How to Save Humanity After Transmigrating into a Villainess Princess? Chapter 187 : Prepare for Evacuation

To achieve rapid communication and let the desert city-states prepare for evacuation before the army arrived, Cecilia borrowed a group of mages from Erin to fly ahead to the desert city-states.

Upon hearing that there was finally a chance to survive, the city-state alliance, which had already completely lost hope, organized itself again.

Living, staying alive.

This beca the unanimous desire of all desert region people in the beast tide.

After receiving the aid ssage from the mages who descended from the sky, the entire desert region imdiately boiled with excitent!

The hope that had been completely lost was finally rekindled.

According to the agreent, today was the day for the desert city-state assembly to restart.

At twelve noon, officials from the Elasian Empire would co here to discuss the specific matters of retreat with them.

Although it was only ten o'clock now, the eting hall was already packed with people.

Unlike the silence at the end of the last eting, this eting hall was bustling with voices.

"My God, was that white-haired woman really so reliable?"

"No matter what conditions Elasia gives us, we must accept them! We must survive!"

"Eh? Why didn't the Yage City representative co?"

"Elasia! Light of humanity!"

"..."

While the eting room was bustling with voices, the excited voice of a ssenger ca in.

"I see the Elasian envoy!"

The previously bustling eting room instantly fell silent.

If their noise made the envoy angry, it would be over.

Every City Lord and city-state representative clearly understood—whether they lived or died now was completely up to the Elasians' word.

Moreover, the Elasians sending troops to save them gained absolutely no benefit and even had to take considerable risks.

So now they dared not make even the slightest sound in front of the Elasian envoy.

The silence didn't last long. Soon the ssenger's voice broke the silence again.

"The Elasian envoy has arrived!"

Before long, a woman in full-coverage armor walked in.

She walked onto the podium without any hesitation.

Looking at the silent crowd below, Aelia cleared her throat, preparing to begin her speech.

Previously, Minister Candice had instructed the military—they must have the city-state residents evacuate in the form of being scattered into multiple mixed city-state groups.

On one hand, this would facilitate absolute obedience to Elasian military orders during retreat. On the other hand, it would facilitate Elasia's absorption of these city-state populations after victory.

Moreover, the scattered city-state citizens would completely lose organizational power.

This not only ensured these citizens wouldn't cause trouble afterward but also ensured they would completely lose the ability to organize and flee after Elasia's defeat.

This approach both guaranteed that the Elasian Empire could completely absorb this population after successfully surviving and ensured that this population could serve as at shields to delay magical beast attacks after defeat.

This plan was indeed sowhat cruel, so Cecilia knew she would have difficulty executing it well.

So she entrusted the relatively ruthless Aelia to carry it out.

Aelia swept her gaze around the crowd below.

"Everyone, I've co here to discuss evacuation matters with you."

"You also know that Elasia helping you cannot gain any benefits."

"So we cannot accept any form of negotiation."

"Do you understand?"

Swept by the red-glowing gaze from within the armor, the City Lords below imdiately showed timidity.

However, they actually had no intention of negotiating conditions at all.

After all, no matter what—nothing could compare to life!

The City Lord of Tibi City, as the leader of the city-state alliance, smiled obsequiously:

"We await the envoy's instructions and dare not disobey."

Aelia nodded.

Recalling what Minister Candice had instructed, she said to the city-state envoys below:

"Good, now please listen to Elasia's evacuation requirents."

"First, we don't know how long this disaster will last, so we cannot guarantee whether we can provide sufficient survival supplies for the refugees afterward."

"Therefore, please notify all desert people intending to evacuate—bring all the wealth they can carry, so they can exchange for necessary survival supplies with Elasian people and rchants when the ti cos."

"Understood?"

The City Lords all nodded repeatedly.

"Understood, understood."

Actually, everyone was thinking the sa thing.

After all, the desert region would probably be destroyed afterward, so everyone would definitely bring all the wealth they could carry.

Aelia nodded with satisfaction.

Actually, she knew—Elasia's resources were completely sufficient to support this group of people.

It was just that Minister Candice had instructed—to make the desert people bring all their wealth as much as possible.

This would not only let Elasia gain so advantage but also make these people completely give up the idea of returning.

So Aelia's voice, which seed to carry no emotion, sounded again.

"Then, to ensure order during evacuation, Elasia requires that during evacuation, all city-state citizens must be scattered and organized into multi-city-state mixed teams for evacuation."

"And Elasia requires that all city-state citizens must obey all arrangents of the Elasian governnt after arriving in Elasia, without any objection."

"Those who can accept this should bring their citizens to gather north of the desert region in three days, where our army will provide escort."

After speaking, Aelia left the venue directly without any pause.

She didn't know how many people would be able to accept this requirent.

After all, doing this was equivalent to completely taking away the power of these city-state elites.

If she stayed in the venue to negotiate or even argue with these City Lords, it would probably greatly affect Elasia's authority.

So she didn't even stay in the venue. After giving the choice to the City Lords, she had the mages waiting outside take her back to Elasia.

Leaving only the City Lords still in place.

The City Lords looked at each other and all laughed.

Please, what kind of requirent was this?!

Wasn't it just losing the power of City Lords?

Compared to being able to survive together with the citizens, this was far too little!

They had originally thought Elasia would make them sign slave contracts and beco slaves or sothing.

Even without such excessive demands, the Elasians would definitely make many other demands.

After all, in this rescue operation, the Elasians gained absolutely no benefit.

However, no one had expected—Elasia saving them only had these requirents?

Moreover, these requirents were even completely related to their safety!

At this mont, they all believed—the Empress of Elasia was truly as pure and kind as her title!

In such an extrely unequal situation between both sides, she hadn't ntioned anything about Elasian interests at all!

And all the requirents made were about their evacuation safety!

Everyone in the eting room was extrely excited!

Before long, a City Lord took his leave:

"Alright, I'll go first. See you in Elasia."

Following his departure, the people in the eting room also left one after another.

"Let's go, let's go, see you in Elasia."

"..."

After everyone left, the Tibi City Lord, who knew Tina had probably gone to Elasia, said to the ssenger at the door:

"Yage City's lord went to Elasia. You go to Yage City to notify about the evacuation, as quickly as possible!"

After speaking, he also went to organize Tibi City's evacuation.