I Will Be The Crowned King

"Uh...Miss Talia, what's coming?"

Carlin Jacques, who was clinging to the wall of Winter Torch City in the fierce cold wind, struggled to raise his head and asked carefully to the figure standing in the snow.

The girl in a plain black imperial dress faced the wind and snow, and seemed to have no concern for her skin exposed to the biting air; the chestnut hair exposed under the little top hat danced in the wind, making her scarlet eyes and dignified expression slightly different Something childlike that matches her appearance.

Talia didn't answer the apprentice priest's question, and her eyes were always fixed on the direction of Beluga Harbor; it was a serious and nervous expression, and even a trace of fear could be read from it.

Frightened by his own thoughts, Carin Jacques shrank his neck, completely unable to believe this extremely absurd idea.

The experience of the past ten days has caused him to have a certain illusion about the current head of the Rune family; it seems that it is no longer the power that a blasphemous mage can possess, and it is infinitely close to the legendary... apostle.

It is no exaggeration to say that without the girl in front of you, at least half of the people in Winter Torch City would not have survived to this day; although the aboriginal people who swarmed outside the city would not be able to break through the colonial city walls and the storm legion left behind. fortifications, but can definitely cause no small casualties.

Although Winter Torch City is an extremely important colony, it can even occupy a place in the Free Confederation; but its importance is reflected by its geographical location; as a bridgehead for the colonists to push inland, it is not only the pioneering team The base camp is the front line for the colonists to fight against the natives; without it, the coastal colonies will face direct threats from the inland natives.

In addition, the Winter Torch City standing on the top of the mountain is actually different from a medium-sized fortress; and it can't even provide fuel and food by itself. It depends on the caravan and the colonists who travel from south to north to help each other.

Therefore, when a large-scale indigenous people united with beast slaves to besiege the Winter Torch City, and even blocked the trade route for a time, even if they knew that it was the safest to defend the fortress, they still chose to take the initiative to attack. The point is to deliver supplies and support the responsibility of pioneering.

Those caravans that were blocked in the middle of the road and the looted materials were the hope for Winter Torch City and many small settlements to safely survive the harsh winter.

Although most of the Militiamen in Winter Torch City are experienced pioneers, and the Storm Legion also left an infantry company responsible for managing the fortress there, the weapons and equipment are adequate... But no matter how experienced they are, they are far inferior to the natives. People are more adapted to the surrounding climate and terrain.

Coupled with the disparity in numbers between the two sides, in the face of nearly 10,000 rioting indigenous people, the pioneering armed forces of one or two thousand people are simply not enough, and because of the lack of population, a slight loss will hurt your bones.

Moreover, the threats they will face are not only a group of almost unarmed indigenous people, but also the madmen of the Faithless Knights who have just lost their jobs and are eager to seek revenge from their enemies.

In the New World colony, the forces of the Crecy family are pervasive, and even Winter Torch City is not spared; from the members of the Autonomous Council to the pioneers who have just arrived here, there are their collaborators, peripheral members and informant.

Such a rich foundation made their past actions unfavorable, and after they became crazy, they became the most dangerous weakness of the colony; destruction, riots, assassinations, looting... The whole city was completely out of order and panicked.

At the most dangerous time, the remnants of the knights in the city took advantage of the indigenous people to besiege the city, and the militia quietly opened the city gate for the opportunity to return, and at the same time set fire to the parliament, which was already no different from the ruins.

If it weren't for a little luck and the girl in front of him, the black-robed priest could fully imagine what would happen after Winter Torch City.

But Talia... she came.

When the ice fog and wind and snow that pervaded the mountains dissipated, the blood soaked in the soil left a long ravine outside the city. .

It's just that they weren't burned to death, they were frozen to death.

Talia August Rune, in a long black dress, came to Winter Torch City in an unmanned four-wheeled carriage in such a **** scene.

