The Northern Duchy Federation, the full name of which is the Alliance of the Thirty-Six Northern Duchies, is a powerful principality federation formed around the Church of the God of War, radiating and controlling more than a dozen smaller principalities in the surrounding area, and developing with the lifelong goal of becoming the second theocratic kingdom in the Miracle Continent. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, all this is in the past tense.

After a crucial battle that was privately called the "War of Destiny" by many behind-the-scenes powerhouses in the Miracle Continent, although it once led to the weakening of the Church of the God of War and the stagnation of the Northern Duchy Federation. But it is a pity that the St. Joels Empire, which is the most qualified and opportunity to eat the entire Northern Duchy Federation, has also fallen into various chaotic situations, resulting in the complete loss of this opportunity to conquer the opponent.

Then, under the leadership of Emily, the holy daughter of the God of War Church, not only did the God of War Church re-emerge with a tough attitude, but even the Northern Duchy Federation completed the transformation as if it was reborn from the ashes.

Today, the Northern Duchy Federation has become the second theocracy kingdom on the Miracle Continent: the Kingdom of the God of War - in a sense, the Holy Maiden of the Church of the God of War. Emily also achieved the great feat that the Church of the God of War had longed for for thousands of years.

However, as the second theocracy kingdom, the God of War Kingdom is more extreme than the St. Joels Empire in some measures.

For example, the Kingdom of the God of War does not have the position of king.

The highest authority of the kingdom is the Church of the God of War, and the Church of the God of War abolished the position of pope, and the Holy Maiden presides over the supreme authority of the church and also serves as the king. All the territories of the thirty-six duchies returned to the Church of the God of War, and the top leaders of the original thirty-six duchies, the thirty-six archdukes, retained their titles, but no longer enjoyed the power of dividing the kingdom's territories: in other words, if the thirty-six archdukes wanted to divide their territories among their vassals, they could only divide them from their own direct territories.

Instead, Emily has the power to divide and reclaim the entire kingdom of the god of war: this greatly strengthens the piety of the god of war's followers.

However, in order to protect the rights and interests of the original Grand Dukes, the Kingdom of the God of War also made a promise: if no meritorious achievement is significant enough to be recognized by more than half of the Grand Dukes, any subject of the God of War Kingdom will be awarded the highest title of Duke. For example, the Duke's direct domain is only two-thirds of that of the Grand Duke, and the Duke's commercial and agricultural taxes and territorial taxes are 15 percent per year, while the Grand Duke is 10 percent, and the Grand Duke can have up to two duty-free caravans of no more than four carts.

The tariff system, which is an important source of tax revenue in the Kingdom of the God of War - at least during the Commonwealth of the Northern Duchy, and in order to protect the rights and interests of these nobles, Emily did not abolish this system, but strictly limited the tariff setting.

After Emily's series of reforms, the aristocracy of the God of War Kingdom can obtain more obvious benefits than other countries, and a perfect pyramid of power has also brought cohesion, upward spirit and many other morale and fighting spirit improvements to the God of War Kingdom.

And it is precisely because of this series of new reform policies that the God of War Kingdom has been able to develop into a giant in just a few years - in the new era opened up by Sean, the God of War Kingdom has also become a hegemon with the qualifications to compete for the empire.

Of course, this excision is not only due to the reform of the new policy, but also inseparable from the extremely powerful military capabilities of the God of War Kingdom.

Even the most representative of the six people are called the "Six Divine Generals" by the people of the God of War Kingdom.

Grand Duke of War. Tinny: One of the six generals, the family knight who originally swore allegiance to Emily, the god of war knight who believed in the god of war Marz, regarded Emily's life as everything, not only Emily's sword, but also Emily's shield. Accepted by William, the military commander who was only a Void Duchy at the time. The training of generals secretly sent by Yale, after Emily launched a drastic reform of the entire God of War Kingdom, took over the position of the commander of one of the original three major legions of the God of War Church, the War Legion, and then went through hundreds of battles in two years without defeat, and was honored as the "Son of the God of War".

