At the coalition headquarters camp, the legion commanders, knights, and nobles sitting outside glared at Nicholas's entourage with gnashing of teeth and hatred, and only used their eyes to eat these guys who had fallen to the point of betraying the Lich alive.
The high priests, archbishops, and cardinals sitting inside were happy and cheerful, treating the famous evil creature, the sleepless one who blasphemed death—the lich, with the same kindness and warmth as if they were their relatives.
A cardinal from the Holy See of Light gestured with a giant map, lightly drew a pen on the sheepskin-textured map, and emphasized in an emphatic tone: "Mr. Nicholas, tell your master that you can only go here at most, and you can only go here at most.
Going forward, the church will have no way to explain."
Nicholas also seemed very calm and low-key. He first bowed to show respect to the Cardinal Archbishop, then he came to the map and looked silently at the arc-shaped red line drawn on it.
This is much larger territory than the territory occupied by players now.
It almost encompasses dozens of nobles and lords, including the former Kingdom of Kane, the County of Morocco, and the Dukedom of Hiltester, and their territories add up to millions of square kilometers.
Of course, on a huge map, on a vast continent, and in front of a civilized world that dominates all the essence of the entire continent, this territory is nothing.
They are also famous as remote places.
It's close to the abandoned wasteland. It turns out that the nobles who were enfeoffed here were all country folk. They were despised by the nobles in the colorful world. It was the base camp for adventurers, slave-catching teams and slave traders. The most developed trade was the slave trade.
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If this territory comes true, it will almost separate the abandoned wasteland and the civilized world. The future Norman Grand Duchy will become the connection between the abandoned wasteland and the civilized world. If it is managed properly, it is not without potential.
Nicholas has no doubt at all about the business ability of the person behind him. It is precisely because of his strength that these guys who have a higher eye than the top are so kind and cheerful.
——It’s just that the price is too high.
Both sides were just trying to test and declare force. Countless people risked their lives for it. Countless loyal knights and believers lost their lives. It is said that even their souls were...
That man is so bold, how dare he, how dare he.
However, what shocked Nicholas was that the church actually tolerated it. The gods actually showed no sign of this blatant act of intercepting the souls of believers. There was neither divine punishment nor punishment for the next generation of angels. So they just acquiesced?
"I need to go back and report, Your Majesty.", the lich replied.
"He will be satisfied!" the Archcardinal of the Holy See of Light said firmly.
"I hope so!" Lich also agreed with this plan.
The guest from Xiaomoyuan, who acted as the middleman, took the opportunity to raise his glass and said with a smile: "Then can we celebrate in advance...for the hard-won peace?"
The senior clergy responded reservedly and raised their glasses one after another, "What else have you forgotten, Your Excellency Archmage Mo's."
"Oh?" The great mage from Little Demon Abyss, the director of the mages' joint conference, turned around pretending to be surprised and looked at the lich.
"And our Norman Grand Duke!" said a cardinal from the Church of the Mother Earth.
"Yes, and our Norman Grand Duke... Let's drink to this Duke who has returned from his lost ways!"
"cheers!"
The Lich was a little embarrassed, but he still poured the precious wine from another continent into his mouth and smacked his lips.
The atmosphere is even more harmonious.
"Then I will inform the frontline troops that they can retreat right now?"
"Retreat, the children have lost too much blood."
"After this line?"
"Um."
"All right!"
The resolution here is the highest instruction except the oracle. Even the ordinary royal family cannot defy it. The popes of each church are 'mascots', with symbolic meaning. Most of the authority is in the hands of these almost hereditary senior clergy.
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They also have a prestigious organization called the Round Table of 12 Cardinals, which is elected by 12 senior clergy of the major churches who occupy a mainstream position. They rotate every three years and hold the highest authority known as the gods.
Divine power is supreme, but how to use it, how to explain it, how to expand it, how to deepen it... but these people have to interpret it!
However, their positions are almost hereditary.
Hereditary religious authority and theocratic authority are the hotbed and source of corruption. Naturally, the gods will not let it go, but... in the end, it will end without any problem.
