On the southern continent, various forces are mixed.
And this kind of mixing is not just an interactive mixing on the territory, but also an intersection on different levels.
For example, the Pirate King, the largest armed force, controls the pirate port and a black magic fleet with dozens of pirate ships. He is the most prestigious force among pirates.
However, in the southern continent, the most official and mysterious magician power is the "Cottage of the Dead", and the number and organization of the magicians it possesses are unknown.
This is just like in the old BJ city, the dung industry is responsible for picking dung, and the beggars are responsible for begging. The two sides hardly meet each other, and it is not clear how many people there are, but they coexist there.~
In the black market exchange in the pirate's dark castle, members of the "House of the Dead" are allowed to trade. As long as the mage of the House of the Dead is willing to abide by the rules and pay enough money,
The mages in the "House of the Dead" will also sell scrolls to pirates. As long as the pirates can help them collect materials and do dirty work such as "plundering the village population and digging up corpses".
Both sides are colluding in dirty inside affairs.
There are many "organizations" at different levels like this in the Southern Continent, making the Southern Continent very "diversified".
Oh, the formation of "diversity" does not mean tolerance, but the inability to build a ruling order.
All parties can only make peace, peace, peace. Make sure that all parties are bad, and make sure that no one is strong among us.
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Specifically, you can refer to the current social situation of the "United States of America" in modern times.
At the grassroots level, they are quite diversified: "minor groups of various ethnic groups", "anti-gun control", "drug liberalization and various small rural religious groups", almost everything. Because they cannot govern, they simply advocate
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Just like the famous saying of Master Wen Yiduo: Pour leftovers into this pool of stagnant water, let it be covered with colorful oil flowers, and let the green mold that grows up serve as embellishment gems.
But at the level where power can be controlled, we will never talk about diversity, but flexible standards, such as the Internet, banning everything that does not conform to our own values! At this time, we will no longer talk about diversity, and we will not talk about freedom, but only with you.
Bragging about “correct values”.
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When you get used to diversification, in the voices of compromisers from all walks of life, it is easy for people in that environment to think that this is "right and reasonable."
But once strong external forces intervene and ruthlessly defeat all resistance, such a stagnant "pluralistic" world will be completely overturned.
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In the 3589th year of Fengfu's calendar, the diversity on Fengfu Continent can no longer be maintained.
The "machines" from the main continent are a powerful force. To capture the thief, capture the king first, and directly select the largest "chicken" to kill.
On March 13, outside Shark Harbor, the Pirate King's warship was defeated in an artillery battle in the open sea. A large amount of broken wood and garbage drifted in the tide.
After all, this is the place where the Pirate King has been entrenched for generations. At the entrance of the bay, there are a large number of underwater magic traps, which are as effective as modern mines in the main world. Of course, the physical effects produced by these traps are not necessarily explosions, but they can also give steel
Huge damage was caused to the ship's hull.
Faced with this, the colonial army must respond flexibly.
After receiving the news from the high-altitude reconnaissance puppet, Shan Zhen made a mark on the map: Do not break through from the front coastline, but directly find a shoal to break through.
Just like many landing battles in the main world, naval artillery provided fire coverage on the flanks of the coastal defense line to cover the landing battle. (The coastal defense forts of the Qing Dynasty were lost like this in all likelihood. Later, the bald Husong Battle was sidelined.
Later defeated.)
At eight o'clock in the morning, fifteen 10,000-ton battleships circled 20 kilometers east of Shark Harbor and conducted a baptism of artillery fire on the shore.
These battleships are all in the style of Earth battleships, with thick riveted metal armor, turrets arranged on a central axis, and thick gun barrels.
But the physical rules of this world are different. The mode of bombardment is not the one on Earth, where "flame bursts out of the barrel, the projectile flies thousands of meters in an arc, and explodes when it hits the ground."
There is an upper limit to the energy level in this world. The energy in the barrel is controlled by the rune structure. However, when flying out of the barrel and flying several kilometers, the ultra-high energy level will quickly dissipate on the track. Like this
A super long-range attack will eventually draw a shining energy band in the air. This energy loss in the distance is not cost-effective.
Therefore, the naval magic cannon in this world has no ballistics when firing.
In the solid barrel (prism), energy is accumulated in the runes. Then, an energy collapse point is formed about ten meters directly in front of the muzzle, and a teleportation magic array is deployed.
In the captain's room, on the sighting system, the magic array will emit a large number of positioning beams, aiming at coordinates outside the horizon to form a terminal node.
At the location being bombarded by the magic cannon, as the beam arrives, it will first condense into a point, and then a large number of nodes at this point will expand simultaneously, and together with the magic array in front of the muzzle, the arcane spell will be released.
