The flowers bloom in two, one on each branch.

The disturbances from the outside world did not distract Yu Bin, nor did they deviate from the established track of the development of the Angel Covenant. After his defeat from the Sky City, Raphael quickly reasserted his absolute authority in the Covenant of Angels, even stronger than ever.

"President, this is today's construction progress and tomorrow's construction arrangement." Vice President Bell handed a few documents to Raphael, "The surrounding three-kilometer area has been basically explored, a total of seven resource collection points have been set up, and there are two places because the entrenched monsters are relatively powerful, and there are not enough people to clean them up for the time being, which are a mercury mine and a gem mine." ”

"Well, hard work! Everyone is also very tired these days, resource collection points can be slowly developed, there are still a lot of resources in stock, and some of the resources supported by the Arnas Empire and the Sadarin Kingdom are still not in place, so there is no need to rush the schedule. Raphael took the document and said with a smile, "Moreover, you are also the deputy city lord, and this kind of thing can be left to the people below." ”

The bell flickered for a moment, and after reacting, he pulled out a chair and sat down, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Yes, I didn't expect that I was already the deputy city lord." It feels like a dream! City ~ Lord ~ Big ~ People ~! Or should I call you a lord? ”

Raphael grabbed a pen at hand and threw it at the bell: "Let you be poor!" ”

"Haha, okay, okay, it's me who is not right, I am not right, President!" The bell pretended to block the flying hidden weapon, "Speaking of which, when I just withdrew from Sky City, it really made people pinch a cold sweat!" ”

In fact, after the failure of the expedition to Sky City, Raphael, as the president of the Angelic Covenant, was under a lot of pressure.

In addition to less than 100,000 players who withdrew from Sky City unharmed, a total of more than a million players died in the astral boundary with the collapse of Sky City, plus the loot lost by these players and the resources and energy invested by those guilds for this expedition, it may not be appropriate to say that there is no return, but it is still more appropriate to bleed.

Especially those guilds with a large number of people, in order to motivate their guild members to fight bravely and not be afraid of sacrifice, the presidents of these big guilds all promised higher pensions and rewards, and these expenses will not be exempted from payment with the collapse of Sky City, in order to show the confidence of their own guilds, but also to prevent those members who have suffered losses from jumping to other guilds, the presidents of those big guilds have to grit their teeth and scatter a lot of gold coins.

And these people obviously will not swallow such a big loss silently, after pacifying the guild, more than seventy percent of the players who participated in this expedition The guild began to put pressure on the Angel Covenant, demanding that Raphael pay the corresponding compensation, after all, they participated in this expedition under the call of the Angel Covenant.

However, this time, in the face of so many criticisms and pressures, Raphael changed his previous approachability, was kind and friendly, and directly oppressed people, and with the support of the Holy See of Light, made it clear that the Angelic Covenant would not take any responsibility for the failure of this expedition.

In view of the possible invasion of the Abyss, the Holy See of Light is not willing to continue this confrontation between players, and it is obviously more willing to warn guilds that want to stir up trouble than to abandon the Angelic Covenant, which has always been cooperative, in order to show its support for the Angelic Covenant.

At the same time, as one of the vice presidents of the Angel's Covenant, Lana Sadalin, the princess of the Sadarin Kingdom, publicly stated that any guild or mercenary group that is hostile to the Angel's Covenant will be regarded as a provocation to the Sadalin Kingdom.

But secretly, Raphael still clearly felt the impact of this failure, first some game merchants began to alienate the Angel Covenant, and blatantly started business with those guilds that were hostile to the Angel Covenant, and then many small and medium-sized guilds began to refuse to follow the pace of the Angel Covenant, faintly in the limelight of another stove, plus there were some digging things in the following branches, Bell wanted to unify the caliber, and the idea of fighting with those hostile guilds had to be put on hold for the time being, Focus on solving your own internal problems first.

And after spending a few days to stabilize the hearts and minds of the people inside, Raphael launched a new war despite the opposition of Bell and others, with the aim of fighting for a territory belonging to the Angel Covenant.

