Grand Duke Nicholas is a true military tycoon of the Red Dragon Empire in the North, and his men are also among the most powerful military forces among human nations.

The territory of the Grand Duke of Nicholas is the only passage for the entire human empire to guard the northern orcs to the south, passing through the Heihe River Valley of the Hengduan Mountains for more than 300 years, during which the entire family has never participated in the palace intrigues and political **** of the Red Dragon Empire's royal family many times, and is dedicated to defending the northern gate for the entire human world.

The army controlled by the Nikolai family is a real elite soldier, its significance is not only limited to the Red Dragon Empire, but to protect the safety of the entire human race, although the orcs in recent years are no longer powerful, no longer have the ability to destroy the human world like the decay, but the powerful military threat of the orcs to the human race is firmly engraved in the history books of each country, and is deeply remembered by the human beings of the entire continent.

Every year, countless young knights and magicians from other human countries sing the legends of heroes that have been passed down through history, and they come all the way to the Hengduan Mountains to join the Grand Duke's border guards to share the glory of resisting the orcs. Hundreds of years of rough training and battles with orcs have made the Northern Legion under the command of the Grand Duke of the North the largest and most elite military group in the Red Dragon Empire.

In the territory of the Northern Grand Duke, every child who grew up here has been instilled with a bloody memory and national hatred for the orc invasion since he was a child, and when they grow up, they will receive the official reserve military training for the orc invasion.

The people here, the tradition of family training that has been passed down for hundreds of years, have transformed every citizen here into a professional soldier, and even the children are full of bravery, obedience and strict order when they have fun, they have the strongest body, the most warlike character, and the most greedy temperament among the humans on the continent!

They all have a primitive vulgarity in their bones, an orc-like impulse, a lazy rudeness to think. They are the best warriors, but at the same time they are the most primitive of the human races on the continent. Except for gold, magic crystals, and beauties, almost nothing piques their interest.

Humans from other parts of the continent are collectively referred to as northerners.

The current Grand Duke Nicholas Stanvich III is a typical northerner.

He looked at the merchant who was making a flattering face under his drawing-room, rubbing the great jewel of the ring in his hand, and said contemptuously to the merchant:

"That's it, that's the news that your Thorn Flower Consortium is going to provide me?"

"Yes, Your Excellency the Grand Duke!" The merchant replied cautiously.

When he came, he knew that these northerners' military aristocrats were all unreasonable guys, and the one in front of him was the most terrible of all unreasonable guys. In front of him, if he speaks a little unsatisfactory, it is very likely that he will be able to rain a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and it is not impossible for the family to be ruined in an instant or even drag down the entire business group, so you must be careful.

He said:

"Although our merchant group did not have the honor to establish a trading relationship with you, His Excellency the Great Grand Duke, but we have this sincerity, when we heard the news that the Northern Elf Royal Court was actually preparing to mobilize all of them to march into the wasteland, I immediately thought that this news might be useful to you, and immediately used the family's communication bird relay to transmit the news to you, and several birds were broken along the way, which were all trained by a special trainer for many years, and our Thorn Flower Merchant Group ......."

He was here and wanted to continue talking and earn some sympathy points, but then the Grand Duke suddenly stretched out his hand and interrupted him: "Stop! ”

Immediately shut him up, and he didn't know where he had offended Your Excellency.

Da openly said:

"If you go back, I will tell you Your Excellency the Duke of Thorn Flower, saying that I really don't see what the elves have to do with our Red Dragon Empire when they send troops to the wasteland, the wasteland is so big, the forest elves are so far away from us, and what happened in the elven forest has something to do with your Solva Kingdom at most. When you tell him, you say, "I have taken his heart, but I mean, don't stretch out his hand that far!" The Northern Territories have nothing to do with their Solva merchants! ”

The poor merchant was severely reprimanded by the Grand Duke, and came with joy, because he had gained something, but in the end he had to go back disappointed.

After the guards took the merchant down, the young samurai, who had been standing beside the Grand Duke, immediately stepped forward,

"Father! The elves have sent troops to the wasteland is indeed good news for us, and behind this group of thorn flower merchants is the nephew of His Majesty Cassadine, King of the Kingdom of Solva, and the friendship from him should be valuable to us, why would you ...... Would you choose to deal with it this way? ”

This samurai is Charles, the eldest son of the Grand Duke of Nicholas, and observing His Excellency the Grand Duke's handling of official affairs will help him train his successor to the status of the Grand Duke faster.

With a sneer on his face, the Grand Duke explained to his son,

"You don't understand, son! It's not that simple. In recent years, our human countries have been at peace for too long, and there has been no more war with the surrounding orcs and elves. Although all countries have developed well in recent years, especially in the past 100 years, the royal families of various countries have been stable, and there is no big ****.

Such a long period of peace, so that some people are not satisfied, Jing Ji thought about it, always want to jump out and toss, this time the elves sent troops, is it really the oracle of the elves gods? Hum! We northerners don't believe this, there must be something behind this. The royal family of the Kingdom of Solva has always had a tradition of intermarriage with elves, and the elves' actions may not be without their meaning. ”

Charlie listened to his father's words, his brows couldn't help frowning, this overly large national politics was still a little complicated for him.

