Four-Armed Divine Emperor

Adwin stared at the young nobleman who was sitting carelessly on a human stool stacked by two slaves, with his legs open, and two slaves, a male and a female, serving him at his crotch. He stared at the other's lance, which was entangled by two pink snakes and was in high spirits, and a heat rose in his lower abdomen.

His physical strength has begun to decline, and he is somewhat unable to deal with women.

Otherwise, Zeina's proficiency would not be just this much. Instead, after being captured, she was developed and used more by El.

However, seeing the youth's vigor and energy, strength seemed to surge in Adwin's body. He and his brother Alik walked over, and the guards immediately raised their halberds and struck each other in the air, making a sound of steel.

Then everyone in the audience knelt down, and only the prince's guards were allowed to stand, because they had to be vigilant about their surroundings at all times to prevent assassination attempts.

"Alia! Hail to you, Satrap, bearer of the sacred flame!"

Everyone in the audience shouted in unison, and as a member of the royal family and representative, Alik, who was standing next to Adwin, had to bow politely to show respect.

"I salute you all!"

Adwin raised his hand, and everyone in the field stood up again, their armor and swords rustling.

"My compatriots, my warriors, all of you who are here, from Zarin Abad, Shahr, Janatur, Sarab, Bahar."

"We gather here today, marching together towards the territory of our millennial enemies, those ignorant and arrogant Brio people. We will fight them to the death! Before we do, I need you to answer me: are you afraid? Facing our millennial enemies, our sworn enemies, the Brio people!"

Everyone pounded their left chests with their right fists and shouted, "Fearless!"

"Will your swords, your decisiveness, falter because of something like this?!"

“Never hesitate!”

"Will you be timid, will you be cowardly, will you flee in fear before the enemy's warriors?"

"Courage! Courage! Courage!"

"Good!" the prince exclaimed.

"Then, we swear an oath here and step onto the battlefield together. In this battle, I will not take any spoils, but will give them all to you to share! You only need to give me one thing in return—victory!"

"Victory! Victory! Victory!"

The crowd cheered enthusiastically.

Chapter 21: Grand Blueprint

When the Grand Prince leads the army in person, naturally the army is huge and the elite troops are all out.

This Xerxes army had a force of nine thousand, more than twice the size of the Devangel expeditionary force, and this was not even the full force that the Xerxes could mobilize.

In order to balance speed and concealment, the Xerxes did not use their domesticated war beasts and a large number of mercenary forces in this expedition. Like the Devingale, Adwin also sent out the regular legions in the territory and a few reliable elite mercenaries.

Adwin had made preparations to conquer the Devingale very early. After the last war, the Devingale had lost the strength to confront him head-on. The cunning prince realized that if he sent a large army to the border and gave the enemy a sense of crisis that they might attack at any time, the Devingale would most likely surrender to their king out of fear. Once Kalvik intervened in the battle, Adwin assessed that his own strength would be unable to resist the enemy.

He enjoys hunting and is a skilled hunter who knows when to pursue his prey relentlessly and when to lower his presence, allowing the prey to gradually become paralyzed and lose its vigilance.

Before this, he had sent envoys many times to declare his authority to the Derwengaelic people and put forward various demands, but he did not increase the garrison in Muten, which was the best forward base, as if it was just a bluff.

This move really paralyzed Devin Gale.

Every time the envoys arrived, they were furious and refuted the excessive demands, but in order to avoid war, if negotiations were possible, they would try to avoid war even if it meant making some concessions.

Every time the envoys of Xerxes arrived, there would be a commotion in the territory of Devangel. No matter how much they pursued glory or how much they had a tradition of bravery, no one was willing to fight a war that was "sure to be lost."

But if the Xerxes had not sent a large army to the Muten front, the mage, as the backbone and the factor that determines the outcome of the war, would not have been able to take risks alone and face even a mortal army without protection to expand the territory for a secular king.

And Adwin was already prepared.

After the fall of Muten, the border territories were nominally brought under the rule of the Xerxes. Perhaps some people were indeed disgusted with the Xerxes' brutal rule, but at the same time, there were also people who were willing to kneel down before the Five Treasures Chariot and pledge allegiance to the prince.

