General Sulla did not bring anyone with him on this visit; he came alone.
This is also the first time Li Ang has come face to face with the general from the Ash Descendants Empire.
If you didn't look at Sura's eyes, everyone would probably think that he was an ordinary clerical worker, like the kind of polite scholar or clerk you can see in all palaces.
Only his blood-filled pupils showed that he was a warrior who had been walking in the dark for a long time.
"General Sura, nice to meet you... are you here to discuss business? But I don't know what else to talk about now - Kairos and his son Antonius must die! I think His Majesty Marus should also know this very well!"
Li Ang received Sura very politely, and regardless of the fact that Sura now represents Emperor Marius, just because this general came all the way from another continent to deal with Snake Worship Cult, Li Ang will respect him.
But Li Ang really doesn't know what kind of deal we can negotiate under the current circumstances.
"Lord Li Ang, His Majesty Marus and I all feel that the death of Kairos and his son is not a pity. But there is no need for the Shadow Legion's soldiers to die with them..."
Sura took out a small paper roll from his arms and handed it over. "This is your Majesty's personal letter. You may wish to read it first."
Li Ang unfolded the paper roll. The writing was scrawled on it, with scattered ink marks, and many characters were bent and deformed.
It seems that Marius was in a bad state when he wrote the letter, and his hands must have been shaking.
There are only two sentences in the letter.
The first sentence is: 'Friend, you know better than me what the consequences will be if Noldo Elves becomes a mortal enemy of the entire human race.'
The second sentence is: 'Within one month, I will send Antonius's body to White Deer Fortress.'
Li Ang sighed and crumpled the paper into a ball silently, but then spread it out and handed it to Vendathir beside him.
"Lord Li Ang, you can also see that I am not a good negotiator, so I am here just to convey the meaning of His Majesty Marus. I will go there and wait for your reply..."
General Sura pointed to the top of the hill where Kairos and Shadow Legion were located.
After saying that, he went straight up the mountain.
"My lord..."
Risadiran looked at General Sura who was alone and wondered whether he should stop him.
"Let him go up."
Li Ang waved his hand to let him go and watched Sura's figure gradually disappear on the mountain.
Then, he turned to Vendathir and asked, "If the bodies of Kairos father and son could be brought back, would your clan calm down?"
He was not asking about the two thousand Nordos here, but about those Noldo Elves who did not follow him and were fighting on their own.
"As long as the culprit is removed, probably everyone except the Lord Aldarian tribe will calm down. But... at least let the elders of the tribe see the culprit's body first."
Vendathir also knows what Li Ang means. If most Noldo Elves remain trapped in hatred, it will be a real disaster for the entire ethnic group.
Fortunately, Wendy had personally solved the problem of Gollus who had ignited the fire and calmed down some emotions. Otherwise, it would be difficult for Wendy and Risadiran to stay rational.
Li Ang has been discouraging the Noldor these days not to be impulsive, but to first ensure the sustainable development of the entire group, and then slowly consider revenge.
If Li Ang hadn't tried his best to dissuade him, apart from Li Ang's territory, the eastern part of the continent would probably have been scattered with the revengeful arrows of the Noldor.
But after all, only a few people can listen to the advice, that is, the two thousand people around Li Ang.
While most of the other Noldo Elves are gathering separately, some of the more impulsive ones have already poured into the Bacchus Empire.
Even the always cautious Isildur led his troops to attack Amera Fortress.
This impulsive revenge may cause Bacchus Empire to suffer huge losses, but Noldo Elves themselves will inevitably suffer heavy losses as well.
If this matter cannot be settled as soon as possible, the hatred between Noldo Elves and humans will become irreversible - only a few Noldo Elves around Li Ang and the elders of various ethnic groups know better that it was Antonius who ordered the burning of the forest, and it was Kairos who made the plan. Their father and son are the culprits.
But most other Noldo Elvess will definitely not distinguish that much when they are furious. They only know that this is a disaster brought to them by humans. Driven by hatred, they are likely to cause massacres in some human villages and towns.
And once a massacre occurs, it will be difficult to quell such injustice, and Noldo Elves may gradually become a public enemy of mankind.
If the situation evolves into a war between two races, then it will definitely not be humans who are eventually killed to extinction...
"We have to find a way to persuade other tribes to recall as many tribesmen as possible and wait for a month with peace of mind. If Antonius's body is not sent to White Deer Fortress in one month, I will do my best to launch a full-scale attack on the Bacchus Empire with you."
Li Ang said to Vendathir.
Vendathir nodded, and then suddenly turned his head to look at the top of the mountain.
