Pokémon: The Sims

A young man with red hair and shark teeth was adopted by Sakaki Shiro when he was a child. He is hot-tempered, warlike, and not good at thinking.

Hermes, the god of commerce.

A bespectacled man with spiky hair, not good at war, but intelligent and good at business.

He earned most of Sakaki's money, and he also revised the reward and punishment system in the military.

Artes, the 'God of Hunts'.

A lithe woman, dressed in revealing clothing with golden skin, has sharp, eagle-like eyes and carries a giant bow that is two meters long on her back.

She is most skilled at fighting in the forest, and she led her team to capture most of the magical beasts in the Earth Kingdom.

All four names are related to ancient Greek mythology, and are either the original or simplified names of one of the twelve Olympian gods.

"Artes, how's the drive on the mountain road?"

Sitting on his magnificent throne with his legs crossed, Sakaki Shiro looked down at the only female general below.

"Boss, we should be able to clear the mountain path in about a week."

"Ares, take your team and help her. Clear the mountain path within three days. If you wait any longer, the Dragon Queen might notice something is wrong."

Sakaki Shiro was clearly not satisfied with this number and sent another unit to help him.

"Yes!"

Ares nodded.

"Hermes, how are the air forces preparing?"

"We are ready and can depart at any time."

"Very good, this team is the most important part of our operation."

Sakaki Shiro pursed his lips and nodded.

"The boss's intuition is as sharp as ever. He guessed right that the Dragon Queen was eager to start a war. When the war breaks out, the air force will bypass the enemy and attack the Dragon Royal Capital's main camp from the side. Using the Dragon Clan and the people of the Dragon Kingdom as hostages, given the Queen's personality, she will definitely be thrown into chaos and may even have to surrender and negotiate."

Hermes pushed up his glasses and gave a sly smile.

What he admired most about Sakaki Shiro was not his strength, but his ruthlessness.

Throughout human history, spanning thousands of years of tribal wars, the vast majority of chiefs would not harm ordinary members of the opposing tribe, but would only kill the core and direct descendants.

But Sakaki Shiro is different.

Regardless of whether they are ordinary people or not, even the elderly, weak, women and children, as long as they can bring him victory, can be used as tools for slaughter at will.

"If she surrenders, that's best. I'll only kill the members of the Dragon Royal Clan. If she doesn't surrender, then I'll slaughter them in front of her. Let's see if she still has the will to continue commanding the battle and see how many members of her Dragon Royal Army can hold out any longer."

Sakaki Shiro wiped the corner of his mouth, seemingly already imagining that scene.

Sakaki Shiro didn't consider himself particularly smart, after all, he only started learning to read in his twenties, but he wasn't blind to the situation.

No one knew the strength of the Earth Kingdom better than him.

He knew, of course, that the Earth Kingdom was no match for the Dragon Kingdom on the main battlefield.

Therefore, to achieve victory, one cannot confront the Dragon Kingdom head-on; one must take risky and underhanded tactics to see any possibility of victory.

It was part of his plan.

The success of the air force is the key to the Earth Kingdom's victory, without exception.

On the main battlefield, two other forces will enter one after another to try to hold off the Dragon Army and give the flying forces enough time to act.

To ensure that the operation of the air force is not hindered.

Two years ago, before the second civil war in the Earth Kingdom even broke out, Sakaki had already ordered Artes to lead people to dig a road in the Silver Mountain.

A tunnel was dug out leading to the other side of Baiyinshan Road.

Mt. Silver is home to a variety of Pokémon, with a complex network of mines and countless rocks and ground Pokémon. It goes without saying what would happen if humans trespassed into their territory and dug roads without permission.

In the past two years, thousands of people have died in the mountains while trying to dig this road.

However, all these sacrifices were worthwhile, and Sakaki Shiro didn't feel any remorse.

Since those who died were mostly slaves with little use, letting them shine for the Kingdom of Earth before they died was a way to give their lives some meaning.

Sakaki Shiro believed that the Dragon Kingdom would never guess that he would risk human lives to carve out a path through the perilous Silver Mountain.

By the time.

A frontal force was sent directly into the Viridian Forest as bait to lure the Dragon Army deep into the forest before retreating into the Viridian Forest. Relying on their familiarity with the Viridian Forest, the Earth Army launched a flanking maneuver.

Another force took a detour through the mine tunnels of Silver Mountain to block the rear of the Imperial Dragon Army. This was to prevent other Imperial Dragon forces from coming to provide support from further rear, and also to prevent the Imperial Dragon forces that had already penetrated deep into the territory from returning to the Imperial Dragon capital to provide support in a timely manner.

The last air force took a detour from further south of the Silver Mountains, across the sea, to the Dragon Royal Capital, directly attacking the Dragon Royal Base and capturing everyone in the capital.

"Fighting on three fronts, let's see how they handle it."

Sakaki Shiro grinned and turned to look at Beedrill beside him. "Beedrill, you'll have to work hard then."

All troops, all people, can be sacrificed.

His Beedrill was the only exception.

Even if he fails today, as long as he has Beedrill, Sakaki Shiro is confident that he can rise again.

Without Beedrill, he could simply lay low and be slaughtered.

