Chapter 390: War Arises Again, Mutual Calculation
In the blink of an eye.
Four and a half years passed again.
Rami, 23 years old, is already the veritable King of the Vale.
With Will's past teachings and gradually accumulated experience, today's Rami can manage the entire Kingdom of the Vale well even without Will.
What's more.
The most important thing for the current Kingdom of the Vale is not development, but restoring vitality, which is simpler.
With Rami's current ability, achieving this is completely no problem.
After confirming this.
Will also decisively let go, throwing all things to Rami.
And he himself.
Took Druddigon and Victini back to Chargestone Cave.
Nothing else.
Continue to study Dragon Veins.
He asked the twin dragons before they fell asleep whether the collision of their powers would cause space-time disorder phenomena.
However, the two dragons looked at him with a strange look.
The meaning was probably: You overestimate us too much.
After that time.
Will was sure.
What caused him to travel through time and space was definitely the power of Dragon Veins.
So he plunged into the research of Dragon Veins wholeheartedly, only coming out once a month to see if any accidents happened outside.
But most of the time, only he stayed in that golden cave.
Druddigon and Victini would go out to play together during the day, look for food, and meet other Pokémon.
Only at night would they run back and sleep squeezed together with Will.
This is not difficult for Druddigon.
Although the interior of Chargestone Cave is intricate with hundreds of large and small tunnels.
But Druddigon can Dig.
He used the move Dig to open a tunnel directly from the surface to Will's location.
And Druddigon is very cunning.
He chose for a long time when picking a location on the surface, finally choosing a very tricky location to dig.
Unless it is a Pokémon mastering the move Dig, this entrance cannot be discovered.
Four and a half years.
Many things happened successively.
For example...
The disappearance of Black and White Dragons has been discovered.
Kazan became the Regent of the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles.
The Kingdom of the Blessed Isles and the Kingdom of Plenty reached a strategic cooperative relationship.
Worth mentioning is.
Rami's way of governing is different from Kazan and Dresa.
The latter two, facing Blessed Isles and Plenty, would always hang the expression "I will kill you" on their faces.
But Rami can superficially smile and make deals with them, signing various peace treaties, etc.
By this method.
Rami got a lot of Revival Herbs from the eastern continent as future strategic reserves.
Also figured out the relationship between the Kingdom of Plenty and the Forces of Nature (Trio Kami).
This point is crucial.
If the relationship between Plenty and the Forces of Nature is the same as the Vale and Black and White Dragons.
Then Rami needs to put more energy on the Kingdom of Plenty, guarding against them initiating attacks at all times.
Once Plenty really lets the Forces of Nature attack the Vale.
Then Rami can only go to Chargestone Cave to invite Teacher.
Simply put.
If your side doesn't move gods, my side won't invite the retired State Preceptor.
But this is basically impossible.
If the relationship between Plenty and the Forces of Nature is so good, there is no reason not to launch an attack during the time when neither the Vale nor Blessed Isles has "Divine" protection.
Rami has also considered this point.
But without testing and verification, he really couldn't rest assured in his heart.
Spent more than half a year.
Finally he could confirm.
The Unova trio clouds don't have such a close relationship with Plenty.
At least they can't command the trio clouds.
At most can only seek the protection of the trio clouds for the eastern continent by sacrificing a large amount of Revival Herbs.
Moreover.
The trio clouds won't run too far.
They just don't want their territory to be affected by human wars, so they will only stay in this acre of land in the eastern continent.
Most importantly, the three clouds cannot appear together.
Especially Tornadus and Thundurus, absolutely cannot appear simultaneously.
At most can let Landorus appear together with one of the clouds; otherwise, it is asking for trouble, bringing disaster to the eastern continent.
It is said that the last human kingdom unified in the eastern continent was destroyed like this.
Summarizing various reasons.
This also led to an awkward situation where the Kingdom of Plenty can't beat anyone, but no one can conquer them either.
They want to destroy other countries.
The only means.
Is to unite with the Vale or Blessed Isles to launch an attack on another country.
The Kingdom of Plenty of course hopes to join hands with the Kingdom of the Vale to finish off the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles.
Mainly two reasons.
One is that the Kingdom of the Vale is also a country that has had "Gods."
Attacking this country.
Have to bear the risk that these gods might suddenly jump out.
Second is that the Kingdom of the Vale is too far.
Even if conquered, there is no benefit for the Kingdom of Plenty; benefits are basically taken by the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles.
This second reason is the key.
However.
Why did Plenty finally choose to join hands with Blessed Isles?
That belongs to Kazan's means.
Anyway, Rami doesn't care about this.
Or rather.
As early as when exiling Kazan to the central continent, he had already guessed this possibility.
Originally was quite worried.
Thinking about whether to ask Teacher for help.
But after learning that the three clouds wouldn't actively attack, Rami felt fearless and didn't want to disturb his Teacher.
As long as gods don't take action.
Even fighting one against two, Rami is confident.
After all, even if not inviting Teacher, he can invite Teacher's mount.
