The man reached out and touched the well-behaved Anna's smooth golden long hair, then after talking to Natalia for a few words, he walked to Black Dragon and took out the refreshing snacks he had carried with him since he became a high-level power official of the two countries.
He handed one of the packs to Nia and stuffed the other into his mouth. With the mint-like stimulation, he shuddered, and then said to Miss Black Dragon, who was curious and kept coughing after swallowing the snack:
"After Anna was rescued by us, Roman will probably split. Perhaps your invasion will not face too many enemies. At least you don't have to worry about the enemies of the diocese."
"Ahem... Ha- That's fucking hot... Wait? What did you just say?"
"I said nothing."
"I see. So this time we're only going to fight the coastal military district and the royal family?"
Nia had an expression of "I understand" on her face. The great wizard behind her was still struggling to transfer the tracking spell. The black dragon's almost magic-immune nature caused the wizards a lot of trouble.
Yang Hao chewed the refreshing snack for a few more times before giving Nia an accurate answer:
"It is almost certain that you will only face enemies from the military district and the royal family - but those Alesse people will also become your opponents."
"So when will Japaria and Bayerjans send out their troops?"
"Once you land, we will send troops. But the most we can do is open up a supply line from the Western Ranch to Drake Harbor. Don't forget that our factory's production capacity is also limited."
"If the production capacity is really limited, can you still make that thing?"
Nia turned around and pointed at the machine gun that was stuck between the wooden fences waiting to be taken back for disassembly.
"From a distance, I can tell from the structure of that thing that it is a big consumer of bullets... If your factory's production capacity is really limited, it is impossible for you to research these big consumers of bullets, right? It's just like people with limited financial resources would not consider eating at a five-star hotel."
"Maybe..."
"What do you mean by maybe?"
"After all, our relationship with Isgard has only taken a step forward, and it has not yet reached the level of becoming a brotherly country like Japaria and Bayerzas."
"Tsk..."
At this point, Nia finally understood everything. It wasn't that Yang Hao didn't want to tell her, but he wanted Ishugard to contribute more before he would reveal all the secrets of the two countries of Gabai...
In other words, only after Isgard and Gabai have further established a close relationship, will Yang Hao consider revealing some of the secrets as part of a deal.
It’s not that Nia doesn’t understand these diplomatic issues, but as expected, can’t you be a little cheaper
Considering that I’m about to sell our President’s daughter to you, you can’t...ah.
How could I have almost forgotten that this man didn’t know that I was planning to sell out my Miss President friend
For a moment, the black dragon's eyes widened. At this moment, the great wizard who had used up half of the magic power of the monster forest finally raised his head and said that the tracking technique had been completely transferred.
"It's just that for Miss Nia, these tracking spells will quickly dissipate due to your physical condition... About an hour or so, so please fly towards the coast as soon as possible."
"An hour?!"
She let out an ear-piercing scream, then jumped forward suddenly, and in front of Natalia and Anna's stunned expressions, she turned into a giant dragon and flapped its wings and flew away. Poor Miss Black Dragon had to challenge the limit of her flying speed again for work.
Watching her figure quickly disappearing in the darkness, Yang Hao sighed and said, we really treated her like a beast of burden.
But this has nothing to do with Yang Hao anymore.
He turned around and hugged Natalia, then held Anna in his arms under the gaze of the court president.
"Come on. Let's go back. Back to my current home."
He nodded to Natalia, and took the free left hand of the president of the court who saved his life.
He led the elves and the coffins of his brother and sister-in-law towards the direction where Fingel was.
…
Meanwhile, in the western part of the parish.
The current headquarters of the Protestant Church led by Saint Cecilia.
When the Witch of Night used teleportation to appear directly in front of Cecilia, who was busy dealing with government affairs, the Saint was so frightened that she almost used her magic to blast her suddenly appearing friend into pieces.
After noticing that the person coming was the Witch of Night, the Saint Lady put down the magic in her hand and let it dissipate in the air:
"Why are you here? Don't they still need you in the royal capital?" The saint's tone sounded bad, because she simply couldn't understand what was going on in this era, not to mention that she was just dealing with work.
"If you want me to help you deal with the affairs of the capital, please forgive me for declining. I am already busy enough here, and I don't have the time to leave the parish and go to the capital."
The Night Witch just shook her head upon hearing this: "Actually, I escaped from the capital. I offended three factions at the same time, so I gave up all my power in the capital and came here with my life-long research."
