Chapter199

Master, Dahlia Yu is indeed a very capable person! However, I feel a bit uneasy again. After you and Dahlia divided Edelweiss, the border of Plumera now touches Dahlia's territory. Dahlia is so strong, and although Dahlia Yu's attitude is friendly for now, will he become a threat to you in the future?

After all, big powers always put their interests first. Especially someone as clear-headed as Dahlia Yu, personal friendships are always less important than national interests.

Hearing the System 92's worried voice, Elara smiled.

"Don't worry, System 92. Because Dahlia is now stronger, he will not threaten me. Instead, he will try harder to befriend me."

System 92 was surprised. "Why?"

"It's simple. This continent is huge, and there are too many nations. Just in our southwest corner, there are many third-tier countries under the suzerain nation, all as strong as Dahlia's forces."

"The stronger Dahlia becomes, the bigger threat he is to them. Some second-tier nations might even envy how much land Dahlia controls."

"In this situation, Dahlia has become both a thorn and a treasure in the eyes of many neighboring countries. Many want to attack him."

"Dahlia Yu must know this too. So he will never make enemies without reason. He will seek alliances instead."

Especially because of the large batch of iron weapons Elara sent to Dahlia Yu last time, she did not believe Dahlia could miss the great advantage in them.

Facing many watching enemies, Dahlia Yu will want to be closer to her.

Just after Elara finished speaking to System 92, a servant brought a letter.

"Your Majesty, many congratulatory letters and gifts arrived outside the city."

"The first letter to reach Plumera City is from Prince Dahlia Yu of Dahlia. Along with many precious gifts, there is a letter and a message: when you have free time after your busy schedule, notify him immediately. He will visit in person to congratulate your ascension."

These are very important data. Since System 92's detection results are basically never wrong, it directly judged who is friendly to her and who is hostile. In some ways, it helped her a lot. So Elara quite liked this new relationship attribute section and carefully looked at it for a long time.

Then she found some interesting things.

For example, Edelweiss used to be the strongest third-tier independent major nation in this region except for Dahlia, but now it had become a third-tier minor country.

There were also those "???" and some forces she did not know, like that day labor guild. When did she ever have contact with them? She did not remember.

[Master! Congratulations!]

Elara's enthronement was the start of a new phase, and the happiest was still System 92.

After the mechanical voice finished playing, System 92 excitedly kept launching fireworks in Elara's mind. The brilliant explosions almost blocked her vision. Fortunately, she had already finished her enthronement speech and stepped down from the platform.

[System 92, make the fireworks smaller. They are blocking my view!]

[Okay, Master! Hehehe~]

The voice was still excited, giggling while explaining to Elara:

[Master! You are amazing! You have only been in this world for a few months and have already been enthroned as Empress! Hehehe! Let me explain the new attributes for you!]

["???" usually means you have interacted with them but do not know their true forces, so the name is temporarily replaced with question marks. Once you know more about their situation, the names will be updated immediately.]

Elara thought: [Oh, like the forces behind that fake Haochen?]

She looked at the hostile forces section. Those people once spoke as if they did not even regard second-tier nations. That must be the "???" among her hostile forces. Their power was between a top second-tier nation and a first-tier nation, which was really strong.

Yet, such a strong nation could also be controlled by her just because of a small divine vein phoenix order. It showed how much more important the divine vein was than she had imagined.

[Yes, Master! As for the three question marks in your friendly section, they probably represent the forces behind the two young masters of the Lianyi Pavilion. When they first appeared, their identities seemed extraordinary.]

Elara moved her eyes to the three question marks in the friendly section. Those were forces from first-tier nations, truly formidable. No wonder Lianyi Pavilion was such a huge force spreading across the continent.

But it was unknown which of the three first-tier nations they came from.

[Hehe! Master, I have almost finished explaining the new relationship section. Now I have good news!]

[Edelweiss Kingdom has dropped from a third-tier major nation to a third-tier minor nation! Haha! This is because your allies are too strong!]

[After Dahlia's Prince led his army to cut off Edelweiss's connection with the Golden Kingdom, he personally led Dahlia's forces to invade Edelweiss! They swept through the entire eastern Edelweiss and marched straight to the capital!]

[Fearing the capital would fall and he would become a captive, the Edelweiss Emperor abandoned the city overnight and moved to the far north of Edelweiss.]

[The lands and cities he left behind were all occupied by Dahlia without any loss. At this point, Edelweiss lost over half of its nearly three hundred thousand square kilometers of territory to Dahlia!]

[Edelweiss now only held several northern counties, with a total area of just over a hundred thousand square kilometers.]

[But to avoid Dahlia's further pursuit and prevent the kingdom from falling, the Edelweiss Emperor submitted to a northern third-tier major nation, Belladonna, becoming its vassal state.]

[Belladonna is a top third-tier major nation. Its strength matches Dahlia's, and like other nations, Belladonna itself has a second-tier nation as its suzerain.]

[Because of this, Dahlia stopped pursuing and attacking Edelweiss. However, Edelweiss's strength has sharply declined, and it blames you and Dahlia for this.]

[Especially you, Master. The Edelweiss Emperor believes you are the main reason for his current situation. His hatred toward you is very deep. Now that he is a vassal of Belladonna, if there is a chance in the future, he will definitely incite his suzerain to cause trouble for you.]

[Master, you must be careful. Improve Plumera's overall national strength quickly and prepare in advance!]

Elara nodded, listening to System 92's analysis. She was somewhat surprised that Dahlia had crushed Edelweiss from a third-tier major nation to a third-tier minor nation in such a short time.

But now, she wanted to know something else.

[System 92, how strong is Dahlia now? How much has it improved?]

[Greatly improved, Master. Dahlia has broken through its grade level and is half a step into the second-tier nation rank.]

Elara raised her eyebrows, looking at Dahlia's nation information.

[Dahlia]

[Country Level: Top third-tier]

[Ruler Gender: Mainly male (patriarchal)]

[Country System: Ancient feudal system (similar)]

[Military Strength: Top third-tier]

[Economic Strength: Large third-tier]

[Territory Area: About 1.044 million square kilometers (already at second-tier level)]

[Territory Location: Entirely in the southwest corner of the continent.]

[Country Status: Half a step into second-tier nation. The strongest independent third-tier nation in the southwest. Military is top-level. The people are prosperous. It has a long-standing friendship with Sargassum. Though there have been frequent battles these years, it wins more than it loses. Overall situation is rising.]

[Important Leaders: Dahlia Prince, Dahlia Emperor, Dahlia Empress, and various royal bloodlines.]

[Important Forces: Same as above.]

[Subsidiaries: None]

[Suzerain: None]

[More details: To be explored]