Chapter 1048 The past that has not yet been revealed
The next day, as the bright morning light shone through the cracks in the curtains into the room, Lei Xiao and Ariel woke up almost at the same time.
Both of them clearly understood that after one night, the invading five-pronged army must be much closer to the border of the kingdom, so they had no intention of staying in bed.
"Ariel, you can stay in the capital today to handle government affairs. I will let Wu and Bernie take charge of the capital."
Lei Xiao sat up and nodded to the young queen who was still a little sleepy.
"Last night, I asked Jiang Li to travel all night and night to secretly set up a teleportation network node in the Kingdom of Grim. The destination is the seaside."
"The territory of the Kingdom of Grim is relatively long and narrow. In addition, Jiang Li's strength has been gradually recovering and she has now returned to the fifth level and eight stars. Therefore, it is easy to do all this and she has returned to the royal capital long ago."
"At that time, I will take people to teleport directly to the coastline on the other side of the Kingdom of Grim, and then cross the sea to the Iron Hand Islands."
When he said this, Lei Xiao smiled again and said: "As for the territory, there is Lao Xiao who is recuperating and is in charge, so you don't need to worry."
"Everything is subject to the lord's orders. With my subordinates here, the lord doesn't have to worry about matters in the royal capital."
Ariel agreed obediently, and then asked with a worried look on her face: "Everything in the Iron Hand Islands is unknown, so please pay attention to your safety, Lord."
"Don't worry, our top team is no longer what it used to be."
Lei Xiao smiled faintly, got out of bed, and walked towards the bathroom.
After washing up, Lei Xiao, who was neatly dressed, first dealt with the affairs of the territory as usual, and then gathered all the subordinates and subordinates who were setting off this time in the King's Hall of the Lion Castle.
This time the matter was of great importance and the future was uncertain, so Lei Xiao only used the fifth-level national-level combat power, namely Jiang Li, Hong Ye, Hu Zhan, Qi Duo, Nolan, and White Knight.
Of course, Lei Xiao also brought five alchemy puppet commanders including John, as well as the four fifth-level alchemy puppets that were originally in the storage space.
It is worth mentioning that in the process of bringing along John and other alchemy puppet commanders.
Lei Xiao also took out the four fifth-level alchemy puppets that sealed the "Discrete Magic Array" to see if John and other commanders could find any way to remove them.
As a result, there was no record of this in the internal modules of John and other commanders, and we could only confirm that this was not a creation of the dwarves.
But even so, Lei Xiao still has a total of 13+2 fifth-level national-level combat forces around him, which is enough to compete with the power of 15 ordinary legions.
Not to mention the guardians who have all advanced to the fourth level, as well as other third-level puppets such as the Ice Knight and the Divine Arm Archer.
Before leaving, Lei Xiao looked at the many powerful fifth-level combatants in front of him, and discussed with Orr and Minister Wu Bing who were seeing him off about directly killing the opponent's fifth-level combatants in order to frighten them.
The final result is that this plan is not unfeasible, but now is not the best time.
First of all, in a million-strong army that has devoted the entire country's strength, although the opponent's fifth-level powerhouses are obviously far inferior to ours.
But there must be at least hundreds of powerful fourth-level experts, or even more, and this does not include the trump cards hidden by the enemy's commanders.
After all, a mere fourth prince could unexpectedly come up with 10 fifth-level combat powers as his trump card, not to mention that all five armies had royal families from various countries participating, which is evident from this.
Secondly, even if there are more than a dozen fifth-level combat forces, they may not be able to quickly penetrate the absolute defensive barrier at the core of the opponent and successfully kill their core leader.
Once the plan fails, resulting in the loss of our troops and all our trump cards exposed, we will be shooting ourselves in the foot.
In other words, at least until I figure out my opponent's trump card, I can't be sure of success.
Secondly, even if our side overcomes all difficulties and successfully kills all the fifth-level combatants of the army, and even members of the royal family.
But the result of this, apart from causing the attacked army to take crazy revenge and making other armies more vigilant, is obviously not going to have any substantial deterrent effect.
On the contrary, this will deepen our threat in the minds of our opponents, making all opponents more desperate to attack us.
