Chapter 246: Common Hatred and Common Enemy
"Quick, speed up the march. Our current situation is very dangerous. We must rush back to the country as soon as possible." Taris urged the remaining hundreds of sequencers.
The people below also knew that they had offended the Snow Empire and were afraid that the Snow Empire would send experts to retaliate. Therefore, they consciously accelerated the march.
There were also people in the priest sequence who performed the speed-up secret technique, which greatly increased the speed of the entire team. Although they were the winners, they felt like they were fleeing in embarrassment at this moment.
Although there were few people left, they had experienced several bloody battles this time, and their strength had also improved. In addition, they had obtained a large amount of money and extraordinary materials, and promotion was a foregone conclusion.
After returning to the empire this time, the empire would have at least 400 more griffin knights. Most of the people who survived this war were knights, knights wearing heavy armor, and the powerful defense of the magic armor secret technique, which greatly increased their chances of survival, which was indeed much stronger than priests and other sequencers.
Even though Taris had paid great attention to protecting the priest sequencers, this battle was too brutal, and there was no place that was safe.
This is how sequencers are. Only one in ten sequencers can be promoted. In many cases, it is just a matter of resources. Even with the strength of an empire, it is impossible to rely on resources to accumulate high-level sequencers.
Otherwise, powerful sequencers would not be treated with courtesy by the emperor. Feng Willow would not be a sweet commodity that was fought over by various emperors.
Feng Willow had never thought that this ambush was not instructed by the country of the Snowland Empire, but was just a farce caused by jealousy and someone above who wanted to seek revenge on him.
If Pickjem's ambush was really successful, causing Feng Willow to suffer heavy damage or even death, then there would be no problem for Pickjem and others to publicize it or report it to the upper level, and the winner should not be blamed.
Unfortunately, this matter failed. Not only did it fail, but also because of their private actions, the Snowland Empire suffered heavy losses. Someone must take the responsibility and take the blame.
Obviously, the Duke of Escher, who supported Pickjem, was unwilling to take this responsibility, so he could only put all the responsibility on the dead Pickjem.
But that would have to wait until Pickjem's actions were discovered by the Empire. Before that, he couldn't even reveal the disappearance of Pickjem and his army.
The Snowy Empire didn't know that Pickjem had annihilated the Iron Puppet Army. The news they received was still very delayed, and they were still in the joy of winning a great victory and obtaining a huge magic stone vein.
Feng Willow and his party returned to the Anerfa Empire very smoothly. However, when they were on the trip, the powerful army of more than 3,000 Sequencers had less than 600 people when they returned. This was really too miserable.
Light VI was very respectful and took the civil and military officials out of the city to welcome them. This was a very high-level courtesy. Except for Feng Willow, all the sequencers, including Taris, were very excited when they saw Light VI's cordial condolences to them. They wished that an enemy would appear immediately so that they could show their loyalty.
Feng Willow had been somewhat tempted by the Viking Empire's recruitment before, but now he has offended the Snowland Empire, and his family is also in the Anerfa Empire, and his wife Taris's family is also here.
Light VI of the Anerfa Empire has nothing to do with him, so he decided that it would be good to stay in the Anerfa Empire with peace of mind.
If he needs territory, he can develop it well in the New World. With his ability, he can let it go in the New World without being constrained by anyone.
But thinking of the territory of the county in the Viking Empire, he felt a little distressed. It was the territory of three counties and a rich plain with a population of more than 10 million.
There are also various extraordinary resources produced. Even if there are no other resources, the population of more than 10 million alone is already a very valuable resource.
"It would be great if we could move the population of those three counties away." Feng Weiluo thought a little greedily.
The next thing to deal with is the revenge of the Snowland Empire. Even though they can now use steam machinery to mass-produce steel puppets, the real high-level alchemists are the ones who control these steel puppets and refine the intelligence core of the steel puppets.
It can be said that those dozens of high-level alchemists are more important than tens of thousands of steel puppet legions. The Snowland Empire will never give up.
