In ancient times, when strategists faced a lord who visited the thatched cottage three times, they would often describe the other party's situation as extremely difficult, as if they would capsize and die at any time.
Everyone will have a sense of fear, and when their lives are threatened, they will be extremely vigilant. When the lords hear from their counselors that their lives are on the line, no matter how dismissive they are, they will investigate to the end. If they continue to ask, they find that they
If it is really dangerous, it is natural to look for life-saving straws from strategists.
As the strategist's opinions are taken more seriously and the crisis is over, the strategist's own status naturally rises, and new opinions are taken more seriously and he quickly rises to the top.
The so-called "being ordered when the army is defeated, being ordered to be in trouble" probably refers to such a situation. This has nothing to do with the incident itself, but is just a technique used by strategists to attract the attention of the lord.
The more skill you get, the better you become.
"Sir, save me/teach me." It seems that, according to this girl's script, I should shout this sentence now.
Then she would analyze for me how the Lion King and the Dragon Queen pretended to have a falling out. As long as we took the initiative, they would start a propaganda war and promote us as invaders sent from the ground and internal saboteurs of the covenant, causing us to be attacked.
The Covenant's vigilance and hostility, and then taking action personally, will push us into a corner, and by then it will be too late to leave.
But if that's all, it would be too much to look down on me, a sleepless person.
"I know, you can live with your sister first. You should have a lot to say."
"I..." Faced with my unexpected indifference, Victoria stood up excitedly, planning to say something hurriedly, but looking at me who was still expressionless, she reluctantly said goodbye and left.
"Eliza."
"…….."
"If you don't come out, your salary for next month will be gone."
"......Master, please pay my salary for this month last year before you say anything like this."
"Hey, Eliza, what do you think of this gift from the dark elf?"
"Sir, there must be something fishy about this." Eliza adjusted her glasses and leaned close to my ear, saying expressionlessly.
"...Nonsense, the goodwill of the dark elves is as barren as that girl's breasts. I'm asking you what you think about the Dragon Queen."
"Sir, the original text of the proverb is 'The kindness of the dark elves is as false as the reason of the orcs'. Ridiculing others for their natural flaws is not the behavior a gentleman who respects women should do. If you say this, she will be sad to hear it,
"
Even though she said this, Eliza's tone was obviously relaxed. "However, from my personal opinion, what she said is probably true."
"reason?"
"intuition."
"Haha, my sister, your intuition, don't tell me that you haven't received the intelligence and analysis from the 'bystanders' yet."
As a diplomatic envoy, it is not acceptable to be blind in the area where you make a living, especially in a hostile area.
As soon as we entered the city, my intelligence organization's bystanders broke into pieces and began to collect intelligence. According to my understanding of their work efficiency, various reports should be piled up on Eliza's desk by now.
"...The Lion King and the Dragon Queen really took action, and the fight was very fierce. The news that half of the Lion King's palace was demolished is not false, but it is precisely because of this that it must be an act."
"Is it too soon? Is it too obvious? Yes, there are still more than twenty days until the auction period. We can study it together now. Even if a dispute does occur, it will not break out now."
"No, it's just. If there was a real fight, the Dragon Queen, who is two levels higher, would have snatched the things and ran away. And now the scepter is still in the hands of the Lion King, which is enough to explain everything. Moreover, the two top powerful
If we start a war, the entire neighborhood where the Lion King's Mansion is located should be completely destroyed, not just the half-destroyed mansion. This is a play to force us to take action and make us the public enemies of the covenant."
I nodded with satisfaction. What Eliza said was exactly what I thought.
From the very beginning, our Sulfur Mountain City has been a foreign object in the underground world. If we really join the covenant, it may not be a good thing for the existing overlords, especially the Lion King and Dragon Queen, who already have enmities.
I can collude with Kaya and Elul, and throw out the big trouble of the Night Scepter to attract firepower and share the pressure. Thao and Moriel are not fools, and their strategists are not so bad that they can't even see the situation.
Qing, naturally we will not be allowed to successfully enter the covenant, and it is inevitable to secretly cause trouble.
Even if this incident is not a trap, I just contacted Kaya and Estner. I don’t want to be involved.
We are newcomers, and we are newcomers who do not belong to any racial force. It is inevitable that we will be vigilant and wary.
And if we take the initiative to attack the Dragon Queen, then as long as we publicize our ambition to ascend to the throne and Adam's earthly birth, we can encounter great vigilance and hostility from the neutral city lord, and as long as the hostility reaches a certain level, then
Coupled with the overlord's incitement, it is possible to be expelled from the alliance or even cause public outrage and be punished by the entire alliance.
"Is staying in the camp the best option? Ouch, it's really powerless."
"Yes, as the auction and the annual league meeting approach, the pressure on Tao will become heavier and heavier, and we will stay away from the center of the trouble. Doing nothing now and waiting patiently is the most appropriate approach."
