"From today onwards, the city will be renamed Terros!"

Standing on a stone pillar that had collapsed in front of the palace gates, Romerrose made a proclamation to the tens of thousands of men gathered around.

Applause, cheers, stomping, and the sound of swords thumping against shields, armor, and helmets echoed through the sky.

"Long live the Holy Will Empire!

"God bless Romulus! God bless His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Empire! Empire! Empire!"

A little farther up, Li Qi released a floating camera to record this seemingly casual, but destined to go down in history.

Negotiations with Romrose came to an end, and the two sides agreed on an agreement similar to the "Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance".

Richie's side will provide weapons and military advisors to help Romulus build a strong legion as soon as possible. For this reason, Roamrose paid for all kinds of materials that were urgently needed, including but not limited to magic crystals, divine crystals, and high-grade magic metals.

At the same time, Romross was to march eastward, cutting off the road to Helio by Belino's army, and the Fernandes launched a diversionary offensive south of Koster.

Based on an optimistic judgment of the future situation, both sides felt that it was necessary to make some agreements in advance, so they also made a private agreement that a third of the territory of the country would be given to Romroth and the rest to Richie, northwest of the country.

As an extension of this agreement, Romeros expressed respect for Theresia's status as Lord of East Fein, provided that Teresia recognized his Holy Will Empire and respected his status as Lord of West Fein.

If this premise is accepted, then Richie will push for face-to-face negotiations between the two sides at the right time and place to discuss the ownership of Akira and issues related to Keim's will.

Li Qi said to the Crimson Sanctuary beside him, "Constantine, I'll leave it to you here." ”

The attack on Koster is about to begin, and this is not only a military operation, but also a lot of political and civilian work, and Richie will not be able to leave them to Aurora again, and must go back to the town.

Konstantin will remain with Romulos as an advisor, along with Mis, Moore, Maxvi, Evandi, Egsha and Katie, and all the cardinals. Of course, these will not be the only ones on the advisory group, but they will serve as a core liaison group to ensure that there is no communication between Richie and Romrose.

Looking at the girl beside Romerrose who was trying to hide herself in the shadows, Li Qi said again: "Pay attention to that Thewens, if she has any accidents, try to help." ”

Konstantin nodded solemnly, and the magician Egsha still didn't quite understand: "What's so special about that Thevins? ”

Konstantin has a lot of experience and sighed: "That's why she's dangerous." ”

"She's going to be a bellwether for Romulus, I feel that way," said the young but thoughtful Thorn Pastor Maxvi.

In the professional eyes of the deceased Katie, it was effortless to kill Evens, and she muttered puzzledly: "Why can't such a delicate crystal vase be protected." also showed up with a toss. ”

Thorn Fortress Moore shrugged: "It's no good to hurt this Your Majesty's favorite woman, who would do such a thing?"

"When the time comes, it's completely different," said Evendi.

"In the eyes of others, I'm similar to her, right?"

Meese had a completely different idea: "I wish someone had some bad ideas about me, so that they could learn how good I am!"

"I'm sorry, Your Highness Mith, although you are very capable of fighting, we will never give you such a chance. ”

Konstantin has assumed the role of captain: "Our task is first to protect you, secondly to ensure that the cardinal has unimpeded communication with this side, and then to confirm the ...... The condition of this majesty, the concern of this woman, is included in this point. ”

The advance team of the advisory group was discussing in a low voice, and Li Qi was also communicating with the rear through Marth.

"So, I really can't go back to Hadron through the Merchant Temple of the Silver Pine Kingdom?"

Hearing Aurora's briefing, Richie's brow furrowed.

When she was on the phone with Aurora early in the morning, she received a message from the Chamber of Commerce through the Book of Trade Winds and the United Communications Network, declaring that Ms. Crimson and her church had violated the laws of commerce, and that from now on, all commercial temples would no longer provide gold bushel deposit and delivery services for all Crimson believers.

Initially, both Richie and Aurora believed that given that the Chamber of Commerce had never been a close-knit group, there were still many loopholes to exploit even if the oracle issued by the goddess of commerce.

