The war broke out again, and the Rose Empire switched from offense to defense.
Due to the emergence of special sub-human troops and changes in the combat methods of the orc troops, the Rose Empire lost several cities in a row.
Fortunately, the lost cities were basically located on the edge of the empire.
After the defeat in the autumn, the Rose Empire relocated most of the civilians in the marginal areas to the interior. As a result, the vast majority of civilians saved their lives and did not have to worry about being dragged into the war for the time being.
At the beginning, the Rose Empire suffered a setback due to morale, manpower, etc., but after the king decided to publicly translate the prophecy, the Rose soldiers rekindled their fighting spirit.
They cannot afford to lose again. If they do, the orcs will become more aggressive and penetrate deeper into the country.
They had no idea what brutal things the bloodthirsty orcs would do on their land.
By then, countless people will surely die under the orcs' knives.
Hatred of the orcs gradually overshadowed the soldiers' fear of war. Under the command of General Rose, they reunited and unleashed an unprecedented powerful force.
The Rose Empire is the main battlefield, and the Rose soldiers who are familiar with the terrain have a unique advantage.
In addition, the country is united, and the speed of resource allocation seems to be much faster than before.
Not long after the war resumed, the Rose Empire gradually figured out some ways to deal with the orcs' attacks, and the war gradually developed towards a stalemate.
I don't know when this war will end.
If people in both countries believe that the translation is true and that different races will fight to the death, there will be no way to achieve true peace.
The past history seemed to be repeating itself in Chirom's eyes.
About three hundred years ago, humans treated various subhumans in the same way.
After the end of the Dark Ages, humans and various subhuman races, who had once fought on the same front, soon became enemies.
Several kingdoms began to drive out and kill various sub-human races, which eventually led to the sub-human races that were once widely distributed in human countries, either pouring into the Ocean Principality and the Dragon God Council Kingdom, or establishing the Wansheng Kingdom at the western end of the continent.
After consulting a lot of information, Chirom still couldn't find out how the past war ended.
Many countries have unanimously erased this period of history from their respective national records.
Perhaps only one person knows the truth about that war.
Elves can live a long time.
Mingdarak, the prime minister of Wansheng State and the current regent of Wansheng Republic, had personally participated in the founding war of Wansheng State.
Rumor has it that it was because of Mindarak that the human nations realized their mistakes and eventually stopped persecuting the demihumans.
From this point of view alone, Mindarak should be a peace-loving person who will try every means to promote peace between the two countries.
But in the end, he chose war.
Perhaps after a long period of time, he saw that humans had not changed, and finally changed his peaceful thoughts and chose to fight humans to the end.
That's why he revealed the translated pages to the orcs.
It is quite difficult to understand other people's thoughts, let alone the elf who is nearly a thousand years old.
Chirom had no way of knowing whether what Mindarak was doing was a means to an end or if he was serious about it.
For the former, there is still room for negotiation, but if it is the latter, the peace faction led by Chirom no longer knows what to do in order to restore peace between the two countries.
They absolutely do not want to see rivers of blood flow between the two sides or one side being destroyed.
If the devil hadn't come to this black swan event, there might still be time to find a solution.
But next year is when the devil will come.
It's ironic that people in this world are still fighting each other.
The records of the stories of the Demon King and the Hero are rather vague, but it seems that each story ends with the Hero's complete victory.
Many high-ranking officials of the Rose Empire believed that this invasion of the Demon King would definitely end with his defeat, so there was no need to make a fuss.
How arrogant and irresponsible.
They also use the heroes to do stupid things like that, wasting their precious development time.
In some ways, those people are beyond help; they are stuck in the subhuman war and cannot extricate themselves.
He believes that dealing with the demi-humans is more important than dealing with the Demon King.
Haven’t they ever thought about how many people would die if the Demon King revealed his true strength from the beginning
What exactly can be done to make two such hostile countries put aside their past grudges and work together to fight against the devil
Should we reveal the fact that the demon king has come to Mindarak
When he got this news, would he believe it or would he just laugh it off and think that humans were cheating
Whenever he thought about this question, Chirom got a headache.
Being constantly troubled by these worries, the food he made didn't seem to be as delicious as before.
To the outside world, he could only say that he had reached a bottleneck period.
Sitting in the blocked restaurant, Chirom smashed kitchen utensils and threw food around to vent his inner unhappiness.
Others in the peace faction came up with several proposals, but none of them were satisfactory.
Chirom became increasingly irritated.
Today, he smashed things in the kitchen as usual to vent his emotions.
But he never expected that a "distinguished guest" would come to his door.
"Mr. Chirom." The secretary knocked politely on the kitchen door.
"What! I told you not to bother me unless necessary!" Chirom stopped what he was doing, his sunken eye sockets filled with anger.
The secretary said calmly, "There is an acquaintance outside who wants to see you. He is the man we met in the Library of Everything.
You ordered that if this man comes to your house, he will disturb you even if you are cooking."
Hearing the secretary say this, Chirom quickly knew who was coming:
"Let him in, so I can talk to him alone. Go get ready!"
"yes."
After responding, the secretary took Yang Yu and the others to Chirom's spacious restaurant.
After not seeing each other for a year and a half, the boy in front of Qiluomu had grown taller, but Qiluomu recognized the boy in front of him at a glance from the smile on Yang Yu's face:
"Boy, I haven't seen you for over a year. Have you found any new and exotic foods while exploring the underground maze
Are you planning to blackmail me with those novel foods?"
Yang Yu laughed and said, "How can this be called extortion? How can this be called extortion if it's a transaction that we both agreed to?"
Chirom snorted coldly: "Still the same as before, all you can do is talk. Let me see what you brought!"
Yang Yu made a gesture to ask for money, exuding the smell of profiteering:
"I have prepared a lot of good things to honor you this time, so you should be prepared to bleed a lot.
And the agreement we made before, it’s been more than a year, isn’t it time for us to be paid once?”
(End of this chapter)