Chapter 410 Preparation

Under Veronica's gaze, the slightly plump extraordinary slowly climbed onto his carriage, and then the entire convoy left the bright and beautiful castle.

Veronica, lying on the roof, glanced at the heavily guarded castle, and finally chose to follow the convoy.

Following the convoy, Veronica arrived at a noble manor. Looking at the huge manor, Veronica turned into a shadow, silently stuck to the bottom of the carriage, and went in quietly.

The carriage stopped calmly on the open space of the manor, and then the slightly plump extraordinary got off the carriage and walked into the manor with several servants.

Veronica did not hesitate and followed them.

Before the extraordinary and his servants walked into the study of the manor, he pushed open the door of the study and whispered.

"Everyone wait outside. No matter what happens, no one is allowed to come in without my order."

"Yes."

The servants responded in unison, all waiting outside the study. Then, the extraordinary man walked into the study and closed the door.

After entering the study, he snapped his fingers, and several lights in the study lit up.

Veronica leaned against the wall of the study and watched him silently.

Under her gaze, the extraordinary man walked to the desk in the study and sat down. He picked up a book on the table and flipped through it casually. At the same time, he said suddenly.

"Your Excellency has been following me for so long, but what's the matter? Why don't you talk to me directly when you meet?"

Hearing what he suddenly said, Veronica's emotions did not fluctuate at all. She calmly observed the extraordinary man in front of her. All his attention was on the book in his hand, and not even a trace of side light leaked out.

Did he really find me?

Veronica raised her eyebrows slightly and stayed quietly in the same place without moving.

The study fell into a strange silence. After a long silence, the extraordinary turned a page of the book in his hand and said calmly,

"Your Excellency came in from the outside world, I am the only one in the room, do you have any concerns?"

As the extraordinary's voice fell, a black figure emerged from the shadows, quickly moved in front of the extraordinary, and stood up from the shadows on the ground.

Veronica looked at the extraordinary and said calmly.

"How did you find me?"

The extraordinary closed the book, looked at the black figure in front of him, smiled slightly, and said.

"I didn't find your Excellency, I just had a hunch that I was being followed on the way back."

After that, the extraordinary looked at the black figure in front of him thoughtfully and said calmly.

"I wonder what information you need? I know a little about what has happened in Castonas over the years."

"Oh? How do you know what I want to ask you?"

Veronica looked at the extraordinary person in front of her with interest and said.

The extraordinary person said calmly.

"Among the extraordinary people from all sides of Castonas, there is no one who fits your situation. Combined with your stealth ability, I think you must have come here from the outside world through the green tide."

The extraordinary person paused and glanced at the black figure in front of him. Although he couldn't see the face of the figure clearly, he continued to explain.

"Several years ago, the war and heavy rain explained the situation. A legend killed Kan Aozu. I think the remaining remnant forces of Donnar should now be unified under the magic of that crown."

"Your Excellency was asked by that crown to come and inquire about the situation of the green tide and Castonas."

Listening to his words, Veronica looked at the extraordinary person in front of her with some surprise. He was smart and said.

"Interesting, what else did you see?"

"That prince is not from Donnar, right?"

The extraordinary said calmly.

"Including you, you must have followed that prince to Donnar. If that prince is willing, we are willing to submit and recognize his right to rule Donnar. Even if it is the crown of the Central Kingdom, we will present it with both hands."

Do you think I am here to win them over?

Veronica combined the examples and experience of the committee's cleansing of Donnar nobles, and thought of his idea in a flash.

These Donnar nobles are really arrogant.

Whether it is the nobles of Castonas or the remaining nobles of the coalition army, they think they are so important and believe that any force that rules Donnar cannot do without their assistance.

Even if they are willing to submit to the chairman, they will self-righteously resist the rule of the committee and put forward various conditions, wanting to continue to maintain the situation of local autonomy as before.

Even relying on their influence in the local area and the extraordinary people in the family, they try to establish an independent kingdom.

The extraordinary person in front of me probably thinks so too.

It's just a foolish dream. The chairman doesn't need you parasites.

Although Veronica was scornful in her heart, she didn't show it.

Even when the committee was just established and it was the most difficult time, the chairman showed no mercy to the nobles of the resistance army and killed them in a bloodbath.

Later, when attacking the coalition army, they were killed cleanly. Even Eleanor was killed by the chairman without mercy. Even the legend was killed like this, let alone them.

However, although she didn't think the chairman would compromise with them, no matter what, the chairman had to make the decision, and,

Taking advantage of this opportunity, she could also quickly obtain intelligence from him.

So, Veronica maintained her original tone and said lightly.

"I will tell you your thoughts truthfully. Now, tell me what has happened in Castonas in the past few years, what is the shield that wraps the entire city, and what is the situation of the outer ruins?"

The extraordinary person sitting on the chair showed a satisfied smile and said confidently.

"This has to start from more than ten years ago..."

When the news that the Donnar countries emptied their coffers, formed a joint army, launched a decisive battle with the Green Tide, and ultimately failed was passed back to Castonas, the dignitaries of Castonas already knew that Donnar was doomed to fail.

Therefore, while the Green Tide had not yet rushed in front of them, the dignitaries of Castonas took their private army to attack everywhere. Before the Green Tide came, they slaughtered a large number of towns and villages, and looted a large amount of food and various supplies from them.

Afterwards, they expelled civilians in the city and violently expelled all the civilians who were considered useless.

After the population was reduced to a certain extent and sufficient food and supplies were stored, the nobles of Castonas activated the protective measures left by the legends in the history of the Central Kingdom and built a shield covering the entire city.

