Chapter 467: Dark Clouds Gather
The words of the personal maid made Amanda retreat slightly.
She realized that big people, face big problems. If someone like Kane has a problem, then she definitely can't afford to be involved.
As for Kane, is there a problem at all?
Amanda thinks that most of them are, and it is not a problem to appear in such a small place, the rich also have poor relatives, and the king also has poor relatives, so it is nothing.
The main thing that is more troublesome is the power and wealth that Kane has revealed.
Amanda is also a member of the aristocracy, and she knows very well that right and wrong are completely determined by interests. And in aristocratic circles, people with a desire for profit abound.
Although he realizes that getting involved with a character like Kane is likely to lead to disasters that he can't bear.
Amanda still can't contain her admiration for Kane.
The maid reminded her that it didn't take long for a trend of solid germination.
If it weren't for Kane's polite and crisp expression, Amanda would definitely be able to do the thing of self-recommended pillows. Of course, the widowed Amanda longs for the comfort of the soul more than the pleasures of the flesh.
She is young, beautiful, wealthy, and envied by many people, but she also has her own troubles, such as the fact that she must choose another man from the Peyton family to marry, otherwise according to the law of the kingdom, her status and wealth will be reduced by half.
And this time, in fact, it is delaying in the name of provincial relatives.
The men of the Peyton family are either crooked and cracked, or seventy or eighty, and she can't look down on any of them.
In this context, when she met the opposite sex she liked the most in her life, Amanda was willing to be a moth to put out the fire.
For Kane, however, the situation today is very different from what he faced in 1853. There was no need to trade, especially since he knew what Amanda craved the most, and he just couldn't give it.
Money, military support, this is the most generous in Kane's hands, and he can give it to others.
At a dinner, he almost made it clear what he could give Amanda.
As a result, Amanda took advantage of the trend, hoping to go with Kane, because she found that the road was not very peaceful, and her understanding of security along the way was still 7 years ago.
After a little thought, Kane agreed.
Days of heavy rain finally stopped. The sky is clear and blue.
The convoy set off and soon after crossed the farmland and entered the wooded wilderness.
At this time, it can be seen that Amanda's request to follow the Kane team is not only suspected of being close to the same, but also has a practical need.
The wilderness of this world is really barren, inaccessible, less than 0.1 people per square kilometer, even if you don't consider the beasts, just talk about the road, you can make people understand what it means to be struggling, helpless and helpless.
The heavy rain had stopped for 14 hours, but the convoy was still halted several times due to the landslide.
The puppets under Kane's command are mainly used to help him deal with trivial matters.
Like now, he doesn't want to fly around, but instead enjoys the aristocratic treatment while focusing on strengthening. Then the trivial affairs along the way have to be taken care of by the servants.
And these affairs are indeed not easy, open the road in the mountains, build bridges in the water, travel down in a day, there is no town just for accommodation and rest, the post station is also in the past tense, there have been, and now you can see, only the broken ruins.
There is a saying that to look at the quality of a city, or even a country, you only need to look at its infrastructure.
Roads are undoubtedly an important part of infrastructure construction.
Kane traveled eastward, and could only see the faint outline of the road, which looked like abandoned farmland, overgrown with weeds, no less than the real wilderness, and you can imagine how bad the road conditions were.
This is not only caused by natural disasters such as heavy rains and mudslides, but also shows that the use rate of roads is very low, let alone maintenance.
Fortunately, Kane's team has no problem learning from the west, and it is naturally no problem to act as an engineer boat bridge unit. Under Simon's command, logging and building bridges was as easy for them as making a big toy.
Sturdy, without maintenance, can also be used for more than ten years of log long bridge, just a few hours to build. Enough for two cars to drive side by side.
Amanda and her servants realized that Kane had powerful spellcasters under his command.
Simon the housekeeper is.
This extravagance of making the caster a servant, rather than a hired guest, reminds Amanda once again that Kane could not be a baron in the middle of nowhere.
But most people know that it is one thing, and doing it is another thing.
Amanda chose to be an ostrich after all, not thinking about the bad things, but indulging in the safety, convenience, and wonderful reverie that Kane brings.
Even a handmaiden could see the flaws, let alone the scouts of the Holy Cult Army.
In the scouts' professional eyes, Kane's ultra-luxury fleet directly exposed that he was not a native, not even from any country on the continent of Akara.
There is more than one continent in this world, but from the perspective of civilization development, the most important one is the continent of Ekara, from which the world is named.
The continent of Aika, three major and five small, eight kingdoms, the Holy Religion has the highest influence among the two large countries and the three small countries, and even one of the small countries is simply a religious country like the Vatican.
Therefore, the richest person in the whole continent is the Holy Sect.
And even those grand dukes and kings who have top-notch horses under their names and have the luxury to build a team similar to Kane's fleet are reluctant to really let them come to this kind of wilderness.
After all, feeding this kind of ultra-luxury fleet is simply burning money, and with the productivity of this era, those powerful people will also feel pain.
