Warhammer: Dark Elf

It was almost half past three when Alleria reached the top of the pyramid. There were very few people walking in the empty and silent corridors, only the stern guards stood motionless. The reason why she came here was because of Xir and Anzarez.

It turned out that after leaving the conference room, Xir and Anzares always felt that something was wrong with the Lord's final situation. Thinking of the scene in the Temple of Kane, this speculation became even more uneasy.

But they had just been kicked out, and it was not possible to go back, so they found Alleria, who was teaching her brother magic. Her relationship with Hermer had been made public, and she was the most suitable person to meet Hermer.

The two looked hesitantly and explained what happened at the war meeting, hoping that she would go and see the lord.

So Alleria hurried to the main pyramid. When she opened the door of the conference room, she found a rickety shadow at the lower end of the huge map in the main direction of the hall.

There are no lights here, only a beam of sunlight from outside the window lattice shines into the hall and falls in front of the shadow.

The light and shadow were clear, and he was huddled in the corner, separated from the long black shadow cast by the map in the darkness.

A long scarlet blood stain was extremely dazzling under the reflection of the sun. A long sword stood next to the greaves. Helmer stared at his cut left arm, his deep and bright eyes becoming blurry. The hall was quiet, no sound could be heard except his breathing.

Alleria couldn't help but feel surprised and angry after witnessing this scene. He actually hid in the room and harmed himself.

"Hemo..." She put a hand on his injured hand and poured Ji Yilan's strength into it, and asked softly: "Why do you do this to yourself?"

When she got closer, she looked up and saw the groggy face in the shadow, and she suddenly became a little distracted.

He has always been extremely energetic, looking in high spirits at all times. He has never been so lost.

The hideous wound was scarred in the fluorescent light, finally sealing the blood that flowed freely. Alleria pushed Hemo's shoulder, and he frowned and shook his head. She shook him again, but he still just frowned.

"Hermer! Why do you do this?" Alleria asked angrily when she received no response.

Injuring yourself is the most foolish and useless thing to do, and only the weakest people do it.

Alleria didn't believe he would do this.

Being questioned fiercely, Helmer raised his red eyes and looked blankly at the delicate face of the girl in front of him. His voice was hoarse and full of loss, "If I don't do this, I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself. She's been staring at me all the time. Follow me and never leave... If you lose your mind even a little bit, you may fall into the abyss of eternal destruction."

"What can I do...I have no choice but to do this. What a failure..."

Few people knew that there was a demon hiding inside him, and Alleria was one of them.

She knew who Hemo was talking about, her eyes paused, and she didn't know how to comfort him, so she had to hug him, her soft blond hair clinging to the side of Hemo's face.

Feeling the familiar fragrance, she heard him murmur abruptly, "It would be great if we were in the old world now."

"Old World...why do you think so?"

Alleria couldn't help but look puzzled. She had never been to the old world, and her impression of it was of friendly humans and cruel greenskins.

Bretonnian merchants are keen on sea trade. They often come to the ports of the Kingdom of Yris to exchange local specialties for the elves' goods, and then return to Bretonnia with these expensive items, making a lot of money. The greenskins have attacked the Kingdom of Yris more than once, and even burned the inner city of Tal Yris to rubble. Their brutal behavior left a deep impression on Alleria.

Other than that, Alleria's impression of the old world was only the outline of a map.

Judging from Hemo's tone, it seems that he has been to the old world?

"At least there are opponents that I can challenge, be it humans, greenskins, or dwarves. I can fight whoever I want without being constrained everywhere. But here, every step I take is like walking on thin ice and fighting. Hehe. A series of seemingly thorough and feasible plans originally made can be easily shattered by others with just a slap on the hand."

"I want to capture Lustria but I can't even take the first step. Is it ridiculous?"

Alleria listened to Helmer's decadent words, held his cheek in her hands, and looked at him, "Why must we kill Lustria?"

"Time is not waiting for me, Alleria. If I want to have my own kingdom, I must expand. To the north is Naggaros, to the east is Ulsuen Island, and to the south to fight Lustria is the only way out now."

"Listen to me, Helmer. There's no need to be in such a hurry."

"No, you don't understand." I can't tell her that this world will be destroyed in less than a hundred years. Will she believe it? If you want to survive at the end of the day, you must try your best to become stronger. That's why he is so anxious to expand his power.

"Yes, I don't understand war, but I understand that the authorities are blind to the beholder. You are too anxious, Hermer." Alleria helped him up. "With your current strength, you can't stand up to any force in Lustria." Too small, isn’t it?”

Hearing her words, Helmer nodded sadly.

"But you have forgotten that you are not an independent force now. Behind you is the Druchi Kingdom and Morathi of Grond. She is your lord."

Alleria pointed to the province of Quintex on the map.

"If you are anxious to show your willingness to expand, it is very likely to attract her attention. Failure means being abandoned, and too much success will also cause suspicion and dissatisfaction. Now your power is still weak and you can only rely on Morathi, which will anger the other party very much. Irrational."

Hemer suddenly realized that he had not figured out his position before and was still planning the future with the inherent thinking of the game, but reality is not a game, so he felt frustrated everywhere.

