infinite blood sorrow

"what?!"

"Your Highness, this is absolutely impossible! If there is no Your Highness, who will..."

"No need to say any more." Numa Seka closed his eyes and waved to stop his subordinates from persuading him.He said as if he had made some serious decision. "I've made up my mind."

"...Also, immediately draft a letter of surrender and send it to Esdeth's troops overnight." Numa Seka closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said heavily.

"what?!"

"Think again, Your Highness!"

"The imperial army slaughtered the city, slaughtered the civilians, and surrendered without a fight. How can the people be convinced!"

"Surrender without a fight? More than a dozen cities, more than 20 generals, and 30 troops have all died in the hands of Esdes! And how much did the imperial army lose?!"

"Continue to fight, leaving the guards of the royal city, how many troops can we mobilize? How long can we last? Continue to fight? Tell me, what do we rely on to fight?!" Numa Seka stood up and said sternly to his subordinates.

"Stay alive, resist to the end! Have you forgotten the fate of the foreign peoples in the Southwest?!"

"..." The subordinates below looked at each other in blank dismay, and couldn't help but fell silent. It was a shame to send the letter of surrender, and Esdeth's behavior of continuously massacring the city was also resented.

But they're almost gone...

"Despicable imperial army! How dare you use assassination as such a despicable method!" A subordinate who looked like a general below waved his fist fiercely and said through gritted teeth.

If it wasn't for the sudden assassination of the king, how could things have developed to such a state? If the death in battle is inferior to others, it would be fine, but now there is no chance to fight head-on with the enemy general Esdes. Being forced to surrender, who would be willing to suffer such a humiliating and humiliating defeat?

"Okay, you all go down." Numa Seka turned around and said wearily.

To make such a decision is really forced and helpless, the general is not reconciled, is he reconciled?If he is just a prince, then he should do his duty to protect the country on the front line under the order of his father.

But if you are the king of a country, you have to think about the whole country.If the fight continues, the country will lose the country, and it is really impossible to fight anymore.

If you surrender, you will humiliate the country; if you don't surrender, the country will perish.Numa Seka has no third option.

The subordinates retreated respectfully, and only Numa Seka was left in the huge hall. However, the atmosphere at the scene was not much more relaxed than before, but became more dignified.

Numa Seka's face was gloomy, and he had decided to send out the letter of surrender, but it was another matter whether Esdesh accepted it or not. Esdeth captured a city along the way and slaughtered a city. The cruel behavior put too much pressure on the people of the entire Northland. Now Numa Seka can only hope that the conditions set out by Esdes to accept the surrender will not be too harsh.

"You actually chose to surrender? The brave man in the north actually has this kind of virtue. I have learned a lot today." Suddenly, a very abrupt voice came from the empty hall.

"Who?!" Numa Seka suddenly woke up from the gloom, looking at the empty and deserted hall, becoming vigilant.

The owner of the mysterious voice did not hide in the dark as Numa Seka imagined. Just as he finished speaking, a figure outside the hall walked into the hall lightly and calmly.

The man's voice sounded muffled, obviously not a real voice, and he also wore a bronze ghost mask on his face, which looked very mysterious.

"Who are you?! How did you get in here?!" Numa Seka stood up and said vigilantly.

"This should be considered the first meeting, Your Royal Highness. You can call me..."

"Dragon Horse."

Chapter 24 The New King

"Ryoma...how did you get in here? Where are the guards outside the temple?!" Numa Seka took a step back and took the saber next to him. Although his favorite gun was not with him, Numa Seka still can't kill everyone.

He deliberately amplified his voice to speak. Logically speaking, the guards outside should have rushed over to investigate the situation, but so far Numa Seka has not heard any movement from outside the hall, thinking that this mysterious masked man is silent. Xi's sudden appearance here, I'm afraid the guards outside are also in danger.

"It doesn't matter how I got in. Your Highness can rest assured about the guards. I didn't hurt anyone, but for the sake of our conversation to go smoothly, I have temporarily isolated the sound of this space from the outside world." Mo Ao spread his hands and said, indicating that he was not carrying a weapon...at least he didn't look like he was carrying a weapon.

"Isolate the sound...Teigushi..." Numa Seka's eyes were fixed, and his eyes became more defensive when he looked at Mo Ao, and his body adjusted slightly, showing a very obvious defensive movement .The reason is simple, there is no Teigu envoy in the Northern Kingdom!

Although half or more of the empire has been exiled outside the empire for thousands of years, the so-called exiled here mostly refers to the civilians living inside the empire. At least so far, there have been no cases of exiled in the hands of foreign nations. In other words, There is no case where a person of a different race can use Teigu.

