Chapter 444: Playing Chess

Nangong Rong's speculation was not unreasonable, although the boy did not list any evidence, but only in this way could he explain why the enemy was able to easily dispatch such a large number of aircraft, so Octavir quickly chose to believe it. As for the encounter between the two sides, it is not some kind of coincidence, there is a saying that the gun shoots the first bird, and if the eldest princess plans to do something to the lords and nobles, she will definitely take the one who dances the most firstβ€”in fact, she does itβ€”so even if the news does not leak, the girl's actions can still be predicted by the other party.

It would be a serious problem if someone had quietly and covertly united these seemingly fragmented careerists, and had put out a jumping clown in the foreground to attract the attention of the royal family and its supporters, and then secretly prepared for a massive military campaign without anyone noticing. The situation in which the empire is dominated by the royal family is simply an illusion, and at the same time, most of the troops are used to deal with the abyss, and the remaining troops are completely insufficient to resist the joint attack of the other side.

As for Octavier's plan to use a few elites at a very fast speed to defeat each of them without giving the other party any time to react, it is impossible to talk about it, the biggest prerequisite for the eldest princess's battle this time: the enemy is like a plate of scattered sand before joining forces, this matter is not valid from the beginning, and they directly collide with the main force gathered by the other party.

"It's calculated!" Octavir couldn't help but rub his forehead and sighed in annoyance, "The other party has been waiting for the opportunity for the Empire and the Abyss to fight on the front line, and the action that I mobilized the elite knights directly under the royal family today to deal with the destabilizing factors in the rear before the Abyss can do anything has become the fuse?

The question of who the leader of the other party was, so bothered Octavir that he could hardly think about anything else. At this moment, the faces and names of many people who did not deal with her appeared in the girl's head, and they were constantly changing like marquees, but they were never determined, all of them looked like they were thinking carefully and impossible.

Nangong Rong, who was not very familiar with the various aristocratic bigwigs in the country, wanted to help analyze it, but he couldn't start, so he had to look at the eldest princess with a little distress, tossing her hair hard, and posing with a sad face;

"I say, could it be the abyss? Those guys used to control the heads of several countries by infiltrating during the invasion of us, and finally took those countries with great ease almost without a fight, maybe they used similar methods here?"

"It seems to make some sense, but it won't infect so many people, right?" Octavier didn't easily accept Lin Weiyin's statement, but frowned and analyzed it extremely cautiously, "I have also read the aftermath report of what you said, and the main reason why the abyss succeeded was because you had not yet found a way to prevent infection at that time. But the Razfeld plane is different, and we have magic like danger detection. It is still possible for the abyss to infect one or two people, and it is possible to bring absolutely most of the lords and nobles under the control and quietly form a union or something, no matter how you think about it, it doesn't feel reliable, right?"

The eldest princess is right, there is no point in just controlling a few people, and it is not something that a few people can take the lead to promote this kind of thing by letting many careerists gather and join forces;

However, Lin Weiyin had a different opinion on this, she tilted her head and retorted very suspiciously: "Why do you have to control it, even the melon-eating masses like me know that what those careerists are most disgusted with is to become a puppet who can only unconditionally obey other people's orders, and the abyss should also know it." So, since the stick has been wielded in this plane, it's time to give the sweet dates next, right?"

Thinking of what he had seen and heard in the elven family's hometown, Octavir couldn't sit still anymore, and jumped straight up with a swish: "Are you saying that the abyss has exchanged some benefits for the refuge of those who only have their own interests in their eyes!?"

Well, there are many benefits that the other party can give, and there is one of them that most people who enjoy glory and wealth are basically unable to refuse. When the little girl said this, she suddenly pinched the bridge of her nose and put on a crying and laughing expression, "In fact, they recently used this advantage to try to win over an official in a key position in the military in my hometown, but the latter did not agree and reported the details of the matter to his superiors, and this is what everyone knows." ”

That kind of thing Nangong Rong and Octavier didn't know, it was probably mentioned by Lin Weiyin when she was chatting with Mira and Disya yesterday, and the eldest princess asked even more curiously: "What kind of benefits does the abyss have?"

"Transform the body, strengthen the physique, put an end to the plague of disease, and obtain a lifespan far beyond that of normal humans. Don't doubt that the Abyss can definitely do this, or have you forgotten the healing ability of the other party that is almost exaggerated for ordinary firearms, swords, and other weapons because of the number of monsters that have been dropped in seconds lately?"

Recently, in addition to facing the boss, it seems that when fighting miscellaneous fish, it seems that he is indeed using the unequaled lawn mowing mode to use all kinds of seconds and seconds of air, and the eldest princess couldn't help scratching her cheeks with a little embarrassment when she heard this, and changed the topic with a haha: "It doesn't matter what that kind of thing is, anyway, the final goal is to kill the monster." After all, it was a shame that the official was able to make up his mind to refuse, but he gave up an unknown number of years of life. ”

"It should be said that the luck of the abyss is not good, although the official seems to be a very standard tiger with a high and powerful family, and has collected a lot of money, but in fact, he fled from his hometown a long time ago, and now his family is reorganized, and he used to have a wife and daughter in his hometown, but they all died at the hands of the abyss monsters. His hatred and hostility towards the abyss never stopped, but he usually hid it well in his heart, and the money he collected did not even use a single coin, but was all stored in the vault, ready to be donated for the blood transfusion of the troops in case the military suffered a great loss in the war. In his words, if you don't take it yourself, someone else will take it anyway, so it is more appropriate for him to take over and save it than to waste it in vain. ”

It is naturally impossible for a person whose mind is dominated by anger and hatred to reason well with the abyss, and the abyss himself can only be blamed for not carefully investigating before making contact with the other party, and only seeing the surface of his disguise, and then ...... There is no then.

