Chapter 100 - After the War
Crushed under the corpse of the huge dragon, Lu Ming could clearly feel that several bones in his body were broken. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, the flange ring on Lu Ming's left hand suddenly sounded in his ear and smiled: "That thing is not delicious, so I vomited it." Now it's been put on your phone by a scary-looking skeleton wearing a cloak. ”
Hearing this, Lu Ming couldn't help but be surprised, but soon knew who the skeleton Layla was talking about.
Le Pres, the god of death.
The only existence that can make ghosts and undead feel terrifying is this Grim Reaper who once prepared a copy for Lu Ming.
It's just that what does Death want to do when he helps put the soul of Falsel that Layla spit out into his phone? Or is it just a helper?
Lu Ming couldn't figure it out, and he didn't have time to think about it, he had already fainted.
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"Unknown ceiling...... Not! Not! Hmmm......"
When Lu Ming opened his eyes, he found that he was now lying in a decent room, and it was not his wife Raman Rasi standing next to his bed, but the three ...... of Lothric, Mike, and Hawkwood
"The Duke went to a big meeting with Hakz, so you don't have to look for her." Finding that Lu Ming had woken up, Loslick forcibly stuffed an apple that had been peeled into Lu Ming's mouth, gagged him, and then said, "Your injury, I have cured you with a miracle." Just the blood loss caused by the injury in my leg is not something I can heal. ”
"How's it going?" Taking a bite of the apple, Lu Ming stood up, took the apple, and ate it slowly, while asking the three of Losric.
"It's not good, both we and Yaru have suffered heavy losses in terms of the army, and we in Erepos are likely to be very weak in the face of the summer invasion. Moreover, because of the relationship between the Evil Spirit Church, Yalu is now sparsely populated, and agriculture, commerce, and military industry are basically absent, so he needs to ask Styx and Karksa for help to survive this time. Sitting down on the chair beside him, Lothric sighed and said, "So it is impossible for us to get any compensation from Yaru, and even the loot seized from the Evil Spirit Church must be returned to Yaru......
Hearing Lo Slick's words, Lu Ming frowned and asked again, "So, what exactly did we get?" ”
"Two not-so-large viscounts." At this time, Mike spoke, and he answered Lu Ming's question.
"Is it an enclave or a viscounty bordering our principality?"
"A piece bordering our Errepos, and will most likely be given to Mike later. And the other piece ......," Lothric said without saying a word.
No, Lo Slick said, Lu Ming also knew the situation of that viscount.
"Enclave?" Sitting on the bed, Lu Ming pondered for a moment and said to Lothric: "We can think that they didn't give it to us in this piece of viscounty. But the problem is that we have paid so much and only received such a small amount of compensation, which is a bit unjustifiable in any case. Moreover, it was Yaru who first declared war on our Erepos! Our attack on Yalu is just a counterattack, and we should be compensated enough......
"However, neither Styx nor Tartarus seem to be planning to ask Yaru for anything, and we Erebos don't want anything from Yaru as our family."
"So, what about swapping that enclave for a viscounty bordering Erepos?"
"It's unlikely. The viscounties bordering Errebos were the viscounties outside of the three counties in Yaru, and the other viscounts were all viscounts within the counties. If we want to change, the Yalu side will most likely refuse us for various reasons. ”
......Hearing this, Lu Ming fell silent.
Eating the apple, Lu Ming pondered for a long time, and finally didn't come up with any way, so he simply gave up thinking about this thing that had nothing to do with him. After all, on Errebo's side, someone will force Yaru to give more compensation!
"How long was I in a coma?" Lu Ming, who no longer thought about it, turned to ask how long he had been in a coma.
"You've been in a coma for about an hour. In the meantime, the emissaries of Tartarus and Styx have also arrived in the capital. ”
"Did Raman Lass attend the meeting to discuss post-war matters with them?"
"No, that meeting is long over. What I said was the result of deliberations at the meeting. ”
"And what's the meeting going on right now?"
"God knows."
“......”
Just as Lu Ming was thinking about what kind of meeting Raman Rath was attending, Raman Rath suddenly walked into the room and hugged him all of a sudden.
It can be seen that she is really worried about Lu Ming. Whether it's because of feelings or not......
