Chapter 187 You forced me to use the ten-ring spell!

It is said that the continent of Okanal was in chaos two thousand years ago, with many races including humans, elves and dwarves fighting for the soil for survival on this continent.

The final result was that humans won and occupied this vast and rich continent. Elves, dwarves, and even giants all withdrew from the stage of history and are rarely seen now.

After humanity won, new disputes began among humans until the founding emperor of the Narbo Empire defeated other competitors and established the first empire.

After 2000 years of development, the Narbo Empire is now the undisputed number one power, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the ruler of the entire world.

Except for countries like Inglo and Sussetani, which are located on continental islands and have not been conquered by the Narber Empire because of strange curses on the continental islands, the remaining small human countries only live in some places with harsh environments.

The main reason why the Narbo Empire did not conquer these small countries was that the empire looked down upon these territories.

Although the Narpo Empire was powerful, it still had a major concern, which was the orc kingdom in the north.

After the elves, dwarves and other races withdrew from the stage of history, the orcs, a cruel race with extremely strong individual combat power, are still alive and have been fighting against the Narbo Empire.

Especially powerful races like giants, which are rare and almost extinct, have also formed an alliance with the orcs. Some dragons, for some reason, also support the orcs.

It was the union of these races that enabled them to resist the northward advance of the Narber Empire, thus forming the current situation of confrontation.

As for the Narpo Empire, all the emperors of the empire over the years have had only one goal, which is to destroy the orc kingdom and make the Narpo Empire the undisputed most powerful country.

When the empire was first established, it was a feudal country like Susaitanni, with many nobles occupying land within the country.

The empire gradually purged its internal nobles and completed centralization over a period of 2000 years.

Up to now, except for three dukes who have territories, there is no powerful noble who owns land in the entire empire.

To be more precise, there are only two dukes left.

Because the entire family of the Duke of Capet was wiped out due to an unknown incident more than ten years ago, the Dukedom of Capet was temporarily vacant.

Of course, these are not necessarily true history, but rather reports and rumors, because even for the Empire, a country with a continuous heritage, its history from a thousand years ago disappeared inexplicably.

Grand Duke Toulouse-Lautrec is one of only three dukes in the Narbo Empire.

The Duchy of Lautrec is located at the southernmost tip of the Narpa Empire and controls the entire southern navy of the empire. The strength of the southern navy accounts for more than half of the overall naval strength of the empire.

It was precisely because of the strength of the navy that Toulouse-Lautrec was able to still own his own territory within the centralized empire.

Because in essence, the Narpo Empire is a land power. In addition to the Okanal continent, the empire has also conducted ocean voyages, but has not discovered any new continents.

Therefore, the Narpo Empire did not attach much importance to the ocean, and the resources on some small islands that could occasionally be encountered on the ocean were not rich.

The Toulouse-Lautrec family took advantage of the situation and placed the focus of the entire family on the ocean, and instead gained a place within the empire.

The Duchy of Lautrec is separated from the continental island where England and Sussex are located by a strait, which is the famous "Strait of Split".

In the duchy, tall buildings are lined up one after another, and there is even a magic train that goes directly to the imperial capital of the empire. The streets are clean and tidy, luxurious carriages are running, and various factories are in operation all the time.

If Deya came here, he would be surprised to find that the technological level of the entire Narpo Empire is quite high, even close to the eighteenth century.

As for Susetani and Inglo, although you can occasionally see some very high-tech things, they are mainly products of magic.

But overall, the gap between Susaitani and England and the Narpo Empire is like a 200-year advancement in technology and living standards.

The Duke's manor is a luxurious villa located in the city center, surrounded by flowing water.

The Duchess of Toulouse-Lautrec was about 30 years old and elegant. She asked the maid, "Where is the Duke now?"

"Madam, the Duke is in the garden."

The Duchess nodded and went to the garden of the villa accompanied by her entourage.

The garden covers a vast area and is more like a large park than a garden. At this time, Duke Toulouse-Lautrec was walking his dog in the garden.

