Chapter 208: Change of Heaven
The location of the Usher family mansion.
Quincy Usher sat and talked with the Vice Chairman.
“Nagothe has been transferred from the dungeon of Master Siris Tower to Master Saint Sean’s Prison according to the wishes of the dean.”
“Next, let’s see You have to use your own methods. If this matter is not handled well, Dean Sher will not give you a good look anymore," the Vice Chairman reminded.
Then Quincy Urser smiled with a confident smile, "When I get to Saint Sean's Prison, there are many ways I can use against him. I will definitely make him confess everything."
" It's best that this is the case. I heard that the mage you sent failed because of him," the vice chairman said again.
When Quincy Urser heard this, the corners of his eyes twitched unconsciously. Even now, when he thought about it, he still felt that it was too exaggerated.
A mage who has just been promoted to the first level can actually perform the second level spell [Howling in Severe Pain].
“This kid should be born with thick nerves, so he has a very high tolerance for pain.” Quincy Urser analyzed.
"However, I have other means. I can definitely manipulate him and make him explain everything." He said confidently.
The Vice Chairman heard this and stopped asking any more questions.
"When the matter is over, remember to clean up the beginning and end." He just reminded again.
"Don't worry, I still don't understand this." Quincy Urser looked fierce.
A mage with outstanding talent has now offended him severely. If he is let go, he will definitely come back with revenge when he becomes stronger in the future.
It is easy to dodge an open spear but hard to guard against a hidden arrow.
You must strike hard.
"What a pity for a genius." The Vice Chairman still sighed with emotion, but in his heart there was not much real sympathy.
There are many geniuses, but the benefits are limited.
In the first area, Jelika’s dormitory building.
"Has Gothe been taken away from the Mage Tower today and sent to Saint Sean's Mage Prison?" Jelika frowned deeply after hearing the news from the housekeeper.
The housekeeper shook his head and said tactfully: "There is no other way. Not to mention that the family's hand cannot reach this far. This action alone is impossible without Dean Scheer's signal behind him."< br>
Jelika’s face looked a little ugly.
Being from a noble family, she is naturally not so naive and clearly understands what signal this action represents.
She, who had the deepest contact with Gothe, thought about it again and again, but in the end she could only sigh secretly in her heart.
A genius mage could have made a name for himself, but now he ended up in jail.
She didn't know exactly what happened, but she knew it was definitely not the so-called "deliberate destruction of college assets."
In front of the high-level will of the principality, in front of those high-level mages, in fact, not to mention civilian mages like Gothe, even aristocratic genius mages like Jelika have limited power.
In prison.
【.Your ability to see in the dark increases by 35.5%】.
As he gradually adapted to the darkness, the rune patterns that were originally invisible gradually became visible.
Gaode looked at it casually, without deliberately delving into anything.
Those rune patterns naturally separated in his field of vision and turned into basic runes one after another.
Gaode's eyes stayed on those runes for a long time, and his mind followed the lines of the runes.
Waiting to die is a sad thing.
People in this situation often collapse before death comes.
Fortunately, Gothe is accompanied by Rune now.
As has happened many times before, as soon as he enters the state of "doing questions", he will completely forget his mind and cannot feel the flow of things around him, or even the passage of time, entering a kind of In a state of "obsession".
So, Gaode is now extremely peaceful and focused.
Norlan calendar year 9656, foggy frost month, 22nd.
To many people, this is just a normal day.
But in history, this is a day worth recording.
That’s all.
It was not until many years later that people truly knew its significance.
……
The majestic city walls of Saint-Sien.
"Captain. Then. What is that?!"
The soldiers on the city wall were completely stunned.
In other words, I was deeply shocked by the scene in front of me.
Outside the city of St. Sean, the flock of birds hovering in the sky above the river flew away in fright.
A terrifying behemoth emerged from the clouds very suddenly.
It suddenly appeared in the sky, like an alien object from the sky.
That was an airship, a huge war airship.
The surface is covered with a layer of cold-colored metal, making the entire airship look like a steel fortress suspended in the sky.
And the row of alchemy cannons exposed is even more ferocious.
At the top of the airship, a flag was flying.
A bright red flag.
In the center of the flag is a burning heart of fire.
The flame is deep red with a golden glow, as if it can swallow up all darkness.
