Chapter 202
You can't win 'em all.
Liu Zhenzhen took a little inventory afterwards and found that his loss was actually not small, and half of the stalls and goods of the entire Fei Leng Cui Merchant Group were destroyed in this brawl, but compared to completely offending the Rhine clan, this loss was nothing.
Some people may still be a little jealous before the matter comes, looking forward and looking backwards, but once things develop in the worst direction, they can see it all at once, and Liu Zhenzhen belongs to such a person.
The Kingdom of Beamon is his nominal motherland, as a professional soldier, Liu Zhenzhen has a deep-rooted concept of family and country in his bones, in terms of right and wrong, he can distinguish priorities, but this also has a bottom limit, although he will not be treason because of His Royal Highness the Prince's step-by-step approach, but once things develop to a white-hot level, he will definitely choose to climb to a higher position to curb the continued deterioration of the situation and make the most powerful counterattack.
Regarding this unpleasant incident in the Champ de Mars, His Majesty Blatni then issued a supreme gag order, and for special considerations, the deacons of the Inquisition also began to intervene to maintain order, and the forty Templars of the main temple also issued orders from Ni He next to each bar and inn, compressing the public opinion that this incident might cause to a minimum.
Liu Zhenzhen doesn't care at all, anyway, Rhine won't spare him, he is not bread in the oven, it is not known who killed the deer, what routine he plays is a matter of the future, tonight, it is destined to be a good day for the Fei Leng Cui twin stars to shine.
Helen was invited by His Majesty the King to the palace alone for a dinner, and Liu Zhenzhen became the guest of honor under the red-clothed high priest Blatni, as a war sacrifice, enjoying such a pamper, and looking through the entire history of the Kingdom of Beamon, I could not find a second pair of such a Boer master and apprentice.
Since the Divine Comedy shaman opened the road to the holy mountain of Hyjal a few years ago, the temple specially set the venue for the reception dinner at the main temple of Shabak instead of the luxurious hotel, even if it only theoretically opened the road to the holy mountain of Hyjal, the official still has to play it up more or less.
Liu Zhenzhen understands that this is actually to put it bluntly, he is just a pawn in the hands of Tiger, this kind of extremely high standard courtesy, to a large extent, is also to put himself in the position of a top player, before he just became a bird.
The so-called mutual use of each other, Liu Zhenzhen is not using the Taggo clan, as for whether to be the first bird, Liu Zhenzhen does not have any choice, the complex political form of the kingdom, so that any rising new forces are bound to make a choice of refuge and dependence, which is the same in any era - unless Fei Lengcui is forever the emperor is far away.
This is the sorrow of the times, and as long as there are intelligent beings, this sorrow will continue.
It can be seen that heroes are sometimes not completely born, and current events can also be created.
With a copy of the "Code of Sacrifice" in his arms, Liu Zhenzhen was alone and followed the back of the rickets under Blatni to the main temple of Shabak.
The main temple of Shabak is transformed from an ancient relic in the era of the Great War of Gods and Demons, compared to the Witherspoon Temple that Liu Zhenzhen has seen, the main temple of Shabak is not majestic and tall, but it has a pure sense of historical vicissitudes and solemn religious and cultural atmosphere, which naturally creates a sacred and majestic atmosphere; After the Battle of Hygar, the ancient temple sculptures that could be transferred from the Temple of the Holy Mountain are now all concentrated in the main temple of Shabak, and behind each ancient sculpture is a complex history, and any sacrifice and Beamon standing in front of the quaint miracle will involuntarily feel their own insignificance.
While listening to the red-clothed high priest explain the monuments, the new Divine Comedy Shaman did not forget to bless a Divine Comedy aura on the Shabak Temple, so that this Divine Comedy aura, which had disappeared for only two or three days, returned to the embrace of the temple again.
This action made the cardinal high priest can't help but be surprised, after all, the rank and frequency with which this Divine Comedy shaman uses war songs today is enough to exhaust a scepter sacrifice. And he still looked in good spirits.
