Chapter 714: San Antonio
San Antonio, an ancient and powerful super-empire, is a strong candidate for the continent's most powerful power.
His territory is huge, including the golden plains of the orc's homeland, the vast mountains of the south, and even a waterfront wetland near the river, which can be said to be rich in products and a large population.
Among the great powers, he is relatively gentle with foreign races, and because the land is too vast, in the fringe gathering places of mankind, there are large areas of foreign gatherings, dwarf gatherings, and dwarf gathering places, and the war potential is extremely amazing.
Their royal family has also been extremely open-minded and strategic, and unlike the usual toughness of the great powers such as Bayer, Oran, Solo Federation, and Ciro in the past, they prefer to use strategy to solve problems.
But compared to the elves who always hit their feet, their diplomatic strategy is quite tactful.
For example, in the north, they supported the Kingdom of Casoran (Duchy), whose Grand Duke also had the status of a nobleman of San Antonio, which was equivalent to building a wall to defend against orcs in the north and inserting a nail in the north.
And when they found that the integration of the Northland could no longer be stopped, under the pressure of other powers, they simply gave up Casoran, and even recalled the generals and San Antonio nobles who were still in the Northland.
Strategically, this is undoubtedly extremely correct, it should be a good thing to shrink their defensive positions before the holy war, and the northern orcs have no need to defend, but they can not hesitate to give up the extra "limbs", but it also proves the wisdom of the decision-maker.
At the beginning of the jihad, they also waged several wars and annexed several small countries, but when the crisis of jihad was determined. But without hesitation, he spit out the territory of those small countries.
The largest population, the largest grain exporter, the strongest industrial potential, the largest economic market. In all respects. San Antonio has a candidate for world premiership.
But over the years, one incident has greatly weakened San Antonio's national strength.
Civil war, apart from it, what else can weaken the national power faster.
The previous emperor, Hunter II, died suddenly, and Prince Winston and Princess Maria went to war for three and a half years, and finally. There are no winners.
The increasingly dire situation made them finally choose to shake hands and make peace, and if I remember correctly, San Antonio is now divided into two major parts by the Golden Aqueduct and the Golden Plain, the upper part belongs to Prince Winston and the lower part belongs to Empress Maria.
Nominally, Empress Mary was the only orthodox, but her decrees were only valid in forty percent of the country, thirty percent of the people, and Prince Winston was the first prime minister of the empire. But in his territory, everyone sees him as an emperor.
It's worth mentioning. Prince Winston is also the leader of the Imperial Knights, with at least seventy percent of the Imperial Knights allegiance to him, while Queen Maria is the most powerful demon warlock in the world, and her caster group and demon legion are also the largest spellcaster legions on the mainland.
Originally, the people were very disgusted with Queen Maria's status as a demon warlock, but in these years of bloody wars, the Demon Queen used the heads of countless demons to prove that she and the abyss were not all the way, and she used the power of the abyss to defeat the abyss, and the effect was very good.
And the most incredible thing for me is that Maria is still the oracle of Ayer, that is, she is deeply loved by the former god of death Ayer, and can even borrow Aye's power, which makes me a little incomprehensible.
I once asked about the god of death in Hades, but I didn't get an answer, and Ayer had no intention of introducing it to Hades, and when someone asked, he always smiled mysteriously.
It's just that now Maria can still borrow from Ayer, which is simply the treatment of her own daughter...... In private, there are indeed boring rumors of illegitimate daughters, but no one takes them seriously.
Closer to home, all of San Antonio is now being invaded by a coalition of trolls and demons.
Queen Maria's territory, the main enemy is the fire demons and flame trolls who have come out of the mountains of Sephelon, where the volcanic belt has become an abyssal sea of fire, from which ignorant polluters and incineration demons are born, and because the empress herself is a demon warlock who "deserves to be purified", her relationship with the Templar is poor and there is no help,
The Amu Mountains are Prince Winston's territory, and they are already the number one meat grinder on the continent, where the main forces of the trolls are there, where the Grand Chief of the Twirkin is also there, where the Templars have built a defensive line, and where the Angelic Warbands have been wiped out three times, and even the fortress has been lost.
In such a background, every day there are knights and mercenaries who ignore the pursuit of dreams, and countless mutilated bodies and corpses are carried off the battlefield every day, and my arrival, the arrival of an ordinary human paladin, did not stir up a single wave.
"War? Far away, the little things on the border, San Antonio will definitely win the final victory. ”
"Have you heard, Her Majesty Mary and Prince Winston have promised that whoever achieves the greatest results in the holy war will be the only master of this land after the war."
Walking into the capital city of Ksdan, the original capital of San Antonio, what you see is not a panicked battlefield scene, the entire capital has just woken up from the New Year, and the city is a scene of peace and prosperity.
Even, quite a few San Antonios thanked the demons and trolls for their arrival, or at least, they got out of that damn civil war.
Their self-confidence and disbelief are confident, and San Antonio's strong comprehensive national strength is one of them, and the war has always been limited to remote mountainous areas, and the great nobles and lords have not yet participated in the war, which also proves their confidence.
The first thing I did when I arrived in the city was to gather information on all sides.
It's not that I have itchy hands and want to do something about the golden-armored demon hunting knight, but the maps and information I got from the sun god Arroyo are too old, at least tens of thousands of years ago, the maps and coordinates have long been 108,000 miles away from reality, I need to look up relevant maps, history, and geographical information to find out the specific location.
And when it comes to the complete information, the historical classics are abundant, and there is a place comparable to the palace.
So, I simply went to the door and happened to meet Prince Winston here to see what kind of person he was.
But he didn't expect that in the royal palace of San Antonio, he met first and was able to meet an unexpected object.
"You're ......."
It was a kind old man, and the eyes of the holy light of the brain were abundant, making people unable to see his face clearly.
Although I hadn't seen it before, his headstickers were all over the continent, and it was unlikely that I would be mistaken.
"The Pope of the Templar Church? Kaloma I? (To be continued.) )