Chapter 1786 (?Í _ Ì?) The Decision of the Empire
After receiving the letter from Egbert asking Liat to bring back in advance and listening to Liat's related report, the empire's 100,000 troops entrenched around the fortress forty miles outside Karthus City soon The troops have been withdrawn, and they have withdrawn resolutely and simply!
In just less than a week, except for some necessary garrison troops, most of their main forces have completely withdrawn to the original territory of their empire, while Emperor Barnhardt and Leon and other high-level empire generals , even directly returned to Faruzanlia, the capital of the empire.
Obviously, after learning that the floating island is indeed a threatening and powerful enemy, and it is also the kind of terrifying foreign enemy that is preparing to invade the entire Al Salia continent in a grandiose manner, the empire is of course not in the mood to fight against that kind of huddled in Karl. The rats in the city of Sass fought and wasted time, but immediately prepared for the more difficult and terrible war that was likely to come.
After all, compared to Karthus' enemies who are not worth mentioning on the surface, the one that is still hanging 10,000 meters above the border of the empire is still openly declaring that it will occupy the entire world and urge all countries to make peace The huge floating island that handed over power is the first enemy they have to deal with now.
No one is willing to "peacefully" surrender their power and country, and the emperor of the empire, Barnhardt, is of course not happy. The power of the 'Peaceful World' slogan, but that's no good either!
Although, their Recart Empire has always used that similar excuse to launch wars to unify the continent, and they also want to unify the entire world and establish a "a peaceful world without racial discrimination, class oppression, and war suffering." , However, it is okay for the empire to shout out such slogans and put them into practice, but now if someone else shouts them out and prepares to put them into practice, the taste will be quite different.
Anyway!
The current Emperor Barnhardt is the same as the monarchs of those countries that were invaded and destroyed by the empire before. After hearing that such a powerful force suddenly emerged and put forward the slogan of 'tall and tall', he felt a pang in his heart. Very unpleasant.
City of Faruzanlia.
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At this time, Barnhardt was standing with his back to his four confidantes, silently standing in front of his throne, listening to the story of being stranded on the floating island for several days, until earlier today he was barely able to catch up. Egbert, the head of the Black Dragon Magister Legion of the Empire and the Prime Minister of the Empire who came back, described everything the other party saw, heard, and inquired about on the floating island and Silvermoon City. Remember the URL m.luoqiuzwww. cc
a long time.
It wasn't until Egbert finished speaking and stopped that Barnhardt seemed to come back to his senses suddenly, turned around slowly, and looked at the man with a haggard expression, who looked no less than a few days old. He wants an even better Egbert when he sleeps well.
"Well……"
"Egbert..."
"That is to say..."
"That floating island,
In Silvermoon City, they have the ability to directly project large-scale legions onto the ground, so there is no need to land the floating island or use other landing tools at all? "
"Is that so?"
Originally, Barnhardt also thought that their empire might be able to take advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's landing on the floating city and land troops, lead the four legions to launch a surprise attack and attack the floating island, and then destroy the opponent's teleporters and even the entire Urban.
Or, when the time comes, they can try to capture the enemy's landing ship, such as the ancient weapon airship, and then command troops to counter-land and attack that hateful island?
But now, after listening to Egbert's report, and knowing that those foreign enemies don't need to land or transport troops at all, but directly use the high-end portal technology for fixed-point and large-scale troop delivery, he directly I was a little dumbfounded.
To be honest, there are actually many mage commanders in the Black Dragon Magister Legion of the Empire, and their strength is not weak. Egbert is very good at that kind of teleportation spell, but Barnhardt himself You know, the empire itself can barely do things like teleporting some small troops on a small scale and over a short distance.
However, if you want to directly use the portal to send thousands of heavy cavalry on a large scale like that floating island and then send them back after the battle, that kind of technology and ability, in terms of the current magic power of the empire, is almost impossible. Definitely an impossible task.
This alone can let him know that the Recart Empire they have always been proud of is compared with the opponent's force that has applied large-scale portal technology to actual combat, and even to ordinary military operations. How big is the gap!
"Yes."