The supreme divine authority is facing an invisible opponent this time. This opponent is human nature, secularity, unspoken rules under universal rules, human nature, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. Yes, yes... the list can be continued.
The story is very long, but in the final analysis, the gods summarize it as the bad nature of human beings, caused by the race’s innate nature, and there is no solution.
12 The predecessor of the Round Table Conference has changed several times, and the list has changed one after another. However, this situation and system have remained stubbornly retained, becoming a powerful promoter of the assertion of religious and theocratic rights, becoming the lubricant of the relationship with the secular world, and thus
He holds great invisible power.
Many cardinals and cardinals from different churches still have a competitive relationship. Within each church, they are regarded as rivals and enemies. However, once they sit here, the interests of their own church take second place, so the atmosphere
That's how harmonious it is.
When the Lich walked out of the huge luxurious tent, the legion commanders and nobles outside had already dispersed. It seemed that they were going to organize the retreat of the frontline troops to avoid more meaningless casualties.
With the agreement reached, which can also be said to be the final sincerity and bottom line of the 12 Round Table Conference, the Lich returned to the coverage area of the Magic Network and was immediately teleported to Bei Gaoyang.
Bei Gaoyang looked at the map with red lines on it, pondered for a moment, and said with a smile: "It seems they are very determined?"
"Sir, just accept it if you like!" It was rare for the lich to take the initiative to persuade.
"What do they think of my zombie army?"
"The reviews are very high, but they also see our weaknesses."
"The total strength of the Magic Network is only 6 levels." Bei Gaoyang said in his heart, "What a weakness."
"Safe zone!", the Lich hinted.
Yes, the fourth natural disaster relies heavily on safe zones. Each safe zone can be said to be an 'arterial knot' of the magic network. Destroying one safe zone can push the raging fourth natural disaster to the support range of the next safe zone.
Looking at the Magic Network through the safe zone, although the central hub of the Magic Network cannot be located physically and spatially, people such as archmages, top professionals and high-level clergy can still find it.
Once the central hub of the magic network is...impossible, who in the main material world has such ability, and he is not dead.
"It's not bad!" Bei Gaoyanghun dropped the map carelessly and asked Xiao Ai: "How is the progress of the national server?"
"all the best!"
Xiao Ai is in a different mood again.
Before the fight started, they were on tenterhooks. After the fight started, it seemed that the opponent was not that strong, and could not compare with the intensity of the bloody battle in the abyss. The pseudo-gods of the system, including Xiao Ai, became cautious.
How frightened I was before, how radical I am now.
"Sir, should we involve more operating agents?" Xiao Ai suggested, "The response offline is very strong, maybe you should take a look."
"What request did Yu Qingdong make?" Bei Gaoyang was a little dissatisfied.
"There's nothing he can do, he's just a sounding board!" Xiao Ai rarely said a good word for offline people, "If you don't worry about the scarcity of people, you'll worry about the inequality. European and American servers are about to be established, and the area is so vast. Even the Chinese national server...
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"A bunch of greedy guys!" Bei Gaoyang said helplessly, and then looked at the lich again.
The Lich quickly said: "Sir, you can't provoke the church anymore. Victory is only temporary. Our enemy is not these armies on the surface, but... you should know."
Yes, what the lich said is true.
What Bei Gaoyang was worried about was never the huge number of knights and holy war armies, but the church's high-level combat power accumulated over thousands of years that no one could figure out.
Even the Book of Canaan was stolen from their forbidden vault, and was only ranked 004 in the Twilight Conference's Taboo Index. One can imagine how terrifying this background is.
"Don't cross this red line!" Xiao Ai quickly persuaded, "It's not a good thing for such a vast game map to be concentrated in the hands of one or two operating agents, sir."
The lich stopped talking when he saw this.
"Okay!" Bei Gaoyang predicts that he won't be able to stop in the future. If so many operating agents come into contact with each other, they will annoy him to death?
