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Li Guang: “Really?”
Wang: "Really? As long as your left eyelid twitches, you won't be in danger anymore. Maybe the cult made a decision at that moment."
**
Five minutes ago, thousands of miles away in Thebes, the capital of the Catalan kingdom, a royal meeting was taking place.
The Prime Minister of the Empire, Imotepu, was making an impassioned speech: "Your Majesty! Even if you are the Imperial Master, you cannot so recklessly dispatch the Empire's army! The Empire's legions are not the private soldiers of the Order!"
State Master Casseplan stepped forward and said, "I have never regarded the Imperial Legion as the private army of the Order, but that is a floating city! It was through digging up the remains of the One-Eyed Empire that the Order discovered the true god Ragnora and obtained those technologies! Those technologies are the cornerstones of Catalai today!
"Before the Order shared its technology with you, you could only afford to maintain one-fifth of the current standing army! Each legion had only two thousand people!
"If we can capture the floating city, which is also a legacy of the Cyclops Empire, the technology of the Order will definitely be further improved, and Catalai will become more glorious and brilliant! Your Majesty! By then, your glory will reach Monrovia in the north, Ordaz in the east, and even further east to Volmer!"
Before Casseplan could continue speaking, the chancellor interrupted him, "That's enough! Stop feeding your majesty with such nonsense! Because your majesty has promoted you to the position of state religion, Lancelot, Typhon, and other churches of the true gods have expressed dissatisfaction. There are even rumors that they will withdraw their priests and paladins from the legion!
"Especially the Paladins of Typhon. There is not a single Paladin of Typhon left in the Imperial Army, and they also refuse to provide guarantee services for the Imperial officers!"
The paladins of Typhon often act as middlemen in transactions. People will give the money and goods used for the transaction to the paladins of Typhon for safekeeping, and the paladins will complete the transaction only after both parties have fulfilled their agreed obligations.
If the Paladin of Typhon refuses to provide guarantee services, many things cannot be done. People who are rejected by the Paladin of Typhon will be regarded as unreliable and will never be trusted.
Casseplan frowned: "That's prejudice! The ultimate goal of my sect is to bring ultimate equality to the whole world. Typhon is known as..."
"Put aside your nonsense. I don't want to argue with you!" The chancellor interrupted again. "In short, the imperial army will not send another person to your portal! Who knows if those soldiers were sacrificed by you? I know about the dirty things your sect has done! Lancelot's Paladin Order has always suspected that you kidnapped those holy knights who opposed you!"
Casseplan: "That's slander, they have no evidence! And those who disappeared are all powerful paladins, immune to all diseases and cannot be charmed. My cult does not have the power to make such paladins disappear silently!
"Perhaps these paladins have actually broken their vows and become corrupted warriors! Isn't it because of this possibility that Cardinal Lancelot has not publicly accused the Order? I can confront him face to face!"
At this time, Emperor Josephus IX spoke up: "My dear, please don't hurt the harmony."
Imperial Master Kaseplan took a deep breath and saluted the emperor: "Yes."
The chancellor of the empire did not hold back at all: "Your Majesty, two legions have already smashed in! Even for a big country like Monrovia or Kuosania, it would be very difficult to destroy these two legions without mobilization. Now the imperial master is not telling us the situation at all, and he is asking for more legions to enter the portal while being vague. I cannot accept this!
"Didn't the cult say that their masters all have the strength of the ninth ring? Then send a few more masters over. The salvation team is at most fourth ring, what kind of trouble can they cause? Theoretically, a ninth ring master should be able to deal with them!"
Kasepran said with a straight face: "The masters of the order all have their own missions."
"What mission is more important than a floating city that can fly?" Imotep asked in contrast, "You just said a lot of words emphasizing the importance of this floating city! Do you want to eat it back now?"
Casseplan, who shot himself in the foot, looked very unhappy.
He stared at Imhotep and said, "Well, Prime Minister, this is not the first time you have ruined our Order's business!"