"Okay, okay, I'm fine." Holding Raman Lasi, Lu Ming smiled and comforted his wife.
"I'm worried about your ......" Raising his head, Raman looked at Lu Ming's face and said in a choked voice.
Hearing this, Lu Ming couldn't help but smile and said, "It's not the first time I've done dragon hunting, so there won't be any big accidents." Look, isn't that all right for me? ”
"It's only two or three times! And when you were carried back, the way you looked really scared the hell out of me! Hearing Lu Ming's joke, Raman Lace immediately said angrily.
Just when Lu Ming and Raman Rath were indiscriminately firing flashbangs, flashing the three of them who were single and couldn't open their eyes, Touris and Haimir suddenly entered the room. Seeing Lu Ming's behavior of indiscriminately discharging flashbangs, Touris couldn't help but joke: "Okay, okay, we know that you two are very affectionate, so don't show us here now!" ”
Although "......" didn't say anything, Lu Ming and Raman Rasse glared at Tourres angrily. It was clear that the couple was angry.
Seeing that Lu Ming and the others were angry, Haimir hurriedly diverted the topic and said, "Now that we have successfully annihilated the upper echelons of the Evil Spirit Church, and Yalu has also returned to the Grand Duke of the Principality of Yalu, what are we going to do next?" ”
"Wait for the Grand Duke's orders, and then go home." Sitting in his chair, Lothric peeled the apple, and said very lazily without glancing at Hamir and Tourres.
"Huh!?" Hearing Lothric's words, Hamir was immediately shocked, she never thought that the always dedicated Count Lothric would say such a thing.
"Strictly speaking, we don't have anything to do right now. If anything, there is only rest and waiting for the order to return home. Picking up an orange from the bedside table of Lu Ming's makeshift hospital bed, Mike said to Haymir as he peeled it.
"But what about the remnants of the Evil Spirit Church? Shouldn't we help Yalu get rid of them? ”
Lu Ming shook his head and said, "No! The upper echelons of the Evil Spirit Church should have been captured by now, and we don't have to do the rest. Because Yaru himself will take care of them. Moreover, we have almost cleared out all the cults of evil spirits in the county that Erebos has prepared. We've dealt with enough, and continuing to do so would be disgusting to Yaru. People who believe in Tartarus and Styx think the same way. ”
“......”
Without waiting for Hamir to say anything, Lothric put the apple peel dagger on the bedside table, took a bite of the apple to himself, and said, "Neither of you has been in the circle of nobles, so you don't know much about the nobles' style. I understand it. But I want to say that after the two of them get the fief, it is likely that many nobles will play with them until there is not even a fig leaf left! You may think that we are helping Yaru by helping the remnants of the Evil Spirit Church, but in the eyes of the nobles of Yaru, this is just a sign that you two want something more. In the end, you may be busy in vain, and you will have to bear the infamy of being insatiable. ”
“......”
"The arrogant dragon drowning in the past is coveting our forests. As a member of the forest, we should not focus on the insects, our enemy is the dragon. ”
"The lines from the opera "The Magic Dragon"? I didn't expect you to like opera, Hawkwood! Hamir looked at Hawkwood, who had never had much interest in anything, with some surprise.
Smiling helplessly, Hawkwood pointed at Lu Ming and said, "When I was in Odysseus, this soul fade took me to see it eight times. ”
"I think 'Dragon' is pretty good, and I like it too. It's the drama "The King in Yellow", I can't understand it. And, every time I read it, I feel like my SAN value is dropping ......," Mike picked up.
"I don't watch the "King in Yellow", and my SAN value can't stand the toss of that drama. Don't fold it in the hands of Luo Ya's little girls, but fold it on this drama. Lu Ming also continued the topic and said.
"Why do I think it's okay?" Loslick asked, confused.
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At this time, Touris couldn't listen anymore, and shouted angrily: "Why do you talk about live dramas and operas!?" We're talking about business!! ”
Glancing at Tourres, Loslick leaned back in his chair and asked a little depressedly, "You still don't understand?" ”
"Forehead ......" was looked at by Lu Ming, Lothric, Mike, and Hawkwood with the eyes of a fool, and Touris couldn't help but doubt his life.
