Chapter 507: Bold Guess
Erer quietly listened to everyone's discussions, and he didn't say anything about the six hills dwarves, and he always felt that there was something strange about it.
The transfer of hundreds of thousands of people, as Pete said, cannot be completed silently, even if it is a very convenient magic portal, the movement is not according to normal logic, and there will always be some clues. But the problem now is that after a period of time, the spies sent by the alliance have not heard any news in the elven kingdom, as if this has never happened in the elven kingdom.
However, according to Kedrak and Vikna's return, Farouk seemed to know something inside.
What's going on?
Chen Jian was puzzled.
As for Farouk's refusal to cooperate anymore, Chen Jian didn't care much.
Anyway, the goal has been achieved, if you don't cooperate, you won't cooperate, and the alliance has nothing to lose, and the hostility shown by Farouk is also expected by Chen Jian, because from the beginning, the two sides who use each other and have obvious conflicts of interest are doomed to not be friends, which Jian Chen saw very clearly.
However, Chen Jian is not optimistic about Farouk, although Farouk has shown considerable skill during this time, and has achieved considerable strategic success by occupying Hammondale with the Blade of Doom, but Farouk has a fatal weakness, that is, he is strong on the outside and dry in the middle.
In fact, in Chen Jian's eyes, there are many similarities between the alliance and the Farouk forces, but there are too many differences.
At the beginning, both sides were not strong, but the alliance relied on the dragon king's divine power and doomsday judgment magic, and Farouk relied on the blade of doom, both successfully opened the situation.
But Farouk's environment is not optimistic.
Because of this environment, although Farouk opened up the situation, he could not successfully transform and develop like the alliance.
In the chaotic Negan, the alliance relied on the dragon king's divine power and the magic of Doomsday Judgment to lay down the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack Solo Peninsula as a base, and used it as a springboard to gradually dominate Negan.
By now, the alliance that has annexed the forces of Daxtor and Jade and occupied nearly half of Negan's land has rapidly expanded into a behemoth, as long as it takes some time, and there is a mountain version of the blade of Doom to deter all parties, the alliance can smoothly digest and absorb the current results, transform them into a strongman force that the alliance can manipulate, and finally unify Negan.
At that time, even if the alliance with skyrocketing strength does not rely on the divine power of the dragon king and the magic of the Doomsday Judgment, it will have the capital to dominate the world and become a powerful force that divides Negan.
Farouk had no such opportunity.
Unlike the chaotic Negan, the Elven Kingdom is an independent force, although because of the oppression of other races by the Elven race, Farouk's ideas have a certain market, and Farouk has successfully gained the support of some races, but it is undeniable that he cannot get a very high support rate in the Elven Kingdom like the alliance is supported by most Negans.
On the contrary, his actions will be seen by most people as a rebellion, and then they will be disgusted.
This point has been since Farouk pulled up the banner and stood on his own mountain. Except for the team at the time of his uprising, there were few responders. You can get a glimpse of it.
From the current point of view, in this force of Farook, except for the tree people who fully support Farouk, the support of other races for Farouk is extremely limited, and the elves are naturally needless to say, as the basic race of the elf kingdom, the elves who agree with Farouk's concept. Its number can only be said to be insignificant compared to the total number of elves;
Although the centaurs have the will to resist, the sacred land related to the survival of their race has been firmly controlled by the elven kingdom, unless farook can venture deep into the heart of the forest and conquer this holy place that is heavily guarded by the elven kingdom. Otherwise, they would not have been able to fully support Farouk, at most some reckless and angry young people would join Farouk's army.
The same is true of the forest dwarf clan, when Hesfa betrayed the elven kingdom, the forest dwarf was unwilling to leave with him, which is enough to show that there are a considerable number of forest dwarves who are loyal to the elven kingdom, no matter how hard Farouk tries, his appeal among the forest dwarves cannot be compared to Hesfa back then, so the support he can get from the dwarf clan is limited.
As for the human race, not to mention, the human race in the elven kingdom has always been a minority, and the population is not large, even if all of them fall to the side of Farook, it is conceivable how much help it can play.
As for the dragons, judging from the information that has been obtained, there are only a few hundred forest dragons led by the golden dragon hero Beccaria, who have joined the Farouk forces.
Of course, Farouk also co-opted some elven lords, but how much these lords agreed with his concept was only known in the hearts of those lords themselves.
In Jian Chen's opinion, these elven lords are very likely to be *** because they know that Farouk has the Doomsday Blade in his hand, and they are not without the power to fight, and they really don't want to be dismissed by the elf king one by one, so in order to protect their own interests, they are on Farouk's side.
