Marrow Seal City was originally just a market built on the corpses of giant desert beasts. It is said that there is nothing that cannot be bought in the Marrow Seal Market, unless the thing is not under the sun.

However, the geographical location of Xueyin City is relatively advantageous. Later, after Emperor Sima Yi unified the Shurima continent, he divided the various princes and allowed these princes to choose their own places to build cities. When building a city, it was natural to choose a unique place, Xueyin Market.

Backed by the Targon Mountains and located on the alluvial plain, the geographical location is not unfavorable.

Under it are the corpses of ancient giant beasts, which have endured for thousands of years and are natural defenses. As long as permanent arrow towers, catapults, and heavy crossbows are built on the corpses of giant beasts, even thousands of troops can use it.

Don't even think about getting close to the city.

However, no matter how strong the fortifications are, it is meaningless if the enemy cannot be seen or hit. At this moment, Balliard is already on the road to the Seal City.

Zerima and Marrow Seal City are adjacent to each other, both backed by the Titanic Mountains that stretch for thousands of miles. If you walk along the mountain range, you will definitely encounter checkpoints and outposts set up by the Marquis of Marrow Seal City, such as Ballyard.

Dressed in slutty clothes, it was impossible not to stop him and ask him. You could ask, if Balliard was asked to give him his ID, what kind of stuff could he give?

In addition, if he wants to make a surprise attack on Marrow Seal City, it is best to hide his whereabouts. Marrow Seal City is different from Zerima. Although Zerima is backed by the Titan Mountains like Marrow Seal City, overcoming the mountain behind Zerima

The mountains are lush with jungles, but there is a miasma in them, and few people live there. There is only one city, Antasil, which is the port city in southern Shurima.

As for the Marrow Seal City, if you pass through the mountains behind the Marrow Seal City, it will be considered the territory of Icathia. And Icathia is the place where the void invades, although Ballard has not heard anyone mention that Icathia has

What's wrong is that it's still the territory of one of the most powerful dukes in the Jin Kingdom, but... if Xerath wants to destroy the Jin Kingdom re-established by Balliard, he will have to rely on the power of Icacia.

Balliard didn't know if Icathia was in contact with Xerath now, but that was probably where the Seven-Star Army was after Xerath left Runeterra. Even if eighteen hundred years had passed, those seven

There may only be two or three military soul legions left, but he does not have the strength to penetrate the entire military soul legion head-on.

So, Balliard shuttled through the Titan Mountains, intending to sneak in from behind the Seal City. If someone questioned him, he could claim to be from Ecacia. Ecacia was a principality that had repeatedly rebelled against the Jin State, so it would not be the case.

A follower of Emperor Sima Yi, right?

…

At this moment, in the Seal City, Bacon Clark was reading a letter under the candlelight, smoking a cigar that was shipped to Antasil by sea. He was the Marquis of the Seal City.

"The Emperor has been resurrected? The City of the Sun has also risen. At this time, what do the Icathians want to do?"

The letter in his hand was sent by the Duke of Icathia, which stated that Icathia could unconditionally support Marrow Seal City in capturing the City of the Sun, and could even assist Marrow Seal City in capturing the City of the Sun after the Marrow Seal City captured it.

The world, but where in the world can there be such a good thing?

"Master Marquis, except for the periodic rebellion once every ten years, Icasia has little contact with other principalities and principalities on the continent. The letter sent from the alliance at this time must be a fraud."

Gus Shelley has served the Clark family for generations, and successive heads of the Clark family have also chosen butlers from the Shelley family. This connection has existed as early as one thousand one hundred and eight years ago. Bacon's trust in Gus Shelley,

Even more so than his own children and wives, because his children could murder him for the sake of power, and his wives could be spies for others trying to assassinate him. Only the steward selected from the Shelley family was the one Bacon did not need to suspect.

Because of this, even though Bacon was reading the alliance letter sent by the Duke of Icacia, he did not let Gus go out. Instead, he asked Gus to read the letter behind him.

"Do you think there is any conspiracy here?"

Gus couldn't think of anything in his Seal City that Icacia should be concerned about. The territory of Seal City was less than one-fifth of Icacia's, and its land was far less fertile than Icacia. Apart from that, Icacia

It is one of the inheritance places of ancient culture. It has always been proud of itself, and few people have even left Icasia, let alone formed an alliance with the princes on the mainland.

