Chapter 491 Strategic Balance
After a heart-to-heart conversation with Andrew, Feige was convinced that the effects of his return could be managed, and immediately sent a messenger—not the kind that might die on the way—to report the good news to his family.
Feige received a reply from his father, and then used teleportation spells to take Andrew and the silver dragon (and the egg) to the south. Seeing the long-lost family members return safely, everyone cried and laughed, and was so excited that they couldn't help themselves. Alyssa turned into a human form, and in the eyes of almost everyone, she was a beautiful, dignified, gentle and proud young woman, especially Xia Ni, who praised her mother for being beautiful. Only Feige can see through the transfiguration and illusion, and the dragon's appearance is clearly visible under the human face. But in order to approve of Xia Ni, he pretended not to see. As Andrew's parents, they quickly accepted this "woman they knew when they disappeared and lost their amnesia", fully carrying forward the glorious tradition of "my family is not at a loss".
Feige and Andrew only stayed there for a full day, and then they used teleportation spells to make the long journey to the Lighthouse Territory. Carroll and Delmond are here, as is Andrew's own home.
I wanted to receive Carol's letter again, but Feige really didn't expect that there was still no reply, and this time the messenger did not die on the way. He complained a million times in his heart about Carol's irresponsibility, and although he didn't want to come, he still wanted to come for the sake of safety.
"The lighthouse collar is still the same as before, and Tawu Harbor City is no longer recognizable in comparison. Andrew asked Feige not to teleport directly into the castle, but to walk through the outskirts of the city, so that he could see the outskirts and inside the city along the way.
"Tawu Harbor City has been attacked by blood-colored meteors so many times, and each time many places have been torn down and rebuilt, of course, the changes will be greater. Feige forcibly explained: "Isn't it good that you haven't been beaten up here, and you still maintain the original scenery characteristics?"
"The point is that there is no progress, and people are still the same as they used to be. "Andrew now has a hairy face, and if he wears a hat again, it will be difficult for acquaintances to recognize him. And in order to satisfy his hobby of visiting his own territory, Feige uses illusion to change the perception of his appearance by the people around him, so that no one will recognize any of them along the way.
"What you have is time to change here. ”
Andrew thought a lot, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult to meet Carroll. After arriving at the castle and claiming their identities, all of them were closed and almost thrown into a cell as a liar. Andrew was rarely angry, but Feige comforted him and said, "This shows that Carroll is very vigilant and protective of Delmond." ”
Despite that, he released the phantom snake Koktar to locate Carroll and Dalemond, and then teleported straight over. At present, Fei Qi is the only one who can use the teleportation technique so perfectly, so this can be regarded as self-identification. Carol was in the garden watching Delmond stumble and chop straw targets with his wooden sword, startled by the sudden teleportation, but she hid her fright in an instant.
"You're trying to avoid me, in vain, but I can understand it, why are you trying to get away from Andrew? Do you think I'm going to get a fake Andrew? Are you fooling yourself or do you really think so much about my intelligence and means......?"
Before Feige could finish speaking, Andrew had already held Carol in his arms and made her realize reality with familiar breaths, gestures and kisses. Well, the silver dragon Alyssa was still around, and in order to prevent her from freezing it all in one breath, Feige snapped her fingers and forcibly reversed her attention.
"What are you doing! How beautiful is this!" Yinlong was very dissatisfied, and complained to Fei Qi: "I am not very familiar with the human body, and I am going to observe and learn more!"
"Look at it, then, but don't get carried away. Andrew has just come back and you have to watch for his safety. ”
"I don't need you to say it. Alyssa stared at Feige, "Are you still going to stay here and finish eating?"
Yes, this is Andrew's house, and there may be something going on that doesn't suit Feige's watch, such as a direct confrontation between his mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Feige shuddered at the thought of that scene, and then grabbed Shanny's hand and slipped away with a teleportation.
Andrew is back in the Lighthouse, and the Courier won't be left empty-handed, right?
So, Xia Ni has one more activity: to write a letter to Alyssa in the dragon language that she is not yet proficient in. She only cares about her relationship with her mother and things related to dragon eggs, and does not care about the uproar caused by Andrew's return among the old aristocracy.
There are many old aristocrats who don't like the current empire, after all, there is a certain difference between recognizing reality and accepting it, and the time to erase this difference has not passed long enough. All kinds of news are flying in the sky, and the intelligence minister Maxes is very busy, and only Feige is sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, and he has to comfort his minister in turn.
