Chapter 173.1 – The battle is about to begin.
When Teresa came in, there was a gust of cold wind, and Hill shivered, wrapping the fleece-trimmed cloak tightly around his body, and then let Irvine make the fire in the brazier a little more vigorous.
Not physically cold, but mentally cold.
There are still a lot of chestnuts in the brazier, and at this moment there is a good smell.
Teresa was wearing a dark gray wool coat with silver buttons, which made him look a lot younger, and Hill realized that Teresa was really young. Aha, young and promising.
After the two of them exchanged a few words, the maid brought up tea and pastries.
“After I took over as the bishop of Winter City and cleaned up the matter of Winter City, I discovered that Mulheim was full of cults,” Teresa said.
“Does this include you?” Hill asked with a smile.
“Of course, our Church of Light is the biggest cult,” Teresa replied.
Hill laughed even harder, “You’re complacent when you say this.”
“Yes, if the Church of Light is really as fair and brilliant as the rumors say, I won’t have many chances to be promoted.” Teresa replied very truthfully: “I’m not as strong as Captain Monroe, but now, this messy situation just provides an opportunity for a junior like me.”
“Hahaha you don’t have to be too modest,” Hill said.
“I’ve always been precise about my positioning.” Teresa shook his head, and then said: “About the cult, I just dealt with one some time ago. Their leader has two pupils, he said that he was actually the reincarnation of the Holy Son, Son of the God of Light.”
“And got a subtitle out of your church,” Hill commented.
“That heavy pupil is indeed quite scary, after all, those civilians have not been exposed to magic.” Theresa said, “So soon after being bewitched and gathered together, that ‘holy son’ likes female sex, and later leaked out, and then we found out.”
“Oh, heavy pupils, it should be an early phenomenon of cataract,” Hill said casually.
The term confused Teresa: “Cataract?”
This is not easy to explain, so Hill had to say: “It’s a disease.” The first time he saw from Baidu Encyclopedia that heavy pupils were an early phenomenon of cataracts, his first reaction was “this world is full of lies.” They said having heavy pupils is a saint? Cang Jie Xiang Yu… Well, there is a feeling that his childhood dreams have been destroyed. Oh, by the way, his first childhood dream was broken when he saw “GG Bond” plagiarizing “Tom and Jerry”, and his second childhood dream was broken when he saw Ultraman p*rn.
“I see.” Teresa nodded, and then he said, “About the corruption of the Church of Light in the town that you told me earlier, I found that it was not easy for me to solve it directly, the other party and Nidham Joyce has a deep connection, and I suspect it is his illegitimate son.”
“The man’s name sounds familiar,” Hill said.
“It’s the bishop of the Holy City,” Teresa said. “He was Captain Monroe’s boss. He took a lot of credit for Captain Monroe.”
“Oh,” Hill said, “I’m more interested when I hear it.”
“Er. Well.” Teresa hesitated a bit, “It’s fine if I follow the character I’ve shown before, but recently I’m being more tactful to the outside world, so it’s not easy to deal with this juncture directly.”
“Ah this.” Hill nodded, “Then, what do you think?”
“If you can’t deal with it directly, kill it from behind,” Teresa said.
“Cough. Okay.” Hill was actually quite interested, “Then I’ll go there in person.”
“Er, okay, but you really have a lot of time on your hands.”
“Teach the child by the way,” Hill said.
“Child…” Teresa was stunned for a moment, “You mean…”
“I think you guessed right,” Hill said.
Teresa was a little nervous, “Are you going to…”
“Nurture her,” Hill replied.
Teresa hesitated for a moment, “Am I asking too much if I keep asking?”
“It’s okay, it depends on my mood,” Hill said.
Teresa smiled, and he didn’t continue to ask, “Then I won’t ask, no matter what you do, I will follow.”
Teresa was sincere when he said this.
It is rare that there is no snow today. In fact, the sky is very clear today, as if by magic. The stars outside are very bright, as if immersed in cold water, releasing a misty cold light.
The temperature inside the house is pleasantly high, very comfortable. The chestnuts were already roasted, and Irvine skillfully burned off the skins, and then served the chestnut meat after a simple treatment.
Hill took one and ate it. It was soft and sweet, and tasted good, “I know you will follow, but what I care about is that you have your own ideas now. Don’t deny it, I understand everything.” The last sentence is pure bullshit, he feels that it’s more handsome to say it like this.
“I do have my own ideas,” Teresa admitted frankly, “but you and Captain Monroe are the most important.”
“You go with your own ideas. I know a little about your ideas. In fact, I’m paving the way for you now,” Hill said, which he revealed in a previous conversation with Old Jackson.
Teresa, Bishop of Winter City.
What will be further up?
—it goes without saying.
Teresa was silent for a long time, his eyes lowered.
“You show such a bitter expression in front of such delicious chestnuts, you’re a waste of food.” Hill was unhappy when he saw the paladin’s expression, “Irvine, open his mouth for me, I’m going to force feed him.”
Teresa let out a series of coughs, “I’ll do it myself, Lord Demon King… I want to ask, do you trust me?”
“Actually, to put it bluntly, I have not known you and gotten along with you for a long time.” Hill said bluntly and coldly: “At the beginning, I intended to approach the paladins and abduct you, but now you have jumped out of the original circle, you are able to see it, right?”
Teresa hesitated for a moment and replied, “I had a feeling about it, but wasn’t very sure, so I didn’t want to think about it, and now that you have told me directly like this, I must have guessed it.”
