Fishing Druid in Another World
Chapter 340: Ending War with War
Although Priest Luo seemed aloof and inhumane, Baron Edman spoke highly of him behind his back.
He said this to his heir: "This man's arrogant and scornful attitude can indeed hurt people's hearts. But we all know that we have long been used to similar situations.
Big shots and powerful people, which one doesn't have his or her own character, and which one doesn't boss around and tell the truth?
This person is already relatively easy to get along with. At least he is willing to find some excuses to cover up the fact that he treats us as nobodies.
What's more important is that his approach erased the idea of 'repaying a favor' that I had always been worried about. Not only did it erase it, but it also did the opposite, allowing both of us to stay calm.
Immediate perception and later recall have fewer perceptual components, making it easier to make rational decisions.
Although rationality often brings some undesirable effects, such as being unsentimental, unjust, and ungrateful, one good thing is that decisions made at this time can maintain long-term recognition.
Those decisions that were made with slaps on the forehead are regretted endlessly afterwards. Even if you stubbornly follow through, there will be scars in your heart. Every time you recall it, it will be torn apart.
This is not a good thing. The intensification of conflicts between us and others is often due to too much accumulation of this kind.
Analyzed from this perspective, Sir Tatus's seemingly inhumane handling method actually appears to be wise.
What I want to say is that the balance between gains and losses is quite interesting. I hope you can think about it more when encountering problems in the future..."
How Baron Edman raises his son has nothing to do with Reverend Luo, and he doesn't care.
He lives a more self-contained life, and his ability to connect with people and things is just the temperament and three views inherited from Luo Bo. It can be regarded as a manifestation of "although it has been diluted repeatedly, the inertia still exists".
On his side, with the establishment of the Living Corpse Legion, the Corpse Witch Team, and the Bone Sword Guards Team, the number of people has increased.
The spellcasters in the invading mixed army, even those with spellcasting talents, were transformed into corpse witches. Among them was the Aurora spellcaster who had fired a thunder column and was once surrounded by two sword guards.
There are two more named corpse witches, namely Liszt and Custer.
Ai, Ao, Li, and Ka, the four sters formed the high-level council of the Corpse Witch. Kesar is still the leader. Even if it is purely based on strength, no one can threaten his status so far.
The number of ordinary corpse witches has increased by 64, nearly 2,000. It can only be said that with the diet and cultural level of the barbarians, it is difficult to raise enough potential casters. The number of shamans in each tribe has not been increased, and it is difficult to increase the number of shamans in each tribe. related to it.
3+68, these are the current members of the Corpse Witch team.
There were enough Bone Sword Guards and Ax Guards, and more than three hundred were selected. The barbarians were rich in warriors, and after transformation, they were all Ax Guards. This was affected by the remaining memories of their lives.
The Bone Sword Guards mainly come from the renegade defenders of Kroni Star Fortress.
Priest Luo simply separated the two types of guards.
The Ax Guard serves as the officer of the Living Corpse Puppet Army, and the Sword Guard serves as his personal bodyguard.
After this wave of twists and turns, the consumption of extraordinary power is upside down, and it still cannot meet the armor needs of all the Bone Guards. We can only pay attention to it temporarily and think of a solution later.
Since there will be another battle soon, it seems that Priest Luo can no longer be a nanny even if he wants to.
Mainly because I can't bear to let the puppet soldiers fight with bare hands, it's too inefficient.
The army is marching, the Demon Feather Crow is scouting, and Priest Luo has already made contact with Yoannis.
Specifically, it was accomplished by relying on the Demonic Feathered Crow as a signal relay.
Long before he accepted the commission from Archduke Malos to transmit Magic Enclosure No. 1 from Meisana Star Castle, he had a group of Demonic Feather Crows depart from Meisana and fly to Baron Edman's Castle.
With the intelligence of the modified Magic Feather Crow, it is possible to patrol in a roughly designated area, which becomes a temporary communication relay station.
