At the same time, in the palace of the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, the contemporary king Deke Spring was also looking sad.
As the king of a country, he certainly won't worry about not having enough cannon fodder. He is worried about another thing.
Not long ago, he had just received reliable news that the Orc Empire sent about two thousand elite soldiers to support the Dwarf Kingdom.
Two thousand people is not a large number, but if these two thousand people are elite soldiers, it is completely different.
The terrain of the Duanyun Mountain Range is not open, and tens of thousands of troops cannot form a formation. Two thousand elite soldiers are enough to guard the dangerous points, and even thousands of troops cannot break through.
Not to mention, the orcs can make up for the biggest shortcomings of the dwarves - although their shaman spells have the shortcoming of short distance, they are at least much more efficient and have a much larger range than the dwarves' rune spells, which is very useful for war. The auxiliary effects are not on the same level at all.
Deke picked up the secret information and read it carefully again, and couldn't help but sigh.
Because the Orc Empire changed its emperor, there was a slight change in personnel matters, and the spies found many opportunities in this. But even so, the intelligence they collected was not detailed enough. They only knew that two thousand elite soldiers were sent, including many spellcasters, but who exactly came? How many spellcasters are there? They really had no way of finding out.
These are real secrets, and no matter how hard the spies from the Country of Thousand Springs try, they are not that easy to find out.
After all, spies are not omnipotent.
As for prophecy and detection spells, if you can predict orcs, you can counter-predict, and if you can detect orcs, you can counter-detect them. It is true that there are human gods behind the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, but there are also orcs behind the Orc Empire. God, the two sides have been at loggerheads for so many years, who can take advantage
So King Dike can only be here alone, frowning, not knowing what to do.
After a long time, he sighed, sent someone to find the chief mage, and showed him this information.
"Things are getting difficult!" The Chief Mage's face darkened, "This battle is not easy to fight!"
"Yes! If the order had not been issued, I would have even planned not to fight." The king smiled bitterly, "If we fight like this, even if we win, it will only be a miserable victory, and the losses will probably be greater than the benefits!"
"If you ask me, it's better not to fight. It's nothing more than a matter of embarrassment. As long as you can get benefits, what's the shame?" the chief mage advised, "If you can make me become a demigod now, even if you have to take off all my clothes, Man Yuquan If a dog barks in the city, that’s not a problem!”
His examples are extreme, but persuasive. King Dike lowered his head and pondered.
The king thought and thought, his expression changed again and again, and finally he sighed deeply and shook his head.
"No, this is not a matter of my personal face. Going back on my word on such a major matter is worse than losing the war! Rather than withdrawing the order, I might as well reduce the scale of the war and send two or three thousand people to deal with it and suffer a loss. , then withdraw the troops and accuse the orcs of colluding with the dwarves for their evil intentions!"
The chief mage nodded slightly: "This is a hopeless solution, I think it is acceptable."
"But I still want to win this battle." King Deke said with some reluctance. "The last five generations of kings have never suffered a defeat in foreign conquests. I don't want to set this example! Future generations will laugh at me. !”
The chief mage knew his grandfather back then, and was a close friend with his father. Hearing these words, he couldn't help but sigh.
He has no children and almost regards Deke as his own son. Of course, he does not want Deke to lose such a big face.
However... If you don't want to be embarrassed, you have to win this battle. But winning this battle is not easy!
After pondering for a long time, he said: "I have an idea, maybe it's worth trying..."
"What do you think?" Deke asked hurriedly.
"If we want to win this battle, I think we should strengthen the magical power of our army. To this end, we can ask for help from the Mystic Tower Federation and ask them to send some high-level battle mages to support—one or two legendary mages can be included , of course it’s better.”
King Deke nodded repeatedly, but then frowned and said, "That incident... It would be a good thing if the Secret Tower Federation didn't add insult to injury. How could they support us?"
"It happened more than ten years ago, and it didn't work out after all. Don't take it too seriously." The chief mage said with a smile, "As long as there are enough benefits, it's not uncommon for enemies to become allies in a blink of an eye."
"But what kind of benefits can we offer to win over them?" the king asked. "The land is not bordering, and they are probably not short of money. What is it that they need that we can provide?"
The Chief Mage pondered.
After a while he whispered something.
King Decker's eyes widened, and he shook his head at first, but after thinking about it, he also fell into deep thought.
After a long time, he sighed and nodded heavily.
After receiving permission, the Chief Mage said goodbye and left. Not long after, he used teleportation magic to reach the Supreme Tower, the capital of the Mystic Tower Federation.
As a legendary mage, he would naturally be received by people in the Supreme Tower. Even if it is said that he is directly related to the Thousand Springs Kingdom's attempt to use a large-scale teleportation array to attack the Federation for more than ten years, in the country of wizards, the word "supposedly" is not enough to blame a legendary wizard.
What's more, he also brought a gift that the top federal officials dreamed of.
"Are you serious?" Looking at that thing, several legendary mages from the Mystic Tower Federation could not calm down. They whispered to each other, and then the eldest one asked, "This is no joke. !”
"I brought everything here, do you think it was a joke?"
"To be honest, we really want this." Another legendary mage said, "But if the price is to fight the Orc Empire for this..."
"So what?" the chief mage asked calmly, "Does the country of mages still care who it is an enemy of? Don't tell me that you are afraid of orcs."
"How can it be!"
"Since you are not afraid, then as long as the benefits are sufficient, what does it matter about fighting the orcs?" the chief mage said, "As long as we can win, nothing is a problem, right?"
The oldest legendary mage nodded: "You are right, as long as we can win, nothing else is a problem. But... what guarantee do you have that we will definitely win?"
The chief mage laughed as if he had heard some funny story: "You must be kidding me! If it is a national war, that's it. For a war like this involving thousands of people, our two countries will join forces. Who can rival us?"
"The orcs are not weak." The old mage, who is even older than some countries, said, "If nothing else, they have the largest number of legendary strong men in the entire continent."
"Not now." The Chief Mage shook his head, "Several of them just died."
"But that's only good for them." The old mage said, "After getting rid of that group of people, their government orders are now smooth, and the efficiency of the entire country has become higher. It won't take long before their national strength will be significantly improved. .”
"We are talking about the war in front of us, nothing else." The Chief Mage said calmly, "Actually, you have already made your choice when you saw this thing, right?"
Several leaders of the Mystic Tower Federation looked at me, and I looked at you, and nodded one after another.
The next day, the Mystic Tower Federation and the Kingdom of Thousand Springs announced a temporary alliance to fight against the Orc Empire that extended its claws beyond the grasslands.