152. Serena and Kane
The war in the forest has been going on for more than two months.
The bloods, werewolves, and spider demons have gradually changed from their initial concern to attention, and then to their indifference now. It's not that they don't really want to care and pay attention, it's because they really don't have the energy to continue to care about other battlefields.
The Bloodline fought a beautiful counterattack a week ago, so that the situation that was gradually declining was not only completely stabilized, but even the situation began to become delicate, and the victory scale had begun to tilt towards the side of the Bloodline. Of course, the accumulation of victories that would evolve into such a situation was inextricably linked to the fact that the Bloodline had hired a large number of Spider Demon legions to join the battlefield from the beginning, but more often than not, it was the desperate and powerful raid of the Giovanni clan a week ago.
The name of this tyrant is not just spread among the bloodline.
According to rumors, the tyrant seems to have been busy negotiating with the Lesemba clan and therefore did not enter the battlefield. And at this moment, with the tyrant officially leading his personal guard to join the main battlefield in the southeast, the rout of the werewolf tribal alliance further shows that the future king of the Giovanni clan is not as brutal as rumored.
Leaving aside the war-torn tripartite battlefield, the actual situation of the forest is not really true that no one will care.
For example, the Demon Spawn.
This coward, driven from the surface to the ground at the end of the Twilight Age, is now watching the battle situation in the Forest.
Unlike the spider demon army, which can be active on various battlefields, the demon descendants are destined to be difficult to fight any frontal war because of their own racial nature - not to mention the low fertility rate, only being active in the dark environment is enough to make more than 90% of the demon descendants unable to appear on any frontal battlefield, after all, there is no race in the underground world that does not have night vision, so unlike the surface world, night raid wars can often be won a lot, Launching a night raid in the underworld, it was purely the commander's brain, which was crushed by the door panels.
But even so, the Demon Descendants still have a large employment market in the Underworld.
There is no other reason.
Assassination techniques are at their peak.
Any lone demon descendant who can leave the inherent territory of the demon clan must be a master above the viscount rank, and there are even first-class powerhouses at the earl rank. These demons may not be able to fight alone, but if they are allowed to use their unique skills in a favorable space, then even the powerhouses of the earl rank or even the marquis rank will die with hatred if they are not careful.
Of course, the Demonborn's natural abilities are not limited to assassination skills.
Tracking enemy tracks, spying on intelligence, etc., is also one of the abilities that the demons are good at. And this is also the fundamental reason why the Blood Elves, the Eternal Night, and the Avengers are willing to pay a lot of money to hire the Demon Descendants: the coalition forces that know the Forest of Knowers have been lost inside the Forest of Knowers for more than a month, and this kind of thing is a joke when it gets out.
Have you ever seen someone who would get lost in their own home?
And even if you get lost in your own home, you can't even find your own room, it's not as simple as a joke.
The Negesis and Eternal Night, who are well versed in the Forest, are tasked with sniping the Dark Elves of the Reformers, as well as finding their own legions and high-ups. Because the Dark Elves of the Avengers and the Eternal Night are convinced that this time, everything from attacking the young patriarch of the Kasetton tribe, to looting the life crystal nucleus of the Blood Elves, to luring them into joining forces, is a trap against them.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain why their coalition forces lost contact with their parties as soon as they attacked, and the Reform Party actually took advantage of this time to carry out extremely frantic counterattacks. In just two months, more than thirty tribes of the Avengers and Eternal Nights have been destroyed, and the defeated tribes have hardly left prisoners of war - the reason for this is that all the young and middle-aged Dark Elves who are unwilling to surrender are killed on the spot, leaving nothing alive.
In desperation, both the Eternal Night Party and the Avenger Party could only adopt the turtle tactics that the Reform Party had done in the pastβto gather all the people of all the tribes together and to concentrate all the forces to resist the continued encroachment of the Reform Party's forces.
It's just a pity that neither the Eternal Night nor the Avengers ever thought that they would one day be forced into such a situation, so they simply don't have a large stronghold that can accommodate so many people. Not to mention, the Eternal Night and the Revengeance Party are not like the Reformers, who have smashed all the top positions into a costly war, so even if the two Dark Elf forces try to emulate the Reformers' tortoise tactics, their differences of opinion make it difficult for them to form a unified voice.
