Zero no ambassador: my harem

Hao Tian was still practicing when Louise came running from the chambers.

"It's not good, Hao Tian. Something's happened."

"Huh?" Hao Tian stopped practicing and looked towards Louise.

Louise didn't say anything and dragged Hao Tian back to his chambers, to the third floor between the mirrors.

The [Circle Mirror of the Beginning Ancestor] was placed here, and Louise could observe all parts of the world through the mirror after infusing it with the power of nothingness.

Louise poured the white light from her body into the round mirror, and the mirror rippled, revealing a distant scene.

Black and red stands a castle in a huge lake with flames burning around it.

The Fire Elf Palace. Hoshi discerned it.

Under Louise's control, the perspective was like a bird flying in the sky looking downwards.

The Fire Elf Palace, which had been very quiet since the first great war to crush the Fire Elves, finally opened again after four years.

An abnormally tall flaming humanoid covered in flames and holding a long spear and sword walked out of the slowly opening main door. Outside the door was a lake, flame figures could not reasonably pass through, but a golden-red light was emitted from the room at the top of the Fire Elf Palace, spreading from the doorway towards the lake far in front, turning into a bridge of light that was 10 meters wide and thousands of meters long.

The fully assembled flame figures stepped onto the bridge of light and set off in unison towards the lake.

Squad after squad, column after column, four years ago only a thousand flame figures caused a lot of trouble for the allied forces, now it was feared that there could be 10,000 flame figures appearing. After passing through the light bridge, the flame figures surged towards the castle built by the lake and launched an assault.

Four years ago, the central part of the former Romania where the Fire Elf Palace was located was allocated to Albion, and Albion built an observation fortress by the lake to monitor the movements of the Fire Elf Palace. All four countries had troops stationed in this fortress, with a combined strength of 10,000; but with the same 10,000 troops, the human soldiers were far from being able to face the tall flaming humanoid.

The flame figures were tall, powerful, and also had the damage of the flame attribute; if you wanted to damage and kill a flame figure, you had to extinguish the layer of flame outside of the flame figure's body. There were almost no magicians in the garrison, and the waterwheel left over from the original crusade was difficult to use without enough personnel. The flame humanoid climbed onto the city wall and quickly ascended it, wielding flame-twisting weapons at the surrounding human soldiers.

"Ah, ah, ah-"

Screams rose and fell as these human soldiers found it difficult to fight against the flaming humanoid, pierced by weapons and burned by flames, emitting miserable screams.

More and more flaming humanoids climbed up the city walls, suppressing the human soldiers. The human soldiers were barely able to resist, but people continued to be killed.

Afterwards, with a loud bang, the city gates were ignited by the flaming humanoids and then pushed to the ground. Hundreds of thousands of flaming humanoids poured into the city through the gates, and the human soldiers completely lost their will to fight and began to run in all directions.

The flame humanoid did not pursue, setting all the buildings of this castle on fire with its own flames and burning them to the ground.

Hao Tian saw all of this from the [Round Mirror of the Beginning], and he and Louise were the ones who got the news the fastest.

"Whew, what's meant to come is always meant to come. We'll have to discuss what to do."

Hao Tian didn't panic, he had been waiting for this day for a long time, four years, and it wasn't surprising that it came now. He and Lois returned to the first floor hall and sent out a squad of musket maids to inform Anrietta and the other women of their return.

Fire Elf Palace area, Castle for surveillance by the lake.

The human soldiers ended up fleeing out of 7,000, which was the reason the flame figures didn't pursue them. The castle for surveillance grew brighter, and was soon covered in flames before being reduced to rubble. The flame humanoid, on the other hand, stayed in the ruins.

The soldiers who escaped sent messages back to their superiors, telling the people of the area. Soldiers nervously wiped their weapons and armor, while the people who had been relocated by Albion fled the area, taking their money and belongings with them.

It was a day before the news reached the various countries, but the people of the former Romanian region quickly learned of the news by word of mouth. The southern part of the small triangle, the left part of the northern part of the population of Torristine, and the fleeing nobles of the northern and southern part of the countries all packed up their belongings and started to flee.

Torristine benefited from the [Round Mirror of the Beginning] getting the news the fastest, and had begun to gather magicians and troops. After discussing with Anrietta, Louise, and other women to come up with a plan, and then convincing Osman, Gramont, and Lady Carina, the resolution was put into action. Send out sea ships to assist in the evacuation of the people of Torristine in the enclave; organize an army to sail along the coast to the Fire Elf Palace area; and mobilize a new batch of waterwheels with national supplies to be transported to the front line in succession.

