Bab 69: CH : 68 World Around Us
In last options. So second world most likely be...
Blood of Zeus {God's, Giants, Beuties and Primordials}
House of the Dragon/Game of Thrones {For the seven gods, and faceless death god and beauties and dragons}
Which Beuties and God's are in question and need to put a lot of thoughts in.
What do you think?
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However, in this regard, the centurion commander only complained in his heart that his meritorious service was gone, and then led the somewhat dejected cavalry back to the camp.
The base camp of the kingdom's army.
Duke Elkann, the nominal leader of this army, looked thoughtful after looking at the news brought by the cavalry spies.
"It seems that the Centaur has chosen to abandon the wasteland." A smile appeared on Elkann's lips.
This way, you can capture a large area of fertile land without spending a single soldier. This is the most efficient way to maximize benefits.
"The army speeds up and advances to occupy more land as soon as possible!"
Now that the centaur has chosen to give up, the vast wilderness plain has become a piece of meat without an owner to guard it. How much you can eat depends on your ability!
The principality army marching in the other direction discovered this faster than the kingdom army, and had already quickly occupied the wasteland territory.
Soon, with the movements of the two armies, every mineral vein and rich land was surrounded by the army.
Although the wilderness plain has never been under the rule of the two countries, over the years, the locations of slightly more conspicuous mineral veins and rich areas in this wilderness plain have long been placed on their desks.
During this period, the armies of the two countries did not experience battles. In such a large area as the wilderness plain, there were a lot of monsters and monster tribes. The centaurs were only the apparent rulers of the wasteland, and the actual territory they controlled only accounted for a portion of the entire wasteland. A small part, the rest were divided by monsters and monster clans.
Under the iron hooves and long swords of the army, countless monsters and monster clans in the wasteland suddenly suffered.
Even powerful high-order monsters can only run away when faced with such a large number of human armies. Those who escape slower will have their fur, bones, eyes, ears, hearts, and blood etc all sorted by humans, set prices, and prepared to be transported and sold.
Most of these wasteland monsters and monster clans fled in the dark forest in the west. The other three directions, the north and south directions, were blocked by the long border defence lines of the principality and the kingdom. If they fled to the human country, wouldn't they be seeking death?
As for the east side? There is a living environment suitable for monsters in the east, but to reach the east, you need to cross the Laputa River, which has an average width of more than fifty kilometres.
Facing this huge river, probably only the flying monsters have the ability to cross it. The ordinary land monsters can only look at the river and sigh.
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On the third day when the human army entered the wilderness plain, they finally found traces of the centaurs.
"General, we found a large number of centaurs on the plain outside the dark forest to the west." The soldiers who were exploring the front line came to the base camp and reported to Duke Elkann with a solemn expression.
Duke Elkann nodded slightly and walked to the magic sand table map in the centre of the camp.
The magic sand table is more than ten metres long and wide. In the sand table, the northern area of the wasteland is occupied by dozens of green flags, and the southern area is occupied by dozens of blue flags. The green flag represents the kingdom behind Elkann, and the blue flag represents the principality.
"The red flag representing the centaur is marked here." Duke Elkann said, and the military mage beside him waved his staff gently, and a mini sand red flag was immediately erected in a small area near the dark forest in the west.
Duke Elkann rubbed the prickly beard on his chin, then pointed at the two areas on the outskirts of the dark forest to the left of the Centaur red flag, and said,
"Mark here the black flag of the Dark Queen, and mark there the white flag of the Wild Dwarves, Mark there a Blue flag of Kingdom of Half Breeds, Mark there a Purple flag as a possible lands of Forest Elves or High Elves"
The mage waved his staff, and black flags, white flags, blue Flags and purple flags instantly broke out on the sand table.
Duke Elkann looked at the sand table map at this moment, with a thoughtful expression on his face, and murmured to himself,
"What will these centaurs do next?"
Judging from the sand table map, it can be said that the Centaur has been forced to a dead end at this moment. The three directions of south, north and east are completely blocked by the Kingdom Army and the Principality Army, while in the west, the Queen of Darkness, the Brown Forest Wild Dwarf Clan, Kingdom of Demi Humans, Flowress Empire, and Elf Clan are also taking root. It can be said that no force is easy to mess with.