The flame is also surrounded by delicate silver lines, which form a pair of spread wings.
The background color of the flag is a deep frosty blue, which contrasts sharply with the blazing heart of fire pattern, making it even more eye-catching.
The soldiers raised their heads and looked at the airship with their mouths open, their eyes full of awe.
"It's the Ice Flame Legion in the Western Region of the Holy Empire." The mage, known as the captain, murmured.
Just such a war airship is enough to make people feel hairy.
However, Captain Mage understands that the war airship will never appear alone.
This is also true.
Huge airships one after another kept emerging from the clouds.
They are connected end to end, like a giant steel dragon that spans dozens of kilometers across the sky. The shadow they form is like a canopy, blocking all sunlight.
Such a sight was enough to burn the nerves of all the soldiers on the city wall from shock to numbness.
The wheel of history is rolling forward, and the trend of the times is mighty.
The great wheel of history never changes due to personal will.
It doesn’t care what you are doing, whether you are in jail or planning some amazing conspiracy.
It will just rumble over you without any discrimination, and change your destiny regardless of it.
This change has both good and bad aspects.
"It's over." The mage captain muttered to himself.
When this is over, not only the city of Saint-Sien is over, but the entire principality of Saint-Sien is over. The Holy Empire's army is the largest known in the world, including hundreds of independent fighting legions.
Each legion has its own leader or marshal, and has its own unique culture and fighting style.
There is little consistency in these legions.
This characteristic allows the Holy Empire to have a large number of military forces with different tactics.
As for the Ice Flame Legion, although it was only an inconspicuous one among the hundreds of legions in the Holy Empire, its overall strength was not even ranked among the top fifty of all legions.
But for the Principality of Xien, the Ice Flame Legion is an absolute prehistoric beast.
Even if the entire army of the Principality of Sien was brought over, concentrated in Saint Sien City, and relied on the strength of the city to confront the Ice Flame Legion, it would be impossible to resist them for even half a day.
The continuous war airships stopped outside the city of Saint-Sion without any disguise.
The huge shadow covered the sky and the sun.
All the residents of St. Sean City can see the steel fortress with the flag of the Holy Empire Legion as long as they raise their heads.
Everyone turned pale.
The troops of the Holy Empire are coming!
Red smoke rose into the sky.
In the Royal Palace of Saint-Sien City.
After receiving the news, King Jaros XIII and all the named noble ministers in Saint-Sion City gathered together at this moment.
Including the second prince and the eldest prince.
Everyone looked pale.
Everyone was in great panic.
The war airships of the Holy Empire are surrounding the city of St. Sean in an extremely domineering manner.
"Not passing by." Everyone on the scene remembered the news reported by the border reconnaissance mage two weeks ago:
The shadow of the mage of the Holy Empire Legion was found.
However, after two weeks of turmoil, they found no other suspicious traces, and quickly gave up the alarm, locating the incident as the passing of an individual mage from the Holy Empire Legion.
Now, the facts tell them that they are naive.
The legions of the Holy Empire are really here.
"What did Commander Fleming say?" asked the already very old Jaros XIII.
"I did not meet Commander Fleming. The person who met me was just a young officer from the Ice Flame Legion." The minister who was sent to negotiate with the Ice Flame Legion conveyed the other party's intention with a solemn expression. .
“He only said three words to me.”
“One, we can surrender, but the time is limited to when the first ray of sunshine tomorrow shines on the city walls of St. Sean Before. "
"Second, if you surrender before the time specified by them, all the nobles and ministers in the city, including the royal family, will lose all their original status, but their lives and property can be retained."
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"Three, swear allegiance to the Holy Empire and then only evaluate you based on your value and determine your status. Otherwise, you will be destroyed."
After the three sentences were conveyed, all the people on the field, these former high-ranking people , the expressions of the "noble" people who seemed to always be in control of everything changed drastically on the spot.
Facts have proved that it is not that people with high status have good psychological quality, it is just that in their position, there are too few things that can cause them psychological fluctuations.
But once something like this happens, many people may behave worse than civilians.
"How could it be possible? How could it be possible?" Some noble ministers were puzzled.
The Principality of Xien does not border the territory of the Holy Empire.
On the contrary, they bordered part of the Plantagenet territory.
So from any perspective, in this land where there are many principalities, the Principality of Xien should not be the first country to suffer.
