"A toast to your beauty." Richard sliced off the neck of the crystal wine bottle with a single slap. Mimicking Elise’s elegant deanor, he took a small sip of wine. "The proverb says, ’The bird that takes the lead gets shot,’ and I understand that principle all too well! Paul Newman must already hate to death—taking down three Dreadlords hit him like a lightning bolt. However, it’s only a matter of ti before he snaps out of his shock and cos up with a way to deal with ! As for that little wretch Jia Bao, if she really is a competent Witch King, then if she can’t make use of , I suspect she’ll choose to cripple my martial arts to minimize the threat. In short, I’ve already braced myself for danger!"
"Richard, I feel as though you’re replaying the sa story that happened in the Bimon Kingdom. Haven’t you noticed? Right now, the Demon World monarch’s dilemma over what to do with you feels very much like how Pope Brut once grappled with dealing with the Feilengcui Lord!" Avril chuckled. "Use you? They don’t dare to fully utilize you. Don’t use you? They feel reluctant, thinking it would waste talent!"
"A rose with thorns." Elise offered an apt taphor.
"No matter what, I cannot leave the Demon World, regardless of how the Witch King feels or tries to deal with !"
"Why?" Elise and Avril were stunned.
"At first, all I cared about was avenging Master Puskas. But after truly coming to the Demon World, I’ve gradually realized that my plan shouldn’t just be about eliminating a few Demon Clan leaders—it needs to be bigger than that!" Richard tossed the bottle aside, lit up a cigar, and took a deep drag, letting the smoke sink deeply into his lungs.
"Running for the position of Left Bank Heavenly King this ti was purely coincidental! If it weren’t for this election, I’d have already scoped out the situation and gone to assassinate the Witch King. With my equipnt, combined with my own strength and so support forces, taking out a severely weakened Witch King through a sneak attack wouldn’t be that hard!" Richard exhaled a long stream of smoke rings. "Looking back now, such an act would have little significance. Even defeating three Dreadlords this ti almost feels aningless for the future. I have to stay here!"
"You want to stay here? Don’t tell you’ve truly fallen for Jia Bao’s beauty and plan to stick around to beco the ’True Martial Prince’?" Avril laughed, doubting the possibility based on her understanding of Richard.
"Oh, I do want to stay!" Richard shot a glance at the Peacock Beauty and the pretty-boy Druid sitting nearby. He continued speaking to Avril and Elise: "Don’t forget, the Witch King can use the ’Spiritual Thread Code Crystal’ to strip complete arcane spells directly from souls. This magic is similar to the Elves’ unique forbidden curse, ’Magic Grafting,’ and is an incredibly powerful spell! This type of magic can work on fresh souls and living beings, such as vegetative patients. Although I’ve managed to take down three more Dreadlords now, as long as the Witch King has enough ’Spiritual Thread Code Crystals,’ then with two fresh souls and one vegetative being, Hollywood Continent could still produce one Witch King and two powerful Arcane users among the Dreadlords!"
"And what does that have to do with your decision to stay in the Demon World? Are you planning to wipe them all out? With the Demon World’s developed transportation systems, a scenario like that in Kalimantan would be incredibly difficult to replicate!" The Aegean Flower pondered for a mont. "Unless our Feilengcui reinforcents can imdiately occupy the Guild Teleportation Center and then use Sif Elves to disrupt the normal transmission of the magic teleportation array!"
"The Demon World practically equips everyone with a Bone-Link Treasure Box, and magic teleportation arrays aren’t exclusive to guild centers; shops and noble hos certainly have them too! That suggestion isn’t realistic," Avril shook her head.
"Spending all your ti fighting and killing is too crude, don’t you think? Honestly, I want a governnt official’s role!" Richard chuckled. "Think pragmatically, you two—for the magic invasion of the Aegean Continent, will the Demon Clan rely on Dreadlords, Six-winged Heavenly Kings, and Winged Magic Cavaliers, or on millions of basic troops?"
"Of course, they’ll rely on soldiers!" Avril and Elise answered in unison.
This fundantal knowledge was clear to the two won; wars are fought and territories are conquered through basic troop units engaging in occupation, slaughter, and domination. Elite experts serve a role of deterrence rather than active combat.
Even if the Demon Clan had a thousand Dreadlords who could cast three hundred catastrophic forbidden spells like ’Land Sink Technique,’ subrging the entire Aegean Continent into underwater abyssal depths, they wouldn’t do that! Such actions would render their invasion attempts aningless—after all, if the Demon Clan destroyed the entirety of the Aegean Continent, what would they occupy then? Just a vast ocean?
