With the return of Seven Loves, the last piece of the puzzle in Rod's hands is now completely completed. Until now, it can be said that under Rhodes, a complete system has been completely established. The internal affairs part of the realm is in charge of Marlene, who oversees the finances, housekeeping, and foreign affairs of the entire Glen Bell Territory. And Ann. Clark also officially became Rod's subordinate, began to work for him, as Marlene's deputy, Ann is mainly responsible for negotiating with those foreign chambers of commerce and businessmen, according to Marlene's report, this former lady is indeed quite potential in this regard, although she is still a little lacking in the experience of dealing with people, but in the face of economic changes and business negotiations, she has an innate acumen, she can keenly perceive the loopholes and traps in those businessmen's negotiations and contracts, and point them out. Although the current An is still too naïve, he can't do "no business, no treachery, no treachery, no business". But Marlene believes that in time, Ann will become a capable assistant to Rod.

The military side was completely left to the heart of Bilan, and she was responsible for recruiting soldiers, conducting training, mobilization, and distribution of legions. This is also arguably the busiest department in Rhodes Territory at the moment. Previously, Rhodes did not have a specific military concept, but only put John in charge of it for the time being, and John was naturally in charge of his cavalry regiment first, so he did not care enough about the infantry. So all along, don't look at Rod's majesty, but there are not many real existents as his private soldiers, plus John's cavalry is only a few hundred people, and fortunately, Rod only needs to maintain law and order at the moment, and there are small bubble gum and canaries in the fortress, otherwise this little private soldier, where to put it would not have become a pot of porridge sooner.

However, after Bilan's heart took office, things changed a lot. This senior sister who looks like she stays up all night and is drowsy all day long doesn't have much requirements for the source of soldiers under her command, only one ——— be obedient, even if you lack arms and legs, it doesn't matter, as long as you can meet the conditions, be able to fight, and be loyal.

Under such "relaxed" conditions. The vigorous conscription work was also launched at once. At present, the fortress is much more prosperous than before, and many people from the vicinity have immigrated here, and at this moment, when I heard that the main conscription was conscripted, many people immediately came to sign up, and most of them passed smoothly. However, although there are a lot of people in this part, after all, they don't have rich combat experience, so Rhodes has promoted a group of experienced old mercenaries from the Starlight Guild to come in, and with the support of the reputation system, he can of course easily find those mercenaries who are very loyal and admired to join him. And is responsible for disciplining and training these recruit eggs. Among the mercenaries, there are many people who have retired from the army, so they are naturally very familiar with these, and they are also very handy in doing this, but they have solved one of Rod's troubles. As for Rod's decision, the mercenaries naturally welcomed it with both hands, and the reason why many mercenaries chose to join the Starlight Guild was to be valued by Rod in the future. Become his retainer. And now, these mercenaries have not only joined Rhodes's army. also has titles such as squad leader or instructor, fame, status and wealth, which makes those mercenaries naturally envious.

With such an example, those mercenaries who joined the guild also began to work harder and harder, wanting to win Rhodes' attention with their outstanding performance. In the end, he got his wish and became his retainer and subordinate. In other places, many mercenaries have also joined in, wanting to develop here. And in this way, the Starlight Guild has also entered the orbit of a virtuous circle. In just a few days, Rhodes' private army had grown to about 3,000 men. After that, in order to maintain stability, Bilan's Heart temporarily suspended the recruitment work, but even so, the sudden increase in so many soldiers still had a certain impact on the fortress. And in this way, there is another person who suffers, and that is Labis.

Although the alchemy department in charge of Labis also began to become more stable with the increase in personnel, due to the current sharp increase in the number of private soldiers, Labis and others put more energy into the production of alchemy potions and alchemy structures in Rhodes' hands, and suspended the research and development of new potions and alchemy equipment. This caused Labis to complain a little, but she also knew that the resources in Rhodes' hands were not enough to support her to complete those imaginary inventions. After all, this requires a lot of materials, and although Rhodes knocked a lot of money from the Alchemist Guild before, these are only enough to make equipment, and if you want to research and develop, I'm afraid that doubling it will not be enough.

Although the production speed of Labis has been greatly accelerated due to the addition of the people brought back by Marlene to Labis, the improvement is still limited. In this regard, Rhodes made a suggestion to Labis with reference to the players in the production system in the game, in the game, there are many players in the alchemy department, although they occasionally work part-time to collect medicines, but to let them be responsible for a series of processes from carving to inlay to production, even the players can't bear it, not only takes a long time, but also has low production efficiency. Therefore, it is often alchemy players who buy various raw materials and semi-finished products from other people, and then assemble and sell them themselves.

