Chapter Eleven Destruction
It is spring and flowers blooming in the southern country at this moment.
This was a happy season, but the people in Rhine were finally in a panic.
The reason why they were so depressed was the 150,000 Bavarian troops stationed outside the city.
Everyone thought that the city was broken now was only a matter of time. The only thing that could comfort the people in Rhine City was that there were two great magicians in the city. However, Roscher's defeat made everyone lose all their confidence. After all, if it were not considered the newcomers who were temporarily pulling to the front line in Rhine City, there were only 20,000 regular defenders.
The end of the Bourbon dynasty is only a matter of time.
At this moment, in the military camp outside the city, Bavarian justice sat alone in the tent, reading the letter Katherine wrote to him.
"Honey:
While you are reading this letter, you must be at the city of Rhine and make your final plans to end this battle.
Compared with our 150,000 troops, Rhine City can almost be said to be an unguarded city. There are only 20,000 regular troops in it, and more than 100,000 Xinting who were temporarily pulled to the front line would not be in your eyes. But we still have a very big trouble, that is, Jero and Lhasa.
I carefully watched your great victory in Roschel. I used my constant strong attack to consume the magic power of the two great magicians, relying on their powerful personal combat power to eliminate the demons of the Lhasa Warlock, and finally concentrated all my strength to break through the city gate in one fell swoop... All tactics were executed so perfectly. Except for a little bit, we let the two great magicians successfully escape back to Rhine City.
Dear, I know how difficult it is to trap the two great magicians. But this time in Rhine, we can no longer let them escape successfully.
Capturing Rhine means the demise of the Bourbon dynasty. Originally, with King Louis' nature, he would have brought two great magicians by his side at any time to protect his safety. But after the demise of the Bourbon dynasty, the situation was completely different. How terrible are the two great magicians who have recovered their freedom? I think, my dear, you know more than me.
We may not be able to withstand a small magical baptism of the two great magicians in Lille City. Although your strength has approached a strong man like Mr. Proses, I am just an ordinary woman who knows no martial arts or magic at all. And I don’t think that our bloodline crystallization will have the ability to resist magic in the next ten years. The most important point is that even with your strength, you may not be able to escape under the most terrifying magic of the great magician.”
Seeing this, the Grand Duke of Bavaria smiled slightly bitterly. Of course he knew the true meaning of Catherine's letter. Whether facing Jero or Lhasa, after the two great magicians cast their spells with all their might, he actually had no chance of surviving. The Grand Duke calmed down and continued to read.
"Dear, during this period, I couldn't sleep all night for this. For this reason, I specially visited the respected Lord Augustus and many warriors and combat mages in the church sacred churches. What makes me feel relieved is that these efforts were not in vain.
The scroll you gave with this letter is the key to the entire plan. You can buy a horror magic scroll like Meteor Fire Rain, which is a blessing for the entire Principality. In comparison, the price of five million gold coins is too trivial.
Roschel's battle shows that you have the ability to hold the two great magicians and determine their approximate position. Then the next thing to do is to detonate the magic of the meteor fire rain around the two great magicians. Whether in terms of power or scope of action, this magic is the pinnacle of magic art. The only thing that will make you embarrassed are those primitive warriors who are destined to be unable to escape the scope of magic. Maybe there are five thousand people, maybe more. But within the same range, there will be a considerable number of enemy soldiers. As the two great magicians, it is not an embarrassing thing to have ten thousand soldiers buried with them.
Master Yero is famous for his attack magic, such as fire, lightning, etc., and this meteor fire rain is within his specialty. Although as far as I know, Master Yero's magic power cannot cast such terrifying magic, there will not be many people who know this. The lives of these ten thousand warriors can be attributed to him. Fortunately, Master Yero's reputation is not very good in daily life.
With your wisdom, you will definitely know how to choose. Next are some details, please don’t think I’m in trouble.
You are the pioneer of the dynasty and you need to always pay attention to your majesty and perfect image. Although my proposal is destined to be known only by a small range of people, you are still not the right candidate to make this proposal. In my opinion, David Rochelio is the most suitable person. He is young, ambitious, and has the thorny fighting spirit known for his insults. As for how to let him come forward to propose this plan, it is not difficult.
