Warhammer

There is also a Garres trading post halfway from Carcassonne, where all goods from land have to be transferred. As Carcassonne closed its borders, it gradually declined.

The northerners had only two ideas at the time: one was to continue resisting, and the other was to move east with their families.

After the fall of Bilbali, the people of Vizea had only these two choices. Surrender was not an option. If Bilbali resisted to the end and died heroically, the people of Vizea would never compromise.

But they couldn't win the battle, so instead of sacrificing in vain, it would be better to preserve their strength and migrate all the people in the territory to Carcassonne. After all, no matter how lonely and stubborn the knights were, they would not raise their knives against the last spark of the neighboring country, a group of innocent refugees.

As long as they can restore their country in the end, what's wrong with letting them be "Carcassonne people" for a while?

Because of this idea, the Vizeans made two preparations at the same time. On the one hand, they strengthened their defenses and trained soldiers, and on the other hand, they sent a large number of women, children, the elderly and the young to the old trading post of Gareth in the east. Once the greenskins broke through to the city of Vizea, they would immediately arrange for civilians to move to the territory of the Carcassonne people.

In this pessimistic atmosphere of preparing for the worst, the "Regent King" who suddenly emerged in the south led a coalition army to the north, staged a shocking reversal outside the city of Bilbarry, defeated the invading army, and saved the entire kingdom. The information spread rapidly throughout the north like wildfire. When the good news came, the messenger killed three horses while bringing the news back to the city, and the whole city cheered long live the king one after another.

The city council opened the warehouses that day and released the stockpiled supplies for free for the citizens to enjoy. The citizens, ecstatic about being free from war and seeing their country restored, went around asking about the "Regent King". Some said "he" was the chief of the Beastmen, some said "he" was a talented young man from a certain kingdom, and some even said he was the illegitimate son of the assassinated city prince, who rushed back from the colony after learning of his father's assassination and raised the banner of rebellion to restore the country.

All the news was very convincing, and we also learned a key piece of information about "Regent King Al":

Because Al was too beautiful, he was worried that he would not be able to intimidate the enemy, so he often wore a mask and appeared to be stern.

He asked the painter in the city to quickly make a "Picture of Elpinro". In the picture, a heroic man with an iron mask was riding a horse, standing on a hill and looking at the vast plain in the distance. Behind him were many generals, soldiers, civil servants and priests. On the plain, a phalanx army was advancing with high morale, and the greenskins, who had thrown away their helmets and armor, were fleeing in panic.

Then many paintings were hastily made, and there was a special niche in almost every street, showing the heroic deeds of "The Regent Defeating the Greenskins at Bilbao".

Even nobles and commoners rushed to buy and make it, and were proud to have an "Elpinro painting" in their homes.

So when Barbatos and the bunny sisters entered the city, what they saw were pictures held up by the welcoming citizens in the streets showing a young man who looked like a traditional Estalia noble and a large group of Estalia people defeating the greenskins outside the city.

After the local congressman proudly introduced the meaning and origin of the painting to Barbatos, Barbatos realized that the young nobleman in the painting was actually his father.

She found it very interesting and deliberately asked the congressman: "Why am I not in this painting?"

She dismounted, took off her mask, and took the supposedly original "Picture of Elpinron" from the stunned congressman. After carefully examining it, she pointed to a gap next to El and said:

“Right here, I was standing right here.”

The congressman was shocked by the appearance of the goat girl and was speechless for a moment. Barbatos then showed the painting to the rabbit sisters.

"Isn't it? I was right here!"

Raven nodded, and Dale glanced at the painting without saying anything.

Suddenly, an unkempt, weathered man ran out from the crowd, stumbled out of the guards' obstruction, and fell to the ground with a thud. The guards thought there was an assassin and were about to arrest the man, but the latter struggled desperately and shouted loudly: "I am a painter! I am a painter! This painting is my work!"

The congressman looked at the man carefully before nodding in confirmation, and the guard let the man go.

The man's eyes were as big as copper bells, bloodshot, and filled with intense fanaticism as he stared at Barbatos' face.

"My Lord! I have never seen the true face of the Regent. I drew this picture based on my imagination. I have always felt uneasy and afraid of offending others."

"Now that I see your face, I understand how beautiful the regent is, as if he were a god! Please allow me to paint your portrait now, and I will add you to this painting!"

