Four-Armed Divine Emperor

Al slapped the stone handrail and made his next decision.

As for possible interference from neighboring countries, Al plans to see which ones come to offer their support.

He just happened to be able to fill the harem with a few more noble ladies and queens.

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Chapter 101: Assassination

The power of psychic energy raged in the palace.

All the crossbow arrows shot at El fell into a strange stagnation.

These weapons, made of magic-breaking materials with extraordinary properties, are powerful weapons against low-level mages within a certain distance, and even pose a certain threat to five-ring mages. They are rarely used in this way because it can easily attract the hostility of mages.

A king who dared to use a magic-breaking crossbow to assassinate a wizard in a formal diplomatic setting where people generally would not be too cautious should be called a "Mad King" even if he was the emperor of an empire.

The weapons that King Franz had high hopes for, and which were in a sense "contraband" under the White Tower order, were of no use when faced with a force completely different from the magic of the wizard.

Al didn't even need to move his hands to sweep the crossbow arrows that even scared Grace to the ground.

He clapped his hands as he looked at the messenger, the assassin, who was unable to move and was instantly oppressed by multiple psychic energies after being exposed.

"A king at the end of his rope, driven to madness—it couldn't be better."

El looked around at his descendants standing around, then stood up from the throne and slowly walked towards him, his four arms crossed in front of him, looking very elegant.

He looked down from above, while also approaching the captive, and continued, "If he is a wise ruler, I will respect him, challenge him, and win."

"And your king has now become a barking mad dog."

“To deal with a lion, you need strength, wisdom, and courage; to deal with a mad dog, a stick is enough.”

The failed assassin was clearly a fanatical diehard. He ignored the irresistible restraints and frantically struggled, retorting with hatred:

"Then be careful, Four-Armed Mage; a blow with a stick may not kill a mad dog, but may also awaken a sleeping lion!"

The toe of his left foot stopped on the next step, and Al was stunned.

With a wave of his hand, the power of psychic energy slowly pushed away the two soldiers who were escorting the prisoner, and at the same time relieved the heavy pressure of psychic energy on him. Al waved his hand, lifted the prisoner into the air, and moved closer to him.

"Awaken the lion?"

The meaning behind this thing seemed to have not resonated in Al's mind for a long, long time.

He recalled some "past events", with a hint of sadness and reminiscence in his eyes.

Back to reality, Al shook his head and responded to the assassin's provocation in an unquestionable tone.

"Franz, your king is but a mad dog, not worthy of a lion."

The power of psychic energy quickly extinguished the lights in the assassin's eyes, and a hollow body fell to the ground.

In a short period of time, he had used his psychic power to randomly check some of his memories about this incident. There was no exception. It was just a last-ditch effort by a trapped beast.

Franz is a king who likes to maintain the status quo, but he absolutely does not want to see Greg's foundation ruined by his own generation, so even if it means risking everything and bearing the risk of having his family confiscated and his property exterminated in the future, he will take another gamble.

The rest of the delegation members were trembling with fear at the sudden change, lying on the ground and not daring to make any extra movements.

"A loyalist." Al gave his approval.

"Send his body back to Karlwijk and tell Franz about his deeds of loyalty."

"By the way, I have another message for you. Tell him..."

El turned around, looked at his children, and opened his four arms, as if embracing the entire palace, the entire city, and the entire Kingdom of Brio in his arms.

"After I drag him down from his throne and chop off his head in front of all the people of Kalvik, I will bury his body with this loyal servant."

"must."

After he finished speaking, the life flames of several other assassins in the delegation who had taken action and those who had not yet had time to act were extinguished by Ai's psychic power, and they turned into several corpses with their life force rapidly fading.

Al spread his hands and ordered his subordinates to expel these envoys. A few sensible and thick-skinned ones knelt down on the spot and swore allegiance to Al, saying that they also could not stand King Franz's cruel behavior and wanted to make a just cut and turn to the light. Al accepted their attitude without caring.

Regardless of whether they have ulterior motives or not, once they are under his command, they will soon become "loyal ministers".

Then the descendants who knew the truth about this matter left one by one and quickened the pace of the attack.

........

This is a simple story.

Calvik sent several delegations to seek peace talks with the Norman army that was marching westward. Although Ai'er had already planned to swallow up the entire Kingdom of Blaeo, he still did not intend to block the way - it would be too ruthless and not even give time for negotiations, which would easily cause "surprise to friendly countries."

Although he doesn't care about this, but reputation is something that sometimes...

But most of them are just covert operations, and only one of them is the real key, which is the team the assassin belongs to.

They entered as usual, and through disguise and negligence, which rarely happened in the Thurso area - and Ai'er's "confidence" in his own strength as a superhuman, brought some forbidden weapons into the palace, which might have come from outside the world or from Thurso itself.

A type of arrow made of a certain material that has extremely strong spell-breaking ability. Generally speaking, the most common type is used as a material for mages to make magical equipment, or as a material to increase the magic-breaking ability of weapons.

