His Majesty Sauron was here!
He came two months earlier than expected and did not alarm anyone. Otherwise, the outside world would have been cheering for him.
"Queen Medusa, I'll wait for you at the top of the mountain 300 miles north of the Queen's City. It's snowing there now. Maybe it'll make you feel more comfortable."
Medusa had a human face and snake body. She should like the heat and be afraid of the cold. Why would she feel more comfortable in the snow mountain? Perhaps it was because her metabolism was slow and she could maintain her vitality as much as possible. Moreover, when Queen Medusa appeared, the ground was ice.
"Alright, see you tomorrow!" Queen Medusa said.
"Deal!" Sauron's voice disappeared. After a while, his energy also disappeared.
Queen Medusa floated out of the underground tomb. The four giant masters guarding outside suddenly opened their eyes.
"It's time. Go where you should go." Queen Medusa said.
The four giant masters knelt on one knee, then turned and left, disappearing without a trace.
Queen Medusa walked through a long tunnel and left the underground tomb. She returned to the palace on the surface and appeared in front of Yaoyao. She reached out and gently stroked her delicate little face. It was almost transparent.
Yaoyao opened her eyes.
Queen Medusa did not speak and just held Yaoyao's little hand.
The mother and daughter did not need to speak to communicate. They knew what the other party was talking about with their eyes.
Suddenly, Yaoyao took out a portrait and handed it to her mother.
Queen Medusa took it and looked at it. It was newly drawn by Yaoyao. It was a family of three. Her painting skills were better. The faces of the three people in the picture were very blurry, but one could tell at a glance that it was Shen Lang, Medusa and Yaoyao. A loving family.
Queen Medusa smiled.
"Baby, your father will come to pick you up soon. If your mother doesn't come back, do you know where to find your mother when you grow up?" Queen Medusa asked.
Yaoyao nodded.
"Good!" Queen Medusa said softly.
After a while, Yaoyao began to yawn. It was not that she wanted to sleep, but her vitality was about to run out. Now she could not even stay awake for a quarter of an hour. However, she still tried her best to hold on.
Queen Medusa opened her little mouth and gently spat out a bead of light. It was a very strange substance. It seemed to exist and not exist at the same time. It was flowing with a green light.
"Baby, open your mouth," said Queen Medusa.
Yao Yao shook his head hard and closed his little mouth tightly.
"Baby, you know where to find your mother, right?" Medusa said softly, "Be good, be obedient."
Yaoyao still shook her head vigorously.
Queen Medusa gently pinched open Yao Yao's small mouth and then fed the bead into Yao Yao's mouth.
Before Yao Yao's tears fell, Queen Medusa had already wiped them away. Then, she used her jade-like hands to brush Yao Yao's eyes.
"Go to sleep, baby. When you open your eyes, Daddy will appear in front of you," Queen Medusa said softly.
Little Baby tried his best to resist the drowsiness and tried his best to open his eyes, but he still couldn't resist it and fell into a deep sleep.
Queen Medusa gently picked up her daughter's little body, gently swayed, gently patted, and sang a nursery rhyme.
This was her first time singing.
Under Queen Medusa's gaze, anyone's mind would sink and be completely unable to extricate themselves.
When Queen Medusa sang, everyone would be intoxicated.
Her voice was very soft, and only this dustless palace could hear it. However, this charming nursery rhyme seemed to be ringing in the ears of all the children in the Queen City.
In the Queen City, countless babies pricked up their ears. The children who were originally crying stopped and became extremely well-behaved. The babies who were originally drinking milk also stopped listening. Their rolling eyes seemed to be looking for the source of the sound.
After a while, all the babies in the city, no matter how mischievous they were, entered a sweet dream.
Even though Yao Yao was already asleep, Queen Medusa's singing still made tens of thousands of babies fall asleep at the same time.
My baby, go to sleep. All the babies in the city will accompany you to sleep. When you wake up, Daddy is already here.
She reluctantly put Yao Yao on the jade bed, then bent down and kissed her on the forehead.
"Baby, if Mommy doesn't come back, you know where to find Mommy when you grow up, right?" Queen Medusa said softly.
