Chapter 58: The Return of the King
All magic spells are converted from the superior language.
More precisely, this is the ability given to the Protoss by the Creator after the creation of the Protoss, and the Protoss uses magic to help the Creator create and manage the world.
The lower-level races themselves are limited, so they can't use the higher-level languages. Just like Elves and Dragons, Humans can never really use Elven and Dragons, but Elves and Dragons can easily master the language of Terrans.
In the inheritance of species, human beings indirectly obtain the knowledge of the divine realm, and on this basis, they create and develop a glorious magical world that does not belong to them.
It cannot be ignored that the direct use of superior languages is quite dangerous for humans. During the period of magic enlightenment, it was common for them to be consumed by the magic they summoned or simply burned out by the magic spirits in their bodies, which became the number one cause of death for magicians at that time. Later, the Lord of Magic, Grand Duke Randra, invented the method of incorporation - the inclusion of a varying number of human language particles in the ancient gods or ancient elves of magic chanting. It's a bit like spontaneous combustion powder. The freshly mined spontaneous combustion powder is quite pure and very easy to burn. Artisans melt the spontaneously igniting powder ore in brine and then dry it at a low temperature so that it can be used properly.
The negative effects of adding the particle are also quite significant. The most important are two points, the first is that due to the continuous destruction of human texts in wars, therefore, the original spells of these magic can no longer be found by humans, and it is impossible to reverse the true face of magic. Secondly, the addition of the particle causes the magic to become verbose, and the more effective the magic, the longer the mouthful. An ordinary second-order magic is already more than 40 words long, and the length of super-order magic is thousands or even tens of thousands of words.
Fortunately, the wise men among the magicians found that with the improvement of magical abilities, some very familiar magic can be summoned directly without chanting the original text. This has greatly elevated the use of magic by humans.
-- "Textbook for the First Year of the Academy of Magic, Chapter 1, Section 2", published in 187 by the Red Moon Calendar of the People's Literature Publishing House of Scambrai, with a circulation of 0-350 copies solemnly warned: piracy is illegal, and those who violate the law must be prosecuted.
Chapter 58 The Return of the King If the dwarves are as silent as soil, then the dwarves who lead Amy's path are silent like a large piece of granite buried deep in the ground.
It wasn't until the next night that Amy heard the dwarf say the first thing along the way: "Ahead, goodbye." With that, the dwarf literally melted into the peaks of Mount Messis like a stone.
Luckily, Amy and the two little mercenaries saw the light coming from a short distance ahead.
As soon as they approached the camp, a team of soldiers and several phantom beast knights outflanked them from different directions, and even someone jumped out of the dry grass behind them - after all, it was the Amy Empire, although it encountered great difficulties, but the comprehensive strength was still placed there.
"Password!" "Extraordinary things must be done in extraordinary times, and while the question was asked, in the night, the snowy stabbing sword flashed with a dazzling light.
"Amy, a little mercenary group. ”
As soon as the young man's words fell, someone among the soldiers on the opposite side had already called out in surprise: "Regiment commander, the regiment commander is back!"
Near the Dragon Sealing Terrace, in addition to the warriors who participated in the Dragon Sealing Ceremony, there were also 2,000 Imperial soldiers who were responsible for the defense, and the head in charge, Earl Lin He, disrupted all the people who participated in the Dragon Sealing Ceremony and incorporated them into the Imperial Army, and participated in the daily rotation. The ostensible purpose of this is, of course, to give some people who have no experience in the army at all a direct taste of army management, and the reason for this unspoken is also obvious -- the fear that in the event of a rebellion in one part of the country, the stability and corrective effect of the group that has been repeatedly stirred up in this way will be greater than in other models.
In charge of the defense to the west tonight were the Imperial soldiers led by the captains of the two swordsman battalions of the small mercenary group.
"The head of the regiment is here. The teenagers, who had not fallen asleep, heard the exclamation and immediately ran out of the camp with cheers.
"Bastard, as the glory of the highest martial artist of the empire, is it so unruly?" Earl Lin He, who was on patrol, heard the strange movement, pulled the sitting phantom beast and rushed over, and immediately reprimanded the young men in front of him with a dark face.
