Chapter 26: The Dice of the Gods
The City of Water, a city built on ancient ruins. It is the most prosperous commercial and tourist city in the entire Kingdom of Glasland, with nearly 100 ships docking every day. Here you can see a wide variety of cuisines, as well as ethnic groups from all over the world.
But lately, this thriving and beautiful city has been in a panic, and every morning the corpses of women appear in alleys and drains. Originally, after seeing the monsters of the Kingdom Knights entering to clean up the underground ruins, the residents were relieved.
But it didn't take long for the Kingdom Knights to escape from below with heavy losses. This news sent the entire Water City into even greater panic, and even thriving commerce was affected.
"Come and see! Apples just arrived this morning! β
"Grilled sausages! Super delicious grilled sausage! β
Ding Ding!
A man pushing a red cart shook the bell in his hand and shouted, "Come and see!" Ice desserts that are so sweet that your face will fall off your face, as long as you eat it once, you will definitely fall in love with it. β
After a while, a large group of children dragged their parents to the cart and begged them to buy them ice desserts.
"Mom! I'm going to have an iced dessert! A little girl said with a crying face
Her mother touched the little girl's head helplessly and said, "Didn't you eat it just now?" I can't eat anymore, eating too much will cause diarrhea. β
The little girl burst into tears instantly, but before her voice could be heard, it was covered by a sudden roar in the sky.
Click, click, click!
Five Falcon helicopter gunships flew over the Water City. The eyes of the residents of the entire city were attracted by these five huge iron birds.
"Could that be the legendary Eastern Xia Kingdom Flying Army?"
"I guess so, the huge black iron bird flying in the sky. I heard that one of these iron birds can rid a forest of all the monsters. β
"That's amazing!"
"Otherwise, I heard that near the edge towns in the east, all the monsters have been completely eliminated by the Eastern Xia Kingdom, causing all the adventurers over there to come here to take on the mission."
"It's hard to see so many adventurers all of a sudden, I thought they were all here to deal with underground monsters."
The research department has an increasing demand for monsters, and the range of hunting for the Falcon gunship is gradually expanding. The reputation of the Eastern Xia Kingdom was no longer limited to the upper echelons of the Kingdom of Glasland, and began to enter the eyes of the people at the bottom.
The people of the Kingdom of Glasland do not know much about the Eastern Xia Kingdom. Their impression of the Eastern Xia Kingdom was that it was powerful, an extremely powerful empire.
The monsters that were still raging in the Kingdom of Glasland some time ago began to disappear under the hunt of this empire's flying army.
The Temple of the Law, located in the middle of the Water City, is the headquarters of the Church of the Most High God.
Click, click, click!
Five helicopter gunships slowly landed in the square in front of the Temple of Law, and 100 soldiers walked down in an orderly manner, forming a phalanx of 20 people.
"Stand upright!"
Boom!
"Salute!"
All the soldiers put their left hand on their backs and beat their hearts with their right hands.
Bang!
After saluting, Xu Qin stretched out his right hand to the priest who was already waiting here, and said, "I am the leader of the Eastern Xia Kingdom United Squad, Xu Qin, hello." β
"Oh..... Oh hello. The goddess officer was a little frightened by the momentum of this group of soldiers, and shook Xu Qin's hand, "Please come with me, the Holy Maiden of the Sword has been waiting inside for a long time." β
Xu Qin ordered ten soldiers to enter the temple with him, and the Goblin Slayer and his party were also among them, they were also natives, and they might come in handy after a while.
The group followed the goddess into the temple of the law, walked through the corridor carved with various murals, and saw the sword saintess standing in the hall.
The Holy Maiden of the Sword, the one who presides over the laws of the western frontier, the archbishop beloved by the Most High God. Ten years ago, the resurrected Demon God King was eliminated, and he was a gold-level, second-ranked adventurer.
Not from the legendary brave, but from the supreme power of the folk.
When this information was just collected, it also made everyone in the intelligence department speechless for a while. It is simply outrageous that the laws of a country are not in the hands of the state, but in the hands of the church.
What is even more surprising, however, is that the laws enacted by the Church of the Most High God are not chaotic or have fallen into the hands of some people. It is very complete, fair and just, and even more perfect than the laws of modern society in some places.
For this phenomenon, the Eastern Xia Kingdom can only be said to be worthy of believing in the supreme god that symbolizes the law.
At the same time, Dongxia Kingdom also discovered that the career positioning of adventurers is very strange, and the upper and lower limits are simply outrageously high. The adventurers with the lowest limit even become ruffians and hooligans, and the upper limit reaches the top of society.