In this world, all high-energy attacks do not have gorgeous ballistics, but directly attack arcana at coordinate points through "tunneling"!
What the magic cannon releases is not just a fire explosion of the plastic energy system, it may also be frost, or even more likely a spell summon.
For example, now, when the Mutsu battleship is on the ocean and there are a large number of dark creatures (ghouls) in the area it senses, the magic cannon shelling will teleport the "elves of light".
As the teleportation array unfolded, thousands of glowing triangles spread out. These triangular cursors scattered like boomerangs on the Pirate King's defensive position, looking for skeletons and ghouls in the thousands of meters, and swirled and strangled them.
Under this gorgeous ultimate move, the entire position was quickly cleared.
Then came the landing force of several large ships, holding muskets and pushing small steam crossbows (similar to infantry cannons) to occupy the position, and carried out a roundabout attack, going around ten kilometers, cutting off the pirate city-state's retreat.
This kind of force provided by industrial logistics, even a small landing force, is a regular force of 4,000 people, and it is by no means a pirate force that can resist it.
As for trying to use magic to change the situation of the war.
Indeed, there are many warlocks among the pirates, and even high-level dragon-veined warlocks, who can release all kinds of magic. But this has to compete with the colonial army backed by Xuan'ao and the Northern Industrial Party to consume arcane magic.
This is obviously wrong.
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On the 23rd, four hours after the landing battle, the colonial army had captured the outer territory.
"Mechanical cans" with blue and gold patterns stood on the ground.
He wears a magic knight uniform imported from the Northern Industrial Party by the Southern Chamber of Commerce, and in his hands are "Energy Arcane Firearms" prepared with core high-energy runes provided by the Xuan Arc Alliance. These equipment are the finale of the colonial army, and are specially designed by
Used by senior legions.
The southern warlocks and idle mages in the Pirate Port tried to use their own forces to break out of the siege, but they were all prioritized by the northern colonial army.
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On April 3, in addition to the smell of fish, the sea breeze was also mixed with the smell of putrid corpses.
The black pirate city wall is covered with countless gallows, and countless skeletons are hung on the upper level of the gallows. On the platform in the middle of the city wall, there is the fate of those who challenged the order of the Pirate King.
For hundreds of years, this pirate city has been immersed in this gloomy atmosphere. The towers on the city wall are decorated with the exaggerated splendor of the pirates, and the darkness is dotted with absurdity.
However, now this place is in a doomsday situation. Thousands of soldiers and dozens of warships have surrounded the city from both land and sea. There are a large number of pirates with chapped lips in the entire pirate city, desperately waiting, waiting, there may be a miracle of change.
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However, these heinous guys who only believe that they can do whatever they want if they are strong enough, and now they are being abused by a stronger force, how can they have fate to help them?
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The pirate city has several years of food reserves, and if things go bad, you can still use the food creation technique.
But the water source cannot be changed.
The colonial army pushed the river course upstream and changed its course. At the same time, they dug a large number of shafts to guide the underground water veins away from the castle. All the wells in the pirate city were exposed to mud.
The more important thing is that a gaseous light mirror with a diameter of more than fifty meters appeared above the pagoda on the battleship, which irradiated the entire pirate city with microwaves. These microwaves were not lethal. They just made the water evaporate three to four times faster.
The air in the city has become as dry as the desert.
Over the next few days, when there was not enough water, these pirates soon appeared, and at night they began to stab each other with knives and drink each other's blood.
Of course, those who can kill each other in desperation can also betray their teammates.
After a week of siege, the pirate king's tyrannical rule failed. His men directly betrayed and blew open the city gate, allowing the colonial legions to enter.
After the largest pirate was destroyed, and then the other participating pirates were wiped out, the wind swept away the fallen leaves. A large number of pirates directly drove their ships to the ocean and fled.
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after June
After the pirates were eliminated, the colonial development in the south continued, large-scale immigration continued, and tens of thousands of troops began to develop inland.
This further expanded and invaded the territory of native races on the continent, such as ogres, centaurs, mane tribes and other tribes.
However, few of these tribes can reach tens of thousands.
When the colonial army encountered these barbaric tribes, they would use steam ballistae and bombardment, and then use a set of modern musketry tactics at close range to push them past.
Of course, in the process of this colonial war, the northern colonial troops fought with the native forces and also used a large amount of auxiliary magic.
Generally, dispersal spells are first used to sweep away all the bloodthirsty spells, violent spells, ancestral protection, sharp stone armor, and other magical effects. Before the volley attack, a huge number of sonic warheads are used to release a wave of fear spells.