“Yeah. I’m a very honest person. I don’t actually like telling lies, I’m just basically misleading.” Hill said casually, “Honest and reputable, if I said I’d kill his entire family then I’d definitely kill his entire family.”
Teresa almost choked on chestnuts: “Cough, your example is very vivid.”
“I think it’s vivid too.” Hill smiled slightly, “With such a premise in place, I know you have the talent, plus the assistance from my side, so you do have the opportunity to reach a higher position. As for trust,” Hill said dryly, “I know you can’t betray Monroe, I’m one with Monroe, he trusts you, and I trust you.” He joked at that, “I don’t think you’d be asking me for anything personal and emotional, would you?”
“Of course not, I’m afraid the captain will cut me,” Teresa said, then he smiled, “No matter how many times I hear it, I feel that your way of thinking and expression is really cool.”
“Ah…”
In fact, I feel a little embarrassed to be praised so bluntly.
When Teresa left the house, he saw the stars twinkling like mercury lamps in the dark night sky.
His Majesty the Demon King said that he would support me in doing what I want to do.
I am a Paladin. I will do anything. But I am a Paladin.
I want to do some things, some good things, and if someone doesn’t want to accept it, I’ll press his head and let him accept my kindness.
But first, in order to achieve the goal, I have to stand a little taller, a little higher.
Thank you, all rubbish and scum of the earth, for giving me the opportunity.
My knight’s sword thirsts for more blood and glory.
After taking a few steps, Teresa suddenly laughed. He turned around and put his hands on either side of his mouth like a loudspeaker. He shouted at the window, “Your Highness!”
Soon, the figure of His Royal Highness Grindelwald appeared in front of the window: “What’s the matter?” There was obviously a distance, but the voice seemed to sound close to his ear.
“Winter is almost here, so you can eat winter snow sweet peaches, I will send them to you then!”
Teresa shouted.
Hill burst into laughter at the window.
Teresa, what a lovely side.
He called him through the window for something like this without any image.
At this moment, Teresa seemed to have become the young man who had just become Monroe’s adjutant. At that time, he was very excited because he was close to the person he admired and thought he could achieve greatness.
Youthful feeling. Hot blood. Hopeful.
Unprecedented feeling – living is so meaningful. So much to look forward to.
——
The autumn in Mulheim, the Ice Empire, is terrifyingly cold. The sky changed color early in the morning, with dark clouds that are thick and gloomy, blowing a gale and making the temperature plummet. People wrapped themselves tightly and hurriedly walked down the street, not wanting to stay outside. The rain didn’t start to tick until noon, without the romance of summer, but only reminds people of cold and even death. For the poor, it’s true.
After Hill’s carriage left the city gate, the guards rotated the winch and slowly lowered the gate of Winter City accompanied by a toothsome creaking sound.
Alice just sat in the carriage. She didn’t have a good rest last night, so she was still a little sleepy. In order to dispel her sleepiness, she asked, “Sir, where are we going?”
“Take you to kill someone,” Hill said.
“Kill bad guys?” Alice said.
Hill was amused. “I’m the bad guy, in the traditional sense.”
“No, for me, the enemy of Hill is the bad guy,” Alice said.
“Well… this idea is good, I like it very much.” Hill said, “But plus one more, the person who is your enemy, Alice, is also a bad guy.”
“Yeah.” Alice showed a big smile.
Oh, my heart is melting.
Then Hill briefly explained the matter of the fallen church in that town, saying that the person in charge of that church was the illegitimate child of the bishop of the Holy City, so it was inconvenient for the church in Winter City to deal with them.
“Illegitimate son… I thought that all the illegitimate children of the church would be killed,” Alice tilted her face up and said.
She already knew that she had many brothers and sisters, but they were all killed.
“Depends on personal habits, I guess,” Hill said.
“What about you? Will you kill your illegitimate child in the future?” Alice asked.
“Er, I won’t have an illegitimate child. Anyway, since the church can’t do anything, I’ll just go over there and deal with it.”
He said that “deal with it” lightly, but the meaning contained in it is quite terrifying.
“There is a backstage…so the lives of civilians have no weight,” Alice concluded.
“People are small, so they have to become stronger.” Hill also made a conclusion. Every day, he instills in Alice the idea of becoming stronger.
When they went to the town again, they saw chaos in the town. Many civilians were running around in tattered clothes, and many people were crying.
When Hill got off the wagon, many villagers recognized him, some cursed in a low voice, some cursed in a loud voice, and some actually threw stones directly at him.
“It’s because of you that the church is charging us more taxes!”
“We won’t be able to survive!”
“We’ll starve to death this winter!”
“It’s all your fault!”
The other day they were hailing him as a hero.
Hill briefly thought about it, it was probably like this. After Hill and the others left, these depraved priests in the church all survived because of their backstage. After being humiliated by this, they were very angry, they came back and targeted the civilians, and then the civilians in turn blamed Hill.
This kind of thing is actually quite common, oh, it’s normal for people, and it’s normal for a person.
Generally speaking, “good people who can do good things” like Hill are theoretically kind and can be bullied, and will not do anything to these unarmed civilians. Therefore, people are more willing to scold the good guys rather than messing with the bad guys who can kill. The so-called venting of emotions, that’s what happened.
Hill casually explained these things to the frightened Alice, and then waved his hand and those stones near him automatically shattered. The villagers were a little scared after seeing it, so they dared not speak directly.
But whispering still exists.
Hill did not care about them, he went directly to the church, and the demon dragon pushed Alice’s wheelchair to follow. The guards at the gate let him in directly after seeing Hill, and then a group of paladins poured out of the courtyard and surrounded Hill. It seems that they have already prepared, the paladins should have been mobilized from elsewhere.
