Four-Armed Divine Emperor

Even if it was someone who dominated all of this.

After all, when joining this "dedication to please the gods", everyone is "voluntary"...

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"Huh~"

The giant beast flapped its wings and flew across the plain.

The mortals working on the earth looked up and saw the figure of the giant beast, then they all bowed their heads reverently, crossed their arms in front of their chests, and performed the salute of the Sky Eagle.

Meeting a legendary "Son of the Reverend Father" is a blessing for the fervent Four-Arms believers. They believe these "sons of God" walking the mortal world possess the divine power of the Reverend Master. Even if they just pass by, they have the opportunity to share in a little of their blessings...

There were two people standing on the back of the giant beast.

One male and one female.

The girl is now fully grown, and looks even taller than her mother, the high-ranking knight Ansuna, and is a heroic and extraordinary Elsa.

El's eldest daughter and the eldest of his sons.

The other young man was his eighteenth son, a rising star among the earliest group of descendants, Constantine.

In the south of the Thresos, the territory closest to the Alan Empire is Semnan, the southern birthplace of the Kingdom of Xerxes, in the territory of Prince Satrap. It is a mining and trading city that also serves as a pass. Although Xerxes and the Alan people have the same origin, they now belong to two different countries, and there have been wars and frictions in history.

Of course, it's not a large-scale war between two countries.

The Xerxes are not worthy yet, but if the whole of Thrasy is united, they would be qualified.

These were just the private actions of one or two provincial governors and generals who wanted military merit, and ultimately did not lead to any serious consequences. The Xerxes defended Semnan anyway and defeated their fellow "invaders" from the south several times... But they obviously did not expect that one day, enemies from the north would attack the city.

During the conquest of Xerxes's kingdom, Constantine was entrusted with great power by Aiel as a rising star.

He could afford to lose and was not afraid of losing, as he could always cover the losses, so he confidently handed over the legion to his descendants to "gain experience" and train.

Afterwards, Old Eighteen defeated the entire Xerxes without even mobilizing his brothers, using his extraordinary strength to crush the mortal army. The size of his troops quickly expanded from 8,000 at the beginning to 30,000. His handling methods and governance methods after defeating the Xerxes were very much liked by Al. Being used to COS, he gave his Old Eighteen an honorary title: "Conqueror of Xerxes".

And he changed Semnan and renamed it after his eighteenth son.

Even his own grand palace city "Constantinople" was seen by some as a favor to the Eighteenth Son, but only Al knew that he was just playing another joke.

Because of the "equality" among the heirs and their close ties with El, there is no need for a very prestigious figure like the "Prince Regent" to sit at the center and act on behalf of El. Although Elsa is the eldest daughter, she also often travels around, which can be regarded as another form of traveling around.

Constantine, as a jack of all trades, had long been stationed in the former Kingdom of Xerxes, now the territories of the three provinces of Xerxes, Constantine, and Pasamen, and was also responsible for a large part of the affairs of the Alam Empire.

The fact that their two sons came one after another must be something important.

The giant beast slowly landed at a distance from Kalvik. The guards of the Forbidden City had already seen the figures of the father's sons. Without any delay, they immediately opened the city gate and welcomed the two men and the beast in.

"I want to see my father." Elsa said to one of the brothers who was in charge of "guarding" the forbidden city of Kalvik, who was ranked first.

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Thirty-six children were born, Camilla said.

Camilla is a tall woman who looks more "mature" than her older sister Elsa.

Her mother was a nomadic slave who was sold from the steppes to Devangel.

Because her personality and temperament are very "cold and stern", giving people the feeling of an ice beauty, she is very popular with Al - the kind between father and daughter.

His orders to Al were to be obeyed efficiently with "unconditional", "uncompromising", "carried out to the end" and "immediate action", so Al brought him with him to show his closeness and to guard this forbidden city where he sought pleasure.

Chapter 136: Unusual Movements in the North

Having just played the role of a lecherous and evil bureaucrat who used his power to forcibly seize a woman, Al had no time to rest. After learning that his cubs had arrived, he simply went directly to the outer city to meet Elsa and her group.

As for the forbidden city of Kalvik, which has now become El's personal entertainment venue, when the only protagonist it serves leaves and the stone gate is closed, everything in it will be interpreted according to the established "template", as if it really is a fortress that has barely survived the apocalypse.

