Xuan Weizi, who was sitting in the carriage, closed his eyes and meditated. There was a turbulence and ups and downs. The noise in the distance interrupted his thinking, and even the carriage slowly stopped.
"The road conditions in the empire are really getting worse day by day. Even though this is under the city of Drehem, the main road is still such a muddy land." Enfas took the Spirit Crystal Servant outside the car and took a look, and then said to Xuan Weizi:
"It seems that the convoys of two nobles are stuck together. No one is willing to get out of the way, and the men are pushing each other."
Xuan Weizi now looks like a middle-aged man with a short beard, dark brown hair neatly combed, wearing an elegant and sober tuxedo, with a cane inlaid with amethyst placed diagonally beside his leg. With such a dress, he looks
With a handsome demeanor and a handsome face, he is now the most trusted minister of Queen Kayla - Special Envoy Yeager.
Before leaving the Kingdom of Jarnod, Xuanweizi cast a spell to deploy a psychic network covering the local area, and after arranging the manpower stationed at the monastery, he set off back to the capital of the Central Empire.
Nowadays, the Great Londinium Empire is not only divided into three, but these three forces are each facing internal and external troubles. In just a few years of war, a large amount of land has been abandoned and people have been displaced.
Xuan Weizi has seen along the way that many dilapidated villages and towns have been occupied by goblins, and those settlements that have just been plundered are infested by groups of ghouls and crows.
What's worse is that many settlements were not invaded by foreign enemies, but by newly appointed local officials or newly ennobled lords, who launched plundering of the settlements under their jurisdiction in the name of collecting taxes and arresting lawless elements.
In fact, most of these settlements are refugees who were separated due to the war. They found a place with a suitable environment and regrouped to survive. They had long been abandoned by the rulers and did not have much trust in the new officials and lords. Some were simply half-hearted.
They were half-people and half-bandits, relying on simple weapons and terrain to fight against the lords and officials.
Although the central empire is now ruled by Queen Kayla, this young queen has almost no manpower of her own. Facing attacks from the east and west, Queen Kayla relies on enfeoffing land and creating a group of emerging noble lords, which can be said to be barely maintained.
Survive the situation.
"It's really boring." Xuan Weizi pinched the bridge of his nose: "It's only been a few years, and the war hasn't even ended and it's already like this."
Enfas speculated: "Perhaps these people do not expect to completely restore the Great Londinium Empire in the past. In the past, there was a saying in the Imperial Legion that only those born in Londinium City are Londinium people.
"
Xuan Weizi held the cane and played with the amethyst stone on the top: "No matter how magnificent the city of Londinium is, it is just a city and cannot represent the entire empire. The empire in the past was like a big octopus, with a bloated big
The head, relying on its tentacles, barely holds the territory of the empire together. Once the core of the political power represented by the city of Londinium is shaken, the entire empire will inevitably fall into disintegration."
"Then what should we do now?" Enfas asked.
"I won't squeeze in here anymore. I'll go back to the palace to report my duties to the Queen." Xuan Weizi knocked on the carriage board with his stick, and then disappeared in a flash.
…
Dreihem is a large city in the middle of the empire. Even before the Catastrophe of the Undead, it had become one of the top metropolises of human civilization because of its fertile soil, abundant products, and convenient transportation.
During the Catastrophe of the Undead, Dreihem fell to the zombie tide and was completely abandoned and dilapidated. Even if humans later moved in, Dreihem was no longer as prosperous as it once was. In addition, the city of Londinium in the west of the empire was
As the center, the city of Dreihem served more as a base for the empire to expand eastward, and a temporary palace was built in it.
In fact, in the history of the empire, there were confrontations between the emperor and the Senate, which even turned into a civil war. Some emperors fled to the city of Dreihem and raised an army, but the ultimate goal was to fight back to Londinium.
Instead of completely splitting the empire into two in Dreihem.
However, now the empire is experiencing unprecedented turmoil. The eastern empire is simply divided by warlords. You are more likely to encounter gnolls, centaurs and orcs in the wild than humans. The western empire is openly developing necromancy.
Introducing undead creatures into the battlefield caused great controversy, and many people even fled the Western Empire.
Xuan Weizi watched the situation evolve, and the vacuum of order formed by the contraction of the Eye of Mystery was now filled with chaos. Although the Eye of Mystery may not be that noble, compared to other mage groups and organizations, their behavior is indeed more noble.
