Chapter 9, Watergate Incident in Another World (Part 1)
PS: The order of chapters is wrong, the previous chapter should be: Chapter 8, the door to another world, opened...under the water of Victoria Bay? Not Chapter 7. This is hereby corrected.
In addition, my cold and fever are still not getting better, so I can only keep updating two thousand words a day for the time being. Any more will be too much. Please readers, please understand.
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Another world, Falmat Continent, Arnus Hill, Gate of the Gods
This is a blue planet that is very similar to the earth. It is also the cradle and home of countless lives.
However, unlike the earth, the civilization of this planet is still in a very primitive stage, and a considerable area is still shrouded in savage darkness. The center of civilization on this planet has always been located on the continent of Falmat—the "civilized world" in the eyes of the locals.
The Arnus Hill, where the "Gateway of the Gods" stands, is located exactly in the center of the Falmat continent.
In the myths and legends of the intelligent life race of the Falmat continent, this huge palace-like building on the top of Mount Arnus is a legacy left over from the age of the gods. According to legend, the great gods once used this door to travel to other worlds. However, no one knows where the gods have gone now. They only know that they suddenly disappeared in the distant past, leaving only this legend. "Gate of the Gods" in .
Throughout the long history, countless wandering magicians and scholars have come to Arnus Hill to explore and study, trying to find out the secret of how the Gate of the Gods can connect to different worlds, but they have always found nothing. The only thing they could confirm was that the Gate of the Gods would be opened at regular intervals, leading to another strange new world. Some scholars believe that on this continent, whether it is elves, orcs, dwarves or even humans, it seems that they are not natives of this world, but come from the other side of the door.
Endless years pass by, accompanied by various exchanges between humans, orcs, elves and dwarves - unfortunately, a considerable part of these exchanges are carried out with weapons and death, and the flames of civilization are also lost. It has evolved vigorously in the war history of the Ermat continent.
The barbaric tribes that were originally wandering around gradually learned to farm and settle down, and turned into civilized city-states. And various city-states continued to engage in endless battles and fights for trade, water sources, land, and hegemony. Primitive civilization struggled to grow between blood and fire, harvest and famine, conquest and resistance. Gradually, flint swords and axes turned into bronze daggers, and animal skin waistcoats turned into metal armor. Small city-states also annexed and expanded each other in the melee, turning into alliances, republics and kingdoms under different banners...
In the end, a great empire emerged in the middle of the Falmat continent. Over the centuries, it gradually honed its military power, defeated each powerful opponent bit by bit, and gradually ended the long war between nations. By the way, It also expanded the empire's territory to an unprecedented extent. The illustrious martial arts not only meant glory and greatness, but also brought a steady stream of wealth, land and population to the empire.
Not long ago, the last few city-states and alliances on the edge of the Falmat continent that were still resisting were finally defeated one by one by the invincible imperial army. They ended up either being completely annexed, or they were forced to pay tribute to the emperor every year. of vassals. At this point, except for a few barbaric tribes still wandering in the barren mountains and the remnant bandits wandering in the countryside, the empire has no rivals on the Falmat continent. As for the above two, for the behemoth empire, they can only be regarded as public security issues, not military issues.
In order to celebrate the empire's unification of the entire known civilized world, Emperor Morte II and the Senate held an unprecedented extravagant celebration in the imperial capital of Urabianca - a arrogant and majestic triumphal army, all-night lights, banquets, and circuses. With singing and dancing, sumptuous delicacies, drinks, fruits, and generous gifts from the emperor and the Senate, the citizens cheered and were proud of the invincible military might of the empire.
Although Crown Prince Saushar's personal guard suffered a slight loss when organizing the encirclement and suppression of the "Headhunting Rabbit" clan during this period, it was not a defeat for the regular army after all. Everyone believed that this was because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who had always had a poor reputation, had extremely poor military skills and was stubborn and did not listen to advice. As long as a veteran is dispatched during the next encirclement and suppression, and they are more serious, they will definitely be able to defeat those reckless rabbits.
However, even though the empire's grand plan to unify the continent has been declared complete, neither the ambitious Emperor Morte II, nor the Senate military nobles who have served in the military all their lives, nor the imperial soldiers who have long been accustomed to licking blood with the blade of their swords, have not done anything. The plan to turn swords into plowshares and end war.
First of all, they have become accustomed to enjoying the continuous dividends brought by war and plunder, and for the time being they do not know how to continue life without war. Secondly, a militarized empire that relies heavily on war machines hastily stopped foreign wars without any preparation. From then on, there will no longer be trophies and prisoners imported into the country, and there will be no war as a base elite. If there is an upward channel, then a series of terrible contradictions will quickly break out, whether economically, socially or politically, and may even shake the foundation of the country.
To put it more vividly, whether the social system of a big country changes from a state of peace to a state of war, or vice versa, it is like upgrading the operating system of an assembled computer with poor compatibility. It is a painful process - various problems such as crashes, crashes, information loss, etc. will come one after another. If you can survive it, then that's fine. If it doesn't, the country will collapse as painfully as an adult dying from a food or pollen allergy: but it's a real possibility!
Therefore, both the emperor and the Senate believed that for the empire, which had long been accustomed to wars, victories, and spoils, it was necessary to continue to maintain a state of war for a period of time in order for those in power to make adjustments and buffers calmly to adapt to the upcoming future. The coming days of peace.
However, if this happens, a question will arise: now that the entire continent has been unified, where can the sharp blade of the imperial army pierce?
Emperor Morte II had already made plans for this: the top of Arnus Hill, the other world opposite the "Gate of the Gods"... Although the "Gate" can only be opened for a limited time each time, it is difficult to occupy the "Gate" for a long time. "The world over there, but if it is just for looting, it is more than enough.
Therefore, at this time, around Arnus Hill, there was a lively scene of tents and flags flying everywhere. A full 100,000 elite field regiments from the empire that once flattened the Falmat continent have all gathered here and are ready to go. All the imperial warriors are gearing up, just waiting for the "door" to be opened to go to the opposite world that is said to be "weak in force and rich in products". However, what these Imperial warriors did not notice was that just as they were preparing for war on the Arnus Hills. On a desolate mountain not far away, a mysterious figure with a pair of long ears cleverly hid among the trees, quietly observing their every move...