The choice of the people of the empire.
Hearing Cassius's words, Olivia's heart trembled suddenly. She wanted to escape, but she still couldn't help but look at the people on the ground, especially at their faces - —
“How could it be?”
I saw that the people of the empire who heard the war news not only did not show the appropriate emotions of fear, panic, disgust, etc., but everyone’s face turned red. , those faces with different appearances were filled with bright smiles.
The workers in the ordnance factory were happy because the war would bring a flurry of orders.
Although working overtime is extremely tiring, it can also bring them more generous rewards, allowing them to buy a residence in the city early and become true Istalians.
The soldiers in the army were happy because war would bring honor and status.
In the minds of the soldiers, under the protection of the Burning Emperor, who symbolizes strength and victory, they are invincible and invincible. War is just a ladder to climb to a high position and a test for the brave.
The tavern owners and waiters are also very happy, because the war will bring prosperity to business.
After the war, the soldiers who received their military pay and trophies would flock to the tavern, spend the night, and even scatter gold coins everywhere.
The players were even more excited. They opened champagne and even ran naked on the street to celebrate the long-awaited good news.
In their eyes, where is the cruel war? These are all large-scale dungeons for gaining experience and grabbing equipment!
After seeing these imperial people with different identities and statuses, but all cheering for the coming of war, Olivia fell into deep self-doubt.
She didn't know what to say for a while.
Why, why is it that even though we are about to fall into war, all the people are celebrating? Is she the only one who is at fault?
Is this war of aggression really just?
Olivia thought of what Cassius had just said: "War is a means, not an end." "The empire will bring real order to the Fianso continent." "This is not out of necessity. It is a selfish desire, but the common choice of the people of the empire."
The voice of the red dragon seemed to have some kind of magic power, which could make Olivia feel recognized from the bottom of her heart and drag her thinking bit by bit. Into the abyss.
For a moment, countless oil painting-like images flashed through Olivia's mind: the people of Fadland wailing under artillery fire, the red dragon hovering in the sky, and the factory day and night. Laboring imperial workers.
In the end, the scene stays at the ancient silver dragon that symbolizes the old order falling from the sky
Olivia shook her head violently and murmured in a low voice, her eyes already blurry: "No, it shouldn't be like this. The future order shouldn't be like this. It's too cruel and tyrannical."
Cassius lowered his head and approached the silver-haired girl with a smile. His sulfurous and somewhat hot breath washed over Olivia's fair face.
The look in the red dragon's pale golden vertical pupils was particularly strange, as if he was looking at a newborn baby, which made Olivia feel a little uncomfortable.
"Olivia, you are still too naive."
Cassius raised his head, looked at the sun in the sky, and sighed: "The old order is on the verge of collapse, everything The obsolete economic forms, all the relationships and political systems that go with them will be shattered
After the collapse of the old order, an era of chaos will come, and a new order will emerge from darkness and turmoil.
Like any transformation in nature, this transformation process must be bloody and cruel. It must be accompanied by the death of countless people and the destruction of countless families. No one can stop it. "
Casius lowered his head again, staring closely at Olivia, who was extremely small in the giant claws, and said in a heavy voice: "Olivia, I thought you would understand me.
I just want to use the power of the empire to speed up this inevitable process and make people's pain shorter, just like cutting the skin with a scalpel and taking out the newborn baby. ”
“Casius, you”
Olivia raised her head and stared at the majestic face showing a touch of sadness in astonishment. She didn't know for a moment whether this was a true expression of true feelings or another deception.
Although she still couldn't fully understand Cassius's words, she was vaguely convinced by him.
Maybe - this unique red dragon is really saving the world?
Olivia felt that the space in front of her was distorted and the world was spinning. When she came back to her senses, she had escaped from the red dragon's giant claws and staggered to the altar of Isdalia. .
She raised her head and saw the red dragon emperor showing his majestic and majestic figure to his people, spreading his extremely broad wings, and casting down in the city of Isdalia Huge shadow.
