Chapter 17: Sakurai's Rulers

"Come in."

The red lacquered wooden door carved with dragons and phoenixes was slowly pushed open, and a well-dressed waiter calmly walked to the side of a man. The man looked middle-aged in formal clothes, with short ears close to the side of his head, no hair on the top of his head, translucent and slippery, but a thick beard around his mouth, inky eyebrows were extremely thick, and a pair of lion eyes gave people a heavy sense of shock. Seeing the young waiter whispering a few words in the man's ear, he frowned slightly and waved his hand to let him retreat.

The man of all his majesty was Sakurai Daichi, a terrifying man with great political and business acumen. Sakurai Daichi was originally just an ordinary soldier in the Fourth World War, but because of his strong control over thunder magic, he repeatedly single-handedly turned the tide, and was once praised as "the strongest soldier on the surface". After receiving many meritorious services, he did not rush to pursue military ranks and rewards like ordinary people, but continued to stand in front as an ordinary soldier, and was admired and supported by many people. Not only that, but he often took advantage of the truce to walk among the troops, teaching himself what he learned when fighting with poisons, encouraging and soothing the tired hearts of people who had been entangled with poisons for many years. If the only son in the army is sacrificed, knowing that his family has no one to take care of him, he will also give his few meritorious rewards and selfless gifts.

At that time, the Anti-Japanese War Allied Army had a total of nine regimental headquarters, each regimental headquarters of about 20,000 people, and the regiment was divided into nine brigades, each brigade was about 2,000 people, and so on, nine squadrons, nine squads. Among the nine regimental headquarters, the three to seven regiments are collectively known as the "Demon Regiment", most of which are composed of archers and gunsmiths, and are mainly responsible for the defense of various places outside the city wall; The rest of the regimental headquarters was responsible for attacking and cutting off the route of the poison to achieve the purpose of dispersing the losses.

After years of fighting each other, the Allied soldiers discovered that there was also a strong hierarchy between poisons. Powerful poisons have dominion over different types of weak poisons, so the coalition forces hierarchically divide them.

It is roughly divided into, A, B, C, D, E, e, gigantic, and epic.

Class E refers to poisons that do not pose a lethal threat to an individual, but can kill a person in a group; D-level poison individuals can compete with ordinary adult men, and high-level D-level poisons can even bite dozens of people; Most of the Class C poisons have a strong body structure and keratinized body surface, and at most they can compete with two-star magicians; The second class has the strength to crush the three-star magician, and some powerful individuals can destroy three or four squads of soldiers; Grade A poisons generally lead dozens of Grade B poisons, and their average strength can be comparable to that of a five-star magician, and they have a high degree of intelligence. Giant Poisons are slightly more powerful than Class A Poisons, but their large size makes them devastating to buildings. You must know that among the poisons, the blessing of body size and weight for strength must be enormous. The least common is the epic poison, there are only seven observed in human history, called: Poison Witch, Blazing Lion King, Meerkat, Kipala, Raja, Di Geng, Titan Kong, each of which has the ability to destroy large swaths of cities. The largest epic drug witch in record size, who once destroyed nearly half of the cities in Nanjun. Most of these seven epic poisons have their own group of poisons, cannibalizing and competing with each other, but all of them covet the sweet taste of humans at the same time.

One of the battles that made Sakurai Daichi's name resound throughout the army was the "Battle of the Silent Cliff". In 2097, the coalition army spared no expense to send the 1st, 8th, 9th, and three regimental headquarters to the Silent Cliff, hoping to annihilate the epic poisonous Raja entrenched here. This is the first time in history that human beings have taken the initiative to attack an epic poison, and it is also an epic confrontation with the most tragic damage.

Wuxiang Cliff is not a cliff, but a hilly landform surrounded by a ring vein, with four large mountains in the center, and the mountains and mountains are close to each other to form a "mountain basin" similar to a plateau. Because the mountains on the periphery of the Silent Cliff are unusually close apart, the valley is long and low-lying, and the vegetation is too dense, so it is difficult to move an inch of the big march, so the long snake march can only be changed to the valley area.