Fortunately, there is a firewall like Huaguo Canaan's parent company that can filter it out, but more and more operating agents are uneasy about their position, and Bei Gaoyang knows that.
Xiao Ai once reported on the small actions of North American and European operating agents. They tried to bypass China and contact the system or themselves.
Out of consideration to avoid trouble, Bei Gaoyang has always ignored it, just to avoid getting involved in complicated offline interest disputes. However, what the Bei Mi operation agent was planning to do made him unable to ignore it.
This is what he has been busy with recently.
If offline players gather too much, will it trigger a 'projection' of the Magic Network on the earth? The mysterious gathering brought offline by North American players will inevitably grow stronger, and the resulting impact will be able to be tolerated offline.
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The false gods of the system are still adding fuel to the flames, pretending that they don’t know, what a joke, thinking that they don’t know if they are not within the magic network?
Americans have already sent the plan to their offline mailboxes.
——Still don’t give up!
Everyone, including the false god of the system, acts driven by profit, so why isn’t he the same?
"Perhaps you should pay attention to the offline scene. Sir, it is very lively. I should say, it has never been so lively."
"It's nothing more than a live broadcast on the national server..."
"This time is different, sir. It's not China, but the other side of the earth."
"Europe and America?"
"Yes, the occasion is unprecedented."
"Oh, aren't they as accepting as Hua?"
"We have all made mistakes before, sir, you really should understand."
"Then I'll take a look."
——You have to understand the sincerity of the Americans and their determination to do this.
well!
What a contradiction.
Bei Gaoyang thought to himself.
"Dad, Dad, we have captured Highland 103, we have captured Highland 103."
Offline, in the home of an ordinary American family, their 7-year-old son jumped up from the sofa with joy and yelled.
"Damn it!"
His father, a competent and responsible plumber, dropped his tools angrily, wiped his hands with a dirty towel, and stepped onto the stairs.
After leaving the basement workshop, the wife, son, daughter, parents-in-law and their family were still in front of the TV just like yesterday, watching the "Third World War" taking place in the virtual world.
The professional commentator spoke at a speed that even rappers would be ashamed of. The TV screen flashed on the camera footage of people cheering, popping champagne, hugging, and passionately kissing, and finally stopped on the annoying fat face of a politician.
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"This is an epoch-making victory. We are about to capture about 110,000 square kilometers of land. Yes, that's right. In my opinion, online land is more valuable and meaningful than offline land."
"Damn this!"
The father muttered and sat down on the single sofa, while the family impatiently changed the channel so they no longer had to look at the fat face that only spit out shit.
Almost all TV stations are showing this.
"Highland 103, the game name is Crimson Gaoling, is famous for producing a kind of deep red ore. Some experts speculate that it may be caused by the rich iron element in the soil... In short, after taking this highland, the indigenous army's back-up supply line
They were cut off, and if they didn’t want to be annihilated, they had no choice but to retreat.”
"This marks the formation of an irregular oval-shaped linear United States with an area of 101,400 square kilometers, bounded by Crimson Hill, Blade Canyon, Extreme South City and Misty Swamp... This is a major event of extremely extraordinary significance.
, the online territory is sacrosanct and belongs to more than 300 million American citizens, and belongs to each of us..."
"Dad, it belongs to me too!", the 7-year-old son proudly puffed up his chest.
"Hmm...", my father responded perfunctorily.
Isn’t it just a virtual map?
Is it necessary to make such a big fanfare, as if we are really expanding our territory?
I didn't see anyone so happy when they captured the state of Mexico.
What's wrong with people?
Crazy is this?
The father-in-law and mother-in-law in their 70s danced an old-fashioned dance in the living room to celebrate. The wife shouted and opened a bottle of champagne. The son was excitedly calling his classmates, dancing and gesticulating, imagining the day when he won the lottery and set foot on the Internet.
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Have Chinese people ever celebrated like this?
It doesn’t seem like there is?
My father was a little unsure.
It felt like everyone was unusually excited. Could it be that no one was as worried as him?