The Meteor Fire Rain cannot guarantee that the lives of the two great magicians will definitely be the lives of the two great magicians, but the next attacks by the high-level magicians may not be able to withstand them. The generous pope will give you two Templars and four combat mages. At this critical moment, it is the time to use them. The two great magicians who are seriously injured will be difficult to escape their pursuit.
Finally, please pay attention and reuse Kate, the leader of the Lion Tooth Knight. He is a smart poisonous snake. If the two great magicians may have a glimmer of life, then I believe that this glimmer of life will definitely be strangled by Kate.
After saying so much, you must be annoyed, right? In more than a month, it will be time for the crystallization of our blood to come to the world. At that time, you must have ended all the wars and welcomed his birth..."
The Grand Duke closed the letter, and a golden flame ignited in his palm, turning the letter into ashes.
He opened the exquisite small box on the table, revealing a magic scroll inside. Countless shining lights, and magic symbols that were so small that it was hard to see clearly were flying around the scroll, showing how terrible the magic power of the scroll seal was.
The Grand Duke sighed and closed the lid.
"Dawn Night Dancers... Humph, you can buy such things, and you still need them now. Wait until the dynasty decides in the future, and it is time to start attacking them." The Grand Duke thought coldly.
He clapped his hands, called a follower in, and ordered: "Go and invite Marshal Rochelio to come over, and say I have something to discuss."
If there is anything that can stop a desperate battle, it is a disaster between heaven and earth.
The clouds in the sky kept rotating, frighteningly low, just like the pillars of the heavenly realm collapsed. The center of the vortex was less than 100 meters away from the ground. At this time, looking up at the head, people would feel that these heavy clouds could fall down anytime and anywhere.
Just as the world has reached its end, the entire clouds are burning and rolling. The sky on Rhine City is like a pot of boiling iron.
Countless meteorites were roaring from the center of the vortex of the burning clouds, smashing hard on the city of Rhine, and then stirring up a flood of fire and thick smoke!
Within a radius of 1,000 meters, it has completely turned into a hell of flame.
In hell, there are only flying stones, fire waves, lava and Brahma winds, the originally majestic and towering city walls, countless houses in Rhine City, and tens of thousands of warriors who were fighting to the death just now disappeared, just as if they had never lived.
Meteors are falling in the sky.
At the city of Rhine, a total of nearly 200,000 troops and millions of citizens in Rhine were standing there, silently watching the sudden disaster. A few people were still praying to the gods in their hearts, and most people were already blank and numb.
The Grand Duke of Bavaria and Marshal Rochelio stood high outside the city, watching the flame hell not far away. They were both expressionless and were completely unmoved by this scene.
Those who can survive in hell are the most powerful beings or the most bold beings.
A stunning sword energy flashed by, and a fire meteor that fell from the sky suddenly split into two halves and flew to the side obliquely.
Fiore's handsome face was also black and red, covered with smoke and dust. Looking at the two light balls in the distance, they were still tenaciously lit by faint light. He gritted his teeth, waved his sword, and waited to rush over.
"Stop! Fiore, do you dare not obey the orders?" A tall middle-aged man behind him shouted, his voice full of majesty that cannot be denied.
"Mr. Kuma! But..."
"We need to bring Rafa and the others out of this ghost place alive! Without you, the four of us would die here." The man named Kuma said coldly. His mood seemed to be completely unchanged with the hellish environment.
Fiore looked at the three colleagues who were lying on the ground and were unconscious, and hesitated a little.
"If you kill all four of us, you can monopolize the great achievements of killing the two great magicians. Of course, the premise of all these is that what you do is Lord Fiore, you can obtain the understanding of His Majesty the Pope. Besides, I would like to say that although the two great magicians are almost exhausted, with the strength you just joined the temple, you will be able to attack head-on and have no more than 30% of your confidence in success." Kuma did not leave any kindness to Fiore at all.
Fiore was extremely angry. He stared at Kuma tightly, his hands holding the sword were trembling: "You self-righteous guys! You guys who are useless in their own strength, but the temple is controlled by you bastards who are studying military strategy! Damn it! I almost succeed, I am fucking unwilling to give up!" Fiore, who has always been elegant, can even swear, obviously already extremely angry.
