Chapter 278: Changes in the Storm
I tore open the sealed letter casually, only to find that it was actually the highest level of contract seal, and there was a magic seal engraved with beeswax on the gray envelope, if someone other than the recipient opened the letter, the letter paper in it would either be destroyed directly or exploded.
"Evenly? Haven't heard of it. Well, you didn't tell us about it either. ”
Although Xiaohong couldn't help but shake her head, there was a smile in her eyes, although dragons generally disdain to lie, but according to my understanding of her, this expression should be waiting to see the excitement, and there is no point in asking.
Then, without hesitation, I tore the letter a little bit, placed it on the table beside it, and then stood near the doorway and opened it remotely with my cold hand...... I'm so shrewd, if the bomb disposal experts in that world had my hand, they wouldn't have been affected by the bombs.
"Poof, hahahaha!"
Directly ignoring the hilarious female dragon who saw the laughter behind me, I don't know why, when I saw the name of Evanli, which is biased towards Elf pronunciation, my scalp was numb, like instinct to tell me that it was a trouble, it was better to be cautious.
I cautiously hid behind the door to avoid being overshadowed, and the icy arms in the room dissipated as soon as the letter was opened, and then ......
"Tease me? Nothing happened! ”
There was neither a sudden flickering white light, nor a sudden howling banshee ghost, nor an explosion, not even a fluttering green or white powder, at least a death curse, this threatening letter, not a single trap was installed, it was simply disrespectful.
"Hahaha! Laughing to death, what are you doing here? Probing the grass with your face? Stepping on a trap with your feet? ”
All right. Let's continue to ignore the smiling female dragon rolling on the ground behind her. Pick up the letter. It's just a few simple words.
"Ancient Elf? There are still people who use this in this era, let me think about it, how to pronounce it"
The letter is a distorted tadpole text, if the dragon language and the human lingua franca are normal, but what does it mean to use this language that only exists in the ancient elf empire, could it be that evenli is an archaeology major.
The handwriting on it is very beautiful and beautiful, and it is obviously written by a woman. But the content on it is incomprehensible.
“…… Do you dare to come back? ”
Read this sentence in a low voice, the grammar is correct, but why didn't I understand it, this is a complaint?
As soon as the words fell, the letter suddenly lit up with a white light, and then .......
"Damn! It's actually a starting word! ”
"Boom!"
The letter exploded, but the explosion was not very powerful, but it emitted a strange smoke, and waited for the smoke to dissipate. I've been stained with a bunch of blue paint.
"Ahem, I deliberately used tongue-twisting ancient elf words to lure me to read out and detonate the keyword. What a lack of morality! Ahem, ahem. ”
I don't know what the trap was made of, even the dust I coughed up was blue, and the only thing to be thankful for was that I could probably feel that it wasn't a poisonous trap.
"Hahaha! Really! ”
The she-dragon behind her was already rolling on the ground with laughter, as if she had expected it.
And then there was a sudden flash of light in the sky outside the house, as if something had inexplicably left as the letter was opened, and the designer of the mechanism already knew that the letter had been activated.
At the same time as I turned into a Smurf, a small pendant fell to the ground, and the heart-shaped sapphire on it was exuding a cold glow, like moonlight.
Seeing this posture, I probably knew that this was probably just the beginning, and the troubles were probably waiting for the future.
"With such a targeted arrangement, it is not ...... to say that it is not an acquaintance."
Even though I still don't remember who it is, I am even more worried, this arrangement is obviously aimed at me, obviously someone I am familiar with, but I don't remember it at all.
I don't have any impression at all, it's nothing, and after several reincarnations, I've forgotten that it's not the same or the same, but there is no record in my diary library, so it's not normal.
Thinking about it, there are only two possibilities, either I haven't started to keep a diary at that time, which can be denied, or those memories that I want to forget, so I deliberately didn't record them, hoping to completely forget them in a certain reincarnation.
"Hawkers,If you can't think of it, you don't want to.,Since it's something I decided to forget about jì myself.,It's obviously better not to recall.。
I suddenly put this little episode behind me, but it turned out that I was a little upset about watching my lively little red.
"You live a very free and easy life, you don't want to think about it if you can't think of it? This attitude to life is really enviable. You don't have to worry about what trouble awaits you if you can't remember. ”
"I can't think of it, I can't help it. Besides, if the man will come looking for trouble. Even if you think about it, it's not like you're going to be in trouble, it's just adding to your troubles. Since it is an enemy, when the time comes, the soldiers will come to block the water and cover the earth. Isn't it just an 'old acquaintance'? If you want an old acquaintance who wants my head to line up, you can line up here to the West Coast. Who have I been afraid of? ”
Still, I quietly tightened the security of the rooms around me, and of course, not entirely against unknown threats.
When the new day comes, I also relax a little, although the dragon knights have a lot of respect for Lilith, and most of the knights are some diehards with iron heads, but in the enemy territory, many things still need to be more careful, and precautions or something are also essential.
And with the communication between each other, I did get the most lacking information about the Baier Empire, and the news of the local lords was too lagging behind, not as good as the dragon knights who could receive news from the national capital every day.
A generation of heroes Oros is still alive, and the current Bayer Empire is naturally still under the control of Oros, but the wind is calm on the surface, and the undercurrent in private is continuous, with the aging of the old emperor, the shape of Bayer's country is becoming more and more complicated.
The nominal emperor is naturally still supreme, but I'm afraid everyone is looking forward to his death, especially the dozen or so righteous princes. Don't look at all of them as if they were innocent. In fact, there is a large group of forces under him. Just waiting for the old emperor to inherit the throne after his death, of course, there is still no one who dares to interfere with the military forces now, well, there is no one on the surface, but the source family of the prince's wife seems to be developing over there.