Then, in the next second, she had already floated away. She left the palace silently and floated towards the mountain three hundred miles away without alerting anyone.
… …..
Shen Lang left Saltpeter Island and returned to Mulan City with countless saltpeter.
Then, he did not stay in Mulan City for long, because this place had entered a virtuous cycle of development. It made no difference whether he was there or not.
Not only Duchess Debus, but even the entire Azure Wave Province was doing their best to support Shen Lang.
Since Princess Helen announced Shen Lang's identity, everything had changed. Shen Lang had changed from an alien from the East to half of their own people, and they all knew that he would not stay for long. Helping him was investing in the future Emperor of the East.
The aristocrats of the West were very arrogant, but they also knew that the East was incomparably powerful.
The Xilun Empire had only developed for less than a thousand years, while the East had developed for thousands of years. There were more people, larger lands, more countries, and more powerful civilizations.
Once Shen Lang succeeded in his great cause and became the Emperor of the East, it meant that the entire East would become Princess Helen's backer, and would become the friends and beneficial partners of the South.
In just a few days, more than a thousand blacksmiths entered Mulan City, and an astronomical amount of pig iron poured into Mulan City.
It was ridiculous to say that the reason why Shen Lang seized the Jade Tide Peninsula was because there was an iron mine here. Originally, he wanted to use it to refine steel, but later he found that there was no need at all. This iron mine had even completely stopped production, and the pig iron shipped from Bi Jin City was almost used up.
Cannons, cannons.
This was the absolute theme of the entire Mulan City. Thousands of blacksmiths worked sixteen hours a day, and more than thirty thousand slaves joined the cannon manufacturing factory, causing the production to increase greatly. The original one hundred cannons per month had now directly increased to one hundred and fifty, and the production was still increasing.
After a few more months, Shen Lang would possess an astonishing number of cannons, and an astronomical amount of explosives.
Not only Bi Jin City, all the shipyards in the entire Jade Wave Province were frantically busy. There was no time to build new warships, so they could only modify the existing warships. Thanks to the mighty Skeleton Party's fleet, their large warships originally had a lot of shooting holes, which were originally used to install defensive giant crossbows. Now, with a slight modification, they could be used to install cannons.
Shen Lang needed a large fleet of more than five hundred warships. Of course, many of these fleets were transport and supply ships, and the number of warships installed with cannons would not exceed a hundred. The total number of cannons installed might exceed one thousand and five hundred.
This was already an astronomical number.
Shen Lang did not have money, but the entire Jade Wave Province seemed to be doing everything they could to build a new fleet for him.
Shen Lang was originally a little worried that the Skeleton Party would be complacent, because they were used to jumping ship to fight, and would resist cannons.
However, he was overthinking, after witnessing a round of cannons firing, this group of Skeleton Party pirates fell madly in love with this incomparably ferocious weapon, and excitedly joined in the research and training.
There were even some inhumane things that happened, for example, the Skeleton Party pirates stuffed a captive's leg into a cannon, and then fired fiercely.
The result was self-evident, they were smashed into pieces. Jacktang hung these Skeleton Party pirates up and whipped them a hundred times, then ordered that from today onwards, they would not use living people to test the power of the cannons.
At this moment, Shen Lang knew that the core of the Skeleton Party was not jumping ship to fight, nor was it close combat, but slaughter.
As long as it was slaughter, as long as it was a powerful weapon, they could accept it. Pirates should be the most accepting of new things in this world.
… … …
Duke Debus used the shortest amount of time to gather almost all the nobles in the southern part of the empire, and held an unprecedentedly huge banquet to welcome the arrival of Princess Helen.
After that, Bi Jin City welcomed an unprecedented moment of glory, and almost became the core of the southern part of the empire.
More than a thousand nobles poured into Bi Jin City, and even brought their wives and heirs. In a short period of time, the entire Bi Jin City was filled with rich and powerful nobles dressed in luxurious clothes, and any random carriage on the street had a family emblem.
For hundreds of years, Bi Jin City had never had such glory, and neither did the Russo Family.
Duke Debus entered an unprecedented state of excitement, and she took out all the precious things to entertain this group of nobles. Every day, she spent gold coins like flowing water.
