The witch thought I am a Demon God
Chapter 171 - 127: Snow Mountain Law and the Restricted Scale of War (5108) _1

Chapter 171: Chapter 127: Snow Mountain Law and the Restricted Scale of War (5108) _1

Ivita stayed in Parviga for another two days.

He had been in Parviga for six days, but he spent two days wandering around the Parviga market without finding the mirror he needed to purchase with one hundred gold pounds.

The market was primarily filled with agricultural products and handicrafts from various places, a large number of weapons, exotic objects from different places, and a circus performing along the street.

At this point, Ivita was prepared to set off back home early the next morning.

However, a lot of things happened in the past two days.

Firstly, a large-scale pest outbreak began to appear in the fields of the rural areas and small towns near Parviga;

Secondly, the Ambros City Council unexpectedly issued a call for conscription and taxation for cities and territories, and likewise, Viscount Winchester, not to be outdone, immediately followed suit and issued a call for taxation and conscription to all the territories and cities across Ambros.

Both sides acted as if they were the rulers of Ambros;

Thirdly, the Papal Country brought a new Golden Seal Royal Decree to all the cities and baronies of Ambros - The Pope’s will was to limit the participation of fourth-level professionals and those above in war, while also forbidding that the total number of combatants in a single battle within Ambros exceed two hundred thousand.

Anyone who defied the decree would be punished by the Pope.

Ivita didn’t know the reason why the Papal Country calculated the maximum scale of people allowed to participate in the war.

But there must’ve been a reason.

Simultaneously, he felt even more the horror of the impending war.

He and his barony were still far too insignificant in such a war.

When he fought the Son of Forest before, there were just over two hundred troops defending the city.

In the terrible coup d’etat in Parviga, the combined forces of the warring parties totalled just over seven thousand people.

And now the Papal Country was forbidding either side in Ambros from exceeding two hundred thousand participants in a single battle.

This suggests that if the Papal Country didn’t impose any limit, then the number of Ambros participating in the war would increase even more.

To be honest, even if these two hundred thousand people were just ordinary people forming an army, they could easily destroy Parviga or his territory.

Not to mention, these armies often have a large number of low-level professionals mixed in, and might also be equipped with some magical items and weapons.

At sunset, in front of the seemingly silky smooth river in Parviga.

Lady Alice said to Ivita: "This is the lifeline of our city, a tributary of the Bohr River. This river runs through all the cities within Ambros."

"Countless ships set off from here every day, transporting goods to all places, and many more ships flood in."

"The messengers of the Pope, the orders of the Ambros City Council and Viscount Winchester all come via this river. In case of urgency, within one day, the special ships on the Bohr River can travel throughout the Bohr River basin and Ambros basin."

"In other words, the Bohr River is the blood vessel of the Ambros Plain."

Ivita pondered, "No wonder these days, Parviga has been able to receive letters from all over the place continuously."

"Traveling by water is indeed much faster than by land."

"So, all the important cities and territories of Ambros are on the river, which means that controlling this river is equivalent to controlling the lifeline of Ambros."

Lady Alice nodded and said, "Look, the special mechanics on that ship."

Ivita looked in the direction Lady Alice was pointing at and saw a ship with eight oars sticking out on both sides. At the back, there was a huge mechanism that looked like a water wheel.

This windmill-like mechanism had a small wooden cup hanging at the end of each blade. Once the cup was filled with water, it would automatically pour the water into the groove next to the water wheel. The water in the groove would then flow into another empty wooden cup in another water wheel, which turned a wooden gear, and finally, through a series of mechanical structures, made the propellers on the sides of the ship on the Bohr River in Parviga rotate.

The only source of energy for this special mechanical structure was flowing water.

In fact, it was a water wheel, complete with a transmission device and propellers for the water wheel version.

Ivita frowned. "Such a ship is useful, but the prerequisite is that the Bohr River needs to have enough water flow to make the mechanical structure of the ship on the Bohr River work."

Lady Alice chuckled lightly. "Ivita, your territory is in the mountains, so you may not understand."

"In fact, the humans of Ambros are allies with the Ice Witch in the Snow Mountains."

"The source of the Bohr River is the Ice Witch’s palace in the Snow Mountains, and all the river water flows from that palace. Therefore, the Ice Witch blessed all the human ships on the Bohr River, so when the ships sail on the river, undercurrents are generated from the riverbed to lift the ships."

"To speed up the ships."

"Therefore, we designed the automatic water wheel and propellers for the ships. Because human ships on the Bohr River are always lifted by the water flow, this flow can be used to make all the ships in the Bohr River basin travel automatically and quickly."

"Huh??" Ivita was a little stunned.

Because the Ice Witch had too many allies.

The Son of Forest was an ally of the Ice Witch, Viscount Winchester was an ally of the Ice Witch, and now all the humans in Ambros turned out to be allies of the Ice Witch.