Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get in the next moment.

I really made up my mind to contact the people of the Northland, but it was a big "surprise" for Rorschach.

Is the situation in the Northland very chaotic? That is really not the case, the current stability in the Northland is far greater than it was in the past thousands of years, and there has not been a large-scale war for hundreds of years.

Even in the rich Central Plains of Ash, there have been some national-level wars and civil strife occasionally, and I don't know how many large and small countries have disappeared and reappeared.

People's minds change, especially short-lived, high-ranking people who "want to live wonderfully" and "want to live vigorously", a single thought can cause the situation to get out of control.

Even those superpowers have their own enemies and contradictions.

The Orlan Empire is about to beat the Sea Clan back to the primitive society, although there is no record in the official history, but in the past few hundred years, the Sea Clan Gods and Ocean Gods who have fallen in the hands of mortals have probably exceeded the number of one hand.

And even across the sea, Bair and the country of mages, the arms competition has never stopped, and both sides are on guard against each other.

This is still the premise that the plane war is always going on, and the energy of all countries must be involved in it.

War has been throughout the history of mankind because it is the last option to solve the problem.

As long as there is a competition for interests, a competition for the living space of ethnic groups, and a desire for a higher step, since no one can make concessions, development and development will naturally start to the end.

And compared to before, there is no frontal clash of superpowers, no world war, not because they are able to restrain it.

It's that they already have the ability to carry out plane-level development of the outside world, and the resources and benefits they obtain are far greater than the limited benefits they compete for in Ash's world.

But even in the endless sea of stars, the resources suitable for mining are still limited, some planes are rich, some planes are barren, and although some areas are rich in resources, they are difficult to mine or the freight exceeds the profits, and disputes and contradictions still exist.

The basic situation of Ash's major super forces is actually not much different, and the limits of the planes that can be developed are also similar, not every race has the ability to explore the death plane like the undead, they will also compete for the most fertile land and resources, but these wars are not in Ash's own territory.

Local wars, mercenary wars, proxy wars, probably the only change is that the bloodshed is not in Ash itself, but in peace and friendship (between major powers).

It's like the Age of Discovery, when the colonies were all in a pot of porridge, the local nobles were still dancing together, and the royal families were still marrying each other.

The door of the plane opened, and many things changed, but many things did not change in the first place.

However, the Lan League in the Northland has always been in a relatively stable environment, and there has been no war for more than 600 years, which is simply like a myth.

The main reason for this is probably that there are too many ethnic groups in the Lan Alliance, there are too many voices, but there is no one who can make a decision, as long as the status quo is maintained for Ash's situation, and there is really no interest in the competition for resources and development outside, even the advent of Ansolen, and the motivation of the Northlanders.

It is not so much a superpower as a collection of countless great powers, and the internal distribution of interests is too complicated and there are too many ideas, and when the core countries and the alliance countries have no motivation, the entire alliance between the central and northern countries is like a pool of stagnant water.

A huge body without brains and ambitions, sluggish and massive, and most of the time it is really just a sleeping giant.

Is this a good situation? There is probably no positive answer, everyone stands at a different angle, and the conclusions drawn are naturally many different.

The underground orcs are fed up with the enslavement and discrimination of wars and other races, their cultural foundation is poor, the magic civilization is extremely backward, and there are obvious signs of large-scale backwardness in this era, and they still rely on the cost price of other countries in agriculture (food) and daily necessities, and they certainly hope that the Lanmeng will maintain the status quo.

The Barbarians are similar to them, but as close relatives of the Ash Overlord Humans, and perhaps the most warlike and rude of the human subspecies, they suffer from all kinds of invisible discrimination in this era, except that they are a little stronger than the Orcs, and their strength is extremely limited.

Most of the human kingdoms in the Northland are the main force that longs for independence, they always feel that "we are all old if we don't do something", and the blood of the short-lived species eager for change is boiling, and they hope to join the stage of the great era.

