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Aenarion was not surprised that she had four arms, as he had six after his demonic transformation, more than she had.

"Ah, I have heard of your glorious achievements."

Admiration and longing sparkled in Lani's sea-blue eyes.

"Now everyone in the Holy Roman Empire is talking about you. The elders are talking about you every day.

How did you save the dying Roman Empire from a corner of Athens in just eight years, defeat Crimea, tear apart the Ottoman Empire, divide Thrace, and even gather enough strength to defeat an expeditionary force of the Holy Roman Empire in the land where you had been fighting for eight consecutive years! Even my cousin was defeated and captured by you, and he was the most capable fighter among our young generation. "

Listening to Lani's flattery, Aenarion couldn't help feeling a little proud inside, but he remained calm on the surface and gently took the rose handed to him. This thing was actually made of gold, and each petal was polished as thin as a cicada's wing, stacked up layer by layer, with exquisite craftsmanship.

Aenarion took out a return gift, also an olive laurel wreath forged from gold, and placed it on her forehead himself. The olive leaves carved from gold were lifelike, and the craftsmanship was not inferior to the Habsburg rose bouquet.

Seeing him put a golden olive crown on her head, Lani's face turned redder and she looked at Aenarion excitedly, acting like a little fan who admired Aenarion so much after hearing about his battle records.

But in fact, she was very calm in her heart. Yes, Aenarion was indeed very handsome, and he was completely in line with her aesthetic taste, but at best he was just a Greek king. Why pretend to be Augustus? Her ancestor relied on marriage to become the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from a small noble in a castle! Not counting those vassals, nobles, and direct territories, there were still three kingdoms in size, which was much stronger than him.

My mission is very simple. His Majesty the Emperor has assigned me twelve extremely outstanding female spies as maids. Their mission is to find out why the Balkan Peninsula has suddenly turned upside down in the past eight years, why the once-mighty Ottoman Empire has fallen apart and only half of the country remains, and then find out the current politics, military structure, reform methods, and army composition of this group of Greek elves, and send all the detailed information to me.

Finally, have a few children with Aenarion, send at least one child back to Vienna to be raised by the family, and then lie dormant in Constantinople as a time bomb. If any news suddenly breaks out here, Vienna must be the first to know. In the name of the Habsburgs, I will complete the task perfectly.

Her disguise was perfect, but unfortunately, she ran into Aenarion. Although he did not see through her acting, Aenarion had no good intentions either. The Habsburgs were concerned about their warlock bloodline, and Aenarion was also concerned about theirs.

After the first meeting, Aenarion led the Shinra group to the guest rooms of the palace to rest and chose an auspicious day to hold the wedding.

On January 1457, 1, as the New Year's bells rang, the marriage wedding of the two Roman empires began in Hagia Sophia. Amid the cheers and blessings of the crowd, the two stood in the magnificent church built by Justinian the Great, under the magnificent and exquisite dome, and held a grand wedding ceremony.

On that day, the streets of Constantinople were once again deserted. Aenarion held a triumphal ceremony for the recovery of Serbia and the defeat of three legions together with his own wedding. The extremely majestic army surrounded the newlyweds, and surrounded by the people of Constantinople, they first walked around the city, and then went to Hagia Sophia to get married.

Along the way, Ranie was shocked to see the mighty Greek army and the people who sincerely blessed the emperor. She never expected that she would see people so united under the monarch in other places outside of France. The church was packed with noble officials, who came in large numbers to present gifts and blessings to congratulate their master. The atmosphere of joy filled the sacred church.

The Patriarch of Constantinople personally witnessed the wedding and asked the classic question during the sacred and solemn chorus performance.

"Augustus of the Roman Empire, Basileus of Basileus, Lord of the Queen of Cities, Protector of Crimea, Serbia, and Macedonia: Aenarion Angelos, do you take to wife Ranie von Habsburg, live with her according to the teachings of the Bible, become one with her before God, love her, comfort her, respect her, and protect her as you love yourself. Whether she is sick or healthy, rich or poor, you will always be faithful to her until you die?"

