A Demon's Journey

King Tryfon Rellas, the Monarch of the Glerian Kingdom, heard of the declaration of emergency within the Sinyalian Kingdom.

He wasn't startled to scared. He had expected the Sinyalian Kingdom to do this after their latest defeat.

However, according to the calculations of his ministers, it would take at least two months before the Sinyalian Kingdom could attack the Glerian Kingdom.

This implied that the Glerian Kingdom had two months to sort out their internal problems before confronting the Sinyalian Kingdom in a war!

The sects had fallen silent after beating the Sinyalian Kingdom's army. The King's ministers speculated that they probably suffered heavy losses and wished to accumulate more before continuing their war against the Glerian Kingdom.

It was the perfect opportunity for the king to act! He still had his reserve forces that were safeguarding those towns and city responsible for exporting goods.

He could easily assemble these reserve forces and persuade a few sects to change sides! He understood that once those sects realized the vast disparity between the two sides, they would switch sides instantly. After all, no one wanted to be on the losing side.

In the next week, the King assembled his reserve force. It numbered nearly 150,000 soldiers!

The first target of this army was none other than the Origin Sect! The King wanted to terrify his adversaries with his first attack, so he had to choose an influential sect. However, the targeted sect couldn't be too powerful to significantly harm his forces.

The Origin Sect was one of the most well-known sects in the world. It had a great reputation and a stable foundation. During their struggle with the demons, though, it had suffered a huge amount of damage.

Thus, the true combat power of the Origin Sect was quite low when compared to other top-grade sects. They had also exhausted their resources during their battle against the demons. And King Tryfon believed that conquering the Origin Sect wouldn't be too difficult.

However, the King remained oblivious that the Origin Sect was equipped with defensive arrays that could even stop a group of 6 Star Warriors. These arrays were installed by Azaroth.

Naturally, Azaroth didn't do it for free. The Origin Sect had to use their contribution points to install these arrays.

The other top-grade sects used their contribution points to install defensive arrays in their primary branch. They all feared an attack by the King.

Azaroth hadn't just installed a defensive array. He had also added an escape array that would teleport them ten thousand miles away from their location.

This escape array could be used to protect important members of the sect. Naturally, the price of using this escape array was quite high, but the sects felt that it was worth it. They could safeguard their strongest warriors and the disciples with the greatest potential through it.

The Origin Sect was soon attacked by the King's massive army. And just as Azaroth had anticipated, the primary branch of the Origin Sect was destroyed after enduring the attacks for nearly two weeks.

It was worth noting that even though the defensive arrays were powerful, they would break sooner or later if the enemy kept on assaulting it. Moreover, the King's side also had their array experts who prepared some battle arrays that would increase their firepower.

In such a situation, Azaroth's defensive arrays were bound to be destroyed. However, it wasn't without a price.

The King's massive army of 150,000 soldiers had lost about 70,000 of its soldiers. Among them were two 6 Star Warriors.

The defensive arrays installed by Azaroth in these sects were not conventional. A normal defensive array would simply withstand the strikes and ultimately break after exhausting all its durability.

Azaroth's defensive arrays, on the other hand, would withstand the strikes and unleash a single strike with the target chosen by the defensive array's controller.

In a sense, the aggressors would be assaulted with their own attacks. However, even though this defensive array would be absorbing the Ardor to unleash its own attack, it would still lose its durability.

The percentage of its absorption was merely 30%. This meant that the array had to withstand 70% of the power by itself.

This 30% of the power would be unleashed by the array in the form of an All-Exterminating Laser Beam!

Because this Laser Beam had numerous elements, no elemental wall could stop it!

Two 6 Star Warriors were unfortunate enough to be caught off-guard by this laser attack and instantly disintegrated.

This instilled terror among the King's soldiers. They initially thought that the Origin Sect had gained a new weapon and were using it against them. However, they soon realized it wasn't a new weapon, but actually the defensive array.

Naturally, the army informed the king and asked for further instructions. The king seemed quite annoyed when he heard of this information, but he ordered his forces to continue attacking.

After two weeks of persistently attacking the Origin Sect, they finally managed to break the defensive array and destroy it.

However, after destroying the sect, the king's army realized that the sect master and nearly all the elders, including the core disciples, had already fled from the primary branch. What remained was merely buildings, inner and outer sect disciples.

The army captured the inner and outer sect disciples before completely destroying the Origin Sect's buildings. They didn't want the sect members to return and make it operational again.

A part of the King's army secured the area.

The king was startled and terrified when he heard that he had lost nearly half of his forces just to destroy the primary branch of the Origin Sect. He had been expecting maximum of 20,000 casualties. But the situation turned out to be much worse than his expectations.

He wondered just how many sects possessed these defensive arrays.

What if all the sects were equipped with such defensive measures?! It would make it too costly to attack them!

However, the King knew he couldn't give up so easily. He decided to disperse his forces and enlist more soldiers.

The king had decided to deal with the internal matters after defeating the Sinyalian Kingdom in the war.

Actually, from the earlier battle against the Sinyalian Kingdom, he understood that these sects would come to support him against an external enemy. They also didn't want the Glerian Kingdom to lose territory to the surrounding kingdoms.

Thus, he felt it would be better to first deal with the Sinyalian Kingdom and then strike the weakened sects.

The situation would be vastly different because the king planned to figure out the defensive arrays in each sect until then.

This attack on the Origin Sect proved to be quite valuable as it allowed the king to decide his future approach.

The king then ordered all his children and generals to strengthen their forces. The king's edict was well received as it allowed the princes to further boost their factions' power.

Furthermore, the king informed his children that he would choose his heir depending on their results in this war against the Sinyalian Kingdom.

Those words instantly motivated the princes. They had to do their best and beat their rivals to gain the position of the Crown Prince.

A month flew past in the blink of an eye. This month was rather peaceful for both the kingdoms. Both Kingdoms peacefully accumulated their strength.

And today, a rather small incident occurred that triggered the massive war between the two kingdoms! The incident was merely a typical occurrence.

The Sinyalian Kingdom's soldiers had breached the borders and killed the Glerian Kingdom's soldiers. Only 20 or so soldiers of the Glerian Kingdom had died and they had killed 10 soldiers of the Sinyalian Kingdom.

However, the King instantly declared war on the Sinyalian Kingdom after finding out about this incident!