Chapter 112: The City of Rain
AD1897, the summer of the year of the griffon, is destined to be remembered by many people.
Whether it was the beginning of the Eternal Holy War, the first year of the Sea Clan's appearance on the stage of history, or the birth year of the rain capital of Florshi, he was remembered by future generations, after all, there were too many major events that happened in this year.
From the beginning, everyone, including me, underestimated the Sea Clan, and underestimated the Storm Lady and the Water Elemental God behind it.
The first priority to make an accurate judgment is to obtain comprehensive and truthful information, and the inhabitants of the ground know too little about the Sea Clan, and at the beginning of the Sea Tribe's invasion, even the most astute strategists can only make conservative judgments based on past experience and history.
"It should be just a small war, or maybe it's not even a war, it's just an attack on the coastal cities, after all, they can't go ashore at all, and they can't occupy our land, so can they win by killing all the creatures on the surface? Such a war is simply meaningless, as long as the sea tribe is still intelligent creatures, as long as our living space still cannot overlap, they cannot go ashore, we cannot enter the water, then the all-out war and war of aggression between each other is simply meaningless, let alone possible. ”
Wars between countries and nations are often in the interests of interests, whether it is the struggle for living space, the competition for land and resources, or just for the grudge of the leadership and the people's will and the long-cherished wish of the military, war may break out, but if the war is destined not to have enough benefits, or obviously pay more than the return, then the possibility of such a meaningless war breaking out is indeed low and can be ignored.
"The Sea Clan can't stay on the ground for a long time, they're just cannon fodder forced ashore by the Evil God Storm Lady, as long as it drags on for a long time. Sooner or later they will retreat. ”
And in this world. Even if the gods resolve. It is also impossible to be absolute, the gods accept the beliefs of all races from above, and also protect their followers according to their divine domains and priesthoods, but forcing everyone to devote themselves to a war that is 100% dead, but doomed to no gain, I am afraid, it is good to disobey the yang and yin, and it is possible to directly abandon the belief in the god and find a new god.
After all. This is not an absolute world completely ruled by monotheism, many gods are originally mortals, the distance between gods and mortals is not so far, gods need the support of mortals' beliefs, and weak mortal races also need the protection of gods.
This is also the fundamental reason why the Orlan Empire will make a passive delay decision, when the royal think tanks are patting their chests and using their lives to guarantee that the Sea Clan's offensive will be strong and strong, and sooner or later it will decline, which is just the beginning of the holy war.
As the think tanks have repeatedly emphasized the lack of ambition of the Sea Clan, what they really watch out for is when they force them to go ashore with the Chaos Evil Gods. The vast majority of Orlan officials ignore the immediate threat, and instead are still ambitious enough to devote their energy to calculating their own (vassal nations).
But actually. Since some of the sea tribes were able to go ashore, while almost no surface races could go into the water, the intelligence of the two sides was not equal, and Trixis, who had been away from the sea for several months, did not know that due to the revival of the water elemental god, the entire sea tribe world had undergone earth-shaking changes.
I'm afraid this has to start with the living environment of the Sea Clan.
In fact, although the ocean is incomparably open, it seems to have endless resources and living space, even if the combat power of the Sea Clan is generally not low, the life of the Sea Clan is actually much more difficult and miserable than that of the ground race.
The deep sea is extremely dangerous, not to mention the deadly low temperature and water pressure, those immeasurable sea trolls are the real masters of the sea, and can only survive in the shallow waters of the continental shelf, and the space that the sea tribes can live in is really limited.
However, the limited storage space has made them face a very real problem - food is always insufficient.
Countless schools of fish under the ocean? But in fact, hunting by the sky is extremely unreliable, there are indeed many fish, but most of them have the master, the deep sea can not go as mentioned earlier, but in fact, the fishery resources in the shallow sea are extremely limited, and after the ocean makes the planting industry a joke, after hunting alone is not enough to maintain daily life, the sea tribe has made grazing fish the only choice in order to maintain sufficient fishery resources around the settlement, and the herdsmen have a long tradition.
Fishery resources determine the number of members of the sea tribe, the number and strength of the sea tribe determine how much territory they can have for their own tribe fish to grow, herbivorous fish chase seagrass and seaweed, flesh fish chase and hunt other fish, and surface grazing, underwater artificial grazing will still reach the local natural balance is destroyed, when the fish population has negative growth, migration is inevitable.
In a sense, they are like the nomadic tribes of centaurs, except that centaurs graze cattle and sheep, chase water and grass, and they graze fish and chase tides.
The singing and talent of the kraken and mermaid to summon schools of fish seem extremely magical, but they are only tools formed in grazing fish, which are not much different from the whistles and whistles of shepherds, and the only ones who respond to their summons are their own schools of fish and ocean partners.
