Chapter 256: National War Expansion Pack
The rival relationship between the Free Federation and the Radiant Empire can almost be said to be common sense in the continent of Eumisia in this era, both among the aboriginal NPCs and in the perception of players.
Because of various factors such as different political forms and historical problems, as early as the late stage of the ancient Creation War, in order to resist the chaotic invasion of the South Continent and the North Continent, the two major Terran forces of the Federation and the Empire were formed, the contradictions between the two sides have existed and gradually deepened, after the end of the Creation War, the threat of foreign enemies began to weaken, and the two sides no longer have so many external shackles for each other's unhappiness and plots, and with the passage of time, they developed rapidly and eventually became irreconcilable hostile forces. Even the hostile relationship and history between the two have become one of the important components of the fate of the overall law of the Eumisia continent to a certain extent.
Because of this, even if Mira is unwilling to let the national war between the two sides happen, causing the players under the command of both forces to shift their energy from expulsion and crusade chaos to internal confrontation, she has to accept the inevitable appearance of the Chinese war plot of the "Redemption" game. After all, she is just an alien law controller, and she may be able to forcibly use the higher laws of the earth's time and space to forcibly gamify some of the superficial basic laws of this world (such as reflecting the strength of life force through life values, etc.), but she has no right to interfere with the fate of this law, which can be called one of the core orders on which this world depends. If it was Arya, who still had the Godhead of the Creation Godhead, she could have done so, but unfortunately...... Now she is also powerless.
In desperation, Mira can only retreat and can't stop this national war that is destined to happen in the game, but at least it must limit its scale and popularity, especially not to let players completely immerse themselves in the national war and forget the original purpose of the game - in the game of the previous life, Mira tasted similar consequences, so in the game of this life, in addition to asking Rococo to help her sister Arya retrieve the lost fragment of the creation godhead, Mira gave Rococo another important task, It is for her to find ways to weaken the impact of large-scale intra-player battles led by national wars on the progress of the game as much as possible.
Rococo, who was pinned on by Mira, did indeed complete Mira's commission brilliantly all the way, through strategy and hard work, Rococo avoided the national war from starting early because of Bekaz's rampage plot in the early game, and then in the camp war in the storm inland sea, taking advantage of the players' enthusiasm for fighting was provoked by the gimmick of the camp war but not out of control, it cleanly ended this player camp war that should not exist in the original plot.
However, this time, the outbreak of a national war between the Federation and the Empire after the turmoil in the Inland Sea did not arise through Rococo's covert efforts, because the reason for the outbreak of this war was not due to some accident or the possession of the Fragment of Godhead like Bekaz or Conte, but from the inevitable direction of the fate of the laws of the continent of Emissia itself.
The so-called "peacetime" between the two superpowers is obviously as fragile as a thin mirror, fighting to the death in the border areas of the southeastern continent for many years, not even signing an armistice agreement, and every time a war starts and stops, it is entirely based on the consciousness and tacit understanding of both sides. Both sides are staring at each other all the time, and any flaw on either side may become the reason for the next full-scale development between the two sides, and now the Radiant Empire side has such a big flaw that is enough for the Free Federation to recognize as a good opportunity for eastward invasion.
The beast spirit clan in the north of the Eastern Continent has become more and more restless recently, although it has not officially declared war on the Radiant Empire, a human force in the Eastern Continent, the two sides have actually started small-scale military frictions and even small-scale local wars in many places on the northern border. In order to prevent the almost foreseeable invasion of the beasts from the north, the Radiant Empire has recently been sending garrisons from the royal capital and all parts of the empire to the main counties and military towns in the north of the territory to station defenses, relatively speaking, the defense against the military threat from the Federation in the south has naturally weakened a lot.
Although in the Free Federation, the huge aftermath caused by the Lancarus turmoil caused by Bekaz has not completely subsided (most of the top leaders of the original Free Council have been undead, and Lancarros County, as the leader of the Federation, has also suffered heavy losses and its dominance is no longer what it used to be), but compared with the trouble of the Northern Beast Spirit on the side of the Empire, the newly elected representatives of parliamentarians from various counties of the Federation generally believe that the Federation is a good opportunity for the Crusade Empire at this moment, if it is done properly, Maybe he can cross the border of the southeast continent and dig out a piece of "meat" from the territory of the empire at the southern tip of the east continent.
