Lord of War

Cecilia has had a really relaxing few days since the first session.

And Thea has been by Cecilia's side these days. On the one hand, it is because of Cecilia's profound knowledge and strong strength, and on the other hand, it is also because of Thea's self-satisfied friend. Therefore, in the contact with Cecilia, for the first time, Thea felt "" The meaning of the word "friend".

As the most legendary magician in the Maggie Empire, Thea Maggie has always been highly anticipated by the entire empire, and the royal family has trained her as the heir of Saibal. If Thea does not fall in the future, she will definitely become the next dean of Maggie Empire's Mage Academy and the owner of one of the Twin Star Mage Towers.

As a result, Thea never had any "close" friends.

Even the word "friend" has become a luxury.

All of this stems from Thea's amazing magical talent and powerful strength. Three years ago, Thea defeated another genius magician who had always been as famous as her by a huge margin. The name became the symbol of the Maggie Empire. Sebal also directly asserted that Thea's future will never stop at the ranks of powerhouses of the sixteenth rank, and is definitely expected to break through the traditional limit of the eighteenth rank.

With such high expectations, Thea's pressure can be imagined. She spends almost all her time learning magic.

To a certain extent, Cecilia defeated Thea head-on in public, but in fact, it largely freed Thea. This is naturally due to Thea's somewhat subtle emotional intelligence and self-esteem. If it were the magical genius who was defeated by Thea three years ago, at this moment, it would probably be "I worked so hard and couldn't beat you, a woman who has been sleeping and comatose for a long time!", "Do you know how hard I have worked all these years? "Extreme ideas like that.

And Cecilia also asked Thea, don't you hate her? In front of so many people, defeated her.

To this, Thea's answer was: "Why should I hate you? You beat me upright, which proves that my strength is indeed not as good as yours, and also let me clearly see the gap between us, let me know I still have a lot to learn in my quest for the truth of magic."

It was because of this sentence that Cecilia and Thea really became friends.

To some extent, Cecilia thought Thea was much cuter than Angel. And when she thought that Angel, the guy she hated so much, was actually in the capital of the Void Empire, Cecilia felt extremely dissatisfied.

However, as the friendship with Thea deepened, Cecilia's guilt towards Thea became deeper.

After all, Cecilia had impure motives for the Maggie Empire from the very beginning.

And in the past few days, according to the news from Ruby, although Alvarez has not been closely watched and monitored, the chances of meeting him have been greatly reduced. Neither Ya nor William are naturally willing to expose Alvarez's pawn. So this naturally increases the difficulty of the work progress of Lubi, Elikate, Hiberly and others.

However, this question did not bother Cecilia and the others for long. Nine days after the end of the first meeting, the royal family of the Maggie Empire held a second meeting.

Originally, Cecilia and others thought that after Cecilia strongly controlled the rhythm of the meeting for the first time, the second meeting should be held within three to five days, and the Maggie Empire would definitely prepare better Way to overwhelm Cecilia's strength. And William even gave Cecilia an idea for this, asking her to cooperate with the preparations of the Maggie Empire and make some appropriate retreats to stabilize the Maggie Empire and buy more time for Ruby and others .

However, it turned out that the second meeting was held later than Cecilia and the others expected. This undoubtedly made Cecilia and the others feel very confused, and it was even possible that the originally prepared plan would be aborted.

Therefore, when the second meeting was held, Cecilia, William and others were all ready for the tug-of-war.

Unexpectedly, during the second meeting, the Maggie Empire went straight to the point without any greetings or politeness.

Moreover, this topic is quite different from the content of the first meeting.

The theme of the first meeting was basically to discuss the alliance and cooperation between the Maggie Empire and the Void Empire and the ownership of the Lumber Duchy. However, during the second meeting, the content was directly changed to "jointly discuss the possibility of cooperation on the magic technology project".

For Cecilia, this was really a surprise.

"This one is the latest scientific research project of our empire, the Magic Nuclear Power Project." Minister of Foreign Affairs Auburn directly handed over a dozen drawings to Cecilia, with a frank and sincere look on his face, Obviously, they really intend to study this project together with the Void Empire represented by Cecilia, "According to our evaluation and testing, once this project is successfully studied, it is conservatively estimated that the power performance of the current magic power machine should be increased by five times. .”

Cecilia didn't reply, but just looked down at the dozen or so drawings in front of her.

As a magician, Cecilia can naturally understand the contents of these blueprints very clearly, and with her current level of intelligence, she can also quickly complete the magic building directly in her mind based on the data listed on the blueprints. mold.

But in fact, Cecilia didn't need to complete the modeling of this magic model in her mind at all.

She knew about the "Magic Nuclear Energy" project, so it wasn't an accident. It was what the Haytham Research Institute told her. No matter what price Cecilia paid, the abyss under the Gapland Fortress must be released. After successfully resuming the plan to use the path, the Hayerson Research Institute really spent a lot of effort before finally developing a new type of magic power machine.