This does not include the high-order monsters that exist everywhere in the dark forest and the top-level monsters that may exist (equivalent to master-level professionals).
"According to many knights of the Blood Flower Knights who saw it with their own eyes, an adult black dragon helped the Centaur King in that war. This adult black dragon should undoubtedly be the Queen of Darkness."
"If the Dark Queen and the Centaur King unite... no, if our human army chooses to invade the Dark Forest, maybe the opponent will have to add a wild dwarf clan and possibly Elves."
After some analysis, Duke Elkann frowned slightly.
But soon, his expression relaxed and he even smiled.
Since an invasion would cause so many troubles for the enemies to unite against them, wouldn't it be enough not to invade?
Not only would he not invade the Dark Forest, he would also give up the fight for the plain area close to the Dark Forest.
"Send the order and ask all the legions under your command to stop expanding their territory in the direction of the Dark Forest. If they are already close to the outer plains of the Dark Forest, evacuate as soon as possible. Finally, build a war castle immediately a hundred kilometres away from that area." Erkan The Duke said to the accompanying mage.
The mage nodded slightly, took out a wand from his arms, and silently recited a spell.
Soon, the commanders of the kingdom's legions received orders from Duke Elkann. Some were thoughtful, some were gloating, and some...
After receiving this order, the commander of the army who had just led the army to approach the plain area outside the dark forest suddenly turned ugly.
"The Duke actually ordered us to give up the fight for the land here?" The commander of the 10,000-person army, who was backed by another Duke in the kingdom, looked extremely ugly and couldn't help but curse.
Everyone knows that the plain near the dark forest is an excellent territory. Once a town is built there, it is unknown how many adventurers will be attracted. By then, monster materials, magic plants, various mineral veins, and other resources will be available first-hand. Coupled with huge taxes and the increase in adventurers, various profit-making industry chains will be established, such as style streets, weapon shops, taverns, and casinos. Wait, these huge amounts of wealth can be seen at a glance.
The commander of the legion was able to lead the army here to enclose the land. Both he and the Duke standing behind him gave up many interests.
As a result, now Duke Elkann wants them to give up this piece of cake with an order?
Absolutely ridiculous! ridiculous!
"Contact the Duke." The legion commander made a decision in his mind.
He took out the magic crystal for communication from his arms and passed the message to Duke Hopkins behind him.
Soon, Duke Hopkins responded.
"Duke Elkann is now the general who nominally commands the kingdom's army. You must obey his orders. You will lead the army back immediately."
"Duke? This..." the legion commander couldn't help it.
"Haha, why are you so anxious? I asked you to lead the kingdom's army back, but I didn't ask you to leave the territory behind and encircle it with private soldiers."
After hearing what the Duke said, the legion commander's eyes lit up, secretly thinking that he must be an old fox like the Duke, who has his own tricks.
The kingdom's army must obey Duke Elkann's orders, otherwise they may be labelled as treason, but if they are just private soldiers in their own territory, then there is no problem at all.
There is such a saying that is widely circulated within the kingdom of feudal kings and vassals.
'The vassals of my vassals are not my vassals.'
The meaning is very simple. For example, if the king creates a duke, then in name, the duke is the king's vassal and needs to be loyal to the king. However, the vassals under the duke's own command have nothing to do with the king in name, and do not need to be loyal to the king. The kingdom cannot control the vassals of the duke, even if the vassals of the duke rebel. It is also left to the Duke himself to manage, and outsiders cannot interfere, because to do so would be to challenge the Dukes of who is loyal to the king thus challenging the King.
This is why the overall strength of the kingdom far exceeds that of the Principality of Kass, but the power that the new king Ivan can really use is not much more than that of the Principality.
The nobles of the kingdom whose territories are far away from the wilderness plains, even if they send their own territorial private soldiers to compete for the interests of the wilderness plains, how can they win over those nobles whose territories are already close to the wilderness plains?
Even if there is a fight, those nobles whose territories are far away from the wilderness plains will only send the second son of the family to try to see if they can make some contributions in this cake-sharing feast and win a small territory. It can be regarded as increasing the influence of the entire family. It is basically impossible to send the main force of the territory to participate in this war.
It can be seen from the 100,000 troops of the kingdom that have been assembled this time. Except for the king's own people, 80% of the remaining troops come from the nobles of the southern part of the kingdom, more than 15% from the nobles of the central part of the kingdom, and the rest Less than half of them came from the nobles on the northern border of the kingdom.
