Chapter five hundred and ninety fifth meeting and negotiation
It is much more difficult to capture a strong person of the same level alive than to defeat or even kill him.
If there was a one-on-one confrontation between Neptune and an elite swordsman, even if he was defeated, he would still have a good chance of escaping if he wanted to run away. However, the lineup he faced at this time was really too luxurious.
The legendary necromancer Sandro and Queen Catherine of Erathia have joined forces. Neptune should be the first existence to enjoy this treatment. Needless to say, the legendary necromancer Sandro was on the same level as the Elf Saint Magister Mace in his heyday. Old monster, taking down a Neptune is like killing a chicken with a knife.
And even Catherine, who is known for her command and leadership skills, is not weak at all in terms of personal force. With the bonus of treasures, she also has peak sky-level strength.
It would be difficult for Neptune to deal with one of these three beings on his own. Faced with three of them at once, Neptune had no other choice but to surrender.
Facing the long sword on his neck, and his body becoming weaker and weaker under the curse spells such as weakness and weakness, Neptune was very frightened.
"clang!"
After throwing away the trident in his hand, Neptune spread it out, indicating that he had no intention of resisting. Few people in high positions can see through life and death, and most of them have a stronger desire for life than ordinary people who are confused. Neptune To be able to fight to this point is already considered a great effort.
He knows that humans have put so much effort into capturing him alive, and they are definitely not in a hurry to kill him. As long as he doesn't want his own life, there is still room for discussion. If you cooperate now, you can at least survive for a while. If you don't cooperate with the other party now, If you do, you will have to suffer a lot. If you are accidentally killed in the battle, you will really be in trouble even if you cry.
Catherine picked up the trident thrown by Neptune on the ground, and two Scarlet Crusaders in red armor stepped forward and quickly put the trident away.
These two seemingly ordinary soldiers are stronger than the blood warriors under them.
Neptune, who had not carefully observed other human soldiers before, smelled the strong bloody aura on the two Scarlet Crusaders' bodies as soon as they came up. He could feel a sense of evil aura just by looking at them.
This kind of momentum cannot be developed in one or two battles. You have to climb out of the mountains of corpses and become elites in order to have such momentum.
In this battle, the defeat was not unfair. Although the humans had fewer soldiers, their combat power was indeed several steps ahead of the Sea Clan.
At this time, Neptune's mentality has undergone subtle changes. Since he has lost, he always has to find some excuse for himself. The idea that human beings are too powerful has been vaguely buried in Neptune's heart.
Seeing that Neptune was so cooperative, Catherine didn't mean to humiliate the opponent too much. She just asked the opponent to maintain a normal standing posture. Neptune, who had no weapons and had nearly half of his combat power reduced by Sandro's curse spell, stood in front of the three of them. There is no chance at all.
"Since His Majesty the Sea King wants to choose to cooperate, can you ask your men to stop? If the fight continues, there will not be many of these men loyal to you left."
These sea people who can always follow Neptune are almost all Neptune's confidants. They are also Neptune's team that controls the royal court and rules all the sea people. As the close guards and confidants around Neptune, the interests of these people are highly bound to Neptune. , if something happens to Neptune, no matter who comes to power from the Sea Clan in the future, they will all be marginalized.
If the priestly forces that have been suppressed by Neptune come to power, they may not only be marginalized but brutally purged.
Moreover, Neptune is considered a qualified lord most of the time, and he is not bad at winning people's hearts. These sea people who are still fighting hard are absolutely loyal to Neptune, both emotionally and in terms of interests.
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Now seeing that Neptune was captured, everyone went crazy and attacked in the direction of Neptune, trying to snatch Neptune back from human hands.
The Sea Clan attacked without any regard for casualties, almost trading injuries for injuries and lives for lives in an attempt to break through the obstruction of the human army. In a short period of time, they actually got closer to the Sea King by more than ten meters.
