Chapter 21 The Shame of Demarcation
However, since Wu Ding was the one who could have overpowered Philip in the first place, it was possible to survive in the Outlands without relying on the power of the environment. Just as a strong human being can exert his power in the abyss and the environment. In this way, what the floating island giants have to face is likely to be an indefinite highness whose power in the floating world is not affected and suppressed in the slightest.
The Outlands are a place full of variables, and in a world shrouded in the laws of chaos, it does not mean that after a long time and many crises, it will inevitably lead to the promotion of the strength of the strong. The only way to do this is to be patronized by the Source of Chaos, which is similar to the favor of Lady Luck in the world of Order.
Therefore, the floating island giants are now encountering an unpredictable future, they may be about to face a slightly stronger legendary powerhouse, or they may need to face a super strongman. No one knows how strong an indefinite highness who has not become a servant of the law of chaos is. Because the weight of the threat unleashed by a powerful legend and a super strong person is completely different. With the combat talent that His Highness Wuding once displayed, even if it was just an ordinary legendary powerhouse, it would make people fidget.
Based on the information obtained from all sides, Richard knew that this indefinite highness was extremely violent and bloodthirsty, and his personality seemed to be very distorted. She is also a famous combat genius in the entire continent, and when she just entered the legendary realm, it made people feel that except for a few super powerhouses, I am afraid that no one can restrain her. It was precisely because of the anxiety and even fear of her that the giants reached an agreement for the first time and voted for Philip. Although Philip was by no means a triviable master at that time, compared to Wude, he was simply too normal to be normal. At least Philip was still a man at the time and later.
This time, the eldest princess of Wuding must vote for the throne, and I am afraid that she also has the intention of revenge on the wealthy families back then. Voting for her is tantamount to giving up face and dignity, and it is a shame that will take hundreds of years to wash away. But if you don't vote, you'll face crazy retaliation.
Richard suddenly laughed, the current variables, I'm afraid that no one in the wealthy family thought of it at the beginning. However, since Akmund did not have the right to vote, he was inexplicably freed from the predicament, which was probably not expected by those conspirators.
Richard put away the materials from the outer realms and went to the cultivation room to meditate again. Those two newborn hearts are like two bottomless pits, no matter how much energy is fed into them, they will be devoured cleanly, and there will be no feedback. What is the strength of the eldest princess of Wuding, she will naturally know when she appears. And there is an additional trouble in front of us, which is the negotiation with the envoys of the two empires tomorrow.
The night passed naturally, and the dawn came again.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Richard and the heads of the wealthy families gathered in the small chamber of the House of Lords to await the arrival of the royal family and the representatives of the two empires. All the heads of the family seemed to be a little preoccupied, and when they met each other, even people like Joseph and Richard who had a deep hatred actually looked at each other and smiled bitterly. In the past year, the heads of the house have not seen each other as much as they have in the past few days.
That's eventful.
At a quarter past ten, representatives of the royal family arrived. Representing the royal family was Nero and Thor, the president of the Mage Guild. Thor took matters into his own hands and set up a magical map of the Norland continent in the center of the chamber. The labeling is extremely detailed, so detailed that even the baron's domain will be marked.
The faces of the wealthy family heads were a little ugly. The intention of this map could not be more obvious, that is, the three empires redivide their spheres of influence, and to put it more bluntly, it is a question of how much territory the Holy Tree Dynasty and the Millennium Empire will cede from the Holy Alliance. As a floating island tycoon, each of them has huge interests in the border area. This is especially true for newly emerging families, as external expansion is the fastest and easiest way to gain territory.
Once the magic map was set up, envoys from the two empires entered the conference room.
The Sacred Tree Dynasty was led by the mediocre middle-aged man, but within the Sacred Tree Dynasty, the Marquis of Milanes was one of the famous ministers.
The status of the envoy of the thousand-year-old empire was even more prominent, and the elegant young man who was not yet thirty years old seemed to lack the necessary qualifications and experience, but the name of the Count of Kimberleaf spread more widely than Milanes. The young earl is the son of the Duke of Icewind, one of the four great masters of the empire, and his mother is the daughter of Emperor Garland, and the younger sister of the imperial goshawk in the four heroes of the year.
The Count himself was gifted, wise, and temperamental. Although his appearance is surprisingly ordinary in a family rich in handsome men and beautiful women, once he gets along deeply, the count's noble and elegant demeanor can completely forget this regret, so he is a well-known public lover in the thousand-year-old empire. Count Jin Baye doesn't like cultivation very much, and it's definitely not hard, but his proud talent allowed him to enter the Holy Realm in his early twenties, and now he has also reached the nineteenth level leisurely, looking at this, it is possible to start impacting the legend before forty. For the many martial arts mages who were stuck in front of the Sanctuary Pass, people like the Earl were definitely the ones to be eliminated quickly.