In fact, this idea has been circulating within the Federation for a day or two, after all, the trouble of the beast spirit race in the north of the empire was no secret long before the invasion of the undead in Lancarus. If it weren't for the temporary suspension of the Freedom Council due to the invasion of the Lancarros undead, and the leader of the Goddess of Creation Sect, Oranado, who personally came forward to persuade both sides to lower the fire, I am afraid that this battle would have started a long time ago...... In his previous life, Bekaz's rampage on the border was certainly the fuse for the advance of the national war, but the internal reason was not because the federal side had already had the intention of attacking the empire.
And just recently, because of the great turmoil on the side of the storm's inland sea, the Goddess of Creation Sect and its allies, the Goddess of Creation Sect, which had actually been suppressing the idea of war between the two sides with the deterrent power of the guide Orlanardo, had completely attracted the attention of the Hydra Islands in the Storm Inland Sea, and even after the chaos of the Northern Continent went south to the Inland Sea, the Goddess of Creation Sect's original various external restrictions on the side of the Federation that was about to move became useless. Obviously, there is no time to estimate whether the Federation's side will start a war.
Perhaps it was stimulated by the emergence of a great opportunity, and the desire for war that was originally hidden within the Federation. Eventually, at the instigation of the hawkish forces led by representatives of parliamentarians from Nopra County, which was eager to ascend to power, and Arbat, a belligerent eastern military county, the Liberal Council proposed and passed a resolution to restart the war operation against the Empire in a short period of time, and the next day, with the announcement of this news, the federal army began to move towards the border area of the southeast continent on a large scale, and the system announcement of "The official opening of the national war expansion pack" was also officially announced throughout the game.
Leaving aside the condemnation of this but its powerlessness to stop it, as well as the performance of all parties on the side of the Empire, etc., purely from the player level, the Free Federation's initiative to initiate a national war this time is quite unexpectedly "popular". For players who have been caught up in the battle of the previous Inland Sea faction wars, this national war expansion is opening up at the right time.
On the first day of the expansion, a large number of players began to flock to the battlefield of the national war in the border area of the southeast continent, and because of this, the Hydra Armageddon that took place after that, although the magnificence was even higher than the previous faction war, few players paid serious attention.
However, while this war has attracted the attention of almost all NPCs and players on both sides of the Federation and the Empire, it is not without exceptions......
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County of Lancarros.
Since players generally reached levels above thirty or forty, Lancarros County, the largest county in the Federation, began to slowly retreat from the position of the most popular player stronghold city on the Federation side.
It's not that there are no jungle areas and dungeon resources around Lancaros for high-level players to level up, as the largest main city on the federal side, the game resources distributed around Lancarros County can theoretically be used by a player to grow from level 10 to level 80...... However, the surrounding area of a city is limited after all, and it is precisely because the game resources corresponding to Lancaros County are so widely distributed that when there are a large number of players at a certain level, the game resources corresponding to that level range in Lancaros will naturally become scarce. It is inevitable that players who pursue leveling efficiency abandon Lancarus and choose those cities and counties with a single but absolutely sufficient range of surrounding game resources as their activity bases.
Of course, that said, that doesn't mean Lancaros is deserted. Although after the undead invasion event, Lancarros County's influence within the Federation has indeed declined significantly, even to the point that it is impossible to completely suppress Nopra County and Arbat County, which have always coveted the position of the first county of the Federation, but after all, this is still the county seat where the new Free Council is located, in other words, it still plays the role of the "federal capital", and it is the first foothold of all Federation players after coming out of the novice village, Today, there are still many Federation players in the game who use Lancarus as their main base of activity. It's just that those big guild professional studios and star-level master players who are so powerful in the game are rarely seen in the "resource-poor" Lancarlos now.
Because of this, even when you stumble upon a player who looks like a galaxy on the street, the first reaction of players enjoying a leisurely game in Lancarlos is that they have seen it wrong. After all, who is Galaxy? That is the president of the Star Hall Guild who ascended to the throne of the First Players Guild of the Free Federation after the Inland Sea Camp War, and such a big man will go to Lancarlos in the "big rear" to hang out when the battle on the border of the southeast continent is in full swing, putting aside such an important thing as only the guild participating in the national war?
It's not just ordinary players who come by chance to see it that have this idea, even the Nebula Yijian, who is walking behind Xinghe in Lancaros City at the moment, has the same idea.
Looking at the background of the young master walking in front of him, Xingyun Yijian, who had always been cautious, hesitated for a moment, and finally considered speaking.
“…… Young master, on the side of the national war, you are not on the scene to command the brothers, will there be any problems? ”