People in Terra, governing a bizarre little country

This guy brags every other day, when will it ever end?

And why did you blow it back?

Last time you called yourself a "treasure trove," have you forgotten that this time?

Chapter 834 Surprise Attack: The King of Carrion

Today is destined to be an unusual morning.

A cannon shot from the Victorian Empire's allied forces pierced the morning mist, signaling the end of the war.

As it turns out, many times, people don't know how amazing they can be until they push themselves.

Victorians are not actually slow workers; they just don't usually do physical labor, instead focusing most of their energy on pulling and tugging at each other.

In fact, Windermere's command post was simulating war every day, and countless sand table exercises had been conducted. The Duke of Caesar's staff had also prepared an immeasurable amount of logistical supplies, and the HMS Glory was ready to be deployed at any time to meet the Breath of the Kings, as well as Godotin, Normandy, and Fife.

Why is Victoria considered the most powerful nation in Terra? Why did it dominate the international order of an era and become known as a hegemonic empire?

It relies on these dukes, each of whom, individually, can be compared to a medium-sized country, and together they can stand up to any major power without being defeated.

The high-speed warships advanced, with the Duke of Wellington's troops leading the charge, who had promised from the beginning to "be the vanguard and charge into the enemy lines first."

Gastriel, once part of the Gallic Empire's capital, swept towards the carrion's ranks with unstoppable force, protected by escorting gunboats. Each roar of the largest land-based high-speed warship wiped out an entire carrion camp from the tactical map. As the most powerful weapon of war in the world besides airships, the high-speed warship was now demonstrating its almost unreasonable superiority over the "human army."

The Sarkaz were clearly caught off guard. Yesterday, the Victorians had only engaged in symbolic skirmishes with them, firing a few blank shots from a distance and then symbolically shifting their camp 3 centimeters to the left, which they considered a strategic objective. How did they come to their senses and launch a full-scale attack today?

All-out attack, yes, that's the assessment given by Niecilei.

Nezire, the King of the Scavengers, is known as the "God of War of the Sarkaz," but he is not a Cyclops and could not have foreseen the Victorians' sudden transformation. However, it would be naive and foolish to underestimate him, or the most formidable fighting force of the Sarkaz Scavenger Royal Court—the Scavenger Legion.

Gastriel unleashed its firepower, the tracks of its high-speed warships nearly flattening every outpost of the carrion eaters, but it didn't matter.

Carrion eaters are never afraid of death; death is simply another form of death for them.

Everything will be alright once the clan leader's throne is ascended!

The fallen warriors will be infused with new life by the Netherworld Lightning and become “spirit banners”. The living warriors will be granted the blessing of immortality and will nourish the lives of their comrades with their own. The chieftain’s personal guards will personally step into the battlefield. They will spread death and absorb life in every visible corner and let the scavengers’ corrupting spells spread throughout the entire battlefield!

However, at the same time, the Glorious, which did not immediately follow Gastrill in launching the charge, had already aimed its main guns at the center of the Carrion camp.

"The Glory has already set its sights on the camp of the King of Carrion."

The adjutant reported without a trace of emotion.

The Duke of Caesar remained calm.

She is waiting.

The Sarkaz were intimately familiar with the Victorian coalition's methods, thanks to their monstrous "Shapeshifter intelligence system," which even the Duke of Caesars found ineffective. However, Victoria was not entirely unaware of the Sarkaz.

Unlike the original timeline, this time Kal'tsit arrived much earlier, and since Vina was not on Rhodes Island, there was no longer a direct conflict of interest between the Allied Forces and Rhodes Island. In fact, because of Ernst, the Allied Forces even purchased a lot of Oripathy infection protection equipment from Rhodes Island to deal with possible "humanitarian accusations." Rhodes Island also reached a certain level of cooperation with the Victorian Allied Forces.

This gave Urshi an opportunity, and also gave the Victorian coalition an opportunity.

Thus, Kal'tsit had the opportunity to offer another military suggestion.

"We must not allow the King of Carrion to easily join the battlefield!"

Compared to the previous suggestion of launching a full-scale attack on Lentinium, this time, Kal'tsit's suggestion was adopted quickly.

To catch the thief, first catch the king – this is an age-old principle. If you destroy the enemy's command post or even kill their commander, victory in the war is within your grasp.

Moreover, this time, Ernst stood directly behind Kal'tsit.