"I am willing."

Aenarion nodded solemnly, and the audience immediately erupted in thunderous cheers.

The Patriarch smiled with satisfaction and turned to ask Lani again.

"Rani von Habsburg, are you willing to marry Aenarion Angelos, Augustus of the Roman Empire, Basileus of Basileus, Lord of the Queen of Cities, Protector of Crimea, Serbia, and Macedonia, and live with him according to the teachings of the Bible, and be united with him before God, love him, comfort him, respect him, and protect him as you love yourself. Whether he is sick or healthy, rich or poor, you will always be loyal to him until you leave this world?"

While the Patriarch was chanting, Aenarion instantly cast a spell, weaving a psychic collar for the tenth familiar. At this moment, his psychic spellcasting skills had reached perfection. A high-level wizard might be able to see some clues, but a young warlock like Rani could only faintly sense Aenarion's psychic power. In the entire church, only the White Tower wizards headed by Caledor frowned in confusion, realizing that their emperor was doing something tricky.

Ranie opened her mouth. Her female sixth sense made her feel that something was wrong. However, the atmosphere of the wedding was already here. A bunch of ministers and nobles from the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as

Everyone who came from the Ma Empire was looking at him eagerly. Could he still say "no" at this time?

"I am willing."

Lani said nervously, and in an instant, Inarion's tenth pet contract took effect. Lani felt a burst of heat in her abdomen, and a few drops of blood flew in the air, passing through the sacred wedding dress, rushing down along her fair skin, and quickly turned into an incomparably exquisite magic array on her flat white abdomen. Two scarlet bat wings entangled by thorny roses quietly unfolded on both sides of a peach heart shaped like a uterus. In the center of the peach heart, Inarion's name was written.

And in the dark, an illusory pink chain was tied around Ranie's slender neck, and the other end of the chain was directly connected to Aenarion's heart.

Hearing Lani's agreement, the audience cheered again and the Patriarch nodded with satisfaction.

"Now, you can exchange rings."

Inarion took out the gold wedding ring he had prepared long ago, and Rani stretched out her right hands, looking at her husband shyly. The moment Inarion held her hands, it was as if an electric current stimulated her six limbs. Rani's heartbeat accelerated wildly, and her breathing became rapid. She stared at Inarion's handsome face, and her pupils gradually turned into the shape of a heart.

Oh no, shouldn't this physical reaction be something I'm pretending to have? How come my body is doing this subconsciously?

Rani was a little panicked, her movements were a little clumsy, she took out the ring with trembling hands and put it on Aenarion, the moment her fingertips touched his big hand, she subconsciously bounced back, her face became even more shy, after carefully putting the ring on her husband, her cheeks blushed like the sunset glow.

Damn it, I really seem to like him! How is this possible? I am the little princess of the Habsburg family. I have seen all kinds of young talents. He is indeed handsome and outstanding, but I shouldn't react so strongly!

Under the influence of the pet contract, Rani gradually fell in love with Aenarion's beautiful face.

Yes, if you think about it carefully, my aunt is the Holy Roman Emperor, and my mother is just her sister. No matter how you look at it, it will never be my turn or my children's turn to be the emperor.

Not to mention the throne, which is so far away. My mother has so many children, and I am a girl. All of them are married, and according to tradition, I have to take my husband's surname. How much of the family property I can inherit depends entirely on my brothers' mood. It is possible that I will get nothing.

In the Roman Empire, I am the wife of the Roman emperor! Although she has many wives, the probability of my children inheriting the position of Roman emperor is much higher than the probability of inheriting the position of Holy Roman Emperor. At least they can get a lot of the emperor's property.

Then why should I just work hard in Constantinople? Why risk being beheaded and having my engagement broken off to steal Roman intelligence for the Habsburgs in Vienna? Am I just making myself unhappy? ? ?