All those who are selected must maintain their established identities in one "story" after another before they leave, and continue to act according to the defined logic.

There are dozens of "Master's Official Creators" who are constantly using their imaginations, using worldly filth and obscene desires to try to influence and impress their sacred and great master in order to gain His favor and retain Him.

They are responsible for the arrangement of all the "plots" and "branches" in the entire Forbidden City, racking their brains to write interesting stories for Al, so that he can enjoy them no matter he personally participates in them or watches them as an audience.

......

The stone gates opened, and the Lord of the Forbidden Palace, the Lord of all the people of Serso, the Founder of Rome, the Greatest of the Great, the Holy One:

Great sage teacher!

The respected father of all his descendants!

Al stood on the stone steps.

He changed out of his official attire and put on a simple white robe again, looking like a student believer who was studying in the temple.

At the bottom of the stairs, the three heirs knelt on one knee before their father, crossed their arms in front of their chests and performed the Sky Eagle Salute. After the ceremony, Elsa stood up and walked forward to the two steps below El.

Chapter 127: Ardabil (7)

"The servants in the south reported an important news to us: the Alan people seem to have noticed our activities in the north. They have issued orders to the northern provinces to mobilize armaments and prepare for war. A prince is about to come to the north with an elite force." Aisha brought a bad news to Al.

Constantine then stood up and took out the summary of intelligence received from the genetic servants and descendants controlled by the Four-Armed Man in the northern province of the Alan Empire and presented it to Al.

Al took a quick glance at it and found that it even included an original order issued from the Iskhan Palace.

The general meaning is that there were unusual movements on the northern border (and the Thurso area), and the King of Kings ordered his subjects to mobilize the army, prepare supplies, and get ready for the coming war.

There were also messages privately passed on by some high-ranking officials in the imperial center to their "own people" in the northern provinces. Among them was a "wardrobe manager" - a seemingly ordinary position, but in fact his official position was to manage his subordinates in the court of the King of Kings. He sent a message to a border governor in the province of Silvan, who belonged to the manager's family:

This war was a simple and rough "profound education" given by the empire to its restless "children".

However, the Bathed in Holy Fire (referring to Emperor Alan, the King of Kings) has paid considerable attention to this war, and has therefore requested that the Governor-General make careful preparations and give his all. The family will help him gain as much merit as possible in this "undoubted" war, striving to be promoted from the border to the core territories of Iskhanfa or other empires, thereby expanding the family's influence.

This governor, who has high hopes from his family and hopes that he can make great achievements in the upcoming war and have the opportunity to enter the core of the empire, is naturally now a member of the El race.

He was the third-generation descendant who had received "blood" from Constantine himself. After the eighteenth son personally visited the city in the name of "trade", the city had secretly fallen into the control of the Four-Armed Man.

......

"Tsk, someone doesn't want us to continue living a good life." After learning about this, Al smacked his lips and said jokingly.

Rome had anticipated the conflict between him and Alan a long time ago.

On the surface, there is an absolute gap in the size of the two sides. After detailed statistics, the population of the unified Serso is only 8.85 million this year, but the population of the Alan Empire is definitely more than ten or twenty times this number.

Boss Empire, Boss Empire.

Even if it declines, its size cannot be compared with that of a small country.

What's more, magic is the absolute mainstream in this world. Spells have a systematic inheritance and innovation. The Nine Rings Standard has already stipulated everything. There is no such thing as relying on one or some new technologies or breakthroughs in concepts to defeat the strong with the weak or the big with the small.

Even if we add up the two or three mages that Serso originally had, at most we could gather twenty mages whose average strength might be in the second or third ring to fight. In the Ishkhan Academy of Light, there might be so many mages leaving and arriving in a week.

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The number of divisions is much greater than this.

It was a complete crushing defeat.

Even if the other party is a kingdom that is on the rise after unification, there will be no exception.

The most fundamental reason why the Asta people were able to march eastward and defeat the ancient Alan Empire was not only the extraordinary talent of the emperor who was honored as "The Conqueror Emperor", but also the fact that the Aegean cities before the unification of the Asta people were one of the earliest and most developed regions of the Il world civilization, and the number and quality of their extraordinary people were better than those of the Zoroastrians in the East.

