Tiny steps echoed quietly underground, and a group of three people advanced along the dark rock cave. The cold light created by the light spell continued forward, and then disappeared behind everyone.
"Is this the artifact staff?" Miss Griffin's voice was low and sweet, like a breeze blowing through the woods, making a soft rustling sound.
"Yes." Xiao Fen replied in a deep voice. At this moment, he was wearing a black robe and pulled up his hood again - covered by soft ink velvet, half of his pale face was exposed - under the brim of the hat, his brow
Slightly locked, his calm and sharp eyes looked around at the surrounding environment every once in a while. The mage's pale and slender left hand clenched the rules of the dark secret law, and a dense black air diffused from the black crystal ball at the head of the staff, covering his eyes.
The whole body is always hidden in the shadows
Miss Elf was a little envious, but she didn't show it.
The mage turned back and continued to discuss the previous issue with his mount: "So, this whole plan: is you colluding with the Hand of Despair to weaken the power of Thornburg players?"
"Collusion?" Miss Heilong showed a look of disdain: "It's just that I unilaterally used them."
"You have to use it to be hunted down by the opponent?" Xiao Fen chuckled.
Maairi Belle blushed, "This... this is actually all within my plan. At least I haven't heard that Tanar'ri's minions will keep their word! As for the Hand of Despair, I don't think so.
Will I believe them?" She showed an angry look again: "The only surprise is meeting you, damn it!"
"Oh, it's not an easy task to deal with two player forces. Then how do you do it?"
"forget!"
"You have the power to tear up the treaty, but don't forget that I also have it." The mage said quietly.
Miss Black Dragon gritted her teeth and squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth: "I have two transformation monster subordinates. I will use them to kill the core force of the players' union in Thorn Castle and lead away the brigade of the Hand of Despair."
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"Wait a minute, you are talking about weakening the players in Thorn Castle?" Miss Griffin stepped in. She asked with some suspicion: "But how is this possible? Players can be resurrected even if they are killed!"
"It's very simple, the question of the resurrection area," Xiao Fen replied: "This area no longer belongs to the Thornburg territory, but to the Boming Lake area -"
“Lake Berming is just a small town!”
"But it can also be regarded as a territory. In a plot one or two hundred years ago - probably during the closed beta period, the lord of Dragon City granted it to an old knight with outstanding merits. He promised that his descendants could enjoy it for three generations.
The property on this land; according to this promise, only after the death of this lord, this barren territory will return to the hands of these great nobles."
"That's it." Miss Griffin nodded, lost in thought.
The mage knows what this lady is thinking: now the intention of the Hand of Despair is obvious. It is to raid Thorn Castle and collapse the defense line of Thorn Castle, the glorious fortress. This is a very bold plan that makes full use of inertial psychology.
Time difference, and asymmetry of information between players and NPCs, but if there is a problem or accident in any of these links, then facing the hand of despair will be an unacceptable failure: Dragon City will gain valuable
a breathing space, and a counterattack position south of the Grass River; the players in the south will be immobilized for a year or more, and then they will face a fully mobilized force much later.
of behemoth.
But just as risks and benefits go hand in hand, if Thorn Castle falls, the Glory Fortress and the almost undefended right wing of Holly City will be completely exposed to the attack of desperate hands - after all, no one would have thought that in the south
Under the protection of the Alliance, the Obersius Prophecy Society, and the Knights of the Guard of Truth, there is a possibility that this territory will fall.
Under such circumstances, the Dragon City side will fall into a completely passive situation. Either the seventh and twelfth legions can be saved, then the front line facing the Dragon City Plain and Star Lake will be wide open, and the hands of despair can march straight in to support the Southern Alliance.
If there is civil strife on earth, then the current chaos between Obersius and the Shield of Truth will continue and escalate into a war that the nobles never want to see.
Either give up the 7th and 12th legions to buy time. Until the Obersius Prophecy Society and the Knights of the Guard of Truth quell the civil strife in the Confederacy and clean up the internal affairs, the situation south of the Grass River will inevitably deteriorate.
, turned into a flesh-and-blood battlefield like the twenty-four towns now. Unless the Lord of Dragon City is willing to devote his elite strength to a flesh-and-blood battle without a winner, and let his young generation drain out the last drop of blood, otherwise
He could only abandon the south and face the Hand of Despair across the river - in this way, the division of the north and south of Oras has become inevitable.
