The Lord Of Blood Hill

Seeing Henwell's expression, Ulysses cannot help laughing. "Heh... Henwell, I told you. You are still young."

"And although you are very clever, you are a professional. Many times, you often choose to use force to solve troublesome problems."

"I am different. I am an ordinary man. I can only crouch in the dark and think over and over about how to calculate and plot."

"Your time has been spent on cultivation, while most of my time has been spent thinking about how to deal with the Veil."

Henwell shakes his head. "No. You are truly clever, and truly impressive."

"I should be grateful for how you ended up. Otherwise, if I had to face an existence like you, I would certainly suffer."

Ulysses puts away his smile. "Henwell, next I will give you some advice."

"First, you must not rashly seize the throne. What you can do is marry into the royal family and let your son obtain the throne."

"So you still need to marry another princess with royal blood. If you are willing, you can marry Catherine."

Even at this moment, this old father still has not forgotten to find his daughter someone to rely on.

Henwell remains silent. Ulysses does not persuade him further.

"Second, you cannot underestimate the Veil, the church, or the empire."

"The relationship among the three sides is very complicated. The Veil's existence prevents the two sides from projecting the military power of the Abundant Continent over here."

"The Western Federation's existence prevents the Veil from developing openly, forcing it to stay hidden in various ways."

"You must grasp the balance among them. Do not let any one side gain absolute advantage, especially when you do not have absolute advantage yourself."

"Believe me, you do not want to face the spearhead of the church and the empire, and you also do not want to face the Veil when it fully bares its fangs."

Ulysses points north. "Do not hurry to conquer the Kosen Kingdom in the Northern Regions. They are a very special existence."

"They are valuable to you, but not because they are worth pulling into an alliance."

"Rather, because of their existence, neither the Western Federation nor the Veil dares to make any major move."

"I cannot tell you the specific reason, or I would die right now."

"And the Veil would certainly know that I had spoken the secret."

"That would be very disadvantageous for my daughter, and you would also become an object of suspicion."

After his curiosity has caused enough trouble, Henwell has learned to restrain it.

Seeing Henwell nod, Ulysses continues. "Finally, do not underestimate any royal family."

"They have been able to rule countries all this time because they have their own trump card. It is not those professionals in the royal house."

"Do you know why the Western Federation cannot completely suppress the countries and force them into true submission?"

"Because they cannot spare the hands. The Empire faction and the church faction have to fight each other."

"And this is not over some quota for traveling to the Abundant Continent. It is to prevent the other side from sending more people over."

"In addition, the countries are not actually afraid of the Western Federation."

"You have been to the Western Federation and know something about the situation there. You also come from a military background."

"I believe you can perceive that with the Western Federation's military strength, they cannot conquer any country."

"As for the royal families' trump card, it is naturally their identity."

"Why do you think royal families came to be?"

"They did not become royal families because they ruled countries. They ruled countries because they were royal families."

"It sounds a little awkward, does it not?"

"In other words, we did not become royal families later. We were royal families from the beginning."

"I think you already know some things. Many bloodlines on the continent came from the Abundant Continent."

"The royal families are one branch of those bloodline descendants, and all royal families originate from the imperial house of the Groias Empire."

"The sources of several royal bloodlines are consistent. They all come from one prince of Groias."

At this point, Ulysses emphasizes, "So you cannot seize the throne. Otherwise, several countries will attack you together."

"Our royal blood oath cannot be bought off by benefits."

"Once you try to forcibly seize the throne, not only the countries, but the church and the empire of the Western Federation will also attack you."

"The Western Federation has its own teleport nodes in the palaces of the countries. They can easily organize a group of elites and send them straight to your bedside."

Henwell's heart grows heavy. When he spoke with Newwood before, he had only guessed that under the rules of the balance, he could not fall completely to one side.

But he never imagined that royal bloodlines possessed an absolute right to rule.

This is truly a thorny problem.

Yet there are too many urgent matters now. Henwell will have to sort through them slowly after he returns.

Ulysses says, "One more thing. A calamity will come in the future. I think you should make military preparations for defense."

Henwell nods. "I know. The Hundred-Year Calamity."

"The East Sea Tide in Billie will trigger the Tidehunter Pirate."

"Vorry has the Northern Mountain Raiders brought by the Forest Gathering, and the one that may affect me is the River Bandits caused by the Sacred Lake Migration in the Duchy of Lumir."

"The nearest one is the Quiet Forest Wanderer appearing from the Forest Stirring in the Ogiro Kingdom. I have already made certain arrangements."

Ulysses looks at Henwell in surprise. "You know quite a lot."

"With the influence of the Great Isolation Technique, most people clearly should not remember these things."

"How did you avoid the effect of the Great Isolation Technique? Forget it. That is your secret, and for a dying man like me, it is no longer important."

"But Henwell, are you truly ready?"

"Those existences may possess combat strength beyond your imagination, and they also have special means."

Henwell confirms again, "I understand. On my way to the Western Federation, I already saw the source that caused the Golden Sacred Tent, the Fury Spirit."

Ulysses pauses. "Then how do you judge the combat strength of those existences? How many of them can you withstand?"

Henwell thinks for a moment and does not conceal the answer. "If it is only defense, then no matter how many come, I am not afraid."

"If it is field pursuit, I can destroy a cluster of fewer than one hundred thousand after another ten years of growth. More than that would be difficult."

"Of course, I mean ten years after the outbreak. If you give me another five years, I can fight two hundred thousand anomalies in the field."

Ulysses says, "Then that is enough. When the Quiet Forest Wanderer attacks you, they will number at most under one hundred thousand."

Henwell suddenly corrects him. "I am not referring to those infected humans, but to the source exterminators of the Quiet Forest Wanderer."

"If they are bodies of flesh and blood, then however many come, that many die."

Ulysses smiles and shakes his head. "Very well. That is the confidence of you young people. I will say no more. In any case, be careful."

"Also, if you are truly that powerful, do not try to counter-push into those dangerous source lands."

Henwell says, "Of course. Those are the Veil's old nests."

"You guessed that?"

"What else could it be? No one would tell me this kind of secret."

"The only things that can make the church and the empire wary, and make them attach importance to them, are those forbidden lands."

"Only places like that can make the Western Federation and the countries fundamentally afraid to exterminate the Veil."