The battle is about to begin.
Chapter 173.2 – Ice Empire Propaganda Video
Meanwhile, Teresa Shelley was writing to the Pope of the Church of Light.
To the effect, he recently discovered that the church in a town has become corrupt, but the head of the church there has a close relationship with His Excellency Nidham Joyce. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts and to avoid affecting the unity of the church, he did not directly kill as before, but chose to let his subordinates act as demons to kill.
Then Teresa also took credit and said that I have improved a lot, and I have become a lot more slick~
The corner of the Pope’s mouth twitched after receiving this letter, what slick… Well, you are indeed a little more “slick” than before, but it’s really only a little bit! Your growth rate in this area is too slow!
However, in desperation, the Pope has a feeling of reassurance. Growth is a good thing. After all, as a Bishop, it is not good for church governance if it is too extreme, but growing too fast is not good… Honestly, Teresa can have today’s position half of it is because is he looks easy to control. If he really grows rapidly, the Pope will feel a little crisis. Although he is more than one hundred years old, he is still strong and wants to sit in the position of Pope for another hundred years. So now that Teresa is growing, but growing so slowly, it fits the Pope’s mind.
Those people pretending to be demons to kill… Okay, very Bishop Shelley style.
It’s really no longer pitting the demons all the time.
However, he had to help him clean up the stall left behind… It’s just right, take this opportunity to beat Bishop Joyce.
The other side.
The demon dragon breathed out, and those paladins almost lost their combat ability. Hill walked up to the priest, just faintly gazed at him: “You said the God of Light prophesied all this, you said that a drought will occur next year, so all these lands have to be handed over to the Church. That’s quite a prophecy from your God.”
“You, who are you…” The priest shuddered, already frightened by the fighting power of the demon dragon.
“It doesn’t matter whether I am a demon or a human. I want to ask you a question, Your Excellency.” Hill asked kindly, “Has your god predicted your death?”
The priest once again wore a pained expression – an expression he had worn a few days ago: “Please spare me, Your Excellency, please spare me.”
“Oh, it looks like your god has no prophecy.” Hill’s expression became cold: “Then I will reluctantly act on behalf of your God to help you predict, you will die today. Kill him for me.” His voice at this time sounded very cold.
The priest wailed, “His Eminence Joyce will not spare you! I, I am his son!”
“Congratulations on bringing misfortune to your Lord Joyce.” Hill raised the corner of his lips, then waved his hand.
The demon dragon behind Alice stretched out his fist and directly beat the opponent into a small meat cake.
Alice stared at the gruesome corpse for a while, then asked, “Sir, those villagers still beat you, why are you helping them?”
“If I were an ordinary person, and I left after I taught the priest here a lesson, the church people would turn their anger on the villagers. The villagers could still barely survive, but because of my intervention, they couldn’t survive anymore. Do you think they should hate me?” Hill asked.
Alice thought hard for a while, “But they should hate the church more.”
“I’ve killed all the church people here, and the rest of the church people will definitely pursue this matter. It is very likely that they will accuse the villagers of colluding with the demons, and the villagers will all be killed. Do you think they should hate me?” Hill continued to ask.
“But… what should be resented more is the church,” Alice said a little uncertainly.
“You don’t need to be uncertain, I’ll answer for you, yes, it’s the church that they should resent more,” Hill said, “Helping others, if you don’t have a brain, will only do you a disservice, and that’s true from the standpoint of those who help. They don’t resent the church because they’re used to it, because they’re numb. Would you resent a flood and an earthquake? You wouldn’t, you would only resent the person who took your loaf of bread at that time.”
Alice slowly nodded her head, she seemed to understand something.
The church was a natural disaster for these people, not a man-made one.
“It’s a deeply ingrained mindset and hierarchy, and that’s what I’m trying to break. It’s not all their fault that they did this to me – although they did seem pretty stupid. But I also understand that I’m not doing it because I want their gratitude, and of course it’s better if they’re grateful for that, but it’s okay if they’re not, it’s more that I just want to do it,” Hill said.
Alice thought hard about these things, which were too advance for her.
After doing all this, Hill looked at the sky with an indifferent expression, “The snowstorm is coming.” He said, “Let’s grab a house for the night.”
“Okay.” Alice nodded obediently, “Sir, I want the biggest one.”
“Okay,” Hill said.
#We are villains#
#But we are villains with style#
一一
Shortly afterwards Bishop Nidham Joyce of the Holy City received the news that his illegitimate son had been killed by the demons, he went to the Pope in great anger, while the Pope told him, “There is something else going on in this matter, I advise you not to pursue it.”
Joyce was indignant: “I have done so much for the Church, and I cannot pursue or even take revenge?”
The Pope glanced at him, “I still know about you excluding Monroe. I also know where your credit came from. Lord Joyce, should you examine yourself? God is merciful, but God is also just.” He said this in his usual unhurried tone, with solemnity and judgment.
God is merciful when you are useful, and just when you are useless. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Nidham Joyce choked and left indignantly with a frown.
The Pope looked at his back for a while, then hummed, raised his hand and drew a symbol on his chest, “May the God of Light bless you, son.” His words seemed to have been fished out of the icy water.
一一
Returning to Winter City again, he confirmed all aspects of the Empire propaganda film with the Ice Emperor Claude. Claude finally chose the more middle-class version. Hill made an outline that night. Claude made some proposals. The final outline was confirmed, and the length was set by Hill to eight minutes. Claude’s original twenty minutes were gone.