If there is anything about his Marrow Seal City that hinders Icacia, his Marrow Seal City can only block Icacia's mountain road from attacking the City of the Sun. There are no cities on the road, and villages and other things are also blocked because of the people.

Captured into the city, it has long been abandoned. The early Jin Dynasty used to resist and suppress the rebellion of Ikasia, but now you can't even see the ruins. If you are interested in the City of the Sun, you can follow the Kehalese by yourself.

Isn't it good to go up to Lijiang? Why join forces with Xuyin City?

"Perhaps... Exia has a desire to compete for hegemony."

Everyone knew that Icasia was dissatisfied with the laws of the Jin State. For thousands of years, the Jin State had not conquered Icasia. Later, successive attacks on Icasia led to the decline of the Jin State's national strength.

The emperor of the country has no idea of ​​dealing with Ikasia. It can't be cured anyway. As long as the Ikasia people stay in their three-acre land, Jin will not bother to deal with them.

"Strive for hegemony? Where to start? Our Seal City is one of the cities closest to Icathia, but according to our records, the Principality of Icathia has never launched an attack on Seal City. If they have the intention to compete for hegemony

, how could you not capture the Marrow Seal City?"

Bacon shook his head. He couldn't believe that the principality, which had not had any foreign wars for 118 years, suddenly wanted to strive for hegemony.

"Master Marquis, today is different from the past. The City of the Sun has risen and Emperor Sima Yi has been resurrected. It is reasonable for those self-proclaimed Ikasians to have the ambition to strive for hegemony."

Gus is Bacon's counselor, and counselors never talk nonsense. Even if it is a guess, it needs to have a solid and reliable basis. Just relying on guesswork is definitely not a qualified counselor.

"The Great Emperor? I still don't know if he is the real Great Emperor. How many people have seen the City of the Sun? They are all just hearsay. It's ridiculous that Zerema's idiot actually wants to be the emperor for this rumor.

It's really a big joke in the world to send troops together."

Bacon had also heard of the prophecy, the prophecy that the emperor would be resurrected and unify Shurima again, but this was just a fallacy from the mouth of a madman. How could the Clark family believe such crazy talk?

?Don’t forget what Marrow Seal City was originally used for.

"The Marquis does not believe in the rise of the City of the Sun or the resurrection of the Great Emperor, so how can the Icathians simply believe in this prophecy? They want to form an alliance with the Marquis, but they just want the Marquis to test the City of the Sun.

It’s just Cheng Yao’s truth.”

Gus concluded that Acacia wanted to compete with Emperor Sima Yi.

"Testing? If I lose, will the Icathians really be able to come out of their one-third-acre land? It's been 1,800 years, and there may not be an Icathian in ten years.

In the Jin Kingdom, why would they come out because of Sima Yi? This is not like their arrogance at all."

Bacon once visited Icathia when he was young, but before he entered the town of Icathia, he was expelled by the guards on the road - he was sent directly back to Marrow Seal City, although those few

The guards were aloof and unwilling to communicate with him, but by listening to the guards' conversations along the way, he understood the current situation of Icathia.

Icathia is implementing a policy of seclusion. They believe that everything in the outside world is bad, and everything in Icathia is good. The people outside are all barbarians, and only the Icathians are civilized people. Therefore,

, not only unwilling to communicate with other princes of Jin, but also unwilling to let people from other princes enter.

The rebellion that occurs once every ten years is actually because the vassal states have to invite the grand dukes of the few principalities of Jin to the once-in-ten-year dynasty meeting. However, the grand duke of Aicasia is unwilling to come, and has to beat the envoys out of Ai.

Cassia, the envoy who was beaten up naturally claimed that the Icasia people were going to rebel, and they would be beaten when they went to the principality on behalf of the emperor. But didn't that mean that the emperor was beaten? It was indeed considered a crime of treason.

"Because that was Sima Yi, the only emperor who broke into Ikasia and forced all the Ikasia people to surrender. In addition, all the emperors of the Jin Dynasty who attacked Ikasia did not even set foot on the peninsula.

I've been there. The arrogance of the Icathians is not without this factor. Naturally, the current Icathians will not think that Sima Yi really invaded Icathia. If the emperor is really resurrected, maybe Icathia

People will take down the Emperor and make him admit that the history of Icathia being conquered by him is a fiction."

