Chapter 353: Choosing a Target
It's been a full month since Ironforge returned to Riptide Castle, and during that time, Leo spends the rest of his time with Scarlett, except for the two hours he spends every day absorbing various magical ideas from Gotic.
Don't think crookedly, Leo isn't thinking about the kind of embarrassing things that little pot friends shouldn't know all day long, but doing serious things.
Scarlett's coronation date has been set, and it is important for the female knight to be crowned king and become Her Majesty the Queen of Araso. As the so-called name is not right, it is not good, many things you want to do must have a reasonable reason, don't you see that the ancestors also have to talk about being a famous teacher?
As long as Scarlett is successfully crowned, Riptide Castle can justifiably command the entire Aratho, and when the time comes, all those who disobey the orders can be convicted, instead of trying to take them down as they do now, but being blocked back by a sentence What power do you have to control me.
It takes force to govern a country, but you can't always use force to govern a country well. A big fist is hard power, but if others resist softly, do you really slaughter his whole family one by one?
When it comes to governing the country, Leo has a headache and says that he doesn't understand it at all, but it doesn't matter, as long as the people of the Lothar family understand, as long as Scarlett understands.
"As for me, I'll wait now to be the prince of the kingdom of Araso."
As Leo whispered these words in Scarlett's ear, two red glows flew over the knight's face, and she struggled to break free from someone's hands and fled, a smug laugh rang out behind her.
After coming to this world and struggling for so long, I finally want to live a life of surname Fu, and when I think that the beautiful female knight is about to become my own woman, someone begins to giggle.
"Master, there's something here that you need to look at."
Dragonakus appears next to Leo, and the Twilight Dragon has information from Fatola.
The Syndicate is an organization that is not strong in terms of force, but it is very powerful in terms of intelligence, and Leo has known their whereabouts from the moment two powerful human stalkers set foot on the continent of Kalimdor through the goblin airship.
Pasonia and Worthon had already gone to find the suspected Varian Lagash as they had planned, and the two humans had gone deep into the tribal territory, and they couldn't reveal their whereabouts, so it would take two or three months just to travel, plus trying to contact Lagash and then confirm his identity, it would not be possible to do it in half a year.
Half a year is enough time for Leo to do a lot of things.
Sister Pasonia, don't blame me for being scheming. The White Lady deliberately deceived Xu Xian's umbrella in the rain, wished Yingtai the eighteenth phase to send fashion crazy and stupidly teased Brother Liang, the Seven Fairies blocked Dong Yong's way, and the Cowherd took advantage of the Weaver Girl to take a bath and take away her clothes...... These stories tell us that at the beginning of something between men and women, there must always be a trick first. I didn't even get it at the beginning, just because I didn't know how to play tricks.
In fact, it sounds good to say that it is scheming, but to put it bluntly, it is to play hooligan.
"Tell Fastola to pay more attention to the gladiator named Lagash, and the situation in Araso can't be relaxed, it won't be long before Scarlett is crowned, I don't want any accidents."
Leo gave a few words to Dragonakoth, who bowed and retreated.
The coronation of Scarlett of the Lothar family, which is something that many people do not want to see, although there is now a legend in Riptide Castle that has a strong man sitting in the town and is in an advantage in strength, but who can guarantee that there will be no accidents? If someone makes a scene at the coronation ceremony, it will have a huge impact on Scarlett's reign in the kingdom of Araso.
This is something that Leo will never allow to happen.
However, many things do not depend on the will of one person, and as the day of Scarlett's coronation gets closer and closer, the atmosphere of Riptide Castle becomes more and more festive, and the undercurrent hidden in the shadows becomes more and more turbulent.
When the news of the Summoner's Legion's recruiting office suddenly reached Leor's ears that several priests were obstructing the recruitment, he knew that some people couldn't bear it anymore and began to tempt.
I've already cleaned the inside of Riptide Castle, isn't it too late for you to make a scene?
A cold smile appeared on Leo's face, hadn't you heard the saying that a strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake?
"The Cathedral of Light has been tied up by the political strife in Stormwind, and now they don't have the energy to come to us for trouble, ignore those priests, and test them if someone applies. I'm here to see how long they can sing this one-man show. ”
If the paladins were still a deterrent to adventurers who were eager to join the Summoner Legion and become spellcasters, but now that there are priests who have always been benevolent and kind to the outside world, it is completely different. Who is the world bullying? It's you who bullies.
I wonder if these priests will tear off their masks of kindness and show their violent side to the world when they find that no adventurer is paying attention to them?
It must have been a very interesting scene.
