Summoning the Holy Sword

With the return of Qi Lian, Rod's last piece of the puzzle is now completely completed. Until now, it can be said that under Rhodes, a complete system has been completely established. Marin is responsible for the internal affairs of the territory, overseeing the financial, internal and foreign affairs of the entire Glenbell Territory. Ann Clark also officially became a subordinate of Rhodes, and began to work for him. As Marin's deputy, Ann was mainly responsible for negotiating with those foreign chambers of commerce and businessmen. According to Marin's report, this former The young lady is indeed very promising in this regard. Although she is still slightly inadequate in dealing with people, she has an innate acuity in the face of economic changes and business negotiations. She can acutely detect those businessmen. Vulnerabilities and pitfalls in negotiations and contracts are noted. Although the current security is still too naive, it is impossible to do nothing without destroying it. But Marilyn believes that as long as the time is right, Ann will be a powerful assistant for Rhodes.

The military side is completely handed over to Bran Heart, who recruits soldiers, conducts training, and transfers and legion assignments. This is arguably the busiest department in Rhodes territory. In the past, Rhodes did not have a specific military idea, but only let John temporarily take charge of the escrow, and John's primary management was naturally his cavalry regiment, so he did not pay enough attention to the infantry. So for a long time, do n’t look down on Rhodes's prestige, but there is not much at all as his personal soldiers, plus John ’s cavalry is only a few hundred people. Fortunately, only Rhodes needs to maintain law and order The fortress is covered with little bubble gum and canary, or else it will be a private soldier, and it will become a pot of porridge before it is put.

However, after Bilinheart took office, things have changed a lot. This adult who looks like a drowsy student who stays up all night has no big requirements for his troops, only one— ——Obviously, it doesn't matter if you lack arms and legs, as long as you can meet the conditions, you can fight, and loyalty is enough.

Under such "loose" conditions, the vigorous recruitment work also began immediately. The fortress is now much more prosperous than before, and many people nearby have emigrated here. At this moment, when I heard that the main conscription, many people came to sign up, and most of them passed smoothly. Although this part has a lot of manpower, but after all, they do not have rich combat experience, so Rhodes promoted a group of experienced mercenaries from the Starlight Guild to come in. With the support of the prestige system, of course, he can easily find those Mercenaries who are very loyal and admired to join in, and are responsible for discipline and training these recruits. Many of the mercenaries had once retired from the army. Naturally, they were very familiar with these, and they were also handy when they did this. Instead, they solved a trouble for Rhodes. As for Rhode's decision, the mercenaries naturally welcomed with both hands. Originally, many mercenaries chose to join the Starlight Guild in order to be valued by Rhodes and become his family. Now, these mercenaries have not only joined Rhodes' army, but also have titles such as squad leader or instructor. With fame, status and wealth, these mercenaries are naturally envious.

With such an example, the mercenaries who joined the guild also began to work harder, wanting to get Rhode's attention with his outstanding performance, and eventually became his family and subordinates as he wished. In the field, many mercenaries have joined in, and they want to develop here. In this way, the Starlight Guild has also entered the track of a good surname cycle. Within a few days, Rhodes' personal soldiers had grown to about 3,000. After that, in order to maintain stability, Bran Heart temporarily suspended recruitment, but even so, it suddenly increased. So many soldiers still have a certain impact on the fortress. But in this way, another person is suffering, that is, Rabis.

Although the alchemy department that Labis is in charge of has also become more stable with the increase in personnel, but because of the current surge in the number of private soldiers, Labis and others have put more energy into the alchemical potion of Rhodes. And the production of alchemy structures, while the research and development of new potions and alchemy equipment have been suspended. This made Labis a little bit complained, but she also knew that the current resources of Rhodes were not enough to support her to complete those imaginative inventions. After all, this requires a lot of materials. Although Rhodes knocked hard from the Alchemist Association before, these are only enough to make equipment. If I want to conduct research and development, I am afraid that it will be doubled. not enough.

Although the manpower brought back by Marin joined Rabbis, the production speed of Rabese was accelerated a lot, but after all, the improvement was limited. In this regard, Rhodes made reference to those game production players in the game and gave Rabis a suggestion. In the game, there are a lot of players in the alchemy department. Although they occasionally take medicine part-time, they must hold them accountable. A series of craftsmanship from sculpting to inlaying to making, even the players can't afford it. Not only does it take a long time, but the production efficiency is low. Therefore, alchemy players often buy various collected raw materials and semi-finished products from other people, and then assemble and sell them by themselves.

