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Chapter 145
Chapter 145: Their Respective Bright Futures
In mid-April, Oswald, who had already returned to Ice City, received letters from Luna and Paul in succession.
He had been so occupied with dealing with the incarnation of the curse that only now did Oswald remember there was still an undismantled time bomb in the Southern Territory.
Luna and the Second Regiment had now stationed themselves in a coastal town in the southeastern part of the Southern Territory. The Southern Army ignored them, and the Central Army commander ignored them as well.
The center of the battlefield was still focused on the tense standoff at Silver City.
W ě b̆n õ v̈ е̃l Е n̆üm а̊
In the letter, Luna seemed unsure whether she was complaining or showing off. According to her, too many spoils had severely affected their marching speed, so they did not intend to continue attacking cities and seizing territory.
At the same time, Luna had written to Frank requesting permission to withdraw back to the Northern Territory, only to receive Frank’s tactful refusal.
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Frank’s reply merely told her to remain calm and wait a little longer. If Luna felt bored, she could go support Silver City.
Luna complained that Frank still could not let go of his pride. He had created such a grand spectacle, only to be frightened by the army of undead until he did not dare continue fighting.
The towns conquered by the Northern Army had all been smoothly taken over by the Central Palace Guard. In any case, whenever the Northern Army moved forward one step, they followed one step behind.
The Northern Army was truly practical. All the spoils they could not swallow had been handed over to them.
Ѐn u ḿ_а̃
Compared with their brothers who were miserably stuck before Silver City, their journey had been far too easy. However, there was still pressure. When one thought of the more than one hundred thousand undead on the other side of the mountains, anyone’s heart would turn cold.
After learning that Luna was safe and sound, Oswald set down the letter and was no longer in a hurry to study the Southern Territory’s problem.
It was not as if Frank lacked the strength to fight them head-on. Under normal circumstances, the casualty ratio between undead and elite human soldiers was 5:1.
Cavalry were a little better off. As for infantry fighting undead, unless they relied on sturdy city walls, no matter how well their battle formation was arranged, large-scale casualties would inevitably appear.
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The troublesome point was that the undead simply did not have the concept of fear. Once they launched an attack, they would truly fight until the last bone remained.
If the battle dragged on for too long, the human army would be exhausted to death.
Е̄ num а̃.
Oswald revealed a wicked smile. Even if the Southern Territory had one hundred and fifty thousand undead, that only amounted to thirty thousand elite casualties. The Central Army could still hold.
He continued by picking up the letter Paul had sent. Perhaps because the letter had been delivered by a traveling merchant, Paul did not mention any important information in it at all. He only briefly wrote: everything is proceeding steadily.
It seemed Paul had already successfully made contact with the Mechanical God Church. However, the next sentence said that a white-haired pervert wanted to move there…
Oswald scratched his head and tried to imagine what part of the Northern Territory attracted elves. If there was something they had done well, he would definitely change it.
The Northern Territory was the stronghold of conservatives.
Generations of Dukes had strictly observed monogamy. Aside from some indulgence among the local nobles, the overall atmosphere among the common folk tended toward conservatism.
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This was also why the Eastern Marquis had used every possible means to make Annie become Oswald’s fiancée.
Because in the Northern Territory, there had never been such a thing as a second mistress.
The root of the Charles family’s dwindling population also lay in this.
Social customs were a very strange thing. The original Oswald had been unruly enough, had he not? Yet no matter how wicked he was, he had never behaved licentiously toward women.
In the past, Oswald had speculated that he was sexually indifferent. However, after learning about the ambiguous relationship between himself and Annie in the first life, Oswald now leaned more toward the idea that he too was a conservative.
The number of people joining the army in the Northern Territory would only grow larger and larger in the future. Learning from the lessons of those before him, Oswald did not want any wretched incidents of the home front catching fire, so this conservative atmosphere was extremely beneficial to his rule.
Ẇē bn̈ȯ v ē ľ Êṅ úḿа̌
Elves… It was better to let them rot slowly. One was enough. Besides, he still had to send people to keep an eye on her. If there were more of them, he truly would not be able to bear it.
After organizing each of the ongoing plans, what Oswald cared about most at this moment was still the issue of the demon race.
