On the other side, the Kingdom's army did fight, but the two sides only met outside the city. It can be seen that the Kingdom's army was prepared to fight with a force ten times theirs, but when they saw the dozen or so giants nearly ten meters tall dragging twenty or thirty meters of giant trees as weapons, their morale collapsed. They left a cannon fodder behind and the main force ran away.
Imagine how mortals feel when they see a three-story-high giant. Even the bravest knights will flee in panic. The size difference is too big, and even the cannon fodder surrendered directly.
In this way, the capitals of the two provinces were captured almost without bloodshed, and the Kingdom directly gave up the two provinces.
After chasing them in one breath, the commanders of the two church armies took the opportunity to capture two more provinces in one go, and stopped only when they approached the border of the province where the capital was located.
Until the fifteen provinces of the entire kingdom, Lin Xiao had occupied seven.
The next seven provinces were located on the other side of the province where the capital was located, and they had to capture the capital city to get there.
After receiving the intelligence of the battle, Lin Xiao decisively ordered the troops to garrison at the border, and at the same time transferred another 1,000 people there.
He guessed that the Holy God might be able to condense successfully.
He is now using almost unlimited resources to grow rapidly, and he has not encountered any bottlenecks along the way. The opening of the plane to the extraordinary restrictions is faster than he expected. Now the plane's restrictions on extraordinary power are estimated to be close to the legendary level. According to Lin Xiao's estimation, the Holy God can be born as long as the extraordinary level that this plane can carry reaches the eighth-level legendary level.
Of course, the power of the newly born Holy God is still subject to the restrictions of the plane, and it will not be too strong at the beginning. Moreover, the Kingdom of Noel is not the headquarters of the Holy Church. Even if the Holy God is really born, he can't do anything to him for a while.
But once the Holy God is born, he can bestow divine arts, and the Holy Church will give birth to priests and other extraordinary professions.
With the territory and foundation occupied by the Holy Church, the speed of its strength expansion will be faster than his. By then, it will be very difficult to defeat the Holy Church.
Moreover, Lin Xiao was very worried. He was afraid that the awakened plane will would designate the newly born Holy God as its agent, which was equivalent to the son of the plane.
And this was not the most terrible thing. What he was most worried about was that the awakened plane will directly took the newly born Holy God as its incarnation and directly occupied its body. That would be troublesome. When
the plane will came in person, they were equivalent to confronting the entire plane. The rejection of the plane alone was enough for them to drink a pot, not to mention the blow from the entire plane.
Therefore, he had to make more preparations. The most important thing was to be promoted to a totem lord before the Holy God completely mastered his divine power. Only by becoming a totem lord with the privileges granted by the Crystal Wall Universe could he confront the plane will. The
Kingdom of Noel probably also knew about this. Then the two sides tacitly confronted each other with two provinces as the boundary, and neither of them crossed the boundary.
Less than three days after the actual truce, Lin Xiao summoned his subordinates for a secret meeting. The next day, Alfonso sent a large number of messengers to all the lords of the seven provinces in his territory, and ordered them to gather at the Dell Life Cathedral.
At the meeting, Alfonso officially announced several major events, including the establishment of a duchy based on the existing seven provinces and the reduction of the rights of the lords.
The establishment of a duchy is mainly about centralization, so as to coordinate the territory and the army.
The reduction of the rights of the lords is mainly concentrated in the three aspects of military power, coinage, and law, that is, depriving the lords of their armies, not allowing the establishment of large-scale private armies, not allowing private printing of coins, and abolishing all territorial laws and formulating unified laws.
All lords basically agreed to establish a duchy, because he was already the actual ruler of the seven provinces and had the qualifications to establish a duchy.
However, the proposal to reduce the rights of the lords was opposed by all the lords, and all the lords of all sizes who attended the meeting were 100% opposed.
This opposition was of course useless, and Alfonso had already prepared when he summoned them.
When the negotiations broke down, the church and the teams that Alfonso had already sent out took action at the same time, first detaining all the summoned lords, and then disarming each territory by force or other means.
There may be waves in the meantime, but without the lords to preside over it, the territories of all sizes only had sporadic resistance, which was suppressed one by one.
Alfonso did not deprive the lords of their territory, but only deprived them of their troops, removed the extra checkpoints in the territory, took away most of the territory's independent authority and ownership of some strategic resources, and restricted the territory from establishing an army again.
Doing so would definitely make the lords resentful, but they lost their military power and could not resist no matter what.
Moreover, he did not do it completely. The lords' privileges were not abolished, but they lost their military power, and they still retained the authority of the limited guard team. Therefore, most of the nobles who did not have great ambitions did not react much to this, and such lords accounted for the majority of all noble lords.
Moreover, under the guidance of Lin Xiao, Alfonso established a supervisory department to monitor the major lords. Once abnormalities were found, they would be arrested and their territories would be directly deprived.