Then they were laid out one by one. When Priest Luo dealt with the invading mixed army, the Demon Feather Crow communication relay chain was almost completed.
It is dynamic and can continuously receive new orders from priest Luo and adjust.
In this way, ultra-long-distance communication can always be maintained, and the communication effect will even get better and better until it reaches a certain upper limit.
The purpose of Priest Luo’s communication with Yeioani was also simple. On the one hand, it was to inform him of the latest progress of his actions, and on the other hand, he was to submit a new round of transaction applications.
The zombie puppets are sold in exchange for the empty riding storage box service of the Order Spire, extraordinary supplies, as well as the fodder, soybean meal, and even a certain number of raw eggs needed by the hairy wildebeest.
There are also tents, camping equipment, prefabricated parts, etc.
The invading mixed group adopted a do-or-die attitude. They rested in Castle Cronny on the first night and planned to stay at Edman Castle on the second night. Unfortunately, they also massacred a larger farm nearby and spent the night there. The Living Corpse Legion cannot do this.
Moreover, they occupy the word "living". Although they are easier to maintain and manage than living people, they still need to take care of the basic needs of living creatures to a certain extent to prevent their functions from shutting down.
In short, in this regard, if you are not willing to spend a small amount of money, then you have to spend money. Treatment is a big money, and strengthening is also a big money. Now that money is scarce, you have to find a way to get through this rising period of spending money everywhere.
When Yoannis heard about the situation on Priest Luo's side, he was naturally amazed and happy.
In fact, he is short of money now and has already sold out the goods. However, he has strong connections and is willing to use his own reputation as collateral to raise the money and goods needed by Pastor Luo.
What's more, he couldn't enjoy the money by himself after making so much money. He had contacted his teacher, hoping that he could take the lead and represent the Order Spire to formalize and long-termize the business of combat puppets with Priest Luo.
Although this cannot be said to be a win-win situation, it will make the organization profitable, and he and his teacher will gain both fame and fortune, and there will be no subsequent troubles. This is the right way of the world.
The world is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and interests.
Ioanni is also a man in his 40s. He is usually well-informed and has seen the world. He still understands this principle.
The zombie army is more active and powerful at night, and the spear wildebeests will suffer more. Anyway, they don't need to be overloaded. All members of the zombie army walk, so this army can work day and night.
The corpse witches also buffed the whole group to make them more capable of walking.
Therefore, at about 17:00 in the afternoon of the next day, the army arrived at the Kroni Star Fortress.
The star fortress was deserted, and a fire was set inside. Most of the buildings collapsed, but the overall outline was still intact and solid.
This problem was nothing to Pastor Luo.
The air cavalry reserve box service that he had booked with Yoani had also arrived. Considering that this would be the northern edge of the Free Earldom in the future, it was obvious that Grand Duke Malos deliberately let him get involved in the northern border defense line to try to revitalize this defense line.
He didn't mind this little calculation, so he prepared to make major changes and rebuild the Kroni Star Fortress.
This time he didn't play the game of turning mud into stone, but used ice and snow as the main material.
Stones were used, which were those dismantled from Kroni Castle.
In addition, non-ferrous metals mined during the gold mining in Enom Territory and later were also used.
Simply put, it is to use metal as tendons to penetrate into stones, turning mud into stone, improving the quality of rocks, from limestone to granite, and at the same time having certain concrete characteristics.
Such a stone system, together with the rocky ground, builds a solid framework, just like a modern high-rise building.
However, this building does not have aerated walls, nor does it need to be plastered and tiled. Instead, it is built with snow walls, which are constantly compressed and condensed into ice. At the same time, rune stones are added to make the entire wall part of a large magic circle.
Finally, the inside and outside are coated, and the main purpose is to insulate.
Because there are dozens of corpse wizards to assist, and all puppets are temporarily used as coolies, so in one day and two nights, the outer wall rises from the ground, and the main body of the super-gun tower-like ice fortress is fully completed.