"I haven't seen that kind of large-scale transportation on that floating island from the beginning to the end. On the contrary, there are several legion-level teleportation bases."
"even……"
"They also have a huge super portal that can directly connect to their 'world of Azeroth' that spans stars and planes!"
"Some of them like to call it the 'Dark Gate'?"
Although Egbelt doesn't know what crossing the plane and the "gate of darkness" means, he can understand crossing the stars. After all, according to legend, the demons in their world were summoned from the red moon in the sky to the world.
It is very difficult for those demons to come to the continent of Alsalia from the red moon that is close at hand, but those Azeroth races who don't know where the planet is can directly carry out large-scale interstellar teleportation and build The power and exquisiteness of the magical technology of that terrifying giant interstellar portal can be seen.
Anyway, in the past few days, Egbert himself felt colder and more terrified the more he looked at it, especially when the other party didn't mind at all that he, the black mage, was doing research, watching and inquiring. His behavior made him feel more and more frightened and shocking!
"!!"
"Portal!"
"Can it be destroyed?"
"for example……"
"Taking advantage of the opportunity they invited us to participate in that conference this time, send some capable magisters to join in, and then, take the opportunity to destroy it?"
Barnhardt suddenly seemed to have grasped some important points, and hurriedly walked down the steps of the throne with great interest, came to Egbert, and asked eagerly and somewhat taken for granted.
"His Majesty……"
He opened his mouth, although Egbert didn't want to hit His Majesty the Emperor in front of him who didn't seem to know much about magic, but he couldn't lie about this kind of thing, and he didn't dare to lie, so he still had to honestly add road:
"A portal of that level can already be said to be permanent, and it is unlikely to be destroyed."
"It can only be shut down."
In fact, Egbert did not dare to say something, that is:
A portal of that level cannot be shaken by mortal strength, let alone a few magisters.
And if the real one is forcibly destroyed by brute force, at that time, the tearing force formed by the chaotic and terrifying space turbulence and energy will definitely tear their world to pieces in an instant, and even if the portal is It's useless at a height of 10,000 meters!
Among other things, the power contained in a portal of that level, in Egbert's rough estimation, will definitely create a truly terrifying black hole!
That level is at least countless times more terrifying than the so-called 'black hole magic' created by these black magisters, and it is beyond the imagination of ordinary people's wisdom.
What makes Egbert even more desperate is that since the other party can skillfully create that kind of permanent portal in a short period of time and it works very well, and even teleported at least hundreds of thousands of fighters of various races, then It can explain what kind of level the other party's strength and civilization have reached, and the queen named 'Azshara' always likes to call their envoys 'mortals', so it is absolutely impossible for any reason.
"Close?"
"snort!"
"What's the use of shutting it down, they can be turned on again!"
Barnhardt gasped in annoyance, then turned his head resentfully and walked back to his throne.
He didn't know the terrible things that Egbert was thinking, and he didn't know that Egbert concealed a lot of things that were enough to make them even more desperate. He just felt a little annoyed and unhappy that he couldn't destroy that kind of portal. .
"That is to say..."
"Because they have the ability to accurately project troops at fixed points, when we come back, the defensive troops secretly deployed on the ground around the floating island will not play any role?"
"am I right?"
After sitting back on the throne in boredom, Barnhardt continued to ask in a muffled voice.
"Yes!"
"Your Majesty, if they wish, they can even directly send tens of thousands of troops to the square outside our castle."
"The magisters of our Black Dragon Legion can only defend and interfere with the space in the palace at most, preventing them from easily opening up the transmission channel here. As for the outside, there is nothing they can do."
In order to let Emperor Barnhardt and Leon and Vargas next to him clearly understand the gap between the enemy and us, Egbert could only assume this vividly and sighed.
And the reason why he sighed was because it wasn't all hypothetical, but that the other party did indeed have that ability, and he had seen it with his own eyes, so it would definitely not be false!
"..."
Barnhardt suddenly fell silent.
Obviously, he also knows that if that kind of enemy can really send thousands or even tens of thousands of heavy cavalry outside his throne castle at any time, what will it mean for him, the emperor, and the empire they have worked so hard to build for so many years? wearing something.
