The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 600 The Collapse of the Empire

"Your Majesty Attila, you misunderstood. We are not here to surrender."

"How dare you call His Majesty by his name!" Attila's minister interrupted Leo before he could finish his words.

Leo stopped talking immediately, and then said: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Hun Empire, I think we should communicate on an equal footing."

"In what capacity are you communicating with me?" Attila looked at Leo with interest, and his left foot directly reached into the girl's thin clothes, stepped on the towering softness, and found a more comfortable position.

The girl did not dare to show any dissatisfaction and gently pressed his legs with both hands.

Leo took a deep breath and said, "I am here to discuss this with you as God's spokesperson on earth."

"Oh!" Attila said lightly.

Attila was not afraid of God and monotheism. You have to know that over the years, the Hun army had conquered countless countries, and these countries also had their own beliefs. It can be said that he destroyed at least eight out of ten beliefs in various places.

The Faith in All Spirits is growing stronger and stronger.

"Tell me why you're here!"

"We want to negotiate with you, and your army cannot move forward any further," Leo said.

"Why?" Attila sneered.

"Because God is also watching this war, and Rome is where God has His eyes on."

"I don't believe in God. Your reason can't stop me or my soldiers!" said Attila.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Hun Empire, this is not the first time that Rome has fallen into this kind of crisis. Decades ago, the last person who was protected by the gods broke through Rome in an ignominious way and plundered Rome."

"But after he looted the city of Rome, he was abandoned by the gods and eventually died of plague!" Leo said in a deep voice.

Before he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the entire tent suddenly froze. The Hun warriors, who originally had mocking expressions on their faces, now showed ferocious looks, and many of them had already begun rubbing the scimitars at their waists.

As long as Attila gave a look, the surrounding Hun warriors would rush forward and hack all these people to death.

"Are you threatening me?" Attila narrowed his eyes slightly, and a huge pressure came over him. In the eyes of Leo and several saints, the shadows of a huge gray wolf, a handsome eagle and many other spirits appeared behind Attila.

These phantoms kept squeezing several people, and golden angel phantoms appeared around several saints. However, under the suppression of those spirits, the range of the angel phantoms kept shrinking, and they could only barely protect a few people.

"Of course not!" Leo said in a deep voice: "This is our last resort to die together!"

"We are willing to sign an agreement similar to the one signed between Constantinople and you, recognizing your title as the Emperor of the Hun Empire, and will prepare a satisfactory annuity and contribute an annuity every year in exchange for your leaving Italy!"

"Not enough!" Attila said after a moment's hesitation.

He had just seen the courage of the Pope. He did have the ability and courage to stop him by dying together.

If he really forced them to die together, even if he didn't die, it would definitely be difficult for him. As the emperor of the Huns, Attila did not want to die with them.

To put it bluntly, the situation he is facing now is that those who are barefoot are not afraid of him, who is wearing shoes.

Moreover, there is a strong sense of war-weariness in the army now. If he continues to fight, he is confident that he can capture Rome. However, it will not be good for him to force the Pope of Monotheism to perish together with him.

In this situation, Attila was ready to quit while he was ahead. Now he knew that Rome was only a shell, and even if he didn't destroy Rome now, there would be plenty of opportunities in the future.

He had completely pulled out the defense line in the north of Rome. He only needed to control a few key cities. He could come and go in Italy as he pleased. He only needed to come here to plunder once a year. It wouldn't be long before Rome could no longer hold on.

By then he could easily annex Rome.

With this in mind, Attila began negotiations with Pope Leo.

When Leo heard that Attila agreed to negotiate, he was relieved. The most dangerous situation had been successfully overcome. He came here with the belief that he would die.

Now that the plan was successful and the city of Rome was saved, he relaxed. It was only then that he realized that his underwear was soaked with sweat.

The conditions for preventing Attila from attacking Rome were very high. Not only did Rome have to pay a high tribute, but it also had to stop preventing the Roman princess from marrying Attila.

Yes, this time Attila's excuse was that a princess of the Roman Empire asked him for help. In fact, the Roman princess was not an important person. After all, even the Roman emperor could kill countless people at will.

A princess simply does not have such great ability, this is just an excuse made by Attila.

