"If that's all, then the Virtual Kingdom of God's methods this time are disappointing..." Priest Luo secretly sighed before the war was over. He cast a spell casually, and the magic circle transmitted a wave of electromagnetic force to the star fort, completely killing the bugs embedded between the bricks and stones. It was these special magical creatures that acted as the eyes of the Aurora Society, monitoring the situation of the Mesana Star Fort like a pinhole camera. This is why the Aurora Society can still know the exact time when the Northern Patrol Group arrived and settled in even though the building was empty. However, this alone does not seem to explain all the questions. Priest Luo now suspects that the hostile forces that executed more than a hundred Mesana Dingkou in the small forest north of the star fort are probably not in the same group as the Aurora Society. At least up to now, he has not been able to see any inevitable connection between the two behaviors. Counting from the time the whirlpool trap was activated, the battle ended after about a quarter of an hour. All resistance from the Aurora Club was proven to be futile. No one survived, either dying with the sinking ship or being killed by the death ray. From the perspective of Ioanni and Hector, things seemed a little unreal.
After all, the battlefield was far away, and they did not have a grand God's perspective of 45 degrees downward. They saw several sampan-sized ships with glowing sails floating up and down among the dark turbid waves, and then disappeared. During this period, slender green lights shone, which was neither grand nor beautiful. The audio-visual effect was very ordinary, far less thrilling than the big ebb tide after the tsunami. After a while, everything returned to silence. It was quite boring. What was interesting was the next morning. Because of the impact of the tsunami, they were emotionally excited. Although they had a whole night to rest, they could only sleep peacefully. Most of them suffered from insomnia, tossing and turning, and felt dizzy the next day. On the contrary, the cavalrymen who never left the barracks slept soundly. Then everyone witnessed the small fleet that was recovered by Priest Luo. Actually, it was not small. There were five ships, and the smallest one was 3,000 tons. In modern times on Earth, it was indeed a gunboat. The coast guard ships of Dongda have a lot higher tonnage than it. But in this world, in this era, 3,000 tons is quite good. Priest Luo also saw that these ships were quite good in design, materials, and appearance, so he dragged them ashore from the seabed and repaired them. "How is it? Are you interested? It has been fully repaired. If you want it, it can be cheaper." Yoanni smiled bitterly: "I really can't afford it. But if you are in a hurry to sell it, I can help think of a way." "Can you contact the Aurora Club? See if they want it." "..."Yoanni was speechless, thinking: "You really don't have any moral integrity for doing business!" Seeing that Yoanni really couldn't eat it, Priest Luo used the magic circle to open the large space door and put it into the void warehouse. Yoanni and Hector were numb. The knights and cavalry of the Northern Patrol looked at Priest Luo as if they were looking at a god walking on earth. "What about the amateur puppets? Are you interested in this?" Priest Luo asked again. "I do have this." Yoanni gave the answer immediately. In fact, the previous batch of amateur puppets has not been completely sold. Yoanni is also a cautious person. He picked a few and sent them to the Order Spire for quality inspection.
It can please the organization and check the true status of the amateur puppets. After all, he found that it seems that the measurement standard of Priest Luo is quite different from the mainstream measurement standard of the supernatural circle in this world. Priest Luo's standard is more stringent. This is a good thing, but it may not be all good. For example, a small problem in the eyes of Priest Luo may be very dangerous in the eyes of others, and it will be skinned alive if it does not die. Therefore, it is better to be cautious. But being cautious is being cautious, and you must have the courage to eat when you should be bold. Anyway, Yoani is not afraid of these amateur puppets hitting your hands. In his opinion, these are hard goods that can at least double the price after reselling. Whether it is royal power, divine power, or the supernatural circle, no one will dislike the violence in their hands. On the contrary, many problems in reality, in the final analysis, are because of insufficient strength, so they have to endure and maintain each other, helplessly enduring, wasting, dragging, waiting, hoping that changes will appear. Of course, Yoani also knows that relying on problems like this is actually a bit superficial. After all, most problems are not caused by violence. Violence can only eliminate the people who represent the problem, but not the problem itself. But just like the biggest helplessness in reality, it is actually that we understand the truth but cannot do it. Using violence to solve problems is almost the fastest and most effective way in reality. At least the existence of power in the current world, from barbarian chiefs to nobles who think they are civilized countries, are very accustomed to it. Even the lower-class people are also accustomed to it. They do complain, but what they complain about is not the use of violence to solve the problem itself, but that they themselves are often used as tools or costs of using violence by those in power. If they take over, they are still very accustomed to using violence, even more bloody and barbaric. In short, in order to survive and live the good life they want, violence has become the main theme of this world. The saying of high emotional intelligence is that the strong prey on the weak and the fittest survive. In this context, the gun can make others succumb to your reason, and retreat can make others patiently listen to your reason. Its value can be