After receiving the Terran Orange Crusade, Raphael took all the members of the guild and an elite army supported by the Kingdom of Sadalin to the area known as the province of Bailu on the southern border of mankind, and their goal was the large city of Venabrion, which was captured by demons in the camp war more than a thousand years ago, and was once one of the five cities that established the gate of the heavenly realm, and has not yet returned to the bosom of mankind, Venaburion, which means "the origin of light" in the lingua franca.

In the later stages of that faction war, as the battle line of the orderly camp continued to retreat, the demons who had been pressed and beaten also began to fish in troubled waters, stretching out their claws towards the backs of humans. In order to concentrate all their efforts on resisting the growing number of undead in the sea of ghosts, humanity had to reluctantly abandon a large area centered on the city of Venabryon, with a total area of nearly three provinces. This also caused the kingdom of Raphinia, which was once able to compete with the kingdom of Banster for the third largest country of mankind, to decline sharply, and finally became a second-rate like the kingdom of Minas.

Since then, humanity has been trying to reclaim the city of Venaperyon, but the demons are not good at fighting, but they are a first-class expert at destroying the environment, even more efficient than the skeletons of the undead.

In order to stop the human counterattack, the demons detonated a buried volcano through the power of fire, and the eruption of the volcano not only created a large mountain range, separated a large area around Venerburion, but also turned this area into a rich place of fire elementals, the hot temperature and active elemental power not only changed the terrain here, but also gave birth to a large number of fire creatures.

Due to its distance from the demonic mainland, the demons used this area as an additional source of minerals, and did not set up regular fortresses or cities, except for a few medium-sized portals, and simply transformed the city of Venenapran as a garrison for their army.

And because humans have a more suitable and fertile area like the Silver Pine Forest to take over, they have not made great efforts to expel the demons here and return Venapyrion to human rule. What's more, this area isolated by the Brion Mountains is no longer the thoroughfare before the camp war, and if you want to enter here, you can only take a few narrow mountain passes or enter it from the air, the road is difficult and dangerous, and the harvest is not great, so it is naturally shelved, and over time no one cares.

However, these are not difficult for players, NPCs want to mobilize troops, large and long, enough for the demon side to have enough time to deal with it, but players want to mobilize is very simple, a guild announcement can be realized, the legion and army attachment can be carried out at any time on the march, the supply of materials is even easier, each player is a small supply vehicle, not to mention a large number of game merchants and logistics players to support.

From receiving the crusade mission to completing the preparation for departure, it only took less than twelve hours before and after the Angel's Covenant, which is not even the end of the basic mobilization of the army if you change it to NPCs.

As for the difficulty of marching, players are much more convenient than NPCs, as long as they can walk where people can go, the player's troops can pass, and they don't have to be like NPC's army can only take the regular road, anyway, the supplies are all on the body, every forest drills the forest, and jumps into the river. The route of the march? Players said that all roads lead to Rome, as long as they follow the battle plan and capture the predetermined objectives within the specified time, neither the president nor the vice president will care whether they take the Yangguan Road or the single-plank bridge.

The only thing that took time was the siege equipment prepared by the Angel Covenant, by recovering the siege weapons that were damaged in the battle of the Sky City, the Angel's Covenant had a large siege force, there were 200 motorized bed ballistas alone, plus Kaflin, a master carpenter, relying on local manufacturing, and finally in the battle to capture the city of Venaperyon, Raphael used more than 500 bed ballistas and 200 small catapults in one go (all the materials for manufacturing were transported by the player).

For the demon garrison in Venaparion City, which is less than 20,000 in number, this is really a disaster, the number of players far exceeds them, plus hundreds of siege equipment, unless they are all high-level troops of the fifth, sixth and seventh ranks, they can only become the battle numbers in the hands of the Angel Covenant.

In fact, the entire siege battle lasted less than two hours, and after suppressing a wall with bed ballistas and long-range attacks, the heavily armed players with the Knights of the Round Table as the core escorted a group of priests to rush up to the city wall, facing these heavy plate armor, several light buffs on their heads, and the priest's nurse behind them to add blood at any time.

