Chapter 838: Merlin's Planned Counterattack
"If I knew it was you, I wouldn't have had to go through such a twist and turn." Lin Andao.
It is not difficult for her to take the life of the city lord, and even slaughter the city lord's mansion, but her purpose is to save people rather than kill people, and under the constraints of this purpose, she can only use both soft and Viscount Fendi's father and son, so that they can take the initiative to control the order around Robb City.
Otherwise, with her current strength, where is there so much need to talk so much nonsense with Viscount Fendi's father and son.
"Your presence here is also a great surprise to me, and I thought it was when Viscount Fendi told me before he left the city that a mage who claimed to be able to cure the plague appeared...... Where did the liars come from. ”
Chamberlain paused in the second half of the sentence, hiding some unfinished words.
Lin An looked at the young mage in front of him,
After two years, his temperament is more mature, with a faint iron blue on his chin, shallow bloodshot eyes, and some obvious tail lines at the corners of his eyes, with fatigue.
"I know you don't like greetings, so let's get straight to the topic," Hulu's eyes looked at Lin An, Lin An nodded slightly, and Bolun said, "Do you really have a solution to this plague once and for all?" ”
Lin An's expression paused slightly, "Okay, to be honest, no, unless you summon all the light mages stationed on the front line of Gaunt City back, or use the air conditioner to bring a batch of medicinal materials that can meet your needs." ”
Burren was irrepressibly disappointed, and Lin An's background and repeated miracles made him expect too much.
Burren's Outer Justice was one of the elders of the Mage Tower, and from this, Lin An could also see that the situation on the East Coast was indeed grim, and the Elders could not come up with a solution that could completely solve the plague for the time being.
"Then you interfere in the affairs of the displaced people......" rose to Lin An's level, and Bleren no longer needed to deliberately conceal some internal information, not to mention that Lin An had already guessed it.
With his eyes flickering slightly, Lin An said: "I don't think that rescuing Rob City will solve Atlanta's current predicament, but releasing the exiles and causing the plague to spread to Pere and the Holy Empire is probably in the hands of the Holy See." ”
Chamberlain looked terrified, "You mean, this plague has something to do with the Holy See?" ”
"Don't say that you have never speculated so much, the Holy See's peace with the demons, as well as the secret study of the plague, is probably not a secret to your intelligence system!" Lin An snorted slightly.
The undead transformation circle in the hands of the demons is from the undead archmage, yes, but after passing through the Holy See halfway, the necromancer archmage will not hand over the complete research results to the Holy See, and the Holy See will not leave a hand on the demons, the destroyed secret magic research institute in Angelia's hometown, and the plague spread this time, are probably one of the research results of the Holy See.
Lin An had already met Angus, and knew very well that he would not care about the death of civilians, even if those civilians belonged to the Holy Empire - she even had a vague intuition that if the plague spread to the Three Kingdoms, it might be in Angus's hands;
Moreover, this plague was caused by the civilians who were exiled by the glacier disaster on the east coast, and the collapse of the glacier was inseparable from Remus, with Remus's hatred for the Three Kingdoms, Lin An could not help but suspect that Remus would not intervene in it.
From the time of the meeting outside the capital of Peret and the intention of Lemster to warn her, Lin An knew that the chess game that Remus had planned for many years was about to begin, and the news from the southern front, as well as Remus's declaration after declaring war on Merlin, as well as his move to make war with the Pope, Lin An knew that Remus had begun to fall step by step.
The rapid intensification of the war situation on the continent seems to have followed the line of the Holy See's successive appearances of the Holy Son's divine envoys - the fall of the Holy Son - the Holy See's wanton revenge, gradually sweeping the entire continent like a whirlpool of war, and Remus is also an indispensable role in it, if the plague is also their next move, then Atlanta's move to release the exiles into other countries, will not they expected?
Moreover, due to the blockage of the Rocky Mountains, the Merlin border is not connected to the Holy Empire at all, and if you want the plague to spread to the Holy Empire, you must first let it spread to celebrate the widespread spread in Perre's territory, so there are many things that the Holy Empire can operate in it, and Atlanta does this, killing 800 enemies and losing 1,000 by itself, and giving up the moral upper hand.
Although Perret and the Holy Empire's Crusade have now fought a real fire, it is difficult for Merlin to stop fighting, but offending his allies out of thin air will also ruin the results of the Merlin envoys in the past few months, and the envoys have returned to Merlin's territory, without Lancet by the side of Emperor Jupiter, it is difficult for Merlin to control Perre's attitude.
Although Burren didn't know about the level of struggle between Remus and Angus, he could somewhat guess Lin An's concerns.
Lin An has always been indifferent, and this time she deliberately prevented Viscount Fendi from letting the exiles out of the country, which shows that she is not untargeted, and what she warned will come true nine times out of ten.
Hearing this, Chamberen pondered for a moment and said:
"If, as you say, the Holy See does not care about the plague raging in its own territory, then even without our actions, the Holy See will probably plant this matter on our heads, so as to eliminate the domestic anti-war situation and stimulate the fighting spirit of those believers, then what difference does it make between doing it and not doing it?"
