Early in the morning, Emperor Karl-Franz woke up from his sleep.
The bright morning light illuminated the interior of the hut. When the emperor reluctantly opened his eyes, he found that he was lying on an animal skin rug. There was no doubt that this was a fine animal skin rug from his palace, but
Even so, the hard ground still made the emperor's shoulders and back feel a little uncomfortable.
The emperor soon felt ashamed of this situation. He almost forced himself to drive away his sleepiness. The emperor suddenly opened the quilt covering himself, so that the cold air of the morning could penetrate into his body, forcing him to
Waiting for yourself to wake up.
Karl, Karl, have your years of pampering and leisure made you slack? The emperor cursed himself secretly.
If you don’t know, Karl Franz is already in his early fifties this year. For legendary humans, this age is considered the true prime of life, which means that experience and skills are at their peak, but physical fitness has not yet reached its peak.
Begins to decline.
However, the emperor was not satisfied with his condition, very dissatisfied.
After many years of domestic affairs and palace career, as an emperor, it can be said that after he ascended the throne, his combat effectiveness and skills did not improve much, because too many internal affairs and various palace activities almost exhausted the emperor's energy, making him
There is almost not much energy to hone and strengthen one's martial arts skills and to feel deeper power.
When he was young, he was a warrior. He mingled with the soldiers in the military camp. During the march, he only needed some bacon, brown bread and ale to maintain his strong combat effectiveness.
Getting up from the blanket, the emperor checked it out. It was a small wooden cabin, a bit like a hunter's cabin, but also a bit like a guest room. The memory quickly returned to the emperor's mind, and he remembered that he and his army had come out.
Hunting is a routine autumn hunting activity in the empire, and it is also one of the few routine imperial palace activities that the emperor likes. He can enjoy three days and two nights of hunting.
Yes, it is already the autumn of the 2519th year of the Imperial Calendar.
This year was a troubled year for the entire old world.
At the beginning of the year, several human settlements near the Gray Mountains and Black Mountains began to be attacked. Any rescue attempts were too late. When the army arrived, they could only see ruins. The human army could not enter the mountains after all.
Go deep.
At this time, the Empire and Britannia once again abandoned their previous differences and chose to unite together, sending armies to each other to fight together. The Shadowboils were driven deeper into the Gray Mountains, at least that's what it seemed on the surface.
However, the empire seemed to have no chance to breathe. Just after dealing with the threat of the Shadow Evil War Beast Herd, a new Beastman War Beast Herd emerged from the old world. It was the famous Wormtongue Tribe, leading this terrifying beast.
The leader of the human army is the legendary beastman Beast King Morak-Wormtongue. This is a believer.
The sacred beast king who looks up to Nurgle is an existence that is hated by gods and ghosts. Wherever it passes, all fertile fields turn into deserts, and all forests turn into barren land full of poisonous insects. As long as the place it passes by gently
With one finger, he speaks a dark spell that can unleash destructive power on any land and any power that protects it.
Like a living storm, swarms of hungry skeletal locusts gnawed mercilessly on the fertile fields. After a while, these fields became barren land without any grass.
As its phlegm-laden giggles resounded, the pure river turned into bile that was difficult to drink. With just one word of praise to Nurgle, the sky was suddenly filled with a large number of twisted and wriggling fly larvae, which fell violently into the lake like hailstones. , the barn originally filled with corn and barley was occupied by putrid and stinky mud, and the sweet and delicious ale turned into thick and filthy saliva.
The emperor knew that Morak-Wormtongue must not be allowed to enter the core area of the empire. Under his order, Rick led the army to dispatch. Marshal Rick Helberg led a huge army and encountered the insect at the Six Peaks. Tongue tribe.
Helberg fought bravely, but was caught off guard. The imperial army was still unable to defeat the siege of the Wormtongue tribe and the witchcraft of Morak. Until the army led by Thor led by Gelt appeared and the wind of Qianmen stirred up hundreds of big horned beasts. Transformed into a golden statue under the transformation of ultimate alchemy, the artillery from the Alchemy Academy and the addition of the Eldrad Guards finally allowed the Imperial Army to turn defeat into victory.
This is the Battle of the Six Peaks.