Chapter 399: Newlyweds

Aenarion used the Identification Technique to check and found that his tenth pet had brought him the same exaggerated improvement as Indragnir! Although Indragnir was only a bloodline, it gave him four kinds of dragon power, four kinds of breath and elemental immunity. Meanwhile, Lani also gave him four kinds of warlock bloodline power.

[Magic Pet Ability·Gene Stealing]: Your child will definitely inherit all the blood-inherited abilities of both parents, which can be stacked infinitely. It has already stolen (Surging Stars), (Golden Law), and (Ice Bloodline)￥&#*&……

Aenarion looked at the garbled code at the back. He was sure that a direct descendant of the Habsburg like Rani could not have so few bloodlines in his body. Perhaps it was because the Habsburg bloodline had too much ability, which pushed his bloodline feedback ability to the limit? Perhaps this order was one by one according to the order of kinship? Looking at these bloodlines carefully, although he was not very familiar with the bloodline genealogy of many nobles in Western Europe, each of them was the top warlock bloodline.

(Surging Stars): When you bathe in starlight, you recover 1 mana point every 1 second, the super mana cost is -1, and spell damage increases by 6% every 10 seconds, up to a maximum of 30%, then decreases by 6% every 10 seconds, and repeats the above process when it returns to zero.

(Golden Rule): The known magic gained each time you level up is +1, but the extra magic can only be selected from the spell list, the spellcasting attribute becomes charm, the effects of all healing spells are doubled, and the duration of all amplification spells is doubled.

(Ice Bloodline): Each attack consumes an additional 1 mana point, and all your attacks and spells have a frost freezing effect.

A faint starlight slowly rose from Aenarion's body, and with the faint sound of gurgling water, it spread out in all directions. The magic in the nearby air became thicker and richer. When the star tide receded, this sticky magical aura gradually weakened, just like a tide, rising and falling in a cycle of 36 seconds. That was the ability that [Surge of Stars] brought to him, but the problem was that it was early morning and the sun was shining on him.

So that's it, fixed stars are also stars.

Aenarion suddenly became enlightened, completely unlike Habsburg's understanding of the process of worldview collapse after the sun and the moon are stars.

As Aenarion studied his new powers and dealt with the blessings from the outside world, Ranie was in a fierce struggle, and she hardly cared about what was happening outside. Her love for Aenarion continued to grow, and she was eager for the future.

The fantasy of the future became more and more excited, and the family mission became more and more indifferent. The two spent the wedding in a daze.

After Aenarion carried her in her wedding dress into her room, Rani von Habsburg, no, Rani Angelos had made up her mind completely. She would just enjoy her position as the Queen of the Roman Empire and would not do spy work that would cost her life. During the military parade today, the elves showed that their army was not weak, and the proportion of their firearms was so strong that it was exaggerated. They also won the battle of Serbia a month ago, forcing the Holy Roman Empire to stop expanding into the Balkans... Well, I won't do it anymore.

When she came to her senses, she found herself lying on an unfamiliar big bed. Aenarion took off his dragon scale armor and battle robe, revealing his perfect and strong body like a marble sculpture. He skillfully rode on her graceful waist, causing her heartbeat and breathing to accelerate.

Inarion looked at the bride on the bed. Her delicate face seemed as tender and immature as that of a young girl, but her slender body was very sexy and mature. Her slender and round thighs were outlined more perfectly by the snow-white suspender stockings. Her slender waist drew alluring curves in the air. Her two towering breasts were about to burst out under the restraint of the white wedding dress, making people unable to resist playing with them. Inarion grasped them with both hands at the same time, gently kneading them through the silk woven white gauze, making Lani moan with a flushed face. The fragrant and soft breast flesh covered with a thin wedding dress instantly overflowed from the gaps between his ten fingers.

"Please, please be gentle."

"Rani said timidly, four slender arms with lace gloves passed through Aenarion's armpits and shoulders, hugged his neck and back, and two long beautiful legs were raised high, wrapped around Aenarion's waist, and the two snow-white feet were hooked together.

"Aren't you being proactive?"

