Chapter 1224 Defending the Golden Fortress
Von-Zhukov Castle was razed to the ground during the Motkin invasion in 2515 Imperial Calendar, and everyone was massacred.
After Motkin's suicide, the Ostlanders slowly but surely rebuilt the castle, united in the Elector Vamer-von-Zhukov and the Elector's first-in-line heir Vasily- Under Von Zhukov's command, the Von Zhukov Castle reappeared in the territory of Ostland.
Thank you for the gold mines in Wolfenburg. The continuous gold there has kept Osterland's finances from facing financial crises. The stubbornness and pride of the people here make the Osterlanders know that it is a waste of money and has no practical benefits. But it still needs to be rebuilt, even if the ashes in the tombs of the ancestors of the electors have been removed by Motkin, and even if the castle no longer has the prosperity and population of the past, the Ost people still have to do it.
The Great Alchemist Balshazer-Gert, the pinnacle of the Sanctuary, the Chief Wizard of the Empire and the Supreme Master (Principal) of the Royal Wizarding Academy, he is studying the expression of the emperor, of course the Great Alchemist will not let The emperor noticed that he was pretending to observe the rich decorations inside the Von Zhukov Castle.
Emperor Karl Franz walked around the room with strides, his brows were tightly locked, and he seemed to be thinking about a very difficult question, but Gelt was not in a hurry. The great alchemist used this method to get the emperor regained control of the conversation.
"I know what you mean, Gelt." After a long time, the emperor's voice sounded: "You mean, your guarantee doesn't have much timeliness, because the Great Wall of Faith is your temporary solution? Are you concerned about your spells? Confident, but not sure how long you can last?"
"That's what I meant, Your Majesty, if at that time..." Gelt's voice was slightly relieved, as if he was happy because the emperor understood his words, but the great alchemist did not notice that his expression The tone hurt Karl Franz's heart, and the emperor's expression became a little displeased. He immediately made a gesture to signal Gelt to shut up!
Gelt immediately stopped his words, and the great alchemist could feel the change in the emperor's mood. Yes, this is a dark age, and even the greatest statesman of the empire and the great prince of Rickland have monopolized Karl Franz, the leader of the Friedrich family for three generations of the imperial throne, lost his cool.
"I know you want to talk about Archbishop Vikmar." The emperor said impatiently: "It is true that he attacked in a hurry, but Ai Qing, I must remind you that Vikma is dead, and he has paid for his recklessness." The price has been paid, there are some things I don't want to mention again, it will make me feel very unhappy, do you understand what I mean?"
Gelt was silent, perhaps other wizards would not understand the emperor's actions, but the great alchemist was not among them.
Why can't the old story of Vekmar and his recklessness be brought up again?
the reason is simple,
Without Vikma, there would be no current Emperor Karl Franz. If the archbishop hadn't lowered three votes at a critical moment to help the emperor turn the tide, then Boris Todbringer would be standing here now.
If Vikma's faults are to be liquidated, those who are interested will definitely liquidate it on the emperor.
So, as long as you are dead, you can escape all responsibility and avoid any punishment, but the living have to be blamed and interrogated for every mistake?
The great alchemist felt very painful. He believed in the Great Wall and the Golden Fortress, and he had given everything for the empire.
Seemingly realizing that this was unfair to Geert, the emperor made a slight concession. He did not ask Geert about the Great Wall of Faith, but instead focused on the letter, except for the commandment that Ryan expressed helplessness Besides, there are letters from the dwarves, both the High King and the Butcher King are in great trouble, the Kurgans and Chaos Dwarves from the other side of the Roof of the World Mountains are attacking the Dwarven strongholds, and they cannot help.