Liu Zhenzhen originally thought that the reception of the red-clothed high priest in the temple must be of a very high standard, it must be magnificent, and the temple has a special banquet for the sacrificial ceremony held every year - there is a sweet water lake "Autumn Knife Pond" in the Pope's Imperial Garden fifty miles outside the city of Shabak, there is a unique special fish "saury" in the whole Aegean continent in the pool, the scales of this fish are all mellow oil, used to steam food, scaly fat oil moistens into the fish body, the flavor is beautiful, and the spring of each year is "saury" At the time of the year, all the sacrificers who participated in the Olympic ceremony could enjoy this fish with the fragrance of first love at the Olympic banquet.
Because it is produced in the lake in the Imperial Garden, there is no supply of saury in the market at all, otherwise Liu Zhenzhen would have bought it a long time ago, after all, he and Guoguo wanted to know the taste of saury.
After a long visit to the monuments, Liu Zhenzhen, Guoguo, and a pair of blood babies ushered in a feast, so that these few people gathered napkins early, and were ready to shake off their cheeks and sweep away thousands of armies.
It was only at this time that Liu Zhenzhen finally remembered that in the precepts in the "Sacrificial Code", it was advocated that sacrifices should exercise their will with more hard practices.
Since he is already the spokesman of God, Liu Zhenzhen has to put on the appearance of a saint to enjoy this rich feast, Guoguo and a pair of blood babies are so small that they can almost hang mustard bottles - these three little things are all meatless and unhappy pot-bellied Arhats, which is completely due to genetics.
The only thing that satisfied Liu Zhenzhen was that the ten saints who guarded the altar fire also accompanied him to dinner, these ten beautiful saints, five from the petite and delicate servant Lebeai clan, four from the Garfield cat man with a loud voice, and one from the Centaur clan, although the saintess of the centaur clan is tall, but the curves are very annoying, a pair of beautiful legs are especially slender, belonging to the Yanmar type that Liu Zhenzhen prefers, and he frequently pretends that the knife and fork are lost under the table, and bends down from time to time.
At this dinner, His Majesty Blatneon did not invite other guests, the chief priest and the great shaman of Wei'an were already busy because of the preparations for the sacrificial ceremony, coupled with the sensitive relationship between the Divine Comedy shaman and the prince, most of the priests knew that they should maintain a little boundary at this time, so in the entire banquet, in addition to Lord Zidan, Lord Bergkamp and Deschamps, Le Maire two Pierre sacrifices, there were only ten holy women who guarded the fire of the altar to accompany the divine car of the Divine Comedy Shaman Richard Crown, and there was a huge main temple restaurant, the lonely ghost catches the ghost.
The red-clothed high priest expressed a strong interest in the twin blood babies Second Young and Third Young Young, and asked Liu Zhenzhen about their situation from time to time, and when he learned that the blood babies were the offspring condensed with the Divine Comedy Shaman's blood spell and his own blood essence, even Blat, who was extremely good at cultivating kung fu, couldn't help but be shocked.
Although Ni Xia did not know much about what a blood baby was, he had already learned through the description of the Great Shaman of Vian that the blood baby could transform into a giant conjoined tree spirit, which could not help but make Pope Ni Xi look at the Divine Comedy Shaman again.
Even if it is a human magic apprentice, in the magical desert of the Beamon Kingdom, he can be treated as a ** master, not to mention that a native magician suddenly appeared in Beamon?
While the red-clothed high priest was in a cold sweat, he couldn't help but congratulate himself on his good luck.
The Divine Comedy Shaman pretended to be a Holy Chio Mage, and although the Cardinal High Priest, Lord Zidan, and Master Bergkamp nodded in agreement, they didn't take it to heart in their hearts, just as the Divine Comedy Shaman was a fart.
If the sorcerer of San Chio can come out of the Beamon sacrifice, wouldn't that be equivalent to a human pope among the necromancers? The three temple leaders did not think that the humor of the Divine Comedy shaman had any element of ancient chicken.
Regarding the statement of this Divine Comedy shaman that he only had a body of magic by chance, but did not have any ability to release magic, the red-clothed high priest believed that all the achievements of the Divine Comedy Shaman have a detailed record here under Blat, and there is indeed no record of Richard Crown's use of magic attacks, for which Blat's Ni can only hold a long sigh to the sky, since the cicada sacrifice of the Skade clan disappeared in the long river of history, it is purely a war song to launch a magic attack, It had become an impossible task for the sacrificial rites, and Richard, the shaman of the Divine Comedy, seemed to be unable to break the curse of fate.
