Chapter 381: Blood Sacrifice, City Slaughter, and Alliance Law
While Owen was busy building a protective net for his territory, he didn’t know that someone had taken the initiative to invite a wolf into their home.
Compared to the confident and united Northern Glory Alliance, and the North Gate Border City Alliance, which inherited the legacy of the Imperial Border Army, the Northland Noble Alliance not only lacked hard power and foundation, but also faced threats from many external forces. Therefore, they were forced to form a highly centralized alliance, jointly forming an alliance army and jointly funding the construction of public roads and facilities, forcibly uniting the entire alliance.
But an alliance is an alliance after all, and it would be strange if there was no internal strife, especially since in order to successfully form the alliance, the first law passed by the alliance was that private territory was inviolable. This allowed the Northland nobles, all of whom were lords, to join the alliance because only by ensuring their own rights and interests would they contribute money and effort.
However, such a law has a very serious consequence, that is, the alliance law needs to be observed by the alliance, but the alliance law cannot be enforced on the territory of a certain alliance member. In other words, the rights enjoyed by alliance members on their private land are above the alliance, including taxation, military, trial, etc., and this right is also supported and guaranteed by the alliance law.
This is ridiculous. In theory, as long as the alliance members pay taxes to the alliance according to their share, the alliance has no right to interfere in the territory of the alliance members in any way, even the nominal noble council of the alliance.
If the outside world is always under great pressure or in a state of war, it may be better. The problem is that the northern neighbor, the Northern Glory Alliance, has not moved or fought for thirty years. Unless they are actively provoked, they won’t even lift a finger. You can say that such an object is a threat, but the key is that someone has to believe it.
The Northland Noble Alliance does not need votes, and the decisions are made by the noble lords, so it is not so easy to fool them, so it won’t work.
As for the Northland Barbarian Tribe, they are almost finished, and they are blocked by the Northern Glory Alliance, so they can’t become a threat.
The threat of the Barbarian Kingdom is real and great, but it is too far away and accumulates strength slowly. It will not be able to gather enough strength to go south for ten or twenty years. In addition, it is almost the enemy of the entire Northland, so it can be ignored most of the time.
Only the threat of the North Gate Border City Alliance is real, but with the Northern Glory Alliance and the Barbarian Kingdom, they dare not invade on a large scale, for fear of being caught by the other side and invaded. Moreover, the south of the North Gate Border City Alliance is next to the Hundred Cities Alliance, which is a terrifying behemoth, and no one dares to take it lightly.
Therefore, the Northern Noble Alliance is actually very safe and has no great threat. Although they were worried in the early years and formed an alliance, they have lived in peace for 30 years, which inevitably leads to negligence from top to bottom. In the case that the foreign enemy does not come to fight and the active attack cannot be defeated, the internal contradictions and struggles of the alliance naturally increase day by day, and even unscrupulous means are used.
Not long ago, someone discovered Fel, and for some reason, they took the initiative to spread Fel in their own city and even attracted some Fel Skaven. As a result, things immediately got out of control.
The other party originally just wanted to achieve a certain goal through the small-scale spread of Fel, but he never expected that a group of Ratmen would make him stumble so badly.
Compared to the rough usage of those who have just discovered Fel, the Fel Skaven, who have been immersed in Fel since birth, are no different from natural Fel users.
Moreover, the Fel Secret Realm was shattered. Although the Fel Skaven were not extinct, they were also greatly injured and eager to recover their strength. So what better way is there than to devour the life of a city with Fel? So the original small-scale flu turned into a large-scale plague.
As for agreeing to the conditions of a certain human, hehe, they are Fel Skaven, how can they abide by the agreement?
The ecstatic Fel Skaven are like rats carrying the plague, spreading Fel crazily in the city, causing more and more people to be infected with Fel and become more and more distorted. The entire city inevitably fell into chaos.
After the baptism of the undead and demons, the residents of the Northland have long known how much trouble these mutated people will cause. The best way is to kill them with swords and burn them to ashes with fire, so they decisively raised their butcher knives at anyone with green eyes.
But Fel did not disappear, because once infected, Fel will continue to devour life and grow itself. Death is nothing more than letting Fel leave the host and increase the concentration of Fel in a certain area, which makes it more convenient for the Fel Skaven to drive Fel to infect more people.
Fel is rapidly spreading by devouring vitality, causing large-scale pollution. However, the Secret Realm where the Fel Skaven were before was too closed, and they are still novices in the aspect of blood sacrifice and city slaughter, so in a short period of time, it only caused huge panic. It’s too early to really devour a city with Fel.
However, the appearance of Fel and the chaos it caused attracted the people from the Demon’s Head and the Flesh and Blood Church. These two are veterans of rebellion and blood sacrifice, and even the undead blood sacrifice of the Barbarian Kingdom is not as smooth as they are, so the damage caused is much greater than Fel.
The three deadly forces are mixed and fermented in a city, and the impact is not comparable to that of a single force. Even the people from the Demon’s Head and the Flesh and Blood Church did not expect Fel’s talent in this aspect to be so amazing, and they suddenly became very interested.
Such a big commotion certainly cannot be hidden from people. The merchants who come and go will spread the news, not to mention the people who are still alive in the city will also ask for help from the outside world.
But with the spread of Fel, the city slaughter and blood sacrifice have already begun, so it is not so easy to stop. Now, except for the Barbarian Kingdom and the Barbarian Tribe, the entire Northland has been alarmed, and they have all turned their attention to this matter.
This unfortunate city is not far from the cities of Ferrier and Solari, only a few dozen miles apart, which made the two of them very nervous. They immediately mobilized their troops to the border line, preparing to set up a defense line in the direction close to the other party’s city.
Both of their armies are semi-firearm armies, not only equipped with a large number of muskets, but also carrying many cannons, which are far more advantageous than cold weapon troops in fighting defensive battles. This is also the reason why the two decided to deploy defenses on the border line because they did not want to fight the enemy in their own city.
Every Northland noble will expand their territory around the city as the center, so most Northland nobles border each other. In order to avoid conflicts and disputes, a clear border line has become a necessity.
After ordering the army to deploy defenses on the border line, Ferrier and Solari went to each other’s city with a small number of elite troops.
When they witnessed the green Fel spreading in the city with their own eyes, heard the devil’s wild laughter, and saw the flesh twitching as if it had an independent consciousness, their faces changed drastically, and they immediately led their troops back twenty miles.
In fact, if the two of them were cruel enough to attack the city immediately regardless of casualties, it is possible to interrupt the city slaughter and blood sacrifice. In fact, it is impossible, not because their army cannot enter, but because it is not allowed and illegal.