"There's no need for this, what can you do even if you let them collude? Andrew won't oppose me, and the nobles of the United Kingdom of Hoya and the United Kingdom all died in the battle between the coalition and me, and there are only a few people who are qualified to make irresponsible remarks about the United Kingdom, they are all very smart, and no one wants to be a bird. It's going to cool down quickly. ”
As Fitch had hoped, the rumors and uproar quickly subsided, and relations between the Lighthouse Lords, which had been regained by Andrew, improved markedly, and a large number of speculative rats smelled the shipwreck, and left the territory one after another, only to be caught by Maxers with his nets open. Most of them were quickly released after some education, and a few of the guys who had sowed discord around Carol were sent back to the Lighthouse Collar by Feige and handed over to Andrew.
What Andrew did with them, Feige didn't care, he detached himself from most mundane things to concentrate on dealing with the second world. During his absence, the Deep Hell Purgatory Yaka had successfully completed the "Second Impact" and captured the second of the four Divine Crystal Vaults in its entirety.
Defending this storage warehouse is a group of very strange mutated monsters with unpredictable abilities that cannot be inferred from common sense. The winged ones can't fly, the eyeless ones can emit petrified stares, and all sorts of unconventional things can make any attacker anxious, but that doesn't include the devil.
During the long bloody battle, the devil has a lot of experience in fighting demons, and it is engraved in the memories and abilities of different classes of devils by hell. Although there are definite types of demons, the chaotic nature of them is always mutating, so unexpected abilities and threats emerge from time to time.
Organize the offensive with extreme discipline and order, advance at all levels, fight steadily and steadily, and seek merit without seeking damage...... Slowly but forcefully, the demons bulldozed the entire warehouse under the command of Yaka, killing all the non-demonic creatures inside. Most of the devil's losses occurred near the end of the battle, when the mutated creatures in a desperate situation forcibly swallowed the divine crystal, and then burst out with great power in a short period of time, making it difficult for even the deep hell to fight. The Hellpurgatory Demons hired by Yaka very "skillfully" killed two of them in the battle with the divine mutated creatures, and the remaining one was also seriously injured, and under the kind attention of the almost intact Yakka, he did not survive to return to the Devil's Fortress in the Floating Continent with his reward.
The few demons who survived were promoted, using the power of the Divine Crystal. Through promotion, these devils have become inseparable from Feiqi's territory and have become his subordinates. And after tasting the sweetness, even if Fei Qi doesn't urge, they will try to reproduce this success and get the next advancement under the bewitchment of greed.
The success of the devils will certainly make the war, the two knights of the balance, and the other powerhouses of the second world feel a real threat, and they will not be able to sit down any longer. Feige anticipates an attack on the Devil's Fortress on the Floating Continent, and Yaka agrees, so she's been looking for ways to bolster its defenses. Stronger Devils, more Demonic Light Killers, stronger and tighter defenses. Soon, the Devil's Fortress has been built into a powerful fortress that will be effective even in bloody battles, and if the demons like the waves of the sea can't rush away, then the soldiers of the Second World trapped by the distance can only appear in streams like rivers at best, and they can't rush away.
The matter of reinforcing the fortress was handed over to Yaka with confidence, and he did not interfere, but just arranged some magic arrays outside the Devil's Fortress, and looked very busy. In his heart, he was not optimistic about Yaka's defensive plan, because opposite her was a knight called "War", who had divine power and occupied the home field, and was naturally at a disadvantage against the "War Knight" by means of war.
What would the power of war look like? Just think about greed. The divine power of greed is characterized by devouring, and this ability comes from the deepest part of its soul, and is a kind of full self-expression. The divine power of the War Knight cannot be separated from anything related to war, perhaps to make the warriors of a certain side stronger, or to create soldiers out of thin air, or to directly control the war.
Feige fully imagined the abilities of the War Knight, and he felt that the most likely and dangerous scenario was "manipulating the war", that is, modifying the result, but perhaps different from the modifying result of the infinite zero rune. Feige's personality is to get rid of the control of others and make his own decisions, so as to get the job done and achieve the results he wants. Therefore, the infinite zero rune will ultimately fall on the "produce result." ”
War knights may be different. Judging from the description of the silver dragon Alyssa, the main characteristic of the war knight is that he likes war, and war is a process, and the war that ends can only be called peace or confrontation. Therefore, Feige has reason to suspect that the War Knight's ability is to maintain the state of war, so that the two sides have to continue to fight and cannot get out.