Before the war, Adwin was preparing for a bigger war. During the Battle of the Plains, he did not expect to annex Devangel in one fell swoop, because the enemy would certainly be in panic after the defeat. If he expanded aggressively at this time, the old patriarch might directly go to Kalvik to cry in the royal court. After all, on one side was the thousand-year-old enemy, and on the other side was the king of the same clan.

On the one hand, they were being annexed, and submitting to the king was just a price to pay and the cession of some autonomous rights. The king was to defend the national order and would not take advantage of the situation to annex the lower-level lords, which would cause strong dissatisfaction among other lords in the country.

In addition, although he won the victory, it was only a slight advantage. Adwin's army also suffered heavy losses under the desperate resistance of the Devon Gaels. So after he captured Muten, he sent envoys to conduct the usual "threatening" peace talks, and then the garrison returned to his homeland.

But before that, he had already begun to bribe, threaten, or directly send troops to destroy the rebellious tribes, and successfully conquered many mountain tribes in the border areas for the use of Xerxes.

One of the important reasons why those mountain people in the west quickly came to join Ai'er after he came was that the expansion of Xerxes' power in the border areas caused them fear.

With the help of Adwin's captive mountain dwellers, Xerxes' army, after a period of exploration, successfully found a sufficiently concealed and relatively convenient route for the army to quickly cross the border. At this point, Adwin's ambitious plan was finally completed:

He gathered his army in the land east of the border, away from the eyes and ears of the Devengers, and then when the time was right, he would quickly cross the complicated border area through this road to reach Muten, and then obtain the supplies that had been stockpiled there in small batches before, and launch a blitz on the Devengers. Before their envoys arrived at Kalvik, Adwin's legion would arrive at the gates of Devenger, and the city walls without magical reinforcements would be nothing but a piece of thin paper in front of Xerxes' army assisted by mages, and could be easily taken down.

At that time, everything became a fait accompli. The rapid defeat of the Devangel family would put the King of Blaeo in a passive situation even if he intervened forcibly. If the royal wizard of Kalvik was dispatched, Adwin would immediately request support from the priest king of the holy city of Passamend. The young priest king had a gentle personality and treated others kindly. He was a kind person whose reputation was usually between "good man" and "weak".

Among the four Satrap princes of the Kingdom of Xerxes, Adwin was a loyal person who respected the Priest King more and had a good relationship with the Holy City. Perhaps this was because when he was studying in the Holy City and there was turmoil in the court, the guards and slave soldiers welcomed him back to the territory to succeed to the throne, and the Priest King at that time was quite helpful to him.

Although the Priest King was just a minor and his power did not extend beyond the city, Adwin respected him very much. He often sent envoys to the Holy City court with generous gifts and he himself had visited the Holy City many times.

The capital of the Kingdom of Xerxes, the holy city of Parsamenide, announced that the court of the Priest King was presided over by three mysterious and noble "holy wizards". Their contract with the royal family was signed several generations ago and has continued to this day. After some wizards left, they would abide by their promise and recommend their friends or disciples to come and serve King Xerxes for a period of time.

But Adwin knew the real situation very well. There were only two wizards in the holy city now. One of them chose to live in secluded place for retirement due to life-threatening issues. He has not appeared in more than ten years. Only his apprentice acted on his behalf. Even the old man was unknown to outsiders whether he was dead or alive.

The other one is a traveling wizard from the southern Alan Empire. This is indeed related to the contract. The wizard was recommended by a friend to come to the barren land of Xerxes to serve the king.

An old wizard is stationed in the royal capital, and another wizard can fully support the war. Moreover, if the Priest King supports Adwin, then the entire Kingdom of Xerxes can call on the "Millennium Holy War" against the old enemy, and the other three Satraps must also be sent to support.

Then this war will expand into a full-scale war between the two countries, and even other forces, such as the elves in the Grand Canyon and the orc tribes in the northern mountains may intervene.

And according to Adwin's impression of the Lord of Kalvik, Brio and the king of the "descendants of Asta", he was not a man who liked war. Instead, he preferred court banquets and various celebrations. For him, war was a vegetarian meal that was difficult to swallow but had to be eaten.

As long as he can control the intensity of the war and grasp the opponent's bottom line, Calvik, who does not want to fight, will certainly not want to see a full-scale war break out. In that way, both sides will have room for negotiation. Adwin can give up some land to the remaining Devangels to keep them alive, and it doesn't matter if he gives them a large sum of wealth as "compensation".

