Chapter 011: Fall

In this strange space, Du Fan immediately realized that his movements had become extremely sluggish, with every action requiring the use of those tiny white threads!
Though small, these threads were incredibly tough! Even the slightest movement demanded tremendous effort!
“Haha, human, how does it feel? Very uncomfortable, right?” The Spider-Man laughed loudly. With that laughter, he moved freely within his own domain, unaffected at all!
He rushed over to Du Fan quickly, raised his twelve legs, and stabbed at him wildly!
“I want you to fight me! I insist you fight me!” the Spider-Man shouted as he stabbed Du Fan.
The 50-meter range also covered Moses’s area. Watching the Spider-Man continuously attacking Du Fan, Moses became furious.
He pushed off the ground, and his gravity-based domain was immediately unleashed. Soon, a faint black domain began to devour the Spider-Man’s space!
“Not good! The power of this domain is too strong!” Feeling his domain being consumed, the Spider-Man, Phamus, cried out loudly.
Without hesitation, Phamus quickly retracted his domain, fearing it might be completely swallowed away.
As soon as Phamus withdrew his domain, Du Fan felt a sudden relief throughout his body. His wind-based speed came into play as he raised the Thunder Sword in his hand and kept slashing at Phamus!
Phamus raised his legs to defend against Du Fan’s Thunder Sword, but with the support of the domain’s star energy, Du Fan’s sword managed to pierce through the Spider-Man’s tough exoskeleton, shattering his leg armor into pieces!
“Amazing! Ulbas, I have to go! This isn’t working. If we keep fighting, I’ll surely be killed!” The Spider-Man screamed in terror. Without waiting for Ulbas to react, he used his broken twelve legs to move swiftly and ran up the mountain behind him. His agile legs, combined with their length and height, allowed him to move effortlessly up the mountain path!
Soon, the Spider-Man disappeared into the mountains.
Seeing the Spider-Man escape, Ulbas snorted coldly, twisted his body, and quickly vanished as well!

Seeing this, Du Fan quickly activated the Eye of Truth. Under its observation, Ulbas seemed to be teleporting constantly, jumping at intervals of over ten meters!
Watching Ulbas’s speed and escape method, Du Fan immediately gave up pursuing him!
At that moment, Moses roared again! The Gravity Space Domain instantly turned into a War Domain! With Moses’s current strength, the War Domain could cover an area as large as a thousand meters, just like how it had blocked the Ghost King. Within such a range, the combat capabilities of the allies soared while those of the enemies declined sharply. As soon as Moses’s War Domain was activated, the balance of power on the battlefield completely tipped in one direction!
Under the fierce assault of the Northern Legion, the Imperial Guards quickly disintegrated.
Soon, the remaining soldiers either fled or surrendered, and the battle was over in no time!
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“Third brother, a total of 50,000 Imperial Guards have surrendered. Additionally, 330,000 local troops are waiting outside, awaiting our orders,” George said right away after clearing the battlefield.
Faced with so many soldiers, Du Fan also found the situation extremely tricky.
Taking such a large army on the road posed two major problems: first, supply would be a huge issue, and second, the reliability of these troops was limited. For these two reasons, Du Fan couldn’t take them along.
“Remove the weapons and armor from those 80,000 Imperial Guards, give them money for the journey, and let them go!” Du Fan ordered.
Of course, after capturing Xiaohan Pass, the military funds inside alone were already astonishingly large, so Du Fan didn’t need to pay out of his own pocket for their travel expenses.
“That’s no problem, but what about those 330,000 local troops?” George asked immediately.
“Let those who want to stay and go south with us stay. Those who don’t want to can leave with five gold coins each,” Du Fan replied after thinking for a moment.
“Let’s see how many can stay.”
“Okay, I’ll go arrange it right away,” George said promptly.
Lured by Du Fan’s offer of five gold coins, many of these local soldiers chose to leave! After all, five gold coins were enough for an ordinary family to live comfortably for several years. To put it in perspective, the dismissed Imperial Guards only received two silver coins each! And one gold coin could be exchanged for a hundred silver coins!
“Third brother, 80,000 people remain,” George said as he came back in.

