Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 18 Meeting with Sinclair
There was a long queue outside the medical tent, and ten operating tables were put into use at the same time. In one day, they replaced mechanical prostheses for hundreds of soldiers from the Northern Frontier Legion. However, some of the mechanical prostheses they brought were all used up, and some soldiers did not have the matching size and model of mechanical prostheses.
When these soldiers were worried that they would not be able to enjoy this benefit, the Governor of Raging Waves City, Marquis Meteorite, sent someone to announce a message.
Soldiers who do not have suitable mechanical prostheses can complete registration and measurement in the medical tent, and Nutao City will manufacture and deliver mechanical prostheses as soon as possible.
The Marquis of Meteorite said: This free replacement of mechanical prostheses will not miss any soldier who was wounded and bled for the empire!
The entire triumphal fortress was filled with cheers praising the great empire.
Some officers also joined the ranks of replacing mechanical prostheses. The mechanical prostheses brought by Nutao City this time were great.
Inside the Triumph Fortress Corps headquarters, Sinclair, General Joshuel and many senior commanders of the Corps sat behind a curved conference table. In front of them, one soldier after another showed them their newly replaced new mechanical prosthetic limbs from the Fury City.
Arms, legs, feet, eyes, ears...
Every soldier is very satisfied with the mechanical prosthesis they have replaced, and it is almost the same as a real limb in use. Moreover, these prostheses try to make the appearance close to the real limbs, even if they are still made of metal, they can already give the soldiers spiritual comfort.
A young soldier said with great anticipation, "Your Highness Sinclair, generals... Miss Sandpaper said that the Alchemist Association of Raging Waves City is researching artificial skin. Once the artificial skin is manufactured and put on the outside of the mechanical prosthesis, it will be impossible to tell that it is fake."
Another soldier said, "Miss Sandpaper told me about this. She also said that if you embed alchemical sensory elements under the artificial skin, the mechanical prosthesis can also have a sense of touch.
It will be just like a real limb.”
Then several soldiers talked about what they had seen and heard in the medical tent, and they were all impressed by the magic technology of Nutao City.
General Joshua ordered all the soldiers to withdraw.
The legion's military doctors and military magicians presented their analysis of these mechanical prostheses to Sinclair and the generals.
The chief magic adviser and head of the Mage Corps of the Northern Army was a middle-aged man with a beard. He walked to the podium opposite the curved conference table.
"Your Highness, Generals!" The magic consultant saluted first, then said: "The mechanical prosthesis brought by Raging Waves City this time is very advanced. It uses a lot of magic technology and bio-electric alchemical neuron technology, allowing us to directly see the technology and new technology development capabilities that Raging Waves City possesses.
Metallurgical technology, mechanical design capabilities, medical...these technologies are also very advanced in the world.
To be frank, the knowledge reserve of our legion mages is far behind that of Raging Tide City."
The magic consultant's words plunged the meeting into silence. Sinclair and the generals looked at the analysis opinions in their hands and could feel that the military doctors and mages were trying their best to use all their knowledge to explain the new technology they saw.
The whole article is filled with speculative words such as probably, perhaps, and should.
Sinclair rubbed his head and said to General Joshua beside him: "It seems that we all think things are too simple. The right to choose seems to have never been in our hands."
General Qiao Xuer gritted his teeth. The few pages of paper in his hand were more stressful than the pressure from thousands of troops.
The Northern Legion was the first legion in the Empire to receive new technologies, new weapons, and new warfare models. General Joshur witnessed the transition of the Northern Legion from an old-style army to a new-style army, and was well aware of the changes in the Northern Legion's combat effectiveness before and after.
In the past, even if the Northern Legion had doubled its strength, it would not dare to fight the Barbarian Legion like it does now.
Now, the legion that we have always been proud of and is definitely among the world's top armies has fallen behind!
"Your Highness, perhaps things are not as bad as we thought." General Joshua comforted Sinclair and said to the mage advisor, "If we use this technology to build an army, will the Northern Legion have the ability to fight against it?"
The wizard consultant replied: "General, what kind of confrontation are you talking about? If it is a confrontation between the Barbarian Legion and the Northern Legion, our Northern Legion can confront this legion."
The generals understood.
The Northern Army will passively take the beating when facing future enemies, and can only use the depth of defense and terrain to deploy defenses while losing. It can counterattack , but a large-scale counterattack is a suicide act.
