The Path to Lordship Begins in the North

Meanwhile, the Demon King Antipas also received a request for support from Noam.

"After preparing for so long, how come Noam still can't defeat those humans?"

Antipas sat on a throne covered with the fur of some unknown animal, his fingers lightly tapping the armrests, his face ashen.

"We were about to break through the human camp, but a saintess suddenly appeared from behind. Ever since that saintess entered the field, Noam's mental attack seems to have lost its effect."

The soldier knelt on the ground and briefed Noam on the current battle situation.

"Moreover, it seems that humans have discovered that the offspring of the demon god and humans corrupted by divine blood cannot stray too far from the area under Noam's command. Therefore, they are constantly shrinking their battle lines and concentrating their forces to defend the camp. Now, with the firepower of their artillery, they have reached a stalemate on the Golden Harvest Plain. Commander Noam wants to take this opportunity to completely annihilate the resistance of the Gray-White Collar, so he refuses to retreat and has ordered me to ask His Majesty for help."

Antipas nodded and stood up to look out the window at the howling north wind.

In order to study the flesh and blood of these demons, Antipa even gave up enjoying life in the Sold mines and returned to this harsh land to oversee the rear.

Noam's decision was not problematic. He had been constantly having Doug concentrate the population in the Golden Harvest Plain in order to maximize combat power and crush the Gray Collar's fighting force in one fell swoop.

Once the Gray and White Collars are defeated, Antipas, with the demon god's flesh and blood in his possession, can guarantee that the demons will be able to occupy a large area of ​​the Northern Territory in a short period of time. At that time, the demons will be able to be completely liberated from the shackles of the eternal frozen land.

The rise of the Gray Collars was too fast, completely disrupting the Demon Clan's original plans. Moreover, Antipa was also quite concerned about the Gray Collars' technology. The magic train alone made Antipa feel quite uneasy.

To be honest, the demon race's bloodline magic has both advantages and disadvantages. Although Antipa has always claimed that the demon race is a magical race like the elves, the difference is that, due to bloodline magic, the demon race's magical skills have always been lacking, and they are very short of talents such as alchemists and rune masters.

After all, it is extremely difficult to ask a demon who is born knowing only one type of magic to understand and master the principles of magic. Most demons only know one type of magic until they die, and the proportion of demons who can learn other types of magic is much smaller than that of professional humans.

At first, Antipa didn't care. He genuinely believed that demons who could use bloodline magic were superior to humans.

This is the arrogance and ignorance inherent in the demon race, but it is also the inferiority complex inherent in the demon race. It is precisely because they failed to defeat humans in the past that they can only use this kind of spiritual victory to comfort themselves, forcibly and emphasizing that they are superior to humans.

Antipa originally looked down on magic technicians like alchemists and rune masters. So what if demons only knew bloodline magic? They still beat humans anyway. If they were high-level, Antipa might have given them a second glance.

However, the emergence of gray-collar workers completely changed Antipa's views. When Antipa came to his senses and tried to win over technical professionals among humans, he found that the real technical experts looked down on the demons, and the first choice for scattered technical professionals was gray-collar workers.

So Antipas changed his strategy. Since the demon race couldn't figure it out themselves, why not just steal from others? After all, that's how the demon race has always been throughout history. When humanity declined, or when they were able to defeat humans, they would steal from them.

Once you defeat the gray and white-collar workers, you can use public opinion campaigns and a large amount of exploited money and assets to attract those human technical professionals to come and serve as your dogs. You can also directly steal the existing technology from the gray and white-collar workers, since it will be yours in a couple of generations anyway.

With the flesh and blood of the demon god, these ideas might not be impossible to realize.

But before that, the main force of the Grey and White Collars must be defeated. Only by defeating the main force and weakening the Grey and White Collars can we take advantage of their weakness. Therefore, Antipa's initial instruction to Noam was to defeat and weaken the Grey and White Collars' army.

If we can defeat the main force of the Gray Collar army head-on, then we can start seizing it directly, and it would be best if we could seize the technology of that magic train.

Noam's decision was not problematic; it has been fulfilling Antipas's instructions.

At this moment, the kneeling soldier continued to report: "Your Majesty, not only that, but there seems to be a strange potion in the human army. When the offspring of the demon god come into contact with it, they experience a brief pause and temporarily lose connection with the Noam command."

"However, the reserves of these potions do not seem to be very large."

The soldiers then reported on the situation on the battlefield, which made Antipa fully understand the current situation.

"Since there isn't much of the potion, there's no need to worry. Although our research on the flesh and blood of the demon god is very limited, it's impossible to mass-produce a potion that can counteract the offspring of the demon god."

“I already know the situation. Tell Governor Doug to be ready, but don’t accidentally kill him. He’s still useful. After we win, we need a puppet to help us rule the human-inhabited areas. Now, have him continue to open up support routes for us. I will arrange for troops to support us.”

Orders were issued from the luxurious palace built by Antipa. Whether the main force of the Gray-White Collar could be truly defeated was crucial for the demons. Even some demons who had retreated from the battlefield for various reasons were brought over, including Daniel.

Daniel is now heading to the battlefield on the Golden Plains via a road he knows all too well.

Most of the demons on the road were relatively optimistic, after all, they had received the battle report that the human army of the Gray-White Collar had been defeated and had entered a stage of stubborn resistance, and all they needed to do was go to the front line and deliver the final blow to the fragile humans.

The demon commander leading the charge even excitedly promised his soldiers before they set off that the battle would end before winter, at which point they could all spend the winter in the comfort of human territory.

This made the demons extremely excited, and they chatted and laughed all the way.

Daniel is the same. Although he is constantly mocked by the demons around him and is called "Daniel who's lost his mind," Daniel doesn't care at all anymore. He even takes the initiative to play the clown to amuse his comrades.

Although Daniel was only responsible for miscellaneous tasks such as logistics and battlefield communications, and was not qualified to devour the flesh and blood of the Demon God, being able to return to the battlefield was a good thing for Daniel, as the battlefield never lacked opportunities to make contributions.

To be honest, Daniel was a little puzzled as to how those humans managed to stop the great offspring of the demon god, but whatever, Daniel knew about the power of the demon god's offspring. Even the terrifying nun group he had imagined probably couldn't defeat the demon god's offspring.

Daniel was even somewhat grateful to those humans who fought desperately, for giving him a chance to make a contribution. If he could do so, he could completely get rid of the fantasy of that terrifying nun group.