However, this war absolutely cannot be fought without the power of Beedrill, so Sakaki will send it to the safest route.

Sea route.

"Om."

The bee rubbed its two needles in response.

"Then let's wait and see who will hold the future of this land in their hands."

Sakaki Shiro rose from his throne and looked down at the four generals below.

"Mobilize the entire army and prepare for all-out war!"

"Yes!" x4

Chapter 98 The Dragon Protecting the Nation

One morning.

Liz, who was in her study, suddenly received an urgent intelligence report from the front lines.

The intelligence was delivered by a Skarmory, which was the Pokémon of Liz's cousin and one of the battlefield generals, Mirage.

Without saying a word, Liz picked up the intelligence delivered by the armored bird and began to examine it. Wu Ge, who was standing to the side, waited quietly for Liz to finish reading and tell him.

"The Earth Kingdom has mobilized its forces?!"

Liz frowned when she saw the contents of the letter.

She then put the letter down and immediately called Hestia and the other maids to help her put on her armor.

Liz is definitely capable of fighting.

Don't let her current appearance, sitting in her study all day like a delicate, wifely woman fool you.

But for the first eighteen years of her life, Liz lived in a tribe where everyone, including women, had to learn hunting and fighting.

As the former princess of the Dragon Taming tribe and the chief's youngest legitimate daughter, Liz naturally began practicing martial arts from a young age.

Wu Ge noticed something was wrong back when he was still Beedrill.

Liz, an ordinary eight-year-old girl, was exceptionally strong. She followed him through the forest, enduring wind and sun and eating wild fruits for days and nights, and at most, she only developed a slight cough.

And later.

After Wu Ge, who was known as 'Ah Huang', died, Liz embarked on her own path to becoming a queen.

Leading his Beedrill clan, he embarked on the battlefield at a young age, conquering one tribe after another.

A whole decade.

Liz took over the position of clan chief from her father when she was eighteen years old and established the Dragon Kingdom, becoming its queen.

However, the land of the capital was not completely subdued at that time, and many remote tribes still united to fight against the dragon.

He then personally led troops in battle for two or three years before finally achieving unification.

Now, another ten years have passed, and Liz's physical condition and martial arts skills have naturally declined significantly.

But ever since Sakaki Shiro showed his ambition for the Johto region in the first two years, Liz has started to regularly take time to exercise and try to recapture the feeling of the past.

Even though Liz, now thirty, is no longer as dashing as she was at eighteen.

However, it is still not a problem for him to personally go to the battlefield to command while wearing armor.

For Wu Ge, it was a strange thing for the ruler of a country to personally go to the battlefield.

But this was not surprising to Liz and even the entire Dragon Kingdom. What tribal chief doesn't personally lead his troops into battle?

Whether it's strong or not is one thing.

Whether or not they dare to go on is another matter.

The warriors in the tribe wouldn't listen to a coward.

Although the Dragon Kingdom is now called a 'Kingdom', as the first kingdom in the history of the capital, a kingdom that has been established for less than ten years, many aspects of it have not changed much compared to the past tribal period.

Including the maids who are currently putting armor on Liz.

These maids looked to be in their twenties or thirties, and must have received some training in the past.

Despite his slender arms and legs, he could easily lift a heavy suit of armor weighing over ten kilograms, as if it were a vegetable.

"what happened?"

“A cavalry force of three to five thousand suddenly emerged from the forest on the other side of the Silver Mountain Road and has already started fighting with our soldiers stationed on the Silver Mountain Road. No matter what, I must go there immediately to check it out.”

As Liz spoke, she had already put on her armor.

It was a light, silver-white armor, covered in marks and scars, clearly having seen many battles.

Liz stretched her arms and legs, then walked to the side and took off the cloak made from the skin that Wu Ge had shed.

"I'll take you there."

Upon hearing this, Wu Ge immediately pulled Liz into his arms and then flew out of the window.

"Ah Lan, I haven't taken my spear yet."

"I am your spear."

The distance from the capital to Baiyin Mountain is not much farther than the distance to Baiyin Mountain itself.

Even with Liz, who weighs over 100 pounds, in his arms, Wu Ge reached the sky above Baiyin Mountain in just ten minutes using his divine speed.

As for Liz, she had already curled up into a ball in Wu Ge's arms.

As Liz was leaving, she was still wondering why Alan wouldn't let her ride on his back.

Now I understand.

At that speed, she couldn't hold onto Ah Lan at all and would be thrown off in a heartbeat.

"Ah Lan~ You're so fast~ I didn't even know you were this fast~"

Liz noticed that Wu Ge had stopped, so she looked up and shouted.

It's probably because the strong wind is making Liz's ears ring, so she's speaking very loudly now. Perhaps in her own ears, her voice sounds very soft.

"Don't talk nonsense, look down there, they've already started fighting."

Wu Ge reached out and patted Liz's bottom, gesturing for her to look down at the Silver Mountain Path.

This scene is very strange.

"Um?!"

Liz looked down and a look of confusion appeared in her eyes.

The battlefield below is clearly a one-sided crushing defeat.

Led by Yulongfeng himself, a light cavalry force of over ten thousand humans and Pokémon is pursuing a group of Earth light cavalry fleeing eastward into the forest.