Time passed as the territory was gradually digested. Two months later, Alfonso announced the establishment of the Principality of Alfonso, with its capital in Dell City, and the Church of Life and Wisdom as the state religion.
At the same time, the four Sons of Nightmare united and defeated the combined forces of the Church Knights and the local great lords in the province of Orm on the other side of the kingdom. They captured the city of Orm in one fell swoop, and quickly cleared out the surrounding rebels with Orm as the center, intending to seize the entire province.
Half a month later, in the neighboring province of Ghana, the three Sons of the Spirit Realm also united and mobilized all their forces to attack the capital of Ghana Province.
The troops were at the gates of the city, and after a short rest, they attacked the city.
Eight days later, the information about the defeat of the Sons of the Spirit Realm appeared in Lin Xiao's hands. He was silent after reading the information.
An hour later, Alfonso and the Holy Knights appeared in the cathedral. He handed them the information and said in a deep voice:
"Our advantage is gradually disappearing. When they are ready, they will pose a greater threat to us. We need..."
He pointed to a certain direction on the sand table in the hall.
"Boom!"
Giants who were ten meters tall and wearing steel armor thicker than red bricks rushed to the city wall with a huge stone as big as a house, and swung the stone and smashed it hard, breaking more than a dozen gaps in the city wall. The follow-up troops rushed into the city.
After the marshal of the kingdom was captured alive by two paladins who broke into the city, the defenders in the city desperately announced their surrender. Posa City fell, and the kingdom's main forces of nearly 19,000 people who had been transferred from various places to the city in the past few months all surrendered.
The kingdom was shocked when the news came, and the church knights on another line of defense quickly withdrew to the capital.
The most practical feedback was that Alfonso secretly met with many envoys that night.
Five days later, the great lords of the three provinces and the lords of all sizes announced the expulsion of the Holy Church, leaving the Kingdom of Noel, and joining the Principality of Alfonso.
At this time, the church forces in these provinces had been transferred away before, and there was almost no strength left, otherwise they would not dare to do so.
So far, the Principality of Alfonso occupied ten of the fifteen provinces of the kingdom.
The Nightmare Sons had taken one, leaving only four in the Kingdom of Noir.
These four were also in chaos, with the pro-war faction and the surrender faction fighting each other.
At this time, the main force of the Principality of Alfonso had already arrived at the capital of the Kingdom of Noir, confronting the last force of the kingdom, which was mainly composed of church knights. As for the other provinces, most of the troops had surrendered in that battle, and with the internal chaos, they could not withdraw troops to support the capital.
Under the Royal City of Noir was a camp of 25,000 elite soldiers, 5,000 of whom were the main force and another 20,000 captives were located at the back of the camp and did not participate in the battle. Fifty giants, 10 meters tall and wearing thick plate armor, stood in the camp, giving the defenders on the city wall a huge psychological pressure.
Not to mention that they had never seen such a huge giant. There were legends of giants in some mythological books. There were legends of ancient powerful paladins killing giants or behemoths, but that was just a legend. There were so many giants in front of them. The key was that they were wearing a layer of full-body armor thicker than a brick, even with a face armor. This made them scream "damn it!". Even though they had firm beliefs and even had priests to comfort them, their morale had fallen to the bottom.
Yes, priests had been born in the Holy Church at this time, not long ago.
Lin Xiao also received news that several sons of the spirit realm in Ghana Province attacked Ghana City. In this battle, priests appeared in the Holy Church defending the city and displayed their magic, which inspired amazing fighting spirit and morale, and they forcibly resisted several elite sons of the spirit realm and defeated them.
It was after receiving this news that Lin Xiao did not dare to slowly digest the existing territory. He directly attacked and captured the main force of the kingdom, and attacked the capital in one go.
Now it is certain that the Holy God has been born, but it is too far from the Kingdom of Noel. In addition, he is stationed in Dale City, where the believers of the Holy Church have disappeared, so he did not sense its birth at the first time.
Fortunately, it has just been born and can only bestow divine arts. There are not many priests who really master divine arts, so there is still a chance.
After a short rest, the army left the camp. Twenty giants in thick plate armor walked out of the city, walking towards the city wall with heavy steps and trembling pressure.
The morale of the defenders on the city wall plummeted, even the knights of the Holy Church.
Although they are devout in their faith, it is useless to face such a terrible giant.
Several priests of the Holy Church walked up to the top of the city to show divine arts and inspire morale. Although it is just a simple blessing, it can indeed inspire morale.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao chuckled, took a step and appeared in the air, which immediately caused a burst of exclamations.
Although the spiritual energy revival is extraordinary, no one can fly in the air now. His trick is quite magical.
But this is not the most amazing thing. The most amazing thing is, of course.
He took out a large book made of pure gold, which looked like a door panel, and opened it. He muttered something, and the pages full of golden texture turned to a certain page. With a wave of his hand, a ball of golden light condensed on the page and turned into a light ball that slowly rose up. Everyone's eyes fell on this light ball.
(End of this chapter)