"Roar——"
The red dragon slowly raised its head, looked up to the sky and roared, making a long roar that shook the earth and resounded throughout the Anzeta Wilderness.
Olivia lowered her head and saw that the people in the city were piously, even almost fanatically looking at the red dragon high in the sky.
"Your Majesty Cassius, it is really His Majesty the Emperor! It is really Him!"
"Praise the great red dragon!"
"As long as His Majesty is here, we will definitely win!"
They crowded forward like worshipers, some even knelt down and kissed the ground, because they could appear in the shadow of the wings, It's just a great honor.
In the boiling crowd, people were shouting at the top of their lungs. Their shouts and shouts were like raging waves, one after another, as if their enthusiasm would never stop and their strength would never be exhausted. .
——Because the emperor in the sky is their greatest spiritual support and source of strength, allowing them to have a steady stream of power.
"Long live His Majesty Cassius! Praise be to the only and supreme emperor of Anzeta!"
"The wings are broader than the sky; the back is taller than the earth; the tail is longer than the mountains. All people worship together, the great red dragon in the sky!"
The knights of the Dragonsworn Temple solemnly chanted While praying, the monks of the order sang the magnificent "Cathius Hymn" together.
In this warm atmosphere, even Olivia was infected and felt inexplicably excited in her heart.
When she looked at the sky again, the rays of the sun shone on the red scales. The red dragon spread its wings against the light, and the golden lines outlined the almost perfect body outline.
Along with the stirring music, a solemn and sacred atmosphere spread out. In her beautiful blue-grey eyes, Cassius at this moment was like a statue of a god, sacred, majestic, and inviolable.
For a moment, Olivia's thoughts were confused, and her delicate face showed confusion. She could no longer tell the difference at all.
She couldn't tell which one was the real Cassius, the red dragon who spoke fiercely just now, or the god-like emperor now. Or maybe they are just one of the aspects of Emperor Burning Ember.
Olivia couldn't help but murmur to herself: "What is the real you, Cassius?"
At the same time, the red dragon waved its wings high in the sky, overlooking all the living beings below, and accepted the countless fanatical looks of the people of the empire.
With his extremely high status and various constant spells such as [Eye of True Sight], Cassius has been able to see the power like nectar pouring out from the souls of the people of the empire— -That is faith, extremely pure faith.
"Very good, that's it. When I have the true godhead, they will all become my source of strength."
"But now, it is more important to awaken them and bring them the enthusiasm for war. Let the resting beast of the Burning Ember Empire wake up completely."
Kasius looked down at the crowd and thought in his heart.
The next moment, the supreme true dragon crown inlaid with gems appeared on the head of the red dragon, shining brightly in the sunlight, adding a bit of majesty to him.
“My dear subjects”
The red dragon slowly opened its mouth, and the roaring sound of thunder echoed in the city of Istalia, and even spread throughout the Anzeta Wilderness with the help of the power of the Empire Domain.
In an instant, whether it was Baator City and Beifeng Castle in the north, or Straf Castle and Blackstone Castle in the south, as long as they were cities affiliated with the Burning Ember Empire, huge towers appeared above them. The phantom of the dragon head.
——This is none other than their ruler, Emperor Cassius of Ember.
When Cassius spoke, the dragon-headed phantoms also opened their huge mouths and made the same solemn sound.
At this moment, not only the citizens of Istalia, but also the nearly ten million citizens of the entire Burning Empire - whether they are humans, hobgoblins, tieflings, ogres, or those bipedal dragons , Chimera, they all raised their heads and looked at the emperor high in the sky.
"Greetings, my dear subjects."
"I am Cassius Claudius Norixius, the sole ruler of the great wasteland of Anzeta and the emperor of the Ember Empire. . ”
Red Dragon’s tone did not fluctuate much, he just stated his identity plainly - even though this was known to everyone in the empire.