There is a turbulent undercurrent on the kingdom's army side, and although the principality side has its own thoughts, on the whole, they are still cooperating with the advancement of Grand Duke Bauhinia.
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"The kingdom's army is building a war castle?"
The majestic Grand Duke Bauhinia in dark blue armour frowned slightly, observed carefully on the magic sand table, and then sneered,
"Erkan is a good strategist. He gave the order to stop the entire army and immediately build a war castle a hundred kilometres away. The army is not allowed to take the initiative to approach the plain where the centaurs are."
"Yes!"
The mage recited the incantation silently and conveyed the order from the Grand Duke through the magic crystal.
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On the plain near the outskirts of the dark forest, countless simple temporary animal skin tents were densely packed on the land.
As night fell, there were still a large number of centaur warriors patrolling and wandering around, looking extremely vigilant.
"Report~ The main army of the Kingdom and the Principality stopped a hundred kilometres away." A centaur spy came to report.
"Report~ A human army was found more than 30 kilometres away to the north, with a size of about five hundred to one thousand!"
"Report~ A human army was found more than 40 kilometres away in the south, with a size of approximately 300 to 800."
One by one, the centaur spies brought back the information they discovered.
These centaur spies have powerful auras. They are all elite centaur warriors who have successfully practised hurricane fighting spirit. They are extremely fast and come and go like the wind. In addition, centaurs have dark vision and can see their surroundings clearly in the dark night. As long as Without encountering powerful mages or professional experts, the human side would not be able to keep these Centaur spies at all.
The Centaur King Mohandersen and dozens of centaur executives from various tribes combined this information and discussed with each other for a while, and finally came to a conclusion.
"Both human beings are weighing their interests. Neither of them wants to confront us, who seem to be in a desperate situation now, for fear of our counterattack. They probably won't dare to force us anymore in the short term." A senior professional centaur with white hair and beard The old man said slowly, then looked at Mohandersen with burning eyes,
"King, shall we enter the dark forest next?"
"Enter." Mohandersen said firmly, "Although staying here can bring peace for a short time, such a small territory cannot even provide food and drink for the tribe. Only by entering the dark forest can we find a place for development."
Many Centaur executives were silent, because everything Mohandersen said was right.
But if you enter the dark forest, the suitable territory for centaurs to survive is the vast plain area. An environment like the forest that limits flexibility and speed is not suitable for centaurs to hunt and fight.
"Don't worry too much. When I recover from my injuries, my body and fighting spirit will have completed the transformation into a legend. By then, the wilderness plain will still belong to us centaurs. Not only that, I will also take over part of the human kingdom's territory." Mo Mo. Mohandersen's tone was calm, as if he was telling a fact.
There is no legendary powerhouse in the Principality of Kass, and it is not worth mentioning in the eyes of Mohandersen, who has now stepped into the threshold of legend.
Although there are rumours that there is a legendary professional in the Albit Kingdom, that legendary professional has not appeared in front of people for a long time. Assuming that the legendary strong man is still alive, then why did the kingdom not send this legendary strong man this time?
Once the legendary powerhouse takes action, the kingdom can completely devour the wilderness plains without having to engage in any conspiracy with the Principality of Kass. It will also consume precious eight-tier magic props. Isn't this just taking off your pants and farting?
Therefore, Mohandersen guessed that either the legendary strong man in the kingdom had died long ago, or had travelled to the mainland or an alien plane, or that although the legendary strong man was still there, the kingdom could not mobilise him at all.
Because according to rumours, the legendary strong man was not of the royal family's blood, but was just a citizen of the kingdom. The truth or falsehood of the rumours is ignored for the time being, but the fact now is that the kingdom has not sent a legendary strongman, and this is enough.
"The leader is right. What we want now is not temporary gains and losses, but time. As long as the leader recovers from his injuries and becomes a legend, our Gale Centaur will once again regain its former glory and become stronger!"
"Well said!"
"Haha, let's march into the dark forest!"
The senior leaders of the Centaur tribes who were still hesitant at first, under Mohandersen's extremely confident words, all put aside the worries in their hearts, looked excited, and their eyes were full of expectations for the future.
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