Chapter 502: Floating City (7)
Victor and Orlando representing the imperial capital, Ryan and Allendo representing Cassano, Clifford representing Mochizuki City, Freya representing the elves and Reynolds representing the dwarves, except for Chiraviv, who represented the Paradise of Freedom, did not arrive, and the representatives of the five forces in the Six-Party Alliance all sat at the round table in Cassano's council chamber.
Clifford stood up and said to Ryan, "I'm afraid Kiraviv won't be able to make it today, he should be on the fleet heading south to Moonlight Legus Harbor." "Clifford's voyage is the first time that humans have traded with the elves at sea, after all, the elves have retreated to the south of the Silent Forest, and it will be quite troublesome to open up a trade route from the land and human cities, the harsh environment of the Silent Forest limits the size of the caravans, and the large number of demonic beasts living there will devour the undersized caravans.
In view of this contradictory situation, Chiraviv took up the idea of maritime trade, and with the tacit approval of the elven queen Freya, Free Paradise formed a nautical chamber to travel between Free Heaven and Seabreeze City through the Rapids, and then sail offshore to the elven city of Moonlight Goddess at the southern end of the Silent Forest.
In order to complete this first voyage in history, Chilaviv personally sat on the thirty large seafaring merchant ships heading to the Moonlight Goddess Port, although Chilaviv was known as the richest merchant on the mainland, but he still couldn't arrange a teleportation magic array on his ship that could be freely teleported to major cities, so he was destined to be absent today.
Of course, the Six-Party Alliance had already considered a similar situation when it was formed, so even if Chilaviv was not present in person, his agent who remained in Paradise of Freedom would attend important meetings within the Alliance on behalf of Chilaviv himself, which is why Clifford wanted to explain to Ryan the reason for Chilaviv's absence, because he did not know that this meeting had nothing to do with Ryan at all, and it was Galib who borrowed Ryan's name and invited other members of the alliance in the name of Cassano.
When Chilaviv's agent entered the council chamber and sat in the corner, everyone realized that Faraz, who was once the Grand Consul of the Imperial Capital, had also chosen to sit in a corner, obviously she also regarded herself as an observer, and did not belong to one of the forces of the Six-Party Alliance. Everyone's eyes looked at Faras, with an inquiring expression on their faces, and Faras explained with a smile: "Two years ago, when I went to the underwater world with Ryan, I had already resigned as the archon, and the affairs of the imperial capital have been returned to my father Luke, so I should have participated in today's meeting as the wife of Lord Cassano, but since I couldn't explain it in advance, I will be present as an observer for the time being, anyway, what Ryan means is what I mean." โ
"Well, let's put these trivial things aside. Galib knocked on the table impatiently, in his opinion, these messy so-called rules were just some ceremonial respect for the weaker within the alliance, after all, nominally speaking, the six allied forces of the Six-Party Alliance were all equal. With Galib's words, the entire council hall immediately fell silent, and everyone turned their gaze to this dragon realm powerhouse to see what he had to say.
Galib didn't say anything, and went straight to the point: "More than half a year ago, I took Catherine back to her hometown to have a look, and it turned out that on the other side of the Hengduan Mountains, we found traces of the undead legion. Galib's words immediately caused an uproar in the hearts of the participants, and everyone's attitudes and expressions were similar to those of Ryan not long ago, and it was obvious that they hated the undead army again.
"There is no need to say anything superfluous, maybe you all know that on the other side of the Hengduan Mountains, there are three empires of similar strength, namely the Night Wind Empire established by the Wind Clan, the Quicksand Empire established by the Sand Clan, and the Shining Empire established by the Semitic people. This time, the undead legion was driven out of this continent by us, but we don't know how to appear there. โ
Speaking of this, Galib continued to introduce the situation and said: "Originally, the strength of those three countries was relatively close to each other, and once any one side had the upper hand, it would be attacked by the joint efforts of the other two, which maintained a situation that had not changed for more than a thousand years. Now the intervention of the Legion of the Undead has changed the situation there a lot. The most obvious of these is that the undead legions have begun to nurture some of the weaker forces of the human race, allowing them to rise strongly. This technique was used against Sennat before, but now the Legion of the Dead is more patient. โ
Galib's words made everyone's hearts very heavy, the undead legion used to be like a plague, coming fast but also going fast, but now they have adopted a new strategy, and they have begun to rely on the human world like maggots attached to the bones to multiply, which is a very bad sign, if you sit idly by, then after a few years or more than a few decades, the undead legion is likely to unify another continent and make a comeback with the expanded military power of the three empires such as Night Wind, which is equivalent to a long-lasting all-out war between the two continentsใ
"Mr. Galib, if a few of us join forces, can we erase the ...... first" Ryan suddenly interjected.