In the other three countries, Albion is somewhat indifferent, and except for the area around the Fire Elf's Palace, Albion's territory does not border on the possible activities of the flaming humanoid. Kelmania and Goliath's south, on the other hand, bordered the Romanian region, and had already started sending troops to the southern border to build fortifications.

Chapter 2: You and Me.

The movement of the fire elves, through word of mouth, soon the entire continent knew about this matter. However, under the propaganda of each country, the people also know that their country is prepared for this, except for the people of Romania who have fled back to their countries, the people of other regions still continue to work as normal, and do not feel like the end of the world is coming.

Fire Elf Palace area, castle ruins.

Ten thousand flame humanoids had easily captured the castle yesterday and then stayed here. Today, two hours after the sun rose, these flame figures emerged from the ruins and scattered the wind in all directions.

Small triangles in the south, central, and northern parts of the Romanian region, these flaming figures went everywhere.

Many empty houses, half-decorated farmlands and vineyards were left unattended, especially now that the population had been evacuated. From the ruins of the castle, the flaming figures set fire to everything in their path - trees, houses, waterwheels, road signs - and the flames spread throughout the Romanian region. The flaming figures passed by, leaving only a scorched earth that had been ravaged by the flames. The flaming humanoids spread quickly, and in just one day, they scattered to most parts of Romania. Apart from the coastline and other marginal areas, there were only two places left that were still safe.

One was the border between the northernmost part of the Romanian region and the borders of Goria and Kelmania, and the scattered flame figures that had wandered into this area were sent out in small groups by the garrison in the border castle to destroy them. Goria and Kelmania each have a 100km border with Romania, and a castle was built in the middle of the border with 10,000 permanent troops. Against the flame humanoid squad, or Hao Tian proposed the idea, and then the heads of the countries will be perfected, in the Romanian region of the army have been specially trained, the other armies have also received some training. Such a small team of 10 people, four of them each carry four fireproof leather water bag that can hold 5 kg of water, the water bag filled with water, before the start of the battle to smash the water bag at the flame humanoid; there are four shield soldiers, the shield is pack iron after anti-combustion treatment of the wooden shield, they used to trap the movement of the flame humanoid; and finally, two lance soldiers, from the water bag smashed the gap into the body of the flame humanoid. The same team of soldiers could easily destroy a single Flame Humanoid that fell alone; they could barely cope with two adjacent Flame Humanoids; if they encountered more than three, they would lose control and gradually be weakened by the Flame Humanoids, and then lose. Moreover, the four soldiers with anti-water bags can only carry 80 kg of water, and after dealing with four flame figures, they will not have enough water and must return to the castle to replenish it. The castle's water was in short supply, and it would take time to mobilize it from home. Fortunately, all that had appeared so far were the fallen flame figures, and the border guards could still cope with them. Over the course of the day, the border guards of the two countries combined had eliminated over 600 flame figures.

The other place was the Great Canal that stretched from the lake around the Fire Elf Palace to the outer sea, about 50 kilometers long. It was proposed by Hao Tian four years ago and built by a joint effort of the countries, capable of accommodating three warships in parallel. There was a castle built in the middle of the canal, and the four countries were also stationed here, with a total of 10,000 soldiers, and those wandering and straggling flame figures that were about 10 kilometers near the middle of the canal would be destroyed when they encountered a group of soldiers sent out by the canal castle to sweep the area; because it was right near the canal, the water in the water bag was easily replenished, and a group of soldiers could destroy 3 to 7 flame figures in a day, and with luck, they could often encounter flame figures! The largest group of soldiers eliminated 23 flame figures. In one day, the defenders of the Canal Castle destroyed over 500 flame figures.

The ease of the first day gave the defenders some confidence that those flame figures weren't as scary as the rumors had it. The defenders couldn't help but think that by destroying some flame figures every day tomorrow and the day after, they might be able to deal with this movement without sacrifice.

But such a thought was still too naive.

The next day, the hundreds of pairs of soldiers sent out from the two castles on the border and the canal castle found only a very few straggling flame figures, and in one day those flame figures seemed to have disappeared. The defenders of the three castles combined had only destroyed over a hundred flame figures in one day.

Then, on the third day, the soldiers were still sent out to sweep the area. Then, encountered a squad of flame figures that used to act alone this time actually five acted together, 10 soldiers in a squad encountered them, the water bag was only enough to deal with four, the shield soldiers could only temporarily hold four even if they were one-on-one, and there were five flame figures. The extra one unleashes a slaughter on the soldiers, and once attrition sets in, it is even more unable to hold the other flame figures in check, and then quickly gets wiped out.

The garrison generals in the castles didn't see many returning squads of soldiers even after night, but occasionally soldiers covered in burns ran back to bring back the news that the five flame humanoids were working together. The hundred or so teams of soldiers sent out to each castle were close to total annihilation, with around 3,000 human soldiers killed in battle.