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At this time, at the side of the throne hall, the two army commanders, Leon and Vargas, who had been listening silently, finally couldn't help but looked at each other in horror.
They know that Egbert never lies!
Moreover, the other party doesn't like to say things in an exaggerated direction. On the contrary, that guy likes to delete and delete things a lot of times, and pick out some less important ones to comfort them?
But now, the other party has a low face from the beginning to the end, with a gloomy expression without a trace of a smile, his words are also very rigorous, and his tone is even more unusually low, which is enough to explain something.
"you……"
"?!"
When the atmosphere at the scene became somewhat dull, Imelda, one of the four generals who followed Emperor Barnhardt, commanded the Ice Dragon Legion, and the only female general, suddenly opened her mouth to say something.
However, when she looked at Egbert who didn't know what was thinking, and exchanged a look with him, she finally had to choose to shut up.
As a mage, even though she was ridiculed by Egbert for not being good at her studies, she still heard more information, and knew that Egbert had been avoiding the important things, and did not explain everything clearly, but, since The other party didn't want to say anything, and signaled her not to, so she had no choice but to shut up temporarily.
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Just like that, the high-level people in the empire suddenly stopped talking, and they were all digesting the terrible news brought back by Egbert.
As a result, the throne room became eerily quiet, only the slight 'crackling' sounds of the wax oil of the white candles occasionally exploded.
"..."
"snort!"
"Egbert, you said..."
First, he sat on the throne thinking and fell silent for a while, then suddenly, Emperor Barnhardt spoke again, and asked Egbert directly about his name.
"Do they really have a million troops?"
"The matter is true?"
You know, the empire is already militaristic, but the four elite corps are only about 100,000, and if all the defenders from all over the country are mobilized together, regardless of the good or bad, old or weak, it will be enough to make up 300,000. It's already the ultimate, and so many troops can't stay together for too long, otherwise, there will be big problems in logistics.
So, after thinking about it, Barnhardt still didn't want to believe the fact that that 'little' floating island could casually bring out millions of troops.
"His Majesty."
"A million troops is only the number that the orc tribe is willing to dispatch."
"This does not include the merchant elves, naga, high elves, dwarves, gnomes, fire elementals, trolls, tauren, etc. in the Azeroth Empire, as well as the troops that various human kingdoms are willing to dispatch."
"so……"
"Millions of troops, is it likely to be the least situation?"
Although he really didn't want others to destroy his own prestige, but, the fact is, Egbert still had to tell a little bit more information he found during the few days he stayed.
"!!"
Boom! !
After hearing this, he was a little dumbfounded, and felt that there was no chance of getting lucky against that kind of enemy, and Emperor Barnhardt, who couldn't defend against him, was finally angry, and he slapped the armrest of the throne and stood up.
"Since this doesn't work, that doesn't work either, just don't think about it!"
"Three days later!"
"I will go to that floating island with the commanders of your four major armies!"
"I want to see with my own eyes, are they really as powerful as you say?!"
Then, while feeling annoyed, Barnhardt quickly made his final decision.
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Leon, Imelda, and Vargas didn't try to persuade them, but just turned around silently and looked at their emperor, who was furiously striding toward the side door behind the throne.
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Egbert had no intention of persuading him, because he really had nothing to do.
Now, the situation of their empire and the entire continent of Alsalia is: facing the public threats that are coming or have already come, they can't fight them now, and they can't defend them. Apart from the floating island, there is really no better way.
"Vargas..."
"Why don't you go when the time comes?"
"Your family still needs you, and you happen to stay in the empire to guard?"
At this time, when the four imperial army commanders present were about to adjourn the meeting, Imelda suddenly turned around and persuaded Vargas, the tall and strong Yanlong Corps commander.
"Hahaha!"
However, Vargas threw his head back and laughed.
"Imelda, I appreciate your kindness."
"If the situation is really as bad as Egbert said, it doesn't matter if I stay or not?"
"Stop talking!"
"That's it. I have to go back to see little Emilia. You don't know. She just peed on my face yesterday, but it made me very angry."
As he said that, Vargas waved his hand, pretending to be displeased, and walked quickly towards the door of the throne hall, and quickly disappeared into the night.
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