And Rhodes also referred to this experience and proposed a reform plan for Labis's alchemy department. In the past, because Labis was alone, Rod did not propose this plan for the sake of safety. However, now there are more and more people around Labis, and they are more or less proficient in alchemy, and there are already mature conditions, so Rod proposed this plan. That is, divide the people on Labis's hand into several groups, and hand over the work that is not strong in alchemy skills to others to do, such as collecting magic plants, making containers, or carving and casting shells, Labis can recruit some blacksmiths, herbalists and craftsmen, let them complete according to the design drawings, and then hand them over to the students of the academy brought by Marlene around Labis to supervise them, and gather them to assemble and inlay after the production is completed. Moreover, they can also take the opportunity to select some people with ingenuity and alchemy talent to train them into apprentices, and then expand the scale, which can also speed up the production of alchemy equipment and potions.

Rhodes' suggestion was initially opposed to Labis. In fact, not only her, but even Marlene and others do not understand this, I have to say that the thinking of people in this era is still relatively old-fashioned, and they generally believe that if they do not have enough knowledge of alchemy, they cannot manufacture alchemy products. Because he doesn't understand the essence of these things at all, what if something goes wrong with the production?

But Rhodes disagreed, believing that it was the job of the creator, and in fact, even if a worker did not drive a car for the rest of his life, it would not prevent him from making tires, of course, if he wanted to design new tires.

It has to be said that the traditional force is powerful.

Although Rod struggled to speak. However, Labis and Marlene were still skeptical, and although they admitted that Rod's idea was feasible to a certain extent, they still believed that the existence of equipment such as alchemy, which involved the power of magic, could not be made without sufficient knowledge. And Rhodes can't do anything about it, he is just a player, not the designer of this game, and in the game, although the semi-finished products of alchemy players are also made by other production players. But after all, it doesn't seem like you need to carve it yourself, but just put the raw materials and what you need in front of you. Then the boot skill is ready to go. Although there is a certain failure rate for such a good thing, it will inevitably be a "qualified product" that meets the system program specifications after success. But that's a game, and that's reality, so maybe it's really different.........

Eventually, both sides took a step back, and Labis and Marlene agreed to hand over some of the less important work to the people to do it, and ultimately the important equipment inlay and carving would be done themselves. Of course. If all goes well, they will consider the next step of expansion, as suggested by Rohde............ In this regard, Rhodes could only go with them. After all, in terms of magic technology, Labis is a master alchemist, and Marlene's Shania family is a magic family. They are experts in this area, and what they can do has already been done, and as for the effect, we can only see how effective it will be in the future.

Among them, the most gratifying thing for Rhodes is Christie, who has now become a very important assistant to Labis, and the drawings and drafts she designed are not only beautiful and generous, but also very practical, and even Labis, who has a head full of the alchemy knowledge of the Belchems family, can't help but sigh and admire it.

However, Marlene expressed some worries and doubts to Rhodes in private, according to her observations, the magic guide circuits in these drawings designed by Christie are not just beautiful, they are all implied by some kind of alchemy technique and design, this kind of design drawings, if not for people with rich alchemy knowledge and experience, it is impossible to design. But look at Christie............ She didn't look like she knew alchemy, and even if she had been learning since birth, she wouldn't have been able to reach that height. Not to mention what kind of life Christie had lived before, Marlene knew as well as Rhodes how she could possibly learn the design of Magic Technology in that situation? What surprised Marlene even more was that after the inquiry she knocked on the side, Christie had no idea what she was talking about, and she said that the reason why she designed it was just because she thought it was beautiful. If it is said that the blind cat bumps into a dead mouse, it is said that one or two accidents are in the past, but - it has always been like this, isn't it a very abnormal thing?

However, Rhodes didn't explain much about Marlene's question, but asked her not to worry too much. In fact, although Rod didn't know why Christie would understand this, he already had a vague answer in his heart, that is, what Christie did unconsciously, I am afraid that it was related to the "other Christie" he saw in his dreams. Although he and "Christie" had only met twice, each time they had been of great help to him, first by helping him fix Greysil and Madaras, and then by showing him the roots of the two Sacred Sword cards. That "Christie" must not be a simple character. Not only that, but what made Rhodes feel a little strange was that he seemed to have seen the scene in his dream somewhere......... But he couldn't remember it for a while.

However, the appearance of the other "Christie" is not regular, although Christie herself often comes to sleep with Rod, but that "Christie" only appears twice in Rod's dreams.

However, recently, Rod has never let Christie come to him again, for the simple reason that he is pestered by Annie.