Be disciplined and organized.
At present, the three forces in the empire are fighting against each other. All large and small magic associations and organizations are involved, and there are also powerful figures among them. However, their looting of wealth and extraction of resources are often more ruthless than the Eye of Mystery, and
No one can restrain it.
When Xuan Weizi teleported back to Dreihem's mansion, on the way to the palace, he saw a high mage, riding on a throne raised by dozens of people, hugging a beautiful woman wearing tulle on the left and right.
Under the rain of petals, I enjoyed the awe-inspiring looks of the people on both sides of the road.
Scenes like this are commonplace for Xuan Weizi. They are nothing more than the high-level mages who have defeated some enemy forces at the border. Even if they are defeated by just a group of rabble, these mages still have to build up momentum with great fanfare and come back to claim credit and reward from Queen Kayla.
Xuan Weizi followed the procession of mages into the palace and was arranged by the attendants to wait in the waiting room for a long time. It was not until dusk that he was summoned by the queen.
"Special Envoy Yeager, you are finally back." The young Queen Kayla was sitting in the main seat of the meeting hall, with ministers holding important positions on both sides of the long table.
Xuan Weizi stepped forward and bowed, and said in a pretentious manner: "Living up to His Majesty's expectations, the border dispute with the Kingdom of Jarnod has been settled, and the relevant mines officially belong to our country. This is the treaty signed."
After handing the long treaty scroll to Queen Kayla, the other party just glanced at it briefly and looked at Xuan Weizi with a look of satisfaction.
At this time, a minister asked: "Envoy Yeager, I heard that when you were in the Kingdom of Jarnod, you had a very pleasant conversation with the new king, and you were even invited to participate in the hunt?"
His skepticism was fully revealed, and Xuan Weizi replied calmly: "How can those barbarians in Yarnold have any elegant and interesting social activities? They are nothing more than fighting wild beasts in the ice and snow, or competing for drinking in the longhouse.
The northern barbarians think that this can show their bravery, so why should we civilized people dance with them everywhere?"
When those high-ranking ministers heard these words, most of them curled their lips and sneered. Xuan Weizi could feel that the contempt and contempt they radiated were not entirely directed at the Kingdom of Jarnod, but also toward him, "Yeager"
"Special Envoy", I felt that he was showing off his words and acted like a jester.
"However, there are still some things I need to report to His Majesty." Xuan Weizi said: "King Jarnod showed me a lot of military preparations, including various new types of ships in the port. I doubt they
Preparations are being made for an attack on the rebels in the west."
When Queen Kayla was about to speak, a minister said first: "Special Envoy Yeager, you are too sensitive. Those barbarians failed to take back the mine from our hands, and they were just showing off their power. They suffered heavy casualties in the civil war a few years ago.
, it is impossible to have the power to invade foreign countries now."
Other ministers also echoed one after another. The expression on Queen Kayla's face remained unchanged, but she was obviously unhappy. Then she said to Xuan Weizi: "Yeager, do you think the Kingdom of Jarnod is bluffing?"
Of course, Xuan Weizi knew that the Kingdom of Jarnod was ready to take off. In fact, the Mutual Protection Alliance had been secretly supporting it in recent years. The craftsmen and mages of the Pentagram Tower even assisted them in building a new type of magic ship.
If Xuan Weizi wants to deal with Sodifen, he cannot just deal with him alone, but must pull together the forces of various countries to defeat and cripple the Western Empire manipulated by Sodifen, so that Sodifen can break away from the power and be alone.
Only in this way can Xuan Weizi have a way to kill this demon-dyed spirit platform body.
"Your Majesty, it seems to me that the entire people of the Kingdom of Jarnod are eager to go south."
The production of various materials is far less than before the civil war. If they no longer invade and expand externally, they may not be able to maintain it. And..."
Seeing that Xuan Weizi hesitated to speak, Queen Kayla said: "And what? Just say it directly, don't worry."
"I saw a ship from the Kingdom of Vanua at the harbor of the Kingdom of Jarnod." Xuan Weizi replied.
"That group of pirates in Vanua, their ships are roaming all over the world. What's so surprising when you see them from the barbarians in the north?" a minister retorted.