Seeing the other party's aroused look, Inarion couldn't help but said teasingly, which made Lani's face even redder. He just rode on the other party, playing with the towering snow-capped peaks through a layer of white wedding dress, gently rubbing and kneading them into various shapes that made Lani's blood boil. Under this strong stimulation, Lani was so embarrassed that she almost fainted.

Aenarion gently kissed her red lips. His right hand left her breast, passed through the hem of her skirt, and groped for a few ropes and garters along her snow-white thighs. After untying them one by one, he touched the tender buds that were about to bloom. He scratched them lightly with his nails twice, and the girl hanging on him let out a moving moan and her delicate body trembled slightly.

Aenarion raised his spear high and slowly stabbed it into the moist flower bud. The hot and hard marble pillars carefully ground the thousands of extremely tender wrinkles in the deep cave. In Lani's moans, he and the bride in her wedding dress became one, indistinguishable from each other. The blood mixed with the ambiguous liquid slowly flowed, and the sound of flesh colliding, water splashing, and moving moans filled the entire room.

Lani moaned softly with passion. From being awkward at the beginning, she became willing to cater to her husband and twisted her charming waist and hips ambiguously. Her moist vagina kept rubbing and colliding with Aenarion's spear, allowing both of them to experience stronger pleasure at the same time. The emotional sharing of the pet contract doubled their happiness. Before long, the white wedding dress was completely wet with sweat and stuck to Lani's icy skin, revealing a large area of ​​ecstasy.

After a short rest, Lani, who was experiencing sex for the first time, immediately pestered Aenarion for more. The Roman inland fleet rushed into the winding Danube River basin, and hundreds of long ships approached Vienna. After repeated tugging and collision, they occupied the port. Thousands of Roman soldiers boarded the ship and rushed into the palace. A new life was nurtured in this bloody battle.

Chapter 400: The Three Luos Stand Together

The two of them quarreled until midnight before they hugged each other and fell into a deep sleep. The next day, when Rani opened her eyes, she found that it was almost noon. Her body seemed to be falling apart from the tossing and turning, and she collapsed on the bed and didn't want to move. Aenarion had already gone to the Senate for a meeting. When the maids heard the sound, they immediately pushed the reheated cakes and milk in front of her, helped the concubine wash and eat, and changed her clothes and sheets.

Lani thought the milk was a bit hot, so she used an ice magic to cool it down. She originally just wanted to make a piece of ice, but when she lightly touched the cup with her fingertips, the whole cup of milk was frozen into an ice sculpture. She looked dazed, "Huh? When did I become so strong?"

Aenarion was also busy, dealing with government affairs with the elders. These old nobles had broad vision and knowledge. Although they could not make decisions on matters, they could still provide a lot of help by just giving suggestions.

This is a magical world where many people and elves have very long lifespans, there are many examples of famous historical figures being born early, there are many means of prolonging life, and many people who should have died are still alive, so the course of history is not always the same as it originally was.

For example, this year is 1457, and the Ottoman Empire is currently ruled by Selim the Grim, who was born in 1467. This guy is terrifying in history. The Holy Roman Queen Daenerys has never been heard of in history. If Maximilian remembers correctly, she will be born two years later in 1459. She is the grandfather of the famous Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, but now she looks to be in her twenties or thirties. The blind Dandolo of Venice is a figure from more than years ago.

And now, he, like a butterfly, gently flapped his wings in the Sea of ​​Love, and the whole of Europe

Further dramatic changes occurred in Ludu.

First of all, the Eastern Roman Empire did not perish, and a large number of scholars and books did not flee to Italy, resulting in Constantinople still being the center of civilization. And with the support of Aenarion, academic development became more and more prosperous, and even in turn attracted many scholars from Italian city-states to come to this holy land that records a thousand years of civilization for pilgrimage. After Komnenos' return, the population of Constantinople gradually returned to the exaggerated scale of 500,000, and commerce and handicrafts flourished unprecedentedly.

With sufficient craftsmen, technology, and civilization, Aenarion can do things that were completely impossible before.