According to the intelligence, almost all the people in power on the side of the order, such as the king, the archbishop of the church, and the nobles, almost all of these top classes of society have been adventurers, not to mention the highest combat power: the brave, the sage, and the sword master are also adventurers.
The Eastern Xia Kingdom speculated that this could also be one of the influences of the gods, all of whom aspired to be adventurers when they were young.
"Allah? Who are you? The Holy Maiden of the Sword turned her head when she heard footsteps.
Everyone saw the appearance of the Sword Maiden, with long golden hair that was slightly curvy, a devilish figure, a black cloth tied around her eyes, and a long sword in the shape of a scale.
Seeing the dress of the Sword Saintess, in addition to the six Goblin Slayers, other soldiers, including Xu Qin, secretly complained: This dress is really....
This month was different, the soldiers of the Eastern Xia Kingdom were speechless because of the clothes of these church personnel. The Earth Mother God Cult and the male clergy were normal, and the women of the other churches were dressed in outrageous clothes, especially the Church of the Goddess of War.
Wearing a bikini to fight, this simply refreshes their world view, do you go to fight or go to shoot a photo album?
Of course, after the investigation of the Eastern Xia Kingdom, I got such a message, the less you dress, the stronger the miracle power you get from the goddess of war. The bikini is already a piece of clothing that can maximize the power of miracles without leaking a bit. All in all, this outfit is the best configuration for the Church of the Goddess of War.
Bang!
Xu Qin took two steps forward, gave a military salute to the Holy Maiden of the Sword and said, "Xu Qin, the leader of the Eastern Xia Kingdom United Squad, is here according to the commission. β
"It turned out to be all of you from the Eastern Xia Kingdom, I thought you would arrive in a few days, and I sincerely welcome you here." The Holy Maiden of the Sword said softly.
The two sides exchanged pleasantries and quickly got to the point.
"About a month and a half ago, the priestess who had been out from the temple late at night was found dead in an alley the next day. Her body was reportedly cut beyond recognition. β
Speaking of this, the expression of the Sword Saintess became very sad.
"Although the guards have since stepped up their patrols of the water capital, crime has not decreased, and the number of thefts and banditry, atrocities against women, and the disappearance of children is increasing."
"At this moment, an adventurer spotted a small figure attacking the woman, and then prevented it from being cut down, revealing that it was a goblin."
After a series of discussions, it was noted that the goblins were most likely hidden in the underground ruins of the Water Capital.
Xu Qin opened his mouth and asked, "Is there a map of the underground ruins?" β
"Yes," the Sword Saintess took out an ancient piece of parchment, spread it out, and handed it to Xu Qin. "This is a copy of the underground temple when it was first built."
"Thank you," Xu Qin took the parchment, then handed it to a soldier and said, "Sketch five copies." β
"Yes." The soldier took the parchment, sat down on the floor, took out paper, a pen, and a ruler from his backpack, and began to quickly transcribe the diagram.
Xu Qin turned his head and just wanted to find out more information, when he suddenly found that the Holy Maiden of the Sword was staring in a certain direction, and her eyes covered by the black cloth had been staring at a soldier.
"Your Excellency, what's wrong?" Xu Qin wondered.
"No, nothing?" The Holy Maiden of the Sword came back to her senses and waved her hand repeatedly, "Sorry, it's rude. β
From the look on her face just now, it was obvious that she cared about this soldier or not, or let him talk. Thinking of this, Xu Qin turned to the soldier and said, "Sergeant Okborg, you come to talk to the Holy Maiden of the Sword. β
"Yes!" The Goblin Slayer took two steps forward, and the Sword Maiden's expression began to be a little flustered, and at the same time became a little happy.
Seeing her reaction, Xu Qin couldn't help but touch his face, am I ugly?
At the same time, when the joint team was talking to the Sword Saintess, Xia Xuan, who was far away at the base, had not responded for more than half a month, and the system suddenly reacted.
[The system has been successfully integrated into the world]
γGoblin Slayer World Main Quest Phase 3 Startedγ
Clean up the underground ruins of the Water City.
Completion Reward: [Dice of the Gods] Eligibility.
Is the system successfully integrated into the world? Could it be that the system is going to change the main plot of Goblin Slayer, just because it is conducive to integrating into this world?
If that's the case, then it makes sense to explain why the system's missions are all related to the main character of Goblin Slayer, or the main story of Goblin Slayer.
Then Xia Xuan set his sights on the task reward.
Who is eligible to participate in Dice of the Gods? Is it true that if I complete the task, I can also roll that dice to train my own bravery?
If this is the case, it can quickly solve the only shortcoming of the Eastern Xia Kingdom, which does not have high-end single combat power.
I can even be a little more daring, instead of cultivating brave men with combat effectiveness, I use dice on scientists and let them quickly become great magicians.