There are a lot of big scenes in the promotional film, and the whole country began to prepare with the order of the Ice Emperor. The main filming locations are outside Winter City, Winter City Palace, and the fleet in Winter Harbor.
The Black family and the White family, they are the two most loyal dogs of the imperial family. In addition to their own fiefs, the previous generation of White family ruled the bustling city of Winter Harbor for the Ice Emperor, while Black family managed an army. The White family is usually in Limburg, or in Winter City. Of course, Black and White are the only two families whose two heads are often in Winter City. People from other families used to think that they were too unlucky and couldn’t enjoy the happiness in their own territory, and were forced to enjoy the “imperial grace” in Winter City all day long. And now, of course, everyone’s eyes are green with envy.
Winter Harbor is far away and cold for people in the south of the Magnolia Continent, and pirates are reluctant to come there. The navy in Mülheim is very powerful. Therefore, the merchant ships of Winter Harbor traveled freely to and from the ports laden with goods, and then gave more than half of their earnings to the Empire.
Hill plans to use “1492 Conquest of Paradise” as the soundtrack of the promotional film. This is not light music, but all fallen angels are good at rhythm, so they quickly pulled up a huge symphony orchestra. They also had previous experience of playing symphony, such as the theme song of “The Godfather”.
“1492 Conquest of Paradise” is a very shocking piece of music, it has an epic style, and it is the kind of classic that is loaded into textbooks, brilliant and magnificent. Naturally, it couldn’t be better to use it for this kind of imperial soundtrack. In the middle, Hill also specially arranged such a scene, Ice Emperor Claude shook hands with King Magnolia, took a group photo, shook hands and took a group photo with the Demon King himself. At that time, Ice Emperor Claude stared at these lines of words, but in the end, he didn’t say anything.
What this means can be imagined.
King Magnolia naturally had no objections. Now he is like the heroine who was thrown onto the bed by the domineering president, like a “tattered doll at the mercy of others”.
It took a week to shoot this film, and Hill made a trip back to the Demon Realm halfway through. He brought a lot of guinea pigs with him the last time he returned to the Demon Realm. One of the food sources of the local indigenous people in the Plague Islands is raising guinea pigs, which is similar to South America on Earth. In addition to being edible, guinea pig fur is also a good material for making clothes, soft and lightweight, so Hill plans to carry out a large-scale breeding.
He wonders how well the tauren clan will raise it.
Before that, Hill found some ways to raise guinea pigs on the Internet, but most people on Earth raise them as pets, so Hill can only provide very little information, and other things have to be explored by the taurens… Speaking of which, Hill remembers an incident on a farm in the United Kingdom. A male guinea pig sneaked out of the cage and got into the female guinea pig’s cage. He mated with 24 female guinea pigs in turn and gave birth to more than 40 baby guinea pigs. When the farmer found it later, the male guinea pig was so exhausted that it was sent back to its cage, where it was in a coma for two days before waking up. It doesn’t look like this thing needs the help of a succubus. Hill’s mouth twitched in thought.
After a trip back to the demon realm, he did some tasks, and sent Alice back by the way. Hill cut the promotional video quickly and handed it to the Ice Emperor Claude.
On this day, Hill and Olivia were also invited to the palace, and the Ice Emperor Claude released this promotional video in public.
The music sounded, and the first thing that appeared was the golden characters of the Ice Empire of Mülheim, which emitted a dazzling bright light, and turned into the sun in the sky as a transition. Then came Mülheim’s fleet, majestic and magnificent, but the tone of the whole picture is relatively somber, and the music is also moving forward slowly, which is heavy and imposing. As soon as the camera turned, it was a parchment map of the entire Magnolia Continent, and Mülheim’s mark radiated light on the parchment.
The music gradually became louder, and then showed the Ice Emperor Claude sitting on the throne. He lowered his eyes slightly, and the King’s Sword was in his hand. The picture is equally heavy. Then a few silhouettes passed quickly, war and blood, dead people—these shots were gray. After the silhouette, Claude got up from the throne, and his silver eyes became firm. The next second, the camera quickly pulled away from the palace, crossed the steps and through the strewn Mulheim banners. The magnificent blue sky, the mountains, the splendid Ice Emperor Palace, and the flying flag. – The music has completely reached its climax.
The previous gloom was swept away, and the entire empire looked radiant.
Next is the very naked display of national strength, Hill tried to make it as artistic as possible.
War, flames, the sea, the soldier’s long sword, the light reflected on the armor, the resolute expression. The mages united to stop the avalanche, and the Winter City who stood in the blizzard.
In the middle is the appearance of Emperor Magnolia and the demon king form of Hill shaking hands with Claude, the Ice Emperor.
It’s actually quite a symbolic image.
In the last shot, the Ice Emperor stands on the wall of Winter City, and the people below kneel at the same time:
“Long live Mülheim!”
“Long live the Ice Emperor!”
Behind him, the flag of Mülheim was flying.
Then the Ice Emperor drew out the King’s Sword and held it high:
“For the glory of the Empire!”
All of them shouted in unison: “For the glory of the empire!”
The voice surrounded the Winter City, dispersing the snow clouds.
The End.
By the end of the promo, the Imperial Council was silent.
The Grand Chancellor was going to object to the scene where the Ice Emperor shook hands with the Demon King and King Magnolia, but at the moment, he forgot all about it.
Everyone was touched by the magnificent atmosphere.
And Hill, also officially tied the Empire of Ice to the ship of the Demon Race.
