"Good." The corners of Madame Zi's mouth pursed slightly, revealing a satisfied smile, "If you agree with this kind of decision, it will be easy to do, all major cities have their own city defense forces, we will use this as a basis, and then recruit a large number of mercenaries from various cities, I believe that it should not be difficult to pull out an army of more than five thousand people."

In the event that the conqueror's army poses a threat to their respective cities, we are to actively urge our respective cities to provide military support and attack the conqueror's army from behind.

If necessary, send our Assassins to carry out indiscriminate assassinations against them.

If there is anyone who violates this agreement, it is our enemy of the Night Mask, the enemy of the entire Dragon Coast. ”

"We, the Light of Bosku, are willing to keep this covenant."

"We in Astorian are willing to abide by this covenant."

"We, the Purple Mask Pirates, are willing to abide by this covenant."

The dark forces present have expressed their positions.

This is only the basic terms of this dark meeting, and after the approval of most of the dark forces, the dark mask or coercion, or inducement, or alliance, and reached dozens of cooperation plans.

Only a few of these cooperation plans are related to the Conqueror's army, and most of them are Dark Masks taking advantage of the opportunity to expand their influence.

In the past, many dark forces, especially those independent pirate groups, would have left their sleeves and would not have agreed to the terms of the Dark Mask, which were obviously full of hegemony.

Now under the oppression of the strong dragon of the conqueror's army, he has to bow his head.

The battle of Irip taught them that it was not absolutely safe even in Longhu and at sea, especially the fools of the petrified lizard people, who were not only exterminated themselves, but also lost three three-masted galleons to the army of conquerors, giving them the ability to attack the sea.

Their warships can run, but their nests on the islands can't, so they have to guard against it.

The Dark Mask actually took advantage of the strong pressure brought by the army of conquerors, and easily pushed their influence out of the West Gate and went to the entire Dragon Bay, I have to say that they can become bigger and stronger, not for nothing, and often can turn disadvantages into advantages.

The major cities, which have always been scattered, have the most basic alliances.

These dark Ones have an advantage that ordinary forces do not have, and that is efficiency, they make decisions on the front foot, and they act on the back foot.

Naturally, their actions are indispensable for all kinds of profit trading, intimidation and manipulation, and it is not uncommon for some of them to have a hard-line attitude and refuse to carry out their decisions, and they have been secretly assassinated and replaced by those who obey their orders.

The major cities began to actively prepare their mercenary armies, and the dark forces began to dig into the darkness, hiding themselves deeper and preventing themselves from becoming new targets for the conquerors' armies.

As for Gavin, they didn't have time to pay attention to the reactions of the other cities, but were in full swing preparing for the attack on Ivanaso.

All the kobolds in their hands were sprinkled into the warehouse hills, turning all the warehouses, secret rooms, and caves upside down, looking for a secret underground passage to Ivanao, preparing to implement the decapitation tactic and directly kill Arms, and Avasuor will be defeated.

The whole battle changed dramatically because of a secret meeting, and Grace, the messenger of Avansor, asked for a secret appointment with Gavin in his personal name.

"Lord Lord, we shouldn't take this risk, if she really wants to surrender, she can just go to our army to meet her face-to-face, why make a false appointment in the warehouse hills not far from Ivanaso? And asked you to go to the meeting alone? There's a good chance it's a trap you've laid for you. Villanica objected vehemently.

"My opinion is the opposite, it is precisely because the other party is cautious enough that this kind of surrender is true, after all, the other party is serving under a quasi-legendary mage, even if he specializes in the necromantic system, he has to guard against prophecy spells, especially for a person like her who is in a high position and has mastered many secrets, she must be the focus of surveillance, and she must not be able to get out easily, and the secret passage to Ivantor in her hand is very important to us.

Although kobolds have a great talent for detecting and digging tunnels, and have advantages that humans do not have, their current task is to find a needle in a haystack.

Without the use of flutter bombs, the speed of large-scale excavation is greatly reduced, and it will certainly take a long time.

And what we lack now is time, those cities on the Dragon Coast have been shocked by us, and at present, they are only gathering mercenaries to refuse, maybe when, they will really unite and launch a full-line attack on us. "Kelissa's opinion this time is the exact opposite of Veranica's.

"The risk is still too great, we have an absolute advantage in troops, there is no need to take this risk, looking for a secret way to infiltrate, just to find a shortcut to victory, even if there is no shortcut, adopt normal siege tactics, our victory rate is also extremely high." Veranika still doesn't agree with this plan to put her manager in danger easily, especially when she has just learned that her opponent is likely to be a sinister devil, and all kinds of intrigues are what they are best at.