Now Rome could only agree to send the princess to Attila's tent to become his concubine. Attila also asked the Roman emperor to restore Aetius to all his duties. Even Pope Leo was surprised by this request.

It stands to reason that a famous general like Aetius should be left idle in Attila's best interest, but now Attila actually wants to restore all of Aetius's positions, which he cannot understand.

However, in order to get Attila to withdraw his troops, the Pope also agreed to this condition. After all, this condition was more beneficial to them.

With Aetius around, at least there wouldn't be a situation where the Hun army would march straight to Rome and the Roman emperor would flee in panic.

Looking at Pope Leo's surprised expression, Attila laughed in his heart. This condition of his was not a casual one. In fact, he and Aetius had a very good relationship. Aetius had even lived in the Hun Empire since he was a child.

The friendship between the two is very deep.

But this did not affect the war between the two countries, and his request seemed to be for the good of Aetius, but in fact it was to provoke the relationship between the Roman emperor and Aetius.

After experiencing this painful lesson, the Roman emperor should have understood the importance of Aetius and would definitely restore all of Aetius' power.

But now that this issue was raised by him, the Hun emperor, it would definitely make Valentinian III wary.

I wonder if Aetius has secretly allied with Attila. Otherwise, why did Aetius stay in the north and watch Attila lead his army to attack Rome?
Perhaps even Attila's attack on Rome was a coordinated effort between the two sides. Why was Attila's army able to advance so quickly and enter the Po River? Did Aetius inform Attila of the empire's border defense weaknesses?

If the Roman emperor was a wise ruler, this cheap strategy of sowing discord would have had little effect. However, the Roman emperor was a mediocre person who was self-righteous, arrogant, and completely lacked any ability or self-awareness.

This resulted in Attila's little trick being very effective.

In this situation, even if Aetius returned to Rome and regained all power, the rift between him and the Roman emperor would be even greater.

At that time, the fight between the two sides will become more intense, and in the end one of them will die completely.

Whether the emperor was killed by Aetius or Aetius was killed by the emperor, it would lead to chaos in the entire Roman Empire.

Then it would be time for him to annex the Roman Empire. Even at that time, he would not need to spend any effort to occupy Rome.

Thinking of this, Attila's expression remained calm, and he continued to ask people to discuss other conditions with Pope Leo.

At the same time, after learning that His Majesty the Emperor was preparing to negotiate peace with the Roman Empire and then return, the Hun camp suddenly became happy.

Many people have already calculated how much benefit they can gain this time.

During this trip, the Hun army made a lot of money by plundering northern Italy, and even the vassal troops gained a lot of benefits.

On the other hand, Richard was not aware that the Pope of the Monotheistic Church had already agreed to a truce with Attila, the Scourge of God. At this time, his army had just arrived in the Italian province after traveling for most of the year.

After entering Italy, the army's marching speed increased significantly, as the transportation conditions in the Italian provinces were much better than those in the Gaul provinces.

Richard did not lead his army to Rome, but went directly to the Po River. He knew very well that the Scourge of God in history had negotiated peace with the Pope of Rome at the Po River.

Even the Pope was directly awarded the title of Saint for his achievement in preventing the Hun Emperor Attila from entering Rome.

So Richard led his army here directly. He wanted to see what the Whip of God looked like and see the quality of this Hun army.

The herald officer also agreed with Richard's plan to go to the Po River defense line. He knew that the Po River was the last line of defense north of Rome. If this line of defense was breached, Rome would basically be breached.

Under the leadership of the herald, the army had a smooth journey, and Richard even obtained a lot of supplies from these cities.

When the Romans heard that this army was going to stop the Hun army, they took out various supplies and handed them to Richard.

This ensured that Richard had plenty of supplies along the way.

Soon, three days later, Richard led his army to the vicinity of the Po River.

When he got here, he saw the long line of military camps on the north bank of the Po River. It was obvious that these camps all belonged to the Hunnic Empire, while on the other side of the Po River, the Roman Empire had only a few military camps stationed.

The military strength of the two sides can be said to be very different.

Richard's arrival quickly attracted the attention of both sides. After seeing this large army, Attila frowned slightly and ordered only one army to confront it.

Neither side had any intention of engaging in a major fight.

(End of this chapter)