General Joshua was afraid that Sinclair's will would waver, so he quickly said, "There are many factors that determine the outcome of a war, and weapons are only one of them. The fighting will of the soldiers and the art of war of the commander can make up for the disadvantages in weapons.
We are all willing to give our lives to help Your Highness take back the empire from the Queen.
Justice is on our side!"
The generals stood up together: "We are all willing to sacrifice our lives for Your Highness to take back the empire from the Queen. Justice is on our side!"
Sinclair suddenly felt as if he were trapped in a fairy tale, in which the exiled prince, with the support of his loyal nobles, bravely launched an attack on the usurping queen and her jester.
In the end, the prince succeeded in killing the queen. Not only did he ascend the throne to become the new king, he also married a beautiful princess and lived a happy life from then on.
But reality is not a fairy tale.
"My generals, please take a seat! I believe in your loyalty and do not want to dampen your morale, but we cannot cover our eyes and ignore the overwhelming technological advantage of Fury City.
Today we only saw a small mechanical prosthesis, but there are many things in Raging Waves City that we cannot see.
We can't put our hopes on the Duke of Celtic, whose envoy disappeared and has not been found to this day. We can't put our hopes on the cabinet either, because when those officials need to abandon us, they will never look back.
The fate of the North's army must be in our own hands.
I decided to meet with Princess Agatha and Meteorite and listen to their conditions before making a decision. "
If Sinclair had said these words the day before, there would definitely be generals who would jump out to object.
Now even the most hawkish general has not expressed his opinion. Everyone is waiting for General Qiao Shuer, who is the soul of this legion.
"I agree that Your Highness can meet with Princess Agatha and Marquis Meteor." General Qiao Xiuer finally gave in. "But before meeting them, Your Highness should first meet with the cabinet envoy and hear how much support the cabinet can give us."
"Can!"
The meteorite hit the target as soon as it came, and it would be no good for the Northern Army to delay. If they waited a few more days, the meteorite might blow up the entire Triumph Fortress.
The emperor's grandson Sinclair meets with the cabinet envoy.
The news of the decision to meet tomorrow also reached Agatha.
The condolence car is inside the tea room.
"It's only been two days, and Sinclair can't help it." Although she said it sarcastically, Agatha was still very happy in her heart. Sinclair was willing to talk, which meant there was hope for a peaceful solution to the Northern Army.
Luke, who was drinking tea with Agatha, said: "In the beginning, Sinclair definitely wanted to talk, but his generals stopped him. Now that we have demonstrated our technological strength at a generational level, Sinclair has an excuse to finalize this meeting."
"It seems that whether the problem of the Northern Army can be solved peacefully will ultimately depend on General Joshua's attitude. He was loyal to Fania, and now that Fania is dead, he will only focus on pushing Sinclair to the throne.
But if Sinclair ascends the throne, the officials and nobles who follow him will definitely fight for the court.
Do you have any good ideas?"
Luke did not push Sinclair to be the emperor of the empire because of this concern. Sinclair had no foundation in the court, and if he ascended to the throne, he would definitely be sidelined by the people below. These people had no bottom line in their actions and would rush to the City of Raging Tides in waves.
The queen can only rely on the City of Raging Waves to ascend to the throne.
Luke replied: "The privileges of the military nobles in the army will be completely abolished, the Northern Army will be taken over and reorganized, and His Royal Highness Sinclair will be the commander of the new army."
Agatha smiled and said, "You are trying to cut off the roots of those military nobles, which is very difficult!"
"That's why I came to Triumph Fortress."
While Agatha and Luke were discussing what to say to Sinclair, Sinclair 's meeting with Cabinet envoy Hermann ended quickly.
The results of the talks did not satisfy Sinclair. Apart from big but empty promises, the cabinet could not provide much useful support.
That’s right…
The command of the Royal Knights and the Palace Guards lies in the hands of the Queen; the Imperial Secret Service has always been managed by Princess Agatha; Meteor is the commander of the Saint Lun City Garrison Corps, and the Imperial Capital Security Bureau also falls into his hands.
The original court ministers were either transferred or sidelined, and the cabinet ministers could hardly protect themselves, so how could they provide much help to the Northern Legion?
Hermann could only promise money and then say that Augustine the Great might have died.
Officials from Meteorite and Raging Waves City were described as the queen's party that supported the evil queen. The righteous ministers were waiting for the emperor's grandson, His Royal Highness Sinclair, to return to the imperial capital and restore order to the lost empire.
If Sinclair were simpler, he might really be persuaded by him.
