Chapter 803: Five-Nation Alliance (Three Chapters in One)
"Abel, usually these eight bursting crossbows can scare off enemies who dare to come, but if the enemy is not scared away, then the windows on both sides can be opened, and the powerful combat power of the Sky Boat can be fully displayed!" Bernie introduced.
You must know that the sky boat in the original design, all the force is four city crossbows in the front and back, it was he who proposed a modification to modify the continuous fire strong city crossbow to the sky boat, and also added twenty more continuous fire strong city crossbows.
Walking into the command room, half of the space was furnished as a luxurious room for rest and command, while the other half was closed by an iron door with a circle of confessions.
Bernie walked over to the iron door, took out an identity tag, placed it on top of the Confession Circle, and the iron door opened.
He made a gesture of invitation, and Able walked into the room.
As soon as he entered the room, Abel saw that the metallurgical materials he had refined had been made into a magic circle disc and placed in the middle of the entire room, and a cylinder glowing with white light was placed in the center of the magic circle.
That is the most ordinary spirit, but don't think that it is not of high value because it is ordinary, in fact, except for the right to buy a spirit as a tower spirit once after becoming an official wizard, most people will not be able to access the spirit in their lifetime.
"This spirit has been arranged to learn how to control the sky boat before it was built, and now there are two ways to control the sky boat, one is to directly order the spirit to control the sky boat, and the other is to control the sky boat through a long period of study!" Bernie said to Abel while holding the identity card.
Then he manipulated the identity card and handed it to Abel.
"Sky Boat 01 Spirit Asks to Confess!" The spirit in front of him controlled the sound circle in the room and made a sound.
Bernie made a gesture of please to Abel, who nodded and picked up the identity tag, and then said, "Confirm the Lord!"
"Confess the Lord successfully!
Master, Sky Boat 01 is always waiting for your orders!"
"I'm a little reluctant to hand over this Sky Boat to you!" Bernie said with a reluctant face.
"Bernie, don't you have seven more over there, and then build your own one as a special travel skyboat!" Abel said with a smile.
"Impossible, but it's enough to be addicted to the captain this time, it's too expensive to raise!" Bernie said, shaking his head.
Able also saw that on the side of the room, there were many energy slots, and in each slot there was an intermediate powerstone, a full five hundred intermediate powerstones.
"How long will these five hundred intermediate powerstones last?" Abel asked.
"Energy can sail for five days in a row!" Before Bernie could answer, Spirit Sky Ship 01 had already answered his question.
"The consumption of a hundred intermediate powerstones a day is not expensive!" Abel was very satisfied with this consumption, probably because this was the principle of using the airbag to lift into the air, so that the consumption of flight decreased.
Bernie looked at Abel a little speechlessly, a hundred intermediate powerstones a day didn't look expensive, but over time, this was a big consumption.
A hundred mid-level powerstones are enough for twenty wizards to enshrine the gold, and that's just the cost of a day's voyage for the Sky Boat.
But thinking about Abel's identity, the blacksmith grandmaster, and the alchemy master, the works of these two identities can be sold for a sky-high price, and this magic stone is really nothing.
But he never thought of Abel's thoughts at this time, Abel was thinking about replacing all the five hundred intermediate powerstones with top-grade powerstones, so that he would not have to think about the energy of the Sky Boat for at least a few decades.
On the other side of the room, there was a cabinet with several tubes at the top of the cabinet that led to the airbags.
The control circle draws energy from the energy gauge and passes it to the cabinet on the other side, where the heat and cold circles convert the energy into hot and cold air to control the rise and fall of the Sky Boat.
There are also some circles inscribed on the periphery of the Sky Boat, among these circles, there are defensive ones, there are repulsive ones, defensive circles protect the Sky Boat, and repulsive circles to control the movement of the Sky Boat.
The material of the airbag is also very special, it is a rare silkworm silkworm, once the airbag made of this silk has a hole, then as long as energy is provided to it, the hole can be repaired.
This series of measures has made the Skyship a safe and reliable vehicle in front of it, and together with the improvement of the Dwarves, it has become more mature and adaptable to the current situation.
"Abel, you arrange for someone to get on the boat, these dwarves in my family can stay here for three days and help you train a group of manipulators!" Bernie said after taking Abel on the tour and transferring the control of the other two Sky Boats to Abel.
Abel first thought of the veterans in the Harry family, who used to follow Earl Marshall, these veterans were only at the level of official warriors, but there was no problem with loyalty, and they could control Skyboat 2.
