Riding and Slashing

Chapter 420 The Emperor's Lighthouse

On September 358, 9 in Pandeli, it was sunny.

Shieldwind Fortress.

The troops of the Snake Cult were destroyed.

But the main force of this battle is not me, nor the Bacchus army led by General Ivaylo, but the reserve team left here by Wendy and the Phoenix Knights.

In other words, this is the reserve team that the two queens deliberately stayed in the territory.

I didn't expect that His Majesty Amy was able to mobilize the Phoenix Knights while he was far away in Sarleon City.

I didn't expect that the one who led the Phoenix Knights to stop the Snake Worship Cult's troops was actually Anson who was not very good at fighting!

In the south of Shieldwind Fortress, I first saw the true fighting power of the Phoenix Knights, which was not at all like when they were stationed in Karen Buckhold.

When facing the Snake Worship Cult, the Phoenix Knight looked more fearless and crazier than the Snake Worship Cultists.

They rushed back and forth in the Snake Cult army, rushing wherever there were many enemies, as if they all firmly believed that they could be reborn like a phoenix.

This style of combat suffered a lot, but the effect was also very good. I didn't even have time to join the battle, and the Snake Cult army was smashed to pieces by them.

Wendy kept more than 200 young rangers in Shieldwind Fortress. These rangers blocked the dispersed Snake Worshipers and prevented them from escaping into the forest.

When I rushed to the battlefield, there was no need to fight any tough battles, I just needed to clean up all the scattered Snake Worshipers.

It's just that after killing the troops of the Snake Worship Cult, I received several bad news.

Lord Hereward, who remained in the north, is dead.

At the same time, the Jatu people went south again in a big way.

In order to resist the Jatus, the two lords Aldalian and Islandil gave up their duel and went to the northern battlefield together, and now their lives are uncertain.

—Excerpt from "New Pendor Battlefield Diary", by Lisadiran Aino.
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In late September, General Ivaylo returned to Emperor Lingang with the army of the Bacchus Empire.

He also came back with the Phoenix Knights and the half-mutilated hundreds of Maritine prisoners.

Because he met the Malitian soldiers who were led to the north by Sigismund halfway, Ivaylo learned the news of the attack on Emperor Lingang. Lingang.

Kaspers left Emperor Lingang with a dozen old and broken small battleships that had been hastily overhauled, and more than 1000 remnants who were still willing to follow him.

He's going back to Maritine.

Li Ang and Alina did not detain any Malitians, leaving only the letter of allegiance written by Kaspers himself.

He came here full of ambitions, but returned home sadly a few days after setting foot on the Pendor Continent. This may have allowed Kaspers to truly grow—he finally figured it out, and returning to Maritim to be his deputy emperor is the best thing to do. reliable.

Of course, when they return to Maritign, they may have to fight against the emperor... But at least that is a confrontation within the rules of the nobility, and it should be easier to deal with than these insidious liars in Pendor Continent, at least there is an entire family to rely on.

The Phoenix Knights will return to the Amara Continent together with Kaspers, because the Snake Worshipers in the Pendor Continent have basically been wiped out, and their mission has been completed.

Emperor Lingang gradually returned to calm, and Arina and Li Ang also began to prepare for the funeral of Emperor Marius.

Everything seems to be going well... except that Justus is more difficult.

A father who protects his daughter is difficult to deal with, and the current Justus is fierce, domineering and aggressive.

And this father thought that Li Ang had eaten up his daughter...

"Luciana, what are you going to do? After the funeral, you will be crowned as the queen. Do you want to become Li Ang's concubine as the queen?!"

Justus is now educating his daughter.

"Can I not get married? Besides, Li Ang and I are just mentors and apprentices...and I am Alina now, and Luciana is not the heir of His Majesty Marius."

Alina sighed helplessly.

"Master and apprentice? Are there any masters and apprentices who sleep together?! That's what I saw with my own eyes...You young people don't care how you want to play, but I don't want you to be judged all your life!"

Justus said angrily.

"We didn't sleep together... No, we are not the kind of sleep you imagined! What you see is just a misunderstanding!"

Alina felt more and more helpless—there were so many masters and apprentices sleeping together, and Li Ang and his two wives were both masters and apprentices...

"Misunderstanding? Hmph... Li Ang is an irresponsible bastard, and you actually helped him cover it up?!"