The relationship between Windermere, the current commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces, and Ernst goes without saying. Kester, the only one who might oppose the suggestion, also has a close relationship with Ernst.

Everything needs a channel. Your suggestion is good, but even good suggestions need a channel to be heard and adopted by those in power. A beggar's advice on governing a country would never reach the king's ears. Ernst was Kelsey's channel.

Windermere, Castle, and Godottin, who had spoken with Ernst once, raised their hands. The Duke of Wellington and Abrahina, who had ulterior motives, had no reason to refuse. Half of the eight dukes in the Dukes' Alliance had already agreed.

With Kester's connections, would Emilia, the "little duke" who had just caused trouble by letting Talulah in, dare to refuse?

You are indeed the chosen heir of Normandy, but Normandy can choose another. Can't Caesar deal with a tainted and disobedient heir?

If I can't handle Windermere, I can't handle Wellington, I can't handle Ernst, I can't handle Talulah, but I'll fucking handle you!

Ernst supported Kelch's military advice for a simple reason.

In this land, if Kal'tsit claims to be second in understanding the Sarkaz, then perhaps no one would dare to claim to be first!

You can deny Kal'tsit's abilities, question her actions, and even criticize her for betraying the original intentions of the civilization that created her, gambling with billions of years of accumulated knowledge and resources on the hopes of a new civilization. But you cannot deny Kal'tsit's understanding of the Sarkaz.

She is literally above nine, having watched the Sarkaz develop to where they are today.

She launched a three-nation coalition to attack Kazdel, claiming it was to "win two hundred years of peace." Let's count how long it has been since 897.

It is now the end of 1095.

All told, it's been 199 years, just shy of two hundred.

Kal'tsit is indeed quite something; she can calculate the time it takes for the Sarkaz's hatred to coalesce so accurately. This is not something that can be done by any formula; it relies on tens of thousands of years of experience!

This time, the butterfly's flapping of its wings long ago finally culminated in a crucial storm in Lentinium years later.

The throne of the carrion eater slowly rose into the air, and Niezilei, who concealed his true form in the fluttering white cloth strips, sat on the throne. At this moment, he seemed to be the "God of War" who overlooked this war and used all living beings as chess pieces.

Then, the first shot came in an instant!

"boom!"

The main cannon of the Glory roared deafeningly, and the most powerful special Originium ammunition aimed at the throne that looked incredibly small on the battlefield, tearing through the sky!

This shot had no other purpose than to target the King of Carrion!

The cannonball, which was already comparable in size to Niezilei himself, emitted a crimson light as pure Originium was activated, and headed straight for Niezilei's face!

This is truly a case of "using a cannon to kill a mosquito"!

It seems even the King of Carrion hadn't expected the Victorians to be so uncivilized. Not only did they launch a surprise attack early in the morning, but while he was still casting his spell, they were also firing sniper shots—no, sniper cannons!

And it's the main gun, it's direct fire, trying to deceive us, trying to launch a sneak attack, that old scavenger!

The Carrion King's scepter immediately lit up, and a barrier of eerie green decay magic instantly formed in front of him. The Imperial Guards had no time to react and chose to self-destruct, spreading the contamination around the Carrion King. The cannonballs that touched the contamination showed signs of decay almost instantly.

This shouldn't happen in theory. Artillery shells don't have a lifespan, so how could they "age and decay"?

But the scavengers' witchcraft seems to touch on the conceptual level; the vitality they define can be either living life or durability, wear and tear, and so on.

Ordinary shells, once they get close to the carrion eaters, will be turned into duds by the putrid smell!

But the scavengers clearly overlooked one thing!

Victoria fired more than one cannonball.

The King of Carrion is not the only one who knows the characteristics of carrion eaters.

"The shells must be made of Originium, because Originium doesn't decay!"

This is Kal'tsit's second military suggestion.

Ernst agreed with this suggestion.

Artificial amber is still amber. The lumberjacks have been able to monopolize it for eternity, and even the giant axes that split the heavens and the earth could not break through the defenses of amber. If the sorcery of the scavengers could corrupt Originium, that would truly be an eye-opener.

Of course, Originium is not a weapon, so strictly speaking, throwing an Originium directly at someone isn't very useful.

The problem is, Ernst does have a friend who has developed a technology that can temporarily convert Originium into weapons.

Why was Levi's Originium Life Science able to be established in the first place? What technology made Christensen so interested?

"Originium Activation Technology"!