But such a way of marching is easy to underestimate the intelligence of the poison. When the pioneer group reached the first two kilometers of the four mountains, a quarter of the team was cut off by a group of poisons rushing down from the side mountainside. At least three Class A poisons led a black pressure like tens of millions of cattle and horses galloping, causing the front army and the large army to separate, and because of the narrow terrain, the soldiers in the rear could not penetrate the barrier formed by the poison from the front, and could only watch the corpses of nearly 5,000 people in the front army strewn across the field.

At this time, Sakurai Daichi proposed to the commander at this time, that is, the commander of the Ninth Regiment, that the troops were divided into three routes. He believed that the primary goal at this time was to reach the center with the least losses, so an army must be used as a decoy. Considering that there were still about 42,000 people at this time, Sakurai Daichi selected the gentlest hills on the map and connected them into a route that would allow him to reach the central area. The slopes of the low mountains are mostly gentle, so a 10,000-strong rectangular matrix march is sent, during which the vegetation is pushed flat with magic. The valley at the foot of the low mountain sent 20,000 men, and as they marched, they pushed the vegetation flat in the direction of the mountainside, increasing the width of the troops, while maintaining the same marching speed as the mountainside troops. In this way, there is no need to worry about being caught by the poison that rushes down from the mountains on both sides at the same time, and even if part of it is surrounded, the mountainside troops can swoop down and rush to help.

There is also a risk of losing too much physical strength, and such blatant destruction of vegetation and exposing the position of the march will inevitably attract a group attack by the entire Silent Cliff poison. "People have no strength to rest. But when life is gone, there is nothing. "Sakurai Daichi intends to preserve the living force, and the sheer size of the population will make the poisons think twice. Under the leadership of highly intelligent Class A poisons, the poison group is not a disorderly attack, they will also observe the direction of the human line, even if 30,000 people are exhausted at the same time, they only need to force the bluff, they can bluff the opponent to a certain extent.

While the poisoners' eyes were focused on the two teams in the valley and the mountainside, the remaining 10,000 or so needed to choose a treacherous route made of high mountains, and march from the mountainside to the edge of the center as fast as possible without destroying the vegetation, and attack the exhausted army from behind. It is similar to the Meridian Valley conspiracy conceived by Wei Yan of Shu Han to achieve an unexpected effect.

Of course, the results of this program have been excellent. Seeing the slow advance of the large army, the epic poison Raja personally descended the mountain to meet the attack, but he did not know that the rapid march of more than 10,000 people had already been far behind him. After spending two days and two nights clearing the miscellaneous fish, the large army finally formed a trap with the rapid march, but by this time the large army had lost another 3,000 men, and another 1,000 wounded were stationed in the rear.

Raja is a poison mutated from a tiger, the whole body is snow-white and layered with black lines, the shoulder height is about 35 meters, the body length is more than 80 meters, the eyes are white, the canine teeth are extremely long, the outer fangs are nearly 10 meters, the two ribs have white wings, and the wingspan is more than 100 meters, as if King Zhou Wen was flying a tiger in his dream. It is conceivable that when Raja did not complete the mutation, he must have been the famous tiger king who dominated the party, and after the mutation, his forelimbs were particularly thick, the muscles were vertical and horizontal, the forepaw was nearly 4 meters, and the claws were as long as 5 meters. Most of the poisons above the gigantic level are slow to move and are not good at jumping because they are too large, but Raja is one of the few kings of the seven epic poisons known for his speed, and he is the only one of them who can fly. Therefore, human beings can only take the initiative to attack no matter what, and once Raja has the will to hover over the human city, it will definitely cause incalculable disasters, even devastating.