The Divine Comedy Shaman is a half-hung magician, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is just a sacrifice that has one more conjoined tree spirit demon pet, and it does not have much strategic significance, of course, for the kingdom and the temple, such a half-hung mage can still have one more good one, which makes Blat's Ni Xia regret the most, because it is elven magic, the possibility that this bloodline spell can be widely taught is almost equal to zero, after learning that the Divine Comedy Shaman Richard has successfully enlightened an apprentice with wisdom, The Pope urged His Majesty Richard to continue to look for more apprentices – wisdom and enlightenment are the best means of passing on knowledge!
"Your Majesty, do I need to play again in this Olympic ceremony?" After these few words of nonsense that were not salty or light, Liu Zhenzhen chewed the tasteless bread, took the thief's slippery eyes back from the ten beautiful saints, and turned to the red-clothed high priest.
"It depends on what you think, the Divine Comedy Shaman is just an honorary title, not an official establishment and rank." Blatni took off his tower-shaped crown and handed it to the attendant priest beside him, and scratched the top of his smooth head gracefully with his tail finger: "I personally support your participation, after all, there is a promotion reward in it, and the Divine Comedy Shaman has never had a precedent in history for the Scepter Sacrifice level, I hope you can record the most glorious stroke in the historical archives of the temple!" ”
"Then I'll continue to compete, win the first place, and get a scepter sacrifice to play first." Liu Zhenzhen shrugged his shoulders indifferently and spread his hands.
"Your Majesty Richard." The red-clothed high priest said: "I need to state to you in advance, if you really decide to participate, it is very likely that the judges will unanimously approve your promotion, and terminate your continuation of the competition and change to a ceremony, after all, with your strength, it is too easy to win the Olympic Laurel of the Sacrifice, for the sake of balance, the jury will most likely decide so, and your status is also more special......"
"What do you mean...... That is, let me go up and perform? Liu Zhen opened his mouth and asked, "What about the sacrificial laurels?" Don't have my share of the mix? ”
"Your Majesty Richard, the original arrangement of the Pope Ni is like this-after you have obtained the first Young Sacrifice Crown, as a reward, a large altar or a new temple will be opened in the Emerald City, and you will hold the real power, but you suddenly became a Divine Comedy Shaman, this change caught us off guard! This...... Please forgive me for my faux pas, it was really a surprise! In the past, the Divine Comedy Shaman was born in a low-level sacrifice and had to be concentrated in the main temple of Shabak to receive special protection, but your strength is the highest in the country, and this kind of protection is completely unnecessary, in this case, it involves the arrangement of the Divine Comedy Shaman's dormitory. The White Tiger Priest Lord Bergkamp took over the conversation and said to Liu Zhenzhen: "As your wife's dormitory, your identity is actually like the summer palace of the god of war, and you must have honor guards and knights, saintesses and attendant priests, so if you get the sacrificial laurels, and open another temple or altar in the city of Fei Leng Cui, it will be meaningless to overlap the positions." ”
"If that's the case, then why should I play again?" Liu Zhenzhen blinked his eyes and looked at the three temple leaders: "Ladies and gentlemen, please forgive me for my ignorance, is there any other special purpose for Bratt Ni's insistence on letting me play?" ”
"Your Majesty, I have seen your strength." The red-clothed high priest smiled and said: "There is no special intention, I want you to participate, in fact, there is only one simple purpose - with your participation, for the entire sacrificial Olympics, the gold content and ornamentality of the competition will be greatly improved, our kingdom can give birth to at least one hundred and fifty wind whisper sacrifices every year, but there will be no more than fifteen people who will cross the threshold of soul sacrifice within a year period, except for the war sacrifice that serves in the army, Almost all the priests above the second order in the kingdom are traveling around looking for apprentices, and the annual Olympic festival is also designed to inspire the confidence of these new wind whisper sacrifices, if you can witness the performance of a great priest, it will give these young wind whisper sacrifices the greatest encouragement, don't underestimate this kind of encouragement! With every additional soul sacrifice, the temple and kingdom will thank you! ”
"You're not going to perform, you're going to show off a miracle on behalf of the temple." Lord Zidan, the Great Shaman of Wei'an, said with a smile: "Tomorrow's opening ceremony, there will be a large number of nobles present to watch the ceremony, you can take the way to show the military masters who are above the top, what is the strength of the top sacrifice!" If a priest reaches a very high level, he can still influence the situation of the battle like a magician! Your pet and your strength can prove it! ”
Liu Zhenzhen could only smile bitterly, as far as he was concerned, the ability to influence the battle situation was self-evident, but if other sacrifices wanted to reach his realm, it would be too stupid to talk about it! What about the birth of one or two more soul sacrifices in the Wind Whisper Sacrifice? The Soul Sacrifice is the largest one in the temple establishment, but even if the two scepters sacrifice to Le Maire and Deschamps, what they have so far is only a low-grade high-level magical beast as a magic pet, and even Nedved's Thousand-mile Horse Mount, what grade of magic pet can a soul sacrifice recruit? What if there are one or two more soul sacrifices?