Grazing fish sounds fantastical and beautiful, but in fact it is a chore, chasing tides and aquatic plants requires a lot of experience, and the danger in migration is even greater, no one knows whether the next migration point will encounter sea monsters or hostile tribes, if it is unlucky, several consecutive migrations suffer heavy losses, and the tribe should also be dissolved.
The innate aggressiveness of the nomadic race has made many tribes part-time mercenaries and even robbers themselves, but on the other hand, the nomadic survival mode of the tribe is destined to lead to the fact that a relatively centralized feudal state will not be born, because as long as the number of tribes reaches a certain level, in order to compete for living space and limited resources, it will inevitably split and disintegrate.
There is no national capital, even the land cannot be limited, how can a feudal state based on land division be born, several large and medium-sized assembly points rich in resources in the shallow sea have limited the number of resident tribes, and they must be rotated every once in a while, and only the most powerful tribes can get a more comfortable life after winning the tribal competition.
No one can guarantee that they will not encounter an irresistible disaster and die tragically after the next migration, and a relatively stable settled life is the desire of the sea tribe from the bottom of their hearts. It is also the root cause of their envy and even hatred of the ground race.
"Why do those weak and timid ground creatures have a happy and stable daily life? And we don't even know where tomorrow will be. ”
Speaking of which. Since there must be interests and reasons for war, and it is necessary to make the extremely realistic Sea Clan desperately use this as cannon fodder, the benefits given by the water elemental god Ailos and the Storm Lady are already obvious.
A national capital, a city as a pedal to the new world, a holy place in the minds of all the Sea Clans, and after the national capital is determined, it is a kingdom, a kingdom that belongs to the Sea Clan's own kingdom.
The sea tribe is indeed inseparable from water. It is not possible to go ashore for a long time, but what if there is constant rain on that land and there is always water several meters deep on the ground? Then, the Sea Clan can live freely in the Water City, and only need to reserve part of the dry area outside the city as farmland, and enslave the ground race as farmers, and the surface kingdom belonging to the Sea Clan will be born.
Incredible? But in this world of magic and true gods, anything is possible, and storms and thunderstorms are the priesthood of the sea tribe's patron god, Lady Storm, and the water elemental god Ailos is a super expert in playing with water. Building an autonomous and circulating rain city is only something they can do.
In the original "History", the resurrected god of the ancient elements existed as the first world bosses. Each of them is almost a true god's existence, which is obviously beyond the processing power of the "player", so the almighty "administrator" god arranged a series of plot kills, so that these unlucky people who had just woken up died tragically at the hands of the aborigines and the "heroes chosen by fate", so that their subordinate elemental creatures became the training monsters of the "heroes".
There is still a difference between the real world and the virtual game that is imitated, in this world, there is no super god named "Game Administrator", and those rookies who are only a few levels or a dozen levels really encounter the weak ancient god who has just been resurrected, I am afraid that it is not the lucky God Butcher preaching, but the body and soul to offer supplements.
Therefore, except for the fire elemental god who is still unlucky to be at home, the other released elemental gods have begun to recover from a long dormant period, and how can they be willing to be lonely and forgotten, they are just not making a move, and making a move will inevitably change a qiē, some plots in the strategy are wrong from the beginning, and "history" and "fate" have been derailed from the beginning.
Before completely changing the huge interests of their own fate and that of their descendants, the attack of the Sea Clan was no longer a small fight in "history", it was a full-scale war and an exterminating war of aggression, and the Orlan Empire, which ignored the determination and strength of the other party, was still dreaming of a super empire, and did not realize that the catastrophe had reached the door.
At this time, a grand ceremony is being held on the ground, but in fact, a festival is also being held underwater, and the scale is even greater.
Somewhere at the bottom of the river in Kagersi City, under the cover of the magical mist, it was already a busy scene.
Hundreds of Sea Tribal elites served as guards without complaint, countless powerful Sea Clans gathered here, the arrogant and rude Naga royal clan was full of modest smiles, the irascible and irritable fierce sea beasts were put on silent hoods and chains that restrained their movements, and even the arrogant and murderous sea giants put down their rusty anchor weapons that never left them, and tried to bow their heads and disguise humility.
And to make these strong people bow their heads, only the stronger and the supreme beings are zài.
On top of the huge altar carved from colorful coral rock, there are two thrones carved with precious jade, one large and one small, the smaller one is hanging in the air, and the other is a white-skinned ice beauty, her form is half human and half fish, the upper body is humanoid, but she drags a long tail like a sea dragon.
