Marlene stood in front of the window, staring at the beautiful city in front of her, shining with golden glory. But at this moment, the girl's thoughts floated to the distant southern seaside. She still remembered that the sun shone on the blue water, with a fishy smell coming to her face. There was no cloud in the sky. The huge magic fleet slowly moved to block the sunshine in the sky. In the city now, you could vaguely see a few wisps of light smoke rising from the harbor city, and you could vaguely hear the shouts and wails coming from afar.

The battle is over.

This farce, which had been going through almost half a year, was finally over in late autumn and the breath of the cold winter was about to come, just like those withered leaves falling on the ground, and it was completely over. The independence of the reformists was like a farce, and now, the farce has finally come to an end. After the president of the Southern Parliament committed suicide by taking poison, the reformists finally collapsed completely. After losing their backbone, the reformists were completely in panic and didn't know what to do. And the civil strife also began to emerge at this time - after the Royal Fleet blocked the Southern Seaport, the entire southern region was almost completely paralyzed, and the Southern Parliament finally felt unprecedented fear and pressure. The old president died

, he walked easily, shook his hand and went on the road alone. No matter what, he was at least exempted from the fate of being hanged in the Golden City. But the others were not so lucky. The southern harbor was blocked and no ship could enter or exit. At the moment, the front line was tense and the rear was unstable. The barbarians were almost about to go deep into the hinterland of the south. For a time, the core personnel of the reformists were panicked and there was no way out to defend. The emergence of the magic fleet also marked that their desire for the Council of Light to send people to help them completely failed. So now either they chose to surrender, or they fought to run to the territory of the barbarians, or crossed the boundary line and entered the Dark Dragon Kingdom.

But for members of the reformist faction, these three choices are dead end.

They knew very well how ruthless Lydia was. In this regard, you could not tell that she should be a kind, fair and glorious archangel. In fact, many times people's evaluation of Lydia is very correct, that is, Lydia does have the factor of "tyrant". She is greedy for enjoyment and likes grand and lively banquets. Anyone who dares to resist will adopt iron-fisted and bloody suppression, cruel and ruthless, and even humans may find it difficult to achieve this, but Lydia did it.

This is also the reason why these reformists would rather grit their teeth and struggle to death than give up. They knew that once they surrender, the only way to wait for them was to go to the gallows. Of course, Lydia would not have "slayed all over the family" like some ancient kings, but she would not have "only arrest the main culprit, not investigated". Don't worry, everyone has a share.

It is precisely because of his understanding of Lydia that the core members of the reformists will not agree to surrender even if they are killed.

But the other two options are still a dead end for them.

The barbarian wasteland is where the order has not yet been enclosed, and the people there are the same, barbaric and cruel. They only recognize power, and they don’t care about anything other than that. No matter how high the status or how much wealth you have in Moon, it is meaningless to them, let alone the power of order there is very weak, just like Rhode’s place of atonement, but because the order near the border of the dragon souls begins to become extremely unstable, even day and night are in chaos. And those places where the order has not yet been enclosed are even more terrible, and it is impossible for ordinary people to survive in that kind of place.

And the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom is not a good choice either.

As we all know, it is the kingdom of the undead, and the living has a very low status there. Although the four demon generals have the existence of Garcia, the status of human beings has been improved. However, that is only limited to a few humans. In the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom, most human beings have either slaves or food for the blood clan. So even if they pass through the border safely, their fate will not be much better.

What makes the reformists even more desperate is that although the relationship between the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom and the Light Dragon Kingdom is very poor, their relationship with the Duchy of Mun is still pretty good. If Lydia asks the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom to hand over the people, it is hard to guarantee that they will not be sent back!

Either they become corpses, or they are slaves first and then wait to become corpses. It is just a difference between death penalty and death reprieve. For the reformists, there is little difference - because they have no possibility of appeal at all.

So now they can only drag it, and it is only a day that they can drag it.