The coalition forces had previously examined Raja's fighting style, mostly using a half-upright stance to swing with the forefoot, attaching wind magic to produce claw-like wind marks to slash their opponents. But even with some preparation, the destructive power of Raja's palm attack exceeded everyone's expectations, and with just one palm, the trees in front of him were broken by the roots for dozens of miles, and the land turned out, creating four deep gullies that overflowed. And the wind stopped, and wailed everywhere, and the heads, broken arms, stumps, and internal organs were so bright under the brown dirt, like a mess of flesh and blood sown on the newly turned ridges.

The group of poisoners, who had pretended to hide behind Rajah, saw that their boss had stopped attacking, and could not resist the desire for human blood, and rushed forward to pick it up, tearing the pieces of flesh into pieces. They are mostly a Crustacean Class B poison called the "Cercyp", which likes to use the giant pincers of its forelimbs to chop up the limbs of its prey and put it into its giant mouth. Whether it's their bad taste or their preference for the smell of despair that pervades the dying of humans, they curl half-dead bodies into their tongues. Extensive wounds covered in viscous saliva are painful but not immediate, and are exalted by the chemicals. At this time, human beings can only feel their bodies slowly slipping down the esophagus of the sorges, and when fear is sudden, and when they are desperate, the excrement of liquid, gas and solid states rolls together. And the sorbets took the trouble to wait for this "natural seasoning" to embellish, so that they were satisfied with the delicious ingredients that had been in their mouths for a long time.

The seriously injured man was already in a trance, letting the poison open his teeth and eat wildly, only the soldier with the missing limbs and arms looked back, they knew the name of the "devil gourmet", how could they endure the fear in front of the poisonous mouth, desperately roaring towards the large army in the distance for help, kicking and writhing the remaining limbs like worms. But they can't wait for the slightest help, and the last ray of light in life will be the jagged teeth of Serba.

An army of nearly 40,000 people was lost a quarter at once, and such an astonishing destructive power was the most poisonous thing that human beings have ever encountered. The soldiers who survived also lost most of their fighting spirit, and most of them retreated into the distance in fear, even if their ears were full of cries and cries of their comrades for help, they could only watch the tears of guilt in response.

Even if the enemy is not human, the loss of battlefield morale can be fatal. Sakurai Daichi didn't see the brave man coming forward for a long time, leading everyone to be brave, and then he broke out of the formation, and a few steps of lightning flashed into the poison group, and angrily drove the thunder to kill dozens of thers, and pulled their spider-like velvet legs, and smashed Raja with all his might, hitting the snow-white mane on his jaw. When Raja saw that he was contaminated with such filth, his white beard stood up, and a roar of wind with the smell of blood emanated from his dark and deep mouth. Sakurai Daichi stepped forward and the wind did not shake at all, and he stared directly at the golden tiger eyes with a fearless face, and his face was slightly provocative. Raja could read the expression on his face, and when his upper lip wrinkled slightly to reveal the root of his fangs, the mountain-like palm had already slashed over.

"Boom!" A stout blue bolt of lightning fell from the sky, stopping Raja's half-swung claws in his way. The echo lingered for a long time, and Sakurai Daichi, who had finished casting the spell, withdrew and shouted like thunder in front of the messy military formation, "The fox and the fake tiger can also make you two fight?" Not to mention a papier-mΓ’chΓ© tiger? With the reputation of the vanguard legion, such an embarrassment under the frightened bow, even if it is a proud eagle? How is it different from a hasty rat thief? Isn't it ashamed? You're a member of the coalition for nothing! It is difficult to be the eagerness of thousands of compatriots! If you want to refute me, prove it to me! ”

Under the provocation of Sakurai Daichi, the coalition slowly regained their courage, and the shield master would first meet in front of the battle, erecting a spell shield and using the "Mud Barrier", a kind of combined magic used by earth and water magicians. The general water shield magic is good at resisting fire attribute and thunder attribute magic, and there is no way to face the actual wind cutting formed by the wind attribute like this, while the earth shield magic is the most comprehensive defensive magic, but it is too mediocre in all aspects to resist such a strong wind claw. However, unlike the mud barriers, water and soil combine to form a liquid state similar to a non-Newtonian fluid, which is good at blocking attacks without sustained force. The disadvantage is also obvious, it is activated by magicians of different attributes at the same time, the continuous form is very unstable, and after the spell is ended, the muddy water cannot be used again for a short time, which is a one-time magic. Now the situation is grim, and the coalition forces have no choice but to sacrifice their treasured hole cards.

