183 diplomatic failures
On the second day, the entire ship was cleaned up, and dozens of paladins in shining armor lined up with weapons in their hands and began to sail towards the wide river to the south.
As they sailed to the waterway near the city, they soon attracted countless people from the riverbank to watch, and they gathered in horror in the face of the tall warship and the dazzling paladins on it.
Soon the commotion of the crowd attracted the king, who came to the river bank with several ministers and priests.
The king was so frightened by the magnificent battleship and the paladins on it that he stood a hundred meters away from the battleship and trembled to go any further.
"Soldier, soldier!" The king screamed in horror at the oncoming paladin.
The paladin waved his hand and asked, "Please let the ruler of this place come out to meet our master, the great saint." ”
The king trembled and said, "I, I am the king." ”
The paladin muttered, "That's really not the demeanor of a king!" ”
"Wait a minute! The Holy Maiden will come down and talk to you in a moment. ”
The king trembled and stood in front of the paladin and said, "No, no, how can you let the holy woman see me in such a place where she is not prepared at all?" How about we go to the palace? ”
"I'm going to ask the Holy Maiden, you go and prepare first!"
Soon the well-prepared saint and his party began to enter the city through the gates, and they swaggered through the city.
The statues in the square were not so great in the light of these warriors dressed in gold, and the king trembled in the face of them, and he was both afraid and envious, and kept telling his attendants how heroic they were, even though they had only just met.
As the king, ministers, and priests walked out of the palace in their most formal garments, they were saddened to find that the eyes of the people had not moved from the paladins to theirs, and that the majesty they had once defended was now like a joke to the golden men.
After that, Ankka squeezed out from the paladin's side to temporarily attract everyone's attention, and the unsmiling Ankka stood in front of everyone, making the king breathless by the invisible momentum, and the king gave an evaluation to the squire in front of him, although he was not much taller than himself.
"As majestic as a god statue, is this kind of army a heavenly soldier who has come down from heaven? It's so great, this kid is likely to be the commander or even the commander or something like that. ”
The attendant saw that the king was on the verge of madness, so he stepped forward and held the king hard, so that he would not lose his temper in front of these golden men.
Soon the saintess appeared, she slowly walked out of the palanquin in the center and greeted the people around her with a smile.
The holy woman's whole body shone warmly in the sun, and her eyes were like flames that made those who looked at her fall to their knees in excitement.
All those present were just ordinary merchants and peasants before, and they probably didn't know the meaning of their lives all their lives, but the moment they looked into the eyes of the saint, they went completely crazy.
At that moment, all the desires for money and power were not very important to these people, and they found the true meaning of their lives, shouting and crying, some kneeling on the ground and swearing allegiance, and some rushing forward to touch as much as possible the light of the saint.
The saint waved her hands awkwardly to everyone and greeted them.
"Can you be quiet?"
Ankka looked at the Holy Maiden with the same curiosity, and the Holy Maiden just whispered, "Oops, too much mana leaked. ”
The more determined priest stepped forward after the completely collapsed king, and looked closely, and was horrified to find that the holy woman was so similar to the servant chief who had sacrificed to the gods with his own hands.
The priest trembled with excitement and threw himself forward.
"It's a miracle! Miracles! ”
After the paladin's repeated warnings were ineffective, the sacrifice was hacked to death by a paladin, and the crowd only calmed down for a while, and then fell into a frenzy again, and began the worship of the saint.
The king, who awoke in the night, also sent his crown to the tent of the saints, who looked at them with sorrowful faces.
Ankh slowly walked in, looked at the treasures, and jokingly asked, "Aren't you satisfied with so many treasures?" ”
"Are you kidding me too?"
"Why are you using this magic?"
"I just strengthened the leakage of my own holy light, how did I know that the situation was so terrible."
Ankka deliberately lifted a little curtain to reveal the frenzied crowd outside, and said, "If you don't control it, this place will soon be packed." ”
The saint looked at the silent Phil on the side and said with a smile: "I already have a good way. ”
After three days of trade and reorganization, the saint set out on her way with a whole shipload of gold, and the saint left behind a large amount of spices and tea and silk for their needs.
The saint happily showed Ankka the gold and said, "Look! Mr. Anka is rich in gold here! We can set up a new trading location here, so that the huge accumulation of goods in the country caused by the temporary disappearance of the Chamber of Commerce can also be alleviated. ”
Ankh had no interest in any of this, he turned his head to look at the city in the distance and asked, "What's your solution?" ”
"I've left Phil as the new administrator here, and don't worry she won't be able to do all of this, because I've left her a dozen paladins to assist her and communicate with us at any time."
Ankh smiled and looked at the cabin in front of him, which had nothing but gold, and said, "This should be your only failed diplomacy!" ”
When the saint heard this, she sat down on the box with a sad face.
"I don't know why this happened, I was thinking of talking to the king about establishing a trade point, but I didn't expect him to commit suicide after he went back, it's strange."
"Maybe he just doesn't want to be killed by the brainless fanatics!"
At dusk, the saint looked at the dark sea and suddenly showed a sad face, and Ankh leaned over with some curiosity.
"What's wrong? What are you worried about? ”
"It's nothing, do you think I need to wear more props to suppress my strength in the future? After all, it would be a little embarrassing if this happened again in the future! After all, it was the country that had just come to the other country, and snatched the throne of the other party in a daze. ”
Anka remembered that when she saw the illusion of the saint's death, the saint did not use magic and said directly: "There is no need to hide your power at all, you can try to show these things in front of the crowd to make those heretics afraid to show up or even take a second conversion, and it has nothing to do with you to snatch the throne or something, it is those people who voluntarily pledge their allegiance to you, and the king also voluntarily sacrifices the crown." ”
Hearing Anka's words of comfort, the Red Saintess was visibly much happier.
After several days of sailing, the people on the battleship finally saw the lights of the harbor again, and the saint was happy to let her power leak as much as possible, so that the whole battleship shone as brightly as the newborn sun.