"Haha, it's not a good habit to lose the initiative to your opponents... Inform those guys that they can go out on the streets freely from tomorrow and make trouble for me. If you see anything that doesn't please you, feel free to take care of it and make trouble for me.
It's enough to show the majesty of Sulfur Mountain City. It's enough if you don't suffer any losses. If you can't defeat it, call for reinforcements. If you still can't defeat it, then escape back to the camp. If the sky falls, I will bear it."
Hearing this, Eliza took a deep breath and looked surprised.
"You let those perverts make trouble at will? Let those single-cell knights take to the streets to enforce the law? Let those legal fanatics take to the streets to preach? You know that this city is completely different from our sulfur mountain city. There are evil deeds everywhere. Once they
If the riot continues, it will definitely be unstoppable. Are you planning to demolish Vitan City directly?"
"The strong are respected in the underground world, and no one listens to the voice of the weak. I am just introducing myself through actions. How about I bring those bastards here to eat? By the way, let the engineers prepare the Roland series for attack.
Be prepared to leave a few pilots on standby to provide support at any time. Tsk, those old stubborns who refuse to change their names, this name is really awkward."
"...I understand, so, how should we deal with that Victoria?"
"Let's clean up first and then talk."
"Okay, I will clean her and tie her to your bed. However, you seem to be in poor health and I'm afraid you won't be able to enjoy it. Do you need me to contact the human supplies store to purchase some props?"
"Stop talking, you know what I mean."
The goodwill of the dark elves? If these two words are combined together, the entire underground world will be a joke. The dark elves are proud of betrayal and deception. It would be strange if there is no problem with their gifts.
However, even if Victoria has a problem, it is not impossible to solve. Since the person sent is a living person, then it is nothing more than a dead body that may betray at any time, or a living bomb that may explode at any time, leaving Victoria to obey the orders of the original owner.
, is nothing more than a magical contract, coercion from relatives and friends, and other means.
The magic contract and curse can be erased, the fuse of the bomb can be removed, and the relatives and friends who have become hostages can help to recapture it. The so-called cleansing is a common spy term. It is nothing more than asking her to spit out all the secrets and see if she can be rescued.
Possibly, if transformation is possible, try to transform the enemy's spies into your own forces.
"You are really caring. I thought you would directly order the eradication of the unrest. It would be too easy for her to die in an accident. Her stupid sister should not be able to influence your will. Could it be that you really learned how to do it?
Do you feel pity for the beauty?"
If it were normal, I would naturally erase such a "gift" of unknown origin without hesitation to avoid future troubles. But it would be a pity if the Queen Victoria in history disappeared like this. Moreover, since I am now
Realizing that I had ignored Diana's potential, I naturally would not let her go to waste anymore. She might become a very useful thug in the future. It would be uneconomical to form a deadly feud now.
But these things are really difficult to explain to Eliza. Pretending to be a catastrophe prophet is already the limit. It is too much for a magician to predict a stranger's potential to become an epic hero. Well, it is definitely not because it is too troublesome to explain, so I asked
I came up with a bunch of reasons, so I said haha.
"Don't be stupid, you know there is a man there, and I, the Lich Roland, am definitely not a gay."
"Huh, who knows."
Even so, judging from the way the bow-tied tail swayed when he left...
"Eliza is in a good mood. Well, maybe, since the previous inventory was found to be in trouble sooner or later, she should go to the underground book collection in Wetan City to replenish some supplies. Since she is in a good mood, maybe even if she sees it, she will let it go.
......."
What? Spineless and no pursuit? I also want to have pursuit, but now besides having an eye addiction, what else can I do...
I looked at this strange and empty room, feeling inexplicably lonely. I shook my head helplessly and opened the window. There was a light outside.
"Conspiracy and conspiracy are never the right path, but it's a pity that we don't have enough power now."
In the final analysis, the strength is still insufficient. The total combat strength of the mission is only these five or six legends. However, after hundreds of years of accumulation and full mobilization by the overlords, four to five hundred legendary city lords can still be used.
Yes, if we really go head-to-head, we will be the ones who suffer.
The only top combat power we have available here is Xiao Hong, while there are four underground overlords on the opposite side, and there are even more existences of the same level.
"If Adam and Margaret are here... no, even if they leave their work of guarding the Sulfur Mountain and detecting the seal of the God of Fire Elemental and really come here, then standing out from the crowd is not a good thing for the crane.
Too much strength and alien status will make us hostile and besieged from the beginning."
"Adam's idiot can't act at all, and Margaret doesn't bother to compromise. In the end, it's almost likely to end in an all-out war. Now it's the best option to stay in the rear as a deterrent to prevent the old lion and dragon from getting tough later.
Hey, it would be nice to have two more top-level combatants."
When I complained about the lack of combat power, I didn't realize that this was not the old house I was familiar with. There was a small secret room in the vacant room on the left, where I could view it unilaterally through the peephole left by the original owner.
