"Dodge, dodge, dodge!"

Ignoring the alien giant standing in front of him, Roland pressed "Kim Kalam" to make a gorgeous turn. With its overwhelming acceleration performance and miniaturized body, it is not only a six-armed giant full of loopholes, but it can even flash through narrow alleys, completely release the speed limiting device, and the storm spell sucks more air into the power room, constantly accelerating the rotor of the turbofan blades, and the furious motorcycle approaches with a ferocious momentum that seems to tear even the air apart.

- Speed up, then turn and shake off the opponent in one go.

Roland's tactics are simple, the opponent's large size makes his mobility greatly reduced, and his advantage is speed, as long as he can throw him away. Although the acceleration caused by high-speed sharp turns is a big burden on the body, and the car will roll over if he is not careful, he is confident that he can do it.

(Yes.) ）

The boy lowered his body and prepared to start a difficult turning stunt, when an extraordinary murderous aura pierced his skin and went straight into his brain.

Mana gathered in front of him at an extraordinary speed, and in the next moment, the ground in front of Roland's eyes suddenly exploded.

（――！！）

Like a mine exploding, the dirt floor was cut open, and countless rock spikes burst through the earth, turning into a forest of assault spears in front of Roland.

The operation is the technique "Earth Dragon Thorn".

Take on a hand-to-hand combat stance, lure the opponent to speed up, and then set up a spear formation in front of the target that cannot be slowed down - the enemy apparently foresaw Roland's tactics, and then lure him into the trap himself.

Think in a fraction of the time and complete the layout at the same time. It can be seen that this is also a very powerful veteran.

All he had to do now was stay there and watch Roland rush towards the earth dragon spike with a desperate expression, and then pierce the miserable death of a frog caught by a shrike on the pillar.

Something happened to the killer's surprise.

The boy didn't slow down, didn't try to turn around, and kept accelerating towards the forest of spears.

Is it self-defeating, or is it a nervous breakdown in high fear?

Or is it that?

Phew――

There was a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and countless iron-fisted rockets dragged long white smoke over the boy's head and struck at the rock pillar spear.

Boom!!

Flames and winds tore through the air, and the clumps of rubble that flew into the sky scattered like a torrential downpour. In front of fragments of shells with the same power. The Armored Giant simply raised his hands to protect his torso as if nothing had happened, listening to the clanging sound of the armor's surface as he peered through the cracks. To him, protected by heavy armor, a few fragments were no threat at all. But it was completely fatal to Roland.

Don't say a direct hit. At the current rate. The slightest scratch would have killed him, and instead of improving his condition, the use of bombs to clear the way pushed him into a more dangerous situation. He will surely die.

The armored monster was convinced of this, and the face behind the armor smiled at the conviction of victory.

However, even so, the teenager did not back down.

"Ahhh!!h

Roland roared loudly, his mount glowing red, and a horn-shaped antenna popped out of the front of the car, levitating on the ground and the tires folded.

In an instant, the motorcycle with full power rushed headlong into areas beyond the reach of human reaction and manipulation technology. Using the acceleration momentum and arm strength to pull up the front of the car, and at the same time apply the "floating" technique to the body of the car, with the inertia of the two-wheeled vehicle shot out like an arrow, in the storm of dust and debris, the little sheep while depicting a sharp angle of sharp turns, while choosing the shortest channel to reach the target, dragging a brilliant red phosphorescence on the killer's retina, gracefully through the storm of gravel, leaving behind the miserable scene bathed in rockets.

"How is that possible...... It's 3 times faster?"

The killer was dumbfounded, and a muttered of disbelief.

Don't say that he felt incredulous, even Roland didn't expect that a brain quantum wave sensing frame was added to the frame of the car body, which could be directly controlled with thinking like an MDS in an emergency.

Before he had time to complain about this frenzied transformation, the awakened enemies gathered Mana again, and saw that the second wave of earth dragon thorns was about to erupt, and at this moment, an inspiration burst out of Roland's brain like an electric current.

(Coming up!)

The center of the body deflected slightly, and the Golden Karam rushed towards the array of techniques that began to manifest.

It's almost suicidal, and it's a contempt for the Armored Monster - at least that's what the person himself thinks, and the killer who has been shaken by repeated setbacks can no longer remain calm.

"Look down on people less, stinky little !!"

The earth dragon thorns exploded from the ground, and at the same time, through the observation crack, the killer saw a fearless smile on the young man's face.