Anne, who is in estrus, has tasted the sweetness since she tasted it. From time to time, he came to Rod for three days and two ends to linger, which made Rod even feel a little unbearable. Although Marlene and Lijie would have such a period of time after their first taste of personnel before, they both had the reserve of a girl after all, and they only secretly hinted at Rhodes. But Anne was completely different, day or night, as long as no one was there. Anne will make a courtship to Rod, and in the face of the meat sent to the door, Rods naturally did not hesitate to go into battle with a gun and do a great job, until the ammunition and food were exhausted. Not only that, but almost every night Anne would come to see Rhodes, which also caused Rod to temporarily let Christie sleep in his room, so as not to let her encounter some "inappropriate" scenes.

Fortunately, Rod's physique far exceeded the value of humans, otherwise he would have been squeezed dry by Anne to the point that there was not a drop left. But even so, there were several times when Rod felt numb and unconscious............ Now he could only hope that Anne's estrus period would end sooner, otherwise, I am afraid that Rod would have to pull down his face and sneak to Labis to ask her to help make a few bottles of potions that are inconvenient to use.

For Rod, of course, this was just a fun anecdote in his leisure time, and he hung out with Anne. Naturally, there are more important things to do.

Ever since the Skynet plan began, information has been coming from all over the Continent of Light. It also allowed Rhodes to get first-hand information. This is very useful for Rhodes, although as a top player, Rhodes can be said to have experienced everything that happened on this continent before crossing over, but he is a player and not a historian, and he can still remember some of the history that he has participated in in person. But the other ones are just hearsay, only God knows what year, month, and day they happened. And now, according to the information transmitted by the "Skynet", Rhodes can use this to determine the clues on it, and use his memory and knowledge of this continent to know what is happening or will happen.

And what he is most concerned about is the news of the Land of Light.

After the Dragon Soul Canon. Rod and the others slapped their butts and slipped back to Moon, happy and relaxed. But the Council of Light fell into chaos, and under the spread of the hearted and unintentional, the old council leader bowed half-kneeling to Lydia and then the news of the fiasco of the Wizard Knights spread throughout the country of light, and for a time the Council of Light was brought to the forefront, and many people scolded the Council of Light for what they did was simply humiliating, and they were ashamed of their ancestors who sacrificed everything for the freedom and faith of mankind. Some even refer to that day as the Day of National Shame, believing that the Council of Light betrayed their faith in freedom and justice and had completely degenerated. Even the House of Commons lodged a solemn protest against the Council of Light on behalf of the people, and not only that, but the people also organized themselves to demonstrate in front of the Council of Light to protest their weakness and incompetence. This almost disgraced the Council of Light. Not only that, judging from the situation of the territories around the Land of Light, most of the territories that support the parliamentary faction have remained silent during this time, and at the same time have kept a distance from the Council of Light, and it seems that they are also worried about whether the Council of Light will be able to stabilize the situation this time.

And Lillian also took action at this time.

Apparently an idealist under the Radiant Dragon's Spirit, she sent people to Darkster, talked to the people there, and made a series of decisions to replan and remodel the place to ensure that those people could live a normal life and have a job. However, these things are certainly not up to Lillian, and the inhabitants of Casablanca have mixed opinions about this, they already have a lot of opinions about this place in Darkster, and it is good for them that Lillian is willing to solve this problem. But on the other hand, there are also many people who are worried about whether this will be the first step for the Radiant Dragon Soul to try to regain dominance, and they are full of worries and doubts about this.

The prestige of the Council of Light began to waver, and the Dragon Spirit of Light began to meddle in internal affairs, and now the country of Light is in chaos, and the people are worried, angry, uneasy, and all kinds of emotions are intertwined. And according to intelligence. Even in cities other than Casablanca, people have begun to demonstrate against the inaction of the Council of Light. In addition, this time the Council of Light has not yet received funds from Moon, although this money was taken by Lillian and used in the country, but she will definitely not use it to fill the financial hole of the Council of Light, it is conceivable. Once next year, when the Council of Light is unable to make ends meet, they will face an even greater crisis.

Rhodes knew very well that the five major consortia would never make the first move, and if they really wanted to completely and deeply control the Council of Light, the best way to do it was to let the financial loopholes be exposed, and when the Council of Light was unable to handle everything, they would appear as saviors.

Heroes are always welcome, because they are always present in the Demon King to wreak havoc on the land. Bullying men and women, rivers of blood, war and death are everywhere in this world, and people are terrified in the shadow of despair. Only in this case, a hero who is able to defeat the Demon King is the most respected and welcomed. And if the Demon King had just run out, he would look up to the sky and laugh three times, "Hahaha, I want to destroy this world!" Before he even had time to show his ambitions, he was killed by a sword from the brave. So how many people will respect this hero?

