.The group fighting competition of thousands of members of the parliament lasted only a short time before it ended. Although most of them had bare hands fighting classes and were squeezed out a lot of bad money by scammers who were known as competitive coaches, the parliamentarian was not a professional boxer who relied on his muscles after all. Even if his posture was like that, the waist of the seal and the legs of the mantis were definitely not for a protracted battle. In a few strokes, he was panting and sweating, and he almost had a heart attack.

Those lich and vampire MPs were even more nervous. Of course, it was not tired, but afraid. If you accidentally move racial abilities and beat your colleagues to death and crippled, you would have to go to prison. A group of great arcane or voters who like to meddle in business have been stationed around the chamber for a long time, and you can't escape even if you want to!

Seeing that the members of the parliament had already put their accumulated energy, Ganmeir walked up to the rostrum full of "power-free athletes" in a timely manner, announcing that the proposal was temporarily put on hold for the next meeting because it could not reach an agreement. The pastors who were ready were in line and dragged the parliamentarians who had dispersed their sweat and physical strength back to their seats one by one. The treatment for treatment should be tied with ropes, and they were quite skillful. It was obviously not the first time.

"Everyone! The time for Free Words is over, and I have a new news to inform you." Seeing that the members of the parliament had basically returned to peace, Ganmelier knocked the hammer on the podium and announced the next process of the meeting. "Today, there was a good news from the southern front line," he waved a document, "After conquering the entire territory of Teser, our army won a major victory in the Kalinshan area further south, pushing the front line south again 120, and the troops suffered minor losses. The Elf Army has abandoned Kalinshan Port in Kalinshan and retreated to Manshaka City to organize defense... Well, Shalik Member, do you have anything to say?"

The MPs under the stage responded coldly, and only one MP from the Am area closest to the war zone raised his hand to ask a question. After receiving the permission of Ganmelier, the MPs immediately stood up from their seats. He spoke unceremoniously, "Old, we have heard of the victory of Emperor* in the Tessel and Kalinshan areas, but none of them can help the current bad situation. Have you caught any important figures in the front line that can force the Elf Kingdom to negotiate peace? Is it annihilated a large number of live forces in the enemy army that the Elf Army cannot continue to fight? Or can a large number of food and grass be seized to alleviate the domestic famine? There weren't any of them in the previous few times, so what happened this time?"

"I'm afraid there is still no." Ganmeir flipped through the documents, "There is only one captain with the highest rank among the captured elves, and two other lieutenant colonels were killed. The elves chose to retreat voluntarily when they saw the situation was unfavorable. Our army only destroyed two vassal corpses composed mainly of humans and dwarf puppet troops. Less than 2,000 elves were annihilated; as for the capture," he raised his head and smiled bitterly to the Salle Councilor, "The report only contains some weapons and ammunition. I'm afraid that even if food and grass are seized, the amount will be insignificant."

"That is to say, in this battle, we have nothing but a piece of land that is useless in a short period of time." The Shalik Councillor from Am shrugged, "That's not as good as the New World. Although the Empire only had a bunch of rabbles organized there, he captured a major general alive and killed a marshal. That marshal was still the famous 'ghost rose' Sofia Learton! What are so many regular legions on the front line doing?"

"Mr. Shalik, please be aware of your inappropriate words." Gan Melir whispered in a serious manner, "This is an insult to the frontline soldiers!"

"I have no intention of attacking the people who have sacrificed their blood for the country." Salix MP spread his hands, "but what I said is true. No matter how many victories the Taesel-Kalinshan front line are, we still cannot force the Elf Kingdom to sit on the negotiating table, and our citizens are still starving. Such victory is really worth much, but it consumes the few stocks left." He looked around, and most of the MPs nodded and agreed.

"I'm afraid things are more than that," Ganmeir pulled out the last page of the document and shook it off the stage. "According to the report of the front line command center, the Elf Army burned most of the residents' food stocks on the eve of retreat and polluted some water sources. Now about 500,000 indigenous people in the newly occupied areas basically rely on our army to supply food. Therefore, the front line requires urgent allocation of food and fodder, and the number of quilts is as follows..."

Before he could finish his words, the audience started to make a big fuss. The MPs knocked on the table and chairs, shouting to express their dissatisfaction. The scene was very noisy for a moment, and even Ilminster on the audience felt a tingling pain in his eardrum.

"Our own people are still starving to death, so what can I eat for those soft eggs who defect to the elves!"

"What else can you fight for such a loss-making battle? Why don't they ask for food from the elves?"

"Removing the legion and letting these guys starve to death!"

...

"Silent, quiet!" Ganmeir knocked his hammer desperately, "Since the strategic reserves of the central government were completely unable to cope with the sudden increase in material demand, I hereby request that the second round of war be collected from the dominions, and mainly pay it in kind..."

