Volume 7 Mortals and Gods Chapter 789 Curtain (Part 1)
Iros and Ekaterina were placed in the Sophielan Palace in the Imperial Palace, which was specially designed to welcome the highest dignitaries of the Sirel Empire.
In the past ten years, Sophieland Palace has only been opened four times.
Somewhat ironically, three of the four times the Sophiran Palace was opened were used to receive the Archbishops of the Holy Empire.
On the second day alone, Yekaterina couldn't stand the endless banquets in the Xirel Empire, so she claimed to be sick, hid in her room, and concentrated on studying the planes of meditation.
Elos, on the other hand, seems to enjoy it endlessly, dealing with Emperor Siriel and all the powerful ministers and nobles every day.
Emperor Cyril soon discovered that this young and handsome man with a kind and smiling face was actually not a simple man. No matter how they tried, they could not get the slightest hint from his mouth.
At countless banquets, Iros talked about religion, goddesses, and faith, but never talked about wars and covenants.
The envoys of the Principality of Charles suddenly became more relaxed, and were not at all anxious about whether the negotiations could yield results.
As the days passed, they were not in a hurry, but Emperor Xirel was already going crazy with worry.
War reports from the south came one after another. The Holy Empire's army moved like the wind and had defeated the three largest vassal states in the south of the Xirel Empire one after another.
In these three battles, Cyril's army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, and another 80,000 were routed and had to be reorganized in the rear.
Among these three battles, the most surprising one was the battle between Duke Dumas of the Cyrel Empire and the Divine Knights of the Holy Empire.
Duke Dumas is the most powerful duke in the southern part of the Cyrel Empire. In the past half month, he has thrown away the main force of the Cyril Empire's army, and his 20,000-strong army has been following behind the Knights of Divine Inspiration, trying to seize the opportunity for a decisive battle.
However, the Knights of Divine Inspiration acted quickly and never fought a decisive battle with him.
After playing the hide-and-seek game for more than ten days, the Divine Knights suddenly stopped in the Petain Valley and lined up waiting for the arrival of Duke Dumas.
At this time, Duke Dumas was only more than a hundred kilometers away from the main army of the Xirel Empire behind him. However, this distance of more than a hundred kilometers became the key to determining the outcome of the war.
Arrayed opposite Dumas's 20,000-strong army, were 8,000 Divine Knights.
At that time, the sun had already set in the west, and the clouds were like blood for half the sky.
The bloody sky covered the eight thousand standing knights with a new layer of bloody clothes. In this bloody square formation, a surging blood cloud suddenly rose up!
Driven by this blood cloud, the entire divine phalanx moved!
The iron cavalry rolled like a blood pool in the sky suddenly bursting, and a red waterfall fell from the sky!
And that blood cloud had already far surpassed the phalanx of knights behind it, and with boundless murderous intent, it rushed towards Dumas' army swiftly and unparalleledly!
The mighty Duke Dumas faced the setting sun. The sunlight and shadows stung his eyes, and the scenery he looked out was a little blurry.
He stared hard at the rolling blood cloud, and could only vaguely see a knight with a spear and a prancing horse in the blood cloud.
Duke Dumas suddenly smelled a bloody smell in his nose that was too strong to be resolved, and then his eyes that couldn't stand the sunlight stung, and he shed tears involuntarily.
"What the hell!"
Dumas cursed and rubbed his eyes vigorously.
He vaguely heard the army behind him shouting something, but the sound seemed far away and erratic, and he couldn't hear what it was exactly.
Dumas finally opened his eyes.
In just an instant, his eyes opened as wide as possible!
At some point, the space around him had been dyed heavily in dark red. This red was like mist, constantly flowing, and the vague knight just now was actually in front of him now!
The knight still looked very young, his handsome face was expressionless, and there seemed to be blood flowing in his cold eyes.
Duke Dumas suddenly had a feeling. He felt that the knight looked at him as if he were looking at a dead person.
Duke Dumas didn't know why he suddenly felt this way. His eyes followed the knight's shoulder to his arm, and then along the arm he saw the battle gun in his hand.
Dumas suddenly realized that the war gun was slowly being withdrawn from his chest!
How could he be so fast!
Only then did Dumas think of this problem.
The Duke stood on his horse, the astonished expression permanently frozen on his face.
The blood cloud lightly brushed over his body and floated towards the battle formation behind him.
A vulture was hovering high in the sky, and its keen intuition told it that there would be a sumptuous dinner today.