On the mountain, the figure of General Sura appeared again.
There was a splatter of blood on Sura's face. His face was expressionless and his eyes were red, like an evil ghost.
Behind him, a large group of the Shadow Legion warriors also followed him down the mountain, each of them staggering, and many of them had tears in their eyes.
Sura did not look back. He held a sharp blade in his right hand and a human head in his left hand.
After walking down the mountain, Sura threw the human head in his hand at the feet of Li Ang.
That is the head of Kairos.
"...Lord Li Ang, Shadow Legion There are 1,512 people left. All of them surrender to you."
General Sura dropped the dagger in his hand and asked Li Ang: "Do you accept their surrender?"
"... General Sura, Shadow Legion and His Majesty Marus have different ideals. I know this. Why did they obey your order and surrender to me?"
Li Ang looked at the Shadow Legion soldiers who were covered in mud and dying, and asked with some confusion.
"They listened to Kairos's orders, not mine... Kairos committed suicide. He asked Shadow Legion to surrender before he died - otherwise do you think I am really that capable and can get Kairos's head under the protection of thousands of soldiers?"
Sura said softly, "I lied to Kairos. I told him that his son had died in my hands... and then he drew his sword and committed suicide."
Li Ang was silent for a while and nodded. "I understand. I accept their surrender and guarantee that they will not be abused."
"Okay, one month later, I will bring 20,000 wheat buckets of grain and Antonius to redeem them. Is the deal done?"
Sura wiped the blood on his face and looked up at Li Ang.
Wheat bucket, this is the unit of measurement of the old Bax. Ash Descendants Empire follows this volume measurement method. One wheat bucket is equivalent to fifty liters.
If calculated based on the wheat variety Pande Continent, the weight of a wheat bucket is close to 80 pounds.
Twenty thousand buckets of wheat equals nearly 1.6 million pounds of grain.
This price is actually very cheap - if it is a good year with no shortage of food, it will only be worth tens of thousands of dinars.
But now, the value of food can no longer be measured by common sense. Emperor Marius used food instead of dinars to redeem people, which was obviously a deliberate decision. He knew what Li Ang needed.
"... Deal. Just one month. I'll be waiting for you at Long River Town."
Li Ang nodded in agreement.
"Okay, farewell."
Sura nodded and turned around to leave.
"Sir... we..."
Risadiran looked at Kairos's head on the ground, and then at Li Ang, probably not knowing what to do.
"Take Kairos's body to White Deer Fortress, and let His Majesty Felgornsal do his best to appease the Noldor clans. Tell them that they must practice military formations for at least a month first. There are not so many trees in the outside world to protect their bodies. A group of rabble-rousers will only die if they blindly seek revenge."
Li Ang said to Risadiran and Vendathir.
Then, he turned his head and signaled to Wendy: "Send the order to withdraw the troops and bring all the prisoners back to Long River Town... Send the order to various places and prepare the army for a month."
Three days later, Long River Town Lord Hall.
Risadiran has returned from White Deer Fortress, and he brought Felgornsal with him.
"Lord Li Ang, we have received your kindness. But at this time, it is difficult for me to persuade the people to stay rational... They are not just impulsive because of hatred, but more importantly, they have no home..."
Felgornsal shook his head towards Li Ang and said helplessly.
"I have no destination, I feel uneasy all the time, and I can't listen to advice..."
Risadiran also sighed beside him.
It is indeed difficult to communicate with rootless duckweeds, just like Risadiran back then.
During the years when he was exiled from Noldo Forest, he had been acting as a killer in a daze, suspicious of everyone like a trapped animal.
"Is there no other way? If they cannot be recalled, the war is likely to turn into racial hatred again, and it will be more serious than before... Once defeated, there will be no forest big enough to protect the Noldor people!"
Li Ang asked with a frown.
As Risadiran said, if you don't have a destination, you won't have peace of mind. If the fire in the forest is extinguished, you can call on the Noldor to go back and rebuild their homes first, and you can talk about revenge later - they have a long enough life and can afford to wait. As long as their home is still there, everything else can take their time.
However, the fire of Noldo Forest has been burning for more than twenty days and has still not been extinguished. The elves cannot return to the forest, so they can only go to Bax to kill people.
God is not very generous, and there has not been a single heavy rain in the past 20 days. When a large-scale wildfire occurs, the sporadic light rain cannot fall to the ground at all, and will evaporate at an altitude of several hundred meters. Moreover, the thinner clouds will be directly dispersed by the rising heat, making it difficult to form cumulonimbus clouds.