Lao Liu really didn't know if he had seen more of the world, or if the strength of the kingdom was really not good.
"Becoming a soul sacrifice means that you can continue the incense, maybe the mentor is not good, and the apprentice may be able to achieve something in the future." The Pope seemed to see what Liu Zhen meant, and sighed: "Your Majesty Richard, the genius line inherited by Lord Mourinho, after all, there is only one in the kingdom, and the Comodo War Behemoth as a soul sacrifice is only one person under Helenlan, and the foundation of the temple cannot be supported and maintained by just this little bit of excellent blood and bones." ”
"I will live up to your teachings." Liu Zhenzhen said with a smile: "Let's perform, the Pope doesn't need to worry too much, Helen's war dance course will bring you more surprises in the future." ”
"Judging from the records in the classics, the sacrificial war dance can at least increase the success rate of about five times, and the intention of me and His Majesty the King and Elder Quentin to establish the Cambridge Sacrificial Academy is also exactly what it means, in the long run, although the limitation of singing power still exists, and the promotion process is still so difficult, but there are five times more soul sacrifices every year, and once the war breaks out, it is obvious that it can provide help to the warriors." The red-clothed high priest laughed: "Fortunately, His Majesty Richard also invented the War Song Scroll at the same time, this is the most important thing, the scroll will definitely be able to greatly improve the strength of the sacrifice, at the beginning, out of the principle of confidentiality, everything about you, after I received the report from Lord Qi Dan, I have been strictly blocking all news so far." ”
"Hehe......" Liu Zhenzhen laughed dryly, thinking to himself, old gecko, old gecko, what are you doing out of the principle of confidentiality, it is completely because you are afraid that His Majesty the King will win me over.
"Your Majesty Richard, I have to remind you that His Majesty Helen, the High Priest of Cambridge, will hold a coronation ceremony at the opening ceremony tomorrow, and tonight His Majesty the King summoned her to the palace, what does it mean that you and I both understand, the Fox family has always maintained a good friendship with the Rhine, and I know that this news is a step too late, and now I want to ask you to verify how likely is the success of His Majesty's wooing?" Blatni looked at Liu Zhenzhen and asked.
"Helen is a simple girl, there is no excessive scheming, plus my relationship, His Majesty the King's wooing has no chance of success." Liu Zhenzhen added badly: "They have analyzed the wrong object that should be wooed." ”
"Hehe......" the Pope laughed heartily with the Grand Shaman of Vian.
"Although the Cambridge Archpriest is also an honorary title, but the future prestige is immeasurable, a group of war sacrifices controlled by the military department has faintly become the backbone, they can gather the army to help the sacrifice get a better demon favor, but the temple does not have this ability, so we must not let the influence of the military department expand to the Cambridge Sacrifice Academy." Blatni picked up the water and touched the cup with Liu Zhenzhen.
"Your Majesty, I would like to ask, when I have my own dormitory, what will be the arrangements for my honor guards, saints, and attendants? Do I have the right to make my own arrangements? Liu Zhenzhen asked with a glass of water.