First, he encouraged the development of a subject called "Mathematics" and gave it to some of the best people to study. The state gave them money, allocated accommodation, and even artillery, and mages assisted in calculations.

Although people did not understand the specific significance of learning these advanced algorithms for the revival of the Roman Empire, his prestige in the Roman Empire was already terrifyingly great at this moment, and people followed his instructions. The ultimate goal was how to calculate the parabola. Aenarion, a liberal arts student, had long forgotten this thing, but as long as they could figure it out, the problem of artillery accuracy could be effectively improved, and there would never be another embarrassing scene where only eight or nine out of a hundred shells or even fewer could hit the target.

Next came the watchmakers and musket makers. Aenarion proposed the concept of the flintlock. The current matchlock gun is to pull the trigger, and the firing pin structure can allow a piece of burning matchlock to hit the inside of the barrel to ignite the gunpowder and fire the bullet.

So what if we install a metal anvil inside the gun barrel, and after pulling the trigger, the firing pin structure drives a piece of flint to suddenly hit the metal anvil, igniting the flame and firing the bullet?

You guys should study how to make this specific structure. I have already explained the principle. You can figure out the specific structure yourself.

The craftsmen were amazed at the emperor's ideas. The watchmaker was only thinking about structural issues, while the musket craftsman was thinking about practical combat issues. After optimizing the fuse, the increase in firing rate was inevitable.

Not only that, the musketeers had to be in a skirmish line and could not form a dense formation because they used open flames. A piece of burning matchlock was hung outside the gun. If they stood too close, the flying sparks and the burning matchlock that was bounced off could easily ignite each other's gunpowder, which was too unsafe.

The inability to form a dense formation meant that the musketeers had to stay behind the spearmen and be protected while attacking and attacking. Otherwise, not to mention the cavalry charge, a dense infantry charge could directly defeat the scattered and messy skirmish formation.

Once the flintlock rifle is improved, the open fire will become a hidden fire. The flames produced by the collision of the iron with the flint will burst out from the inside of the barrel and will not affect other people. This means that the musketeers can form a dense formation. With the bayonet that has been improved long ago, the shooting army that can shoot at both long and short distances will no longer be the patent of the Viking half-giants of the Second Legion, Varyag! The strength of the auxiliary legion will be greatly improved.

The craftsmen from both sides hit it off and entered into an intensive experimental research phase.

Outside the Roman Empire, the city-states in Italy, led by Venice, left the dark Middle Ages and entered the Renaissance after Rome's contact with Constantinople, although they were one step later than Constantinople. They gained more strange knowledge and experience.

After several naval battles, Aenarion used sailing ships and broadside cannons to defeat the Ottoman, Genoese, and Venetian navies, forcing Venice to abandon its traditional galleys and vigorously develop sailing ships, which also affected the more distant countries of Spain and the Netherlands.

As large shipbuilding companies close to the ocean, they originally built sailing ships to fight against the wind and waves in the ocean. Now that they saw that sailing warships could be built in this way and traditional paddle boats were being beaten, they frantically expanded their shipyards a few years ago, which indirectly stimulated the entire European shipbuilding industry.

After Venice lost all its colonies in the Aegean Sea, nearly half of its fleet, and its trade share on the Silk Road was gradually taken over by the Roman Empire, the middlemen became more and more rampant. They would normally buy things from the Ottoman Empire and sell them to European countries at four or five times the price at most. Now, in order to recover their losses, they have started to resell goods at seven or eight times, or even dozens of times the price, causing complaints from Western European countries.

The spread of knowledge and culture, the rise of the shipbuilding industry, and dissatisfaction with Venice's monopoly on trade routes...all these factors combined to make the King of Castile in Spain slap his thigh and send a huge sailing fleet, led by a man named Columbus, across the Atlantic to find a new route to China. It is said that Columbus believed the knowledge passed down from Italy, that the sun and the moon are stars, and the earth is also a star, and they are all round, and that going west can also reach China. The Age of Discovery began.

