Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1719 Long-Term Development
Maintaining the snake-bound state, the Snake King first snapped Fisher's neck, and while ensuring his death, swallowed his neck and head together into his stomach to smack his stomach.

He wasn't in a hurry if it were ordinary prey.

However, he had never actually eaten a human with the strength of the Vajra Realm, which made him somewhat impatient.

After swallowing the head and neck, the Snake King loosened his snake body. With the protective shield shattered and the snake venom corroding him, Fisher's body had long been strangled beyond recognition, but it had also become easy to eat.

The next second, the Snake King opened its blood-red maw and swallowed it whole.

Throughout the entire process, the Smith soldiers who witnessed Fisher enter the Snake King's belly completely lost their morale and began to scatter and flee.

The Snake King didn't care about this; he never intended to exterminate them from the beginning.

He recently sorted out his thoughts and felt that he should focus on long-term development.

Simply put, it means letting humans feed themselves and then reproduce more humans. In this way, they won't even need to do anything special to have a continuous supply of food.

Having killed most of the snakes, the snake-men quickly retreated with their prey.

That night, the Kingdom of Smith lost their king.

When the news reached the capital, the Kingdom of Smith, which had only recently stabilized, was plunged into chaos once again.

Some people panicked, while others gloated.

After successfully ousting Peter, Fisher employed numerous ruthless methods to consolidate his power.

Some time ago, they even chopped off the head of one of the nobles and hung it on the flagpole as a warning to them.

To the Black aristocracy in the country, this is no different from ingratitude and discarding a useful tool after it has served its purpose.

They hated Fisher with a passion, but they were no match for him and dared not speak out, fearing they would suffer the same fate and have another head on that flagpole.

Now that Fisher is dead, naturally some people are gloating.

But at the same time, some people are panicking.

After all, with Fisher dead, their Smith Kingdom lost its strongest fighting force. What should they do next in the face of the threat from the desert snake people?
Of course, aside from those who are gloating and panicking, there is another group of people who are busy with something else: seizing power!
Those black nobles have been fighting for power for quite some time now.

Previously, Fisher was too powerful for them to defeat, but now that Fisher is dead, there is finally no one to keep them in check, and they all immediately began to stir.

Then the group of black nobles soon discovered that they were in an awkward situation where no one could defeat the others.

"Right now, there's still the threat of the snake people on the outskirts. If we keep fighting like this, we might all be doomed."

"What do you want?"

"How about this, we can restore the earlier parliamentary system, where everyone here can participate as members of parliament and share power. It's better than continuing to fight."

Upon hearing this, many of the Black nobles present were somewhat tempted.

The main problem is that continuing this stalemate is not a solution.

"I agree."

"I agree."

After the first person expressed his opinion, the remaining Black nobles followed suit, and the proposal was quickly approved.

"Then we should discuss how to deal with those snake people."

Although they had never faced those snake people, these black nobles all had connections in the army, and some even held high positions.

Fisher couldn't do anything about it either.

After all, in their Kingdom of Smith, the methods for cultivating 'battle qi' were controlled by the nobles.

If he refused those black nobles, it would be tantamount to refusing all warriors except for the Smith royal family. Thus, intelligence from the front lines was consistently delivered to the various black nobles, giving them some basic understanding of the snake people.

Now they are all talking fluently and confidently.

"If you ask me, we shouldn't have set up any garrison camps on the border. We should have retreated to the cliffs and used the defensive advantages provided by the cliff environment. Do you think the snake people could easily attack us then?"

These words immediately garnered a large response.

At this moment, the idea put forward by the black nobles is not wrong, but it is tantamount to hindsight.

The appearance of the snake-man was something no one had anticipated.

Before that, Fisher's thinking had always been to expand outwards and look for new opportunities in the new world.

Based on this grand strategy, all his subsequent deployments were offensive, including placing garrison camps directly on the border so that his troops could launch attacks at any time.

Given this premise, the snake people's attack came suddenly, and the border garrison that was attacked at night was also defeated suddenly. Fisher wasn't even in the camp at the time, so he still had to question the snake people's exact strength. Naturally, he had to find out what was going on.

As a result, the events described above occurred.

Even Fisher himself probably didn't expect that, as a Vajra Realm warrior, he would die at the hands of the Snake King in just one battle. Faced with the snake binding technique, he couldn't even escape.

While these black nobles are offering hindsight advice at the parliamentary table, at this critical juncture, withdrawing from the border camps and having the garrison retreat to the cliff edge is not unreasonable.

Over the years, Fisher has not only set up a camp on the border, but he has also deployed defensive facilities on the cliffs facing outwards.

Clearly, he had already considered this: if he encountered a strong enemy and suffered a setback, he would retreat to the cliff.

But I never expected that I wouldn't make it to that point.

The infighting and power struggles among these Black nobles took up a considerable amount of time, and by the time they reached a consensus and sent the latest orders to the border...

The snake people have launched yet another attack.

As it stands, it happens roughly once every two weeks. These snake people are truly treating the Smith Kingdom's garrison camp as their canteen.

The border troops were demoralized after being defeated by the snake people three times in a row, and their actions were so unimpeded that the border guards were in a state of low morale.

The soldiers who received the order to retreat immediately felt a sense of relief.

They all swiftly broke camp and withdrew.

Meanwhile, on the border of the Great Zhou Desert, a regular meeting is being held.

"That's strange. Why haven't those snake people made a sound since then?"

At the conference table, Xie Liancheng couldn't help but ask a question.

Upon hearing this, Shi Lei couldn't help but frown.

Although peace is a good thing, those snake people were clearly not peaceful people. It was indeed strange that they hadn't made a sound for so long.

"Should we send out a reconnaissance unit to scout out the situation?"

Jie Liancheng put forward his own ideas.

Shi Lei shook his head.

"No need. We already have information about the outer desert and the locations of the two snake people strongholds. We have also found the desert plants and successfully planted them."

"From now on, as long as the snake people don't provoke us, we don't need to provoke them either."

"However, everyone should remain vigilant along the border, ensuring that routine patrols do not let their guard down, and that desert warfare training continues!"

(End of this chapter)