After Light VI comforted the other sequencers, he came to Feng Willow and said to him very proudly: "Grand Duke Willow, my brother, you are the Grand Duke of our Anerfa Empire, and this time, it was their Snowland Empire that provoked us first and ambushed us. We have no fault.
If their Snowland Empire makes trouble for you, then our Anerfa Empire will definitely not ignore it. In this matter, I and the Empire will definitely stand firmly on your side.
Even if we have to go to war with the Snowland Empire, the Anerfa Empire and I will fight at all costs! After this period of development of the spiritual world, it is not only their Snowland Empire that has gained great benefits, but the strength of our Anerfa Empire is also steadily improving.
Counting the group of people you brought back, it won’t be long before the number of Griffin Knights of our Empire can reach 6,000.
Our Griffin Knights have air superiority, and with you, the Dragon Knight Commander, we can make the Snowland Empire dare not act rashly. "
Feng Willow felt relieved when Light VI said this, and he did have a stronger sense of identity with the Empire. At the same time, he also felt that he had not done so much for the Empire in these years in vain.
True friendship is revealed in times of difficulty. When facing the behemoth of the Snowland Empire, Light VI chose to support him without hesitation. He completely changed his mind about Light VI.
Before, he just thought that Light VI was a wise monarch, but he was too concerned about the overall situation. He was also afraid that one day he would sell him out for the sake of the overall situation.
He and Light VI had a little bit of incense at most, but now it was different. Facing a critical moment, the emperor was willing to face the powerful enemy with him. Feng Willow completely regarded him as a friend.
Of course, Feng Willow would never do anything like acknowledging his master and pledging allegiance. Perhaps Light VI was expecting this to happen.
In any case, the current Anerfa Empire has completed its integration, and from top to bottom, it is full of hatred for the Snowland Empire.
Not only to support Feng Willow, but also because of the more than 2,000 dead sequencers. They are all from the imperial aristocracy. Now they are killed by the Snowland Empire's sneak attack, how can the imperial nobles not be united?
After hundreds of years of marriage, most of the imperial nobles have relatives. More than 2,000 people died at once. It can be said that all the imperial nobles have relatives and friends who died in this sneak attack.
"Grand Duke Willow, I have sent an envoy to question the Snowland Empire. They must give us an explanation for this matter, but it is indeed not appropriate to fight now. It has always been our four empires that dominate the world order.
However, now with the resurgence of the magic tide, some cults have challenged the existing order. No matter how we fight each other, we still need to remain consistent when facing these cults.
This is also the reason why our three empires are willing to help the Viking Empire restore its country. Now we can only say that we have repelled their attack and have not harmed their roots. These cults may come back at any time.
And our national strength is indeed not as good as that of the Snowland Empire, so we cannot take the initiative to go to war with the Snowland Empire to avenge you and the dead imperial nobles. I hope you can understand. "Light VI explained to Feng Willow frankly.
Feng Willow nodded. He could understand this. Anyway, he did not suffer any loss in this battle. As long as the Anerfa Empire could stand firmly on his side and protect his territory and relatives when the Snowland Empire took revenge, that would be enough for him.
A batch of spoils was processed in the royal capital, especially the Knight Sequence and Priest Sequence. Feng Willow sold some of the extraordinary resources needed for the follow-up to the empire. It can also be regarded as support for the empire. If there are enough materials, the empire can have more sequencers.
Feng Willow himself does not need any resources for promotion. He only left the resources needed for the subsequent promotion of his pagans. His Friendship Temple also needs to cultivate its own sequencers.
Although Although the time is still short, there are already more than 300 pagan sequencers. The subsequent training of these people needs to be supported by the output of the territory.
Many times, it is not possible to buy the required extraordinary materials with money. Many things must be stored in advance.
The envoys sent by the empire to the Snowland Empire to protest have not returned yet, but it is foreseeable that this matter will be a stalemate. The best result for the Anerfa Empire at present is to hope that the Snowland Empire will not pursue this matter.
