In Chapter 6, war is a competition for resources
Will used his mental power to plan to be one step ahead of everyone else and investigate the situation to the outside world.
He was stopped by the Great Elder, told him to gather his mind, and withdrew Rogers' right hand, so as to hide his aura as much as possible, so as to be a surprise soldier.
It's better not to shoot if you can.
Everyone broke down the door, and the first thing they saw was dozens of corpses. Even after being washed away by the magic of the Three Elders, the torrent, there was still an uncomfortable smell in the air, obviously, it was the smell of acquaintance's flesh.
The enemy was nearly fifty meters away from the council hall at this time.
Obviously, the sudden activation of the magic array beam, and the rushing second-level magic-torrent, caught the enemy by surprise, and after dropping dozens of corpses, they immediately retreated to the rear safety area, guarding against them.
Seeing the scene in front of them, Will and the others couldn't help but sink their hearts. The damage caused by attacking the magic array was much worse than expected.
In addition to the dozens of people who were already dead, among the remaining dozens of people, only the two who were supported lost their combat effectiveness, and the others were at most slightly injured and did not affect the battle.
The only good news was that one of the people who was being supported seemed to have an extraordinary status, and the inmates surrounded him and carefully protected him.
On the other hand, apart from the consumption of a little mana, there were no casualties.
Analyzing the situation of the enemy and the enemy with an expressionless face, the Great Elder Silman said word by word:
"Giannis Dima, Becky Andersson, Ursula Hall, you three are so bold that you dare to ignore the laws of the Lane Magic Council and rashly invade my Rogers family, you can afford it! President Taryn Water's wrath!!"
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Rogers, Dima, Andersson, Hall, all four magical families belong to the Lane Magic Council. And they are all distributed in the southern state of the Kingdom of Lane.
The Lane Empire is divided into five states: southeast, northwest, and middle. In addition to the central states, the southern states have the most abundant magical resources. The southern state is divided into seven provinces.
Two hundred years ago, Rogers monopolized the entire southern state due to the coercion of the peerless patriarch. Later, due to the disappearance of the peerless patriarch, three of the provinces were sold, but due to various human accidents and the existence of the two mage consummation realm magicians, they still occupy the four provinces with the most abundant magic resources.
In the past two hundred years, the former favor has gradually faded. As one of the four major magical families of the Empire, the Rogers family has become more and more numerous after still exercising various policies and clan rules after the reform.
But for some reason, with such abundant magical resources, since the two consummation mages reached the limit of longevity, there has never been a single one who has reached the consummation realm of mages, let alone a warlock.
The definition of a first-class magic family is that at least one magician has reached the level of mage perfection.
To this day, there are only two magicians in the Rogers family, even in the late stage of mage, and they are not even as good as the average prosperous second-rate family.
And the four major provinces under its control are naturally unavoidable for other families to be jealous. If it weren't for the fact that the other three first-class families were all too busy to take care of themselves, and the Rogers family still existed, the ancestral third-order magic spirit treasure, the Storm Scepter, would have been approached by other red-eyed magic families.
Therefore, with the existence of the Storm Scepter, in the past two hundred years, the Rogers family has been in small troubles, but no major war has broken out.
So much so that now, although there are only two mages with top-level combat power in the late stage, the number of mages in the middle and early stages is so large that even the other three first-class magic families are far inferior to the Rogers family.
In the past two hundred years, Dima, Andersson, and Hall have migrated from other provinces, or the original small families in the southern states, and gradually grew up in the chaos and competition.
Among them, the Dima family is the most powerful, and there are 3 mages in its clan who dominate the two provinces in the southern state.
And the two families of Andersson and Hall, each with a mage in the later stage, jointly own the remaining province.
In addition, there are twelve third-rate magic families in the southern states, as well as more non-first-rate magic families, which are interspersed in various provinces.
There are alliances and feuds between each magic family, large and small, but with the restrictions of the Rogers family, the entire southern state has been relatively stable in recent decades.
Rogers' peerless patriarch back then, although he had a benevolent personality, did not personally go into battle to snatch magical resources. But his strength was strong after all, and his influence was everywhere in the Lane Empire at that time.
Even if they don't come forward to fight, when they are neighbors, except for the families who are very close to each other, the children of other families and the children of the Rogers family will inevitably bump and bump.
In this way, because the gap in strength is obvious. Emotions of grievance and even humiliation naturally inevitably breed within various families, and how can they live and cultivate in peace.
Naturally, they took three steps back, and the families shrank their spheres of influence one after another, and even moved away from the family directly.
Those decades were a history of glory for the Rogers family. But for the other magical families in the southern states, it was a history of humiliation.
At the end of the day, it's a battle for magical resources.
Without magical resources, it will take a long time for a person, no matter how talented they are, to achieve something in magic.
For example, in the later stage of Will's one-step mage, if it weren't for the inexplicable help of Great Elder Silman, he would give Will's precious pills such as medium-grade magic crystals and Xiangyuan pills to Will.
No matter how much he cultivated at that time, he was able to reach the mid-stage realm of demon attraction and not die, which can be regarded as thank God. How can there be the current mage late realm.