And Rhodes also referred to this experience and proposed a reform plan for Labis' alchemy department. Previously, because only Rabis was alone, Rhodes did not propose this plan for security reasons. But now there are more and more people around Rabis, and they are more or less proficient in alchemy, and have matured conditions, so Rhodes proposed this plan. That is to divide the people at Rabis into several groups, and leave the tasks of the alchemy technology to others, such as collecting magic plants, manufacturing containers, or carving and casting shells. Pull Beth can recruit some blacksmiths, herbs and craftsmen, let them complete according to the design drawings, and then hand over to the students of the academy brought by Marin around LaBeth to supervise, and gather after the production is completed. The work of assembling and inlaying, and they can also take the opportunity to select some ingenuity, alchemy talents to train apprentices, and then expand the scale, can also speed up the production speed of alchemy equipment and potions.

For Rhodes' suggestion, Rabis was initially opposed, but in fact not only her, but even Marin and others did not understand it. I have to say that people in this era are still relatively old-fashioned. They generally think that without sufficient knowledge of alchemy, it is impossible to carry out the work of making alchemy products, because he does not understand the nature of these things at all. What should I do if there is a problem in the production?

But Rhode dismissed it. In his opinion, it was the job of the creator. In fact, even if a worker does not drive a car for a lifetime, it will not prevent him from making tires. Of course, if he wants to design new tires, It's another matter.

I have to say that the power of tradition is powerful.

Although Rhodes tried hard to speak, Rabis and Marlene still had doubts about this. Although they acknowledged that Rhodes's idea had a feasible surname to some extent, they still believed that magical powers like alchemy were involved. The existence of equipment cannot be manufactured without sufficient knowledge. And Rhodes can't do anything about it. He is just a player anyway, not the designer of this game, and in the game, although the semi-finished products of alchemists are also made by other production players. But after all, it doesn't seem like you need to sculpt and make it yourself in reality, but just put the raw materials and the required things in front of you, and then start the skills to do it. Although this good thing has a certain failure rate, but after success, it must be a "qualified product" that meets the system program specifications, but that is a game, and this is a reality. Maybe there is really any difference ... In the end, each side is different. Taking a step back, Rabis and Marin agreed to hand over some of the less important work for those people to complete, and ultimately the important equipment inlaying and sculpting work was their own. Of course, if it goes well, they will consider the next expansion according to Rhodes' suggestions ......... Rhodes can only follow them. After all, in magic technology, Rabis is a master of alchemy, and Marin's Xenia family is also a magic family. In this regard, they are experts. They can do what they have done. As for the effect, they can only say See it later.

Among them, Christie is most gratified by Christie. Now she has become a very important assistant around Rabis. The drawings and drafts she designed are not only beautiful and practical, but also very practical. Even Labus, whose head was full of Belchems' alchemy knowledge, couldn't help but admire it.

However, Marin expressed some worries and doubts about Rod in private. According to her observations, the magic lines in these drawings designed by Christie are not just beautiful and simple, they all imply some kind of alchemy. Designed by the laws of technology, such design drawings would not have been possible without a person with rich knowledge and experience in alchemy. But look at Christie ... she doesn't seem to be an alchemist, and even if she started studying at birth, she couldn't reach this height. Not to mention what kind of life Christie had lived before, Marin was as clear as Rhodes. In that case, how could she learn the design of Magic Technology? What made Marin even more surprised was that after questioning on her side, Christie had no idea what she was talking about. She said that she designed it just because she thought it was so beautiful. If it is said that a blind cat hit a dead mouse, it happened in the past once or twice, but-it has always been the case, isn't it unusual?

However, Rhodes didn't give much explanation for Marin's question, but asked her not to worry too much. In fact, although Rhodes doesn't know why Christie understands this, he already has a vague answer in the bottom of his heart, that is, all that Christie did unconsciously, I am afraid I saw it in a dream To the "other Christie". Although he and the "Christie" have only met twice, each time, the other side has given her a lot of help. She first helped herself to repair Grayhill and Madaras, and then showed him two The root of Zhang Shengjian's card. That "Christie" must not be a simple character. Not only that, it made Rod feel a little strange that the scene he saw in his dream seemed to have been seen somewhere ... but he couldn't remember it for a while.

However, the appearance of another "Christie" was not regular. Although Christie often came to Rhode to sleep with him, the "Christie" only appeared twice in Rhode's dream.

But recently, Rhodes never let Christie come to find himself, for the simple reason that he was entangled by Anne.

