This Lich Needs More Money

The winter wind finally blew to the Emerald River.

At this time of year in previous years, the river surface had already frozen into ice that could be walked on.

But the situation is different this year. The people of Ryan spent a lot of effort, breaking ice and making fire, just to prevent the Emerald River from freezing.

Now the river surface is covered with fragmented ice ridges. It looks frozen, but a step down will make a hole.

Anger Watson is not a person who can only lead troops. He knows very well that the war between two countries is a contest of national strength, and now the orcs are in an awkward situation.

They are short of food.

As a kingdom with many mountains and little land, and mainly engaged in planting, the orcs are already short of food.

Now a large number of young and strong people are dispatched, and a large amount of food is consumed every day. The orcs can't hold on for long.

If they hadn't robbed a city in Ryan and got some supplies, I'm afraid the war would have ended long ago.

The orcs also know this, so recently they got a group of mages from somewhere, and they are casting spells from a distance to freeze the Emerald River.

Blizzards and hail every day, turning the river surface into blocks of ice.

But the Ryan people didn't show any courtesy to them. Who is afraid of whom in a war of attrition? How many more mages do you orcs have than us humans?

Who told you that priests can't use fireballs?

Both sides threw a lot of magic, all aimed at the river.

And now both sides have means of aerial reconnaissance. Do you want to find a place to bypass from upstream and downstream? It's useless. The airship can scan the 100-kilometer-long river in half an hour. The same is true for Ryan's jet flying scouts, but the endurance is shorter.

The war has entered an era of full-map vision where no one has experience, and the tactics on the battlefield must keep pace with the times.

Although Ryan has the advantage temporarily, the weather is on the side of the orcs.

Anger Watson stood on the top of the city, facing the biting cold wind, and his heart was colder than the north wind.

The weather this year is too cold, it is abnormally cold. On weekdays, it is only minus ten degrees at this time, but now it is minus thirty degrees.

The river froze too fast. The people of Ryan had worked so hard for so long, but it seemed that they could only watch the river freeze.

Most people could not understand why the temperature was so low this year, and they thought that there was divine intervention, but many astrologers were already prepared.

Because the entire Kingdom of Unholy Songs disappeared.

There had never been such a terrible regional change. Those scholars who studied the climate made various predictions, and the Great Cold Wave was one of them.

Now it seems that those scholars who said that there would be a severe drought and a major earthquake will be slapped in the face.

But no matter how many climate scholars you kill to sacrifice to the heavens, the weather change has become a fact. Large-scale and large-scale ice melting methods cannot continue forever. According to Anger Watson's calculations, Ryan can only hold on for ten days at most, and the Emerald River will be completely frozen. At that time, there may not be enough manpower to melt the ice.

When the river is completely frozen, the orcs will definitely launch a decisive battle before the winter comes.

Anger Watson can already guess the result.

Ryan suffered heavy casualties, but he defended the Emerald River defense line and beat the orc army back. But the premise is to draw troops from other borders, and it is necessary to ensure that other borders will not be invaded.

Once the other side starts fighting, Ryan will suffer greater losses.

However, the final result is that the orcs will be repelled. At most, they will vent their hatred and anger, and then retreat, and they may not even be able to save the city on the other side of the river.

Both sides will lose.

Anger Watson knew the result from the beginning, and he kept trying to avoid this result.

Thinking of this, Anger Watson angrily punched the city wall.

"Damn it, why don't you sell the warship to me?!"

Anger Watson has seen the power of Amber's weapons, and the most powerful war weapon is undoubtedly his Black Tide. Although it is said that the Black Tide has crashed, he still has other warships.

The warship with an absolute speed advantage is enough to control the sky of the entire battlefield, that is, only you hit others, and others can't fight back at all.

No matter how powerful the opponent's commander is, he can't make all orcs grow wings.

With the absolute advantage of weapons, Anger Watson was confident that he could drive these orcs back without too much loss.

But Ambersu refused to sell.

That damn lich dared to make such war money stained with blood!

How could Anger Watson not guess Ambersu's idea? This lich just wanted the two countries to keep fighting, so that his weapons could be sold better.

The jetpacks used by those single soldiers alone cost Ryan millions of gold coins, and the cost of this thing would not exceed 50,000.

