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

The demons' retreat was very embarrassing, and the saliva from the demon descendants' mouths was flowing all over the ground as they ran madly.

The ordinary soldiers who heard the artillery fire were like frightened birds. They threw away their armor and began to flee in the direction of Antipas.

After barely organizing the formation and heading towards the black fog, Monroe suddenly burst into laughter.

"Why is the Duke of the East laughing?"

Antipas, looking somewhat dusty, was puzzled. Could it be that Monroe, who had just arrived at his side, suddenly went crazy?

"I laugh at the Northern Governor's lack of strategy and the Northern Army's lack of wisdom. What if they had ambushed an army here in advance and cut off our retreat route?"

As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of tanks rushed out from the shadows, including a number of assault vehicles for transporting troops. However, in the eyes of the demon army, these were no longer important. Before the tanks launched an attack, the demon army began to flee directly, and the formation that had just been stabilized collapsed directly.

The number of dozens of tanks is indeed not large, not to mention that some of them are assault vehicles without artillery and can only be supported by the soldiers on them. If it were a normal demon army, they would never give up this good opportunity. At this distance, the descendants of the demon god could rush forward and knock over and crush the opponent's tanks. However, the demon army now saw the human steel monster as if they had seen a ghost, and could only retreat in collapse.

Fear spread among the demon army like a plague.

Antipas finally organized a group of men to cover his retreat and escaped with his army from the pursuit distance, but Monroe, whose butt was almost broken by the impact on his horse, suddenly started laughing.

"Why is the Duke of the East laughing again?"

"The Northern Army is nothing more than a bunch of reckless men. If I were to lead the army, I would have anticipated the enemy's escape route and ambushed them here, waiting for them to tire themselves out and capturing the enemy commander alive!"

As soon as the words fell, dust suddenly flew up not far away.

"kill!"

"Capture the Demon King alive!"

This time there were fewer tanks and assault personnel carriers, but relatively speaking there were many Lars knights following these steel monsters, and the formation was more flexible, which was obviously a preparation for capturing Antipas alive.

Isa calmly loaded ammunition on the assault vehicle and aimed at the distance, ready to intercept the demons.

"Protect the Demon King!"

Fortunately, Antipas had some loyal subordinates who rode out on horseback to cover his retreat before Antipas gave any orders.

The demon army fled in panic again, and the black fog was already in sight.

Just as Monroe was about to continue laughing, Antipas gave him a warning look, so that when Antipas just opened his mouth, it was as if his throat was suddenly strangled and he could not make a sound.

The demons marched cautiously at the edge of the black fog, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there were no pursuers behind them. At this time, Monroe finally regained his confidence and began to speak.

"Our retreat this time is a great victory over humanity. You are worthy of being the Demon King."

The human nobles covered their buttocks on their horses, panting, and flattering Antipas.

But Antipas was not very happy to hear this flattery. Even for the demons, facing such an embarrassing situation, it was difficult for them to say that they had won.

Seeing that Antipas looked unhappy, a human noble immediately said, "The two-sided attack and multiple stages of pursuit by humans were clearly premeditated, but Your Majesty the Demon King still managed to escape!"

"And thanks to the trenches dug in advance by the Demon King, these humans were unable to work together and we were able to escape. We all relied on the foresight of the Demon King!"

"Your Majesty the Demon King has a keen eye. Why can't he defeat the North in the future?"

Antipas felt that he was shameless enough, but he did not expect that these humans were also good at talking nonsense. Although he still had a stern face, Antipas's complexion had improved a lot. Although these human nobles were a little bit bad-mouthed, they were indeed useful. If nothing works, they could be used as jesters. After they retreated, he would just leave these human nobles to manage the humans themselves.

Antipas took one last look at the vast and fertile surroundings of the royal capital. He knew that he would come back sooner or later, after the super-level magic arrived on the other side of the sea.

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When they saw the demons fleeing with their monsters, the people on the city wall burst into warm cheers. The returning Northern Army was treated like heroes. Cliff also breathed a sigh of relief. He was sincerely happy that the North was able to repel the demon army.