This is not just because Priest Luo is ambitious and does this miracle project to please himself.
On the one hand, the Magic Feather Crow's reconnaissance of the Frost Wind Grassland will take time to complete.
On the other hand, he is building a giant dark well to facilitate the absorption of extraordinary power.
Darkness, filth, evil... Well, these are indeed conducive to the acquisition of the power of death. If no one sees it, and the evil is done behind closed doors, even if this ice fortress is turned into a slaughterhouse or a torture chamber, no one can do anything about it, and out of sight, out of mind.
So it makes sense that the dead and the living should not live in the same country.
The zombie army will be transformed into a magic army in the future, which involves the magic refining technology of the Blood Moon Cult that Hei Luobo encountered when he first came to this universe in the misty world.
Of course, Hei Luobo has turned it into a part of his own technology, a branch.
Once the zombies are transformed into magic corpses, they are definitely advanced and elite infantry.
However, there is no condition and time to raise soldiers at present, but 500 are sold directly, and only 700 zombies are left.
Seven hundred zombies, three hundred undead coolies, more than two hundred axe guards, 40 corpse wizards, and the semi-master-level (14) corpse wizards Lister and Caster guarded the Ice Fortress. While taking on the responsibility of guarding, they also completed the detailed construction of the fortress's interior.
Interestingly, along with the air cavalry reserve box service, there was also a group of wizards from the Order Spire.
The Order Spire has a large stall, and manpower is still very valuable.
The fact that he was able to come here this time is secondary to the rapid rise of Priest Luo in the series time and the rapid increase in influence. After all, the Order Spire has long been accustomed to grand narratives, and its vision is not just about one country or one place.
What really makes the Order Spire value Priest Luo is his sense of order, strong control, and personal style of necromancy system technology.
The technology of using the power of death as a supernatural energy source is not rare in this world. During the period when Priest Luo continued to show off in the northern border, the Lord of the Undead was making a lot of trouble in the Great Swamp area in the southeast. It has been more than two years, and it has not stopped. Instead, it has intensified.
It is precisely because of the strong sense of contrast that the Order Spire is willing to observe and study.
Another reason is that as Yoani led his own mentor and even the Order Spire to make money together, the invisible barriers were broken.
The sense of boundaries among mages is actually quite strong, especially those who are famous. They each have their own business and will ask for help when they need it. They are afraid of others interfering.
In the Grand Duchy of Malos, Yoani has been in charge since the redemption of the fire mage. If Yoani does not mention it, there will be no mages from other Order Spires interfering.
Now that Yoani has spoken, this group of mages took the opportunity to appear.
Priest Luo allowed them to inspect and select the goods, specifically the 500 zombies for sale.
The mages naturally have the ability to distinguish, and they didn't just pick the good ones, but brought in some of all grades.
Because the Order Spire didn't focus on how powerful these zombies were.
The difference in combat power between picking the best and picking the worst is a big deal in the eyes of ordinary lords, but it is nothing in their eyes.
They pay more attention to the relevant technology, and these zombies are just test subjects.
They will be sent to the Great Swamp for a full range of tests, including testing whether they will be controlled by the necromancers there.
As a result, while handling this matter, I witnessed the construction of the Ice Fortress and was immediately shocked. I applied to stay and continue to observe. After all, I have seen it all, and it is best to see the whole set.
The current Ice Fortress is basically an empty shell. The high walls, magic circles, and central magic tower are gone. People are still living in tents, and the magic tower has not been folded in space.
Next, the barracks and functional facilities will be built on platforms extending from the high walls. The dual systems of stairs and elevators will connect these platforms, and the central venue will be empty.
Wells must look like wells. This is not just a simple name, but the dark well has a basic design logic. Postures and rituals are very important. They must conform to the concept of a well in order to efficiently absorb and utilize the power of darkness.
In fact, the construction army has spoken with facts. The ice has turned into a mysterious color, just like the night sky with bright stars, dark blue and deep.
