Author: Twelfth Floor Yueming

It was early morning on August 10, 358 years of the Pande calendar, with light rain.

I went with His Majesty Leon to meet Emperor Marius of the Bacchus Empire.

His Majesty Li Ang went down in a hurry, and he didn't even bring many guards.

I originally thought that Your Majesty went to the enemy's military camp in such a hurry to meet the enemy's emperor in order for both parties to quickly reach an understanding in order to deal with a more powerful enemy. I thought that this negotiation would be full of cunning games and exchanges, just like Your Majesty has done many times.

Just like I did.

But I didn't expect that this was not a negotiation at all, just a farewell between friends.

His Majesty Li Ang left in such a hurry, actually just to rush to see the friend who might die at any time for the last time.

He was a emaciated, dying old man, perhaps a drug addict - I smelled a strong smell of opium from his body.

But His Majesty Li Ang said that this drug addict (the word was crossed out) Emperor is both his opponent and his friend, and the most powerful enemy in the entire continent...

I don't quite understand His Majesty Li Ang's definition of "powerful".

I have been following His Majesty, and I know how terrifying Aziz Dahaka, Kavala, is. I always thought that gods and demons like Kavala were the most powerful enemies in the entire continent, but His Majesty Li Ang

Don't think so.

Your Majesty told me that Emperor Marius had always been a person who created life for Bacchus, and a destroyer like Cavala could not compare with him.

His Majesty said that Emperor Marius was the most powerful emperor in the entire continent for hundreds of years, but he was born at the wrong time.

I don't quite understand why a person who can't even save his own life would be a person who creates life.

I don’t quite understand why the most powerful emperor, who controls the most powerful country, failed to unify the continent...

What exactly does His Majesty Li Ang mean by ‘powerful’?

——Excerpted from "Diary of the New Pendor Battlefield", written by Lisa Dilan Aino.

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In the early morning, Li Ang took Alina and Lisa Dilan to Salem Village.

Emperor Marius is currently in the village of Salem, which is currently the territory of the Bacchus Empire. Bacchus's military camp is not far to the north of Salem Village.

In other words, Li Ang passed through Bacchus's military camp and was behind the enemy army...

This is of course a very dangerous move, and Liang only brought his own Noldor Guards.

But Li Ang knew that he would not be in danger.

Because he knew that since Emperor Marius sent Agathaon to sue for peace, he did not want to deepen the hatred between him and the Noldor elves, nor did he want this war to continue.

On the contrary, Agason was more nervous - he led a team of people to follow Li Ang closely, not because he was afraid that Li Ang would suddenly do something wrong, but to protect Li Ang's safety...

The Bacchus army is currently full of wounded soldiers. It is estimated that many people do not like Li Ang. If something happens to Li Ang at this time, it will ultimately bring real disaster to both countries.

There are currently few residents in Salem Village. When the Bacchus Empire took back Karen Deer Castle, Anson took away most of the residents in this area.

Most of the houses in the village are empty and look a little dilapidated.

But Li Ang was taken into a military tent by Agathon.

Emperor Marius did not occupy any of the houses, even though most of the houses here were empty - this was obviously due to years of habit. His large army did not enter the village, but camped in the north of the village.

This is probably to prevent large-scale troops from entering places where civilians live, even though there are not many residents in the village.

The military tent of Emperor Marius was large, but without any decoration.

It is basically the same as the military tent commonly used by Li Ang - simple, inconspicuous, but very spacious.

Li Ang did not take off his sword, and no one asked Li Ang to take off his sword. He just entered the military tent of Emperor Marius.

After entering the military tent, what Li Ang saw was a skinny old man leaning on a camp bed, wearing an immortal officer's armor and holding his championship helmet in his arms.

His small stove was still placed on the table in front of him, and a delicate copper kettle was steaming on the stove.

After seeing Li Ang, Emperor Marius smiled slightly, like an ordinary old man meeting a familiar junior, and waved gently to Li Ang.

It's like yesterday's war never happened.

"Li Ang...you may have guessed that I originally planned to die on the battlefield. That is the best destination for me."

Today's Emperor Marius looks extremely weak. It seems that yesterday's battle has exhausted his little energy.

"Your Majesty, this is also a battlefield, and you are still wearing the Immortal Armor."

Li Ang walked forward and sat in front of Marius like a junior.

Likewise, it was as if he had not charged towards Emperor Marius yesterday, as if yesterday's battle had nothing to do with the two of them...