"The temple is a place dedicated to the god of war, and your dormitory is the summer palace of the god of war, a place where the god of war works, and a home of the god of war." The red-clothed high priest laughed, "The Witherspoon Temple in the Northeast Province will arrange everything for you, but you can also arrange it yourself. ”
"Dare to love me, I turned out to be the butler of the God of War?" Liu Zhen sneered and laughed: "The housekeeper is the housekeeper, Ni Xia, I am going to canonize the folk Shaloman sacrifice as my attendant priest, I don't know if it can be?" ”
"This ...... It's not that you can't ......" The Pope frowned: "But you also know that the Gang people are born with disabled people with atrophied hands, and that's it, but for so many years, in order to get rid of the identity of folk sacrifices, there has been a lot of trouble between the Evil Men and the Temple, and it is precisely because of their existence that the Great Temple of Florentia in the southeastern province has always been despised in Wolf's territory, so the successive high priests explicitly forbade the altar sacrifice to enlighten the wisdom of the Evil people, and you canonized them as priests, It is equivalent to acknowledging that they can become clergy, isn't it...... A little out of place? ”
"Your Majesty, if you set this precedent, what should other temples do with their identities? Recognize them as clergy? What about the genuine sacrifices in the main temple of Floronto in the southeastern province? Racial war songs are not unique to the embarrassed Shaloman, but what should the Smai people with the "Song of the Forbidden Sky" do? The Grand Shaman of Vian chimed in.
"Of course, it's unrealistic to admit all of their identities, I'll only canonize one, it shouldn't be in the way, right? But then again, isn't it a pity that such a smart embarrassment person doesn't accept the sacrificial enlightenment? Liu Zhenzhen asked.
"It's nothing to canonize an embarrassed person Sharoman as a priest, the key is to open this example, there will definitely be a lot of embarrassed people who will find you to mess around in the future, if you really decide, you will have to resist the pressure in the future." The cardinal high priest said: "As for why we don't enlighten the wisdom of the embarrassed Shaloman, the key reason is that their existence has seriously affected the dependence of the Wolf army on the altar sacrifice, which also directly leads to the chief Quentin of the Elder's house, Old Redknapp, who can not buy our temple at some point!" It wouldn't be a good thing if Wolf had a huge force in the temple again. ”
"Also, the Wolf family is famous for their unity and xenophobia." Liu Zhenzhen nodded: "I understand as soon as you say that." ”
"The Rhine clan is enough of a headache for me, after all, there are also a lot of people who are attached to the Rhine clan behind their backs, plus a Mourinho chief priest, our temple now has three major forces, and one more will not cause chaos in the world?" The red-clothed high priest smiled.
"The strength of the presiding priest is very strong." Liu Zhenzhen slyly squeezed his eyes at the Pope's Ni: "Your Majesty Blat, aren't you worried that the Priest of Mourinho is getting bigger and bigger?" The jade mining city near my territory also has a large number of sacrificial communities, and Medusa is truly a sacrificial tribe! ”
"The title of the chief priest can be won by strength, but the title of the red-robed high priest can't." Blatter smiled faintly, a pun intended: "As the lord of the Bode clan, it is normal for Lord Mourinho to have a little more strength, but this is not worth mentioning for Tiger and Rhine, the balance of the House of Elders has always been centered on the lion and tiger clans, and it is impossible to favor Bode, after the Battle of Hyjal, the Bald clan existed in name only, for Lord Mourinho, the temple encourages every sacrifice to respect and worship him, but that's all, there was Lord Milou before, and Lord Mourinho could not stand alone, Now that Milou has retired, and His Majesty Richard and Helen have sprung up as new weights to balance the scales, Mistress Mourinho, though intelligent, is really clumsy and has no insight into people, and I firmly believe that you can definitely play the role that Milou was in the beginning, and maybe even better. ”
You don't even know that the Fire Phoenix Sacrifice has twin demon pets, what have to be done! Liu Zhenzhen pursed his lips very covertly.
"As for His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness need not be worried, we will later initiate impeachment with the Presbytery, anyway, this opera did not end so easily; In addition, due to the imminent establishment of the Templar Order, the Emerald Territory has metallurgical assistance from the Sherpa family of the Duchy of Dolot, and we would like to transfer the funds directly to you so that you can complete this preparatory work. The White Tiger Sacrifice Lord Bergkamp greeted Liu Zhenzhen.
"No problem." Liu Zhenzhen agreed in one bite.
