Doge Louville is the supreme head of the "Viper Cross" in Bergen.

Since the end of last year's battle, the focus of the "Viper Cross" has gradually shifted to his subordinates - because of the covert support of the royal family and his efforts, the number of believers in the sect has finally not experienced a large-scale decline after the crisis, and as the biggest contributor, Louville has for a time gained more voice and has become the leader of a new force.

However, the strength of the sect is only useful within the sect after all, and in the end, the "Pit Viper Cross" is not yet to the point of confronting the "Rositic Cross". The cooperation with the royal family made Louvier very clear about what role he was playing now, so when Count Mirno walked into the meeting room, he immediately got up and saluted respectfully: "Count Milno, I heard of your summons, but I didn't dare to delay half a minute to come." ”

This is completely naked flattery, but Mirno is very fond of this, he waved his hand with a reserved expression: "Come on, come on, let you wait for so long is really not good for me to entertain, it just so happens that the subordinates of the territory gave me more than seventy sets of infantry armor, you see that I am not a person who likes to fight, so I will make up these things and take out a hundred sets as an apology, Lord Overseer, don't blame me." ”

Mirno completed another gift of resources while talking and laughing, and although it was a good thing for Bishop Louville, it also meant that he was completely in a "weak" position in this conversation - but he only shook his eyebrows, and said no more, and continued to sit respectfully on the sidelines, completely "waiting for the hair to fall".

When it is time to show weakness, it is absolutely not strong, and the old politicians naturally understand this truth.

"This time it's mainly Your Majesty that there are some things to deal with..."Count Mirno raised his hand, and the butler next to him immediately brought a few pieces of parchment, he took it and handed it to the other party, and continued: "The northwest of the kingdom is currently in some chaos, um... The main thing is that these two people are always jumping up and down, and His Majesty means to find an opportunity - to teach them a lesson. ”

As he said the word "lesson", Mirno's fingertips slid lightly down his throat, and the meaning was self-evident.

Louville knew that his trip would not be easy, and when he looked closely at the parchment, he saw that the target on it was an "acquaintance"—the portraits and materials of Roddy and Sodrore were all written on it.

This left the Overseer, who knew the details of Roddy, dumbfounded.

"I guess the 'Pit Viper Cross' shouldn't have a problem cleaning up these two guys, right?"

Count Mirnor's words were completely casually asked, after all, combined with the letter report he had just seen, Roddy and Sodrore should be the most inconspicuous new nobles, and in the eyes of the magnates of these kingdoms, they belonged to the scum who could not make a sound.

But Louville's reaction surprised him a little.

The Overseer frowned, and after thinking for a long time, he replied: "I think that to deal with that Baron Roddy, it is necessary to gather at least two squadrons of the 'Holy War Army' and hire some additional professional soldiers..."

"I think you're joking, Lord Overseer. ”

Mirno interrupted him with surprise on his face: "Your Majesty means to dispose of it silently, not to start a war." ”

Louville immediately realized that his attitude was not appropriate - he immediately changed his smile and said, "I'm sorry Lord Earl, I may have been a little sensitive because of the last war, heh... What I just thought was a bit wrong, but if you solve them, according to the information you gave, a special operations team can completely handle it. ”

That being said, he was thinking about how many more elites he needed to make sure it was safe...

Mirno nodded with satisfaction, and then asked seemingly casually, "These two people are quite close to that Duke Sally of Evta, I remember that you seem to have suffered a loss in Evta?"

Of course, this is nonsense, Mirno came to them because he knew that the "Viper Cross" had a grudge against Sally - and Louville naturally understood it, and immediately replied: "The Pope is very interested in the duke, so if you have the opportunity to meet her... We can't ask for it at the 'Pit Viper Cross'. ”

The two who seemed to hit it off immediately discussed specific countermeasures, but only they knew what they were thinking behind them...

February 23.

The city of Elson is now in full swing.

The central market already has a fixed market, and recently there are many more people in the city, and there is also an endless stream of caravans coming from afar, and there is a faint tendency to become a large trade distribution center.

It stands to reason that an empty city should be a 'ruin' in people's impressions, but thanks to the protection of this city by the "Time Barrier", the drainage and water supply system of Elson City is still in the perfect state of seven or eight hundred years ago - when the snow gradually melts, there is a hidden river running through the city, and reasonable planning and various "semi-automatic" facilities driven by magic crystals make the residents' lives far more convenient than any other city in the kingdom.

