In just a few years, Augustus defeated most of the wizard organizations on the east coast and surrendered them all from north to south, east to west, thereby establishing a powerful Black Spirit Empire. It took several more years to make the entire Black Spirit Empire completely stable.
During this process, Augustus did not encounter any difficulties or challenges. It was completely a matter of course.
Because he discovered that all the problems encountered in establishing the Black Spirit Empire had been taught in the process of studying with the old man. At first, he didn't know what the use was. He was just afraid of being punished and memorized it by rote. Only when he actually used it did he realize that the effect was amazing.
For example, he prohibited the hereditary succession of officials, strengthened the concentration of power, established circuit courts, and forced the descendants of nobles to have the territorial rights of feudal nobles, etc.
In this way, in more than ten years, with infinite respect for the old man, he turned the Black Forest Empire into a stable, powerful, praised by the people, clean officials, reasonable restrictions on the nobility, highly concentrated power, and dynamic country.
He felt that he had definitely completed the task given by the old man, so he returned to the place where the old man and he parted ways to look for the old man.
But he didn't find the old man, only a scroll that the old man left for him.
On the scroll was a message from the old man to him. At the beginning, he affirmed his excellence and told him that his mission was successfully completed. Then he was given a four-word warning: Be careful of them!
Be careful about them
Augustus was puzzled by the old man's four-word advice.
Be careful about them? who are they
After thinking for a long time and still not being able to figure it out, Augustus had no choice but to return to the capital of the Black Spirit Empire with huge doubts. He ruled the entire Black Spirit Empire for more than ten years, making the empire prosperous.
For more than ten years, he kept thinking and trying to figure out the meaning of the warning left by the old man. Until one day more than ten years later, he understood and understood who "they" were! Immediately afterwards, a catastrophe came.
Everything started with a small rebellion without any warning.
At that time, Augustus didn't pay much attention after receiving the news, thinking that it could be easily pacified. This is not arrogance, but that the entire empire has developed its own set of perfect systems in the past ten years. Through this system, we can calmly respond to various natural disasters and man-made disasters, and minimize the impact while solving them.
But what Augustus did not expect was that the rebellion was like a flame on the dry grassland, spreading faster than anyone, including him, expected. In a very short period of time, one-fifth of the empire's territory was involved. He tried various countermeasures, but none of them were effective.
After discovering that there were serious human loopholes in his command transmission system, he finally realized that "they" were coming, and his empire seemed to have been infiltrated into a sieve by "them", and all the responses he made were ineffective. Carry on - he's been sidelined!
When he understood, he couldn't help but panic, then became angry, and finally responded with all his strength.
He quickly adjusted the empire's general policy, reused spies, strengthened supervision, controlled public opinion, controlled strategic materials, conscripted troops on a large scale, developed magic weapons, built a wizard corps, and built an army of wizard apprentices, trying to defeat the enemy in a nationwide war. The mysterious "they".
When the war began, he fought many times with "them" who stood behind the rebels. During the fight, there were wins, losses, and injuries to each other, but he was strong and not afraid to trade injuries for injuries. On several occasions, he almost completely wiped out the opponent after paying a heavy price.
But after the same situation happened several times, he realized that he was overconfident. "They" were actually stronger and more cunning than him, and he fell completely into the trap of the other party's war of attrition.
What makes him most powerless is that he seems to be unable to kill the opponent at all. Even if he tries his best to kill one of the opponent's members, it won't take long for the opponent's member to be resurrected from another person's body. This was a spell he had never heard of before. It was powerful, evil, and powerless to deal with.
After a period of stalemate, the war situation began to become more and more disadvantageous.
In order to be able to fight back, he began to crazily squeeze the country's power.
At this time, someone reported to him that there was a breakthrough in a magic weapon long ago-"The Glove of Destruction". Once the research is successful, the "World-Destroying Gloves" can completely kill "them" who are constantly resurrected through the powerful prophecy spell effect, thereby defeating "them".
Augustus was overjoyed after hearing this, and invested a lot of resources into the research project of magic weapons, asking scholars and wizards to speed up the progress at all costs, successfully develop the "World-Destroying Gloves", and then improve the production process and produce it on a large scale. .
At the same time, Augusta also realized another possibility: the situation continued to deteriorate, and even if the "World-Destroying Glove" was successfully developed, there would be no way to reverse it.
For this, he made two preparations.
He asked his trusted subordinates to bury some of the resources that could not be converted into war strength in various places and build treasures. Put in detailed records of the information he has collected so far about "them", as well as scrolls recording spell knowledge.
This includes the design drawings of the "World-Destroying Gloves" and the manufacturing process of the initial version.
In this case, he really failed. As long as his descendants can get his treasure, silently accumulate strength, and produce a large number of "world-destroying gloves", they can defeat "them" and successfully restore the country.
Seeing this, Richard sighed lightly. He already knew what would happen next: the Black Spirit King suddenly died (most likely assassinated by the so-called "them"), the Black Spirit Empire collapsed and split, and became the current East Coast situation. Many descendants of the Black Spirit King have retreated to the Black Holy Mountain Kingdom in the middle of the east coast until now. According to the trend, in a few hundred years, there will be no hope for the Black Holy Mountain Kingdom to recover, and maybe even this last fire will be extinguished. After all, the Black Holy Mountain Kingdom has financial resources but no matching power. In anyone's eyes, it is just a piece of fat.
Of course, the fate of the Black Holy Mountain Kingdom has nothing to do with him.
After sighing, Richard looked at the end of the scroll, where all the information about "them" that the Black Spirit King had learned about was written there. He hoped to give his descendants a good reminder and not be as vague as his original teacher - This is relevant and valuable to him.
Looking over, Richard's expression became a little more solemn. He had already guessed many things before, but after receiving confirmation from the Black Spirit King's donation, he still couldn't help but feel heavy in his heart.
According to the scroll records, the full name of the so-called "them" organization should be "Zhixu Shenhui".
The "Order of Gods" is truly extremely powerful. Each member is almost immortal and possesses unimaginable weird spells.
Without the "World-Destroying Glove", the entire Black Spirit Empire is struggling to support itself just by dealing with the bottom members of the "Order God Association". If the senior members of the "Order God Association" continue to Join, the consequences are completely unimaginable.
And this also gives a very cruel reality: the "Order of Gods"'s response to the Black Spirit Empire is not like going all out, but more like teasing.
Ha, teasing.
This is chilling.