Chapter 112: Trade-offs
The Half Moon Alliance has several principalities, grand duchies, and kingdoms, but in practice these components enjoy a certain degree of autonomy, and the alliance generally does not interfere too much. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
But this does not mean that the Half Moon Alliance is just an empty shelf. Almost one-third of the thousands of miles of land under the direct jurisdiction of the Union were occupied by various types of armies. A large part of this is managed by the Alliance and the Templars according to the agreement, so there are both Light and Neutral races in it, adapting to various combat needs.
Of course, how to balance the power of the two different forces has also become an important part of the upper-level game.
The Consul of the Alliance, Kansa, known as the "dictator in the cloak of enlightenment" and "not crowned emperor", led the alliance for decades with his majesty, quelled large and small rebellions, repelled foreign invasions are no longer a few, and gradually began to enjoy a prestigious reputation in the six and seven kingdoms. Since beating him to power, the Light Race of the Half Moon Alliance has been in a state of complete obedience.
Two years ago, after the Fallen Angels were wiped out and the Night Race was completely defeated, the Half-Moon Alliance, which was least affected by the Night Legion, took advantage of the weakness of other countries after the Battle of New Dawn to expand northward. In Cansa's eyes, the purpose of this expansion was not only to gain new territories, but also to keep his team fighting at bay. He has always believed in a philosophy: either take the initiative to invade or passively be beaten.
Unfortunately, this highly aggressive concept didn't work very well. After a year of war, the Half-Moon Alliance only gained control of a few small towns, and then it was difficult to move forward. In order to avoid the loss of control over the member states due to the long-term use of a large number of troops on expeditions, the consul Kansa heeded the advice of his close ministers and recalled the troops in the north and instead strengthened his control over the member states.
This time, seeing that the purple cardinal Harvey of the Principality of Finier came to ask for help, the Half-Moon Alliance Archon Kansa immediately gave instructions to the Cardinal of the Alliance, asking him to send some of the most elite forces in the Alliance Sanctuary to the Principality of Finir to help the Principality's Light Race exterminate the night forces.
The Cardinal had this to say about Harvey: "It is not an overnight task to completely destroy the forces of the Night in a region. Since the alliance has promised to help, it will definitely be responsible for the whole thing to the end. We will send the best forces to assist you until all the Night Forces that threaten the security of the Duchy are eliminated. ”
However, the light power of the alliance has not yet come out, and the news of being born in the Duchy of Finel has already reached here.
The first news that the alliance learned was that Bishop Harvey had been unilaterally declared out of power by the Principality Sanctuary, and the paladin Herbert became the new bishop with the support of everyone. Hearing this, the aid team that the alliance had planned to send out immediately immediately immediately changed to a state of standby.
And after just one day, a flood of new news about the Duchy of Finel poured in towards the Alliance. The Duchy intended to besiege the Templar in the name of rebellion, and the Marquis of Posaddo rebelled, and the Duke of Baria put down the rebellion......
According to the terms of the alliance's agreement, the supreme leader has the right to turn to the alliance for help if the regime of any member state is in danger of being subverted. However, the principality solved the incident very quickly and did not ask for any assistance.
Eventually, the question came to the Coalition's Archon, Kansa: which side the Coalition should support in this situation.
Will it help Bishop Harvey, who is on the side of the Alliance, or Herbert, a paladin who has just been elected by everyone, or the Duchy government that has just undergone a life-and-death test? Naturally, the old and new Templar leaders would not be on the same page, and the Duchy leaders had a rift in their relations with all the clergy in their territory, and the alliance had to stand on an appropriate side in order to maintain its authority in this complex relationship.
But what exactly is suitable is not so easy to grasp.
Fortunately, the situation on the side of the Duchy of Finnier changed quickly. Not long after the rebellion was quelled, the Archduke Efe, who was very autonomous and rarely bowed to the Alliance, died. On the one hand, the newly succeeded Grand Duke Baria declared all the clergy innocent, and on the other hand, he sent the news to the alliance as soon as possible, and seemed to be more knowledgeable about current affairs than the old fellow of Efe.
Because of this, and the fact that the overall situation on the side of the Duchy of Finnier had been decided, the alliance side immediately recognized the status of the Grand Duke of Baria. The envoy of the Principality came to the alliance on behalf of the new Grand Duke to discuss with each other, and the two sides agreed to continue to support Harvey as his purple bishop. At the same time, it was announced that if the fugitive clergy wished to return to the Duchy, they could maintain their previous status in the Templar without any punishment.
Everything is unfolding in the direction that both sides want.
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A few days later, when Bishop Harvey returned to the city of Ontario with the two hundred priests and paladins promised to him by the Alliance, he saw a devastated scene.
As a principality, if it was invaded by foreign tribes, Ontario would be the last to fall, but this was a high-level coup, so it was unfortunately the only city to be affected.
Many members of the clergy hurried through the streets, but most of them came from other cities, healing the wounded and praying for the dead in a spirit of kindness and fraternity. The principality's security management team also passed by from time to time to maintain law and order in the city.
When the bishop's motorcade entered the Ontario Column, it immediately attracted everyone's attention. However, the first thing everyone notices is not the bishops in the middle, but the paladins who wear the double medals of the Alliance and the Templar. There is no doubt that these guys came here from the Union.
And when the crowd suddenly burst into a shout of "Lord Bishop", the devout believers began to go crazy, looking at Bishop Harvey with tears in their eyes, and constantly drawing five stars on their chests with their right hands.
The reason why the commoners are so fond of their bishop for a while has to say that it has a lot to do with this coup d'état. In the eyes of the civilians, as soon as Bishop Harvey left, Ontaret was occupied by the Night Legion, which shows that the Night Race is still very afraid of the Bishop.
Seeing this, Harvey immediately ordered the team to stop. He got out of the carriage, lifted up an old man who was crawling at his feet with a look of compassion on his face, and then looked at the crowd and said aloud: "I regret what happened in my previous life. When the night came, I couldn't stand here with everyone. But the darkness has passed, and I, as bishop of the First Church of Ontareth, ......"
The light of purification slowly flowed from the hands of the Bishop, and everyone turned their backs upward, as if the light could heal the wounds caused by the disaster.
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