Chapter 153 The Strange Kingdom of Ithra
Although Isaac still had some doubts about Angel’s motives, he did not dwell on it too much. Instead, he leaned back in the chair, with a slight smile on his face. “So, we can cooperate in a friendly manner again this time?”

Although these words seemed to be directed at Filo and Angel, Isaac’s attention was mainly focused on the eldest princess Filo. After all, who made her have a criminal record?

Philo knew exactly what Isaac meant, but she had no other thoughts except being unhappy, because under normal circumstances, she would definitely not be able to resist stabbing him in the back.

After all, as a mad witch of relatively pure bloodline, getting things for free is something they are accustomed to. If possible, she doesn’t want to give away “her own” Kaleidoscope Eye and Time Page at all.

But unfortunately, this is not a normal situation…

Isaac is very likely the only mad witch from the old times in the current era. He is a madman who dares to snatch power directly from the Outer Gods. He is very powerful and courageous. Of course, the most important thing is that he is very strong. She is no match for Isaac.

Angel’s hard power is only average, but her time ability is very strange and extremely difficult to deal with. Moreover, the witch country behind her is very protective and her background is no worse than hers.

Things are different now. She can no longer plot against the two of them like she did before.

“Of course, but if you want to act alone, go ahead.” Philo looked at Isaac calmly.

She wanted to take over the country on her own, provided Isaac stayed out of the way.

But she did grow during this period. At least she had some understanding of Isaac. Although Isaac was a mad wizard from the old times, his way of doing things was very modern. He was very similar to the arcanist and followed the principle of equivalent exchange.

Unlike her, a crazy wizard who wanted to snatch anything he saw as soon as he saw it, this guy, once he left the realm of the Outer Gods, not to mention being a crazy wizard, he was even too kind-hearted to be like a legendary wizard!

Therefore, even if she didn’t get Isaac’s help, she could get Isaac’s inaction by paying a certain amount of benefits.

But compared to Isaac, Angel is not so easy to deal with. The hatred between them is quite deep. If Isaac hadn’t intervened, they would probably have fought.

Logically speaking, Philo should have tried his best to win over Isaac, instead of confronting Isaac and pushing him out.

But as I just said, in areas not involving Outer Gods, Isaac is a wizard very close to an arcane master. He acts on the basis of interests, and as long as there are enough benefits, he will not care about these words.

And she happened to have something very important to Isaac…

really……

Isaac, who was leaning back in his chair, smiled softly, looked at Filo and said, “Just kidding. It’s my honor to work with the Grand Princess. Then, Grand Princess, please tell me about the situation in this country. I’m too lazy to ask the Outer Gods. It’s too troublesome.”

As he finished speaking, everyone’s eyelids raised slightly. Even Philo, who was sure that Isaac would cooperate, couldn’t help but look at Isaac in surprise. This man was indeed the craziest mad wizard!
You have to ask the Outer Gods for such a trivial matter? !

However, although Philo and the others were very surprised by this, they actually didn’t know that Isaac was also helpless. There was no way, he really had no effective channels to obtain intelligence, and he only had a vague understanding of the situation in the Kingdom of Itra.

In this situation, any action here would be extremely dangerous!

You might end up falling into someone’s trap without knowing it. As the saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in every battle. Intelligence is very important.

Besides, as the saying goes, a thief never leaves empty-handed. When he performs the evil god ritual, he won’t just want information, he must take something. When is a transaction not a transaction?
Philo looked at Isaac deeply, then asked, “Before talking about the situation here, how much do you know about this country?”

“There is a time cover here, and an uprising is happening.”

“There is a kaleidoscope eye here, and uprisings happen every year.”

Philo: “…”

Filo raised his hand and gently touched his forehead. Should we say that these two people are skilled and brave? Or are they simply reckless? Do they dare to come here just knowing this?
“Okay, that means I know nothing. Then I’ll explain in detail.” After a pause, Filo looked at the two and asked, “First of all, guess the number of troops on both sides of this conflict?”