On the fourth day, the defenders who got the flame humanoid group action didn't dare to send small groups of soldiers out to sweep the area, and the soldiers only patrolled the vicinity of the castles, not daring to stay away. The guard range of the canal fortress shrank from a 10-kilometer radius to a 3-kilometer radius, and then they didn't dare to send soldiers out any farther, and didn't see many traces of the flame humanoid in a day.

And the two castles on the border to monitor the movement of the entire border, every 5 kilometers set up a sentinel, which has 100 soldiers in a total of 10 teams, to deal with a group of 5 flame humanoid swarm can still deal with; and if they encounter several groups of flame humanoid, then send a team of people to report to the castle; and then the castle's garrison opened a thousand troops of 10,000 people to destroy that part of the flame humanoid, but 20 sentinel, the castle garrison often Taking care of the loss of one outpost and destroying the flame figures outside of it, there was also news of the outpost being overrun by flame figures. The defenders of the two castles were exhausted from traveling back and forth across the border to put out fires, destroying seventy groups of 350 flame figures in one day, as well as losing over 3,000 soldiers from 31 outposts. The outposts that had been breached once were left in fiery ruins, and the soldiers who were left behind had to gather around for the night and light a campfire to keep warm. The defenders, who had suffered huge losses, also called for help at home, and reinforcements arrived at the border castle one after another.

The next few days continued the rhythm of the fourth day, 3 km around the canal fortress a calm, human soldiers and flame figures on the border to and fro, the intensity of escalating, the number of deaths of human soldiers soon exceeded 50,000, towards 100,000; flame figures according to statistics were also eliminated thousands of groups of more than 5,000, already half of the observed appearance of the flame figures.

The border guards were quite determined, ten for one also wanted to destroy the flame humanoid. After all, the human nations had over 100,000 troops, and if the flame figures were only 10,000, the human side was sure to win.

Then, on the 9th day after the Flame Humanoid appeared.

The defending general of the Goliath Border Castle was still pondering whether to send troops to the 10 outposts on the left or the right first.

"General, it's bad. Something big is bad." A personal soldier rushed in.

"What's going on, which outpost has been breached again? Isn't this kind of thing common, what's the panic."

"No, it's, it's flaming humanoids, there are a lot of those monsters outside the city."

"What!!!" The general stood up and ran out of the room to the castle walls to take a look.

Outside the castle was cleared flat land, now a single flame figure silently approached the castle, a glance at the wide flat land filled with flame figures. This has to be 5,000, no, it's 10,000, how? How?

Chapter 3: Blocking the door

The defending general's mind was in chaos, shouldn't there be only 5,000 flame figures left, how could so many of them suddenly appear outside the city?

There was no time to think carefully, the flame figures converged near the city gate and started attacking the city, the flame figures crashed towards the gate again and again, even if they couldn't crash into it once or twice, the flames on their bodies were slowly heating the gate. There were many flame figures climbing along the city wall, the arrows were ineffective against the flame figures, and the huge rocks were still of some use, but this was a plain and there were not many boulders and other defensive materials, gradually the flame figures climbed up the city wall, small groups of soldiers crowded on the narrow city wall and fought with the flame figures. Together the flames outside the body of the flame humanoid evaporated, the flame humanoid with flame protection easily suppressed the human soldiers.

The fierce fight lasted for two hours, nearly 70% of the defenders in the castle died in battle, the remaining 5,000 soldiers chose to retreat after the breach of the castle gates. Thousands of flaming humanoids were wiped out, and the rest entered the castle and started burning buildings without chasing the retreating human army.

The Goliath-Romanian border castle was destroyed.

The 5,000 or so soldiers who escaped sent the news back to their home country, and the people in the southern part of Goria were in an uproar, and also began to drag their families to the north. The country of Golia had been confused by the war situation of the previous few days, and did not show enough attention to this flame humanoid invasion, except for the reinforcements for the border castle, the main legion was not sent over, that's why the border castle was not defended. Now that Goliath was starting to gain momentum, the three main legions moved towards the southern border except for the one near Torristine, and the other two moved towards the southern border, adding up to 100,000 soldiers with magical armor adding up to 5,000 of them.

On the other side, the defenders of the Kelmanian border castle get word to retrieve the soldiers scattered to various outposts into the castle, while requesting greater aid from their home country. After receiving the letter of request for aid and the news that the Goliath border castle had been breached, Alice decided to send Churuk's Inferno Legion to take over the defense of the border. Churuk departed that afternoon at 00:00, with a total of 50,000 soldiers, including 2,000 in flame magic armor.