For magic materials and magic items, the wizard

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It's not as rigid as the training of spellcaster apprentices which can only be mastered by the White Tower or the extraordinary class. This kind of magic-breaking material can be used to make swords and armor, or even "enchant" cannons, and it doesn't matter if it circulates in the mortal world. If a wizard is hacked to death by a mortal wearing magical equipment, they will only laugh at the dead man for not being able to save his own life and provoking the rich. What's the use of the second generation of mortals who are absolutely likely to have people in the floating city?

However, if it is made into a hand crossbow that can be hidden in the sleeve and fired at the mage's face at close range, it can be regarded as a face-to-face attack.

Franz shoved the reason right in Al's face.

Although he had probably already seen from the situation that Ai'er was coming for his family's foundation, after all, Ai'er had not yet officially conquered the city and the country and proclaimed himself king and established an institution.

Now that this has happened, all the excuses and legitimacy for the war are there.

Al could even pull O'Connor over to stand up for him, saying: This was originally Karlwijk's royal adviser. They were originally enemies, but Franz was so cruel that he tried to assassinate a sage with such a despicable weapon!

Even his own sage couldn't stand it anymore! That's why he came to me, his classmate!

The danger was eliminated, and they had a perfectly legitimate reason to annex the Bleu people...

Or in other words, from the very beginning, this assassination was actually within Al's expectations?

His psychic powers also have the ability to predict the future...

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As the assassination of Fabregas became public, the angry Norman army marched westward. Within three days, the vanguard army arrived at the city of Calvik, set up camp, and began to build siege equipment.

Previously, after the last fortress with more than 4,000 soldiers was easily captured by the enemy, King Franz no longer had any hope of stopping the Norman army outside the royal capital, so he gathered all the available troops in Calwijk, recruited citizens, opened the arsenal, and armed them with all his strength.

At the same time, letters requesting reinforcements from neighboring countries were sent one after another to various territories and royal capitals.

"If you don't come to help! After the fall of Brio, your neighbor will be a wizard kingdom!"

"You don't want to be neighbors with a wizard who likes to interfere in mortals' games and has a strong desire for expansion, right?!"

Then, while making these arrangements, King Franz also planned the assassination.

Waiting for the neighboring countries to send "courtesy" reinforcements, or through the same method as he supported the Devgaelics to resist Xerxes before, "the kingdom will hire a troop and then send them to a certain place to fight for a certain object", more than 20,000 reinforcements from the surrounding areas will gradually gather towards Kalvik.

But they could never be faster than Al.

By the time their troops were halfway there and those who were faster had already entered the territory of Brio, news arrived that King Franz had assassinated a wizard.

This left many of the soldiers half-demobilized and in two directions, cursing Franz Greger in private.

Assassinating an enemy mage who was a "key figure" (leader) was a highly taboo, especially in a place like the Thurso Zone. If the transcendents heard that a secular monarch had assassinated an enemy mage in this impoverished demonic region, known for its "remote location, virtually no room for advancement, and low welfare benefits, with the only advantage being low pay and minimal work in a marginal government office, a happy and leisurely life, but also the potential for troublesome field work (such as various barbarian invasions and border chaos)," then, not to mention whether the transcendents would punish them, they would simply stop coming to this place in the future, further reducing the number of mages in the borderland. This would be an extremely negative development...

If you succeed, it might be okay... At least everyone can go home - or, while Brio's strength has been greatly damaged by this "civil strife", and King Franz assassinated the wizard, his notoriety has skyrocketed, everyone can forcibly create a pretext for declaring war of "punishing the people" and "excommunication" to come and divide you up. This will not only enhance their strength, but also kill the culprit who assassinated the wizard, and also give an explanation to the extraordinary people who may have noticed this matter.

In the end, I did it but failed, and it's very difficult to deal with it...

The troops have already been dispatched, and it would be very unkind to turn back halfway. Moreover, Franz's move has offended Al deeply. If they go to help, it will probably be a thankless task and will also make the wizard resentful.

If we withdraw our troops...it's hard to say what will happen if El really seizes the entire Kingdom of Brio.

A dilemma.

Everyone was very annoyed about this. It was not right to help, and it was not right not to help.

All this time, it took a lot of time.

And because of this delay, not long after the first reinforcements arrived at Calvik, shocking news came from the Kingdom of Brio—

The prestigious capital of Blaeo, a rare and majestic city, the mountain city of Calvik, was conquered by the Norman army flying the purple and red dragon flag in less than ten days!

Of course, it’s not entirely because Norman is so awesome and strong, nor is it because Al is so powerful that he can overturn the giant city with his great might.

On the fifth day of the Norman siege, a rebellion broke out in the city of Calvik. The nobles and generals involved tried to depose King Franz and seek peace with Eyre, but King Franz, who had anticipated this, suppressed it with thunderous means. From the palace to the streets, the palace guards and the city defense forces were arresting people everywhere. There were two people in Calvik.