"Hardly possible. Galib shook his head, interrupting Ryan's words, and he explained, "First of all, I swore when I was banished that I would not interfere in worldly situations that had nothing to do with me, and I had a very reasonable excuse to do so before. Even if I don't do it, but some of you do it, no matter how brilliant the results we make, it won't affect the foundation of the Undead Legion. โ
"As long as the Mad Lich Tower is still there, more and stronger undead creatures will continue to be produced, and at some point in the future, we will still face the threat of the undead legions, knowing that after becoming lichs, they can live much longer than most of us, and we can't survive the time. Speaking of this, Galib shrugged his shoulders and said, "Meren banished the plane projection of the demigod lich, Ibel was defeated by Conse, and now it's Orlando, Victor and you Lane's turn, maybe it will be Eli and Saratina after a long time, are you just entangled with the demigod lich from generation to generation?"
"One last point......" Galib knocked on the table and said to Ryan: "Even if we shoot together, but there are also demigod lichs sitting in the Crazy Lich Tower of the Otherworld on the side of the undead legion, once we both use the forbidden power indiscriminately, the destruction of the two continents and even the entire plane in the end is likely to be irreparable, and it is a big deal for the demigod lich to continue to invade in another plane, and we will have to taste the consequences of the war, not to mention the threat from other aspects such as the demon prince."
"And what if we form an expeditionary force?" Orlando said suddenly, "If there is a reasonable excuse, we can intervene in the situation over there in public, so that we can use all kinds of means to support the resistance forces against the puppets supported by the undead legion." If this is the case, we can drag the undead legions into the quagmire of war over there, or at least let them lack the strength to attack our continent again. โ
"That's why I'm looking for you. Galib gave Orlando a deep look, and then said in a deep voice, "Catherine, come in with your guests." โ
As soon as Galib finished speaking, the side door of the council chamber was pushed open, and the glamorous Catherine walked in with a few guests. When they saw Catherine's appearance, Orlando and Victor's eyes obviously showed a trace of hatred, but for the sake of her father Galib's face, there was no further action, otherwise with Victor and the two of them joining forces, they would definitely be able to besiege Catherine on the spot.
Since they didn't want to pay attention to Catherine, Victor and the others set their eyes on the guests brought by Catherine, these young men and women looked almost exactly like humans, the only difference was the two pairs of wings growing on their backs, but unlike the demons, the wings on these young men and women were more like the wings of birds, with soft feathers on the wings instead of a slippery film.
"These are the messengers of the Winged Terrans, let them tell you about the specific things. After saying this, Galib made a gesture towards the young man of the Winged Human Race who was at the head, who saluted to Galib, and then took a few steps forward, facing the representatives of the Six Parties Alliance sitting around the round table.
Seeing that the representative of the Winged Terran was crying bitterly, Catherine next to him whispered a few words to him, and the latter barely stopped crying, and began to speak in a strangely pronounced human lingua franca: "Dear Sir and Madam, please forgive me for my gaffe, for just a few months ago, my father was killed in battle against the Legion of the Undead, and our people were displaced by the defeat of that battle......"
This young man of the winged human race should have just learned to speak the lingua franca of mankind, even if his pronunciation is not accurate when he speaks, but the usage of many words is also very strange, often a sentence is said upside down because of the different positions of affixes and words, but listening to him speak slowly, repeatedly, the patient Ryan finally understood the whole thing.