Lord of War

Sean exhaled softly.

In the sky, there is a faint golden radiance falling down, a bit like it is raining golden light. This light rain covers a huge area, and it is not limited to the wild fortress. According to Sean's visual inspection, it probably also includes an area about two kilometers away from the wild fortress.

This golden rain-like light curtain is the monitoring range that Gulu can cover.

In a way, it's really good for preventing the enemy's secret infiltration. However, if it is only used as a warning, it is obviously not enough. After all, the scope of investigation and surveillance by professional investigators is more than ten miles away from the wild fortress.

"Next, we still have a lot of things to be busy with." Sean looked away, then said to Cecilia with a chuckle, "The matter in the fortress has been resolved, but I don't know what is on the side of the Millennium Empire. situation."

"The Millennium Covenant Empire will definitely not sit back and watch the Wild Fortress fall into our hands." Cecilia frowned, "The fall of the Wild Fortress may not be reported to the Imperial Military Department in a short time, but It has been almost half a month now, I am afraid that even if it is blocked by the news of the death tide of the undead, the other side should know about it, right?"

"Not necessarily." Xiao En shook his head, and then said, "If it is true as you said, if there is a problem with the Star Tower and the environment in the entire territory cannot be monitored, then the fall of the wild fortress may not have been detected. What they found. But..."

"But in this way, we will have even more trouble." Cecilia is so smart, as soon as Sean said, she immediately understood the meaning, "If the fortress has definitely fallen, then they will definitely Choose to shrink the defensive line and temporarily abandon this place, but if you still don’t know that you have lost your defense..."

"I'm afraid we will soon face pressure from the Duke of Nandeln." Sean sighed, "The name 'Dern' of the Millennium Covenant Empire is not a decoration or a false name in the Millennium Covenant Empire. The pronoun of countless tests of strength, any Duke of Dern is not a weak person. In other words, the weak cannot win the title of laurels, just like Popokas, Duke of East Dern. Ranked fourth. It ranks higher than William and Hela. As for the Duke of North Dern, although he mainly guards against the invasion from the Emerian Empire, there are few rumors of wars, but if I remember correctly, the famous general of the previous issue He was ranked 17th in the list, but he fell out of the top 20 in this issue. But I don’t think his ability will be weakened because of this.”

"After all, the list of famous generals is a place that relies on battles to speak. If a general has few rumors about his achievements and the intelligence collection is inaccurate, it is really difficult to guarantee the accuracy of this ranking." Cecilia said, "But I always feel that ...It seems that the military god is deliberately covering up something."

"It's nothing more than a problem caused by the tragedy caused by the first ranking of the top generals. He is seeking inner self-comfort and redemption." Xiao En's eyes showed an inexplicable color, and he sighed again after a long time "As for Pusius, who is about to take over as the Duke of Nandern, the last time he made a move was thirty years ago, and the list of famous generals appeared twenty years ago. Therefore, he was not included in the list ...But I believe that the old duke may be able to rank in the top 20, or even the top 15. ... Maybe, there may even be a hidden top ten general."

Cecilia muttered softly, "He's already eighty-five years old this year..."

"Still growing stronger." Sean smiled, "But it's okay,

We prepared a card early in the morning, but now we can barely use it. "

"You mean...Hassas?"

"There is no one else but him." Sean nodded. "If this guy is lucky enough, he should have returned to the territory of the Joanton family by now."

"What if you're unlucky?" Cecilia asked.

After William assisted Hassas to win. He chose the class teacher, and Hassas also chose to return to Joanton's family territory via the wild fortress at that time. From the time point of view, there was no undead death tide broke out at that time, so Xiao En said that if everything goes well. But the outbreak of the undead death tide was too sudden. Many villages and cities were not prepared at all, which was the main reason why many villages and towns were quickly annexed before the Millennium Covenant Empire's countermeasures could be launched.

It is not an easy task to summon Cruise's touch.

Counting the touch of Cruz in the Wild Fortress, Sean estimated that in just a few days, the Millennium Covenant Empire should have lost about 500,000 people.

But at this time, I heard the words "if you are unlucky" asked by Cecilia. Sean was also in a daze for a short while.

Immediately, Xiao En's face became a little bit pained: "Oh, I thought I could take a short rest here, but I didn't expect... I have to find someone, this guy can't die now, otherwise we will die." There is a real possibility of a fight with the Duke of Nandern."

"Don't we still have Angel here?" Cecilia didn't understand. Of course, her greater instinct was that she didn't want Sean to leave the Wild Fortress not long after he arrived.

"An Qier's card is not used here." Sean shook his head, then reached out and stroked Cecilia's head, "Hassas's position as Patriarch has been clarified, if he dies, then we All the previous actions will be in vain. And if he is alive, then he will be the next Duke of Nandeln... At that time, with the card of Angel, we will have a lot of room for maneuver with the Millennium Covenant Empire. "

Speaking of this, Sean saw that Cecilia seemed to be planning to say something again, so he said again: "I know what you want to say. Now Angel is on our side, if you really meet Duke Nandelen , we can also use this to avoid a human civil war. Even if there is a war, the Duke of Nandeln will suffer a lot in order to open up the road to the wild fortress, and it will be difficult to win us in a short time, but... This prevents us from having secret talks with the Millennium Covenant Empire."

"Because...the face of the empire, right."

Not interrogative sentences, but declarative sentences.