Fear of the Grand Duke. Arkham. Soss: One of the six generals, a young man who died next to the original Soth family, has very good command and management skills, and became the only two survivors with Joanna after Akaz Beisen went through Ruiz's conspiracy, and then took refuge in Emily under Sean's hint. When Emily reformed and rebuilt the entire God of War Kingdom, she took over as the captain of the Predator Legion, one of the three major legions of the God of War Church.

Death Archpublic. Settled. Semys: One of the six generals, the former Earl of the Principality of Jordan Hercarrom, after marrying the second daughter of the Grand Duke of the Principality of Jordan, gave up taking over as the Grand Duke of the Principality of Jordan, and instead when Emily needed a good general, Mao recommended himself to become one of the three major legions of the Church of War, the commander of the Sanctioner Legion. Unlike the other two legions, the Sanctioner Legion is often used in wars to punish infidel forces, and the legion is almost entirely composed of the most devout fanatics, which makes the Sanctioner Legion the least tactically demanding, and almost every battle results in a situation of rivers of blood and corpses, and thus settles. Semys is known as the "Grand Duke of Death".

Aegis of the God of War. Joanna: One of the six generals, a warrior of the mercenary group formed by Arkham, although the name is quite feminine, but he is an out-and-out man, with a body so big that he can almost compare to the bearman, and can wield a giant tower shield weighing hundreds of kilograms with one hand, while also using a war halberd flexibly. Since Dinny took over the position of the commander of the three legions, he replaced Dinny as Emily's shield, replaced Shawshank's original captain of the Ares Knight Guard, and was responsible for the security of the entire Church of War.

Sword of the God of War. Shawshank: One of the six generals, the former God of War knight who was exiled to a remote town because of the depravity and collusion within the God of War Church, has excellent command ability, and is very righteous and mission-oriented. After Emily took over the power of the God of War Church, she was reused by Emily, first serving as the captain of the Ares Knights' guard unit, and then after Emily gathered many potential seeds baptized by the God of War Hall, she served as the commander of the newly formed special unit: War Maniacs, responsible for the special operations of the God of War Kingdom.

Shadow of the God of War. Sarah: Known as "Emily's Shadow", the woman who commands Emily's Praetorian Guard: the Goddess of War. If Joanna is Emily's shield in the open, then Sarah is Emily's shield in the backlight, which has always been hidden and rarely seen her shoot, but in fact she is the second strongest person in the entire God of War kingdom after Emily, with amazing swordsmanship skills, even Shawshank and Dinny have to call her teacher. Because the identity is quite mysterious, it has always been rumored that it is the guardian spirit given to Emily by the God of War, and it is actually a commander secretly arranged by William, who was responsible for teaching relevant tactics and strategy courses at first, and then was responsible for liaison with the Void Duchy and the intelligence work of the God of War Kingdom, and was one of the orphans adopted by Sean and William when they first formulated the Void Intelligence Network plan.

It is precisely because of the existence of the so-called Six Divine Generals that the development of the God of War Kingdom can be so stable and rapid, and even brought unparalleled strong pressure to the Saint Joles Empire.

This time, the St. Joels Empire secretly sent an envoy delegation to the God of War Kingdom, which is the best proof - if it is the St. Joels Empire before the outbreak of the War of Fate, not to mention whether the God of War Kingdom has a chance to complete this transformation, even if there is, it is unlikely to bring much pressure to the St. Joels Empire. Because the Saint Joel Empire has always been fighting on multiple fronts: constantly fighting with the Northern Duchy Federation, the predecessor of the God of War Kingdom, constantly fighting with the Maggie Empire, fighting with the death thorns, fighting with the undead in the northern black soil, and fighting with the infidels in the northwest, but it has never shown the slightest fatigue, but in addition to the battlefield with the Maggie Empire, the other battlefields are all with a strong advantage to gain the upper hand.

