"For your benefit, you will cause the whole world to be destroyed? You..."
"Nonsense, if the world is destroyed, it is the world's business. If I die, it is mine." Edward shook his hand: "Aren't you that the case? The gods really considered to completely eliminate Pan Duo
Ryan? Can you guarantee that the gods are just living by themselves? For such a long time, this ancient evil thing has not been subjected to even a little change. Has the so-called god been eating shit for tens of thousands of years?
, fight for power and profit. Anyway, whenever something happens, someone will work hard for them, and then they will enjoy hundreds or thousands of years of so-called peace with the sacrifice of others. How can you be at ease? Well?"
"This is simply that you are self-satisfied! For the greed in your heart, you are quibbling, and you are looking for excuses for yourself without reason!"
"I want to say that I am evil, right? Humans are originally a collection of self-satisfaction. Everything they pursue is nothing more than for themselves... Poverty, hunger, some people cannot bear it, some people are willing to live long and short, some people ask for it.
If someone abandons it like a piece of grass, everything is just the heart... What is that? It is manifested by the mind and changed by the consciousness?"
Taking a step back, Edward's body gradually blurred in the space, leaving only the voice of the voice echoing in the heart of the Serathians:
"I would like to advise you that it is better to stay in the astral realm. Otherwise, the next time I find you, it will not be so simple to let you go."
Staring at the black figure, it disappeared in the space, without any trace, Ariele stood quietly in the air, "It appears by the mind, and it changes by the consciousness..." The voice seemed to be repeated in her ears.
As the sound came, there was no language barrier in the conversation between the soul, but she seemed to not understand the meaning of these two sentences.
As the human disappears, the invisible power in the space also retreats like a tide. The air shakes for a while, and two apostles of the astral realm walked out of the space gate and noticed the figure of the Serathian servant, who each showed surprise.
Look. "Master Ariele, you..." "Master."
Each shouted, but they were stunned again. The Seraphic God's servant in front of him spread all his wings and the holy flames circled around him, but there was no enemy around him. He seemed indifferent to their arrival, just whispering to himself, golden
There was a special blur in his eyes.
"It's too dangerous." He stood still for a long time. Ariele finally raised his head in the eyes of his two companions and murmured to himself.
"Mr. Ariele, should we gather some companions?" The male apostle of the Astral Realm hesitated for a moment, and then spoke: "It's just that the number of qualified people is almost exhausted. Are they required to prepare the ceremony and purify some
Suitable》”
"Jurian, Heidi. What kind of enemy do you think is the most dangerous?"
The question asked the two apostles of the Astral Realm to look at each other and shook their heads, but they had a very tacit understanding and did not speak.
So Ariele asked and answered:
"Strong power, extremely smart, bold... Such people are very scary, but not the most terrifying, because they can be strong and can be tempted with emotion, smart and extremely smart can be tempted with benefits, and bold can be tempted with good guidance. As long as the method is right, it may not be necessary.
It cannot be used as a helper for success. But you are moody, unrestrained, unable to measure it with common sense, and there is no possibility of predicting it... Such an opponent is terrible, and it can even be said to be the most terrifying."
"let's go."
The idea of this human being is... hard to guess, and he doesn't know what he will do at any time. And the power he has even surpassed the coming angel, which makes it possible for him to
The action is even more dangerous. Therefore, someone must come to see him and prevent him from taking more dangerous actions."
"But your body..." said the apostle of the Astral Realm named Heidi, anxiously: "And..."
"Don't worry, there will be no fighting. Just keep an eye on the root of this chaos. "As if comforted, Ariele spoke, "He will accept it."
The army of the Kingdom of Touminis has already entered the tenth day of rest on the line between Mango and Machenle.
For the rest after a major battle, a ten-day is not a long time, especially at present, the three imperial electoral armies of the empire are guarding the edge of the Mango Basin, and the strength of the two sides is still unclear.
, the kingdom's advancement really needs to be slowed down.
Or in the eyes of those who know the war, this war is not unexpected at this point - the failure of teleportation spells is undoubtedly an important reason for Tuminis' successive battles, and it has lost the possibility of rapid reinforcements.
As the defensive empire, the troops required must be several times or even dozens of times that of Tuminis. A failure at one point will lead to the collapse of the entire battle situation.
So the empire was defeated.
But war does not necessarily mean victory or defeat will end... War is never simply based on the bloody battle between soldiers and soldiers. After all, it is always a competition between the two sides' comprehensive national strength.