If there is a group of top scientists of the Great Magician, the magic mecha plan of the Eastern Xia Kingdom will no longer be on paper, and even a test machine can be quickly created.
Thinking of this, Xia Xuan picked up the landline on the table.
"Gather the heads of each department and go to the conference room."
A few minutes later, the heads of the development plan gathered in the conference room again, this time for a two-hour meeting.
Everyone looked at Xia Xuan, who was sitting in the first seat, with puzzled eyes.
And so and so..... This and so on.....
After listening to his story, everyone was silent and couldn't speak to themselves for a long time. If it weren't for the years of literacy and the experience of this time, they might have jumped up and down with excitement and shouted hooray!
The front foot of the gods and goddesses they had just discussed, but they didn't expect the back foot to have the opportunity to participate in this game.
[The Dice of the Gods] can quickly cultivate a strong man, and for this medieval world, it may just be to cultivate a racial hero.
But for modern civilization, this means that high-end talents in various fields can be quickly cultivated. The horror of technological civilization is that as long as there is a genius, it can take off with a civilization
Just like Bel Kevin and An Pingyi in the Eastern Xia Kingdom now, the two of them are almost single-handedly leading the biology and physics forward. There are also Kirkburis of the Western Continent Alliance, Clive Maureen of Nanyang Kingdom, Edward Kleist of Northern Clary Kingdom, and Situ Qin of Southern Xia Kingdom, all of which are the same.
The six major countries in the world, except for the Eastern Xia Kingdom, all relied on a genius to lead science forward. It is precisely because of these geniuses that Yunxing's technology is changing with each passing day, and the world changes almost every eight years.
And now there's something that can quickly produce top geniuses, how can that not excite them!
"Ahem, in order to ensure the completion of this mission, Your Majesty recommends sending two hundred pioneers to the Water Capital, and two hundred pioneers wearing exoskeleton armor should be able to quickly clear the underground ruins." Zhang Zhiyuan, the head of biological research in another world, was the first to speak, breaking the silence.
The head of intelligence, Zhuoma Santana, added: "No, no, no, we should directly use the Kunpeng transport plane to parachute 5,000 soldiers there, and then conduct a carpet search below, and it is best to check the large thermal imager on the Falcon gunship and bring it down to make sure that no fish slip through the net." β
"Yes, in fact, planes, tanks, howitzers, rocket artillery, flamethrowers, shotguns can be carried." Zhao Dezhu, the person in charge of the arsenal, also spoke, "It's best to move the latest Dragon-16 high-explosive rocket launcher in our arsenal to move over, individual Gatling is indispensable." β
"In fact, you can transport a large excavator over and excavate it directly." Chris Cage, the head of logistics, came up with an even more outrageous approach.
At this time, Li Anguo, the head of the military, slapped the table: "It is recommended to have a nuclear explosion." β
Then the discussion became more and more intense, and what poisoning water attack and biological poison gas came out, and everyone was very afraid that this mission would fail.
In the end, the plan was finalized, using five transport planes and one Kunpeng transport plane, to send 30,000 troops around the water capital, including tanks, armored vehicles, Tianyan 30 rocket vehicles, and 100 Falcon gunships. The campaign was delivered in three phases.
Meanwhile, a dimly lit room remains beneath the Water Capital.
"Hahaha In the Eastern Xia Kingdom, I will kill these 100 soldiers today to relieve my hatred. The Shadow Demon Man, who was pale all over his body, let out a wanton laugh when 100 soldiers from the Eastern Xia Kingdom arrived.
"Humph!" A man in a black robe and hooded man who couldn't see his face clearly snorted coldly. "I hope you don't interfere with my plans."
"Don't be so nervous, just 100 soldiers of the Winter and Summer Kingdom, this time I have brought all my men here, and even I can provide the most powerful guarantee for your plan." Shadow Fiend reassured.
Last time, he was almost killed by the flying army of the Eastern Xia Kingdom, and this time he learned his lesson and fought them underground to see how their flying army came down.
"This time, I want to torture this group of soldiers of the Eastern Xia Kingdom, and it is best to get the production method of these alchemy weapons out of their mouths."
"I hope you won't be beaten by them again." The black-robed man obviously didn't believe the words of the Shadow Demon Man, after all, he was beaten by a few iron birds of the Eastern Xia Kingdom some time ago, and he almost gave it to them.
"Hmph, last time it was the terrain that was not in my favor. This time, in the dark and narrow terrain of the underground ruins, I could hit 100 of them with one hand. Not to mention that I brought all my subordinates this time, even if they come with 300 people, I am not afraid! β
What the Shadow Demon didn't know was that he was going to greet 30,000 people instead of 300,000 people.