In the decisive Battle of Golmyra, the decisive battle between the Conqueror and the King of Kings of the East broke out here. Facing an enemy that was five times larger than the Eastern Expedition Army, the great wizards from the thirteen Aegean city-states (who were still called various titles such as wizards, priests, and shamans at the time) took advantage of the morale of the Alan people from top to bottom in the battle, and risked being sniped by the hostile supernatural beings, and took the lead in exerting the tremendous magic power on the heads of mortals, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Alan army and caused its mortal troops to retreat.

Afterwards, having lost the protection of the mortal troops and fearing the fearless charge of the Ashtar Legion, some of Alan's transcendents were the first to abandon the King of Kings' troops, which eventually led to a chain reaction. The King of Kings' legion lost this decisive battle and, with it, their empire...

This can be seen from countless things that have happened in history:

The influence of supernatural powers on all wars.

No matter how wise and outstanding a monarch is, he cannot achieve anything if he does not have powerful extraordinary power to support him.

The father of the Conqueror, the king who laid a solid foundation for the rise of Astar, has always been considered by many scholars to be as capable as his son. However, because he did not have a great wizard named "Merlin", who was considered to possess the magical powers of the "Witch King" at the time, willing to be his advisor and teacher, he spent his entire life wandering in the territories of southern Balgan and northern Aegean cities.

The people of Alan simply disdained a country that came out of the "Land of Poverty and Devil". If it were not for a series of actions taken by Ai'er after the founding of the country and the reform, some of the impact of which did reach the homes of the neighbors next door, I am afraid that the people of Alan would not have noticed the "small changes" in the north.

For them, it would be better to guard more against the eastern plains frontier than to worry about what a group of barbarians in the mountains would do.

After all, those nomads who are crazy with poverty and have no arrogance will not care about the dignity of the mage or the absolute gap in strength.

They are so vicious that they really dare to come and plunder the territory of Alan. They will just grab a piece of the robbing and run away. No wizard will have the time to go to the grassland where horse thieves and mobs are swarming to hunt down a group of nomadic forces for the secular lord.

137: The Powerful Nation

Sending a prince to lead the troops represented that the supreme ruler of Alan, the king of kings, the great emperor bathed in the holy fire, was personally paying attention to the war that was about to take place in the unknown northern border.

Obviously, the Alan people came "well prepared".

Of course, how thorough the specific preparations are remains to be discussed. At least judging from the intelligence obtained from the servants, the Alan people do not even seem to hide their intention to expand northward. On the streets of Iskhanfa, citizens who love keyboard politics are openly discussing which prince will lead the troops this time and which legion will participate?

After that, no one paid attention.

In the capital of a great empire, the people here are well-informed and no one would show any interest in a country far away in the mountains in the northern border. If people with broad vision knew that it was a place recognized by the White Tower as poor in demons, it might be brought up as some kind of topic of conversation, and they would be curious about how those wizards who "established a country and ruled" in a remote and poor mountain valley tormented the country people there.

Regarding Alan's journey north, after discussing it with his descendants and incorporating intelligence from the northern provinces, the Four-Armed Ones reached a unanimous conclusion:

Fire worshippers are looking for trouble.

The newly born Roman Republic was already low-key in the south. Although it blocked the caravans from going deep into Thurso, after designating the city of Constantinople as a trading port for the south (Alan), through continuous construction and standardized reforms, the city gradually became a well-deserved transit axis on a trade route from south to north. A large amount of goods were traded here every day, resources were sent to the south, and advanced products from the empire flowed into Rome. Because of the growing prosperity and stability - in order to attract caravans to the north, the Alan nobles and governors who had secretly belonged to the Four-Armed Ones would try their best to provide convenience to the caravans going north and south without attracting attention.

This is nothing at all. Even if it is done very obviously, it will at most be regarded as accepting bribes from the Romans.

Merchants from Alan began to be attracted to this place. A backward country that rose after many wars of annexation was in a state of disrepair. Although Rome restricted the flow of their power into the hinterland and basically isolated them from external influences, Alan merchants could not use the power of wealth to approach and infiltrate the local area like in other places, but simply doing business and making money was attractive enough.

Constantine's trade throughput with the Alan Empire in one month was equal to the level of inflow and outflow from this place in the past six months.

In theory, this even boosted economic growth in several northern provinces.