The internal chaos has led to large-scale law and order problems, which, combined with other disputes and conflicts, have almost tossed the top of the Eternal Night and the Avengeance Party into a miasma of smoke and chaos.
This made the Eternal Night Party and the Vengeance Party, who were accustomed to the character of the hegemon, quite tired and distressed.
However, it is not only the Eternal Night and the Avengers who are also in a state of distress.
Blood elves and demons are also distressed.
The scale of the blood elves' dispatch this time is very large, and almost all of them are elite divisions, although they are nominally under the banner of revenge, but in fact, they also have the intention of annexing the avenging party and then subduing the eternal night party. For this reason, they even gave up the strategic plan of invading the territory of the Blood Clan, and instead transferred back all the troops deployed on the border between the Blood Clan and the Blood Elves, after all, the current situation of the Blood Clan is also very dangerous.
But who would have thought that in the past two months, the danger and trouble of the blood clan have temporarily subsided, and their blood elves are in a predicament - if the army sent into the forest of deep knowledge is too depleted, then this will be a great disaster for the blood elves, after all, their fertility is even lower than that of the demon descendants, and they don't have a thousand years to recover.
As for the Demons, their distress is even simpler.
The Forest of Profound Knowledge is like a bottomless black hole at the moment, devouring all the Demon Descendants sent into the Forest of Profound Knowledge - all the Demon Descendants who enter the Forest of Deep Knowledge have lost contact with their clansmen, no matter what kind of communication method they have, all of them have lost their use.
It's no wonder that the Demon Spawn is so nervous and distressed.
In fact, the entire Forest of Profound Knowledge is completely within the reach of Imoku's "Dimensional Interference" ability.
Until the end of the war in the Jungle of Knowledge, unless they are the top powerhouses who can keep up with Imrakul, it will be impossible for anyone who enters the Forest of Familiarity to have any contact with the outside world. will even be pulled by the rules unique to Imoku, so that he will finally appear in front of Imoku, as for whether the person who appears in front of Imoku is alive or dead, it depends on Imoku's mood or Sean's meaning.
But so far, there have been hundreds of demon-descended assassins who have died at the hands of Imoku, almost reaching an average of two figures a day.
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Serena looked at the Familiar Forest's panel map, which was covered by nearly a fifth of the blue color representing the Reformist's sphere of influence. You see, two months ago, the area of influence of the Reform Party was about one percent of the area of influence - just a dot on the map to prove that the Reform Party still existed.
But now, the Blood Elves are unable to reach - the Blood Clan has already gained the upper hand in the war against the Werewolves, and the Blood Elves have previously exhausted the forces deployed on the Blood Clan's borders, and now they have to worry about whether the Blood Clan will simply attack them after repelling the Werewolves. After all, compared to werewolves, the Blood Elves undoubtedly belong to the category of soft persimmons - at least, at this moment when the elite army of the Blood Elves is completely mired in the Forest of Profound Knowledge, they are indeed soft persimmons.
Therefore, the war of the Forest can only rely on the strength of the Eternal Night and the Avengers themselves.
But the current result is that both the Eternal Night and the Avengers are unable to protect themselves, and the communication scouts are sent out one by one, and they have no way of knowing the specific situation of their own army. The only thing that could give them some comfort was that with all the scattered tribes brought together, the dark elves of the Reformist forces did not dare to attack them openly.
The numerical inferiority has always been the fundamental principle that cannot be reversed by the Reform Party.
At this moment, Serena was thinking about how to break the alliance between the Avengers and the Eternal Night as soon as possible.
But helplessly, even Serena didn't have any good way at all.
Although Serena has sworn allegiance to Sean, she has killed many dark elves, and Serena's name as the "Blood Queen" is not for nothing, for her, war has always been a numbers game, and in the Reformers, who are severely lacking in soldiers and population, Rotikabas does not dare to give up command to Serena. Therefore, she can only do work like a staff officer.
In layman's terms, it is to use her despicable and shameless character to give advice.
Of course, compared to the despicable and shameless aspect, Sean and her are not far behind, after all, both of them belong to the type that does not pay much attention to the rules. As long as the opportunity is right and there are enough benefits, neither of them minds having a hand in the shadows. It's just that Sean is more disciplined than Serena, at least he won't be an ally, but Selena can even bite back when she turns around as long as she gives enough benefits.