When Raja's next palm struck, the strong wind was almost completely blocked, and the towering mud wall that had been forged by the strength of the thousands of shield masters was also destroyed. However, the sharper the spear, the easier it is to break, and Sakurai found that Raja's palm blow was obviously not as destructive as the first one, and he remembered that big cats have a habit of grinding their claws, and Raja is the same, and the dulled claws need to be re-polished after each battle. However, this does not mean that Raja will gradually weaken with the time of battle, but the first claw is too strong, and the probability of subsequent battles will remain in a constant range.

After the mud barrier successfully blocked Raja's wind claw attack, the mud wall shattered, so the coalition forces continued to consume Raja by using multiple strongholds and intermittent attacks, but with little success. Sakurai noticed that since Raja made a move, all the surrounding secondary poisons had retreated behind him, for fear of being accidentally injured. It is no wonder that Raja could not wait for the coalition forces to arrive in the mountain basin and rushed down to meet them, the rabbits did not eat the grass around the nest, and Raja's fight would definitely hurt the surrounding landscape. Even if it is attacked on its belly and back now, it will not swing in the direction of its own home, so the soldiers in the rear are safe for the time being, and only need to slowly clean up the secondary poison.

After thinking like this, Sakurai Daichi proposed to increase the firepower of the soldiers in Raja's rear to temporarily attract his attention, and took this opportunity to ask the three crowned magicians present to directly attack Raja's abdomen. Although Raja is no longer a tiger, he still maintains the physique and habits of a big cat, and even if he crawls low, it is difficult to dodge attacks from below, whether it is a palm blow or a bite, even if he stands upright, it is difficult to successfully hit three crown magicians like mosquitoes and flies.

Sakurai Daichi had long noticed that since the strength of the seven epic poisons was almost the same, and they had maintained a dominant situation for many years, there was no need to distinguish between superior and inferior strengths. While Raja's speed and strength, as well as his mastery of magic, are among the best in the epic, there must be shortcomings in them, otherwise the balance would have been upset. The answer is also obvious, Raja's defense is relatively modest. Most of the other epic poisons were heavily armored, with thick skin and flesh, like drug witches, and were almost head-to-toe wrapped in steel-like leather armor. However, Raja is different in that it still retains the fur of the big cat period, and the flesh and blood are under the pattern, and only the soles and wrists of the limbs are wrapped in skin. Even if the bones are strong, once the body is breached, it will eventually be in danger.

The crown magician represents the supreme combat power of the first line of human magic, and is revered as the "sect", and the second-generation Thunder Sect Amanda Nolan, the sixth-generation Yanzong Shiqi Gasol, and the first generation of the Wood Sect Hu Shiyong are all the culmination of each department. The cooperation between them was like a thousand tempers, and the thunder and flames accompanied by the freely changing trees imprisoned and whipped together, making the battlefield scorched and the black smoke even thicker.

Problems followed, and the three crowned magicians were unable to inflict deep damage on Raja, even if they continued to output his seemingly soft abdomen. Sakurai was shocked, but quickly saw the clue, and immediately called the three crowns to evacuate his abdomen, asking them to face Raja head-on, without making the maximum output with reservations. This move to abolish the crowns was met with objections from many officers. "Soldier, although you have a lot of experience and achievements, it's not good to always point fingers? The crown lords are not cheap minions that you call at will. "Even the commander of the Ninth Regiment was so displeased.