Although she looks petite and beautiful compared to the huge altar, she is still taller than the strongest sea giant, and looks far more luxurious and beautiful than the mermaid known as the sea royal family, and if you look closely, this water spirit beauty with scales and tail has a somewhat transparent complexion, and it is really made of water.
"Let's get started."
The voice of the water elemental god Ailos was cold with an inexplicable sense of weakness, the voice was not loud, but it sounded in the ears of all the sea tribes at the same time, this is not magic, but just the river is conveying the will of their king, this is underwater, this is her world, she has endless power and supreme power.
And with the will of Aeros being communicated, the festival officially begins.
With a touch of Aeros' jade-like fingers, the door of the void was opened, on the other side. It's the water elemental plane. That's Airos' hometown. It's her kingdom.
Countless water elementals poured out, and just after ascending the altar, they turned into pure water in a sway, while the nourished coral altar slowly glowed.
Medium-sized water elementals, water elemental overseers, water elemental elders, and ancient water elementals are all powerful beings who take the initiative to turn into tributes, and elemental creatures are never afraid of life and death, and death is just a channel for them to return to their own world.
On the other side, one by one, the black-robed sea clan walked up to the altar. Carrying the Storm Emblem, they are the priests of the Storm Lady, and they have always held high status and prestige in the tribes because they can summon storms and set up waves to devour ships.
At this time, they were in high status, but they were just doing the same thing - walking up to the altar, picking up the ceremonial dagger, inserting it into their own hearts, and then falling down satisfied.
And by the time these esteemed Storm Priests had fallen one by one, there had been a shadow on the empty throne. She was just the size of a normal person, far less tall than Aylos on the side. But when any sea tribe saw her, they must have lowered their proud heads in trembling.
As a Chaos Evil God, although she is not well-known on the surface, like her fellow evil gods, Lady Storm is also willing to receive the blood sacrifice of believers, and her will has already come.
"Your soul will enter my divine domain, and your deeds will be sung by future generations."
With words of approval and praise, the god clone made more black-robed priests walk quickly onto the altar to compete for the opportunity to sacrifice themselves before the true god.
And as the sacrifices fell one by one, the phantom of the Storm Lady became more and more real, and with the advent of the true god clone, powerful storms and thunder began to appear in the sky above the river.
Like Airos, the blue-skinned Storm Lady also has the characteristics of the Sea Clan, and the moment she gradually turns into substance, the goddess of the Acute Child can't wait to start the catastrophe of the terrestrial creatures.
"Kagersi City? From then on, there was only the royal capital of the Sea Clan, the rain capital of Felloch. Go and take the kingdom of your dreams with your own hands, our people. ”
The will of the gods was conveyed in the storm, and the next moment, the majestic true god clone actually picked up a ritual dagger and inserted it into his heart, and when the doppelganger's will returned to the main body, it was already in the black storm divine power, turning into a tornado hurricane!
The self-sacrifice of the clone of the Storm True God may have caused the strength of the ontology to regress a lot, but this great gift that has just started the Holy War is destined to give the gods of order a headache.
At this moment, the top of the countless tornadoes and hurricanes had reached the sky, a new natural cycle was already being built, and the will of the water elemental god had been issued.
"I give the city the name of the city of Fellösi, the city of rain, within the limits of the city, the rain never stops, the waves are always with you, and the people of the rain will become the family of the water."
In the face of the endless storm, in the face of the power of the true God, the boundary between water and heaven has been broken, countless waves have been swept up into the sky to form new rain, a new natural cycle has been formed, and the strange thing is that the flood water of the whole city is rising, while the flood of the dock area that has been submerged is receding.
Soon, when all the floods remained at about one blade (about one meter), the rainstorm was much smaller, and the pale-faced Ailos, with the help of the Grand Duke of the Water Elemental, returned to the Water Elemental Plane through the spatial gate, and she was destined to go into sleep again after being overconsumed.
"According to the will of the Storm Empress, go and take our capital!"
The silent Kale Sea Dragon surfaced, the Sea Giants picked up their anchors, and the Naga began to prepare their spells.
"Hah, it's finally begun."
And on the river, the first time the Hydra Dragon Emperor Hydra, who had held back long enough, stepped into the city for the first time, causing the whole city to tremble.
Overwhelmed by the sudden rise of the flood and the rain and the waist-high floodwaters, the Oran defenders, overwhelmed by the strange celestial phenomena and floods, faced one of the toughest water battles ever.
"Dragon! Die! ”
Silver lightning pierced the sky, and one of the most advanced dragon heads of the nine-headed dragon was actually split directly, and green dragon blood spurted out, polluting the river with stench and rot.
"Ahhhh Damn butcher!! ”
When the mortals retreated in the face of the aggressive Sea Clan, it was the Heroic Spirit Basra who declared war first. (To be continued......)
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