But this time, the St. Joels Empire could not continue to maintain this huge advantage.

The reason is simple.

Cecilia appeared in the royal capital of the Maggie Empire, St. Maggie.

The appearance of this kind of move, in the eyes of the St. Joels Empire, as long as the people of the Maggie Empire are not brainless, then the alliance between the Void Empire and the Maggie Empire is a sure result. In particular, Cecilia has another identity: the orphan of the former Grand Duke of the Duchy of Lembel.

And the reason why the Duchy of Rumber rebelled and killed the former Grand Duke was completely the secret instruction and support of the St. Joels Empire.

It can be said that Cecilia and the St. Joels Empire have an indirect blood feud. So even if this time, the Void Empire is nominally coming to attack the Principality of Rumber and trying to recover the old land, but the Saint Joels Empire is absolutely impossible to interpret so simply, they must be prepared for the Void Empire to attack the Saint Joels Empire after taking the Principality of Rumbel. Even, after taking the Duchy of Lunbel, it may not only be the Void Empire that will attack the Saint Joles Empire, but also the Maggie Empire.

In view of this situation, the St. Joles Empire also had to send an envoy to the Kingdom of the God of War.

Because although the current God of War Kingdom is only called a kingdom, in fact, under the rapid expansion of the past few years, the God of War Kingdom has a military strength no less than that of the Void Empire, and the imperial name of the Void Empire is really being fought in countless wars.

In the face of the attacks of three empires at the same time, there is absolutely no empire on the Miracle Continent today that can dare to win, whether it is the old military power of the Chainas Empire, the thousand-year Covenant Empire, known as the war monster, the Emilia Empire, known as the wall of the continent, and the Maggie Empire, which sits on the legacy of a vast magical empire. The only difference is how long they can resist in the face of an invasion by the powerful forces of the three empires.

As long as he thought of the Void Empire, a mad dog that stirred up trouble in the Southern Continent, suddenly came to the Northern Continent to bite people, and what was even more outrageous was that they had successfully won the trade capital that countless empires had dreamed of, and easily established a logistics supply line across the entire continent, the Pope of the St. Joels Empire was depressed and wanted to vomit blood.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no god of luck in the Miracle Continent, the pope of the St. Joels Empire would have thought that the people of the Void Empire had grown up drinking the milk of the goddess of luck.

This **** luck is estimated to be a unique luck for the ages.

……

Different from the previous envoy visits, because the envoys of the St. Joels Empire came in secret, and they had already informed the supreme power of the current God of War Kingdom in advance: the Holy Maiden. Emily, so naturally the council is set up in the Temple of the God of War.

For such an important meeting, the six gods naturally needed to be present.

It's just that the three legions were all on a mission, and the St. Joels Empire's notice was too sudden, so the three legion commanders were not present. If it weren't for the convenience of the teleportation magic array, even the other Grand Dukes would probably not be able to participate - although the Kingdom of the God of War has become a theocratic dictatorship, in order to create the illusion of the previous Federation, the Grand Duke's Council was specially established, with a total of forty-eight seats.

In addition to the thirty-six Grand Dukes of the former Northern Duchy Federation, the other twelve who received the title of Grand Duke were the Six God Generals, the four surrounding principalities that joined the God of War Kingdom before its creation, and the two nobles who were exceptionally promoted due to various merits.

However, in the Temple of the God of War, there were actually only forty-six people.

In addition to the forty-two aristocratic archdukes, the remaining four are Joanna, Sarah, Shawshank, and Emily.

In the Temple of the God of War, because the guests have not yet arrived, there is a lot of discussion.

However, the theme basically revolves around the significance of the old rival of the St. Joels Empire this time: to be able to become a member of the Grand Duke's Council, the brain is naturally easy to use, basically all the Grand Dukes can guess its meaning, but there are different opinions on the meaning of the move, and the benefits derived from this are naturally strange, but on the whole, it is beneficial to the God of War Kingdom, unlike the Northern Duchy Federation when it only considered itself.

