Chapter 550: Conspiracy
People are not as good as the sky, and people are doing things in the sky, I don't know how many times I have said such nonsense, but according to the rhythm of the development of the story, those who say lines with similar meanings should soon hit the street.
No matter how great the plans and conspiracies are, if they are unlucky, they will fall short for all kinds of messy reasons, such as meeting a hairy boy who has just left the village...... What, isn't the hairy kid scary? Oh, the wheel of fate is turning, maybe a certain hairy boy in the hotel is the protagonist of those legendary novels.
After years of summarizing, some people have now summed up the three laws of conspiracy bankruptcy - killing the protagonist's father/master and other respectful elders, kidnapping/snatching the protagonist's beloved girlfriend, and finding a former genius to get out of marriage, the common denominator of the three is probably one - offending the protagonist. … Ahem, it seems that no matter what world it is, legendary novels are very routine.
Well, I've always said fiction.
Although sometimes fiction is more bizarre than reality, for the most part, fiction is fiction and reality is reality.
The success rate of conspiracy and trickery in reality is very high, after all, the planner and the executor are not fools, and the master who can plan the conspiracy to cover the sky, since it has reached the execution stage, most of them have a firm grasp of it.
In order to ascend to the throne, a certain marquis family waited for the royal family to be the heir for a hundred years, and successively assassinated four members of the royal family who might succeed to the throne, and finally succeeded in ascending the throne...... Well, I'm talking about San Antonio now, and their crown is not kind at all.
Don't the great nobles of the country know how this crown came about? Was the former royal family defenseless? In fact, the royal family had long known that the Marquis of Mister was ambitious, and even knew how those princes died in an accident. But at that time, the Mister family held the military power in their hands, and a third of the great nobles were loyal. can only watch aggrieved as he walks into perdition step by step.
In those legendary stories, the hairy boy will always save the princess in distress. The legend of finally reviving the royal family and becoming the king of a country is often heard, but I have never seen it, but the ugly and old "villain" in those stories finally succeeded in getting down, and then married the princess of the previous royal family and gave birth to a few children, and there are countless people who have seized orthodoxy.
For no other reason, conspirators are often powerful. Ambition often comes from the corresponding power and strength, the aristocracy is stronger than the royal family, and naturally there will be ambitions to replace it, but there are very few who still follow the original covenant and loyalty, and the result is that those conspiracies are about to become yang conspiracy, and today's rebels will be the newly crowned past tomorrow.
The current civil war in the Duchy of Sara is an example, but it is not an isolated one, in the past few years, there have been so many rebellions, rebellions, assassinations, civil wars, etc., that have not made the headlines, even if several super-empires are still trying to restrain themselves. But the smaller the country, the more chaotic it is.
It would be too much to take for granted to use the holy war period to explain the civil wars and rebellions that continue to erupt. Judging from the information of the little goblins and the Lan Alliance, many of them have traces of interference by other races and forces.
A certain nobleman suddenly obtained a certain powerful artifact, a certain lord had a few more super archmages of different races, a certain principality suddenly had several orc tribes take refuge, and a certain strategist suddenly appeared greatly expanded the military power of a certain warlord...... These strange news stories have been common in recent years, but the next development is even more common, either the lord whose strength has swelled "due to the Mandate of Heaven" has begun to rebel, or the king who feels threatened has taken the initiative to clean up the portal.
The "vulture of war" in "History" appears to us in a different form - civil strife and civil war of the nobility.
And for the vast majority of countries, the civil war between neighbors in this period is the most annoying, if you don't care about it, it will burn on you, you take care of it, and the hat of interference in internal affairs and invasion will immediately be put on your head.
Of course, some ambitious kings and grand dukes saw it as a great opportunity, and the war became more and more intense, and the civil war became an international war.
As far as I know, several superpowers, including Bayer, Ciro, and San Antonio, have made a lot of money privately in recent years, but this is the internal affairs of other countries, and outsiders cannot interfere at all.
Is this a catastrophe for a small country, but a trivial matter for a large country? No, it's super troublesome for anyone.
The expansion of the territory of a large country has not only made the position of the royal family more stable, but also benefited the domestic market, the big nobles, and the military, and the people of the big country are more and more eager for more wars, and the desire of the people at home has forced the king and nobles to wage more wars...... That's the biggest problem.
If this is a conspiracy on the chaotic side, I have to say, it's really beautiful.
A few wild powerhouses, a group of non-human native residents, a few cultists, a good weapon, a little new technology, a few bags of gold coins, as long as they are used well, they can plunge a country into civil strife, which consumes the living force of the entire plane.