"Once we choose to attack, whether we win or lose, our casualties will increase significantly." There's a gamble in her bones, "For this, it's nothing to take a little risk, and I believe in the strength of the lord, even if Arms and his wisdom bone dragon personally intervene, it shouldn't be a problem for him to support us to come to support." ”

She'd fought alongside Gavin many times, and she had a deeper understanding of his strength, even if it was against a legendary spellcaster, and with his versatile abilities, it wouldn't be a problem to hold out for three or two rounds.

If you are bent on escaping, I believe that even if the legendary caster wants to stop it, it will be difficult.

"I still feel that the risks taken in this matter are not proportional to the gains, and it is not worth the risk." How could Veranika not know what Kelissa was saying, except that she preferred to be in her own hands rather than on this uncontrollable gamble.

"What about the lord's opinion?" Instead of arguing with Villanica, Kelissa turned her attention to Gavin, who was the final decision on the matter.

"You're only thinking about the danger of this, but not why Grace did it? How likely is it that she will defect? During our previous conversations, she was a staunch supporter of Evanathor, and she had contributed to Avansel's development over the years, and according to Salod, the petrified lizard's human slave trade was directly connected with her. Gavin didn't answer Kelissa's question directly, but instead asked a series of questions.

"Between these evil people, there is no loyalty at all, even if they are masters and apprentices, Grace is the person who deals with us the most in Ivanthor City, and knows our strength best, most likely, after the comparison of strength in her heart, she thinks that it is impossible to defend Ivanaor, so she surrenders to us to save her life." Kelissa replied without thinking.

Veranika also has a different opinion on this matter, "Your explanation doesn't make sense, if she is just saving her life, she can use the teleportation spell to escape, and she doesn't need to intervene in this war at all, in this situation, secretly contacting us, she will take an unprecedented risk, once she is discovered by Ames, she will face an extremely tragic fate, I really can't think of a reason to let her take this risk, more likely, this is a trap at all." ”

"Even if it's a trap, it's valuable." Gavin smiled heavily.

"Traps are also useful?" Both Veranika and Kelissa were slightly stunned, obviously not understanding what Gavin meant.

Gavin didn't explain directly, but said, "What is the purpose of our search for the secret path to Ivanthor?" ”

"Of course, it's to carry out the decapitation plan and kill the other party's necromancer......" Veranika paused for a moment and suddenly realized, "If the other party really uses this as a bait to try to trap and kill the lord, we can completely plan and set up a counter-kill trap, after all, if they set up a trap, they will definitely not use ordinary undead soldiers, but use elite undead, and it is even possible that the necromancer Ames and the wise bone dragon will personally attack, as long as they are killed, Evantor City will be self-defeating." ”

Gavin nodded and said, "As long as it is properly arranged, this matter is no more difficult than going deep into Ivanthor City to kill the spirit mage, we can launch a large-scale feint attack in Ivantor City, and stick all their ordinary undead soldiers, and we can only use our elite to fight us." ”

"If that's the case, the plan does have some viability." Veranika no longer insisted on her opinion, "But the lord can't go to the meeting alone when he goes to see Grace, I'll go with you, and the two of you will take care of each other." ”

"Nope." Gavin shook his head and refused, "Although the possibility is very low, we also need to prevent Grace from really wanting to surrender and want to pass on important news to us, maybe the other party just saw that I can mess with my fate and not be detected by the prophecy spell, so he dared to contact us secretly." ”

"But......," Villanika still wanted to argue.

Gavin waved his hand and said: "There is nothing to do, this is the risk that we must take if we want to win, if we want to plan the plan, all you need to do is to arrange our ambush as well as possible, to ensure that once it is a trap, not only can I ensure my safety, but also can wipe out the enemy's elite ambush soldiers, reducing the pressure of the follow-up plan." ”

Now that the manager has made a plan, the only thing Veranika can do is to be responsible for implementing it, "Okay, I'll prepare the corresponding tactical plan." ”

"Chief of Staff, there is a team of holy warriors outside the army who has asked to see the lord, saying that they are friends with the lord and have come to support us." A female mage staff officer reported loudly outside the tent.

"Paladin? Let's go, you two come with me! Gavin couldn't help but smile heartily, he had already guessed who was coming.

He walked out of the army of conquerors, and stood at the gate of the chariot village, and in the distance he saw two flags waving in the wind, one with the balance of the balance scale on the warhammer, the emblem of Tyr, the god of justice, and the other embroidered with a flaming silver sword on a blood-red field, symbolizing Tampas, the god of war.

The paladins under the banner of Tyre, all glittering silver paladin plate armor, rode brown warhorses, and their numbers exceeded hundreds.

The warriors under the Tampas battle flag are also all plate armor, but these armors are all scarred, and in some places there are even blood-colored stains that have not been washed off, which is a symbol of a hundred battles, and they all ride white mares, and the number is only a dozen.