Duke Toulouse-Lautrec is nearly fifty years old, with a small mustache on the corner of his mouth. As one of the three dukes of the empire, the Duke is in a high position and has his own majesty.

Seeing her husband who was nearly twenty years older than her, the Duchess took a deep breath before walking forward to greet him, "Your Excellency the Duke."

When Duke Toulouse-Lautrec saw his wife, he nodded without comment.

The Duke did not have much affection for his wife; their marriage was a purely political one.

In particular, he knew very well that his wife's personality was not very good. She was sarcastic and mean in private, and only appeared to be sensible in front of him.

So Duke Lautrec had many lovers outside, and he preferred to hang out with his lovers rather than his wife.

The Duchess of Sussets is also aware of this, but she dares not make any comments when it comes to the Duke's private life.

That’s right, this Duchess is the eldest daughter of the current King of Susaytani, and also the First Princess of Susaytani.

She is the child of the king and his first queen, and has both Susaitani and Hudson bloodlines.

When she came of age, she married the Duke of Narbo-Lautrec of the Empire of Narbo, using the marriage to exchange for peace in the divided channel, and at the same time to threaten the Kingdom of England.

After all, for Susaitani, although the Narbo Empire was powerful, there was still a wide strait between the two sides.

If the empire really wanted to expand its territory and attack Susaitani, the only way was the ocean.

In fact, Duke Lautrec has always had great ambitions. He wants to fulfill his family's thousand-year-old ambition, which is to take over the continental island and expand the family's influence.

One of the reasons why he chose to marry the daughter of King Sussetani was to paralyze the other party, and the other was to reassure the Emperor of the Empire.

As the only Grand Duke in the Empire with real power over land, if the Toulouse-Lautrec family were to marry into other large families within the Empire, it would only alert the Emperor.

Faced with the behemoth of the Narbo Empire and the majesty of the emperor, Duke Lautrec did not dare to disobey too much.

"What do you want from me, ma'am?"

Duke Toulouse-Lautrec asked indifferently.

The Duchess was very afraid of her husband because she knew clearly that he didn't care about the Kingdom of Susaitani at all. Her so-called identity as a princess was nothing in front of this imperial duke.

If she was wronged here, her country and her father would not stand up for her but would only ask her to endure it.

Mrs. Susetani took a deep breath, took out a letter from her arms, and said nervously, "This is the letter my father asked me to pass on to you."

"Oh? How come King Susaytani still has the time to write to me? The situation in Susaytani is not good right now."

Duke Lautrec said in a leisurely tone and took the letter.

Since he had ambitions for Sussets and England, Duke Lautrec certainly sent many spies to the mainland island. He was well aware of the current situation on the mainland island.

There had been civil unrest in Sussetsany, with the Parliamentarians and the Royalists fighting each other, which greatly delighted the Duke of Lautrec.

He hoped that these savage monkeys on the mainland island would fight among themselves more fiercely so that he could have a chance to reap the benefits.

However, what has happened on the mainland island in recent years has completely exceeded Duke Lautrec's expectations.

A necromancer who actually created a terrifying undead army that was invincible on the island of the continent.

He once asked his mages whether the necromancy mages really had such abilities.

But all the mages told him that the Necromancer did not have the ability to create large-scale natural disasters, and that the Necromancer named Deya was special.

Duke Lautrec cares a lot about Deya and has always been paying attention to this necromancer. He believes that this person is very crucial and may even become a serious threat.

He also submitted a memorial to the emperor, explaining the pros and cons and the dangerousness of this man named Deya, hoping that the empire could nip the danger in the bud and not let this necromancer with extraordinary powers develop.

But inexplicably, he received a reply from the emperor, which reprimanded him in a harsh tone and told him not to meddle in other people's affairs, which made Duke Lautrec feel puzzled.

And just recently, new information came from the mainland island that this necromancer named Deya somehow became the Son of the Dawn and easily controlled the Kingdom of Inglo.