Her words stunned the Saint for a while. After a while, when the Saint placed her trembling right hand on the table, the girl, who had been hit one after another, gritted her teeth and squeezed out these words:
"What on earth is going on?"
She really couldn't understand it! Yang Hao was exiled for no apparent reason, so what! How come even the witch came here for no apparent reason
What she meant was, it wasn't that she was unwilling to accept the witch, but she had to find out what happened in the royal capital, right
Faced with her friend's questions, the Witch of Night just sat calmly in front of the Saint.
Where should I start? The witch sighed, using this sentence as an opening remark, and carefully explained to the saint everything she had just done.
When did she plan to leave the capital? What was her mindset when she released the indiscriminate night magic? What was her mood when she sent the last message to Yang Hao
She told everything, and did not forget to tell the saint that the little queen's tongue had been cut off by Prince Gasson.
The saint's face turned from pale to dismal, and finally to green and purple.
She seemed to be overwhelmed by the horrific fact, but in the process of forgetting to breathe, her body was still craving for oxygen.
This caused the Saint to cough in extreme pain, and also made her finally realize what a mess Roman was in now.
It is no exaggeration to say that when the saint was first born, she thought that only Roman's "diocese" was hopeless and needed a thorough cleansing.
Then when the witch calmly explained the actions of the nobles and the cruel behavior of Prince Gasson, the saint could only helplessly acknowledge the fact that Roman was completely corrupt.
It was like a pool of fermented animal entrails, rotten and full of maggots. It could only be burned directly with fire to avoid contaminating the relatively clean pickled meat elsewhere.
But even so—the Saint still couldn't understand the Witch's decision to leave the capital.
"Ahem... ahem... you could have played a greater role if you stayed in the capital!" The Saint coughed painfully, "Why do you want to leave at this time?"
"He has decided to rescue the Queen and Natalia. If I stay there, I can either kill him as a token of my loyalty, or protect him from the coercion of the royal family, or simply offend everyone and take the opportunity to leave - isn't the last option my only choice?"
The witch shook her head, "Anyway, my wish has been fulfilled... Now being a free-spirited profit-seeker is a good future for me."
"You really don't want Roman to go back to the way things were?"
"You tell me what to do. You tell me what I can do?"
"At least, you should do something, right?!"
"That's why I said that you are just a stupid kid who locked himself up in the ground to vent his anger. Now look at the paperwork in your hand, and think about what you are going to do with something that is a thousand times more complicated than that."
The witch sighed helplessly, and the saint also looked down at the documents on her desk in silence.
She had been dealing with political affairs these past few days and she was so exhausted that she almost messed it up.
If Yang Hao's book on governing experience hadn't given her some references, perhaps the Saint wouldn't have stayed here any longer. After all, the Saint was just a Saint who provided faith to the God of Light.
As long as she is called a "Saint", even a pig can become a qualified Saint.
Because the duty of the "Saint" is to provide faith to the God of Light, not to handle the affairs of the sect for the God of Light.
Looking at the document in front of her, the Saint nodded with difficulty: Yes, the Witch is right. If it were her, she would be lucky not to be scared silly, let alone "do something"...
But this is not a reason for the witch to do nothing... Rather, why did the situation develop like this
The saint sighed heavily.
The witch sighed along with her.
Then, she helped the Saint sort out some documents on the table: "Let me help you deal with some policies. I have been exposed to the court and I know how to deal with some of them - so can you arrange a room with a fireplace for me? After finishing my work, I still have to continue my magic research."
"Do you think I should say thank you?"
"At least I can make your job easier. I also have information about Patriarch Peter and can use magic to help you."
"Thanks."
The saint lowered her head.
Meanwhile, in the military district…
The negotiations between Prince Gasson and General Dreshuka are also coming to an end.
Chapter 12: After the little queen was rescued, Roman was about to break up 8K -4
In the military zone, in another important city near Drake Harbor, General Dreshuka was having an all-night meeting with Prince Gassen.
In the summary of the talks, General Dreshuka expressed his concerns to Prince Gasson more than once: he was worried that the current disunited Roman Empire would not be able to resist attacks from the barbarians who might move south.
After all, the emergence of a barbarian Khan means a swift invasion, and their invasion will only stop once they reach the central area of the Roman Empire.
By then, the barbarians will establish their own empire, and by then, the Roman Empire will once again become a beast of burden to be enslaved and herded by the barbarians.
What’s even more terrible is that the barbarians will not stop their march southwards just because of a little bit of loss…
In order to stop these barbarians who seemed to be being hunted by their natural enemies from moving south, General Dreshuka needed to obtain Prince Gasen's consent to further expand the influence of the military zone, at least to the western ranch.