seen. And the puppets produced by Priest Luo are loyal, strong, and energy-saving. They are definitely good guns with high cost performance. Good things will only increase in value and rarely depreciate. Even if they can't find a market for a while, they are worth holding. In fact, this time, Priest Luo has something better in his hand, the corpse witch puppet. Those are the casters killed by the death ray. The death ray can be regarded as a cruel ritual, a ritual to please death. With this ritual as the beginning, the corpse witch has the basis for being created. However, if it follows the general process, even if the technology is high, it is difficult to reduce the cost. But Priest Luo now has the genes of the Old Ones. With the blessing of the biochemical avenue of the cult Robo, Priest Luo's already transformed body cells, like the biochemical virus source in science fiction novels, can transform qualified targets into creatures within the system through controllable infection. Secondary Horror Beast, wearing this label, the corpse witch was produced in an unusual way, which can be called a high-tech shortcut overtaking. Forty-seven corpse wizards were divided into three leaders and two teams by priest Luo. The Alpha Group was led by the corpse wizard Esther and had 20 members, and they went to the Mountain Castle to garrison. The Omega Group was led by the corpse wizard Oster and had 20 members, and they went to the town of Forbsnong to garrison. These two corpse wizards both had excellent blood talents, and their potential was activated in the transformation ceremony, and then they broke through to level 15. Of course, to break through to level 15, the soul and even the law cannot be broken. It happened that priest Luo had some spirit figurines and ghosts obtained in the Montes Star Castle incident as materials, and then selected qualified souls for strengthening, which enabled the breakthrough.
Moreover, with this breakthrough, they were reborn, cleansed, and refreshed from the inside out, thus breaking the limitations of the "assembler". The most intuitive manifestations of this are spirituality and growth space. However, this method of forging the owner also has a price. Unless Esther and Oster can expand their active stage to the multiverse, they will never have the opportunity to enter the holy ranks. Legend is the last stop on their climbing road. From another perspective, this is already very good. No matter how powerful Priest Luo is, he can't hold it. After all, he is playing a puppet system that is more restrictive than slavery. Such a system determines that there will be no "I am full of satisfaction to see that I have successors, and the younger generation is better than the older generation!" This is not a question of mind, but whether the initiator will have no successors? I dare not! I can't. Two necromancers who can eventually grow into legends are enough as the backbone of the spellcasting team for a period of time. In fact, what Priest Luo is melancholy about is not the lack of people, but the extraordinary power. Extraordinary power will not appear for no reason, nor is it an inexhaustible free clean energy. On the contrary, this thing can be completely regarded as an alternative conventional resource. If the power of elements is compared to iron ore, then the power of death is like titanium ore. In theory, it is not rare, but it is rare because it is difficult to extract. Titanium is active in nature and requires high smelting technology. The power of death is extremely inert, resulting in very limited substances and energy that can interact with it in a benign manner, so it is difficult to extract. Then why is the power of death as cheap as cabbage in the legends of all realms, giving people a feeling that you can get it with your hands? Because blackening is three times stronger. To be more specific, it is to surrender to power + drinking poison to quench thirst. Killing, torture, and death are the core terms, and constantly creating a dark and bloody atmosphere is a means of extracting the power of death. The power of death that has been transformed from the death of countless creatures in the past years is gathered and extracted from under the earth, and even a siphon effect can be formed. Therefore, the undead system is like a natural disaster. Wherever it appears, large-scale destruction and death will occur. It is not only killing, but also the comprehensive destruction and distortion of the ecological environment. Priest Luo was not willing to be a slave to power. High skills are used to conquer and control power. Otherwise, the self would be distorted and become an existence that caters to the attributes of power. How can it be awesome? This is also a major reason why Yoani did not shout and kill Priest Luo because he used the power of darkness. The cost of hostility is too high due to strong strength, which is indeed a major reason. But in the past years, the Order Spire has also experienced demigods and even gods, including the so-called evil demons that they are hostile to now. Demons are false gods. Great demons are at the same level as gods, and are even stronger than many weaker gods, and even gods with ordinary powers. Therefore, cost accounting is not the only criterion for the Order Spire. They are mages, not businessmen. The organization relies on management. Profits are important, but ideas and even dreams are also important. The cohesion of this organization lies in the latter, not in the petty gains. Because he is a wizard, he is more intelligent, has a broader perspective, and has a different mindset. Wizards know that there is a huge difference between controlling power and being enslaved by power, especially when discussing negative energy. It is not appropriate to classify it into good and bad. Order and chaos, creation and destruction can explain the problem. Priest Luo is undoubtedly orderly and creative. Even the creations he produces have held the uncontrollable and negative factors for the selling price. This feature is very important.
