Lords Trying to Survive: Strategizing from a Rundown Yard

The global timeout appeared very suddenly.

Even Zong Shen, who was supervising the work of the Calamity Raven Church, was also affected.

In fact, he was thinking about how to use the prince on hand to exchange suitable benefits for Archduke Jonathan.

Facing a grand duke-level tycoon, the form of negotiation becomes the top priority.

And he will also create the most advantageous identity for himself.

In fact, Zong Shen has a copy of [Love God's Ecstasy (Special)] in his hand.

This thing can forcefully increase the favorability of the indigenous people.

He had already tested it against the powerful Black Bug Demon Blood, leader of the Demon Blood Clan, in a defensive challenge before.

The effect is awesome.

The stupor made Heibuge's will waver.

But he didn't intend to use it on Grand Duke Jonathan.

Because for Zong Shen, although Duke Jonathan Pendragon was a powerful hero, he still could not meet his expectations for his status in overpowering the natives.

Such a useful special prop must at least be used on a certain king.

Under such circumstances, he decided to take the normal path and find a way to negotiate with Archduke Jonathan.

It would be best to trade Carter Pendragon's miserable life for one or two giant cities without any hidden dangers.

In fact, Zong Shen had no doubt that Prince Carter was worth the price.

But the difficulty with planning is that there are no hidden dangers.

If this matter is even slightly careless, I am afraid it will trigger revenge and backlash from Archduke Jonathan.

Therefore, he must think carefully and plan carefully.

Just as he was thinking blankly, the entire domain suddenly came to a standstill.

As soon as his eyes blurred, his thoughts appeared in the pure white boundless space.

Every lord is familiar with time-stopping, which means that the lord system will issue some kind of global announcement or rule adjustment.

Considering that the present is not a challenge or a development node, it should not be the latter.

Zong Shen waited calmly, as time did not pass here anyway.

Only active thinking keeps rushing forward.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

Maybe it's a moment, maybe it's several days.

Finally, black subtitles appeared in front of his eyes.

Represents the appearance of announcement prompts.

[There has been a change in the Kingdom of Vaegia. With the help of many lords, the Eternal Night Destruction Challenge will be opened in advance]

[Guidance tips are as follows]

[Announcement I: Due to the progress of the prologue, the abnormal movements north of the Great Wall will be temporarily suppressed and endlessly isolated. Please wait for further notice for the specific opening time of relevant challenges]

[Announcement II: Lords whose territory is located in the Kingdom of Virginia will receive an exclusive challenge "Watch and the Golden Bear". They can choose to join the Grace Royal Family or the Lister Family to participate in the game within the kingdom. Detailed rules will be distributed to everyone. In the private chat channel of the lord who meets the requirements]

[Announcement III: Referring to the current comprehensive progress of the first batch of lords, a temporary challenge lasting 30 days will be launched in 42 days. Specific details will be announced three days before the challenge starts]

[Announcement IV: The continent is vast and people’s hearts are different. The legion rule change will start in 10 days]

[This announcement will last for 3 minutes]

…

Zong Shen looked at the subtitles in front of him and frowned immediately.

He knew something about the situation in the Kingdom of Vaegiya.

The potential White Walker crisis there was once called a world-destroying disaster by the strategy module.

But now it seems that the White Walkers and Night King there are likely to be crises left over from the previous generation of lords.

They are like a time bomb, dormant in the north, waiting for the opportunity to detonate again.

And the lords in the north have obviously not been idle recently.

I don’t know what good thing they did to promote the Night King’s recovery.

Regarding this part of information, Zong Shen did not bother to inquire.

But what is certain is that the Night King’s premature resurrection is definitely not what the Lord system wants to see.

And there seems to be essentially a challenge reserved for the lord system.

When the situation was beyond changing, it decisively chose to take control.

To ensure that the "script" can run stably.

As compensation, lords whose territories are located in Vaegia will receive exclusive challenges.

This challenge is called [Watch and the Golden Bear]. In short, it means asking the lord to take sides.

You can choose to join the watchful Grace Royal Family, or you can choose to join the profit-seeking Golden Bear Lister Family. How to choose is entirely up to the lord.