But in fact, the current situation is: in the south, the power of the Hand of Despair is indeed slightly stronger than the military force deployed by the Lord of Dragon City on this line; but if the overall strength of the two sides is compared. As a country with hundreds of years of history and savings,
Power. The Lord of Dragon City completely suppressed the Hand of Despair - even without the secret support of the devil later, the two could not be compared at all.
The Hand of Despair has achieved such a situation now. It can be said that it is entirely because as a behemoth, the response of the Dragon City system to danger and the mobilization of the entire war also take a long time; just like a mosquito ant fighting against a giant, a
The giant is sleeping at first, and it often takes a long time to go from deep sleep to awakening. Once it reacts, these crazy players in the south will taste the evil consequences they have sown.
But now the genius, or madman-like plan of Hand of Despair, if it succeeds, then the two sides will be brought back to an equal position for the first time - losing two legions, as well as the Dragon City lord who lost the last counterattack position in the south.
, although it is bound to fall into rage, the dragon that has lost its claws is no longer scary. It has to fight across the river with the hands of despair - and when the division of the north and the south becomes a foregone conclusion, the future history of Oras will also be from
It's full of variables from this moment on.
It can be said that this is a plan full of adventure and gambling elements. Xiao Fen admires the unconstrained nature of it. But the funny thing is that it is such a plan that seems impossible to realize. In the north, players and noble lords
Despite their indifference, it is now almost half successful.
Here, the mage thought of another issue that he had always been concerned about. He asked: "Ma'ari, are you controlling the goblins who are attacking the players on the ground?"
Miss Black Dragon turned her head away and snorted.
"Of course not, damn it, if my stupid subordinates were half as smart as the hobgoblins on the ground, I wouldn't be here!" She said bitterly: "They seem to have some kind of agreement with the Hand of Despair, but I won't be here either.
Very clear."
Sure enough. Xiao Fen squinted his eyes and felt a sudden realization; starting from the winter wolves and frost giants in the Seven Mountains, to the weird behaviors of the orcs and evil barbarians, and then to the strange army that appeared on the Suzan Highlands. This
The plot turns out to be intriguing to players from the very beginning.
At this moment, the mage completely understood what was going to happen next: this would be a war beyond everyone's imagination.
"Huh?" At this time, Miss Griffin raised her head and asked strangely: "You mean - players of Hand of Despair can control monsters?"
"Of course not," Xiao Fen shook his head, "Miss Griffin, if the South is just a bunch of players, then they won't be able to cause trouble."
"I know, is it because of the devil?"
The mage shook his head again. He thought for a while and said, "Do you know the last war between gods, a period of history known as the invasion of the dark gods?"
"Well, is this this part?" The girl seemed to search for knowledge: "...Before the age of magic, it was said that a group of gods who were said to have died returned to Oras from the endless void. They set off a
A war called revenge; the thousands of years of glory of Orath were completely lost in this war, and the gods also went into hibernation after the God War - during that period of time, almost no priests could
God responded, so there was a turbulent magical age for the next thousand years."
"Yes, it's bsp;" Mr. Palin, do you mean that the current situation is exactly the same as last time?" Miss Elf frowned: "The goblin god, Garmasad - the one who was there a thousand years ago
A dead god?"
"No, I'm afraid it's worse - because there weren't these players last time!" Xiao Fen raised his forehead. He recently had a feeling that the unfolding of the plot was not a coincidence - or that it was too much of a coincidence. But often
When something goes too far, it becomes conspiracy rather than chance encounter. Conflicts of interest between new and old players can be expected. This is reflected in every other game, but in Canaan, a world that is close to reality
It is particularly prominent among them; but the process of this conflict is a slow process. Because the emerging players lack power, under normal circumstances, the two can only compromise and influence each other.
But here, new players get an unexpected help: the help of demons. But this is not the key point. Demons only care about bloody battles and collecting souls. They are just passers-by to this world and will never break this world.
The world was originally balanced. But like a chain reaction, the rapid increase in the strength of the Hand of Despair soon touched another quest line - which seemed to be a destiny in the Canaan world: the war between gods.
In Canaan, the war between gods has a completely special meaning: it is almost a life-and-death struggle between one god system and another god system. One of the two parties will definitely perish completely, and there is no mercy at all; such gods
Bloody wars with gods are quite rare in other worlds, but here it is like a curse that will inevitably happen every once in a while...
In the wars before the ancient times, the Ella and Canaanite gods, and the ancient Canaanite gods, disappeared in history; and in the first war, the Ella and the elemental gods were almost destroyed together.