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Therefore, in actual combat, a wave of muskets is often enough to destroy these tribal troops, and then they can draw out their bayonets and line up to chase them away.
After the collapse of the tribe of these humanoid monsters, they soon became involved in the Lodge of the Dead.
The number of human mages in the Lodge of the Dead only accounts for 30%. Most of the rest are shamans from various local races.
Of course, you can't tell the specific racial identities of these mages. Their withered bodies, even skeletons that have become necromancy, are all wrapped in black robes or black iron armor.
Maybe some tall necromancer, under the floating dark cloak. Maybe it's an ogre that bit off one of his own heads.
The Cabin of the Dead is undoubtedly the weirdest force here.
When the colonial army marched inland, they soon encountered a terrible disease. After a sudden attack by the poisonous miasma, an entire platoon of troops bled all over their bodies and developed symptoms similar to "Ebola" and quickly collapsed.
The ground cannot rise.
Or perhaps, high-level undead flying dragons appeared outside the army camp. They broke through the air defense net of the steam crossbow and sprayed dragon breath full of phosphorus fire.
The unprotected soldiers, after being contaminated by the dragon's breath, were instantly burned to their internal organs and turned into undead skeletons. Some of them even didn't know that they had turned into skeletons after they turned into skeletons.
Blindly groping around. Well, these dead are extremely sensitive to the breath of the living, and will run towards their former teammates with the flames of death.
Therefore, during this colonial war going south, the colonial army was also filled with ghost stories unique to the development of the wild world.
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It is not the turn of "industry" to take care of such a headache.
The mage group of the Xuanao Alliance went to the south to conduct an "investigation". They had intercontinental discussions and exchanges with the necromancers of the "House of the Dead".
In the same sentence, Xuan'ao's Truth Alliance is a modern scientific organization. In terms of scale and advancement, it is several generations ahead of other magic organizations of the same era.
There are only thirteen groups in an organization like the House of the Dead. The first twelve groups are each led by a high-level necromancer. The thirteenth group are all high-level necromancers, and they are no longer
The struggle for power and profit makes it impossible for them to jointly produce.
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With the colony already occupying a stronghold in the coastal area, the Truth Alliance built forty mage towers in just one month!
Each mage tower is an energy tower. For example, the mage tower No. 23 is erected on the seaside. The sea surface within a radius of 80 kilometers is completely wave-free, because all the tidal energy of the waves is collected by the mage tower.
The Truth Alliance is relying on its energy and logistics advantages to fight against the guys looking for the "House of the Dead"!
Orthodox arcane mages: What's weird? It's incomprehensible. The arcane system is a fair exchange. As long as you pay enough value, you can crack anything. There is nothing that "explosion magic" can't solve. If there is, then it can be solved.
Two shots.
The arcane masters of the Alliance of Truth were visiting the House of the Dead for discussion.
What Karet's Industrial Party can do is to transport some large forgings necessary for the Mage Tower. Well, now, the more than 20 tons of delta-wing aircraft hovering on the southern continent were also mass-produced when the Industrial Party received the order.
All parts except "high-level runes".
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June to August
In the dragnet laid by the arcane mages of the main continent, the dirty necromancers ushered in a cross-generational crush.
In front of ordinary soldiers of the colonial army, eight of the bone dragons that had been arrogant for less than ten days were killed by magic such as super powerful fire storm, disintegration, and radiant furnace.
Then, there was the process of mushroom clouds growing on the ground. Moreover, two green dragons ran away during the process.
How did the green dragon get involved? This was the sixth group of high-level mages from the House of the Dead who deliberately introduced the arcane mages into the so-called "forbidden area". Then these green dragons felt that their territory had been violated. What was the result?
It's the violent mages of the Truth Alliance who beat up the green dragon together!
Because it is to establish order on the entire continent anyway, and does not care about the involvement of "chaotic evil" forces.
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In this way, the Southern Colonial Army, with the sponsorship of the industrial forces of the main continent, and its high-level armed forces quickly established a brand new area of influence under the platform of the Truth Alliance.
This is an area that has never been allowed to be established by human forces in the past.
After 3590 years of Fengfu, in this unfamiliar area, as farmers who lost their land began to plant crops, craftsmen from all walks of life began to produce, and a new city-state was established.
For these benefited human beings, is there a promise from God behind this unprecedented fact?
When you "get" inexplicably, you will want to find spiritual sustenance to confirm that this "get" is reasonable.
This is the principle in the main world that "those who get windfall should burn more incense and worship gods".
"Industry, science, machinery" now has a whole new continent in this world to be worshiped and believed in.