The Duchy of Sala is the most obvious example, the lord's civil war is not a change of class, no matter who wins in the end, anyway, the country's comprehensive strength is greatly reduced, the population is decimated, there is no so-called real winner, in the overall and long-term, everyone loses.
A civil war on a limited scale? When the war really starts, it will not be so easy to stop.
It's hard to stop this kind of behavior, careerists are really common, it depends on whether there is strength to support it, can we still check those lords' staff and subordinates one by one? Don't let those noble lords get angry and try to improve their strength? Considering the general complete autonomy of the current feudal aristocracy, this is not possible even for the royal families of their own countries.
This is not the style of the devil, they come up and go straight to work, but they are like those devils who specialize in disgusting people, such a trick will not be effective in a short time, but if it drags on for a long time, it will weaken the entire human race.
Perhaps, it was the betrayal of some of the devil monarchs and the departure of the will of the abyss that made the remaining devil bosses also change their traditional way of standing in a neutral position in the holy war, and were eager to show their own position and ability.
Well, this is the other main quest I chose to stay in the Duchy of Sara, I originally planned to see who was behind that marquis, and if I could find out something, although there was little hope of catching the mastermind behind the line, but at least I could try, at least know that it was those bastards in the lower plane who were doing something.
"Tsk, the result is all out of order, and I actually encountered this incident, am I really the legendary Grim Reaper schoolboy? How could I be so unlucky when I got there. ”
"It's time to shout unlucky, it should be that Ta Ling, he almost succeeded in taking the position, if he hadn't met you, a hundred years of planning would have been in vain."
From this point of view, the Founder of Taling is also a great conspirator, at least a few hundred years ago, patiently waiting until the Holy War period to start the operation, using adventurers to take away important key pieces, and then triggering the War of the Dead to obliterate the key pieces, so as to gain the independence of the entire race.
But from the moment an accident happened, the conspiracy of the Undead Emperor and the Pioneer was already doomed to bankruptcy.
"The only mistake they made was to offend the protagonist! I! ”
“…… Are you sure that your protagonist's luck did it, not the calamity aura that you attached? Those 'reinforcements' look like they're here to hunt you down. ”
I was speechless, the undead catastrophe that would have caused terrible disasters and consequences was blocked, and the most critical turning point was that Amira came with the wood spirit, and the assault team here was able to handle it, thanks to Renee.
"Dead cat, if you don't vomit, will you really die?"
"Yes!"
And when I stared at the dead cat with big eyes, finally someone couldn't stand it.
"It's all strict, it's a war!"
Even though I'm reminding myself that it's a battlefield, it's really hard to get up.
The downward passage was opened, and the demons did come up, but Renee was stuck there, only to see silver swords flying, spears arcing, and ...... No more, flesh and sword light fly together, and I still haven't seen a complete demon look like.
"Renee is so combative, she's showing her progress, by the way, is this the sword skill you taught?"
"Tsk, this kind of sword skill that only orangutans can use, but I didn't teach it."
I'm not blind, how can I not see the style of this sword technique, I did teach Renee how to fight and techniques, but this one is so honest, using instinct and perception more than rational orangutan sword skills, only the simple and rough brain of Cavins would use it.
And while Renee's outburst was a surprise, I don't think those demons could pose a threat to Renee, and I could take the opportunity to be lazy and plan for the future.
Well, plan for the future, plan for the future of this relic, plan for the future of this huge legacy.
It seems to me that when Amira and her fleet arrive, and we get rid of the most troublesome "Heng", I don't think anyone will be able to let the duck fly away unless two more main gods suddenly jump out.
There are no treasure coins here that drive adventurers crazy, but the tattered ones that you encounter along the way are actually treasures that are a hundred times more than gold coins.
Maybe I'm not a qualified engineer, but at least I can guess a little bit about the evolution of a civilization from the creations and tools.
Self-disciplined machines, artificial souls, designs and constructions of all kinds of machines that have never been seen before, half-machine, half-undead creations, and spirit creatures that can imitate the fluctuations of other people's souls have surpassed the sum of all previous sage civilizations, and can be called a super harvest.
Just a special space that can communicate with other planes is extremely valuable to the Chaos side, and for us, it is naturally valuable.
If this news leaks out, it is predictable that it will trigger a more intense civil war in the Duchy of Sarah, and maybe some of the great powers will also find a reason to invade, and if they don't think about how to deal with it, it will be too late for the news to spread.
"Perhaps, it is safer to keep this gate and keep this relic in a state of 'war' all the time."
With so many thoughts and ghost ideas still hesitating in my mind, Caterina, the true orthodox owner of this ruin, walked up to me, as if she had something to say. (To be continued......)