Chapter 745
Everyone knew that the Bardi Empire had immense foundational strength . Destroying the Bardi Empire in a single direct battle would be basically impossible .
Even though the undead had obtained a temporary victory, Bardi still had vast territory and combat potential . With such a tremendous population and abundant resources, even if the undead wanted to invade and conquer Bardi completely, that would take several years, or possibly even several decades .
It was the same way for San Antonio . Even though San Antonio was dealing with a civil war as well as a demon and ogre invasion, San Antonio was foundationally so powerful that it would take many years before it was fully defeated .
Meanwhile, Bardi's situation was actually far better than San Antonio's . Bardi didn't have the biggest problem that San Antonio did, which was internal chaos and infighting . Bardi's previous ruler, Emperor Orloss, had left Bardi with an excellent foundation as well as international situation . Now, Bardi was under Halent's leadership and had the support of the Southern Sect . The entire Bardi Empire was improving its strength .
During this process, Bardi would naturally also improve its combat strength . Bardi would improve its combat strategy, modernize its weapons and equipment, and focus all of its society and resources on total warfare . The result of getting bogged down in war would mean that its foundational strength would be tested on the meat grinder frontlines . Bardi's other allies also wouldn't possibly just sit back and watch Bardi be defeated .
But while a speedy war was possible against a small country, it would be impossible to conquer any major country quickly unless you immediately broke its spine and absolutely suppressed them . The major country would also have to be foolish enough to send the majority of its forces for the enemy to devour . Otherwise, the war would have to proceed slowly . But, the undead wouldn't be given an opportunity to fight a long and slow war of attrition .
Everyone knew that the undead would only constantly increase in number and strength due to their undead sea strategy as the battle went on . Precisely because of this, no enemy of the undead would ever give them that much time .
Although Bardi had lost 200,000 soldiers in the previous battle, when considering Bardi's territory and population, Bardi's foundational strength hadn't been damaged at all . The bigger problem was that Bardi had lost a significant amount of face, damaging the royal pride . That was why Halent urgently needed a way to raise his people's morale .
Big countries could afford many losses . As long as the big country could win one major battle, it would be capable of winning everything . A small country with countless victories still wouldn't count as having won against a big country . The small country would lose everything if they lost even a single major battle .
This was why war was also referred to as a competition between countries that tested their overall national strength . Major countries had abundant resources and plenty of strategic buffer zones . A single loss would rarely be catastrophic enough to cause the major country to lose the entire war . Only small countries which lacked foundational strength would prefer riskier strategies which might see successive victories but then end up losing everything with a single loss, just like a gambler would .
The undead might have gained 200,000 new undead soldiers, but that was actually quite easy to deal with . The newly created zombies and skeletons would be so weak that they wouldn't even be able to defeat a regular farmer who had received only the most basic combat training . Bardi was only afraid of the undead's powerful mages .
Starting a few decades ago, former Emperor Orloss had changed Bardi's laws and forced all Bardi mages to register with and serve the Bardi government . This had caused friction with the Mage Country . Many Bardi mages also chose to move to other countries because of this . Plus, the past Bardi hadn't focused very much on raising mages, so Bardi was only an average country with its mages' overall strength .
Thus, Bardi had requested top-level mages from the Mage Country, wood spirits, Auland Empire, and Southern Sect in order to fight back against the Undead Emperors' advantage in magic .
I had just sent a Chaos Main God back to the Chaos Abyss . I also represented the Mist Alliance . Since I had come here, Bardi naturally hoped that I would be able to help them .
"In the end, this is trouble caused by my title of being the Strongest Holy Knight…"
Holy Knights had been considered the natural enemy of the undead for forever . I was also an Undead Emperor myself . It could be said that I was the person the most suited for dealing with undead in the world . It was only natural that Halent would want me to help out .
However, I had a headache because it wouldn't be that easy to help out here, and it might not be that beneficial for me if I did help .
Just how powerful were Undead Emperors? It would be really difficult to measure them by any standard . At the very least, it was a definite that they would have undead magic power far surpassing that of any regular Undead Lord . They would also have large and high-quality personal undead armies . However, the biggest headache of all would be their astonishing achievements in their personal research field .
More than 90% of Undead Emperors were outstanding mages and researchers . They would be vicious individuals who had reached the peak in their personal research field . Not knowing the Undead Emperors' true specialty and simply turning on auto-battle and sending an army to attack them would be no different from sending them free kills .
I trusted Undead Emperor Sandro's sincerity in allying with me . He had mentioned a little to me about the other Undead Emperors' research specialties .
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