495 The Witch Returns
The Prince of Andorra swallowed this breath, Duke thought that the possibility was really not very big, you must know that as the second largest city of the Andorran Prince's Kingdom, the Alpine Territory occupies almost one-third of the Andorran Prince's Kingdom, if he can't take the Alpine City, then the Prince of Andorra will not have the foundation and strength to dominate the world.
But the Andorran army was so quiet, and Duke couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in the Andorran prince's gourd, and Duke couldn't take the initiative to attack Andorran City, so the only thing he could do was to wait and see what the Prince of Andorra wanted to do!
While Duke was waiting, a group of waiting guests came to Stormcastle, and this group of people was the witches of the Dark Witch Society that Hera had said before, as the first batch of witches to arrive, this time it was different from the previous few people, there were hundreds of people. Duke also gave them full freedom, and did not force witches to become teachers, which is basically no different from other empires on the mainland.
However, most of these witches still followed the advice of the Great Witch of Hera and became the most urgently needed teachers in Stormcastle at the moment. Because they are just like the little witches who arrived before, they are full of confusion, worry, fear and gratitude for Storm Castle, and in order to thank Duke for taking them in, they naturally want to help Duke develop his career.
In addition to teachers, basically the remaining witches are nurses and doctors, after all, most of the witches in this era have some medical experience, and becoming nurses and doctors just happens to give full play to their strengths. There are also a handful of witches who have entered Nicole's laboratory, as well as a hydro-powered factory to control the iron-making blast furnace.
And with the arrival of these witches, Duke once again built two iron-smelting blast furnaces, because the establishment of the storm troopers and the absorption of five thousand mountain troops, these are all required a large number of storm armor, the previous production capacity is far from being able to meet the needs of the storm army, and building more iron-making blast furnaces is basically a sure thing.
It's just that the magic talents in Storm Castle were really not enough before, and the arrival of these witches can be regarded as supplementing this shortcoming. In fact, Duke still wants more dark mages to come, but dark mages are completely different from witches, except for a few particularly arrogant people such as Kasmai who are wanted by the Holy See, the vast majority of dark mages can hide their inner thoughts and become respected mages in the empire.
Therefore, the dark mages do not need the protection of Storm Castle, they are still the most high-ranking people in this world, and it is very difficult to dig them into Storm Castle. However, before the complete war with the Holy See, Duke's demand for magical power was not very large, and a few magicians from Alpine City were also brought to supplement the storm army, and there was basically no problem in fighting with the Andorran army, and Duke was very satisfied with his current strength.
The arrival of such a large-scale witch naturally attracted the attention of some people on the mainland, especially the people of the Holy See, and Duke began to discover that some mysterious people appeared in the territory of Storm Castle. But now that Alpine City has become the territory of Storm Castle, Duke directly declares that the oldest Storm Castle has entered a state of martial law, and no outsiders are allowed to enter.
Storm Castle didn't have this condition before, after all, there were only these two territories, but now it's completely different, and Storm Castle's original territory can be perfectly blocked. Even Duke had the idea of moving all the inhabitants of Stormcastle out and turning the former Stormcastle into a professional science city, where all papal heretics could speak freely and promote the advancement of science and technology in the future.
And this has already entered the mature stage before, as long as Alpine City is stabilized and the Storm Market is moved into the territory of Alpine City, the residents of Storm Castle can build a small town as a residence within the scope of the current Storm Market, and build the entire Storm Castle into a super large military technology base.
At the same time, the witch came with Cardinal Leonard's magic message, because the five thousand gold coins sent by Duke to the imperial capital had been transported for more than a month, and at this time they had been delivered to Leonard's mansion.
In the magic message, Leonard gave the position of Bishop of Alpine City to Kasmai without any shirk, which is also something that Leonard has always promised before, if it weren't for Cassmail's willingness to live in Storm Fort later, he may have become the Bishop of Alpine City a long time ago, the bishop of a big city, and his status is much stronger than the previous Bishop of Storm Castle.
But for Duke's request to transfer the Bright Army from Alpine City, Nader did not directly agree, the reason is very simple, that is, the presence of the Holy See Army in Ayutthaya has always been one of the means of control of the Holy See. However, Alpine City is not the kind that must be stationed, but because of the existence of the Ice Demon, there is also a Bright Army in Alpine City.
So Leonard took a relatively compromise approach, that is, to build a new camp for the Bright Army outside the city, and let Kasmai designate the location, which was Leonard's biggest concession, after all, he couldn't understand why Duke and Kasmai had to transfer the Bright Army.
But soon Leonard guessed the reason for Duke's idea, because he also received a decree from the Holy See Apostolic Order, that is, Ore, who had been demoted, was reinstated as Archbishop of Andorra City. In addition, Duke also told Leonard about his occupation of Alpine City and the conflict with the Prince of Andorra, wanting to create a false impression of a confidant, so Leonard naturally thought that it was because of his relationship with the Prince of Andorra and Ole that Duke wanted to transfer the Bright Army.
After all, this Bright Army can be said to be Ole's people, and even if Kasmai can become their direct boss in the future, it is estimated that he will not be able to transfer this Bright Army. At the same time, Leonard also told Duke the news of Officer Ore's reinstatement, which was a face-saving sale to him.
After getting the news from Leonard that Ole had re-become the archbishop, Duke felt a headache, the real years are really blessed, and the misfortune is not alone, Ole became the archbishop of Andorra City, so he will definitely not let go of himself and the storm army, after all, he was the one who took him down in the first place.
And this army of light in the city is very likely to become Ole's internal response, if he plays the first cut and then play again, it will be just another masturbation for Ole, but for Duke, it will be all his belongings!