There should be many hidden rules and sayings in it.

This copy is probably to eliminate the impact of progress disruption on the Kingdom of Vigia.

It is also a special challenge and selection for the lords there.

This situation is rare.

You must know that even the Nord Kingdom was the first to start fighting among themselves.

None of the lords within their jurisdiction received exclusive challenges.

This shows that the situation in the Kingdom of Vaegiya is quite special.

As for the information in Announcement III, it means before the arrival of the second batch of lords.

These troubled first lords will also have a challenge lasting 30 days.

Zong Shen has reservations about this challenge.

The last announcement is about the change of [Legion] rules.

With the development up to now, [Legion] has changed from the original 1.0 version rules to the 1.2 version rules.

Every change is basically a change in the direction of large-scale and large clusters.

This still encourages lords to cooperate with each other.

To put it simply, the lord system is trying to build the core node layout of the future kingdom.

Combined with the current situation in the human kingdoms, it is not difficult for Zong Shen to guess where the large and small noble families in each kingdom come from.

I quickly reviewed the contents of the announcement in my mind.

Zong Shen, an "old fried dough stick", has long been as clear as a mirror.

The pause ended quickly.

When his mind returned to his body, Zong Shen's vision also recovered.

Everything around him returns to how it was before time stopped, and it seems like nothing happened.

Not far ahead of him.

On the towering ice shell cage, hundreds of thousands of Apostle Corps soldiers are working hard to chip away at the ice.

Without the blessing of the frost divine will, the sturdiness of this cage has been greatly reduced.

But it is still not easy to open a big hole in it.

The frost element magic contained in it makes it impossible for Zong Shen to directly penetrate it with [Fantasy God Flash].

Because the magic power of the frost element in the ice shell is too strong.

If it were solidified to a higher degree, I'm afraid it would condense into something similar to a frost gem.

Now the hardness of this layer of ice is comparable to enchanted bronze.

The ice shell that is nearly a hundred meters behind has taken more than two hours to dig into the ice shell, which is more than 40 meters away. It seems that it will take at least two or three hours to completely dig through.

At the same time, the Lentax garrison trapped in the ice shell did not give up its efforts.

At this time, Penny, who had been waiting for a long time, even set up a tent to rest.

Without the blessing of Blood Rose, her weak body made it impossible for her to persist in this freezing environment for too long.

The dispute lasted from night to morning.

From early morning to evening again.

It looked like the sky was getting dark again.

The heretical giant knights who had been sent out to pursue those caravans and farmers also gained something.

A large number of carriages carrying baggage were towed back.

There are also many space storage jewelry filled with dinars.

The specific number has not yet been calculated.

But just tens of thousands of people were captured from the periphery.

After this battle, it was difficult for Zong Shen not to make a fortune.

At least most of the giant city-level wealth will fall into his hands.

The remaining half will be handed over to the Disaster Raven Church for control.

Mainly used to feed the surplus population.

Zong Shen planned to digest that population and even Jackdaw Valley itself within three months.

And he will choose to first digest the population from the giant city of Lentax, and finally consider absorbing the church's population.

The latter is riskier than the former.

Because there are no normal people living within the jurisdiction of the Calamity Raven Church.

Basically they are civilians who are deeply brainwashed.

Although these people are not as good as the fanatic believers of the church, their loyalty to the gods is still deep-rooted in their minds.

Even if Zong Shen uses the loyalty privilege to absorb them, this group of people can easily form gangs.

He plans to wait until then to talk about the details.

It seems that the ice shell cage will not be completely dug for a while.

Zong Shen looked up at the long-distance transmission channel that led directly to Jackdaw Valley.

The diameter of the entire transmission channel is several kilometers, like an upside-down mirror in the sky.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, ripples belonging to spatial fluctuations ripple on the surface of the passage.

Through the ripples, you can vaguely see the situation in Jackdaw Valley.

"How about we go there and have a look?"

Zong Shen had a sudden idea, and he was not willing to wait there.

Simply take this opportunity to go to Jackdaw Valley to relax.

