Age of Mysticism

Tedgar Hills, Holy Mountain, Duke's Castle.

The Duke of Celtic is in a very good mood recently. The most difficult period has finally passed, and the barbarians are about to switch from strategic defense to strategic offense.

It's also the fault of the empire's own death, arrogance and arrogance to provoke the Shuojin people, and smashed a good hand of cards.

Now, with the support of all parties led by the World Bank, the Tedgar Hills has initially owned its own industry. There are steel smelting, armor forging, and a certain ability to assemble alchemy weapons... Recently, a steam engine factory is about to be put into production. Although it can only produce some steam engines with outdated technology, it is enough for the industrialization of the Tedgar Hills. accelerate.

The Barbarian Legion has completed rearming and training, and the ratio of armor penetration and auxiliary combat weapons has reached 70% of the original Northern Legion. Considering that the barbarians themselves have a stronger physique than humans, the Celtic Duke believes that his army is sufficient to defeat the Northern Army from the front.

It's a pity that the Northern Legion, now the Royal First Magical Legion, is evacuating from the Tedgar Hills. With the support of the World Bank, the Art County United launched an attack on the Empire's Snow Army, and the Empire is mobilizing elites to the north to fill in the loopholes.

As a result, the empire's military strength in the Tedgar Hills fell to the bottom.

This is a great opportunity for the barbarian army to regain the lost ground, march out of the triumphant fortress, and destroy the city of St. Lun.

In the Great Hall of the Duke's Castle.

The Duke of Celtic summoned his generals to mobilize for a counter-offensive.

The Duke didn't wear the Duke's uniform of the Golden Shield Empire this time, but put on a traditional barbarian animal skin cloak and a bear-faced helmet with a Duke's crown embedded in it. The banners of the tribes of the barbarians were hung on the walls of the hall, and the chiefs of the tribes of the barbarians sat on the banners representing their own tribes.

In the middle of the hall, there was meat cooking in a large pot, and the iron guards put the meat in large bowls in the hands of the barbarian leaders.

The duke and the barbarian chiefs ate the meat with their fingers.

The whole hall was filled with a barbaric and unrestrained atmosphere.

But the human nobles in the corner seemed a bit out of place here.

Baron Sergey was holding a big bowl of meat, but he didn't eat it, but looked at the barbarians with a different look.

Although barbarian in character, the castles and meetings of former dukes still obeyed the institutions and etiquette established by the Empire.

But since the economy of the Tedgar Hills has gotten better and better, the Duke of Celtic has begun to remove things with imperial characteristics and fill them in with barbarian things. Except for the appearance of the current Duke Castle, it still looks like a human castle, and the inside is all barbarian.

Human beings are out of tune with this place, as if they are just a group of outsiders.

The Duke of Celtic ate ​​a bowl full of meat, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and said to his generals: "According to the information provided by the Shuojin people, the Royal First Magical Legion is withdrawing very quickly. They gave up most of their supplies to the troops stationed in their place.

The number of the Imperial Army that succeeded the Triumph Fortress has been ascertained. It is the Raging Waves City Armored Assault Division, with a size of about 20,000 people.

And our barbarian army has 350,000 excellent fighters, and has an absolute advantage in strength. "

Hearing that there were only 20,000 opponents in this attack, the barbarian generals burst out laughing. The disparity in strength between the two sides was too great. Not to mention that the Barbarian Legion had now completed modernization and reorganization, even the former Barbarian Legion could use crowds to overwhelm the opponent's meager strength.

When the barbarians were very optimistic about the war and were discussing which way to attack the city of St. Lun, a discordant voice sounded.

Baron Sergey, under the banner of the Canglang, said loudly: "You nobles and leaders, and your lord duke! I want to remind you that the armored assault division of Raging Waves City is an army formed by the chief assistant of the empire, Meteor. A very good performance in the war against Attorney United.

Now that the Imperial Army is gradually becoming magical, the Armored Assault Division of Raging Wave City must be equipped with the most advanced magical weapons of the Empire. We cannot underestimate Meteor's direct army. "

A barbarian leader sitting in front of the Duke of Celtic disdainfully said to Baron Sergey: "We all admit that Meteor is a very good politician, but politicians' methods don't work on the battlefield. The Shuojin said ...Magicization of the army is a major trend in future warfare, but magic technology has just emerged, and there are still many imperfections.

Weapons on the battlefield need practicality, not fancy glass bottles.

Magical weapons can give Raging City's armored assault division an advantage in certain battles, but it won't have much impact on the direction of the battle. No matter how strong the Magic Titan is, it will be torn apart by the heroic barbarian warriors. "

The Duke of Celtic recognized the words of his trusted general. He said to Baron Sergey: "Let the war be fought by generals who really understand war, and the human nobles will do what you are good at. The logistics supplies of the barbarian army will be handed over to you." Here it is for you, and you will take out another sum of money as a reward for motivating the barbarian warriors."

"Obey, Your Excellency the Duke." Baron Sergey accepted the order submissively.

The Tedgar Hills developed industry, and humans took advantage of their racial advantages to quickly become rich, which further widened the gap between humans and barbarians.

In order to suppress the increased strength and influence of humans, the Duke of Celtic almost overwhelmingly favored the barbarians. Not only did the promised military establishment fail to be implemented, but it changed the law and imposed heavy taxes on human businessmen.

The duke's vigilance and suspicion aggravated the barbarian's growing hatred of humans. This sense of alienation and crisis gave humans who no longer feared barbarians more ideas.

Baron Sergey knew that nothing he said would be accepted by the Celtic Duke.

The barbarian generals who believed that victory in the imperial war was within their grasp, looked at the eyes of the human nobles as if they were looking at rotten meat in a pot.

The Duke of Celtic is not a leader with a big heart. Human beings were weak before, so he can show some privileges and benefits to human nobles in a friendly gesture. Now...he already regarded human beings as a threat, and the first thing he did after his victory was probably to slash at the human merchants who had made great contributions to him.

Baron Sergei no longer argues, nor expresses his views.

He listened carefully to the barbarians talking about how to make a good start, listened to them vent their grievances after being suppressed by the imperial army for several years, and heard them vow to restore the glory of the barbarian army.

Soon, every word spoken at the war mobilization meeting in the Duke's Castle was sent to the Triumph Fortress immediately.

into Luke's hands.

It proved that the conspiracy he set up in the Tedgar Hills was very successful. Even if the Duke of Celtic could see it, he had no way to break the situation, unless his balance technique could coordinate the increasingly intensified contradictions between barbarians and humans.

Obviously the Duke of Celtic didn't have this ability, he didn't even realize that he was in a dead end.

After receiving important information, Luke immediately held a military meeting to discuss how to resist the barbarian army's all-out attack. (end of this chapter)