Especially since this Necromancer has reached the sixth ring, it can be said that he has completely grown up. Unless a strong man above the eighth ring takes action personally, no one can kill this Necromancer now.

The opponent's six-ring strength and the terrifying undead army are the guarantee of his survival.

For this reason, the Duke privately expressed his dissatisfaction, believing that the central government of the empire was too bloated and too arrogant, which led to the missed best opportunity and the complete development of this threat.

Now, the Duke himself has no choice. Even if he is the Duke of the Empire, he has no qualifications or ability to command an Eight-Ring.

Duke Lautrec was thinking about these things as he opened the secret letter from King Sussettany.

The content is very simple. Sussetani asked Duke Lautrec for help and hoped that he could send troops. In return, the king was willing to cede land!

The current King of Sussetani still has legitimacy, and his treaty to cede land is still valid.

The most important thing is that Duke Lautrec feels that this is probably his best chance. If he does not take action now, and the necromancer really unifies the continental island, their family's ambitions may never be achieved.

When the Duchess saw her husband's frown, she cried, "Sir, please save my father. He is in great danger now."

The First Princess of Susaytani was not stupid. She knew clearly that if her father really lost the throne, then her career as a Duchess would be over.

Duke Toulouse-Lautrec would certainly divorce her, and then, as the Duchess, without a family or a husband, she would fall from grace and become a commoner from a noble.

This was an absolutely unacceptable result for her, who had been pampered since childhood.

The Duke of Toulouse would not make such a difficult decision just because of his wife's request. He asked the butler beside him, "How is the Hudson family in Sussetani?"

The butler said cautiously: "My Lord Duke, the English navy had a big battle with the Hudson family before, and both sides suffered losses.

Later, the news that Deya Cavendish became the Son of God spread. However, the English Navy did not obey his orders but continued to fight with the Hudson family.

This navy does not belong to the Dawn Church, but is the private army of the former Patriarch Garcia. It is only loyal to Patriarch Garcia. Not long ago, the leader of this army sent a request to join us. "

Duke Toulouse-Lautrec's eyes flickered, and he made a prompt decision: "This is a good opportunity. Tell the leader of this navy that I accept his surrender and will give him enough rewards and status as long as he cooperates with us to take down the Hudson family!"

For the Duke of Toulouse-Lautrec, the biggest obstacle to Sussetani is the Hudson family, an enemy that has been fighting with their family for hundreds of years. The butler reminded: "My Lord, if you want to send troops, you need to inform His Majesty and get His Majesty's consent."

Duke Toulouse-Lautrec hesitated for a moment and said decisively: "It's too late. Now is the best time. If we miss this opportunity, we don't know when the next one will come.

As long as we can take Susaitani and complete the expansion of the empire, His Majesty will not blame us."

In fact, the Duke has always been very dissatisfied with the bureaucrats in the imperial capital, because they are always a step behind in everything they do.

After all, although the Narbo Empire is centralized, His Majesty the Emperor does not have absolute final say. The current Emperor can only be described as mediocre. Compared with several powerful and capable emperors in Narbo's history, he is still a little worse.

It is precisely because of this that Duke Toulouse-Lautrec was so bold as to act first and report later.

……

Since the Duke of Campbell's army joined the parliamentary faction, the entire parliamentary army has been unstoppable. First, it broke through the territories of Archduke Ferdinand and Duke Frederick, and then besieged the royal territory.

In less than half a month, all the outlying cities of the royal territory surrendered. The parliament sent an army of more than 300,000 to approach the capital of Susaitani, Abrana, and surrounded the capital.

However, the army did not attack the city directly. After all, this was the capital of Sussetani. If they attacked by force, this prosperous city would inevitably be shattered.

The parliamentarians wanted the king to surrender directly.

"His Royal Highness the Son of God!"

Deya came to the front line of the siege of Abrana. Duke Campbell, one of the commanders of the joint army at that time, greeted Deya with the highest etiquette. He even knelt down in front of many nobles and called him the Son of God.