But her lover, the beautiful Miss Haymir, was very timely and said, "What, what are you talking about the SAN value?" ”
"SAN value is the meaning of sanity. In one of our board games, if the SAN value drops to 0, it means crazy. Mike didn't want to continue talking about the things that were unpleasant, so he followed Haymir's words and explained the SAN value to her, Raman Thread, and Tourres.
"But the word SAN doesn't seem to be the language of Dolan Guleg, or Lothric, Fran, or Ilussil, right?"
The word comes from an unknown undead man, God knows what language. This game and the word stay on it! ”
"......" Touris looked at everyone speechlessly, sighed helplessly, and then sat down on another chair not far away, and looked at Lu Ming and the others chatting there. People don't want to think about those things, and she can't force them. And she really doesn't know much about these things.
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While Lu Ming and the others were chatting in the makeshift ward, Grand Justice Vilka was discussing with Yugluna and the two nobles who had refused to be recruited by the Cult of Evil Spirits about compensation for Errepos.
"Are we really going to make the land that was reparated to Errepos an enclave? I think this kind of practice can easily cause the displeasure of the Duchy of Errebos! Because in any case, we declared war first. Yugluna was uneasy about the reparations offered by the nobles, because it was not much at all. The only thing of value is two viscounts. As a result, one of them is still basically the same enclave......
"To be honest, we don't really want to do that. After all, because of the cult of the evil spirit, we simply have enough population and nobility to manage those lands. But at a time when our Duchy of Yaru is so dangerous and weak, we can't show that we are weak, or Styx and Tartarus will come running over and tear a piece of flesh off us! So we have to be tough at this time! One of the two nobles stood up and said to Archduke Yugluna and Vilka.
"However, the two young ladies of the previous Grand Duke are still on the side of the Duchy of Erepos! If they use more and more compensation as capital, and let the Archduke Raels Hedist of the Duchy of Errepos support one of them to overthrow the Archduke Vilka Hakz and ascend to the throne of the Grand Duke himself, it will be a much bigger blow to us Yaru than if we are now given a viscounty that is not an enclave!! ”
"Of course we thought about it. Otherwise, we wouldn't have proposed such a compensation plan in the previous meeting! Another nobleman also stood up and said to Yugluna and Grand Duke Vilka.
"So, what do you nobles want to do with those two young ladies!?" Yugluna slapped the table hard and asked angrily.
"For us, Yalu is very weak now, and the army is only [Pan] and a few viscounts' armies, and the total number of people is less than 10,000. And Errepos, although the elite suffered heavy losses this time, the armies of the various counties in his country did not move. The army now has nearly 30,000 cavalry and 7,000 infantry. At first glance, we are not at all comparable to the power of Errebos...... But! We Yaru are in the interior of Mirakaisa! Erebos is on the outside, and they will be in the early summer fighting against the invasion of the Alpha Empire. We can rely on this time to bring the refugees of Tartarus and Errepos over and let them join our Yaru Duchy and become Yaru, so as to restore some of the country's strength! When the time comes, Errepos will try to threaten us again, and he will weigh himself!! ”
Hearing the words of the two nobles, Yugluna frowned and asked very dissatisfied, "How can you be sure that Errebos will not use troops against us between now and early summer?" ”
"General, I wonder if you're overthinking? Now that the cavalry regiment of Decalion has suffered heavy losses, and Yugsotus has almost been destroyed, and their army of Erebos does not return to replenish its army and prepare to defend against foreign enemies, what is the reason for us to move against Yaru? ”
"Second viscount, you are quite right. But you forgot one thing! ”
"What?"
"The Grand Duke of Erebos is very young, only twelve or thirteen years old, so a lot of things in Erebos are the result of the deliberations of the Earls and Viscounts of Erebos. Among them, the two who had the greatest influence on Errepos were Viscount Lu Ming and Count Lothric. One of them is the founder of the (Hunters) organization, the headmaster of the Prometheus School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and the other is an advisor to the Grand Duke. If the two of them agree that we will not compensate enough, they will definitely advocate the continued use of troops against us! Because, these two are radical aristocrats! ”
"......" The two nobles couldn't help swallowing their saliva when they heard this...... (To be continued.) )