Chapter 220: Busy People
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav
A six-hour-long marathon-like discussion was just about to finish in Diffindor’s royal palace.
“Then, the next eting will most likely be in six months’ ti. Please prepare the mine production samples and tax-free item lists by that ti. In the next eting, we shall try to finish all business-related agreents that apply to the entire Mist Alliance.”
“In order to show the important of the next eting, Queen Glina will personally co to sign off on the contract at that ti. We hope that your side will be able to give us equal treatnt. Of course, the publicity work will also be left to your side since you’re all the sa species with the sa culture and language, and this is an excellent chance to greatly improve the relationship between our kingdoms. This chance for publicity shouldn’t be wasted.”
“Equal treatnt? I understand. I shall inform Princess Reyne. But by six months’ ti, she might very well be Queen Reyne.”
“Haha! That’s even better. It’s getting late, so I shall take my leave first.”
Elisa, who seed so energetic, just earlier sighed with a face filled with worry. She watched the horse-drawn carriage fade into the distance with the young diplomat Wende from Sleuweir Kingdom who she just sent off.
“It’s been so long since I’ve been able to make contact; I hope that nothing bad has happened to him. No, since the entire Earth Elental Plane has been cut off, then there must be so big incident going on over there. I can only hope that he returns safely.”
“Relax, I watched those two mischievous bratty twins grow up. Neither of them seed like they would be the short-lived type.” Kelly smiled and there was pride in her tone, but was it really alright for her to be calling Roland a brat?
“Perhaps you shouldn’t be worrying about Roland; instead, worry about that Emordi-sothing. Don’t judge Roland by how calm he seed on the surface when he left. Actually, the angrier he is, the calr he’ll appear to be. He’s definitely bearing a grudge right now. Based on my understanding of him, if he’s in a bad mood, he’ll plot on how he can make soone else even worse off than he is. So, you should be worried right now about his enemy, not Roland.”
In a way, this wood elf was the one who watched Prince Roland grow up, and she made this deduction using her instincts, which was actually quite close to the mark.
“They have their battlefield, and we have ours. We can’t have them looking down on us when they return, so let’s work hard, young Elisa.”
They were actually busy with official work as the background scenery for their chat. Just leaving for a little while caused the docunts and letters that needed their attention to pile up like mountains.
“Of course. I still need much assistance from Sister Kelly, and there’s still so many things I would like to learn from you.”
Elisa smiled and nodded. Kelly, who had assisted over ten generations of Mist Royalty, was basically unbeatable when it ca to any political matters. Kelly’s hundreds of years of political experience was astonishing, and Elisa had learned a lot.
When Roland beca the absentee leader and even Reyne followed after him, all the political and military affairs of the Eastern Mist Communal Country were left to Elisa and the others who had stayed behind.
Military affairs were quite easy. With the Red Hunting Hounds and their knights staying behind, the creation and training of various military squads went quite well. There was also no need to change the overall military organization significantly.
But, on the other hand, the political matters regarding the citizens were rather critical. These issues were ones that couldn’t wait for even a single day.
Although East Mist didn’t have the serious problems of Sleuweir Kingdom like reconstruction after battle, just the large numbers of gray elves moving to East Mist and how to accommodate them had all the local officials busy thinking up plans. Increasing the number of living facilities and new cities as well as redesigning old cities all beca number one in priority.
Apart from all this, there was also the scheduled expansion of Diffindor’s city limits for the upcoming spring, the planting of new crops, and various annual tasks at hand. The first task would affect nearly 30% of the citizens’ living area, and the second had to do with the upcoming year’s food production. Both were critical tasks that they couldn’t afford to have any problems appearing with.
And, recently, sothing even more important was adding to everyone’s burden, making the East Mist officials overloaded when they were already at their limits. In just one short week, the number of governntal officials that had been sent to the hospital for overwork had reached double digits.
This headache of an issue that everyone had to deal with using all their energy was the setup of the Mist Alliance.
This was doubtlessly a good thing. Just the news of such an issue would cause the entire country to celebrate. After all, after the Mist Alliance’s flag was finally flown, it would an that the People of the Mist had finally gathered together again. In a way, this would an the reconstruction of the already destroyed Mist Kingdom.
But so things were just too sudden. According to traditions, even trade discussions would typically take several months to complete, and it would usually take a military alliance one or two years to finish the negotiations. For sothing as huge as a mutual alliance, economics, military affairs, politics, agriculture, diplomacy and so on all needed to beco unified and reach an outco that every single country could accept. This definitely wasn’t a task that could be completed with ease.
Ten or twenty years? Perhaps ten years would be realistic, but the ti limit that Roland had given them was a re two years. As the core countries of the Mist Alliance, the Eastern Mist Communal Country and Sleuweir Kingdom were required to finish all the foundational work for unification within a single year. The heavy workload required for this was likely sufficient to send several hundred more governntal officials to ntal hospitals in the near future. To be honest, in just this short ti, several more patients were registered due to overwork.
