Chapter 109: Countermeasures in the Shadows
Here, the white wolf is making initial preparations for the formation of the Rune Sect, and on the other side, in the neighboring Goblin Kingdom, an interrogation of the goblin who made a mistake is also going on in an extremely tragic way.
The underground world is a place where the sun does not shine, full of backwardness and barbarism, which is vividly reflected in the goblin kingdom, where there are almost no so-called laws and systems, and the goblin king with the power throne can exercise the power of life and death over ordinary goblins by virtue of his personal likes and dislikes, no lawyer, no judge, not even the Inquisition, and the goblin with a transcendent identity can judge life and death with a sentence.
There is only the same barbaric power that can check and balance this barbaric power, the goblin with a certain status, to guard against people with a higher status than him, and people with a similar status to him, people who have already wanted to go further, the desire for power is endless, everyone wants to extend their power to the farthest place, without the constraints of the system, this power struggle is particularly tragic, in fact, now the goblin king is the murderer of his own father to ascend the throne.
Now the Goblin King is sitting in a luxurious and comfortable tent, holding two petite female goblins on each side, and a nezumi slave is carefully cleaning the dirt from its feet.
In front of him, there were dozens of whipped goblins, all of whom were members of the team that had entered the territory of the white wolf before, and they had received the harshest punishment for failing to complete the task of clearing the spider demons assigned to them, and the goblin king would not have asked about this kind of thing, so he didn't bother to care about the life and death of the squad, and dared to come back if he didn't complete the task, he thought that even if they were all killed, it would not be too much.
However, his men conveyed to him the astonishing news that in the process of punishment, they learned of the existence of the White Wolf's magical territory, which immediately aroused the interest of the Goblin King.
As a relicidal beast, the Goblin King doesn't believe in the existence of any wolf gods, if there are really gods in this world, guys like him, no, most of the people in the entire Goblin Kingdom should be cleansed, all he cares about is the divine technologies displayed by the white wolf, if these technologies really exist, what reason does he have not to take them for himself?
"So... Do you mean that on the edge of my kingdom, there is a small force of unknown origin that calls itself the wolf god?" the Goblin King asked a fat goblin sitting outside the tent as he kicked the nezumi slave at his feet.
This goblin is the Goblin King's uncle, and perhaps his biological father, but none of that matters.
There is no concept of etiquette in the Goblin Kingdom, so the fat goblin in front of him can sit in front of the Goblin King with peace of mind.
"That's it, according to the words of the deserters who should have been slashed by a thousand knives, not far from our territory, on the border with the kingdoms of Tezan and Erzan, there is such a goblin force of unknown origin, they have impenetrable black fog protection, golden statues that can generate water on their own, and endless food that can grow on their own, and terrifying weapons that can emit golden pillars of light to pierce through caves.
"How credible is what they say?" the Goblin King pondered for a moment, as a guy who usurped the throne by murder, this Goblin King still has a certain amount of wisdom, he knows that people dare to do anything and say anything when faced with the threat of life and death.
"The credibility is quite high, but it is not excluded that there are some nonsense elements, I asked these guys one by one, and the answers they gave were slightly different, but generally speaking, the caliber is still the same, at our borders, there is really a mysterious force, this force has some powerful forces that we can't understand. The obese goblin replied.
"What's your opinion?" asked the Goblin King, frowning.
"I thought we should be careful, this force is really strange, it has technology of unknown origin, and it believes in an unknown god, we still don't know their strength, we should be cautious and figure out their true strength before making the next move. ”
"Is that ......? Then do as you say, and immediately send a team of 1,000 men, led by you personally, to investigate the origin of this force!"
"I'll go now, but ..... These deserters...?" The fat goblin pointed to the whipped bloodied ones and said.
"Kill them all, it's disgusting to watch. The Goblin King showed an impatient expression, waved his hand, and some guards walked in and dragged out dozens of goblins kneeling on the ground, and when they heard the sad fate they were about to face, the poor goblins began to cry and beg for mercy, and some even forgot the pain for a while because of fear, and stood up and wanted to run away.
