An hour ago, I wouldn't have believed it was true. In our plan, we should have a fierce siege battle with the defenders of the palace. The palace has the most elite troops in the kingdom, and has the tallest and strongest castle in the entire Mantas, and we expect that the loss of attacking the palace will not be less than that of the inner city of Mantas.

But now I am standing on the walls of this magnificent castle, and the whole castle is in full view. The towers of the castle, the gardens full of blooming flowers and the beautiful palace complex halfway up the hill are in front of us.

And just below the city walls, as far as our eye could see, the barbarian brigade had marched into the palace, the skeleton troops had taken control of the castle's perimeter, and the balloonmen and undead formed formations were constantly patrolling the air.

The soldiers of the former elite legions of the kingdom laid down their powerful weapons, stripped off their sturdy and ornate armor, and were temporarily imprisoned in vacant houses under the escort of an elite group of barbarians, while the towers and commanding heights they had previously guarded were occupied by archers and musketeers.

Although I did not believe it, it happened, and we entered the palace of Subico without any resistance, and even our soldiers were full of doubts, and even the barbarians, who had always been fearless of danger and rushed to the forefront of the battlefield, nervously held their weapons and cautiously advanced. But just like Louie's incredulous but unbelievable expression before us, we did successfully occupy the entire castle.

It is one thing to defeat the enemy on the battlefield and capture those who have lost the will to fight, and quite another to have a heavily armed and energetic enemy voluntarily drop their armor and weapons and surrender. Watching the thousands of elite Subico guards whose strength is not inferior to that of mid-level warriors take the initiative to surrender to us, I feel like a dream.

This is just like when Japan surrendered, occupied the city, and a large number of Japanese troops suddenly laid down their arms and surrendered to the small group of Eighth Route soldiers who had come to surrender, the mood was complicated but full of excitement.

The once formidable enemy is now at our feet, and I myself feel a little fluttering.

However, I am still a little worried, after all, my strength is not good, and I am prone to problems. However, Louis told me that there were a large number of nobles and ministers in the palace who had not had time to set tickets, and they were now waiting for me and Fang Zi to arrive, and they had surrendered, but still hoped that their safety would be guaranteed.

After hesitating again and again, I took Fang Zi to the palace of the castle, and I am now absolutely convinced that Fang Zi's strength is not below me, after all, her confidence is stronger than mine.

I led the troops into the castle, and for safety, I kept William by my side, and as for Louie, I don't know where he has gone.

When the soldiers who surrendered saw us and the city flags behind us, they all got out of the way and looked at us with strange eyes, both helpless and unwilling. The barbarians who guarded the prisoners of war saw us and saluted with their swords, while staring at them so hard that they would attack us suddenly.

But they didn't, and these former elites seem to have lost their sharpness and are at our disposal.

I rode on horseback, passing through the large square of the castle, through the training area where the guards were trained, and through the garden where flowers bloomed and bees and butterflies fluttered. The places I passed by couldn't help but praise Fang Zi and I.

The royal building of Subico is very well designed, with a good blend of defense and comfort, while enjoying the view, you have to go through the corridors, open the gates, the square is wide, but it is completely exposed to the fire of the surrounding walls, although the buildings are gorgeous, but most of the buildings have thick wall mezzanine, the inside of the mezzanine, can be used by crossbowmen to open the shooting holes hidden in the wall to sneak up on the enemy.

A castle built so beautifully and as a political symbol is filled with extremely lethal military weapons. Although the walls were beautifully built, they were littered with bed crossbows, stones, and cauldrons with boiling oil. In the few armories we occupied, the Goblin Gangsters who had gone to explore the way came back to report to us that they were all full of bows and arrows and magic weapons, staffs for 500 mages, and tons of magic crystals.

But what shocked me the most was that there were hundreds of liters of holy water in the magic crystal containers in these warehouses, as well as several brand-new Leon heavy cannons. There was a warehouse dedicated to imported gunpowder, and it was already half full!

No wonder the opposing soldiers always hold off our attack when we attack, as if they were not afraid of pain. Now it seems that it is the diluted holy water that we exported that has provided the defenders of the kingdom with such a strong combat endurance. It seems that this time I will have to think carefully about the issue of the export of holy water, although we prohibit the export of holy water to our enemies, but the flow of capital obviously does not take these into account.

I'm starting to rejoice that our attack was fierce and swift enough, and we didn't turn back halfway, now that the kingdom is obviously receiving support from the Leon Empire, once their army is successfully transformed, then the gap between us will continue to narrow, and the magical advantage can also make our skeleton army suffer, at that time, it will be quite difficult to attack the kingdom, and we will be suppressed in the south and unable to move.

I'm a little scared, I feel like the big powers are now eyeing us and have bad intentions. If they fight together, I don't know if I'll be able to withstand their attacks. I told Fang Zi my idea, but she didn't pay too much attention to it, thinking that when we got into a dispute between the big powers, as long as we had the strength to protect ourselves, we could become the target of their wooing and get more benefits.

There is nothing wrong with Fang Zi's idea, but the condition is that we can take down the entire Subiko, otherwise our position will be very embarrassing.

We walked for a while, through the outer complexes of the kingdom, to the most magnificent castle hall. The castle is the tallest building in Mantas and one of the most luxurious. I can imagine the feeling of dominance when Salondron stood at the very top of the castle, looking down on the whole city, and I am afraid that few people would go back and refuse.

But the change came so suddenly, and after more than a year of effort, we were in this castle, his courtiers surrendered to us, and his army lost the will to fight. If he's still here, I'd really like to see his face...