This is not necessarily true, but it is not without precedent. Isn't the bloody war considered to be an eternal state with no end for a long time? Although there is a truce at present, the demon's hatred for the devil has not been eliminated, and the cause and driving force of the bloody war are still there, and it is only Asmodeirs who has achieved a temporary advantage with his strong technical ability.
Feige finds himself confronted with a similar problem to Asmodeirs: how to end the war. "Let the devil end the war" may not sound "correct" at all, but if you think about it, why can't the devil do this?
What ends a war must not be a means of war. Negotiation may be one of them, but Feige doesn't think he has anything to talk about with the War Knights. Even if the war is unusual, Fei Qi will not accept it, which is contrary to his personal feelings, and even contrary to his plan to save the Yongli Continent. The war must be lost, otherwise the Second World and the Yongli Continent will always be under the threat of war, which is not only a literal meaning, but also a question of who has the initiative. If Feige wants to bring the work of saving the world to "infinite zero", it must eliminate all distractions, especially war.
For a long time, he had been thinking about how to end the war, but fortunately, the war he faced was only in the second world, focusing on the Apple Core Planet and the Floating Continent, which was much less difficult than Asmodeirs. With Alyssa's intel in hand, Feige quickly decides what to do. On the surface, he made a magic array outside the Devil's Fortress, but he secretly arranged the real finishing means in the Silver Dragon Cave**.
He also found the Soul Fossil, which, as the Silver Dragon said, was mounted on the skull of a Cyclops, disguised as the Cyclops' teeth. In order to avoid alerting the War Knight, Feige did not touch it, and directly arranged a powerful illusion around it, pretending that the silver dragon was still in the cave. Since Andrew's return has caused waves in the Yongli Continent, the War Knight will know sooner or later, so Fei Qi knows very well in his heart that the matter of the Silver Dragon will not be hidden for long, and the final showdown with the War Knight is imminent.
But he didn't expect Balance to come to his door first.
Balance is a blue ** humanoid floating in mid-air, hairless, emitting a shimmer, no gender characteristics, facial features are painted, it seems to have no authenticity, it seems to be just to express the basic functions of the organs, so it can only be represented by "it". It has a few scales at the center of its eyebrows, like a black tattoo, all made up of straight segments and triangles, without the slightest rounded strokes. It slowly flew from the main planet of Apple Core to the Devil's Fortress, and as soon as it arrived, it asked to speak with "Feige St. Hale". The attacks and spells of ordinary demons pierced through its body as if it didn't exist. Yaka was eager to see if the Hellpurgatory and the god-like powers of the Hell Pact could hurt it, but Feige stopped the attempt.
"It's a projection, its true body is in another dimension, and there's no point in attacking it. It uses its own inability to attack, thus frustrating all attacks on it. So don't be nervous, it's just here to talk. ”
Feige stands in front of Blue Balance in the form of a contract demon. It bowed slightly, and without explanation or explanation, it had already confirmed that the devil in front of it was Feiqi. "It's a little late to see you, but a little earlier than what might happen. "As soon as the balance is spoken, it is a word that confuses the other devils. However, Feige understands that this "late" refers to the fact that the balance is a little late, and "early" is relative to the order in which Feige fights the war first and then deals with the balance.
"Until now, at least between the Devil's Fortress and the main planet of Apple Core, there are actually no secrets. Under the gaze, there is no room for the conspiracy to be displayed, and the rest is a hard-fought process. Fitch made a gesture of invitation and floated, and the two left the fortress and went outside to avoid the Devil's clearing. "Although I don't think it's very likely, I still have to ask: Are you here to surrender or to cooperate?"
"Neither. Likewise I am not here to persuade or fight. "I've always taken the balance between destruction and rebirth very seriously, but I've always felt that this process is crushed by the creator god, and there is no way to balance it. Even the Thunder's struggle was not enough to bring the whole thing back into balance. Until your presence, I was relieved but at the same time reaffirmed with a sense of knowing that balance must be maintained. So, I have a reason to act and add some more weight to this balance. ”
"Your offensive plan cannot be executed. Balance said, "If you attack any third Divine Crystal stronghold, I'll awaken the God of Creation." It's a strategic balance. ”