Now that Aurora has received a steady stream of bad news from all sides, all the merchants who were willing to do business with the Divine Fall Plateau, including the little dragon girl, have received a ban from the Temple of Commerce. If they do business with Fei Gong again, the Temple of Commerce will not provide them with gold bushel exchange and delivery services.

Even dragon merchants like Little Dragon Girl rely on the Temple of Commerce to provide exchange and logistics services, so the effect of this ban is real.

"It's easy to settle the matter when you come back, there are only three of us here, but the trade with Romulus will be troublesome. ”

Richie's brows furrowed even deeper, the trade with Romrose was bartering, and it didn't involve gold bushels, but there were logistical problems.

The original idea was to find a mage to build a semi-permanent portal, much like the Storm Islands did to send immigrants to Beta. If not, just like in Valentine before, the little dragon girl helped him transport the personnel of the armored cluster and the materials looted in the Lion King City back to Beta, and set up a temporary large-scale long-duration teleportation circle.

These two paths not only require the consumption of space stone fragments, but also require the assistance of the merchant temple in positioning. Space Stone Fragments are very rare, and only the Merchant Temple will sell them to the public. At the same time, each merchant temple is a spatial node, which can provide a navigation-like reference for large-scale teleportation.

Now the Temple of Commerce is not only stuck on the golden bushels, but also cannot be counted on large-scale teleportation, and can only rely on single person teleportation. However, it is too risky to transport thousands of magic guns, magic cannons, and all kinds of equipment with space rings or other space magic devices.

"No, no, Aurora, don't blame Xiaohong, exposing our contradictions with the Temple of Commerce at this time, although there are some temporary difficulties, but in the long run, it is of positive significance. ”

Aurora remembered the story of the Heavenly Mountain Divine War that Xiaohong told her yesterday, and complained that Xiaohong was too impulsive, but Li Qi rarely defended Xiaohong: "Look, even you understand that those guys in the Temple of Commerce are unreliable and will be our enemies after all." ”

This is not perfunctory, Richie is serious.

Previously, many people, including Aurora, were not wary enough of the Temple of Commerce, believing that it was a neutral force. The Temple of Commerce had also negotiated with the Ferdiners through the Hadron branch to set up a branch in Beta City to provide gold bushel exchange and delivery services.

It was during the War of the Dead, and Li Qi was not there, and most people took it for granted, only Nicole vehemently objected, and then Xiaohong also firmly denied it. To be honest, everyone thought that Nicole and Xiaohong were opposed out of the deformed mentality of "businessmen should die", which didn't work out, and there were some criticisms.

Now that I think about it, I'm glad that the Temple of Commerce has settled in Beta, maybe the Goddess of Commerce will do something through this incomparably eye-catching anchor.

Li Qi explained: "Since the Commercial Temple has a unique technology in spatial teleportation, there may be some hidden dangers in long-distance teleportation, so don't send a magician to pick us up." Let Captain Elon ...... No, let's see what progress is going on the Floating System project for the Mobile Fortress project, and if you can, let them get a quick traffic boat first. ”

"Okay, I'm also issuing a notice to everyone to temporarily stop teleportation, and overhaul the teleportation system of the teleportation fortress and vending machine", Aurora hurriedly added her own private goods: "In addition, the virtual market must also be temporarily stopped, right?"

"I'm sorry I was a little exaggerated before", Li Qi quickly apologized: "Now that the situation has changed, let's postpone it for a while, everyone should understand." ”

"Great!"

Aurora was immediately happy, coughed, and suddenly asked, "Tess isn't around, is she?"

Without waiting for Richie to answer, Rem whispered, and Aurora said in a coquettish voice, "Reward you!"

This is a psychic network, how could Tess not hear it?

Li Qi was startled first, and then half of his heart was numb.

Can I take back what I said before? I want to go back to Beta City now!

..................

In the northern part of the Divine Fall Plateau, outside the Holy Light Castle, the originally flat field was destroyed beyond recognition by large ravines and potholes, and from time to time a large fireball flew out from both sides, smashing into the protective barrier and the land where there were no human figures. And the scattered small fireballs were even more continuous, blowing up clouds of dust on the ground. The reason why it was not burned was because the plants that could be burned had already become charcoal.