This kind of ice first paved the floor inside the Ice Fortress with the effect of mirror marble floor, and then began to condense energy crystals near the central magic tower.
By this time, the wizards of the Order Spire have confirmed that the entire Ice Fortress is a super-large negative energy pool of the wizard tower, with super efficiency and controllability.
It is precisely because it is controllable that it will not have a negative impact on the creatures inside.
This is something that many magic towers cannot do.
Although the world is composed of four elements, including the variants of the four elements in the bodies of creatures, the four elements themselves will still have a strong impact on people's body and mind, breaking their physiological and even psychological balance, and then causing tragedies.
Therefore, even for mages with strong souls and professional knowledge and technology to resist and control supernatural powers, the magic tower is a dangerous workplace.
Not to mention negative energy.
For thousands of years, the impact of negative energy on people can be summarized in one sentence: no matter who touches it, they will either go crazy or die.
Gods can't stand playing with negative energy for a long time, their minds will be distorted, and their duties will be affected. Not to mention supernatural beings.
However, Priest Luo showed a seemingly highly controllable path.
Mages who have always been curious and eager to learn naturally want to find out how Priest Luo controls darkness and tames death.
Priest Luo doesn't care. As a member of the Hangbi, he knows very well that the Old Ones are the core of all magic, and the rest are just supporting roles.
These mages have got the wrong direction, and even if they are willing to study hard, it is difficult to threaten him.
What's more, he doesn't think that with the scale of the Order Spire, it is capable of promoting the development of a certain supernatural field technology in a short period of time.
They were just a bunch of copycats, and they copied the homework he wanted them to copy. What was he afraid of?
So, the wizard group of the Order Spire was left in the Ice Fortress as curious babies. He personally led more than a hundred bone sword guards and 28 corpse wizards led by Kosar to start the Frost Wind Sweep.
It was the sixth day after the Battle of Baron Edelman Castle. This time, all members of the sweep team had mounts and a logistics team.
In addition, both mounts and vehicles were blessed with spells that were conducive to walking.
For this purpose, Priest Luo specially switched his lower body and used the body with the life wizard and earth shaman to create two magic tools, so that he could cast several relatively fixed spells.
In fact, this body can also use this kind of magic, like Black Robo and even Robo of the Cult, who can cast spells at will, using whatever they need, and rarely worrying about trivial issues.
But priest Luo was troubled by the ability to absorb extraordinary power, so he had to calculate the economic account. It was not cheap to raise soldiers, and it was also expensive to maintain the buff aura effect for a long time. Saving money was making money.
He had a clear goal and planned the route. After two days and nights of continuous marching, he arrived at the first stop without any setbacks.
When the people of the Snow Moss Tribe saw the white-bone regiment soldiers in the scattered array, they were stunned.
The tribes on the Frost Wind Grassland did not live in a peaceful state.
On the contrary, the fighting between tribes almost never stopped.
The fight for grassland was actually secondary. Although the so-called civilized forces represented by Grand Duke Malos had been expanding northward, the Frost Wind Grassland still had enough vast land to feed the nomadic tribes living here.
What really needed to be fought for was extraordinary specialties.
Extraordinary brought more vigorous vitality to the world. Even the Frost Wind Grassland, which was hot in summer and cold in winter, had dense vegetation and the grass was like leeks. The faster you eat, the faster you grow.
But the extraordinary also brings higher intensity and fierce fighting.
Without enough extraordinary specialties, the tribe cannot produce enough high-end military forces, will be conquered, become slaves of other tribes, and lose their own heritage and culture.
Living is indeed important, but there must always be some thoughts. If living is completely for others to live better, then this life is too boring.
In order to avoid being conquered and enslaved, each tribe is very hard in military armament and obtaining extraordinary materials.
Over time, they developed their own set of violent systems, which naturally included reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance.
So, although the tribe did not have high walls and towers, it was not without defenses, and they did not know how to build sentry towers for vigilance.