Therefore, the mysterious masked man in front of him could never be from the Northern Kingdom, but he stood up as an envoy of the Emperor, and he was almost certainly a member of the Empire. Now that the Northern Kingdom is at war with the Empire, an Imperial person suddenly appeared in the palace of the Northern Kingdom without invitation. If it wasn't for the fact that Mo Ao couldn't see the truth, Numa Seka was already facing each other with swords.

"Don't be so nervous, instead of guarding against me, wouldn't it be better to care about whether the Esdes army will accept the surrender?" Mo Ao said leisurely. "If Esdeth does not accept the surrender, what do you rely on to stop Esdeth in the capital?"

"I don't need to waste my time with an inexplicable guy. If you are here to continue to provoke the war, then please come back. Otherwise, I can only ask you to stay." Numa Seka frowned Said.

"Is there such a hurry to issue an order to evict guests!"

"I don't treat young people who dare not even show their faces as guests." Numa Seka said in a deep voice.

"I do have a good idea. Even if the Esdes Army accepts your surrender, they will surely propose countless harsh conditions. If this is the case, it will be very difficult for you, right?"

"It has nothing to do with outsiders."

"Of course it's related, because if Esdesi withdraws, it will be very difficult for me." Mo Ao said with a smile.

"What did you say?!" Numa Seka stared wide-eyed, looking at His Highness's masked figure in disbelief.

"What do you think of this? It is not wrong to send the letter of surrender, but after the letter of surrender is delivered, with Esdesi's character, it is estimated that he will not just agree to it. What's more, that woman will directly kill It's not surprising. After all, that woman prefers to force the opponent to submit after defeating the stubborn enemy, rather than voluntarily surrendering." Mo Ao crossed his chest with one hand and supported the other, leaning against the room in the hall. Liang said.

"So if you want Esdeth to retreat, the prerequisite is to completely defeat the northern kingdom. Esdeth will only be satisfied after enjoying the thrill of complete conquest. If that's the case, then it's easy." Mo Aoshen Pointing to Numa Seka with his right hand, he said.

"As long as it is said in the legend that the [Hero of the North], who entrusts all the hope of the people of the Northland and represents the best and strongest in the Northland, will be trampled by Esther, without dignity, and licks Esther like a dog. It’s enough to make Esdeth feel that the North Kingdom has been completely defeated, and even if he doesn’t send a letter of surrender or sign an unequal treaty, Esdeth can retreat.”

"Stop joking!" Numa Seka couldn't take it anymore after hearing half of it. She pulled out the tip of her saber and pointed it at Mo Ao's nose through the mask. Numa Seka roared furiously. "I don't know who you are, but if you continue to insult me ​​and my country, even if you have the means to prevent me from summoning soldiers, I will kill you here!"

"I didn't insult you, don't you think it's worthwhile to use a substitute as [Hero of the North] to be defeated in exchange for the peace of the whole country?" Mo Ao shrugged, completely refusing to let go of Numa Seka's anger and threat in the eyes.

"As the successor of the king of the North Kingdom, how could I do such a thing that humiliates the country?!"

"It's okay to sacrifice the land and soldiers, but it's not okay to sacrifice your own face? So this is [Hero of the North]."

"Slick tongue, twisting the truth. No matter what you guys say, I can't agree with such absurd things." Numa Seka said. "Uninvited guests, please stay now!"

"Huh?" Mo Ao hummed in disbelief. "You mean the soldiers who secretly gathered outside?"

"Although I don't know how you conveyed the news to the outside, but I admit that I underestimated you a little." Mo Ao put down his arms around his chest, and said after standing upright from the beam.

"But you're wrong about one thing." Mo Ao looked at Numa Seka leisurely, and a maniac smile appeared under his mask. "You will."

"Because you are [Hero of the North]!"

......

......

There was silence outside the palace, and the chief guard led the guards to surround the hall lightly.The head guard secretly tried to observe the inside of the hall, but nothing happened in the empty hall, and there was no sound coming out.

If it wasn't for the message from His Royal Highness, the chief guard would have even thought that His Royal Highness had already rested.

"What exactly happened..." The chief guard watched the hall nervously, and suddenly the signal from His Royal Highness came out, and the chief guard immediately led the guards to rush in and surround the hall.

The situation at the scene was unexpected. His Royal Highness the Prince stood in the hall safe and sound, while a mysterious masked man stood at the bottom of the steps.It seemed that there was no fighting at the scene, and the two people in the hall—neither Numa Seka nor the mysterious masked man paid more attention to the soldiers who suddenly rushed in.

Especially the masked man, the chief guard felt that that man didn't seem to notice that he and his soldiers were at all.