Since the death of Prince Chi Hanfeng, only the new Imperial Gyeonggi Theater General, Earl Lin He, can still pull down his face and reprimand the members of the small mercenary group. After all, although the eldest lady of the Lin family does not have a particularly high position in the small mercenary group, she is the first person to join the mercenary group, and her status is quite transcendent, and Earl Lin does not have to worry about the resistance of the members of the small mercenary group after being trained.
"Is it really His Excellency Amy, the Young Loyal and Brave King?" asked the 40-year-old nobleman in a deep voice.
"Count Lin, it's me, Amy, the leader of the little mercenary group. Of course, Lord Amy knew who his own people were, and he could tell how to say it, and his words revealed the politeness common among nobles and the respect that subordinates should have when they saw their superiors.
"Pick up the deer and let the people in. Go and report this to Your Majesty. The earl was still a little out of shape, and his tone unconsciously revealed a little joy - in the face of the multi-level and multi-point attacks of the Burmese Yang Empire, famous generals such as Chi Hantong and Viscount Fan were all in vain. Only the small mercenary group, which had just been formed for less than 5 years, was attacked twice by surprise under the leadership of the regiment commander, but both times they severely damaged the opponent and completed the task. Such a record, if it weren't for the head of the mercenary regiment but a middle-level general of the empire, he would have been praised by the military department a long time ago, and I am afraid that he would have to be promoted to an imperial general.
I have to admit that for this young man who has repeatedly defeated his opponents, most of the people in the military department expect him to create another miracle, otherwise they will not be able to recommend him to form the second-line mercenary regiment of the empire. And the concept of the so-called second-line army is also a rather interesting term, which roughly means: if all the imperial soldiers are pressed, once they can defeat the enemy, this second-line army will of course be unnecessary. After all, as a member of any military department, it is not tolerable that a mercenary without any experience in large-scale warfare will become the protagonist of a victorious battlefield. At first, a few staff officers who had just graduated from the knight's school suggested that the mercenary group should wear down the enemy, but this idea was directly dismissed - for the Imperial soldiers, this was a shame, an indelible shame. Such a thing may be done in other countries, and as the most powerful Amy Empire in the continents, it is definitely impossible.
What if the regular army of the empire was completely defeated? Then there was no choice but to hand it over to the second-line mercenary group. Moreover, even if the second-tier mercenary group can win a big victory later...... This one...... If it weren't for the regular soldiers of the empire who used their lives to consume the enemy's vital strength in the early stage, would the second-line army probably win?
In this case, of course, no one will say, but most of the people in the military department have long figured this out.
As soon as Amy walked into the deer, she saw the teenagers who were already surrounded by the small mercenary group under the torch, with enthusiastic faces and a pair of crooked smiling eyes, all the teenagers wanted to stretch out their hands but didn't dare or were embarrassed. Amy gently gave two punches to the shoulders of the teenagers closest to her: "Everyone should go back to where they should be now, rest well, prepare for the sealing of the dragon, don't lose my people." ”
The young men in white looked at each other, secretly gave them joyful eyes, and ran back one by one.
Earl Lin accompanied Amy towards the center of the camp, and just after a few steps, a bunch of people came in front of him. Lord Earl reacted very quickly, immediately stood on the side of the road, and buried his head deeply: "Your Majesty!"
Amy also reacted immediately, coming out so late, there can be so many people with him, it can't be someone else's if it's not the Redstone Emperor, the young man immediately knocked on his chest with his right hand: "Little mercenary group Amy Jin to see Your Majesty!"
The Redstone Emperor took a few steps, shook off the crowd and grabbed Amy's hand, and before he could speak, tears came down first: "Amy, my little brother ......"
The young man's body froze suddenly, and he didn't want to mention the topic of Chi Hanfeng to anyone anymore, including Da Qingshan. Amy didn't say a word, waiting in the night wind.