Its sharp eagle eyes are constantly scanning the earth, looking for food.
On the ground, there are tens of thousands of warriors who are in chaos, and among them, a straight line of blood is rapidly extending in the battle formation!
The waterfall of blood falling from the sky was already rushing to the front of the formation!
No one would have thought that the battle-hardened Duke Dumas would be defeated so quickly.
Early the next morning, when the main force of the Cyril Empire followed the lead of the defeated troops and arrived at the Betain Valley, they saw only tens of thousands of corpses of Cyril warriors and countless vultures eating.
There was not a single corpse of the Divine Knights on the battlefield. It was obvious that the Divine Knights retreated calmly after clearing the battlefield.
The three powerful princes in the south fell one after another, which shocked the entire ruling and opposition parties of the Xirel Empire.
The current Emperor Xirel is not an enterprising person. He is both violent and arrogant, and also very timid.
After the reports of the defeat in the southern war came one after another, he finally could not suppress the panic in his heart, and his attitude towards the missions from the Batoria Empire, Albrex Empire and the Principality of Shire underwent a fundamental change.
At this moment, as long as the two empires and Sharken send troops, whether it is to cede territory or compensate for military expenses, Emperor Xiriel will definitely agree.
Therefore, Iros, who plays an important role in the Charles, has now become the focus of Genoa.
It's just that Iros never mentioned politics and left everything to the envoys.
Whenever he opens his mouth, he not only preaches the teachings of the Lake Fairy Goddess, but also praises the greatness of the goddess.
In order to capture Yilos, the officials of the Xirel Empire, both in the government and at home, put in a lot of effort.
They knew that power and money had no effect on people of Iros' status.
The only thing that can touch Ilos' heart is a woman.
But the little goblin Ilos is unparalleled in beauty, has a perfect figure, has a distinguished status, and has superb magic power.
Emperor Cyril searched almost all of Genoa, but how could he possibly find a woman comparable to Catherine?
Since you can't win with quality, you can only win with quantity.
Overnight, the quality of the maids at Sophieland Palace suddenly rose by two levels.
Iros entered the palace gate and looked around, seeing scenery everywhere.
In the past few days, the Cyrel Empire had been making concessions, and the envoys from the two empires and the Principality of Shire were not satisfied. After the Cyrel Empire ceded an additional grain-producing lake area, they signed an alliance agreement hastily.
It was agreed that the Albrex Empire would dispatch 200,000 troops, the Batoria Empire would dispatch 150,000 troops, and the Shire Principality would dispatch 100,000 troops into the territory of the Sirel Empire to fight the Holy Empire. During the war, all supplies for the Northern Army would be
Responsible for the Xirel Empire.
In addition, another additional condition of the agreement is that the Church of the Fairy of the Lake can freely preach in the territory of Cyril, and the Holy Church should be expelled from the Cyril Empire.
Regarding the religious clauses, Emperor Cyrel readily agreed.
Although there are many followers of the Holy Church in the empire, the Holy Church has openly sided with the Holy Empire at this moment. The only thing that is missing is that the Holy Knights personally participate in the war.
And there are various signs that even the Holy Empire is an unknown second-rate army. Their combat effectiveness is unexpectedly strong, largely because there are many church members serving in the army.
Emperor Cyril himself is also a believer in the Holy Church, but in his eyes, royal power is more important than anything else.
In front of your Majesty, let him go to hell with any god of light, any belief, or even his parents and brothers!
Looking at several electric falcons carrying the alliance agreement flying through the sky, Iros, standing in the sky garden of Sophieland Palace, couldn't help but secretly sigh, interest is really a wonderful thing.
In the face of interests, the Xirel Empire, which originally had tense relations with other empires, turned into brothers fighting side by side in a short period of time, and concluded an alliance agreement that could affect the situation on the entire continent.
This agreement was later called the Holy Agreement by all countries in the mainland.
Hundreds of thousands of troops from the Albrex Empire, the Batoria Empire and the Principality of Shire, who were already ready to go, entered the Siriel Empire.
Along with the army, there were hundreds of spellcasters from the Fairy of the Lake Church, the powerful Knights of the Holy Grail, and powerful men gathered on a scale never seen before!
In the camp of the Holy Alliance in the North, there are nearly 10,000 high elven elven archers and tens of thousands of dwarves.
A magnificent war is about to begin.
This is a showdown between the warriors of the North and the warriors of the South, a battle between the strong in the North and the strong in the South, and a collision between secularity and religion!