"Catch him!" Putting down all the doubts in his heart, the head of the guard immediately obeyed the prince's order, and the soldiers surrounded Mo Ao with swords, shields and halberds.

Once again, beyond the expectation of the chief guard, the mysterious masked man did not resist at all, and was captured indifferently.

"Take him down, and don't move without my permission." His Royal Highness on the steps ordered.

"Yes." Although the chief guard couldn't understand what was going on, it was only natural for a subject to obey his master's orders. The chief guard took the soldiers and escorted the masked man to obediently leave.

......

After everyone retreated, His Royal Highness on the steps sat on the seat, supported the armrest with one hand, and propped his head on his palm, meditating, and said to himself: "It seems that what I heard just now is an explanation. Heaven is about to succeed?"

"So, from tomorrow onwards, I will be the king of the northern kingdom?"

Chapter 25 Nid Hogg can't get up

Supreme Court, Office of Justice Virgil.

There was a light knock on the closed door, and Nid Hogg said "Come in" without raising his head, without stopping his brush strokes at all.

The door opened, and a fat man with a height of about [-] cm and a weight of about [-] kg stepped in, but his body was too big, his round body was wider than the door, so the whole body His body was deformed under the pressure of the door, which made people worry that the door would be broken by him.

What is noticeable is that this guy didn't seem to realize that his body size brought great inconvenience to his actions, ignoring his body squeezed by the limited space and squeezed hard into the door.

Duang!

As if a piston was being pulled out, there was a hollow sound of air compression and release in the air.

Looking at the fat man again, his whole body has turned into a square door shape, but there is nothing wrong with the door. The fat man's deformed body trembled for a while, and then changed back to the original round shape, as if nothing happened. Nothing happened.

Then the fat man swung around like a penguin, and closed the door softly, looking clumsy.

"What about slime? Is there any news from Estes? What's going on?" Ned Hogg stopped writing and looked up at the fat man, or the man code-named slime.

Esdes brought the attention of all the people to crusade against the ferocious northern aliens. People in the empire believed that General Esdes, [the strongest in the empire], would surely win. In about a year, General Esdes would lead the crusade The message of success returns victorious.

However, in fact, Esdes captured [Heroes of the North], destroyed the morale of the entire army of the northern aliens, completely defeated the front of the northern aliens, and buried 40 troops alive.All this in about a month.

It should have been like this.

"It's been nine months since Esdes led the army to crusade against the alien races in the north. That woman should have returned long ago! What happened? It's impossible for the alien races in the north to be able to hold that guy back for so long." Ned Hogg said with a sullen face.

He and Esdeth were at odds in the empire. He fought against Esdesh for the law enforcement power after the constitution was established. There was no winner, but in the end he prevailed.He also used this to become a justice of the Supreme Court.

Therefore, Ned Hogg can be said to be the person who knows the strength of Esdeth the most clearly among the current reincarnation. According to the original plot of the northern aliens, no matter how great the butterfly effect they bring, they will not Possibly hold up Estes for nine months!

The only possibility is that people from South Central Continent intervened!

In fact, Ned Hogg began to suspect three months after Esdeath set off. Even if the existence of Arctic Africa affected the plot, Esdeath should have returned in at most two months. At that time, Ned Hogg He began to pay attention to the battles of the alien nations in the north, but because of the political disagreement between Esdeth and Arctic Africa, it was difficult for Nidhogg to get information about the Esdeth army far away in the Northland.

"That...it's not very rewarding. According to the latest news, people we placed in the Esdes army died on the battlefield." Slime sat down on the seat next to him. The chair creaked unbearably, and the slime's body swayed like a water polo, but it didn't fall to the ground.

"General Esdes killed all the people in the next city, took enough food and clothes, and then continued to fight back. The battle line was stretched for a long time, so our people in the rear were also very long. It's hard to get news from the Esdes army." Slime danced and gestured, trying to make his rhetoric more vivid.

"The only thing we can know now is that the people we placed in General Esdes's army were not killed on the battlefield, but were killed during a sneak attack."

"Sneak attack?" Ned Hogg frowned. There is still too little information to know, but what is certain is that the South Central Continent team must have intervened.

"Are those guys all in the Northern Kingdom? You need to use the Northern Kingdom as your base... No, it's impossible. The Northern Kingdom has no strategic significance as a 'power'. If you are not a member of the Empire, you can't use Teigu. Give up. Teiju's advantage is almost equivalent to giving up all the indigenous combat power in this world. The people of South Central Continent would not be so stupid. It should be that South Central Continent sent people to intervene in the Northland battlefield."