After all, the ultimate goal of the other side is to destroy us in one fell swoop before our rise, in an attempt to nip the threat in the cradle, so how can they easily retreat?
What's more, the other party will use this matter to publicize it, put us in an unkind and unjust situation, completely isolate the Lengyan Kingdom from the human world, and even recruit three major neutral organizations to condemn it.
By then, it will be difficult for us to have any room for maneuver.
Finally, the five armies attacked at the same time. There must be some kind of driving force behind this to control everything. There is no doubt about this.
And the identity of this pusher is even more obvious, it is the Black Abyss Brotherhood that has been silent for a long time.
Although we don’t know how far the other party has penetrated into the major countries, what is certain is that once we act rashly, the other party will obviously not sit idly by and ignore it.
After all, the other party has spent all their efforts and played such a big game of chess with the goal of completely destroying us.
Therefore, to sum up, until we are sure to resist the opponent and have enough trump cards and allies, at least at this stage, we cannot act rashly.
"Then I will leave all matters in the royal capital to you."
Lei Xiao nodded to Ariel, Wu, Orr and others who came to see them off, then looked at Jiang Li and said: "Let's set off, our destination is the coastline west of Grim, and we will go to the Iron Hand Islands via there.
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"As you command, Lord."
Jiang Li held up her chest and saluted, and then silently recited a spell. A light gray magic circle immediately rose from the ground, wrapping Lei Xiao and his group of seven people in it.
All this happened in the blink of an eye. When the gray light curtain dispersed, Lei Xiao and his party had disappeared into the splendid King's Hall.
When Lei Xiao opened his eyes again, the sun was shining brightly above his head, and a strong salty smell poured into his nose.
In front of Lei Xiao and his party, there was an endless blue ocean.
I saw white waves floating with foam, gently lapping at the vast beach, and the crisp and sweet sound of water flow gently echoed in Lei Xiao's ears.
"Is this the sea in this other world? It's really a sight I haven't seen for a long time."
Standing on the top of a mountain, Lei Xiao narrowed his eyes and felt the caressing sea breeze, feeling relaxed and happy.
"Lord, this is the coastline of the Kingdom of Grim closest to the Iron Hand Islands."
Jiang Li nodded to Lei Xiao and introduced: "The port city at the foot of the mountain is the Azure City of the Kingdom of Grim, and it also has the second largest port of the Kingdom of Grim, Azure Port."
Looking along Jiang Lei's line of sight, Lei Xiao discovered a large port city at the foot of the mountain.
I saw more than a dozen large three-masted sailing ships moored at the edge of the port, and a large number of dock workers like ants were unloading cargo back and forth, creating a prosperous scene.
"Lord, although the Iron Hand Islands closed the waterway a hundred years ago and cut off communication with other human nations, the Kingdom of Grim, the Pars Empire, and even the Prairie Kingdom in the south have long coastlines.
Maritime trade between the two countries is still very prosperous."
The white knight took a step forward and introduced him respectfully to Lei Xiao: "So it's not surprising that such a scene is happening."
"Our Leng Yan Kingdom is completely inland. This is really a sight that cannot be seen in the kingdom."
Lei Xiao looked at the large and small ships passing by on the sea, nodded slightly and said, "How far is the Iron Hand Islands from here?"
"Lord, if you take a speed boat, it will take about three days. At the speed I'm waiting for, it will take about an hour."
The white knight raised his chest, saluted, and respectfully asked for instructions: "Lord, can I set off right away?"
"Don't rush now. Since the destination is close at hand, why not go to the Azure City to inquire about it and see if there is any latest information about the Iron Hand Islands."
Lei Xiao waved his hand gently and responded: "In this way, we will be better prepared."
"What the Lord said is absolutely true. A hundred years ago, the Iron Hand Islands suddenly withdrew all diplomats and asked to leave all non-national institutions and personnel, including the three major neutral organizations. After that, the Iron Hand Islands were closed.
All ports and airship routes were blocked, completely isolating the entire country from the human nations."
The white knight nodded thoughtfully and said: "At that time, both the human nations and the major neutral organizations were in a state of complete confusion."
"After all, the Iron Hand Islands were not at war with other countries at the time, nor did anything unusual appear. This sudden move was obviously too strange and abnormal."