Kuma said lightly: "You can complain to Lord Augustus when you go back. My primary goal is to maintain the lives of every member of the church. We have done our best, but we cannot kill these two great magicians. Now I think our actions have failed and it is time for those dead people to move out." He said, carrying one of the three unconscious temple combat mages on the ground on their backs, holding one of them with their left and right hands, and running out of the flame hell.
Fiore was extremely angry and couldn't help but yell! He knew that the thirteenth level of fighting spirit in Kuma was enough for him to die three or four times. He waved his sword and jumped to Kuma like lightning. The sword light flashed continuously, and cut several invading fire meteors into dozens of pieces like venting.
There were six members of the church church who secretly followed the Grand Duke to fight this time. Except for Fiore, a warrior who specialized in martial arts, the other four were level 14 combat mages, and the actions of these six were commanded by Kuma, who studied military strategy. Just starting the magic scroll of the Meteor Fire Rain exhausted all the magic power of a combat mage.
Shortly after the Meteor Fire Rain began, the remaining five members of the Church rushed into the Hell of Fire. However, these arrogant members of the Church truly appreciated the terrifying power of the Great Magician this time.
Although he was seriously injured in the first wave of the Meteor Fire Rain, after a thrilling magical battle, Yero and Lhasa still beat the three sacred battle mages to death. If it weren't for Fiore and Kuma, these three combat mages would have been cursed by the shadow killer of Lhasa.
Nearly a hundred figures were running towards the five members of the church who were retreating in a panic.
Facing the rain of fire, these people dodged, but they refused to slow down their speed. Just as life was not their own, they rushed towards the two very conspicuous magic lights in hell. Just as halfway through the journey, one-third of the warriors turned into ashes in the flames of hell forever.
"Bah! What a fucking group of crazy people!" Fiore cursed jealously. He subconsciously lowered his voice, as if he didn't want them to hear it. Although his strength was far stronger than the Lion Tooth Knight, he still did not want to get involved with these desperate people who only knew how to fight and kill.
The magic light flashed again, but the sound of the explosion was completely covered by the howling of the meteors.
"Old friend Yero, how are you?" Lhasa's body was already in pieces, and several charred wounds were still emitting a faint smoke.
Yero is not much better than Lhasa. He can only stand up with a magic wand: "Reinhart is so cruel! He even launched a meteor fire rain regardless of the lives of his warriors! Alas, and I can't do anything about these people just now."
Looking at the bodies of dozens of lion-tooth knights piled up like a hill ten meters away, Lhasa also sighed. "Old friend, can we still run away?"
Jero smiled bitterly and said, "I have a random teleportation magic, but unfortunately, it's hard to say whether we can survive the teleportation process, and the distance is not too far. But..." Although he didn't say the following words, Lhasa also understood. If teleportation cannot be far away, it means it is difficult to get rid of Proses' pursuit.
"When we run away separately, there will always be some chance. Let's take revenge for the living." Lhasa said decisively.
A strange smell of blood suddenly spread. On this battlefield filled with the smell of thick smoke and sulfur, the smell of blood seemed very strange.
Lhasa's words suddenly stopped, and he looked at the tip of the gun protruding from his chest in disbelief. He raised his head with difficulty and saw that there was a blood hole in Yero's chest.
"Two masters, it seems that you have no chance to take revenge. There are 10,000 soldiers who are buried with the two masters, which is already very glorious." Kate, whose body is covered in a cloud of blood, said softly.
"You..." Yero pointed at Kate, blood pouring out of his mouth, and the following words could no longer be spoken.
"I used the bodies of four comrades as shields to avoid your deadly magical attack." Kate said lightly.
There was a whistling sound in the air again.
Kate jumped up like lightning, and he picked up the bodies of six Lion Tooth Knights with a gun.
Kate saw the big pit that a meteor smashed and jumped in. Six corpses flying in the air fell into the pit one after another, covering his body.
Another terrifying flame wave passed by the ground, turning everything on the ground into ashes...
