Page 195
At this time, the financial steward said: "It's not that there is no chance at all. Even if a governor comes, the specific management of the lower levels still depends on the locals. It's a tributary rule."
The Archduke turned his head and looked at the Minister of Finance, angrily saying: "You bastard, you have already started to plan how to collude with Catalonia after my downfall, right?"
"No, no!" The financial steward waved his hands repeatedly, "But... a man of insight is a wise man. Your Excellency the Grand Duke should have made plans earlier."
The Archduke cursed: "Look at the Military Governor! And then look at you!"
The Financial Secretary: "I didn't have an affair with the lady, so it's not my fault."
"what?"
The Archduchess immediately frowned, "This is slander! Come on, arrest him! He is spreading rumors at a time like this, and with what he just said, I'm afraid he might be a spy from Catalonia!"
The financial controller smiled and said, "That's me."
The door suddenly opened and soldiers in Catalan armor poured into the room.
The treasurer simply drank a bottle of invisibility potion and disappeared.
Among the Catalan soldiers who came in, the one with a dog head decoration on his helmet shouted: "The one with the beard is Archduke Frank! There will be a huge reward for beheading him!"
The Archduke drew his sword: "Guards!"
Eight guards drew their swords and stood in front of him.
In the Principality of Frank, the soldiers never lacked opportunities for actual combat. After all, this place was full of murder and intrigue. Many of the Grand Duke's guards were veterans who had been on the sword for a long time and were recruited by the military chief because they wanted to retire and live a stable life.
The centurion from Catalonia shouted, "We won't kill them all. After all, this will be the Empire's territory in the future, and it will also be the front line of the confrontation between the Empire and Monrovia. You will have plenty of opportunities to serve the Empire in that time. There is no need to waste your lives on dying nobles!"
This had an outstanding effect. Just now the eight guards all felt that they were going to die and were ready to fight. But now that the centurion said this, at least half of them obviously hesitated.
Then someone put away his sword and stepped aside.
Grand Duke: "Think it over! Catalonia will never reuse someone who betrayed his master!"
However, these words could not change those people's decision, and the Grand Duke's guards were simply reduced by half.
Grand Duke: "You betrayed me today, and you will pay the price in the future!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the intelligence chief's knife accurately pierced into his body through the gap in the armor - this technique showed that the intelligence chief was also a skilled person.
Chief of Intelligence: "I think what the Finance Minister just said is right. Can Catalai wipe out all the local middle-level people? In a place like Shallow Water City, it is too costly to re-establish control over the lower levels."
The Grand Duke stared at the steward with his eyes wide open.
Intelligence Chief: "Don't waste your energy. My knife is poisoned. You will be dead if you are stabbed. I know you... your swordsmanship is very good, so I won't give you a chance."
Then the intelligence chief's body suddenly shook, and he turned his head to cast a shocked look at the Archduchess.
The Archduchess put away her crossbow and said, "The Catalans' vassal rule has nothing to do with you."
After saying this, she walked forward, pushed the stiff intelligence chief away from her husband, and supported her husband who could no longer speak.
"The Chancellor is lying," said the Grand Duchess. "The Chancellor is fighting only because he wants to be a pure soldier."
As she spoke, the Archduchess gently closed her husband's eyes and faced the Catalan soldiers with her head held high.
She said to the four guards who remained loyal: "Stop resisting! Think about your families."
The guards looked at each other, then finally put down their swords and stepped aside.
The Archduchess held her head high and faced the Catalan army with pride: "They all said that we are not nobles at all. Today we can at least die in the same way as nobles! Come on! Catalan bastards!"
At the last moment, the Duchy of Frank finally had a Grand Duchess who could be called aristocrat.
Congratulations, congratulations.
Chapter 203 The Undead Army Arrives
On the rescue team's side, the team members were unaware that there was another grand duke on their list of deadly nobles.
They were heading to the largest cemetery in Shallow Water City.
The problem is that no one in the entire rescue team knows where the largest cemetery in Shallow Water City is.
"The only dwarf who is familiar with the situation in Shallow Water City is now a dead dwarf." Wang scratched his head and looked at Marika, "Did you know?"
Marika: "I said, I just passed by Shallow Water City and never stayed in this city for a long time, so I don't know much about it. If you want to find a place with a lot of corpses, I suggest you go to the cemetery of the monastery."
The king waved the skeleton hand in his hand and said, "Do you think it's appropriate for me to go to the monastery of the Lord of Life in my current state? The moment I step into the monastery, a hundred-man team of paladins will come over happily and perform the Holy Slash."
Elzam: "More than that, believe me."
How come you still did it, right?
Wang came to the window of the airship cabin, looked at the port area below, and said in amazement: "It seems that the Pelican Gang can't help us. They are fighting fiercely with the Imperial Army... Hey, there are a lot of dead bodies on the battlefield. How about we go down to the battlefield and revive the dead?"
Elizabeth: "And we can also show a scene where an evil lich is attracted by the breath of death and creates his own undead army."