As the highest-level female official as well as private tutor in the royal palace, even if she didn’t have an official governntal position, Kelly was indeed the core of the newly-born Eastern Mist Communal Country. But even the wood elf with extrely high stamina was also quite fatigued by the recent heavy workload.
*Clap!* *Clap!* *Clap!*
Kelly lightly clapped her hands to attract the attention of all the busy officials. As she looked at everyone’s tired faces, she ca to a decision.
“It’s almost dinnerti; everyone should rest up early tonight. No working overti—we’ll just continue tomorrow.”
“But we haven’t finished our work yet, and the Shawen tribes are coming tomorrow. We still haven’t prepared the new contracts, and the report from the intelligence departnt hasn’t even arrived yet.”
“Only by pacing yourselves will you be able to go farther. I don’t wish to see everyone here in the hospital. No matter what work remains, do it tomorrow! This is an order. Could it be that when Reyne and Roland aren’t here, none of you will listen to ?”
In everyone’s eyes, Kelly, who seed to be smiling ever so cutely, was actually rather scary. But, her seemingly forceful order was also filled with concern that ward their hearts.
“Heh heh, even if Reyne and Roland were here, they probably wouldn’t be of any help, and would only add to the ss.”
Elisa’s words, however, caused everyone to start laughing uncontrollably, but this was indeed the truth. If Reyne had been present, she would be nothing more than a rubber stamper, and soone would even need to be sent out to find her as she would always skip out on work. It was pretty much the sa if Roland was present, with the only difference being that there was no need to send anyone to look for him. That was because as long as Roland himself didn’t show up, nobody else would ever be able to find him.
“Why are they both so similarly skilled at giving other people trouble?”
“Hmph! When he cos back, he really needs to pay us well for doing all this.”
While complaining, the two of them began working on various tasks. Neither of them was an ordinary person, and both of them had excellent bodies, so it seed that they wouldn’t be able to escape from overti.
As for , I was far off in another plane, and I couldn’t possibly know about the things happening in my holand. Nor did I have any ti to think about them, as the powerful Earth Elental God was the only thing on my mind, giving enormous pressure.
Even though a major battle was clearly about to occur soon, I spent much of my precious ti before the battle in the library. Of course, there was a good reason for that.
Information was key to winning one hundred percent of battles. If I couldn’t even find out what aces Emordilorcan had up his proverbial sleeve, of course I wouldn’t be able to prepare for combat against him. If I had to use human lives to block him in the end, that would make lose the advantage of proactiveness.
As the most ancient of the Elental Gods, even if there were records of him personally fighting before, they would likely be from several thousand years ago. Although the two Elental Gods on my side provided a little information, not even ntioning the fact that it was likely outdated, the fact of the matter was that Emordilorcan had never been truly forced to the brink before. It was only natural that the other two Elental Gods didn’t know if he still hid any aces.
However, with the assistance of several top-level archmages and hundreds of acolytes, we checked a countless number of books and discussed all our combat experiences. Anything related to earth magic was counted, and we summarized hundreds of rules and common thods by which earth elentals used earth magic along with their highest-level magic.
Our final anti-Emordilorcan plan contained a full 30 volus and filled up an entire bookshelf. Not only did it involve plans against Emordilorcan, it was also a foundational summary of earth magic, which would be incredibly useful in earth magic cultivation and research in the future. At the ti, Kaid was incredibly overjoyed and said that the result of this ti’s research ant that he wouldn’t have to worry about research funds for at least the next ten years, which made Alia rather jealous.
There was an old phrase in the magic society: “How much power a mage has depends on how long he has prepared for. If the mage has prepared for long enough and has a sufficient amount of backup plans and resources, it is possible to even slay a God.”
“If soone simply goes up to his enemy with caring about anything at all, wouldn’t he be no different from a musclehead?” If it weren’t for the fact that Margaret kept glancing in my direction out of the corner of her eyes as she said this, I would have readily agreed.
After confirming my enemy, I would observe my target and collect information before formulating a plan. Apart from an incredibly few, most of those of a job class such as a mage were extrely inept at lee combat. Never facing soone from the front was the most natural thing of all. In many previous situations, we had been forced to battle so there wasn’t enough prior preparation. This ti, however, we had plenty of ti, and all our combat extrapolations and preparations were more than plenty. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have co to attack Emordilorcan in his own ho.
“He really is just a turtle hiding in his shell. This shell of his is so hard. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.”
Similar to what we had seen in the mortal plane, Emordilorcan finally ca out to greet us in the basic form of a stone giant. In the mortal plane, his form had made people feel sowhat internally conflicted upon viewing him, but the current Emordilorcan’s appearance made everyone feel helpless on how to comnt.
