Realm of Power

On the outskirts of the Holy Capital, the white mist of early spring melts quickly in the early morning sunlight, as if it has rebaptized the land that was once ravaged by war. The small town in front of you will give people two completely different impressions in appearance and interior. I feel that if the former reminds people of offensive and defensive killings, the latter will only remind people of tranquility and peace. The dark blue dome of the temple loft is a regional landmark.

With the abundant spring rains, the green color covers the original gray-white earthen walls. A business road paved with bluestones passes through the town in front of you. The town in front of you looks very new because most of the houses are holy buildings. The capital was rebuilt after the Great War, and the most famous scenery on the south side of the commercial road to the Holy Capital is the outline of the road rising up the mountain.

This mountain road is very wide, and no corners are cut even at high altitudes. It is all made of durable granite. Each level is connected by stone steps and slopes. There are also iron pillars at the steep turning intersections. The huge iron ropes connected together serve as guardrails, and the trade road is wide enough for four carriages to travel parallel without feeling crowded. It is said that this road was only built to cross the mountains in front of you. The winding mountain road cost the lives of 567 Martin Liya people. The entire huge commercial road extending from the Holy Capital area to the south was built by the Martin Liya captives captured in the Battle of the Holy Capital. During the entire Holy Capital War, more than 60,000 Martin Liga people were captured. As usual, the empire used these prisoners of war as labor force for road construction, and in terms of supervision, they used people from the religious order.

Faced with these Martin Leap prisoners of war who destroyed their families and their countries, the overseers of the Order would naturally not be polite. Under the whip, the Martin Leahs cried for their fathers and mothers. The result of this was that in just half a year, a More than 800 miles long, allowing four carriages to travel side by side calmly, the imperial trade road extending southward from the Holy Capital region appeared on the land of the Order, and At the same distance and with a road width that only requires two carriages to run parallel to each other, another Temple Avenue built thirty years ago under the leadership of the Order's National Temple personally took 200,000 manpower and took fifteen years to complete. , and according to the requirements of the people of the Order, trees and flowers were planted all around the temple, and spring water from the mountains was introduced to fill the streams. It really did not take into account the labor.

Just looking at it from a high place, the vast expanse of black land a dozen miles south of the town feels very unnatural.

Even in the early spring when all things revive, the earth is covered with large expanses of green, but the burnt black is like a scar on the earth, making people feel desolate, solemn and sad in the midst of vitality. Just one year ago Before that, it was a battlefield where hundreds of thousands of troops were fighting in bloody battles. It was the center of the whirlpool where cavalry were rushing, and it was that charred land. Fire and smoke rose up from the earth, like a huge force hitting the ground.

The thunder god's light group was torn apart in the collision. In the scorching hot wind, the Martin Liya light cavalry fell from their horses one after another in a series of explosions. Finally, they were completely wiped out by the dense rain of arrows that roared towards them. Beaten into a sieve, it cannot be said that these Martin Liya cavalry are not brave enough. Even if they are shot to death by random arrows, they are still running forward. At this moment, they are filled with countless arrow clusters, including people and horses, and they still maintain their momentum. The posture of running forward

When the gunpowder smoke dissipated, the ground was covered with corpses of people and horses. Blood gathered and flowed on the ground like streams. The layers of corpses were all submerged in the flames and turned to ashes in the flames!

In the Battle of the Holy Capital, the Imperial Emperor, known as the God of War on the battlefield, defeated the main force of the 200,000 Martin Tooth Army that had hurriedly retreated south on an inconspicuous river twenty miles away. Then the Imperial Army took advantage of the momentum and headed south. , to sweep All the momentum once again severely damaged the last heavy troop group of the Martin Tooth Army in Getaiya. In three days of three battles, the powerful half a million Martin Tooth cavalry were wiped out. The empire relied on this battle to completely establish its hegemony over the southern European Barro. ! That charred land is the Getaiyam battlefield that spreads for more than ten miles. Even from a distance of more than ten miles, you can still see the artillery platform where the Imperial Thunder God was rumored to have been placed. The surrounding platform is about two miles wide. The towering pavilions and elegant architecture are made of wood and stone, creating a majestic and condescending style full of cultural atmosphere.