Imotep said to Joses IX: "Your Majesty! Listen! A powerful official under your command has threatened me! I am the prime minister of the empire! I now doubt whether he still has you as the emperor in his eyes!
"That's right. The Savior Team said that the ultimate goal of the cult is to destroy the world. Since they are going to destroy the world, you, an emperor, are naturally not in their eyes!"
"Imotep!" Kaseplan shouted angrily, "Do you want to believe the one-sided words of the salvation team? Can't you see the changes that the cult has brought to Catalonia over the years?"
Imotepu: "Yes, the desert has turned into an oasis, and the arable land area has doubled! Of course I have seen it! But what is the price? I have nightmares every day, dreaming that these cheap and tempting gifts will eventually put us Catalai in an irretrievable situation!"
Casseplan: “That’s your imagination!”
Imhotep: "But the people are full of bad rumors about the cult! Your Majesty, please be careful!"
At this time, Joses IX stood up.
The two men who were arguing immediately stopped and bowed their heads to Yosis.
"I am tired," said Yosis, "I will leave now."
Chapter 209 Descending
Xiaobai and Rosalie returned at ten o'clock in the evening.
As soon as Rosalie jumped off Xiaobai's back, she shouted, "The Principality of Frank no longer exists! We went to the Grand Duke's Palace in the Principality of Frank, and it had been burned to the ground. Xiaobai couldn't smell any breath of the living."
Wang was shocked and said, "Can the people from Catalonia be so cruel?"
Rosalie: "In Monrovia, I heard that they have been infiltrating the River Kingdoms and want to turn them into their colonies. Maybe they have been planning to do this for a long time, so they are very decisive when they really take action."
The king nodded, "I see. It looks like we'll have to find a new ruler for this place once this is all over."
"In this way, we can defeat the third wave of nobles." Xiaobai said after his transformation back.
Wang: “This is none of our business!”
"But others will blame them on us." Xiaobai replied.
Elizabeth: "We may have to crush a wave of Catalan nobles tomorrow. The officers of the Imperial Legion should also be nobles."
Wang: “That’s true.”
**
after one day.
The residents of Shallow Water City became the first human townspeople to look up to the floating city.
In the Pelican Gang's territory, Granny Hasher and other members of the Pelican Gang looked at the huge creature in the sky and sighed, "This thing seems to have a natural sense of authority, making people feel that the existence living on it is superior to others by nature."
One of her men agreed: "Yeah, just looking at this thing makes me want to kneel down."
Hasher cursed, "Asshole! You're a man from the dock!"
"I'm just a man of the dock, not a man of the sea." The gang member defended, "I've only heard sailors say that this little pain in the wind and rain..."
Hasher: "Shut up, don't kneel, don't be so useless. Even if the king of the world comes, we, the Pelican Gang, will make him negotiate with us on an equal footing!"
**
Elzam also looked at the floating city.
"I said before that the floating city alone might not be enough to deal with the brick and stone structure of the Catalan Embassy. Now I correct my words. If such a large floating city lands, I'm afraid nothing will be left. It seems that the diamond rock below is a deliberately created weapon.
"I'm looking forward to the noise this thing will make. I think it will be enough for a bard to compose fifty songs about it."
As he said this, Elzam put his fingers together, fingertips touching each other, and kept touching and separating his left and right index fingers, showing his excitement.
**
On the floating island, the king, who had just finished eight hours of sleep, stretched and stood up, then reached out to touch the crystal ball.
The images provided by the surveillance eyes throughout the floating city immediately unfolded in his mind.
"Very good, no high-level enemies from the cult are coming to attack." He breathed a sigh of relief. "Now that the cult is coming again, Master Li Guang's qi sea has recovered, and my tools have also recovered, I am qualified to deal with the masters of the cult."
He paused and muttered, "Why didn't the Order continue the attack yesterday? Was their Master held back by the others?"
At this time, Rosalie also sat up, naturally pulled the quilt to cover her chest, and then replied: "I think this shows that the control of the cult over Catalai is not as thorough as we discussed yesterday, and the cult still has many people to be wary of.