In terms of conception, the performance of this new magic power machine is about five to eight times stronger than the magic power machine that has been popularized on Miracle Continent. If it can achieve the maximum power increase effect, this new magical power machine can basically meet Cecilia's requirements, at least it can guarantee that one hundred fully armed soldiers can be sent to the underground world in each cooling cycle.

And this cooling cycle, according to the results of multiple tests, is estimated to be about five to seven days.

Although Cecilia was slightly dissatisfied with this result, it was still acceptable.

It's just that when the research and development work on the new magical power machine was halfway in progress, it had to stop. The reason is simple, because the power source of the most core component of the magic power machine cannot meet the power output of the magic power machine. In other words, it is completely unable to reach the expected five to eight times the level, at most it can only double the level of the first generation magic power machine, which means that it is not only impossible to send one to the underground world every five to seven days. Hundreds of soldiers, even the transport volume of soldiers will be reduced.

If you want to overcome this problem and bring the second-generation magic power machine to the corresponding level, then you need to re-develop the core components that provide power. This process will probably take three to five years.

This made Cecilia unacceptable.

It was at this time that the Hayerson Research Institute received news that the Maggie Empire had been secretly researching a brand new power source for more than ten years. Although no more information has been released, judging from the existing intelligence clues, the power source secretly developed by Maggie matches the second-generation magical power machine to a very high degree, and the increase ability can exceed the original second-generation power source. The idea of ​​the magic power machine has reached an astonishing level of fifteen times that of the first generation.

Therefore, Cecilia will immediately go to the Maggie Empire.

The purpose is to get this blueprint.

But now, when this drawing is really in front of her eyes, Cecilia's expression is not very good.

The reason is simple.

It is true that everything is as the other party said, this is an unfinished work, not even a semi-finished product. Judging from the data and conditions listed on the drawings, everything shows that this power source is still in the stage of material review and processing, and the model machine has not even been produced.

Noticing Cecilia's face, William next to him looked at Cecilia with some curiosity. Although he was also slightly puzzled in his heart, why did the Maggie Empire propose this cooperation agreement at this time? Could it be that the Maggie Empire discovered their little trick? But in any case, William certainly won't show it at this time, after all, his current identity is just a follower.

On the contrary, Ulamog casually picked up a blueprint and looked at it.

As a magician, Ulamog can naturally understand these contents, and his calculation ability is undoubtedly better than Cecilia's. Even from these drawings and data, he has already discovered two mistakes, and as Ulamog, who knows that the Void Empire is currently developing the second-generation magic power machine project, he knows that the magic core in the hands of the Maggie Empire If the source energy project is really successfully developed, it will definitely not be as simple as the other party saying that it can improve performance by five times.

"It's really a great plan." Cecilia put down the drawings, and she could see the sincerity of the Maggie Empire, so her attitude became a lot more sincere, "But I don't understand, why do you want to do this at this time?" Proposed."

"To be honest, with the current scientific research strength of the Maggie Empire, it is very difficult to successfully develop it in a short period of time." The one who spoke was the current emperor of the Maggie Empire, "But your Void Empire is different. The experience of the magic power machine, and it is said that you are also involved in the research project of the teleportation magic circle, so I thought of this."

Whether it is the first-generation magic power machine or the teleportation magic circle, they are actually the scientific research results of the Hayerson Research Institute.

But there are some things that need to be well known, and there is no need to fully disclose everything. The Maggie Empire is obviously clear about this, so it is said that the Void Empire has experience. After all, as far as the current situation is concerned, the Haytham Research Institute is basically regarded as the scientific research department of the Void Empire, and all of this is naturally because of some ideas that Xiao En put forward continuously at the beginning. These ideas alone are enough for Haytham to study It has served the Void Empire for hundreds of years.

Although no one knows exactly how Sean possessed such previous knowledge and technology, the Hayerson Research Institute is not averse to solving these scientific research problems for Sean.

"I believe that your country will not make such huge interest concessions for no reason." Cecilia took a deep breath, and then said slowly. At this moment, she has regained that high-ranking queen temperament, "In my opinion, if this plan is completed by your country alone, it should be able to occupy a great position of interest. But now, you have proposed to cooperate with me and give me the initiative. I really want to I know, what is the reason why your country is willing to make such a concession?"

The emperor of the Maggie Empire did not reply immediately, but reached out and tapped on the table in the conference hall.

The entire conference hall quickly fell into silence.

And Cecilia, at this time, did not urge her, but chose to wait quietly.

She and Thea are now relatively close friends, but this is only because of her personal relationship. From the perspective of the Void Empire's interests, Cecilia's first consideration must be the Void Empire. This is why she and Thea are already friends, but they still haven't stopped Ruby and others from stealing the magic core. The plan of the source energy blueprint, all this is because the Void Empire needs this blueprint.

