Matilda Augustus, one of the best children of Emperor Rosetta, is known as the flower of the empire's high mountain and the most dazzling pearl of Aldernan.

These dazzling halos are superimposed on her already distinguished temperament, which makes many people involuntarily awe and dare not approach her.

But even so, she has her own confidant and friend.

The heir to the Wendel family who inherited the title of General Wolf is one of them.

"We have seen the ceremony, so you can relax," the Imperial Princess smiled and nodded slightly to Andesha. "We haven't seen each other for almost two years, right? Last time you returned to the capital, I happened to go to the fiefdom to handle things, and I missed it like that."

"The necessary rules must be followed," Andesha relaxed a little, but still stood straight and looked quite meticulous. "The last time I returned to the imperial capital... it was because the confrontation between Paramel Heights failed. It was really not very glorious. I would probably be a little embarrassed when I met you and I would..."

"The confrontation in the Paramel Heights... I heard about it," Matilda, in a black dress, sighed with a little sigh, "You can't push all the mistakes on your head. The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly, and your judgment brings at least almost all the soldiers back to Winter Wolf Castle."

"...It's really hard to describe." Andesha recalled that rainy night and finally stopped with a sigh.

The members of the mission following Princess Matilda were soon arranged to rest in the Winter Wolf Castle. Matilda and Andesha left the main hall of the castle. They came to the high walls of the fortress and followed the soldiers' daily patrol path, and walked on the front line located in the northwest border of the empire.

The cold winter wind blew across the city wall, raising the flags hanging on the city wall, but the cold wind could not affect the powerful high-level extraordinary person at all. Andesa, wearing armor and sword, walked calmly outside the city wall, with a serious expression, as if she was inspecting the fortress. Matilda, wearing a black palace dress, walked silently beside her. The gorgeous and light long skirt should have been completely incompatible with the cold east and the mottled and thick city walls, but there was no sense of incongruity on her.

The Aldernan Pearl walked slowly on the towering walls of Winter Wolf Castle, still as elegant and majestic as walking in the palace corridor.

"You look like you are reviewing the troops, as if you are ready to take the knights to the battlefield at any time," Matilda glanced at Andesha next to her and said gently, "You have always been like this at the border?"

"This place will become a battlefield at any time," Andesha said with a serious face, "the border cannot be relaxed."

There seemed to be a hint of helplessness in Matilda's eyes. After a slight smile, he shook his head: "Tell me about the Cecils, tell me about your impression of them. I was ordered to go on a mission to that country, but what I am familiar with is the past "Ansu" - that new empire, how different is it from Ansu?"

"Cecil...Cecil is much more dangerous than Ansu," Andesha's footsteps paused for a moment, and then continued to move forward, "Ansu is a decaying old beast. It has been powerful and glorious, but it has become decaying with the rigidity of its own system and internal contradictions. Although it still retains the strength to fight back, it will fall into death as long as it drags on for a few days;

"Cecil is a beast born in the flesh and blood of this old beast, and it has developed and matured far faster than we imagined. It has a very intelligent, knowledgeable and experienced ruler, and a very efficient system of officials to help him achieve his rule. From a military perspective only - because I am most familiar with this - the army of the Cecil Empire has achieved deeper reforms than we do.

"No, this statement is not accurate, not reform, because the entire war system of the Cecils was rebuilt. I have seen their mobilization speed and execution ability, which is an efficiency that the old army could not achieve no matter how reformed it - at this point, perhaps only a few extraordinary legions can match it."

Matilda couldn't help but slow down and looked at Andesha with a little surprised look: "It sounds like... you are not optimistic about the situation at all?"

“I’m just stating the facts.”

"...Your personality is indeed not suitable to stay in the imperial capital," Matilda shook her head helplessly. "The facts you confessed are enough to receive countless doubts and criticisms in the parliament."

"It's not impossible to make our army more talkative in parliament," Andesha said very directly. "Ansu was very weak back then, which is a fact. Cecil is very strong now, and it is also a fact."

"...In your opinion, is Cecil better than us?" Matilda asked suddenly.

Andesha did not answer immediately this time, but thought for a while before saying seriously: "I don't think so."

"Oh? This is inconsistent with the string of 'declarations' you just now."

"I have been collecting their intelligence. Although the spies we placed there have been greatly hit, they are still active. With the help of these, my advisors and I analyzed the situation in Cecil," Andesha suddenly stopped. She looked at Matilda's eyes with a certain heat in her eyes. "There is something that is stronger than us. They are stronger in more efficient official systems and more advanced magic technology, but these two things take time to transform into 'national strength'. Now they have not fully completed this transformation.

"The order after the war needs to be reshaped, and a large number of officials are exhausted in this regard; a large number of people need to be appeased, destroyed land needs to be rebuilt, and new laws need to be promoted; the sharp expansion of land and relatively small military forces have led to the need to use a large number of soldiers to maintain domestic stability, and the newly trained troops have not yet had time to form combat power - even if the magic equipment is easy to operate, soldiers need a learning and familiarity process;

"They have relatively advanced magic technology, but those drawings can only be queued in the factory, because ore cannot be mined in a short while, and steel cannot be turned into machines in an instant. Their emperor set up a new school, but how many students can be trained at the same time, and how many of these students can be successfully transformed into workers, officials and soldiers?

