has pledged unconditional allegiance to us, making the northern landing of the Third Legion last night extremely smooth."

"One faction advocates ceding the western area and compromising with the Source Tower. With the help of this faction, Upper City has established a powerful information blockade in the western part of the Southern Continent."

Among the three factions, there is also a faction that advocates resistance.

They are the fanatical believers of the Storm Church, convinced that the Divine Throne will not abandon them, and that the church is the true ruler of the Southern Continent. Therefore, they refuse any compromise, neither bowing to the Source Tower nor pledging allegiance to the alliance of the three continents... It must be said that this faction has courage, but such behavior is incredibly foolish.

The Southern Continent still seems peaceful for now, but soon war will break out in the interior.

Both the alliance of the three continents and the Source Tower automatically ignore the faction that advocates fierce resistance.

Because before this unprecedentedly grand-scale war, the resistance faction is merely insignificant; they’ve made their choice, and if they choose to position themselves within the crevices of this war, there’s no need to target them deliberately.

If they resist, they’ll be crushed.

"With the premise of testing the opponent’s cards, the Southern Continent War is worth fighting."

Purple Rain said slowly: "But in this battle... we have a great chance of winning."

Due to the successful deployment of the Lion Awakening technology, the long-term strategy of the alliance of the three continents is to drag the war into later stages.

They need time to transform the local Transcendents...

Cut off [Deep Sea], prevent spiritual invasion, and wait for the new generation of Transcendents to grow.

This will take at least ten years.

Now, with the Southern Continent War as a "buffer zone," dragging on until the new generation of Transcendents grows is not a difficult task. By relying on the advantage in numbers to gain the upper hand in the war. By that time, technological monopoly will also be broken, and the alliance of the three continents will have a clean spirit network, not as advanced as the [Deep Sea] but at least usable.

Then, the alliance of the three continents can launch the final offensive against the Central Continent.

Lin Lin listened silently.

He crouched down.

"This war will last for many years, right..."

His hoarse voice scattered in the wind.

Purple Rain Commander remained silent.

This war indeed might last for many years. If a "Divine Throne" could be born within the alliance of the three continents, the progress of this war could be greatly accelerated, but the birth of a Divine Throne... it’s not so easy.

Meng Xizhou gave the estimated time for fire seed melting.

The fastest, it would take five years.

This is just the fastest.

To intervene in the Skytop Divine War of Source Tower and make an impact... Meng Xizhou needs to melt the Light Fire Seed to an extremely high degree. Clearly, [Deep Sea] will not give her this opportunity, being able to participate in the war in five years is already the most optimistic scenario.

Lin Lin grasped a handful of snow-dusted sand, gently asking: "If we had released ’Sky Shield’ a day earlier, would the outcome be different?"

In the earliest meetings, many were worried that releasing Sky Shield would harm the innocent.

But now... the war drags on.

Over a decade of war, how many will die?

How many lives will be worse than death?

Mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.

Purple Rain could not answer this question.

But the next moment, from the snowy dust of Gu Castle Fortress, came a childish sigh.

"Actually, it would not."