“The number of troops?” Isaac thought for a moment, then said, “Itra is just a small country, and it is a country where uprisings occur every year. Regardless of whether it is caused by internal or external factors, the internal military force should not be too strong. The total number should be only about 10,000 or 20,000?”

It’s not that Isaac looks down on the Kingdom of Itra, but although this world has supernatural powers, the number of troops is similar to that of the ancient times in his previous life. After all, the army cannot be composed entirely of ordinary people, and there must be some extraordinary people interspersed as management.

Therefore, the number of troops will not be too high, as we cannot afford to support too many.

The figure of 10,000 or 20,000 was an overestimation by Isaac, as he had included the cannon fodder slave troops and logistics troops that served as the suicide squad, otherwise the number would have been even less.

You have to know that as a border noble, Solomon has to guard against the black orcs in the wilderness all year round. Their regular main combat corps has only more than 3,000 people. In addition to a large part of the funds being used to support the eldest sister’s spell learning, another reason is that if the number is larger, it will affect the population structure of the territory.

Although Ithra was a kingdom, its overall area was only two or three times larger than that of Solomon today, and the number of its troops would not be particularly large.

However, in the face of Isaac’s guess, Philo shook his head and then said a number that stunned Isaac and Smith.

Philo opened her red lips and said faintly, “The total number of troops of the Itra Kingdom and the rebels is one million!”

“???” Isaac was confused, “Mr. Duo?”

Angel, who was standing by, didn’t react at first when she heard the number, but when she saw Isaac so surprised, she also showed a little surprise. Is this a lot?
“Lord Smith, one million troops, is that an exaggeration for a country?” Angel was not the only one who was puzzled. Rona behind Isaac was also confused about this. She couldn’t help but whispered to Smith who was equally surprised beside her.

“Well, it’s very exaggerated…” Smith glanced at Rona, who was confused, and for a moment he was a little distressed about how to popularize the relevant knowledge to her. After all, Rona was a very standard illiterate. However, after a simple idea, Smith said, “A million main combat troops will spend at least one million gold coins every day!” “So exaggerated!” Rona was stunned.

Isaac frowned and asked Philo in confusion, “Why are there so many? This doesn’t make sense. With the area of ​​Ithra, it can’t support such a large army. It’s even unclear whether it has so many people. What’s going on?”

In addition to these two points, there is another doubtful point, which is what Smith said in order to make Rona understand, that it is easy for a main combat army of one million to burn one million gold coins every day.

Although ordinary soldiers cannot spend a gold coin a day, don’t forget that there are also a large number of first- and second-level extraordinary people in the army. According to the normal organization, every army of 10,000 people must have at least one high-level knight.

One hundred high-ranking knights…

There are definitely no such people in the Itra Kingdom, but the corresponding positions must be filled by at least second-level extraordinary people. The food expenses of these extraordinary people alone will cost a lot of money, not to mention the weapons and armor they need to be equipped with.

These one million cannot all be infantry, there must be other types of troops. If you add up all the miscellaneous items, one million gold coins a day have to be spent frugally. With this money, what can’t be done with it?
In this world where great power belongs to oneself, if this million-strong main combat army is not led by corresponding high-level knights, ten high-level knights will be able to defeat it in a short time!

The price/performance ratio is extremely low.

“Indeed, according to normal logic, the Kingdom of Itra cannot afford to support so many troops, and even if it can, it will not do so.” Filo nodded, agreeing with Isaac’s statement, and then changed the subject and said, “But, the Kingdom of Itra has a treasure called the Tree of Life. This treasure can create a humanoid life form that does not need to eat or drink and will not get tired. The army of the Kingdom of Itra is composed of this kind of life form.”

“Is there such a thing?” Isaac was a little surprised, and then fell into deep thought, “If that’s the case, then we can indeed support so many troops… This is actually your real goal, right?”

Isaac asked suddenly.

“Sure enough, I can’t hide it from you. Yes, my target is this, but this thing is different from other treasures. It will not be released for exchange, so I need to seize the entire Kingdom of Itra.” Philo said straightforwardly.