But after experiencing this series of major changes, he understood a lot of things.
The next day, which was also the third day after the visiting delegation arrived at the Triumph Fortress, Princess Agatha and the Governor of Raging Waves City, Marquis of Meteorite, officially entered the fortress.
Inside the conference table, people from both sides sat on both sides of the long conference table.
Sinclair and Agatha both had blank expressions on their faces, and there was no sign that they were aunt and niece, nor did they seem to take the initiative to speak.
They are all members of the royal family and it is not appropriate for them to quarrel in public. The real protagonists of this meeting are General Qiao Shuer and Marquis Meteorite.
Kylena sat next to Luke. She adjusted the typewriter and prepared to take notes of the meeting.
Prince MacDonald and other imperial officials sat in the back row. There was a row of briefcases at the prince's feet. He was responsible for quickly finding the information and documents needed for the negotiations.
The talks begin.
General Joshua said nothing, but looked at Agatha and Luke with hatred. The death of the eldest prince Fania was directly related to the two of them. If Luke had not brought back the queen, and if Agatha had not mobilized the imperial spies to seize the palace, perhaps the result of the coup would have been different.
Luke smiled and said, "The interior of the Triumph Fortress is really huge. I got lost when I first visited it. Fortunately, a man named Quinton showed me the way, and I was able to walk out of the maze-like passage.
I wonder if Mr. Quinton is here. I want to thank him in person."
The disappearance of the Celtic Duke's envoy was indeed related to the meteorite.
General Qiao Xiuer replied coldly: "Quinton went to inspect other garrisons of the legion today. I wonder where the Marquis saw Quinton?"
"Inside a huge cave. When I went in, Quinton was chatting with a group of rock giants. It seemed like they were going to kill someone."
Who is Quinton going to kill?
It must be these two people in front of me!
Sinclair couldn't keep calm. He asked, "Where did you see the rock giant?"
Luke replied: "It's inside the Triumph Fortress."
Qiao Xiuer said, "It's impossible. Triumph Fortress can't even hide one rock giant, let alone a group of them. Meteor, please don't spread rumors and disrupt the morale of the Northern Army."
"General Joshuel." Luke said contemptuously, "If there are any rock giants, you can ask Quinton and find out."
"Quinton..." Qiao Xiuer almost told about Quinton's disappearance: "Where did you see the rock giant? Take us there?"
"I forgot! The passages in the Triumph Fortress are too complicated. I don't know how to get in or out. Maybe when I visit the fortress, I can enter the cave full of rock giants again."
General Joshua didn't know whether he should believe the meteorite.
If there really were rock giants from the Barbarian camp hidden in the fortress, it would be very dangerous for the main force of the Northern Army to be stationed here. However, there was really no better place for the army to be stationed in the Northern Army's occupied area, and if the army left, the defense of the entire Tedejia Hills occupied area would become extremely vulnerable.
For the safety of the army, General Joshuel slowed down his attitude and said to Luke: "If what you said is true, please take us to destroy these rock giants."
"If you see Quinton, he will tell you that the rock giants are now very safe. I put them all to sleep and closed the door of the cave. Now no one can open the door except me."
"you……"
Seeing General Joshuel about to lose his temper, Sinclair stopped him and asked Luke: "Are there really rock giants?"
“Really. But rock giants are extremely rare rock-type supernatural creatures. Such a large group of rock giants is extremely rare. Since rock giants are harmless now, why not let them sleep?
It won’t be too late to wake them up once the Empire has brought Tedega Hill under its direct rule.”
General Joshua said in disbelief: "Put Tedega Hill under the direct rule of the empire? Marquis Meteor, do you know where Tedega Hill is? Long before the establishment of the empire, the Celtic family ruled Tedega Hill.
No one can separate the Celtic family from Tedega Hill. "
Luke agreed, "Yes, no one can separate the Celtic family from the Tedegar Hills unless the Celtic Duke wants to separate them."
General Joshua asked, "What do you mean?"
Luke smiled and said, "My meaning is very clear. Tedega Hills has officially started the process of being incorporated into the direct jurisdiction of the Empire. The Duke of Celtic can only speed up or slow down the process."
"You are kidding me!"
Luke stared at General Qiao Xiuer and said, "I never joke about this kind of thing. Raging Wave City, the Imperial Capital, the Western Territory, I can definitely do what I say.
Now I came to the Tedegar Hill, which would soon cease to be the Tedegar Hill of the Celtic Dukes.
I said it! "
