With trepidation in his mind, while Yang Hao was busy dealing with the new tactics of the elves, the improvement of the golems, the changes in the elves, the reporting work on the front line, and preparing for the arrival of the black dragon of Ishugard, Sister Teresa grabbed the corner of his clothes and carefully put forward a willful request:
"Can Naruga and I take care of those demons? They look anxious. Although the elves have protected them, their mental state still needs to be stabilized. And... this will also make it easier for you and Japaria to integrate these demons."
"Actually, Theresa, you feel sorry for them, so you want to help them, even if your power is very weak, right?"
The man, who was discussing important matters with Finn at the time, simply turned around and hit the target in Theresa's heart in a straightforward way.
She was so embarrassed that her face turned red and she stammered, not knowing what to do.
In the end, she could only say in a voice as thin as a mosquito: Isn't it bad that I am so willful
In response, His Majesty the Regent simply smiled and hugged his nun:
"Theresa, you have accepted a lot of my willfulness."
As he spoke, he gently stroked Theresa's back and kissed her forehead and cheeks, and finally gently rested his forehead against her rosy face.
“So I am willing to accept your willfulness, which is what you deserve... But Theresa, promise me that you won’t let yourself get hurt by this, okay
You are my heart, and I know you are a true saint who cannot bear to see good people suffer. But, I don’t want my saint to be hurt in any way.”
"Fen is still here, don't say such embarrassing things - anyway, you agreed, right?"
"Yes. So just go for it, I will fully support you."
"Maybe one day I will inadvertently make those demons believe in "light"? I will become the religious person you hate the most, right?"
"You talk as if you're not a nun now."
Yang Hao patted Theresa's back gently, just as Theresa had encouraged herself in the past. In his own way, he was also loving and encouraging this girl who had always accepted his willfulness but had never acted coquettishly or acted willfully towards him.
Finn just watched with a smile.
Watching the nun's back as she left.
There was a glimmer of jealousy in her green eyes.
After Yang Hao turned around, she pretended to be calm and said, "Then we should continue to talk about... the "large-scale lethal tactics" and the next integration of the demons."
"Perhaps we can use the Great Khan in the north - if they take a detour southward, we will have less pressure on our front."
As she spoke, her words revealed a bit of stiffness. Because the nun and she had not reached an agreement before, they just reached a consensus. That's all.
Chapter 5: The results of the elves' transformation and the battle before the final battle with the Redemption Army
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Finn and the nun reached a consensus - although neither of them convinced the other at the time, at least they reached a consensus among themselves.
"I will never let go of my man no matter what! So Finn! I won't give him to you!"
"But what about public opinion? And to be honest, the old elves chose to be loyal to him instead of me. He is a short-lived human. If we don't find a way to extend his life, it will cause trouble, you know?"
"But he never planned to be your prince! He came with me simply because he wanted to build a home here! That's all."
"But that may not be the case now. He wants to save the little queen, doesn't he?"
"Uh..." The nun was speechless for a moment. Facing Fen's conspiracy, she admitted... She seemed to have no excuse to break off the discussion with Fen who was smiling in front of her.
The nun supports Yang Hao's desire to save the little queen and his savior.
But the nun had no power.
She is the last princess of Bayerjans, but she has no soldiers or people, and even the light of faith has become a pitiful thing that is lingering on. How can she support Yang Hao to rescue the child? In the end, won't she still have to make a deal with the elves
For the first time, the nun felt angry about her own powerlessness. Especially after realizing that Finn had made such a suggestion with "no ill intentions", her heart felt like it was being burned by a burning coal.
She chose to give up the discussion, but before leaving, the nun reached a consensus with Finn.
Don't talk about this in front of him. Don't make it difficult for him.
He was already tired enough, like a packhorse pulling a cart called "Gapariya", and he might collapse to the ground from excessive fatigue one day.
To avoid that day, Fin and the nun would have to make sure he got some rest—or at least not get more tired than he already was.
…
Elves abide by their oaths. So after Finn swore with his real name, the nun left the scene with peace of mind, and said that at least on the surface, she was willing to be "friends" with Finn.
But it is precisely because the elves keep their oaths.
So when she saw with her own eyes how much Yang Hao doted on the nun, how he trusted her from the bottom of his heart, and even how everything was centered around the nun - a small crack appeared in the elf's already stubborn concept of love.
She suddenly understood why those female elves in Fingal Market who were obsessed with Arthur were hostile to each other, and why Weya was the one who was most eager to fight them to the death.
I can better understand why so many elves are willing to get involved even though they know they will die.
Because "jealousy" is really poison... It will destroy the elves' calmness, make them irritable, make them feel happy, and make them feel happy...