Nero presided over the meeting on behalf of the royal family, and after introducing the main figures of the various wealthy families of the floating islands and the envoys of the two empires, he called the meeting to order.
The Marquis of Milanes and the Count of Kinbaye exchanged a look, and the young Count stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please.
So the marquis was no longer polite, stood up, looked around, first saluted the heads of the house with impeccable etiquette, and then said, "If you can sit here, you are naturally all important figures of the Holy Alliance. As you already know, the Venerable Emperor, His Majesty the Bloodthirsty Philip, who had not recovered from his wounds sustained in the last Battle of Dusk, and now the two legion fortresses defended by the Holy Alliance, the capital of the sun and the rising sun, are not optimistic, and once the people of Daxodas regain their vitality or discover the emptiness of the two legion fortresses, they may take a large-scale offensive, and the two fortresses are in danger of falling. In order to prevent this from happening, we, the Holy Tree Dynasty and the Millennial Empire, have decided to work together to help the Holy Alliance share the defense of the Legion Fortress. If necessary, we are willing to fully assume one of these Team Fortresses. Exactly which fortress it is, you can respect the choice of the Holy Alliance. Of course, the military and materiel guarding the legion fortress are huge, and we need to compensate them properly. The construction I propose here is also a rule that has been observed between the three empires for hundreds of years. β
Milanes' opening remarks were concise and to the point, but they made the heads of the family sink their hearts when they heard it. The Marquis even omitted the hypocritical speech, obviously seeing the current weakness of the Holy Alliance, he was not prepared to be polite, and the conditions he proposed next would definitely be difficult to accept.
"In order to protect the Legion Fortress, the Sacred Tree Dynasty wants to be compensated by the following realms. As he spoke, Milanes reached out and dotted on the magic map, and his fingertips shot out a red beam of light, outlining a zigzag dividing line on the map. Only half of this crimson line was drawn, and the head of a wealthy family on the floating island stood up directly in shock
After the dividing line of the Marquis of Milanes was drawn, among the fourteen wealthy family heads, except for the iron-blooded Grand Duke and Richard, the other family heads all stood up, stared at this dividing line, and gasped.
"You, you're just nonsense," the worst-tempered Duke Mensa roared. If he hadn't known that he was not Milanes' opponent, the Duke would have drawn his sword and rushed up to the duel.
To Mensa and the other family heads, Mensa and the other heads of the family were shocked and angry, and the boundary drawn by Milanes was so ruthless that it directly incorporated about one-sixth of the territory of the Holy Alliance into the Holy Tree Dynasty.
The gentle smile on the face of Count Kimbereye, who had been sitting steadily, froze imperceptibly, staring at the dividing line like a wound, and quietly crumpling a drawn map in his pocket. The young Count found himself still too kind, so kind that he surprised himself.
The people on the side of the Holy Tree Dynasty all sat quietly, their faces expressionless. But their excessive calm actually betrayed their minds, and even they did not expect that Milanes would suddenly draw such a line. In many important areas, the line is hundreds of kilometers ahead of the most demanding plan originally planned
With a simple snap of his finger, the Marquis hooked more than 3 million square kilometers of land into the scope of the Holy Tree Dynasty.
The Marquis pointed to Kimbaye at this time and said, "Now, it is time for the Millennium Empire to make a request. β
The young Earl also stood up, and stood in front of the magic map for a full minute before saying, "The Millennial Empire needs the following areas as compensation. β
As he spoke, he shot out a turquoise glow, another turquoise dividing line under the imprint of the magic map. With Milanes in front, the dividing line of Kimberleaf is no longer so shocking. In contrast, the people of the Millennium Empire were even more surprised, because the line of the earl was too far from the original plan.
The area of the territory cut by this line is about the same as that of Milanes, but there is a considerable area of common coverage between the two, which is quite significant.
The heads of the families stood or sat in silence at the two lines on the magic map. Every head of the family, including Richard, felt that the two dividing lines, one red and one green, were extremely glaring. Two lines, that is, two straightforward slaps, one on the left cheek and one on the right cheek, which are hot.
Every big nobleman sitting here is no longer naΓ―ve. In times of need, their skins can be thicker than the city walls. Even Richard, the youngest here, could do well if he was willing to suppress his temper. But now, these two slaps make even the thickest-skinned person feel unusually loud. (To be continued)
()