His Majesty quickly discovered his gaffe, coughed lightly twice, and patted Amy's shoulder: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back, there are still four days to seal the dragon, and come back very immediately." ”
General Luo Hui explained for the Hongshi Emperor on the side: "King Shaozhong Yong, Your Majesty has been restless these days, I am very worried that you will not be able to come back, and I am even more worried about where you have been these days, I have sent someone to the Dwarf Kingdom to inquire? ”
"The kid is ignorant, delaying the dragon sealing ceremony and military affairs, please forgive your majesty. "According to the previous canonization, as the owner of the imperial king, Amy should call himself a minister, but at this time, the young man did not mention anything about the young loyal and brave king, and still spoke as a mercenary.
The Redstone Emperor and the ministers also discovered this small detail, although everyone didn't know that Amy had pushed two thrones in a row in the past few days, but they had already heard of Amy's performance in the Fairy Forest, and it seemed that they were ...... It seems like...... There is some allergic syndrome to such a lofty title as a king. Outside, there was no need to say much, and everyone returned to the big tent together.
The big tent was brightly lit, and Amy was startled—in a short period of time, the Redstone Emperor looked nearly 20 years older. A year ago, the Redstone Emperor looked to be in his early 30s at most, and Billung, Mo Ye, and others were not a little bit younger, but now they ...... It doesn't even look as good as His Royal Highness the King of the Hami Kingdom. There are deep wrinkles on his forehead, wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, gray hair is evident in his hair, the bridge of his nose is straight, the tip of his nose is pecked, and his eyes are becoming more and more sharp.
Amy was stunned for a moment, and involuntarily said, "Your Majesty is old......"
The people in the big tent were stunned, and some people had already seen beads of sweat on their foreheads, this ...... Your Excellency Amy, who has always been known for his intelligence, is too exaggerated for this performance.
The Redstone Emperor smiled slightly: "Yes, our generation is old and dies, and it will depend on you in the future." An old aura rose faintly.
Amy immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing, and lowered her head and said nothing.
The Redstone Emperor briefly chatted with Amy, especially about the recruitment of mercenaries in the Northern Federation, Amy probably talked about the situation of the Prince of Tiedu, and asked the Redstone Emperor to retreat under the pretext that it was too late.
There are still four days before the day of sealing the dragon, and Count Lin excused Amy that she had just come and needed a moderate rest, so he did not arrange a rotation for Amy, and the cadres of the small mercenary group knew the head of the regiment quite well, plus the matter of Prince Chi Hanfeng, no one felt to offend this bad head. There are also quite a lot of things about the Redstone Emperor, since meeting Amy once, the two men, one old and one young, have never taken the initiative to mention each other, let alone meet each other.
However, Earl Lin He and Luo Hui and several other high-ranking people in the imperial military department came to visit His Excellency Amy en masse.
The meeting began with the Battle of the Four Dragons of the Dwarven Kingdom, and several generals were more concerned about the attitudes that the Dwarf Kingdom might hold, but unfortunately, Amy didn't know much about it. After all, a brave man like the furnace did not occupy a high position in the dwarven kingdom. However, several generals still got some good news from the tragedy of the dwarven royal family - as long as the prince of the dwarven kingdom succeeded to the throne, the first thing to do was to declare war on the Burmese Empire, which had killed the assassin king. Even if it is not joined forces with the Amy Empire, it will inevitably be extremely beneficial to the current war.
Several generals knew about Amy and the others falling off the cliff, and Amy hid most of the truth about this, only vaguely talking about some beautiful landscapes with gurgling water below the canyon. Even, Amy concealed that she had already obtained the Crystal Mine - for a mercenary like Amy, who seemed to be a merchant as close as her, all the loot found during the adventure was a sacred and inviolable personal property - even if it was expanded, it could only be extended to the level of a small mercenary group. As for improving the overall combat power of the empire, Amy had never thought of raising her consciousness to such a high level.
Along with several generals, there was also Major General Chi Changyun. Amy had never met the Chi family before, and this gentle young man was far from his brother's appearance. If there was anything in common, the two brothers were so silent that Amy thought that the young man standing behind the generals was the attendant of one of the generals.