Chapter 173.1 – The battle is about to begin.
When Teresa came in, there was a gust of cold wind, and Hill shivered, wrapping the fleece-trimmed cloak tightly around his body, and then let Irvine make the fire in the brazier a little more vigorous.
Not physically cold, but mentally cold.
There are still a lot of chestnuts in the brazier, and at this moment there is a good smell.
Teresa was wearing a dark gray wool coat with silver buttons, which made him look a lot younger, and Hill realized that Teresa was really young. Aha, young and promising.
After the two of them exchanged a few words, the maid brought up tea and pastries.
“After I took over as the bishop of Winter City and cleaned up the matter of Winter City, I discovered that Mulheim was full of cults,” Teresa said.
“Does this include you?” Hill asked with a smile.
“Of course, our Church of Light is the biggest cult,” Teresa replied.
Hill laughed even harder, “You’re complacent when you say this.”
“Yes, if the Church of Light is really as fair and brilliant as the rumors say, I won’t have many chances to be promoted.” Teresa replied very truthfully: “I’m not as strong as Captain Monroe, but now, this messy situation just provides an opportunity for a junior like me.”
“Hahaha you don’t have to be too modest,” Hill said.
“I’ve always been precise about my positioning.” Teresa shook his head, and then said: “About the cult, I just dealt with one some time ago. Their leader has two pupils, he said that he was actually the reincarnation of the Holy Son, Son of the God of Light.”
“And got a subtitle out of your church,” Hill commented.
“That heavy pupil is indeed quite scary, after all, those civilians have not been exposed to magic.” Theresa said, “So soon after being bewitched and gathered together, that ‘holy son’ likes female sex, and later leaked out, and then we found out.”
“Oh, heavy pupils, it should be an early phenomenon of cataract,” Hill said casually.
The term confused Teresa: “Cataract?”
This is not easy to explain, so Hill had to say: “It’s a disease.” The first time he saw from Baidu Encyclopedia that heavy pupils were an early phenomenon of cataracts, his first reaction was “this world is full of lies.” They said having heavy pupils is a saint? Cang Jie Xiang Yu… Well, there is a feeling that his childhood dreams have been destroyed. Oh, by the way, his first childhood dream was broken when he saw “GG Bond” plagiarizing “Tom and Jerry”, and his second childhood dream was broken when he saw Ultraman p*rn.
“I see.” Teresa nodded, and then he said, “About the corruption of the Church of Light in the town that you told me earlier, I found that it was not easy for me to solve it directly, the other party and Nidham Joyce has a deep connection, and I suspect it is his illegitimate son.”
“The man’s name sounds familiar,” Hill said.
“It’s the bishop of the Holy City,” Teresa said. “He was Captain Monroe’s boss. He took a lot of credit for Captain Monroe.”
“Oh,” Hill said, “I’m more interested when I hear it.”
“Er. Well.” Teresa hesitated a bit, “It’s fine if I follow the character I’ve shown before, but recently I’m being more tactful to the outside world, so it’s not easy to deal with this juncture directly.”
“Ah this.” Hill nodded, “Then, what do you think?”
“If you can’t deal with it directly, kill it from behind,” Teresa said.
“Cough. Okay.” Hill was actually quite interested, “Then I’ll go there in person.”
“Er, okay, but you really have a lot of time on your hands.”
“Teach the child by the way,” Hill said.
“Child…” Teresa was stunned for a moment, “You mean…”
“I think you guessed right,” Hill said.
Teresa was a little nervous, “Are you going to…”
“Nurture her,” Hill replied.
Teresa hesitated for a moment, “Am I asking too much if I keep asking?”
“It’s okay, it depends on my mood,” Hill said.
Teresa smiled, and he didn’t continue to ask, “Then I won’t ask, no matter what you do, I will follow.”
Teresa was sincere when he said this.
It is rare that there is no snow today. In fact, the sky is very clear today, as if by magic. The stars outside are very bright, as if immersed in cold water, releasing a misty cold light.
The temperature inside the house is pleasantly high, very comfortable. The chestnuts were already roasted, and Irvine skillfully burned off the skins, and then served the chestnut meat after a simple treatment.
Hill took one and ate it. It was soft and sweet, and tasted good, “I know you will follow, but what I care about is that you have your own ideas now. Don’t deny it, I understand everything.” The last sentence is pure bullshit, he feels that it’s more handsome to say it like this.
“I do have my own ideas,” Teresa admitted frankly, “but you and Captain Monroe are the most important.”
“You go with your own ideas. I know a little about your ideas. In fact, I’m paving the way for you now,” Hill said, which he revealed in a previous conversation with Old Jackson.
Teresa, Bishop of Winter City.
What will be further up?
—it goes without saying.
Teresa was silent for a long time, his eyes lowered.
“You show such a bitter expression in front of such delicious chestnuts, you’re a waste of food.” Hill was unhappy when he saw the paladin’s expression, “Irvine, open his mouth for me, I’m going to force feed him.”
Teresa let out a series of coughs, “I’ll do it myself, Lord Demon King… I want to ask, do you trust me?”
“Actually, to put it bluntly, I have not known you and gotten along with you for a long time.” Hill said bluntly and coldly: “At the beginning, I intended to approach the paladins and abduct you, but now you have jumped out of the original circle, you are able to see it, right?”
Teresa hesitated for a moment and replied, “I had a feeling about it, but wasn’t very sure, so I didn’t want to think about it, and now that you have told me directly like this, I must have guessed it.”
