No matter how Fetis beat his chest in his heart, now that the matter has been decided at the court meeting, the remaining issues only need to be implemented.
On the day the court meeting ended, Foreign Secretary Norman Joshua requested the king's order to ask the Margery family to open the treasury. After plundering it, he left with satisfaction, leaving only a few Margery family members responsible for financial records.
The officials looked at the empty treasury and secretly shed tears~
At the same time, Secretary of War Marcy Frank began to tighten military discipline. After concluding the court meeting, he and his officer corps quickly noticed the continuous desertion problem among the city guards.
Since the new round of conscription orders issued by King Wood VI had just begun to be implemented, many recruits had not even done a day of training.
These soldiers were afraid of the evil reputation of Skeleton King Leoric, and were even more afraid of being thrown into the battlefield and used as cannon fodder, so the phenomenon of running away was very serious.
Under their leadership, even the minds of many veterans of the city guard were shaken. After all, Leoric was so powerful that the women in the Western Border still use it.
The story deters children from crying at night.
Many soldiers grew up listening to the legend of Skeleton King when they were young. Now you want them to personally fight against the legend they have heard since childhood?
This is obviously much harder than imagined.
The professionals in the city are also in a state of panic. King's Port is a commercial kingdom, and it is not a commercial kingdom with a large territory and strong military force like Lu Gaoyin. The number of professionals here is not large to begin with.
Some second-rate professional families were bribed with huge sums of money from the Wood royal family.
In addition, due to the special timing of establishing an independent kingdom, the Parliament has not sent guardians to station in King's Port.
Originally, the nobles of King's Port were a little happy that the Parliament did not send a guardian, thinking that there would be less of a tightening curse on their heads. You must know that although the Parliament will not interfere in the internal affairs of the kingdom in most cases, there are always exceptions to everything.
The investigation of the Hein royal family initiated by Kane that happened in Lugoin is the best proof of this "exception".
However, at this moment, these nobles just wish that the parliament would tighten this "curse" even more. It would be best to send hundreds or even thousands of legendary strong men to give them peace of mind.
But this is obviously impossible. Although the Parliament has begun to realize that Leoric's awakening this time seems to be completely directed at King's Harbor, they do not dare to put all their attention into it easily before finding out why.
Pressure on Port King.
Leoric was also a powerful legendary paladin and an excellent commander during his lifetime. He could definitely do simple tactical operations like seizing the east and attacking the west.
In this situation, King's Port Military Minister Marcy (level 84 Paladin) deployed a combined force of 120,000 Shining Aegis Legion and King's Port City Defense Force to the wall to the north of the Noble District, which faced the endless
In the distant fragrant fruit plain, the Skeleton King's first wave of attacking troops - the monster skeleton army will soon arrive in an area rich in high-quality fragrant fruits.
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In the forest in the western part of the Linhai Plain, in a patch of lush bushes, Xue Hua was sitting on the back of a cockroach, listening to Dehaka report the latest information to him.
"The enemy army has passed through the southern part of the jungle, and most of the creatures have turned into moving bones!
They are about to walk out of the forest, and human territory will soon be attacked!"
"Where are our troops? What about our insect nests blocking the path of the gray mist? Does the gray mist have an effect on them?"
Xue Hua nodded to show understanding, and then asked the question he was most concerned about.
Ever since the strange gray mist flooded the first insect nest under the forest sea, Xue Hua has been unable to sense the biological signals emitted by the hatchery and other buildings in the nest in the main hive mind.
Now he can only hope that those hatcheries were destroyed by the gray mist, instead of turning into another weird posture and being used by Leoric.
Otherwise it would be too scary.
"The insect nest has been destroyed, and all the carpets have withered, but no dead bones of the insect units have been found!
The enemy cannot control our insect swarm!"
Dehaka reported his findings in his unique way of speaking. It is a powerful high-level commander of the fighting insect swarm, so even if it is exposed to the gray mist, it will not be eroded immediately.
After Xue Hua discovered this characteristic before, he sent him to investigate the nearest insect nest that was engulfed by gray fog to see what the situation of the insect nest was like after being attacked by gray fog.
Now it seems that although it is not as good as he most expected, the final result is not bad. At least the Skeleton King can no longer control the corpses of the insect swarm and kill each other with the insect swarm.
"The insect swarm has a collective will. As long as the connection with the main hive mind is not stolen and invaded, ordinary control methods have very limited effect." Abathur also said to Xue Hua in the main hive mind at this time.
"Well, that's good. I'm afraid that this guy has the same ability as Mephisto and can control the corpses of the insect swarm to make us kill each other. That would be terrible."
Xue Hua breathed a long sigh of relief, and then saw from the supervisory king insect's field of view that in the plantations on the Xiangguo Plain, a large number of civilians were quickly evacuating from the plain to the city. Seeing this, he couldn't help but nodded and thought to himself
The politicians in Port King finally made the right choice for once.
It is absolutely wise to give up the Xiangguo Plain. The endless flat grassland is definitely the best place to charge for those centaur-like Yaman skeletons. Once the number of Yaman skeletons approaches the million mark, this will happen.
If they crash into the human legion's front from the front, I'm afraid even the Demon Slayer legion will be severely defeated here.
And there is a more important point. Although the gray death fog has been slowing down, it has no intention of stopping so far. Judging from its current progress, this gray fog has completely exhausted its power. I am afraid it will have to wait until
This will only happen after three-quarters of the Xiangguo Plain has been flooded.
If humans deployed their legions on the Xiangguo Plain, even if they miraculously blocked the charge of the Aman skeleton army, the ensuing death fog would turn them all into minions of the Skeleton King.
"Where are the demon clone legions? Where are they?" Xue Hua nodded and continued to ask adjutant Isha.
"Currently, the demon clone army has moved to the southern area of the jungle. These more elite enemies seem to be a little uncomfortable leaving their stronghold, but when they are in the gray fog, their combat effectiveness is reduced as seen on the rainforest battlefield.
It has not happened to them. It is judged that these gray fogs not only have the ability to kill lives and increase the number of troops for one's own side, but can also supplement the strength of the elite troops of those demons."
Isa's words made Xue Hua frown slightly. Although he had already noticed from the psychic vision of the Supervisory King Insect that the demon clones were constantly absorbing the spiritual energy in the gray mist to replenish themselves, what really came from Isa's mouth was that
When he heard the affirmative answer, Xue Hua still felt a little troubled.
This gray death fog is really troublesome. It can not only supply troops, but also act as a large-scale killing weapon.
Is this the power beyond legend?
And according to Isa, this is just a little bit of energy leaked from the gap in the seal by the Skeleton King...
Damn it!
Those scumbags from the Church of Evolution can really cause trouble for people!