All kinds of rumors disappeared. It turned out that the Empire did not assassinate Pope Potamia, and judging from the pomp and circumstance of three thousand Imperial Guards personally escorting His Highness the Pope, the rumors of the Empire assassinating Pope Potamia were naturally It ended abruptly, and the first thing Pope Potamia did when he returned to the Holy Capital was to clean up the illegal chamber of commerce in the Holy Capital. The smoke of the Holy Capital War has dissipated for more than a year. The district has tended to be stable. The injection of a large number of imperial merchant capital has brought countless existences like the small town in front of us. This rapid recovery of prosperity has also brought enough chaos. News from the Holy Capital , the Pope of the Order State, Potamia, who had been missing for half a year and was said to have been assassinated by the empire, has returned to the Holy Capital. This is like a slap in the face, causing the biggest mystery that has plagued the entire continent of Obarro.

"Have you heard that the largest smuggling organization, Roham Chamber of Commerce, has been ransacked at its home base in the Holy City? We still haven't found out who did it."

"No, I can say that I heard that the home of Roham Chamber of Commerce is well-defended. There are more than 300 guards alone. Most people will be caught even if they look at it from a distance, not to mention getting close." In Getaiyam City At the door, a carriage waiting to enter the city was waiting for inspection. Naturally, the most sensational news recently reached the ears of the black-haired young man who was leaning against the window of the black carriage.

"So, Sokutus Stellan's first target is the Grom Chamber of Commerce."

The black-haired young man looked away from the old battlefield that looked like a huge black dragon in the distance outside the window. Without turning his head, he asked the middle-aged nobleman opposite the carriage.

"Yes, the Grom Chamber of Commerce is not only the largest smuggling chamber, but also the largest slave trader privately. The number of slaves sold from the Kingdom of Harvey alone has reached more than 50,000, accounting for 100% of the underground slave market in the Holy City. Eighty-tenth of the share, Miss Dailan always hates slave traders, so she chose them as the first target." The middle-aged noble replied respectfully. He is the person in charge of the Empire's Southern Intelligence Department in charge of the Order Country region. Rocks

Being able to be dispatched by Mount Edmon to the Holy City, the former home of the old enemy, was not only because of the outstanding abilities of the middle-aged nobles themselves, but also because the other party had another identity. He was the former Logistics Minister of the Holy City Temple Army. Forces big and small, Ming The power of entanglement in the secret was even more clear. Even Pope Potamia would not have guessed that on the third night of her return to the Holy Capital, the Emperor of the Empire had already arrived at Getaiyame, Rocks in light casual clothes. I was cautious and didn't dare to take a big breath.

Why did the emperor come to Gettaya in secret? Maybe no one except the emperor himself knows.

From the window of the carriage, he stared at the city in front of him, which was backed by a huge and towering mountain. The emperor's eyes shone slightly, and there was a slight coolness in the wind blowing against his face. The closer he got here, the stronger he felt the spiritual energy. The huge and towering mountain in front of us is really high, maybe five or six hundred meters high, and there are several peaks at intervals.

If you move the Getaiyam City at the foot of the mountain, the emperor will think of Yunzhong City at first glance

This is the real location of the Holy City. According to Pudamia's original statement, after the Holy City collapsed and the Temple Priests broke with the southern branch of Erro, they followed the records of the Holy City and hoped to find another Holy City in the records. City, but because the first pope of the Order State fell in the south of Hérault, there was a deviation in the location of the new holy city. After searching for several consecutive Months later, the sacrificial group finally gave up and decided to build the city within this area. Logically speaking, the Getaiyam Mountain is so eye-catching, and the sacrificial group should not turn a blind eye no matter what. The confusion of history is always like the fog in the morning, which makes people confused. Unable to clearly see the past appearance, the priest group may not have found the location of the new holy city, but under the huge pressure from the Erro Southern Branch,