The boredom that hadn't changed for hundreds of years suddenly gave rise to a wave of "jealousy"—
Even if this would tear apart one's emotions and make one's soul cry bitterly in secret, such stimulation was like manna from heaven for an elf who longed for change but was unable to change himself.
(It’s such a painful yet pleasurable feeling.)
This kind of pain that he had to swallow with broken teeth stimulated the elf's sensitive heart. However, Finn believed that he would never lose.
The biggest difference between elves and humans is lifespan...ah.
No matter what, the nun could only accompany this man for a hundred years. Without any external assistance, a hundred years was the limit of what the nun could do.
As for me, I just need to sit back and enjoy the results... After all, elves are a very patient race.
Behold, he is draped in a golden cape woven from the hair of elves...
Look, he is wearing the uniform of the regent that he made by himself. These things are full of the magic power of the elves. It is no exaggeration to say that Yang Hao is now like the legendary chosen one.
He was bathed in the soothing power of the elves' magic all the time, and his body would recover quickly even if it was injured or tired, as if there was a wizard taking care of him whole body and mind all the time.
But just as a person who has been bathed in the grace of God will undergo unpredictable changes, a man who has been bathed in the magic of elves will definitely undergo tiny changes as time goes by.
His body will be gradually transformed by the magic of the elves into a being that can only be cared for by the magic of the elves... In the most extreme case, he will live as if blessed by God in the Elf Forest, and his life span will be infinitely extended like that of the elves... But outside the Elf Forest, he may not even be able to breathe normally.
He will live as long as an elf... By then, Mother Teresa, Her Majesty Teresa, the last princess of Bayerjans—
What do you have to fight me
Fen sighed in her heart. She looked at Yang Hao with her deep green eyes, while Yang Hao pretended not to notice and answered Fen's question:
"Great Khan? It's hard to say. When my brother and I defeated the Great Khan, we estimated that they would not be able to recover within ten years, nor would they be able to bypass the forest edge of the western plains...
At first we considered the Elf Forest and the Monster Forest as natural barriers, and the elves certainly wouldn't let the Khan's barbarians enter the forest, right?"
"That's right. So the key point is to take a detour."
"But the most important point for me is... Have the barbarians really been revived?"
Elves and humans have different views on the same issue. Elves think that as long as the Khan goes south, it will pose a major threat to the Roman Empire - while for humans, whether the Khan has revived by now is a good question.
After all, Yang Hao and his sworn brother had killed three of the four Qiexue generals of the Great Khan, and even the head of the Great Khan himself was kept on the trophy wall of the palace in the royal capital.
Under such circumstances, could the barbarians who were driven away really recover in less than ten years and continue to move south
Yang Hao found it difficult, so he explained to Fen that it would be better to "treat Khan as if he didn't exist" for now.
Finn finally chose to agree. After all, she had to admit that once a little love was mixed into the stubborn emotions of the female elf, her thinking would change.
Since Yang Hao said so, then let's do it - with this idea in mind, they found a garden in the green courtyard to rest for a while, and both sides sat facing each other. Maids came from nowhere and brought them snacks and tea so that the two adults who were discussing important matters would not feel thirsty.
They stopped talking about the Khan. It was too far away from the battle that was so close.
They talked about the possible advance of the Redemption Army on June 15th. After all, according to the outer rangers, the Redemption Army had already begun to stockpile food.
"They will attack the Monster Forest on the 15th. There will be more than 80,000 of them, but only 30,000 to 40,000 of them are capable of fighting."
Finn explained, "Most of them are not considered warriors even according to the Roman Empire's training for recruits. The greatest use they provide to the Redemption Army is as food reserves and transport teams."
"Wait a minute? Food reserves?"
"They have started eating people."
"I thought my lies to the Ishgardians were exaggerated... But, 30,000 to 40,000 people? With the current reforms of the elves, it will be easy to stop them from entering the Elven Forest. But we need to kill the "priests" who are the commanders and the "skirtarchs" who are the elite reserve troops."
In the Roman Empire's Church of Light, a "priest" is actually the commander of the believers' army.
According to the Holy Book of the Church of Light, priests will not gather in the same unit to carry out operations unless a group of priests is needed to perform a "divine ensemble".
This is like letting two platoon leaders command a platoon at the same time. If the two platoon leaders issue completely opposite orders, how should the believers act
Not to mention, if the fighter plane is delayed due to discord between platoon leaders, how should they be punished
Therefore, the Church of Light would only place one priest in a troop, and provide assistance from some crusaders... This gave Japaria an opportunity—
A chance to thwart the parish's plot in the first direct engagement with it, then shoot and kill a priest and his accompanying crusaders.