In a deep, wide trench, a magic guide car with six thick metal legs and claws and camouflage nets held up the front half of the body. The turret in the middle of the car turned, and the barrel of the quadruple magic cannon poked out of the trench and aimed at a target outside the protective barrier.

"Down!

A head poked out of the turret, and while observing with a telescope, he muttered to the car, and when he saw that the barrel was lowered to the lowest and kept a high angle, he scolded helplessly: "Don't the designers of the research institute have the concept of depression angle in their minds at all?"

Another head poked out halfway, and he whispered nervously: "Captain! Be careful! The enemy now has a legend in charge, beware of him running out to hunt!"

"He dares!"

Yuskar, deputy commander of the First Armored Battalion of the First Armored Brigade and commander of the First Armored Company, said disdainfully: "If he really escapes, let's lead him to the legendary sniper position, even if he can't be killed, we will cripple him! And the guys on the other side, the higher the level, the bigger the pomp, how can they want to go into battle alone?"

With that said, he retracted his head anyway.

In the cabin, which had become much smaller than the old magic car, Yuskar patted the driver's shoulder: "Change to a place where you can put the cannon on the edge of the trench, that Adamantite Golem has finally broken away from the protective barrier, don't blow its head today, I'm sorry for the comrades who died at its hands!"

"I'll do my best, Captain", the driver muttered, "This guy is not the previous Demon Turtle Car, although the protection is up, and there are six legs, the weight is several times that of the Demon Turtle Car, and it is not so dexterous." ”

Yuskar disagreed: "Isn't it equipped with a magic furnace? ”

"It's big, but it's a new thing after all, who knows what will go wrong", the driver worriedly pushed the lever, and a faint white light came out of his hand, manipulating this armored combat vehicle with a model of "27 years of test type 1" and weighing a full 20 tons backwards.

The thick metal legs and claws kicked forward first, causing the entire body to rush out of the trench, revealing the entire front of the car and a small half of the belly.

Yuskar shouted in the car: "Why do you want to shrug forward when reversing!"

The driver shouted aggrievedly: "Captain, if you want to retreat, are you going to slide directly backwards, and your body won't move at all?"

Fortunately, the six-legged chariot immediately retreated.

The artillery commander saw the enemy situation through the gun mirror: "I see someone on a sniper position looking this way!"

Yuskar urged: "Hurry, hurry, full speed!"

The driver pushed the rod to the end, a low humming sound sounded, the body shook slightly, and the magic furnace behind the chariot was running at full strength, driving six foot claws to move targets in the trench with extremely fast small steps.

Several rays of light like pulsed lasers swept over the trench, and in the ditch not far away, it exploded in clouds of smoke and dust, which was the attack of the hero-level magic guide crossbow.

"We've been discovered!"

Yuskar said angrily: "How did the enemy find out about us? Magician? They actually threw magicians to the front line as observation posts?"

The gunners in charge of loading shells, filling fireballs, and miscellaneous tasks in the crew looked through the turret mirror and exclaimed, "Captain, we're smoking!"

Yuskar's eyes came to the rearview mirror to look at it, and he hissed a cool breath: "What is this white smoke...... What did you do with a demon scatterer?"

"Not good!"

The driver patted his head and said in annoyance: "It's not a magic scatterer, it's that the temperature of the waste residue produced by the magic furnace is too high and easy to catch fire, so I installed an ice array to cool it, and then the ice turned into hot water, and it produced steam, and the steam ......."

Yuskar roared, "Don't I know that steam is white smoke!?"

The driver craned his neck and said timidly, "It was written in the operation manual, but I didn't remember it." ”

At that moment, Yuskar's eyes were cracked, and it seemed that he was about to take off the magic guide spear hanging on the bulkhead and shoot it at the driver's head.

Then his shoulders collapsed, and he smiled bitterly: "Okay, it's my fault, I still use the new chariot as the previous chariot, this thing is not suitable for detecting sneak attacks at all, and this matter can only be handed over to the spider cart in the future, now...... Let's retreat. ”

In the trench, the armored fighting vehicle dragged a long column of smoke and rapidly retreated to the south, and an increasingly dense beam of light and gun bullets came at it. Occasionally, a vehicle hit will either burn a small scorched mark on the turret or hull, or splash a little spark without causing serious damage.