"Besides, I'm afraid that even the cult doesn't have as many nine-ring spellcasters as you might imagine. Nine-ring spellcasters are very precious. It's not like your Mage Tower where you can easily hit a nine-ring spellcaster with a wave of your hand."
Wang nodded: "That may be the case. There are not many Nine-ring spellcasters in the cult, and it is probably not that easy to mobilize Nine-ring spellcasters. They all have their own interesting things to do and will not obey the leader's orders.
"I know all too well how self-willed and reckless high-level spellcasters can be."
Rosalie looked at the king and echoed, "We have also gotten a glimpse of the high-level spellcasters' willful behavior through you."
Wang: "What? I'm only a fourth ring."
"It has nothing to do with your ring count. Well, don't we still need to use the floating city to destroy the portal from Catalonia? Do you need us to prepare anything?"
Wang: "It's expected to shake violently. First, get everyone away from things that might fall and hurt them. Then, hold on firmly and hold on."
Rosalie stood up from the mattress and answered as she picked up the clothes that were on the chair next to her, "I'll go get everyone ready."
**
General Tullius and General Bowman were in the embassy library, which served as their headquarters, looking at the floating city through the window.
Tullius: "It's even bigger than I thought. What should I do? According to the information shared by the Order, this thing can come down and crush the people below."
Bowman: "It's just a falling object. I saw Ordas's trebuchet during the Thirty Years' War. It was probably only ten times more powerful than that."
Tullius: "But the report of the Order said that when that thing landed and attacked last time, it washed all the merchant ships anchored on the river to the shore. Otherwise, we should..."
"The embassy is made of brick and stone, unlike the wooden shacks around it. It's the safest place." Boman interrupted Tullius. "If the embassy's portal is cut off, we will become rootless duckweed. No, I will not leave the embassy."
Tullius: "I choose to leave. The floating island is obviously heading towards the portal, so I have to stay away from it. Although the situation will become very bad if the portal is cut off, that is something only the living have the right to worry about, and I want to be qualified to worry about it."
Boman: "Okay, theoretically our two legions' command rights do not interfere with each other. We say goodbye now. I hope we can meet again in the capital Thebes in the future."
Tullius nodded and turned away with his men.
**
On the cult's side, Odolf looked at the floating city through the window of the hall.
"What a pity! That was originally our cult's property," he said. "Lily's branch stayed in that place for so long that they didn't even realize it was a damn floating city! This is a serious dereliction of duty."
Oga stood beside him, also looking up at the floating city, and said, "Let's not worry about that for now, let's think about what to do now. That thing can come down and use itself as a weapon, and nine times out of ten, its target is the portal in this hall."
Odolf: "Don't worry, you forgot that we have a base underground in the embassy for a long time. We will move from underground, and once the floating city falls, we will rush up and recapture the floating city!"
Oga: "Are you sure? There is a monk up there that even the Imperial Sphinx troops couldn't deal with. He must have recovered after a night."
Odolf yelled, "Aren't you very radical and loyal? Why are you backing down now? I tell you, today we will either be crushed together with the portal, or die in the battle of the floating city. There is no other possibility.
"Or do you plan to go back in disgrace and bear the wrath of the leader?"
"No," Oga said darkly, "I think that both of us may become that kind of... I mean, to welcome the glorious evolution."
Odolf was silent for a few seconds, then waved his hand and said, "That's better than being crushed to death. Retreat!"
**
At ten o'clock in the morning, Nini confirmed through the elf's naked eyes that the floating city had stopped right above the Catalan Embassy.
The king was in the central control room, overlooking the Catalan Embassy through the floating city's surveillance system, and suddenly he felt a little unsure.
After all, the embassy looks very solid, and these Catalans seem to be using this method to demonstrate the increased national strength after their reforms.
But the control center immediately dispelled the king's concerns.
The center said: "The evaluation of the attack results can completely level everything."
The king decisively ordered: "Drop!"
Chapter 210 True Death