"I’m glad you understand! When the Bimon Kingdom fought against the Mulan Kingdom in the Taklamago Desert, the combined number of troops for both sides didn’t exceed a re hundred thousand. Yet, with such a small number, the battles were fierce enough to darken the sky and create rivers of blood, ultimately causing over a million casualties! Now imagine what will happen if millions of Demon Clan soldiers attack the Aegean Continent—it defies imagination!" Richard sighed deeply. "It reminds of the Gold-Craving Ants’ swarming armies. I am human, not a god. I can’t save all the Beamon people! Sure, I can move the Feilengcui citizens to the Chesang Continent, but what about the rest of the Beamon? Even if I could move them all, would they agree to abandon their hotowns to live in a place where they struggle for food and clothing? It’s a near-impossible mission!"
"And it’s not just the Demon Clan; there’s also the Sea Clan armies! Take just the Seia Empire—it has land and population several tis larger than the Aegean Continent, not to ntion the corrupt fallen Elves of Ares Ocean Kingdom and Xiang Pa Ocean Kingdom! Didn’t your big uncle already say it? Their Sea Clan Mage battalions have even larger formations than your Bimon Kingdom’s regular army battalion!" Elise sneered. "The Sea Clan, just like the Demon Clan, harbor a deep-seated hatred for your Beamon people. With their mobility, even moving everyone to Chesang Continent wouldn’t stop them from chasing you down. You might as well move underground!"
"What Similian referred to as Sea Clan mages were rely mages from the regular battalions, not including mages recruited from civilian forces during ergency warti states! If Seia and Ares join forces, then their millions of miles of mariti border patrol troops could be shifted to land battlefields!" Avril looked slightly embarrassed. "My brother didn’t exaggerate; he actually concealed so strength. Counting Seia Ocean Kingdom’s Makura Clan Crabn and Ares Ocean Kingdom’s Richelia Clan Electric Eels, even two hundred thousand ’Storm Split Sorcerers’ would be a conservative estimate."
"Two... two... two hundred thousand? Conservative?" Elise was left speechless, managing only a bitter smile.
"The Sea Kingdoms are not lands; their hypothetical enemies are all other mariti nations. Elise, you must admit that threats from the land do not trouble the Sea Kingdoms. Thus, the military force you see or know of is just the tip of the iceberg!" Avril shrugged helplessly.
"Good thing we have Richard, who can cast the Divine Song Aura! Thankfully, most mages won’t exceed advanced rankings!" Elise found herself admiring Richard the more she observed him. Though his combat strength lay primarily in martial arts rather than magic, there was no denying his extraordinary talent in unconventional magic.
"Of course! I am a great Saint Chiao!" Richard grinned mischievously.
"Indeed, you pioneered a new magical system—haha..." Elise taunted. "I seriously can’t fathom how soone could possess such a diverse set of unconventional magical skills all in one body—the true genius of Saint Chiao!"
"Did soone forget about ’Death Sense’?" Avril teased. "Soone may have tried that spell before!"
"Stop with the nonsense!" Richard, blushing furiously, stopped the two won from escalating their verbal sparring into a full-blown war. "Focus on the serious matters. Focus!"
"I want to stay in the Demon World, precisely because of the Sea Clan!" Richard wiped his face clean, replacing his look with a heavy expression. "Due to the limitations of the Anarel Moisture Formation, even if the Sea Clan invades the Aegean Continent, no matter how many soldiers they have or how nurous their mages, the troops truly fit to hit the battlefield must be restricted!"
"You aim to whip Taige to devour Wolf?" Elise gasped, her thoughts racing.
"In the upcoming Aegean war, there will be three key players: the Beamon, the Sea Clan, and the Demon Clan. Among them, we, the Beamon, are the weakest and poorest, far from the caliber of either the Demon Clan or the Sea Clan. My goal is to make the Sea Clan and Demon Clan clash against each other first. Only then can the Beamon Kingdom survive in the cracks in-between! Here’s one promising beginning—the invasion tilines for both factions are already aligned with next year’s spring season. The Demon Clan waits for the Silent Moon’s arrival to render the Space-Ti Rift void, while the Sea Clan is gathering equipnt. Since occupying the Gold Coast Continent—the black-skinned people’s land—they’ve been conscripting natives, mining, and refining ore as part of their pre-war preparations!"
Seeing Elise about to question, Richard waved his hand, signaling her to hold off. Flicking ash from his cigar, he continued. "I must admit, the Sea Clan and Demon Clan aren’t chessboard pieces who will fight each other just because I want them to. In truth, they could very well choose to wipe out the Beamon Kingdom first, then confront each other afterward. It’s totally reasonable for them to do so, given their hatred of the Beamon—eliminating us is equivalent to removing a hidden threat. Currently, the Beamon Kingdom is not the Beamon of old. Within the Aegean Continent, our kingdom’s overall strength is second-rate at best, and we’re desperately poor—even after conquering Mulan Kingdom in the Taklamago Desert, we’re still struggling."
"So what’s your plan? Stick around as a prince to save the Beamon Kingdom? Are you thinking of pulling strings through marriage?" Avril seed a bit jealous, her perception of Richard firmly placing him as soone capable of winning over the Lich Queen through sheer power.
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