Chapter 455 Frontline Outpost

After meeting with the Covenant, Richard and Harland led the army to stay in Auxerre Castle for a while.

On June 15th, the plane channel was opened.

Unlike the Azure Plane Channel, the Red Moon Plane Channel does not require a special key to open, and there is no legendary fourth-level magic prop as the eye of the array.

It is relatively simple to open the Red Moon Plane Channel. It only requires 3,000 magic crystals, which are placed on the altar of the Goddess of Dawn.

Under normal circumstances, the Red Moon Plane Channel is opened twice a month, usually on the first and fifteenth day of the month. When the Red Moon Plane Channel is opened, it lasts for more than an hour to facilitate the rotation of personnel.

The Red Moon Plane Channel is built at the headquarters of the Dawn Church, not too far from the Goddess Cathedral.

The Red Moon Plane Channel is about four meters high and less than two meters wide. It is made of white marble and engraved with complex magic runes. A closer look makes people feel dizzy.

Small stone platforms were built on both sides of the passage, with two flames burning on them. The flames contained powerful divine power, and Richard felt familiar with this divine power.

When he came to the two divine fires, Richard suddenly felt warm. He thought to himself: "It looks like the Dawn Divine Fire. Judging from the activity of the divine fire, the goddess is not far from awakening."

Because the plane channel is relatively narrow, large creatures such as trolls, giants, and large monsters can hardly pass through this narrow channel and enter the Red Moon Plane.

After the plane channel was opened, groups of dazzling white light bloomed, and powerful space energy continued to leak out in the blink of an eye.

In this environment, spatial magic instantly failed, and the small extra-dimensional space opened by the magician would be blown away by the huge space energy. Even the lower-level space bags would be torn apart by the space turbulence.

Only space equipment above legendary can resist space turbulence and carry supplies into the Red Moon Plane.

After the plane channel was opened, teams of people soon walked out. These people are almost all officers and clergy, most of whom are from the Holy Empire of Light, and a small number are from the Kingdom of Parame.

At the end of the team, there are a large number of wounded. Richard roughly calculated that a total of more than 500 people were evacuated from the Red Moon Plane.

After the last wounded was evacuated, Richard, Sophia, and Sylph led the first batch of soldiers to enter the Red Moon Plane through the plane channel.

When passing through the plane portal, it feels similar to passing through the magic teleportation array. There will be a short blank in consciousness, and there will be some dizziness and memory confusion in the mind.

Even if you open your eyes wide during the teleportation, you can only see the dazzling white light and messy light. Sometimes staring at this milky white light will burn your eyes. In fact, it is more comfortable to close your eyes and rest during the process of passing through the portal.

Richard has passed through the plane channel many times and has relatively rich experience, but this time it feels longer than the previous times. In fact, the extra one or two minutes have crossed an immeasurable long space.

At the other end of the portal, at the top of the plane space, the ancestors of the Dawn Church have built a huge city, controlled a large area of ​​land, and have a very solid stronghold.

After passing through the Red Moon Plane Channel, Richard took the soldiers to rest for a while, adapted to the new environment, and soon met the welcoming personnel.

Although Richard and others entered the Red Moon Plane Channel for the first time, they had made preparations in advance with the reminder of the Dawn Church priest. Of course, they would not bring low-level space props to the vicinity of the plane channel to tear the space energy apart.

Low-level space props are also expensive magic props. A magic prop with a cubic meter of space is worth more than a few hundred gold coins. Only senior mages and officers of mid-level knight blood in Harland County will be equipped with low-level space props.

Before entering the plane channel, Richard had ordered these low-level space props to be registered one by one and handed over to Soros and the remaining personnel for safekeeping.

The supplies of Harland's army, except for those in the legendary space props carried by Richard and Sophia, are all in sturdy wooden barrels, which are carried by officers and soldiers with their bodies.

This wooden barrel weighs 300 kilograms, and most of it is filled with weapons and equipment, standard magic crystals, super magic metals and alchemical bombs, which can only be easily carried by powerful professional soldiers. As for ordinary supplies, the Red Moon Plane can provide them, and there is no need to replenish them through the plane channel.

This time through the plane channel, because they have a short time left, Harland's army only entered about 300 soldiers. Such a small force can only guard a forward stronghold at most.

After entering the Red Moon Plane, Richard looked up and found a red moon hanging high in the sky. There was a faint white light blooming above the red moon, which had a kind of desolate beauty.