――I think so.

I understood the meaning of that smile in an instant, but it was too late.

The Earth Dragon Thorn erupted at Roland's feet, and in order to match the speed of the Golden Karram's movement, this time it was no longer stabbed obliquely like a spear, but stabbed straight upwards, stabbing firmly at the barrier that spread out synchronously under the car. Then this impact, the two-wheeled vehicle broke free from the constraints of gravity, and drew a beautiful arc over the sky.

This was completely beyond the expectation of the armor monster, the "Armor Soul Charmer" Santiana, but he did not lose his judgment, only to see him bend down, the two arms behind his back dropped their weapons and clenched into fists, aiming straight at the boy who could not be avoided in mid-air.

"Fly, my family!"

Mana's light oozed from the cracks in the armor, and the fists pointed at the sky actually shot out.

Not figuratively, the fists on the back separated from the elbow from the torso, and the separated section spewed out a violent wind, shooting towards Roland like a rocket.

A completely unexpected attack, at this moment Roland was in the air, unable to dodge, even if this punch could not penetrate the barrier, but at least it could make him deviate from the flight trajectory and unable to continue to move forward.

That's how it should be.

The heavy gunfire shook the air around it, and the trajectory of the flying fist crossed with two high-explosive tracer bullets, and the impact of the explosion greatly deviated the trajectory of the fist.

"What!!"

Accurate and powerful unlike the shooting of muskets. Santiana jerked his gaze.

"I won't let you get in the way of Roland!"

The unhorse-drawn four-wheeled bicycle rushed out of the smoke, and a young girl leaned out of the roof of the car with half of her body, roaring angrily and replacing it with new bullets.

He was about the same age as Roland, with a childish face and a gun in his hand.

The 35mm grenade sniper rifle, with the name of "gun", is actually no different from an anti-tank gun, and there are three types of ammunition, armor-piercing, armor-piercing and high-explosive grenades. Can destroy all ground targets except the main vehicle. It can be called the strongest individual weapon of ground infantry.

Hitting the flying iron fist is already miraculous, and if you grasp the steering wheel, Vinia, who is muttering "not terrible, not terrible, not terrible", and the twisting driving trajectory are also taken into account, which can only make people stunned.

"Go ahead. Roland: We'll deal with these three heads and six arms!"

Nona shouted. The voice did not fall. Two figures as round as watermelon worms leaped into the air, and the Ferguson brothers alternated their trajectories to ascend, their serpentine curves making it difficult for Nona to aim. The killer brother raised his short knife and pounced on Roland, who began to fall.

Both daggers had the "Honkai" technique attached to them, and the barrier protecting Roland was as fragile as tissue paper in front of them.

Seeing that he was about to catch the boy, Roland pulled up the front of the car suddenly, and the turbojet engine sprayed a scorching storm, and at the same time, the boy's foot stepped a bald head.

"--Flash, open!"

"You actually used me as a stepping mat......!!"

The killer's angry curse came from under his feet, and with the strength of the step and the air jetted from the engine, Roland finally broke through the defense line formed by the three first-class killers.

Roland manipulated the air flow to make the little sheep land smoothly, and walked towards the large warehouse without looking back.

Time is running out for him.

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The negotiations went fairly smoothly.

After struggling for a while over trivial issues such as maritime security, mutual trade, and freedom of navigation, each side finally took a step back.

The Principality's navy handed over a portion of its ocean-going combat vessels as compensation to Albiang, symbolically dismantling several minelayers. Albiang is fully withdrawn from the territory and territorial waters of the Principality, and it is guaranteed that no military vessels will enter the territorial waters of the Principality without notification permission in the future, and that Albiang's merchant ships can travel in the territorial waters of the Principality, and the safety of the Principality's navy will be the responsibility of the Principality's navy.

Everyone rejoiced that the problems that had previously seemed so difficult had been resolved in the interests of both sides, and after bloodshed, sacrifice, and war of words, the dawn of peace had finally arrived.

At least, it seems so.

Both sides know very well that peace is nothing more than a rest time before the next war, and that a peace treaty cannot write off grievances and grievances, and even if a treaty is signed and fighting stops, relations between the two sides cannot improve, but they will change from "enemies" to "enemies of enemies" or "allies of allies."