On the night she arrived, there were more than a dozen complete corpses on the dilapidated city wall; there was no damage from head to toe, but they were indeed dead.

No one knew what happened, not even Carlin Jacques himself, but the remnants of the Faithless Knights in the city disappeared, and the security of Winter Torch City returned to a good level in an instant.

In the next ten days, the pioneer militia swept around outside the city began to make extraordinary achievements, and kept "accidentally" ambushing the camps of the indigenous people, "beheading hundreds" at every turn, and they still had zero casualties.

Everything looked so good...except for the Vigilante soldiers who actually saw the truth.

According to the information that Carin Jacques got, they just went to the reserved location again and again to dig the frozen soil to bury the corpses; sometimes even this step was omitted, and those "corpses" had already dug themselves holes in advance, All they need to do is the last step - bury the site with soil.

But of course the black-robed priest who was in charge of delivering the information understood that all this had something to do with the girl in front of him.

The blizzard whistling in his ears dragged him from his memory back to reality, and he was surprised to find that Talia, who was still looking at the distance just now, had turned his eyes to himself.

"His Excellency Carin Jacques, I need your help."

"Ah... ah?!"

The black-robed priest opened his mouth wide, so nervous that he couldn't even speak clearly: "I, I..."

"If I remember correctly, there should be a special communication channel between your 'Truth Society' and the Kressey family, right?"

Although she was asking, the frosty-faced girl had an unquestionable tone: "Don't try to deny it. The reason why I invited you to come to the colony is not just your ability to cause trouble."

"I… yes, we do have."

Facing the coercion revealed by the young girl's tender face, Carin Jacques swallowed, not even daring to dodge: "But we and the Crecy family are already complete enemies, even if it is true It's hard to say if they'll accept the news."

"Oh, you don't have to worry about this, they will accept it." The girl raised her eyebrows gently: "Because I want to give them a very precious opportunity."

"An incomparably precious opportunity to live."

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Beluga Harbor, Council of Five Hundreds.

Just as the cold wind and snow gradually enveloped the whole new world in December, Beluga Harbor ushered in her most lively New Year's banquet in more than 50 years.

In order to pre-unite the strength of the entire New World, prevent the empire from counterattacking in the coming year, and also to allow the newly established New World Company (Bank) to truly go to the entire New World, Anson sent an invitation to the entire Free Confederation, inviting comrades who "fight side by side" They participate in the local New Year's celebrations and celebrate the event together.

Although the tone of "invitation" was used, and the exact time of the celebration and banquet was not even detailed, it still received positive responses from the members of the Free Confederacy, and sent their respective delegations at the first time, and even some were simply parliamentary The speaker himself led the team to show attention.

It is now mid-December, when the weather in the New World is the worst, all delegations have tried their best to be able to arrive at Beluga Port on time.

Some set off from the sea directly at the risk of sinking their tentacles and went directly to the port of Beluga Port; some were broken into pieces, and multiple teams set off from different roads; some simply pulled up an army and traveled long distances in full armor; It is more direct, euphemistically expressing its limited ability, I hope Beluga Port can provide some assistance...

In any case, all the delegations finally arrived successfully before the celebration began.

Of course, the reason why they are so active is not really in the unity of the "common front", but for a more realistic reason: money.

Rather, what they needed was a way to make money—trade routes controlled by Beluga Port, and an important channel for investment.

Freedom and independence sounded like the sound of heaven, but it also meant that the suzerain state of the past was completely disconnected, and it was impossible to rely on the ruling machine. With all kinds of incidental benefits, everything had to start all over again.

This includes the establishment of political power, the establishment of mutual recognition, the redistribution of the cake of power and interests, and the repositioning of the self, the long process of rediscovering the source of wealth that maintains its existence.

To put it more bluntly, those people who used to be compradors in the colonies and sucked blood from empires and colonies by selling resources to make a difference, now they have to find a way to make money from outside to maintain their regime.