Although the Northern Army seemed to be stronger than previously predicted, Cliff's depressed face looked a lot more relaxed when he saw the cheering people.

But the withdrawal of the demons does not mean that everything is over. There is still no clue what the strange black fog is. Moreover, in the southwest, Anjou should take this opportunity to return the land occupied by Capet.

Cliff naturally didn't care about these. Cliff's biggest role now was to be a human stamp. He would stamp whatever Lind sent him.

Isa, who came to support, did not show any joy over the victory over the demons. Instead, she discussed the previous battle situation with Linde with great concern.

"The monsters of the demon clan seem to be stronger than before. Originally, those descendants of the demon god were just a pile of flesh and blood, but now they have gradually formed a hard shell."

"Information from the East Territory has also arrived. The black fog seems to have stopped expanding, and the demon offspring born from the black fog seems to be even more powerful."

"There are survivors from the East Territory who were saved by us using holy water. According to the survivors, when the black rain curtain formed, they seemed to see the shadow of some monster in the sky. The clearer the description of the shadow of the monster, the more serious the mental problems of the survivors were."

The investigation into the East Territory has only gone so far for now, and Lind has to continue to collect more intelligence. Besides what happened in the East Territory, the most important thing now is what is happening in the capital.

As the demons retreated, Linde was not in a hurry to leave the capital, but began to implement Lilith's policies in the capital.

Of course, rather than being Lilith's policy, it is actually a super-enhanced version of Lilith's policy. Lind wants to merge the royal capital into the shape of the northern border.

Not only did they need to strengthen the connection between the capital and the northern border, they also expanded several more railways on the original ones, and some policies were also being forcefully implemented.

Moreover, the nobles basically had no chance of keeping their land, and some production factories were directly bought by Linde.

Unlike Lilith's previous reforms which were difficult to implement, Lind did not encounter any struggles or troubles between the new and old parties when he implemented his policies. After all, most of the nobles in the city had been arrested, and most of the remaining nobles had been deprived of their power and needed to take re-examinations to become officials.

Some nobles also secretly sent letters to Cliff, but as soon as Cliff received the letter, he directly handed it over to Lind. Lind did not disappoint those nobles and performed a textbook performance of shooting the bird that sticks its head out. Finally, no noble dared to say a word.

However, this does not mean that these nobles gave up so easily. Soon these nobles began their path dependence again, that is, climbing up the ladder. Although it was not yet known to everyone, the nobles could clearly feel that Lind was ambitious. With ambition comes desire, and with desire, it would be easy to deal with.

"Have you received any news from the North? How feasible is the plan?"

A group of royal nobles were consulting an old man at the ball. These nobles were honest and had not participated in the coup, nor had they opened any backdoors for Claire. They even attended Cliff's final city defense meeting honestly.

But this does not mean that these nobles are really so honest. Climbing up can be said to be the instinct of every noble. So under the premise of not offending Linde, these nobles still want to make as many attempts as possible, including Marcel.

"I advise you to give up this plan. Not to mention the news from my distant relatives in the North, there is inside information that the dress the Governor's wife wore that day was actually the wedding dress that old Lars prepared for her. Don't you understand? This approach will not work."

The nobles in the royal capital were the only ones who had strong intelligence capabilities in this area. After hearing what the old noble said, the nobles could roughly guess Reina's status in Linde and the North.

Not only that, some of Lind's experiences from the time he became the Viscount of Lost Land to the present were also dug up. When they learned that Lind's initial funding was all paid by Reina, and that Reina even had to go into battle to kill the enemy at the beginning, many nobles remained silent.

Not to mention that when Lindela launched the purge, many nobles who were not deeply involved and whose children went to the top of the city to defend were saved by Reina. Many people present were still alive to discuss this issue, all relying on Reina's face.

Perhaps Reina’s current status has nothing to do with Lars’ influence in the North. It is better to say that Lars can still maintain his influence in the North because of his relationship with Reina.

"Let's just give up..."