Chapter 763: Friend or Foe

However, Catherine also realized that it was difficult for her to have both fish and bear's paws, the three countries of the Holy Alliance, now all of them are opponents of the Entagri Empire, and it is almost impossible to reorganize the Holy Alliance and want to befriend the Entagri Empire.

Aside from the grievances and grievances between the Bracada Mage Kingdom and the Entagri Empire, the Elven Kingdom has already been beaten miserably by the Entagre Empire, and Jian Chen's practice of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle has made it impossible for the Elf Kingdom and the Entagri Empire to reconcile for a long time.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the two sides are now in a situation where they are not resting on the death.

However, this time, Magnus did not plan to leave behind the elven kingdom whose strength had been greatly reduced.

Catherine and Magnus proposed to reorganize the Holy Alliance this time, in addition to wanting to break the current three-way confrontation in the Tetaria Swamp and use the Erathia Empire to exert pressure on the Krurod Kingdom, its intention to join forces against the stronger and stronger Entagre Empire is also quite obvious.

Therefore, the elven kingdom that can attack Diya and the Tulaone forest from Eli is an indispensable and important force for Magnus, he needs the elven kingdom to help him besiege the necromancer from the direction of Dia, and he also needs the elven kingdom to help him contain the Ntagri empire in the direction of the Turalone forest.

All of this makes the hostile stance of the Holy Alliance and the Entagri Empire quite stark.

If Catherine agrees to reorganize the Holy Alliance, it means that she must take the Erathia Empire, together with the Bracada Kingdom and the Elven Kingdom, to stand on the opposite side of the Entagre Empire, on the contrary, if she chooses the Entagre Empire as an ally, then the relationship between the Erathia Empire and the Bracada Mage Kingdom will not be able to turn around.

It's either friend or foe, and that's a very inexplicable thing, at least for now.

All of this meant Catherine had to make a choice.

Whether to reorganize the Holy Alliance, or to befriend the Entagri Empire.

In terms of Catherine's personal feelings, of course, she wants to befriend the Entagri Empire, she has an inextricable relationship with this miraculously rising empire, and even in a sense, the Entagri Empire can be said to be her long-awaited dream.

And in the long run, forming an alliance with the Entagri Empire is far more advantageous than reorganizing the Holy Alliance.

If she can make friends with the Entagri Empire, as long as it takes time, she may be able to subtly use the powerful influence of the Entagri Empire to change the inherent paranoid ideas of the people of the Erathia Empire, make them realize the power of racial equality, and use the Entagri Empire as an example to reform the Erathia Empire little by little, and then through these changes, she can make the Erathia Empire rise again.

When the time comes, the old and new empires will join forces, one east and one west, which is enough to be proud of the big 6, and more ideally, she can even complete the merger of the Entagri Empire and the Erathia Empire through peaceful means, and when the time comes, give everything to Jian Chen, and she can rest assured that she can return to Enroth as her queen and concentrate on helping her husband and son.

But the ideal is infinitely beautiful, but the reality is extremely cruel.

It is not impossible for the Erathia Empire to befriend the Entagre Empire, but it will take time, and it may be a long, long time.

And what the current Erathian Empire lacks most is time.

Before Catherine succeeded in making the two countries allies, she and the Erathian Empire had to endure the hostility from the Bracada Kingdom and the Elven Kingdom.

The elven kingdom is not enough, no matter what, the current elven kingdom is already a phoenix that has fallen to the ground, plus the two sides are still separated by Hammondale and Dia, even if the elven kingdom wants to attack the Erathia Empire, it is powerless.

But the threat of the Bracada Kingdom is real, even if the Bracada Kingdom is now at war on two fronts, not only in the Tetalia swamp deep in the quagmire of war, entangled by the necromancers, but also by the barbarian army of Krurod into the hinterland of Bracada, but the several large armies deployed on the border with the Erathia Empire are not moving.

This terrible fact meant that the kingdom of Bracada was not exhausted by the war on two fronts, and that the kingdom of magicians, who had been in obscurity, still had the strength to spare, and if it needed to, it probably wouldn't mind fighting the Erathian Empire.

Catherine was certainly confident that she would win this possible war, but what about after that? Erathia, who had been exhausted by Kendall, was already very weak, and Bracada was not an opponent that could be easily defeated, so when that war was over, how much capital would the Erathian Empire have left?

What's more, even if Catherine is unwilling to reorganize the Holy Alliance with the Bracada Kingdom, the Bracada side can also join forces with the Elven Kingdom, if the Elven Kingdom joins the war against the necromancer at the invitation of the Bracada Kingdom, the current situation in the Tetaria Swamp is also likely to be broken, and at that time, as long as the necromancer is defeated, the combined army of the Bracada Kingdom and the Elven Kingdom, from the Tetalia Swamp, can cooperate with the native army of Bracada to the south and attack the Krurod region, It is also possible to go southeast to attack the Erathian Empire.

