Tenaher, Continental Calendar, November 30, 758, rain, pouring rain and slamming into the ground like pouring beans. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, due to the fact that the entire underground of the royal capital was constantly improved and newly added, the huge and complex maintenance magic guide array, coupled with the water diversion system that had been designed and perfected over the years, there was hardly a trace of stagnant water in Dawn City. Therefore, even though it is pouring rain, you can still see many citizens hanging out with umbrellas on the street.

The royal capital, which is very prosperous and lively all year round, will not feel deserted even if it is a weather like today, and the rest places such as coffee shops on the street are even more prosperous.

And among these citizens who took refuge from the rain, if you listened carefully, you could see that they were almost all discussing the same thing - the royal capital had begun to recruit new troops again.

As a citizen of Etis who had not fought for many years, conscription - that was almost the most distant synonym of this era.

A whole generation of people who have never seen the cruelty of war are now talking in a frivolous and impetuous tone about a series of recent anomalies.

Do you know, a friend of mine went to the recruitment center, but unfortunately he was brushed off directly, and the group of people who listened to him almost did not meet the requirements.

I have heard that the new army, which has now completed its training, has begun to change guards with the old city defense army, and I can often see the new army patrolling with the city defense army.

Yes, I heard them say that there are a full 2,000 people in the new army that changed the guard this time, and there are 2,000 people stationed in the new army camp not far from Wang.

It is said that the king intends to replace all the old armies with the new army, and even the name of the new army has several alternatives, and now he is waiting for the new army to be completely formed.

Is this going to be a war, what is the army doing if you have nothing to do, isn't it good to develop more civilian magic technology, and there has been no new technology in the recent past. On the mainland, our Etis magic technology is the best.

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Just as the whole city was discussing gossip about the new army, war, and so on, Balfitte, the prime minister of the Principality of Etis, was hunched over his waist to the point of almost invisible, standing in the position of the supreme leader of the principality, holding a pamphlet forward, and the greasy smile on his face made even the chief of the king's guard standing opposite him feel that the pie he ate at noon was too sweet.

"Well... Buffy, you did a good job, and I am very satisfied with the combat effectiveness of the new army. But isn't that too expensive?" said the seventh king of the Duchy of Itis, Phoebus Marlo Itis.

The achievement of helping the Count of Augustus and defeating the empire allowed the young king to begin his most peaceful and influential reign in the principality, at least he felt so.

The middle-aged king, who was in the prime of life, actually attached great importance to people's livelihood and the economy in the early days of his reign.

However, he was crowned at a young age, and within a few years he gained great fame for decisively supporting the anti-aggression war of the Count of Augustus against the Empire.

The anti-imperial alliance formed under his leadership now faintly has a posture of fighting against the empire, but because of this, under the corruption of vanity and power, King Phoebus has gradually lost his previous ideas and become more and more ambitious.

As long as it is a technology and talent that can play a role in the military, he will support it greatly, although these things have also made the principality have made great progress in all fields, but over the years, the country has become more and more crooked and distorted.

The new airships that are constantly in service, the new war magic that is constantly being developed, and the new army that is constantly reinventing the equipment are all tools carefully prepared by the increasingly arrogant King Phoebus in order to realize his ambitions.

The superficially glamorous principality, after twenty years of overload, is actually about to reach its limit.

For this reason, the ministers who saw the danger continued to admonish the king, but it was a pity that the king, who still had concerns, with the support of Balfitte, a sudden speculator and a dark warband who did not know what agreement to reach, became more and more reckless, and even his own uncle was stripped of his military power for preventing the excessive militarization of the country, and was driven back to his fiefdom to receive a pension.

At this point, there was no longer any obstacle in the principality that could prevent the king from realizing his ambitions.

Now, King Phoebus is reading Balfitte's report on the periodic inspection of the new army.

"Your Majesty, in order for the new army to have the strongest combat effectiveness and the strongest will to fight, these expenses are worth it, and looking at the results of these exercises, don't you think that this has greatly exceeded our previous expectations? Moreover, this year's tax revenue in the whole country has greatly exceeded that of previous years, and the grain harvest is also a great harvest, and all the people are singing praises for your great achievements. ”

When King Phoebus heard this, he was in a good mood, and he no longer bothered about the issue of military spending, anyway, with Balfitt, a prime minister who was very good at making money, he just had to move towards his goal.

"Okay, let's do it, I just want results. "King Phoebus has something more important to do at the moment - take care of the children.

"If it's nothing, you can step down. The next time I see me, I hope to have an army ready for war appear before my eyes. With that, the king left the golden chamber.

And Balfitt also bowed his waist respectfully and sent His Majesty the King away.

The smile on his face never broke, as if it was about to melt everything in front of him.

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Also in the royal capital, the residence of the Prime Minister.

Now, the residence of the peak of power in the duchy has been completely converted into the headquarters of the Dark Warband in the Principality of Itis, where almost all important orders and information are issued and intersected, and there are busy black-clad people everywhere.

And at this moment, holding a pile of black roses that had just been rubbed out and still exuded the smell of fresh ink, was walking non-stop, to the office of the conspirator Old Locke.

When she pushed open the office door, she found that the old man, who had never stopped worrying, was actually holding a pen in his hand, lying on the table and falling asleep.

Even when the black rose opened the door, she didn't perceive such a big movement.

That's not a good thing.

Thinking of this, after the black rose lightly clothed old Locke with a big soak, she planned to come over later.

However, old Locke had already come to his senses at this time, "Ah! it's you...... How long did I sleep?"

Black Rose frowned slightly, shook her head, and said, "Just for a moment." ”

"Really... Today's weather is really bad, it always makes the old people sleepy, huh... Hahaha. Old Locke rubbed his eyelids and laughed heartily.

"What's the matter, isn't there any bad news again? It's always been bad news lately, and the pressure on the Dark Warband is very high. Old Locke saw the thick stack of papers in Black Rose's hand, and his mood couldn't get better.