The Legend of Bimeng: Chapter 417 The Pope abdicates

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Chapter 417 The Pope abdicates

Pope Palace of the Imperial Capital of Light

After the news of the defeat came, the top experts who had returned from the defeat gathered here to discuss countermeasures.

The Pope sitting on the throne had already lost the vigor he had a few days ago and became extremely decadent. As the culprit of this major failure, the pressure on him was terrifying. Especially the other masters, although they did not explicitly condemn the Pope because they had to deal with powerful enemies together, their words were full of resentment, and their eyes were filled with terrifying anger.

You must know that in this incident, even the most powerful elves lost more than half of their men, and the orcs lost two-thirds. The most miserable thing was the humans with lower overall strength, the lions The Eagle Kingdom's 200,000-strong army was almost completely wiped out, and only a few thousand returned. The situation was even worse for other small countries. In many countries, all the troops were destroyed, and none of them came back.

With such a heavy loss, you can imagine how angry all countries are. If the most important thing now is to deal with the undead army, the heads of countries must chop the Pope into pieces. It would be strange to give him a good look. .

So much so that an extremely weird scene appeared in the meeting hall of the Papal Palace. Dozens of masters from the Holy Realm and above sat there like pieces of iron, without saying a word. The Pope began to speak several times, stunned. No one took over, which made him extremely embarrassed. There was nothing he could do. Who told him, the so-called commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, to fight such a miserable battle?

In fact, people from various countries united to put pressure on the Pope, hoping that he would voluntarily give up his position as commander-in-chief. Because after this incident, no one will believe in the Pope anymore. Unfortunately, according to previous agreements signed by various countries, only the Pope himself can abdicate. Otherwise, others have no right to coerce him. This is also set up to protect the interests of the coalition forces stationed in the country.

But the Pope obviously does not want to abdicate. Because there has never been a similar situation before, if he takes the initiative to abdicate this time, he will become the first person on the mainland who is forced to abdicate due to a failure in command. If such a reputation fell on his head, it would obviously become a shame that would go down in history forever. How could the Pope be willing to take the blame?

So the Pope had to send people to lobby everywhere, and even expressed his willingness to compensate various countries for their losses. This was the first time before. In the past, all coalition forces were responsible for their own losses, and the stationed country only needed to be responsible for food and grass.

However, what the Pope did not expect was. The attitudes of various countries this time were extremely resolute, especially the elves. They did not lack any money or materials. What they lacked was their population. They lost 50,000 people at once, which was almost one percent of the Japanese elves' population! The Elf King was almost heartbroken. How could he dare to let a foolish young man like the Pope command the troops? If there are more losses, the elves will have to break their muscles and bones.

So what happened this time was basically the Elf King secretly communicating with each other. With the prestige of the Elf King and the powerful strength of the Elf clan, which country dares not to give him face? Therefore, after the Elf King made his remarks, the countries themselves also became extremely resentful. This makes this secret alliance extremely strong. The Pope tried his best, but ultimately failed to break it. But the Pope himself didn't want to give in, so the two sides were in a stalemate.

Today's meeting is already the third day, after the previous two days of meetings. It was completely a one-man show by the Pope. Whether he was apologizing or crying and pretending to be pitiful, the people below just ignored him and closed their eyes to meditate without saying a word. The result was great. The Pope talked for hours, leaving his mouth dry. A group of people below were taking a nap out of boredom. Such an embarrassing thing lasted for two days in a row, and the Pope couldn't hold it any longer no matter how thick-skinned he was.

In addition, the Pope himself also knows that it is absolutely impossible to continue like this. Others can still afford it. After all, the undead have not yet been hit, but he cannot do it. Nowadays, countless people in this country are turned into undead every moment. If you don't show your sincerity to impress these guys. I'm just afraid that the Empire of Light may really fall.

Eventually. Knowing that everything was over, the Pope had no choice but to announce his abdication, becoming the first coalition commander in history to be forced to step down.

After the Pope announced his resignation. Everyone also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this kind of silent behavior would damage not only the Empire of Light, but also themselves. After all, the longer the time is delayed, the more prepared the other party will be.

Afterwards, everyone first expressed their admiration to the Pope and comforted the Pope with a few reassuring words, lest he could not untie the knot in his heart and delay future matters.