And the country that has just won the throne of the alliance is also the country of the human race in the northland, whether it is from the expectations of the people or political considerations, he must do something during his term of office to prove that he is better than the two Lan countries.

In the home countries of the two Lan tribes, the situation is even more complicated.

Perhaps most people think that both countries have lost their status as allies, is it because they are weak....... In fact, the situation is just the opposite, the core of Lanmeng's maintenance for so many years is that these two countries are a little too strong.

The two countries are not large in size, and they can only be regarded as small countries by continental standards, but many people may forget that the magic technology revolution that changed everything in modern times started in these two countries.

The inventor of Olivia's Box, which is a representative of the technological revolution, is the great alchemist, who lived and died of old age.

There is the capital of Languo, the most prosperous commercial city in the Northland, as well as the origin and holy land of the magic civilization, where tens of thousands of engineering research laboratories and research institutes are located, and countless goblins and dwarf engineers have long regarded this as their home.

The long period of peace has allowed scholars to concentrate more on their own research, and the accumulated national strength is extremely considerable or even excessive, because it is too idle, the regular knights of these two countries can even accept interstellar employment to go to other countries' colonies for military training and actual combat.

The barbarians and the Orcs of the Northland are lagging behind because they can't keep up with the Demon Guide Civilization, but the two Lan countries are the leaders of the Demon Guide Civilization Revolution, and the long peace has accumulated countless research results and resources but have not turned into real things, and the extremely powerful invisible national power and the good abnormal relationship with other alien races have made them sit firmly on the throne of the alliance leader for hundreds of years, and let the super power of the continent even if they lose their minds, they will not provoke the sleeping dragon in the Northland.

But their current problem is that the royal blood is severed, and the domestic political situation is chaotic.

Originally, these two royal families were not prosperous, and they had been cut off at every turn before...... Yes, it has long been broken, and then the way to solve it is that both sides of the blood relatives "help" each other.

When you are short of people, I will send you an adopted son and daughter, and when you are gone, I will give you back.

The two sides were very close by blood, and the marriage and mutual inheritance led to the fact that the kings on both sides were mostly close relatives, and even the two countries were regarded as two lands by the other countries of the Northlands.

But this time, Siluwell's bloodline was cut off first, and the Grand Duke of the Principality of Donglan didn't have time to give him an heir to pass by, so he accidentally hung up first, and he didn't even leave his own heir.

Of course, the nobles of the two countries will not miss such a good opportunity, and all of a sudden, countless "illegitimate children" have emerged, and they all claim to have the right to inherit the throne.

There are also other countries, and a branch of nobility can upgrade the royal family.

But there is a special artifact in the Northlands....... Well, that's right, it's the sword of Roland.

This sword is said to be used only by the bloodline son of the ancient Lan Kingdom, and it is the sword of royal power of the Donglan Principality, and then at the king selection ceremony, dozens of "bastard children" want to prove themselves, so they take turns trying to pick up this sword....... Then, all dead.

Yes, dozens of noble heirs who had the potential to compete for the throne died, and they died so miserably that no one even dared to relay what really happened, and what happened next was even more terrifying.

In front of everyone's eyes, the holy sword, which symbolized the northern land, rose into the sky with dazzling brilliance, and then at the moment when countless eyes were focused, it shattered into countless fragments, scattering in all directions of the world.

This is another reason why the Lan Alliance is now on the verge of disbandment, and this sword of royal power is in the Lan people..... No, it is too important in the eyes of the Northland people and the Northland aliens, and its fragmentation makes countless people feel that the times have changed.

The legend of the empire's king losing his royal artifact and then the entire country disappearing into the flames of war, Ash can easily find a dozen that sound historical, not to mention that the empire now has no king.

Of course, this kind of thing will not be widely spread, and people who have nothing to do with the Northland are not interested in knowing about it, but the countries of the Northland are inevitably panicked.

Things have come to this point, and the idea of the barbarian prince is already clear.

"As long as you are willing to return to the Northland with that sword when necessary, and say that the Lan Alliance will never be dissolved, we will support you in everything!