Rome did not welcome outsiders with curiosity or other purposes to enter, but just as Devangel did to the two neighboring noble territories, he opened his arms to welcome immigrants who were willing to give up their old land identities and joined the country for various reasons.

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They also welcome refugees, bandits and the like, and are willing to act as a "garbage dump" to reduce the burden on the Alan people.

And he was very interested in the slave trade—mainly buying slaves.

Rome retained slavery, which was practiced in most civilized countries of the Il world, but adopted a method that was uniquely Roman:

As long as one converts to the wise teacher and the Reverend Father and passes the theological test, he or she can be freed from slavery and never be a slave again. This has led to the fact that almost all the people in Rome are now believers of the so-called "Reverend Father" and are also "free people."

At present, the only people who can still be considered as belonging to the "slave class" should be prisoners of war from the grasslands and slaves purchased from outside who are still in the "training" period. The third group is the countless female slaves under the control of the licentious father of Constantinople?

......

In addition, Rome adhered to the open diplomatic rule of "serving the great power" and used the control it had already implanted in several northern provinces. The Four-Armed Man had been creating the image of Rome being "submissive" and "respecting a great power" to the Alan people. When it came to external conflicts, although Ai'er did not like to suffer losses, his descendants would also swallow their anger for the time being. The merchants who were blackmailed and the citizens who were convicted in Alan were nothing to the Four-Armed Man who controlled eight million Romans. They were not the dwarves of a certain dimension who held grudges and vengeances and would fight to the death regardless of the occasion or strength for a few copper coins.

It's nothing more than temporarily writing down a few names and places, and waiting for an opportunity to settle things later.

Moreover, since most of the opposing rulers were already “their own people”, the Romans would not suffer any losses as long as their activities were limited to a few northern provinces.

Under all circumstances, if we have to say that there is something about Rome that makes the people of Alan feel uncomfortable and unhappy, perhaps it is only that their people are active in the north of Alan a little too frequently?

However, such activities are either serious business or serious business while using the cover of business to cover up certain actions, such as the infiltration of Ardabil.

Chapter 127: Ardabil (8)

Given the huge size gap between the two sides, if you think from Al's perspective, he simply cannot imagine what he did wrong that "offended the Alan Kingdom" and caused the other side to resort to war.

But many things that happen to you don’t necessarily require you to look for the reasons in yourself.

Except the Jews.

And there are Jews.

Even Jews.

Like this time, the reason why the Alan people decided to bully the kids who just came out of kindergarten at the door might be simply because they were itching to do something, "the size difference is huge", or even that the King of Kings had been lying in the World Palace of Iskhanfa for too long, playing with female slaves and male favorites, and wanted to have a war to celebrate, or even - the King of Kings looked at the map of the Tartarus continent of the Alan Ten Thousand Year Empire, which was woven with the crown from ninety-nine crowns and symbolized the great conquest of the Zoroastrians, and was a little dissatisfied with the area in the north of Alan that was once divided but now seemed a bit annoying after the unification.

Or perhaps the Grand Vizier or Chancellor wanted to increase his prestige through a war. The High Priest of the Sacred Fire was dissatisfied with the destruction of the Kingdom of Xerxes, which symbolized the eternal revenge of the Zoroastrians against the remnants of the Astralis, by the Romans, who were mainly composed of the Astralis. And there was also the simple desire for money to move people's hearts. Beating Rome was a sure-win battle, and they could demand cession of land, annual tribute, and compensation...

Too many reasons.

The Alans dominated the "Eastern World" of Tartarus. Although this was a minor area that only occupied about one-fifth of the entire continent, east of Antolia, the Zoroastrians had the biggest fist. Might was justice, and a strong fist was truth.

If Rome was a country sandwiched between the Empire of Cronos and the Tsardom of Usreef, or a small country among the Germanic states, it might be able to have the best of both worlds, and could rely on the "international order" and "international justice" of many heroes standing side by side, neighbors who are enemies but also protect each other, and jointly resist the intervention of imperial powers to appeal. At least if a big country wants to beat it, it has to find a suitable reason. It can't say "soldiers are lost or missing", but at least "the tribute your country paid to us last year was insufficient and not of good quality."

138: I have guns and you have food. Is there anything more coincidental?

This reason is barely justifiable.