Next, the Elf King, who had the highest prestige and strength, became the new commander-in-chief of the coalition forces with the recommendation of everyone. The first thing he did after taking office was to quickly convene everyone for a meeting, and then quickly came up with a feasible plan, which was to completely abandon the third line of defense and concentrate all troops in the Imperial Capital of Light.

Making such a decision means giving up half of the Empire of Light. Although the areas where undead disasters often occur are relatively sparsely populated, they still have one-third of the population of the Empire of Light, which is about 30 million. . Although the coalition forces will do their best to help the humans in those areas retreat, it is still impossible for them all to withdraw. In fact, according to the estimates of the people of the Bright Empire, not even half of the people can escape. After all, those ordinary people could only rely on their legs to travel at a very slow speed, and it was impossible to outrun the undead who showed no signs of fatigue.

Although so many people were killed by the undead army, the Elf King and others felt uncomfortable, but they had no choice but to do so. You know, after the undead army easily broke through the second line of defense, they used the corpses of the troops who died in the battle and the corpses of the civilians who were not evacuated from behind to create a large number of undead. Especially the corpses of those elven warriors can completely create powerful necromancers. These 50,000 necromancers alone have raised the strength of the undead army to a new level. Coupled with the undead warriors transformed from the corpses of orc warriors and a large number of ordinary skeletons, the Lich King's army has never been more powerful. The defeated generals with less than 100,000 remnant troops are impossible to stop, even if there is a line of defense, the strength is too far apart.

Of course, the Elf Kings also knew that the earthquake was caused by a forbidden curse, and they also understood that the Lich King was in a weak state at this time. But knowing it means knowing it, but it means nothing at all. Because fighting is not a matter of one person, even the legendary masters are only defeated by ten thousand people, but they are simply unable to fight against the millions of undead armies. Therefore, let alone the Elf King who only has a dozen legendary masters now, even if he had dozens, it would still be useless. Therefore, it is necessary to abandon the third line of defense. Resistance there is meaningless except for wasting precious combat power. It would be better to simply retreat to the Imperial Capital of Light, which has a stronger defense, and trade space for time. As long as we can hold on until follow-up troops from other countries arrive, we will still be able to fight the undead by then.

However, not everyone can understand the coalition's order, especially those soldiers who live in areas invaded by the undead, asking them to abandon their families and allow their wives, children, parents, brothers, and sisters to be ravaged by the undead, regardless of It’s hard for anyone to accept it. So much so that when the order to retreat was passed to the troops who were reorganizing their troops on the third line of defense, everyone was confused. Many soldiers couldn't help but burst into tears on the spot, and more people simply rushed to the commander's station and clearly refused. When the order to retreat was given, many people committed suicide in front of the military headquarters on the spot. They cut off their fingers and even their arms to show their determination to hold on.

Many ordinary people also got the news and joined in one after another. Many young and middle-aged people even expressed their willingness to join the army on the spot, just to protect their homes!

As a result, the entire third line of defense was in chaos for a while, the crowd was excited, and even many officers joined in. All soldiers felt humiliated by this order to retreat, even the coalition soldiers who came from afar. They would rather die here and fall on the battlefield of resistance forever with their comrades who just died. Just run away without a fight.

In this case, the order to retreat is difficult to carry out. After the news came back to the Guangming Imperial Capital, the Elf King and others were extremely anxious, and finally decided to go to the front line to persuade them in person.

The Elf King and others who came to the third line of defense after passing through the teleportation array were surrounded by a surging crowd as soon as they appeared. The sight of the huge crowd and the sad and angry faces made the Elf King feel like a mountain. Even such a strong legendary master couldn't help but be moved by it.

But he also knew that now was not the time to be reckless, so he simply flew up to the sky in person, and began to explain to everyone one by one in a condescending manner, convincing them that this was the only option, and that the top priority now was not to waste time here. Instead, we should evacuate the people quickly.

After the Elf King's earnest persuasion, everyone finally understood the painstaking efforts of the coalition commander, and in the end, most people agreed to a temporary retreat. But there are still some people who insist on resisting on the third line of defense. Taking into account the need to buy time for the people behind to retreat, the Elf King finally agreed to the request of these volunteers, allowing them to continue to guard the third line of defense and try to slow down the advancement of the undead troops.