Not to mention the local lords, the contradiction between the centralization of power and the local lords can never be resolved, and the practice that the eldest son of each lord must grow up in the national capital. Although it is indeed a method of human quality control with extremely fast results, it also deepens the gap between the two.
This rule has been in place for twenty years, and the first eldest sons of the lords have grown into people, but very few have returned to the territory to inherit the lordship, not because the king sent people to not let go, but because many lords chose the second son who was not in the capital from the beginning.
No second son? Just have another one. And when the second son becomes a lord, he will not be very friendly to his brother who has the right to inherit the right, and he has not seen a few cases of welcoming the return of the orthodox heir.
The usual high pressure of the royal family. There are a lot of grievances caused, and since the grievances have accumulated. Sooner or later, there will be a day when there will be a rebound.
I am afraid that after the death of the emperor, no matter who will be on the throne, there is no absolute authority to suppress the group of lords to rebound, it can be said that due to the strength of centralized power, the local lords have been holding their tails in the past twenty years, and now I am afraid that they are all looking forward to the collapse of the mountain that weighs on their heads, so that they can rise again.
From this action of alliance with the undead, it can be seen that the contradictions within the Baier Empire are really not small, although the emperor used his authority to force the opposition of most of the nobles, but since there is no consensus, the internal differences have long come out.
The most intense, except for the factions of the True God Church that directly broke up, was probably the Royal Mage faction.
From the day the news was announced, the chief court mage Winster directly asked for leave, and the court mages also began to retreat and study magic, and what was a little more moderate was probably the collective departure of the Grand Duke of Dragoon and the dragon knights.
Helent's group of dragon knights expressed their dissatisfaction with the king in their own way, but on the border further west, the group of dragon knights who were still loyal to the emperor were about to go to the battlefield and launch a retaliatory attack on the country of mages.
The identity of the dragonborn knights is very special, first of all, many of them are half-dragons, and they have the identities of dragons and humans at the same time, but they have grown up in the human empire most of the time, and they are still very inclined to human identity in their "young age".
But if I could, I didn't expect to see a war between the superpowers, especially the Mage Nation that was inextricably linked to me.
Combined with the strange system mission that asked me to choose to increase the prestige of the Mage Nation or the Bair Empire, I am afraid that when the shadow of war between the two countries is inevitable, I will have to choose a side.
I can't almost make a guess, and when I go to the Cloud Tower to take over the so-called main quest, most of them will choose a side and then participate in this war.
"If you can, you really don't want the dragon knights to participate in the war, let the war escalate now, the undead invasion has already happened, the longer it drags on, the more prepared we are, the better the chances of victory on our side. The high-end combat power of the two countries is thrown into it like this, and in the end, most of them will only be cheap undead who will come sooner or later. ”
I'm not thinking about more than that, it's a pity to just give up the Bayer Empire to the undead emperors, and since the state of Baier is unstable, if it drags on, maybe the situation will change, for example, the old emperor died suddenly, and it is very likely that the new king and the undead will turn their faces.
[Congratulations to the host for triggering the side plot: Stop the Dragon Knight Legion from entering this senseless war.] 】
[Mission requirements: Try to delay the time for the Dragon Knight Legion to enter the war, if it is extended for more than three months, this task will be completed.] 】
[Reward: Clues from the former dragon and queen Moriel.] Mission Failure Punishment: Red's Fury. System prompt: You just continue to do branch lines without doing business, want points? No way! 】
It seems that as long as it is within the scope of the main plot of the war between the two countries, these small side plots can be triggered, although there are no points, but according to convention, if you want to do a good job in the main plot, none of these small details can be left, and accumulating small victories into big victories is the safest way to attack the strategy.
It is worth mentioning that although we had suffered a lot of white eyes when we reminded the countries that the undead were about to invade, when the undead really came, although the countries were still pretending to be deaf and dumb on the surface, we also got a lot of private contact, hoping to get relevant information and help.
Of course, I'm saying that several undead invasion points in history have all been pointed out, and as for whether anything will change in the future, it's none of my business.
"Historically" the Bayer Empire is the largest invasion point, after the invasion of the undead took full effect, the super empire Bayer suddenly perished in just three months, which is undoubtedly an incredible thing, but when the information collected now is sorted out, there is no shortage of internal and external troubles, and I suddenly feel that it is already remarkable to be able to hold out for three months.
History does not record in detail what happened to the Dragon Knights, but it is recorded that a large number of bone dragons appeared after the invasion of the Baier Empire, if it is deduced according to the current situation, even if the dragon knights did not fall on the battlefield of the Mage Country, they would not be able to pass the undead invasion difficulties in the future, and the final fall of all of them was completely predictable.
But at this time, it is not easy to stop the dragon knight, after all, we are foreigners, and even vaguely hostile relations, even if Lilith comes forward to dissuade us, it is completely unknown how effective it can be, and as a knight, when the country is facing war, as long as Emperor Oros gives the order to conquer, Helent has no reason to refuse if they don't want to commit treason.
"Especially now that they are still under the righteousness of fighting back and revenge, they can't stop it, unless we can prove that the emperor has gone mad, or that there is some serious crime against their knightly concept."
But when I thought of this, I laughed, wasn't there a crime or something, wasn't it a long time ago.
"Cazorla's tears, what good proof. It seems that I went to talk to Helent. By the way, the reason why the dragon knight joined the war was because he wanted to take revenge on the forbidden spell. I don't think that thing is the style of the Mage Country, so let's check it out first. (To be continued......)