Mage Veigar

Chapter 903: People’s Awakening
Early winter is gone.

As deep winter approaches, the Western world is in chaos.

Among them, the city-state of Gangti was finally no longer satisfied with its neighboring countries that had already been exploited. Having tasted the sweetness, Carol did not even think twice and began to take action against the Six-Nation Alliance headed by the Free Alliance.

This is unwise from any perspective.

No matter what, the Free Alliance is the largest force in the West. It is completely different from the city-state of Gangti that was almost destroyed in the East. The entire Free Alliance still retains a considerable number of main forces.

If war breaks out, few nations can stand up to a free alliance.

But Carroll was no real general.

His overall view was not even as good as that of low-level military officers. In addition, he was always stubborn and self-willed. Once he made up his mind, no one could persuade him to change his mind. Therefore, he directly rejected the advice of his officers and launched a war against the Free Alliance.

"Your Majesty, please save us."

The king of the Coastal Kingdom came to the Free Alliance and cried to the King of the Alliance, Strachey: "Ganti City-State has completely disregarded the alliance and launched an attack on us without authorization. Since Gangti City-State is powerful, our country is no match for it. Please, Your Majesty, send troops to rescue us for the sake of our long-term alliance."

"Didn't you tell them that you are an ally of my Freedom Alliance?!"

There was no hiding the anger in Strachey's tone. He obviously did not expect that the current Gangti City Congress would bite people like a mad dog.

"I said that."

The king of the Coastal Kingdom said very aggrievedly: "But Pope Carol of the Gangti City State wrote back that he had never heard of the Free Alliance, and advised me to surrender as soon as possible. He also threatened that if the Free Alliance dared to come, he would deal with it together and let everyone know the consequences of opposing him."

boom!
Strachey slapped the table and said, "This is too much! This is too much! Let's not talk about the fact that they arbitrarily withdrew from the alliance and attacked the neighboring country. After all, that is their internal affairs. But that arrogant fool actually dared to set his greedy eyes on us. I think it is necessary to let that fool know who has the final say in the West now."

indeed so.

Before the end of next spring, the Freedom Alliance will undoubtedly be the most powerful force in the entire West. At this time, even Vega did not dare to say that he could beat the Freedom Alliance, but now a destroyed city-state dared to make trouble for him? Strachey felt that his dignity was seriously insulted.

"Swinburne."

King Strachey of the Alliance turned his gaze to the Night Elf Admiral and said, "Bring the most elite troops and let that fool know that war is not as simple as he imagined."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Under Strachey's orders, Admiral Swinburne of the Nightborn led his troops to support the Coastal Kingdom five days later.

The Free Alliance's contest with the City-State of Gangti came quickly and went even faster.

On the fifteenth day, Admiral Swinburne of the Free Alliance adopted a strategy of luring the enemy deep into their territory and launched an ambush in the Grand Canyon behind the border.

Carroll was completely unaware of Swinburne's attempt to lure the enemy deeper into his territory.

It cannot be said that he was unaware of it. To be precise, his officers all sensed the trick and advised Carroll not to pursue blindly, but Carroll insisted on ordering the pursuit of the enemy, which led to his defeat at the hands of Swinburne.

This battle directly caused heavy damage to the city’s army.

If we want to start a war next time, we probably won’t be able to do so.

However, this victory was also beyond Swinburne's expectations.

Because in his plan, there are a total of eleven links ready to be implemented. The first link of luring the enemy deep into our territory is the simplest and most easily seen through, and it will serve to paralyze the enemy.

But what Swinburne didn't expect was that

Carroll fell directly in the first stage, and his stupidity refreshed Swinburne's bottom line for senior generals. No!
Such a person is not worthy of being called a senior general.

If King Strachey had not only ordered him to repel the enemy, he would even want to take his army and follow the clues to annihilate the city-state army directly. In his opinion, this was not too difficult.

Therefore, this war can be said to have slightly suppressed the war in the West.

Carol, who was slapped hard, also ordered to abandon external expansion and instead began missionary activities in the newly occupied territories. Although being able to expand rapidly was good news for Carol, not expanding didn't matter.

There was one thing Carol knew.

What he needed to do most now was to digest the occupied territories he had just acquired. If he could not make the civilians in the occupied territories believe in the Holy See, it would be of no use at all.

But when it came to actually implementing it, Carol found that things were not that simple.

It is very difficult to influence a normal person's thinking. It does not mean that if you ask them to believe in the War Church, they will definitely offer their faith. Politics and faith cannot be mixed.

Unable to convert the faith in the occupied area.

That means everything done before was in vain.

Another ten days passed and deep winter had arrived.

As spring progressed, pressure mounted on the Western nations, none more so than on Carol.

The territory of the Gangti city-state was expanded dozens of times, but the divine power increased by less than 1/20 of the original amount. This was obviously unacceptable to Carol.

"Why is this happening?!"

Carol roared angrily at the bishops one by one: "I want to know why our believers have not increased. Where have all your solemn promises gone? Now I order you to see results within half a month. If there are still no results, don't blame me for taking action against you first."

"Your Holiness, you don't know..."

One of the bishops stood up and said, "Recently, a concept called democracy or 965 has begun to spread in our country. Most civilians worship this new idea and are dismissive of our missionary work."

"Democratic thought? What is this?"

Carol had never heard of the term.

Most bishops did not understand this question either. They could only answer, "This new idea came from the Holy Dragon Province. In the past half month, it has begun to spread across various countries. In a very short period of time, it has gained the support of civilians and workers, and has caused a great impact on the large landowners and nobles."

"This must be another conspiracy by Vega Saint Laurent."

As soon as he heard that it came from the Holy Dragon Province, Carol immediately made this judgment and said, "Pass the order on. It is forbidden to talk about democratic ideas and the 996 system in the whole country. Those who violate the order will be killed without mercy."

"The Pope is wise."

No one, nor Carol, thought there was anything wrong.

It's not just the city-state of Gangti. All the Western countries have taken the same measures as them, which is to forcibly silence and suppress.

Few people realize that the more something is oppressive, the stronger the rebound will be.

Their actions directly accelerated the speed of the bomb detonation.

(End of this chapter)