The Council of Light is not a fool, and of course they know the idea of the five major consortia. But Rhodes knew that they wouldn't let the Big Five Consortium succeed so easily. As Rhodes said before, the reason why the Council of Light dared to wrest power from the Dragon of Light was for itself. Although the five major conglomerates will also exert influence on them on weekdays, the Council of Light still has political rights after all. And if they are pitted by the five major consortia this time, then they will really become the puppets of the five consortia in the future, and whatever they say is what they say. If that's the case. It's better to continue to take refuge in the dragon of light and be her subordinate, how can people say that it is still the soul of the creation dragon, which is much more noble than a group of humans, and it is not ashamed.

Rhodes is sure. It's not going to end so easily. Moreover, whenever he looked at the information from the country of light in his hand, the more embarrassed the Council of Light above was, the more he couldn't laugh, although as a player, he wished that the Council of Light would die quickly, and it was best to hang them all in Freedom Square. But now, seeing the Council of Light so stormy, he had an ominous premonition. It's as if a person is standing on a plateau and watching the thick black clouds in the distance roll in, about to obscure the entire sky, and even if you don't need a weather forecast, you can see that a heavy rain is coming.

Sure enough, things started to change.

The Council of Light had been silent in the midst of the information Rhodes had gathered, but something else was slowly starting to spread. That's the rumor about the Night Dragon Country, I don't know when it started, in the Land of Light, the rumors of the Night Dragon Kingdom attacking the border guards of the Land of Light began to spread, and the people of the Land of Light gradually turned their eyes away from the embarrassing situation before the Council of Light, and began to worry and talk about these things.

In fact, the border dispute between the Night Dragon Kingdom and the Light Dragon Country has existed since ancient times, even between Moon and the Night Dragon Country, as we all know, the Night Dragon Country is full of undead creatures, some of them secretly cross the border for various purposes, and come to the Land of Light and Moon where there are more living people, some are spies, some are for their own necromancy research or other purposes. Of course, the Night Dragons themselves would certainly not admit that they were regular troops. And Moon and the Land of Light didn't expect them to admit it, just come and fight back. It was as if the Eastern Mountains had always been the front line of the war between Moon and the Night Dragonland, where battles between people and the undead were commonplace.

But now, rumors about the attack of the Night Dragon Nation, or even the imminent attack on the Radiant Dragon Country, began to circulate in the past, and people didn't know much about these things before, because most of these news were blocked at the border, but they never spread widely. But now, there is obviously a problem with the speed of dissemination of this information, if it is only one or two places, it is better to say, after all, this kind of thing cannot be prevented, there are always loopholes. But if the entire Land of Light suddenly starts to spread this, then things will be different immediately.

These rumors have made many people in the Kingdom of Light fall into panic, and there is even an opinion that now that the Council of Light is swept away, the Dragon Soul of Light wants to seize power, and the Night Dragon Kingdom is obviously planning to take advantage of this opportunity to attack the Kingdom of Light!

I have to say that this kind of opinion is very marketable among the people, and in the intelligence collected by Rhodes, many people in the Land of Light think so.

And at this time, the Council of Light, which had been silent, suddenly moved.

Through diplomatic channels, they officially protested to the Night Dragon Country, demanding that they hand over the murderers who attacked the border guards of the Land of Light!

The Night Dragon Kingdom will not take the words of the Council of Light seriously, in the face of the Council of Light's request, they just said that it was just an accident, and there is no evidence that it was the regular army that attacked the army of the Kingdom of Light, they thought that it was the work of some defecting undead creatures, so they regretted the attack on the army of the Kingdom of Light, and said that they would investigate it, but that's all, you want us to hand over the murderer............ That's impossible, because the killer doesn't exist at all. How are we going to hand it over?

However, in the face of the Night Nation's rhetoric, the Council of Light was uncharacteristically tough, showing a large amount of evidence and witnesses to prove that it was the Night Nation's regular army that attacked the Land of Light, and once again making strong statements, demanding that the Night Dragon Kingdom must give an explanation.

As a result, this time the Night Nation did not play with the Council of Light, and they said that there might be some misunderstanding in this, and we could communicate with the Dragon Soul of Light............... It can be seen that the Night Nation is also well aware of what is currently happening in the Land of Light. They don't care about disgusting the Council of Light or anything.

But then, things changed.

In the face of the statement of the Night Dragon Country, the Council of Light is still unrelenting, of course they can't let the Night Dragon Kingdom negotiate with the Dragon Soul of Light, so the Council of Light once again asks the Night Kingdom to make an apology and compensation, but this time, the Council of Light is not just empty words, on the contrary, during their statement, several armies were mobilized to the border area where the Land of Light was rumored to be attacked by the Night Country army, and declared that this was a routine military drill for the new year, but what did they want to do, It's something that everyone can see.

And after learning the news, Rhodes already understood that war was inevitable ———. (To be continued......)