Chapter 747 Epic
Pythor's sudden question silenced everyone for the first time since the meeting began, sending all eyes on one of them...
Marshal Snight was not as gigantic as the rest of the marshals, He was barely two meters tall. His features were also like most soldiers. He did not change much after increasing the dose of Durger the Devourer's
blood in his body. However, Although he is only barely five thousand years old and still has a long lifespan ahead of him, his features exude anxiety and aging.
Snight smiled and shook his head, "What is there to say, Your Majesty? Of course, I need support. If it's available, send me some, and if it's not available, then forget it. It's not like the situation will get worse..."
"You are demanding support again?! You bastard, didn't you ask for support last time and get an entire fleet? His Majesty even sent General Harros to you to work under your command there!!" One of the marshals stood up and shouted loudly. He was one of those asking for support and of course, he would not allow anyone else to take it from him.
The rest of the marshals frowned in annoyance as well but did not say anything... One of the main reasons why everyone started fighting from the beginning of the meeting was to get ahead of Snight and win the support this time because they knew that that bastard would inevitably ask for more.
Until the last meeting, Marshal Snight had 4 entire fleets under him, but he came and started yelling that he was being defeated on several fronts and asked for support, so Pythor sent him the First Fleet, General Harrow's fleet, to help him.
General Harros is someone who has enough of Durger the Devourer's blood to be a Marshal. His intelligence and personal strength are no less than anyone here. His fleet is mostly mid-level Emperors and he also has quite a few high-level Emperors working under him. He is just waiting for a new planet to be appointed as the tenth Marshal. This means that Pythor has unofficially appointed two marshals on Planet Gudah!
Some saw that Pythor wanted to support Marshal Snight and strengthen his party so that no one would call for his dismissal, and some saw that sending Harros was evidence of Snight's weakness and that His Majesty was thinking of dismissing him... In both cases, no one thought that this person would dare to ask for more support!
Snight ignored his peers' words and looked directly at Pythor, "With the help of General Harros, we were able to close all the gaps in the defenses and tighten the noose on the locals. We also won two successive big battles, taking about an additional 5% of the planet for the Empire. Everything was going well that we started to plan how to reduce local lands by half as soon as possible... But this is impossible now."
"What exactly is going on there?" Pythor furrowed his eyebrows slightly.
Although dismissing a Marshall is very difficult because each one of them represents a pillar of the empire, he would not mind breaking one of the pillars if it was defective!
Snight paused a little, then began to wander around and look into everyone's eyes as he spoke, "...Epic-level weapons were seen with the resistance in the last battle, and they were not small in number either."
"..." Everyone present furrowed their non-existent brows and remained silent as if they had swallowed their tongues. Even the Marshal who had been attacking Snight a moment ago fell silent and looked towards Pythor, finding that even their Emperor had lost his calm.
Engraved equipment is divided into several categories, and each category can be easily measured by checking the clarity, purity, and grade of the Runes, the raw material that was used to draw the Runes, and of course the material from which the equipment itself is made.
Usually, the order of engraved equipment is: low, medium, high... When Pythor began his revolution 10,000 years ago, he received a number of scrolls from the Overlord explaining how to make low-level engraved equipment. Two thousand years later, during his invasion of the third planet, he obtained scrolls to make some types of medium gear... And six thousand years later, Pythor obtained scrolls of high-level equipment as a reward after he managed to find some rare ores for the Overlord, and these high-level engraved equipment were the silver armor and weapons currently used by the Great Serpent Empire's army!
But above this ranking, there are higher categories. This type of equipment is either very powerful or has specific uses that cannot be included in the same category as regular engraved weapons... And the first one in these higher categories is called epic equipment.
The Great Serpent Empire has a few dozen pieces of epic gear distributed among their generals and marshals, each piece of weapon or armor worth the price of a few spaceships with their occupants.
And these items were not made in the Great Serpent Empire, after ten thousand years Pythor had not yet provided enough for the Overlord to give him even a single scroll to create anything worthy to be called epic, but rather all of the epic equipment they currently had was brought directly from the Middle Planetary Belt… Yes, Middle Planetary Belt!!
Whenever the sacrificial ceremony begins, one of Pythor's sons or his marshals goes to a specific planet in the Middle Belt using the space portal to deliver the accumulated pearls and rare ores to the followers of the Overlord, and while they are there, they kiss every hand and lick every foot they find until they obtain a piece of epic equipment they take back home, this is exactly why there is no epic full body armor in the entire Great Serpent Empire, as every time they came back with a wrist shield, short sword, or something broken, anything they can find!
One time, one of Pythor's generals jokingly asked for something to call the Space Ring, a low-level epic piece of equipment that they had seen many times on that planet. The general also added that the empire needed it to store the energy pearls and goods in it instead of carrying them on their backs every time and to avoid losing the offerings of the Overlord... The response was that he was killed by the Overlord's followers because he did not know his position.
What Snight said just now about the presence of a number of epic weapons on Planet Gudah means one of two things... The first is that the Overlord who supports Planet Gudah has given them scrolls to create epic equipment, or that they have built a space portal and begun making journeys to the middle planetary belt and bring epic gear from there, and in both cases, it's a disaster.
"That bastard--" Pythor cut off the curse midway and forced himself to calm down a little, "...That Overlord has no intention of dispensing with Planet Gudah then..."
"No one in the Young Planetary Belt can make epic equipment, they must have built a space portal, what exactly are they going to do with it? Start conquering other planets while they are being conquered?!" One of the Marshals scoffed
"Right, we have already controlled 60% of Planet Gudah, what would their Overlord want to do with a few epic weapons? He's just being stubborn!"
As for Snight, he spoke calmly and slowly, "...A person who has the power, influence, wealth, and enough time to support a planetary empire in the young belt, you can expect him to be stubborn, and hate losing..." After all those years of war with that relentless planet, nothing can surprise him
The war against another planetary empire is extremely exhausting, and planet Gudah can't be considered a full planetary empire yet!!