When she heard that he was the eldest son of the Chi family, Amy immediately stood up and apologized for her faux pas - in Amy's heart, it was her own family. Chi Changyun explained in three or two sentences the massacre that Chi Aotian had already committed in southern Xinjiang, a great city built by the famous lancer general Oda 300 years ago was completely destroyed in one day, the raging fire burned for several days, and three days later, hundreds of miles away Tongyun Pass, there was even a black rain - the rain carried thick ashes. Major General Chi's eyebrows were tightly locked together as he spoke.
"Alas-" Your Excellency Amy let out a long sigh, with a trace of unbearability between her eyebrows, Chi Changyun heard the young man say this, and was going to ask His Excellency Amy to send someone to restrain Chi Aotian*, but he didn't expect that His Excellency Amy didn't mean this at all: "It's so pitiful." Poor elves, as a life-loving race, would want to cause such a tragedy. If Her Majesty the Elven Queen had known, I don't know if she would blame me. Chi Aotian is really pitiful, and he has to rely on the force of these elves, which is really embarrassing for him. Well, I think it's best to arrange for His Majesty the Lingbao Sons and Daughters to send a letter demanding that these elves must absolutely obey Chi Aotian's orders. If...... Now Aotian's subordinates are all teenagers from the Frozen Continent, I believe his efficiency will be much faster. ”
Chi Changyun couldn't bear to sigh as much as His Excellency Amy, no wonder his younger brother had become so perverted, now that he thought about it, thanks to His Excellency Amy's anger and left, otherwise, the residents of the Holy See would be even more unlucky-Of course, at this time, Chi Changyun did not receive the results of His Excellency Chi Aotian's latest stage of battle on the Huayu Plain, so he would have such a blessing.
Amy was a little strange about the grandeur of this dragon sealing, after all, it was a very unwise thing to gather so many officers here for a long time.
Several Imperial generals smiled wryly. Earl Linhe probably explained a few words, and Amy had to smile wryly.
At this time, the situation of the empire was worse than most people imagined...... Bad a lot.
War is definitely not something that ordinary people can fight if they want to. In the 20 years since the Redstone Emperor ruled the country, the empire's military strength and military budget have been kept to a minimum, and it seems that the empire has four major knight orders and hundreds of thousands of regular troops (most of which are swordsman battalions), which is already pitiful for the vast territory of the empire. For the Imperial War Department, the combat capability of the army maintained over the past few years can at most fight a war on one continent with no more than two theaters of war.
The current situation is that the continent of Fanos, Alcatraz Island, and the Holy See have been quietly preparing for the past few decades, and almost all the national resources have been allocated to the war. If the Amy Empire wants to achieve such a state of war, for example, to prepare enough troops and all the war supplies are in place, it will take at least two full years. The difficulty of this is definitely beyond most people's imagination. To cite just a simple example, during the confrontation between the two hostile forces on the north bank of the Lion River under the command of General Chi Hantong with 30,000 regular troops, the commanders of the three sides were worried about being attacked by the other two sides because the three forces were equal, so there was no conflict of more than 100 people. Even so, in just one year, Chi Hantong consumed the following standing war resources: 63,500 longbow and arrow feathers, 197,200 horn bow and arrow feathers, 10,000 pairs of combat boots, 12,000 battle armor silks, and 10,000 deer anchors...... The horned bow and arrow feathers alone are equivalent to the total consumption of all the major war zones of the empire in the four years of peace, while the production of the first year of the empire's magic calendar is only 80,000. How much can all the craftsmen who belong to the Imperial Military Department be able to produce? How can materials be obtained? After mass production, it will inevitably lead to a large increase in defective products, how to control them, how to store them, and how to transport them to the front line?
War is a game of throwing money. The core reason why the Xiusi Empire and the Mercenary Empire collapsed one after another in about a year was not that the Imperial soldiers did not work hard, but that the resources of the two empires were too far from the war readiness resources that Alcatraz and Fanos had prepared for decades. The two centaur teams of Phanos shot 100,000 feathered arrows in a small city of the mercenary empire, and that small city had only more than 4,000 people in total...... If the time goes forward another 20 years, if this war breaks out at that time, even if the Amy Empire wins, it will definitely be a miserable victory.
