Chapter 13: One Trouble After Another (I)
"It's a rare good weather," Rex sighed, and although the weather was nice today, it was one thing after another.
Just when Rex was busy for the jackals, Prince Galen came, the last heir of Riptide Castle, Rex found that after meeting with the last meeting, Prince Galen's face was even more ugly, and his whole body was also a lot thinner, which is enough to explain a lot of things, recently, the life of this Prince Galen is not very good, and his mental depression has told Rex, Prince Galen's miserable appearance.
The kingdom of Riptide Castle, after losing the royal capital Torrent Fort, also lost its symbol in the Arathi Heights, and its strength was so weakened that only the last few strongholds remained.
How could Rex not know the purpose of Prince Galen's coming to find him, he came to let himself send troops, and Rex promised Prince Galen to help him recover Fort Riptide.
But the current situation, the threat of the Burning Legion is imminent, and it is impossible for Rex to send troops to Fort Riptide, so the meeting is not very harmonious, but it is still not to the point of breaking up, Prince Galen also knows the severity, and he does not dare to turn his face with himself, all the ways out of Fort Riptide are based on his own body, and after leaving himself, who will help Fort Riptide and help Prince Galen recover Fort Ripwater.
Stormwind can't be counted on at all, those people in the original history, never thought of expelling the ogres in Riptide Castle, Riptide Castle is of great significance, he represents the first empire in human history, he is the first capital of mankind, enough to act as a symbol of humanity. It's a pity that this is just a thing of the past. The glory of Riptide Castle is long gone. Thousands of years of imperial divisions, whether it was Greymane or others, slowly began to fade the influence of Riptide through the efforts of generations.
In Rex's consideration, Riptide Castle is bound to be recovered, and he has no good impression of the ogre Rex, and he is only short of strength at present, and he will wait until his strength is strong. All ogres and so on have to be swept away, although I dare not say that they are strangled, but I can't let them continue to run rampant.
However, after recovering Fort Ripwater, whether it was Gilneth himself occupying it or handing it over to Prince Galen, here Rex had thought at the beginning, undoubtedly if he directly occupied Fort Ripwater, which would be a good thing, with Fort Riptide occupying Fort Rapids in the important part of the Arathi Basin. You can remotely control the Arathi Basin, which means that Gilneth's territory will expand again. Except for a limited few places in the east, it is a great temptation to complete the occupation of the Lordaeron continent.
Expanding the territory, this has been an affirmation of the merits of an emperor since ancient times, Rex is not a kingdom yet, but sooner or later.
However, in the end, this tempting idea was rejected by Rex, Gilneth occupied the original territory of Lordaeron, and there was a situation of unstable foundation, Lordaeron's territory was very large, much larger than Gilneth, although because of the situation in the East and West Plague Lands, most of them were deserted, but there were still hills in Hillsbrad,
Gilneth is not suitable for continued expansion now, the current situation Lordaeron's subjects still have a strong sense of belonging to the Lordaeron Kingdom, the Lordaeron Kingdom, which has been established for thousands of years, wants to erase the influence of the Lordaeron Kingdom, which is not something that can be done in a short period of time, it takes a generation's efforts.
and annexed Fort Riptide, this reason is not easy to find, all the members of the royal family of Lordaeron are dead, and Fort Rapids still has a Prince Galen who is red.
The more unstable the foundation occupies the larger the place, the final result is that the foundation becomes more and more vain, like an attic built on the sand, and after a big wave, all will collapse.
It was for this reason that Rex promised Prince Galen an army to help them reclaim Riptide Castle.
"Your Royal Highness, Prince Galen is here," Oris said as he walked briskly, and as soon as he came to Rex's side, he replied immediately.
Listening to Aureth's words, Rex shook his head gently, at this time Rex also thinks that Prince Galen should come, this Prince Galen's character is very tough, and he has a posture of not giving up until he achieves his goal, he didn't persuade himself to send troops yesterday, and he will come today, if he fails today, he will come back tomorrow, as long as he doesn't succeed one day, he will come back the next day, and he will always achieve a successful day.
Prince Galen is a great man, and as long as he does not suffer a great change and become an undead as in the original history, Riptide Castle will inevitably be revived in his hands.
