In order to avoid being misled by false information... he had to confirm with Finn. After all, elves would not lie, but it was hard to say whether they would believe the false information and tell others about it.
For now... let's confirm its authenticity first.
He took a deep breath and subconsciously tightened Theresa's left hand to force himself to calm down.
And at this moment, the door opposite them opened.
This most luxurious reception room, which leads the furthest into the green courtyard, has two doors.
One door is used by guests to enter and exit, and is close to the outside.
The other door closer to the inside leads to the space where Finn lives and rests every day - it is called the Garden Courtyard, or "Fin's Courtyard". It is a mysterious existence to most elves, let alone humans like Yang Hao.
The door on the inside was opened, which meant that Fen and her entourage had arrived. Before Yang Hao and Theresa could react, the slender and perfect figure behind the door chuckled and said,
"Please forgive my slowness. After all, it takes a while to change into formal clothes."
Fen is a girl who seems "too perfect" even from an elf's perspective.
Pointy ears, neat short blond hair, and emerald green eyes that seemed to sparkle in the dark.
She was wearing a royal dress that was relatively simple from an elf's perspective. The dress set off her figure and beauty, but the most regrettable thing was her chest.
If Theresa's chest is a big loaf of bread, a hill, then Finn's chest is just a small bump on the plain. But this makes her petite and cute look even more prominent.
From a female perspective, I don't know whether to say pity or envy. Theresa muttered in her heart, looking at the elf in front of her who was only as tall as her when she stood in strappy high heels, and she was a little confused for a moment.
However, Yang Hao, a rough guy, obviously did not pay attention to the beauty of the elf.
He just took a deep breath, saluted as quickly as possible, and chose to go straight to the point:
"Respected Finn, I have a favor to ask of you - I heard from the elves that the little queen of the Roman Empire has had her tongue cut off?"
"Yes, Your Majesty Yang Hao. This is the truth." Fen stated in a sing-song voice, looking at the man who turned pale because of her words: "This is a cruel and unpleasant fact, and we do have convincing evidence and witnesses."
"Evidence and witnesses?"
"You may not want to believe the evidence now. But you must know who the witness is - that is Natalia, the former president of the Roman Empire Court who saved you from being executed on the spot during the Quiet Exile incident.
Since she saved you, her future has been bleak, and she was even demoted to a maid and humiliated by her enemies. But it was also because of this that she was able to come into contact with the little queen and discover this cruel truth. "
Natalia, the former president of the court of the Roman Empire, is also Yang Hao's savior in a sense.
After being demoted to a maid, she had been working hard in the palace, serving the little empress who was unable to eat on her own.
It was during that time that the ranger who infiltrated the elves secretly contacted them and reported the tragic events that happened to the little queen to the elf Fin.
When Fen put forward the title of court president, Yang Hao was actually convinced of the authenticity of the information.
He only held on to a glimmer of hope. But when Finn said that Prince Garson had a head maid who could perform ventriloquism, his last hope was shattered.
Jason, how dare you do such a thing? !
Yang Hao was filled with anger and self-blame. He wanted to go back immediately to rescue the little queen and the chief judge, but now he had no soldiers, no weapons, and no backup.
How could he fight against the Roman Empire, Gasson, the noble landlords, the religious warlords, and rescue the little empress from the palace
Although the Roman Empire has fallen, it is still a powerful enemy in this area! He may die in this year's drought, or he may linger for several years like a centipede that is dead but not stiff - but this does not mean that Yang Hao has the ability to sneak in and bring the little queen out.
The portal network he had built had now become the biggest enemy in saving the little queen. Why did he create these things in the first place
Yang Hao's pain was almost impossible to conceal. Theresa held his hand tightly in worry, feeling his strength while looking at Fen.
Fen was not willing to be outdone as she looked at the purple-robed princess who had transformed into a nun. Then, it seemed that she felt that the time was almost right, or perhaps she felt that if she continued to stimulate him, Yang Hao might start to give up on himself.
Finn took a deep breath, then walked to the throne and sat down:
"I think, Your Majesty Yang Hao, you may need some help." She smiled, looking at Yang Hao, who seemed extremely painful at this moment, as if she was looking at the treasure of an elf.
She was aware of Sister Teresa's vigilance, but she had already decided to bring the elves to the path of change at all costs. "A deal from the elves."
"I am not the regent now. I am no longer worthy of such a title. Moreover, we have been receiving your kindness until now, and we really have nothing to trade with the elves."
Yang Hao's sad sigh made Fen smile inwardly. This was the most mature time, this was... the best opportunity.
With this thought in mind, Fen smiled and made a suggestion under Yang Hao's gaze:
"Then, are you willing to pay the price for rescuing the little queen and the president of the court by serving as the regent of Caparia?"
She looked at Yang Hao, her eyes filled with a desire that did not belong to an elf.
This made her no longer an elf in Theresa's eyes, but a sinister and rutting jackal.
