[Second chapter. There are two more chapters to go. Let's vote a few times. February is a good month. I wish everyone a happy new year.]
Nicholas knocked on Salin's cabin door. On this ship, only the magician's room was sealed. Apart from the group that went to the Frozen Sea, there were more than four hundred demons on the dragon skeleton warship that followed Salin. Now, the dragon skeleton warship was finally fully staffed.
"Nicholas, come in." Salin's door opened naturally. Nicholas walked in and saw a huge water flame floating in front of Salin. Every time he saw the water flame, Nicholas felt a little scared. It was too dangerous to touch it. Low-level Warriors wouldn't be a threat to Salin at all.
There were only two Gaugass Warriors in Salin's room. His bodyguards weren't with him. Seeing Nicholas come in, the two Gaugass Warriors bowed and left.
"Master …"
"Nicholas, you're asking about Lone Star City?" Salin continued to make his Fragment of Eternal Control. He only made one at a time now, so he had enough mental power and could chat with Nicholas.
"Yes, Master. Are you really not worried about His Highness Rex?" Nicholas tried his best to calm down and asked.
"What's there to worry about? Ainphent is a level-8 Necromancer. Heh, the Church can only break through Lone Star City if they send a large number of Mages. What do you think the Church is busy with now? "
"They want to break through Qinyin's front line of defense, of course. Qinyin has War Puppets, and they have to avoid them. Otherwise, they'll suffer heavy losses."
"That's why it's very difficult for the Scochenya people to get support from the Church. It's the same even if they're in an alliance. The War Puppets are located in the northernmost lane of Qinyin. If the Church wants to attack from the center of Qinyin, they'll have to attack from the south. Fighting on three fronts is all a lie. "
"But Master, the Scochenya people have a million soldiers. Lone Star City isn't Metatlin City."
"Then, Nicholas, what's the best thing for me to do?"
"Attack Lone Star City with full force, of course. With the power in your hands, the Scochenya army can't withstand a single blow. Metatlin City would be defended to the death. Sir Jason would lead the High Mages to defend it. Even if the Flowing Cloud Fleet attacked, they wouldn't be able to take it down. Then, let His Highness Rex coordinate with Great Liang City and launch a pincer attack from the north and south to destroy the Tanggulas Empire's offensive, "Nicholas said in one breath.
"From a tactical point of view, there is nothing wrong with it. However, the plan that I made with Ainphent back then was to defend Lone Star City to the death. "Salin's gaze was stern as he glanced at Nicholas.
Nicholas's heart suddenly turned cold. Salin's words seemed to flash across his mind like a bolt of lightning, illuminating all the dark corners of his mind.
Salin nodded slowly. "Nicholas, in terms of strategy, we shouldn't help Qin Yin."
At this moment, Nicholas was shocked by Salin's ruthlessness. In his heart, Salin had already decided to give up the Qinyin Empire. That's right. Without the Church, what reason would Salin have to attack Qin Yin? But Rex had a share in the Qinyin Empire too!
"It's not the first or second day that Holy Rock City refused to help us. This time, Alchemy City even created trouble for us. Nicholas, you can't just blindly give and take. If Holy Rock City wants to get something, they must pay the same price, "Salin said calmly. Every word was like a sledgehammer pounding on Nicholas's heart.
Even if Salin got rid of the Iron Blood Grand Duke, he wouldn't attack Jialoulan like he said. In the past, it was because Salin didn't have the power to do so. Now, it was because Salin's power was enough to influence the situation of the continent.
Using the Church's power to destroy Qin Yin, then rightfully recover Qin Yin's land and put it under Rex's name. That was Salin's plan. As long as they occupied the north of Qin Yin, at least half of the nobles in the south would correspond to Rex and become a part of the Bitter Water Prefecture Kingdom.
No, it wouldn't be a prefecture kingdom by then, but an empire. The only thing that Holy Rock City could control would be a huge ancient city. It would no longer be a threat to Salin's kingdom. With the Seal of the Six-Winged Flying Snake, the power of the Glücos Family would tacitly approve of Rex's actions.
It was possible that Salin had already made up his mind when he got the Seal of the Six-Winged Flying Snake.
"Nicholas, Lone Star City is a nail. The Scottynans can't be removed anyway. Neris will take 24 Ancient Warriors with her. That's enough to defend the city. With Lone Star City there, they can at least restrain millions of troops. Whoever wants to attack the Metatlin Kingdom will have to go through Phoenix. I will constantly strengthen the defense line around Mars City. No, I want to swallow Phoenix and make it a part of the Metatlin Kingdom! "
Salin's ambition was revealed. Nicholas no longer had any doubts. He only said softly, "Master, Her Highness Rex …"
"She's smarter than me. She just can't bear to see her brother." Salin's answer wasn't direct enough. Nicholas also understood that Salin wasn't hiding anything from him. It was just that Salin didn't like to say such things out loud.