Every day, there would be a few hundred merchant ships entering Bi Jin City's pier, transporting all kinds of goods, and soon, there would be more than a thousand ships. Bi Jin City welcomed an unprecedented prosperity of trade, and as long as it was something that the western world had, it would all appear in Bi Jin City.
This was a glorious and huge responsibility, and this banquet represented that Princess Helen would officially step onto the political stage of the Xilun Empire. The number of nobles attending represented how many people supported her, and represented how much power this faction had.
The result was innumerable, and all the new nobles in the southern part of the empire came. The Queen City was currently under siege, but the city lord had also sent a personal envoy. Even the southern cities that were conquered by Duke Russo and Duke Debus came one after another.
The south belonged to the southerners, and only Princess Helen could represent the interests of the new nobles in the south. The old nobles in the north were all stubborn, and every day, they would think of ways to disintegrate the power of the south, and once again enslave the entire south. They were not trustworthy.
That Sauron the Great might be very great, and he might talk extravagantly, but he was elected by the northerners, and he would only serve the interests of the nobles in the north.
… …
That night, the banquet to welcome the return of Princess Helen officially began. Duke Debus's mansion was filled with people, and it was splendid.
It was unprecedentedly grand, unprecedentedly successful.
More than three thousand people attended the banquet.
Princess Helen and Shen Lang attended the banquet, and they became the focus of the entire banquet.
Previously, the entire Xilun Empire was hostile towards Shen Lang, and they treated him as a swindler, even calling him the Clown of the East.
But now, everyone kept calling him Duke Shen Lang, and they all treated him as a competitor for the Emperor of the East in exile.
"My Lord, I heard that you need a large amount of iron. Coincidentally, my family produces iron, and even more coincidentally, I've brought ten ships this time. May I ask if I should transport them to Bi Jin City or Mulan City?"
"My Lord, I've brought you three ships worth of gifts this time, and I hope you won't mind. I don't have any requests of you, just that you remember my surname and name."
"My Lord, the entire south supports you. We are extremely eager for an enlightened monarch like you to ascend to the throne of the East. His Majesty Jiang Li's greatness is still fresh in our memories. If His Majesty Jiang Li had ascended to the throne, the friendship between the east and the west would have long been deep, and the previous embarrassing situation would not have occurred. "
"My Lord, I heard that a man who calls himself the Bloody Baron offended you, so I did something very presumptuous. I've captured all the remaining members of the House of Menlo, and I've already sent them to you. This despicable family should not exist in this world. I can't imagine that such a family was once a noble of the Xilun Empire, it's simply a stain."
Shen Lang's hands were sore from receiving the gifts, and he didn't even need to spend a single cent. The only thing he was worried about was where to put the gifts, because there weren't that many warehouses.
All the nobles in the south didn't directly send gifts to Princess Helen, but instead gave them to Shen Lang, because they knew that this would make Princess Helen truly happy.
Not only that, in order to curry favor with Shen Lang, they almost finished everything that Shen Lang wanted to do in the West. Not a single member of the House of Menlo escaped, and all of them were captured by these southern nobles, just because Shen Lang said that he would exterminate the House of Menlo.
It had to be said that sometimes it was really pleasant to deal with smart people. The words that came out of the mouths of these nobles were very pleasant to hear, and they never repeated themselves. Their words of praise were simply endless, praising Shen Lang from head to toe, and even praising his hair could be found in it.
Moreover, the conversation between the nobles definitely didn't exceed five sentences. This was to ensure that they were warm and respectful, but not to make others feel like they were harassing him.
The higher the rank, the more words they spoke, and everyone was very particular about etiquette.
Apart from Shen Lang, who was the core of tonight's banquet, the other core was actually Austin Russo Count.
This was because he had already decided to marry a Quidah woman, the daughter of a high-ranking officer. She was beautiful, talented, and meticulous in her etiquette. Moreover, Austin Russo Count Russo had brought his fiancée to attend the banquet tonight.
There was no mockery or unhappiness. Almost all the southern nobles came to congratulate the newlyweds, using implicit and warm words to compliment Austin's taste, and complimenting the Quidah lady's beauty and wisdom.
