A large sail battleship was moored in the harbor north of the Michi-Schwagen Fortress,

The shore next to it was crowded with soldiers from both sides of the Scales Kingdom, guns loaded, bayonets flashed, knives unsheathed, and the air was filled with murderous aura, it was a negotiation, but it could turn into a battle at any time.

On the fourth floor of the battleship's towering stern is the fleet boardroom, where the leaders of the two most powerful powers in the world sit on either side of a rectangular table.

On the left side is the Kingdom of Solan, with King Louis Lafalette in front of him with a lion flag, which is his flag, and the king is surrounded by ministers and senior generals of the army and navy.

On the right side of the table is the Valstad Emperor Sarantos Midnet, with an iron hook on her left arm resting on the table and the Empire's night owl flag next to it.

The cold steel armor covered half of the war-torn face, and the silver-gray one-eye stared at the other side without blinking.

The Emperor's feat of single-handedly taking on the dragon knight and slaughtering the dragon yesterday had spread among the armies of both sides, and every soldier could tell a story about the Emperor's ruthlessness, and everyone was in awe of him.

King Louis Lafalette I of Solan opened the meeting with the first to speak with great politeness:

"Thank you for agreeing to my invitation, Your Majesty the Emperor, it's time to sit down and talk about peace, I don't want to see more lives brutally slaughtered."

The Emperor angrily responded:

"Your Majesty King Louis, your beautiful words are the exact opposite of what you have done, if you don't want to slaughter living beings, why do you send dragon knights to sneak deep into the interior of our country and rain down plagues in densely populated cities? This is a massacre of innocent civilians! ”

The king smiled hypocritically and said:

"One thing I have to admit is that your troops are more elite and stronger, and we are no match at all in a head-to-head duel with equal numbers, so we can only play some tricks to force you to sit down at the negotiating table."

The emperor said angrily: "You call this a trick? I beg to beg with all due diligence!

Yesterday, the dragon knights of your country sent a plague to the city of Flanders, the important handicraft town of our country, and the 350,000 inhabitants of the city were infected, and more than 3,000 died in one day.

You have resorted to unscrupulous means for the sake of aggression, and you have gone so far as to attack unsuspecting civilians, without taking into account the laws of international war and morality and ethics! ”

The king spread his hands, and looked indifferent:

"Isn't the cause of the war because my minister was assassinated in your country? We're not invading, we're just trying to get justice.

So, let's stop worrying about morality, war is a game of life and death, and every side involved in the war is not clean, let's talk about some practical, about the armistice. ”

Seeing the hypocritical expression of King Louis of Solan, the emperor's teeth clenched.

She saw her daughter yesterday, covered in wounds and dying, and thanks to William of the Marquis's family, who desperately carried her back, it seemed that the two children were truly in love with each other.

At the same time, the Emperor had received the news that her adopted son had indeed died, and the anger in her heart almost set the fleet meeting room on fire.

She had a strong urge to pull out the famous sword "Twilight" from her scabbard, cut off King Louis's smiling, stinking face of hypocrisy, and smash his skull to pieces with a hammer.

But she knew she couldn't do that.

Damaging credibility and disrespecting the great powers are secondary, mainly because killing King Solan does not end the war.

In today's situation, any heir to King Solan will continue to fight when he sits on the throne, and the situation of the two great powers in the world vying for hegemony will continue.

The emperor coughed a few times and cleared his throat:

"My conditions are very simple, I demand that your army and navy immediately cease all military operations, stop any violations and provocations against our territorial sovereignty, and I will give your ** team a month to evacuate.

There is also an important matter, your country must hand over the head of the voodoo cult and let him submit to a fair trial in our courts, and I will prosecute the leader of this cult for crimes against humanity! ”

King Louis reclined in his chair, still with his smiling, hypocritical face;

"Oh, that's not going to work, that lord is my benefactor, if it weren't for his witchcraft help, I would still have to endure gout, when my toes were swollen as big as a melon, and it hurt terribly when I touched it, it's really unbearable to look back on, so I would never betray this great favor."

The old man sitting beside the king took off his hood and showed an ugly face:

"Your Majesty the Emperor, don't be so ugly, our Soskaya Voodoo Cult is a formal organization with a history of thousands of years, and it is not your cult."

The emperor glared at the old man and asked, "Old man! Presumably you're the head of Voodoo? ”

"Introduce yourself, Voodoo of Soskaya, Dark Sect Diamond Shespal salutes you.

