The moonlight shone brightly on the land, and the Emerald City ushered in a rare noisy night.

The fragrance of flowers permeated the square, and the gorgeous stage attracted everyone's attention. Dozens of mages waved their staffs lightly, colorful lanterns rose and swirled and jumped in the air, and the hazy colors illuminated everyone who came to watch.

This is the stage that belongs to Xia Han.

After two years of trials and hardships, he is no longer the child who is slaughtered, and his growth in terms of prestige and strength is enough to shock the world.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?"

The VIP area on the side of the stage suddenly became agitated, and someone noticed that King Xia Ming appeared there.

"I'll see what he's capable of, why are you here?"

Xia Ming frowned, and looked coldly at the nobleman who recognized him: "Could it be that the ticket that your wife bought was for you?" ”

"No, no, Your Majesty!" The nobleman who was over half a hundred years old wiped his sweat and was anxious: "I'm just here to investigate the situation." ”

This is obviously a lie, but at this time, Xia Ming is not easy to attack in front of everyone, he saw many sneaky figures in the VIP area, and his heart was greatly annoyed, but he could only press on - the singing began.

The sprayed fog obscured the stage, and the shadows of people gradually appeared in the fog. Some people say that special effects are to make the audience unable to distinguish the real from the fake, and the magic of this world can do this easily, and in the blurred and illusory colors, Xia Han appears.

He was not flamboyant, but when all the lights shone on the pale white sleeves, he seemed to turn into a glamorous faith in the eyes of the whole venue. "Princess!" "Princess!!" A loud shout erupted in the venue, and Xia Ming was surprised to find that these people were very fanatical, and some of them were even hoarse.

"Good evening, everyone"

Xia Han began to speak the opening words, but when the magic transmitted her voice and image farther away, she said, "I sing a song tonight—the King of glory." ”

This sentence shocked people, and it is not surprising that Xia Han sings only one song every night when he arrives in a new city. However, the name of his song tonight made the nobles' eyes widen and their faces full of incredulity.

The song looks like it's going to praise the king from the name, is this little princess stupid?

"You are the King of Glory and the Lord of Peace"

However, the singing voice was still leisurely, and this song in praise of the king made many people's eyes glazed, and even Xia Ming was stunned for a long time. But they strangely didn't hear the harsh words from the crisp timbre.

"Your Majesty, this song is really good."

"Well, I didn't expect a puppet to have merit as well."

Xia Ming was a little fluttering in his singing, and in his opinion, the frenzied atmosphere in the whole venue was no longer for Xia Han, but for the song praising the king on his lips - didn't this mean to tell the people that he was a great king?

"You are the Lord of heaven and earth, and you alone are holy and righteous."

The singing continued, but as time went on, Xia Ming gradually realized that something was wrong. His face grew heavier and redder

"Humph!" Xia Ming slapped the stool suddenly, got up and left angrily.

"Your Majesty!" The nobles around him hurriedly chased after him, and he wiped his cold sweat while thinking about countermeasures. After listening to such a long song, this nobleman certainly understood the reason for Xia Ming's anger.

The King of Glory - This is a song of praise to the king, yes, but none of the deeds in it are in line with the current king. The scene of the king heroically killing the enemy is mentioned several times in the song, which is not uncommon in the world, but Xia Ming has not been on the battlefield once since he succeeded to the throne.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I have an idea!"

The nobleman rolled his eyes and spoke, and Xia Ming stopped to look at him.

"Your Majesty, it is better for you to lead the team in person to eradicate the alien race this time." Seeing Xia Ming stop, the nobleman hurriedly proposed: "Personally leading the team can greatly increase your prestige, even if you decide to execute the little princess after you come back, no one should object-after all, she asked you to mobilize the people to go in person!"

Xia Ming's eyes flashed, and he muttered for a moment.

"Makes sense." He said so.

Neither of them took the alien threat seriously, and the decision they made was fatally wrong.

After the concert, Xia Han left the stage with a smile, and a gorgeous figure blocked in front of him.

"Why do you want to sing this song?" The imperial princess Xia Yun asked him, she looked a little thin under the moonlight, and her face was not as intimate as at noon.

