Chapter 1344 Who Is the Leader?
Leaving Tal's divine kingdom, Ryan and the fairy in the lake looked at each other with complicated expressions.
Tal, the lord of nature, finally defeated the plague of Nurgle under the three forces, and he restored his full strength.
Tal expressed his gratitude to Thalia, Lilith, Ryan and Ulric for their help. In return, the Lord of Nature used his own power to purify the plague of Nurgle in the mortal world, but Tal's attitude was quite firm. The Lord still does not agree to personally intervene in the mortal war. Tal insists that natural selection, survival of the fittest, and chaos invasion are the best screening for mortals. Those who are strong, wise, and pious will stay. and flourish again.
Diligence, law-abiding, rule-abiding, patience, and hardship can defeat those competitors and win the favor of the gods. If you cannot attract the attention of the gods, it can only be said that you are not working hard enough, suffering enough, or struggling enough.
Only the strong deserve to survive!
This is Tal's answer, the human god king, the lord of nature expressed that he is willing to recognize Frederick's orthodox position, and he has also issued an oracle ordering that all remaining Tal believers in the old world will go to the south to concentrate, Tal He even injected a ray of divine fire into the body of the Imperial Hunter Marshal Wolfhart, promoted Wolfhart to be another Tal God's Chosen, summoned the Knights of Tal's Wrath, and summoned the Knights of Drakovald .
As for the Lord of Nature himself, Tal stated that his power has been used to save the mortal world from the suffering brought by Nurgle, and the power of the human god-king has been used to save the old world itself.
The white wolf god Urik tried to reason with his brother, Tal refused to accept Ulrich's opinion, as for the fairy in the lake and Ryan, it was really not very popular with Tal, the two sides were originally two systems People, do not speculate half a sentence too much.
The human god king generously expressed that I owe you a favor, but now I can't do anything, so please go back.
"It's really hard to imagine that after encountering the invasion of chaos, the original one rose up to resist, led the human gods to fight against the four gods of chaos, and was finally surrounded, and persisted until Asuryan personally shot back the four gods of chaos. This is what it is now." Ryan said to Lilith: "Is Tal not capable of participating in this war? No, we know that most of his power has been used to get rid of the plague, but he will never do everything No."
"It's not that he can't do it, it's that he doesn't want to do it." Lilith also shook her head: "Asuryan used to be able to personally fight against the star gods in order to protect the spirit race. Then it went out, but as time went by, He kept and fell, and to be more specific, no matter how God fights with God, both parties will not really die. "
"But mortals can kill gods?" Ryan remembered the words he saw in Asuryan's Platinum Flame Pyramid, which was most likely Asuryan's intention to show him.
"Have you seen Tal?" The moon god Shangshen glanced back at Tal's kingdom of God,
The goddess said coldly: "If Nurgle really has the ability to destroy Tal, he will delay until now? Similarly, if Nurgle really has the ability to kill Tal, Tal will think that he is very powerful, and in the kingdom of God Cursing with Nurgle inside, until unfortunately caught by Nurgle's plague?"
"The great game in the realm of chaos will never end. The four gods of chaos will fight forever. Similarly, the gods are also like the great game of the four gods of chaos. Nurgle can defeat Tal, but the Lord of Plague cannot completely destroy Tal. If Tal is killed, Tal can in turn purify the influence of the Lord of Plague on the old world, but he will not choose to end up fighting with the minions of the four gods of chaos." Lilith said seriously: "Asuryan is the same, they They are all afraid of real death, elves and gods still have a chance to reincarnate, human gods are real..."
The gods also learned to lie down, right?
"What about you?" Ryan understood completely: "Aren't you afraid?"
"I'm afraid." The fairy in the lake hugged Ryan's arm tightly: "I'm really afraid, but I have you and Suria, and I hate to repeat the reincarnation of the battle of heaven over and over again, I am determined Determined to do something."
"Even if it is possible to completely fall?"
"That's better than reincarnation over and over again." Lilith smiled: "The scariest thing is that you always do the same thing but expect a different ending. That's being an ostrich. The main reason why Yan and Tal gradually lost their courage and fighting spirit and started to follow the crowd? He was afraid of being killed by mortals."
"Maybe, maybe not." Ryan did not affirm Lilith's words, but he still expressed an optimistic attitude: "In any case, Urick agreed to join us."
Yes, persuading Tal failed. The Empire’s Winter God, the White Wolf God of War Yurik, has made up his mind to join the Allied Forces of Order. Most of Yurik’s power has turned into the White Wolf Holy Flame and covered Middenheim Yuri Therefore, Ulric cannot leave Middenheim too far for too long, but the god of winter of the empire clearly told Ryan and Lilith that if that time comes, he will choose to descend to earth, even if he falls. not hesitate.