Relying on this shield, Castonas blocked the invasion of the Green Tide.

Of course, this shield can't stop Kanaozu. As long as Kanaozu is willing to spend time, he will definitely be able to blast it open. After all, how can a dead legend compare to a real legend.

However, through a transaction with Kanaozu, the nobles of Castonas were saved by Kanaozu at the cost of providing 10,000 lives per month and providing him with various extraordinary services.

For these 10,000 lives, Castonas paid with newborns, forcing the people to keep giving birth and exchange the food provided by the Green Tide for vitality. Of course, if there are rebels, the price of the rebels will be paid.

Castonas survived by acting as a livestock farm for the Green Tide externally and carrying out bloody suppression internally.

However, this is not stable. In addition to the occasional riots by the people, the nobles and extraordinary people in Castonas are also not of the same mind. Occasionally, some extraordinary people can't stand it and join the uprising.

It was not until the green rain fell and after knowing Kanaozu's death, Castonas ended the tribute to the green tide and stopped forcing births, that Castonas stabilized again.

At present, although Castonas is still controlled by the nobles, because they have been alienated from the people, the area they can actually control is relatively limited, and most areas are controlled by various rebels of all sizes.

Therefore, they forced the population to be centralized and controlled, and from time to time they sent teams to carry out three clean-ups in the rebel-controlled areas.

Of course, relying on the complex underground world of Castonas, the teams sent by the nobles could not completely eliminate these rebels of all sizes.

However, even so, there are still a large number of people fleeing. They would rather survive in the ruins than be controlled by the nobles.

Therefore, the number of people controlled by the nobles is constantly decreasing.

In the Apocalypse Study, Roland looked at the video and report submitted by Veronica, and frowned slightly.

Castornas has not fallen yet.

In Roland's memory, Castornas was also destroyed by the Green Tide. When the Donnar people recaptured Castornas, they only saw endless ruins.

No one knew that Castornas could survive for more than ten years under the siege of the Green Tide, and all these dark things were buried in the ruins.

Therefore, in Roland's impression, Castornas should have fallen by now, so he did not deliberately go there when he went deep into the Green Tide control area before.

If he knew that Castornas had not fallen before, Roland would have killed it long ago.

How to deal with the problem of Castornas?

Roland thought silently.

Giving up is definitely not a given. Roland must take over Castornas, but how to take over is a problem.

Roland opened the map of Donnar and looked at the location of Castonas.

Castornas is located northeast of Lake Saint Nicola and is built beside a tributary of Lake Saint Nicola.

If they fight their way through the northern territory, the War Committee needs to pass through the long polluted dead land left by the previous war, and they also need to fight through the green tide to cut a path.

If they go around the southern territory, although they don’t need to pass through the polluted dead land, it will be more roundabout, the journey will be longer, and the cost will be high.

The land route is not very good, but if you use the space gate to teleport...

The cost is not low either. Castonas is a huge city with an estimated population of several million. If you only rely on teleportation, I don’t know how big the space gate will be to meet the needs of personnel and material flow.

With the current reserve of spellcasters of the committee, if they want to use only the space gate to meet the needs, Roland or Hela must be stationed there 24 hours a day. Other low-level space casters have not learned to jointly deploy the space gate. Unless most of the space casters are transferred here, they will definitely not be able to meet this demand.

Roland looked towards Lake Saint-Nicholas in the center of Donnar.

Compared to land transportation, sea transportation is obviously more convenient. If you take the sea route, you can directly enter Castonas along the tributary.

The only problem is that Lake Saint Nicholas is not very friendly to the committee because of the existence of legendary weapons.

In terms of extraordinary people, it excludes all spellcasters and only allows knights to approach. Moreover, only traditional knights or knights who have been trained in military skills can approach. Soldiers who are not pure primarchs are also excluded.

In terms of race, it also excludes all races of the committee. Only Donnars and half-elves can approach. Even Sinaars are excluded. Other races cannot approach.

In terms of materials, it also excludes any strange machines. It is okay if the strange machines do not enter the lake. Once they enter, they will be furious.

In addition, the most important point is that its temper is too irritable. Once something that is rejected enters the lake, it will not avoid other things that are not rejected when attacking.

If you are unlucky, even Donnars will die in the lake. In fact, during the Green Tide period, when Donnars fled through the lake, many Donnars sank to death in the lake because it got angry with the green-skinned orcs.

If it had not been integrated with Lake Saint Nicholas, with the current strength, Roland's suppression of it would have caused great damage to Lake Saint Nicholas, otherwise Roland would have suppressed it long ago.

Although Roland could easily suppress it by luring it out if he set up a magic formation, but Roland did not want to waste resources, so he wanted to wait until he could condense one or two elements and suppress it without relying on external objects and without destroying the lake before dealing with it.

Therefore, Roland has not taken care of it, and now it is embarrassing. It takes a long time to build a magic formation.

Therefore, if Lake Saint Nicholas is used for sea transportation now, only a team of pure knights composed of Donnar people and half-elves can be sent, and only ordinary supplies can be sent, and no strange equipment can be sent.

After thinking about it, Roland decided to use sea transportation as the main method, supplemented by space transmission. If it can be transported by sea, it will be transported by sea as much as possible, and if it cannot be transported by space gate, it must be sent to Castonas.

We can't drag on with Castornas. The war committee is short of people now. I don't know how many people have died in the past few years. The remaining population must all be brought under the rule of the committee.

As for the nobles of Castornas, just like Veronica thought, Roland definitely doesn't want them to surrender.

These nobles who pay blood tax to the Green Tide are no longer ordinary feudal nobles. We must fight hard!

If we lose, we will go out!