Chapter Seventy-Four: Ignition
Sitting on the wide throne of the city lord, Lin Yuan laughed out loud after reading the letter in his hand. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Actually write back to me seriously, idiot. ā
He casually dropped the important letter in his hand.
"Lin, Lord Lin Yuan......"
The new clerk of Iwaki with an ugly face hurriedly picked up the letter that had fallen on the ground.
"This is a joint notice from the three city-states, so please be careful. ā
Lin Yuan glanced at the young male clerk who was sweating profusely.
"What are you worried about, are you afraid that they will attack?"
"Lord Lin, Lord Lin Yuan, please stop joking!" the clerk said with a bit of a stutter, "We can already say that we have issued a warning letter to them unreasonably, and it is not surprising when the three city-states will react!"
Lin Yuan snorted boredly.
The clerk's nervous mood, Lin Yuan could see at a glance that he was afraid that he would severely punish those who spoke out against him.
I'm not going to execute people casually. Lin Yuan turned his head and stopped looking at the clerk.
For people who don't understand themselves, Lin Yuan doesn't want to say a word more.
A few days ago, he ignored the opposition of his subordinates and issued a warning to the three city-states of Bow City, Smoke City, and Luocheng, asking them to hand over the defected Magister who was shielding, as well as the magic crystals on their bodies.
Of course, as the clerk said, Lin Yuan did not have any evidence, and he was making a stern warning to the three city-states in an unreasonable manner, which would completely anger them, regardless of the facts.
"Will they really react?" Lin Yuan said with a secret smile.
Lin Yuan took out a new letter from his arms and threw it to the clerk who was shaking his body slightly uneasily.
"Lord Lin Yuan, what is this?"
The clerk took the letter in a bit of a hurry.
Under Lin Yuan's gesture, he read the letter in his hand.
Then, his eyes widened as if they were about to fall out.
"This, this, this!" the clerk screamed, "do you want to make a complete break with the three city-states?
"Is it excessive?" Lin Yuan gouged out his ears, "I'm just asking them to surrender and it's all mine." ā
"Please, don't be joking!
Lin Yuan said softly to the embarrassed clerk.
"Give me this letter to the lords of the three city-states, and you will personally go and deliver it to them, well, this is an order. ā
Unable to resist the order at the hearing of this, the clerk's legs trembled and his teeth rattled uncontrollably.
"Don't worry, I'm not asking you to die, I'll find someone to escort you. ā
Lin Yuan smiled and patted the clerk's shoulder, and the clerk, whose legs were weak, immediately collapsed to the ground.
"Whew, this chair for the city lord is really not comfortable at all. ā
Lin Yuan stretched his waist and stood up from the ornate chair studded with gems.
Ignoring the clerk's pitiful eyes begging for mercy, he left the room with Heras, who was acting as his personal bodyguard.
"Are you serious?"
Walking on the deserted aisle, Heras looked at Lin Yuan's back and asked.
"Your wording in the letter is already insulting. ā
"Half of them are serious, except for those insulting words," Lin Yuan's voice was smiling, "If those people are really brainless enough to accept my proposal and surrender all, I don't mind letting them go." ā
"So, you've really done something decisive that can reassure you about important things that are. Hera gradually became familiar with Lin Yuan, and she was sure that the other party would not say irresponsible things casually.
What Lin Yuan is doing now must have left a means of victory.
"If I don't have a chance of winning, how can I just make a casual move, now, we just have to wait quietly. ā
Lin Yuan looked sideways at the scenery outside the window.
"I understand what the brave clerk feared, isn't it the disparity in numbers?"
Outside the window, the inhabitants of the city go on with their daily lives, not knowing what surprising things the people who dominate them are going to do.
"The population of Iwacheng is 40,000, the population of Shicheng is 60,000, and the existing troops are very small, because of the previous suppression, the wounded and dead of ordinary soldiers add up to more than 3,000 people, not to mention the Magister as the main combat force, the number can be said to be zero, after all, the combat effectiveness of the undead cannot be expected too much, and the city itself also needs the Magister to operate, and it cannot go out casually. ā
Lin Yuan walked up the spiral staircase and came to the top floor of the castle.
He stood on the terrace overlooking the city.
"The three city-states add up to more than 200,000 people, there are 7,000 ordinary soldiers stationed there, and there are at least 400 Magisters, and they are allies, any action is consistent, even if our side does its best, it will be difficult to win, no matter how strong the powerful are, there is a way to fight, they do not have a certain strength, and they have long been annexed by Beaga. ā
"You're confident, though. Heras said in the breeze.
"Of course, because the rats have already gone in, the possibility of failure, no. Lin Yuan said categorically.
He looked into the distance, at the city-state beyond.
"If it is on the earth, the average city does not need so many permanent troops, but this is the wizarding world, there is no problem of lack of food, soldiers will not starve, and a certain number of people are also needed to prevent the raid of the demonic beasts, it can be said that in order to adapt to the world, human beings have made changes and compromises. ā
Lin Yuan smiled.
"That's right, humans are very compromised creatures, very adaptable, and before coming to the wizarding world, they would brazenly call themselves the spirits of all things. ā
He breathed in the cool air and felt the breath of the magical world.
"Therefore, the three city-states will definitely compromise, it is only a matter of time. ā
Lin Yuan looked up at the twin stars in the sky, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"The spark has been lit, just see how well the fire burns. ā
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The secretary rode a fast horse and ran on the avenue in despair.
The letter he was holding in his arms was like a thousand pounds of heavy iron, and it weighed down his chest.
He would have liked to destroy the letter at once, if he could, but he knew that it was impossible.
Lin Yuan's order is absolute.
The clerk could only pray to heaven that the person who received the letter, when he saw the contents, would not be so angry as to want to kill him with a knife.
The outline of the city appeared in front of him, and he knew that the smoke city was already close at hand.
He subconsciously slowed down his running speed, and unknowingly came to the same line as the escort escort who was escorting him.
In addition to the eight soldiers in leather armor, there were two "undead" people wearing heavy black robes and wrapping their bodies tightly.
The clerk knew very well what the origin of the immortal was, he didn't want to become like them, and he was even more afraid of Lin Yuan, who gave birth to this kind of thing.
I shouldn't have just spoken...... The clerk thought with some regret.
He liked Iwajo, where he was born, so he mustered up the courage to make an inappropriate statement to the new ruler, and ended up in this fate.
Now, he can only complete the task well to obtain the master's forgiveness.
The clerk rode up to the gate of the city-state and told the guards at the gate who he was and what he meant.
After a delay for half a day, the group was allowed to enter, and surrounded by a group of soldiers, the clerk stepped into the smoke city safe and sound.
ā...... Huh?"
The clerk felt that the city was dead and lacking some kind of vitality.
"Don't look any more, let's go!"
The soldiers in Yancheng urged irritably, and the clerk could only speed up his pace and move towards his destination.
The more the clerk looked, the more he felt that something was wrong, the inhabitants of the city looked sick, and he saw several people coughing incessantly, as if they were weak and listless.
"You guys, when you're done, get out of here. ā
A gray-haired soldier lowered his voice and spoke in the clerk's ear.
"In the past few days, there has been an epidemic in the neighborhood, but don't accidentally catch the disease during your time here. ā
"No......"
The clerk felt that he was really very unlucky, and bad things came one after another.
He sighed, and with a heavy heart, he dragged his steps into the City Lord's Mansion in Yancheng.