“Yeah. I’m a very honest person. I don’t actually like telling lies, I’m just basically misleading.” Hill said casually, “Honest and reputable, if I said I’d kill his entire family then I’d definitely kill his entire family.”
Teresa almost choked on chestnuts: “Cough, your example is very vivid.”
“I think it’s vivid too.” Hill smiled slightly, “With such a premise in place, I know you have the talent, plus the assistance from my side, so you do have the opportunity to reach a higher position. As for trust,” Hill said dryly, “I know you can’t betray Monroe, I’m one with Monroe, he trusts you, and I trust you.” He joked at that, “I don’t think you’d be asking me for anything personal and emotional, would you?”
“Of course not, I’m afraid the captain will cut me,” Teresa said, then he smiled, “No matter how many times I hear it, I feel that your way of thinking and expression is really cool.”
“Ah…”
In fact, I feel a little embarrassed to be praised so bluntly.
When Teresa left the house, he saw the stars twinkling like mercury lamps in the dark night sky.
His Majesty the Demon King said that he would support me in doing what I want to do.
I am a Paladin. I will do anything. But I am a Paladin.
I want to do some things, some good things, and if someone doesn’t want to accept it, I’ll press his head and let him accept my kindness.
But first, in order to achieve the goal, I have to stand a little taller, a little higher.
Thank you, all rubbish and scum of the earth, for giving me the opportunity.
My knight’s sword thirsts for more blood and glory.
After taking a few steps, Teresa suddenly laughed. He turned around and put his hands on either side of his mouth like a loudspeaker. He shouted at the window, “Your Highness!”
Soon, the figure of His Royal Highness Grindelwald appeared in front of the window: “What’s the matter?” There was obviously a distance, but the voice seemed to sound close to his ear.
“Winter is almost here, so you can eat winter snow sweet peaches, I will send them to you then!”
Teresa shouted.
Hill burst into laughter at the window.
Teresa, what a lovely side.
He called him through the window for something like this without any image.
At this moment, Teresa seemed to have become the young man who had just become Monroe’s adjutant. At that time, he was very excited because he was close to the person he admired and thought he could achieve greatness.
Youthful feeling. Hot blood. Hopeful.
Unprecedented feeling – living is so meaningful. So much to look forward to.
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The autumn in Mulheim, the Ice Empire, is terrifyingly cold. The sky changed color early in the morning, with dark clouds that are thick and gloomy, blowing a gale and making the temperature plummet. People wrapped themselves tightly and hurriedly walked down the street, not wanting to stay outside. The rain didn’t start to tick until noon, without the romance of summer, but only reminds people of cold and even death. For the poor, it’s true.
After Hill’s carriage left the city gate, the guards rotated the winch and slowly lowered the gate of Winter City accompanied by a toothsome creaking sound.
Alice just sat in the carriage. She didn’t have a good rest last night, so she was still a little sleepy. In order to dispel her sleepiness, she asked, “Sir, where are we going?”
“Take you to kill someone,” Hill said.
“Kill bad guys?” Alice said.
Hill was amused. “I’m the bad guy, in the traditional sense.”
“No, for me, the enemy of Hill is the bad guy,” Alice said.
“Well… this idea is good, I like it very much.” Hill said, “But plus one more, the person who is your enemy, Alice, is also a bad guy.”
“Yeah.” Alice showed a big smile.
Oh, my heart is melting.
Then Hill briefly explained the matter of the fallen church in that town, saying that the person in charge of that church was the illegitimate child of the bishop of the Holy City, so it was inconvenient for the church in Winter City to deal with them.
“Illegitimate son… I thought that all the illegitimate children of the church would be killed,” Alice tilted her face up and said.
She already knew that she had many brothers and sisters, but they were all killed.
“Depends on personal habits, I guess,” Hill said.
“What about you? Will you kill your illegitimate child in the future?” Alice asked.
“Er, I won’t have an illegitimate child. Anyway, since the church can’t do anything, I’ll just go over there and deal with it.”
He said that “deal with it” lightly, but the meaning contained in it is quite terrifying.
“There is a backstage…so the lives of civilians have no weight,” Alice concluded.
“People are small, so they have to become stronger.” Hill also made a conclusion. Every day, he instills in Alice the idea of becoming stronger.
When they went to the town again, they saw chaos in the town. Many civilians were running around in tattered clothes, and many people were crying.
When Hill got off the wagon, many villagers recognized him, some cursed in a low voice, some cursed in a loud voice, and some actually threw stones directly at him.
“It’s because of you that the church is charging us more taxes!”
“We won’t be able to survive!”
“We’ll starve to death this winter!”
“It’s all your fault!”
The other day they were hailing him as a hero.
Hill briefly thought about it, it was probably like this. After Hill and the others left, these depraved priests in the church all survived because of their backstage. After being humiliated by this, they were very angry, they came back and targeted the civilians, and then the civilians in turn blamed Hill.
This kind of thing is actually quite common, oh, it’s normal for people, and it’s normal for a person.
Generally speaking, “good people who can do good things” like Hill are theoretically kind and can be bullied, and will not do anything to these unarmed civilians. Therefore, people are more willing to scold the good guys rather than messing with the bad guys who can kill. The so-called venting of emotions, that’s what happened.
Hill casually explained these things to the frightened Alice, and then waved his hand and those stones near him automatically shattered. The villagers were a little scared after seeing it, so they dared not speak directly.
But whispering still exists.
Hill did not care about them, he went directly to the church, and the demon dragon pushed Alice’s wheelchair to follow. The guards at the gate let him in directly after seeing Hill, and then a group of paladins poured out of the courtyard and surrounded Hill. It seems that they have already prepared, the paladins should have been mobilized from elsewhere.
