You were made to farm, and now you're the emperor of an empire?

Chapter 274 Bad News

Although it's called a department store, Roman can only offer a few types of goods.

This matter requires time to prepare.

Roman was very confident about this.

Ultimately, humans are not rational beings.

They are incredibly foolish, greedy, and insatiable.

Once you've tasted something good, you want to keep enjoying it.

When there is no salt, they crave salt the most.

After consuming salt became a habit, they began to crave sugar.

But those things can only be enjoyed during celebrations.

The celebration is held only twice a year.

Once in midsummer, and once in late autumn.

They have to endure six months each time before they can taste the delicacies they crave.

Now that the problem is right in front of them, I'm afraid few of them will be able to resist it.

……

The department store was merely a means for Roman to recoup his money.

With sufficient financial reserves, he can cultivate a sufficiently powerful army.

Just as the floodwaters were receding, the Warcraft Witch brought him two pieces of good news and one piece of bad news.

The good news is that the prophet has agreed to send the assistant witch to Origin City, who can enhance Gwyneth's magical abilities.

In addition, the prophet suggested that if Gwyneth's magical abilities were to be enhanced, it would be best to send her to Azure Moon so that he could unleash her hidden potential.

But Roman rejected the wolf-headed witch's message as soon as she finished speaking.

If something happens to Gweil, it will be an irreparable loss.

"And the bad news?" Roman asked.

"Oh, it's nothing major, just that Azure Moon and Sinnoh have gone to war." The Beast Witch shrugged.

This war should have started long ago.

The two countries have a long history of enmity and frequent wars.

The Papacy is the state religion of the divine, and both hold a significant position in the civilized world.

One is the oldest kingdom. The other is a religion with believers all over the land.

Hundreds of years ago, the King of Sinnoh believed that the ancient land was favored by demons and that the inhabitants of Crescent Moon were non-human beings who should be eliminated.

The Pope agreed with the King of Divinity. The Azure Moon was a den of iniquity, a thorn in the side of the gods, where sorcerers formed secret societies and practiced magic in the shadows.

Thus, the two supreme leaders of the royal and divine realms reached an agreement and resolved to cleanse the mountains of all demons.

Their massive army pressed in, and dozens, even hundreds, of battles broke out in that remote, uncivilized land.

Ultimately, the century-long war was stopped by the conquerors.

The conquerors of that time built up a powerful force by conquering barbarians and pirates in the north and south.

He spearheaded an invitation to the King of Sinnoh, the King of the Azure Moon, and the Pope's messenger to sign a truce agreement on the banks of the Mar River. The subsequent birth and establishment of the Conqueror's Order became the biggest backdrop for the truce agreement.

The Hundred Years' War came to a complete end.

Although later generations believed that the conquerors, while using force to stop the war between Sinnoh and Sora, did not resolve the most fundamental conflicts between the two sides, namely their religious and racial differences.

Even if the Hundred Years' War ends, another war will begin in the future.

But in reality, the armistice and the Conqueror's Order still bought the two countries a long period of peace.

Even in the century after the conquerors left, Sinnoh never broke the agreement.

The Battle of Jade was the most brutal battle fought between the two sides since then, but it was only a localized battle.

When the eldest son of the Grand Duke of Rage arrived at Redwood Keep in Azuremoon, the Sinnoh army hastily retreated, not daring to face Rage directly.

Until now, the order has been completely broken.

Queen Azure Moon personally wrote four letters and sent them to the Black Iron Royal Family, the Reef Castle of the Grand Duke of Rage Tide, the Pale Tower of the Grand Duke of Oak, and the Crimson Dragon Castle of the Grand Duke of Crack Armor.

She hoped the Dark Iron Lord and the Dark Iron Dukes could mediate the war. But she was shocked and furious upon receiving the reply.

The Black Iron Royal Family demanded that Azure Moon hand over several secret societies in an attempt to quell the unrest.

The letter from Shibao disappeared without a trace, the meaning of which is self-evident.

The Duke of Oak, of the White Tower, watched coldly.

Finally, the Grand Duke of Cracked Armor spoke the most vehemently, stating that he didn't care about other secret societies, but all the witch heads had to be handed over.

Queen Cangyue was furious and tore up the replies herself, preferring to fight to the death rather than betray her people.

Today, the Conqueror Order has become a joke on paper.

"Why are you only starting now?" Roman asked.

Ulster is a staunch supporter of the conquerors, and even without the Raging Tide, Rift Armor would have launched an attack to relieve the siege of Azure Moon.

But he had already passed away, killed by a "witch".

Therefore, theoretically speaking, Sinnoh could have started a full-scale war with Sora last year.

"Then we'll have to ask you what you've been up to this year," the wolf-headed witch shrugged again.

At this time last year, Witchwood had not yet made a decision.

It's understandable that the King of Sinnoh and the Pope are wary of the witches and dare not act rashly.

Despite their near-death experience in the holy city, their extremely disheveled state, and the heavy casualties, they were not as bad as they appeared.

But in reality, they were a group of Zhao Zilong who entered and exited seven times.

The Knights Templar, one of the three great knightly orders, suffered more than half its casualties, with over a thousand guards of the Holy City nearly wiped out. The Holy See's secret protective forces were also decimated, and the paladins were all wounded.

As the witch fled, she casually blasted the gates of the holy city open.

Although Sinnoh and the Holy See quelled the witch rebellion, they were still unsure of the witches' true nature and were hesitant to make a decision.

Because the two artifacts have not yet appeared, and the young Frost Giant has not yet appeared either, the Holy See and Sinnoh are worried that the witch still has some strength left, so they have wasted a lot of time.

It's been dragged on and on, until this year.

At the beginning of the year, the Vatican assembled an army of 5,000 believers, preparing to make its debut.

Thus, it was wiped out in the battle of spring rain.

When the results came in, everyone was stunned, including the Pope and the King of Sinnoh.

No, man...

The quality of the believers' army is rather poor.

It made them a little insecure.

I was punched this spring and it took me a long time to recover.

It's not that our army is incompetent, it's just that the enemy is too strong.

Judging from the situation at the time, let alone deploying 5,000 believers, even if we deployed 10,000 troops, we probably wouldn't have much of a chance of winning.

High-level organization beats low-level organization; the more people the latter have, the easier it is to beat them—it's easier than beating 50,000 pigs.

The King of the Valley is a rising star, and the Papacy has not yet figured out his origins.

In comparison, they were more familiar with Sinnoh's old neighbor, Souki, after all, they had built a friendship over hundreds of years.

At the end of May.

The Sinnoh army conquered cities and territories along the way, and the swords of the Judgment Knights pointed directly at the capital of Crescent Moon, the city the Sinnoh people called the Forsaken City.

Moonfall City is an immortal city built by the ancient inhabitants of the Azure Moon. It is majestic and precipitous, and the Sinnoh army has found it difficult to breach, currently resulting in a stalemate.

“This war won’t end anytime soon,” said the wolf-headed witch.

Queen Crimson Moon had already learned of the Sinnoh army's deployment and made preparations in advance.

Sinnoh's advance was unstoppable, encountering little resistance.

However, one could also say that Cangyue is preserving its strength for the future.

And those secret societies of wizards who study magic, potions, monsters, and alchemy will not stand idly by.

Azure Moon is the wizards' stronghold, and Sinnoh is targeting them; they can't escape responsibility.

(End of this chapter)