Anne, who was in estrus, came to Rhode for three days and two days after she tasted the sweetness, which made Rhodes even feel a little overwhelmed. Although Ma Lin and Li Jie had such a period after they first tasted the personnel, they all had the girl's hold after all, and they only hinted secretly in the face of Rhodes. But Annie is completely different. No matter whether it is day or night, as long as no one is present, Anne will make a courting action to Rhode, and in the face of the meat delivered to him, Rhode naturally does not hesitate to bring a gun into the battle. Do a big job, until the bomb is exhausted, and then sighed and encouraged Gold to retreat. Not only that, Anne would come to Rhode almost every night, which also caused Rhode to have to let Christie sleep in her room temporarily, so as not to let her encounter some "infant-friendly" scenes.

Fortunately, Rod's constitution is far beyond the value of human beings, otherwise he would have been squeezed out by Annie to a drop, but even so, there are several times that Rod feels numbness under his body and loses consciousness ......... now He could only hope that Anne's estrus had ended sooner, otherwise, Rhodes would have to pull his son sneakily to Labis and let her help make a few bottles of inconvenient medicine.

Of course, for Rhodes, this was just an anecdote in his leisure time, and he naturally had more important things to do besides mixing with Annie.

Since the Skynet project began, intelligence from all parts of the Light Continent has been continuously transmitted, which also allowed Rhodes to obtain first-hand information. This is very useful for Rhodes, although as a top player, Rhodes can be said to have experienced everything that happened on this continent before crossing, but he is a player after all, not a history recorder, large, personally involved He can still remember some of the past history, but for those who just hear the story, only God knows what year, month and year they happened. Now, based on the information from Skynet, Rhodes can use this to judge the clues above, and use his own memory and knowledge of this continent to know what is or will happen.

And he is most concerned about the news of the country of light.

After the Dragon Sacred Book, Rhodes patted their **** and slipped back to Muen, relaxed. However, the Council of Light was in chaos. Under the spread of intentional and unintentional people, the old parliamentary officer gave a half-kneeling to Lydia and the disastrous defeat of the Magic Knights spread throughout the kingdom of light. The parliament was brought to the forefront, and many people criticized the parliament for doing nothing but humiliation. They were ashamed of their ancestors who had given everything to human freedom and belief. Some even called that day a state shame, saying that the Parliament of Light had betrayed their belief in freedom and justice and had fallen completely. Even the lower house, on behalf of the people, lodged a solemn protest to the Light's Parliament. Not only that, the people also spontaneously organized demonstrations in front of the Light's Parliament to protest their weakness. This almost wiped the face of the Council of Light. Not only that, from the perspective of the territories around the kingdom of light, most of the territories supporting parliament remained silent during this time, and at the same time kept a distance from the parliament of light, it seems that they are also worried about the parliament of light Can we stabilize the situation at one time?

And Lilian took action at this time.

It appears that Her Majesty the Dragon Spirit is an idealist. She sent someone to Dalxter to talk to the people there, and made a series of decisions to re-plan and transform there. Make sure those people can lead normal lives and have a job. However, these things are definitely not Lilian's thoughts, and the residents of Casablanca have mixed opinions. They have already had a lot of opinions about this place in Daxter. Now Lilian is willing to solve this problem. They couldn't be better. But on the other hand, many people are worried that this will be the first step of the Dragon Spirit of Light to try to regain its dominion, and this is full of worries and doubts.

The prestige of the Council of Light began to shake, the Dragon Spirit of the Light began to intervene in the internal affairs, and the chaos in the Light is now chaotic in the country. The people are worried, angry, disturbed, and various emotions are intertwined. According to intelligence, even in cities other than Casablanca, people have begun to march and protest against the inaction of the House of Light. In addition, this time the Parliament of Light has not received the funding from Munn. Although this money was used in China by Lilian, she will definitely not use it to fill the financial gap of the Parliament of Light. It can be imagined As soon as next year, the Light Council will be unable to make ends meet, they will face a greater crisis.

Rhodes is very clear that the five major consortiums will never shoot at the first time. If they really want to thoroughly control the Light Council, the best way is to let the financial loopholes be exposed and wait until the Light Council is unable to handle everything. They appeared again as saviors.

The reason why heroes are always welcome is because they always appear in the devil raging on the earth, bullying men and women, and blood is flowing into the river. The world is full of war and death, and people are in a shadow of despair. Only in this case, a hero who can defeat the devil is the most respected and welcomed. And if the devil has just ran out, Yangtian laughed three times, "Hahaha, I want to destroy this world!", And even before being able to show his ambition, he was "slammed" with a sword, then there will be How many people will respect this hero?