A devout follower of the god of war, if given a choice, they will choose the white mare as their mount, because when their god appears on the battlefield, riding the white mare Veros symbolizes the victory of the army, and riding the black stallion Deros is a sign of defeat.

So don't be surprised when a believer in the god of war would rather rush at the enemy on foot than ride a black stallion.

But most of the time, when the god of war appears on the battlefield, he generally steps on a white mare with his right foot and a black stallion with his left foot, which effectively avoids the situation that the wyvern can lose his face, and he only appears in the image of a certain war horse when the final result of the war appears.

Gavin was not surprised to see the paladin of Tyr, and at the front of the line, he saw several familiar faces - Darnell, Ogst, Celul, Davy, and Dick.

It is somewhat surprising that the exclusive sacrificial team of the god of war appeared here, although Tampas is revered as the god of war, but on the battlefield, he chooses not to help each other most of the time, because the war is not one-sided, but two-sided, and both sides are glorifying him.

Or bet on both sides and he will be invincible.

When he can only choose one side to bet, he never uses justice, goodness, and evil as a reference for betting, but who wins and who he helps - therefore, in this world, it is not always good to defeat evil, sometimes evil will override justice, and the most important thing to see is who is stronger.

It is not difficult to explain why the military and civilian sentiment of the army of conquerors is so high, because out of this reading of the teachings of the god of war, they believe that the god of war has given them full affirmation, and they will win the battle with Ivanaso.

But Gavin knew that there was a deeper reason for this, and don't forget that he still had half of the elect of the Scarlet Knight, the goddess of strategy, and the entire army of conquerors was all from Dalauma, the biggest place of faith for the Lady of Strategy now, and to put it bluntly, they had the obvious label of the goddess of strategy.

The entire migration can be regarded as an unprecedented, huge military strategic layout, once successful, it will be of unprecedented help to the priesthood and godhead of the Stable Strategy Lady, and even help her lift the kingdom of God, break away from the ranks of demigods, and become a true god, which is the deep reason why Zalanda and Veranika spared no effort to help Gavin.

The god of war, Tampas, claims to have a son and a daughter, and it is called the son of Tampas, whose beliefs are relatively primitive, and are not widely spread in intelligent life, usually those barbarians or intelligent creatures full of wildness believe in him, and his beliefs are mainly concentrated in the Usgar barbarians in the Northlands, and it is said that the entire Usgar barbarians are his people, and these tribes are named after having a part of his power.

Known as the daughter of Tampas, the Scarlet Knight of Strategy, the Lady of Strategy, does not need to be repeated.

For this son and a daughter, Tampass's attitude can be said to be diametrically opposed, which fully reflects what it means to be a woman over a man.

While absorbing believers among the barbarians of Usgar, he acquiesced in and even encouraged his followers to convert to the Red Knights, strictly forbidding his high priests to launch a heretical crusade against the Red Knight Church.

According to legend, in Tampas, who never opened his mouth on the continent of Faeron, his main daily life now is to eat, drink, and hunt with his daughter Red Knight, and teach him by word and deed, as for Usgar when he is completely free-range - when he does not cause trouble, he does not care.

But if Usgar is really in trouble, this god of battle who likes to protect his shortcomings has always been helpful to his relatives, and only he is qualified to educate this stupid son.

Recently, Tampas has even issued an oracle to make all Tampas temples in Faeron add shrines of the Red Knight, which is a treatment that Usgar, the ancestor god of the barbarians, has not enjoyed for thousands of years.

From this series of initiatives, it is not difficult to see how much Tampas attaches importance to his daughter, who has just been promoted to a demigod.

This is just the Tampas idea that ordinary people measure by the eyes of the world, and those who have a deep understanding of the gods and their existence know that this is only a façade.

What it really represents is a shift in Tampas's philosophy of war, and he is gradually abandoning the barbaric and irrational way of warfare (the Usgar priesthood is a prominent representative of this) and advocating the kind of war with sufficient strategy and strategic layout (this is the aspect represented by the strategist lady).

There are many reasons why it is not a direct conversion of oneself, but a new God.

First, the original image of the gods and the division of the priesthood have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is not easy to change this.

Second, this is also the cunning of the god of war, which is a typical two-handed preparation.

If she succeeds, the other party is her own god and must be loyal to herself, and the priesthood to which she belongs is naturally included in her own priesthood.

If it fails, it is also a matter of God's own affairs, and it has nothing to do with itself, but because of its subordination, he can directly intervene in the relevant wars and swallow everything that belongs to God into his sphere of influence.

This technique is not only used by Tampas, but also by many powerful gods.

The attitude of the gods is also their devotion to them, and all the Tampas believers naturally take more care of the believers of the Lady of Strategy, and it seems that it has become a matter of course to appear here.

(End of chapter)