"This expedition to the Taklamagogo Desert, you and Helen Lan asked to go with the army, after I learned about Helen Lan's background, I really can't bear to refuse this request, this time the sacrificial group is nominally dispatched with the army, in fact, we already have a certain amount of armed force, because of your proud record, I will specially crown you as the chief shaman, and have full authority to handle all military operations in the desert war! Once the four oases of the Taklamago Desert are captured, I hope that His Majesty Richard can quickly control the situation, seize the front of the military, and occupy the two pieces of fat of materials and money! As for the prisoners of war and the pagan people, we estimate that it will be difficult for us to compete with the military, and when the time comes, we only need to develop the cultists, and there are a large number of wind and language sacrifices in the country, and when the time comes, we can allocate a group of people to the past to slowly preach! Blatni wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said to Liu Zhenzhen in the most solemn tone: "There is one thing that you need to pay special attention to, the human blacksmiths in the desert are very good at smelting, and the big Richg's scimitar they forged is a standard cut of iron like clay!" This is the most scarce material in the kingdom, so the blacksmith and the mining area are the top priority!
"Plunder is our forte." Liu Zhenzhen raised his eyebrows.
"Money and equipment are so important! If we have money, we can form a legion of Holy Knights instead of a wing of Holy Knights in all sorts of names! The mercenary plan mentioned by Master Mourinho is a good idea, but the equipment, military salary, logistics, and pensions are ...... These expenses are just too much! The temple's financial revenue is only enough to keep one wing running, so there is a lot of hope for the Desert War this time! Hopes for Richard are even greater! Lord Bergkamp, the White Tiger Sacrifice, trembled in his voice.
"Once the temple has an army, won't the military power develop in a polarized way? Will this cause any trouble? Liu Zhen groaned.
"From Greck. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, the kingdom has been recuperating for more than twenty years, and it is imperative to sweep away the scourge of the surrounding area. The red-clothed high priest muttered: "His Majesty has repeatedly tried to weaken the influence of the temple, we must have a better way to deal with it, now the war sacrifices of more than two years of sacrifice age are all serving in the major legions, the temple has lost this group of backbones, we can only make up for it from another aspect, only in this way, we can have an excuse to leave a batch of war sacrifices for the temple!" ”
"That's true." Liu Zhenzhen smiled: "Originally, I also had to accept the conscription of the military department in a year, but now as long as I am promoted to the scepter sacrifice, there will be no such problem." ”
"One year, it only takes one year, and the sacrificial realm of the kingdom is definitely shrouded in the aura of the Fei Leng Emerald Twin Stars! I don't have any requirements for Richard, I give you the right to choose saints from all races, but don't forget that I, the old Tiger, have helped you get ahead. The cardinal high priest smiled meaningfully.
"How can it! It's all turned over like this with Rhine... Ha ha... Let's cheers....... Cheers to Prince Richard's health. Liu Zhenzhen laughed, stood up and picked up the water glass, and said in a narrow tone.
"As you think." The three high-ranking officials of the temple also stood up reservedly.
The four water glasses touched lightly, and everything was silent.
How can he be a woman who treats Lao Tzu as a womanizer? What is the right to choose the saints of all races? Does the Holy Maiden have any other special task besides guarding the fire of the altar? Liu Zhenzhen felt a secret strangeness in his heart.
"Your Majesty Richard, you may not know that although the Divine Comedy Shaman does not have real power, this honorary title comes from the ancient system, so in your dormitory, all the systems will also follow the ancient rites, and the system of first night rights, which has been canceled for a long time, will be restored in your dormitory, and every time the holy daughter of the dormitory goes out to marry at the age of twenty-two, she must first make a sacrifice to the messenger appointed by the god of war." Lord Bergkamp, the White Tiger Priest, smiled and looked at the stunned Liu Zhenzhen: "I'm sorry to tell you, most Divine Comedy shamans have a hard time surviving a lifespan of about four to five years, but you obviously don't belong to this ranks, so you must fulfill this right, this is the mission you must complete, the saints who came out of the summer palace of the god of war, their chastity can only be left to the god of war, this is their supreme glory." ”
"I... This one... That..."Liu Zhenzhen was almost incoherent.
(To be continued)