Barbatos laughed and thought the painter was really interesting.

Except for the horns on her head, Barbatos is no different from a human, just like Kael'thas. However, because of her appearance and identity, almost everyone ignores this.

They assumed that the legendary "Regent Ai'er" was a citizen of the kingdom, and that Barbatos, who was said to be the "daughter" of the Regent, had horns on her head, which was a very obvious feature of a beastman, but they did not find it strange. This matter itself was strange enough.

So she did not rush into the city. She ordered the soldiers to maintain order, built a temporary platform, sat on it, and asked the painter to paint her portrait. She also announced that the regent's daughter who saved the kingdom was now at the city gate. Barbatos looked similar to El, and those who wanted to know and were curious about what El was like could come and see it with their own eyes and make associations.

More and more people came to satisfy their curiosity and to feast their eyes. Barbatos had the temperament and talent of an idol, and instead of just standing there in a daze, he simply expanded the venue temporarily and began to receive the public.

She answered the questions of the Vizeans and resolved doubts for the citizens. She also said that the legion behind her that defeated the greenskins would be stationed in the north, continuously clearing out the scattered greenskin fleeing soldiers, patrolling the coastline, expelling pirates, and protecting the people's safety.

From time to time, some people were called up from the audience to come on stage to interact, chat and talk, which attracted the curiosity and goodwill of the people.

Just when the painter had just finished the portrait and was feeling very satisfied, thinking that he could go one step further by revising the painting this time, and that the influence of the painting would rise to a higher level, and by that time, the painting would be well-known both in the north and south of Estalia, and even spread overseas, and his name would be recorded in history, at that time a group of people who had planned for a long time suddenly rushed out of the crowd of citizens.

"You are the tyrant's lackey! Death to the butcher's daughter!"

"Expel the false regent! Restore the bloodline of the city prince!"

"Kill all the Beastmen! The kingdom is the kingdom of the Estalia people!"

They were holding muskets and shooting at the platform, but Barbatos reacted quickly, hugged the little girl beside him who was standing on tiptoe to present flowers to her, and then grabbed her mother who brought the little girl to the stage, jumped off the platform and avoided the shooting.

The assassins were shocked by the guards and the sudden change, and before they were caught by the extremely angry citizens, they threw some simple alchemical bombs at the platform, blowing up the platform and affecting more than a dozen citizens.

Hundreds of people were injured by the debris and impact caused by the explosion.

A welcoming ceremony into the city turned into a bloody incident.

The five attackers were captured and nearly beaten to death by the angry citizens. Barbatos released the mother and daughter from his arms and shouted:

"Everyone is silent!"

The wisent beasts and some mages from the Council of Scholars who were finally able to join the tribe camp openly released gravity and silence spells, instantly quieting the noisy venue.

"Treat the wounded immediately! Interrogate the assassins. I will not enter the city. I will stay at the gate. If attackers come, they can come directly to me! Do not harm the people of the kingdom!"

"Friends! I'm sorry that this happened today. For your safety, please return to your homes as soon as possible. It's not worth being harmed by the enemy just for your face!"

Barbatos ventured onto the platform that was already shaking from the bombing and shouted to the citizens.

The congressman, who turned pale from the attack and came to his senses in a rage, roared at the crowd:

"Get out! You sewer rats! Get out!"

Barbatos stretched out her hand and pressed it, signaling the councillor not to do this. She then turned to look at the people who welcomed her in the city today and said in a deep voice: "Friends, listen to me, please listen to me."

"My father is not a pure Estalia. His life experience is complicated and strange. And me, as you can see." Barbatos pointed to the pair of horns on his head.

"I am not an 'Estalia human' in the narrow sense. Maybe you have seen one, maybe you have come into contact with one, maybe one of your neighbors is one. I am a half-blood with at least half beastman blood in me."

The atmosphere was a little noisy, but soon there was a shout:

"So what! Your Excellency! You saved the kingdom! You protected us! We respect you, we love you!"

Soon, the people who were thinking about it all accepted this and raised their arms and shouted, "We respect and love you! We are still able to have your father!"

Chapter 131: Support the Regent!

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting heated, Barbatos continued, "But my father always taught me one thing. He taught me to love this land. He taught me that we, like you, the tribes in the forest and the peoples outside the forest, are not fundamentally different!"