Unlike his pitch-black outer shell in the mortal plane, Emordilorcan’s stone giant body seed to be constructed out of precious white jade, which seed exquisite yet frail to the point that just a casual touch would shatter it. However, the fact that just his very steps were causing the ground to sink doubtlessly proved that his extravagantly beautiful heavy armor of white jade was of a scarily high quality.
The forbidden spell was still sending out waves in the Elental Tide, and he rushed furiously in our direction. All the obstacles along his way were viciously sent flying; he ignored all spells and projectiles. With at a preliminary glance, anyone would know that the stone giant before us was definitely a tough one who would be difficult to even scratch.
But this was also within my expectations.
Once his direct route of charging towards us was basically confird, of course we would activate the trap we had long since prepared for him.
“Realm of Flowing Water.”
The plentiful preparations beforehand reached the conditions necessary to bring enough water elent here for the Water Elental Goddess to activate her own Divine Domain. A river suddenly descended from the sky, causing a mud-filled flood to cover this entire land.
The sand and water created a muddy flow that seed solid but was actually flexible. The moving sand and rocks were far more difficult to deal with than the flood itself; sinking into it would an that even thousands of kilograms of strength wouldn’t be sufficient to pull yourself free.
This was a trap created by nature, and had absolutely nothing to do with magical resistance. This was a death trap created just for Emordilorcan who had peerless physical strength. When Emordilorcan got trapped in the mud flow, he struggled fiercely at first, but when he discovered that everything beneath his feet had turned into muddy water where he couldn’t use his strength, he gave up resisting and allowed the muddy river to carry him with its course.
Although he was now stuck, the fact that his eyes were still filled with the intention to fight us seed to be telling sothing.
“Even if you can trap temporarily for the ti being, so what?”
That was the self-confidence in his body’s defense power. And he had every right to have such self-confidence. In all our combat extrapolations, that Elental God body of his built up over thousands of years had basically unbeatable defense. It had given us so many headaches.
The Water Elental Goddess’s Divine Domain was extrely limited here, and the mud river would quickly lose its montum. But for us, this was sufficient.
“Frigid Ice River!”
The descent of ice caused the river to instantly transform into a frozen river as the newly-ford ice solidly trapped Emordilorcan within. Right after this, the remaining demons were already beginning to attack him. At this mont, Emordilorcan’s reinforcents as well as those looking to cheaply gain the accomplishnt of slaying a God all descended upon him.
“Die, Emordilorcan!”
The furiously roaring Wind Elental God Camdian transford himself into a Storm Giant and was intending to engage in lee combat with Emordilorcan in a repeat performance of the combat situation from the underground labyrinth.
*Roar!*
Before he even reached Emordilorcan, the frozen Emordilorcan broke free from his bonds and sent a white jade-like huge fist that was even faster than Camdian’s roar.
*Boom!*
There was no magic involved at all; it was rely a full-force blow. Yet Camdian’s body was already shattered! When he reford his physical body from mist at a nearby location, he was noticeably smaller than earlier, evidence that he was definitely injured.
The Wind Elental God had overestimated himself. In the mortal plane, he was still able to exchange a few blows with Emordilorcan, but in this Earth Elental Plane, Camdian was the one who was weakened while the Earth Elental God was now using his true body. Plus, Emordilorcan’s power was multiplied even further in his ho plane. The power gap between the two was massive.
Another reason that Camdian’s body was shattered in a single blow was that as a mage class, he actually went out and tried to engage Emordilorcan, the pure warrior, in lee combat. In the end, it was still him underestimating his opponent; he used his past experience to asure Emordilorcan’s true strength and ended up suffering mightily with just a single exchange of blows.
But to , none of this was that important. From the very start, I didn’t consider the possibility of killing Emordilorcan using any sort of frontal attack. Getting him stuck here was enough for .
“Beifeng, you’re up. Do a good job for in digging up his ancestors’ graves, and don’t leave behind even a single stone.”
Just as I finished speaking, Beifeng’s reply caused to feel uncomfortable all over.
“Relax, with going out there, I promise I won’t leave even a single mouse or cockroach behind!”
I had always wondered about a certain question. Why was it that such normal-sounding words would always make people feel uncomfortable when he was the one saying them?
And, right now, on the outskirts of the battlefield, the escaping Giant Sand Worms were blocked by a certain smiling half-dragon Legend-ranked hunter, who was already beginning to use his super charisma against certain targets.
Soon, those restless huge beasts actually began listening to Beifeng’s command, for only the reason that he told them there was one thing that could help them gain freedom and beco even stronger.
“Our target is—”
“To not have any cavities in our teeth!” Adam was joking and ssing around even at such a ti.
“No! The Elental Throne, dig it up for ! There’s going to be no more Earth Elental God for at least the next two thousand years! We’re going to make this bastard lose his foundation and beco holess.” I angrily shouted and pulled out my longsword as I watched the combat situation unfold in front of .
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