As the top vested interest group, the mages of the Order Spire seek stability and order, and also welcome the existence of wealth creation to join, the more the better. Priest Luo perfectly meets their needs, so he is naturally a potential friend. From Priest Luo himself, it is more appropriate to describe it with that pretentious sentence: It is harder not to kill than to kill! In all aspects, including the absorption of the power of death. Wherever there is war, there are us, we are alternative battlefield scavengers... Well, if there is an operational crisis, this statement may not become a reality. Of course, this is Priest Luo's melancholy for the future development of the corpse wizard team from the perspective of the team. At present, this scale is not so difficult. And he himself has the old branch as a foundation, psychic assistance, and extraterritorial laws to open up, which is not a problem. It's just that he can't want to serve the necromancer team like a big boss, so he will think about the way out of "being a killer but not killing people" at the beginning of the team building. Hacker to red hacker? The prerequisite is that there are enough hackers to cause trouble. Without prey, hunters will lose the meaning of existence. Three days of hunger, nine meals, what kind of sunset profession is this? Forty-two corpse wizards left, and there were five corpse wizards left, including three commander-level corpse wizards, Kosar, who was the most successful in this wave of transformation. This is his real name, and even his soul is his own soul. He is a special case and has the potential to break through the legend. It is precisely because of this that although Priest Luo is very sure that this guy will not have any problems with loyalty within ten years, he still chose to tie him to his side. So, Priest Luo's entourage is more complete, with three bone sword guards, five corpse wizards, and nearly a hundred undead coolies. After selling the second batch of amateur puppets, Priest Luo gathered some materials to help this entourage arm. At least the undead coolies have to have uniform clothing. Of course, more important is the bone magic weapon composed of wristbands, shackles, and collars. This investment is appropriate in the long run, otherwise it will cost a lot of extraordinary power as time goes by. Especially when these undead are exposed to the sun, ordinary clothes alone are not enough to resist the effects of the scorching sun. Three days passed in the puppet sales and team building. For Priest Luo, these days are fine except for being busy. But for Hector, it is more tormenting. Among them, what he is most worried about is that the North Patrol Group will stay in Mesana Star Castle, replace the missing garrison, and become a member of the border defense army. On the morning of the fifth day after arriving at Mesana Castle, Grand Duke Malos’s reply did not wait, but the bad news came that Kroni Castle was captured. This news was still told to Hector by Priest Luo through Yoanni. Specifically, it involves a magic weapon, the soul detector. This magic weapon was made by Priest Luo after the evil spirits in Montes Star Fortress. At that time, the Northern Patrol had already reached Akkad Castle, the western neighbor of Montes Star Fortress. In order to prevent the evil spirits from happening again, the Northern Patrol did not enter the Star Fortress overnight, but camped outside the city. Even the tents and all the utensils were sent from the air cavalry storage box of the Order Spire. That night, Priest Luo borrowed the blacksmith shop of Akkad Star Fortress to make 150 rune headbands and a soul detector. The principle of this thing is somewhat low. Simply put, it is to compare with the normal soul as the standard. If there is any difference, it will be marked as problematic. Then the question is, how to set this standard specifically? What is normal?