"For a thousand years, ten thousand years, since the earliest ancient people were active on this land, we have been settled on this land, coexisting and living together (referring to the Chaos Beastmen warbands who burn, kill and plunder on a daily basis). My father taught us to regard all suffering and all injustice as happening to ourselves, and to lend a helping hand to the best of our ability; not to mention that we have a common origin."

"It is under this common connection that we unite in the face of disaster! We unite, and together we fight against the evil enemy from the wilderness!"

"Under his leadership, we walked out of the forest and attacked an enemy that was ten times stronger than us, for justice, for order, for common tranquility, for our common peaceful life..."

“In the process…”

"We unite, struggle, and fight to the end..."

"Sacrifice, dedication..."

"I still remember..."

"The enthusiasm of the people of Margarita brought the crown to my father and asked him to wear it. He refused. His Excellency the Eagle of the South said: 'This is the will of the people, and the people are the masters of the country. The country cannot be without a king for a day... If you wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Who in the world today can take on this responsibility?'"

"So my father swore to the people of the South, and also to the people of the North, that he would bear this heavy responsibility, forge ahead, fight to the end to defend the Southern world and protect the Southern people, and never give up until his death."

"However, due to procedural issues—the representatives of the northern people were not present, so he firmly rejected the request to crown him king! So he refused and insisted on uniting the resistance forces across the country in the name of 'regent for the people' in order to gather a large army to march north and save the country."

Barbatos' speech at the gate of Vizia caused silence in the venue. The citizens gathered there opened their eyes wide and pricked up their ears, afraid of missing a word.

Through Barbatos's narration, they seemed to have witnessed with their own eyes a hero who was gifted but had a rough life, how he was concerned about the country and the people when the country was broken and in turmoil, how he carried the expectations of the tribe and the lives of millions of people, fought for several years, recovered half of the country, and under the cheers of the people in the city, he refused the throne with his noble character and refused to stop at the current cheers and praises.

And put all your energy and will into rescuing the other half of the people who are still suffering from the invasion of the greenskins and the ravages of war!

What a perfect person this is!

Although he had a rough life (El had always intended to spread his legend among the Estalia that "the son of an Estalia was brought up in a tribe of beastmen and then became a leader"), he was closely connected with the every move of the two civilizations.

He loves the tribe, because that is where he grew up. He loves the beastmen, because they are his subordinates, comrades, and followers. He also loves the kingdom! A certain city or a certain village in Estalia is where he was born. He also loves the people in the south, because they are his compatriots! They are his ethnic group!

With such strong emotions and responsibilities, he led his tribe to the battlefield and launched attacks again and again against powerful enemies...

......

"?" Al grabbed the big tail of Lao Si, which was swinging back and forth, frowned and asked: "Si, are you losing hair?"

Hera froze in her motion of chewing the hind leg. After thinking for a while, she answered the little father's question uncertainly:

"No, not really."

"Forget it, just be careful not to eat it."

Al waved his hand and looked at Kael'thas. The second brother also had a book next to him while eating.

"Second, have you found all the people Dad asked you to look for?"

"One person's town was attacked by greenskins and he died. There are seven others, two of whom have no news and must have died in the war. Four fled to Vizea, and one has crossed the sea to Bretonnia."

"Okay, I'll send a message to the third sister later and ask her to find a way to get these profiteers for me."

Al pulled the chicken leg and tore off a piece of meat, then stuffed the chicken leg to the big wolf girl sitting next to him.

He puffed up his cheeks and chewed hard.

"How dare the damned Yankee profiteer detain my people!"

"I told you at the beginning that we would make a list. Don't think that the matter is over just because you have avoided the greenskins!" El said viciously. When he asked the tribesmen to go to the gathering places and towns of the Estalia in the north to exchange for tools and necessities that could not be produced in the forest, they were blackmailed and even detained along with the goods. This was a rare experience of loss for El.

Even the greenskin army could not make him swallow his anger - here Al selectively ignored the fact that he went to "pay a visit" to the warlord and "beg for a ceasefire".

Even someone as powerful as the head of the church could destroy the Southern Eagle at will, and even Margarita's war goddess Colossus El dared to charge into the crescent sky.