The Duke of Campbell, who is now the most powerful person in Sussetani, actually performed the great courtesy of kneeling before Deya.

This made the parliamentary nobles who saw this scene exclaim in shock, and the other thoughts that had just arisen in their minds immediately disappeared.

The Duke of Campbell is a very intelligent man and he is well aware of the current situation.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the Duke now seems to have the strongest military force among the parliamentary faction, but he knows very well that the entire Kingdom of England is supporting Deya at this time.

In addition to the support of the Kingdom of Inglo, Deya itself has an invincible army of undead.

The combination of these two is invincible on this continent.

So the Duke of Campbell kept his position very low. He knew clearly who would have the highest power after the two countries were unified.

If he were to act foolishly and arrogantly during this period because of the military strength and bargaining chips in his hands, his end would definitely not be good.

The main reason is that Deya’s undead army brings too much pressure to people.

If it weren't for this army of undead, Deya might have chosen to compromise in order to reduce his own losses.

But with this undead army that was born entirely for war, he would never compromise with anyone. No matter you have an army of 100,000 or 1 million, in the face of the undead scourge, you will only have one way to go, and that is destruction.

In the past, Deya had no support from anyone, and his Scourge Legion was alone and weak. But now with the full support of England, this undead legion, which is no longer bound by morality, is truly invincible.

The Duke of Campbell was well aware of this. The purpose of his sending troops this time was not to raise the status of the Campbell family. His main purpose was to preserve everything his family had now.

He was already a duke, so even if he wanted to improve his status, how high could he go? Could he want to be a king?

Deya knew very well that the Duke of Campbell was actually an opportunist. He seemed to be helping someone in need, but in fact he was just taking advantage of the situation.

But the Duke put himself in a very upright position, which made Deya feel no resentment.

Looking at the middle-aged man in front of him who looked similar to Alfred and had bright golden hair, Deya was also full of admiration.

This is a very resourceful and adaptable person.

"You are being polite, Lord Campbell."

Since the other party had been so humble, Deya naturally had to show his open-mindedness. He quickly helped the Duke up and spoke in the same polite manner.

At this time, Deya was wearing the papal robe which was mainly gold and purple, holding a scepter, looking sacred and noble, and with the humble salute of a duke, the parliamentary nobles around him knelt down unconsciously.

Now even the Duke has knelt down to worship Deya, the Son of God. If they still stand there, it would be an act of seeking death.

With such a simple action, the Duke of Campbell allowed Deya to easily control all the nobles present and completely established his status and authority.

"Alfred and I have always been good friends. I am very happy that you made the right choice, Your Excellency the Duke."

In the tent on the front line, Deya was communicating with several leaders of the parliamentary faction.

Among these people, in addition to the Duke of Campbell, there were his father and brother, Count Laurent and some noble representatives.

In the past, Deya was just a junior in front of these people and sat at the table with the children.

But now is different from the past. Deya's identity has completely changed. Even Earl Cavendish and his brother stood in front of Deya with respectful expressions.

At this time, they must lower their status to highlight Deya's status.

This time, Deya came to the front line without bringing the British army, but the first thing he did after arriving here was to release all the middle and high-level undead in his negative energy space.

The sight of such an elite undead army immediately silenced the army sent by the parliament.

Perhaps an army of 300,000 could destroy Deya's elite undead army by fighting to the death.

But the result is that it won't take long for Deya to rebuild an undead army, while the huge losses suffered by the parliamentary faction will take five or even ten years to recover.

Especially now that Deya’s strength has been recognized, his record of killing a seven-ring dragon in one blow has long been known to everyone.

The decapitation operation is no longer usable in Deya, so the advantage in numbers is even more ridiculous in front of the Necromancer.

"It is Alfred's blessing to be on good terms with His Highness."

Campbell smiled brightly and said, "...The Campbell family has always been the most loyal believers of the goddess. After hearing the goddess' oracle and witnessing your arrival, the Campbell family decided to stand behind you with all their strength and support your holy war with the goddess."

