Act 292: The Big Three (Part I)
In the basement of a white castle made entirely of white bones, Dritan the Abyssal is working on the tank extorted from the Stormwind Legion with a group of alchemists as usual.
Dritan expertly opened the turret's hatch and climbed inside, trying to press all the buttons he could.
Not surprisingly, there was no response.
It's been months since the tanks were transported here, and Dritan will come here whenever he has time to study them.
Aside from him, the alchemists loyal to him had not been idle for a moment, but they had never been able to find a way to activate the monster.
Although Dritan as an undead does not have a deep concept of time, a few months are to him what a few hours are to a human.
But even so, Dritan had to admit that he had been a little too much at the beginning.
If he had kidnapped a few humans from China without realizing it, then the current research progress should be much faster.
It's a pity that at that time, he felt that it would not be difficult to decipher the secret with the knowledge accumulated here in the Holy Sect for thousands of years.
But in fact, this steel monster didn't even use the slightest magical structure! In the face of this kind of technology, which is out of the realm of existing knowledge, Dritan and they are at a loss.
"Sure enough, we should kidnap a few humans and come back......"
Dritan was thinking when he heard Ive's voice outside.
Emerging from the turret of the tank, Dritan looked at Ivy strangely and said, "Didn't I already order you to go to the north to exterminate those guys from the Lingdong Alliance?" Why haven't you set off yet? ”
Evie saluted Dritan.
"I'm very sorry, Lord Dritan, but the situation has changed a bit now, and we have to cancel the operation, and I rushed back to report back to you." Ivy swallowed her saliva and said with difficulty, "Gloria, she...... She ......"
"Gloria?" Dritan the Abyssal snorted coldly, "It's not convenient here, let's go out and talk about it." ”
The two of them arrive at Dritan's study, where the Lich Regels is already inside.
"Gloria, is she finally tempted to make a move? Expected! Say, what the hell did she do? ”
Ivy lowered his head, not daring to look at Dritan at all.
"Blood Priest Gloria, she persuaded the entire Lingdong Alliance to join the Holy Sect! Now, the thirteen Grand Lords of the Leap Winter Alliance are coming to the royal capital with Gloria! ”
"What!?"
Frightened and angry, Dritan the Abyssal slapped his fingers on the tank's armor with five deep scratches!
"You mean, that slut from Gloria has surrendered the entire Winter Alliance!? It would have been simple if it were just a few of the Great Lords, but how could she have persuaded all thirteen of them to surrender at the same time?! Back then, they waged dozens of wars against their Holy Sect! ”
Ivy shook her head: "I don't know what's going on.
We were marching towards the mines of Puglia when we met Gloria's team of priests on the way.
When I went to pay a courtesy visit to Gloria, I met with the thirteen High Lords of the Winter's Alliance, as well as some other powerful figures of the Winter's Alliance.
At that time, Gloria told me with a smile that our operation could be canceled, that she had completed the initiation ceremony for the people of the Lingdong Alliance, and that she was now taking them to the royal capital to apply for a meeting of nobles and a knighthood for them. ”
"Gloria, what exactly do you want!?"
Dritan the Abyssal was about to crush his teeth, and the Blood Priest Gloria's surrender disrupted all of his deployments at once!
In the Eternal Holy Cult, Dritan the Abyssal, Gloria, the Blood Priest, and Eric Moore, the Bone King, are the triumvirate below the Holy Emperor Elistia.
Dritan the Abyssal has in his hands the most powerful force in the entire Eternal Holy Sect, except for the Saint Emperor's Palace Guards, the Abyss Legion.
As a purple-robed bishop, the blood priest Gloria is second only to the Holy Emperor in the Holy See, and during the time that Holy Emperor Elistia is not concerned with the world, she is a pope-like existence.
As for the Bone Lord Eric Moore, he represents the interests of the bone faction with the largest number of undead, and the bone faction composed of skeletons, ghouls and the like is simply the cannon fodder among the undead huddling together to keep warm.
The quality of the Bones Sect and Dritan's Abyssal Legion, and Gloria's Papal Guard is completely incomparable, but the victory is that the number is extremely large, especially when these cannon fodder have not been consumed under the long-term peace, and the number has accumulated to an astonishing extent.
In addition, the Bone Monarch Eric Moore himself is extremely strong, so he firmly occupies a place among the Big Three.
In the struggle for power among the triumvirate, Dritan had already taken the lead by virtue of his exploits in destroying the Psychic Pagoda, and even received nearly half of the support after the request to be the regent at the meeting of nobles, but it was a pity that the blood god officer Gloria and the bone monarch Eric Moore joined forces to suppress the proposal.
However, the merits of Dritan the Abyssal are too great, and the two of them can't suppress them for a long time, all they can do is delay.
However, Dritan does not think that the other party will sit back and watch him ascend to the throne of regent, and his current approval rating is slightly lower, and he still cannot get an overwhelming advantage.
Therefore, in order to expand his advantage, Dritan organized an expedition against the Wintering Alliance.
Of course, the purpose of this expedition was not to be a one-time battle, after all, the Lynch Alliance did not suffer a lot of vitality in the war with humans like the Psychic Saint Tower.
The two sides are forces that have been fighting each other for a long time, and it is impossible for Dritan to completely conquer the Leap Alliance in a short period of time with Dritan's own strength, and his goal is only to defeat one or two Great Lords before the Leap Alliance reacts.
It is enough to let those nobles see the prospect of leading them from victory to victory!
Unexpectedly, now the blood god officer Gloria actually intervened!
Although what that guy is best at is demagoguery, the fact that he can subdue the entire Lingdong Alliance is still too incredible!
"Blood Priest Gloria...... It seems that she has been cornered by you, an adult, and she can only make a faint move and risk her death. The Lich Regles smiled and said, "Boom...... Recruiting the entire Lingdong Alliance seems to be a great achievement comparable to the extermination of the Psychic Holy Tower, but surrender and extermination are two completely different concepts.
Although no one wants to say it clearly, everyone actually has the idea of using the war with the Lynch Alliance to consume a huge undead population.
But now that the Lingdong Alliance has been recruited, the population has increased a lot instead of being consumed, which is not good news for those nobles.
Moreover, if you really want to accept those guys from the Winter Alliance, it means that those nobles who are ready to move will not only be unable to share the cake of the interests of the north, but their own interests may also be threatened by outsiders.
I don't know exactly how Gloria did it, but what she did was to delay the adults in the short term, but it will still be beneficial to you in the long run!
Of course, if you don't want to wait a little longer, we can actually take this opportunity to get rid of that Blood Priest in one fell swoop! ”