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

Alberto had a very good impression of Lind. After several exchanges of letters, he even felt that the other party was the same type of person as himself.

Therefore, even after knowing that the other party's future plans conflicted with his own, Alberto was still willing to communicate with Lind. The two sides even divided Capet in the letters.

As Lind said, if things don't go smoothly, the central area of ​​the royal capital and the eastern border will also be taken over. The variable here is actually Alberto.

But in the latest reply, Lind mocked Alberto, teasing him that as the leader of a country, Alberto only attacked others' height and had no magnanimity at all.

However, after skipping this part, Lind returned to normal and continued to negotiate and tug with Alberto.

This left Alberto speechless, feeling criticized for no reason, but unable to find any reason to refute.

It seemed that what he said before was indeed a bit too much, but an apology was impossible. Alberto touched his nose and could only ignore it.

Along with this reply letter, there was also a lot of information from the Capetian capital. After the Queen of Capet met with the Governor of the North, everything seemed different. The Queen of Capet regained control of most of the power. The Queen of Capet used to walk with a limp, but now she began to truly act like a king.

Especially the North's support for the Capetian capital, which was completely contrary to the plan that Lind had discussed with Alberto in a letter before. The Northern Governor seemed to no longer want to balance the situation in the capital, but turned around and began to support Queen Capet.

Alberto's first reaction was that the Capetian Queen had once again used her strange charm to bewitch the Northern Governor, but after thinking about it, Alberto shook his head. Not to mention that the Northern Governor was already married and the couple lived in harmony, just looking at the attitude in the reply letter, Alberto always felt that it was more like the behavior of an old father protecting his shortcomings.

Although he really wanted to know the relationship between the two, Alberto only asked Cassius to investigate it while investigating the northern border and the royal capital, and did not take it seriously. After all, even if the other party's attitude towards the royal capital did not change, it would still provide assistance to the southwestern border and would never let Anjou easily take over Capet's southwestern border.

Alberto and Linde had a great time chatting as pen pals, but the game between the two sides never stopped. Alberto also knew that the other party's target was the entire Capetian territory, or even more than that, so Alberto had already made preparations.

But Alberto still underestimated those weapons and equipment. Rather than calling them muskets, it would be better to say that muskets were just the manifestation of those weapons and equipment. In essence, they were magic launchers in the shape of muskets.

With the support of ray guns, melting weapons, and magic cannons, Anjou's advance was stuck again. It was obvious that the Southwestern Frontier Army was not very proficient in the use of these weapons and equipment. Alberto had even thought of more uses for the other side, but Capet's Southwestern Frontier Army was as cowardly as a dog. Even if they got new weapons and equipment, they were unwilling to take the initiative to fight, but just retreated to defense.

After Judith left, the spirit and morale of the southwestern border troops had been completely drained by Anjou, and they did not dare to engage in field battles.

But even such a group of soldiers with no morale at all were able to firmly occupy those castles and fortresses with the weapons in their hands.

Finally, the jealous Alberto gave the order and captured a southwestern border army equipped with new weapons at a huge cost.

Thinking of this, Alberto plucked up the courage to take a look at the report on the table. The casualty figures on it were really horrific. Many nobles had already written letters to oppose Alberto's reckless attack.

Alberto quickly covered the report again. The casualty figures were indeed very exaggerated, far exceeding Alberto's original estimate, so much so that every time Alberto opened the report, he had to prepare himself mentally before he could open it to confirm.

But no matter what, Anjou finally got a batch of new equipment from the Capetian North.

Alberto looked at the confiscated ray gun on the table, closed his eyes and took a short break.

After Cassius informed him, Alberto left the room with the ray gun and came to the main hall of the Angevin Palace.

Although he was somewhat disdainful of the current Capetian King, Alberto felt that Capetian's system of calling the nobles for meetings every few days was quite good. It was just that the nobles of Anjou were relatively busy, and it was difficult to gather them together like Capet did.

Unlike Capet's main hall, the throne of Anjou was placed very high. Although Capet specially organized a round table meeting to show that all nobles were equal at least in the meeting, Anjou did not like this. The king's power was absolute, even if this power would bring bloodshed.

However, Alberto's attitude has become much more relaxed recently. After the scholar from the Angevin Magic Association below saluted, Cassius considerately offered a chair to the gray-haired old scholar.

After the old scholar sat down, he looked up at Alberto and said, "Your Majesty, the Magic Tower has completed the analysis of the new weapons in the northern part of Cape."

"Can it be copied?"

Although he tried his best to appear calm, Alberto's tone was still full of anticipation.

But the old scholar said to himself: "It's incredible. The person who drew these magic arrays is simply a genius. No, they may not be drawn. The arrangement is so ingenious that it is very likely that the magic array was calculated."

"If the magic array can be calculated, does that mean that the magic array and runes can be digitized? If the magic array and runes can be digitized..."

Then came a burst of obscure terms. Alberto only understood the general idea. Finally, he waved his hand helplessly and asked again: "So can it be copied?"

The old scholar finally reacted and said, "Your Majesty, to be honest, according to the magic array on these ray guns, it is not difficult to copy one. Just like the previous fire gun, you can gather rune masters and alchemists to copy. Although each person's finished product is different, you can still make a ray gun or melting sword with the same function according to the finished product."

"But the real difficulty lies in the principles of these arrays. These arrays have their own logic. It will take some time for us to figure out these logical rules."

Alberto also knew that it was not an easy task to reverse the process, but as long as he could replicate the Angevin version like the musket, it would be fine.

But the old scholar went on to say: "And about the charging of these weapons..."

Hearing the hesitation in the old scholar's voice, Alberto consoled him, "If you have any questions, feel free to ask."

The old scholar nodded and said, "Your Majesty, the opponent's charging is definitely not as simple as using magic stones, otherwise the efficiency will not be able to keep up. If all magic stones are used for charging, the consumption is simply unimaginable. Although these weapons have charging interfaces, it is difficult to infer the system used by the opponent from one interface..."

Alberto also understood that this request was too much to ask.

Alberto also knew from Lind's letter that the charging depended on the so-called obelisk, but the price of the obelisk was not cheap. Even though Alberto's current power in Anjou was so powerful that his words were law, he could not pay the full amount at once.

"I understand. I will find a way to deal with this. We don't have to stick to the opponent's system. We can crack the charging system used by the opponent and use our own methods to charge these weapons and equipment. We don't have to worry about the funding issue."

Although Alberto said that funding was not a problem, the old scholar did not show much excitement on his face. Instead, he said calmly, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Alberto took out the letter from Lind that he had carried with him. Although it was a bit abnormal to carry a letter written to him by a man, Alberto still carefully read the conditions given by Lind.

What worries Alberto the most is that the obelisk of Capet's capital is already under preparation. Although he knows that even if it is finally built, the obelisk will probably be controlled by the North and Capet will only have the right to use it, it is still a big step ahead of Anjou.

In this world, failure to make progress is a form of regression. Alberto has no way out. As a monarch, he must start thinking of ways.