Even in the old world, my situation might not be much better.

He has gone too far in order to expand, only focusing on the local plan and forgetting the overall situation. Instead, he has ignored the fact that he is now the lord under Morathi, and Morathi is his biggest supporter.

Alleria asked him to clear away the clouds with just a few words.

"I understand." Hermer's eyes lit up, "We should not rush to occupy the territory now, but wait."

"wait?"

Helmer nodded, "Occupying the Lost Gate and Ironthorn Town, owning two territories is already the limit of a fear lord. If I expand any further, I will definitely be suspicious of Morathi. However, she is the one I am now. We have a protective umbrella, so we should not think about how to expand at the moment, but take the opportunity to develop our own strength and wait for the situation to change."

"Although my power is weak, the entire Naggaros is a super strong force when united together. I just need to follow the general trend and everything will go smoothly."

The Dark Elf Kingdom is currently not taking any big actions, so why should it take the lead alone?

Now he just needs to hide it and grind his teeth to suck the blood.

In short, it can be summed up in nine words: build walls high, accumulate grain widely, and become king slowly.

Helmer excitedly held Alleria's hand, with a moving look in his eyes again.

Seeing that Hemo had regained his confidence, Alleria smiled. She was about to persuade him to take a rest, but she felt a hook on his waist. The figure who was pressed up fell to the ground, but before he could say anything, His words turned into sobs.

Afterwards, a high-spirited Hemer walked out and saw Keshir and Anzarez pacing back and forth at the end of the corridor. Seeing that they had not left yet, Hemer felt a warm current in his heart and immediately called them Come over. At the same time, he ordered the guards to summon the remaining officers and hold a new military meeting.

In the hall next door to the original conference room, the people gathered could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw Hemer looking confident.

"Everyone, I would like to apologize for my previous insistence on going my own way. I failed to see the reality clearly and went into a misunderstanding. I would like to thank you for dissuading me so that I did not make a big mistake."

Everyone present was stunned, looking at each other, and then smiled in unison.

"Small question." Eladen snapped his fingers and said lazily, "What's your plan this time?"

Helmer raised his index finger and shook it, grinning, "Yes."

He picked up the red pen and marked Dig Town on the map.

"Or a surprise attack?" The generals were speechless. They thought Hemo had suddenly woken up, but they didn't expect to go back again.

"No, no, no, this surprise attack is not the other surprise attack." Hemo showed a meaningful smile.

"What do you mean?" Anzarez, who has never been responsible for thinking, asked in a daze what everyone was thinking.

"That's it. What I thought before was to send a surprise force to raid the colonies of the Southern Kingdom and occupy the local area as an operational base in southern Lustria. But in fact, with our current strength, we are completely unable to hold it there, so , I changed my mind."

"What's the idea?" Seeing Hemo's cheesy smile, Eladen knew there was something fun to do.

Everyone stared at Hemo attentively, only to hear him chuckle and say: "Grab it."

"Hey, if you want to grab something, then I'll be in high spirits."

After all, it is the ancestral skill of Druchi. When Hemer said grabbing, the generals acted as if their passive was triggered. They rubbed their hands at the same time and showed hehehe smiles.

"We shouldn't be obsessed with occupying Lustria's territory now. That's all in vain. What we have to do now is to run the Lost Gate and Ironthorn Town well."

"If you want to develop, you need more slaves, so my plan is to still send a surprise force to attack the human stronghold in Swamp Town via Hesiota, and plunder all the population and wealth there."

"This must be done quickly, and we must dare to evacuate Swamp Town before Count Helmut of the Predator Port and the Hunter Marshal in the south can react. So I decided to lead people to rob it myself." Hemer held up his arms with both hands. At the conference table, he looked around at everyone, "What do you think?"

"Well, if it's a separate robbery, it's feasible." Elladen nodded earnestly.

The generals also agreed.

"Then it's settled, we'll take action early tomorrow morning. Also, Nautia." Hermer's eyes fell on a Black Ark pirate.

Nautia, the commander of the Black Ark pirates under Helmer, is also the leader of his escort group. Like all the Black Ark pirates, Nautia wears a cloak supported by sea dragon skin. There is always a look on his cold face that is like frost that cannot melt. It was a look that revealed a cunning and sinister look.

"Sir, I am here."

"I need you to build a powerful navy that can fight."

"Navy?" Nodiya's heart was filled with excitement. Can he return to the ocean again?

"Yes, but I won't give you a ship. I will only give you a thousand men and five thousand gold coins. You take them to Broken Moon Port immediately to form a navy. Whether it is a wooden ship or a sailboat, the black ark is the best , you can get whatever you can, and after a year, I need to see the results."

"One thousand people, five thousand gold coins, one year." Nautia's shrewd eyes pondered for a moment, and then he responded decisively. "My lord, that's enough."

The ship was not a problem. He took his men to build a few rafts, and then he dared to go out to sea to rob the merchant ships of the high elves, and then used the merchant ships to rob the warships of the Norscan barbarians, Skaven, undead, and pirates.

When the people and money are in place, the giant dragon ship will be crushed to pieces. In just a few breaths, Nautia had already conceived an entire route.