Chapter 274: Negotiations That Didn't Go Smoothly
In the previous game of "Redemption", the Beast Spirit Clan also waged a different war against the Radiant Empire for the purpose of occupying territory, and the reason was the same as in this life, because the High Priest of the Beast Spirit Clan, who possessed the Godhead Shard, was behind the promotion of the Beast Spirit Clan to be able to exert enough influence on the mysterious adventurers (i.e., players) from outside the world.
The only difference is that in the game of the previous life, perhaps because of the lack of Rococo's participation, the plot of Elo being caught by Terran bandits around Hero Town and falling into the valley during the struggle to obtain the Golden Dragon Knight's Treasure did not happen, so after the outbreak of the Orc Invasion War in the previous life, Ello, the Golden Beamon, did not appear on the battlefield. Although the high priest replaced the role of Iroh and personally came to the front line to lead the battle, after all, the level 110 high priest could not compare with the level 120 golden beamon in terms of strength and the role he could play on the battlefield, let alone make the dragons who participated in the war retreat or even defect, so in the final war in the previous life, although the beast spirit clan also occupied part of the empire's territory in the early stage of the war, until the end of the war, the beast spirit clan did not achieve the same brilliant results as the current generation of Ai Luo led the team to sweep the northwest territory of the empire.
And the High Priest, in the end, because he was in the chaotic atmosphere of the battlefield and could not always maintain a high degree of vigilance, was obviously the owner of the Godhead Fragment but fell very aggrieved under the siege of a group of NPC Super Assassins who had no self in the Dragon's Tooth Society, and the war he launched also came to an end, and as for the Godhead Fragment on the High Priest's body, it was very strange that it suddenly disappeared and its whereabouts were unknown, Neither the Beast Spirit Clan's side nor the Dragon's Tooth Society, which killed the High Priest, ever had the same Godhead Fragment owner as the High Priest.
Of course, these things happened outside the player's field of vision in the previous life, although there were also Imperial players who joined the Dragon's Tooth Society at that time in the previous life, but none of them reached the level above the "Marquis", naturally no one was able to participate in the final assassination operation, and no player was able to contact the owner of the Godhead Fragment who desperately wanted to win the player's "precious resource" for the Beast Spirit Clan during his lifetime.
Therefore, for players in the previous life, most of them are not clear about the reasons for the beginning and end of this war until the main story war has ended, and a small number of people who have done the main story quest more deeply can probably guess that it was the high priest of the beast spirit clan who was assassinated by the Imperial assassins (the existence of the Dragon's Tooth Society is not open even in the Empire) The war was initiated, and as for why he did this, it is not clear- Maybe it's like the sea beasts in the plot of the storm and turmoil in the Inland Sea in the previous life, they were infected by chaos erosion, right?
In this way, in this life, although Rococo and Coco Sister have a game forum database in their previous lives, because after all, this is all information left by players in their previous lives, so they naturally don't know this kind of secret that players in their previous lives don't know very well, so figuring out the war motives of the Beast Spirit Clan has become one of the main purposes for Sister Coco to find Ailo this time.
"Your Excellency Ello, forgive me for taking the liberty of it, but we of the Creation Goddess Sect do want to know what the true intention of the Northland Beast Spirit Clan is in starting a war this time?"
For Sister Coco's question, Arlo still maintained a visible look of displeasure on her face, but Sister Coco did not miss the hesitation that flashed in the other party's eyes.
Sure enough, as the owner of the Godhead Fragment and the important leader of the Beast Spirit Clan in this war, it is impossible for Iroh not to know the inside story. Thinking so, Sister Coco preemptively added before Eloh could reply.
"Of course, I hope Lord Ello can know that what I, or Lord Orlanardo, want to ask about is not something like a dispute or feud between the Orcs and the Imperial Army on the northern border, but what we want to know is the true purpose of the Orc."
Ello's embarrassment was even further awkward, the real purpose of the Beast Spirit Clan was to occupy the territory of the Empire and increase the influence of the Beast Spirit Clan among those foreign adventurers, but this kind of talk naturally could not be directly used as a justification for war on the surface, so the reason for this war on the surface was the so-called "border dispute and feud between the two clans" and other high-sounding names mentioned by Coco's sister. Now that Sister Coco is saying this, she obviously doesn't give him a perfunctory opportunity at all, and he must make it clear here.
After the embarrassment, there was some annoyance. If the person who is talking to him is the guide Orlanardo himself, it would be fine, but this little girl in front of her, although there is a letter from Orlanardo to prove that she is the Pope's envoy and has the power to issue orders on behalf of the Pope here, but her strength is only at the level of 80 after all. Although it is true that their Beast Spirit Clan is at a loss in terms of position, this does not make his dignified Golden Beamon so angry with a weak Terran girl.
