Chapter 299: Bribery
The Mage Nation is strong? The answer is yes, although it is rated as a superpower, everyone knows that it is not a country at all, but a gathering place for countless mages, not to mention those countless middle and low-level mages, only those archmages who have obtained the emblem of endless truth, if these top mages all act together
Well, everyone knows that this is basically unlikely, after all, each individual mage has their own needs, has their own life goals and research topics, and it is unbelievable to want them to act collectively for a certain goal like a country, which is why the country of mages has been stuck here for so many years, and they lack the need to expand.
Expanding the territory and population? Don't be funny. There are only so many mages in us, ninety percent of the population can be put down in a city, and you have to hire people to grow food and maintain law and order.
Use the increased population to increase your country's mage base? No, we never care about the so-called nationality, nor do we need the so-called population base, as long as we are willing to abandon the boring life of mortals and choose the path of knowledge pursuit, we are our companions.
Permanent neutrality - Ain Rodant, it is not that this country remains neutral, but that most of the mages in this country as a single individual, they consciously choose neutrality, and this neutrality includes not only wars between countries, but even eternal holy wars.
They lack a liking for the gods of order, but they are also full of disgust for the evil gods of chaos, and it can be said that they only believe in themselves and only pursue magic and truth, which is the most likely to become the third party of jihad.
Of course, since most mages are human-born, it's not uncommon to be on the Order side. Let them go into battle. They have no soldiers. Anyway, those mages who have concerns and are willing to go to war can go on their own, and collective action will be avoided.
"It's a natural ally of ours."
But as mentioned earlier, when the whole Truth Seminar is an academic unit that is disgusted with politics, there is basically no point in forming an alliance or something, and a covenant that cannot be carried out to the end is no different from waste paper.
There is no shortage of careerists in history who want to borrow the powerful power of the Mage Country, but in the end, they are all the result of failure. Their slogans were louder and louder, but there were still very few responders.
But if I had to say it, it was that their ideas were too old-fashioned, and that they used conspiracy tactics such as forming alliances, inciting the people, and colluding with those in power meant nothing to the unusually disorderly structure of the country.
Personally, I still have some other opinions, we really can't form an alliance with this too loose country, after all, even if we have the support of some of the truth controllers, the loose mage organizations and individuals will not buy it, but if we think about it from another angle, we can completely buy each individual. As long as we buy enough mages, it is equivalent to the entire country of mages standing on our side.
Sounds incredible? How can you buy too many individuals alone? But it can actually be done.
How do you suddenly turn a former neutral into a staunch supporter of yours? The answer is simple. Just fill his purse with your gold coins, or simply throw an IOU of great value in his hands, so that the different interests of the two of you become one.
So, how do you bring two different forces and even two countries together? In fact, there is no difference in the answer, as long as they share the same interests, it is enough, for example, with one currency, with one language, there are zero tariffs between the two sides, and on many occasions the interests and positions are not separated, then they will naturally come together.
In the history books of a certain world, many countries have turned two countries into one country in this way, and a certain emperor through the ages also took the unification of "coins" and local dialects as the cornerstone of true unification.
Well, speaking of which, this method has come out, as long as two conditions are met, you can buy all the people, first, let everyone share the interests with you, and second, let them become your customers, friends, and even creditors, if these two are achieved, let them feel that they will lose money if they don't support you, they will naturally go to the thief ship.
Originally, I just planned a little, and then I reluctantly gave up, after all, the capital and financial resources required were simply astronomical, but a recent unexpected event made it possible to buy "all the mages in the entire mage country" to be realized.
"Justice Points, our top-of-the-line commodity, are only allowed to be bought and sold by Justice Points. And this is just the beginning, and our ultimate goal is for the entire Mage Nation to use Justice Points as the most important unit of currency. ”
I have self-confidence, years of accumulation and many forces behind me, my goods and treasure trove are enough to drive mages crazy, but this is only the beginning.
According to my plan, in the future, there will be more and more shops that settle with Justice Points, and the most important goal is still to get the vast majority of the entire Mage Nation to recognize the most valuable hard currency of Justice Points and actively participate in the action of earning Justice Points.
In this way, we will naturally have countless powerful "Contract Braves", and if a staggering number of mages chase justice points in World War II, the entire country of mages will gradually become our allies.
Of course, there are countless steps and tricks to achieve this goal, such as how to make Justice Points recognized as official currency, how to make many shops and mages use this currency, and how to make the major mage organizations sit back and watch this change happen, but I have the patience and confidence that I can take my time.
"Neutral? Soon, you will find that there is no neutrality in this war. This time, I definitely won't repeat the same mistakes. ”
The country of mages in "history" is not weaker than the current country of mages, but in the face of the changes in the whole world and the devastated land, they still choose to ignore the unfolding of this holy war and record it as a bystander.