But before the empire could breathe a sigh of relief, a letter asking for help from the dwarves of Torrent Gate reached Karl Franz's desk from afar.
Torrent Pass was surrounded by a huge army of green-skinned goblins! With only more than 25,000 residents, Torrent Pass had to face a number of powerful enemies no less than its own. The dwarf king of Torrent Pass, Balentine Stoneheart, had to surrender. In the past, he asked for help from the empire and the dwarven strongholds.
However, the enemy came faster than expected. Before the reinforcements of High King Thorgrim and the reinforcements of Butcher King Agrim-Ironfist arrived, Riptide Pass had already suppressed the greenskin offensive with its own artillery fire.
Until a large group of ogre mercenaries appeared. This group of terrifying ogre mercenaries almost turned the tide of the war, forcing the dwarf army to completely withdraw into the fortress of Torrent Pass. The desperate King Balentine even I plan to close the door and defend it.
But at this time, reinforcements from the Empire Nour arrived. This was the first heir of Baroness Emmanuel, the son of Knight King Lane, and the godson of Emperor Karl-Franz, the 16-year-old Baron Frey of Noor. Derek von Lebwitz-Bernardino's first appearance.
It is unrealistic to determine Frederick's talent in just one war, but the young baron showed extremely terrifying commanding abilities and the layout of artillery positions in his first battle. Ability, under the volley of hundreds of cannons of various colors, the greenskin army and the ogre mercenaries were completely destroyed. This battle was called the "Battle of the Hundred Cannons". After the war, King Balentin-Stoneheart of Torrent Pass The author and Frederick exchanged tokens of friendship.
The continuous war gave Karl Franz and his empire almost no chance to breathe. After finally waiting for the fighting to subside, the emperor had a few days to go hunting in the autumn. He just wanted to have a good rest for two days.
Karl-Franz was still thinking about something when footsteps came from outside. The footsteps were heavy. The emperor subconsciously reached out to the Rune Fang beside him: "Who?!"
"It's me, Your Majesty, Gentle."
The emperor took a breath and relaxed: "Please come in."
Guards Reik and his attendants brought a basin of water and a breakfast of bread, butter, fried eggs, Thuringian sausages and vegetable salad.
The emperor took the towel and washed his face with water. While washing his face, the emperor's bad sense of humor came into play again: "There must be something wrong with you coming here this time, right? Gentlei, you might as well say it straight, I hate guessing.
, especially when getting up.”
"There is indeed a situation." Gentlei said helplessly: "Over there at the hunting ground, we found a few poachers."
"Just follow the rules and expel them." The emperor rubbed his face with a towel. He didn't care about it: "But it won't be the same next time."
"Those are a few Kislev hunters." Gentle said helplessly: "They had a conflict with the Ricks. The Ricks... especially the hunters demanded that all these guys must be executed."
The towel was thrown directly into the basin.
The emperor took a deep breath, opened his mouth, and finally commented with only one word, "Oh!".
This kind of news is nothing new in the past few years. After Kislev was essentially destroyed, a large number of Kisler ladies poured into the empire. These Kisler ladies had many conflicts with the natives of the empire. If
Speaking of race, culture, language, and customs, the two sides often have a hostile attitude towards each other, so what really causes a lot of conflicts between the two sides are disputes at work.
To put it simply, Mrs. Keesler is "cheaper" in every sense. In the low-end service industry and many heavy manual jobs, hiring a Rickling may require a salary of ten copper coins per day, but Mrs. Keesler only needs
I'm willing to do it for five copper coins.
The influx of a large number of Mrs. Keesler into Reichland has caused a large number of low-end labor markets to be occupied by these people. Many people in Reichland have lost their jobs, and naturally they hold grudges. There have been large-scale conflicts between the two sides on more than one occasion.
The bloody conflicts gave the emperor a lot of headaches. The Rick leaders were the emperor's base, but more often than not they were the ones who made trouble unreasonably and actively provoked conflicts.
How to judge this?
The emperor couldn't help complaining in his heart, why didn't these people go to Ryan?
The aristocratic estates across the mountain are also recruiting workers all day long, needing people to harvest corn and cotton. The knights often provide watermelon and banana buffets, and occasionally fried chicken and grape-flavored soda are available on holidays!