Justus had a look of resentment on his face, and turned his head away: "Hmph... I'm going to find Queen Wendy! I have to teach that bastard a lesson... It's best to force him and those two The queen is divorced!"

"Hey...Father..."

Alina yelled twice but didn't stop, frowning in confusion.

……

"Tell me clearly, what's going on between you and Alina?"

Wendy is educating her husband in the room.

"It's just a misunderstanding...Look at my injury, how can I do something bad with this injury?"

Li Ang replied timidly.

Justus actually told Wendy about this. It seems that this old guy is trying to provoke a rift between his husband and wife?
Sure enough, handling family affairs is much more difficult than state affairs...

"Hmph, who knows, you didn't hurt your lower body... No wonder your law allows you to marry three... If you really like her, it's fine, but you didn't admit that you did something bad?!"

Wendy obviously didn't believe it was a misunderstanding. In her opinion, this injury might not affect Li Ang from doing bad things.

Moreover, this bastard Li Ang obviously misunderstood the relationship between master and apprentice - all the apprentices he took in were all beautiful girls, and he should have noticed it a long time ago!
Li Ang sighed and didn't know how to explain.

I really didn't do anything...

Do you want to say 'Alina sneaked into my bed in the middle of the night'?
Although this is indeed true, if it is true, the consequences are probably more troublesome.

"Boom boom boom!"

Just when Li Ang was in a state of desperation, there was a knock on the door.

"Wendy, can you come out for a while, I want to talk to you..."

Alina's voice appeared outside the door.

Wendy glared at Li Ang angrily and went out the door.

She doesn't lose her temper with Alina, they have always had a good relationship.

I don't know what Alina said to Wendy, anyway, Wendy has lived in Alina's room since then, and Li Ang's ears have become much cleaner.

……

358th July 9 of the Pandeli calendar.

The two generals Cleon and Valeus also rushed to Emperor Lingang, and all members of the Council of Elders have arrived.

This day is the 59th birthday of Emperor Marius.

It was also the day of the burial of Emperor Marius.

According to Emperor Mario's own wishes, he will be buried on a cliff about ten miles east of Dilingang—that is, the cliff behind the reef that can be seen from the Governor's Mansion of Dilingang.

Perhaps, Emperor Marius wanted to look at the real hometown of the Bacchus from the top of the mountain across the endless sea.

The sky is blue and clean.

The streets of Dilingang are also very clean. The wind and rain in the past few days has diluted the bloodstains caused by the war, and the war-torn Dilingang has been rewashed into a clean and peaceful appearance.

Both sides of the street were crowded with men, women and children, there were so many people, more than the people who were mobilized by the Knights of Radiance to defend the city a few days ago, and they could not see the end to the east.

These are all civilians who spontaneously came to see Emperor Marius off.

People held crowns made of wheat ears and osmanthus branches in their hands, and formed a winding procession on both sides of the road from the gate of Emperor Lingang to the east.

This happened to be the season when the wheat was ripe, and the ring made of yellow wheat ears looked exactly the same as the crown on the head of Emperor Marius.

All eyes were on the direction where Emperor Marius' coffin was coming.

Arina is wearing the armor of the Immortal, the helmet of the Immortal of Emperor Marius, and leads the way with the Sword of the Eloquent - this is the tradition of Bacchus. Emperor Marius is a lifelong leader of the army. See him off in the military uniform he once used.

Arina was a girl with a waist and shoulders too narrow for the emperor Marius' armor.She had to tie the shoulder pads with drawstrings to keep them from slipping, and then put Marius' red cloak over them to hide the baggy look.

It didn't look imposing at all, but no one would laugh at her at this point.

Marius' two sons walked silently behind Alina. Although the eldest son Gaius had the same name as Emperor Marius himself, he did not compete for the identity of the heir, but only inherited the private property of Emperor Marius himself. , that is, some manor villas and land around Siyuan City.

Mario's own name was also Gaius, and Mario was a family name, which was the customary naming method of the Bacchus. The eldest son often had the same name as his father.

And Junes, the second son of Mario, who took over some business from his elder brother Gaius and then resigned from the army, also became a wealthy landowner.

Both brothers expressed their respect and approval to Alina, and they voluntarily let go of the meager power in their hands, leaving no opportunity for any careerist to take advantage of it.

