The witch thought I am a Demon God
Chapter 928 - 479 Vermilion Bird Magic_2

Chapter 928: Chapter 479 Vermilion Bird Magic_2

Compared to it, guarding the location that holds the Dragon Fire Law is extremely important. If there’s any issue here, it could likely endanger the nearby Royal Capital of Alsace.

...

When Ivita returned to King City, she learned from the Hearthstone Witch that she and the King of the Ancient Tomb had led the court’s guards to arrest thirteen who had secretly informed foreign states, conveying Ivita’s message of refusing to recognize any unequal treaties.

Ivita sneered at this. Although she had long anticipated that Jalen and Henry VII’s court had been infiltrated like a sieve, she hadn’t expected the spy count among these ministers to be so high.

No wonder she had so easily penetrated the royal palace.

Ivita signed the documents to execute these people.

The next day, in the hall of discussion within the court, Ivita received another piece of bad news: the Frankish people were officially aiding Jalen, claiming to help the king suppress a rebellion.

The Frankish people sent fifty thousand troops, slicing the western front into nine different routes to attack Alsace. To this day, although they hadn’t taken any of Alsace’s counties, the will to resist in the western eleven counties seemed low. The continuous battles had left those county leaders unable to grasp the situation.

They had to decide whether they should support Ivita or Jalen.

Fortunately, the Frankish people had planned to strike into the King City of Alsace with the speed of lightning, forcing Ivita out, but they hadn’t anticipated that the large furnaces of Dragon Flame inside the fortresses across Alsace would still be functioning.

This had caught them unprepared.

The Frankish people invading Alsace were supposed to wear fireproof clothing, but they hadn’t brought any in order to implement their lightning beheading tactic, which actually slowed their attack.

Even so, the first major Frankish force alone was as many as fifty thousand troops, and it was likely that they would continue to send more troops. This cast a shadow over everyone’s hearts, creating immense pressure.

In the hall of discussion, facing the ministers who were discussing and guessing why the Frankish people thought the Dragon Fire Law would fail, yet the current situation suggested otherwise, Ivita didn’t want them to speculate wildly, so she directly said, "No need to guess. Jalen has given the Dragon King’s Fire to the Frankish people. They used some special methods, intending to make the Dragon Fire Law go out of control, stopping the Dragon Flame furnaces inside the fortresses and walls across Alsace to facilitate their attack on the Kingdom of Alsace."

"But yesterday, I went to Dragon Fire Bay Lake and suppressed the riot of the Law, temporarily making the Law function. Jalen’s foolish plan, after all, did not materialize."

The ministers, upon hearing this, immediately felt outraged.

Alsace and Frank had been nursing hatred for decades, continued through several generations of kings. All the ministers present had lost relatives to the Frankish people.

The father of Ivita had also been dragged into a war of attrition by the Frankish people, eventually being seized by the Commander of the Imperial Guard, which led to a successful usurpation.

But now Jalen was collaborating with the Frankish people, which was like a stab in everyone’s lungs.

The reaction of these people was within Ivita’s expectations. Jalen’s collaboration with the Frankish people was a severance from Alsace.

The people of Alsace held a natural hatred for the Frankish people; all of Alsace would unite against the invasion of the Frankish people, becoming one whole.

Wait a minute.

Ivita suddenly blanked out. Pinocchio said his master was going to give her a great gift. Could it be referring to this gift?

Suddenly, a thought struck Ivita, as if she grasped something crucial. Pinocchio had always claimed that he and his master were conducting some experiment. Could it be that this experiment was related to the natural hatred the people of Alsace held for the Frankish people?

Below the throne in the hall of discussion, Marcellino Bowman, as the Minister of Defense, and other Alsasians voiced their anger: "The enemy has already entered our country, those despicable Frankish people. My father and my grandfather died at their hands. I need to see their families destroyed to appease this anger..."