"Bring Prince Galen?" Rex waved his hand and motioned for Aureth to bring Prince Galen in, originally according to the identity of the two, Rex should have personally greeted him, but that was based on the situation of the strength of Riptide Castle, and now Riptide Fort is on the verge of extinction, and Gilneth is in full swing, the status of the two sides has long been unequal, even if Oris has little respect for Prince Galen,
"Meet Your Highness," Prince Galen lowered his posture very low, not at all because he used the agreement to force Rex here after agreeing to the agreement with Rex last time, but begged with kind words, although it made people feel troublesome, but people couldn't feel disgusted in their hearts.
"No need to say goodbye, you are also a prince, and your status is equal to mine, just call me Rex," Rex said, shaking his head, pulling Prince Galen to sit down.
"How can a prince of a dead country compare with His Royal Highness," Prince Galen had a bitter look on his face, and his tone was self-deprecating.
Rex didn't speak, smiled without saying a word, picked up the tea next to him, Rex took a sip, Rex is not used to drinking coffee, he usually drinks tea by himself, and when he entertains guests, he uses coffee.
"Your Highness," after taking a sip of coffee, after a while, Prince Galen could no longer hold his breath, Prince Galen was not very old, that is, in his twenties, because of a series of changes, he appeared to be a young man, but in the end it was not an old fox, he was more capable of cultivating qi, or not as good as Rex, standing up and about to say something, but was interrupted by Rex waving his hand, only to hear Rex speak; "I'll send troops to recover Fort Riptide, this is the content of the original agreement, I won't break it, but now I can't,"
"Why not?" Prince Galen asked puzzled, Rex did not repay the debt, refused to admit the agreement, but admitted it, but sent troops here, was stuck, Rex did not agree, which made Prince Galen very puzzled, the words that were not asked yesterday finally couldn't bear it today, and broke out.
Rex, who was originally going to fool Prince Galen, saw Prince Galen's sincere expression, well, Rex was moved, that was fake, with Rex's temperament, although he didn't dare to say that he was hard-hearted, but it wasn't much worse, if he was a person who was easily soft-hearted, it would not be possible to sit back and watch the fall of the Lordaeron Kingdom, and he would have already taken action to save it, and he would have done his best.
Rex really wants to tell his intentions, because the power of this Riptide Castle can still be used, because of the loss of Riptide Castle, the Riptide Castle Kingdom has become a good target for bullying, and some of the jackals who were expelled by the orcs have poured into the Arathi Heights again after the orcs left, which is the information that Lexa obtained from Worgan.
Gilneth was in full swing, Rex's prestige spread, and the gnolls knew that Gilneth was not easy to mess with, so the gnolls, who had been entrenched in the hills of Hillsbrad, entered the Arathi Heights. Who let the elite of Riptide Castle lose in the hands of the orcs, and after the vitality was greatly injured, he was suddenly attacked by the ogre, and completely implemented the image of weakness and deception, persimmon to take the soft pinch, this is a famous saying for the ages, no matter which world he is in, he is applicable.
"I'm going to send troops to attack the gnolls recently," Rex opened his mouth to say his plan, sending troops to the gnolls This is not a top-secret news, many people in the main city of Lordaeron know it, but among these people, there is no Prince Galen, Prince Galen has no foundation at all in the main city of Lordaeron, with the loss of Fort Riptide, Prince Galen's status has plummeted, after coming to the main city of Lordaeron, naturally no one is going to stammer, so the news is very closed.
Without waiting for Prince Galen to ask why he attacked the Gnolls and did not help him recover Riptide Castle, Rex continued to explain; "I sent troops to attack the Gnolls in order to obtain some Gnoll troops and prepare for the world crisis in the near future,"
"I'm sure you've also heard that when the kingdom of Lordaeron was still alive, a mysterious prophet visited King Terenus, but it was obvious that King Terenus regarded the prophet as a madman, and the later great changes in Lordaeron are enough to explain a lot of things, and just a few days ago, that mysterious prophet appeared again, and he told me that our world is facing a crisis, and mankind is in danger! The tide of darkness is upon us again, and the whole world is on the brink of war! Medivan's words were repeated by Rex, this sentence has to be said, there are still some levels, and it is just right to fool people.
"I can assure you that as long as this world crisis is over, we Gilneth will send troops to help you reclaim Fort Riptide," Rex continued, patting Prince Galen on the shoulder; "It won't be too long, no more than a year at most, and you'll be leading your people back to live in Fort Rapids,"
"The laughter of children, the cries of merchants, the whispers of lovers, they will all reappear in Riptide Castle," (to be continued......)