"What does the father mean that he doesn't want to be part of their troubled waters?"

"Well, I really don't like wading into this mess of troubled waters." His Excellency the Grand Duke nodded and explained to his son: "We in the north have our own politics in the north, and we can do whatever we have to do, and don't be influenced by those greedy southerners. It's their business to march into the wasteland, and if they have the ability to occupy the wasteland, they can just do it, the wasteland is big enough for everyone to break in and gallop. But if they want to use this to lead our northern march to the steppe and help them attract firepower, it is delusional. The lives of our northern leaders will not be buried for other people's ambitions! ”

"But, dear father! What if the elves did make it to the wasteland? We have to think about it," Charlie asked, "those orcs in the wasteland are naturally good slaves, all of them can be sold for a high price, and the wasteland is rich in minerals, especially the gold mines near the Hengduan Mountains and the North Sea, as well as the Demon Beast Core, the Demon Crystal, that is a sky-high fortune!" Every year, the merchants who pass by our pass to the wasteland make a lot of money, and every one of them is rich. ”

His Excellency looked up to the sky and laughed, for the childish greed of his son,

"Haha, my son! It's time to take the gold, but there are a lot of good things in the world, but the more important thing is to spend it! ”

"There are indeed a lot of good things in the wasteland, but those orcs are not easy to mess with, our family ancestors have been stranded in this north for hundreds of years, how many times, hundreds of times, thousands of times have we fought with the orcs? The souls of the northerners who died outside the walls of Hailar Fort were not more than a million, and the corpses buried together could fill the entire Black River Valley. You say, have we entered the wasteland? ”

Charlie shook his head,

"That's it, no! Look at it! My son! Orcs aren't that easy to deal with. Those troublesome sacrifices of the god of war, even the cardinal priests of our god of truth and justice are difficult to deal with, and it is up to the elves to want to invade the wasteland? Hum! Don't? ”

"But! Hehe! His Excellency continued: "For many years, we have not fought with the orcs on a large scale, and we are not too clear about the changes in power in the wasteland in recent decades, the elves themselves are willing to fight, and we also raise our hands to welcome them, let them test and tempt, we will follow and see if the combat power of the orcs in the wasteland has changed over the years!" ”

They are our pathfinders.

Hehehehehe! The father and son smiled at each other without saying a word.

……

Although the scale of the war for the entire human world is not large, the battle between two of the three major forces of the continent has also attracted the attention of the human world. In addition to the Solva Kingdom, which has a close relationship with the Northern Elf Royal Court, and the Grand Duke of Nicholas, which guards the Hengduan Mountains, other human forces have also received news one after another through their own channels.

In the heart of the human kingdom, in the magical capital of Mystra, on the Tower of Babel, several archmaguses surrounded each other and cast spells on the top floor of the tower at the same time, under the glow of the wands of the archmagists, the dazzling magical light ignited from the top of the furnace of the Tower of Babel among the people, and went up along the spire of the Tower of Babel into the sky.

With a loud bang, the Mana power core of the Tower of Babel was driven by the forbidden spell jointly cast by the Great Wizards, and the entire tower body of the Tower of Babel shone at the same time.

The huge Mana energy attacked all the way along the energy circuit on the tower's body, and countless magic materials were stimulated along the path in turn, and the huge magic crystal and magic core all emitted bright magic brilliance at the same time, turning the tower body into a dazzling galaxy like a galaxy leading straight to the sky. Nestled on the top of the magic furnace, the ancient dragon crystal that was precious enough to buy the entire city of Mystra also shone brightly, emitting a bright light as day, like the brightest sun in the galaxy.

All the magicians, knights, and nobles of Mystra felt the brilliance of the great magic in this instant! At this moment, the countless free manas that were silent in the space were stirred by this epic mana torrent, forming a hurricane that spread around the entire Tower of Babel, stirring up a dreamlike dazzling light in mid-air, spraying hundreds of kilometers away, and the whole world was bright!

All the people in the city stopped the work they were doing at the same time, quietly feeling the magic glow in the void, the riot of Free Mana, at this moment, the great meaning of the essence of magic became extremely clear in the feelings of every magic apprentice, this is the inspiration from the highest level of archmages.

After a while, the strange movement caused by the forbidden spell on the Tower of Babel, the wonders of the entire void gradually dimmed, everything returned to normal, and all the people in the city recovered from it, looked around in confusion, and realized what had just happened.

In the Tower of Babel, the archmage Noah, who had just finished casting the forbidden spell, recovered from the spell casting process, glanced at the other archmages around him, and said: "There is no abnormal change in the Mana force field in the Northern Continent, Hao Dixiu has not moved, and the elves of this war will not get help directly from our lord." ”

The other archmagus then asked,

"So in other words, the elves are likely to lose this war?"

There was no answer to this question.

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