Chapter 827: Chapter 494: No Mutiny Means No Complaints
There’s no denying it, nowadays Alice has indeed become quite resourceful.
From the moment Abuzan ambushed the Twilight Legion to the time he was killed by his own senior priest, only seven days had passed.
On the second day, when Shen Sui got up, Alice had unsurprisingly cut off the supply to the frontline.
Of course, the priests at the frontline had their objections, but the reasons Alice employed were extremely valid.
The war between the Church and Daylight was the pivotal battle concerning the survival of the Church, and it was also the war that the supreme Master of Thunder cared about the most.
In the face of this existential battle, reclaiming South Roland was a trivial matter.
If you are unwilling to stay at the South Roland frontline, sending you to the Daylight frontline is also an option.
Upon hearing this, those priests who originally had objections immediately fell silent.
The reason why they showed such enthusiasm in the reclaiming war of South Roland, aside from the easy merits to be gained, was primarily to avoid going to the Daylight frontline.
After all, the Twilight Legion in South Roland consisted mostly of peasants, with few possessors of Extraordinary Power among them. Facing them, as long as the Extraordinary ones didn’t rush to their deaths, the mortality rate wouldn’t be too high.
But the frontline against the Daylight Church was a different story, those priests and knights of the Daylight Church, they were truly formidable, one fiercer than the other, a slight carelessness could cost them their lives.
The Church did not provide supplies, but they had their ways to stay here.
As priests of the Church of the Master of Thunder, engaging in unsustainable resource exploitation was a necessary skill.
Of course, Alice had anticipated this, and she specifically had Anna block this expeditionary force near a small city by Night Lake during the operation.
That small city, from an economic standpoint, was actually the wealthiest city in South Roland.
However, the reason for this was because it had gathered almost all the top nobility and landlords of South Roland.
According to the Twilight Legion’s usual practices, these people were all to be executed, as the oppression of peasants throughout South Roland originated from them.
But Alice opposed this, suggesting using a city as a massive prison, confining all of South Roland’s top nobility within it.
As the culprits, they were certainly to be executed, but definitely not at that time.
The nobles of the Roland Empire, or rather any nobles in general, usually formed complex blood networks due to various marriages, and these top nobility of South Roland were intricately linked with the empire’s highest authorities.
Executing them all brutally before the Twilight Legion endured the full wrath of the Roland Empire and the Thunder Church might relieve their anger, but would also lead the newly formed Twilight Legion to inevitable ruin.
Now that the Twilight Legion had risen, and with Alice at the center, they needn’t worry about being attacked by both the empire and the church for killing these nobles. When Alice thought of this city, she originally planned to destroy it conveniently.
The reason for pressing the Thunder expeditionary force to this city was because Alice was all too aware of the great flaws and virtues of these priests.
Initially, these nobles were still in a welcoming posture towards the royal forces.
But as Alice cut off the supplies to the frontline troops, the relationship between the two sides became delicate.
Although the priests repeatedly promised not to confiscate the nobles’ properties, these shrewd nobles didn’t believe a word.
After all, many notorious deeds in South Roland were jointly conducted by both parties back then.
So, in this small city, before Anna’s led Twilight Legion even launched an attack, the priests and nobles had already fallen into a state of internal strife.
Within the Church of the Master of Thunder, there were still insightful individuals. One Thunder Bishop on the way to Sun City expressed her concerns to Alice: "If we do not resume supply to the troops in South Roland, unforeseeable disasters may occur."
"Unforeseeable? What kind of unforeseeable? I don’t see any disasters happening." Alice said with a smile, holding the battle reports in her hand, "Victorious reports are still coming from the South Roland frontline, apparently they’ve found a way to procure supplies themselves."
"But Your Majesty!"
"Don’t worry, there’s no problem." Alice reassured, "As long as there’s no mutiny, it indicates they have no complaints."
"Oh, by the way, what did their report say about the progression of the front line?" Alice casually asked.
"The morning report said they’ve already seen the city walls of Elm City."
Even though she had mentally prepared for false battle reports, hearing the report, Alice still couldn’t help but almost lose her composure.
Dammit, if I didn’t have intelligence from both Anna and Elm City directions, I would almost be fooled by your reports.
Despite being trapped at Night Lake City with no way forward, they still play around expanding territories on the map.
However, Alice didn’t plan to expose it, instead, she cheerfully issued commendations.
See, it’s their actual achievements saying they don’t need supplies, not that I deliberately cut them off.
Alice’s triple-strategy maneuver thoroughly solidified her status as the Thunder Pope.