What prompted both sides to put aside the "Albion disaster" and the "orc disaster" for the time being was the "Charlemagne disaster" and the civil unrest, and dealing with these two things was more important than anything else.

The war-weariness in Albion was already quite strong, the common people were full of resentment against the strict wartime regulations and heavy taxes, the bureaucrats and intellectuals suspected that Albion was fighting for the benefit of Charlemagne, the followers of the Holy Church began to stir, some radicals took the opportunity to question the legitimacy of the queen's throne, and all kinds of dazzling rumors about the assassination of the former queen Mary Xià was actually assassinated by the current queen. At present, relying on the authority of Her Majesty the Queen and Walsingham's iron fist, it can still be suppressed, but no one knows what kind of changes will occur in the country if the war continues to stalemate.

The situation in the principality is even worse.

Although Elizabeth was a daughter and was questioned for being incorrect, she was physically strong and still very young. The old Tsar only had one breath left, and he relied on the most advanced drugs and medical equipment of the court physicians, medical magicians, and V.E Company to survive. Even more problematic than the old emperor was his eldest son, the next tsar, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was about to be renamed Nicholas II.

Compared with his tall, burly, and decisive father, the crown prince has a gloomy and indecisive personality, and before the old emperor falls ill, he is wholeheartedly marrying his distant cousin Princess Alex, and discussing the details of the wedding ceremony with the "holy monk" Rasputin. When Count Witt brought him to the old emperor's bedside, he asked him to prepare for the throne. From now on, when he had to stay with the old tsar every day to listen to his government reports and learn the art of statecraft, Crown Prince Nikolai cried and said: "What should I do? I am not mentally prepared, I have never thought of being a tsar, I know nothing about being a ruler, I don't even know how to speak to ministers." ”

Not only did he think so, but his mother also saw it this way, and in the Livajia Palace, which smelled of disinfectant, the Empress Dowager Maria declared to all the members of the Romanov family: "My son is powerless to rule the principality! Such an emperor would perish us all!" A part of the population supported Prince Alexander, the younger brother of the crown prince. More people supported the Tsar's uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas, who was commanding the army in the Riga fortress, and was much better than his nephew in terms of height, appearance, and intelligence.

Eventually, Count Witte was transferred from a battalion of the Preobrazhensky Guards Cavalry Regiment, stationed near the palace, surrounded by bayonets. Everyone had to keep their mouths shut.

The question of the throne alone is exhausting. The problems of social and people's livelihood are enough to make every bureaucrat who still has a sense of responsibility anxious. Due to the protracted war. A large number of young and middle-aged laborers in the rural areas of the Principality were conscripted to go to the front, as were large numbers of livestock for farming, and some provinces lost at least 30 percent of their agricultural labor. For the agriculture of the Principality, which is run in a traditional way. This blow is fatal, as up to this quarter, the country's grain output is only 71~72% of that of the same period last year, coupled with landlord exploitation, merchant hoarding, army consumption and transportation lag, major cities have fallen into different grain shortages.

It was not only agriculture that was in trouble, but also the poor industry of the Principality, which had been consumed to the point of death by the war, and if it had not been for the Lend-Lease Act, which squeezed out some leftovers from the aid of the consortium, the few little industries that had been left would have been destroyed. But lending alone has its limits, and in the context of the depletion of the treasury, Stolypin, who has always been a veteran of his life, had to seriously consider the option of mortgaging the customs duties to the consortium in exchange for loans, and other officials had already jumped to the foot to sell or lease some of the worthless and barren land of the principality to the consortium.

Industry and agriculture are shrinking, the economy is on the verge of bankruptcy, and many problems such as soaring prices and intensifying ethnic contradictions have caused resentment to accumulate in people's hearts, and some people have begun to rebel. A large number of landlords' estates were burned down in the countryside of the Principality, ethnic minorities launched riots one after another, and in some areas there were local self-governing groups named after the ancient Chinese word for "village councils" - "Soviets (совет?)".

Both sides are desperate to end this damn war and then work together to contain Charlemagne, and with this premise that takes precedence over one qiē, the rest of the disputes are just trivialities. While waiting for the official text of the document, the host and the guest happily talked about the previous topic of establishing an international organization.

"My country's view is that it can go further. ”

Lord Salisbury lowered his voice and said:

"Jean Charlemagne's possessions - the Crown of St. Istvan, Ostoria, Bohemia, Transylvania, Scaravinia...... All of them became independent countries, and then an international arbitration institution was established to arbitrate and mediate international disputes. ”

"Arbitration institutions?"