But Sakurai Daichi insisted again and again, and even questioned loudly in front of the whole army, "What about the crown?" In the face of the great enemy, those who possess power will surely stand up. The endless cycle of blood is endless, so why should we be afraid of this risk that needs to be studied in front of us? Is there a difference between a cowardly person and a dead body? ”

These words made the grumpy Yanzong almost turn his face, but sarcasm always worked, and the three crowns spared no effort to strengthen the strong offensive of everyone, making Raja start to worry about defense. When the magic of the three crowns was exhausted and exhausted, and tens of thousands of people died in front of and behind the battle, Raja finally couldn't bear it anymore and used the strongest blow of his attack. I saw that it was almost completely upright, with its palms raised high, its wings open, and this end was gaining momentum, and if these two palms were down, several hills would be predictably leveled. And Sakurai Daichi waited for this opportunity, and he used all his magic power to use his own S-class magic, the Osprey Feather Cloak. This magic is when he was fishing, he happened to see the osprey swooping down to hunt the fish, and when it was activated, the whole body was filled with blue lightning and thunder armor, and it rushed forward at a speed that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and it could not turn during the period, and the strong electricity of the whole body converged on the heel of a little destructive power is incomparable. The eagle owl roared, and the eagle struck the sky, Sakurai Daichi single-handedly penetrated the abdomen of Raja's open face, and wreaked havoc in his body, shattering major organs and tissues, cutting off the blood vessels, and it took an hour to completely defeat Raja from the inside.

Raja, who was helpless in the previous three crowns, was penetrated by Sakurai Daichi alone, and the whole army admired his strength. At that time, of course, Dazhi did not have such strong strength, and he dared to guess and gamble, believing that there would be no useless organs in the poison's body. However, Raja has fur all over his body, and only the wrist joints of his limbs are protected by wraps, and there must be a reason for this, and when he fights, he hardly uses his wings and sharp teeth, which must be reserved for strength. The attack of the Breaker will inevitably expose its own weaknesses, as when the Raja leans down, the limbs of each other produce a special magnetic field that disrupts and weakens the Crowns' attacks. Able to stand out from the trillions of poisons, Raja naturally knows the weakness of his abdomen, and has long been prepared for attacks from his own side, but when it wants to strike with all its strength, its limbs are far apart, and the direction changes from facing down to facing forward, and there is an opportunity to take advantage of it at this moment. Although Sakurai Daichi didn't really understand the cause of the magnetic field, he bet on the general direction and successfully found the weakness of this moment.

This battle has attracted the attention of Sakurai Daichi, and even the focus of the major crowns no longer exists. Such a bold and resourceful guide to the three armies to win this intractable battle, that is, when Sakurai Daichi returned to the army, he was respected as a member of the coalition army, although he was still an ordinary soldier, but he was already the behind-the-scenes commander of the coalition army.

In the eyes of others, Sakurai Daichi is a gentle, selfless, righteous and fearless person. No matter who is in trouble, he never asks what his character and temperament are, even if he gets along awkwardly with him, and people who are disgusted with each other will desperately rescue him. He would speak ill of the wrongs of many, but he never gave up on anyone in times of danger. Commander Wang Yixiang personally received him in the tent and quipped, "In my life so far, you are the most noble person I have ever met." In the military tent of his own little girl, every time he hears about the heroic deeds of Da Zhijun, he is full of heart. It's a pity that you are already the husband of the head of the Sixth Regiment, otherwise I would have secretly forged this good fate a few years ago. ”

Of course, Sakurai Daichi is not really a pure person, but he is very good at managing himself. Helping others? Save? In his eyes, it was just like burying the corpse of a cat that had been crushed to death on the road, just a duty to restrain himself, without any pity. In front of the grave branches of his comrades-in-arms, he would cry silently, and the sky was so sad that it was gloomy, but so what? No matter how many tears slipped down his cheeks, his heart was dry, even disdainful.