The battle is about to begin.
Chapter 173.2 – Ice Empire Propaganda Video
Meanwhile, Teresa Shelley was writing to the Pope of the Church of Light.
To the effect, he recently discovered that the church in a town has become corrupt, but the head of the church there has a close relationship with His Excellency Nidham Joyce. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts and to avoid affecting the unity of the church, he did not directly kill as before, but chose to let his subordinates act as demons to kill.
Then Teresa also took credit and said that I have improved a lot, and I have become a lot more slick~
The corner of the Pope’s mouth twitched after receiving this letter, what slick… Well, you are indeed a little more “slick” than before, but it’s really only a little bit! Your growth rate in this area is too slow!
However, in desperation, the Pope has a feeling of reassurance. Growth is a good thing. After all, as a Bishop, it is not good for church governance if it is too extreme, but growing too fast is not good… Honestly, Teresa can have today’s position half of it is because is he looks easy to control. If he really grows rapidly, the Pope will feel a little crisis. Although he is more than one hundred years old, he is still strong and wants to sit in the position of Pope for another hundred years. So now that Teresa is growing, but growing so slowly, it fits the Pope’s mind.
Those people pretending to be demons to kill… Okay, very Bishop Shelley style.
It’s really no longer pitting the demons all the time.
However, he had to help him clean up the stall left behind… It’s just right, take this opportunity to beat Bishop Joyce.
The other side.
The demon dragon breathed out, and those paladins almost lost their combat ability. Hill walked up to the priest, just faintly gazed at him: “You said the God of Light prophesied all this, you said that a drought will occur next year, so all these lands have to be handed over to the Church. That’s quite a prophecy from your God.”
“You, who are you…” The priest shuddered, already frightened by the fighting power of the demon dragon.
“It doesn’t matter whether I am a demon or a human. I want to ask you a question, Your Excellency.” Hill asked kindly, “Has your god predicted your death?”
The priest once again wore a pained expression – an expression he had worn a few days ago: “Please spare me, Your Excellency, please spare me.”
“Oh, it looks like your god has no prophecy.” Hill’s expression became cold: “Then I will reluctantly act on behalf of your God to help you predict, you will die today. Kill him for me.” His voice at this time sounded very cold.
The priest wailed, “His Eminence Joyce will not spare you! I, I am his son!”
“Congratulations on bringing misfortune to your Lord Joyce.” Hill raised the corner of his lips, then waved his hand.
The demon dragon behind Alice stretched out his fist and directly beat the opponent into a small meat cake.
Alice stared at the gruesome corpse for a while, then asked, “Sir, those villagers still beat you, why are you helping them?”
“If I were an ordinary person, and I left after I taught the priest here a lesson, the church people would turn their anger on the villagers. The villagers could still barely survive, but because of my intervention, they couldn’t survive anymore. Do you think they should hate me?” Hill asked.
Alice thought hard for a while, “But they should hate the church more.”
“I’ve killed all the church people here, and the rest of the church people will definitely pursue this matter. It is very likely that they will accuse the villagers of colluding with the demons, and the villagers will all be killed. Do you think they should hate me?” Hill continued to ask.
“But… what should be resented more is the church,” Alice said a little uncertainly.
“You don’t need to be uncertain, I’ll answer for you, yes, it’s the church that they should resent more,” Hill said, “Helping others, if you don’t have a brain, will only do you a disservice, and that’s true from the standpoint of those who help. They don’t resent the church because they’re used to it, because they’re numb. Would you resent a flood and an earthquake? You wouldn’t, you would only resent the person who took your loaf of bread at that time.”
Alice slowly nodded her head, she seemed to understand something.
The church was a natural disaster for these people, not a man-made one.
“It’s a deeply ingrained mindset and hierarchy, and that’s what I’m trying to break. It’s not all their fault that they did this to me – although they did seem pretty stupid. But I also understand that I’m not doing it because I want their gratitude, and of course it’s better if they’re grateful for that, but it’s okay if they’re not, it’s more that I just want to do it,” Hill said.
Alice thought hard about these things, which were too advance for her.
After doing all this, Hill looked at the sky with an indifferent expression, “The snowstorm is coming.” He said, “Let’s grab a house for the night.”
“Okay.” Alice nodded obediently, “Sir, I want the biggest one.”
“Okay,” Hill said.
#We are villains#
#But we are villains with style#
一一
Shortly afterwards Bishop Nidham Joyce of the Holy City received the news that his illegitimate son had been killed by the demons, he went to the Pope in great anger, while the Pope told him, “There is something else going on in this matter, I advise you not to pursue it.”
Joyce was indignant: “I have done so much for the Church, and I cannot pursue or even take revenge?”
The Pope glanced at him, “I still know about you excluding Monroe. I also know where your credit came from. Lord Joyce, should you examine yourself? God is merciful, but God is also just.” He said this in his usual unhurried tone, with solemnity and judgment.
God is merciful when you are useful, and just when you are useless. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Nidham Joyce choked and left indignantly with a frown.
The Pope looked at his back for a while, then hummed, raised his hand and drew a symbol on his chest, “May the God of Light bless you, son.” His words seemed to have been fished out of the icy water.
一一
Returning to Winter City again, he confirmed all aspects of the Empire propaganda film with the Ice Emperor Claude. Claude finally chose the more middle-class version. Hill made an outline that night. Claude made some proposals. The final outline was confirmed, and the length was set by Hill to eight minutes. Claude’s original twenty minutes were gone.
