flstandardbreds Chapter 133 The Imperial Capital is Now in My Hands!
Chapter 133 The Imperial Capital is Now in My Hands!
Looking down from the high-rise, Alice saw the densely packed buildings of the capital, with plumes of smoke from the burning buildings stretching into the sky. This ancient city had once again been ravaged by war and had now become a scene of devastation.
War brings death and destruction to society, but after all this will come the most glorious rebirth. Alice turned her head and dragged the corpse on the ground down.
The battle between Alicia and Lavigne continued. Lavigne pressed forward relentlessly, while Alicia gradually retreated. The swordsmanship of the strongest swordsman was too perfect, and Alicia could hardly even parry.
"Why are you still loyal to him! Humph! What has he given you?"
Faced with Alicia's questioning, Lavie remained silent, only continuing to swing the sword in her hand. Alicia held the scythe horizontally to block the sword slashing down from above, then turned and swung the scythe.
She saw the pistol in the corner.
Alicia took a few steps back, while Lavigne followed closely behind. Alicia half-crouched, her scythe and sword clashing, and reached behind her with one hand.
"Surrender."
The blade of the scythe had somehow slipped behind Raveco, less than ten centimeters from her body. Alicia, holding Alice's pistol, aimed it at Raveco.
The situation is settled.
boom!
Alice looked in the direction of the gunshot and saw a figure with a sword lying on the ground. Alicia was holding an empty pistol, which had just fired its last .45 pistol bullet.
"Alice?"
Alice dragged half of Ekevich's body along. Alicia saw that the corpse's heart and head had bloody holes, and breathed a sigh of relief before sitting down on the ground.
Alice noticed several wounds on Alicia's body, caused by swords slicing through flesh. Alice quickly helped her to her feet.
"Finally... my revenge has been achieved."
Alicia looked at Alice. The child had no injuries, only her clothes were dirty. She stroked Alice's cheek.
"Your Majesty! Your Highness!"
Ekevich blew up several passageways in the palace, and the collapsed corridors blocked the troops' advance. Engineers eventually cleared the passageways. The soldiers who entered saw two bodies on the ground, along with Alice and Alicia, the latter covered in wounds.
"Drag the false emperor's corpse and his mistress out and hang them up!"
"Yes!"
"let's go."
"where to?"
"go home."
Alice helped Alicia out of the palace. The two little girls, one big and one small, walked out of the thousand-year-old palace. In front of them was Ekevich's body, hanging from a lamppost. Several reporters saw this scene and quickly raised their film cameras and pressed the shutter.
The Southern regime began to disintegrate after Ekevich's death, and the troops armed with money and power scattered like birds and beasts when the money and power disappeared.
"Aikevich is dead! Lay down your weapons and surrender! Your lives will be spared!"
"Ekevich is dead!!!"
The news quickly spread throughout the capital, but the battle was far from over. The interventionist forces remained on the country, and at least for now, they showed no intention of leaving. The Provence region was still in their hands.
Alice helped Alicia up as a MI-08 helicopter pulled up in front of them. The flight engineer helped Alicia to her seat and fastened her seatbelt.
"Your Majesty, Your Highness, greetings! You will soon be returning to the palace, won't you?"
"The flight engineer asked," Alicia glanced at the ancient city, then at Alice, and said, "It's up to her to decide."
Alice nodded and looked towards the capital, a city with a thousand-year history and where the old forces were deeply entrenched.
"No. The capital will not become the new capital. Let's restore it to its original name—Versaillesia."
"How about we rebuild the city? How about the name Paris?"
Alice smiled. Building a new capital city is much better than this densely populated city. If it were in the imperial capital, the administrative institutions would inevitably become entangled with the old forces. Even if the new capital would greatly delay the reconstruction of the country, the rotten parts would be cut off and the new parts would slowly grow, and grow even better.
The helicopter flew toward the watchtower, and the Amerlane tricolor flag was unfurled from the tallest tower in the capital. The enormous flag was hoisted high, announcing the birth of its new owner. The tricolor flag, hoisted high, would mark the beginning of a new era.
"Those demon bastards have unified?"
Inside the Holy See in the south, in the vast inner hall of the Holy Cathedral, the papal council members were whispering and discussing the unusual events in the north. A new demon nation, a powerful demon nation, had been born.
"Yes."
"The demons in the south couldn't stop the demons in the north, and Alicia reunited the country."
“That’s shocking,”
"Fellow believers, I must tell you a fact before the Goddess: the spies who have returned from the Demon Realm have brought back important intelligence!"
"The demons' weapons and warships completely surpass those of the Holy Army, protected by the goddess's radiance!"
A commotion broke out in the hall. A bishop standing in the U-shaped seating area waved his hand, and a line of soldiers brought in one item after another from the north.
"The guns used by the demons in the north are from a completely different world compared to the flintlock muskets we are currently building! The same goes for their cannons. Moreover, news from the north indicates that their warships are made of steel! And the invincible fleet we are currently building is still made of wooden ships!"
"How is that possible? Where did this news come from?"
"The Demon Clan's newspaper."
"That could be something the demons use to bewitch people!"
"Silence! Fellow believers!! The steel ship is real! I sent my most devout spies to the land controlled by the demons, to the so-called Duchy of Brittany, and he saw with his own eyes that enormous steel warship, like a steel mountain floating on the sea, its radiance like the sword of a goddess!"
"Fellow believers, I demand an immediate halt to the reconstruction of the Invincible Fleet! I obtained what the demons call machine manufacturing technology from the desert people, and their only demand is—land in a lower parish in the northwest of the Western Parish!"
"Do you want us to betray the people of the goddess?!"
"No, they promised to respect the people of that land!"
The Church gradually moved into industrialization under the Holy Light, as did the Balkan Empire, the Caliphate Desert Empire, and even Burnia began to introduce industry.
Globalization began from this point on. Although Alice set up barriers for industry, some things were beyond control. More and more foreign scholars and merchants came to the port of Hira and Brittany. Industrial technology spread along the sea routes. In order to acquire technology, the Church even allowed the sea route from Brittany to the holy city of Roman.
The vast nation of Amelansi would have to expel the interventionist forces from its territory as quickly as possible. Alice looked at the map and decided not to make any changes—to continue the war.