Chapter 1505 1345: Undercurrents
But the situation took a turn thereafter.
The Kingsley's Parliament was still unwilling to forgive the Dali Kingdom. They definitely wouldn't allow the Dali Kingdom to communicate with the Prime minister. As a result, Kingsley's Parliament once again requested for the Dali Kingdom to apologize and compensate them for their losses.
But this time, Kingsley's Parliament wasn't only speaking. They had mobilized several of their troops to the rumored border region where their guards were ambushed and announced to the public that this was the military exercise of the new year. However, everyone knew what they were up to.
Alex understood from the intelligence that war was inevitable.
The Kingsley's Parliament mobilizing their troops to the border had captured the attention of the entire continent.
However, the people refused to believe that the Kingsley's Kingdom and Dali Kingdom would go into war. After all, they knew that such clashes had always existed and were well aware that the Kingsley's Parliament would be so unyielding. Therefore, the Kingsley's Parliament mobilizing their troops was only making a tough stand. Sometimes, international politics were like two people pointing at each other's nose and taunting: "Hit me if you dare!", "Touch me and I will kill you!", or "Come on, I'm not afraid of you!"…
Even though both sides cursed while spitting saliva across, neither would do anything even if the situation escalated.
It was why, everyone was only concerned about the clash between them at a general level. They believed that the Kingsley's Parliament was only expressing their tough stance to regain support from the people and wouldn't send out their troops to attack the Dali Kingdom.
Indeed. That was their intention. But the Dali Kingdom might have other ideas!
Unlike Kingsley's Kingdom with an accumulation of contradictions and internal and external problems, the Dali Kingdom could be said to have expanded in strength and thrived under the guidance of Dark Dragon, Moktar. They possessed formidable military forces, wealth, and apart from the four largest families led by the four legendary generals, various smaller family forces were also rising. Moktar was clear that there was only one path to take on if the Dali Kingdom yearned to unleash all their potential. If they didn't expand their forces, they would inevitably get into a conflict with the four legendary generals as the emerging families rose in forces—there were possibilities of internal wars and disputes. The Dark Dragon was neither like the Renner Kingdom regent nor the Kingsley's Parliament, so he definitely wouldn't allow such calamities to happen under his watchful eyes. Starting a war, dominating the territories, and expanding their forces was the inevitable ending.
Alex had gotten ready as soon as he heard of the possible upcoming war. The Dali Kingdom didn't retaliate up until this point while the Kingsley's Parliament continued to clamor for attention, and that was all. Neither did the Dali Kingdom mobilize their army nor sternly warn the Kingsley's Parliament. Therefore, everyone saw this as only an ordinary international conflict.
But Alex was clear that the Dali Kingdom had no need to mobilize their army. All they were doing now was concealing their true motive. His intuition was telling him this and both Silveria and Nyx did share the same concern.
The undead properties of the Dali's Kingdom undead army proved that there were no flaws in their blitzes. As Undead Creatures, they didn't need to replenish their health on the spot and could mobilize their army beforehand. Besides, they wouldn't feel exhausted and could travel day and night constantly. As long as Necromancers were present, the corpses on the battlefield would be awakened by them to become a part of their forces. In addition, the corpses were tireless and fearless of death, which decided that almost no one could resist their attacks whenever the undead army mobilized.
This was one of the reasons why the Kingsley's Kingdom almost fell in their last clash. After all, they were humans with lives and would naturally feel fatigue, exhaustion, and fear. Facing such a tactic from the Dali Kingdom, Kingsley's Kingdom had no means of resistance at all. It was only until later, after they sacrificed a large portion of their territories and manpower to rely on the mighty fortress and defensive line, that they defended against the Undead Creatures' attack.
From this Alex understood why the Kingsley's Kingdom lost pretty badly and almost fell in the last war against this Kingdom. As enemy they are nightmare. He was glad this was not in the outside world but secretly vowed to create countermeasures if Bahamut had undead army.