Marika: "The only problem is how to appear on the battlefield without anyone noticing that this lich is related to us."
Wang: "This is easy. I'll just drink a high-level invisibility potion and then use the Feather Fall spell to float down."
As he spoke, the king put down the skeleton hand and performed the Feather Falling Technique very skillfully.
Elzam commented, "Does an average wizard always have Feather Fall ready?"
King: "I am cooperating with the dragon transformation to prevent me from being in the sky when the dragon transformation time is up. And the Feather Fall Technique has saved the day many times in our adventure."
After saying that, he took out an advanced invisibility potion and drank it. After becoming transparent, he picked up the lich's hand again.
The effect of the potion covered the arm the moment he picked up the skeleton arm.
At this time, no one in the team could see the king with their naked eyes. They could only hear his voice instructing the lich: "Remember to perform like an evil lich when you go down later."
"Hehe, don't worry. I'm an old skeleton who has been a villain for five hundred years. No, this skeleton is new, but I have indeed been a villain for five hundred years."
Everyone listened to the lich's voice gradually fading away.
Elizabeth turned to Marika and asked, "Are they gone?"
Marika nodded, "Yes, down it goes. It should land in the center of the battlefield soon."
Elizabeth came to the window of the pod and looked worriedly at the battlefield below which was already a sea of fire.
Marika said: "You were able to break free from the control of the Nine Rings Spell so quickly. You are much stronger than me."
Elizabeth: "I don't know what happened. My chest kept hurting when I was being controlled, and then I broke free. Maybe it was because some part of me had a premonition that if I didn't break free, I would say goodbye to him forever."
Marika was shocked: "It may not be appropriate for a drow like me to say this, but I still want to say: This is the power of love."
Elizabeth smiled bitterly and said, "It's a pity that he doesn't understand."
"After all, from his perspective, resisting the effects of Mighty God is a very simple matter, almost on the same level as eating and drinking water." Marika also smiled with understanding.
**
Wang landed in the center of the burning port area, looked around, and said to Elzam, "How is it here? There are dozens of corpses nearby, most of them are from the Pelican Gang."
The Catalan Legion is indeed professional soldiers. Even though the Pelican Gang has many experienced mercenaries, their casualty rate is much lower than that of their opponents.
Elzam's voice came from above the king's head: "Yes, yes. The aura of death is very strong here. Even if you don't do anything deliberately, undead creatures will naturally appear. I mean, at night."
There is a school among druids who believe that naturally occurring undead creatures are also part of nature.
Because undead creatures are naturally produced, the bodies need to be dealt with only after a large number of deaths have occurred, with the priest praying and then burying or burning the bodies.
Wang: "Then let's act now? Before anyone notices us. Come, how do we cast the spell?"
Elzam was silent for a few seconds, then exclaimed, “You don’t know?”
Wang: "I know, but the spell I know was shared by the former lich in the tower. He also told us that each lich has a different way of controlling death. I don't know how you can do this."
Elzam: "So I have to verbally order you to do that?"
Wang: "You can communicate telepathically. No, your speaking is a kind of telepathy. Come on, quick."
"Okay, first you lift up my right hand and gesture and I'll do it myself."
The lich's skeleton hands are still "alive" and he can control them to make different gestures.
Wang immediately raised his right hand.
"And then?" he asked anxiously.
"Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't finished the gesture yet. Then raise your left hand horizontally! Turn around!"
"How do you turn? You have to tell me the direction, clockwise or counterclockwise?"
"Counterclockwise!"
……
Fortunately, the battlefield is in chaos now, otherwise they would have been discovered long ago with such loud noise.
After finally completing the spell with some difficulty, Elzam exclaimed, "Hahahaha! So many deaths! This is exactly what I, Kosud, urgently need!"
Wang: "Who is Kesud?"
"The villain lich I made up is planning to build his own undead army." After answering in a low voice, Elzam continued loudly, "I am Kejiade..."
"Kosud."
"Don't correct me (whispering)! I, Garde, need to build an army of the undead, and you guys have sent so many deaths! Then I will accept it with pleasure!"
Wang: "Why would a villain like you announce your plans so loudly?"
"How would anyone know if I don't announce it? You see, the villains in the plays also loudly announce their evil plans as soon as they appear on the stage! Don't interrupt!"
"Okay, but why hasn't the spell taken effect yet?"
"Maybe it's because I'm like this now that my death aura isn't that strong. It's just in time for me to finish my roleplay first. Hahahaha, get up, my army (loudly)!"
However, no one paid attention to Elzam's voice. After all, now -
Legionnaire: "Die (very loud)!"
Pelican Gang members: "Get out of here, Catalan dogs (very loud)!"
In addition to the war cries of both sides, there was also the clang of weapons clashing.
The Pelican Gang was still throwing flaming jelly, and the sound of flaming jelly bottles exploding could be heard everywhere.
Of course, there is also the classic scream that is always present on the battlefield: "Mom!"
It's no wonder that no one noticed the king and Elzam standing right in the middle of all this noise.