By the way, take a look at this church base to see if there are any other good things left behind.

Thinking of this, he waved his hand and called one of the red-robed bishops.

After the old bishop dedicated himself and participated in the sacrifice, the two red-robed bishops suddenly possessed legendary level strength and became the eldest brother in the church.

Of course, the current eldest brother is Zong Shen's younger brother.

The red-robed bishop he called was named Mai Raven.

As a preparatory Holy Son selected by the church from an early age, his talent for sensing frost elements is exceptional!

With such a talent, it would not be too difficult to become a seventh-level magician.

And he was also given the surname Raven, which was an honor in the church that even Sally was not eligible to receive before.

Bishop Mai, who was wearing a long velvet red robe, led him with an indifferent expression.

Although he has joined the territory, his attitude has not kept up.

Not to mention the mere 60 points of loyalty.

Zong Shen didn't care too much about this.

"Sir, please let me guide you."

Mai walked in front, leading him to the connection point of the transmission channel.

When he comes to the designated spot, he only needs to stand still.

Pillars of light descended from the sky one after another, accurately covering him and Mai Raven.

Then, a strong adsorption force appeared on these light pillars, leading them to float upward.

It flew into the air easily and passed through the transmission channel.

…

Just when Zong Shen was preparing to "travel" to Jackdaw Valley.

The lords who received the new announcement were already talking about it.

Regardless of whether they were in the north or not, they began to pay attention to the dynamics of the Kingdom of Vigia.

Especially the news about Yong Ye.

Before this, things like White Walkers and Eternal Night were not known to most lords.

Only those lords who originally lived in the Kingdom of Vaegia or near the Northland region could learn something about it by consulting classics, tavern rumors, myths and legends, etc.

But now, after the announcement appeared, the news about Yong Ye became known to everyone.

At this moment, almost all the lords knew that there was a mysterious super dungeon in the north.

Under such circumstances, someone on [World Channel] sent out pictures of the Great Wall of Despair.

The pictures were taken from various angles.

But no matter which angle you look at, the Great Wall in the picture looks like an insurmountable wall.

This caused heated discussions on [World Channel].

If this long and terrifying barrier is used by the human aboriginal kingdom to avoid the eternal night disaster.

So the difficulty of the mysterious challenge can be imagined.

Just after the announcement, all lords whose territories were located in the Kingdom of Vaegia received a strong reminder private message email, which recorded the detailed rules of the [Watch and the Golden Bear] challenge.

At the same time, certain restrictions were imposed so that they could not disclose any relevant information.

The significance of this challenge is of vital importance and will have a serious impact on the future direction of the Kingdom of Vigia.

Even after the arrival of Eternal Night, the difficulty of facing disasters will be adjusted accordingly.

Unfortunately, due to the rules, they couldn't reveal it.

However, this announcement still brought the Kingdom of Vigia into the sight of all lords.

Now taking pictures of the North has become a good way to earn likes and dinars.

It works almost every time.

Photographs of the Great Wall of China often receive tens of thousands of likes.

For some excellent angles, the number can even reach millions.

This amount of money is a considerable amount of income for any lord today.

Also, after so many announcements.

There are also some clever lords who discover the truth about the challenges and changes in the kingdom.

They are vaguely aware that today's aboriginal kingdom does not seem to be as simple as it seems.

By piecing together the clues, it is not difficult to guess that these indigenous kingdoms also experienced challenges of varying sizes thousands of years ago.

But due to the lack of core elements, they can only guess and dare not draw conclusions.

Under such circumstances, most of the lords were as if they were drunk.

Begin to participate more actively in the [Legion] and form alliances with surrounding lords.

Many lords have changed from the original conservative strategy to an aggressive strategy with greater risks but higher returns. They actively look for surrounding aboriginal cities and plan to win them as a team.

Situations like this are happening simultaneously in many areas of the Endless Continent.

In the long run, this announcement will have a positive effect on the development progress of the lords.

It can increase the average development progress by at least a dozen percent.

To be honest, this is also a manifestation of the control of the lord system.

Zong Shen can only maintain a wait-and-see attitude towards this and do his best at the same time!