Mage Veigar

Chapter 664: The Final Battle with Saint Laurent

Lure the enemy deeper.

Take the unexpected.

Xia finally adopted Okasos's battle strategy.

There is no doubt that she placed all her hopes on Okasos, the holy wizard.

Giving up almost half of the territory on the east coast, and even the Saint Laurent defense system, was all for the sake of indulging the enemy's heart, and then suddenly launching a decisive battle with the enemy outside the city of Saint Laurent, with the holy wizard Okasos reversing the entire situation.

A true battle that decides the outcome.

This kind of courage was not something the Empire could muster even when facing the invasion of the Holy Dragon Kingdom, because if they failed in this battle, it would mean that the Holy Dynasty would be removed from the continent.

But victory will bring unexpected benefits.

As long as this war can be won, the situation in the empire will accelerate its collapse, and the Holy Dragon Kingdom will be kicked out of the war in the east because of its severe damage. The most likely possibility is that it will flee back overseas in disgrace.

And Xia has risked everything.

Success or failure depends entirely on this time, and everyone present understands this.

Thus, in the next two months, the Holy Dynasty ushered in its darkest period. From the City of Ice and Fire to the Saint Roland Defense System, the Holy Dragon Kingdom and the Empire pushed the battle line here unimpeded.

During these two months.

The Holy Dragon Kingdom and the Empire won battle after battle, while the Dynasty suffered defeat after defeat, without even fighting a decent war. As soon as they saw the Imperial Army and the Holy Dragon Kingdom's army, they fled. These battles broke the hearts of the people.

October 382th, 10nd year of the Galan calendar.

In the Holy Dynasty, today is their autumn harvest festival.

This is the most important festival in the Holy Dynasty besides the New Year.

But given the situation this year, there probably won't be any grand ceremony, but Xia will still walk out of the palace and go to the military base in person to express her condolences.

boom!
The gate of the palace slowly opened.

The royal motorcade slowly drove out, and civilians lined the streets.

There was no longer the admiration in their eyes as before, but instead coldness and resentment.

Xia looked out through the carriage window. These gazes were like sharp swords piercing her chest, making her face pale.

This kind of pressure of being criticized by everyone is so great that it is unimaginable for ordinary people. It is really too cruel for Xia.

Stab it!

Okasos, who was sitting opposite, pulled down the curtains and said, "Your Majesty, please don't blame yourself too much. You are not wrong."

"Grandpa Ocasos..."

Xia bit her lip and said slowly, "Your Highness, have you ever faced this before?"

Okasos thought for a moment and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty. Your Highness has won many battles in a row, so of course he cannot face such a look."

In fact, there is the second half of the sentence that Okasos did not say.

For Vega, the civilians in the country certainly wouldn't look at him like that.

But every time they arrived at a new war-torn city, the civilians who had suffered from the war wanted to get rid of Vega as soon as possible.

Their cold gazes were not comparable to those of the common people of Saint Laurent. The gazes that seemed to want to chew their flesh alive were dozens of times more terrifying than those of these people. Even he, a star mage, was unwilling to look at them any longer.

But he found that Vega was different.

It seemed that the little ghost was not a human being at all, and ordinary people's gazes could not affect him at all.

If the civilians dared to do anything radical, he might have stopped the guards from killing them with a smile in order to maintain his friendly and benevolent image. But when he turned around, he heard the kid order not to let anyone go. So Okasos didn't say it.

He didn't want to train Shia to be a villain like Vega, who appeared to be kind and righteous but was extremely selfish and vindictive in his heart.

That’s right, that kind of person cannot be called a king at all. He is just a selfish villain.

But Xia, who didn't understand why, let out a long sigh.

Her expression brightened slightly, as if she was more worried about what Vega had been through than her own situation.

So, amid the creaking of the carriage, Xia arrived at the military camp.

"Long live the Queen!"

"Long live the Queen!"

"..."

There was a roar of mountains and seas.

The soldiers, in stark contrast to the civilians, had not lost their faith in the Crown.

Because the army that had been defeated in the past two months was only the garrison of each city, the 700,000 main forces here did not participate in any war at all. They would be left until the last moment, under the leadership of Ocasos, to fight the enemy in the final decisive battle outside the city of Saint Laurent, so the ideological work of the entire army was taken very seriously by officers at all levels.

Xia went up to the platform accompanied by the general.

In addition to coming to express condolences today because of the memorial ceremony, the main purpose is to hold a swearing-in ceremony.

Because in less than fifteen days, more than 1.4 million enemy troops will be at the gates of the city, and the moment that truly determines the fate of the dynasty is about to come, so today Xia must give the entire army a shot of stimulant for this final battle.

But standing on a high platform.

Looking down from above, Xia once again realized what it meant to be a king's responsibility.

The so-called responsibility of a "king" is probably that 700,000 people are looking forward to every word you say with trusting eyes.

We must never let these people down!
Xia took a deep breath. Although she was not used to this kind of occasion and the eyes under the stage made her feel so pressured that she couldn't breathe, she knew that she had to get used to everything if she wanted to truly help Vega.

"My brave soldiers."

Shia didn't know how to raise the morale of the soldiers, so she didn't have Veigar's persuasive rhetoric or other generals' long speeches. She simply made a request: "Shia asks you to defend the glory of the dynasty!"

Hysterical voice.

Eyes too tense to open.

The square was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Everything seemed to indicate that she had messed up this oath-taking ceremony?
No! not at all!
When Xia finished speaking, there was silence for a few seconds before the entire army erupted in an earth-shaking roar—

"For the dynasty!"

"For victory!"

"For glory!"

"For Her Majesty the Queen!"

Vega's persuasive words can boost the morale of the soldiers, but Xia's true feelings can also give courage to every soldier. Faced with the queen's heartfelt request, as soldiers of the dynasty, how can they let her down?
Although the styles of Shia and Vega are very different, one would rather betray the world than let the world betray him, while the other took the initiative to take on the responsibility of being a king, and felt that he could not let down Vega or the trust of every soldier. But the two have the same goal, and in the end, as long as he can inspire the soldiers to fight, he is a qualified leader.

Use this rally to boost morale to the top.

Fifteen days later, the Holy Dynasty finally faced the final war that would determine its fate.

(End of this chapter)