The bad news seemed like a stone fell into the boiling oil, instantly arousing greater opposition.

"We Cormier Dominion never agreed to the war!"

The MPs from Cormier stood up and waved their fists to protest loudly, "I suffered severe locust plague, drought and terrorist attacks from harpists, and also had to bear heavy special taxes for war. People's livelihood has declined to the extreme. If the central government continues to impose in-kind taxes regardless of the life and death of the Cormier people, our legion will withdraw from the front line on its own and hold a referendum on whether Cormier will continue to stay within the imperial system!"

“We also strongly oppose the addition of new special war taxes!”

"If the tax increase case is passed, we will reserve the right to withdraw from the empire!"

"Since you like to fight, please tax the guys who advocate war. Don't disturb us!"

...

The Dominions, who represented various anti-war attitudes, and some church members jumped up to echo and scolded, and even threatened by withdrawing their troops on their own and breaking away from the Empire. The Empire's regular army was very small, with only 12 legions of 15,000 and a guard of 10,000 people. Although these can be considered elite, when fighting, they still have to recruit local auxiliary legions to make up for the scale. Otherwise, they will definitely be overwhelmed by the enemy's use of human sea tactics. The auxiliary legions are fully controlled by the local government and the military spending is self-supporting. In peacetime, the central government has no right to intervene in the auxiliary legions of the Dominant legions. The political and military looseness of the country can be seen.

"Whose place has not suffered natural disasters these days? Which city has not been turned upside down by the evil harpists?" The members of the Central District directly under the Central Government also raised their heads, "This war was not initiated by the Empire, but was imposed on us by the Elf Kingdom. You don't think about how to work together to achieve peace through victory. Instead, they jumped up and down in the Congress to threaten the Central Committee. Is this aphorism?"

"Can such a victory that is not worth the loss lead to peace? If you continue to win like this, you may be in a riot in the whole country!"

"No matter how bad it is, it's better than the elves entering the empire!"

"You are disregarding people's livelihood!"

"You are traitor!"

...

In the chaos, Ilminster glanced at the elf MPs from the Cormansor Forest from the corner of his eyes, and found that they were looking at the other MPs in disgust, with arrogance and contempt, as if the farce in front of him had nothing to do with him. Some of them looked gloating. I'm afraid they didn't regard themselves as part of this country at all.

Daxian sighed, and couldn't help but remember his discussion with Rawk on the current situation yesterday.

***

"The current situation is a paralyzed patient, a masochist and a paralyzed patient who likes to be self-abuse and fight with their own minions, but the blood flows out of the battle, and they all feed the dwarf who stabs the masochist in the stomach!" The old lich LaWorker, who has lived for thousands of years, made the following comments on the war that spread throughout the world in early 1991, but it does point out the substantial content of the war situation at this moment.

Now the protagonists in this war. The Naserel Empire theory of the territory and strength can be called the giant among the countries, but because of the bad loose body, they become paralyzed patients, and they have the strength but cannot expose them. The Elf Kingdom is also a giant, and there is no problem of paralysis. But after going too far, they become completely masochist, busy killing each other in coups, mutinies and civilians all day long. The powerful military machine has to focus on suppressing internal rebellions, and can't exert much strength in foreign wars.

The last giant, Sel, was even worse. He was paralyzed and liked to abuse himself. He was invaded by the elves and fought endlessly in civil wars. Fortunately, Sel was too far from the elves' territories, and the elves' territories were extremely limited in their deployment. This messy and huge country did not destroy its country for a while. However, hundreds of elves brought one or two cannons to the outskirts of Selduel and an armed parade or something. It is still common for hundreds of elves to take an armed parade outside Eltabo. It is conceivable how much combat power such a "big power" can have.

Most other countries and forces participating in the war were relatively weak and could not play much role in the cracks between the three major forces. Usually only elephants fight and mice suffer. But there is one only exception, that is, the Great Chief Tkumse of the Mazka continent. At this stage, he is the only one who truly gains huge benefits from the battlefield...

Ilminster was just thinking about this when he was pushed by Kalsas. Before he could come to his senses, he heard Gan Melier knocking on the rostrum and shouting his name loudly.

"Silent, quiet! Please stop talking. Today a noble guest will attend the meeting and speak. He is the respected Sage of Ilminster! Please applaud and welcome!"

There was little applause in the hall, probably because it was falsely reported once at the beginning, and it was angered by the public. The members of the parliament seemed a little listless about it. Most of them just looked at Daxian walking down the auditorium without any intention of applause. However, Ilminster didn't care about it.

He walked up to the rostrum and took a deep breath, and the hoarse voice that Ilminster had amplified through the amplification magic echoed in the chamber.
Chapter completed!