But they forgot one thing, that is, human nature is selfish. They can not care about other people's lives and deaths in order to make themselves drunk for more than one day, and others will naturally not care about their lives and their lives.

Within the reformists, the core members are minorities after all, and most people are unwilling to accompany them to die. When the old parliament president was there, they did not dare to be too presumptuous. But now, the old parliament president committed suicide by taking poison, and these people suddenly became tough. They even felt that the old parliament president chose to commit suicide means that all this was completely over and they no longer had the hope of victory! If they did not choose to surrender now, then there would be only a dead end!

It is precisely because of this that civil unrest broke out among the reformists.

"A small group of core elements of stubborn resistance" did not play any role in the "wide sea of ​​people". Not only that, those guys who "sell teammates" even made good decisions to release the former commander of the Southern Legion, which was originally detained by the reformists. Until this time, the so-called southern independence of the reformists had completely come to an end.

There was nothing to say about everything that followed. The Southern Legion stationed in Karenster City began to become chaotic after hearing the news of the old president's suicide. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the royal army suddenly bypassed Karenster from behind and cut off Karenster's supply line again, which made the Southern Legion completely a turtle in the jar. After three consecutive breakouts failed, the Karenster defenders announced their surrender. Then the royal army raised the flag and headed south. This time, the exhausted reformists did not even make symbolic resistance, and directly raised their hands to surrender.

Marlene still remembers everything she saw when she walked into the southern harbor. She had been to the southern harbor before. At that time, in Marlene's impression, it was a clean, tidy and beautiful city. The pedestrians on the street were dressed in bright clothes and spoke softly. They were polite and polite, as if they were full of endless hope for tomorrow and the future. It has to be said that those southerners at that time were indeed very qualified to despise those northerners who came from the bitter and cold places in the north, dressed in rough fur, and spoke loudly and roughly.

But this time, what she saw was a completely different scene.

The originally clean and tidy streets became dirty, with corpses of people and animals everywhere, and stinking corpses came from the streets and alleys. Even by the beautiful and blue bay, many corpses swollen by water can be seen. However, the people who were dressed in bright clothes are now ragged and covered in pale faces and thin skin, secretly watching the royal army enter their city through the cracks in the door. Those originally neat and beautiful houses were also not taken care of. In addition, the previous riots made a city that was originally extremely beautiful look like a beggar's nest.

What a tragedy.

Thinking of this, Marlene closed her eyes and cleared out the unpleasant scenes in her mind. If it were Lijie, she might even sympathize with the poor people. But Marlene doesn't. She doesn't think those people deserve sympathy, this is their choice. And they also paid the price for it. As for whether this price is a bit high, it is not within the scope of Marlene's attention.

After that, Lydia also showed her decisive side. In just two days, she captured all the core figures of the reformists and locked them in the dungeon, waiting for trial and execution. In addition, this time, facing these rebels, Lydia's punishment was extremely serious. She confiscated the industry and wealth of all reformists and brought them back to civilian status. Not only that, except for those poor people who have been confirmed to be hung, others will also have different degrees of punishment. Some people will have less punishment, and some people will have more punishments. Of course, this severity is only relative.

For the reformists, Lydia's move was vicious enough, because almost all the nobles and merchants participated in the rebellion this time. They all had large amounts of industries and wealth in the south, otherwise, these people would not have the courage to fight against the royal party.

After Lydia did this, she almost exhausted the entire commercial and aristocratic circle in the south, which was a complete drain for the reformists, because it also meant that they would never have enough energy and strength to compete with the royal party in the future.

If it were a weekday, Lydia's approach would definitely arouse opposition and protest from many people, because Lydia's approach was not just a simple way to harvest the foundation of the reformists. There were people who managed so many industries and chambers of commerce. Now all of these have been confiscated by the royal party, which means that those who work for the reformists' industries would also be affected. If it were a weekday, I would have started protesting a long time ago.