Not only that, in order to maintain their status in the Confederacy, colonies such as Black Reef Harbor, which has just passed through the war, and Grey Pigeon Castle also have to rely on strong enough foreign aid to provide protection at the level of force; while Longhu Town and Red Hand Bay are I hope to get a large amount of investment to stabilize the normal growth of the internal economy.

And the only thing that can provide these two things at the same time is Beluga Harbor in Ice Dragon Fjord.

For the various colonies under Starlink, although the benefits provided by Beluga Port are not free, they have even bound their development to a certain extent, shifting to another relationship between the suzerain and the vassal; but it brings The benefits are also real, and at least on the surface, the relationship between the two parties is equal.

Between the independence of being cold and starving, and borrowing money from Ansen Bach first, and how to pay it back later, they decisively chose the latter.

"It's surprising that you actually came in person."

Holding a glass of Tirpitz rum, Anson, who was standing in front of the door, took the initiative to meet the young knight who was walking towards him: "I thought you would never set foot on the land of the Clovis unless absolutely necessary. "

"So you guessed it right, now is the time of last resort." Louis Bernard had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, but he still couldn't hide the sadness on his brows:

"The reconstruction of the destroyed urban area, the resettlement of the victims, the shipyard... The burden of Yangfan City is too heavy, and it cannot be solved by itself. It must be supported by other colonies and more investment."

"We have a shortfall of at least 200,000 gold coins for the shipyard alone; but if the shipyard is not expanded, many civilians will not be able to make a living, and the farms and mines outside the city simply cannot provide enough jobs, even if there is , they also think that it is the slave of the beast... the indigenous people do things, they would rather starve to death than do it..."

Louis halted, brow furrowed, as if suddenly realized like: "ah sorry, I should not have told you these!."

. "Need not mind, I understand your reluctance," Anson relieved and said:

"Alone is the face of a white whale harbor area three times the population of the colony is four or five times, you certainly better than the difficulties I had a lot more, not to mention you were ... knight, more than people like me play. "

He had to say "good guys" come forward, but always felt the irony is too strong so temporarily changed his tone.

Tell the truth, the situation of the city of sails than the original white Walvis much stronger - to be cleaned under the Liberals, and the Bernard inherited by his talent to survive the army, loyalty is no doubt at all; Foreign near the colonies are very weak, whether black or reef gray pigeon Fort Harbor, are free to draw the line.

As resource conditions ... fertile land, the city open, excellent port conditions and excellent infrastructure, the city that was destroyed in fact tinkering can live people.

As for the livelihood of residents in Anson's eyes ... do not call it a problem.

Live life while maintaining the lowest bottom line, to ensure that the population will not be a large area of death; while the organization of work, production and stabilize labor jobs, which is almost the same.

What, too bad not want to do the work? Would you not love! This Diao ... picky guy, is not accustomed to them, the colonies do not support lazy!

But the face of Louis Bernard, ON certainly can not say that - he also count on the other side of the shipyard to give their support Newland do it.

"If you can stake in the shipyard, then, two hundred thousand gold coins of low-interest loans is not a problem." Anson eyes a move, not far from being glanced at several colonies and representatives talked about the Reinhard Roland:

"But just the money, it should be enough to make you for coming, right?"

"My dear Anson ~ www.readwn.com ~ just promise you two hundred thousand gold loans, it has made me a worthwhile trip." Young knight smile:

"Only after personally try to understand how complex management of a colony, difficult thing; I was a bit overestimating their own abilities; compared to the political, military or really more suitable for me."

"But you guessed it, my dear reason to visit not only for loans, Fu Laiya is required."

Fu Laiya, Iser elf queen who ... ON stunned:

"why?"

"Because we are now very dangerous."

Louis Bernard's expression suddenly serious again, with a slightly heavy tone, a single word:

"Grave keeper rest of the earth ... They have started to move."

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