Chapter 11: The Roman Empire's Dilemma, the Naval Battle of Isgard
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At the same time, in the central region of the Roman Empire, it was time to distribute food according to rations.
There is a food shortage in the Roman Empire now. There are no cakes on the tables of nobles and landlords, let alone a few pieces of bread on the tables of ordinary farmers.
In the poor conditions, in order to survive and buy a large amount of food from Drake Port, and also to supply the lives of the royal capital, Drake Port and the nobles, the drought-stricken central area of the Roman Empire has now begun to implement rationing control.
Food was distributed to everyone according to the number of households every day. The food distributed was generally bread mixed with a lot of sawdust or soil.
A normal family of three can share a whole loaf, which, on average, gives each person two slices of bread at dinner time, and that's it.
Two slices of poor people's bread mixed with a lot of sawdust and dirt, with no side dishes or seasonings, could not fill the stomach, let alone make some people with weak stomachs suffer from stomach problems that day, not to mention asking these people who only ate two slices of bread a day to work.
But even in this situation, these breads became extremely precious treasures in the eyes of the hungry people.
They had no way to resist the soldiers distributing relief food, but they thought that these soldiers would have to go to the next village after distributing food in one village, so these lowly creatures, under the pressure of hunger, came up with a new idea...
After the soldiers left, the hungry bandits slowly approached the dilapidated farmhouse not far away with sticks and farm tools.
There lived a family of three: a disabled veteran, his wife, and his daughter.
Although he is a veteran, since he is missing an arm, this family is in some sense the easiest target to deal with.
More importantly, because he was a veteran, he got more bread than an ordinary family of three.
Suffering from hunger and cold, the bandit no longer cared that he was once a soldier defending the Roman Empire.
They just want bread and food to eat, even if the target of their attack is their former protector and his wife and daughter, they just want bread.
The stick swung back and forth with heavy breathing, and the staggering steps slowly approached the dilapidated farmhouse in the night.
The robbers surrounded the house under the cover of night, and finally attacked simultaneously, breaking down the door and windows amid the woman's screams.
The old soldier tried to resist, but faced with the siege of several people, he finally fell to the ground, staring with wide eyes at his wife and daughter who were also lying in a pool of blood with their eyes dead.
"Dead," said one robber. "Dead," repeated another.
They looked at the bodies of the two women on the ground, and finally looked at the dying disabled veteran. The leader said, since they are already dead, they might as well eat them. This way they can last longer.
"But don't eat the man now. Fillet his flesh and hang it over the fire to smoke, and we'll have meat to eat for the next month."
The bandit leader picked up the bread from the pool of blood, took a bite to temporarily satisfy his hunger, then he clenched the sickle in his hand, cut open the clothes on the corpse, and pointed the sickle head between the woman's clothes.
The old soldier watched helplessly as his wife and daughter were cut into pieces and devoured in front of him.
The roasting corpse smelled delicious. The old soldier was so hungry that he couldn't help swallowing his saliva before he died.
He just died with his eyes wide open.
When the robber's sharp blade was pointed at his neck, the man who was about to strike was stunned for a moment, then turned back and scratched his messy hair:
"Dead. Looks like he was frightened to death."
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At the same time, on the sea, Isgard's merchant fleet was fighting with pirates.
"Hurry up and get the Eagle Mother ready! We need air support from the Griffins!" The commander in charge of this voyage shouted on the bridge, "Let the 'Shock' keep an eye on them! These bastard Alessi pirates! How the hell are they getting involved with an alien race?!"
"It doesn't matter who they get involved with! Now we have to withstand their attacks! Magician, flares!"
The first mate's order was well prepared by the Ishgard mages. With a high and short chant, a sphere of white light suddenly rose into the sky.
Accompanied by a burst of intense light, the entire sea area was illuminated.
Ishgard's fleet, which consisted of ten merchant ships, five old iron-hulled ships, one experimental new ironclad ship of the "Shutter" class, and two wooden "Eagle Mothers", found the location of the enemy who had previously shot them in the dark under the light.
It was a pirate fleet consisting of about 40 wooden sailing warships. The ships were full of crossbow launchers and ballistae, and if you looked carefully at the deep sea below their fleet, you could see densely packed figures like schools of fish swimming freely underwater.
But among the wooden sailing warships, there are also a few "metal warships" that are also powered by steam and have cannons faintly visible on them...
The Pirates of Aresei - This is a powerful enemy on the sea route to Isgard, and a pirate nation that has risen in the southern island group.
The "fish school" under the pirate ship is a bloodthirsty alien race. Unlike the Sirens or mermaids in Isgard, these alien races are more like a combination of lizards, humans and fish.
They are not very intelligent, but they are numerous. They lurk in the water and if you are not careful, they may climb onto your ship and wreak havoc.
Seeing this situation, the commander of Ishgard broke out in a few drops of sweat.