On the contrary, it took longer to clean up the entire area later, this area isolated by the Bethion Mountains is nearly two provinces in size, with a total area of more than 2,000 square kilometers, it is not a simple matter to clear out the demons and dangerous monsters that roam in such a large area, not to mention that there are still a few portals that need to be destroyed as soon as possible by the Angel's Covenant, so as not to let those demons use this as a channel for reinforcements.

Of course, such a large area is not something that the Angel Covenant can control, and the territory that Raphael has obtained is only the city of Venabrion, compared to Yu Bin who destroyed the Hero's Cemetery and built Naxxramas from scratch, Venabrion has been an official city from the beginning, not only the area is far more than Naxxramas, but all kinds of functional buildings are also relatively complete, of course, most of them need to be repaired, after all, they have been ruined by the Demon Gate for thousands of years, and these guys who are full of fights don't know how to cherish it.

"The mapping of the entire area is almost finished, and the detailed data has not yet been summarized, but it can be roughly calculated that the total area of this area is within 2,300 to 2,500 square kilometers." Bell said with excitement on his face, "It's almost the size of three sacred cities, it's incredible!" ”

"How's the portals going? Destroyed? ”

"The latest battle report came an hour ago, Camilla and the Knights and the Second and Fourth Elite Regiments have ended the battle, and the portal located in the northeast direction has been destroyed. The third, fifth, and sixth elite groups led by the Lexington sisters have also successfully advanced around the portal, and should have completed the destruction of the portal by now. As for Mikael's first, eighth elite and Princess Lana's royal guard, I'm sure they won't disappoint. "As for the portal in the canyon to the west, the Seventh Elite Regiment has also begun to attack, and it is Otellus who is leading the team, and I have just asked Camila to bring a message to ask her to send an elite group to support Otellus as soon as possible, and she should be able to get there by the afternoon of the day after tomorrow at the latest." ”

"Well, destroy these portals as soon as possible, and those demon clan madman players won't come to make trouble for us!" Raphael nodded, to be honest, there are a lot of violent tendencies among the players of the Demon Clan, and these guys will throw you a big basin at every turn (the player's collective name for Flame Burst and Burst Fireball), which not only has high damage but is also difficult to defend, which is something that players of other races hate very much.

Bell leaned back in his chair, "That's right, when I'm done mapping the entire area, I'm going to see what those bastards will beg us!" One by one, it's not that we are shameless or blame us for the benefits of monopoly, hehe, this time I will swallow it alone, and I have the ability to bite me! ”

The area of more than 2,000 square kilometers centered on Venaparion is not something that the Angel Covenant can eat, and a territory upgraded to a top city also occupies about thirty square kilometers (about the same size as a district in Shanghai, after all, it is a medieval dominated by magic), even if you add the resource points around the city and a certain range of wild areas, the space that a city can occupy is only one hundred and fifty to two hundred square kilometers.

As a result, the area semi-enclosed by the Brion Mountains could support the free development of at least ten cities, not counting the smaller towns and villages. And these territories on paper are the biggest bargaining chips in the hands of the Angel Covenant.

"There's not yet a way to make sure you have access to the urban core, but you need to do it well in the early stages of zoning, and you need to focus on this as the next step." Raphael handed a scroll to the bell, "I have obtained authorization from His Holiness the Pope of the Holy See of Light, and Princess Lana will also consult with His Majesty Maine Gramm, King of the Raphinha Kingdom, I believe it is not a big problem." In the future, this area will be distributed by us, and the only requirement is that each territory must hand over a certain amount of resources, gold and soldiers to the Raphinha Kingdom every month according to the corresponding territory level. ”

"It's not a problem, although the demons here are more miserable, but there are bad things and good things, wood and animal resources are relatively scarce, sulfur and gems, and there are a lot of crystals produced by elemental creatures, I believe this is a breakthrough in foreign trade in the future." After receiving the crusade from Raphael, the Angel's Covenant conducted a detailed investigation of this territory, and a complete development plan was already in place.