But Ryan's alchemist could not imitate it, and even caused an explosion when he disassembled it for research, and was asked by the lich for damage.

That's right, it's the cost of damage compensation.

Because these jetpacks are "rented", and the rent is calculated according to the flight time. Each jetpack has a device to calculate the start-up time, and every minute is calculated in gold coins.

The longer the war lasts, the more the lich earns.

The undead are the undead. They have no morals, no mercy, only naked interests, even this lich who claimed to have saved the world is no exception.

Anger Watson felt more and more that the emperor was right. His brother should not have cooperated with this lich in the first place. Allen was really too deeply bewitched by this lich. The Watson family was ruined by this lich.

Just when Ange Watson was deeply angry but helpless, the city was suddenly shrouded in shadow.

Ange Watson subconsciously raised his head, thinking that the orcs had started to unleash a large-scale ice storm again. He was about to alert the soldiers below, but found that what was covering the sun in the sky was not the clouds brewing the ice storm, but several ships. Huge flying battleship.

"Is that the Lich's Kuroshio? No, how come this is bigger than the Kuroshio?!"

Ange Watson's first reaction was that the orcs had no idea what price they paid to let the lich sell the battleship to them.

Although Ange Watson was surprised, he did not panic at all. He quickly returned to the castle and gave orders to his followers.

All jetpack scouts return, and ground troops move into bunkers or stay mobile as much as possible to avoid becoming targets for these warships.

At the same time, Angor Watson opened the magic mirror and directly contacted the lich who just cursed fiercely.

After seeing Amberxiu's skull face in the mirror, Ange Watson immediately said: "Does Master Ultraman think that we Ryan can't afford the price? Can those extremely poor orcs buy yours?" Battleship, and we Lane people can’t afford it?”

Amber Xiu chuckled and said, "Don't be nervous, my old friend. When did I sell battleships to the orcs? I just rented some small airships for reconnaissance. They have no weapons."

"This is a battlefield. I'm afraid I don't have time to test each other with you, Master. What are those huge warships in the sky? Don't tell me that you are here for sightseeing."

Ange Watson has clenched his fists.

At the beginning of the war, the Kuroshio had appeared several times, each time causing great losses to the Lane people. If these warships in the sky had the same powerful combat power as the Kuroshio, then there would be no need to fight this battle, and they could just abandon the city and escape. Perhaps they could evacuate before the city defense magic circle was broken.

"You really misunderstood. Ange, I did not sell these battleships to the orcs, and they did not appear on the battlefield to launch an attack on Ryan. On the contrary, I came here for peace today."

At this moment in the sky, Amber Xiu was sitting in the cockpit of the new battleship, looking at the empty surroundings, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

Damn psychotic goddess, ruined his Kuroshio.

That is the real battleship. The several newly built battleships now are just shells, without various weapons and carrier-based aircraft. The sum of several battleships is not as good as the Kuroshio.

It's just larger in size and looks bluffing, but in fact it will be exposed as soon as you use it.

But Amber Xiu is here to bluff people, and this effect is enough.

Seven giant battleships flew across the sky, blocking even the sunlight, which was enough to scare the orcs and Lane people below from doing anything.

Not only Ange Watson was frightened, but the orcs were also contacting Amberxiu and asking him if he had received money from the Lane people.

It has to be said that both sides have the same idea in this regard, which shows how deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is Amber Xiu's character.

Across the magic mirror, Amberxiu said to Ange Watson: "Today I am not here to use weapons, but to teach Ryan how to shake hands with the orcs and make peace. Ange, I hope that Ryan and the orcs can temporarily cease fighting and continue fighting. It will only continue to shed innocent blood.”

Ange Watson was stunned. He thought he heard wrongly.

Isn't this lich waiting to make war fortune? Seeing the war in quagmire, when he was about to make a lot of money, how could he stop it at this time.

Angor Watson thought of a lot in an instant, but still didn't understand what Amberxiu meant, so he asked directly: "Ultraman Master, what exactly do you want to do?"

"It's just to maintain world peace. Isn't this what I have been doing? I was the one who mediated the war between the dwarves and the elves, which saved a war and saved millions of lives. The Githyanki came from the star realm It was me who ended the invasion, and even the war in the depths of the ocean came to an end quickly because of me..."

What Amber Hew said was so natural that it made Ange Watson feel uncomfortable.

