"Good. You are not wrong about what Stella did. Olivia was unmoved, on the contrary, her expression was unusually calm.

Shalom suddenly remembered something, and his heart was full of unease.

"Let me continue to ask you one more question, how did López develop after Stella was executed and Arya inherited the throne?"

Faced with Olivia's question, Shalom was slightly stunned.

She hesitated for a moment, then returned, "After darkness comes dawn, after the fall of the tyrant comes prosperity, and Arya inherits the throne and ushers in a new era. During her reign, in just twenty years, López began to rise from the weakest of the three kingdoms, and developed at a rate far beyond ordinary imagination, even when the dawn herald Hill I was alive.

Arya laid a solid foundation for López, and then—"

Shalom bit his lower lip and frowned slightly, "Under the current reign of King Miranda Hill, whether it is in terms of military strength or people's living standards, López has a faint tendency to surpass us. ”

"It's not a trend, it's a fact." Olivia interrupted.

"Do you know, I'm in Haoyue City, but I'm on pins and needles, and I can receive a secret report from the Frost Fortress almost every once in a while."

Olivia raised her head, her expression becoming more solemn.

"In the intervening decade, the López have tested us in different ways, testing the strength of the Frost Fortress and how far away the kingdom's military power is from them.

From small-scale troop harassment to mage invasion...... Do you know what Rosalind says? ”

Shalom could probably guess the outcome, but shook his head unwillingly.

"Ten years ago, Rosalind had said that she was as invulnerable as the Frost Fortress, as indestructible as steel. Later, her evaluation of López slowly changed - for example, five years ago [we caught a spy from the kingdom of López, she was well hidden, but we still caught her, and asked something from her, it is said that López will carry out a tentative attack on the Frost Fortress in three days. Unfortunately, this spy was caught by us, and they must have been suspicious and the attack was ineffective. For this reason, I am very concerned that we have never had a lapse until tonight, and that they have cultivated more spies than we thought. 】”

"If it's just their spy agency, I think it's fine, but you know what, Rosalind's biggest concern is their ability to attack in a short period of time.

The next offensive attempt will be more effective than the last.

And the faces that come to attack are getting younger and younger.

The armament is also becoming more and more sophisticated. ”

"That's because—" said Shalom with some indignation, "it's because we lack the Chosen One, and the power of the Divine Messenger is diminishing day by day. If you look at the Xiyan Ling, you can know that we still rely on the powerful soldiers of twenty years ago, and most of them have already passed half a hundred years. ”

"The Forces nouvelles are one thing, but is it really only the population?" Olivia asked rhetorically.

"......" Shalom opened his mouth and did not speak.

"As the Grand Duke of the ruling side, I think you must understand - war is just a façade." Olivia continued, "This appearance is the result of intensifying contradictions, the result of the pursuit of interests, and the result of the will of the people. To wage war, the most important thing is the overall strength of a country. ”

"When we ruled in Saviara, it happened to be the time when López ended his tyranny and Alya revived, so we are undoubtedly strong. However, now it is completely different.

López, who has already turned into a powerful ice wolf, will soon declare war on the south, we don't have enough strength to fight, sooner or later we will be swallowed by them.

And all this, do you know what caused it? ”

Olivia stared into Shalom's eyes.

The other party was silent for a while.

"Everything comes from what you call a tyrant—

Spitter Stella Hill. ”

"What?!" Shalom looked up in surprise, "No, I don't understand. ”

"You can see it when you look at the great exploits made by Arya during her reign—

On the Avenue of Dawn, where Stella used for pleasure, Arya built other roads, connecting the main road that runs north and south, like a giant tree with vitality spreading outward, paving the great [Melting Ice Road] over the course of fifty years.

Then the [Dongyang Magic Array], which was reviled by later generations, was also completed within fifty years, and two-way teleportation arrays were opened in major cities, and they were intertwined with each other, forming a great teleportation network that is now talked about by the residents of López.

These two huge projects are like blood vessels in the human body, connecting the cities and places of the kingdom, turning López, which was originally like a plate of scattered sand, into a tightly connected whole.

Just like pumping blood out, in the Ice Melting Road and the Dongyang Magic Array, hundreds of millions of tons of goods have to be transported every day. ”

Olivia paused, "Let me ask, can this kind of thing happen in our country?" ”

Shalom kept his head down and didn't say a word.

"The prosperity of transmission has led to the rapid development of López, and the goods and currency can be circulated in the country, so they can quickly surpass Secrede and surpass us.

The speed at which they organized their armies was driven by the teleportation array and the ice-melting path.

If you think about it, if they could gather the whole country in less than three days.

Or they attacked the Frost Fortress while sending a steady stream of troops to transport the wounded back to the front for treatment......

It would take us less than a tenth of the time to do all this.

So is the Frost Fortress, known as the Wall of the Kingdom, really impregnable? ”

Shalom was silent, and she took a deep breath of cold air.

I just feel cold all over.

López's development is obvious to all, and she also knows deeply what kind of effect it will bring if a country's roads are connected and go deep into the towns.

The Icewolf is awakening and recovering, and will soon lead the wolves south.

This scares Rosalind and scares Olivia.

These archdukes should also be feared.

And the beginning of all this turned out to be from the tyrant Stella, something she would never have dreamed of.

But......

She caught a hint of the key.

Something is wrong.

"Hahaha...... I almost fell for you. Shalom burst out laughing, and she gripped the hilt of her sword and swung it back and forth in the air.

Everyone was shocked.

……