No matter what the king is, he is Xia Yun's biological father after all.

"Beast-eared human beings, these alien races, sister knows, right?" Xia Han was unhurried: "The curtain of yellow sand that has been raging for many years has covered the Demon Bone Desert, I think you should send someone to investigate"

He took a few steps forward and looked at Xia Yun: "But I didn't see any movement from you, obviously not worried about the results of the investigation." ”

"However," Xia Han smiled, with a slight contempt, "I think you guys are underestimating them. ”

Even the door of the plane was not found, although Xia Han had expected that the beast clan also had a spell to hide the army, but it also reflected that the king Xia Ming did not really send the power to search.

He was disappointed.

"I sang that song to satirize the king, and also to provoke and induce him to lead his troops into battle." Xia Han's face was not guilty, but full of sincerity: "If he takes action personally, even if he doesn't pay attention to the alien race, he will definitely have a strong enough army to accompany him, so that the danger can be eradicated." ”

When Xia Yun heard this, his expression was slightly furrowed: "Why do you want to do this?" ”

In terms of hatred, no one in this world should hate the king more than Xia Han, why should he help the king?

And Xia Han put away his smile, and a few wisps of decline flashed in his eyes.

"I'm different from you, I've met many civilians as I traveled around the continent." His face seemed to be covered with a halo in the moonlight, and his eyebrows were quiet and gentle: "It is always the common people who suffer more sorrow and pain than the hatred of the king."

"I prefer people from this country."

At this moment, Xia Yun seemed to have a warm thing flowing into his heart.

"Summer Cold"

If possible, she would have liked to hug the poor brother, but she gritted her teeth and turned away.

But Xia Han's eyes became cold after she left, the best way to deal with smart people is not to lie, he is not lying, the imperial princess is not so easy to be deceived. However, not telling a lie does not mean that he is telling the truth.

He only said half of it.

And the other half is: even if all human countries are united, they will not be able to occupy the Emerald Empire in a short time, and the orcs in history can do this in a year, and their strength will only be stronger than Xia Han thought.

It's best that Xia Ming can stop the beast clan, and if he can't stop it, it also smooths Xia Han's heart.

The danger of this matter is destined to only be known by Xia Han, no matter how smart Xia Yun is, she will definitely not be able to be as prophetic as Xia Han, she will definitely not be able to imagine how terrifying the enemy will be!

Will the king simply die like this? 】

Xia Han couldn't help but be suspicious.

A few days later, the Imperial King Xia Ming left the Emerald City with an army of 40,000 troops.

The time is the end of August 998 in the bilunar calendar, and according to the year 999, there are only four months left.

Xia Han counted the time with his fingers, and the more he calculated, the colder his heart became-the illustrated book showed that the time for the orcs to destroy the Jade Empire was at the beginning of the 999th year of the double lunar calendar, and there was not much time left.

The Demon Bone Desert is located on the southwest side of the Qilin Continent, passing through the Chengxi Grassland and the Yulin Mountains, and after passing through the Bright Church, it has to cross the Wind Grassland, spanning nearly half the continent.

"Are these troops enough?"

At the top of the Emerald City wall, Xia Han stood with the imperial princess Xia Yun to watch the army leave, followed by some young nobles.

"That's enough." Xia Yun replied coldly, and as soon as her words fell, a nobleman next to her laughed and explained to Xia Han: "Little princess, each territory will also provide troops, and this time Your Majesty's journey to the expedition is far away."

He pondered for a moment and said, "I think that when Your Majesty arrived at the Demon Bone Desert, there would be at least 200,000 troops with him. ”

200,000 troops have taken the situation very seriously against a foreign race, and this scale can even be said to be two countries fighting, Xia Ming's approach can be said to have completely calmed everyone's hearts. It's just that Xia Han doesn't know if he really cares about the threat of the alien race, or if he cares about his own safety.

"Princess, do you understand what the concept of 200,000 is?" The young nobleman's attitude towards Xia Han was not consistent, and at this time, an angry young man came out: "Your father buried the elite of the empire in vain eight years ago, and because of what you said to the outside world, now the empire has sent another 200,000"

"Shut up!"