The normally noble bloodline warriors all risked their lives to fight. Several bloodline warriors rushed towards an elite swordsman at the same time, hoping to suppress the opponent with their numerical advantage. Unfortunately, the great swordsman swung his sword and
He immediately killed a bloodline warrior.
The opponent's whole body was split in half from the shoulder by the great sword in the hands of the outstanding swordsman, and even the man and his sword were broken into two pieces. The bloodline warrior is basically the pinnacle of the sea army's combat power, but in terms of strength
There is still a huge gap between these elite swordsmen who have been given buff spells by magic mages.
However, in order to rescue the captured Sea King, the bloodline warriors at this time were more willing to risk their lives than ordinary lower-level sea warriors. One of their companions was split into two pieces, and the remaining bloodline warriors rushed over at the same time, without any trace of
fear.
Then, under the great sword of the outstanding swordsman, they were all reduced to pieces of limbs. Under the heavy sword of the elite outstanding swordsman, which was as big as a door panel, it was quite difficult to leave a whole corpse behind.
A large number of the core members of his men were killed in battle, which caused Neptune's blood pressure to soar. However, he still did not immediately do what Catherine said. Instead, he asked Catherine:
"If my soldiers surrender, can you guarantee their safety?"
"Oh? Your Majesty, haven't you understood the current situation? If they don't surrender, they will be completely wiped out."
Catherine did not directly answer Neptune's words. Her tone was a bit playful, but the meaning was obvious. Now you are not qualified to negotiate terms at all.
And Sandru, who also had a certain say, didn't even bother to speak. If it weren't for Richard's order, according to his temperament, His Majesty the Sea King would have been transformed into a powerful undead.
Sea King was silent for a moment, then took the initiative to follow a few people and walked forward for more than ten steps, and shouted an order to the Sea Clan who were still fighting:
"Stop fighting! Stop fighting! Throw all your weapons on the ground and obey human arrangements!"
The King of the Sea is not stupid, on the contrary, his mind is very flexible. As a person who can suppress the priests' power in one fell swoop and take it for his own use, and firmly hold the power of the Sea Clan in his hands in a short period of time, he quickly figured out the pros and cons of what to do.
Made the right choice.
Although his group of men were loyal, they were not enough to defeat the terrifyingly powerful group of humans here. He did not believe that those bloodline generals and warriors could overcome those strong human beings wielding heavy swords.
And without their arrow, the Sea Clan's defeated troops that originally attacked the defense line of the Undead Legion became increasingly powerless. The Undead Legion on both wings had gradually closed up. Even if they did not surrender, it would be a matter of time before they were wiped out.
The worst outcome is just to be wiped out. If you surrender now you can save your life, maybe there will be some chance of improvement.
"Surrender and avoid death!"
"Surrender and avoid death!"
These bloodline generals and warriors who follow Neptune are very familiar with Neptune's voice. They don't even need to see Neptune with their own eyes. They can basically confirm that this is an order from Neptune just by listening to the voice.
After hearing the order from Neptune, the sea tribe who were still fighting immediately hesitated and hesitated. However, the human army did not take the opportunity to attack. Instead, they took two steps back and stopped, giving the sea tribe some room to react.
"Put down your weapons immediately and obey the orders of the humans around you!"
"Dang, Dang..."
As Neptune continued to persuade them to surrender, a large number of the elites of the sea clan who were still fighting finally gave up their resistance and threw down their weapons one after another, waiting for their unknown orders.
Some of them were unwilling to surrender to humans, but under the orders of Sea King and most of their companions stopped fighting and handed over their weapons, they had no choice but to refuse.
Soon, the remaining thousands of elites around Neptune were gathered together with their bare hands. Catherine sent a small group of Crusaders and Halberdiers to guard them. Looking at the human soldiers patrolling back and forth, most of the sea people were waiting uneasily for the pick-up.
Arrangements coming down.
Catherine did not kill the prisoners, but gave them some basic food. Neptune was kept in separate custody. Facing Catherine, his attitude was as neutral as possible.