Count Ramsdorf stroked his chin and regurgitated the word he had never heard before.

"I remember the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance that your country and my country discussed before......"

"China has no intention of abandoning the covenant, but only hopes to deepen cooperation and unite more allies under the lofty concept of fairness, reasonableness and justice, and oppose the use of force by individual countries to change the status quo and undermine regional stability. ”

"Sounds a bit like the Holy Church. ”

"But the leader is not Emir alone, nor is it the Pope alone, and every decision will be decided by the 'permanent members' of the core body, the 'Security Council'. ”

Security Council?

Permanent members?

Ramsdorf was once again dazzled by the incantational complexity of the words, which sounded a bit like the name of an organization in V.E, but ...... There was a strong and strange atmosphere in it, as if this was not a permanent institution for peace and discussion of international affairs between countries, but an evil organization where rogue leaders gathered to discuss the division of territory and betrayal of the younger brother......

Well, since the basic norm of inter-state conduct is still the law of the jungle, in order to maintain a certain ecological balance, in order to prevent a certain predator from monopolizing all the prey, an arbitration body is necessary. As for the small countries, they may say that this body is a lawless rogue spoils assembly...... When did the guy at the bottom of the food chain talk work?

"How many permanent members are there?"

Ramsdorf asked about the participants of the Principality and Albion, who, as initiators, were naturally permanent members, and on this basis, in order to demonstrate fairness, justice, impartiality...... and the strength of the country, making the authority of this organization more credible, and it is bound to attract other powerful players to participate.

Salisbury smiled, and leaned in further, almost touching the Earl's furry face.

"You and I, Charlemagne, and the consortium. ”

"Consortium?"

Ramsdorf is not surprised that Charlemagne is on the list, after all, it is one of the largest powers, and even if you don't like it, you can't ignore that country. Can be conglomerate...... Can it be regarded as a country of the big tail hooligan? It is better to bring Castile closer. Although it is a little weaker, it is still a state entity, and at the same time a long-term ally of Albion.

The Count suddenly remembered that a month earlier, in a top-secret report submitted by the "Oklana", it had been mentioned that relations between the two ancient allies were getting worse due to the intensifying clashes of faith and the increasing activity of "Albion pirates" against Castilian merchant ships......

Even so, choosing a consortium that is not even a state, or Charlemagne's, is by no means a smart decision, even if this chaebol has amazing energy.

"Nothing is absolute, and the chaebol will not always maintain a relationship with the Charlemagne royal family, look at the crown prince, I believe that His Excellency the Earl can also understand the concerns of the consortium. ”

"I see. ”

"If Charlemagne unfortunately someday breaks out into civil war, we should localize it. That is, we will remain neutral in the absence of third countries entering the war. If the Majesty had decided to side with Charlemagne, they would have the potential to defeat the consortium, and the result would have strengthened Charlemagne's dominance over mainland affairs. Charlemagne will be the master of the world, and we will be ostracized. ”

"But if Charlemagne defeats the consortium in a landslide, or unites with the church to defeat the consortium, and we come to the rescue of the consortium from destruction, then we will become outright hostile to Charlemagne, and the powerless consortium will not be an important tool to contain Charlemagne. ”

"Conversely, even if the consortium can defeat Charlemagne, it is unbelievable to defeat a country as powerful as Charlemagne once and for all. Even if he loses for the time being, Charlemagne can still mobilize the country's potential and face off against the consortium again. So we need to make sure that the consortium wins, and then quickly recognize the new independent state, pull it into the Security Council, and let the contest between the two sides continue for a long time, and there can be no reconciliation, which is in the interest of world peace. The consortium will contain Charlemagne, and Charlemagne will contain the consortium ......"

To put it simply, it is still the old drama of Albiang, the balance of power policy that makes the world restless. Hurt the Security Council as a platform to ensure that the war between the consortium and Charlemagne turns into a long, victorious bite.

Good idea, and the Count of Ramsdorf also liked it, because it was also a pleasure for the Duchy.

Now there's only one last thing left.

"What is this arbitration institution called?"

"League of Nations. ”

Salisbury proudly pronounced this name that will be remembered by many people in the future.

At this historic moment, which is enough to go down in history, a monster-like roar of machinery came from outside the barracks gate. (To be continued......)