Mount & Blade: Wind of War

When the demon tide first started, the great elders of the northern elves and many powerful elves were indeed ambitious, but as time went by, things changed: first the demon dragon descended, then the army of millions of ancient orcs invaded the south, and then the gates of hell opened.

This series of events made many clear-minded elves know what was going on.

It is true that the elves are a race with extremely strong magical talents, but their reproductive efficiency is too low. Such a race has no right to participate in the hegemony of the continent unless a powerful person who can suppress an era appears.

The reason is very simple, they can't afford to die, and there are too few cannon fodder.

Even if the plan goes smoothly and the northern province is completely occupied, with the help of some human forces close to the elves, such a power structure is extremely unstable. Mutual assistance and mutual benefit are fine, but humans are not a low-intelligence race if they are frequently used as cannon fodder.

As more and more things have happened on the continent in recent years, more and more elf elders have become conservative.

In the northern province, mutual assistance and mutual benefit with northern humans, it is good to keep a basic base. Judging from the current situation on the continent, there is obviously a possibility of another full-scale racial war.

With the current number of elves on the continent, the elves cannot afford to face such a tragic war no matter how they calculate it.

The more they tend to protect themselves, the more they will value the alliance with Lonely Mountain Castle. However, at this moment, Duke Rhodes, the lord of Lonely Mountain, has never appeared, which makes many elders of the northern elves feel uneasy.

At the same time, in the secret room of Lonely Mountain Castle, Rhodes was in seclusion.

Because he occasionally gained something from the changes in his mind, Rhodes directly extended the length of his seclusion.

It doesn't matter if James does the alliance completely. The most important thing is to improve himself.

In the deep meditation practice, the experience and memory of two lives as a human once again emerged in his mind, and it seemed that there was a flame burning around him. When Rhodes opened his eyes again, he raised his hands and saw a pair of wrinkled palms.

Looking at the mirror on the side, he saw an aging face with white hair.

"Why do people grow old?"

"From birth, at the age of ten, twenty, and thirty, I grew up, and my strength, agility, and wisdom gradually reached their peaks, then forty, fifty, and sixty."

"My skin slowly lost its luster, and wrinkles gradually climbed onto my face..."

"My strength, speed, and wisdom are all irreversibly declining as I get older..."

"My hands and feet are becoming clumsy, my mind is becoming dull, and the things I see with my eyes are becoming blurry. Even the most delicious food can no longer be tasted by me..."

"I often tell my friends to take care of the ragged girls on the street, but in fact, I am powerless even when facing the most beautiful girls..."

"Haha ... ”

In the previous life, in that extremely old state, Rhodes once again sat cross-legged with his eyes closed and entered a deep level of cultivation:

"All the Taoist arts, magic, Zen, and meditation are actually not what I desire most in my heart and soul.

What I desire most and want to obtain are the creatures in ancient legends, huge bodies, powerful internal organs and heartbeats, and their dragon-like and devil-like blood and spirit!

What I desire most and want to obtain is the ultimate evolution of my own individual life. Just through my most primitive flesh, fangs and claws, I am already the pinnacle of attack and defense in the universe, and a body that can shatter the stars with my body.

The perfect body evolved to the extreme, the boundless and infinite blood power, these are what I desire most in my heart and soul. ”

Only when you are sure of what you really want, can you get it.

Many cultivators can't even determine what they really want. They often want everything, but often get nothing, or after getting it, they are more confused and painful.

After getting the answer of "want", Rhodes began to seek from his own practice system, and he completely immersed his consciousness in his body.

That feeling was as if he had entered the boundless universe, and at the center of this universe, there was a slowly rotating burning fireball, radiating and spreading energy, lighting up one star after another.

"Give it to me!"

"Give it to me!"

"Give it to me!"

He passed on his physical and mental desires to the core of the practice system over and over again. At first, there was no response, and the pure golden burning sphere continued to operate as it pleased.

However, as the will of the body and mind continued to be transmitted, gradually, after an unknown amount of time, Rhodes' consciousness vaguely discovered that the pure golden burning sphere seemed to have a slight change in operation, but in the next moment, Rhodes' consciousness was ejected.

"Damn, my head hurts so much."

At this moment, from the body to the spirit, a feeling of exhaustion swept over him. At this moment, Rhodes realized that it would also consume strength to unify the body and mind to seek, and it was not something that could be accomplished in one fell swoop.

However, although his body and mind were extremely tired, he was also happy, because Rhodes knew very well that through this retreat, he had found the "answer" and the way to advance to the realm of the sixth-level saint.

The road is right, and the rest is to walk to it. No matter how far the destination is, as long as you keep walking, you will arrive.

When Rhodes staggered out of the retreat room, Cress and Yamila, who had been waiting anxiously outside, immediately rushed over to help.

"Cress, how long have I been in retreat this time?"

There is no sixty years in the mountains, and no years in cultivation. As a legendary life form, Rhodes himself does not need food and water. Therefore, he really doesn't know how long he has been in deep retreat this time.

Of course, it can't be too long, otherwise, the subordinates of Gushan would have broken in and forcibly interrupted his cultivation.

"Four months. This time you have been in seclusion for four months. Bishop James has been in Bright Moon City for two months. Lord Moken is so worried. If it weren't for Teacher Fatis who stopped him and said that you have entered a very important state of cultivation, he would have ordered people to break in."

"Hahahahaha, you can't blame Moken. It was indeed my fault this time. I didn't expect that this time's cultivation would go so smoothly."

The next moment, Rhodes contacted the three-headed evil dragon Paraskevisilva through the high-level magic contract, and flew directly to Bright Moon City with it.