The enemy's tactic was to catch enemies off guard with a surprise attack and it wouldn't be too effective if the enemies were ready for it.
Of course. Alex didn't forget about sending reports to regent to warn her of the possibilities of the Dali Kingdom launching an ambush. He had also expressed to the regent that he was hundred percent sure the Dali Kingdom would take advantage of the situation to invade Kingsley's Kingdom and Renner Kingdom. After all, it would be hard for the Renner Kingdom to avoid getting caught in the crossfire based on its geographical location.
However, the regent's response left Alex dumbfounded. This eccentric woman didn't mention her opinion in her reply letter.
Instead, she sent an internal meeting record on this matter regarding the Kingsley's Kingdom. It could be seen from this document that most people believed that this conflict was as per usual, where the Kingsley's Parliament had embarrassed themselves during the recent events and used this chance to recover.
Even though they also agreed that there were risks and didn't believe that the Dali Kingdom would launch an ambush.
Alex could see that instead of believing that the Dali Kingdom wouldn't start a war, the people were 'wishing' that the Dali Kingdom wouldn't. No matter what, the Kingsley's Kingdom and the Dali Kingdom were the largest nations on this continent. The instant a war broke out between them, the consequences would be devastating. Besides, as both countries were powerful, it wouldn't be as simple as a large country devouring a smaller country or a short-lived war between two weak countries. Speaking in exaggeration, this war might last for years, decades, or even centuries—and this wasn't a groundless fear.
Come to think of it, back then, many races went extinct in that devastating Calamity War that fought for centuries. Moreover, some races also split up like the Elves and Dark Elves, and dwarves, dragons (A/N:What was left out of them) and demi-humans. This time, no one knew if this war between both nations would become another Calamity War.
Everyone's concern was not just out of fear of this imaginary war. They believed that as soon as the Dali Kingdom went all out, there would be disastrous consequences and perhaps this Kingdom might develop some misunderstandings or ill intentions toward them.
Alex snorted disdainfully. But he had to admit that these sayings weren't all dependent on weakness.
Other countries had a huge weakness against the Dali Kingdom and that was that they couldn't receive any information regarding the higher-ups of the kingdom. The reason was simple. The higher-ups of the Dali Kingdom of were mainly Dragons,Necromancers, Vampires, Death Knights, Dark Elves, Fallen dwarves, demi-humans, and others who were capable of reading and manipulating minds. Vampires could extract information from the blood of their preys. The Necromancer could exploit every intelligence from the brains of the dead. Dark Elves had a unique spell to judge if the other party was lying. In this dark country, they would use these skills almost without any moral restrictions and no one would despise them for it. The Dali Kingdom was a formidable nation and as long as one was capable, one would be right no matter what one did. Even if one wasn't strong enough, one could still be made use of as long as one was loyal. But those who weren't strong and were always daydreaming would become the prey of others.
It was due to this that it was harder for people to gather intelligence in such a country than climb to heaven. Even if they could get their hands on thought-provoking artifacts or had immunity against mind-reading spells, they would still be captured by the Undead Creatures and locked up for research as soon as they were discovered. When that happened, not only would they not attain any intelligence, but they would also reveal absolute classified information after the Undead Creatures extracted them from the blood and brain.
Because of this that there were basically no countries on the Mainland that dared to send spies into the Dali Kingdom. The best that they could do was to send Humans to mix with the underclass. But there was limited information in those places and it wouldn't be effective. On the other hand, many nobles and high officials in the Mainland were willing to betray their souls and intelligence to the Undead Creatures in exchange for false, eternal lives.
Unable to receive accurate intelligence meant that one couldn't have accurate judgment of their enemies. Therefore, many people judged the Dali Kingdom based on what they had done. But everyone knew that this sort of evaluation wasn't reliable.
Alex shook his head after reading the regent's report. The Dali Kingdom feel like a country Bahamut and his lackey would love, maybe they created it from the shadow.
The Black Prince felt all of this was liking playing in historical dramas and he could learn from this, learn from their mistakes while playing Bahamut's clone game.
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