Chapter 57: The Prince of the Shadows
After resting for a while, the reinforcements of the Nethers arrived at the trading post, and the people of the Commune embarked on the journey again, starting to march towards another trading post, and finally reached the same trading post before sunset, and reached the northern region of the Cormier Kingdom through the portal, where they met the Netherland Prince.
It was the first time that the people of the Commune had come out of the desert, and in the early winter, the Shadows had carved out a square in the dense forest, surrounded by many tall fir trees, whose thick branches were dotted with bare branches, and from time to time a few yellow abandoned bird's nests appeared abruptly at the top of the branches, and under the trees grew dense curly ears and grass ephedra, all of which were in a half-dead state of decadence, and looked extremely depressed.
All the people of the Commune were stunned by the dense forest in front of them, and even the camels and horses looked shocked, or raised their front legs with some uneasiness, or licked the withered yellow leaves on the ground curiously, and "Hope" looked at the Commune's mounts with disdain, snorted loudly, and then snickered as if they were being amused by themselves.
Link dismounted, contentedly stepped on the soft humus, and inhaled hard, letting the forest-smelling air pour into his lungs, and let out a sigh of satisfaction.
A few of the Shadow Soldiers came up, and in the distance, a few heavily armed ogres pointed at the crowd and exchanged a few words with the soldiers, and Link was taken to meet the Shadow Prince Revalan.
It has not been long since the Netherlands returned to Feren, but the names of the twelve Netherd Princes have spread throughout Feren, each of the Nethers Princes is a legendary-level powerhouse, the Supreme Prince Tyramante, the Great Arcanist in the era of Netheril, teleported the Netherworld to the Netherworld when the empire was destroyed, and saved the Netherworld City, and now its strength is even more unfathomable, the Prince's Hand Hajhorna is also a legendary mage, responsible for daily affairs as the deputy of the Supreme Prince, and the remaining ten Nether Princes are all children of the Supreme Prince, and they have all grown into legendary powerhouses in the long years, among which the Nether Prince Revaran is in charge of this Cormier operation, in addition to being a quasi-legendary-level high-level shadow mage, he is also the highest priest of Shar in the Netherworld City, and his comprehensive strength is comparable to that of the Supreme Prince.
"May the night be with you. The tall Yin Prince Revaran smiled and held out his hand to Link.
"May the night be with you. Link hurriedly returned the salute.
Link looked at Revaran's handsome and fair face with some surprise, but he didn't notice that the black mist like the Yin Mage was enveloping the prince, and he stretched out his hand in a bit of panic, Link immediately felt the coldness in the prince's hand, it was no longer simply cold, but unconsciously absorbing the heat around him, Link was shocked in his heart, and understood that the prince must have also transformed into a shadow creature, but he may have used some kind of transformation spell to cover his appearance.
Letting go of Link's hand, the prince introduced the current battle situation with a smile, there are more than 500 regular troops in the city of Yin Soul on the Yin Soul side, and the rest are orcs, minotaurs, goblins, ogres, Bedai barbarians and other miscellaneous armies. On the Cormir side, the two thousand Purple Dragon Legion and the Royal War Mage led by the steel regent Yaluser are the main force, plus the noble private army and the peasant soldiers are about 4,000 people, the current location of the Shadow Man is in the suburbs of the northern city of Cormier, and the Cormier Army is based on Tivanton, and the focus of the two sides is the portal in Tifanton, the Cormiers are trying to transform the portal built with the help of the Shadow Man, and the army will be teleported directly to the Black Road, and the Shadow Man and the Cormier are still in a state of confrontation.
The current ratio of the enemy is two to one, and the other party still has a strong city to defend, but the prince of the shadow still looks like he doesn't care, after all, the prince of the shadow can catch up with an army alone.
Link took a deep breath and began to explain his plan and rationale, trying to convince the prince to let the Commune not participate in the Battle of Tifanton, and let the Commune and the production team go to the Rock to clear out the Santarin forces in the Rock Land, and at the same time recruit orc mercenaries for the Shaded People in the Rock Land.
The ghost prince politely asked Link to sit down and wait, while he himself paced back and forth in the room, considering Link's suggestion, Link waited for the prince's decision with some trepidation, I don't know if it was because of Sha'er's own baptism, or because the prince was originally modest, Link felt that the prince did not have the arrogance of the superior at all, but kept talking to himself kindly, and there was no tone of command and instruction between the words, which made Link feel good in his heart.
After thinking about it for a while, the Netherworld Prince agreed with Link's proposal, saying that Link's commune staying here can only be used as a food collection team to sweep around, and it is of course better if it can cause greater results in the rocks, and now the Netherlands have also sent some elite squads in the rocks to kill the lone Felin Demon Kui, and the commune went to the rocks, in addition to developing itself, recruiting orc mercenaries, and also responsible for establishing supply points and supplying these teams. The prince said that the power of the Commune was too weak, and he was afraid that he would not be able to deal with it if he encountered Fei Lin Demon Kui, and planned to send a strong man to the Commune to support.
Link excitedly thanked the prince and expressed his admiration for the team of Ghost City, and the prince stopped Link's praise with a smile: "The goddess is with you. Link was stunned for a moment, and replied, "The goddess is with you." He was sent out in a daze.
Before Link could understand the prince's words, Link ushered in the support sent by the prince, Link at first thought that this was also a ghostly creature, the surging black mist shrouded the body, the porcelain white mask and the white dress appeared and disappeared in the mist, but Link soon found the difference, there was a human body under the black fog of the shadow, but the body of this strong man under the dress seemed to be disfigureless.
"No Shadow Folks. Misha whispered to Link, and before Link could ask more, a proud female voice suddenly came from under the mask of the Shadowmin.
"Hmph. ”
Meanwhile, in the city of Tifanton, the Regent of Steel is overseeing an execution.
Tivanton was an independent city-state that had been annexed to Cormier during the time of Yazen IV, but now due to Cormier's turbulent times and dissatisfaction with high taxes, Tivanton's magnates began to move, but before they could make a move, they were thwarted by the Steel Regent, and it was time for them to pay the price.
Yalusel looked at the familiar scenery in the city and felt a little dazed.
Like everyone else, the Iron Princess had her rebellious period, and her rebellious act was to run away from home from the palace at a young age and take a group of noble sons with her followers to venture out into the Rocks, where Tivanton in the north was the largest city in the vicinity of the Rocks, where Golucelle had rightly stayed for a long time and made many adventurous companions.
Looking at the many familiar faces on the gallows, either crying bitterly, or pleading bitterly, or looking at himself through gritted teeth, the steel regent let out a sneer and gave the order for the execution, and the nobles watching the execution around were silent, and bowed their heads under the scorching gaze of the steel regent.
In the middle of the night, having calmly dealt with the property of the city's magnates and arranged the affairs of the barracks, Alousel calmly walked to his bedroom in the palace, and the maids and guards on one side respectfully saluted the steel regent.
As soon as he entered the bedroom, Yalusail threw his sword on the ground in a dejected manner, and with a trace of sadness in his eyes, he slowly sat down on the ground, curled up in a ball with his head covered, and began to sobb silently.