The Council of Light is not a fool. Of course they also know the ideas of the five major consortia, but Rhodes understands that they will not make it so easy for the five major consortia to succeed. As Rhodes said before, the reason why the council of light dares to take the hands of the dragon of light is for itself. Although the five major consortiums in Pingyueli will also exert influence on them, after all, the parliament of light still has political rights. And if they were pitted into by the five major consortiums this time, then they really became the puppets of the five major consortia and said what they said. If this is the case, it would be better to continue to rely on the Dragon of Light to be her subordinate. Anyway, what people say is still the Dragon Spirit of the World, much more noble than a group of humans, and not shameful.

Rhodes is certain that things won't end so easily. Moreover, whenever I look at the information from the country of light in hand, the more the light council above becomes more embarrassed, the more he ca n’t laugh. Although as a player, he wants the light council to die quickly, preferably all Hanged in Liberty Square. But now, watching the Council of Light so stormy, he had an unpredictable hunch. It is as if a person is standing on a plateau and watching the thick black clouds rolling in the distance, which will soon cover the sky. Even if the weather forecast is not needed, it can be seen that a heavy rain is coming.

Sure enough, things started to change.

Among the information collected by Rhodes, the Light Council has been silent, but another thing has slowly begun to spread. That's the rumor about the Dragon Kingdom of the Night. I don't know when it started. In the country of light, the rumors that the Dragon Kingdom of the Night attacked the Border Guard of the Kingdom of Light gradually spread, and the people of the Kingdom of Light gradually looked Moving away from the embarrassing situation before the Council of Light, he began to worry and talk about these things.

In fact, the border disputes between the Dragon Kingdom of the Night and the Dragon Kingdom of the Light are ancient, even between Muen and the Dragon Kingdom of the Night. As we all know, there are many undead creatures in the Dragon Kingdom of the Night, and some of them For various purposes, sneaking across the border and coming to the Kingdom of Light and Muen, who have a lot of living people, some are spies, some are for their own research on necromancy spells or for other purposes. Of course, the Dragon Kingdom of the Night will certainly not admit that they are regular troops. And Muen and the Kingdom of Light did not expect them to admit it, just come and fight back. It's as if Dongfangshanyuan has always been the front line of battle between Muen and the Dragon Kingdom of the Night, where people's battles with undead are already commonplace.

But now, rumors about the attack of the Dragon Kingdom in the night, or even the attack on the Dragon Kingdom of the Light, are circulating everywhere. Previously, everyone didn't know much about these, because most of these messages were blocked at the border, but never spread widely. But now, the speed of dissemination of this information is obviously problematic. If it is only one or two places, it is okay to say that after all, this kind of thing cannot be prevented, and there are always loopholes. But if the whole kingdom of light suddenly began to spread these things, then things would be different immediately.

These rumors have caused many people of the Light to fall into panic, and there is also an opinion that the Light Council is now sweepingly majestic, the Dragon Spirit of the Light wants **, and the Dragon Kingdom of the Night is clearly planning to take this opportunity to attack Land of Light!

I have to say that this opinion is very popular among the people. In the information collected by Rhodes, many people in the Light Country think so.

At this time, the Council of Light, which had been silent, suddenly moved.

Through diplomatic channels, they formally protested to the Dragon Kingdom of the Night, demanding that they surrender the killer who attacked the Border Guard of the Kingdom of Light!

The Dragon Kingdom of the Night will not take the words of the Light Council for granted, but in the face of the requirements of the Light Council, they just said that it was an accident, and there was no evidence that the [***] team that attacked the Light was a regular army. They thought it was the action of some defected undead creatures, so they expressed regret at the attack on the Light [***] team and said that they would investigate it, but that's all, you want us to surrender the killer ... ... that's impossible, because the killer simply doesn't exist. How can we hand it over?

In the face of the words of the kingdom of night, the light council was abnormally tough. They showed a lot of evidence and witnesses to prove that the regular army of the country of night was attacked, and issued a tough statement again, demanding the country of the night dragon. This must be explained.

As a result, the kingdom of night did not play with the council of light this time. They said that there might be some misunderstandings in this. We can communicate with the dragon spirit of the light ... From this, it can be seen that the kingdom of night is currently happening to the kingdom of light. Things are well understood. Taking this to disgusting the Council of Light, they absolutely don't care.

But then things changed.

Faced with the statement of the Dragon Kingdom of the Night, the Council of Light is still unyielding. Of course, they cannot allow the Dragon Kingdom of the Night to negotiate with the Dragon Spirit of the Light. Therefore, the Council of Light once again requires the Kingdom of the Night to make an apology and compensation. But this time, the Council of Light was not just verbal. On the contrary, during their statement, several troops were mobilized to the border area where the country of Light was attacked by the [***] team in the country of light, and declared to the outside This is a routine military exercise for the new year, but what they want to do is personally visible.

After learning this news, Rhodes has understood that war-is already inevitable.

(To be continued)