"This is a new logistics form, my love. The bureaucrats in the rear are already complaining." The emperor said to Gelt: "The food and drink expenses of hundreds of thousands of people were mobilized from the major provinces of the empire. At the beginning, we can still deal with it." , but we can’t go on like this forever, maybe some cities and provinces, such as Brunswick, such as Nuer, such as my Rickland and Marius’ Avyland, can insist, but what about Steeleland? What about the Ostermark collar? Furthermore, the transportation loss is getting higher and higher, from 15% at the beginning to 23% later, and now the transportation loss is approaching 36%.”
"There is no reason." The great alchemist certainly knew what was tricky about it: "Your Majesty, your bureaucrats must know where these 'disappeared' materials and supplies have gone."
"But this is the necessary lubrication of the whole system, Ai Qing." The emperor smiled bitterly: "Are you going to throw down the hundreds of thousands of chaotic troops opposite the golden fortress, and attack the bureaucracy?"
Gelt remained silent, so why didn't the Great Alchemist know about the internal crisis?
Among other things, after seeing Gelt build a golden fortress and create great miracles, the great wizards of the Royal Wizarding College of the Empire admired his magical attainments on the one hand, but on the other hand they also envied and hated him, such as It is said that the supreme dean of the Amber Academy, Greg Mattak, has doubted the source of Gelt's great miracle more than once, and another great wizard of the sanctuary, Senus Gehrman, left the Golden Fortress without knowing it. where to go.
The many crises made Gelt almost breathless, and more importantly, as he told Emperor Karl Franz, the Golden Fortress was not perfect—it was unstable, and from Erengla From Germany to the Jiakova Fortress in the Roof of the World, dozens of ritual circles require a large number of wizards and priests to perform rituals and spell maintenance continuously. This is a very hard and tortured job, and people have mental breakdowns every day Fallen, even so, the ritual was not impeccable, for the Golden Fortress was often breached by the confusion of the Chaos Winds and the inevitable blunders in spellcasting.
How could Chaos miss such a good opportunity? Archaon's adjutant, thousands of scouts from Keron-Conqueror are constantly observing the situation along the Golden Fortress, and if there is a leak, they will immediately launch a full-line attack.
At this time, the army of the empire must plug the gap until the wizards and priests recast the walls of the golden fortress.
In each such encounter, one or two hundred people would die in the Empire, and even more in Chaos.
The only comfort is that in the face of such a difficult situation, the empire is united and everyone knows the seriousness of the crisis.
The eastern section of the Golden Fortress was handed over to Wolfram Hertwig, Elector of Ostmark. As the elector of Ostermark, it was his duty to guard the border of Ostermark.
The middle section was handed over to Edbrand Ludenhof, the Elector of Hawke. Although his own army of Hawke was no more than 10,000 people, and more soldiers came from other provinces of the empire, Edbrand Ludenhof Not long ago, he made the famous victory and severely damaged the Velich-World Curser and defeated the army of the World Curser. No one disputed his status as the coach.
The western section is in charge of Vamer von Zhukov, Elector of Oster, and Vladimir, Grand Duke of Ehrengrad. They are old rivals with Chaos.
Emperor Karl Franz led the main force of the empire, the Franz Guards Grand Army, and the Royal Guard at the Von Zhukov Castle, ready to support the front line at any time.
It seems that the situation has stabilized, but this is a respite based on the empire's continuous casualties and paying the price.
"Gelt, you are the chief wizard of the royal family handpicked by me, right?" Karl Franz asked.
"Of course I am." Geert was very hesitant in his heart. He had the opportunity to confess his specialness several times, but he missed them all. He had the opportunity to say it just now, and he missed it too.
"Secretary Gelt, I am asking you this question with pain in my heart, and I hope you will answer honestly as a glorious citizen of the Empire. Can we hold the Golden Fortress?"
"I'm sure we can hold on, my lord." Gelt said without hesitation: "The Golden Fortress has proven its strength."
"Then the question is, first of all, how long can we last with this consumption?" The emperor continued to ask: "Second, even if we expect to last for a long time, how can we win?"
