After a failed war in 4804, the empire's enthusiasm for expanding territory shrank a lot. More than that, it began to consolidate and develop the land that it had already obtained. After checking a little bit of its own territory, the vast majority of the empire's people were also satisfied with such a huge territory. More than 6 million square kilometers of land, and more than 2 million square kilometers of colonies after development, plus semi-colonies that were roughly equal to this number. These territories are enough to outline the most powerful empire in the world and the most prosperous era.

So the empire's external development came to an end for a while. In the following era, the empire's strategy began to become conservative. In addition to the orderly or slowly increasing the number of colonial states in the middle of the new world; in the southern Arabia seized more concessions, on various other fronts, the empire adopted a garrison.

With the expansion of the empire's territory and the increase in the scope of the empire's activities, new enemies continued to appear in front of the empire.

After completely integrating the green skins of the southern wilderness into the empire's "order". After opening up a road to the east in the southern wilderness, the empire encountered two new races further east.

In the north, a group of huge, human-standing races called Chaos Purgatory Rats appeared in the empire's vision. According to research, it is because the highly concentrated magic crystal radiation produced mutant monsters that were cruel and cunning. Their reproductive and reproductive ability is even better than their distant relatives. At the same time, perhaps because it is produced because of the highly concentrated magic crystal radiation. Or because of other things, these rats have a very strange mastery of magic crystal research and understanding. They use magic crystals as "props", and their principles are quite similar to those of the empire's power devices. A large number of mechanical devices using magic crystals as power make the empire of purgatory rats show a strange prosperity.

Apart from these, the purgatory rats are more of their terrible attainments in bioengineering technology. They can use magic crystal radiation at will to induce mutated creatures of different forms. These irrational monsters have extremely powerful combat power.

A large number of purgatory rat soldiers, powerful mutant monsters, and various weapons powered by magic crystals formed the powerful army of purgatory rats. Before this, before the empire met them, the task to block them was usually handed over to the Green Skins in the Great Wilderness in the Southern Wilderness. The same has excellent reproductive and reproductive capabilities, and the brutal and warlike green Skins can fight with these purgatory rats with pleasure.

However, now, the green skins in the great wilderness have declined extremely. Because of the high concentration poison on green skins, there have been very few places suitable for green skins to live in the great wilderness. The number of green skins has dropped sharply. Coupled with the enhanced national strength of the empire and its influence on green skin export culture, many green skin tribes have willingly become vassals of the empire. After these tribes equipped the empire's outdated and eliminated cold weapons, they have become pawns to explore the empire eastward. When they are alive, they rely on selling their forces to the empire to obtain necessary survival supplies, as well as those strange, but quite valuable gadgets. After they die, they are taken to peel off their bones and then become worker ants or black new army.

Some even began to imagine and lobby the government, hoping to send troops to occupy the entire southern wilderness area, leaving only a small amount of reservation for Greenskin to survive. The Empire is currently considering the feasibility of this proposal.

However, if this proposal is to be implemented, there is still a very big problem at present - that is, the deep pit of hell in the northeastern region of the southern wilderness. The Purgatory Rat Clan is not something to mess with. If you want to face these monsters directly, the empire's defense work will increase a huge burden.

When they first met them, the explorers of the Empire were ruthlessly attacked. Although they were equipped with pistols and hunting rifles for self-defense, they also had machete cold weapons used to cut off thorns and weeds. However, facing the overwhelming purgatory rats, the poor expedition team was defeated without any suspense. These captured explorers were either eaten by the rats and turned into food. Or they were put into heavy manual labor for the rats to enslave them.

The Empire once worried that today when the number of greenskins has decreased, these purgatory rats will rush out of the pit of hell, bypass the great wilderness, and then launch an attack on the empire's land, the most important province of Sylvania, the foundation of the empire. At one time, this conjecture caused widespread panic within the empire. It also led to the birth of the third reorganized division and the second division. The Empire deployed this division between the province of Sylvania and the southern wilderness, the Red Eye Mountains - the Blood Dragon Knights' defense line. This line of defense was to prevent a very likely war.

However, as the Empire further explored the east, this concern was further offset. This was because the Empire discovered another race that checked and balanced the purgatory rats in the southeast of the Great Yellow Field in the south - the ancient tomb royal family that woke up from the ancient tombs due to the magic of the former necromancer Nagasch. These bandage-wrapped mummies, living dead people riding scythe chariots, and riding large-scale puppets called Sphinx, are a kind of undead creatures that the Empire is not familiar with.

Compared with the undead under the control of the empire, the biggest difference between the power of this ancient tomb king is that it does not have the profession of the undead wizard. The undead are divided into levels according to their superiority and inferiority when they were alive and their power. Before those who died, the bodies were treated the most properly. The completely mummified princes and nobles became rulers of the undead kingdom, and the weaker undead who were only bones were naturally servants.

This division made them disgusted with the vampires, the existence of claiming to be the masters of all the undead. Of course, after a little attempt to contact them and understand their political structure, the empire disguised itself again. The vampires did not mind claiming that they were some form of life that was "transcendent to life and death". In this way, the basis for the alliance between the two sides was established.

After the civilian, semi-official nature sent a large number of envoys, merchants entered the territory of the tomb kings, and after the empire's assessment of the power of this force increased by another level.

Before this, the Land of the Dead was a huge and unparalleled country, and its territory was almost the same as the current empire. History was even better. The creed of "Reincarnation of the Dead" made countless pyramids and tombs spread throughout the empire. Speaking of which, the so-called state of tombs everywhere in the ancient empire was directly related to the creed of the tomb king in the province of Silvania.

In the end, the kingdom was destroyed. The living people disappeared. The dead people buried in the Golden Tower were resurrected. They did not become the state of complete resurrection as they imagined, but became the dead.

This huge gap between ideals and reality made the tomb kings angry. They could not enjoy the various enjoyments they were alive, and there was no pursuit of the art of death of the undead witchcraft like the undead wizard. These undead had nothing else except full of anger and crazy battles.

So they attacked everywhere, launched attacks on various regions, and conquered countless mortal city-states. Enslaving these living people can bring them some spiritual comfort. The battle on the battlefield even vented the anger of the tomb kings. The countless undead, treasures and weapons buried in the endless tombs were enough to arm an incredible large army. Even against those purgatory rats with huge numbers and excellent reproductive abilities, the tomb kings were not afraid.

After learning about all this, the Empire made a quick decision to form an alliance with the Tomb King forces. After learning that the Empire has magic that can advance the undead, even restore consciousness and reshape the body, Seket, the leader of the Tomb King Alliance, immediately decided to form an alliance with the Empire, and then they were responsible for escorting the Empire's caravan from being attacked by the Chaos Purgatory Rat in the North. Other trade contracts and other trade contracts are no problem.

In this way, although the empire had an additional enemy, it also had an extremely strong plasticity ally. In the following years of the empire, the power of the ancient tomb king who slowly invaded the land of the dead little by little, turned it into a vassal of the empire, and then directly annexed it. It was no longer a dream.

First, a railway connecting the province of Silvania and the land of the dead will be paved. The empire will build another shipyard and a modern dock in the seas east of the land of the dead. Expeditionary troops and explore endless territory that is more oriental. Because of the latest observations, observations of celestial bodies, application of astronomy, and the conclusion that "the earth under our feet is actually a spherical shape" has been made public. As long as the navigation test is carried out properly, it is not a dream to orbit the earth for a whole week.

Although it is not a good idea to launch new wars at present, it is very worthwhile to open up territories peacefully. In addition to peacefully opening up the land of this planet, the empire has also developed great interest in those other planets.
Chapter completed!