The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 177: The Imperial Military Meeting (End)

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 400,000 (+4,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 500,000 (+7,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 1,000,000 (+10,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 700, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -Appraisal -Evil gaze -Strengthen -Leap -Basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Reo Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia -Slime Soul Diversion -Slime technique: Split -Tarot Emperor -Master of The Dragon King, Atlas]

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“I believe it’s not just something. He seems to be hiding lots of things. How interesting…” (Firenze)

“Whatever he’s planning, I’ll leave it for my clone to handle it. There will be no use of baseless assumptions, after all. Now, tell me how many active soldiers available on your kingdoms,” (Slime Oz)

Following Slime Oz’s orders, Gareth and co put their chess pieces on top of the map.

On top of the Lizardfolk kingdom’s map, Talak puts only 3 pawn pieces, 1 knight piece, 2 bishop pieces, and 1 rook piece.

On top of the Orc kingdom’s map, Magra puts 5 pawn pieces, 1 knight piece, 4 bishop pieces, and 1 rook piece.

On top of the Goblin kingdom’s map, representing the absent Geeta, Aegir puts 5 pawn pieces, 1 knight piece, 5 bishop pieces, and 1 rook piece.

On top of the Centaur kingdom’s map, Firenze puts 3 pawn pieces, 1 knight piece, 3 bishop pieces, and 1 rook piece.

On top of the Kobold kingdom’s map, Razor puts 4 pawn pieces, 1 knight piece, 4 bishop pieces, and 1 rook piece.

On top of the undead kingdom’s map. As the one possessing the title of the most powerful military kingdom of the Tarot empire, Gareth puts 8 pawn pieces, 3 knight pieces, 7 bishop pieces, and 3 rook pieces.

And representing the absent Azaline, Slime Oz put 4 pawn pieces, 1 knight piece, 3 bishop pieces, and 1 rook piece above the elf kingdom’s map.

Each piece represents a hundred thousand units, summing a total of 78 pieces, 7,8 million active units.

“What a great force we have here, huh!” said Ibra proudly as he stared at the world map.

The huge world map is built especially for the imperial military meeting room. It is made from the best quality of paper and ink. With the detailed investigation from the ‘Jack of All Trades’ legion, the world map that includes almost all of the places in the world had been made. It could be the most detailed and accurate map all across the Terra world.

“It is a great thing to have this many soldiers. But as it is in chess, in war, it is not about the number, but about the tactic. A fool could have 100 pawns, but against a smart general with 10 pawns, the fool will still lose,” (Brad)

“Nice words, Brad. As Brad had said, we still always need to take caution and prepare for the worst. Remember, every life of our soldiers is precious. If we could battle without losing any lives, it will be the best,” (Slime Oz)

“As what we’ve agreed before, the elves and the orcs will be the main player of the battle against the holy empire, so prepare your men, Magra. In Azaline’s case, you could cooperate with the prime minister of the elf kingdom. And from now on, all kingdoms are free to make political ties between other countries besides the Grandaria Kingdom and the Potterland Kingdom. You may make your own plan and take your own steps for your kingdom to make friendly and mutually benefitting ties with other countries,” (Slime Oz)

“That will be great… I’ve been waiting for this,” said Talak as he stared at the world map.

Talak’s Kingdom, the Lizardfolk Kingdom, does not consist of Lizardfolks alone. They have lots of beastmen races joining their ranks.

“True… It will be a great thing to broaden our influence towards the continent,” Muttered Firenze.

Just like the Lizardfolk Kingdom, the Centaur Kingdom also consists of various demihuman races, not only centaurs. They take in the denizens of the forest such as dryads, cyclops, halflings, and much more. They let the races that have a small population join their nobility rank as well.

Unlike Kobolds and Elves that have a huge population, centaurs and lizardfolk didn’t have that many populations since their fertility rate is rather low. But it did not mean that they are weak since their small number is compensated by their strong and skillful body that possesses many strong and unique skills.