"That is a three-masted sailing ship flying the royal flag, not an ordinary merchant ship." Xuan Weizi said: "I guess the Vanua royal family is discussing with Jarnod to conspire to attack the western territory of the empire."
Xuan Weizi's words sounded like a crisis was coming. In fact, he had been planning this situation for more than three years. The Kingdom of Vanua could be restored. In addition to the push from behind by Archmage Buñeto, the Mutual Protection Alliance had also been providing food and supplies.
All kinds of supplies. Several times when the Kingdom of Vanua faced counterattacks from the empire, Xuan Weizi transformed into the female mage Mithra and personally came to the rescue.
What Xuan Weizi has to do now is to get the central empire to participate, so that the western empire faces a situation of siege from multiple parties.
"Everyone, do you think we can continue to watch at this time?" Xuan Weizi looked around at the ministers present: "Whether it's the barbarians in the north or the pirates in the south, even if they win, aren't they still invading the empire's territory?
?We can't feel lucky because the western rebels may be eliminated. If Jarnod and Vanua succeed in occupying the western territory, they will probably target us next!
The reason why the Kingdom of Jarnod gave up the mine this time is simply to bribe us with small benefits, hoping to paralyze our hostility to this group of barbarians, so that they can concentrate all their strength on dealing with the western rebels and capture the city. Jarnod
As long as Nord and Vanua have experienced what it's like to work together to carve up the rebels in the west, they won't stop there!"
Immediately, a minister frowned and said, "What do you know? How can Jarnod and Vanua have such an appetite to swallow up the territory of the western rebels and continue to attack us?"
"Do we have to wait until their army approaches our border before we believe in this possibility? Minister, do you dare to bet on the lives of thousands of people in the empire?" Xuan Weizi said impassionedly: "My hometown is
In the west, it is clear that the people there are always looking forward to Her Majesty's army to come and recover! Even from the most simple perspective, who would want to live under the cruel rule of barbarians, pirates and necromancers?"
The ministers present averted their eyes. Xuan Weizi did not use any psychic powers to say these words, but he could not hold back his majestic and admirable aura. Even Queen Kayla's eyes shone with strange brilliance.
"Don't say these are useless!" Some ministers still objected: "Half of our army still has to guard against the group of warlords in the east. Recently, there are even centaur scouts at the border. It would be good if the west can block the undead army, but there is no way at all.
Find a way to attack."
Xuan Weizi said: "We can wait until Jarnod and Vanua advance first, so that the western rebels will naturally deploy their troops elsewhere, so that we can take the opportunity to rush in. Your Majesty, there are several bishops in the Church Mission Institute.
Are they loyal to you? Please give them orders in the name of 'destroy the undead creatures and inherit the glory of salvation', and let them cooperate with the army to fight."
"This is indeed a solution." Queen Kayla nodded.
Upon seeing this, a minister still said reluctantly: "War is not such a casual thing! The Undead Legion is only part of the western rebels, and many mages have taken refuge in the corrupt Senate. And our mages, fight
When you win a small battle, you brag about it, lest others don't know about it, but if you really encounter an enemy that is difficult to deal with, running faster than anyone else, and using various excuses to refuse to go to the front line... Well, it's really better than the mysterious one.
The eyesight is much worse!”
"The Eye of Mystery..." Queen Kayla said: "I may have a way to contact them and see if I can use their power."
Xuan Weizi smiled casually, but those ministers who had close relations with other mages dissuaded him: "Your Majesty, don't trust the Eye of Mystery easily, they..."
"I am the Queen!" Queen Kayla slapped the table and immediately calmed the ministers present: "I have the power to decide all this! Okay... everyone has been busy for a day, so please leave first."
The ministers were unwilling to give up and looked at Xuan Weizi with obvious hostility. Just as Xuan Weizi was about to leave, Queen Kayla said: "Envoy Yeager stays, I hope to hear more about your visit to Ya'er.
What I saw and heard about the Kingdom of Nord.”
"Yes." Xuan Weizi bowed and nodded as expected. At the same time, he heard the disdainful snorts from the ministers.
When the other ministers left the meeting hall, Queen Kayla plunged into Xuan Weizi's arms, sniffed his scent greedily, looked up with a crimson face of morbid obsession, and said: "The days you were on the mission were really wonderful.
It’s almost torturing me to death. You will stay with me in the palace tonight and you are not allowed to leave for a moment.”