The Ottoman Empire also won two battles in the eyes of awe and fear of the Romans. Selim I personally led his troops to defeat the main force of the Safavid Empire, killed Shah Ismail I in battle, and after rushing into the enemy camp, he even captured his entire harem, taking all those delicate Persian concubines into the harem. The country was destroyed in one battle. Armenia, the Caucasus, and northern Persia trembled in submission under the Ottoman army.

In the south, another Ottoman war general, Horus, led his legions along the Euphrates River all the way to the Persian Gulf. Baghdad, an ancient capital of civilization on par with Chang'an, Constantinople, and Cordoba, fell again, and all the fertile land in the Mesopotamian region was seized.

The once powerful Timurid Empire was destroyed by the uncle and nephew in the civil war.

The country's financial resources were emptied, which led to the Ottoman Empire taking advantage of the situation. It lost its most fertile land in Mesopotamia and was pushed back to the plateaus and grasslands of Central Asia.

The current Ottoman Empire has become terrifying again. The territory and population they lost in the Roman core of the Balkans were greatly supplemented in the Persian core of the Mesopotamian Basin, and they have once again become the behemoth they once were. After the disintegration of the Safavid Empire, the Ottoman Empire's sphere of influence even expanded to the Caucasus region. The kingdoms there have expressed their submission and willingness to be vassal forever. If they expand a little further to the north, they are almost reaching the Roman province of Crimea.

However, Selim I seemed to be afraid that the rebellion of half of the legions would happen again, so he reorganized the Janissaries. Now the nine legions that are still loyal to the Sultan have undergone a drastic change.

Back then, each legion leader was like a military governor or a warlord, controlling about 10,000 elite Janissary soldiers and several times that number of auxiliary soldiers. Their power was terrifying.

Now, the number of the Janissary Legion was fixed at one thousand, and no one could exceed this number. The nine huge legions were quickly cut into 108 legions by Selim I. Ninety-nine legion commanders were promoted and appointed from the original chapter leaders, dispersing and diluting the power of these legion masters.

Now, they no longer call themselves by numbers. For example, the 16th Legion, the Luna Wolves, is now simply called the Luna Wolves Legion. Abaddon, the first vanguard under Horus, has also become the Lord of the Black Legion.

Such dispersion and dilution of power naturally made the original nine legion lords extremely dissatisfied, but it didn't matter. Selim I expanded the position of Sword-wielding Vizier to nine people. Each of the original nine legion commanders was a Sword-wielding Vizier and had the right to order the legion lords who were not Sword-wielding Viziers to obey your orders. You could still control multiple small legions of thousands of people to act together.

However, if you dare to rebel, I will remove your title of Sword-wielding Vichiel, and the other legion masters will be on the same level as you, not your subordinates at all. They will also disrupt the legions and let Horus's people follow Perturabo's actions, and split Perturabo's assault artillery group into several teams under the command of other Sword-wielding Vichiels, so as to weaken their influence and concentrate the imperial power to the greatest extent.

There was even a joke about this. When the frontline scouts reported back to Constantinople that "Horus led 62 legions to attack Baghdad", the whole of Rome was shocked. Did you Ottoman legions come from Mars? Where did the 62 legions come from? Only when they learned that the enemy legion organization was the same as their own battalion, with a scale of 1,000 people, did they relax.

However, this incident still made the entire empire frown. The Roman Empire's geopolitical environment was too bad. It was sandwiched between the two behemoths, the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, and it was almost suffocating. The tremendous pressure even forced the conservative nobles to become gradually radical. Although the Ottoman Empire and the Roman Empire are now good brothers, and they are even related by marriage to the Holy Roman Empire, these are all temporary. Only interests are eternal.

Chapter 401: Firearms Revolution

In addition to these two exaggeratedly large neighbors, there were also some problems within the Roman Empire. The intensity of the war during these eight years was too high. Although the Roman Empire's extremely generous military pay, remuneration, and the issuance of Roman green cards for joining the army made the citizens of the empire and foreigners have a strong interest in joining the army, this could only attract first- or second-level junior professionals, or even those without professional levels, just civilians. Soldiers of this quality could only become auxiliary soldiers.