Gelt was taken aback. It's not that the chief wizard of the royal family has not considered this issue, but since maintaining the golden fortress has consumed most of his magic power and energy, he subconsciously does not think about such a long-term issue.
But... just don't think about it? Or... no answer at all?
Gelt was silent for a long time, and the great alchemist considered his answer. If he answered the truth, that is, he also knew that the empire could not last forever and there was no way to turn it around, then he was incompetent and the emperor would not need it. Such an incompetent chief wizard of the royal family, perhaps he will lose his coveted position.
But being strong does not seem to be a reasonable choice, which also means deception. It is obviously impossible to deceive such a great politician as Karl Franz.
Fortunately, when Gelt hesitated to answer this question, an emergency military situation arrived outside.
Alderfin's golden fortress has been breached!
Our allies are under attack, the Elector Wolfram-Hertwig is on his way with an army, and they need reinforcements.
The emperor was forced to stop his inquiry, and Karl Franz subconsciously wanted to grasp the imperial hammer, but Gael-Maraz was not in his hand, so he could only say: "Gelt Qing, I can only count on you at this time, lead your Sol to lead the army, hurry to the gap, and repair the golden fortress!"
"Understood!" Gelt felt relieved, and the great alchemist walked out quickly, disappearing outside the main hall of Von-Zhukov Castle.
When the chief wizard of the royal family arrived at the front line riding his beloved Pegasus Xunyin, the situation had become unbelievably rotten. The defenders of the empire were collapsing, and there were large gaps in the golden fortress. Within a few kilometers, the north What the chaotic savages saw was a large flat road, hundreds of imperial soldiers had already fallen in a pool of blood, and tens of thousands of chaotic tribes were quickly crossing the gap and entering the territory of the empire.
The Yankees, as numerous as crucian carp crossing the river, crossed the gap at a crazy speed, black smoke filled the sky, and the terrible plague was spreading into the territory of the empire as the Yankees went south, and the doctors and priests of the empire had nothing to do about it ——Salia, the goddess of mercy, seems to have disappeared. Without the help of the gods, the nuns and doctors of Salia could not fight the spreading plague by themselves. Gelt had skimmed through several reports, and the content made him shudder—approximately one-tenth to two-tenths of the soldiers were infected with Nurgle's plague to varying degrees.
However, this is not what scares Gelt the most. What scares him the most is that, as a flying unit and a great wizard at the pinnacle of the sanctuary, Gelt saw it on the way here. He saw a team of tens of thousands The human Sylvanian army—both living and dead, is commanded by a demigod vampire with elegant demeanor, nobleness and calmness in every gesture. There are hundreds of blood knights around him, Hundreds of black knights and thousands of grave guards.
Large groups of mortal auxiliaries followed the army of the undead army, trembling, but still holding muskets and hand crossbows, and it seemed that they were all voluntary.
The demigod vampire noticed Gelt, and he even greeted Gelt in the air with the ancient etiquette, a perfect and impeccable aristocratic greeting.
Gelt suddenly felt cold all over his body, the great alchemist understood a fact, he lied - Sylvania is not in the cage, the terrible undead has escaped, if this truth is revealed to everyone in the empire, then He Gelt would lose everything, including the position of reverence, the adoration of the Imperials, and his reputation.
God Emperor, what should I do? Gelt couldn't help reaching out and pressing the cover of "The Emperor's Words 3.0" on his waist. On it, there was a blessing bestowed by the God Emperor himself. In this extremely dark age, this book is the only one that supports Gelt. Crash stuff.
The battle at Odelfin's gap was extremely fierce. The Elector of Hertwig personally led the army to fight fiercely with the Chaos army. The leader of the Chaos army was Festac Krona. This champion of Nurgle was the first to lead his followers. One of the warlords who had gone south to Kislev, his massacre on the steppe would only heighten his standing in Nurgle's eyes. As the golden bulwark crumbled before him, Krona was convinced his time had finally come, and without hesitation led his warband over the fallen stones to glory.