Isaac looked at Philo deeply. He knew that she hadn’t said a lot more about this. For example, why did the people of the Itra Kingdom use such a precious treasure in such a high-profile manner? Aren’t they afraid that someone like Philo would come and snatch it away?

Although curious, Isaac did not ask because he knew Philo would not tell him. So he asked another question: “The Kingdom of Ithra prepared so many troops for this uprising, right? What kind of sacrificial ceremony did you arrange?”

“This… is a lot.” Philo spread her hands helplessly. It’s not that she didn’t want to say it, but she couldn’t finish it in a short time, and she didn’t know it all.

But these words were enough for Isaac.

It seems that the uprising of the Kingdom of Ithra is similar to what he had guessed before. It is indeed to provide a venue for other wizards to perform rituals. The difference is that the Kingdom of Ithra does not want to be a venue, but has become a ritual venue!
And it looks like a high-end venue! The kind that only people with some status would know about!
That’s right, the rituals here should all be blood sacrifice rituals, which are rituals expressly banned by the Parliament of Truth and several major empires, and it is impossible to publicize them.

“So what should we do here? Or who is our opponent?” Isaac asked a more critical question after thinking for a moment.

Angel’s eyes flickered slightly, and she hesitated for a moment before speaking. Although she had seen the future scenes from the original text and knew roughly what the war mode would be like, she only had a general understanding of it. She certainly didn’t understand the details as well as Firodo did.

“It’s very simple. The Kingdom Army and the Rebel Army are facing each other. Each side has 500,000 ready-made troops. The subsequent reinforcement and expansion of the army needs to be recruited by collecting resources. The Kingdom Army and the Rebel Army each have 50 foreign aid quotas. The Itla Mountains are used to divide the north and south intersection points. The battle is free. The final condition for victory is to attack the opponent’s base camp.”

“War mode?” Isaac nodded after thinking deeply. In this case, he did have a slight advantage. After all, he had two thousand level-two great sword ghosts, which were invincible on the battlefield!

but……

Isaac asked curiously, “The rebels also have 50 foreign aid quotas. Can they exchange for the same resource treasury as us?”

“Some are the same, and some are not.” It was not Filo who answered this question, but Angel who was standing beside him. “The treasury is divided into two parts. One is the basic part, which contains some relatively basic resources, such as the Witch’s Certificate you want to exchange for. The Kingdom Army and the Rebellion Army each have a part. The other is the core treasury, which can only be exchanged by the final winner. The Time Page I want and the Kaleidoscope Eye you want are both in it.”

After saying that, Angel looked at Filo, “As for the secret treasure she wants… it is not in these two treasure houses. It can only be obtained by sacrificing all the royal bloodlines of Itra.”

“All bloodlines?” Before Isaac could react, Philo frowned.

“You don’t know?” Isaac smiled at Philo’s surprised expression.

“Hmph!” Facing Isaac’s gloating ridicule, Philo snorted somewhat unhappily, then looked at Angel, wanting to confirm the news.

“In the future, you did sacrifice all the royal family members of Itra to finally get that treasure.” Angel said.

“So, we won in the end? Was there no high-level combat force involved in this war?” Isaac said with some surprise.

Although Isaac was confident, he was not sure of winning, because according to his intelligence, there seemed to be no restriction on the participation of high-level combat forces in this war, and many things in the treasure house were tempting to high-level combat forces, such as his target, the Kaleidoscope Eye, and Angel’s target, the Time Page.

“There are no third-level extraordinary people.” Filo took over the conversation with a disdainful expression, “Because the strongest person in Itla is a fourth-level Miracle Knight, and he is a fourth-level Knight who has already reached the end of his life. So he is worried that attracting too many third-level strongmen will lead to wolves entering the house, so he reached an agreement with all forces to only allow second-level extraordinary people to enter.”

“I see.” Isaac nodded, then showed an arrogant expression, “Then the three of us, won’t we just kill them indiscriminately?”

“That’s right.” Rarely, Philo reached a consensus with Isaac on this matter and revealed an arrogant smile.

After all, this is the fundamental reason why she wants to work with Isaac.

(End of this chapter)