Yang Hao explained that because the priests had never seen the Japa 1404 style, the most they would do was to arrange a few divine barriers on themselves in advance in order to deal with bows and arrows, and then focus on releasing offensive and range-enhancing divine spells.
In this case, the pastor himself must have been full of blind self-confidence—
Therefore, the elves must have their archers fire at the priests standing upright on the sedan at the same time, trying to use the opponent's blindness to create opportunities for their own side.
"Now, Caparia already has 200 trained shooters. Although the ammunition reserves have been reduced a lot due to training, it should be no problem to survive the attack of the Redemption Army.
Of course, they can also easily penetrate the armor of the Skitarii, and it is also very easy to penetrate several layers of barriers when the priest is unprepared. "
"But the problem is that we must practice the "surface and point tactics" in advance to prepare for the large-scale battle with the diocese later -
The parish is not stupid. After the death of one of the priests, they will definitely strengthen their protection... Then how to kill the believers on a large scale will become a good problem. "
"But our reforms have yielded new results... If nothing unexpected happens, Hippogriff and Golem will be the key to our victory—of course, the demons as well."
In Caparia, Arthur has made new progress in his research on golems.
Although he still hadn't developed a "large handgun" that could be used directly by golems, adhering to the concept that "the bigger the caliber, the greater the power, and the explosive charge is enough to lift bricks into the sky", Arthur still designed a golem for Yang Hao that was extremely outrageous.
This is a golem whose two feet can be turned into fixed stakes. It has no human hands and no specialized weapons, but instead has a cannon mounted directly on its shoulder and claws specially used for loading.
This type of golem is called "Howitzer Golem" and was named by Yang Hao himself.
As the newest Golem, its structure is made of tough and durable metal. The original barrel structure means that it can only use its body to withstand the recoil when firing without any buffer.
It has a caliber of 120 mm and uses an extremely primitive gunpowder base and ignites the shells through a nozzle.
The shells are currently made of stone bullets that have been ground into a sphere, but Arthur said that the elves have the technology to make a whole piece of explosive ore into a sphere -
If the problem of the high probability of explosive ore exploding inside the barrel can be solved, then Caparia will have the first artillery unit in history.
Even though these golems could only launch stone bullets to a distance of about 1,600 meters when projectiles, even if they used "explosive gunpowder" ground from explosive ore as a primer - but as primitive artillery, Yang Hao thought it was enough.
"The priest's group shield is not capable of withstanding hundreds of kilograms of rocks falling from the sky. If Arthur can work harder to get out of bed and work hard to make the exploding shell heads, then this Golem unit will become a nightmare for the infantry phalanx.
Furthermore, since these golems are made entirely of steel, their movements are slower, but they are also more stable.
Conventional light spears should not be able to knock down golems without hitting the core. As long as they can protect the core, they can withstand about six rounds of attacks from the light spears... and these metal monsters that are more than 5 meters tall are also powerful line-resisting units in close combat.
The only problem is that once they get into close combat, there is a high probability that their artillery will be damaged.
Because the howitzer golems were manufactured together with the artillery, once the artillery was destroyed, the people of the Ling tribe could either turn them into specialized melee units or directly recast them and turn them back into artillery units."
Yang Hao's explanation made Fen frown: "Can't it be repaired? I remember your Majesty said that the artillery in Ishugard should be repairable..."
"I would like to, but if you want to repair the cannon on Golem's shoulder at this stage, you have to cut the cannon apart as a whole. Instead of going through so much trouble, it would be easier to just remake it. "
"I see... What about Hippogriff?"
"It's easier than the golems. After all, we just need to train them to throw rocks from high altitudes, and then replace the rocks with bombs."
Compared to Howitzer Golem and Arthur, whose hair was thinning and who for some reason was shaking when he walked recently, Hippodrome's training was much easier.
After all, the elves already have a corps of Hippogriff Knights, and their training of knights is only for high-altitude dropping of objects rather than dive bombing.
What's more, at Yang Hao's request, the Eagles actually served more as high-altitude artillery observers.
They just need to confirm the landing point of the golem so that Naluga's children can adjust the golem's orders.
They would only be allowed to drop bombs from a safe distance when they had no other choice or had nothing else to do, but even so, the number of bombs that the Hippogriff could carry was too few.
(Either use a dragon as an airplane, or build one yourself - the former unless I can go to Ishgard and bring a dragon over, the latter is simply impractical for us... Well, I can only say, let's take our time later.)
Yang Hao muttered something.
At this moment, Finn suddenly came up with an idea: "Can we use the terrain to prevent the parish's army from pouring in too many believers at once?"
"oh?"
"That's right. Although we can't stop priests from bringing believers into the battlefield, at least we can limit the number of them pouring in at once, right?"