As long as the situation progressed to this point, Adwin had already won a great victory.

His prestige will reach its peak in the entire Kingdom of Xerxes. As the first person in nearly a hundred years to win a great victory in the war against the Kingdom of Bleio established by the remnants of the old enemy Asta and occupy a large area of ​​territory, Satrap's reputation will be praised by all people and even spread to the Alan Empire in the south.

By then, Adwin would have spent three years to completely clear the border area, bringing this complicated and chaotic place completely under the control of the Xerxes, and then linking the eastern and western territories to establish and consolidate a powerful territory that would be one-third of the area of ​​the Xerxes Kingdom.

His honor will be remembered by future generations, and this powerful territory is the proof of his achievements and the rich legacy he left to his descendants.

Devengail had gained a wizard to join him, and this news surprised Adwin. A wizard who would come to walk in the Barrens would not be too strong. There was really nothing worthy of the attention of the near-gods in this place. Even if there were indeed people interested in this place, those powerful spellcasters would have many disciples at their disposal. The entire Barrens had wizards staying for hundreds of years to participate in the fights between secular lords. Compared with mortals, they were indeed very powerful and could influence the situation of the war, but there had never been a person who could call the wind and rain, turn the tide of the war single-handedly, and destroy an entire legion by himself.

But even so, any mage, even a novice who has just completed his studies in the floating city and walked on the ground, is an extremely powerful weapon of war for mortals. All mages have the basic ability of [Element Control], which is a compulsory course for mages. They can turn fossils into mud, release ice cones, acid, and rain of fire, and overturn city walls that have not been strengthened by magic.

Many years ago, there was a country ruled by wizards in the Thurso area. They were a group of wizards from a prosperous realm in the west. They chose to travel eastward under the protection of the guardians. Because of curiosity or some other reason, they came to the Thurso area, and then used their own power to quickly control a country and began to expand around out of interest.

At that time, the overlords of the Thurso area were not the Zoroastrians, nor the remnants of Asta, but the Khan's tent ruled by a Centaur Khan and the elves who had not yet hidden themselves in the Grand Canyon. The two non-human races were located in the south and the north, and there was also the orc war leader in the mountains. It was barely a three-way balance of power, with the Khan being the most powerful and the elves second.

The expansion of the wizard nation and its equal aggression against surrounding forces soon led to the original hostile races uniting to form an alliance in the hope of expelling the wizards who were messing around on the edge of the White Tower order from the Thurso area.

It was also a battle that broke out on the great plains. The Khan's huge nomadic army, the elves' small but elite group of extraordinary people, and the fearless orc army were all crushed by the traveling wizards and their protectors in the war. After that battle, the elves were severely damaged and chose to abandon all their territories and retreat into the Grand Canyon to isolate themselves in order to protect themselves.

Elves are a "rare group" certified by the White Tower and enjoy certain preferential treatment. If they do not actively interfere with the outside world, spellcasters should avoid harming them as much as possible, so the mages did not kill them all.

But even so, the number of elves killed, captured and taken away by the wizards in that battle was nearly tens of thousands, which immediately paralyzed the elves to half of their bodies.

The Khan and his personal guards were engulfed in flames, the Khan's tent was split apart, and the Centaur forces were also unable to recover. Now they have been reduced to the status of "thugs" and "elite troops" among the nomadic forces.

A wizard appeared on the opposite side of Adwin, and he had to consider this issue carefully, and then...

"Mage, Mage, Mage is the key but..."

After the military meeting, Adwin looked into the distance and seemed to see the shadow of the city of Muten, which had been captured and then recaptured not long ago, sitting on the Wall Plain.

He had been preparing for this for too long and could not give up without a little external interference.

Although he didn't know the opponent's specific strength yet, as long as he was on par with Adwin's advisor, the Holy Wizard, or even slightly stronger, he was confident that he could give it a try.

The mages of both sides were restraining each other, but Adwin's legion had the upper hand. As long as he could defeat Devangel's expeditionary force before the mages decided the outcome - before his advisor was defeated, he would even have a chance to capture a noble Near-God!