Karl Franz actually complained about Britannia occupying Erengrad and turning Kislev into a fortress, but one was that the imperial finances were unable to support Katalin's restoration of the country, and the other was that
The only thing is that in this matter both Emmanuel and Boris Todbringer believed that the northern part of the empire still needed a fence, so the emperor did not say anything.
"Deport it. Tell the local hunters that you can hunt beastmen in the forest and earn bounties! This is a royal hunting ground. No one is allowed to hunt here anymore. If I find out, don't blame their emperor.
Ruthless!" Karl's eyes became sharp: "Also, tell me, Gentle, while we are fully focusing our attention on the west, is there any new news in Sylvania?"
"Steele reported that Sylvania is relatively calm." Gentle checked the news and shook his head.
"Very good. It's best for a dead person to just stay in the grave and be a dead person." The emperor nodded and said tiredly, "Don't come out to cause trouble again."
…………I am the dividing line that comes out to cause trouble…………
Old World, southern part of the Roof of the World Mountains.
Nagashza.
Nagashzar, known as the Pit of the Curse, is the lair where Nagash fled after being defeated by the Tomb Kings. It is one of the most powerful fortresses known in the world.
It was built by the tireless labor of countless dead souls. The fortress protrudes into the desert about 800 meters high. It was excavated directly from Cripple Peak. Therefore, the top of the mountain is its tallest spire, and hundreds of large towers stand on the mountainside.
, their windows glow with a terrifying green magic light as night falls.
Here, dozens of undead legions, under the control of hundreds of necromancers, continue to strengthen and reinforce the entire city day and night. Over the past thousands of years, the entire mountain range has been completely hollowed out, and countless corridors and corridors have been dug inside.
With thousands of rooms, the undead do not need to consider artificial intelligence, so after Nagash is half-dead, they have only one task left, which is to guard the master's fortress.
Four giant gatekeepers guard the gate of Nagashiza. They are four skeletal giants tens of meters tall. Dozens or hundreds of skeletal trebuchets are placed on the city wall, ready to throw volleys of skeletal trebuchets at any time at the besieging army.
Bone cannon fire.
Beneath the fortress is an underground tunnel twice as deep as the height of the fortress, a vast honeycomb-like labyrinth of mines filled with undead that mine warpstone. These labyrinth corridors are patrolled relentlessly by Nagash's undead sentries, who remain permanently
Be alert and guard against rat men trying to sneak back.
Nagash, the Lord of the Undead, is now in a state of immortality, or Schrödinger's unknown state. His consciousness is semi-awake, but with only one skull left, he cannot do anything.
He can accomplish his goals through constant planning and exerting influence, and through various divination and whispers, he can let his agents understand what he wants to do.
Just like the decayed corpse emperor who once sat on the golden throne, Nagash's will is difficult to understand, but there is never a shortage of necromancers who come to Nagashzar for pilgrimage. These wizards who exorcise the undead will Nagash
Shi Shi regards them as gods and firmly believes that one day he will lead them from the fortress to conquer the world.
After waiting for many years, the necromancers did not wait for Nagash's real return, but they did wait for someone.
The last vampire count, Manfred von Carstein.
Manfred showed Arkhan's proof, and the vampire count entered Nagashzar. He sincerely, in a firm and sincere tone, told the necromancers in Nagashzar how he wanted to resurrect Nagashzar.
How much effort Gash put in, how he formed an alliance with the Lich King Arkhan, and fought for the resurrection of the Lord of the Undead all his life, even if his body was shattered.
The necromancers were doubtful of Manfred's words, but Manfred presented more evidence, including the third of the Nine Books of Nagash and the Corrupted Blade that once killed Nagash.
After seeing the evidence, the necromancers of Nagashiza decided to ask the Lord of the Dead for answers through divination.
Soon, they received a positive reply.
As a result, the ghost wizards of Nagashzar swore an oath and made a terrible contract with the vampire count - to help them achieve their lofty goals and summon the Lord of the Undead to return to the mortal world once again and rule the world.
After more than a thousand years, Nagashzar has revived again. Dozens of undead legions and hundreds of undead wizards are ready to go, waiting for Manfred's orders.
It also announced that the Nagash resurrection plan was officially launched with the cooperation of Manfred and Arkhan.