But now, at least the facts have proved that their vigilance has failed, and the unknown military force has already arrived at the city, and they are facing it ignorantly.
After a brief panic, they soon went their own way. All the young and strong men and women were armed and assembled, and the old and young served as logistics personnel. Although it was not as orderly and efficient as the military camp, it seemed a bit messy, but there was order in the chaos, revealing a wonderful rhythm.
However, Priest Luo was too lazy to pay attention to the performance of the Snow Moss Tribe. This was a crushing game, and kindness was not the main label.
Priest Luo was suspended in the air, and the words of his heart roared in the hearts of every Snow Moss Barbarian: "Unconditional surrender, or death. Those who surrender, put down their weapons, hold their heads and kneel on the ground."
The response of the Snow Moss Barbarians was angry roars and a burst of shooting with the eagle bow.
It was impossible to hurt a hair of Priest Luo. Priest Luo used the death ray to fulfill his words and respect for the unyielding.
Seventeen Snow Moss Barbarians died without resistance. No matter howling to encourage courage or anger, it was meaningless. Instead, it seemed awkward and a little tragic.
‘Boom!’ The front hooves trampled the muddy and snowy ground. The cavalry of the Snow Moss Barbarians assembled and launched an assault. They wanted to break through the enemy’s seemingly thin and converging scattered lines and seek a gap for the evacuation of the tribe.
What greeted them was the poisonous green plague wind. The corpse witches scattered throughout the encirclement were amplified by the bone staff and linked horizontally through the unique soul-shaming effect. One person’s spell was cast by all.
The condition for soul-shaming is that all have the characteristics of puppets’ pseudo-souls and the characteristics of group consciousness. To use an old saying from StarCraft: Kara connects us.
With one heart and one mind, each of them is a gear that constitutes the group chariot, so there is no strong or weak part.
The wind of plague surged like a torrent. Although the Snow Moss Barbarian Cavalry had the blessing of the shaman, they still staggered and fell to the ground with their horses, and the army was defeated.
The most crucial battle ended just like that. The most elite people in the entire tribe were killed or injured by a range spell.
The main reason was that the strength of the priest Luo was too strong. The wind of plague was completed by the wind dragon, and the power was concentrated and lingered back and forth. From the perspective of the game, this was a torrent-like combo, and the damage numbers were floating in a string. The blood volume of the boss level could not withstand such a hard brush!
The main battle was over, and sporadic resistance still existed.
Never underestimate the brain circuit of the illiterate. Some people are super emotional or crazy, and they launch a desperate counterattack out of the ordinary, hoping to play the limit one for one.
Priest Luo naturally didn't indulge these people. He directly extracted souls on the spot, letting the Snow Moss Barbarians see that death is not the worst. The soul was exploded and refined, and could not go to the place where the ancestral souls in their culture lived, but could only completely perish. How cruel it was.
This operation completely broke the spiritual backbone of the Snow Moss Barbarians. Their spiritual leader Shaman shouted and cursed at the top of his lungs and martyred himself.
What made them even more desperate was that Priest Luo turned around and increased the intensity again, grabbing the soul of the shaman back and stuffing it into his body, and at this time, his body had become a cage.
In the words of Priest Luo: "You want to be righteous, but I won't allow it. You will become a prisoner who has lost all your perception abilities, and I have plenty of time to wait for you to surrender, or completely collapse and annihilate."
The next step is a large-scale transformation ceremony.
The dead are all transformed into corpse puppets.
Corpse puppets are undead heavy infantry without heavy armor.
The first batch of puppets in Enom are this kind of puppets.
The reason for doing this is simple. On the one hand, the elite barbarians have good physical fitness and have bonuses during the transformation process. It would be a pity not to use them.
On the other hand, there are not so many extraordinary powers and materials to arm them, so they become this kind of high-level coolie.
Of course, from the perspective of rituals and the release of negative emotional power caused by killing hundreds of people at one time, it would be a pity not to use them to absorb a wave of death power.
