Mage Veigar

Chapter 718 Seeking Help from Jia Lan
several days ago.

Northwest of the empire, the city of war.

This is the headquarters of the Imperial Rebel Army. Coverdale once fought against the Empire here. At that time, he had the illusion that he was about to overthrow the three powers of the Empire and trample the corrupt three powers under his feet.

But to this day.

The rebel leader Coverdale is finding it difficult to continue.

The reason for this, of course, is that the empire lowered its noble head, not only admitting its mistakes to the common people and enacting various policies that benefit the people, but even the heads of the three powers resigned.

This series of measures.

This directly shook the morale of the rebels, because many civilians rebelled because they were dissatisfied with the three powers' alliance with the enemy, their inaction, their disregard for the lives of civilians, and their extremely harsh taxes for the war.

However, the empire has admitted its mistakes and promised not to hold the rebels accountable. It will also exempt the entire country from taxes for one and a half years and provide basic living allowances to citizens in need.

under these circumstances.

Why would they join the rebel army?

After all, the purpose of joining the rebel army is to protest against the empire, let the three powers of the empire know their mistakes, and at the same time have enough food to eat. Now that the goal has been achieved, what is the point of continuing to rebel?

So when Vega retreated from the eastern part of the empire.

The empire, which had been planning for a long time, not only introduced policies to disrupt the morale of the rebels, but also took advantage of the chaos in the rebels' morale and used troops transferred from the east to attack the rebels by surprise, directly forcing the rebels to retreat back to the city of war.

This great defeat made the rebels' situation even worse.

Overnight, the once-mighty rebels fell from grace.

Although they still occupy the northwest of the empire, which is mainly the City of War, and possess a large amount of resources provided by the western city-state of Gangti and the Free Alliance, the empire's million-strong army is already at the gates of the city.

Now all the officers and soldiers hope that he can surrender to the empire and formally disband the rebel army, because the soldiers are tired of the war. There have been more and more deserters recently, and they are running away in groups and they can't stop them at all.

"Master Chief, please sign the surrender document!"

"We can't defeat the Empire."

"Yes, the Empire also promised us that it would pardon our crimes."

"..."

One by one, the generals pressed forward on Coverdale.

Coverdale stared with bloodshot eyes and said, "The Empire will pardon you and even give you better treatment, but it didn't say pardon me! Besides, do you really think the Empire will keep its word?"

"The whole nation is watching. The Empire will not deceive us."

"Didn't you always say that you would sacrifice your life for the civilians?"

"Now that the Empire has compromised, please sacrifice your life for us!"

"..."

Like wild beasts that choose their prey, the ferocious faces oppressed Coverdale so much that he couldn't breathe.

This scene happened every day, and everyone was forcing Coverdale to surrender to the empire.

But only Coverdale knew that this was just a stopgap measure for the empire, and even the resignation of the three heads of power was just to appease the civilians. They might not have given up power, but retreated behind the scenes.

Once this rebel army falls.

Coverdale could well imagine that the vengeful empire would inevitably take revenge on the surrendered civilians, and it would be too late to regret by then. He didn't understand why these people would believe the words of a hypocrite.

Indeed, he did not cherish his own life.

Coverdale had never thought of a good ending after embarking on this path. But for the sake of the lives of soldiers and civilians, he knew that he could not surrender to the Empire. This was his responsibility as a leader.

As long as he could hold out for one more day, the soldiers who had surrendered or were about to surrender would be treated favorably by the Empire for one day. Even though these soldiers and officers would blame him for not surrendering now, one day they would understand his good intentions, even if by that time he had died without a burial place.

“Something has to be done.”

Coverdale was unwilling to fall here.

He still has a vast northwest, the city of war has not yet fallen, and the resources provided by the two western countries are enough for them to fight several wars, but can his motley crowd really defeat the imperial army?

This time the commander of the Imperial Army was none other than Mr.

It's the famous Foster Nolan.

Although Coverdale has always regarded Vega as an idol, he hopes to win the war by imitating Vega.

But he knew that with his own ability, it would be difficult to defeat Foster... No, not difficult, but there was no hope of defeating Foster at all. Because during the retreat, Foster had almost guessed all of his retreat routes, causing him to lose nearly 200,000 troops before returning to the city of war.

The Guizhou donkey has no skills.

These four words describe his current real situation.

He was pushed to the edge of a cliff, and it was less than two months before he collapsed.

"Is there anyone... is there anyone who can save me?"

Coverdale couldn't help but think of these words.

When facing despair, expecting someone to save you is a way of denying yourself and is also extremely conceited. However, when this sentence emerged in my heart, a figure emerged - Vega Saint Laurent.

"Call for help, we must call for help."

Coverdale's eyes showed determination.

If there is anyone in this world who can reverse the current desperate situation, Coverdale believes that it is only Vega.

The Nolan Empire is his enemy, and also the enemy of the Jialan Empire. The enemy of my enemy is my ally. As long as he asks Vega for help, there is a high probability that Vega will help him.

Because the Jialan Empire needs time to develop.

The longer the rebel army he leads exists, the more beneficial it will be to the Galan Empire, and there is no way Vega will not help him.

After figuring out the situation, Coverdale sent envoys to the Galan Empire for help without hesitation.

"I'm sorry, please allow me to refuse this matter."

Vega rejected the rebel envoy, an uninvited guest, without hesitation.

As far as the current situation is concerned, although Vega really wants to join the rebels like the Western countries and use them to contain the empire's pace, he also understands that he can't help the Galan Empire given its current situation.

Because the Jialan Empire does not have the capital to go on an expedition.

The empire had 45 surrendered troops, 50 main domestic troops, and nearly 45 garrison troops and new troops from various departments. It was a very difficult task to maintain such a large number of troops, not to mention the post-war reconstruction work.

The Jialan Empire does not really have the capital to fight this aid war.

With the few resources the rebels got from the West, self-sufficiency is not a problem, but it is also impossible to provide war supplies to his army, which will only accelerate the demise of the rebels.

So Vega refused without hesitation.

It’s not that we don’t want to save you, but that we are powerless to help you.

(End of this chapter)