"Your Majesty, the Bowman family is willing to donate thirty thousand gold pounds and provide a hundred knights and a thousand soldiers trained by our family to fight for you. We cannot allow the Frankish people to invade our country anymore. The Frankish people have plundered our western territories countless times, parading arrogantly in front of our Royal Capital."

"In my sleep, I almost hear the wails of the spirits of our kingdom’s fallen troops."

Although Ivita was surprised by the Bowman family’s hatred for the Frankish people, no one dislikes being offered money. He reassured Marcellino Bowman, "Good, I admire the Bowman family’s spirit of serving the country and the people."

He scanned the other major noble families in the hall of discussion, and they reacted similarly upon hearing of the Frankish invasion, each eager to avenge their ancestors and the kingdom.

They all brought out troops and savings nurtured by their families.

Ivita summarized the discussion results. "The defense at the front borders will be led by the King of the Ancient Tomb, His Excellency Marcellino Bowman, the Grand Chancellor His Excellency Kulatos Pritzker, and His Excellency Ronan Anderson to stop the enemy invasion."

"The total number of troops deployed will be over twenty thousand."

The people of The Three Republics will definitely retreat since they had already helped themselves to storm the King City. Being allies, they could not possibly fight against their own interests.

Thus, the central army on Ivita’s side still numbered just over twenty thousand, more than half of which were Alsasian troops.

However, he could still mobilize local military forces. The ten counties in the western region combined should have over ten thousand troops. By mobilizing the national legions and gathering more troops, it should be easy to assemble an army of fifty thousand.

Still, Ivita didn’t plan to do so immediately. After all, he was fighting a defensive war. As long as the Dragon Fire Law functioned normally and every place had Dragon Fire Furnaces as part of their defense architecture, the costs for the Franks to invade would be high.

The only problem now was Jalen, the guide.

The Hearthstone Witch asked Ivita, "Your Majesty, do I still need to go to Yodo City and request the Yodo Family to hand over Jalen?"

"Things have already come to this point, next, it seems like a full-scale war. The Yodo Family surely won’t hand over Jalen at this time, right?"

Ivita shook his head. "Still, you must go. The Yodo Family remains a part of Alsace."

"Before they defy my orders, they still have a chance to choose. I cannot deny them that opportunity."

"To punish without teaching is tyranny."

"I am certainly no tyrant."

"I hope the Yodo Family will make the right choice. Convey a message to Earl Yodo on my behalf—tell the Earl, ’You should be loyal to your own nation.’"

The Hearthstone Witch raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

...

Within the tallest tower of Yodo City, Jalen still dressed in his exquisite noble attire, had servants meticulously dressing him, yet he looked displeased. A Frankish messenger had burst into his room, recklessly questioning why the Dragon King’s Fire hadn’t worked.

Facing the plainly dressed, short messenger, Jalen forcefully suppressed the urge to insult him.

But the messenger grew arrogant, as if assuming Jalen was a liar. "We did as you instructed, but it had no effect. Our Frankish Army charged towards your despicable Alsasians’ castles, but then terrible Demon Fires appeared in the sky and burned all our men to death."

"Liar, why didn’t your method work? Our army’s Marshal sent me to question you—you should understand it’s you who needs us, not we who need you. You were the one who contacted us first."

Jalen clenched his fists, a violent gleam flashing in his eyes. This was still his territory, the headquarters of his close friend, Earl Yodo, in Yodo City. How dare this lowly, low-ranking noble messenger challenge a God Chosen King.

Had he really fallen to this level?

Jalen slowly said, "I’m not sure of the specifics, but I suspect Ivita might have tampered with something."

"Messenger, you should show respect to the king! Regardless, I am a king, and even your king would not be so rude to me. You!"

The short messenger’s eyes flashed with scorn and dissatisfaction, but he still bowed to Jalen, after all, showing respect to a king was common sense for everyone.

After bowing, the messenger spoke again, pushing Jalen to his limits. "Then how are you going to compensate us for so many of our Frankish Army soldiers who died?"