Austin Count Russo also spoke eloquently, completely different from his previous harshness and indifference. He behaved exceptionally affectionately with his Quidah fiancée.
"Love, of course it's because of love."
"I, Austin, have lived by the creed that I'd rather have nothing than have a woman who makes my heart race. I will never marry unless I find a woman who can make my heart beat faster. My dear fiancée, please turn your face a little, or my heart will jump out of my chest. Every time I see you, I'll suspect that this woman is actually my fiancée. How can I be worthy of her? "
"The moment I saw her, I knew it was over. My wandering life has come to an end, and from now on, this wild horse of mine will be imprisoned in the prison of love."
Austin and his fiancée's performance won the applause of the entire hall.
This was because the second empire of Xilun, Queen Helen's benevolent policy was to liberate slaves and intermarry between the two races.
It could be said that many of the southern nobles present had more or less Quidah blood in their veins, because their families had risen during Queen Helen's development of the south. As long as this policy continued, their position would be stable.
Austin Russo Count Russo marrying a Quidah woman was the strongest political signal.
Princess Helen would definitely protect the interests of the entire south and protect the status of all the new nobles.
The entire banquet did not discuss any conspiracies, not even the matter of the throne.
But everyone knew that from that night onwards, the entire southern empire was no longer in a state of disunity. Instead, it had become a powerful interest group, led by Princess Helen.
And Duchess Debus suddenly became the number one hero of this interest group. This time, her gamble was a great success, and the previous investment had been paid back tenfold tonight.
"Duke Debus, I heard that you're pregnant?"
"Yes, but my body must not go out of shape. At least, the later, the better."
"No, no, no, your body is still so graceful that it makes people feel inferior."
"Oh my god! This belly is pregnant with a Prince. Your Grace, I am also pregnant. Can I touch your belly? That way, I can also feel the nobility of the future Prince? "
"Madam Count, your words make me feel shy."
… …
Three hundred miles north of the Queen's City.
This mountain was about three thousand meters above sea level, but the top of the mountain had begun to snow.
Queen Medusa, who had a magical charm, gently floated up the mountain.
Her bare feet stepped on the white snow, but not even a footprint was left.
Heavy snowflakes fluttered all over the sky. The snowy mountains seemed to have become her background. The only thing that could be seen in the whole world was her beauty, a beauty that almost did not belong to humans.
When she was about to reach the top of the mountain.
Queen Medusa's bare feet finally stepped into the white snow. When she pulled them out again, there was a pair of shoes on her jade-like feet, shoes made of white snow.
She arrived at the top of the mountain!
There was one person who had been completely covered in snow, like a snowman.
Sauron, a great emperor who had returned from the far north of the continent, was known as a great figure in the past thousand years, second only to the Emperor of Xilun.
"He's here?"
"He's here!"
"So, shall we begin?"
"Let's begin!"
Queen Medusa stretched out her jade-like hand, grasped the flying snow, condensed it into a sword, and slashed out.
In an instant!
A storm swept through.
The snow in the sky turned from white to blue.
A moment later!
The entire top of the mountain was completely shrouded in flying snow.
A moment later.
The white snow on the entire top of the mountain was cut off layer by layer.
A moment later!
The entire top of the mountain was bare.
The heavy snow flowed backward, drifting from the ground to the sky.
The entire sky seemed to be solidified into layers of prisms.
Finally!
The ice and snow on the entire mountain all collapsed.
Countless snow rolled down like a shocking tide.
The sky shook and the earth shook.
The sky changed color.
… …
The final battle between Sauron and Queen Medusa ended.
In the earth-shattering avalanche, a figure slowly walked out.
Her face could not be seen clearly, as if she was an iceman, as if she was made of ice and snow.
The only thing that could be seen was her magical figure.
Slowly descending the mountain, her face continued to change, and her figure also continued to change.
Wherever she walked, it was as if a small tornado had rolled up, sucking away the snow on her body, and also something on her.
"Shen Lang, I have returned her to you. I have returned her to you in one piece."
… …
Note: The third update has been sent. Today's update is twenty thousand. It's finally completed. The pastry was in tears. My lord, can you give me the monthly ticket? Long live the parents!
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