“I think Your Highness is most aware of the terror of the barbarians… If the large number of centaurs among them invade the central region, the consequences will be disastrous.
Not to mention the existence of the beastmen and nomads among the barbarians - they are physically stronger than normal humans, and our army has no way of gaining any advantage in a field battle with them...
In this case, we need "castles" and "city walls" to stop the strong ones among these barbarians.
As for the smaller number of harpies and vultures raised by the barbarians, or those burly trolls... I don't need to say more.
Your Highness Gasson, it is impossible for the western ranchers' towns to intercept the barbarian army nowadays.
Even if they trained more than a thousand cavalrymen, it would be impossible for human cavalry to defeat the barbarians' mounted archers and iron hooves!
So I made it clear... Hand over the land of the local rancher to me, and the military district will build a barrier for the Roman Empire to stop the barbarians from moving south. Although it cannot guarantee that the barbarians will be completely prevented from invading, it can at least reduce the number of barbarians entering the country at one time."
When he said this, General Dreshuka paused for a moment. He looked at Prince Gasson's face with his piercing eyes. Finally, he bowed his head to Prince Gasson sincerely:
"Your Highness, please give more consideration to the matter concerning the barbarians... After all, this is really a matter of urgency! In order to prevent the barbarians from moving south, it is acceptable for us to clear some of the gates, isn't it?"
Although one of the reasons is that with the Western Ranch, the military zone's cavalry can have a stable supply of horses, and can also obtain livestock from the Western Ranch to provide additional food supplies and supply transportation after the portal is closed in the future, but more things that need attention are indeed related to the invasion of the barbarians.
In the history of the founding of the Roman Empire, the barbarians were indeed the most troublesome enemies.
To be precise, they are civilized people formed by tribes of various different races.
The variety of their races is staggering, and it is obvious that the physical fitness of most barbarians is stronger than that of normal humans.
Take the three main units of the barbarians before the founding of the country: "Orcs", "Centaurs" and "Harpies".
Orcs are terrifying warriors. Their skin is brown and they have two pairs of fangs. They can grab a well-trained and fully armed soldier with their bare hands and swing him like a stick.
If the late emperor had not used a trick and the props made by the regent to poison most of the orc warriors in the early days of the founding of the country, the Roman Empire would probably not have existed at all.
Secondly, the "Centaurs" are an extremely terrifying mobile force on the land plains.
They are a combination of man and horse, with the upper body of man and the lower body of horse, and they have both the strength of horse and the flexibility of man.
It is also because of this that they can run wildly and shoot arrows at the same time. If the previous emperor had not blocked them in the city and engaged in street fighting, completely destroying their mobility, the Roman Empire would probably not have existed.
Finally, the Harpy is the rarest and most powerful alien species among the barbarians.
They are born with the ability to fly freely in the sky. Their hard feathers are like blades that can cause sharp cutting wounds to exposed skin when they fall, not to mention that their hands can be used to control various weapons for combat.
If the Harpies have any weaknesses, it is that they do not know how to use magic and their population is small.
But these are their only weaknesses. The flexible harpies can even kite the parish's griffin knights in the sky.
In this case, the Roman Empire really has no way to fight against these flying units...
Fortunately, the guys in the air were destined to not be able to cause too much damage to the ground, so General Dreshuka believed that it was only necessary to build a four-meter-high stone wall defense line on the plains of the western ranchers to stop the barbarians from moving south. At least it could stop the ground units from moving south.
After all, whether they are orcs or centaurs, they can't jump directly onto the city wall that is more than four meters high.
If there were garrisons on the city walls, it would be impossible for the barbarians to quickly open a road into the Roman Empire unless they had siege equipment.
However, among the various tribes of barbarians, there are still some very strong individuals who have the ability to attack the city walls...
But after all, there were only a few people compared to the barbarian tribes, and they did not pose much threat to the city wall planned by General Dreshuka.
As long as the city wall can be built, General Dreshuka will have the confidence to stop the barbarians from moving south.
Although he could not ensure that all the barbarians would be blocked outside the city walls, at least there would be no problem in blocking their large army.
“After all, they need fodder, and fodder can only be found in the pastures in the west and the fertile land in the central region. Coupled with last year’s drought, the only way left for the barbarians to move south is the western plains.
The noble of the Western Plains is a piece of trash who only knows how to eat and eat. If we continue to let him be lazy, we will face the invasion of Feng County by the barbarians."