But now, after Lydia made this decision, the arrogant southerners accepted the arrangement without saying a word like a defeated rooster. They were like flowers in a greenhouse. Now, when Lydia broke the glass of the greenhouse and exposed these spoiled flowers to the wind and rain completely. After the baptism of the storm, these originally blooming flowers finally wilted completely. The harsh reality broke their romance for war, making them clearly understand that war is not just the glory and cry of freedom in imagination, but the road of death and destruction. And they foolishly chose such a path.

"Miss Marlene."

Just when Marlene was in a daze, suddenly a voice came from behind her, which made Marlene quickly restrain her thoughts. She turned around and then saw her close maid standing behind her, looking at her respectfully.

"It's time for the banquet soon..."

"I got it, I'll go to change my clothes now."

After saying this, Marin looked at the quiet, peaceful and peaceful scenery of Golden City outside the window again, and then she turned around without any hesitation and walked into the room.

Rhodes walked out of the carriage and stared at the tall, majestic castle in front of him, and couldn't help but whistle.

After awakening Grayhill and Madalas, Rhodes was not able to return to the land of atonement immediately, because at this moment, Qilian told him that the royal family sent an invitation letter to invite Rhodes to the upcoming banquet in Golden City. Although Rhodes had been busy with two daggers before and did not pay much attention to the battle between the royal party and the reformists, when he learned the news, Rhodes had already confirmed that the reformists were completely finished. The facts were indeed as Rhodes had expected.

The so-called "beating the local tyrants and divide the land". Now that the local tyrants have finished fighting, it is naturally the time to divide the land. Lydia has hollowed out the foundation of the entire south, which is the position of hundreds of nobles and chambers of commerce, not to mention this battle. The Southern Legion and the sea fleet have to be cleaned and rebuilt on a large scale. Such a large piece of cake is impossible to say that no one is moved. Rhodes is also very clear that this time Lydia held a grand banquet, on the surface, to celebrate the victory of the reformist civil war, but in fact, there is no intention of dividing the cake.

It is precisely because of this that after leaving the Elf Forest, Rhode took Anne and Lijie directly to the Golden City and came to participate in this victory banquet. However, this time, there was an uninvited guest around him.

"This is the Golden City..."

Corinna walked out of the carriage. Her eyes widened slightly, she looked at the majestic castle in surprise, and murmured to herself.

Hearing Corinna's words, Rhode didn't say anything. He just turned his head and looked at Corinna. Then he quickly withdrew his gaze.

Corinna's joining was a complete surprise for Rhodes. In fact, when he said goodbye to Her Majesty the Elf Queen, he never expected that the Elf Queen would actually ask him to ask Corinna to go to the Land of Atonement and travel there. To be honest, when Rhodes heard the Elf Queen's request, he was very surprised.

Of course, Rhode knew that young elves would travel outside, and sometimes they would also bear some obligations. For example, Corinna was the representative of the Kingdom of France before in the Solagang Mountains, but now the Solagang Mountains are gone, so Corinna's representative position will naturally be gone. But Rhode did not expect that the elf queen would actually want to send Corinna to the land of atonement!

Of course, on the surface, the reason given by the Elf Queen was to observe the residual effects after the Demon Lord died, but Rhode knew that this could only be used to coax the child. If you really want to observe the Demon Lord’s death, why didn’t you send her over before and go to the Elf Forest by yourself? Rhode didn’t know why the Elf Queen made this decision, but he agreed with this decision—because Rhode knew very well that it would not take too long, the Dragon Kingdom of the Dark Night and the Kingdom of Light

The war between them will begin, and the place of atonement where he is located is definitely one of the front lines. At that time, with Corinna helping in the fortress, maybe he can even pull the Kingdom of Law into the water, which not only enhances his strength, but also makes the enemy throw a fright. How could Rhode let go of such a good thing? What's more, Rhode is very clear about Corinna's talent, which is an accurate mobile firepower turret. If Corinna helps, then he will obviously be easier when defending the fortress.