Lisa Dilan and Agathon stood on both sides of the entrance to the military tent, one on the left and the other on the right.

Several immortals who were originally serving as guards in the military tent also consciously hid in the corner.

Alina looked around, shook her head, walked to the table, picked up the kettle and prepared to pour water for the two kings.

"Actually, the name of the Immortal was given by Justus. I originally planned to name this legion the Mortal Legion... Mortals are mortal. But Justus said that the name had no deterrent effect at all, so he played a trick

A play on words...In fact, the mortal guards of the empire are the true meaning of immortality." (Note)

Emperor Marius stroked the tassel of the champion helmet in his arms and smiled like a retired uncle next door: "I never think that I am an immortal. I am just a mortal guard of the empire, a mortal who will eventually die."

Li Ang shook his head gently: "You shouldn't say such unlucky words..."

"I'm going to die, Leon."

Emperor Marius said calmly: "Only weak people will paralyze themselves with auspicious words... I am not a person who is afraid of death, I will happily accept my fate."

As he said that, he glanced at Alina: "Luciana, don't pour the water, the wine is warm on the table... How can you not drink when your friends are here?"

He called Alina by her original name.

Alina was about to bring two water glasses. She was stunned when she heard this and turned to look at Li Ang.

Li Ang also turned his head and glanced, and then he caught a glimpse of a box of black paste on the table.

He could realize what it was.

Opium was indeed a common drug used by doctors in this era, and Anson usually prepared a lot of it. It was mainly used to relieve coughs, analgesia, or relieve those incurable diseases. In short, it was used when encountering severe cases that could not be treated.

People die relatively easily and avoid torture.

So Li Ang nodded: "Indeed, we should pour wine."

Alina was silent for a while, then poured out the water in the cup and replaced it with warm red wine in the copper kettle on the stove.

Afterwards, she stood behind Emperor Marius, just as she had done in Siyuan City.

"Li Ang... there are too many people in this world who long for immortality... If you conquer the entire continent in the future, will you try to make yourself immortal?"

Marius held the wine glass, added opium to his glass in front of Leon, and then continued the previous topic.

"I'm not sure - I haven't conquered the continent yet. Who knows what will happen in the future?"

Li Ang smiled honestly: "But like you, no matter what happens in the future, I will happily accept my fate."

"Hahaha... Shouldn't a young man like you pursue 'controlling one's own destiny' or 'changing one's own destiny'? You actually accept the arrangement of fate like an old man like me?"

Emperor Marius laughed.

"Because I'm not that kind of weak person..."

Li Ang also smiled and said: "What is fate? What we can change and what we cannot change, what has changed and what remains unchanged, what I can choose and what I cannot choose, what I have mastered and what I cannot control... this

All results are fate... Of course I have to accept it, because that is the final result after I have tried my best."

"Hahahaha... That's right! Only weak people will clamor all day long to change their unfair fate..."

Emperor Marius raised his head and smiled even more happily: "I want power because I am humble, and I want immortality because I am short-lived... People in the world always think that the so-called resistance to fate is a sign of strength, but in fact it is just dissatisfaction with desire!

"

"It seems that you already know about Kavala? That King Pande has been fighting against fate. What he wants is eternal power and immortality."

Leon realized that Emperor Marius probably knew something about Kavala, otherwise he wouldn't have been feeling emotional.

"I do know something. I know that you have something to do with him...I guess you had something to do with him during the year or so when you disappeared, right? Can you first tell me the story of what you experienced during that year or so?"

"

Marius nodded and looked at Li Ang, as if he were an elder who was about to listen to his children's travel experiences.

"This matter begins with the civil war between the gods of Pendor and the Sindarin elves..."

Li Ang began to tell his experience and things about Kavala and the Snake Worship Cult as concisely as possible.

…

"It seems that even if he is sealed in a distant temple, Kavala can still drive the Snake Cult to provoke a war between us. If the Snake Cult is not completely wiped out, the world will never have peace."

Emperor Marius sighed with emotion after listening to the story for half the morning: "He pursues power and immortality to the extreme, and wants to be the only god... He is the bravest coward..."

"Your Majesty Marius, I don't quite understand... If Kairos and his son provoked a dispute between elves and humans because they were afraid of death, and called them cowards, I can understand it. But why do you say that such a terrible character as Kavala is also a coward?

?”
To be continued...