The group of veterans of the Bennett family who followed Count Bennett also had dozens of people and could control Skyboat 3.
And in Abel Castle, there is also a group of dead soldiers who are the first to follow him, they can control the Sky Boat No. 1, and add dozens of skilled city crossbow operators to each boat, so that the three Sky Ships have the most reliable personnel to control.
After three days, due to the spirits on each sky boat, it is not difficult to drive the sky boat, but if you really want to form a manual driving sky boat, it will take too much time, and you can only wait for the slow training later.
After Bernie left with his dwarven fellow teleportation circle, Able returned to the Sky Boat.
First, he entered the inner chamber of the command room, where only he could enter, not even the captain he had appointed, because he had replaced all the mid-level powerstones in it with top-grade powerstones.
There are five hundred top-grade powerstones in each Sky Ship, which is enough to drive anyone crazy, so the inner chamber of the command room will be sealed.
And Abel did much more than that, on the hull of the Sky Boat, he placed ten lightning spirals, and all the energy was replaced by top-level magic stones, in addition to his recognition of the master, he also handed over the control to the spirit of each Sky Ship to control.
Come to think of it, each Sky Ship has ten lightning spirals and twenty-eight burst crossbows, both physical and elemental attacks, and they are all extremely powerful.
Replaced with new energy and strengthened attack capabilities, the Sky Boat can be regarded as meeting Abel's psychological expectations.
In the days that followed, in the skies above Harvest City, three Sky Boats began to train frantically, and the Griffin Knights also participated.
Sometimes the Griffon Rider trains the Sky Boat as an imaginary enemy, and sometimes the Griffon Knight works with the Sky Boat to train them to fight together.
Because the Sky Boat is a new war machine, everything has to be re-studied, and these have nothing to do with Abel, and the captains and crews of the Sky Boat train on their own to find the best way to fight.
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In an inconspicuous small town near the Wizards' Guild of the Duchy of Keen, representatives of the kings of the Kingdom of St. Ellis gathered in addition to the Duchy of Kamai and the dying Duchy of Keene.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the reason why we are here today should be clear to everyone, our principality has reached the most critical time, our people are starving, this winter the last bit of strategic reserves of our Principality of Tykos has been exhausted, and I, Principality of Tykos, need a war to relieve the pressure on domestic food!" Captain Job, the representative of the Principality of Tykos, stood up and said loudly.
The Duchy of Tykos was the initiator of this meeting, and at the last moment when it attacked the Duchy of Keen last time and was ready to receive the dividends of the war, it was robbed of most of the spoils by the 20,000 knights led by the eldest prince Alec, and even the last bit of oil and water in the Duchy of Keene was squeezed clean.
Since then, the Duchy of Tekos has dispatched all the information systems and constantly bought information outside, and the fact that the eldest prince Alec had visited the Duchy of Kamai before the war was easily detected.
The Principality of Kamai provided a quantity of grain to the Kingdom of St. Ellis, thus making the war waged by the four principalities a wedding dress for someone else, which had to anger the four principalities, especially the Principality of Tykos, which was the first to do so.
But they also knew how terrible Grandmaster Abel of the Principality of Kamai was, and the legend was that he could almost fight with the gods, but it was this legend that the five principalities did not believe.
In addition, the role of individual bravery in large-scale wars is limited, and there are many strong men who have been killed by knight legions on the battlefield in history.
They are most worried about Abel's foreign aid, the friendship of the dwarves and the friendly city of the elf Anjost City, if the war drags on, then these two foreign aid are likely to send troops to help.
Therefore, the four principalities were ready to fight together, and in order to strengthen their strength, they pulled in the Principality of Thunder, which has been extremely unstable in the country since ceding the inner golden city to the Principality of Kamai.
In particular, after the food shortage occurred, the inner gold city that was ceded to the Principality of Kamai received food support from the Principality of Kamai, and the food supply in the city was sufficient for the needs of the people of the inner golden city.
This has led to a desire to belong to the Principality of Thunder, especially among the low-level people.
You must know that no matter how short of food is, the nobles will never lack food, and their food is very abundant.
It is only the civilian population that lacks food, and the majority of the population is the main one who starves every day, so the common people began to have various ideas, which soon spread to more cities, to more civilians.
The Principality of Thunder doesn't dare to find trouble with the Principality of Kamai, at least let them go to trouble the Principality of Kamai alone, they are incapable.
