The third volume is too long.

The potions involved in the Bloodline Path range from Tier I to Tier IV, with Tiers I and II available on the market.

Grades III and IV are rarely on the market, and are only owned by a few otherworldly sects or large families.

Therefore, in order for Asker to obtain the recipes or finished products of these high-level potions, he must make a deal with a transcendent sect or large family.

Due to the scarcity of high-grade potions, ordinary people are not allowed to engage in this type of trade with sects or large families.

Asker was given the opportunity because of a few members of the team with strong backgrounds.

That's what we often call nepotism.

Throughout history, in troubled times, most of them were "capable people", and in prosperous times, most of them were "virtuous people".

The so-called virtue is, to a large extent, connections.

When you climb to a certain height, it's not enough to have the ability to go up.

You have to have a noble person to carry you.

Another ironic fact is that the transition from prosperity to turmoil is often triggered by the fact that too many nobles have promoted their own incompetents, and the capable have not been able to ascend to the throne, resulting in the overall weakening of national power.

In March 242 of the Sixth Age, the time point of the Azure Sword Mercenary Group coincided with the transition from the prosperous era to the chaotic era.

The ancient and decaying Eastern Solomonic Empire was wiped out by the emerging challenger, the Seljuk Empire.

The Holy See, which has not yet decayed to the point of outright, is about to take on the challenge of the emerging Holy Solomon Empire.

Corresponding to the period of the bloodline path of everyone, the old social order has not yet collapsed, and the old interest groups have not yet disintegrated, so Aske can only obtain these high-level potions by doing tasks (part-time jobs) for major sects and nobles.

Of course, he will also use some more "efficient" means.

Therefore, the entire third volume is artificially stretched, because the Imperial Civil War must have such a long span.

The perspective focuses on the Duchy of Bavaria, ruled by Eleanor's family, the Weissbach family:

The first stage is the imminent outbreak of civil war, the temptation and intrigue of the Wolf family envoys.

The second stage is the outbreak of the other party's conspiracy, and the plague and plague sweep through the principality.

In the third stage, the Wolf family army took advantage of the situation and invaded the southern part of the principality, and the team helped defend Innsbruck.

The fourth stage was the final fall of Innsbruck, and the southern part of the principality was occupied by the whole territory.

However, due to the best efforts of the protagonist team, the Wolf family's blitzkrieg strategy was greatly delayed, resulting in the Bavarian side's initial weakness weakened by the plague and rat plague gradually compensated, and the two sides returned to a close position.

In the fifth stage, the protagonist team travels to Swabia to help the Sauron family make up their minds to join the Emperor's camp and cut off the supply lines of Wolff's army in the Duchy of Swabia.

Having completed this crucial task, the balance of victory began to tilt in favor of the Bavarian side.

The sixth stage was to attack the demigod of the Wolf family, Alberto, the Hidden String, forcing the Wolf family to lose all their power in Bavaria, so that they had to surrender quickly.

Throughout the history of some wonderful large-scale battles, most of them are also such development lines as "A suddenly declares war on B", "B falls into a disadvantage under A's sudden attack", "B regains its disadvantage and turns into a stalemate with A", "B gains the advantage through key events", "B inflicts a heavy blow on A and makes A surrender".

For example, the Guandu Battle of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in the Three Kingdoms, and the Second World War and so on.

Six stages, starting and turning, less than any stage, it doesn't feel good.

Each stage has a key role played by the protagonist team. With the exception of the initial failure to stop the rat plague and plague mutation caused by the Lord of Filth, every other mission was overfulfilled perfectly, and the Duke of Bavaria should award the protagonist team a three-ton gold medallion.

So the structure of the third volume is largely complete, although there may be all sorts of minor flaws in the details. The reason why it seems so long is probably because the first and second volumes are too short.

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After the end of the Civil War, the Iron Throne once again regained control of the entire HRE Empire.

Due to the imminent arrival of the Second Magic Tide, Emperor Otto II had to make an impromptu "HRE Declaration" in Arles, the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy, which was considered a landmark statement of imminent war against the Holy See.

The southern conquest of Italy is something that every generation of HRE emperors wants to do.

The original cause should be Charlemagne ("Man" means "the Great", but here it adopts the domestic translation method, unified as Charlemagne) was canonized by the Pope, so the subsequent HRE emperors all wanted to go to the Holy See and let the Pope put on the crown of Emperor Solomon.

The second reason is that the current emperor Otto II's father, Otto I, also conquered Italy and Canada, of course, it was a good time to seize the rebellion of Italy and the Holy See to be isolated.

The third reason is the biggest dark line in the book, that is, the "mysterious man" who secretly manipulates Otto II's mind around him.

Unlike the suspicions and speculations of the Succubus Queen, who lacks evidence, Raphael, the artificial intelligence of the Holy See, has in fact monitored and analyzed this "mysterious person" for nearly a thousand years.

It believes that the "mystery man" may be a person, a force, a supernatural object with a will, or some kind of anomaly, some kind of supernatural phenomenon.

The variable is codenamed "Antichrist".

Raphael's analysis suggests that the Antichrist's instigation of the HRE Empire to declare war on the Holy See would trigger a series of full-scale conflicts in the years to come.

1. The Empire of the God of War will be defeated, but the Holy See will also be involved.

2. The Holy See was forced to loosen the blockade of the Mediterranean, as well as control over the westernmost Iberian Peninsula. There is a high probability that the Moors of the southern continent will cross the Strait of Gibraltar and attack and occupy the Iberian Peninsula.

3. The Anjou Kingdom of Britannia (Plantagenet) and the Kingdom of West Francia are likely to intensify their conflicts, which revolve around Anjou's Aquitaine and Normandy regions on the mainland, and may escalate across the board in the future.

4. With the defeat of the HRE, the control of the Hanseatic Alliance in the northern part of the empire over the North Sea has also been greatly weakened, and there is a high probability that it will trigger a counterattack from the Kalmar Empire in the north.

With HRE's declaration of war on the Holy See as the fuse, a full-scale war of iron and fire that will engulf the entire continent is coming. This is also the ultimate goal of the Antichrist.

The war cannot be stopped, the war is coming.

Stay tuned for the fourth volume of "Bones in the Wild, Unrighteous Expedition"