This was obviously what Emperor Marius had warned in advance.

At the same time, all the surviving members of the Council of Elders only nominated Alina as a candidate for the emperor.

In other words, the election no longer requires parliament to vote, and there is only one candidate.

Emperor Marius did not let the events behind him turn into a bloody power struggle. This kind of peaceful handover is actually very rare in this era.

At this time Alina has already become the empress.

The funeral was still going on, there were a lot of people, but it was very quiet, there was no beating of gongs or drums, or crying.

Maybe it's because everyone doesn't want to disturb the emperor in the coffin, or maybe everyone knows that His Majesty will watch them from the high cliff.

Emperor Marius was buried on the cliff at the top of the mountain. To the south is a cliff that has been smoothed by waves for thousands of years.

As a relative and friend of Mario, Li Ang walked first behind Mario's coffin.

Moreover, Li Ang personally funded the construction of a lighthouse next to Mario's cemetery.

This lighthouse was named "Mallian Light" by him.

He felt that this should be what Emperor Marius wanted—even if he died, he could do something really useful for Bacchus.

There is a large area of ​​reefs under the cliffs. Building a lighthouse here can warn passing ships to be careful and reduce accidents.

At the same time, the ever-bright lighthouse also allowed Emperor Marius to see how prosperous Bacchus would become in the future.

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Not long after the funeral of Emperor Marius, before Arina had time to return to Siyuan City to be officially crowned, a series of news came from Lisa Dilan.

The good news is that all the Snake Cult troops have been strangled near the Shield Wind Fortress, and none of them escaped.

The bad news is that Lord Hereward died of illness at Yonshield Castle.

Hereward died of a sudden emergency when he was old. There was no conspiracy in it, but the death of the experienced and respected Hereward led to a series of problems.

First of all, Ralph and the members of the Horn Caller Ranger Group gathered at the Castle of Valor to hold the funeral for Hereward, and at the same time, they planned to prevent the Jatu people from taking the opportunity to go south.

But what they didn't expect was that the Jatu people did go south in a big way, but they didn't pass through Yongshield Castle, but crossed the northern part of the Noldor Forest obliquely from the northwest, and appeared directly near White Hart Castle.

Aldalian's tribe had been guarding the northern part of the forest, but this time his troops were transferred to fight against the Snake Cult. The northern part of the Noldor Forest had no troops, and the Jatu people took advantage of it.

Risadiran has taken the Noldor to White Hartkeep.

"According to what Lisa Dilan said, the scale of the Jatu troops this time is very large, larger than in previous decades. But I am sorry, Your Majesty Li Ang, we have just returned from the north, and it is difficult to organize a large army to support the north again. And It is still not convenient for us to enter the Noldor Forest or White Hart Castle for the time being... We almost had a problem when we pursued together with Lisa Dilan before."

Ivaylo apologized to Li Ang, saying that he could not lead troops north to support again.

Li Ang expressed his understanding of this. It is true that the Bacchus cannot enter the core sphere of influence of the Noldo elves at will in a short period of time, otherwise it is difficult to predict whether other Noldo elves will conflict with the Bacchus warriors. After all, it was Bacchus before. Man burned the forest.

However, White Hart Castle is a bit empty now, and it happens to be the harvest season, so Li Ang is really worried.

The Jiatu people's troops at this time must be on a large scale to grab food. That is to say, their scope of action will be very scattered, and their targets will never be fixed in the White Hart Castle area. The entire eastern region will be in danger.

In fact, the garrison deployment that should have been done long before sending troops to Emperor Lingang-Ralph and the Horn Called Rangers were in Long River City, Leofric was in Karen Bucksburg, and the Owl Knights were in Trub Ren, Charles at Fletcher...

In addition, Lisa Dilan took nearly [-] Noldor troops to White Hart Castle, and the strength of the entire eastern part is actually very abundant.

It's just that the Jatu people passed through the Noldor Forest unexpectedly, which made Leon always feel a little dangerous.

But Li Angyuan was in Emperor Lingang, and there were only less than 300 guards around him, no matter how worried he was, the distant water would not be able to save the near fire.

Although Li Ang left immediately, it would take at least a week to rush back from Dilingang.

Right now, we can only hope that Ralph and Lisa Dilan will react faster, so as not to let the Jatu people take advantage of it.

(End of this chapter)