Now the invitation of the four principalities gives hope to the Principality of Thundering, and with the combined efforts of the five principalities, although its strength is not as strong as an empire, it is far more than ten times stronger than the Principality of Kamai.
The strength of the Principality of Kamai is well known to all the principalities, and even if Abel becomes king, it will be difficult to change this fact in a short period of time.
"The same is true for my Principality of Lalvi, we need a victory with ample war dividends to stabilize the Principality, we need a lot of food!" said Grand Knight Commander Armand of the Principality of Lavelle.
"I, the Principality of Raqqa, also agree to war, and under our alliance, which Duchy is our opponent!"
"I, the Duchy of Koror, follow your actions, and we will do our part of the Alliance!" said Grand Knight Captain Dobson of the Duchy of Koror.
"You've all thought of dealing with the Duchy of Kamai, but do you know Abel's strength?" said Grand Knight Captain Ewell of the Duchy of Thunder with some hesitation.
As the Grand Knight Captain of the Thundering Duchy who had just clashed with the Duchy of Kamai, Grand Knight Ewell had met Abel, and had also seen Senior Wizard Dunn and Senior Wizard Lorenzo, who had a deep friendship with Abel.
"Abel's strength, according to our intelligence analysis, he should be a junior wizard with the combat skills of the Grand Knight Chief, he has a huge contract made of steel all over his body, or a puppet, I don't believe that he alone can control the war!"
As the commander of a powerful knight legion, he believes in the power of the knight legion, and the consequence of one or several great knights against the knight legion is death, and the combat power of junior wizards in a large war unless the formation appears, or send them to death.
And changing the war through a contract has never appeared in the entire history of the Holy Continent.
"Information from the aftermath of the Orc War says that Able was alone behind the Orc Legion, disrupting the entire Orc Legion, and finally allowing the humans to win!" reminded Grand Knight Ewell.
"Who saw it, the intelligence system of our Principality of Taikos has specially visited a number of knights who participated in that battle, and no knight has ever seen that scene, but after the human knight legion attacked, he met Abel, who knows what happened at that time!"
You can't wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep!
At this time, the representatives of the four principalities were like this, they did not believe that one person's combat power could change the tide of the war, and that person's actual combat power was too low.
Of course, the fact that none of them wanted to attack the Principality of Kamai, that would be too risky, and the mighty Able could become their nightmare.
But some intelligence has made these principalities too red-eyed, and the red-eyed ones allow them to take huge risks.
"Grand Knight Ewell, this is information that the intelligence department of the Duchy of Koror has obtained at great cost!" said Grand Knight Dobson as he pushed a piece of information to Grand Knight Ewell.
The Principality of Koror is in the north of the Principality of Kamai, the two countries border, and the intelligence service of the Principality of Koror has infiltrated many parts of the Principality of Karma for countless years, but since Abel became king, he has increased the investment in intelligence organizations, which has caused heavy losses to the intelligence organizations of other countries in the Principality of Karma.
Especially in the area of Harvest City, because of the departure of the nobles, almost any new face there will be discovered by the local people.
After sacrificing a large number of intelligence officers, the Principality of Koror Intelligence finally got accurate information that Harvest City seemed to be using an elixir to help crops grow.
And in Harvest City, more than a dozen huge granaries appeared, and all of them were full of grain.
It was this information that became the last straw that impressed the four principalities, food has become the most important resource now, and it is already facing the point of exhaustion, maybe without food replenishment, the principalities will cease to exist.
If the food shortage continues, then it is likely that the knight legions will not have enough food to attack at that time, and they will have to sit and wait for death.
Several crop yields thousands of years ago were reduced, resulting in countless deaths, and this time the principalities were prepared to die how many people would die to survive the difficulties, and this was still without external forces.
When the grain is scarce to a certain extent, there have been cases in history where the empire has used powerful force to forcibly plunder the grain of the principality, and there have also been cases where other powerful principalities have participated in the plunder.
Maybe if they don't act, they will be like the current Duchy of Keane, and the Duchy will be history.
Therefore, the four principalities no longer care about Abel's strength, Abel's possible revenge afterwards, and the actions taken by the dwarves and elves afterwards.
The only thing they care about now is food, and the huge grain warehouse in Harvest City is their goal.
Grand Knight Chief Ewell looked at the information in his hand, he had already seen that in addition to the Principality of Thunder, these four principalities had already made up their minds, and it was estimated that they just wanted to increase the probability of victory, so they would bring the Principality of Thunder.
As for whether he agrees or disagrees, this war is inevitable, and once the four principalities are victorious, then their thundering principalities are the next target.