With Big Silly around.
Even if can't beat, defending is more than enough.
The western continent has high mountains, many forests, wide wetlands, and the least plains, difficult for large-scale military marches; even the transportation of strategic materials is a trouble.
Can be said to be a place easy to defend and hard to attack.
Rami can concentrate troops to guard the few plains.
Then send a few people to set traps and supervise in those precipitous places, preventing Blessed Isles and Plenty from taking risks.
Under such circumstances.
Even if Blessed Isles and Plenty gather the national military forces to attack, they can't fight into the Bouffalant Plain without several months.
And they definitely dare not gather all troops to invade.
After all, everyone is very proficient in the use of flying troops, even naval troops have been pulled up several branches.
Means and armies for stealing home (attacking the rear) are naturally essential for every country.
Rami wishes they would attack with the whole army.
This would save him a lot of effort to complete the great cause of unification.
For Rami.
He has done everything he can do.
Everything has been arranged.
When to harvest depends on when Kazan, whom he let go many years ago, takes action.
Rami is not worried that Kazan will curl up just like this.
Kazan cannot endure it.
Otherwise.
He wouldn't have risked his life painstakingly in these five years, joining the hostile kingdom, sitting on the Regent's seat, coercing and enticing Plenty, hollowing out the King of Blessed Isles...
All of this.
Whether for ambition or revenge.
Rami is sure Kazan will definitely wage war on the Kingdom of the Vale first.
Perhaps.
Just in these few days.
On the other side.
Capital of Blessed Isles, Blessed Isles City.
The palace is a dome castle inherited from one or two thousand years ago.
In the future.
This castle will get another name, Relic Castle.
But right now.
This is still the Blessed Isles Palace.
Just that sitting on the throne now is not the King of Blessed Isles, but a Person of the Vale.
Ruined King, Kazan.
The King of Blessed Isles was slaughtered by him as early as three years ago.
Together with his son, brother, nephew, grandson...
Anyway, all people with inheritance rights, without exception, were assassinated by Bisharp.
Not only the family of the King of Blessed Isles.
Those Blessed Isles ministers qualified to kneel in front of him now were basically promoted by him personally; even if not, they had weaknesses held by him.
To say how much Kazan trusts them.
That's really not the case.
Even People of the Vale could betray him.
Let alone these bastards with foreign blood flowing in their bodies.
The reason for choosing them.
Is just because this is a group of ambitious people willing to support Kazan, a Person of the Vale, to sit on the throne for their own ambitions.
As for the other side, the Kingdom of Plenty.
It's also very easy to deal with.
Rami is investigating those three clouds; naturally Kazan is no exception.
They all know that as long as not threatening the entire eastern continent, as long as not launching a large-scale war, those three clouds will not take action.
In this way, there are many places to operate.
Under means like kidnapping the royal family of Plenty, executing assassinations several times, psychics trying hypnosis, etc.
The King of Plenty was ravaged by Kazan into a puppet neither human nor ghost.
The loss in this is naturally incomparably huge.
In these four years.
Just the strong ones and Pokémon who died in assassination operations exceeded a thousand.
In this era.
This is already a number capable of forming a medium-scale army.
And assassination plans never killed any important figures, basically some royal branches; can be said a thousand troops were wasted in vain.
But Kazan doesn't care.
People of the Kingdom of the Blessed Isles, isn't it better the more they die?
Moreover, the purpose of executing this plan wasn't to kill the King of Plenty; how can a monarch be killed so easily?
Kazan was just continuously frightening the King of Plenty for four years, keeping his spirit in a highly tense and neurotic state at all times.
Only by making his mental breakdown to this extent could those psychics possibly succeed in hypnosis.
Anyway, the result is good now.
The King of Plenty successfully became a puppet in Kazan's hands.
They will contribute a great effort on the battlefield where Blessed Isles launches a full-scale attack on the Vale next!
"Summon the whole army, prepare to launch an attack on the Kingdom of the Vale; must catch them off guard with the fastest speed, lest those two dragons suddenly wake up. Even half of the troops stationed in the capital must be transferred."
The slumber of Black and White Dragons once disrupted Kazan's plan.
But it doesn't matter.
For him, this is easier instead.
Without the participation of gods.
He doesn't believe that useless brother of his can still stop him.
He only needs to target Teacher.
"Your Majesty, transfer all troops of the capital? If attacked by the Kingdom of the Vale taking the opportunity..."
A minister raised his head hurriedly to dissuade.
The next moment.
A splash of bright red blood splattered on the ground.
Bisharp withdrew the hand inserted into this person's heart, returning to the shadow under the pillar beside.
The scene instantly fell silent.
No one dared to raise objections anymore.
Kazan curved the corners of his mouth seeing this.
Not transferring half of the troops from the capital, he is afraid that useless brother will do things poorly, unable to help him destroy the capital of Blessed Isles.
At that time...
His plan to destroy three countries in one battle, wouldn't it be broken?
"Hahahaha!"
"Unless I am fulfilled for one day, this land will not have peace for one day!!"
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