Unlike Rhine, which trembles in blood and fire, the Grand Duke's mansion in Lille is a scene of singing and dancing.
The news that the army of the Duchy of Bavaria had completely besieged Rhine City had long been back. Everyone knows that the demise of the Rhine Alliance is not far away. The due date of the Grand Duke's wife is at the end of next month. At that time, the Principality will probably have a grand celebration.
The nobles were considering other things.
This time, the city of Rhine was captured, and the Duchy of Ron could almost be regarded as the land of the principality. So it would be a matter of time before the Grand Duke of Bavaria ascended the throne. The great nobles who were dependent on the Bourbon dynasty had collapsed, and now is a good time to divide their territory and property. With territory, their titles would naturally be promoted.
Catherine was sitting on the sofa, frowning slightly, and flipping through a book in front of her. Her high bulge could no longer be covered with clothes.
On the ground in front of her, Franco knelt on the ground in panic, waiting quietly for the destiny of the Grand Duke, who was known for his nobleness and perfection. Since she presided over the Principality, the citizens of the Principality of Bavaria have fully appreciated her wisdom and justice. The nobles and high-ranking officials were completely under her shrewdness, ruthlessness and power.
For more than half a year, the Grand Duke of Bavaria has been fighting everywhere, while she presided over the major powers of the principality. During this period, more noble ministers were sent to the guillotine than in the past ten years. Catherine's famous saying is: "Frank confession does not necessarily mean avoiding the guillotine, but the destination of deception is the only guillotine."
"Vissue Franco, I took a rough look and it seems that you are telling me the truth. Since you were responsible for a large part of the military supply, you have embezzled 300,000 gold coins from the treasury of the principality. This is by no means a small amount, it is even enough to send you to the guillotine more than ten times. But you handed over this account book to me yourself, which really made me feel embarrassed. You said, how should I deal with you?"
"Dignity Madam, I handed over this account to you because of my inner uneasiness. I betray your trust. Please punish me as you wish!"
Catherine closed the account book, smiled slightly, and said, "Mr. Franco, you are a very smart person. I know the intention of doing this. When a small animal shows loyalty, it will reveal its weakest parts. But I am a moody woman. Are you not afraid that I will follow the rules and really send you to the guillotine?"
Franco lay on the ground, unable to see Catherine's face. Just listening to her tone was very peaceful and gentle, with a little arrogance of keeping people away from each other, which was the most perfect tone of a noble woman. But somehow, listening to these words, Franco felt an indescribable chill, and he couldn't help but tremble slightly. He couldn't help but regret whether he was too smart. Will he backfire after using this trick to save his life?
Catherine handed the account book to the maid and said, "Mr. Franco, the position of the Principal Prosecutor is still empty. Are you interested in taking over?"
Franco trembled again, and he knew very well what the prosecutor was. He would have great power in his hands, and in the same way, he would have great trouble. In fact, he would play a very cruel and ruthless role. He was the sharpest butcher knife in Catherine's hand, but the object of hatred by the nobles and powerful ministers would be transformed from Catherine to him. By that time, he would have no way out.
Franco stuttered in cold sweat, saying, "Mrs. Catherine, I...I have limited abilities and cannot win...be competent for this position."
The room was silent for a long time, as if several years had passed.
Catherine finally spoke: "Since you don't want to, I'll choose someone else. Get up and concentrate on doing business for the principality in the future. The 300,000 gold coins will be placed with you for the time being."
Franco stood up, his underwear was completely soaked in cold sweat, and he was tightly pressed against his body, feeling indescribable.
Catherine stretched out her hand to him, Franco held the perfect slender hand and kissed the ring on his finger. His tongue spitted lightly and licked Catherine's slender fingers gently.
Katherine seemed to have no sense of this extremely explicit teasing.
Watching Franco's figure disappear outside the door, Catherine smiled faintly and thought to herself: "It turns out that she is a smart person. She knows how to choose what to be her weakness. She just doesn't know how long she can be smart."
Not only Franco, in front of the terriblely savage Catherine, all the nobles and officials of the Principality were trembling, not knowing when disaster would fall on their heads.
Chapter completed!