Chapter 327: Rout and Courting

Under Wayne's operation, that afternoon, Vesemir met the countess again.

The scene of the two old lovers meeting was quite moving. Although there was no kissing and hugging as imagined, and no sweet words.

But just a simple dialogue like "You're here." "I've always wanted to find you." gave Wayne a feeling of time passing and the sea changing into mulberry fields.

Although now, he hadn't experienced the scene where his lover or friend passed away and was separated from him by heaven and man, but as a strong man who would definitely survive for a long time, he would definitely experience many familiar people leaving him forever due to the passage of time in the future.

In fantasy works, the theory of lifespan had always been a powerful knife. It was basically difficult for long-lived species and short-lived species to produce happy love. Perhaps they might produce love because of temporary passion, looking both beautiful and romantic, but the cruelty of reality often brought only tragedy.

Compared with ordinary humans, witchers with a lifespan of over three hundred years could also be considered long-lived species.

Decades later, Countess Minole had changed from a girl in her prime to a lady who had entered middle age, and her feelings for Vesemir would definitely not be as impulsive and admiring as decades ago, more of a beautiful memory and fantasy of youth.

However, no matter what the result was, I think after this meeting, the old witcher Vesemir and the countess Minole could have a complete explanation for their past relationship and would not become a regret.

After arranging the meeting, before he could take a rest, Syanna brought him the latest news, which was about Aedirn.

King Demavend was defeated, and Nilfgaard's black-clad army won.

However, although the capital was lost and the army of the Kingdom of Aedirn suffered a disastrous defeat, this king was still very lucky.

Taking his remnants, he broke through the encirclement overnight and returned to the city he occupied in the Kingdom of Kaedwen.

Of course, such a result was not only in Wayne's expectation, almost everyone who knew the gap in military strength between the two sides could guess this result.

Although as witchers, they didn't need to care too much about the situation, as long as there were various monsters in this world, no matter who was the emperor, they would always need witchers to help clean up.

However, as the person in charge of the Witcher Order, now that he encountered something like the Northern and Southern Wars that would affect the fate of countless people and affect the situation of the entire continent, whether active or passive, he had to pay attention.

After all, this matter not only affected his future life but also affected all aspects of this world.

But interestingly, unlike Emhyr in the original story who was fond of success, thought highly of himself, always liked to make big moves, but in fact, did not have much research on military affairs.

This Usurper Emperor born of nobility was accumulated by bottom-level officers, successfully sat firmly on the throne, and gained the support of many people before overthrowing the Enreis family that had ruled Nilfgaard for generations.

He might be inferior to Emhyr in politics, inferior to the politician with the nickname of tomb jumping, and was completely erased from the historical records in the original story after losing to Ciri's father.

But if it were about leading troops to fight and commanding wars, his ability was several levels higher than Emhyr.

It could even be said that precisely because the Usurper Emperor replaced Emhyr's father and became the emperor of Nilfgaard, this country could annex surrounding kingdoms through war and continuous victory, becoming a powerful empire.

After launching the Northern and Southern Wars, the Usurper Emperor did not, like Emhyr, directly send a large army to be an enemy of the entire North, but limited his military power to the Kingdom of Aedirn, and through a steady and steady approach, continuously weakened Demavend's strength, trying to completely control this country.

He even sent his envoys half a month ago to find a reason that could be justified for his black-clad army to sneak attack the Kingdom of Aedirn, and barely found an excuse for the justice of this war. This was a very good method. If the Usurper Emperor aimed at the entire North from the beginning of the Northern and Southern Wars like Emhyr, it would inevitably cause the entire North to share a common hatred and face multiple enemies at once.

But now, Nilfgaard only ignited the war to the Kingdom of Aedirn and found a reason for the war between him and Aedirn.

Then, whether it was out of a fluke mentality or out of various filth between the Northern Kingdoms, it was very difficult for them to make up their minds to immediately raise troops and unite to resist Nilfgaard.

Even the action of wanting to send reinforcements to support the Kingdom of Aedirn became hesitant because of Nilfgaard's countermeasures.

Without the support of other reinforcements, Demavend's army finally could not resist Nilfgaard's black-clad army. After persisting in the capital of Aedirn for half a month, it finally suffered heavy losses and was completely defeated.

The entire war lasted less than two months, and a kingdom that had existed in the Northern Kingdoms for thousands of years completely fell into the hands of Nilfgaard.

Although Demavend was lucky enough to escape, with his current strength, it was basically impossible to reorganize the army and take back his kingdom.

And according to Syanna's latest news, after taking the Kingdom of Aedirn, Nilfgaard temporarily stopped its pace and did not take more military actions, but began to clean up the resistance forces in the Kingdom of Aedirn.

Whether it was the old nobles of the Kingdom of Aedirn, those defeated deserters, or the residents who resisted Nilfgaard's rule, they all became the cleaning objects of the black-clad army.

Under the control of tens of thousands of Nilfgaardian soldiers, whether it was cleaning or incorporating, or capturing and becoming slaves, the influence of King Demavend and his original royal family was weakening at a very fast speed.

I believe that as long as a few years, the residents of the Kingdom of Aedirn would completely forget Demavend and become a vassal of Nilfgaard.

This was a quite dangerous signal for other Northern Kingdoms. With the strength of other northern kingdoms, they fundamentally could not independently resist the Kingdom of Nilfgaard. The huge gap in military affairs made many northern people with vision and wisdom terrified, and they immediately connected with each other privately to discuss jointly resisting Nilfgaard.

Originally, Wayne was just in a wait-and-see state regarding this matter, wanting to see how the Sorcerers Brotherhood would deal with it next.

However, before the northern kings and those high-ranking spellcasters could react, a trouble found the Witcher Order.

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In the hall of the witcher castle, Wayne sat on the magnificent main seat, one hand supporting his chin, and the other hand tapping lightly on the armrest.

His brows were slightly wrinkled, looking at Francesca sitting below, whose expression was also a bit gloomy, and asked in a questioning tone:

"You mean, Nilfgaard sent sorcerers to find the Dol Blathanna, found the elven race, and wanted to talk to you about cooperation, right?"

"They are willing to support the independence of the Dol Blathanna, establish an elven kingdom, and are willing to support you in becoming the queen of the elven race?"

"And the condition is to let you incite non-human races to create chaos throughout the North and weaken the strength of the Northern Kingdoms?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 328 =====