Such a strategic policy will lead to the Holy Empire conquering the Principality of Xien, and the Principality of Xien will become an enclave on the vast territory of the Holy Empire.
“We have all overlooked one point. If the Holy Empire really goes step by step, conquering principalities one by one in order of distance...
"Their territory expansion has not even approached the Plantagenet Dynasty. The Plantagenet Dynasty has already been able to react and will respond accordingly."
"By then, they will no longer want to win the Golden Age Kingdom. The territory directly adjacent to the territory of the Plantagenet Dynasty will pay a much higher price."
"So, the first target of the Holy Empire must be the West that borders the territory of the Plantagenet Dynasty. "Choose one of the three armies of En, Aden, and Ovoga."
"It is even possible to launch multiple legions at the same time to attack the three principalities' armies in a blitzkrieg." At this time, the principality of Xi'en. The senior general spoke.
“As for the so-called enclaves, that is only based on our own perspective. For the Holy Empire, as long as they are willing, it only takes a month for them to establish the many principalities between Xi En and the territory of the Holy Empire. You can wipe them all out.”
"Is it still too late to activate the strict defense of Saint-Sion City's magic circle and send people to ask for help from the Plantagenet Dynasty?" A noble minister asked at a loss.
“The Holy Empire is obviously coming for the Plantagenet Dynasty. It just uses our Sean as a frontline strategic point. In this case, the Plantagenet Dynasty will definitely send reinforcements to help, right?”
The senior general spoke calmly, ruthlessly shattering the illusions of the noble ministers asking for help: "Once we activate the magic circle and prepare to defend, the Ice Flame Legion outside the city will immediately take action."
"Those angry sharks It only takes one salvo from the alchemy artillery of the level war airship to turn the city walls of Saint-Sion into ruins.”
The war airships of the Holy Empire are divided into multiple levels, from high to low. There are four levels: holy dragon level, lion level, angry shark level, and mad wolf level.
Even the most powerful airship in Saint-Sion City still has a technological gap of tens to hundreds of years with the Holy Empire's lowest-level Mad Wolf-class war airship.
"Not to mention that if their high-level military mages take action, their destructive power will be even greater than that of a war airship." The chief mage of the Saint-Xion Palace Mage Group said calmly.
"We have no chance at all in front of the legions of the Holy Empire."
Everyone was silent.
"Everyone, prepare to surrender. We have no right to let the innocent civilians in the city die in vain. It is unwise to use our arms as a chariot."
After a long time, Jaros XIII sighed and said tremblingly.
Making this decision was very difficult for him.
This means that from today on, the Principality of Xi'en, which has been inherited for thousands of years, will become a speck of dust in history.
And he, Jaros XIII, will become the monarch of the subjugated country.
An hour later.
The city gates opened wide, welcoming the soldiers of the Holy Empire's Ice Flame Legion into the city.
At the same time, the Jaros royal family, which has ruled the Principality of Xi'an for thousands of years, issued a statement to all the people in the country:
From today on, the Principality of Xi'an officially joins The Holy Empire changed from an independent country to the province of Xi'en under the jurisdiction of the Western Governor of the Holy Empire.
After issuing this statement, the Principality of Xien ceased to exist.
The Principality of Xien has proven with practical actions why the Holy Empire is the most powerful country in the world.
Under the siege of the Holy Empire's Ice Flame Legion, they only held out for an hour before announcing their surrender.
The Principality of Xien was established on the 1st of the Frost Month, 7349 in the Noran Calendar.
Died on the 22nd of the Frost Moon, 9656 in the Nolan Calendar.
Total 2307 years.
For many little people, this may be a tragedy or a comedy.
In short, it was just a normal day. They were living as usual, and then they found out that they had changed their nationality for no reason.
When the sun sets, everyone becomes the subjects of the Holy Empire.
The hand of fate has not stopped yet.
The second day after the Ice Flame Legion occupied Saint-Xion City, that is, the 23rd of the Frost Moon.
In order to demonstrate the benevolence and care of the Holy Empire to its new people, and at the same time to eliminate the barriers between the people of the original Principality of Xi'en and the Holy Empire, and to convey the new regime's benevolent and tolerant signal.
The Ice Flame Legion announced an amnesty.
(End of this chapter)