The gap between the new holy city and the real holy city is only fifty miles. The moment he entered the swamp of the holy capital, Du Yu had already determined that the direction of Getaiya was the source of the long-term humidity in the holy capital. In Du Yu's eyes, this huge area There is thin spiritual energy floating on the surface of the plains and swamps. Along the way, the center of the spiritual energy is finally determined to be the Getaia. The spiritual energy here is like a vortex that is constantly spreading and expanding.

Du Yu flicked his fingers slightly, and a thumb-sized rough stone of the Eye of God appeared in his hand. The rough stone of the Eye of God, which had been depleted of spiritual energy, showed a dark ink color. The surface was not shiny, but bulged like the pulse of the human body. Du Yu's fingers gently touched the eye of God that allowed him to travel through time inadvertently. After half a month of research, Du Yu had basically figured out some things.

First of all, the Eye of God can indeed absorb spiritual energy. When I was transferred back to the original era from this era, it was because of the spiritual energy provided by the Eye of God full of spiritual energy. In this era, there are almost no Eyes of God full of spiritual energy. , but it is not completely impossible. In Yunzhong City, Du Yu saw with his own eyes that the Eye of God, which had once consumed its spiritual power, was regained through the abandoned sword stone. Of course, this is mainly due to the fact that the hinterland of Yunzhong City is a base of the Southwest Guards House. The instruments preserved in it are almost intact, and the abandoned sword stone is undoubtedly the base that fills the Eye of God with spiritual energy. After thinking about this, Du Yu originally wanted to go to Yunzhong City again, but after hearing what Lingling, the high priest of Tian Temple, said, Du Yu gave up this plan.

"That Eye of God was brought by Prophet Ferran. Prophet Ferran left the Eye of God that had lost its power at the Sword Abandonment Platform. In other words, this Eye of God was charged with aura in the Abandoned Sword Stone. It took a hundred years to have such an effect. One hundred years... I couldn't afford to wait that long. Since I couldn't recharge it for the time being, I had to find someone who had already recharged it.

"There is no need to alarm the local garrison. Let the news go privately that someone paid a high price to buy such a stone!" Du Yu took a deep breath, looked back from the carriage that had just passed through the city gate, and pressed the Eye of God in his hand. on the table

"Yes, I understand!" Rox's eyes fell on this seemingly unknown stone, and he still couldn't help but tremble slightly in his heart. He was once one of the top leaders of Mount Edmond and served the Eero royal family for twenty years. How could I not recognize what I saw in front of me after so many years? The emperor was acquiring the Eye of God, which had to make Lockes' spirit pause for a few seconds.

Locks felt that he had imagined the purpose of the emperor's trip high enough, but he was instantly reduced to dregs by the God's Eye in front of him.

"I heard that a vein of refined iron ore was discovered in the Getaiyam Mountains?" Du Yu glanced at Locks, who looked hesitant, and said nonchalantly. He glanced sharply at a building with a mining logo hanging outside the window. Taiyam City had relocated all the civilians in the city because of the war, but unexpectedly it became a city of the Order State where a large number of businessmen poured in after the war.

"There are indeed rumors that the Lasso Mining Brotherhood, known as the mining rats, discovered a vein somewhere in the Getaiyam Mountain. They mined some samples and sent them to the Chamber of Mines for testing. After confirmation, they were extremely excellent. The purity of the refined iron ore veins can even be compared with those on the Harvey Plateau. The iron ore concentrate of the Ikars is comparable to that of the Ikars." Rocks hesitated for a moment, then quickly replied, "There are certain issues with the reliability of this news. The Lasso Mining Brotherhood has a very bad reputation in the industry. A bad name for laypeople who want to invest"