Emily, who sat on the main seat of the temple, did not open her eyes, as if she was closing her eyes to recuperate.

The dukes below have long been accustomed to Emily, who has become more and more indifferent over the years, so they are naturally not surprised by Emily's behavior.

But in fact, Emily is not closing her eyes at the moment, but fighting against Marz spiritually.

After so many years of mental torture, it has never worn away Emily's will in the slightest, but Marz's divine aura is getting weaker and weaker - if Emily hadn't deliberately saved Marz's life, Marz would have fallen half a year ago. It can almost be said that Emily can take Marz's place at any time and become the new god of war, taking over everything from Marz at any time.

"I promised you to become the god of war, and I succumbed to you and became a god, why don't you still agree!"

In Emily's mind, the furious roar of Martz never stopped.

"Kill you, and I'll be able to take over everything from you, won't I?" Emily's voice was very cold, and she did not move in the slightest, "Marz, you are not as important and irreplaceable as you think. ”

"Woman!" Marz's voice, turning into thunder and torrential rain, raged in Emily's mind.

But this level of mental torture is nothing to Emily now, not only did her face not change in the slightest, but even her voice was as calm as ever: "I saved your life, just because I don't want to take your place as the new god of war now, not that I can't kill you." …… So you and I know all the things you do. ”

"What did I do!?" "How many times in all these years have I not proposed to you that we join forces!" But how do you answer? ”

"The Church of Holy Marz, the Church of War, the Cult of the Battle God...... Do you think I really don't know anything? Emily said coldly, with a hint of disdain in her tone, "I know that you often use the gap between me to suppress your will to send a message to the outside world, and to transmit power to those cultists you have chosen, so that they can form the so-called 'Authentic Church of the God of War' to try to overthrow my rule, but I don't care, because those cultists can be the actual combat training targets for my legion's recruits." ”

As if shocked by what Emily knew, Marz did not speak for a moment.

Where did the Legion of the Sanctioners come from?

Naturally, it is from these so-called "infidels" that they fight to feed their wars, which is also the consistent policy of the Legion of the Sanctioners. What Marz didn't know was that it was precisely because of the high degree of faith overlap between these "heretics" and the Sanctioner Legion that the Sanctioner Legion had a steady stream of replenishment of troops, because only the soldiers who had experienced these fanatical wars and did not die were the real elite soldiers.

"Before, I can understand that you scoffed at my proposal, after all, you were worried about that demon." Marz's voice seemed to have become a lot softer, but anyone with a discerning eye could hear that in fact he was just suppressing the fury in his heart, "But! Now that demon's aura has suddenly disappeared completely, and he can't manipulate you anymore, what are you still afraid of? …… Afraid of that watcher? Don't say that her strength is inferior to you, just say that the strength she has now is basically given by you, as long as you want, you can withdraw her power at any time, so why do you still obey that demonic heresy! ”

"Do you obey Sean......" Emily muttered softly, then turned to look at Sarah's place, but her eyes were no longer open.

Sarah, who was also closing her eyes and recuperating, seemed to be aware of it, she slowly opened her eyes, and then looked at Emily, who was looking sideways at her. Her emotions are calm and stable, and her eyes are very pure and natural, without the slightest abnormality: there are no doubts, no worries, no confusion, and some are just quiet.

"Now! Now is a great opportunity! Marz's voice was full of a different kind of demagoguery, "As long as you join forces with Old Man Dawn's men, you will be able to snipe that demon's subordinates well!" I've heard that that expeditionary force is almost half of the strength of that demon's entire country, as long as their supply lines are cut off, they will be a lone army in the depths, and when the time comes! Then they will all die! ”

"You're pretty well informed."

"Although I am imprisoned by you, I am not blind or deaf! …… The smell of that demon has completely disappeared from this world, as long as it ......"