When the situation is good, they may support Farouk, but if the situation is not good, it is really difficult to say how these guys will react, they are a very unstable factor in Farouk's forces.
In the same environment, Farusu's strength has not increased much, and his strength has not increased but decreased due to the loss in the war, even if he occupies the Hammondale area and gains enough strategic depth, this situation will not change, because the current Hammondale region does not have too many populations. And the proud Empire humans are obviously unlikely to sell Farouk's account and defect from the Empire to use him, and even if there is, there will not be many of them.
On the contrary, because the battle line is elongated, it is necessary to fight on two fronts. Farouk's already small number of troops were further dispersed, that is, because of the Doomsday Blade, he was able to maintain the current situation and be invincible.
The Blade of Doom is Farouk's greatest strength, but it is also his greatest weakness, and if the Doomsday is truly lost, Farouk will definitely die without a place to bury.
That's why Farouk is anxious to win over the swamp people in the Tytalia region for his own use, he really needs the population too much, and he needs the army too much.
If he could successfully absorb the remnants of Tytalia's remnants after the fall of the country, maybe he would still have a chance to strengthen himself, but Chen Jian's alliance appeared at this time, and he extended his hand to Tytalia like him.
If Jian Chen hadn't crossed over, Farouk might indeed have become a great savior as he thought, and he would have been able to divide one side and become one of the few powerful forces on the continent.
But because of the accidental crossing of Chen Jian, a small white-collar worker on the earth, Farouk's fate was completely changed.
Chen Jian got involved in Titalia, firstly, to further strengthen the alliance and absorb more power for his own use. Second, it also has the meaning of clamping down on the development of Farouk.
From the very beginning, the two sides regarded each other as a big trouble in the future, and Farouk was wary of Jian Chen, and Jian Chen also began to calculate Farouk early.
What's more, Farouk even took Hammondal.
What is Hammondale? It was a place where Jian Chen regarded him as his hometown in this other world, and for Jian Chen, who never forgot to return to Hammondal, and even had to recapture Hammondale in order to officially marry Temple and Moryl, this elven lord had become his enemy since Farouk captured Harmondale.
Even without this relationship, Farouk's occupation of Harmondale has already blocked the way of the alliance, and in Chen Jian's strategic planning, Hammondale is a very important military place that must be grabbed.
Coupled with the conflict of interest caused by the same philosophy, Chen Jian has a reason to deal with Farouk in both public and private.
Before the alliance is not strong enough, Farouk will be a pawn used by the alliance to contain the elven kingdom and the Erathia Empire, and after the alliance is strong enough, Farouk will become a stumbling block for the alliance to enter the continent.
Therefore, Chen Jian believes that as a pawn used by himself, Farouk with the Blade of Doom is strong enough, and must be effectively restrained to prevent it from becoming a great enemy of the alliance in the future. Thinking of this, Jian Chen's heart suddenly moved.
He suddenly realized that he had been ignoring an important issue.
How did the Blade of Doom end up in Farouk's hands?
At the beginning, the war that destroyed the Orbiter Kingdom of the Kregans, it seems that Farouk, a rather inconspicuous lord in the Elven Kingdom, did not bring their private army to participate in it, which has been confirmed by previous intelligence, but the Blade of Doom lost on the battlefield was inexplicably in his hands.
It's a really strange thing.
And those generals under Farouk, as far as Jian Chen knew, participated in the battle at that time. There are only the female elves Alice and the golden dragon Beccaria.
Did they give the Doomsday Blade to Farouk? Or is it someone else? If so, who would it be? Could he still be hiding in the elven kingdom and secretly tipping off Farouk?
The more Chen Jian thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible.
Because in the previous battles, the Farouk army knew the actions of the Elf King's ** team well, and the unpredictable prophet prepared to deal with it early and adjusted its strategy and tactics in time, even after Alice left the elf kingdom, it was still the case.
This level of intelligence is not accessible to ordinary lower-level soldiers, so does this mean that among the high-ranking troops of the Elven Kingdom, there are still people from the Farouk family hidden in it?
Then Jian Chen suddenly thought of another possibility.
Could it be that the hill dwarves disappeared silently, because they had not been sent to the elven kingdom at all, but were still in the midst of the orpherds, quietly hidden somewhere by some people.
Although it is a little difficult to hide hundreds of thousands of people, in the Ofer, this is not an impossible thing to do, because the cross-sea tunnel built by the Negan people back then also has an exit in the Ofer, and it is really not easy to be discovered by using this great underground project to hide hundreds of thousands of people in the chaotic situation at that time.
And the person hiding them wouldn't be the Elven Kingdom as Zeda guessed, but someone else?
For example, the man who gave the Doomsday Blade to Farouk!