Chapter 11: The Robbers
The Free Federation is the most special and complex region in the entire Kashya's territory, it is a country composed of a large number of family forces, these families originally came from all over the world, migrated here for various reasons, in the first century or so, because of culture, interests and many other factors, conflicts and disputes, long-term civil war made these family forces decay day by day, until the barbaric invasion of the White Tartars, blood and war, let them wake up, forced to unite.
They formed the Senate and jointly elected the head of the Oksu family, which was the most prestigious at the time, with Salimaya as the military governor and commanding an army composed of the family's private army.
After more than half a century of war, they finally defeated the barbaric invaders and defended their homeland. Families also realized that loose chaos could not bring peace and stability. So they decided to form a free federation after deliberation, and elected Salimoyer as the first consul to exercise the right to rule on behalf of the families, and the senate was retained as a body of balance of power, and its members formulated the laws and social institutions of the free federation through the form of parliament.
With the continuous improvement of the functions of the Senate, the Confederation gradually became clear, stable and more vigorous, and after centuries of development, it has developed into a large empire with a prosperous business, a vast territory, and a population of more than 90 million.
As a representative of the emerging city, the capital of the Free Federation, Villefranche, has been built magnificently, and the entire city architecture borrows from the Balika architectural style of the ancient Cerro era.
As the most important functional institution of the Free Federation, the Senate is no exception, it is located on a hill in the city, tall and majestic, with a rare 8-pillar width, 15 side columns, the whole building is made of milky white marble, whether it is the exterior of the mountain flowers, the Longjian wall or the interior wall, are covered with exquisite carved decoration. From a distance, it looks extremely holy, solemn and solemn.
At this moment, in the Senate chamber, Prince Sauron was frowning and looking at the military newspaper in his hand. He was dressed in a tunic with long knee sleeves, a purple striped ribbon on his shoulders, a gold ring on his index finger, high cheekbones, and thin lips.
The hierarchy of the Senate was strict, and only the Chief Senator was allowed to wear the gold ring, which represented supreme glory and great power.
Below the Chief Senator were the voting Senators, who were allowed to wear the silver Elder Ring and the purple ribbon, while the non-voting Senators were only allowed to wear the iron Elder Ring, but not the purple ribbon.
The Osa family is a new family with a history of only 100 years, but now it is the most influential family in the Federation, and the patriarch Sauron Osa is not only the chief senator of the Senate, but also the military governor of the Free Federation, secretly controlling nearly half of the members of the Senate. So even how dissatisfied Emperor Frieus was in his heart, he had to be polite to him.
What Sauron was holding was the military report sent by Chu Ning.
He knew Chu Ning's personality very well, so he was also convinced of the content in the military newspaper. According to the military report, Ice Dragon City has a weapon with great lethality in its hands, and when it is released, it is not only like thunder, but also can make people blind for no reason. At present, the coalition forces have suffered heavy losses, and the army's morale is unstable, so they can only retreat ten miles and plan for the future.
In addition, the military report also raised that there was an army with a small number of people and good combat effectiveness, interspersed with activities on the periphery of the battlefield, which posed a great threat to the supply of the coalition army, and Chu Ning also suspected that someone within the coalition army had leaked the news of the general offensive, so he let the other side launch an offensive in advance and caught his side by surprise.
Seeing the content of the military report, Sauron couldn't help but feel a little angry, in the previous battle, the coalition army lost more than half, but the nine borders of the San clan were also in his hands, and only one Ice Dragon City was left to survive, and the results of the battle could be accepted by him. But in the battle against Ice Dragon City, not only could not be conquered for a long time, but also lost 100,000 allied troops at once, although they are all cannon fodder legions, but they are also regular legions, and they can't afford to consume like this!
Sauron knew that Chu Ning had always been upright and thoughtful, but as the commander of the coalition army, he was a little more stable and inflexible. In the case of superior forces, he will rely on meticulous defense to make the opponent unable to find the slightest flaw, until he is entangled and died.
But in the case of a stalemate, he will also expose the weakness of the lack of offensive strength.
"Zhihu" Sang Baihua is resourceful and good at trickery, Chu Ning is probably not his opponent!
"It seems that if you want to break through Ice Dragon City, you can't just rely on conventional means, you have to choose a ruthless candidate!"
Sauron squinted, thinking to himself.
"Blinding thunder? What is it? His expression jumped, and another question came to his mind.
"Master Hamm! Can you speculate what the heavenly thunder mentioned in Marshal Chu's military newspaper means? Sauron looked at an old man sitting on the side.
Master Hamm, dressed in a white robe and wearing an iron ring, looked old and dizzy, and when he heard Sauron's question, he cleared his throat before he spoke:
"If I'm not mistaken, they must have mastered some new type of substance with the help of ancient alchemy, which will explode under certain circumstances, such as violent impacts."
"Alchemy?"
"That's right! The magic of alchemy lies in its ability to create. Some great alchemists, most of them, are good at using different substances to create new ones! Although they are not of much use! And this creative process is usually unstable, often there are explosions for no reason, sometimes loud noises, sometimes even doors and windows can be shattered, so no one has been able to master the application of these explosive substances! "The old bachelor is indeed very knowledgeable, and he guessed the origin of the thunder at once.
Seeing that Sauron nodded secretly when he heard this, the old bachelor continued:
"As for the cause of blindness, it should be that this substance has some kind of toxicity, which spreads with the power of the explosion and causes harm to the people around it!"
Sauron pondered for a moment, then asked, "Can we try to find this substance?" ”
"I'm afraid it's going to be hard!" The old bachelor's words were a bit shocking: "After all, there are too few people who know alchemy now, it is difficult to find suitable candidates, besides, this kind of experiment is too dangerous, and you may blow yourself up at any time, which madman would be willing to do such a thing!" ”
Sauron's face turned a little pale.
"Well, I'm just making an analogy, not that you're crazy, Prince!" The old bachelor saw that Sauron's face was not very good, and he kindly explained.
"So, if we want to get this substance, we can only grab it!" Sauron stared at the old maester and said gloomily. (To be continued.) )