It is obvious that the other party ambushed their army and killed so many of them, but now they can only hope that the other party will not pursue it. This matter is frustrating to mention, but now the Anerfa Empire is not as strong as others, so it can only be like this.
Feng Weiluo didn't think It was too frustrating. Anyway, he didn't suffer any loss this time, and he also harvested a large amount of spoils, which was considered a big profit.
After returning to the territory, Feng Willow began to gather people and prepare to have them take over the three counties of the Viking Empire. Even if they were attacked by the Snow Empire in the future, they could collect taxes for one month, which would be a benefit for one month. There was no loss for Feng Willow, so he didn't miss it.
The construction of Dragon Turtle Island had been completed, so Feng Willow transferred the second mate Dima back and asked him to take Little William to preside over the acceptance of the three counties, mainly to preach and develop the Temple of Friendship.
Feng Willow himself began to practice in seclusion. He originally planned to return to the New World immediately, but it was temporarily delayed. He still had to wait for the response from the Snow Empire.
As If the Snowy Empire cannot reach an agreement and wants to investigate, he, the strongest man in the empire, must be present when the two countries go to war. Not only for the empire, but also for his own territory.
Feng Weiluo has almost reached the extreme on the road of the Plague Messenger. He has mastered three kinds of plagues, especially a method of mental plague, which has allowed him to reach the peak smoothly on the road of the Plague Messenger.
As for mana, with the source of magic power of the artifact, he has now cultivated to the peak of the fifth level. He can feel that he is only a little away from a breakthrough. But he still can't get the point.
Now Feng Weiluo is afraid of the huge military formation of the Snowy Empire composed of steel puppets. Although the defense cannot be increased, the increase in attack power is really strong.
Under the blessing of the military formation, even the giant dragon Moril could feel the threat. This was just a battle formation composed of 20,000 steel puppets. Moreover, the opponent did not send out strong men this time. Feng Willow knew that the Snowy Empire also had creatures like Titans.
Once the opponent sent out Titans to lead the battle formation, the threat to him would be too great.
Even if the opponent was strong, Feng Willow had enough confidence that as long as he could break through, all the problems he encountered now would be solved.
According to the records in the bronze book, as long as he could be promoted to Sequence Four, he could use the power of the God of Friendship to a limited extent. Sequence Four who could borrow divine power and Sequence Four who could not borrow divine power were completely two different concepts.
Since he became a Sequencer, he had been cultivating and spreading the belief in the Sea-Dividing Demon God and the God of Friendship, and it was finally time to use it. He had spent a lot of money to cultivate his belief before, and now it was finally time to reap the rewards.
But now, Feng Willow still has a layer of separation in terms of how to break through. He feels that he is just a little bit away, but he still can't break through.
"Maybe I should spread the plague twice more, and I should be able to break through." Feng Willow thought anxiously. His control over the plague has indeed reached a very high level, but the number of times he has really used the secret technique of spreading the plague is still too few.
He always felt that the problem that hindered his breakthrough was still the problem of practice. When he broke through and promoted before, it was not as difficult to break through as this time.
Feng Willow is now looking forward to the Snowland Empire making some noise, even if it is to attack the three counties of the Viking Empire, or to investigate the death of Pickjem and his Iron Puppet Corps, anyway, as long as he can give him an excuse to take action.
Before, Feng Willow hoped that the Snowland Empire would not take action because he was afraid of losing too much profit, but now his cultivation cannot break through. Let him see clearly what he wants most.
Compared with the breakthrough in cultivation, he didn't care about losing the three counties of the Viking Empire, let alone the territory of the Anerfa Empire.
He only cared about his own strength. As long as he had strength, he would have all the territory, population, and extraordinary resources.
Feng Willow's cultivation was stuck here, and he hoped that the Snowland Empire would take action as soon as possible, so as to give him a chance to act.
At this time, the Snowland Empire was also arguing endlessly. Some people suggested taking revenge on the Anerfa Empire, and some suggested taking this opportunity to annex Feng Willow's three counties in the Viking Empire. (End of this chapter)