The dark-born army appeared blatantly. Just as the desert bandits were slaughtered frantically, a confidential letter appeared on the table of the court.

"Sure enough, it appeared in the Western Desert." Cassandra looked at the letter and said to the inquisitor Raviland: "There are three armies nearby, one of which is led by Earl Julian. If the response is quick, it should be the first time. Sniping the Darkborn."

"No, the western desert is hot and dry. Going deep into the desert will inevitably lead to a decrease in the army’s fatigue and combat power, and the dark descendants are not afraid of the heat. Fighting there is not good for us." Kulun didn't seem to approve of taking the initiative to attack the desert. Instead, he suggested: "We should Build fortifications on the edge of the desert, and mobilize reinforcements from other areas of the empire to increase the troops, and attack when the Darkborn walks out of the desert."

"However, the western desert is too big, and we can't enclose the entire desert at all. What if the Darkborn bypass the line of defense?" Lavilan asked.

"Although the dark descendants are sturdy, they also have to eat to supplement. According to the law of the previous few dry tides, they will inevitably attack the nearby towns and eat people at the first time, so we only need to divide the army into corps and defend the towns near the desert. Form a blockade chain, no matter which direction they attack, other forces can gather defense at the first time." Cullen explained.

As a military commander, he has studied five dry tides in history and is well acquainted with the habit of dark descendants marching.

"Okay, let's do it." Although Lavilland is young, she is now an inquisitor and has shown the decision he deserves.

While sharing the information with the Ole Empire, everyone led their troops to the west.

On the way, the dwarf novelist Varikla saw Leliana's dignified expression and comforted him: "Aidan is a legendary hero, and judging from his state that day, he has not become a simple darkborn, maybe there is something in it. There is something we don’t know about."

Leliana nodded, her eyes softly looked at Varrick and said: "It doesn't matter, Aidan in the past is dead, but now it's just the Darkborn with his memory."

She is a master spy. She had a close relationship with Varek when investigating the defenders of Kokwo, and she knew his background very well. She knew that she was a very good dwarf, smart, loyal, and righteous at the same time. Very generous, is the closest comrade-in-arms of the defender Hawke.

Now Varrick said this to her, just to persuade her and let her keep a little hope in the case of being hostile to Aidan. 】

In many cases, hope is the most important thing to support a person to go on.

Seeing that Varrick wanted to say something more, Leliana interrupted him: "I just think about it again. Based on what I know about Aidan, the current movement of Darkborn does not fit his style."

"You mean?" Varrick frowned.

"Yes, I think if Darkborn is really commanded by Aidan, it will probably not develop as Kulun analyzed." Leliana said slowly.

He has fought side by side with Aidan and knows Aidan's style very well.

This legendary powerhouse likes the lightning offensive that is too fast to cover his ears, but now that the dark descendant only cannibalize the surrounding desert town of the bandit after the emergence, it is not the style of Aidan at all.

But Leliana didn't raise it in the meeting, because she couldn't guess Aidan's next move, and there was no problem with Cullen's tactics, so let's collect information first.

Intelligence is the most important thing in a war, and often an important piece of information can determine the direction of a war.

When marching in the court, Ole's army had assembled in several large cities around the desert.

Earl Julian still decided to use the tactics suggested by the Tribunal to form a military chain when mobilizing troops, and to provide support at any time.

Soon, when Ole's army surpassed more than 80,000 gathered outside the desert, the Darkborn finally began to march.

But to everyone's surprise, the target of Darkborn's march was actually the western fortress.

The western fortress is adjacent to the desert and close to the lofty plains. It is rarely populated, and there are several long-abandoned military bases.

The reason why it was abandoned is because it is occupied all the year round by a large number of spirit creatures such as ghosts and wraiths that cannot return to the shadow world.

Human beings are already elves. Because of some special circumstances after death, their spirits will not merge into the shadow world, but will stay in the real world and become ghosts.

The power of ghosts is far from that of demons, but there are no human cities here, so no one has come to spend great efforts to solve the problem of grievances.

Over the years, there are more and more ghosts and resentments here.

The Ole Empire did not station troops here this time. One is because there are ghosts around here and the commanders don’t want to come, and the other is because there are no people here, and the Darkborn cannot find anyone to eat here. I never thought about the Darkborn meeting. March toward this side.

Now that he learned the movement of the Darkborn, the Ole Commander Count Julian panicked.

If troops were dispatched, the military strength near the western fortress was scattered, and food was given away in the past, but if troops were not dispatched, the Darkborn would immediately drive straight into the hinterland of Ole once they passed through there.

The court received the news. Although it was shocked by the dark-born army's choice, it still advocated sending troops to stop it.

The reason is also very simple. The dark descendants penetrated the desert into the western fortress. Whether or not they clash with the entrenched ghosts, they will inevitably lead to a decline in combat power due to long distances and hunger.

Even if all the leading human forces are lost, as long as they can buy time for the army behind, they will have the opportunity to block the dark descendants in the northwest fortress and desert.

But if it is not blocked, once the Darkborn breaks through the past to slaughter civilians, the combat strength will be restored after the cannibalism, and the loss will be even greater.

When the time comes, the dark descendants will divide their forces to attack, and the surrounding small towns can't be defended at all.

The situation was clear, and the two legions closest to the western fort drove over.

As soon as they arrived at the northwest fortress, the two Ole legions were frightened by the terrifying formation of the Darkborn. The dark descendants actually chopped up the desert bandits and carried them on their bodies as marching rations, avoiding the observation of the distant scouts. At this time, they were not facing the hungry dark descendants at all, but the monsters in full state.

Seeing the brutal appearances of the dark descendants gnawing on human limbs, although the two legions had already made a mortal determination, they were still shocked.

Many young soldiers were scared to urinate on the spot, crying bitterly.

The result is obvious, the two legions totaled less than 10,000 people, and they directly gave away the heads of the dark-born army of more than 50,000.

After killing these two Ole regiments with very few casualties, the Darkborn did not enter the hinterland of the empire, but instead swept the army to face the army of Count Julian who had gathered in the south.

When Earl Julian saw the dark descendant like a black torrent from a distance, his calves were trembling, and he felt that he was a little unable to hold up his exquisite armor.

Especially in front of the dark army, some human soldiers who had their arms cut off and barely maintained their mobility were drove away.