Neutral as always, no, that is no longer to be described as neutral, proud, slow, indifferent, they have been able to ignore the occurrence of several cataclysmic wars that have swept the entire land, including the Plague of the Eternal Night, and this time, they can naturally watch it happen.
Even if the outside is dead and alive. But they still choose to live as normal in the Cloud Tower. Discuss the latest technological inventions and the rotten weather that is getting colder and colder. But when this war really swept the whole world, when they found that they had already found themselves in the situation, and it was already the end of the world, it was too late to act.
In fact, in that "history", it was not without the warning of the keen mage, and it was not the surveillance warfare without the heterotope that brought up the strange swarm movements of the heterogeneous creatures. But the various mage organizers have long come to the conclusion from past history and documents - it is nothing more than another race war that will last for two or three hundred years, and it is enough to leave it alone.
The arrogant mage finally tasted the bitter fruit, and when the situation was finally not right, and the whole mage was really mobilized to all the mages, the entire continent had already experienced countless wars, countless heterogeneous powerhouses had descended, the river Styx was already full of the souls of the dead, the demigod lords raised their blood cups in the apocalypse, and the demons and demons formed an army under the leadership of the evil gods, what could the "powerful" mages do.
"Sometimes. Neutrality seems to be the wrong choice, but it is also the most passive choice. The farthest option from the right. ”
Although I don't want to admit it, but in a sense, the conflict between the Baier Empire and the Mage Nation is indeed a good thing, at least he told these mages who live in high ivory towers that there is no complete peace in this world, and even if you stay at home, maybe a robber will suddenly break into the door and slap you.
I'm looking forward to the seminar for more than a month, what decisions the archmages will make when they return from the front, and the sudden forbidden spell attack, which is not at all a tradition in the country of mages, how I feel that it is a little sudden and incomprehensible, and there must be some interesting things that have not yet been revealed.
And what I'm going to do now is to forcibly wake up like this, the mystery of "justice points" and magic is the bait to involve them, and as long as they are in the game, there is enough base to feed back enough information, when the signs that represent ruin and chaos are placed on the conference table at the Truth Seminar, with the wisdom of this profession, how can I not find a problem, and then I will naturally have some more allies.
Having a hard time luring them in? The mage has no desire. Looked? How is it possible, I've always thought that seemingly calm mages are actually the best seduction. Confused profession.
"Greedy" Heloise is the most typical mage, her insatiable greed for the mysteries of magic is the silhouette of this profession, and soon, in the new issue of "Cloud Weekly", in addition to the introduction of our Garden of Thorns and new products, there is also a list of justice points, among which the mysteries of the ancients and the gods, but they are treasures that cannot be obtained by any means.
Nothing appeals to a mage's intellectual curiosity and greed more than the unknown, and will definitely make many people act immediately.
The ultimate goal is to alert the entire Mage Nation and act in advance.
But the meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, and there is no need to rush this kind of yang conspiracy that is completely placed under the sun, to pull the country of mages into this trouble, let's start with how to make this "thorn garden" bigger.
The consumer market for plant magic and its products is limited, and if you want to attract the attention of the entire Cloud Tower, it is not enough to rely on Emira's foundation, new products have been prepared, and I can also make a big profit by the way.
"Mechanized mage troops? There's something wrong with this style of art. ”――
Archmage Andri was very upset, as the vice president of the Sword of Order, as a person who takes the domestication of the strongest demon pet as his own responsibility. He had been away from his lovely room for so long that the clumsy apprentices didn't dare to go near the cages of the babies, and two of his pets had starved to death.
"I always feel that my baby is in a threat worse than starvation. It's strange, is there any danger in the Tower of the Clouds? ”
But looking at the sand and smoke in front of him, and the constant roar of dragons in the distance, he knew that now was not the time to think about it.
The forbidden spell has turned the area into a living hell in the lava field, and the vengeful Bair Dragon Knights have already arrived in two squads, and the surprise attack of the twelve dragon knights is very difficult to guard against.
But in fact, this is not a big problem, after all, there are four masters of the truth here, if they join forces and force the dragon knights of the Baier Empire to fight head-on, I am afraid that the problem will be solved quickly.
But the two sides are at an impasse, apparently for another reason.
The archmage of Ayin Roh didn't want to continue to escalate the war, let alone offend the dragon clan behind the dragon knights by killing the dragon, and what the dragon knights of Baier had done recently was also very strange.
Their patrols and raids are still the same, but they are not aggressive, and the largest scale of their breath is a dragon's breath, lighting up a few houses, which is obviously too light for the revenge-minded side.
"It feels like something constrained, and there's no intention of a full-blown escalation of the war. I don't understand. ”
But soon, he didn't have to worry about it, and a letter from the Cloud Tower arrived. (To be continued......)