“So? I believe that the holy empire is not the sole reason for our military meeting today since we won’t need to gather in this imperial military meeting room if you’re not going to show us something. What is it, Ren?” Asked Aegir.

Aegir’s words are true.

The distance from the other kingdoms to the imperial capital city of the Tarot empire could even reach 500 km, that’s the biggest reason why it had become so rare for them to gather like this other than because they’ve become busier as kings who govern their kingdoms.

If not meeting virtually using the new magic technologies, they usually send messengers or bird messengers to give the report to the Slime Oz.

“Indeed… The real reason is because of this,” Slime Oz pointed at the southern side, and his finger slowly moves further until it reached the Southfilia continent.

“The southern side, huh..” Muttered Talak as he put his fingers at his chin.

“I’ve sent some scouts myself, but there are too many demons lurking around there, even though I believe that we’ve handled the demon in that area a couple of times already. And it is the place where the emperor subdued the magic beast kings and killed the remaining demons together with the demonic slime king commanding them, so there should be no demons left there. How strange…” said Razor the king of kobolds.

“Precisely. Since we’ve destroyed all of the hell gates at the southern part, the possibilities of some hell gates remaining are small since the dungeon core didn’t sense any demonic object or demonic being at the south part where the dungeon core recognizes as the empire’s territory. It means that the demons come from the far south, the desert, or maybe more further where the volcanic mountains existed,” (Slime Oz)

“We should take control of the whole forest and make the dungeon core recognize the whole area as the territory of the Tarot empire as soon as possible so that we could detect any enemy attacks,” (Slime Oz)

The imperial dungeon core of the Tarot empire that existed inside the treasure room had taken the form of the magical forest of Everdeen. It’s like a 3D map since its huge form completely shows the miniature size of every detail of the magical forest of Everdeen.

The imperial dungeon core gives every small detail for the territories that it recognizes under its influence. It shows even every movement of the citizens of the Tarot empire. The citizens or the one the imperial dungeon core recognize as someone who had pledged allegiance towards the emperor have their body colored as blue, those who didn’t have but hold no hostility or harm towards the empire and its citizens colored as white, while those who hold hostility will be colored as red.

Other than being a 3D high-technology map, the imperial dungeon core could also summon some creatures, things, and items by paying with the accumulated dungeon points that could only be seen by the dungeon’s administrator, but the rich points had almost gone because of summoning the world tree, Yggdrasil.

“But that is not the only possibility. All of us knew that there is Southfilia continent, but no one had gone there because of the danger that the magical forest of Everdeen holds, and the danger of the extreme weather when we sail to cross the ocean,” (Slime Oz)

“It’s not impossible that the demons came from there,” said Slime Oz as he pointed at the Southfilia continent.

“Indeed… I’ve also ordered my men to postpone the plan on investigating and gathering information of the Southfilia continent since my undead summoners’ summoned creatures always disappear from their radar every time they sent them there without knowing the reason why, so I considered that the area of the south far and further on is too dangerous,” (Brad)

“I see… If Lord Brad had stated such a thing then it might be very dangerous there…” Muttered Thydal as he stroke his long beard.

“So even the Tarot’s shadow guardian is wary of the south, I see…” Teased Gurolf.

“True. That’s why I hope the magic guardian could take the honor to investigate the south area with his wonderous magics in my stead,” replied Brad.

“Hohoho! I’m too busy researching and inventing new strong barriers, magic artifacts, and cultivating powerful magicians that could protect the empire and the emperor. So I think I’ll pass, Brad,” (Gurolf)

The two of them laughed as their eyes glared at each other.

(It’s rather rare to look at them like this) (Slime Oz)

“Since the south is too dangerous, we can’t just let the undead kingdom handle it alone. And it will be far more dangerous if this continues. My Lich clone had already investigated with some soldiers Gareth lent him, so I’ve seen the situation myself, and that’s why I’m declaring,” (Slime Oz)

“We’ll begin the conquest of the southern area of the Everdeen magical forest and conquer it including the Southfilia continent,” (Slime Oz)

“YES! I’ve been waiting for THIS!” (Fedra)