Therefore, Sean will take into account the interests of Rhoti Kabas and abandon some measures that may harm the interests of the Reform Party. And Serena will not have this burden, after all, she and Rotikabas do not have any friendship at all, relatively speaking, Rotikabas even has a lot of hostility towards Serena.
It is precisely because of this that it is undoubtedly more suitable for Serena to serve as the adviser and formulator of the counteroffensive plan of the Reform Party. As for Sean and Rotikabas, the two are in charge of the work of the vanguard: Serena gives the battle order, while Rottikabas and Sean are in charge of execution, anyway, Serena only wants the result, and she doesn't ask how the process will be solved.
Although Rhotikabbas prefers that Sean is responsible for the affairs of this kind of combat order, after all, he has seen Sean's command ability, but Sean insists on going to the front line in person, and it is not easy for Rottikabas to continue to persuade him.
"Do you think of a solution?" Kane looked at Serena, who was frowning, and asked.
"Nope." Serena replied dryly.
She knew what it meant for Sean to keep Kane with her, but Serena didn't care. Anyway, she signed the soul contract, what else did she need to care about?
"Oh." Kane answered, and then there was no more.
On the contrary, Serena, as if she had suddenly found some new fun, suddenly turned her head to look at Kane, and said with a smile: "Why don't we talk about you during the current break." β
"Do we have a break here?" Kane was stunned for a moment, "Why didn't I know?" β
"Oh, I just made it." Serena said with a look of course, "So back to the topic, why does Sean trust you so much?" β
"Because I will never betray him." Kane spoke without hesitation.
"Really?" Serena smiled, "Even if you become the new king of the Giovanni clan and hold supreme power, you won't betray him when you experience the power that can decide the life and death of a clan with a single word?" β
"I will not forget who gave me today." Kane glanced at Serena, his tone still indifferent.
"I don't believe Sean has such a good heart, you don't know him at all." Serena said with some resentment, but soon she realized her gaffe and couldn't help but glance at Kane, "Sooner or later, he will also ask you to sign a soul contract with him." Don't forget, he's from the surface world, and you're not. β
"Then I don't care." Kane shrugged.
He really didn't care whether he wanted to sign a soul contract with Sean at all, because from the beginning, he was at the bottom of the entire blood society, and almost as long as he was a normal blood clan, he could bully him. But after only staying by Sean's side for less than half a year, he has transformed into a powerhouse of the earl rank, and he is not far from the marquis, and according to Sean's plan, his future achievements will definitely not stop at the duke.
Therefore, let alone signing a soul contract, even if he gives his soul to Sean, Kane will not frown.
After all, he is different from Serena, unlike Serena, who has shown amazing natural abilities since she was a child, and has many things that other bloodlines may not be able to have in her lifetime.
"Whether you really don't care or not, time will tell." Serena clearly didn't like Kane's attitude, "Let's wait and see. β
"At least I'm not required to sign a soul contract to be allowed to move freely." Kane is not the only Kane of the year, at least in the past eight months, his mentality has kept up with the changes in his strength.
Serena was so angry by Kane's obvious irritating remarks that she didn't have the awe-inspiring temperament of the Scarlet Queen in the past: "It turns out that I am much more valuable than you!" So now it's me, not you, who is sitting here calling the shots. β
"Then I wasn't asked to sign a soul contract." Kane said it differently, but the meaning remained the same.
"With your strength, I can fight a hundred by myself." Serena sneered, "When you catch up with me, I don't know when it will be." Becoming the new king of the Giovanni clan, Sean is simply telling jokes! β
"But I don't need to sign a soul contract."
"So it turns out that you're a good-for-nothing piece of shit!"
"Yes, but I just don't need to sign a soul contract."
ββ¦β¦ Ah, I'm! "In terms of cheekiness and shame, even though Serena can be as despicable and shameless as Sean, hiding a knife in her smile, but after all, being in a high position has developed a habit of being high, how can she be compared with Kane, who was born at the bottom and can already be said to be humiliated and scoundrel, "What else would you say besides this?" β
"I want to think about it." Kane really thought about Serena's question, but he found that his help to Sean was indeed very limited, "You believe that I will betray Lord Sean, and I took Lord Sean to capture him alive." β¦β¦ Does this count as a merit? β
"......" Serena's face was as if she had been poisoned, changing very quickly, sometimes red and sometimes white, and even biting her lip deadly, if the killing intent exuded by those bright beautiful eyes could become substance, I am afraid that Kane would have died more than ten thousand times, "You better go back to the soul contract." β
"Oh." Kane nodded, "So I don't need to sign a soul contract at all." β
Serena's face was depressed, and her heart was even filled with a sense of powerlessness: I was actually planted in this kind of white. Idiot hands!