But their injuries were so severe that their scarred bodies simply couldn't support them for too far, and it wasn't long before they were grabbed by the guards and pushed out of the door....
The White Wolf knew that time was running out for him, and that it was the last window of peace, and he took his sister with him and left the Misty Zone, where he was going to do something extremely important that only his sister could do.
After months of continuous exploration, the white wolf finally figured out the division of forces around his current area, he is now on the border of the three goblin kingdoms, and the fourth goblin kingdom is far away, and the threat he faces now mainly comes from the Sanzan kingdom, and the previous goblin team is the force they sent.
The White Wolf is now going to take the Black Wolf to the border between the Kingdom of Ozan and the Kingdom of Erzan, he is not going to carry out any diplomatic activities, but he is just going to use the Black Wolf's illusion ability to implant a small false memory for some of the goblins of the two kingdoms.
The content of the memory is that the Kingdom of Sanzan found a mysterious treasure near the White Wolf's territory and sent a large number of troops to carry it, and the White Wolf believes that with this part of the false memory, he will be able to achieve his goal.
"Whew..... Call.... I'm exhausted. The black wolf gasped and rested on a rock, as if because the seal had not been lifted, and such a long journey made her feel quite tired.
However, the work has been successfully completed, and the artificially created information has been turned into a false memory with the help of the black line, which has entered the minds of a large number of goblins, in order to complete this work and ensure that the memory will not have a loophole like the last time it entered the white wolf's body, the black wolf increased the output power of the black power, and almost consumed the black power in his body.
In order to avoid being discovered, the white wolf also used many time pauses, and now the black power in the bodies of the two wolves has been consumed.
"In this way, the remaining two kingdoms will also know about our existence, and we will have some room to maneuver. The white wolf lay next to the black wolf, pondered for a while, and then said.
"I... Still don't particularly understand ... Wouldn't it be more of a threat to us if you tell the other two kingdoms about us?" asked the white wolf with some confusion.
"Didn't I explain it to you before...."The white wolf was a little helpless, it seemed that his sister still couldn't think through a few key points of this, so she simply explained it to her again.
These goblin kingdoms are not monolithic, after their leader was killed by the porcupine people, the first thing these goblins did was not to work together as brothers and resist their humiliation, but directly began to fight for the highest position of power, in the face of the big cake of the white wolf, these goblin kingdoms are even more unlikely to watch their opponents get the big cake, after learning the news of the opponent, they will definitely fight openly and secretly.
"And what if they get together?" the black wolf asked worriedly.
White Wolf: "They will be united, but it will take some time, and we will have to suffer a certain amount of pain in the struggle before a consensus can be reached, and until then, I will do something so that this consensus will never be reached." ”
"What are you going to do?" asked the black wolf curiously.
"It depends on the specific situation, I have a plan, and when the time comes, let's improvise, let's go, let's go back first. The white wolf replied, standing up at the same time and looking at his sister.
"Oh.... Okay...."The black wolf saw that the white wolf was leaving, and he also stood up together, and the two wolves returned to their territory one after the other.
As for whether there will be a fight between the goblin kingdoms, the white wolf's attitude is that the fight will definitely happen, but it is just a matter of intensity, this is not his speculation, in fact, this is derived from his historical knowledge, the Eight-Nation Alliance seemed to be monolithic when it invaded China, but in fact, there was a big internal interest dispute, and after defeating the Qing army and starting to divide the benefits, this dispute began to intensify. If this is the case for humans, it is even more impossible for goblins to avoid such strife.
The situation that the white wolf is facing now is very similar to that of the Qing Dynasty, both of them are facing the threat of powerful enemies, but this similarity has various differences, the Qing Dynasty's technological level is not as good as that of foreign armies, but the white wolf's technological level is enough to crush these goblin kingdoms.
Similarly, the Qing Dynasty had a vast territory and a large population, and it was able to stand tall if it lost once, twice, or even dozens of times, but the white wolf only had a territory the size of a sesame seed and a small population.