Moreover, this kind of space is actually a double-edged sword. While weakening the empire's defense capabilities, it also cut off the vitality of Tuminis's march. After occupying one and a half of the empire's county province, it was extended.
The supply line also slowed down the pace of Tuminis' advance. For a qualified general, the wisest way is to end the war in this place and allow the two sides to enter a new round of confrontation.
Unfortunately, this war obviously would not end so 'wise', because from the beginning, its purpose was not to expand territory.
Plundering the soul is the purpose behind the scenes who manipulate everything.
“Four, one hundred and three.”
The military power of more than 20,000 people is no longer a surprising number, but that camp still requires a considerable area. Several cities on the edge of the Mango Basin are not large in size, and most of them are built near hills.
, not suitable for hoarding the army, so as the leader of the national mage, Mage Rose Black still sat in the main tent of the military camp in Touminis, in the gorgeous royal tent.
"Four, one hundred and three. It should be said that it is very efficient."
Flicking the eyes, a huge crystal ball, the female mage whispered softly, then raised her gaze and stopped on the young man in front of her: "Or, I should thank you very well, Prince Stran?"
”
Her voice was a little hoarse, but a little sharp, so when I heard it, it always made people frown, but the young man she was staring at just smiled slightly, with a faint voice in her gentle voice.
The aristocratic aura seemed to have not noticed the irony in the other party's voice.
His eyes stopped on the crystal for a moment.
At first glance, the crystal ball is no different from that used by ordinary mages to divine or monitor the crystal ball in the distance - about eight inches in diameter, smooth and round appearance, except for the somewhat strange light purple color, the rest
There is nothing, but if you really stare at it seriously, you can notice that when there is a piece of twisting white smoke flowing from time to time, the color of the flashing will look like one, two or more eyes
Peek out from the depths of that purple.
“We are just implementers, and it’s still your credit.”
Rose Black praised it with a rare stern voice, but unfortunately it was quite sharp, even if it was a praising word, it still made people feel uncomfortable. What's more, her face still had that cold expression, and she couldn't tell anything at all.
Complimentary meaning.
"There is nothing I remembered of something I've heard before." Prince Strang showed a reserved smile, his tone was plain, and he seemed to disregard it at all: "Well, in short, there are still patrols sent out.
Half is more than half, before tomorrow afternoon, they should be able to bring back the harvest of their other half. The preliminary estimate should be around 8,000 to 10,000."
"For the master's plan, such a result is acceptable. However, this kind of small method cannot be repeated," Rudolph, on the other side of the table, spoke at this time, raised his eyes and stared at the prince: "Next, you
What are you planning to do? You must know that the master’s request is at least 100,000 souls.”
This young general of Tuminis is obviously not good at hiding his emotions, especially at this time.
From the very beginning, Rudolph opposed the prince's attitude towards participating in the planning. Although he did not know the details of the "master's" plan very well, he was very clear. This prince's replacement may be
Problems that will be caused - Before the identity is revealed, most of the rights that belong to the prince are buried in the hands of this unreliable person. If he loses his vigilance, the consequences that may be caused in special circumstances may be very serious.
serious,
Because of the character, he spent the longest time with this counterfeiter, so he knew very well that something crazy in the little guy's heart,
But the problem is that the prince got the permission of his superiors - Rudolph didn't know where he heard about their souls from, but the prince found an opportunity to talk to Thomas
This plan was given, and Thomas obviously didn't care much about it, so he adopted it casually.
Or it should be said that the main reason is that His Royal Highness's idea is very simple, but very efficient.
Take action on those scattered subordinate territories.
The vast area and numerous population of the empire gave him a complex aristocratic class. The fiefs that fell into the hands of third-class barons were often the same as those of villages.
The most insignificant little people among the aristocratic class in these empires, although they are called nobles, are actually the village chief of a small village with more than a hundred people and hundreds of people. They barely have some farmland and some power to collect taxes from villagers.
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Therefore, the fact that the Tuminis occupied the land of the empire was not a big deal in such a small village. Everyone would gather together and listen to the traveling vendors talking about war, and then just
In this way, there is no big rebound.
In fact, for these small places like the baron territory, it is not a big deal that belongs to any country. They cannot even see the war. It is nothing more than a small group of knights passing by and shouting to the baron.
Then the Baron replaced the Jinjinhua chess at the entrance of the village with tulips. If there was not even a flag, then just a few words were just on a plain flag, which was the case.
What else can be done if you should pay taxes and pay grains?