The representatives of the four principalities looked at the Grand Knight of Ewell, waiting for his decision, the reason why they wanted to bring the Principality of Thunder was to prevent the Kingdom of St. Ellis from snatching the fruits of victory after defeating the Duchy of Kamai.
The union of the five principalities can at least fight with the knight legions sent by the Kingdom of St. Alice, and according to the estimation of the four principalities, the Kingdom of St. Alice will definitely not fight with them at this moment, because no matter whether they win or lose, the battle strength of the Kingdom of St. Alice will be greatly damaged, and then the other two empires will swallow the Kingdom of St. Alice.
The reason why the first St. Ellis Kingdom did not resist was due to the suddenness of their attack, which threatened the four principalities without uniting.
This time is different, the principalities will form all the knights into a knight legion, and the concentrated combat power will make the knight legion of the St. Ellis Kingdom want to attack them, and they will knock out a mouthful of teeth.
"How do you deal with the wizards of the Principality of Kamai?" asked the Grand Knight of Ewell, in a deep voice.
His question relieved the representatives of the four principalities, which showed that the Grand Knight of Ewell had relented.
Before coming here, the king had given the Grand Knight of Ewell enough power and the power to wage war, as long as it was beneficial to the principality, then he would participate in the war.
"All the wizards of all our principalities are in the war, this is the battle of the fortune of the nation, victory we will be able to keep the principality going, defeat ......" Grand Knight Jobe did not continue.
All the delegates present understood what was not said below, and if they failed, they would be charged with attacking the realm of the Blacksmith Grandmaster, and the dwarves would sanction them, and Able would also deal them with an unprecedented blow.
Think of the vanished wizarding circle outside the Duchy of Keane, how terrible it would be if it happened in their principality.
"We can't afford to lose, so once the war starts, all the mid-level wizards will directly 'teleport' to kill Abel, as long as Abel dies, then there is nothing to fear in the Principality of Kamai!" continued the Grand Knight of Armand.
"Then can we lure Abel out, we can arrange a trap to kill him, and then attack?" As long as the Great Knight Captain Ewell thought of Abel, he had some heart palpitations, and the Great Knight Chief like him was as powerless as a child in front of Abel, so he put forward another opinion and said.
"Don't think about it, it's impossible, do you know how long Abel hasn't appeared in public?" "Grand Knight Jobe raised his eyes to look at Grand Knight Ewell, and then continued: "For two years, we haven't appeared in public, how long are we going to wait, another year, two years?"
Grand Knight Ewell stopped talking, he still can't forget Abel's eyes that treat him as nothing, he always feels that this attack is a nightmare, but if he doesn't participate in it, it is likely that even the Principality of Thunder will be destroyed by the four principalities in the end, just like the Principality of Keane.
Grand Knight Jobe couldn't understand why Grand Knight Ewell was so afraid of the Duchy of Kamai, and kept putting forward various opinions, but he didn't want to encounter Abel.
"Finally, I have a reassuring piece of news, as far as I have heard, all the High Wizards are not allowed to participate in the world, at least during this catastrophic period of crop loss, and the High Wizards will be in retreat!" Grand Knight Jobe continued.
Next, they discussed how to unify their actions and how to evade the detection of the intelligence system of the Principality of Kamai.
The transfer of the entire five principalities is not so easy, although it is said to be a unified action, but each principality is not far apart, so the time of sending troops will also be different.
In the end, they chose to start from the Thundering Principality, first attack Neijin City, and continue to move forward from Neijin City, as long as they attack two small cities that are not strong in defense, they can reach Harvest City, which is already the fastest route.
The Principality of Thunder is too familiar with Neijin City, a city that has always been controlled by them and has just been transferred to the Principality of Kamai, and there are a large number of intelligence officers of the Principality of Thunder in it, if you attack from there, it will be an easy task to break the city.
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When the five principalities were united, their actions did not escape the detection of the intelligence system of the Kingdom of St. Ellis, and when the farthest Duchy of Taikos dispatched three thousand knights, the eldest prince Alec had already received the most accurate information.
Because when it came time to dispatch the knight legion, no matter how secret it was, it was impossible to truly keep the secret of this operation, so the speed of the three thousand knight legions was extremely fast, and then the Duchy of Larvi also dispatched three thousand knight legions.
In the Duchy of Keen, the two knight legions merged into one to form a legion of six thousand knights, and further on, the six thousand knight legions of the Duchy of Raqqa and the Duchy of Koror have also joined them.