However, just such a sentence caused the entire empire to boil, with millions of people shouting and cheering.
“Long live!”
"Long live Your Majesty Cassius!"
"Praise the great red dragon! Please bless us to be invincible! Invincible!"
There is no need for too much rhetoric, let alone repeating that Astonishing achievements, as long as Emperor Burning appears there, he is already a symbol of victory and hope, and can bring endless power to the people of the empire.
Of course, there are also players from various branches of the "Dragon Control Club" who shouted out treacherous declarations and wanted to touch His Majesty Cassius's tail, claws and even
Finally , they were reported by the enthusiastic crowd who couldn't bear it, and were arrested by the tiefling justice of the Imperial Guard.
Cassius, who was hanging high in the sky of Istalia, did not pay attention to these trivial matters. He continued to speak in a steady and powerful voice:
“Today, I send you out not only for war, but also for war. It is to defend justice and challenge those unjust acts."
[The Smooth Talker] is full of firepower, making Cassius's rhetoric of confusing right and wrong and describing aggression as defending justice seem so justified. , even millions of people in the empire were unaware of the problem.
“These southerners have a far richer and richer land than us. In the words of the former Emperor of Fadland - this is a land given by the gods flowing with honey and milk, and buried with gold. Land.
But we can only be trapped in the remote and barren Anzeta Wasteland, enduring a life of poverty for thousands of years. This situation did not improve until the establishment of the empire.”
Cassius waved his wings again, setting off a fierce hurricane, and his voice became a little passionate, even showing a hint of indignation.
“But - they didn’t cherish it! The stupid gods fought with each other to compete for the inheritance of the Holy Fadlan Empire. They greedily occupied all the territory in the middle of the continent, but they took what was supposed to be paradise. The place has turned into a hell!
Don’t we, the people of the Burning Ember Empire, Do we deserve to have such a land? Can we just watch those proud Fadlanders fight with each other?"
"Can't-"
Countless people in the empire have been attacked. Infected by Hughes' words, their faces turned red and they shouted angrily, their voices rising like a tsunami.
Seeing people's emotions reaching their peak, Cassius said firmly and forcefully: "As the emperor of the Ember Empire, I cannot allow such a thing to happen!
I hope that my subjects can also have The land under the sun can also proudly stand up for being a member of the Burning Ember Empire.
Only when our flag is flying high in the cheers of victory! In the land of North IJssel, let these remnants of Fadland accept the coming of peace, so that I can truly feel at ease and have real peace.
We also want the name of the Ember Empire to be in the world. The prestige of the land of Fianso is so great that the despicable southerners are afraid of us and no longer dare to look down upon us!”
“Conquer——”
"We will give everything we have to the great blueprint of the Ember Empire!"
"We will establish a new order! We will make the name of the Ember Empire a nightmare for them!"
This series The declaration made the emotions of the people of the empire rise one after another, getting higher and higher. They waved their fists and let the shouts and war cries sweep across the millions of square kilometers of Anzeta.
Although Cassius's speech was full of strong words and logical loopholes, under the influence of this fanatical atmosphere, the people of the empire had already lost their reason, even lost themselves, and became part of the violent war beast.
Whether it is workers, officers, citizens or traders, they are all caught up in this inexplicable war fever, which is intensified under the catalysis of the imperial order.
And this is exactly what Cassius tried to achieve by all means. Compared with the Great Wasteland of Anzeta, the Fianso Continent is so large that as long as the empire stops, it is likely to suffer a serious counterattack.
Therefore, as long as it enters the war, the Burning Empire needs to conquer all the time until it captures the entire Fiantho continent.
Now, under the call of its master, the terrifying beast of the Ember Empire has completely awakened, and its target is the prey in the south.
At the top of the Istalia Altar, Olivia looked at the fanatical crowd and felt that she was out of tune with them. She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, as if she couldn't fit in naturally.
Maybe she was really wrong.
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