Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Although the demons claimed that they had won, unlike the pile of letters and diplomas on Linde's desk, which showed that he had already started to consider putting the secretariat on the agenda, Antipas' desk was much emptier.

But it's not that there weren't any letters at all. Among them, there was a letter sent by a demon who was still doing "legitimate business" in the royal capital.

The new Queen of Capet does not like the demons, but the demons still have to rely on Monroe's relationship and leave some people working in the central region of the Capet Kingdom.

It was through these people that Antipas conveyed the wrong message to Monroe, hoping that the king would react as quickly as before and cede some areas to the demons in name in order to achieve the so-called balance.

Although the demons do not have the ability to actually occupy these areas, they can at least disgust Lind and create an illusion that they have really won within the demon clan.

Unfortunately, the people in the royal capital are indeed a bunch of good-for-nothings, but they are not corrupt to that extent. And although Capet's intelligence department is a piece of shit, Anjou's intelligence department is still very reliable.

Although it may sound hurtful, the intelligence Capet stole from Anjou might be more reliable than that obtained by his own intelligence department.

However, the demon clan has more than one ally in the royal capital, there is another ally that even Antipas did not expect.

In addition to the letters from Monroe questioning him, there were also letters from Claire sent through secret channels.

A pseudonym was used in the letter, and the real identity was only known by Antipas and some high-ranking demons. Even if Monroe was exposed, Claire would not be exposed. Claire was extremely cautious in communicating with the demons.

Antipas did not feel much better after reading the letter sent by Claire, but he seriously thought about the proposal in Claire's letter.

Claire's point is simple: why would the demons fight the North? Compared to the demons' eternal frozen land, the North is indeed much richer, but it is definitely not the richest land in the kingdom.

The only advantages are probably the rich mineral resources and vast territory, but compared to the eternal frozen land, the winter in the North is actually not much warmer.

In comparison, the Eastern Territory is also very close to the Demon Clan and is much richer.

The demons and the North are fighting to the death, not only because they want to get out of the eternal permafrost, and the North is blocking their doorstep, but also because the demons have a grudge against the Lars family. It was the Lars family that pushed the demons into the eternal permafrost, so the demons have been coveting the Lars family's land.

But is the land in the north really worth the demons' efforts? Although the gray-collar skills are very tempting, Antipas is also aware of the level of the demons. The demons who can only use blood magic are probably unable to understand human technology. At that time, they can only develop by enslaving humans, which is too easy to fail.

Although the North is still very fragrant, it is too hard and can easily hurt your teeth.

Not to mention how the East Territory's defense compares to the North Territory, and how the land is more fertile than the North Territory, Monroe himself has been fooled by the demons.

Although the descendants of the Demon God were eliminated one by one by the North on the battlefield of the Golden Ear Plains, it was not because the descendants of the Demon God themselves were not strong enough. If a few descendants of the Demon God chosen by God were placed in other small countries, they would really have the ability to destroy the country, and taking over part of the land in the East would be a piece of cake.

Claire's suggestion was very simple. They should attack the East through the occupied Surd and other areas. With the East, all the places in the North, including the Surd area, would become useless and could be completely left to the North. It would be enough for the demons to leave a route leading to the eternal frozen land.

This is essentially an exchange of interests, exchanging the areas currently occupied by the demons for parts of the Eastern Territory. Anyway, the territory being attacked is not the Northern Territory, so the Northern Territory is unlikely to react too actively and will most likely try to recover the lost territory in the North.

The final result was that the North recovered the territory occupied by the demons without much effort, and the demons also successfully took over the East, and the two sides were even able to improve their relations.

As for things like biting back at allies, to the demons, it is as normal as starving to death. The demons in the Eastern Territory are well aware of this, and there are many demons trading with humans in the Eastern Territory. The Eastern Territory simply does not have the power to resist the demons.

The problem of not being able to take over the Eastern Territory does not exist at all; the question is how much can be taken in the end.

Antipas sneered and put the letter back on the table.

Although we only talked about the demons, the North and the East, I wouldn't believe you if you said Claire didn't have any hidden agenda in this plan.

The North has in fact been cut off from the Kingdom, and the Kingdom will not care even if the fighting is in full swing, but the East is still the Kingdom's territory both in name and in fact, not to mention it is the Queen's hometown. What will happen if Her Majesty the Queen cannot even defend her own hometown?

By then, the North will be busy recovering its own territory and will have no time to pay attention to the Queen's request for help. If Anjou attacks the southwestern border of Capet at this time, the entire kingdom will be caught in the war.

The three territories were all at war, and the northern territories, which had actually broken away from the control of the kingdom, were also recovering their lost territory. They had no time and energy to help the royal capital.

When Antipas used Codick as a pawn, he was already well aware of the filthiness of human politics. The demons have a small population and are certainly unable to control the entire East. Anjou will most likely conduct a similar exchange of interests. Both the demons and Anjou can become Claire's actors.

Even if Anjou did not launch an attack, the war in the east alone would be enough to make the queen suffer. By then, Claire would not even need to do much. She only needed to come and say a few words to Antipas, and she would have the image of a princess who bravely negotiated in the tiger's den for the sake of the people of the kingdom and finally turned the tide and persuaded the demons to surrender.

And then if we randomly stir up public opinion, you can imagine what will happen.

Antipas sneered. This princess was truly an out-and-out traitor. Even if the above plan was Antipas's own deduction and imagination from Claire's perspective, and not necessarily Claire's true thoughts, just guiding the demons to attack the land of her own kingdom was already extremely vicious.

However, it must be said that this princess is indeed very talented and smart in manipulating politics, because Antipas simply followed Claire's plan, and the outcome she got almost satisfied everyone.

The demons gained new and fertile territories, the North regained its lost territory, Anjou was able to take advantage of the opportunity to seize part of the land on the southwestern border, and the people of the Capetian Kingdom gained a hero who could turn the tide.

The only ones who were hurt were probably the current queen and Monroe.

But will things really go as smoothly as Claire thought? Antipas felt that the princess took it for granted. Not only humans, but all races have endless desires. Even cats will continue to tease mice after they are full, and demons are no exception.

Antipas believed that Claire's plan would be more thorough and better balance the forces of all parties. However, sometimes just because the interests of one party are satisfied does not mean that party will really act according to your plan, and not everyone will cooperate with the implementation of the plan. Perhaps it is because Claire has not received any education as the heir of Augustine III, so she came up with such an unconventional idea.

A conspiracy that is built upon another is most likely to fail.

However, Antipas did not intend to remind Claire. Instead, he wrote back that the demons still needed to recuperate and were temporarily unable to send troops. As for whether Claire really had any conspiracy, he let her prepare slowly during this period of time.