Admittedly, activating Originium is still a long way from utilizing it, analyzing it, or even creating artifacts from it. But if you're just using activated Originium as a weapon, that's enough!

While both involve pollution, the information revealed by artificial amber is on a much higher level than that from scavengers!

The carrion eater's magic worked.

The shell casing quickly "rotted" and then fell off, seemingly no longer threatening, but Niezile inexplicably felt a pang of fear!

His gaze, hidden beneath the strip of cloth, fell upon the shell radiating a distorted red light. Beneath its decaying shell, a truly terrifying monster seemed to have torn open its cage. In that instant, he felt as if he were making eye contact with an indescribable being!

what is that?

A question suddenly popped into my head.

However, time did not provide him with the answer to his question.

"boom!"

Having broken free of its outer shell, the Originium's activation level had reached its limit. With a deafening roar, an explosion suddenly occurred in front of Niezirei! Countless spikes, formed only during natural disasters, pierced his face and instantly covered the entire throne, pinning the Carrion King, along with the eerie green cloth covering him, to his throne. Then, the Originium continued to spread uncontrollably, covering the entire throne within seconds and beginning to expand outwards.

In less than ten seconds, while everyone was still in a daze, the throne that had been floating in the sky had already turned into a huge spiky ball of natural disaster, and with the cracking sound of Originium breaking and the dissipation of countless dust particles, it fell towards the ground!

An eerie silence seemed to fall over the battlefield.

Gastriel continued to unleash a barrage of artillery fire, gunboats and Windermere's legions joined the fray, and Duke Fife's infantry began their charge. But at this moment, all eyes were fixed on the falling spiked ball!

The Sarkaz were shocked, as were the Victorian coalition forces.

Duke Kess's adjutant, and even Duke Kess himself, clearly did not expect that the explosion of an activated Originium would bring such terrifying power, even knocking the Carrion King, who had caused the Victoria Alliance countless headaches, and his throne directly down from the sky!

The adjutant murmured in disbelief:

"Did you make it?"

But standing next to the Duke of Caesar, Ernst shook his head.

ended?

It’s just the beginning!

The spirit banners had not yet dissipated, and although the army of carrion-eaters had been briefly halted, there was no sign of them collapsing; they had only begun to retreat. This was enough to show that their command system had not yet been paralyzed.

Moreover, Ernst didn't think that the Sarkaz god of war was so easy to kill.

Fortunately, the sneak attack was successful. Even if the King of Carrion didn't die, he was bound to be injured.

But next time, the other side won't be so blatant in exposing themselves to the Victorians' cannons! This tactic is destined to only work once!

2. The Sarkaz still have many trump cards up their sleeves: the airship that once launched a surprise attack on the Allied Forces, Theresis, Theresia, and the Blood Lord in the city, and their biggest problem—the Shard Tower.

This war has only just begun!

The Duke of Caesar clearly understood this as well, and she reacted quickly, immediately issuing an order:

"Regardless, seize this window of opportunity and attack!"

"Have the Glory maintain firepower suppression on the location of the Carrion Throne. The rest of the fleet, follow Wellington's lead. We must completely cut off the Sarkaz's formation!"

"As ordered!"

As he listened to the commands coming from his ear, Ernst took a deep breath.

If nothing unexpected happens, Kal'tsit's Rhodes Island squad should have entered the city by now, right?

U then needs to prepare in advance.

S touched the divine stone in his bag, and Ernst felt warmth coming from the other side. The voice of the great god Yeragand immediately echoed in his mind, using a voice changer:

"I'm in position."

"But speaking of which, why do I always have to come to Laterano? What's here?"

"There's a final insurance policy, sir."

Ernst spoke softly, in a voice only he could hear.

This was Ernst's initial preparation.

The Agorians don't recognize true value; even if you show them a great treasure, they might not recognize it. But there are always people in this world who do, right?

Chapter 835 Theresis: Time to Love the Cat!

Londinium, Victoria.

Therese has received news from the front.

The Victorians launched a surprise attack, the throne of the Carrion King fell, the situation on the front lines was dire, and every piece of news was pounding on his already tense nerves.

Fortunately, he's holding up fairly well.

Especially Theresa's words reassured him:

"The souls did not grieve for the Netherclaws, and the court of the carrion still stands."

The souls, the will left behind by the deceased Sarkaz, are said to be the final resting place for all Sarkaz. This chaotic collective consciousness subtly influences the Sarkaz's way of thinking and behaving to some extent, but the influence is not too great.