At the end of August 17,963 in the mainland calendar, a full month and a half had passed since the day when the war on the mainland was ignited.

And in just this month and a half, there is no doubt that the situation on the mainland, which was originally a three-legged standing, has undergone earth-shaking fundamental changes.

As the first kingdom of France to be occupied by the entire territory of the Papal States, under the constant pressure of the previous month and a half, most of the officials and the upper class chose to submit.

In the most humble gesture, he was completely reduced to a servant of the Papal States.

As for the government-in-exile turned from the original French border guards, it is now under the crushing of the weapons of the Papal States, and can only continue to fight in various mountains and wilderness.

Like a lost dog, he can't live in fear.

On the other hand, the Ottoman kingdom, located in the south of the continent, has now merged into the torrent of crusade armies because of the complete collapse of the Papal States.

Now he is using the alchemy equipment provided by the Papal States, constantly attacking the two oases of the city-state of Menes, and is also showing his teeth and claws on the border of the Federation.

To some extent, the Ottoman kingdom, eager to show its worth in front of the Papal States, was far more terrifying than the Crusades of the Papal States themselves.

They don't care about occupation and domination at all, they just need to keep killing and advancing.

After all, every inch of territory occupied is the territory of the Papal States after all.

And any warrior who was brutally slaughtered will be clearly transformed into the war glory of the Ottoman Kingdom in the bloodiest way.

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However, compared to the successes of the Papal States on the northern and southern fronts, a race that they also had high hopes for undoubtedly did not bring any good news to the Papal States.

The tragedy of the fortress on the federal border has obviously given the whole world enough warning.

Now, whether it is the Federation or the Empire, or even the Peacock Kingdom, which needs to cross the Cloud Range to reach, has entered the highest level of alert.

Although the attack of the Blood Moon Elves, under the sacrifice of Su Mu and his party who had just returned to the mainland, did not achieve the desired effect.

But the federal fortress at that time, after all, no longer had the strength to pursue and kill the enemy.

Most of the Blood Moon armies that failed to attack were still under the leadership of the Ten Sages of the King, and once again returned to the wider wilderness beyond the abyss.

Even the death of the heir to the royal line, Akamoan, did make their relationship with the Papal States strange for a while.

However, after all, the Papal States, which had the ambition to dominate the world, would naturally send enough persuaders to once again develop a new target among the Blood Moon Elves.

As a result, the Blood Moon clan, who had already torn their faces with the Federation, joined the feast of this war again.

Although the Blood Moon army that has managed to survive so far has not appeared on any of the remaining battlefields, and has not attacked more fortresses again.

But at the end of the day, the more silent and elusive they are.

It is always a sword hanging over the head of all defenders who may be attacked.

Let the current empire and the federation, even if they understand that the main battlefield is not near the abyss, they still have to hoard a large number of men and horses on the abyssal border.

After all, once the Empire and the Federation truly declare all-out war, if the door behind the Empire and the Federation is opened, it will inevitably cause essential turmoil.

Even if the Blood Moon Elves alone do not have the capital to engage in a full-scale war with the great powers.

But in this situation, both the Empire and the Federation have undoubtedly not really forgotten...... In the abyss backed by the Blood Moon Elf Clan, there are countless sub-demon tribes.

Those messy and large groups, even if they seem so scattered now, can't take the initiative to gather a sufficiently orderly army.

However, when the borders of the great powers are lost, large swathes of land are exposed to them.

I am afraid that the hunger for the fertile land alone can unite all the sub-demon races in an instant in a frenzy called "hope".

Like a wave of locusts, it swept through the entire kingdom behind the barrier in an instant.

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Therefore, today, a month and a half after the flames of war, although the Empire and the Federation are still deadlocked in the discussions of the imperial capital, there is still no agreement on a full-scale counteroffensive.

But both within the empire and in the territory of the Union.

The other two powers, the only ones capable of resisting the Papal States' frenzied attacks, were constantly stockpiling up armaments and food and grass, waiting for a real war that would surely break out in the future.

It's just that now it seems that since the Federation and the Empire are still in relative silence.

Even the Imperial side, which had already brazenly sent troops, only entered the Rakshasa Kingdom under the pretext of "auxiliary defense", and did not declare war on the Papal States head-on.

As for the Federation, which had already been attacked on the border, it simply declared war against the Blood Moon Elves, but quietly avoided including the Papal States as the target of war.

I am afraid that the territory beyond the two great powers has long been regarded as a buffer zone by the empire and the federation.

So today, I see this strange forced marriage of the emperor again.

In fact, in most people's minds, there will inevitably be some more bizarre speculation:

Could it be that the Longtuo Empire and the Science Federation have long been prepared to delay each other like this, and they are simply using this farcical marriage urging to delay the inevitability of a joint counteroffensive?

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"On the federal side, naturally, there is a deliberate delay. ”

"After all, what the Federation needs most now is to exchange time for the stability of its internal system, so as to enter a more efficient state of war as soon as possible. ”

"But as far as the Empire is concerned, although we still do not know His Majesty's intentions, he will not continue to delay for this reason, but is waiting for a certain time. ”

At this moment, ten days have passed since the day Emperor Long Tuo put forward those three conditions.

To this day, however, negotiations between the Empire and the Confederation have remained stagnant.

On the contrary, in the entire imperial capital, there is a sound of the imminent wedding of the imperial princess, and there are also all kinds of petitions and demonstrations.

Even outside the state guesthouse where Su Mu and others stayed, the more radical residents of the empire stood far away on the opposite side of the street, singing a ballad about marriage in tacit understanding.

For a moment, the sense of urgency about the war was even more absent in the imperial capital.

The only thing left is the expectation of the princess's wedding.

So at this moment, when Su Mu stood silently by the window of his room, looking at the "lively" Imperial Street, there was a kind of stunned mood circulating.

"First of all, we actually get it...... All the arrangements of the emperor must have some purpose unrelated to the wedding. ”

"Secondly, we have already given the answer, and it must have reached the Empire. But even so, the Empire is still obsessed with building momentum, but has not really revealed their purpose. ”

"That's ......"

When Su Mu said this, he had already looked deeply at the desk opposite the window, and the desk calendar on the desk that had been turned to the last page of the month.

Then he said in a firm tone, and directly concluded:

In other words, what the Emperor is waiting for now is actually a point in time that even he cannot change...... As soon as that point is reached, everything will be fully revealed. ”

"And at this moment, it is actually the last day of the month, and the day before the frost moon is about to disappear. ”

"Therefore, as for the true purpose of the Emperor, I am afraid that it will also be accompanied by the concealment of the frost moon, and then it will be completely ...... Show it to everyone!"