That's just the way it is. The Amy Empire was not prepared for a war, and even the Redstone Emperor had no idea of starting a war during his reign. Unexpectedly, he encountered this once-in-a-lifetime pan-continental war. As the main war opponents, the Phanos orcs fought a series of large-scale leapfrog wars, which split the already stretched forces of the Amy Empire, and finally lost Scambrai.
Of course, the Empire did not lose the war, after all, successive monarchs ran the Northern Confederacy, which was the base of the Empire. This period is the second period of stability of the entire war situation, and both Fanos and Alcatraz need a period of time to digest the food they have forcibly swallowed, so as not to be dragged down and killed by the rebellious residents and soldiers in the territory. The idea of the Imperial War Department is to fully activate the war machine, and more than 70% of the inhabitants of the territory now controlled by the Empire will directly enter the war system. Then look for fighters and fight the enemy in a decisive battle.
Oh, yes. Amy had the same look on her face. A mercenary is a mercenary and will never think about such a question. Fortunately, there is no need to think about it at this time.
On the twentieth day of the first month of the magic calendar, Amy was like an ordinary little mercenary regiment member, half an hour before the red sun jumped out of the horizon - there was a little good on the Macesis Snow Mountain, you could feel the ice magic elves everywhere, Amy was like an ordinary magician, sitting cross-legged on the edge of a cliff, meditating quietly, feeling the surging ice and snow elves in the valley...... There are also a considerable number of blue elves and cyan elves sandwiched between the green elves, fortunately, these three different types of magic elves are very close to each other, and ordinary people can't see that this magician in front of them is actually manipulating the three elves at the same time.
More than 50 small mercenary groups also ran out of the camp on their front and back feet, even if some people wanted to be lazy, now that the head of the group is here, he will not open his eyes, and he will not sleep lazily for a moment of happiness at this time. Lord Amy usually doesn't say anything, but it is said that there is a set of methods from the late General Chi Hanfeng, which can make people forget once and for all - only a few people have tasted it so far, and the person concerned will subconsciously show a series of tremors every time he mentions it, and of course, no one wants to bear it again.
Alas...... Although no one deliberately mentioned it, however, I have to admit that the shadow of the late General Chi Hanfeng shook silently everywhere.
Not long after, in the eastern sky, a line of white light appeared faintly, the clouds quickly brightened, and the colorful light hit the edge of the white clouds almost in a second, and the sky dawned...... The hustle and bustle of the magic elves quickly subsided.
Amy stood up, pulled out the blade of ice from her back, and slashed through the air continuously, trying to keep her wrist flexible.
Nantian, suddenly began to change!
Large swaths of multicolored clouds rolled chaotically like boiling water in a pot, and a scorching south wind was felt on the Fenglong Platform at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters.
The soldiers who were on duty on duty quickly reported to the Supreme Commander, Count Lin He, that when His Excellency the Earl accompanied the Redstone Emperor out, the sky was already blood-red!
Dragon......
Almost everyone guessed the answer, but, what kind of dragon would have such momentum?! The numerous officers looked at Count Lin He, waiting for an order.
"Except for His Majesty's guards, all the other Phantom Beast Knights have all taken to the air!" said Earl Linhe as he summoned his own Phantom Beast.
In an instant, the entire dragon sealing platform was like a large flower garden, and countless dazzling enchantment arrays bloomed - nearly 200 phantom beast arrays slowly rotated on the ground, and then, earth dragons, war horses, griffins, tigers, snow wolves, lynxes, hideous beasts, rhinoceros, war elephants...... Almost all the phantom beasts that humans could imagine jumped out in the various phantom beast arrays, and the knights boarded the phantom beasts one after another. Pull the mount and rise into the air. The sky was dark and oppressive.
A low dragon groan rolled in from far away, and the blood-red clouds were torn apart by the dragon's groan......