"Hmph, Miss Coco, you seem to have misunderstood something. We of the Beast Spirit Clan respect your Creator Goddess Sect because you are the only existence among the Terrans that we can trust on the battlefield of order and chaos unlike the other Terrans who have nothing left in their heads except greedy thoughts. But even so, it seems that there is no need for our Beast Spirit Clan to explain clearly to your Creation Goddess Sect, hundreds of years ago, the Terran slaughtered our Beast Spirit Clan's clansmen and warriors who returned from the Creation Battlefield on the mainland, but I haven't seen your Creation Goddess Sect send people to ask those Terran countries what their 'real purpose' is. ”
Coco's sister, who originally thought that she had found a breakthrough, was really unprepared for Aelo's sudden hostile tough response, and was scolded back by Aelo like this, Coco's sister was rarely a little confused.
Speaking of which, this is indeed a miscalculation of the Coco sister, or a manifestation of an inconspicuous weakness that they have not been aware of, including the Rococo itself—she, in fact, does not have much of the experience of talking to the owner of the neutral Godhead Shard and enlisting the support of the other party.
The possession of a fragment of Godhead is different from those aborigines who do not have an ego, and having an ego means that their motivations and ways of behaving and doing things are full of personality and there are no clear rules, and it is impossible to give you a definite and inevitable result as long as a certain condition is met like those ordinary NPCs. In this respect, dealing with the owner of Godhead Shards is very similar to dealing with players, but there is also the most obvious difference - the owners of Godhead Shards are all natives of the continent of Emissia, and their perception of many things is completely different from that of the player, and it can even be said that it is completely opposite, so trying to persuade and win the consent and support of the owner of Godhead Shards on some disagreement issues, from the use of language to psychological speculation, is completely different from dealing with players or NPCs.
Counting on the fingers, since entering "Redemption", there are only a few owners of Godhead Fragments that Rococo knows, Beccaz and Conte are enemies, there is no need to do anything to persuade and negotiate with them, Orlanado is a natural ally and does not need to persuade and negotiate to basically support Rococo's decision unconditionally, before meeting with Iroh today, the owner of the Godhead Fragment that she really faced was neither the Chaos camp nor her allies, but only Jinzes was alone, and in fact, Rococo's previous conversation with Kinzes ended in complete failure, and she only relied on almost coercion to get Kinzes to help her once, after which Kinzes cleanly parted ways with her.
And this time, Coco's original intention was to ask Iroh as much as possible about the motives of the beast spirit clan through conversation and communication, and if possible, to accept Iro, who didn't seem to have anything to do with Chaos, to become a partner who would maintain order and fight against chaos like Oranado. However, due to her lack of experience, the wording she used sounded not rude, but she did not take into account the factors that some of the natives of the Eumisian continent were accustomed to considering and affecting conversation.
For example, the difference in strength between the two people, when dealing with players, or when players dealing with NPCs, the comparison of level strength is more used as a determining factor for the feasibility of some commands or behaviors in the game, such as teaming, task taking, etc., and does not make low-level players feel inferior in terms of personality status in front of high-level players or NPCs. However, in the plane of the Eureusian continent, where personal strength is infinitely magnified by the existence of martial arts and magic, the comparison of personal strength in the interaction between the aborigines largely determines the status of the two sides of the exchange.
Just like now, the level 120 Airo was questioned by the level 80 Coco sister, even if Airo was at a loss, the result would only be that Iro was annoyed by Coco's sister's aggressiveness, and it was not because of the loss that he showed weakness - in fact, if it weren't for the fact that Coco Sister was the envoy of the Goddess of Creation Sect and the rare owner of the godhead fragment on the continent today, Iro might have just kicked her out and refused to talk nonsense with her.
The lack of experience determines that Coco's sister can't immediately understand why Iroh suddenly gets angry "unreasonably", but fortunately, she is smart enough, although the deep-seated root cause is still unclear, but she may have thought about something just now, maybe because of the previous experience of being caught and locked up in a bandit stronghold together, so she subconsciously always overlapped the impression of the Airo in front of her and the former ambitious but powerless Beamon boy, There was something about the question or the way it was asked that aroused Iroh's disgust, but the younger sister could understand it immediately.
"Your Excellency Ello, the Creation Goddess Sect naturally does not mean to dictate the decisions and actions of the leaders of the Beast Spirit Clan, if my words just now have caused you some unpleasantness, please forgive me. Regarding this war, from our point of view, there is no position and power to judge anything, Lord Orlanardo just hopes that the leaders of the Beast Spirit Clan can understand that now the chaotic forces on the continent have begun to be active again, so no matter what kind of reasons and grievances there are, we hope that the Beast Spirit Clan and the Empire can be resolved in a softer way, even if only temporarily. ”
Speaking of which, seeing that the angry Ailo just now seemed to have subsided a little, but the younger sister of Coco had grasped some of the rhythm of negotiating with this golden Beamon.
"So, we want to know the true intentions of both the Beast Spirit Clan and the Empire, and try to find a mutually acceptable solution to the problem as a third-party bystander. I believe that Lord Iroh doesn't want our Order camp to exhaust its own strength before Chaos can really launch an offensive because of this war, and as a result, the tragedy of the fall of the Northern Continent hundreds of years ago will be staged again, right? ”