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The famous and prestigious families of Ervik that had been passed down for hundreds of years, one of which had a glorious history that even exceeded the time when Greg became king, were massacred by the royal guards.

All opponents were thrown into dungeons, the masterminds were all executed, and their heads were hung on high towers to deter rebels.

A prince who rose to prominence during the rebellion ascended to a high position. It was said that King Francis trusted his son so much that he even gave him the command of the Royal Guards, a treatment that even the kingdom's famous general, General Turak, the Hand of the King, had never received in the past.

Two princes were implicated in the rebellion, one was imprisoned and the other was said to have committed suicide to save his honor, but the authenticity of this is questionable.

At this time, less than a week had passed since the Norman siege.

The reason why the city was finally broken was very simple - the prince who was promoted and valued by King Franz was simple and straightforward. He entered the palace with a small team of troops who obeyed his orders. It is said that he broke into the palace when the king was visiting a concubine. Under a solemn and intertwined curtain, he killed the Lord of Kalvik, King Blio and the common leader of all the remnants of Asta, his biological father, King Franz Greg Imperator.

Then he carried his father's body and went straight to the city gate to ask for it to be opened and surrender to Al.

But the commander of the garrison was very determined and vowed to obey the king's orders and resist foreign invasion. Due to the need for defense, the strength of the city defense army expanded to the extreme in the entire Karlwijk. In addition to the necessity of defending the city walls, he could even send troops to suppress the prince's regicide coup.

The Norman Legion, unable to wait any longer, simply launched an all-out assault, and the descendants worked together to destroy the structure of the city wall. The defenders naturally did not expect that the other side would have more than three-digit mages, but only felt that El's power was unfathomable.

The Norman army then entered the city and joined forces with the surrendering rebel forces, quickly capturing the entire Calvik.

Afterwards, the identities of the rebels and the loyalists were reversed. The prince who committed patricide first declared himself the heir to the throne when no one was competing with him. Then he surrendered to Aiel as king, labeling all the defenders who insisted on resisting as rebels and claiming that the king was killed by them.

Of course, this kind of nonsense wouldn't fool even a three-year-old.

Al forgave the Greg royal family and even allowed the new king to bury his father, King Franz, who was killed by his own son in the bed of his concubines, with royal rites.

Then came a series of dazzling operations. The new king announced the orders of the previous king, invalidating all requests for assistance from neighboring countries to form an alliance. Instead, he turned completely to the Norman territory and appointed El as the regent and prime minister of the kingdom, entrusting him with all the power.

El formed a Sage Council, which included Grace, O'Connor, and Cyril, who was captured by his junior. They were known as sages who assisted in governing the country.

It's basically a toned-down version of the Mage Kingdom back then.

Those mages who came to Serso for "experience" and turned this land upside down were all kings, and each mage built a secular palace according to the best standards.

More than a dozen "kings" have tormented Thurso enough, and now it seems like he's going to have to go through it all again:

The mage "cured" the chaos.

Chapter 103: The Road to Expansion (Sorry for being a little late)

But even though they had essentially seized control of the kingdom, Al and the chariot he built, named Norman, still had no intention of stopping.

He let his sons lead the legions to continue attacking those powerful princes, and issued a notice to the lords and nobles across the country:

Immediately, he brought the main members of his family to Karlwik to pay homage to the new king and participate in the national court meeting presided over by the sages.

In less than a month, he was regarded as a traitor and faced the same fate as those lords who were being attacked by the Norman Legion, which had now transformed itself into the "Royal Army".

Ai'er did not compromise with the rulers of the old order. Under his rule, power could only belong to one person.

Moreover, he does not need these old elites who are both civil and military to supplement his local ruling system. For the areas that he cannot control for the time being, he can just let the people govern themselves. He trains bureaucrats who are not useful, but at least loyal and reliable. These are qualified bureaucrats, and his expansion speed is not slower than his.

As for the original ruling class in the conquered areas, Eyre would not kill them all. He would move them all to his own rule or to Normandy.

The talent [Foundation of the Lair] has a hidden effect. Any place where Aiur stays for a certain period of time will also be regarded as a "nest", and his influence can also radiate to these areas that may be far apart.

Ai'er estimated that it would take more than a year for the resistance among these old nobles to be "reformed" before they would accept Ai'er's rule. However, these people would not be that important after the defeat. Ai'er would give certain preferential treatment to those who surrendered and knew the times, but since they were defeated, their status would not be higher than that of a Norman centurion.

The new king is now nothing more than a puppet of Ai'er. After he used his psychic power to strengthen his influence on the prince who killed his father, the latter is now almost completely obedient to the "Council of Sages" led by Ai'er. He believes that since the rise of the second "Mage Kingdom" is inevitable, King Franz's efforts are but a mantis trying to stop a chariot, and the Greg family can only have a glimmer of hope if they take the initiative to kneel. After all, it is not a difficult task for several spellcasters to eradicate the royal bloodline of a destroyed country.

And if Al surrenders, the mages will get tired of playing and leave in the future, and maybe Greg will still

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