This knife of Qin Yin's would come down sooner or later. Salin was already patient enough by not doing it directly.
"Nicholas, you don't understand. The problem is actually with Alchemy City. Don't you think that Alchemy City is too passive? "Salin saw that Nicholas's expression wasn't good, so he told him the key points of the situation.
"No, Master, the key point is Lone Star City. It controls the way into Qin Yin, Jialoulan, Rhine, and Scottynya. Alchemy City will be destroyed sooner or later. What they're doing is suicide. " Once Nicholas understood Salin's thoughts, many of his questions were easily answered. His mind was also much clearer.
Salin glanced at Nicholas with a smile. This old man finally followed him wholeheartedly. Then he wouldn't have to be calculative about him forming cliques in the past.
"Nicholas, I want you to do something for me." Salin saw that Nicholas was loyal, so he told him his idea. "I want you to make more priests fall and become my subordinates. No, I want them to become your subordinates! "
"Become my subordinates?" Nicholas was very shocked.
"Nicholas, can a fallen priest become a god?" Salin asked.
"Of course not. Gods need true faith. We're just stealing. Although we both use faith power, fallen priests advance on the same principle as mages."
"So, no matter how big your force is in the future, I won't kill you. My only enemies are gods. "
Nicholas suddenly felt relieved. Salin had clearly told him that he could start building his force now. This was a sign that Salin trusted him. In the future, he wouldn't have to do anything sneakily. It felt good.
"Nicholas, do you know why I want you to do this?" Salin asked.
"I don't know, Master."
"Faka." Salin uttered the name softly. Even though he had 6 level-10 elemental creature leaders with him, he still felt immense pressure when he heard the name "Faka". If he didn't advance to level-10 himself, he would never be able to defeat this powerful messenger.
Nicholas, who had been relaxed, tensed up again. Faka, the powerful Oracle, was a thorn in Nicholas's heart. When he was forced to fall by Faka, Faka left a suppression method in the soul pearl. He couldn't resist at all.
If Salin hadn't broken the hidden danger in the soul pearl, he would never have been able to escape Faka's control. This was also why he hadn't been able to focus on following Salin.
"Nicholas, Faka, wants to become a god, so he has to die. However, I might be able to defeat him sooner or later, but I can't destroy his faith. I want you to make more people fall to destroy his faith. Is the Blood Soul Tower good? "
"Great."
"What does this thing without hidden danger mean to a priest?"
"Self, I am God!"
"Are you still willing to follow Faka now?"
"Absolutely not!"
"Well, then you can make more mages fall. I want Faka to not be able to find qualified believers!" Sarin smiled. He had left Nicholas as a last resort. Faka had forced him to. Now he wanted Nicholas to become Faka's nightmare.
Nicholas remembered Salin's determination to enter the Frozen Sea, and the pressure in his heart eased a lot. Faka was the biggest obstacle in his life. If he didn't destroy Faka, he wouldn't be able to advance even with Salin's protection.
Salin's fleet advanced south. On the Metatlin Kingdom's driveway, Neris led a battalion of the Temple Legion and galloped west. During the days when Salin went to the Frozen Sea, Metatlin City sent a large number of necromancers and elementalists with mechanical puppets to open up a straight driveway.
This driveway was completely modeled after the driveway of the Qinyin Empire. It was slightly narrow, but it was also nine meters wide. The driveway went west and straight for nearly five thousand miles before turning north. This was already a real mountain range. Even if there were countless skeletons and bloodtears, they wouldn't be able to blast a way out.
If one looked down from the sky, the road of the Metatlin Kingdom was in the shape of a sickle. It drew an arc between the lofty mountains and lofty ridges. It was unavoidable that a hole had to be dug in the mountain to build the road.
No one knew how many skeletons had been killed in such a cave, and there were even some mid-level and high-level undead. When Salin's warship went out to sea, Neris's reinforcements had already reached the north of Lone Star City.
This was a fortress of the Metatlin Kingdom, and it blocked a mountain passage into Metatlin City. There were only five thousand defenders, but the Scochenya people still didn't choose to attack. This was because the castle was built together with the mountain. If it didn't work, the Magicians in the castle would destroy the cave and completely block this path.
Without this path, they would have to go north to enter the Metatlin Kingdom and find a gap in the mountain range. This detour would be even longer. The Scochenya people simply ignored this place. Anyway, the defenders of this castle didn't dare to attack. An army of five thousand was useless against an army of nearly a million.
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