Chapter 254 Love Letter Micromanipulation
To put it bluntly, the Southeast Mutual Protection envisioned by Westhead was to create his own small circle, control the southeast, and designate a large area from the border to the hinterland of the empire as his own jurisdiction.

The size of the territory is secondary. The key is population! Population! Population!

A population that can be converted into believers!

Westhead also had his reasons to say that this was not an act of evil or recklessness.

The empire is simply too huge. As the largest country in the world, the connections between various places are completely connected by the star gate system. Without the star gate system, various parts of the empire would inevitably split apart and become divided into different factions.

The framework of the empire is still there, but it has been completely decentralized. Each place relies on local strongmen to command, and some places even no longer give face to the imperial capital. In comparison, Westhead feels that he is still half an imperial capital person and has an obligation to help the regent share some of the burden.

"Alas, if it weren't for me, I really don't know how many people in the world would be emperors and how many would be kings?"

Westhead felt that he could only be called a duke at most, which was still quite modest.

Rozana planted strawberries on Westhead's shoulders and said:
"So in your plan, not only Yuanxi Palace, but also Her Highness Leixia is one of them?"

Westhead: "It's not enough to rely solely on the alliance between the Branches of Prosperity. If an imperial princess openly supports us, the reason will be much more sufficient."

Westhead naturally trusts his lover who is loyal to him until death, and his benefactor who shares the double T0 talents with him and helps him change his fate unconditionally.

After spending some time having an in-depth discussion with Rozana, Westhead finally sat down, supporting his waist, after the half-elf lady left with great satisfaction.

He took out the snow-white letter paper, thought for a moment, and began to do his daily tasks.

Write a letter to Leshia. This was what the silver-haired princess had repeatedly told him before she left. Westhead did not dare to forget it at all. Even though the stargate system was on the verge of collapse, he still had to work hard to write the letter.

This is not a burden; on the contrary, Westhead has been using this method to influence Resia and to guide her in many of her battles.

"Dear Leixia, it's been a long time since we last met, right?"

"The catastrophe I mentioned to you has finally arrived. After the separation of gods and mortals, the situation in the empire is precarious. I wonder what your next mission will be. No matter what, you must stay safe."

"Also, you may have heard that I am in charge of the southeastern region of the imperial capital. This is not an easy task. The endless disasters and chaos make people anxious and exhausted. Even though I have reached the legendary level, I still feel overwhelmed."

"I believe that you will be promoted to Legendary in no time. I recommend you to eradicate a corrupted sacred tree. This achievement is quite generous and will guarantee promotion. After becoming Legendary, you should have the authority to guard an area. By then, you will set up your territory in the southeast and we will be connected to each other. That will be a very delightful thing!"

"Also, have you seen the formation I sent you last time? You are actually talented in military matters, but you are not very sharp. I still think that the artillery position can be moved five centimeters to the left."

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After writing a bunch of seemingly persuasive but actually instructive words, Westhead felt that it was a bit perfunctory, so he added at the end:
"I'm sorry. Although I didn't say a single word of love to you, I actually thought about you for an hour."

"Love you, Westhead."

Only by adding this sentence did it become clear that this was a love letter. Qinghui stopped writing, wrapped the letter neatly, and mailed it out.

He has a star gate channel specifically for communicating with Leixia, which can deliver letters to Leixia as quickly as possible.

The next step is to wait. As long as Leixia can bring her legion, the current instability in Qinghui Territory can be solved.

And then, he can safely put aside these trivial matters and go to the Kingdom of Yonglan.

The impact of the Chaos Shock is continuing to ferment, and the situation in Dongluoye Province is no exception. Almost all the imperial provinces close to the border have one or two small sacred trees that are in danger of corruption. The more newly planted the sacred trees are, the more likely they are to suffer.

And if there is no legendary strongman nearby to strangle them in time, these corrupted holy trees will continue to nourish the demon army and strengthen themselves.

In fact, many provinces on the border of the empire have suffered. Compared with the hinterland provinces where the small sacred trees have thrived for hundreds or even thousands of years, there is almost no reason for those tree species that are less than a hundred years old to be spared from the full force of corruption by Chaos.

The Imperials had almost no plan in place for this situation. In the past, it was the barrier cast by the Little Holy Tree and the laws of the gods that protected them from Chaos. Now that the Little Holy Tree had taken the lead in the rebellion, most of the mortals had no power to fight back and were slaughtered in an instant, turning into nutrients to corrupt the Holy Tree.

Faced with the nearly devastating border situation, the central government of the empire could only try its best to draw on limited troops for reinforcement, but this amount of troops was really a drop in the bucket. To extinguish the corrupted holy tree, it would either require a large army to attack, or the cooperation of one or more legendary strongmen.

But there are exceptions. When the border areas were tacitly abandoned, there was still a legion that marched towards the occupied areas without hesitation.

In a remote province in the western part of the empire.

Ever since the little holy tree became corrupted, the sky has been covered with thick haze. Although it has never rained, the air is always filled with a suffocatingly dirty and heavy atmosphere.

In the position outside the Corrupted Land, the legion commander of the occupied province followed closely behind a war knight through the camp filled with a murderous atmosphere.

The surrounding war machines and elite guards passed by one after another, but the provincial legion commander still found it hard to believe:
"That Dragon Blood, has Her Royal Highness really come to support us? I thought the Empire had given up on us."

"The Imperial Capital did intend to let the border provinces fend for themselves, but Her Highness Reshia insisted on coming here to eliminate the corruption, so we resolutely came here."

The war knight who led the way said this without turning his head. When he mentioned the royal family he was loyal to, he couldn't help but straighten his chest, as if he was extremely proud of it.

The fourth princess?

I have heard of the provincial legion commander. He is a bastard with the blood of a demon dragon. Ahem, now that he has been endorsed by the God Ancestor, no one will ever say the nickname "bastard" anymore.

But performance is one thing, and what is in one's heart is another. Even if one is the most respectful person to the royal family, one still has some reservations about a dragon descendant.

The legion commander was previously a traditional imperial man, the kind who turned pale at the mention of dragons. The dragon princess was a little beyond his understanding, so it was hard to give him an evaluation.

However, his home was in great trouble at this time, and the Fourth Princess was the only savior. He would naturally not refuse to help because of this little annoyance.

(End of this chapter)