"Just, just one chance..." He muttered to himself on the throne. This was a gamble. Deceiving the other party and then launching a surprise attack would be very offensive, but Adwin decided to take the risk. This was a grand blueprint he had laid out and planned for too long, and he was unwilling to see it destroyed like this.

Chapter 22: The Fox Girl and the Big Fish by the Lake

A breeze blew across the lake, rippling the water. The gray horse was stripped of its saddle reins and was leisurely striding on the green grass by the lake, occasionally lowering its head to chew on some tender grass still covered with dew.

On a meadow near the lake, two or three layers of animal skin carpets were laid to isolate the ground. El was leaning on them, supporting his body with his hands, holding a long fishing rod in both hands, the other end of which was hanging down into the lake.

The enchanting fox girl who was given to El as a gift was now wearing a Brio woman's dress. She was sitting on another blanket with her knees hugged, watching El fishing. She yawned out of boredom and stretched.

The pair of huge balls, which were almost twice the size of the female knight, trembled in the air, shaking at a mesmerizing amplitude.

But El had experienced two beauties, Ansuna and the princess, and during the days when he was recuperating in Muten, he tried every possible method on the fawning and flattering Zeina. He even tried pregnant play with Ansuna, whose IQ was sucked away by the fetus. El also had a certain resistance to simple female beauty and would not be distracted by such simple attraction.

Of course, he is still lustful and is more eager to possess more high-quality mother bodies every day than the day before. This will not change.

"How far away are your people from here?"

Al asked without turning around as he observed Piao.

The real vixen licked her lips and looked at the fishing rod with some disappointment, which had not sunk once from beginning to end.

Of course, the fox girl certainly did not doubt that a noble, powerful, and knowledgeable sage could not catch any fish, but rather thought that there might be no fish in the lake at all, and that El was just wasting his time.

This proactive act of explaining and making amends for the air force guys is truly touching.

But Al was so bored while fishing that he didn't care whether there was anything on the hook.

He has already cast his fishing net, so why bother about the gains and losses on a single rod?

"I don't know, it should be coming soon."

"They should have sensed it when you brought me back to the ancestral land. However, the siege by the Fire Worshipers had a significant impact on my tribe, and many humans also sided with the Fire Worshipers. They certainly couldn't bring too many people with them when they came to find me, so they had to take a detour and hide."

Al nodded, understanding.

Mages are the masters of this world, but they are not the only ones who possess extraordinary powers.

For example, elves and some special ethnic groups all possess some extraordinary powers that are quite limited compared to the magic that theoretically everyone can learn and have the opportunity to master.

For example, the Fire Servant, a hugely influential sect among the Zoroastrians, possesses some secret techniques of light and flame, claiming that the power was given to them by the Holy Sun. However, according to the research of the mages, after the White Tower was floated into the air, almost all the secrets on the earth have been explored by the mages.

This is the mark left by the wizard king of ancient times. Among the ancestors of the Fire Worshipers, there once appeared a very powerful being who ruled his people and established a vast empire. Now, everything about Alan - the Fire Worshipers can be traced back to him and his kingdom.

Some of those who served the king received gifts from the Wizard King, and the power to control fire was imprinted in their blood. It was passed down from generation to generation, and each generation was a loyal servant serving him.

Later, powerful wizard kings fell, but their power was so strong when they were still there that even after thousands of years, the slave brand called gift still ran in the blood of the servants.

The gods have left, but the people who serve them are still there. Therefore, thanks to the efforts of the "fire servants", the fire-worshiping ethnic group has not fallen apart and still maintains the inheritance of a civilization that has lasted for thousands of years.

The elves of the Grand Canyon also have unique powers, as do the natural shamans born among the grasslands and orcs, and some ethnic groups or individuals with special origins.

But, but!

These powers, which can be said to be gifts, are far from enough to fight against a real magician. At best, they are like the difference between a bandit and a regular army. Moreover, their numbers are extremely rare. They basically exist as priests, royals, etc., and rarely go to the battlefield.

Although the mages adhered to the principle of not destroying the secular world too much and did not take any action to eliminate these mortal "half-step transcendents" after grasping its essence, the floating city still blocked the channels for all special mortal transcendents to learn and master magic.

The fox girl given to Ai'er as a gift by the Xerxes was just such a "semi-transcendent".