Xia Yun turned around suddenly, and the young man's mouth came to an abrupt end in her cold, murderous aura. At this moment, Xia Yun's face was frosty for some reason, and his right hand was pressed on the long sword, and his momentum was shocking.

[Sixth Order? 【Not at least a seventh-order warrior!】 】

Horror flashed in Xia Han's heart, although the cultivation speed of human beings is fast, there are very few people who can reach the seventh order before they reach adulthood - Xia Yun has always been famous for her ruling talent, but she didn't expect that she herself was also a stunning genius warrior.

"How do you understand the cruelty of the war eight years ago, don't say all the elite, even the people of the entire empire will be difficult to survive in the past!"

Xia Yun seemed to remember the battlefield he saw when he was a child, and his expression turned pale: "Don't talk about this anymore!" ”

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then reacted that the eldest princess had personally watched the battle.

"I'm sorry."

He stooped and retreated.

"Isn't this topic interesting?" However, Xia Han didn't seem to care about Xia Yun's face, he had a shallow smile on his face: "I also want to know what happened eight years ago, can you tell me?" ”

Xia Han stared at Xia Yun.

He was experimenting, not for the answers he had eight years ago, but to see how Xia Yun would answer his questions. In the past few days, Xia Han has found that Xia Yun's attitude towards him is significantly different from that of others.

[Does she still treat me as a younger brother like she did when she was nine years old?] 】

Xia Han inevitably had such thoughts, but he felt that it was incredible—why would Xia Yun be so good to someone who threatened his position?

"You shouldn't know."

Xia Yun glanced at Xia Han, and his attitude didn't seem to change much: "You haven't seen a battlefield where corpses burn the plains, flames flow with blood, and the smell of blood"

Still, she said something.

"I've seen the battlefield of eight years ago, the battle between a man and an empire, the mountains and fields were full of burning flames, and the people who were alive a moment ago turned into charred black in an instant"

It was just a short word, but the information in the words was enough, Xia Han was sure that his status in Xia Yun's heart was really different from others, and the difficulty of the task he expected might need to be reduced.

[Very good.] 】

Xia Han thought so, and then turned his brain.

"The battlefield is anywhere else, and human life will not be much more expensive than the battlefield." Xia Han looked at the nobles who were dismissive of him, and then turned the topic on them: "As far as I know, on average, each nobleman kills at least 2 commoners in a year. ”

He didn't have accurate figures, but only made an approximation: "There are more than 50,000 nobles of all sizes in the Emerald Empire, which means that more than 100,000 people die in this country every year - this is no less than the number of people who die on the battlefield." ”

"What do you want to say?"

Xia Yun's heart tightened, in fact, Xia Han exaggerated, but the Jade Empire does have a large number of people dying of hunger, poverty, disease, and slavery every year, and the root of these evils can be placed on the nobles.

But this kind of thing is the same in every country, and such a topic should not be brought up.

The cheapest thing in this world is life, and human beings, as the great race of the world, are cheaper than any other race. This cheapness is not due to racial status, but because the death toll of the human race is so large, and the number of people who die every year is even several times greater than that of the elves and the crystal snow clan combined.

Fortunately, the rate of human fertility is amazing, as long as there is a heart, no matter how big the loss is, it can be replenished.

"Nothing."

Xia Han was exploring Xia Yun's true heart - he couldn't see her very clearly. Xia Yun, who has lived in a political environment since she was a child, rarely shows her true thoughts, and her performance seems to be true or false. Her most crucial question, however, is whether she is on the side of the aristocracy or the people.

Xia Han's story mission cannot be abandoned, while his current future is moving towards the king. Regardless of its viable surname, Xia Han must make some preparations now.

The ultimate purpose of the cultivation of the illustrated book is to harvest the world's faith, but the contradiction between the nobles and the commoners has been going on for thousands of years, and it is impossible to reconcile Xia Han and not hope to solve the contradiction, but it is most beneficial for him to stand on the side of the commoners who are 'easily deceived' - the commoners have a large base and are easy to deceive.

Water can carry boats and overturn boats, ordinary people are the foundation, that is to say, Xia Han may have to sacrifice the interests of nobles to achieve peerless miracles.