The goddess of war, Mirmidia, is also firm. As for other human gods, most of them are silent, and the goddess of mercy, Thalia, said that she will continue to take care of Tal.
"We must establish an avatar council, my lady." Ryan thought for a while, and said simply: "The Eternal Chosen Archaon's main army still has at least one million people, and there will be a lot of chaotic demons who will continue to participate , our strength is not enough, we must unify all instances of order, and there must be no one of the eight incarnations."
"Then you at least need to wait until the elves arrive in Athel Loren." Lilith agreed with Ryan's point of view, and the Moon God God said: "Malekis is already on the way with the elves, we need to wait."
"Before that, we need to rest." Lilith reached out and brushed Ryan's face: "Go and call me Aurora and Teresa! I'm going to seal your backyard at the turkey feast! "
"Ah, this!" Ryan was a little embarrassed: "Who are you going to ban? Besides Morgiana and the others?"
"It's a secret!" The fairy in the lake smiled coquettishly: "You will know when it's over, this year's turkey feast will be held in Nuer! I'll take care of it so you don't have to worry about it, and you, dear, you go Try to become the leader of the Avatar Council! Olika and I will be your strongest backing."
………I am the dividing line for rest………
The winter of 2525 Imperial Calendar comes with two pieces of good news.
First of all, the plague that plagued the empire for more than three years finally disappeared, the corruption was cleared, the river was purified, the river course was connected again, the fields were restored to life, and those who were sick recovered to health.
The empire can start to get material support from everywhere.
These honors were attributed to Emperor Karl Franz the Ascended and Lion Machado the Sun King, a great alliance was signed in Brunswick and was about to flourish.
The second piece of good news comes from Woten.
With the defeat of Nurgle's army and the disappearance of corruption in the empire, Charlemagne's chosen champion, Woten, led an imperial army of more than 10,000 people to successfully cross the Talabek Forest and arrive at Brunswick and the Alliance of Order. Join forces, this army is simply the ultimate stitching army, filled with miscellaneous soldiers from all the northern provinces of the empire, including a few militiamen from Kislev, and knights from more than 30 knight orders in the empire , the largest number of knights, such as the Bull Knights, still has thirty or forty knights, and the two smallest knights have only one knight left. Carrying the last glory of the knights, they vowed to make Chaos pay the price.
The ascended Emperor Karl-Franz had a brief exchange with Woten, and after discussing with Ryan many times, he decided to help Woten replenish his troops first, and increase the number of troops under his command to 20,000. The sorcerer Matak sent Woten as his assistant, and then asked them to go north to support Middenheim and the imperial strongholds that were still resisting everywhere. His side went south temporarily, retreated to Nur, and regrouped the army of order.
The coalition forces of order are divided into two groups.
It took nearly a month for the imperial Britannian coalition forces to retreat to Nur, and Nur once again ushered in its heyday, just like Ludwig, the savior, assembled the army of order in Talabheim Similarly, Nur has also become the heart of the old world at this time, the four southern provinces of the empire, and Britannia's troops and material resources continue to gather from all directions.
Preparations are also underway for the wedding of Crown Prince Frederick.
The Ascended Emperor Karl-Franz thought for a long time, and decided to write a letter to the dwarven kingdoms for help with an ancient and sacred name. At the same time, he remembered that there was still an army in the empire that could be used, and he had fought many painful struggles with himself. Afterwards, the ascended Karl also decided to send a messenger to Sylvania, asking Vlad to fulfill his agreement.
Ryan did not give up looking for allies either, Leman Russ still couldn't get in touch, Ryan focused all his attention on finding allies of the elves, Phoenix King Malekith and Eternal Queen Alarielle were following along The roots of the Oak of Time came to the Old World, and Lion also tried to contact Fulgrim of Lustria.
Everything is in full swing.
Imperial Calendar 2525 Winter Veil Festival, Nur City, a wealthy area, the base camp of the coalition forces.
Several commanders of the Allied Forces of Order are sitting together and talking. The leaders of the empire are Emperor Karl Franz, the ascendant, the two electors Marius and Haut-Anderson, Crown Prince Frederick, Marshal Rick There are more than 20 people including Dolph, the great alchemist Geert who just arrived.
On the Britannia side, there are more than ten people including Knight King Ryan, Berhemond, François, Callard, Raymond, Diego, and Devin Hill.
Kislev's representatives were Generals Baghramyan and Zhukov.
For some reason, Suria was not there, Emilia was not there, Morgiana was not there, Veronica and others were not there.