After Richard, Sophia and Sylph entered the Red Moon Plane, they soon met Count Truss, the commander of the Holy Glorious Empire.

On the other side of the plane channel is the central stronghold controlled by the Dawn Plane, which is called Ruin Castle and is the capital of the Dawn Papal State.

Although the Holy Glorious Empire has stationed 100,000 troops in the Red Moon Plane, it is not the dominant force in the Red Moon Plane. The most powerful armed force in the Red Moon Plane is the Knights of the Dawn Church.

The Dawn Church has deployed almost half of its armed forces in the Red Moon Plane. The number of the Knights exceeds 30,000, and there are dozens of professionals above the ninth level, as well as three legendary knights and two legendary warriors responsible for commanding the Knights Templar.

This Temple Knights is an all-professional army with extremely strong combat power, far exceeding the ordinary legions of the Holy Glorious Empire. This kind of all-professional Warcraft cavalry only needs 20,000 to 30,000 to cripple the million-strong legions of the Eastern countries.

In addition, the legendary third-level magician Cardinal Racine of the Dawn Church and the legendary first-level priest Archpriest Berto are almost always stationed in the Red Moon Plane.

Of the sixteen legendary professionals of the Dawn Church, a total of seven are stationed in the Red Moon Plane. It can be said that the power directly under the Dawn Church is the backbone of suppressing the Red Moon Plane.

In addition to the direct power of the Dawn Church, the Holy Glorious Empire also stationed five main legions in the Red Moon Plane, with an army of 100,000 and three legendary professionals. Count Truss is a legendary second-level knight and the commander-in-chief of the Holy Glorious Empire in the Red Moon Plane. The other two legends are both warrior professions, and their combat power is weaker than Count Truss.

In addition to the Dawn Church and the Holy Glorious Empire, the Red Moon Plane also has some pilgrim forces, mainly military forces sent by the countries that believe in the Dawn Goddess, headed by the Kingdom of Parame, with a total of more than 100,000. This group of people is relatively scattered, and basically their bases are at the forefront, responsible for guarding the first line of defense, and are considered cannon fodder and filling-in troops. The legendary knight Duke Dart is their commander.

In general, several families have joined forces to station more than 200,000 troops in the Red Moon Plane, with 11 legendary professionals. This force is already very impressive, stronger than the military forces of Eastern powers such as Grant and Ryan.

In addition, there is the headquarters of the Dawn Church near the plane channel, and the capital of Parame is not far from the plane channel. The backup force is sufficient. Even if the situation in the Red Moon Plane changes, there is no danger of being lost for the time being.

Because the Dawn Church is the dominant force in the Red Moon Plane, the influence of the Dawn Church in the Red Moon Plane is far greater than that of the Holy Glorious Empire.

The territory controlled by the Holy Glorious Empire is also nominally under the jurisdiction of the Dawn Papal State, but it is more independent than Parame and other countries.

The Dawn Papal State owns more than 3.6 million square kilometers of land in the Red Moon Plane, of which the Holy Glorious Empire has been allocated 1.6 million. In recent years, because the resistance of the Red Moon Plane has become stronger and the losses have become greater, the Holy Glorious Empire has lost money in operating this plane and gradually has plans to shrink.

However, due to the cooperative relationship with the Goddess of Dawn, retreat and shrinkage also require an opportunity. Seeing the rise of the Grant Kingdom, Emperor Edward decided to let Richard lead the army of Harland to the Red Moon Plane as cannon fodder to fill the front line.

Earl Truss has received an order from Edward VII of the Holy Glorious Empire in advance, and knows that Richard of Harland will be the candidate to replace him in the Red Moon Plane. When Richard's troops replace Earl Truss and gain a foothold in the Red Moon Plane, Edward VII will put the crown on Richard.

Even if Richard died in the Red Moon Plane in the future, the Holy Glorious Empire would recognize the Harland family's right to rule the territory under its jurisdiction.

In fact, among the eastern countries, most of the founding monarchs need to pass this level, and only about half of them can complete the mission of the Holy Glorious Empire.

According to the information Richard got, the Red Moon Plane is also a world with stars, planets, and satellites, and it is considered a planetary plane.