It is rare that Al has remembered these corrupt businessmen and bad officials for so long.

"The tribes and kingdoms must merge, and the beastmen must become as close as one family with humans. Only in this way can we unite and jointly face future challenges. If anyone does not become one family, I will kill his entire family."

Of course, although he said so, Al would definitely not do something like letting someone lose his head and keep his hair. The most he would do is exile or confine him for labor reform. Sometimes Al acted decisively, but sometimes he was very soft-hearted.

"The human head is not a leek, it will grow again after being cut."

......

"Prince Regent! How wise!"

At the city gate, an old scholar with white hair holding a scroll shouted this sentence with a trembling voice.

Then there was another round of shouts of "The Regent is wise!"

Barbatos' passionate speech quickly calmed the public's anxiety caused by the attack and directly pointed out the attackers' purpose:

"They are an organization in the South. During my father's campaign, I had cooperated with them a lot. But with the liberation of Margarita, the enthusiasm of the southern people helped my father gain the power of regent. Everything changed."

"They believed that my father wanted to obtain the throne for himself, and they perhaps hoped to nominate a native southern nobleman as the prince. When the threat of greenskins and pirates had not completely left our coastline, their people shouted in the city that the coalition forces should get out of the Estalia city, and they firmly refused to accept the regency authority given to my father by the Southern Eagle Patriarch himself on behalf of all the people of Estalia."

"But this is not the most important thing, because after all, we belong to the same country and are comrades who can fight side by side against the enemy. However, their claim to the throne is so strong that they are determined not to accept my father's power even for a period of time. They even sent people to attack our priests who were treating refugees!"

"Southerners have always been like this! They just want the prince to sit on their city walls forever!" Angry accusations came from the crowd. The Vizeans, at least the people who heard Barbatos' speech on the spot, had become fanatical supporters of Aiel in a short period of time, especially when this attack and the contradictions behind it could still be attributed to the "North-South confrontation". The northerners inherently empathized with the fact that "Southerners want to control the prince's throne and are willing to persecute their opponents."

It was as if they assumed that El was an Estalia.

When El's daughter, the extremely charming Barbatos, stood at the gate of Vizea and spoke the above to the citizens, vaguely describing El as a victim who "had worked hard, made unparalleled contributions to the country and the people, had noble character, and refused the throne - but was still hostile and violated by extreme localists in the south", the people of Vizea directly regarded El as a "northerner".

"Judge them! Drive them out! Vizia does not welcome these southern lackeys! The northerners absolutely support the Regent!"

"Put the Southern lackeys on trial! Support the Regent!"

Soon, the voices were highly unified. Seeing that the time was ripe, Barbatos immediately ordered the action of investigating the radicals of the National Salvation Association. At the same time, he instructed some people in Vizia who had been controlled by the coalition forces to speak out and proposed to send a national delegation to Bilbali to meet the regent, bring the support of the Vizia people for Ai'er, and listen to the regent's plan. Soon the proposal was passed, and thirty representatives from all walks of life and all classes boarded the carriage amid the farewell of the residents and headed towards Bilbali in the west.

Barbatos, on the other hand, took the Ravendel sisters into the Temple of Myrmidia in the city of Vizia, openly to worship the goddess.

But in fact, as the temple door closed, Barbatos and Rivendel walked into a room deep in the temple.

A woman dressed extremely seductively and almost naked was kneeling on the ground praying to a statue in a vulgar posture.

Wearing a feather helmet and holding a spear, these key factors indicate that it should be a statue of the goddess Myrmidia. However, in fact, it looks like a woman, almost naked, making a spear-throwing action while pressing her left hand on her chest, as if kneading her breasts.

Any priest of the Church of War, even one with an alternative doctrine like that of Sister Themis, would probably shout angrily after seeing this in broad daylight: "What blasphemy!"

But in this secret room, there was nothing special.

Because in this room there are many obscene things that are more lewd than the statues.

Wooden horse, two-headed dragon, restraint chair, human-shaped doll, but it seems that there is a stick stuck in the crotch and forehead...

Barbatos frowned and looked at the scene in the house, feeling unhappy.

Although she also likes to play, and has a higher affinity with Joy among the four mothers, she is also the normal type who likes to eat, drink and have fun.

Barbatos was very disgusted by the way the Grand Nun's faction played.