"Send someone to the Lasso Brotherhood. I want to know who else is exploring minerals in Getaiyam Mountain recently." Du Yu asked, if there is a device like the Sword Abandonment Platform in Yunzhong City, then Getaiyamu also There should be, but the Getaiyam Mountains cover the surrounding area for fifty or sixty miles, and many peaks are tall and independent. You can't search for them one by one. As a local snake, the Lasso Miners Brotherhood will definitely have their own. wanted clues

"Yes" Locks breathed tightly. He was the general person in charge of the Empire's Southern Intelligence Department in the Order Country. A mere Lasso Brotherhood had caught his eye. The Lasso Brotherhood claimed that it was in Getaia. Rich iron ore veins were discovered in the mountains. When the news spread, it indeed attracted the attention of many imperial chambers of commerce. With almost no control over the Holy City, the imperial merchants were very interested in the resources of the Order Country. Kind of almost The means of plundering, not to mention that the concentrated iron ore in the southern European Barrow region has the highest purity among all the concentrated iron ores currently known. The best concentrated iron ore comes from the Harvey Plateau further south, from the Order Country area. Although the concentrated iron ore is not as good as the Harvey Plateau, it is not comparable to the concentrated iron ore in other areas. Half of the great reputation of the Templars of the Order State is based on the excellent weapons and armor made of these high-quality concentrated iron ores. superior

Locks subconsciously glanced at the side of the emperor's face. There are rumors that hundreds of thousands of Ikars and Harvey people fought on the Harvey Plateau, and the blood flowed into the river. In the end, both sides suffered losses. The strange attacks and killings by both sides Even more so that no one understood it until When the Ikars and Harveys opened their doors to the empire at the same time, everyone suddenly discovered that the empire would not make the stubborn Harveys head underground without any effort, and the empire's influence easily entered, allowing the Martin Liga people to also The Harvey Plateau that has not been climbed,

The empire became the biggest winner without spending a single soldier.

This battle also wiped out those voices in the southern European Barrow region that had previously insisted on preventing the empire from moving south. With the Harveys and Ikars as examples, who would dare to stand up and say that the empire would not be allowed to move south? Originally, Rocks didn't pay much attention to this rumor, thinking it was not some kind of speculation. Every time there is a war, no matter what the outcome is, there will always be people who will involve the outcome of the war with the emperor, in order to create the so-called imperial conspiracy theory and panic theory. , but at this moment, Locks was shaken

The emperor was looking for mineral veins, and Locks' heart was twitching. Everyone knew that the best mineral veins were on the Harvey Plateau, in the mountains where the stubborn Ikar people grazed. The Ikar people regarded it as a treasure, and Harvey People have risen rapidly with the help of high-quality iron ore. It is naturally impossible to supply such precious strategic resources to the outside world, so if you want to get it, there is only one way, use force to tear it apart!

Let the Harveys and Ikals hand over these minerals willingly

The emperor wants the mine, and the Ika and Harvey people, who have been united with each other for decades, turn against each other? This is too much of a coincidence

Let Rocks find local rats like the Lasso Brotherhood. Du Yu himself is not idle either. The empire has already sent news to the Red Dragon Palace. If they want to redeem the captured Red Dragon Palace personnel, let the Red Dragon The temple sent people to getaiyame, and according to the feedback from the Red Dragon Palace, the Red Dragon Palace sent an acquaintance this time, and the person who came was Na Lin. After a heavy loss, Nalin is already one of the few remaining masters of the Red Dragon Palace. Another purpose of sending Nalin this time is also very clear. The Red Dragon Palace has no intention of confronting the empire. The Red Dragon Palace believes that Not only are he and the empire not enemies, but they have also cooperated many times. Tianmiao was a complete accident. Since we were once friends, there was a prerequisite for cooperation.

The Red Dragon Palace was even said to be happy that as long as the empire is willing to stop using troops in the Aden region, the Red Dragon Palace can give up the Central Biya area it currently occupies.