"In the Paramel Heights, a war fortress blocked our Knights. We thought it was a trap prepared by the Cecils early, but later intelligence showed that the war fortress may have arrived in Paramel Heights less than an hour earlier than us! Before that, the Long Wind Fortress had not had enough soldiers and not enough 'Sky Fire Device'!"

Andesa said a lot in one breath, while Matilda just listened quietly and seriously, without interrupting her friend. Until Andesa stopped, she spoke: "So, what is your conclusion?"

"The Cecil Empire is still weaker than us because we have professional extraordinary people who are several times more than them, and have extraordinary weapons that have been reserved for decades, griffin legions, mages and knights, which can be fought against and even defeated those magic machines.

"But it takes more than ten years for us to train a mage, and after death, we cannot replenish it for a short time. They only need a moment to produce a machine. The soldiers who operate the machine only need several months or even weeks to train. Last time they only sent out a "war fortress", but I am very suspicious that their second war fortress is probably about to come out of the factory! And do we have a second Iron River Knights?

"As I said just now, Cecil's advantage is their magical technology and the system called the "Government Office", and these two things cannot be transformed into national strength immediately, but this means that once these two things are transformed into national strength, we will never have a chance!"

Andesha's tone gradually became excited.

In the cold winter wind, on the city wall that has stood for a hundred years, the young female general in charge of the Winter Wolf Legion clenched his fists, as if he tried to hold a passing opportunity, as if he wanted to try to remind the royal descendants in front of him, so that she and the royal family behind her would notice the brewing crisis, and don’t wait until the last chance is missed before he feels too late to regret it.

"I have written to His Majesty the Emperor and made this point clear to the noble parliament of Aldernan," Anderssa said in a hurry. "Cecil is very dangerous, very dangerous to the empire. I can feel that I can feel that they are actually still preparing for war. Although they have been sending out seemingly peaceful signals, the changes in the Changfeng Fortress are obvious to all on the border. I think the various actions they are doing now - whether it is to increase commercial circulation, establish embassies, exchange of international students, railway cooperation, investment plans, there are problems..."

This time, before Andessa became even more excited, Matilda suddenly spoke and interrupted her friend: "I understand, Andessa, I understand what you mean."

Andesa stopped, and she finally noticed that there seemed to be a deep meaning on Matilda's face.

Solemn and a little helpless.

"The Department of Magic Technology and Government Affairs will quickly improve Cecil's national strength, so they will soon become an extremely powerful enemy, and now may be our last chance to destroy this enemy - otherwise, if we maintain the current direction of development, every day we delay, the opportunity will be a little slim - that's what you want to say."

Andesa nodded slowly: "…yes."

"In Aldernan, similar conclusions have been sent to the Obsidian Palace's book case."

Andesa looked at Matilda in shock.

"I wonder who got the same conclusion as you?" Matilda looked at her long-time friend quietly, as if she sighed, "It is the noble parliament you call 'talking' and the royal advisory group.

“The time to draw the conclusion is three days after you last left Aldernan.

"Anterssa, the imperial capital, has much more advisory groups than you here. The gentlemen and ladies in the parliament are not fools--there may be selfish under the triple spire of the noble parliament, but there are no stupid and mediocre people."

Andesa's eyes widened.

Faced with this unexpected truth, she was not embarrassed or embarrassed, because before these emotions spread, the first thing she thought of was a question: "But... why..."

"It's too late, that's the only reason," Matilda said quietly, "the situation is no longer allowed."

Andesha couldn't help but say, "But we still occupy..."

"If there were only two countries in this world, Cecil and Tifon, the situation would be much simpler, but Andesha, Tyfon's border is not just the defense line of Winter Wolf Castle you guarded," Matilda interrupted Andesha again, "We missed that maybe the only chance. After you left Aldernan, or even after you evacuate the Paramel Heights, we have lost the opportunity to easily defeat Cecil.

"Now, even if we can still have the advantage, we will definitely be bitten by those steel machines after being involved in the war.

"And in the south, the Kaoling Kingdom has a bad relationship with us, and there are silver elves... You don't think that those elves who live in the forest love art and love peace, right?"

Andesa fell silent.

She is just one of the border generals of the empire. She can smell some international trends, but in fact she has surpassed many people.

But she could only see part of the long border line of the entire empire, which was too wide for her.

Beside her, Matilda slowly said: "We are no longer the only powerful empire in the human world, and there are no weak city-states and alien groups that we can annex to the people. My father, your father, as well as the members and advisers, are carefully sorting out the foreign policy of the Tifeng Empire, the current international situation, and some of the mistakes we have made in the past century, and seeking a way to make up for it. Earl Hallmark, who is responsible for contacting the Kaoling Kingdom, is working hard for this - he went to the Blue Rock Hill to negotiate, not just to do business with the Kaoling Kingdom and the elves."

The city walls became quiet for a moment, and only the whistling wind swept the flags and stirred endlessly behind them.

Matilda broke the silence: "Now, you should understand the meaning of the existence of this envoy and I led?"

"Sorry, Matilda," Andesha exclaimed, "I've thought of something too simple."

"Don't care--as a wolf general, you're just doing what you should do."

Andesa nodded, but her face looked very ugly.

"What's wrong?" Matilda couldn't help but be concerned, "What did you think of?"
Chapter completed!