Only when the monsoon comes and the ocean monsoon forms strong convective weather can a large area of cumulonimbus clouds form over Noldo Forest, and a heavy rainstorm can stop the fire.
But that will probably take more than half a month. It's only the end of June now, and the monsoon usually doesn't arrive in the central part of the continent until mid-July - the last time Li Ang used a giant tree to trigger thunder was in mid-July.
And now, how can we divert the attention of the Noldor?
"It's not impossible... Lord Li Ang, do you remember what I told you before..."
Felgornsal looked at Wendy behind Li Ang: "You and Wendy should get married."
"Getting married? Will this make Noldo Elves people stop paying attention to hatred?"
Li Ang sighed, "They don't even listen to what Wendy says. Even if I get married to Wendy, they still won't listen to my advice."
"Of course, they don't listen to me either. But Li Ang, you said it yourself, you want to build a country - I think the time is now, whether it is called Kingdom of Pendor or another name, most countries should recognize your status. And I will let Wendy becomes Elf King, no one will oppose me at this time - as long as you, the king, marry Elf King, it means that all Noldo Elves are your people, and humans in all other countries can also understand this..."
Felgornsal said slowly, "In this way, there will be no racial struggle between humans and elves. As long as most people recognize your kingdom and your throne, then they will all think that the elves are marching towards the Bacchus Empire under your orders, rather than against all humans."
Li Ang Now I understand what Felgornsal means.
This is to use the name of marriage to transfer the hatred of the elves to the will of Li Ang - if Li Ang becomes king, it must be to unify the continent. The attacks caused by the hatred of the elves can be regarded as military actions and will not be regarded as racial hatred.
"Sir, I think His Majesty Felgornsal is right... Moreover, if you hold grand enthronement ceremonies and weddings continuously, it will also attract the attention of most people and dilute the impact of the fire."
Risadiran knelt down on one knee and added to Li Ang.
"... This...Wendy, what do you think?"
Li Ang thought for a while, turned around and asked Wendy, the person involved, somewhat awkwardly.
"Me? I don't know... I think you should ask Amy for his opinion first..."
Wendy turned his face and lowered his head.
This is true, I just got engaged to Amy not long ago...
Li Ang sighed, frowned and went to the Long River Town inner castle.
"Lord Li Ang, Amy and Alina want to see you."
As soon as he entered the inner castle, Li Ang met Alina's nominal maid Ruha - this was the former Aishikeman lord Bahaman The daughter of E, who left Dexia in the name of Alina's maid, was later brought to live in Long River Town by Li Ang.
Later, Alina stayed with Lion Territory, and Ruha kept her company. They said they were maids, but they were actually friends.
Although Bax is now a hostile country, Alina has not been banned. Only Governor Justus has been restricted in White Deer Fortress - he dare not go in and out. Noldo Elvess may kill any Baxian they encounter now...
"Where are they?"
Li Ang looked around and didn't see Amy or Alina.
"They have been waiting for you upstairs."
Ruha took Li Ang upstairs to the top floor of the inner castle, and pointed towards a door that was ajar.
This was once the room where Duke Alma was assassinated by Milgan, but now, this is Amy's study - Amy has seen too many deaths and injuries, and she doesn't care about these things.
Li Ang opened the door and walked in. The two girls in the room turned their heads.
"Li Ang, you should marry Wendy."
Amy's first words shocked Li Ang, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
Li Ang looked at Alina and realized that it was probably Alina who said something to Amy.
Alina smiled at Li Ang, "I prepared your enthronement ceremony and your wedding to Amy a few months ago. At that time, I wanted to tell you that if you want Noldo Elves to fully integrate into the human world, the best way is to marry Wendy together - at the same time as Amy's wedding."
"Ah? Ah! This... happens at the same time?!"
Li Ang swallowed, thinking this was too ridiculous.
"Yes, marry two at the same time. You create Kingdom of Pendor as Child of Prophecy, classify Noldo Forest and White Deer Fortress as Noldo Territory, establish Duchy of Noldo, and make Wendy become Duchy of Noldo Elf King. Classify the entire Lion Territory as a principality, and let Amy be crowned as Grand Duke Duchy of Lionheart (Principal Queen). You will marry two Queens, Lion Territory and Noldo Territory at the same time."
Alina smiled unnaturally, "Just because this kind of thing has never happened before, the marriage between Child of Prophecy and two Queen will definitely attract the attention of the whole continent and even the whole world., Ramon and I can make everyone in the entire continent talk about the story of you and the two Queen - people will ignore the hatred between Noldo Elves and humans... This seems ridiculous, but it can satisfy everyone."