"Red Dragon Palace doesn't have to give up. It's only if we can sustain it through this spring!" Regarding the conditions put forward by Red Dragon Palace, Du Yu just curled his lips in disdain. The Aden people lost Mars Crescent Bay, and the navy even more It has suffered heavy losses, and the southern region is already ready to move. To continue to leave hundreds of thousands of main troops in the Central and Asian war zone is to court death. However, if you want to withdraw these hundreds of thousands of Aden troops to the Gulf of Aden, the first thing you have to face is the Imperial Navy. The fierce pursuit

The sea is vast, and there is no cover from the Aden navy. Half of the hundreds of thousands of Aden troops can come back because of God's blessing. Although the Red Dragon Palace is now in control of the situation in Aden, the most important thing to stabilize is the attitude of the Aden military. If The Red Dragon Palace can really facilitate this and allow hundreds of thousands of Aden's main forces to return safely. With this alone, the Red Dragon Palace's dominance in Aden will be most stable.

The beautiful morning sun shines on the quiet sea surface of the port, and the light golden color sparkles along with the sea surface. The inland sea area has recovered with the spring, and the blue waves are rippling on the sea surface. Unlike the southern part of the Order State that was plundered, in various parts of the empire Stimulated by various investment and business recovery policies, the northern part of the Order State is full of towns and businesses are prosperous. It is now the largest sea coast in southern Europe. Zone, the surrounding population has exceeded 2 million, accounting for two-thirds of the total population of the Order State. Although it is still a region of the Order State in name, it is already its own area. This area is based on The agreement between the Empire and the Order State has delineated the territory of the Empire in terms of sovereignty. This alone is an absolute guarantee both in terms of politics and business environment.

Breathe the cool and fresh air and watch the picturesque forest scenery of red, yellow and green. On the city streets, young people going to school pass by the carriage in small groups, joking and joking, waving goodbye to each other. There were some luxurious carriages and some ordinary carriages, carrying people of different statuses among them. There is a huge flow of people inside the store, and there is a dazzling array of products.

Here, war seems to be an irrelevant thing. The Northern Empire has completed the strategic encirclement of South Europe Barrow. In the face of naked gold and silver, South Europe Barrow has completely lost the qualification to stop it.

After just watching here for an hour, Nalin could already see this from the number of masts gathered at the port. At the chaotic dock location, a carriage marked by the Chamber of Commerce was quietly parked. It was rumored that there was gold everywhere. To say that Hong Kong is filled with gold is definitely an exaggeration, but to say that the wealth flowing here is as rich as any other country is extremely appropriate. Carriage The continuous berths outside are almost invisible. There are ships lined up in a row, and new berths are being expanded day and night. It can be seen that even if the berths of the port are increased to ten times the original number, it will not be able to meet the current demand. There is a need for berthing, especially at ship terminals docked in large rivers. A large number of transport ships are still waiting to enter.

There are so many that they cover the sea surface

This made Lina, who thought she had seen big scenes, slightly open her red lips. These ships, loaded with various supplies and weapons, would eventually go south along the waterways of the Order State. The dark black imperial military uniforms were reflected in the morning sun. The cold color is reflected below. There are also a large number of imperial ordnance being prepared to be unloaded, including heavy weapons such as Thor cannons. The war horses pulling the cannons have also been driven down. They neighed on the dock, seeming to remind others that the empire is still preparing for the war in the south. The war is being prepared. In the past two years, it has been like a strong wind crushing the southern European Barrow. The Kingdom of Fezer has collapsed, the Martin Fang people have collapsed, the Kalisu people have collapsed. The eight central countries have volunteered to be dogs. The Dark Ministry has bowed its head. The Order Country has already It is a situation of annexation,

With the establishment of the new royal family of Eero, Eero is completely finished, and the empire finally points to the Gulf of Aden! The battle in Aden was already the last hope. As a result, even though our side had absolute home field advantage, resource advantage, and military advantage, and both national and military power had reached the peak of history, they still suffered a miserable defeat!

This battle can't go on any longer!