An "ancestor prophet" in an orc tribe, a "fox demon" who can communicate with the ancestral spirits and draw on the power of the earth.

However, the Xerxes did not know this. When the fox girl was captured, she was serving as a representative and visiting another tribe with her guards. The purpose was to reveal her identity through the fox girl so that the other party would submit to her tribe and merge the two.

The orcs have great respect for the existence of "ancestors and prophets". The slightly ignorant tribes even regard them as the chosen ones of God and would never dare to use force to force the fox girl to stay.

Then Xerxes' mopping-up force took this tribe as their target, trying to raze the place to the ground, to make an example of them and to deter other surrounding tribes that might have the intention of resisting.

After the attack was launched, the fox girl's guards turned against her, killing the local tribal chief and his son who already knew her identity, as they saw that she was surrounded and difficult to escape. If she revealed her extraordinary characteristics, she would be more likely to be regarded as a treasure by the Xerxes and pursued relentlessly. So, the fox girl's guards turned against her and killed the local tribal chief and the chief's son who already knew her identity.

Then she took her own life and chose to surrender after she had no other choice. She was captured by Xerxes as "a gift originally given to the local chief". Because of her outstanding beauty, she was detained as a precious prisoner of war and also received certain preferential treatment.

The fox girl originally thought that if she was sent to the tent of a noble, she would have the opportunity to kidnap the other party and escape. However, she was locked in a cage from beginning to end in the army. She confusedly crossed the "Land of the Ancestral Spirits", which was the "border" recognized by the people of Blaeo and Xerxes, and came to the city of Muten, and was given to a wizard as a gift.

El had already seen her strength, which was very interesting, but to be honest, when converted into combat power, it might not be as good as ten fully armed warriors. At best, she could be a supporting player, a priest, or something like that to provide encouragement to others.

Communicating with ancestral spirits and drawing on the power of the earth sounds quite intimidating, but in fact the former is just divination with a bit of metaphysics and a touch of psychic magic. It can indeed communicate with souls, but it cannot obtain any useful information.

With the help of the earth...she has a natural grasp of the terrain. Even if it's a place she hasn't been to, as long as it's nearby, the fox girl is a perfect guide. If this is a general, it would be a very perfect trait. It also has certain attributes such as high yield, calling the wind and rain, and blessing the tribe with good weather. However, the fox girl herself also admitted:

Those things are passed down orally and have a mythological element, but what really matters is their keen perception of climate change.

.......

After the fox girl was sent to El's room, she confessed her identity and origin to El, because she said: "I dare not hide my tricks in front of a sage", and then asked to cooperate with El. She already knew the information that the Westerners and the Zoroastrians had resumed the war, and believed that both sides had a common enemy and there was a possibility of cooperation.

El stared at her fox tail and animal ears swinging behind her with interest, asking her to come up with a reason to convince him to cooperate with them at the risk of continuing the war.

At that time, Ai'er had already used group charm to manipulate the Xerxes delegation. Their purpose and the intelligence of the Xerxes people were all exposed to Ai'er's eyes. In order to prevent the secret agents in Muten City from passing on information, Ai'er's ostentatious departure had already planted a psychological suggestion that he would "do things as usual" and go all the way to Devangel to meet the official owner of the territory. He also ordered a big celebration, and the news that the war had stopped and the two sides would use the border as the boundary in the future was paralyzed in the city's spies. He himself vented his energy on Princess Zeina's belly every day, creating the signs of a debauchery every night.

On the one hand, he ordered the expeditionary force to evacuate the city in batches, and hired many local people to join the army. In the name of training city defense, he dispersed the troops to clear out various places, but in fact they were heading to the border to prepare to "welcome" the oncoming army of Xerxes.

Continuing the war with the Xerxes is a foregone conclusion. Ai'er will not give in. The Xerxes will not retreat halfway even if they have mobilized their troops. It would be nice to gain a stable ally in the border area through the fox girl.

The fox girl didn't know all this at the time. The Xerxes sent her out as a gift to curry their favor and actively sought peace, seemingly intending to surrender. From her perspective, it seemed that there was little point in El cooperating with her.

Although Al wanted to cooperate, he still felt that it would be unreasonable not to eat the delicious meat that was right in front of him, so he asked the fox girl to give him a convincing reason sincerely: