After calling the player

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There are currently two largest battlefields on the mainland.

One is the conflict between the orcs and some neighboring human countries because of slavery.

Another war between the Yashaw Empire and those united human kingdoms.

Eric decided to start with the latter. After all, Prince Marcellus, no, he is also His Majesty Marcellus now, and he is their old acquaintance.

They also have the black history of each other's "sharing worries for their father".

It's a pity that Marcellus was very vigilant. As soon as the dust settled, he transferred his sleeping father to an unknown place in the name of protection.

Goliath and Charlemagne failed to steal his father out as planned, and they didn't want to directly send the Crescent Knights to investigate and rob him, so they really broke the face with him.

But they are not going to hang on a tree in Marcellus. While accepting his employment, they also hook up with his younger brothers and sisters, showing the mercenary style of doing things for money to the fullest.

Even if there is a conflict between the received information, the members of the Crescent Knights facing each other are all real swords and guns, and they are not lying, and the employers on both sides are not good at saying anything.

——This is a PVP-type mission that suddenly went online after a certain update. Attacking enemy players during the mission will not trigger the penalty of red and yellow names.

With this level of relationship, if the Peace Alliance wanted to mediate the war, it would naturally start by testing Marcellus' attitude.

After receiving Eric's mission, Goliath and Charlemagne thought that if he strongly opposed it, they would directly threaten him with his black history.

Even if it was all done by his people (maybe even by himself), they have no direct evidence, but as long as they show the "Huangliang No. 13" reproduced with the help of the new neighbors, the elves, it is enough It gave him a headache.

This turmoil will first hit the morale of their army, and it can also provide excuses for his younger brothers and sisters.

Moreover, "Huangliang No. 13" and their Crescent Knights are a threat in themselves.

Since the "enemy" could poison the old emperor without a trace and make him unconscious until now, they can also poison "His Majesty Marcellus" to make him unconscious in the future.

Marcellus himself had experimented before, and he accepted their proposal only after experiencing the power of being unstoppable.

Presumably after they made the threat, the mental pressure alone was enough for him to think about it. Even if he stepped up his defense, he would still have to worry about it every day. Why bother?

Only a thousand days of being a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent a thief.

However, Marcellus did not give them extra chances to show off. He himself hoped to stop the war.

Before, he did use the war to divert the conflict and let others ignore all kinds of doubts about his father's poisoning. Now that he has wiped the tail clean, naturally it doesn't matter.

Moreover, during the war, he couldn't spare his hands to deal with his disobedient younger brothers and sisters.

These people actually joined forces to fight against him, and they even intervened in the military affairs under the pretext of avenging their father. Marcellus couldn't bear it at all.

However, apart from the staunch royalists and Duke Maxine who fully supported Olivia because of his engagement to him, the other originally neutral nobles turned a blind eye to the behavior of these people.

They only hope that the strength of the national army is as strong as possible. The princes are willing to subsidize the army themselves, and even send more private soldiers. It is too late for them to be happy.

He is not dominant in terms of military power, and Marcellus is worried that if this continues, he will have no way to suppress his younger siblings when the war is over.

In addition, the situation of the war has been in a stalemate. The hateful warmonger makes money on both sides, and the treasury is becoming increasingly empty. He has posted a lot of money himself. Marcellus has long wanted to end the war.

It's just that he can't mention it, and he can't even arrange for someone to mention it. Whoever mentions it has to put on a firm posture and scold him.

After all, they were the ones being invaded, and they haven't shown their shame for the time being. On the surface, they still have a deep hatred for murdering the old emperor. If Marcellus doesn't want to lose the hearts of the people, he has to show his attitude.

In private, he promised Goliath and Charlemagne that if the Knights of the Crescent can bring other forces to intervene and end the war in a decent way, he can pay a generous intermediary fee.

Eric also recruited voluntary members of the Peace Alliance to form a diplomatic corps. The goblins who seemed empty and lonely due to the decrease in business activities enthusiastically signed up, and they were going to bring their new friends of different races to cheat for food and drink (their Exact words).

Eric finally selected half of the goblins, added some creatures of different races, and sent them to the human kingdoms on the other side to understand the situation.

The days of these human kingdoms are not easy, and now they are riding a tiger.

They are all provoked by mysterious visitors who want to take back the land that was taken by the Yashaw Empire hundreds of years ago.

The mysterious visitor promised to help them contact allies, and also promised to sell them a batch of advanced weapons at cost price.

The kings of these kingdoms were moved by the future he described, accomplishing a feat that no father had succeeded in hundreds of years, and also witnessed the power of advanced weapons.

Even if this mysterious visitor is indeed somewhat suspicious—covered in black robes, he doesn’t know which race he is from, and he evaded all the guards, and suddenly appeared in front of them, and said that he did this only because of enmity with the Yaxiao Empire. Still a little dazed.

What they thought at first was that they had cheated the weapon, but it was not up to them to decide what to do later.

Later, it was discovered that several other people had the same idea, and their minds became more active.

In terms of strength, the combination of these kingdoms may not necessarily be worse than the Shaw Empire, not to mention that they have weapons advantages.

Several kings discussed in secret for a long time, and when the mysterious visitor came again, they bought another batch of bullets from Xiangyang, and finally decided to join forces to march towards the Yaxiao Empire.

No need to think about it, the mysterious visitor must have been written by 0817, but Eric didn't understand why some fools and humans would fall for such a problematic thing.

In the beginning, the kingdom's coalition forces were really strong, but who knew that the mysterious visitor turned around and sold the same arms to the Yaxiao Empire.

They lost their advantage in weapons, and because they were coalition forces, the command system was relatively chaotic. They all wanted to let others go first and preserve their own strength, and they quickly retreated in succession.

The stalemate with the Yaxiao Empire can continue as it is now, because the mysterious visitors thought they were useless, and specially appeared to "support" them with a batch of equipment and golems.

These kings hated him so much that they had to hold their noses and accept it.

They understood that they were just this guy's marionette.

They don't want to continue to be used, but the situation does not allow them to retreat, and the war is not so easy to end.

The banner they played in this war was to restore the glory of the past, and that was written in the mobilization order.

Now that the goal has not been achieved, the desperate desire to end the war is on the one hand to lose face in an anticlimactic manner.

On the other hand, they do not have an advantage. Negotiating with the other side now is not negotiating to end the war, but calling for peace.

There is no way to seek peace without paying a heavy price. They are not willing to pay huge war reparations.

Moreover, they are also worried that even if a peace treaty is signed now, they will retaliate against them one by one after the Yaxiao Empire recovers in the future.

To be honest, they felt that the countries other than themselves in the coalition were idiots, and they wished they would die after this time, but if they did not join forces, they would only be defeated by the Yaxiao Empire one by one.

Even if they are united, it is hard to tell. Their trust in other countries has dropped to the bottom, and they can only maintain face. If one side is really attacked by the Yaxiao Empire, the other parties may not be willing to go all out to save it.

A little hesitation about this kind of thing, the battle situation may be completely different.

These kingdoms were very happy to learn that the Peace Alliance was determined to mediate the war, and they treated the members of the diplomatic corps well. will be retaliated against.

Eric, who received the feedback, thought about it. Anyway, both sides intend to cease the war, and the problem does not seem to be a big one.

Leaving aside the provocative factor of 0817, let's first look at the cause of this war, or the excuse, which is the land issue.

This aspect is a problem left over from history, there is no solution, and there is no need for them to get involved.

According to the philosophy of the Zerg, whoever wins has the final say. If this war ends in a "tie", then keep the status quo.

And among other things, hundreds of years have passed, and if you tell the local people that their ancestors originally belonged to your country, see if they ignore you.

There should be no disagreement on this issue.

Marcellus did not mention the war reparations that those kingdoms were worried about, and it should have been the price for ending the war as soon as possible by default.

However, it is obviously inappropriate for both parties to go back to their respective homes and pretend that nothing happened. It is better to sign some mutually beneficial treaties.

Playing word games when notifying the country makes the treaty look more like it is taking advantage of its own side.

As for the revenge issue that those kingdoms were also worried about, Eric just wanted to laugh and ask them why they weren't worried before.

They can't be used to this aspect. When the two sides signed a peace treaty, he could persuade Marcellus to write this aspect into it, but who can guarantee that he will not tear up the treaty in the future?

No matter how nice Marcellus said now, would these kings believe it?

If they are willing to abide by the various systems and covenants of the Peace Alliance, Eric is willing to accept them and regard them as a typical example of returning from the wrong way, and the Peace Alliance will naturally protect the members, otherwise don't even think about it.

At worst, they turned around and helped the more well-behaved Yaxiao Empire beat them to death. Anyway, they were the ones who took the initiative to attack, so it didn't make sense.

If the Ashaw Empire can promise to treat the people of these countries well, then helping them end the war quickly does not violate the peace alliance's covenant.

The kingdoms, succumbing to the threat of physical persuasion, at last sensibly assented.

The most important points of these points have been determined, and the rest is the matter of face that both sides value.