As a last resort, Arthur accepted Isabella's conditions and signed the corresponding Mental Contract. Isabella was right, there is no future without the present.
He began busier preparations, reinforcing city walls, boosting morale, and stocking up on food and military supplies.
Arthur's character is not only cautious, but also tenacious. He will fight tooth and nail for his unwillingness and right to live.
Elizabeth, who has long regarded herself as Arthur's fiancée, has been accompanying him in recent days. She is also very amazed at Arthur's efforts to win.
After the two of them inspected a section of the city wall together that day, they and their entourage took a short rest in the arrow tower.
"Arthur, you don't need to be so desperate. Chloe has just ascended the throne, and Robert and the others have left her with another mess. Even if she is a genius, she will not be able to sort out the mess of Nico's politics in just a few months."
Elizabeth sat lazily on the chair, took off her shoes and stockings, and gently massaged her sore feet with her hands. It seemed that her own massage was not effective, so she directly stretched her bare feet in front of Arthur and said, "Knead it for me."
At first, Arthur refused to do this kind of thing, but now he has got used to it, and looks like he is completely controlled by Elizabeth.
"You arrived in Meteor City relatively late, and there are some things that you are not sure about." Arthur said this without stopping his hands. "That is the intelligence recently sent by my spy lurking in Ni Hong Kong."
"Huh?" Arthur's words caught Isabella's attention.
"Chloe occupying Nixiang is not that simple. My two brothers still left a stumbling block for her. The city guards went berserk under unknown orders and planned to destroy Nixiang before Chloe occupied Nixiang."
"According to common sense, what awaits Chloe will only be a ruin. Without a capital, she will lose her legal principles, and the empire will fall into chaos for a long time. Yes, people are not birds, and it is impossible to fly to Nixiang." Arthur sighed with emotion.
"What do you mean?" Isabella asked in confusion, twisting her feet uneasily.
"Remember those huge monsters like Behemoth? They can fly, and not just them, there are bugs as big as dragons, and there are as many bugs as locusts." Arthur said calmly.
"They flew to Nixiang and slaughtered all the city guards at a speed that was beyond common sense. The whole city was filled with broken corpses of the city guards. My spies went through the whole process. He also helped clean up the ruins of the city, carrying the corpses onto the disgusting mucus secreted by the insects, and watched the mountain-like corpses melt away little by little."
Feeling his hands and feet shaking, Arthur's mouth corners slightly raised, "What? Are you scared?"
Isabella wanted to say something harsh, but in the end she didn't.
The sound of opening the door broke the awkward atmosphere, and the person who came in was Arthur's chief mage Psionics. She was also a beauty. In terms of appearance, she might be slightly inferior to Isabella, but her eyebrows added some aura.
She came in without knocking or saluting, but said in a stiff tone, "Your Highness, our spies in Nixiang have sent new information."
Without waiting for Arthur to answer, she released Clairvoyance and projected the picture.
This behavior made Isabella very dissatisfied. She didn't understand why Arthur's men didn't understand the rules so much. So what if they were strong? There was a gap in status between people, and being too arrogant based on strength was not good.
Just when she was about to open her mouth to help Arthur scold his men, her attention was instantly attracted by the pictures in Clairvoyance.
The first thing that catches the eye is a giant tower of flesh and blood as high as a mountain. It looks like a towering volcano, but what flows on the giant tower is not magma, but a strange green liquid. A large piece of purple slime seeps out from under the giant tower, covering a large area on the ground.
This slime looks disgusting, and there are a large number of Swarm monsters lying on it. Isabella knows these monsters, and they are very proficient in fighting and killing.
In the picture, these Swarm monsters are lying quietly on the mucus, and some even stick out their tongues to lick it.
Suddenly, as if they got some signal, the Swarm monsters that were originally quiet started to move.
They excitedly stood up straight, lined up in a neat line, started running like cavalry, and left the screen projected by Clairvoyance.
The disgusting giant tower of flesh and blood also moved. The four pillars it fixed on the ground were its limbs, and a head that was slightly smaller than the body and hidden in the body also stretched out.
The giant tower began to fold, and the crater shrank and was wrapped in a carapace.
Elizabeth's eyes widened when she saw such a behemoth for the first time. It turned out that the thing mentioned in the information was as big as Behemoth.
Fortunately, this thing seems to be moving relatively slowly.
The screen of Clairvoyance suddenly zoomed up, and several insects that looked like a hybrid of a mantis and a dragonfly flew down from the sky. They didn't feel it at first. When the insects landed on the giant monster, a comparison revealed that the insects were also very big.
It's really just like what Arthur said just now, it's as big or small as the legendary dragon flying in the sky.
These flying insects flapped their wings together in perfect harmony to lift up the giant monster and flew into the blue sky at an astonishing speed. Isabella dared to swear to God that even the fastest bird she had ever seen could not fly so fast.
Arthur stopped massaging her feet. He stood up, straightened out his clothes, and asked, "How was it? Do you regret it?"
The word regret almost jumped out of Isabella's mouth, but luckily she bit it with her teeth.
"It seems that I made a wrong bet. This is probably my most failed business investment." Isabella said as she put on her socks and shoes. "Is it too late to quit now?"
Shrugging, Arthur's eyes softened a lot, "I'm afraid it's more difficult. Those Swarm monsters have already set off. Your troops have entered the empire's territory without her consent. This is an invasion."
"Unless you surrender to Chloe unconditionally now and let her handle it, see if she will be merciful and let you go."
Arthur's sarcastic words aroused Isabella's fighting spirit, "That won't work. I've never had the habit of surrendering before I get to the card table."
She smiled and hugged Arthur's arm, "Chloe is just a little girl. It's not fun to let her do what she wants. Why don't you do it instead?"
Arthur didn't reply, his face darkened, and he walked out.
The attendants in the room quickly followed their master out. Only the chief Psionics mage remained motionless, like a sculpture.
If it weren't for the fact that her fingers holding the staff turned extremely pale due to excessive exertion, no one would be able to detect her mood.