"Here we are." Before Marz could finish speaking, Emily had already opened her eyes and looked at the door of the Temple of War.

At the moment when Emily opened her eyes, an incomparably powerful aura suddenly escaped from Emily's body, sweeping through the entire hall of the God of War Temple, and the noisy discussion suddenly disappeared completely, and all the Grand Dukes bowed their heads in horror to show their respect for Emily.

The door of the Temple of the God of War opened, and a young man dressed in the white robe of the round-necked high priest, accompanied by two guards in red and black heavy armor, stepped into the hall together.

The two guards were wearing special black heavy armor, and the helmet was a covered sealed helmet, and it was completely impossible to tell the gender and age in the armor. However, this armor has a strange red texture on it, and at this time, these textures seem to have life, exuding a strange red glow. Although neither of them drew their swords and shields, the strong aura exuded by the two of them also made the other Grand Dukes present except for Shawshank, Sarah, Joanna, and Emily feel breathless for a while.

These are two extremely high-level powerhouses!

And there seem to be as many as fifty strong people like this in the Sarah report that Emily received before. It's just that because of Shawshank's previous arrangement, all of these fifty people did not arrive at the Temple of War, and only two of them were able to enter the temple with the messenger who came to negotiate the secret agreement.

Emily's gaze fell on the messenger.

It was a young man who appeared to be less than twenty years old, his face was pale, and he did not know whether it was due to the fatigue of the journey or his own illness. However, his short silver-white hair was like liquid silver, unusually soft and beautiful, coupled with his golden pupils, if it weren't for the narrow corners of his eyes, which made his eyes look extremely sharp, this was also a very handsome young man.

"Honorable War Saintess, please forgive us for taking the liberty of interrupting." As soon as the young man with the status of an envoy entered the hall, he immediately spoke, "I am the envoy of the St. Joels Empire this time, you can call me white. ”

"Then Mr. Bai, tell me your intentions." Emily spoke.

"The Saint Joles Empire wants to be able to form an alliance with the God of War Kingdom." Bai said straightforwardly, "I believe that you should already know about the Void Empire Expeditionary Force, and now Cecilia, the Phoenix Queen of the Void Empire, is on an envoy to the Maggie Empire, and it is rumored that the two countries are acting for the sake of alliance. ”

"You really don't know how to negotiate, Mr. Bai." Emily chuckled, she didn't know that Cecilia was on her way to Maggie's empire, "Aren't you afraid that my lion will open his mouth so quickly after all the hole cards are exposed?" ”

"Negotiation is not something I'm good at." Shiro shrugged, "But there's such a thing as a lion opening his mouth...... We, the St. Joles Empire, have come with sincerity, and we hope that the Holy Maiden will listen to our advice. ”

"I'm more curious about what you're good at than advice."

"Solve some troubles for the Saint Joels Empire, just like now." Bai continued, "The dispute between the Saint Joels Empire and the God of War Kingdom has been continuous, and I know that this has actually caused some damage to the friendship between both of us, so this time I have come with a lot of sincerity, hoping to resolve the misunderstanding between our two countries. ”

"What kind of sincerity?"

Looking at Emily, Bai didn't have the slightest fear, but said in a deep voice: "If the God of War Kingdom can not start a war from the side when a war breaks out between us and the Void Empire, then we will completely evacuate the garrison of the Kuvar Corridor. ”

"Hmm......" Hearing this, even Emily couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

The Kuvar Corridor is a grassland terrain located between the Kingdom of the God of War and the St. Joels Empire, where hundreds of thousands of elite church cavalry troops of the St. Joels Empire are stationed, and it has always been the influence radiation center of the St. Joels Empire on several surrounding kingdoms and principalities, and it is also a strategic point and war front line of the St. Joels Empire's annexation plan to the Northern Duchy Federation.