Kron's subordinates consisted of more than a hundred warbands. To make matters worse, Gelt found many Chaos Demons among them. At least three teams of Nurgle Demons were advancing with the Rotten Horde.
Things are always getting worse. When Gelt first came to the northern front, he would only see sporadic Chaos Demons in the barbarian team. However, as time went by, the number of Chaos Demons changed from one or two, From two to three to five, six, seven or eight, Chaos Demons can already be seen operating in the form of squads and warbands, and the time they can exist in the mortal world is getting longer and longer. If someone tells Gelt that they will soon Gelt would not feel the slightest surprise when the entire Chaos Demon Legion with a well-established system appeared on the battlefield.
Ignoring the imperial defenders and Chaos tribes who were fighting fiercely, Gelt came to the scene of the ceremony. He found that the wizards and priests in charge of maintaining the ceremony were all down in a pool of blood. They were killed by mysterious forces. The great alchemist was determined to Wanting to restore the golden fortress at all costs, he casts a spell.
The great alchemist poured all his magic power into the ceremony, and at the same time paid a little attention to watch the battle situation. When he saw the Elector of Hertwig personally leading the knights of eternal light and the cavalry of Alderfin When the Rotten Horde was in the ranks, Gelt called Hertwig an idiot, and he should have bought time to repair the walls instead of charging fearlessly, which would cost him his life!
Sure enough, the Elector of Hertwig was in trouble after his heroic charge. A group of Nurgle's Chosen warriors in full body armor resisted the charge of the knights. The Elector fell into a dogfight and finally encountered Krona, the champion of Nurgle, fought a championship match between the two sides. The brave Elector Hertwig died in battle. Krona wanted to show off his victory, but the champion of Nurgle soon understood why Ostermark's The Runefang was called the Troll Scavenger - the sword inflicted wounds that would not heal, and the Champion of Nurgle fell with them.
"No! Don't die!" Gelt could only look at everything in front of him in pain.
Just when the imperial front was about to collapse, Woten appeared leading Charlemagne's army. The advent of this unparalleled warrior, Charlemagne's chosen champion, greatly boosted the morale of the imperial army and reorganized the army.
But victory is not so easy to come. With the violent wind of chaos and the smelly garden scene docking with the mortal world, a whole army of Nurgle Demon Army was thrown into the mortal world by Fat Grandpa, and they met their opponents in Wushuang Woten ——Nurgle Great Demon Grug-Asi, the current sixth Great Demon under Nurgle.
Woten tried to quickly defeat the powerful enemy in front of him, but the Great Demon Nurgle could not be defeated at will. Even if the power of Gail Malaz overwhelmed the rusted sword and plague chain in the hands of the Great Demon, the Great Demon Nurgle The skin on his body was scorched black due to the divine power from the twin-tailed comet, but Gurug-Ass still cheered up, shouting the name of a loving father and fighting with Woten.
Woten can fight against Nurgle, but the imperial army behind him cannot. The brave soldiers of the Empire fought hard against the demons of Nurgle. Their bodies were corroded by the plague. They vomited yellow bile and their hands were corroded. Bones were exposed, and their eyeballs liquefied in the yellow-green mist and slid out of their sockets.
Unable to stand it anymore, the imperial army was routing, and Gelt closed his eyes in pain.
Lost, lost thoroughly, the golden fortress is over.
"No, the empire is not over." The cold and piercing voice rose from the other side of the horizon with absolute pride, and the dark sky enveloped the entire sky. drumbeat.
Von Carstein's banner with black bats on a red background is rising. The demigod, the Lord of Death, and the Lord of Sylvania, Vlad von Carstein watched the soldiers of the Empire fighting bravely, He couldn't help but nodded in approval.
"The living can't stand it anymore, now, it's my turn to fight, Sylvania."
"Blood Knight, drive the enemy out of our country!"
"For Isabella, for Sylvania, for von Carstein!"
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