This is more complicated. Priest Luo naturally cannot say that my data is not only endorsed by my boss, the church leader Robo, but also endorsed by the relevant technology and information mastered by the boss's boss, Hei Robo, and is quite reliable. He could only say that as a psychic master and a soul wizard, I endorse it with my professionalism and personality. It sounds very impressive, but to put it bluntly, it means: you have to believe me! Okay, let's just believe the experts. The second question followed, is abnormality equivalent to being backdoored by the virtual kingdom of God? The answer is no. Because there is not enough sample data for analysis, the judgment cannot be accurate, and only a rough distinction can be made between normal and abnormal. To put it more down-to-earth, using this magic weapon to test Ioanni, the answer will be abnormal, and even testing some knights between awakening and non-awakening of supernatural power is also abnormal. Such accuracy is unacceptable. Especially in secret testing, it was found that all star forts, including Akkad Castle, had problems with their garrisons, and the problems were quite serious. Now, Ioanni and even the Order Spire behind it can't hold it anymore. If this news is leaked, even if people are willing to believe it, how can it be solved? Grand Duke Malos is not the biological son of the Spire of Order. Just as Ioanni said to Priest Luo in the reply letter from the Spire of Order: "Don't tame the lion without fresh meat..." Moreover, the detector is not accurate enough. This alone makes it easy to be targeted. It is a thankless task. If the enemy uses the same trick again, both Priest Luo and Ioanni will easily become dishonest people, and even be accused of having ulterior motives. But Priest Luo is not the type who lets things get worse and does nothing even if he has the ability. He reported to Ioanni and said, "In this way, I will also weld. The prerequisite is that the target dies suddenly, and the result is the transformation of immortality. The shelf life of the magic is one month." After a month, the northern tour will most likely end. Even if a disaster occurs, it will be a new round. Priest Luo will decide whether to participate deeply according to the situation at that time, instead of rushing to take the responsibility of the lords on himself. Ioanni finally agreed. Intelligence is important in any era. The difference between knowing it early and knowing it late is often very large. Take the Order Spire as an example. If you can get first-hand intelligence in time, you can respond in time and reduce losses. In the past years, they have gained a lot of benefits in this regard, so there is a tradition and consensus, and they all attach great importance to it. But Ioanni himself does not have a cost-effective magic in this regard. Now someone is willing to pay actual labor, and he only guarantees it with his reputation, so this business is still feasible. After all, the whole North is obvious, and things may go wrong at any time. So he represented the Order Spire and blessed the personnel of each star fort with a protective spell. In the spirit of scarcity, a simple lottery was also held, and everyone relied on luck. In fact, they secretly manipulated the results, and the winners were those with normal test results. Some garrison soldiers complained about Grand Duke Malos: "Wouldn't it be better to give us more money to invite the wizard to cast spells? Roughly speaking, this money can probably solve the problem of implementing the two baronies?"
There is some truth in this, but even if Grand Duke Malos really has such money to invite the wizard to draw a lottery to cast spells, it cannot be used to fulfill the pie that was drawn at the beginning. It is not the lack of money that is worrying, but the inequality. It would be fine if this group of people did not have it, but if some were given and others were not, there would inevitably be trouble. This is a major dilemma of Grand Duke Malos, and he can't even pay off his debts slowly. In fact, in the past few years, he really saved money by tightening his belt, but when he had some money in his pocket, he would have something to do, and there would be sufficient reasons to spend money. To put it bluntly, the overall downward trend means that there are loopholes everywhere that need to be filled. If they are filled, they will die slowly, and if they are not filled, it will be worse. Under this background, the so-called saving money to do big things by tightening up is basically not valid. In short, with Yoani's good-sounding and well-spoken endorsement and the curse of "If you die suddenly" by Priest Luo, the goal of ultra-long-range perception of immunity to erosion and transformation into undead creatures after sudden death was achieved. So, when the incident happened in Kroni Castle the night before, Priest Luo notified Yoani immediately, and Yoani sent a message directly to the Order Spire. And what can Hector do if he knows it in time? Even if he has the courage to send troops to help overnight, it will be too late when he goes. Kroni Castle and Mesana Castle are separated by two star fortresses, close to the middle of the defense line. It takes dozens of hours to gallop even if you run a dead horse. It is out of reach. Informing him now is just to let him prepare. Generally speaking, when encountering such a situation, high-level nobles will have no choice but to spend money and bleed, and they will inevitably activate the extraordinary system to communicate with each other and mobilize troops. Therefore, the relevant appointment will arrive around today during the day. Priest Luo guessed correctly, but he didn't expect that Grand Duke Malos was very bold and directly skipped a series of procedures, set aside many explicit and implicit rules, and directly gave him a cake. The general meaning is: help solve this crisis, with Kroniburg as the boundary, you can demarcate a non-strip land of no more than 300 square kilometers as territory, and be granted the title of earl. If the Order Spire is willing to endorse, then you don't even have to be loyal to Grand Duke Malos, and as long as you are willing to recognize your identity as a member of the kingdom and are willing to fulfill the most basic obligations for the country and the people, you can become a free earl. "Free earl, huh..." Priest Luo felt that some people were calculating, and the sound was heard by him hundreds of kilometers away. Power has always been linked to responsibility. As long as you are this "earl", it means you are willing to take on the corresponding responsibilities. Freedom, how free can it be? Grand Duke freedom? Or king freedom? They are all in the pit, it's nothing more than how to compare and who to compare with...