As Leo expected, the cold treatment of these priests to obstruct the recruitment of the Summoners was effective, and the adventurers were a little afraid at first, but when the first person to eat the crab had the audacity to ignore the priest's dissuasion and entered the recruiter army's recruiting office, the worries were gradually put aside.
A few priests were helpless, although the strength of these adventurers who went to serve as soldiers was not taken into account by them at all, they couldn't do it at all, and the kind image that the Holy Light Cathedral had preached for so many years could not be destroyed in their hands.
If they can't do it, and the adventurers don't bird them, what else can they do?
After realizing that staying here had no effect, several priests had to leave.
In the tentative exchange of the first round, Leo won.
Blocking the Summoner's Legion from recruiting was not working, and some of them turned their attention to the goblins.
Now the reconstruction of Fort Riptide is still continuing, repairing the city, building a seaport, military consumption and so on all depend on the purchase of supplies from the Blackwater chaebol, once the Blackwater chaebol cuts off the material supply, the progress of Fort Riptide in all aspects will come to a standstill, and then they will have a reason to delay the coronation of Scarlett. It can even be used to question the Lothars' ability to govern and reduce their prestige in the kingdom.
It's a pity that when they secretly contacted the Blackwater chaebol, the other party said that there was nothing they could do, because Riptide Castle had already signed a very detailed contract with them. Although the goblins love money and are greedy for money, they are known as gold coin locusts, but their reputation is not to be said, and these people are easy to say that they have tried their best to make the Blackwater chaebol hesitate.
When the syndicate sent this information to Leo, Leo was disdainful of discussing with Gotick how best to use the curse to scare the people. As a person who has crossed over from a developed business society, how can he forget such a thing as signing a contract?
"A group of sneaky guys, they can only secretly make small stumbling blocks, what kind of climate can they become?"
Leo made such an evaluation, and he didn't want to think that if these guys could really become a climate and get on the table, he couldn't be so leisurely now, but had a headache to find a way to deal with it.
Their own troubles are easy to solve, and the biggest obstacle is Stormwind because of the infighting between the royalists and the noble powerhouses, which makes them have no time to take care of the changes in Arasuo, and Alatho's opposition is quickly crushed at the beginning of Leo's return, but the external enemy is not so easy to deal with.
The Undercity has increased its forces to Hammer Town!
As Scarlett's coronation was approaching, Sylvanas, the Banshee King, sent troops to Hammer Town once again. With more armies of the Forsaken thrown in, the situation in the Arathi Heights became tense again.
"While we have a channel of communication between us and the Forsaken through Silvermoon City, that won't sway Sylvanas' decision, and you're going to fight a battle to swear authority after your coronation, and this battle will be targeted in Hammerfall Town. If we were to unite with the Ninth Legion, it would be difficult for the Forsaken to effectively stop our attack with the strength of the Forsaken in the Arathi Heights. ”
Leo pointed to the map of the Arathi Heights and discussed with Scarlett, from which it can be seen that the current Arathi Heights have presented a situation of confrontation between the north and the south.
The Forsaken of the Undercity control the northern regions of Northford, Dabire, and Geshak, with Hammerfall in the north of the Arathi Highlands and Tarummere in the north of Hillsbrad as the ends of a straight line; The kingdom of Alaço, on the other hand, centered on Fort Riptide in the south of the Highlands, and linked by the dwarves of Dangalok, connected the town of Nanhai in the south of Hillsbrad, and controlled the southern part of the Alathi Highlands and the hills of Hillsbrad, and took all the coastlines of these two places into its own control.
If you add in the Ninth Legion, which is stationed in Deadwood Village, and Dammod, which controls the Sador Bridge, the Undercity will not have any advantage in this battlefield without sending reinforcements to the Forsaken.
Scarlett looked at the map and kept measuring, and to be honest, she didn't want to fight this battle. It's not that she's timid, it's about the big picture. Now that she is about to become the queen of Araso, she can no longer think as one-sidedly as she used to. In the past, she was an officer and only needed to charge into battle and march into battle, but now she is the queen, and the development of the kingdom and the survival of the people are the most important issues for her to consider.
To fight the Forsaken in order to swear authority, and to consume the vitality that the Kingdom of Araso had so hard to recover, is not what a wise king should do. But how not to fight this battle, how to swear her authority, you must know according to the convention...... Well, many times the power of tradition cannot be ignored, otherwise many problems will arise, especially if someone is digging into the hollow mind to cause you trouble.
"Heading north will touch the sensitive nerves of the Forsaken and cause a great war, which is not in Arathso's interest, so what if we change places?"
Leo said, gesturing to a corner of the map.
Scarlett's eyes lit up as she looked in the direction Leo was pointing.
"Our navy has just been formed, attacking here in the name of training the combat strength of the navy, a brilliant idea!"
(To be continued)