Forcing yourself to be kind is just hypocrisy. Hypocrites can cry and laugh in their hearts, "Haha, these mentally retarded people really deserve to die, they died well!" But how many people can hold on to even the hypocrisy that they strive to maintain anytime and anywhere?

Sakurai Daichi relied on this seemingly noble character and outstanding personal ability to capture the appreciation of many powerful people, including the commander Wang Yixiang, and soon received meritorious awards after the war, becoming Wang Yixiang's confidant as a general. But his ambitions were not satisfied, and in the face of the turmoil and alternation of power in the upper echelons after the war, he deliberately turned the clouds upside down. After plotting to kill Wang Yixiang, Sakurai Daichi began to lead his henchmen, and secretly set up a magic organization called the "Blue-Faced Ghost" to recruit retired comrades from the previous army who were interested in following him. These comrades-in-arms were survivors of brutal wars, most of them were highly skilled, and they were attracted by the charisma of the great wisdom's personality, and they naturally became loyal to them and absolutely obedient to orders. In this way, Sakurai Daichi successfully held the largest military force in Sato, ostensibly commanding the government's orthodox army, and privately sitting on the powerful organization of the "Blue-Faced Ghost". But he marched forward so bravely that he soon attracted the vigilance of powerful people with big forces and backgrounds. In order to be safe, he gathered the leaders of major magic organizations in Liyuan, including large civil groups, to create an organization called the Demon Creation Society, and obtained government certification and authorization under the unanimous pressure of the major magic forces. The Magic Genesis Society has the power to manage the work of magicians and the actions of the law after the war, but in reality it is a sanctuary used by Great Wisdom to counter the powerful and protect itself.

Sakurai Dachi's wife, Atsumi Sakurai, is the daughter of the Sakuma family, the traditional family of the star head, and has also become the head of the sixth group of the demon group with her own ability, and her status and influence in the star head cannot be underestimated.

In 2104, Atsumi Sakurai's father died of illness, and as the husband of the eldest daughter in the family, Sakurai inherited some of the billions of family assets of the Sakuma family. It is known that the corpse of a poison is quickly liquefied from a solid within a few hours, leaving no traces and only diffusing polluting gases and radioactive radiation. However, when Sakurai Daichi passed by a certain battlefield again, he stumbled upon some small pieces of stone that had been scattered where the corpses of the poison were kept. With sufficient funds, he sent someone to investigate the composition of these unusual stones and study their possible uses, and sure enough, he received feedback a few months later. These stones are actually a new type of mineral, which is formed by the probability of crystallization of poisonous corpses, although there is still residual pollution, but it completely loses its harm after ultra-high temperature carbonization, and can be used as a new type of optical fiber or made into a smaller chip, etc., if it is used as hardware for electronic products, it can make the operation faster and smoother. As a result, Sakurai Daichi relied on this cost-free "magic mine" to create the "Yaohua Group" to enter the electronic Internet industry, and he spent huge financial resources to introduce technical talents to develop new computers and new smart phones, and soon dominated the market. After Yaohua Group gained a firm foothold in the electronic Internet industry, it quickly spread its branches to other fields, and it took only 4 years to become one of the most complex groups in Liyuan's products, and the Sakurai family also became the largest chaebol.

During the growth of the group, Sakurai Daichi did not relax in building his own reputation, and his friendly and majestic image has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people of Liyuan. At this time, the magnates shouted badly, but it was too late, Sakurai Daichi had enough economic and military power, and was no longer afraid of the pressure of the original government and the magnates, and in the next election, he succeeded in taking the position of executive chief with his popularity and at the same time purged several high-profile and aggressive magnates.

But at this time, the top power man was half-leaning behind the brown table, staring at the teacup in his hand for a long time, the smoke from his mouth stirred up small ripples on the surface of the water, and his slightly frowning brow still could not be stretched, as if he had encountered some trouble.