Today I'm exhausted—exhausted to the marrow!
Relatives came over, and I drank so, so, so, so much! We chatted until things got really HIGH!
Riding this HIGH from the alcohol, let me beg for some votes! No matter what, if you've got votes, throw them at me!
Spreading his hands, Gries Gao Dawn let out a mournful sigh. "We can't possibly succeed. The Black Spirit Empire has committed towering crimes upon the Black Spirit Continent. The Black Spirit natives will never forgive them. We..."
Lin Qi cut Gries Gao Dawn off. "Those people from the Black Spirit Empire are all criminals wanted by the nations of our Western Continent! They are thugs through and through, vile evils despised even on the Western Continent. They are heretics, and they will be sent to the stake!"
"Among them are followers of the Goddess of Wealth!" Gries Gao Dawn's eyes suddenly lit up. He seemed to have realized what Lin Qi intended to do.
Lin Qi gave a dry cough and said calmly, "I need the Church's cooperation. We must liberate all Black Spirit slaves across the Western Continent. When General Ente Malte leads the army to the Black Spirit Continent, we must bring a group of rescued Black Spirits along as proof."
Gries Gao Dawn looked thoughtfully at Lin Qi. "But what if those great nobles refuse..."
Lin Qi made a crisp sweep of his hand. "Not a single Black Spirit slave will remain within the Dragon Mountain Empire. They will all be freed. Any noble who dares resist this order will have all his assets confiscated into the national treasury. I would be more than happy to make the Dragon Mountain Empire's treasury a little fuller."
Holy Light I, who had been wracked with headaches by the immense costs of