Listen to the situation in this study...
"What should I do!! Lord Sleepless Man is actually the bad lich Roland. He accidentally heard a huge secret. Will Momo be silenced? Momo doesn't want it. Momo hasn't saved enough dowry to marry her husband.
."
This secret room was discovered by Momo when she was in charge of the investigation. However, she regarded it as an unexpected surprise and not only did she not report it, but she stayed here for her own leisure time and snacks.
On the other side of the secret room, Diana's face was full of shock. She was originally just worried about her brother, but Momo told her that there was a way to know what they were talking about. Momo took her to the small secret room she discovered and eavesdropped, but she discovered such an explosive secret.
.
"No wonder Roland has never been caught. No wonder Roland is always on the verge of punishment... What should we do?"
But soon, thinking of the city that he and his companions considered home, the future Knight of the Moon made up his mind.
"The majestic and wise Sleepless Man is the center and foundation of the judicial system. There must be no problems...Momo. This matter must not be leaked! Absolutely!!"
In the empty underground passage, the sound of sneezing echoed in the rock wall and spread far away.
"What's wrong? Adang, you still have a cold?" The speaker was a female elf riding a tall bone horse. Her gorgeous robes were dragged from the horse's body to the ground. Her black and white inverted eyes were indescribably weird.
Lying on a wicker chair on the back of a bone horse and reading a book, his leisurely and contented demeanor is particularly eye-catching. It is better to say that he is on a journey than on vacation.
The slow-moving bone horse is obviously not a mortal thing. It is more than three meters high, leaving frosty hoof prints on the ground it walks on. But at this moment, the Bone Dragon Queen Gloria, who used to be calm and unfazed by the sky, was surprised by her usual strength.
It's ridiculous that healthy companions can catch colds.
"Dad is thinking about Adang, Dad needs Adang, and Adang is going to see Dad."
The speaker was a short dwarf with acne on his face and a chicken leg-shaped food in his mouth.
His eyes were dull, and his saliva kept falling to the ground as he walked. He didn't look very smart, but he obviously only had two little feet, and he seemed to be walking normally. From time to time, he stopped to pick up stones and knock away bird's nests, but he walked very well.
Faster than a tall and boned horse.
"Really? It seems that what Reinhard said is true. As the first undead created by the Emperor himself, in a sense, you are also the eldest son of the Emperor. You should have some kind of relationship with the Emperor.
Contact...Emperor, no, your dad is there, are you sure?"
"Down there! Adam can feel it, right down there!"
"Haha, that's good. After passing this fortress, it shouldn't be far away, is it the Vitan of the Underground Covenant? We just received the information that Ramsden and the others have arrived. We have to hurry up. How about your dad?
You might suffer a loss."
"Whoever dares to bully Abba, Adang will beat him! Whoever dares to stop Adang from going to see Abba, Adang will eat him!!"
The dwarf's voice is quite similar to that of a human child. The threat of the milky voice does not seem to be that powerful, but Gloria knows that even if it is the legendary Dragon Queen Moriel who is blocking the way, Adam will definitely say
If you do it right, if you eat her, you won't leave a single scale behind.
Not far away is the granite fortress of the underground passage. It was a checkpoint set up by the master of the nearby underground city. In the past, it was also responsible for collecting tolls, but today, it is full of fully armed orc soldiers.
The two of them had just approached the shooter's alert range, and the next moment, the searchlight came over.
"Who is it? This is a state of emergency. According to the order of the Beast King, all underground passages are closed. No matter who you are or why you came to the underground world, please return the way you came."
Gloria looked at the lion orcs leading the team in front of her, and found no special person, and then lay back on the wicker chair boredly. She knew that Adang had been hungry for too long after eating in the dungeon.
In front of Adang, she had no chance to take action.
"Adam is hungry, Adam wants to eat meat!!"
Seeing the little dwarf running and jumping towards him, the lion official raised his giant sword in both hands vigilantly.
"Don't come over, stand there and don't move!!!"
But obviously, the little dwarf was still moving forward. The lion leader raised his right hand and made a gesture to signal the archer to release the arrow, and then...
Nothing more...
In the distortion, the dwarf disappeared, leaving only the remaining hind legs of the dragon.
"Ahhhh! What kind of monster is this!!"
In the spreading black fog, the largest black shadow filled the entire passage. The giant monster beyond imagination came from nightmare to reality, but the orc soldiers who were extremely frightened had nowhere to escape.
A minute later, when everything calmed down, there was only a big pit left... Yes, the granite fortress and the orcs in it had disappeared without a trace. The only thing left was
A big hole.
"How's it going? Is it delicious?"
"It's a bit hard, and it's a bit toothy...it's not delicious, it's not delicious, A-Dang wants to eat something delicious!"
"Well, then go to Weitan, your next canteen is waiting for you."