Merchant ships loaded with cargo must not be abandoned. They are slow to begin with. If we abandon them, not to mention what will happen to the cargo and materials on board, at least the people on board will definitely die.
But in a head-on battle, the merchant ships' firepower is seriously insufficient - they are merchant ships, how could they be equipped with warship-level weapons? !
Can we only place our hopes on "Shi Cone" and "Eagle Mother"
The commander gritted his teeth and ordered the flag bearer to wave the flag. As the order was relayed, "Shi Cone" and two old ironclad ships broke away from the fleet and began to try to seize the T-head in order to project more firepower on the pirate fleet.
At the same time, on the "Eagle Mother", the raised griffin was being saddled under the comfort of the operator.
One after another, the griffin knights mounted their mounts, holding a belt made of glass bottles filled with oily and flammable liquid in one hand and a crossbow in the other.
After they were fully prepared, they immediately took off as ordered, and in less than two minutes, they formed an air mobile brigade consisting of 40 Griffin Knights in the sky.
The oily Molotov cocktails in their hands posed a huge threat to wooden ships, but to the metal warships of the Arese pirates, these Molotov cocktails were just tickling mosquitoes.
"Let the 'Spiral' and the iron-hulled ships focus on dealing with the pirates' ironclad ships! Let the air mobile brigade focus on dealing with the wooden ships, and let the sailors prepare for hand-to-hand combat and anti-boarding - Lady Nia?! It's very dangerous here now, please go back!"
The commander roared and gave his orders, and just as he ordered the sailors to prepare for hand-to-hand combat, a black-haired woman in a black dress with horns on her head and a dragon's tail behind her walked out of the cabin.
The black-haired woman called Nia looked at Arese's pirate fleet with a solemn look, then she turned to the commander and said:
"You are the commander here. You know the rules of naval warfare better than I do. I will transform into a dragon. Give me the orders."
"But Lady Nia?! If anything happens to you, not only the research institute but also the president will—"
"No buts. I have to die even if you lose. So let's just leave it at that. Although the black dragon can't freeze the sea surface like the ice dragon, our dragon flame, which can be used up to three times a day, can melt the hull of one of the metal warships and silence one of them... It shouldn't be a problem."
After saying that, Nia jumped out of the deck and transformed into a huge black dragon in mid-air with a beam of black light.
The black dragon flapped its wings and howled as it flew into the sky. At that moment, under the illumination of flares, the pirates raised the bloody flag.
This means a fight to the death, only one person from each side can leave this sea area alive, and it will be a bloody battle that will not accept any surrender.
The only Ishugard ships equipped with 150mm experimental cannons, "Shi Zhui" and "Hei Longnia", can threaten the pirates' metal warships. The pirates also only have a few metal warships that can threaten the ironclad ships.
The key point of this naval battle lies in who can sink the opponent's metal warship first.
The Griffin Knight roared and dived over the wooden warship to drop Molotov cocktails and crossbow arrows. The pirates, unwilling to be outdone, responded with javelins and harpoons thrown at high angles from their crossbow launchers.
On the side of the Ishgard fleet, sailors armed with swords, bows and crossbows, and even muzzle-loading guns and new rifles were fighting hard with the Lizardmen in the sea.
From time to time, wooden warships approaching the Ishgard fleet would burn and sink, from time to time, griffin knights would be hit by javelins and harpoons and die in the sea, and from time to time, the bodies of sailors or lizardmen would be thrown into the sea.
In the distance, the "Shi Cone" that had seized the T-head was bombarding the metal warships of the Alesse pirates with its maximum firepower, while two old ironclad ships that were not equipped with new artillery served as its shields to block the enemy's shells.
Black Dragonnia has been looking for opportunities to dive in the sky - she can only spray dragon fire three times a day, and the three dragon flames combined can only sink an ironclad ship at most.
She couldn't waste any time. She had to find the most suitable enemy and burn and sink the enemy warship that posed the greatest threat, or try her luck and just sink two of them.
But who exactly was it? Which one should we dive towards? Nia was extremely anxious, and at this moment, the magician's flare failed.
The sea was plunged into darkness and the pirates on the metal warships fell into chaos, but for the black dragon with night vision, this was an opportunity!
"Go to hell, you bastard pirate!"
The black dragon roared and swooped down under the cover of night. Her throat turned red due to the accumulated flames, and even her meridians were prominent. She took a deep breath, and when she passed over one of the largest ironclad ships, she flapped her wings and hovered in the air.
It was at this time that a salvo from "Shi Cone" hit the bridge of another metal warship.
As the pirates howled, Nia blew out the flames she had been accumulating for a long time.
At the moment the flames erupted, she caught a glimpse of a giant scorpion crossbow on another metal warship aimed at her.
grass!
Nia cursed in her heart.
When the flames spurted out, they discovered in the light that the giant scorpion crossbow was stuck with several barbed javelins as thick as an adult's calf.
She cursed again.