However, the area of ​​the Red Moon Plane is not very large. The volume of the planet is much smaller than that of the Earth in Richard's previous life. The land area is only 30 million square kilometers, of which about half is still in the polar ice sheets. There are less than 20 million square kilometers of land suitable for human survival, which is slightly larger than Russia in Richard's previous life.

Such a small land area is divided into three continents, and the richness of products is far less than that of the Dawn Plane.

The physical rules of the Red Moon Plane are similar to those of the Dawn Plane. The magic energy particles have a strong activity. According to the magic tide theory, it will take another 20,000 to 30,000 years for the next magic decline. Even gods may not be able to live until then.

Although gods have infinite lifespans, they will encounter various disasters. In fact, no more than half of the gods have a lifespan of more than 10,000 years.

Truss is considered the first generation earl of the Holy Glorious Empire. Like Richard, he started from scratch and is more direct in his words and deeds than the old nobles.

After taking Richard to his military camp, Truss directly opened a map and said to Richard: "Since Your Excellency the Duke has come to the Red Moon Plane, choose a base to settle down first!"

Richard scanned the map and found that there were dense red dots on the map.

The Dawn Church and the Holy Glorious Empire have been operating in the Red Moon Plane for more than 3,000 years. They once controlled the Red Moon Plane and have a very good understanding of this plane.

There are three continents in the Red Moon Plane. The Gothic Continent in the north has been infested by the undead and is now almost uninhabited. The central Deen Continent is controlled by the Dawn Plane in half, and the remaining half is in the hands of the indigenous Red Moon Church. The Hagen Continent in the south fell into the hands of the indigenous Oro Empire hundreds of years ago. Now the demonic disaster has broken out and the power of the demons is very active.

The situation in the Red Moon Plane is very tense now. The battle for the Deen Continent is already very fierce. There are more than a thousand strongholds densely packed along the 2,000-kilometer front from east to west.

The military forts, strongholds, and military stations on the front line formed a tight and solid defense line.

Richard looked at the map carefully and took the initiative to choose a stronghold close to the front line.

Seeing that Richard had chosen the front-line stronghold, Truss advised: "Duke, do you want to change it? Harland's army has just arrived and is not used to many things. The climate and gravity here are somewhat different from those in the Dawn Plane. Many newly arrived soldiers will have serious diseases, and some will be contagious. Without sufficient treatment power, it will be quite troublesome to deal with them."

Richard thought for a moment and finally decided to choose a front-line stronghold to adapt to the war in the Red Moon Plane as soon as possible.

"Although our first echelon is small, with only 300 members, we have 60 magicians and 10 priests. The healing power is sufficient, and disease will not be a problem for us. The reason why I chose the front-line stronghold is that I want to adapt to the war as soon as possible. Our team not only has high-level professionals, but also a legendary knight, who has enough power to keep the front-line stronghold.

Choosing a front-line stronghold is still a small matter. The most troublesome thing now is that our handover speed is too slow. Every time the plane portal is opened, a few hundred soldiers can be rotated. The teleportation array is opened twice a month, and the soldiers who can be rotated are less than a thousand. It will probably take ten years to complete the rotation of 100,000 troops."

After listening to Richard's words, Truss thought for a moment and shook his head in embarrassment.

"The portal of the Red Moon plane is very strong. As long as we have enough magic crystals, we can open the portal once a day. But we can't support such a high intensity of magic crystal consumption. Opening a portal once a day consumes more than one million magic crystals a year. Even if Emperor Edward opens the treasury, he can't support such a high investment in a year.

If the Duke wants to speed up the rotation, I think the number of portal openings can be increased, such as three times a month, but in this case, the Duke will also have to provide some magic crystals and increase investment."

Richard calculated the magic crystal reserves of Harland Territory and the speed of magic crystal consumption, and readily agreed to Truss's request. He promised to take out 10,000 magic crystals every year to share part of the investment, so that the number of plane portal openings can be increased to three times a month.

If the handover of personnel is organized well, the number of soldiers in Harland Territory will increase by about 500 after opening a plane portal.

Now the first echelon of Harland is divided into three parts. Sutton commands the magic fleet and is responsible for personnel transportation. Soros commands the remaining soldiers to wait for transmission in Auxerre Castle. Richard and Sylph lead the advance team into the Red Moon plane and head to the frontier stronghold. Richard's adjutant Green and a dozen soldiers stayed in Luin Castle, which was considered the Harland's garrison at the headquarters.