A knightly legion of 12,000 knights had already shown its terrifying momentum, and by the time it entered the Duchy of Thunder, it had become a knightly legion of 14,000 knights.
Among them, the number of great knights is as high as fifteen, five intermediate wizards, and fifteen junior wizards, which is already very powerful.
And just when the Duchy of Taikos had just sent troops, the eldest prince Alec had already found His Majesty Emperor Ambrose of the Kingdom of St. Ellis and reported to him the information he had.
"Father, the Duchy of Taikos, the Duchy of Lalvi, the Duchy of Raqqa, the Duchy of Koror, and the Duchy of Thunder are about to form a joint legion to attack the Duchy of Kamai, should we immediately send an envoy to persuade these five principalities?" said the eldest prince, Alec, bowing down.
"Why do you want to persuade, what's the use of our persuasion, it's not that we haven't used this method, if diplomatic rhetoric is useful, we don't have to send so many knights last time!" His Majesty Ambrose said lightly.
"Then we will send a legion of knights to stop it, and Abel will help us no matter what he says!"
"Alec, you are going to become emperor in the future, don't be blinded by feelings, the empire is very weak now, the Duchy of Kamai has food, it is this that attracts the five principalities, we can't send troops again, this time the five principalities are united, didn't they think of the possibility of our participation?" His Majesty Ambrose said with a cold snort.
"Then we also need to inform the Duchy of Kamai and Abel first, so that they can prepare in advance!" the eldest prince Alec proposed.
"Stupid, if we inform the Duchy of Kamai now, then it means that we know about it, and once the intelligence systems of the five Duchies know, how can we send troops to grab the spoils of war while they are fighting!" His Majesty Ambrose stood up and shouted.
The eldest prince Alec looked at His Majesty Ambrose, and at this time he knew that His Majesty the Emperor Ambrose was not sending troops, but was preparing that once the Duchy of Kamai was defeated, then the five principalities would also suffer losses after the battle.
Based on what Abel knew, the losses of the five principalities must have been very large, and once the knightly legions of the Kingdom of St. Ellis appeared, the spoils would be in their pockets.
In this way, they will not offend Abel, but they will also have an excuse to avenge Abel, and the grain looted by the five principalities will become theirs.
"Father, what should we do if the Principality of Kamai is victorious?" asked the eldest prince, Alec, who still sensed something was wrong.
"Needless to say, of course, we are going to help the Duchy of Kamai pursue the invading enemy, haven't we always had friendly relations with the Duchy of Kamai?" His Majesty Emperor Ambrose said naturally.
The eldest prince Alec felt a chill in his body, and he had a feeling that after this time, the relationship between the Kingdom of St. Ellis and the Duchy of Kamai would never return to the previous state.
It would not be a mistake not to help the friendly principality of Kamai for the sake of a little unknown benefit.
However, it is useless for him to think about it, because he is not the emperor, and it is His Majesty Emperor Ambrose who makes the decision.
At the junction of the Duchy of Thunder and Inner Gold City, a large army of knights was marching, and behind them were wizards sitting in carriages, followed by a long logistics convoy.
This time the knights traveled a bit of a long way, especially the Duchy of Tekos and the Duchy of Lalvi, they were separated from the Duchy of Kamai by the Duchy of Keen, the Duchy of Raqqa, and the Duchy of Koror, so they came to the Duchy of Thunder, and they had to carry a logistics convoy with them.
And because there are wizards participating in the war, the logistics convoy must bring more supplies, and even the bath bucket is carried with the car, and the wizards who are worshiped by the principality are not the wizards who have been fighting in Miracle City all year round, these wizards almost all live like nobles.
The five knight legions are combined into one, and the final commander can only be one, if there is no unified command, then in the battle, it is impossible to exert the powerful impact that the knight legion should have.
As a result of the negotiations between the five principalities, the Grand Knight of the Duchy of Taikos became the commander of this knightly army of 14,000 knights, because of his rich combat experience and almost no defeats.
"Knights, I know that your relatives are starving, today we are here, forming an incomparably powerful army of knights, in order to obtain food, our goal is to harvest the city, where there are countless grains, enough food for our relatives to eat for several years, I guarantee that the knights who participate in the battle will be the first to receive the right to distribute this batch of food, forward, we are fighting for the principality, fighting for our relatives!"
"Fight for the principality, fight for your loved ones!" the knights shouted, and the entire knight legion began to enter the territory of Nejin City, officially entering the territory of the Principality of Kamai.