When Lin An speculated that the plague might be the Holy See or Remus behind her back, she guessed that Atlanta's response might be the next move of the Holy See to stimulate public opinion, so as to stop this matter, at this time, seeing Chamberlain's attitude, the thoughts in her mind changed, and she suddenly woke up:
"Could it be that this is also your intention, wanting to draw out the tail of the Holy See and make it public?"
Chamberen raised an eyebrow, "It's your own speculation, I didn't say anything." ”
In other words, it's tacit.
Lin An was stunned, no wonder, Viscount Fendi knew how much damage this incident would cause to the foundation of the family, but still resolutely obeyed the orders of the Mage Tower.
If this line of thought can really be grasped by the Holy See, then it will undoubtedly be an effective counterattack, which will fundamentally shake the reputation of the Holy See, which will be absolutely fatal to the Holy See - this is also the special feature of religion, and the royal families of the three kingdoms, which are replaced by secular rulers, will also strike at the hearts of the people, and the effect will never be so immediate.
If it weren't for the epidemic that was so severe and huge enough to threaten the entire continent, the plague created by the Holy See would have turned into a rare opportunity, perhaps the first time in a thousand years that it was so completely and effectively destroyed from the foundation of the Holy See, because the threat to the lives of the plague was closely related to the common people, even if it was peace with the demons, it would not have been able to completely destroy the human foundation of the Holy See even if it was to make peace with the demons.
Taking a step back and thinking about it, even if it is just chasing after the wind, as long as the rumors are formed, the Holy See may even take the initiative to send clergy to the epidemic area to drive out the plague in order to clear the stigma, and Atlanta can turn passive into active.
It's just that the proportion in it must be grasped well, otherwise it will inevitably become a lose-lose situation.
However, this is not what Lin An needs to care about.
"So, I have a lot of trouble." Lin An was cold.
Think about it, since Merlin's intelligence system has long known about the Holy See's research plague, how can he not prepare, although the demon army of the undead and the collapse of the glacier have made Merlin passive, but how can Merlin just be beaten passively all the time and not fight back?
In fact, there were clues before, no wonder Viscount Fendi acted strangely, and the behavior of Burn, the overseer sent by the Mage Tower, who was hidden behind the scenes, was also somewhat secretive, and Lin An also guessed a few points by linking the details.
Seeing that her expression was a little strange, Chamberen said, "Don't worry, although your appearance was not expected by us, it has not ruined our plans yet." ”
You think I'm worried about this?
Lin An's eyes were slightly cold.
The counterattack planned by the upper echelons of the Atlanta ruling class is based on the sacrifice of civilians, and without the cooperation of the Atlanta ruling class, Lin An can do very little or no help to the epidemic.
"In this case, can I no longer carry out the rescue of those infected civilians?"
Lin An said ironically, Bolun understood the reason for Lin An's change of color, and he was not surprised because Lin An's previous impression in his mind had nothing to do with helping the world and saving people, and the Lin An in his memory was by no means a model of fraternity and compassion.
In fact, Lin An is not unaware of the change in his mentality.
The reason for this change comes from the notion of a previous life, on the one hand, that she does not mind reaching out when it is enough to protect herself and not harm herself; On the other hand, it is because of the divine favor of the goddess of nature, although the goddess fell and the kingdom of God collapsed, Lin An did not think that the divine favor that fell from the sky was what he deserved, and he did not need to pay the price.
Even if she was blessed by the gods, fused with the crystallization of divine power, and the number of times she used the natural magic and the help it brought to her was no less than magic, Lin An had never been confused by such a powerful power, forgetting that she was a mage.
The identity of the mage does not lie in whether the magic used is divine or magic, but in the adherence to the inner will and principles, therefore, after leaving the kingdom of God, she once vowed to do her best to protect the last wish of the goddess, protect this seemingly peaceful but dangerous continent, and have been walking in the body.
For this reason, after leaving the Kingdom of God, she involuntarily got involved in the whirlpool of the situation on the mainland, running back and forth, and even slacking off in her own magic cultivation, so that Mourinho couldn't help but remind that Lin An didn't regret it, she always knew what she was doing, so after detecting the spread of the plague, she would once again interrupt her plan to retreat and practice, and intervene again, but she didn't expect that what she got was such an ending!
She was angry, but she couldn't do anything about it, because even she herself was a supporter of this "minority sacrifice" theory, and she knew that Merlin could not be led away by the Holy See, and that the sacrifice of a part of the civilian population in order to successfully fight back could not be stopped.
It was precisely because of this contradiction that she felt even more angry, and after irony, she realized that she was in an unstable mood, turned around and said, "Forget it, you can go, and when the epidemic of the remaining townsfolk is expelled, I will leave here." ”
Even if they save the townspeople, what will be their fate in the future?
Perhaps because of her personal contact with these living people, Lin An found that these lives were far from being as simple as a string of numbers that she had put on the scales and rationally considered how many oak seeds she would have to pay for a more reasonable price.
Bren, who had been ordered to be evicted, was silent for a long time, and after a while, he suddenly spoke:
"It's not clear why you're bent on saving these civilians, but it's not hopeless."
(To be continued) RS