Therefore, along with the transformation ceremony, there is also an energy absorption ceremony. It looks quite dark, but in fact, due to effective control, it does not cause magical pollution. The snow and winter grass outside the Snow Moss Tribe camp are white and green.
Now that the coolies are there, the next step is a major demolition of the camp.
With high-end and systematic technology as a foundation, Priest Luo's utilization rate of materials is much higher than that of these barbarians.
To give an example of a characteristic detail, many satisfied tents and utensils have the emotional power of the user because of long-term use and compliance.
Even passed down from ancestors and fathers. Priest Luo can make full use of this kind of material. Not to mention the totem objects worshipped by everyone.
For Priest Luo, such totem objects are another kind of treasury treasure. The mixed power of the will of all, which he cannot absorb himself, can be used when creating a pseudo-soul.
There is also the strengthening of certain special souls.
Like the chief corpse wizard Kosar, the sword guard leader Aseron, and the four quasi-master-level "sters", they are all strengthened by such resources.
So, the residual soul, the power of the will of all, and the existence of the ghost of the spirit figurine, the core means of the soul wizard, are all used to add wisdom to the puppets and give birth to the backbone members of wisdom.
While squeezing the killing bonus, Priest Luo switched his body and gave the Snow Moss Barbarians a wave of group treatment.
The health of cattle and sheep is also very important. Under this condition, Priest Luo does not mind investing in it at the right time.
Of course, it is not just a gift. For example, those who are in a bad state will be killed directly.
This behavior of maximizing the use of a living life is indeed very cold-blooded and cruel, and very characteristic of a businessman, but Priest Luo does not feel ashamed, but rather a little complacent.
Because under normal circumstances, killing and war are always accompanied by the destruction of lives and wealth, and great waste. And many of them are non-renewable resources.
The essential purpose of war and killing is the competition for various resources and wealth, and the resolution of conflicts caused by them (if the problem cannot be solved, the person who caused the problem will be solved, including the loss of people in his own camp).
In this context, is his behavior equivalent to controlling the damage caused by violence when the contradiction is irreconcilable and must resort to force?
Further inference, if the competition for resources and wealth has a set goal, then with less loss and greater benefits, can the goal be achieved earlier?
The wealth that could only be seized by destroying a country can now be completed by destroying a place. Isn't this a disguised form of kindness?
Of course, some people may say that this so-called kindness is hypocritical and unjust.
But Pastor Luo thinks it is meaningful.
Saying that this kind of kindness is hypocritical and unjust is a conclusion drawn from the perspective of the national and ethnic groups.
Pastor Luo thinks it is meaningful because it is a conclusion drawn from the perspective of life.
There is a warning saying that the rise and fall of a country are all the suffering of the people.
Pastor Luo agrees with this statement.
Therefore, although his actions were unjust and cruel to lives, and his specific behavior was so low in moral standards that it was outrageous, he himself was a little proud.
Specifically, because he had a hang, he was doing something related to the rise and fall of the population, but he was able to reduce the suffering of the people to a very low level and turn bloodshed into labor pains.
Imagine, in this northern border, what would it be like if the kingdom and the barbarians continued to fight for hundreds of years?
How many people would die? How much wealth would be consumed?
A general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of people. He only needed thousands of bones to succeed.
How many bones are needed to satisfy the many military nobles in the kingdom who hope to make a fortune and glorify themselves and their families through war, as well as the chiefs and shamans (spiritual leaders) in the tribe who hope to stand out?
How many bones will be lost in the context of the rulers playing the redemption game?
Of course, he did not do this out of compassion for the world, wanting to end the war, and for the long-term well-being of the vast number of living beings.
He never thought of whitewashing his cruel behavior.
If there is any saying, it is just a complaint: There are no good rulers. Some are just robbers and villains, and some are liars and thieves.
The former is him, and the latter is the king and the nobles, whitewashing themselves, stealing power, and enslaving the people, but they also want the enslaved objects to be grateful and sing praises, which is shameless...
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