In fact, strictly speaking, it is not a good thing to let Corinna be by his side. Rhodes is very clear that his style of conduct is incompatible with the culture of the elves. If Corinna can accept his actions, it would be a disaster. But now he is too lazy to pay attention to so much. Anyway, at most, the real war will begin. As long as you don't do it too much before this, it's enough to make Corinna dissatisfied--Rhodes are very good at disguising, and it's not once or twice.

But now, Rhodes did not pay attention to Corinna beside him. Instead, he turned his head and looked at the Golden Castle in front of him. He couldn't help but think of a person who hadn't seen for a long time - Marlene.

Strictly speaking, Marlene is the first woman Rhode has after coming to this world (Canary naturally cannot count). It is said that first love is unforgettable, but in fact, the first night is similar. Rhode naturally cannot forget Marlene, let alone that although the other party has not followed him for a long time, the role it has played in the development of the Starlight Guild is not smaller than that of Rhode. It can be said that without Marlene, the current Starlight Guild would not be able to develop in an orderly manner at all.

But Rhode knew very well that Marin could not stay in the Starlight Guild as her deputy. She was the only heir of the Shania family. Moreover, in this civil war, compared with her who had been fighting soybeans besides attacking the enemy's rear, Marin's performance can be said to be very eye-catching. Not only did she lead her magic troops to resist the reformist offensive one after another, she even made considerable contributions in the later battle to surround Karenster City. Marin made considerable contributions to the siege and prevent Karenster defenders from breaking through. Of course, this does not mean that Marin's military talent and tactical literacy are high, but during the days of acting with Rhode, the girl's understanding and mastery of magic has indeed made rapid progress. It is precisely because of this that Marin was able to perform such an outstanding performance in this civil war.

And because of her outstanding performance, Marlene has now removed the hat of "a magical genius that is rare in a century" and has been officially recognized by many people as a "young and powerful mage". It can be said that after so many years of hard work, she finally became a regular.

On the way to Golden City, Rhodes also heard a lot of rumors about Marlene, especially this time she performed well, and there were many rumors surrounding this outstanding girl. There were rumors that she would join the Palace Mage Guard, become the deputy of the Great Master Armond, and even become the head of the next Great Master of the Palace. There were rumors that she might get a new territory and have an honorable and noble title.

Rhodes are very clear about these, and Marin is also qualified to get these. She is different from herself. She comes from a famous family and has always been popular, so it is not surprising that she has such natural results now. Because everyone knows that she is the heir of the Shania family, a magic genius that is rare in a century. The foundation is here. As long as Marin works hard, she will definitely have results. But she is different. No matter how dazzling he is, he suddenly appears in front of everyone in a very short time. Therefore, the nobles are always a little more wary and doubtful about themselves than Marin. Just like the title given to him by Lydia before, it was because of this that Rhodes was given the lowest aristocratic title. If Marin had done this, he would probably be at least an earl would not be able to escape.

However, Rhodes was still a little reluctant.

Perhaps Marin's relationship with her will not change, but who knows this? After she leaves the guild, the time for both parties to meet will be reduced. Distance is the enemy of love. According to Rhode's experience, even if Marin still likes her. But after that, it is difficult to meet for various reasons between the two parties, and that kind of relationship will become dull. Not to mention that Rhodes is actually not short of women around him. The final result is mostly the dull parting ways. Marin may find someone of a good match to marry to continue the family, and may not get married. But no matter what, this has nothing to do with Rhodes.

When Rhodes thinks of this kind of likely future, he is very upset. He has always been competing with others for women, and he has never lost... Is this the rhythm of losing now?

Rhode himself didn't know what he was in now. To be fair, he was happy about Marlene's growth and the achievements he had achieved, but when he thought that Marlene was going to leave Starlight and leave him, the two might rarely meet in the future, so he was not so happy.

only……………

Thinking of this, Rhode couldn't help but sigh helplessly and put this annoying thing behind his mind.

Don't think about this unpleasant future, at least now, he will see Marlene soon. (To be continued.)
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