"Everyone, fortunately, we survived this war. At least we were not crushed by Nurgle's elite army and the vanguard army of Archaon, the Eternal Chosen. The defense of Brunswick was victorious, even though It has turned into ruins." Ryan sat on one side of the conference hall, with the Britannia golden lion and iris flag hanging behind him, and the Gray Knight Supreme Mentor Diego stood behind him, the two The coercion of the demigod powerhouse forced the empire to let Ryan preside over the meeting.
There was some cold humor in what Ryan said. Several people in the empire couldn't help frowning, but they couldn't refute it. The waterway of the empire's main artery was opened, and food from Brittania was being continuously shipped in, alleviating the empire's crisis. Food shortage, the support of the Britannian knights in the Battle of Brunswick made the imperial people very grateful. At this time, no imperial people would dare to question Ryan's authority. Even the ascendant Karl Franz chose concession.
"Unfortunately, for an invasion of this scale, if Archaon wants to, he can come again." Ryan continued to laugh, and he took out his baton and clicked on the map: "At that time, our end will be become history."
"Now, let's share our views and discuss what to do next."
The Grand Duke of Aiwei, Marius the Elector jumped out first: "I think we should take advantage of the new defeat and weakness of the chaos, and directly attack the whole army northward to Middenheim to join Boris and Woten. Blitz the Chaos Wasteland, defeat Archaon! Take back our homeland!"
Ryan: "..."
Ascended Karl Franz: "..."
Commanders of the Empire and Britannia: "..."
The embarrassing atmosphere lasted for a while, everyone ignored Marius' opinion, and the father-in-law Francois put forward his own thoughts: "For now, we can't see the hope of eradicating chaos in one go, we should follow along The Riker River and the Ivy River have established solid defense lines, and Gelt has experience in building golden fortresses. At least we must consolidate the existing positions in the south, and then consider other things."
Build a new golden fortress? Everyone in the conference hall was thinking about Francois' proposal.
The generals, representatives of the knights, and nobles in the occupied areas in the northern part of the empire strongly opposed it, while the Britannia side generally agreed, while the representatives in the southern part of the empire chose to remain silent.
"That's just waiting to die. Are we going to watch the Chaos army plow our land over and over again until it becomes a rotten land where birds don't shit and chickens don't lay eggs?" In the north of the empire, the head of the Knights of Eternal Light was angry. He said, he questioned everyone present: "Do you just want to live in peace, or do you really want to defeat Chaos? Take back our land?"
Everyone in the empire did not speak, because the Northern Expedition was absolutely politically correct.
In this way, the entire military meeting fell into disputes.
Francois' proposal to consolidate the control area was opposed by the empire, and Gelt also made it clear that there was no way to build another golden fortress, because there were not so many battle priests, battle mages and materials ready.
Ascended Carl-Frantz and Gelt proposed that the main force go eastward to connect the dwarves with the Stilland and the Roof of the World, and seek help from the dwarves, which was unanimously opposed by the Bretanians. They are good at fighting in the mountains, and the marching too far, the long supply line, and the possible fierce battle all the way are not what the knights and nobles want. Bohemond and others think that precious time and precious troops should not be used to find In terms of dwarf support, God knows how many dwarves are still resisting? How long will it take to cross so many occupied areas?
Devonhill proposed the Middenheim siege plan, hoping to use Middenheim as a bait and then the internal and external cooperation center blossomed, but was opposed by the nobles in the south of the empire. They believed that this approach was a fueling tactic, and It is too risky to guarantee success, and the Battle of Brunswick was close to this situation for a while, but how much did the army lose in the end?
The military council was unable to come up with an effective plan, which Ryan and Karl Franz also felt headaches, and the two human leaders discussed in private.
The number of their troops is not enough. After the Battle of Brunswick, a large number of elite troops and outstanding senior officers were killed, and the quality is also worrying. As the two people who really understand Archaon's strength, they know that they can only rely on their own strength. It is possible to defeat the main force of the Eternal God's Choice.
The eight incarnations must be assembled! Form an avatar council and gather the power of all the forces of order, and perhaps have a chance to fight Archaon.
Speaking of this, Ryan and the upgraded Karl changed the topic tacitly.
If a Council of Avatars is to be formed, that means there will be a leader.
So who will this leader be?
The leader of the human coalition has not yet been concluded, but in the palace of the elector, a small internal banquet will be held in full swing, and there is a very clear leader.
God of the Moon, God of the Lake, Lady of the Mist, Lilith, and Queen of the Knights, Suria, will hold the most important turkey banquet in history in the Elector's Palace. invite".
The fairy in the lake said that she would reward all members of Ryan's backyard at the turkey feast.
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