"So, what is this?"

In the camp of the Emperor's coalition army, everyone was staring at the wreckage on the ground in a daze.

Half an hour ago, after hearing that the mortar position of the Templars had been bulldozed by the Blue Sword Mercenary Regiment and the Richard Nell Swordsmen's Regiment, His Majesty the Excited Emperor waved his hand and announced that he would celebrate the entire army in Verona tonight.

As a result, the first knight unit that invaded the city was completely wiped out, and only one small soldier survived in the second unit. But this guy is a clever guy, and he grabbed the wreckage of the thing that attacked them on the ground.

This pile of wreckage...... Looks like a mechanical spider? It's just that the torso has been completely deformed, and it seems that something has exploded from inside, and the cracks in the metal are extremely sharp, and there is still a smell of gunsmoke on it.

"This should be Spider Thunder." Seeing that everyone was looking at him, the person who "should be most familiar with the Holy See", Duke Wolf said helplessly.

"Spider Thunder?" The Emperor frowned.

"It's a simple robot in the shape of a spider." "Someone is in charge of remote control, and it's going to rush to your feet and explode. ”

"The Holy See can build robots now?" The Duke of Bavaria asked sharply.

The robots are coming, will Chéng Rén be far away? Has the Angel Force already assembled a regiment?

"Oh, no, no, no." Duke Wolf said, "The inside of this spider thunder is at best a high-level single-chip microcomputer, and the mechanical structure has no technical content, mainly because the algorithm of control is powerful...... But the algorithms are all in the manipulators, and we can't reverse engineer this wreckage alone......"

The Emperor automatically ignored his words and asked, "Power Armor Knight, can you block this spider thunderbolt attack?" ”

"It depends on the charge." "Judging by the surviving soldier's account," said Duke Wolfe, "it should be possible." This spider mine seems to have adjusted the charge structure, and will stick to the legs of the power armor to blast at close range, which can be said to be specially designed for our knights. After all, power armor is the thickest for bulletproof purposes, and the chest armor and helmet that are easy to hit are the thickest, followed by the arms, and finally the legs ......"

"I have another question." The Duke of Bavaria asked, "Is this kind of deceit easy to produce?" ”

"Alas, the hardware is not a problem, I said that the main technical difficulty is the algorithm." Duke Wolf sighed.

"And algorithms can be replicated on a large scale." "That is to say, Verona has built a large number of spiders and made a large web of grinding meat with them, waiting for us to fill them with our soldiers...... Or a demigod. I think it's time to dispatch the dragons. ”

The Emperor was silent when he heard the Duke of Carinthia say:

"If there really are a lot of these spider mines in the city, then no soldier, knight, transcendent, or demigod - as long as his feet have to be on the ground, he is not safe."

"Either we choose to attack at a terrible cost, or we will be successfully delayed by the Holy See, and either outcome is probably not what you here want to see. Based on the available evidence, His Majesty's dragon may really be the best solution to the current problem. ”

That's pretty level. The royal Saxon family's previous reason was that there might be anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns in ambush in the city, so they were reluctant to send dragons into battle.

The Duke of Carinthia pointed out that spider mines against ground units have appeared, and anti-aircraft guns against air units are only your Majesty's guess, so now it is self-evident what to do.

If Your Majesty is not willing to let the dragon take any potential risks, do our knights and soldiers deserve to die?

The most important thing here is that the Holy Solomon is an "empire" of the feudal system, and the interests of the emperor's family are not consistent with the interests of the dukes' families.

Everyone wants to get the most out of their own home, and they all want others to pay the most for it. Among them, the emperor, as a feudal monarch, naturally has a reputation advantage, so the dukes must unite in order to protect themselves in order to bargain with the emperor.

And the Duke of Carinthia's statement just gave everyone a reasonable excuse: His Majesty's dragon is the most suitable for battle at this time.

If this situation does not come out of the dragon, but instead of us, then everyone will have to suspect the intentions of your Saxon family.

So the representatives of the major families joined in one after another, even Duke Wolf was slightly silent, and Emperor Otto was pale, and his eyebrows were almost raised to the hairline (obviously half angry in his heart), and only after a while did he say:

"Well, tomorrow I will send a dragon to launch a tentative attack on Verona City!"

He strode back to his desk and snapped, "At the same time! Please urge the family demigods to arrive as soon as possible, whether the dragon is falling with broken wings or the spider is successfully destroyed, we need to break through Verona as soon as possible, and then go south immediately! ”

These words were a bit of the emperor's courage and determination, so the dukes bowed one after another, and replied:

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

When the meeting ended, the dukes left the room. The Duke of Bavaria returned to his temporary house, hesitated for a moment, and then lit a fire in the fireplace.

After a while, a man emerged from the flaming fireplace, but it was the demigod ancestor of the Weissbach family, the red-haired Otto of the Furnace, who had no signs of being scorched by the flames.

"Anyway, that's the way it is." The Duke of Bavaria gave a brief account of the contents of today's meeting. The demigod of the fire sealing furnace listened expressionlessly, nodded and said:

"Then let the dragons of Saxony fight. We've reached a consensus on this matter, so you can just wait. ”

"Hmm." The Duke of Bavaria nodded, only to see the fire of the furnace turn his gaze, and suddenly asked, "What about little Eleanor?" ”

"She should still be in that Blue Sword mercenary group." The Duke of Bavaria replied.

"Did she take the Will IV she prepared last time?" The Furnace Flame asked, "Have you ever been promoted to Lv. 10?" ”

"Promoted." The Duke of Bavaria hesitated, "Ancestor, do you really want to let Eleanor go to war?" ”

"Yes." "You're worried about her, little Otto?" ”

"How can you not be worried, after all, the sword has no eyes, let alone bullets." The Duke of Bavaria sighed.

"Little Eleanor can't be fine." "Don't forget, that girl from the Licinius family is also on the team. ”

"The Holy See dares to confront the Empire head-on, but do they dare to move the descendants of the Licinian group? Not afraid of another Italian plus civil strife? Innocent is not John XII's shit. Of course, His Majesty today is not his father either. ”

The Duke of Bavaria smiled bitterly, I am afraid that only the demigod ancestor dared to say this.

"In other words, as long as Eleanor stays with that Miss Nola, she doesn't have to worry about the threat of Chéng Rén." The Duke of Bavaria muttered, "But if they fight separately......"

"That's another layer of insurance." The fire of the furnace said, "That young man named Asker......"

"He's a smart guy who won't let anything happen to Eleanor."