"It can hold Esdeth for nine months or even longer. Could it be that they sent an A-level there?!" Ned Hogg frowned. For so long, South Central Continent has been hiding in the dark like a mouse. Now there are finally signs of taking the lead, but it makes people feel unclear.

"South Central Continent wants to send people to hold back Esdeth, so it means that they are afraid of Esdeth. A single A-level team should not be afraid of a team with a higher evaluation than us. In this case, what the South Central Continent team should be afraid of is The strategic significance of Estes."

"I don't know if the fight between me and Esdesh has been exposed. Wuming is out to enforce the law. The secret that he is an A-level should not be hidden, but even so, we only exposed two A-levels. In addition, Esde Si and Bude have four A-levels, if four A-levels make Nanzhongzhou afraid, do they only have three A-levels?"

"No! If South Central Continent obtained the strength distribution of our team in the last world, and even only had information about A-levels, then they would know that we and the Empire have five A-levels in total. If South Central Continent also has five A-levels A level, then the gap between our two teams is too big, boldly guess that there are only four A levels in South Central Continent, then the existence of the fifth A level becomes very important, so they have to send people to contain Ai Staces!"

"Because there are only four A-levels, there is no way to allocate A-level people to contain Esdeth under such circumstances, so the people sent to contain Ace are probably B-level." Nid Hogg slapped the table and sat up straight, his intuition told him that this possibility was very high.

"Then the remaining question is, how many people participated in the crusade against the alien races in the north?" Nid Hogg stood up and walked back and forth around the desk.

"Slime, you go find the famous gun shadow. You are going to leave today to go to the front of the alien race in the north. On the one hand, you will collect information. On the other hand, if you find people from South Central Continent, it is best to capture them alive. Don't force yourself to capture it alive. When necessary, follow the arrangement of the famous instrument." Nidhogg stopped pacing back and forth, and said to the slime.

"Caught alive...can't you eat it?" Slime looked disappointed, and the corners of Ned Hogg's eyes twitched when he saw this natural stunned look.

"Whether you can eat or not depends on the arrangement of the famous utensils. He said you can eat if you can." Ned Hogg said helplessly.Why are there so many retarded people under him.

"OK~~~Understood." Slime said happily with a very clumsy salute that couldn't be seen as a salute at all.

Bang!

At this moment, the door was suddenly violently pushed open, and Wu Ming walked in quickly with a serious face.

"News from the northern front, the alien races in the north have surrendered!"

Chapter 26 Friends, have you heard of Jiaxi?

"What?! The Qing Dynasty is dead!"

"..." The corner of Wuming's mouth twitched silently as he looked at the natural slime with black lines all over his head. "How many times have I told you, don't learn from the black dragon when talking about business."

"Damn it! You've done away with responsibility so cleanly! You and Liuli are obviously mentally retarded. Damn, they died early in the morning!"

"Is this the point? Hey?!" Wu Ming slapped himself on the face, sighed and changed the subject. "Okay, stop making trouble, and talk about business."

"Tch, who took the topic off course." Ned Hogg smiled disdainfully, and looked at Wuming in a leisurely manner. "I have always believed in the code of conduct of 'just ignore the mentally retarded'."

"Of course, except for this kind of thing." Ned Hogg grabbed a cat on his desk with his backhand without looking back, and threw it out of the window vigorously in the posture of throwing a baseball.

"I just want to make you a cup of cat poop coffee meow~~~~" There was a scream from near to far from far away.

"Who dares to drink cat poop coffee made by a damn cat..." Ned Hogg destroyed the coffee cups on the table together, clapping his hands as if nothing happened. "Where did you just say that?"

"... That guy Cheng is still so persistent..." Wuming's mouth twitched. Although he knew that Cheng's obsession with Nidhogg was very deep, every time he saw what Cheng made All sorts of things still feel embarrassing.

"Forget it, let's get down to business. I just received the news that the foreign peoples in the north have surrendered, and Esdeth is returning." Wu Ming sorted out his emotions and continued the topic just now.

"No, to be precise, it should be said that Esdeth has completely crusaded the northern alien races. [Hero of the North] Numa Seka was brutally killed by Esdeth, and the front of the northern alien races collapsed. Esther Si Keng killed [-] troops of foreign nationalities in the north, almost completely destroying the military power of the northern country, and finally signed an armistice treaty." Wu Ming said. "In addition, there is one thing that I am very concerned about. It is said that the northern aliens had sent a letter of surrender to Esdeth before, but they were rejected. In the end, they were forced to do so. [Hero of the North] Numa Sai Ka personally led the army to go out, and then was crushed by Estes."

"Defeat?" Ned Hogg's heart fluttered when he heard it. "Didn't he have a nervous breakdown after being transferred (HX) after being captured?"