In this case, unless it gets the help of the Entagri Empire, the Erathia Empire will definitely fight with the two former allies to lose both - Catherine has no doubt that the Bracada Kingdom and the Elven Kingdom will do this, the Immortal King Magnus has endured it for so long, and once he moves, he will never give up easily, and the current situation of the Elven Kingdom is like a gambler who has lost a red eye, and when there is a chance to turn the tables, it is conceivable how it will act.

At the same time, Catherine was not at all sure what the Entagri Empire would do.

She had confidence in Jian Chen, and believed that Jian Chen would be willing to help herself and the Erathia Empire, but she knew better that the personal will of the superior sometimes did not fully represent the overall will of an empire, nor could it completely determine the direction of an empire in foreign affairs.

Just like her now, she wants to talk peacefully, but all the people below insist on refusing, and she can only be helplessly crazy.

The Entagri Empire is now in full swing and imposing, such a powerful country has already shown its ambition to expand, can Jian Chen really completely control this beast out of the cage?

If the Erathia Empire can maintain its existing strength and not weaken further, the Entagri Empire may still regard it as a potential ally because of its jealousy of its strength and Chen Jian's efforts, but if the strength of the Erathia Empire continues to weaken like this, will the Entagri Empire be willing to miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defeat or even eliminate the former Great 6 strongest country in one fell swoop? The Entagri Empire, will it not be happy to see the mutual consumption of the three countries of the former Holy Alliance?

At that time, as the emperor of the Entagri Empire, would Jian Chen still ignore the overall will of the empire for personal reasons?

There is no diplomatic reason for a weak country, and Catherine knows too well the difficulty of having to act against her will when the situation is pressing, and she also understands it deeply.

The path of forming an alliance with the Entagre Empire is definitely the most difficult path for the current Erathia Empire.

In comparison, the road of reorganizing the Holy Alliance can be called a smooth road for the current Erathia Empire.

It doesn't take too much time to unite the Bracada Kingdom and the Elven Kingdom, with the power of the Three Kingdoms, not only can effectively shock the Entagri Empire, so that it does not dare to act rashly, but also can join forces of the Three Kingdoms to besiege and kill the necromancer, completely change the status quo of the Tetaria Swamp, and then complete the Holy Alliance's siege of the Krurod region.

If the Holy Alliance works together to defeat Krurod, then the entire Erathia Great 6 will form a confrontation situation between the Entagri Empire in the east and the three Holy Alliance in the west, as long as the three Holy Alliance countries do not fight inwardly, the expansion of the Entagri Empire will be effectively contained, and then, the two behemoths that divide the big 6 and the east are likely to have a stalemate, and may continue this situation for a long time.

If this is the case, it will not be too bad for the Erathian Empire, and Catherine believes that it is not impossible to use some means to promote peace by war when the time comes.

In other words, in fact, reorganizing the Holy Alliance is more in line with the actual situation of the current Erathia Empire than befriending the Entagri Empire.

But Catherine also understands that although this path is convenient, it has many after-effects that cannot be ignored.

Behind the huge benefits are often the same, if not greater, risks.

If the battle is promoted and defeated, the confrontation between the two giants will make the Erathian Empire, which is under the direct threat of the Entagri Empire, fall into endless war, and completely lose the opportunity to make friends with the Entagri Empire, and completely lose the opportunity to embark on a new path.

Then in the coming years, what awaits the Erathia Empire will be one war after another, before one of the two behemoths of the Entagri Empire and the Holy Alliance completely falls, the Erathia Empire, which is in the gap between the two sides, will be forced to exhaust the last bit of vitality, and then, no matter who wins and who loses in the end of this dragon battle, the Erathia Empire will not be the last one to laugh in this war.

And Catherine's dream of returning to Enroth will be shattered because of this.

Reorganize the Holy Alliance.

Ally yourself with the Ntagri Empire.

Both paths, the same with great risks, the only difference is that the first half of the first half is a little later, and the latter is easier to take in the second half.

Catherine really had a hard time making a decision.

has just returned to power, and even the domestic situation has not been completely stabilized, so she has to face such a dilemma, Catherine can only be depressed except for a wry smile.

"Shouldn't you try to contact Jian Chen first to see what his attitude is?"

In the end, Catherine was still inclined to form an alliance with the Entagre Empire, and she decided to put off Magnus's proposal, and then send a secret envoy to get in touch with Jian Chen.

The reason why she uses this primitive way is also a helpless thing, the magic letter teleportation array she used to communicate with Jian Chen is in Enloth, not around, although she can contact Jian Chen through the transfer of letters from Enloth's side, but such a confidential matter between countries is obviously not suitable to be handled through the third party of Enlos Empire, and as the queen of Enlos, the fact that she was brought back to the Erathia Empire is enough to make Roland's head big, and she doesn't want to add more troubles to Roland.