Even in today's God of War Kingdom, as long as it wants to expand, the Kuvar Corridor is still an unavoidable strategic threat point - unless the God of War Kingdom wants to expand westward and fight the Emilia Empire.

Therefore, the St. Joels Empire ceded the Kuvar Corridor, then this is equivalent to giving up the remote control and surveillance of at least two surrounding kingdoms and four principalities, which is equivalent to giving the six countries of the God of War Kingdom - the God of War Kingdom has been trying its best to spread faith to these six countries, just because the garrison of the St. Joels Empire stationed in the Kuwar Cloister has had little effect.

"Promise him!" In Emily's mind, Marz began to hiss and roar again.

"Well, you can indeed see the sincerity, but this sincerity is not too big." Emily chuckled.

If there is a first buffer zone, there will naturally be a second buffer zone.

It is not for nothing that the St. Joels Empire has been able to occupy a hegemonic position in the Northern Continent for so many years, and it is naturally not for nothing that the multi-front battle is still standing. Putting aside the incomparably powerful heritage, in terms of targeting the Northern Duchy Federation, the St. Joels Empire's clamping is not a joke, after removing the Kuvar Corridor, the Twelve Kingdoms Chaos Zone, the Tropic of Cancer, the Templar Mountains, and the Frozen River are also strategic points that the St. Joels Empire painstakingly built step by step against the Northern Duchy Federation.

"Indeed, so I suggest you listen to my next proposal."

"You want my God of War Kingdom to cooperate with your expeditionary force to flank the Void Empire." Emily looked at Bai with a smile, but out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at Sarah, but saw that Sarah's expression was still as calm as ever.

"It's easy to communicate with someone as wise as the Holy Maiden, and my second suggestion is true." Bai nodded, not denying this, in fact, as long as he is a normal person, he can guess this.

"What about sincerity?"

"To the west of the Frozen River, all the garrisons of the St. Joels Empire have been evacuated." He said directly without blinking.

If the withdrawal of the Kuvar Corridor is equivalent to giving up six more faith spreading places in the God of War Kingdom, then the withdrawal of the St. Joels Empire west of the Frozen River is equivalent to giving up the entire more than 20 countries west of the Frozen River. And most importantly, after crossing the Frozen River, it is the birthplace of the St. Joels Empire, and before it goes all the way east to the Holy Light Plain, the St. Joles Empire can no longer be defended.

This concession is not something that can be described by the word "sincerity", but it should be said that it is a big gamble and gift.

All the Grand Dukes, who knew the key to it, couldn't help but become short of breath at this time.

The area west of the frozen river is all ceded, this is the spread of dozens of faith areas, and with the spread of these faith areas, it is only a matter of time before the God of War Kingdom becomes an empire, and there is nothing on the Northern Continent that can suppress the rapid development of the behemoth of the God of War Kingdom.

In Emily's mind, Marz was already going crazy.

"Don't forget, you're just a checkmate god!" Unable to stand the mad roar of Marz, Emily finally had to open her mouth and shout angrily.

"Promise him! Promise him! The rise of the Church of the God of War is no longer a dream! "As long as you promise him another year at most, you will become the most powerful god-king, and even if that demon appears again, he will not be able to help you!" And you won't have to look at anyone anymore! Even, you may have a chance to annex the old man of Dawn together, and then you will be able to control the St. Joels Empire! Promise him! Woman! ”

"God-King ......"

"Yes! God-king, king of gods! Since Ragnarok, there has been no king for gods! And you! And you will have a chance to become king again! ”

Emily's sudden silence naturally made the people around her begin to misunderstand: no matter who such a huge benefit is, it is impossible not to be moved. All the Grand Dukes' faces showed extremely excited looks, even Joanna and Shawshank were not exempt.

Even Sarah, a trace of strange mood swings finally appeared in her calm eyes, but they were quickly suppressed by her re-restraint: because the trace of emotional fluctuations in her heart at this time was not excited and excited. (To be continued.) )