Chapter 570: Will
With the advent of winter, the continent gradually became calmer, Beeri led the Death Roar Legion to once again step into the country of mercenaries, Chen Bing was eyeing the southeast of the Alisen Empire, and the northern front army of the Ma Empire also came to a general mobilization, threatening the southwest of the Alisen Empire, in fact, everyone knew that in the early spring of the next year, the Ma Empire would definitely attack on two sides at the same time, and the unification of the entire continent was inevitable. [No pop-up novel network]
In this absolutely inferior situation, the Elison Empire's countermeasures pale in comparison, and there is no way to reverse or alleviate the situation except for the frenzied expansion of the army and the constant sending of emissaries to try to negotiate with the Mao Empire.
The core members of the Grand Alliance are scattered all over the country, although they have temporarily lost the news of Anfei, they are more united than before, one is because they have gradually matured, and the other is because they have a higher ideal, a higher level of pursuit.
Chris and Entos, Bravi, Zubin and others rushed back to the Holy City, Chris did not forget An Fei's words, and after returning to the Holy City, he deliberately kept a low profile, even if he did not fight for his credit, no one could erase it, if he started to retaliate at this time, it would inevitably seem too aggressive.
On the same day, An Fei seized a large number of magic crystals from the Shining Sand Empire, occupied the Diamond City and the palace, and the magic crystals captured from the mage tower and the palace treasury were even more amazing, although Beeri took two-thirds of them, but the remaining magic crystals were enough for them to squander for a few years. Entos used the magic crystal to set up three medium-sized magic teleportation arrays. One in the City of Diamonds, one in the House of Thordi, and one in the City of the White Mountains, the leaders of the three regions of Christen, Alice, and Anthony communicate with each other through the teleportation array every day. They can even communicate with each other in the event of an emergency.
This is independent of the magic teleportation system of the Ma Empire, and the nature of the foreign teleportation magic array is very sensitive, but Yolande has always been silent about it, but several ministers have written to impeach Chris, but in the end, they are all gone. \
Anthony sits in the country of mercenaries after taking refuge in Anfei. Anthony's performance has been lackluster, without any eye-catching highlights, and even taking a back seat to let his son David take his place, but he is just judging the situation and hiding his edge. Because the leadership system of the Grand Alliance has been formed, the sharper his edge is, the more acute the contradictions will be.
Now that An Fei trusts him and hands over the burden of the entire mercenary country to him, Anthony no longer has any scruples, his methods are more cruel than An Fei at that time, and he returned to the mercenary country on the first day. Anthony announced that the Glory Mercenary Group had officially become a member of the Grand Alliance, and after communicating with Chris and Alice, he did everything possible to invite Marino, the leader of the former Brothers Alliance Mercenary Group who was bent on seclusion, to let Marino serve as the third consul.
Anthony was generous to the mercenaries who took refuge, and at the same time deliberately suppressed those mercenary groups that tried to remain neutral, and for those mercenary groups that were not convinced, no matter how big or small, Anthony first fabricated accusations and then killed them mercilessly.
Maybe it's because Anfei's big league broke out of the momentum of those who follow me and those who go against me die. Perhaps because Anthony's actions were so brutal, the free and loose group of mercenaries was completely changed, and in just a few months, nearly 200,000 mercenaries gathered under the banner of the Grand League.
Mercenaries are often difficult to hold together. Because most mercenaries can't compliment their vision, compared to them, merchants are easy to stand on the same front for the common good, and in the face of the mercenary integration, there is no more headache than the merchant. In this magical world, magic has penetrated into life, especially the aristocratic and wealthy merchant families, who consume a certain amount of magic crystals every day. Now the mercenaries are united. The preconditions for monopoly have been born, and businessmen must be vigilant.
Surprisingly, Anthony never interfered in the sale of magic crystals, and with Alice as his advisor, he would never make such a superficial mistake. What Yolande wants is stability, if he covets immediate interests and raises the price of the magic crystal, the merchants will inevitably launch a counterattack, how can Yuland sit idly by? And the high price of the magic crystal will affect the lives of the nobles and merchants, and those who can live a luxurious life are members of the ruling class, which makes the entire ruling class annoyed, which is extremely unfavorable to the exhibition of the mercenary country.