Gus can only think of this reason, because this is the only place where Icacia has any connection with the outside world. Apart from this, Icacia has no contact with the Jin State. There has never been any personnel exchanges or trade.

I have ignored the people of Jin and other vassal states for 1,800 years. If nothing changes, will they come out?

And now, doesn't the letter sent by the Icathians also show that the Icathians care about the City of the Sun and the resurrected Emperor Sima Yi? They must be dissatisfied with Emperor Sima Yi's great achievements and want to avenge their past humiliation.

"Washing away the shame? It is indeed possible. The history of their proud ethnic group is only stained by Emperor Sima Yi. They are the conquered, not the conquerors. For this reason, even if they do not recognize the rule of Jin,

It cannot be washed away unless they conquer Jin or defeat the emperor."

Bacon thought for a while and felt that this was really the case. He was slightly interested in the City of the Sun.

"Have the spies sent to the City of the Sun returned?"

"Master Marquis, you also know that our spies usually don't go to that kind of place. Changing the route of the intelligence network rashly will be a huge trouble for them. Naturally, the speed at which we receive intelligence will be much slower.

, However, it seems that General Zuoqiu is about to die."

The night was already deep, but Gus and Bacon were not sleepy at all and were still talking about world affairs under the candle.

"If you die, just die. That guy was able to sit in the position of general because the nobles did not want to bear the reputation of being a traitor to the country and pushed that butcher to destroy Guo Zuo of Jin. The princes and nobles had

They have a legitimate reason to strive for hegemony in the world. Regardless of whether the struggle for hegemony fails or not, they are loyal ministers who want to restore the Jin Kingdom."

Bacon doesn't look down on Zuoqiu Zhiming at all. He is just a lucky guy. Does he really think that he is the destined monarch? With a casual move and a casual move, he can win the allegiance of major families and convince the nobles? What a beautiful thought.

ah.

It's just that the princes and nobles are not satisfied with the current situation, but they are unwilling to take the lead. They need someone to break the current situation. Otherwise, just manipulating the replacement of the emperor will sooner or later cause problems.

, in fact, isn’t that a problem? The huge Jin State is about to let a woman become the emperor.

"But, we gave the butcher one hundred thousand taels of silver, but he hasn't done anything yet. Do you need me to send someone to deal with him? Even if we arrive late, it won't be a problem. We can still whip the corpse, crush the bones and raise ashes."

Gus and Bacon looked down on Zuoqiu Zhiming, but who made him a general? Power was in the hands of Zuoqiu Zhiming. All the power in the Jin Kingdom was in the hands of Zuoqiu Zhiming. If the princes and nobles didn't want Zuoqiu Zhiming to see the point,

What's the problem? Let Zuoqiu Zhiming become their chess piece honestly, and he must act appropriately. As for those families who were beheaded because of Zuoqiu Zhiming's anger, I'm sorry, you are out of luck.

good.

"Go ahead. If you take the money from our Xueyin City, you have to do something."

Bacon nodded and burned the letters sent by the Icathians with candles.

"What about the City of the Sun? If the Emperor is really resurrected, should we take some action?"

Gus looked at Bacon's behavior and couldn't figure out Bacon's intentions. The alliance letters were very important documents. If they were burned, they would lose the trust of their allies, especially their allies in the "enemy country". If they were burned, they would lose the trust of their allies.

How to win people’s trust when writing alliance letters?

The existence of this letter is a handle. With this handle, the Icathians can threaten Bacon. But once the handle is gone, Marrow Seal City will eat up the Icathians and do nothing. There is nothing you can do about it.

Unless they launch a large army to attack the city.

"Don't worry about that. Even if the emperor is alive, it has nothing to do with us. Although my Clark family is a marquis, our job is to be businessmen, so we can't forget our roots."

The Clark family is a merchant family, and the Clark family once controlled the Marrow Seal Market. Naturally, they built a city on the Marrow Seal Market. Since the Marrow Seal Market claims to sell everything under the sun, it naturally has its own intelligence network.

They rely on the intelligence network to have a clear picture of the situation in most areas on the Shurima continent, and all the major families have heard about it.

Why does Rune Garcia of Zerima call the Clark family idiots? Isn't it because the Clark family has such an intelligence network. If they want to conquer the world, they can set up an intelligence station and play with the enemy. However,
To be continued...