Sean nodded: "It's about the face of an empire. Once a battle breaks out, things will become very complicated. But if you change the solution... I personally took action to ensure the safety of Hassas , and inform Duke Nandeln of the current situation of the Wild Fortress, then we will have the possibility of further cooperation with the Millennium Covenant Empire. At that time, through Angel, we can reach some agreements with the Millennium Covenant Empire, thus winning the Wild Fortress. "

"As a relative price, the Millennium Covenant Empire will retreat its borders, dividing the area and scope covered by the entire Black Earth Land into a piece of unclaimed land. The key defensive areas will be concentrated in the further rear borders, This can allow their defensive strategies to be better concentrated, and avoid the need to face greater pressure in the future outbreak of death tide." Wen Xiange knows the meaning, Sean is just saying that, as Ceci who knows Sean's overall strategy Liya reacted immediately. "...After all, after the Millennium Covenant Empire shrunk its borders and scope of activities, the Wild Fortress has become the closest human activity area to the Black Earth Land, so if the tide of death breaks out at that time, it is us who need to worry the most, and Not the Millennium Covenant Empire."

"Not to mention the Void Empire in the future, even in today's situation, the wild land is no longer the back garden of the major empires and principalities, and the importance of the wild fortress is naturally not as good as before, and it can even be said that it is a loss-making Buying and selling. After all, the annual maintenance cost is not low. Therefore, without losing any face, and can get certain benefits and get rid of the long-standing troubles from the dead tide, the only thing the Millennium Covenant Empire needs to do is to guard against us, so normal Under the circumstances, the secret agreement led by Angel will not be rejected." Sean completed Cecilia's words, "And because of this fact, the Millennium Covenant Empire will not guess our layout."

"On the surface, it seems that we took down the wild fortress just to prevent the Millennium Covenant Empire from entering the wild land directly. This is a state of mutual defense. But in fact, our real purpose is to purify and recover the black soil land." Cecilia nodded knowingly, "But in this way...they will definitely guess the changes that happened in the wild land. They will even judge the plan of the 'Empire of the Void' based on this."

"The so-called layout is to hide one's real purpose." Sean said lightly, "For this, one must prepare one or even multiple false purposes. A piece of false information that is not easy for people to obtain, a piece of wrongly oriented but Clues that are indeed enough to make people reason and convincing. And... one or more induction traps."

"So, taking down the wild fortress is the first false goal." Cecilia thought for a moment, and then said, "The secret talk obtained through Angel and the Millennium Covenant Empire is to convey 'we want the wild fortress. 'This is false information that is not easy for people to obtain. The Millennium Covenant Empire will judge the first inducement trap of "Wild Fortress is very important to us."

As Cecilia's thinking became more and more clear and clear. Her words also became smoother: "With such an important clue, they will contact you to protect Hasass and return, and use the 'Wild Fortress' as a clue to start targeted intelligence collection. Here In terms of this kind of targeted intelligence collection, all the preparations we have made about the Void Empire plan cannot be hidden from those who are interested, and then they will fall into more traps, and therefore be led by us to this wrong reasoning logic, Ultimately it came out that we were going to get rid of the Kingdom of Lane and become the Eighth Empire."

"But they will never think that we have already launched the Void Empire plan a long time ago, and now it is just thrown out as a second false purpose hidden under the first false purpose. ... But this is because they The results of the intelligence department’s own analysis, so they must be very convinced of this, and as long as we did not show any purposeful actions against the land of the black soil at the beginning, they would not speculate on it at all.”

Sean smiled and nodded, with appreciation in his eyes.

This kind of strategic chess layout was learned by Sean from his former president. It is said that his president had planned a two-year-long double-faced spy strategy, which completely defeated him. competitors. It's just that this is the second time Sean used it. The previous one was laying the foundation for the Void Empire plan, so he had to strive to become a lord, but the later Void Empire plan was under the control of Neil, Ceci With the joint efforts of Leah, William, and Hella, they did a better job than Sean originally conceived.

"And this layout has one of the most obvious places." Sean smiled, and then added, "After the Millennium Covenant Empire discovered this, they will immediately start a new round of fort construction to guard against us. Attacks, aggression, harassment, etc. that may follow after truly becoming an empire. This can consume the resources of the Millennium Covenant Empire to a large extent, so as to ensure that when they find out our true purpose, they will not be able to stop and counterbalance."

"However... this requires us to have sufficient strength, otherwise, the Millennium Covenant Empire can send troops to us and prevent us from becoming an empire."

"Any layout requires a certain level of strength." Sean said, "Whether it's taking advantage of the situation or your own strength, at least you must have the ability to compete with other chess players, otherwise any layout is just a joke ...Hella has always done this, and the only time she failed was that she didn't expect us to have such a strong means of breaking the situation."

"But... if we want to establish an empire, even if we take advantage of the outbreak of the death tide, the peace council and death thorns will not attack us due to the contract restrictions, but there are still so many big countries around the barren land... ..."

"I know." Xiao En nodded, his expression rarely serious, "Kozilek and Alexis alone are still a bit short. After all, the position we are in now is not just about the Millennium Covenant. There are other big kingdoms around the empire, even the Qinas Empire is not very far away from us, so the empire is such an eye-catching opponent. Maybe the military god can't catch up with it, but the super strong is probably fine."

"Then with the number of superpowers, we may be able to compete with the superpowers of the two empires, but for those legendary powerhouses, we probably don't have that many numbers to compete with, even if we count the wild tribes that have surrendered."

"So this time I'm going out, I'm going to visit a hidden strong man on the way." Sean said in a deep voice, "Because I don't know the specific location and situation very well, so I plan to set off alone, because William and others When everyone arrives, it doesn’t matter if I’m missing one, but if Rina, you, Kozilek and the others don’t sit here, then there may be problems.”

"But..." Cecilia bit her lower lip, still showing some hesitation on her face.

"I will be careful." Sean smiled, "And I promise you, if the matter cannot be violated, I will give up immediately, and I will not be too reluctant."

ps: I deeply understand the saying that misfortunes never come singly.

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[To be continued "". 】