As for the legion soldiers who started at level four and had no upper limit, their reserve forces had been used up. The size of the First Legion, the Dark Angels, which Aenarion inherited from Ottoman, the Thirteenth Legion, the Ultramarines, and the Nineteenth Legion, the Raven Guard, all began to shrink. The same was true of the Second Legion, the Varyag, and the Third Legion, the Emperor's Children, which he had created.

High-level soldiers are not easy to train, with only one professional among a hundred people at most, and each promotion requires a lot of training, or combat experience gained from fighting for one's life in a sea of ​​blood and corpses, as well as something as mysterious as talent. It is impossible to produce them on a large scale in a short period of time, which makes Aenarion more urgently need his own craftsmen to develop new firearms such as flintlock rifles, equip a large number of auxiliary legions, and make up for the lack of quality with quantity.

Well, the last time the Ottoman Empire fought in the Battle of Ankara, several legions were crippled and two legions were wiped out. It took them about forty years to recover.

Aenarion would visit the gun factory from time to time to see how his craftsmen were progressing. After the emperor pointed them in the right direction, the craftsmen made rapid progress and made a prototype in just one day. When the trigger was pulled, the flint at the firing pin fell suddenly, hitting the metal anvil and catching fire due to friction.

But the problem is that the force is a big problem. If the force is too small, the flint will not have enough friction to produce sparks. If the force is too large, it will loosen or damage the precision mechanical parts. Once the flint was even knocked away. The craftsmen need to constantly debug and replace materials to calculate the appropriate force.

Aenarion immediately dispatched some royal blacksmiths who were proficient in the manufacture of enchanted plate armor and mastered many magical metals such as mithril, adamantium, and cold iron, as well as several of the best court mathematicians to help them solve this problem.

In terms of politics, Aenarion was also busy preparing for the grand plan of annexing Serbia, first of all,

The scholar-nobles were promised a lot, allowing them to be directly transformed into military nobles. Although you have lost your castles and lands, you have changed from managing a large number of farmers to managing a large number of soldiers, and the empire will also give corresponding compensation. You yourself, your relatives, and your children, if properly educated and pass the assessment, can become local officials such as mayors of the fiefdom, and the land of your ancestors will still be under your management.

Serbia's court ministers can directly enter the Senate.

The lower-class people were also told about the benefits of becoming Roman citizens. The taxes they had paid to the Serbian lords were also counted as taxes paid to the Roman Empire. As long as they lived an honest life, they could become citizens of the empire almost instantly.

Although the conditions were very favorable, the Serbian knights still had some concerns about giving up their noble status and hereditary land. It was even more of a shame for their motherland to become a province of the Roman Empire. The relationship between the Roman Elf Emperor and the Yugoslavs had not been very harmonious in the past few hundred years. Some extreme ones even tied up every hundred captured Slavic soldiers with ropes, dug out one hundred and ninety-nine of their eyes, and let the last one-eyed man take these Slavs back to his hometown.

It can be said that the easing of relations between the Yugoslavs and the High Elves was entirely due to the recent excessive pressure from the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, which brought them together.

Aenarion didn't expect to settle this matter in a short time. Don't worry, take your time.

On March 1457, 3, good news came from the military factory. The craftsmen had finally found the right materials to manufacture this new device. The world's first flintlock rifle was born. There would be no sparks flying around when shooting, and naturally there would be no fuse blown away by the explosion. The efficiency was greatly improved, solving the problem of musketeers' inability to form a dense formation.

Ordinary musket shooting can be roughly divided into eight steps:

The first step is to clean the ignition hole and gunpowder pool with oil paper to prevent the gunpowder residue left over from the last firing of ammunition from clogging the gap.

Step 2: Unscrew the small bottle of black powder and weigh how much gunpowder you need to pour into the barrel. How much depends on your experience and luck.

Step 3: Load the bullet from the muzzle.