"For a time, a large number of speculations began to spread among the unknown human nations, such as there was an internal power dispute in the Iron Hand Islands, or there was some unknown conspiracy going on, etc."
"So, under the influence of vigilance and curiosity, various countries and major neutral organizations at that time sent envoys across the sea in an attempt to find out the truth of the matter. However, the results were incredible."
"Everything is as usual in the Iron Hand Islands. The residents live and work in peace and contentment and are self-sufficient. The strong men are still practicing and meditating peacefully. Apart from the active isolation from the human nations, nothing seems to have changed."
"Such a situation is as if among a group of people who are laughing together, suddenly there is a person who was laughing heartily one second, and then suddenly turned his back the next second and left the team without any reason, leaving the human nations and major neutral organizations
Becoming more confused."
"So, the human nations used their concern as an excuse to send more envoys and mercenaries in an attempt to figure out the reasons behind all this, including, of course, our Cold Flame Kingdom."
"However, according to the reports from the envoys and mercenaries who returned to the kingdom, investigators from various countries and major neutral organizations have traveled throughout the Iron Hand Islands and have not found any abnormalities."
"The officials and soldiers of the Iron Hand Islands only politely asked the investigators to leave as soon as possible, but they did not stop any of the investigators' actions."
"After repeating this for several times with no results, the human nations and major neutral organizations, including our Kingdom of Cold Flames, finally came to a conclusion."
"That means there is no threat to the Iron Hand Islands. This may be just the royal family of the Iron Hand Islands no longer willing to communicate with other human nations."
"After all, in the beginning, it was just a desolate place where sinners were exiled. It was composed of countless large and small islands. It had relatively limited favor with the human nations."
"At this point, the human nations gradually stopped caring about everything in the Iron Hand Islands, until now."
After the white knight finished speaking, Lei Xiao nodded thoughtfully.
These are all indistinguishable from what I know.
"White Knight, there have been rumors of vampire activities in the Iron Hand Islands. Didn't the human nations at that time associate vampires with these?"
Lei Xiao looked at the sea, which was sometimes rough and sometimes as calm as a mirror, and asked with raised eyebrows.
"Back to Lord, although strong vampires are difficult to deal with, they possess atomization and powerful regeneration abilities."
"But its limitations are also very obvious, especially during the day. For high-level experts with endless means, it is not the most difficult trouble."
The white knight stroked his chest and saluted Lei Xiao, and explained: "Furthermore, the number of vampires is relatively rare after all, and the number of dependents they can develop is also limited, and they are absolutely restrained by the Holy Light Priests of the Temple of Light."
"In all the wars between humans and vampires, the vampires often won less and lost more. That's why they were all driven to the Iron Hand Islands like the sinners."
"Therefore, for the power centers of human nations and neutral organizations, although vampires need to be carefully guarded, they are obviously not enough to be called a destructive existence, so they do not focus too much on the vampires.
On the body."
Lei Xiao listened to the words of the white knight, gently rubbed his chin and said: "I understand, it is indeed in line with the arrogance of some powerful people to underestimate the opponents they have defeated."
"Your Highness, there must be something hidden in this, otherwise the Iron Hand Islands would never suddenly cut off contact with the human nations."
Chi Duo blinked her long eyelashes and said respectfully to Lei Xiao: "And my subordinates believe that vampires are absolutely inseparable from this matter."
"Same feeling, but the situation we have now is obviously not enough to deduce the full story of the matter."
Lei Xiao nodded, then waved his hand and said: "Then let's go to the Azure City at the foot of the mountain to investigate first according to the planned plan."
"As you command, Lord."
Everyone raised their chests and saluted, saying in unison.
Then, as a light gray light curtain flashed by, Lei Xiao and his group disappeared in an instant, as if they had never appeared.
When Lei Xiao and his party appeared again, they were already in the most prosperous streets and alleys of Azure City.
Of course, in order to avoid attracting attention, Lei Xiao and his party all disguised themselves under the cover of Xiao Huan's illusion, and they looked no different from ordinary business travelers.
As for the destination of Lei Xiao and others, it is naturally the city tavern, which can be called the intelligence center. ()