There are a lot of big scenes in the promotional film, and the whole country began to prepare with the order of the Ice Emperor. The main filming locations are outside Winter City, Winter City Palace, and the fleet in Winter Harbor.
The Black family and the White family, they are the two most loyal dogs of the imperial family. In addition to their own fiefs, the previous generation of White family ruled the bustling city of Winter Harbor for the Ice Emperor, while Black family managed an army. The White family is usually in Limburg, or in Winter City. Of course, Black and White are the only two families whose two heads are often in Winter City. People from other families used to think that they were too unlucky and couldn’t enjoy the happiness in their own territory, and were forced to enjoy the “imperial grace” in Winter City all day long. And now, of course, everyone’s eyes are green with envy.
Winter Harbor is far away and cold for people in the south of the Magnolia Continent, and pirates are reluctant to come there. The navy in Mülheim is very powerful. Therefore, the merchant ships of Winter Harbor traveled freely to and from the ports laden with goods, and then gave more than half of their earnings to the Empire.
Hill plans to use “1492 Conquest of Paradise” as the soundtrack of the promotional film. This is not light music, but all fallen angels are good at rhythm, so they quickly pulled up a huge symphony orchestra. They also had previous experience of playing symphony, such as the theme song of “The Godfather”.
“1492 Conquest of Paradise” is a very shocking piece of music, it has an epic style, and it is the kind of classic that is loaded into textbooks, brilliant and magnificent. Naturally, it couldn’t be better to use it for this kind of imperial soundtrack. In the middle, Hill also specially arranged such a scene, Ice Emperor Claude shook hands with King Magnolia, took a group photo, shook hands and took a group photo with the Demon King himself. At that time, Ice Emperor Claude stared at these lines of words, but in the end, he didn’t say anything.
What this means can be imagined.
King Magnolia naturally had no objections. Now he is like the heroine who was thrown onto the bed by the domineering president, like a “tattered doll at the mercy of others”.
It took a week to shoot this film, and Hill made a trip back to the Demon Realm halfway through. He brought a lot of guinea pigs with him the last time he returned to the Demon Realm. One of the food sources of the local indigenous people in the Plague Islands is raising guinea pigs, which is similar to South America on Earth. In addition to being edible, guinea pig fur is also a good material for making clothes, soft and lightweight, so Hill plans to carry out a large-scale breeding.
He wonders how well the tauren clan will raise it.
Before that, Hill found some ways to raise guinea pigs on the Internet, but most people on Earth raise them as pets, so Hill can only provide very little information, and other things have to be explored by the taurens… Speaking of which, Hill remembers an incident on a farm in the United Kingdom. A male guinea pig sneaked out of the cage and got into the female guinea pig’s cage. He mated with 24 female guinea pigs in turn and gave birth to more than 40 baby guinea pigs. When the farmer found it later, the male guinea pig was so exhausted that it was sent back to its cage, where it was in a coma for two days before waking up. It doesn’t look like this thing needs the help of a succubus. Hill’s mouth twitched in thought.
After a trip back to the demon realm, he did some tasks, and sent Alice back by the way. Hill cut the promotional video quickly and handed it to the Ice Emperor Claude.
On this day, Hill and Olivia were also invited to the palace, and the Ice Emperor Claude released this promotional video in public.
The music sounded, and the first thing that appeared was the golden characters of the Ice Empire of Mülheim, which emitted a dazzling bright light, and turned into the sun in the sky as a transition. Then came Mülheim’s fleet, majestic and magnificent, but the tone of the whole picture is relatively somber, and the music is also moving forward slowly, which is heavy and imposing. As soon as the camera turned, it was a parchment map of the entire Magnolia Continent, and Mülheim’s mark radiated light on the parchment.
The music gradually became louder, and then showed the Ice Emperor Claude sitting on the throne. He lowered his eyes slightly, and the King’s Sword was in his hand. The picture is equally heavy. Then a few silhouettes passed quickly, war and blood, dead people—these shots were gray. After the silhouette, Claude got up from the throne, and his silver eyes became firm. The next second, the camera quickly pulled away from the palace, crossed the steps and through the strewn Mulheim banners. The magnificent blue sky, the mountains, the splendid Ice Emperor Palace, and the flying flag. – The music has completely reached its climax.
The previous gloom was swept away, and the entire empire looked radiant.
Next is the very naked display of national strength, Hill tried to make it as artistic as possible.
War, flames, the sea, the soldier’s long sword, the light reflected on the armor, the resolute expression. The mages united to stop the avalanche, and the Winter City who stood in the blizzard.
In the middle is the appearance of Emperor Magnolia and the demon king form of Hill shaking hands with Claude, the Ice Emperor.
It’s actually quite a symbolic image.
In the last shot, the Ice Emperor stands on the wall of Winter City, and the people below kneel at the same time:
“Long live Mülheim!”
“Long live the Ice Emperor!”
Behind him, the flag of Mülheim was flying.
Then the Ice Emperor drew out the King’s Sword and held it high:
“For the glory of the Empire!”
All of them shouted in unison: “For the glory of the empire!”
The voice surrounded the Winter City, dispersing the snow clouds.
The End.
By the end of the promo, the Imperial Council was silent.
The Grand Chancellor was going to object to the scene where the Ice Emperor shook hands with the Demon King and King Magnolia, but at the moment, he forgot all about it.
Everyone was touched by the magnificent atmosphere.
And Hill, also officially tied the Empire of Ice to the ship of the Demon Race.