When a lich claimed to maintain world peace in front of the paladin, Ange Watson felt that the world was crazy. What's even crazier is that Ange Watson couldn't think of how to refute it for a while. At least half of what the lich said was true.

Damn it, unknowingly, this lich became a hero who saved the world.

Wait, something's wrong, he was almost taken to the ditch.

Ange Watson reacted immediately and asked: "Ultraman Master, what did you just say? Are you ready to stop this war?"

Amberxiu sighed and said: "Although the grudge between the orcs and Ryan can no longer be resolved, and the hatred between the two countries has lasted for thousands of years, I still don't want to see too many innocent lives sacrificed. So, I'm here, I I hope both parties can accept my mediation.”

Ange Watson:…

This lich actually said that he didn't want to see innocent lives sacrificed. It was like Tiger saying that he was going to become a vegetarian, but he couldn't make it up.

But at least the lich didn't come to throw undead bombs at Ryan, and Ange Watson breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ultraman Master, what do you mean by mediation? Can you make the orcs retreat and return the land that belongs to Ryan?"

Amberxiu glanced at Ange Watson. Among the three Watson brothers, Allen was probably the stupidest one. The general opened his mouth to ask the orcs to return the land. Is this lion really a paladin when he opened his mouth?

Fortunately, Amberxiu had already collected information and said to Ange Watson: "Ange, according to historical records, the land on the other side of the Emerald River originally belonged to the Orc Empire. We just occupied it. Not only the city on the other side of the river, but also the city you are in now belongs to the orcs. "

The Lion Empire continues to expand externally, eroding the territory of its neighbors bit by bit, so it has its current huge territory and can support a huge population.

It's just that this bad debt happened many years ago, and the land that has been occupied for hundreds of years naturally becomes Ryan's.

Ange Watson said with a straight face: "It was the orcs who violated the original non-aggression treaty, which led to Ryan's counterattack. This land already belonged to Ryan. Master Ultraman, you want to say what you said before?" , then I can only say that the Orc Empire was built with the help of Ryan."

"Yes, the great Holy King Arthur Lane helped all races establish their own kingdoms, hoping that all races could live with freedom, equality and dignity. But what has Lane done in the past seventeen hundred years? Your fanatical race ism and religious fanaticism are madly harming your neighbors. If Arthur Lane were still alive and saw your behavior, he would be so disappointed..."

Amber was angrily interrupted by Ange Watson mid-sentence.

"How dare you mention that name! I seriously warn you, the name of the Holy King is not yours to say. Master Ultraman, I respect your knowledge and deeds, but I warn you very seriously, the Holy King is not your name. It’s a tool to perform rhetoric, this is blasphemy and a declaration of war against the entire Ryan!”

Amberxiu looked at the angry-looking Angor Watson, but he didn't expect that he was still a fan of Arthur. Amberxiu thought that he was a ruthless type like that iron-blooded general and had no regard for tradition.

Facing Ange Watson's anger, Amberxiu said calmly: "You actually know the truth in your heart. You are fighting a war, letting the blood of innocent people dye the emerald river red. And I, the undead, am saving the world. In order to be less Sacrifice and give up my interests. Ange, who is blaspheming the Holy King between you and me?"

Ange Watson gritted his teeth. This rhetorical question made him unable to answer, but the fact that he could not argue did not mean that Ange Watson would be convinced.

"Ultraman Master, you and I both know that you only have wealth in your heart. No matter what you do, the fire of your soul burns out the rusty smell of gold coins. So why not waste everyone's time? What is your so-called mediation? What means?"

Amberxiu felt a little emotional. Compared with Allen, Ange Watson was not only older, but also had much more mature views, which could not be shaken by just a few words. So Amberxiu did not waste time and said straight to the point: "I am going to hold a meeting and invite the Elf King, Archdruid, Dwarf King, Orc King, and your Emperor of Lane to attend.

"I would like to emphasize one last time that I am here just for world peace. So I will invite all kings to participate in this peace meeting to completely resolve everyone's disputes. My goal is to eliminate war so that everyone can live and work in peace and contentment."

After saying these words, Amberxiu transmitted a delicate small box to Angor Watson through the magic mirror.

"Bring this gift to your emperor. This is the invitation I sent to him. After reading the contents, I think he will understand my good intentions."