When Anthony proposed the plan, Alice immediately rejected Anthony's idea, and must not provoke trouble first! However, Alice told Anthony to be prepared and find ways to accumulate a large amount of food, which has always been the weakness of the mercenary country. Because the relationship between the eldest prince West and the courtiers is very good, he has become the target of big businessmen everywhere, if he is in the way, the business war is very likely to explode, and then all the responsibility can be put on West.
Compared with Anthony, Alice's movements are much gentler, or she is expressing her political art in the way of a honey belly sword, after Chrissy left Diamond City, Alice's relationship with West and Grandon is very harmonious, and West once found Alice and wanted his henchman to be the lord of Diamond City.
Vest's idea was contrary to Yoland's established national policy, and Yoland's promise to govern the land of Shining Sand with the Shining Sands was what kind of henchman was Hewest's henchmen? Not to mention, how could the lord of the mansion let an outsider serve as the city's lord?
Of course, it is also possible that West was testing Alice's attitude, but Alice only hesitated for a moment and agreed to West's request, this cooperation made West feel very happy, who knew that three days later, Alice was charged with corruption and executed the city lord who had only been in office for three days, which caused a sensation in the city at that time.
West was so angry that he almost fainted, and went straight into Alice's office room to question Alice, but Alice put one piece of evidence after another in front of him, and the unlucky city lord was not only corrupt, but also raped the maid and beat the soldiers, and was punished for several crimes, so he was finally sentenced to death. Alice was very aggrieved and told West that it was not that she didn't help, but that West had seen the wrong person, and no one was to blame. West was dizzy at the time, and blurted out that everyone in the whole continent was doing this, why was he staring at him alone?
Alice turned her face on the spot and scolded West's absurdity, West came at an inopportune time, or Alice deliberately led him to the bait, in addition to more than a dozen city officials, there were also Saul and Granddon, they were chatting in the inner room, waiting for Alice to sign the official document, as a result, everyone heard West's absurd questioning, and Alice's righteous and awe-inspiring reprimand.
If the killing of Vest's henchmen was a resounding slap in the face, then the public reprimand was undoubtedly another backhand slap, and Vest was almost crazy, if it wasn't for seeing Sol, it was really hard to say whether he would attack Alice on the spot, and Himpella, who had been watching from the sidelines, might have done something, and no one knew, after all, the matter was not born.
Throughout the winter, the life of the residents of the Ma Empire and the Shining Sand was relatively peaceful, only one thing caused a lot of commotion, located in a closed castle more than two hundred miles northeast of the Holy City of the Ma Empire, the figure of a necromancer appeared in the castle, and more than 500 people in the castle were all killed by the necromancer, and finally turned into zombies, and when it was dawn, the zombies lost their last vitality and dispersed into smoke and dust under the light of the sun.
This incident alarmed the Holy City, and Miorrich, who returned to the Holy City, personally led the team to investigate, but a few days later, the investigation ended with loud thunder and little rain, thousands of miles away, the eldest prince West fainted on the spot after getting the news, and was bedridden from the next day, and the slap that Alice rewarded him had already caused him a lot of damage, and the news that more than 500 people from his mother clan had been slaughtered made him even more devastated.
In fact, anyone who knows a little inside story can guess who is the murderer, whose will is unstoppable, even crazy to the point of recklessness?Who is closest to the necromancer now?Thor is smiling wryly, Alice is in joy, and Christian is silent, and as for Yoland, no one knows what he is thinking.
None of them blamed An Fei, but An Fei had his own reasons, although West's mother clan had been frozen by Yoland, but they still had their own potential, Walter and Julie were the best proof of this!
Of course, this is very likely to arouse Yoland's disgust, but don't forget that An Fei is crazy at some times, and his keen insight can allow him to get to the essence through layers of intertwined cause and effect! If there is no way to get rid of Minos I, the world will fall sooner or later, even if he stabs the sky into a big hole, what does it matter? Anyway, everyone will die! If he can really break through the last bottleneck and kill Minos I, as a new generation of sages, it shouldn't matter if he gets rid of a family because of some kind of grudge, right? Who will come to ask for justice, and who will dare to come?
It's not ungrateful, crossing the river and tearing down bridges, and Julande Anfei has always been very respectful and respectful, but he must clearly express his will, because what he wants to protect is not only his and Susanna's future, but also Chriss, Alice! Can you let others decide your own future and that of your friends? Do nothing and resign yourself to fate? Anfei never believes in fate, he only trusts his own mind and hands.