But no matter how strong the dissatisfaction in her heart is, Serena is a real strong person after all, and she still disdains to do such a thing as venting her anger on the weak. Especially now that Kane is in the same camp relationship with her no matter what he says, especially if Kane can really become the king of the Giovanni clan in the future, then the two of them will be a natural ally.
And no matter how Serena mocks it now, she knows very well that if Sean really intends to help Kane become the king of the Giovanni clan, with his own help, the success rate will definitely not be less than eighty percent.
From this alone, Serena would not have had an unpleasant quarrel with her future ally.
It seemed that the atmosphere was not very good, Kane thought about it, and finally remembered what Sean had said to him, and asked him to learn more from Serena, after all, he would be the king of an entire clan in the future, so he still asked: "Lord Serena, I don't understand Lord Sean's plan a little." β
"What are you going to do?" Serena said angrily.
"We could have gotten rid of all of them, but why does Lord Sean have to play a game of cat and mouse like he does now?" Kane asked, puzzled, "And you're going to find a way to break up the alliance between the Eternal Nights and the Avengers." β¦β¦ Wouldn't it be quicker if Imoku-sama had been asked to intervene directly? β
Serena glanced at Kane, then returned her gaze to the map, "That's because Sean wants to push Roticabas to the throne of the Dark Elves." And with the current situation of the Reform Party, even if Rhotikabas unifies the entire Forest of Profound Knowledge and becomes the king of the Dark Elves, then he will fall into a situation where there are no available soldiers, and it will be impossible to wait until the Dark Elf race fully recovers, without more than a thousand years. β
"It's only a thousand years......"
"Yes, only a thousand years." Serena nodded, "But this time is not a problem for us, but for Sean, it is a big problem." β¦β¦ He didn't have that much time to wait here slowly, so I said, you don't know Sean at all, and you don't know 'Sean. The meaning of the name Connery' in the surface world. β
"You...... Can you tell me about it? β
Serena glanced at Kane, perhaps out of consideration for not being too ignorant of her future allies, so even though she was so angry just now, she finally sighed softly, and then spoke: "The history of the surface world, in those stories brought by pointy ears and refugees, I think you should also know something, right?" β
Pointed ears naturally refer to dark elves and blood elves.
Refugees, on the other hand, refer to the Demon Descendants.
The arrival of these three races not only reshuffles the power structure of the entire underworld, but also brings about the history of the earth's surface: from the Dawn Age to the Twilight Age, and then from the Twilight Age to the Ash Age. And it is precisely because of the influx of this information and intelligence that there were two wars of the underground world invading the surface world in the later chaotic era, but unfortunately, the completely different nature of the underground and the surface of the world, which is like two sides of the coin, led to the disastrous defeat of the underground expeditionary force.
Of course, the inhabitants of the underworld did not know that it was precisely because of the failure and attrition of these two expeditions that the surface world ended that era of chaos and stabilized the power structure of the entire surface world.
After that, the underworld and the surface world finally have an interconnected connection, so the underworld is no longer ignorant of some developments and changes in the surface world.
From dawn to dusk to ashes, this is the recognized era of apocalypse.
This was followed by the era of chaos in the New Era and the era of order that followed.
These five eras illustrate the history of the plane of the entire Miracle Continent for hundreds of thousands of years.
However, compared to the surface world, only those historical researchers will delve into these things, and the underground world is a group of long-lived guys, so they have nothing to do, so they have set a rule for future generations: they must be familiar with the history of the development of the surface and the underground world.
After seeing Kane nodding to indicate what she was asking in question, Serena took a deep breath and then whispered, "Sean. The name Connally, in the surface world, represents a meaning that is already equated with the new era. Because he ushered in a whole new era, an era that belonged only to the strong. β¦β¦ Now that he's in the Underworld, I hate to admit it, but now I have to say that we're probably lucky enough to be part of the birth of a new era in the Underworld. (To be continued.) )