“Okay, let’s do this. Of these 80,000 people, do they include our 50,000 insiders?” Du Fan asked.
“Yes.”
“For those 50,000 people, give each of them ten gold coins. Tell them that if they’re willing, while we distract the armies of the Gavin Empire, they can take this opportunity to head to the four southern provinces. Those who don’t want to go can consider these ten gold coins as compensation for their efforts,” Du Fan said.
“What about the remaining 30,000?” George asked.
“Give each of them five gold coins and send them to join the bandits on our side! One day, we’ll kill those who come over, and they can become part of our forces again,” Du Fan said after some thought.
Soon, with the Northern Legion disbanded, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers left completely.
It wasn’t that Du Fan didn’t want to take control of those troops—it was simply that, aside from those 50,000 people, the loyalty of the rest was extremely low! Bringing so many unreliable soldiers with him meant there was a high risk of the same rebellion happening to him as had occurred with the local armies earlier that night. Moreover, Du Fan was well aware of the combat strength of those local armies. Relying on them to fight against the regular troops of the Gavin Empire would not only be of no help but could also hold him back!
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“What! Redcliffe is dead! Only 30,000 people managed to escape from the entire Guard! Two hundred thousand members of the Guard—only 30,000 made it out!” Fischer yelled furiously in the great hall.
“Is the Northern Legion led by Du Fan really that powerful? If so, we don’t even need to fight them! We might as well wait for them to come and cut off our heads one by one!” Fischer snapped in anger.
“Your Highness, the Northern Legion isn’t that terrifying. What’s truly scary are the powerful fighters under Du Fan’s command! Based on intelligence and various analyses, here are already a few of them,” said one of the generals below.
“Naixiu, the queen of the elves, a domain archer. Moreover, this master of domains has astonishing attack power! She can destroy even the thick iron gates of Xiaohan Pass with just one arrow!”
“Moses, an elf, a domain warrior, possessing two domains—one is the gravity space domain, which can increase gravity within its range! The other is the war domain, which has a very wide coverage area. On the battlefield, it can boost the combat strength of friendly troops in a large area while weakening that of the enemy!”

“Rob, a domain expert whose strength is on par with Moses; his domain skill is ominous!”
“Li Luo, a domain expert, a nature mage of the elf race; his strength is unknown.”
“Chenchen rarely fights; his strength is unknown, but it is presumed he is also a domain expert.”
“George, a master at the sacred level, with an eighth-tier magical beast, the Thunder Ape, as his mount.”
“Aaron, a master at the sacred level, with an eighth-tier magical beast, the Frost Armored Beast, as his mount.”
“Three master mages of the sacred level from the elf race; it is speculated that these three can use spells from both the nature and darkness schools.”
“A woman whose fate is unknown; human race, a master at the sacred level.”
Hearing the descriptions of the experts from Du Fan’s side given by this general, all the generals and ministers present were shocked!
They had never paid attention to this issue before.
After hearing the general’s report, Fischer also remained silent for a long time.
Facing these experts above the sacred level, it was not possible to suppress them just by relying on the number of troops.
“I know all of this; I will make arrangements,” Fischer said calmly.
Of course, in the intelligence gathered by this general, Du Fan was overlooked—he was also a domain expert, one of those peerless domain experts at the divine level or above.
Moreover, many pieces of information were not included in the general’s report.
For example, Rob was actually a divine-level expert.
George and Aaron were both domain experts.
There were also five archers at the sacred level with near-domain expert abilities in Star Moon Castle.
Additionally, Luxiu, the top expert in the Green family, was a domain expert.
There were also two ultimate trump cards hidden away: the Dwarven Black Panther Knights and the Elf Gryphon Archers!
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“Your Highness, there are so many experts on Du Fan’s side!” Abraham said in a resting room after the meeting ended.
“Hmm, if you include me, along with the two domain experts hired by the Lionheart Family, our number of domain experts is roughly comparable to theirs,” he replied.
“But, Your Highness, their sacred-level experts and ordinary armies are also extremely powerful!” Abraham said.
“That doesn’t matter, master! You forget that I am the pope’s godson; I can draw upon the power of the Church. Hmph, Du Fan, I don’t believe you’re strong enough to confront the entire Church!” Fischer said fiercely.
“Your Highness, if that’s the case, we must quickly mobilize the Church’s experts!” Abraham said urgently.

“Master, why panic? There’s a direct teleportation array between the General Command and Gavin’s jurisdiction. It’s not difficult to summon troops,” Fisher said calmly.
“Du Fan… Du Fan. I never expected it. You were just a young kid back then, yet now your strength has grown to such an extent!” Fisher murmured.
“I wonder what surprise I’ll bring you if I mobilize the entire Holy Light Order?” Fisher smiled faintly, as if already envisioning the Northern Legion collapsing under the might of the Holy Light Knights!
The Holy Light Knights were all selected from devout believers. From a young age, these knights underwent relentless training. Moreover, all members of the Holy Light Order possessed a combined level of cultivation of three!
Such a knight order had always been hailed as the greatest among humanity’s knight orders!
Even when the old Green was still alive, he spoke of the Holy Light Knights with envy, admitting that his Northern Legion’s heavy cavalry was no match for them at all!
The armor worn by these knights had been blessed by priests. Not only did it offer far superior defense than ordinary armor, but it also carried numerous supportive effects!