"General, if you are willing to put me back into the sea, the sea people are willing to use countless treasures in exchange, and we can even pay..."
Neptune was constantly raising prices, wanting to exchange for his freedom, but Catherine just waved her hand and interrupted Neptune.
"Whether I let you go or not depends on Sir Richard himself deciding. I am only responsible for catching you."
After that, she no longer continued the useless communication with Neptune. She ordered several outstanding swordsmen to take a good look at each other and then left. The messenger had already left. Richard would soon get the news that Neptune had been successfully captured. Now she only had to wait.
Just follow Richard's orders.
On the other hand, Sandro has no interest in communicating with Neptune. Rather than talking to the other party, he may be more inclined to turn the other party into a powerful elite black warrior or an undead hero.
At this time, Sandro was replenishing the undead army under his command with new blood. After this battle, the quality of the sea corpses was several grades higher than the corpses on the beach before.
There are more than fifty bloodline warriors who can be summoned into black warriors, and there are even more patrol guards. Under the effect of master-level spiritualism and the treasure Ghost King's Cloak, the corpses of the sea clan are transformed into undead legion warriors.
The proportion is very high.
The corpses of more than fifty bloodline warriors summoned thirty black warriors who were slightly stronger than the Crusaders.
The number of walking corpses has also increased by nearly 3,000. Adding together the more than 2,000 walking corpses before, these walking corpses have a combat power comparable to that of quasi-knights. The number of walking corpses that can be used as the backbone of the combat force has reached a flag regiment, as many as 5,000.
As for the cannon fodder-like skeleton soldiers, they have been directly replenished to the number before the battle, which is close to 100,000. If Sandru's strength had not been restored and he could not control more skeleton soldiers, this number would have been even higher.
Neptune and a group of captured sea tribes basically watched their dead companions stand up again, and then joined the undead army in groups. They finally figured out how these monsters appeared on the battlefield.
Neptune's face became extremely ugly, and there was a faint flash of fear in his eyes. Manipulating a dead body was a very taboo thing no matter where he was or what race he was in.
However, no one cared about what Neptune and these captured sea people would think after seeing Sandro summoning souls on the spot. Most of the day passed, and except for someone who brought some food to Neptune, no one came to pay attention.
He, he wanted to talk to the elite swordsman guarding him, but he didn't reply.
It wasn't until a letter was delivered to Catherine that the situation changed.
"Lord Richard's order is to set off immediately, escort the Sea King there first, and keep the prisoners on the spot..."
When Richard's order came, the army immediately took action, not even paying attention to the broken troops of the Hai clan who were still sporadically fleeing eastward. Except for a part of the army who stayed in place to guard the prisoners, the large army escorted the King of the Sea and quickly returned to the west.
This time they did not need to take detours to avoid, they just took the nearest route back openly and openly. On the way, they encountered some defeated troops of the Sea Tribe. As long as they did not collide with the army, they could escape regardless.
With the addition of heroic logistics skills, the army marched extremely fast, and brought Neptune to Richard in less than half an hour...
"Lord Richard, Neptune has been brought to..."
On the main battlefield, sporadic battles have not stopped. Let alone millions of sea warriors, even millions of pigs are difficult to catch in a few days. The finishing work is very troublesome, and hundreds of thousands of defeated troops are scattered.
On this battlefield of dozens of miles, it cannot be solved in a short while.
Catherine ignored the sporadic fighting around her and brought Neptune directly to Richard.
At this time, Richard had finished washing up. He had gotten rid of the smell of blood and sweat on his body, and he was neat and tidy, which was in sharp contrast to the embarrassed Neptune.
Looking at Neptune, who was standing in front of him with his head held high and trying to maintain his dignity, Richard couldn't help but smile. He didn't mean to show off his power at all. Instead, he greeted Neptune in a calm tone.
"Your Majesty Neptune, I didn't expect that we would meet again in just a few months..."