It would take a decade for a first-class family like the Rogers family, who ruled the four provinces alone, to hold an elemental test ceremony without exhausting the water.
A test ritual consumes seven medium-grade magic crystals.
It is conceivable that the preciousness of the medium-grade magic crystal!
And the first time Will let go of his hands and feet to cultivate, he consumed three medium-grade magic crystals, plus even more precious pills.
It is equivalent to Will alone, in just ten minutes, it consumed the entire Rogers family, ten years of accumulation of magic resources!
This is still Will's talent mutation, so it can be so economical. For anyone else to reach the late stage of the mage, the amount of magical resources required will be even more difficult to estimate.
And magic resources do not only refer to magic crystals, but also include elixirs, blessed lands, spiritual treasures, heavenly treasures, etc.
In this world, magic is supreme! Magic is power.
You have a lot of magic, you can do whatever you want!
If you don't want to do something, you can do nothing!
If you have more magic power, you can have more magic resources!
You can move towards a stronger magical realm!
And magical resources are the premise of magic.
So in the wizarding world,
The source of all contradictions is resource competition!
War is a competition for magical resources!
One can imagine how panicked the other families in the entire southern state who had a feud with Rogers after knowing that the Rogers family had a super affinity yesterday!
It's not now that is panicking, after all, it takes time for the growth of super product affinity.
The fear is the future, what will happen once the super affinity grows to the level of warlock.
In the history of family humiliation, it is clearly recorded. It's a drastic reduction in his family's magical resources!
Therefore, the families in the southern states represented by the Dima family put aside their respective feuds and met urgently yesterday afternoon. When he learned that Patriarch Rogers had sent someone to the Ryan Magic Council that afternoon, he felt that there was no room for delay.
It was unanimously decided to form an anti-Rogers Alliance, and the Rogers family was raided that night, resulting in an established fact.
The law does not blame the public, and when the time comes, not only can the hidden Rogers family be eliminated, but also the huge magical resources of the four major provinces can be divided.
However, when the anti-Rogers alliance was rectified and ready to leave, I received another news - the Rogers family was suspected of having a second super affinity!
That's okay, the families discussed again, obviously, if they raided again at night, the Rogers family would not be so easy to gnaw.
Because there is only one super affinity, the Rogers family will definitely relax their vigilance after sending people to the Ryan Magic Council, and they will not be strict at night.
But if there is a second place, the situation suddenly changes, and it will inevitably send emergency communication measures to speed up the contact with the Ryan Magic Council. And the Ryan Magic Council will definitely pay more attention to it, although it is far away in the central state, but if it accelerates the speed of reinforcement, it must not be much slower.
Think about when they were fighting the Ryan Magic Council, and if they were only halfway there, the Ryan Magic Council would have arrived. The gains outweigh the losses! We can't continue to send troops in such a hasty manner!
So the families deliberated again.
If there is anyone in the anti-Rogers alliance who wants to destroy the Rogers family the most, it is naturally the Dima family.
Although his family controls two provinces, it has developed to the point where it is already the limit.
Looking around, the only option for another breakthrough is to destroy the Rogers family and compete for their magical resources.
But on its own, the Dima family has to admit that it is not the opponent of the Rogers family.
Therefore, when encountering such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it is natural to frantically connect with the southern provinces, not only the families that have a feud with Rogers, but even several families that are friendly with Rogers have also joined the anti-Rogers alliance under the condition of threats or transactions.
At this time, after seeing the difficulties encountered in the discussion, the Dima family was naturally anxious, and the three mages of their own family immediately held a small meeting later to unify their thoughts.
He gritted his teeth and promised with the other families that after destroying Rogers, only the two wealthy provinces would be taken, and the other provinces would be divided among the families.
And the Dima family exclusively funded to contact the Jones Magic Council of the empire next door, so that the Jones Magic Council could send people out to intercept the support of the Ryan Magic Council to Rogers.
The only requirement for the families is to invite relatives and friends to join the anti-Rogers alliance and eliminate the Rogers family as soon as possible.
After hearing this, the other families groaned again, and after realizing that this plan was feasible, they were a little reserved, and then agreed to the proposal of the Dima family.
After such deliberations, the night passed, and the night was long and dreamy, and during the day today, the Anti-Rogers Alliance quickly assembled and decided to kill the Rogers family!
So the Rogers family was calm last night, while the attack took place during the day.
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Giannis Dima, who was supported by the two, stood under the protection of everyone in the anti-Rogers Alliance. First, he let people cast a healing spell on him, cheered up, and then said loudly and confidently:
"I naturally can't afford the anger of the Ryan Magic Council, and I can't afford the anger of Vice President Taryn Water.
So!
We have decided, after the destruction of you Rogers. The offerings of these four provinces will be supplied to the Ryan Magic Council by three percent.
Guess what!
Will the Ryan Magic Council destroy the entire seven southern provinces for the sake of your Rogers family?"
Speaking of this, Giannis Dima paused, then raised his voice, and said word by word:
"So, there is, there is, there is, there is, there is, there