I have long heard of the bravery of the Empress of Salentos, and yesterday my two dragon knights have been taught, and when the real name is true, your daughter is just as powerful, admire, admire! ”

Hearing this hypocritical compliment, the emperor was eager to devour the old man alive, and asked viciously:

"Old man! You're the one who sent those four dragon knights? And also ordered one of them to put poison in the fortress? ”

The voice of the Dark Patriarch Diamond was low and hoarse, like the whispers of a demon:

"You have wronged me, Your Majesty,

There is a saying that the general will not be subject to the orders of the king, I just ordered them to assist Wang ** in the battle, nothing else, these dragon knights were originally bloodthirsty mad dogs, once they were free of the restraints of the reins, it would be difficult to control,

They did all the atrocities themselves, and now they seem to have gone too far, and I will punish them for them. ”

"Punishment? Are you kidding! You have to hand them over, I'm going to slaughter these two bastards and those two dragons with my own hands!

My daughter is still in the field hospital, her eyes blinded by the poisonous fog of your voodoo!

In addition to this account, there are thousands of souls killed by the poisonous mist in the fortress, and the 350,000 inhabitants of Flanders City who were infected by the plague! As a monarch, I must avenge the suffering of my people!

You old voodoo bastard! I must settle this account with you! I'm going to settle on your crumpled ugly head, old fellow! ”

The Emperor swished to his feet after saying this, and in a fit of rage he wanted to kill the cult leader on the spot, and the two attendants behind her put their hands on the hilt of their swords, their fingers opening and closing, ready to do so.

The king's bodyguards were also ready to draw their swords; "Please stand back and pay attention to the order of the venue!"

At this time, the emperor was suddenly stunned, and as reason gradually gained the upper hand, her anger sat down with great reluctance, as if it had been doused with a basin of cold water.

King Louis leaned lazily back in his high-backed chair and said:

"Smart move, it seems that you know your situation very well, otherwise you wouldn't have come here to meet me, I'll be straight, emperor, I don't accept your conditions.

You should be aware that our national strength is far stronger than yours, and I have a huge fleet of 200,000 troops ready to land at any time, and if necessary, I have a million reserve troops to mobilize.

Not only that, but your three neighbors are also ready to join me at any time, and geopolitically we are victorious.

And we have two dragon knights, one who can spread poison gas and pestilence, and the other who can unleash locusts to destroy farmland and cause famine, not to mention the ability of the Dark Cult to Rao.

Brave Emperor, sober up, if you continue to fight, you have no chance of winning. ”

Field Marshal of the Guards beside the Emperor, Lanfield, stood up and scolded: "Presumptuous! In front of our Majesty, he made a big fuss! If there's a kind, let's take a look! ”

The Emperor tilted his head: "Lanfield, please sit down." ”

"Yes...... But Your Majesty, they are threatening you with force! ”

"I'm over, let you sit down, do you understand?"

"Hey......" The marshal glared at King Solan and sat down gritting his teeth.

In fact, the emperor didn't want to continue fighting, but she knew in her heart that King Louis didn't say much, at least half of the army of the Solan Kingdom had not been put into battle, and the strength of the Voodoo Cult was even more unfathomable, and the most dangerous thing was those neighboring countries that were about to move, and if they continued to fight, they would definitely be defeated.

After three major battles in two weeks, the empire's manpower and financial resources were already stretched, with heavy casualties among soldiers and immeasurable losses in high-ranking generals.

Moreover, the plague in Flanders City caused a great panic, and put everyone in danger in the whole country, as the head of a country, she must take care of the overall situation,

Now she must do her best to broker an armistice, no matter how angry it is, no matter how excessive the other side puts forward it, because there is no way back for her and her empire.

Her duke's father used to be a great husband, and although she was not a man, she also understood the necessity of bending her knees and giving in, and continuing to resist stubbornly would only make her people suffer more.

After half a hour of bargaining, the emperor signed a humiliating armistice,

The Valstad Empire needs to pay a huge war reparations to the Solan Kingdom, and not only that, but also open ports and commercial ports to give the other side tax relief.

Thanks to the eloquence of the Earl Southgate, the Foreign Secretary, the Empire did not suffer the misfortune of ceding territories, only lost some of its overseas colonies.

When the Emperor signed the treaty papers, the Imperial Ministers and soldiers hung their heads and sighed.

The emperor himself was also unwilling in his heart, and said in his heart:

(It's unfair, we won two of the three big battles, the last one seemed to be a draw, but in fact we had the advantage, and we ended up like this!) That's the price of weakness! Can only be at the mercy of the strong! ）

King Louis Lafalette I signed the document with a happy expression, and with a false smile he wanted to shake hands with the emperor, but was unsurprisingly refused.

Towards the end of the meeting, the king had a new thought, saying:

"In order to ensure the longevity of the peaceful situation between our two countries, I have a very good proposal.

The best covenant in the world is marriage, and I have heard that you have two beautiful princesses under your knees, so it is better to marry one of them to my eldest son, who will be the future queen of our kingdom.

From now on, wouldn't it be beautiful for our two countries to be reconciled forever? ”

Hearing the king's words, the emperor almost fainted with anger, and the emperors present also hated it.

Where is this marriage and reconciliation, it is clearly to take the imperial princess hostage! So that the emperor will not dare to act rashly from now on.