So she decided to take care of the matter on her own.

At this time, Catherine didn't know that she was actually being plotted by a half-elf, and she didn't know that the Immortal King Magnus suddenly proposed to reorganize the Holy Alliance, which was actually a game carefully planned by a half-elf, and in order to prompt her to make some kind of decision, some conspiracies were quietly unfolding.

Gru was in a very good mood.

Because now, he can justifiably borrow the power of the Elven Kingdom and the Bracada Mage Kingdom to pave the way for his plan.

As he had predicted, Parson agreed to his proposal to reorganize the Holy Alliance, and the king of the forest, completely impressed by the ideal outcome outlined by Gru, immediately made up his mind to get in touch with Magnus of Bracada.

Magnus, the Immortal King, could not refuse such an offer.

Because if the Holy Alliance is reorganized, its biggest beneficiary is none other than the Bracada Mage Kingdom, or he Magnus.

And it works extremely quickly.

Especially after the elven kingdom promised to send troops to Diya immediately, Magnus was even more moved.

In Magnus's eyes, the Tetaria Swamp is the key to changing the current predicament of the Bracada Kingdom.

With the help of the Elven Kingdom and the Erathia Empire, he believed that the necromancers would not last long.

At this time, Magnus no longer minds sharing the Tetaria Swamp with the Elven Kingdom, as well as the Erathia Empire, the situation has changed, he decided to improvise, anyway, the secrets of the swamp are still clueless, he and the necromancer have the help of those mysterious people, and they have found nothing, the Elven Kingdom and the Erathia Empire know nothing about it, and of course it is impossible to show it.

Once the necromancer is defeated, he will be able to free up his hands to deal with the barbarians of Krurod with all his might, and with the help of the Elven Kingdom and the Erathia Empire, he is confident that he will also eradicate those barbarians who have annoyed him for countless years this time.

In this way, his two nemesis, the necromancer and the barbarian, will be cleared, and maybe the ice sword that has caused him so many troubles will also be snatched up and used by him.

After that, let's see when the time comes, anyway, now the strength of the Elven Kingdom has been greatly damaged, and the vitality of the Erathia Empire has been greatly damaged, and he Magnus, with the strength accumulated by the Bracada Kingdom for many years, is confident that he will become the leader of the reorganized Holy Alliance, and when the time comes, whether to join forces to clean up the increasingly hateful Entagre Empire, or try to annex the Erathia Empire and the Elven Kingdom first, it is not up to him to do as he pleases.

With this in mind, Magnus acted very quickly this time, not only did he write a letter to Catherine, but also secretly negotiated with Parson, preparing to block Catherine's possible friendship with the Entagri Empire.

Both Parson and Magnus thought that with the relationship between Catherine and Jian Chen, Catherine might be reluctant to reorganize the Holy Alliance and instead seek cooperation with the Entagri Empire.

Of course, this situation is not what they want, and if the old and new empires join forces, then they will want to cry without tears.

If you want to prevent this from happening, and want to pull the Erathia Empire to the side of the Holy Alliance, the easiest and most effective way is, of course, to try to provoke a conflict between the Erathia Empire and the Entagri Empire, so that the contradictions between the two sides will intensify, and then lose the possibility of joining forces.

With the current situation of the two empires, it does not seem that it is difficult to do this.

It's just that neither Parson nor Magnus realized that their every move was actually planned and expected by some half-elf.

"I didn't expect it to be so smooth, the chess pieces are quite hardworking."

Gru watched all of this coldly, and secretly laughed at the self-conscious ones who were not being used in the slightest.

Then, in the spring of this year, when the riot in the Erathia Empire was born, with the death of Kendall, the famous former Empress Catherine of the Erathia Empire returned from Enlos 6 and re-ascended to the throne of the Herassian Empire.

The most striking thing is the action of the elven kingdom, just when most people thought that the kingdom that had been beaten and fled by the Entagri Empire would hide in the Erimir Forest to concentrate on recuperation, this once old power, but uncharacteristically sent troops from Eli, sent a large army, attacked Diya with great fanfare, and pointed the spearhead directly at the necromancers.

Almost at the same time, the news about the formation of the Holy Alliance again also began to spread in the Big 6.

Then the actions of the Bracada side, and the actions of the Elven Kingdom, seemed to confirm the truth of this rumor in one fell swoop - in the border area between the Bracada Kingdom and the Erathia Empire, the Bracada Mage Kingdom took the initiative to withdraw most of the army, leaving only a normal number of defenders, and the tension between the two sides in the border area seemed to have disappeared suddenly.

Then some sporadic skirmishes began to arise on the border between the Entagri Empire and the Erathia Empire.