Deya just smiled at the Duke's words.

This is just for reference. The Campbell family may really be believers, but for such a family, their top priority is always the interests of the family.

The reason why he fully supports him is only because of the goddess' oracle. The main reason is that he sees that he will win and he is the kind of person who knows how to stand on the side.

"Your Highness, Archduke Ferdinand was killed by his own men. His body is outside. Frederick and his family have also been captured and are awaiting your decision.

Our interrogator learned from Frederick that he had wanted to use a forbidden item to harm you, but fortunately, under the protection of the goddess, his plan failed. "

Duke Campbell's words made Deya nod secretly. Sure enough, the forbidden object of Dragon's Shadow and the world recollection he had experienced were made by Duke Frederick.

"Also, these are the wealth and collections of the Frederick and Ferdinand families over hundreds of years. They are all in the list. We dare not touch these treasures rashly and have been waiting for your arrival."

As he spoke, Duke Campbell handed Deya another list. This duke was really decisive. He did not get any benefits from this expedition and left everything to Deya to deal with.

Duke Campbell has investigated all of Deya's actions over the past two years and believes that Deya is a fair enough person.

So instead of taking the benefits secretly, it is better to hand it all over to Deya and let him distribute the benefits. This way, the Campbell family can get more favor from the Son of God.

Deya looked at Duke Campbell deeply and took the list.

Since becoming the Son of God, Deya's previous plans have failed.

He couldn't just embezzle all the wealth seized from the City of Gold. The City of Gold and England had to develop eventually, and the national treasury had to be enriched.

Now with the wealth accumulated by the two ducal families over hundreds of years, Deya suddenly became rich again, allowing his plan to continue to be implemented.

Of course, he also has to distribute part of this wealth to his subordinates so that everyone can benefit.

"And most importantly, Your Highness, I just received intelligence that Lord Hudson has sent an urgent request for help. The fleet of the Narbo Empire and the fleet of England that is loyal to the Patriarch have joined forces and are confronting the Hudson family.

The Hudson family believes that they are difficult to resist and need our support. If the Hudson family is defeated, then this continental island will completely lose all its maritime power and will no longer be able to communicate with the outside world. "

The Duke of Campbell spoke seriously at this time, with great worry in his words.

He actually didn't know how to support the Hudson family. How could they fight a naval battle with their land forces?

Deya also looked stern.

This was indeed beyond his expectations. The Narpo Empire actually sent troops? Were they trying to reap the benefits?
When it comes to naval battles, Germany doesn't have a good solution right now.

His undead army could not go down to the sea at all at this time. The only thing he could rely on was the air force of bone dragons and vampires, but their number was still too small.

The fact that the Hudson family asked for help at this time meant that the situation was already very bad, and there was no time for Deya to study the undead creatures in naval battles.

Deya lowered his eyes and fell into deep thought.

The Narbo Empire is very powerful, but no matter how powerful the empire is, since the other side has already launched an offensive, we must never give in.

Peace is won through fighting, and truth lies only on the edge of the sword, so he had better deliver a fatal blow, so that the Narbo Empire would not dare to do anything to him, and make the empire afraid of him as well.

But how can we prevent such a behemoth, such a huge empire that has ruled the world for more than a thousand years from acting rashly?

You know, the empire's national strength is even ten times that of England and Susaitani combined. If it weren't for the strange curse on this continental island, its resources would not be so abundant that the empire would be jealous.

Otherwise, England and Susaitani would have been destroyed by the empire long ago.

Deya's fingers subconsciously rubbed a ring he was wearing.

The Shadow of Dragon possesses a powerful ten-ring spell: Dragon's Oath!
The Narpo Empire is forcing itself to use this ten-ring spell, wanting to see what a spell that can destroy a nation is!

It is not enough to just destroy the fleet of the Narbo Empire, but we also have to make the other side feel terrified.

The lord of this fleet seems to be the Duke of Lautrec?
Then I will just use a ten-ring spell to destroy the entire duchy!
(End of this chapter)