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After he gave the order to shoot the messengers, the demons outside Starfall City had clearly behaved themselves much more. However, they still had not withdrawn their troops. He had no idea what ghostly scheme they were plotting now.
The key issue was that there was simply nothing for the two sides to discuss. The fact that the demon race had made contact with a new god had long since been inferred by Oswald and the System.
The current situation of the entire world was indeed very complicated. The goddess was clearly advancing the transformation of living beings into undead, but for the time being, she had yet to resolve the issue of souls.
And the permissions over souls were in the hands of the System and its kind.
Е ńu̇.ṁ а
The Mechanical God Church wanted to cast off the flesh granted by the goddess and achieve freedom and ascension for the soul.
As for the demon bastards, the god they had come into contact with was suspected to be related to corrosion. At present, its purpose could not be determined. The greater possibility was that it was simply aiming to corrode all living beings and dismantle the goddess’ divine authority over life.
The remaining mysteries were the Goddess of Nature, whose divine body had been divided, and the Hero’s Holy Spear.
Right. In their eyes, Oswald himself could also be considered a mystery, though probably no one had expected that his origin was that of an otherworldly demon.
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The chessboard of this other world was chaotic. The two new gods should still only be at the conceptual stage and had not formed physical entities. Otherwise, with the goddess’ temperament of exploding at the slightest provocation, she would have started a divine war long ago.
When he thought about how, among all these monsters and deities, he, as an otherworldly demon, was the only one who cared whether the common people lived or died, Oswald found it somewhat hard to keep a straight face.
Ẅеbńȯvė l̀ Еň üm̄.а̊
Other transmigrators were usually kept from going home by the locals or by gods and were forced to transform into otherworldly demons. He, however, had been purely swindled into staying by the System. The goddess was practically desperate to send him away as soon as possible…
Why did he keep feeling that, somewhere in the unseen workings of fate, the System had secretly screwed him over many times?
During this period, the System was always running out to visit others, and after Oswald finished handling his work, he did not know what else he should do.
After turning off his spiritual vision skill, Oswald’s vision sank into darkness. He slowly leaned back against the chair and emptied his thoughts.
After becoming undead, sleep had also become a major problem. Without the System forcing a shutdown, the most Oswald could do was enter a state of deep meditation.
Once one got used to many things, they were no longer such a big deal.
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If he felt his fate was bitter, he thought of Paul. If he felt he could no longer persevere, he also thought of Paul. And so, the days passed one after another…
Eileen, wearing a maid outfit, walked to the office door. After knocking and receiving no response, she tilted her head in confusion, then directly pushed open the door and walked inside.
As expected, at this time of day, His Grace was usually in the office.
After placing the pending documents on the desk, Eileen quietly came to Oswald’s side and observed him carefully for a long while.
She could be certain that His Grace had not fallen asleep, nor was he pretending to sleep.
She poked Oswald’s face with a little more force, but received no response. Eileen was so frightened that her heart missed half a beat, and she quickly reached out to sense Oswald’s chest.
W̊е̃b ǹо̂v е̂l Ě n̂ ũ m а̃
Fortunately, his lungs were still moving.
His Grace was probably just too tired. Looking at the documents piled on the desk and the power relationship network Oswald had personally drawn up, Eileen immediately understood the reason for his “slumber.”
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Many times, he would speak for a very, very long time with the soldiers or the common people. It was only so that, one day, they could awaken their own resistance.
Yet many times, because Oswald was unwilling to let them sacrifice too much, he would choose to shoulder the heavy burden of everything alone.
As the only person in the world who knew Oswald’s true name, Eileen understood better than anyone how difficult it was for Oswald to reach this point.
He could originally have ignored everything.
Е̇n úm̆ӑ .і ḋ
Eileen gently sat on Oswald’s lap and leaned against his broad chest. With endless sorrow, she slowly closed her eyes.
Just as she had said when describing herself, she was a very selfish person.
Even now, Eileen could not say that she regretted bringing Oswald back, even though the Oswald of this life was already covered in wounds.
She did not have the qualification to use the Wishing Star, but what she had done had ultimately brought about Oswald’s return, even if he did not belong to this world.
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Happiness and guilt intertwined in the depths of her heart. Eileen greedily hugged Oswald’s arm. She did not want to experience again the feeling of a heart that had already melted in warmth shattering across the ground.
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