Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 398 Future
"I'm going to kill you!" Amodia roared hysterically, but Adonis responded to her not with a tit-for-tat argument, but just a faint look.

From that look, Amodia smelled the scent of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

She was able to fully understand her brother's thoughts. If she took this one step further, they would no longer be blood-related siblings. Adonis didn't mind letting her join the souls buried in his hands as long as he was sure that she was harmful to the dynasty.

During the conquest of the North, one-third of the high-ranking knights and heroes of the Northern Legion died at the hands of Adonis, and his gains alone were close to the total of all the other ancestors.

This was certainly due to the fact that several ancestors had not directly participated in the battle, but Adonis' terrifying strength still made his sister Amodia quite wary. At least in close combat, it was difficult for her to escape unscathed from his hands.

"I will kill you sooner or later!" she gritted her teeth with a ferocious look.

"As long as it does not affect the great cause, it's up to you," Adonis shook his head, "but before that, we'd better think about how to deal with Lucia's northern expedition. If he succeeds in joining up with Borelius, your Majesty will hang our heads on the eaves of the Hellenmur Palace without your help."

Yamodia took a few deep breaths, and finally managed to calm down after a while. She said, "Didn't Rexar send another 30,000 people to support us? Will Vikia be here soon? Then the three of us can chase him and kill him together. What else do we have to think about?"

Adonis didn't look at his sister again. He was already used to her stupidity. He just reminded her, "How long is soon?"

"What if Lucia suddenly makes a move before Vikia arrives? How much manpower and supplies should we prepare in advance for the Eastern Expedition? After he arrives, if all three of us go to battle, what if Bolerius takes the opportunity to break through and attack the rear of the Central Battle Group?"

"I'll remind you again that Rexar's 30,000 men are the last mobile forces of the Central Corps that can support us. After His Majesty has dealt with the group of monsters, he is ready to personally lead an expedition to Thor, which is the key to the entire northern war situation. At this juncture, Rexar will not have any more strength to spare. After Rodnias's defeat, we no longer have the opportunity to make mistakes."

Yamodia seemed to be suppressed by her brother's steady momentum. This time, she didn't lose her temper. Instead, she tried to maintain a calm tone and said, "I don't know how to deploy troops. I just fight. Since we brought a holy land regiment this time, it's understandable that the high priests are in charge. How do you say we should fight?"

Adonis frowned. He really didn't like the term "high priest lineage".

Just as the high priest had taught them, the Golden Dynasty seemed to be at its peak, but it was always mired in the dilemma of internal division and contradiction. If the struggle between the new and old parties had not intensified to the point where it could not be reconciled, they would have had no chance of subverting the North.

Now that the dynasty is only in its infancy, these idiots have begun to form cliques and fight for power, even going so far as to slander the high priest's hard work for the dynasty as forming a clique. Do they want to follow in the footsteps of mankind, which was defeated by internal strife?

However, as he said, the military situation was urgent. At this juncture he had neither the mood nor the time to argue with his sister about these details. The sooner the strategic deployment against the Northern Expedition Army was completed, the threat facing the dynasty would be weakened, and it would also relieve the worries of His Majesty and the high priest and reduce their work.

"In a word, slow."

"Lucia travels light and simply, and is fighting fast. He is trying to use 30,000 elite cavalry to rush thousands of miles, forcing our army to lose sight of the front and rear. He can then use his defeated army to disrupt our main force and achieve the result of defeating the larger force with the smaller one. Then we will force him to slow down."

"Everyone thinks that the Far East is extremely important to our dynasty. There are spiritual totems like Odysseus that inspire the human race, and there are major cities like Guntherfred that suppress an area. It seems that only by maintaining high-pressure control over the Far East can we maintain our rule over the entire North. Therefore, we must immediately concentrate our forces to march east and wipe out Lucia's northern expedition. But as I said, the key to the war in the North lies in Thor, followed by the frozen lake where Boileus is entrenched and Otina where Osarion fled. Our own foundation lies in the Holy Land and the cauldron of fire. The chaos in the Far East is just a minor disease. Considering the comprehensive strategic advantages of other regions, we can fully accept the temporary loss there."

"Ever since the Eastern Regiment conquered Guntherfred, the Far East is still a scorched earth. If Lucia is willing to occupy it, let him occupy it. The terrain there is lower, and it is difficult to attack the central region from above. It is easy for us to counterattack from a high position. We should give up the Far East for the time being and use it as a cage to trap Lucia's 30,000 cavalry. This will offset his mobility advantage to the greatest extent." "At this point, it's not us who are anxious, but him--" Adonis forced a smile on his muscular face, with millipede-like folds of flesh all over his face, which inexplicably showed a bit of creepiness.

"What he wants most is to cross the Snow Ridge Route and meet up with Bolerius, but we won't let him do that."

"Sister, you only need to lead 10,000 troops to contain the old dragon that was just injured. I will lead the remaining 70,000 troops to advance to the northern exit of the Prism Road, destroy the mountain roads, and build fortifications. We can use our superior force to drag him to death there. We only need to wait until 30,000 troops from Vikia and Rexar come to help. With the help of Vikia's forbidden spell ability, we can kill Bolerius in front of Lucia."

"Once Borelius dies, all those resistance fighters who have illusions about him will clearly see that even if they are as powerful as the Ice Dragon God, even if they are very close to his Northern Expedition Army, Lucia Sanx can do nothing about it and can only watch them being crushed by the Dynasty one by one."

"I think that even if Neo and Osarion are still stupid enough to continue to resist after knowing this, there will be smart people we need inside Sol and Ultina, right?"

"You'd better hold the North Pass..." Amodia shook off the snow on her cloak, tacitly agreeing with Adonis's strategy, and turned around and walked down the mountain without looking back. "If you are defeated by him even with 70,000 men, and the Northern Expedition successfully breaks into the frozen lake, I don't mind letting this be your burial place."

An army of 70,000 plus an ancestor giant were guarding a mountain pass that was no more than 300 steps wide. Although the war had not yet broken out, the outcome was already determined.

Adonis did not answer, but continued to sit silently on the top of the mountain, like an unyielding rock.

Amodia walked further and further away along the narrow mountain path. It was not that she could not understand her brother's position. Many years ago, when they had not yet become giants and the distance between siblings was not so far, she understood everything he wanted.

But that was wrong, regardless of what the high priest wanted to accomplish, it was wrong from the moment he made the choice.

The same is true for this war. Regardless of whether Vikia and Adonis can defeat Lucia, the line of High Priest Gulag will become an indelible mark on them after this war.

His Majesty sent the two siblings to fight together, not to check and balance each other, but to give Adonis a chance, a chance to give up the dominant position.

Your Majesty really wants to see who made the final strategic decision between the two siblings.

But he missed.

The defeat in the Far East really meant nothing, but further, what did it matter whether Lucia Sanx could reunite with Borealis and Neo?

The hearts of the people in the North have long been crushed by the might of the giants. Even if a few of those who still harbor illusions are able to join forces by chance, it will only reduce the trouble for Your Majesty to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Abandoning the group of refugees in the Far East and leading only the elite forces to break through the siege, even if Lucia really came before Pollux, it was still unknown whether the latter would be willing to recognize this sudden new king, not to mention that he would completely lose the support of the people after this action?

I always thought that her sister was a complete fool, and that they were all obstacles to the progress of the dynasty. But you decadent people who are obsessed with the glory and traditions of the past, have you ever understood the true future of the world?
(End of this chapter)