; And it was not until a thousand years later that order was reestablished by the current Auras pantheon. Since then, Rune Island has shone brightly, and a stable throne and empire have been established under the powerful divine power!
Time passed another thousand years, and the dark gods invaded, and the second war broke out. Although the gods of Oras stood until the end, a large number of gods died in the cruel war; as for those who were born later
The power of the gods became weaker and weaker. So much so that the goblin god Garmasad died in the war between the gods and the great arcanist.
It was the name that Xiao Fen was familiar with, King Asuo. His mentor personally ended the life of a god.
Speaking of which, the gods of Olas were just a group of servant gods during the era when the Ella pantheon dominated the land of Canaan, and those powerful beings in the past. After the battles between gods, only four were left.
Bit.
Neutral Punisher, God of Time Aigre
The ruler of all realms, Osto, the god of order
Destroyer of the Sky, God of Chaos Sarapas
And the one who is unknown to many people, who hardly appears in the eyes of the world, and who never answers the prayers of priests; the recorder of history, the god of writing, Fadong
And even these four remaining ones are not actually the strongest beings in history and in the Ella pantheon; and those powerful names that once shone in the long scrolls of history are all.
Died, his name no longer exists in this world.
Therefore, it can be said that with every divine battle, the power of many gods in Canaan has been weakening. And they have never recovered from this cycle.
And in fact, the situation this time is a little different. At first, this seemed to be a rare civil war; the Rune Island pantheon, headed by the sun god Petera, the lord of devotion and eternal glory, and the Goddess of the Black Moon, such as Xi
The confrontation between Skena, the god of destruction and trickery, Ersamos, the Lord of War, Ugru, the god of orcs, and many other evil pantheons.
Although players divide them into the Rune Island God System and the Evil God System through history, in fact they all belong to the Orath God System. It is just a confrontation between camps. Therefore, for the upcoming God War, players
There was no big surprise. They thought this was just a small chaos and not the fateful cycle of the Canaanite world.
But Xiao Fen smelled a hint of conspiracy in it. The appearance of the name Yunakati and the resurrection of Sha's body allowed him to see the shadow of the dark god system behind him; on the other hand, the elemental god system was about to move, and was also
The mage saw it in his eyes.
Speaking of it, from the appearance of the devil, to the liberation of Odomidin's sister Liefoni from the Hall of Elements, the rebirth of the God of Elements, to the resurrection of Sha's body, and the emergence of the dark god system, it seems that every line is implicated in him.
, including now, since the name Iris appeared, Xiao Fen saw for the first time that the quest line of the Canaanite gods appeared in this plot.
This is not just a small conflict. On the contrary, this is a war that may subvert or even destroy this virtual world, beyond everyone's imagination. The mage has some doubts, and it stands to reason that the game company will not design such a self-digging grave.
He would rather believe that this was his illusion; but he also knew that his intuition had never been wrong.
The design team once claimed that all authority was transferred to the main system, that is, the mother, but he himself could not understand why the mother would arrange such a plot that seemed to destroy him.
But everything happened. From the moment of the rebellion in the south, everything was on track. The only variable now is the players, including Xiao Fen himself.
Thinking of this, Xiao Fen laughed at himself. He didn't know what kind of title he would get after this plot as a recipient of this advanced profession, or as a person selected by a force?
Destroyer of worlds?
The larger and more complicated the task line is, the more opportunities there are to profit from it, but the mage has a feeling of being in the center of a huge whirlpool, as if he will be shattered into pieces if he is not careful; he raised his head from his complicated thoughts and saw
Miss Griffith's eyes were filled with confusion.
"You mean the battle between gods?" the yandere female mage asked in a low voice, "Mr. Mage?"
The mage didn't answer. He looked ahead: In this deep underground, the rugged road that stretched forward was cut off by a pile of boulders. He raised his head, a faint yellow light glowed on his body, and then he flew away.
Climb to the top of the boulder hill.
Xiao Fen raised the staff with one hand, and the crystal staff head emitted a bright and dazzling light - the light pierced the darkness, and an open space appeared in his field of vision. It was a building that had been silent for thousands of years, buried in the dust of history.
The buildings below.
The withered temple
"The war has begun, and now this is just the prelude to the storm——"
Quietly looking at the gray ruins, the mage replied lightly. "Well, I just want to clarify my thoughts. It's very annoying... Anyway, the writing made me want to live and die..."