More than ten kilometers away from Fort Shengguang, behind the strong defensive line composed of the army unity boundary and dense trenches, in the front enemy headquarters of the legion, Wilson, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, listened to the report of the commander of the 1st Armored Brigade, Finn.

"Especially Carl's guy is fine," Wilson said, "and he is not even familiar with the equipment, so he recklessly goes to the front line to fight cold artillery, strategically despises the enemy, tactically attaches importance to the enemy, and can't even hold on to this point of basic awareness? ”

"He's already done a review," Finn hurriedly guarded the calf: "Besides, the new chariot has indeed changed too much, and the magic furnace will emit white smoke when it turns, so how can I fight a surprise attack in the future." ”

"The so-called surprise attack means that even if the enemy knows that we are coming, they will not have time to make adjustments", Wilson said, "Although the new vehicle is several times heavier than the old one, it can be used with the magic furnace, and the consumption of magic crystals is one-third less than before, what does it mean?"

Finn sighed, of course he understood this truth: "It means that with the same magic crystal, you can support a third more chariot." ”

"And that's not all!"

Wilson said: "It also means stronger protection, which means that the vehicle can be equipped with a stronger magic cannon, and the combat effectiveness is at least doubled!"

"I'm okay if I can equip the Ninex Magic Cannon," Finn said, "Otherwise, I'd still insist that I have enough spider cars, or other vehicles that don't use magic furnaces, to ensure the battlefield awareness of the entire brigade." ”

Wilson also sighed: "I think more than you, although the people sent here by Belino are like a circus, some of them are quite skilled." There are a large number of magic cannons, there are a large number of war puppets, and now even floating ships are available. The Research Institute and the Magic Working Committee are busy with the mobile fortress project again, and God knows what new gadgets they can come up with......"

"I see......"

Finn's eyes flashed with determination: "The cardinal told me before that we may not always have a technical advantage, and maybe at some point, we will face opponents who are better than us in terms of technology and equipment. At that time, we will have to use a strong will and our own flesh and blood to fill such a gap!"

"Hey, that's not what I meant!"

Wilson said dissatisfiedly: "Although these words are true, but it has not reached that point yet." ”

Finn's expression did not change: "We are still busy with the mobile fortress project, it should not be able to be done in a while, until then, we can only fight the enemy." ”

"Well, it does take such determination," Wilson nodded slowly, "but as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, I will not let my comrades take unnecessary risks without having absolute superiority." So, just wait for our magicians to conjure up some new magic for us. ”

Farther west of Beta City, in a valley hidden by the military unity realm and the secret barrier, hundreds of researchers gathered around a strange large magic device.

"Spread out, all spread out! Have you forgotten all about the safety regulations?"

The person in charge of the project shouted: "If something happens, who will take over the rest of the work?"

The researchers retreated far away, and the magic guide revealed its full appearance, which turned out to be an old-fashioned demon turtle car without claws.

The person in charge gestured, and the researcher sitting in the car gritted his teeth to activate the magic guide, and the glowing blue light was transmitted through various gaps in the lower part of the body. As everyone watched with bated breath, the magic guide car slowly rose.

Rising to a height of more than ten meters, the person in charge said in a slightly trembling voice: "Start the flying magic array, with the minimum output." ”

Another researcher sitting in the back of the car activated the magic circle, and the magic guide car began to move forward, and the researchers on the ground cheered, and many people began to applaud.

The person in charge waved his hand: "Don't worry, this is the minimum output, now increase the magic power for the flying circle, the second gear." ”

The blue light became brighter, and the magic guide car also increased from the previous turtle crawling speed to the speed of ordinary people walking.

The person in charge was about to continue to accelerate, when the blue light flashed a few times and suddenly went out, and the magic guide car fell straight to the ground, smashing up a large cloud of smoke and dust.

"No ......"

The person in charge closed his eyes and sighed helplessly: "It's failed again, do you have to install that kind of white smoke magic furnace?"