So now, the Maggie Empire suddenly made this blueprint completely public, and expressed its intention to cooperate with the Void Empire, so Cecilia must figure out what caused the Maggie Empire to have this intention. And whether the result of this intention will pose any danger to the future of the Void Empire.

These are all things that Cecilia must figure out.

"The expeditionary force of the Void Empire is coming for the Duchy of Renbeier, right?"

"Yes." Cecilia nodded, the movement of the Void Empire Expeditionary Force was too great, it was impossible to hide it, and even the arrangements for the reveal of the supplies were already well known, "The Duchy of Lumber once It is my hometown, but since the current Grand Duke Lumber brutally killed my parents, it is no longer my hometown... I used to be unable to avenge my parents, but now I have the ability If I don’t have the ability, then I must avenge my parents.”

"Then, Queen Phoenix, what do you plan to do after taking back the Duchy of Lumber?" the emperor of the Maggie Empire asked again.

And this problem also happens to be a problem that Cecilia has not been able to discuss with William and Hela so far.

In terms of strategy, the Principality of Rumble is of no use to the Void Empire except for a symbolic meaning. On the contrary, because of an extra enclave, it will divide the military power of the Void Empire. After all, if the garrison strength in the Duchy of Rumble is weak, then the St. Jolls Empire can be conquered by force at any time, but if the garrison strength is strong, the strength of the Void Empire will definitely be weakened. It is naturally disadvantageous to guard against the void empire of multiple countries.

In particular, after losing the natural buffer zone of the Fascist Kingdom, the Chinas Empire and the Void Empire are already considered neighbors.

Facing this empire with extremely powerful military power, the Void Empire doesn't trust how charitable they are. The reason why the Void Empire has not launched an invasion right now is simply because the Void Empire has not exposed any weaknesses, but once the weaknesses are exposed, no matter whether it is Hela, William, or Neil, they do not believe that the Chinese Empire will give up such a good invasion Chance.

Therefore, how to deal with the enclave of the Duchy of Lumber became a difficult problem for Cecilia, Hela, and William.

"Queen Phoenix, since you were once a member of the Principality of Rember, you should be aware of the importance of the Principality of Rember on the northern side of the continent." Without any temptation to beat around the bush, the emperor of the Maggie Empire said straightforwardly , "Then I have a proposal here, I don't know if Queen Phoenix is ​​willing to listen."

"Of course I am willing to listen to the teachings from the elders." Cecilia said with a smile.

"Taking back the Duchy of Lumber is a burden for the Void Empire, because it is the result of geographical location and cannot be reversed." The emperor of the Maggie Empire said in a deep voice, "And, now the Duchy of Lumber is It is inclined to the St. Jors Empire, so once your Void Empire's army launches an attack, the St. Jors Empire's army will definitely intervene, and a larger-scale war will inevitably break out at that time, which is likely to cause serious damage to your hometown. An irreparable and devastating blow.”

Cecilia didn't speak, because these results were already in their expectation.

"In fact, as Your Excellency the Queen who was born in the Duchy of Rumber, you should also know that our Maggie Empire and the St. Joles Empire have always been at odds with each other. So if we form an alliance, then I can even send troops to help you Stop the reinforcements from the St. Jolls Empire, thus confining the war in the Principality of Rumbel to your private affairs."

"Do you mean that the Principality of the Void has formed an alliance with the Maggie Empire?" Cecilia frowned. Although from the beginning, letting Hela lead the expeditionary force, she had thought about this plan, but this point is important to As far as the Maggie Empire is concerned, there is no interest at all. After all, the most important reason for forming an alliance is the same interests. That's why Hela and William didn't let Diana go to the Maggie Empire. , Cecilia will definitely not come to the Maggie Empire, "But this will not do any good to the Maggie Empire, right?"

"It's not beneficial. The geographic location of the Principality of Rumbel has always been a bridgehead. No matter which side owns our country or the St. Joels Empire, it will pose a great threat to the other side." Maggie Empire The emperor replied directly, with a very frank attitude, "As long as Her Majesty the Queen's policy is biased towards our Maggie Empire after regaining the Principality of Lumber, then this will be a very big advantage for us. ... And, if we If you become an ally, then our country can also send some troops to help you deploy your defenses, so the Void Empire does not need to garrison too many troops on this enclave, isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"

Hearing this, Cecilia finally knew what the emperor of the Maggie Empire was planning.

After thinking for a while, a smile appeared on Cecilia's face: "I have a better suggestion here, do you want to hear it?"

"I'm all ears." The emperor of the Maggie Empire froze for a moment, but then nodded with a smile, because for him, he was afraid that Cecilia would not speak, and as long as Cecilia was willing to speak, then Things are easier to talk about.

"I can sell all the territory of the Duchy of Lumber to the Maggie Empire." Cecilia said something with a smile on her face, which made the emperor of the Maggie Empire and all the important ministers of the Maggie Empire in the conference hall feel. A word of fear. (To be continued.) 8( )