The city is divided into various areas, and the civilians can enjoy all-weather sunshine in the "residential area", while on the other side, the "arsenal" in the shadow of the city walls has been in full swing for more than half a month.

Sumps of timber brought back from the lumberyards outside the city are pushed into the furnaces, and the blacksmiths recruited from among the residents are trying to adapt to this "assembly line" forging method that disrupts the "blacksmith shop" industry, most of them are busy sweating, and the most advanced ones are whispering around a few drawings, like scientific researchers.

Similarly, the dragon skins, keels and other materials pulled back from Elsa Village also began to be further processed under the leadership of Suren Leather Craftsman, and in the "barracks", two veterans, Carter and Ruger, have become instructors for training recruits, and they are practicing the eggs of seventy or eighty recruits who have just been recruited all day long.

In contrast, the "Mage Zone" is unusually deserted.

After all, compared to the high elf civilization more than 700 years ago, there are really few "legal professionals" in the human world today - but although there are not many living people here, the shadow of "dead people" is not uncommon.

When Sodrol and the others were dealing with the forces of the undead Baron Belom, Akasha used a scroll to summon an army of 1,500 undead. After the battle, they have been assigned to protect the city, but as the population grew, most of these unseen spirits turned into the shadows, most of them were placed in the forests outside the city as secret sentinels, and the rest... They were all hidden in the mage area for Akasha to study slowly.

Since returning to the glacial plains, Akasha's strength has made great progress, especially after learning the two skill books given by Benjamin, she has learned a lot, and she has learned a lot - if she had changed to someone else, I am afraid that she would now be more refined in the "healing system" magic that she is best at, but Akasha is not a "fanatic believer" after all, after reading a top-level book such as "The Nature of Energy", her vision has changed dramatically.

Instead of focusing on the spells or divine spells of a particular faction, Akasha became more interested in what was behind those spells.

For example, right now, she is studying the "undead soldiers" in front of her.

Of course, Akasha didn't dare to do such a thing secretly, she specifically asked Roddy if it was inappropriate to do this, but she didn't think that Roddy's answer was very simple: "It's always people who kill people, not knives, as long as you don't think about being a lich, I will definitely not stop you from studying what you like." ”

With such a promise, Akasha dared to study the undead she had summoned openly, and indeed made many new discoveries-

The current batch of undead soldiers is very different from the product of ordinary "summoning of the dead": the undead soldiers usually summoned from graves or battlefields are often reduced in combat effectiveness because their bodies are mostly decomposed or mutilated. But these soldiers are completely different: because their original bodies are all complete shells after Turing's soul was seized in the "Time Barrier".

In other words, the bodies of these undead soldiers are almost indistinguishable from living people - the only difference is that they no longer have a heartbeat or breath.

"Call of the Necromancy" is the most important thing about the integrity of the material, and from any point of view, these undead soldiers should be considered "perfect" level works at the moment. Their muscle elasticity, body explosiveness, and limb flexibility are all complete to those shoddy zombie skeletons, and their own combat level is basic level 17, which is already stronger than the elite troops in the kingdom's army in terms of attributes.

However, their shortcomings are also obvious: Akasha cannot give complex orders, otherwise these soldiers without logical ability will not be able to do it at all - even if they give the order to "attack", their combat methods are mostly instinctive and unskillful.

And the "topic" of Akasha's research is: Can these soldiers be made smarter?

Necromancers don't think about this because they tend to use higher-level "summoning" and "summoning materials" - make the skeletons smarter? Sorry, skeletons are skeletons after all, and it doesn't make a difference whether a smart skeleton or a zombie looks at it.

Of course, Akasha didn't expect to be able to solve this spell bottleneck anytime soon, but as the first "half-necromancer" to be the "Holy Priest", her thinking was unimaginable to any necromancer...

If I bless the undead soldier with a magic buff, will it be useful?

Of course, the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. During this time, she has directly "purified" five undead soldiers with divine magic...

"Still not quite right. ”

After the divine light burned the undead in front of her again, Akasha frowned and stopped trying. She felt as if she had reached a dead end, so she simply stopped experimenting, thinking about something else and distracting.

Looking at the hundreds of silent undead soldiers standing outside the laboratory, Akasha felt that the atmosphere here was really a little panicked, and she got up and prepared to bask in the sun, but after walking not far away, her footsteps suddenly stopped.

"This is..."

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