However, starting a few days ago, some people began to scatteredly "pass through" these villages.
Their outfits are no different from those of the low-level adventurers, covered in dust and beards. But if you look closely, you will find that they all wear several pieces of imperial regular soldiers' equipment or knight swords.
, either a military horse or a simple chain armor war robe,
"Although they are good to you now, they are all fake. Do you know? The empire's army is already on the way here, and the Tounis can't hold on for a few days. If they leave, they will definitely take them.
The army first burned all the things here and killed them. They were all a group of hungry wolves! They liked to burn, kill, loot the most. Don't you know? They burned ten cities last time and killed dozens of them.
Thousands of people!"
When they pass by those villages, they will walk into the tavern or wander around the square, looking for opportunities to reveal some war scenes to these "closed guys", and when the villagers are mostly scared by his terrible description
When they live, they will encourage them with 'energy':
"What should I do? Of course I'm doing it with them! You are the people of the empire. Can the descendants of the great Isgandar Great be ruled by the savages of Tuminis? The last time those fools just didn't resist, they were
Those savages were burned to death in the whole city!... Don't look at the Tounis who seem to be quite powerful, in fact, there are only a few people in total, just 20,000 to 30,000 people. Although the Lord Lord was defeated,
Many people died of the nigers! They had already lived in those big cities and dared not come out! They were all supported by the food of those boneless nobles!"
What after?
"Of these dozens of people, of course I can't do anything, but I'll tell you the truth. My team gathered not far away. There are dozens of villages in this area, and there are only ten in each village.
There are also passionate imperial people, so we have one thousand more people, thousands of villages in the county and province. We have a few, even one hundred thousand troops! This is our home, we want people and food.
Grain, can the Tooni be more popular than us? As long as the civilians help, they beat Tooni to death with one punch!"
"We really don't have weapons, but we can rob them from the Tooni. Even if they are powerful, they always have to eat and sleep, right? As long as they find a chance... and the Imperial army will soon return to counterattack.
After the county and province were restored, every volunteer soldier can get the official cavalry title, and I promise that everyone can get a reward of one gold coin, and those who have killed the Tooni can get five!"
After saying this, let alone those young people who yearn for the outside world, even middle-aged people in their thirties might be tempted. In such a small village, a family's income per year will be
But it's just one gold coin, and five are of course a huge sum of attractive enough.
So it’s natural, whether it’s stealing or leaving openly. Soon, a team of more than a dozen people will gather in each village, secretly following the 'hero' and rushing towards their dreams
.
At the beginning, the operation of this "volunteer army" was always very smooth... Most of them quickly gathered more than 100 people from the three surrounding villages, and then, under the leadership of those "Gods of War", they rely on several
An insider, on the second day or the third day, robbed the food team sent by Viscount Lin to the Tuminis, and could even win a small victory, and run away a team of Tuminis to come and receive it.
These food patrol soldiers stole some weapons and armor, and their morale was once as high as fire.
But such good times will never last... Usually, just that night, when they camped in a ravine to celebrate victory, the team of people would completely surround them like the wind.
The one who carried out these tasks was a team of Tuminis' light cavalry, with only a few more than fifty cavalry. However, the light cavalry were regular soldiers trained. How could these temporary armed villagers resist? What's more, it's at night
Being attacked camp... and most importantly, when this group of volunteers panicked, they would find another thing, that 'Grandmaster and his companions' were gone nowhere!
At this moment, there is no other way to go except for the collapse. But how can two-legged ones run better than four-legged ones? After the national mage led by the light cavalry performed a few lighting techniques, the light cavalry often
The battle will end after a few rounds of bows and arrows.
Several national mages in this team of soldiers are specifically responsible for gathering their souls, and then the troops go to "confiscate" the next batch of targets. One night, a team of people can almost get two or three hundred high-quality souls.
It's much safer than fighting after the brigade.
In addition, this action is equivalent to combed the land of the entire occupied area thoroughly. Even if there are really anyone in the empire to encourage civilians, it is impossible for some uneasy guys to get up and make trouble. Although
During the process, young and middle-aged people will lose a batch, and the tax revenue paid will definitely be reduced a little, but compared to the danger of large-scale riots, this profit is not worth mentioning at all.
More importantly, this round of "confiscation" activity has brought at least nearly 4,000 souls so far, which may not be less than the previous battle. Moreover, in terms of cavalry, only two thousand have been used.
The famous people are far more powerful than the continuous battles