But people like this one who dare to give up their lifespan and bright future to fight the abyss to the end are very few after all, at least Octavier doesn't think that the careerists within the empire will have the courage to refuse the temptation to increase their lifespan by hundreds or thousands of years.

They may never be able to realize their greatest ambition to kill other competitors and dominate the entire empire and even the entire world, but as long as the abyss has a promise not to move their respective territories to ensure their own interests, and even after conquering the area controlled by the royal family, it will naturally matter what kind of ambition is in the face of the long lifespan of far beyond normal humans.

The joint efforts of the lords and nobles, although it may not be effective if people take the lead in promoting, but what if the lead promoter is not human? Octaviel, who jumped out of his limited thinking, only felt that his head was big, but he couldn't find the slightest reason to deny it, after all, seeing that the abyss was about to launch an operation on the Razfield plane, at this time, the aristocratic alliance suddenly rushed to the eldest princess and the others before they broke out.

"Hell, I thought that the abyss had been suppressed in the territory of the alliance and couldn't get out, but I didn't expect them to be playing such a big game of chess all the time. Octavir sighed with a defeated expression on her face and sighed with remorse, "What a mistake, completely ignoring the possibility of contact and collusion between the abyss and those nobles, and I brought this situation on my own face today." ”

"No matter how much you sigh, it won't help, the most important thing now is to think about how to meet the enemy, right?" Nangong Rong said and turned his head to look at the cheap sister not far away, "In order to gain air superiority, it is indeed the right choice for Weiyin to equip the air combat suit, how about you go with her to drive a wave of Musou mode, Tavier?" Hundreds of planes sound scary, but they are all powered by propellers, and they are not equipped with missiles, so it is impossible to pose any threat to you, and you are no different from swatting flies when you hit each other. ”

This flying city is a paper tiger with only an appearance, of course, Nangong Rong can also choose to increase the investment of energy to turn it into dry goods, but now that the abyss has not directly shown its face, the young man will naturally not easily waste his strength. It's more appropriate to let two girls play seven in and seven out here, after all, the current enemy is still a force composed of humans, and they regret falling into chaos after receiving strong blows and huge losses, and they will not unconditionally execute the onboard charge like the abyss monsters, no matter how big the casualties are, how chaotic the formation.

In other words, the purpose is to defeat the enemy army, and the total annihilation is completely ignored. Anyway, as long as the group of planes is dispersed, Nangong Rong and the others in the sky will not go wherever they want? If the troops move on the ground roads under normal circumstances, such a large-scale air raid will definitely cause unimaginable casualties, and the enemy is determined to completely wipe out this force, but now......

"Even if you hit a fly and wave it hundreds of times, you will be tired, okay?" Lin Weiyin walked towards the door with an unhappy face when she heard this, perfectly explaining to the world what it means to be unhappy but honest, "And there is a second wave or even more behind, I can't take care of it." Ernie-chan, are you ready for the anti-air artillery, or are you finally tempted to really start playing as the Great Demon King and unleashing countless gargoyles from the castle to meet them?"

It seems quite touching to use a gargoyle to meet a propeller plane, but Nangong Rong just thought about it a little and then decisively shook his head and denied it: "No, if you really want to get the gargoyle out, I always feel that I can't help but put on an evening dress and tie a black cloak, standing on the roof of the palace and posing handsomely, saying something that is completely incomprehensible, and it is very likely that I will be treated by Sister Saori for 2 minutes and 16 seconds, and finally lose all the discipline and shame and look completely broken, so forget it." ”

"Sure, you're already in need of a face for the second treasure now. Let me, who is a little bit more, do you?"

The young man decisively ignored the cheap sister who tilted his head sideways and deliberately sold the cute, and instead focused on Octavier's body: "Don't pay attention to the daily cute, there should be some magicians in your army, is it feasible to gather them together and use them like the elves' phalanx troops?"

Those sharp-eared mage phalanx troops were able to blind their eyes when facing a large group of low-level miscellaneous soldiers, and even against mechanical weapons. Nangong Rong, who was impressed by this, planned to imitate it, if this mage army could exert the power that the young man expected, he would naturally be much easier.

"I can let them try, but you'd better not get your hopes up. The eldest princess had already taken out her staff and was preparing for the attack, and she didn't even have time to look up at the young man, "The magic used by those elves has been studied and tested in actual combat for many years, and it is very suitable for cooperating with each other; When I suddenly got such a big formation, I was worried that I might fail. ”

Football is not something that can be played by eleven guys who are good at showing off some individual performances in the streets and alleys, and in the same way, large-scale combined magic is not something that can be performed by just pulling a few ace old birds who are good at single-handing enemies in PK, not to mention that Razfeld doesn't have much research on joint magic itself, and basically every magician here is a combat department, and there are few pure theories like Matthias.

What's worse is that these battle mages are good at fighting alone, and at most they have experience working with soldiers or adventurers who act as front-row shields, except for those who have a good relationship with each other, and usually they never cooperate with other mages.

This is a little troublesome, but Nangong Rong has no choice, in order to ensure that he doesn't waste too much of his energy, he can only rush the ducks to the shelves: "It's okay, even if it's just a shield, in short, let them go to the city wall first." ”