The correct usage is: in the royal capital, or on some important occasions, pretend to be more broad, in order to show off financial resources, so that some people are optimistic about the cooperative relationship with themselves, so that others are afraid and dare not act rashly.
Kane is not sensitive enough in this regard.
Kane Sun is an incarnation generated after Kane's ontology periodically obtains Kane Zhao's memories.
Kane Zhao is in the SC universe, and there are nearly 1,000 meters of Constellation-class battleships under his name, so many of them are too lazy to name them, and they are all numbered.
The development of the ontology side in the past few years has not been bad, with hundreds of huge creations (the dark pyramid used to collect the essence of cosmic eggs), and the technology is even better than that of Constellation-class battleships.
In the context of such production capacity, thirty or forty people, more than twenty horses, and less than ten cars, is it a matter?
It may be a bit pretentious to say that it is shabby, after all, it is necessary to consider the degree of civilization in the world.
But even after considering these, in an era when even large airships existed, Kane felt that his newly established honor guard was at best first-class, and he couldn't even detect the top, let alone super luxury or something.
This is a cognitive bias, wishful thinking, and taken for granted.
However, in the eyes of some well-intentioned people, what they see is not extravagance, but all kinds of things behind it.
In Atheon's eyes, Kane has quickly gone from being a 'gig giver' to a 'good match'.
One of the biggest regrets of this female saint who has focused on the outside world and hopes that through open source, she can help the Holy Sect get out of its embarrassment, is that she regrets that she did not have the strength to stand up to the doves in the Moon Lord Council back then.
So much so that the Holy Sect was exhausted and finally came to such a situation.
The Holy Sect successfully flexed its muscles and completely defeated its opponent. But his brave and ruthless style is also disliked by many people. There are no real allies, not even sincere collaborators.
Another is that at the beginning of self-reverence, in the face of new territories and new markets, the Holy Religion expanded vigorously.
But now, the vast and bloated institutions are consuming, and the territory and markets that feed them are gradually dwindling in the increasingly serious problem of privatization.
A group of people led by the Sun Sage Lu Lun intend to replicate the success of the year, through looting, seizing, and annexing, to gain wealth and solve internal problems.
However, the current situation on the mainland is very different from the situation on the mainland during the Second Holy War. Without the hostile forces that make the wise faint and die a great death, it will be difficult for them to hold high the banner of a righteous holy war and launch a new round of wealth distribution war just by buttoning their hats.
Moreover, the society under the rule of the Holy Religion is already difficult to operate and full of hidden dangers, and at this time, people are responding to the call of jihad, and they are simply acting against the hostile position of directly pushing people to the Holy Religion.
As a result, Ashion, who was looking for a solution, had a deep understanding of wealth and creativity.
To sum up what Kane said in his previous life when he was still a reincarnation:
In any world where creation is the real wealth, creativity is the most valuable, and there is no one.
Strong destructive power is certainly a kind of ability, but it is not the most expensive ability, creation is.
It is much more difficult to create than to destroy, and creation is often the most fundamental way to achieve beauty.
As a result, Atheon sees a proven range of technologies behind the team. Among them, what shocked her the most was the negative transcendent power conversion and utilization technology.
Atheon clearly realized that mastering this technology could change the pattern of the world.
After all, the general trend of the world of Aikara now is that darkness is raging, and the Holy Sect has mastered the technology of confrontation, but others can take advantage of it, and the gap is clear at a glance.
The Sun Sage Ruren also understood this. Although not as profound as Atheon, he at least knew that the techniques that Kane mastered were very, very, very high-value.
After understanding this, Lu Lun was a little depressed.
Because he thought he was clever, and it turned out to be self-defeating.
In order to let some people serve as cannon fodder to test Kane, he had the word from his double agents that Kane had a very valuable technology, or artifact, that could transform the power of darkness (in this case, it generally refers to negative supernatural power).
In fact, whether Kane really has this kind of technology, or the utensils, Lu Lun is not clear, but in order to make others want to be consumed, he naturally tries his best to praise it.
What side effects are small, versatile and so on.
It turned out that the facts were better than he had boasted, so good that he made it an imperative goal.
Originally, the Holy Sect side had an absolute advantage, and it was completely possible to make a fortune alone. turned out to be made by his self-inflicted cleverness to shoot himself in the foot. That's what Ruren is frustrating about.
He is a man of action, and he thinks that even if the rumors leak through this matter, he should act as soon as possible. Drag it on, and things will only get more complicated.
If you want to say that Lu Lun's thinking does have some truth, too many ideas will form a situation of mutual checks and balances, if Kane takes the opportunity to play the trick of combining vertical and horizontal, it will be inevitable that things will become bigger and more complicated.
But Luren has always had a major shortcoming, which is that he is too arrogant.
He didn't seriously think about the background of Kane, who had these skills and dared to show them, what kind of background he had.
At the same time, he didn't know that since a few years ago, the number one transcendent force in the world of Aikara was no longer the Holy Sect. Rather, it is the Shepherds' Society, which is controlled by Nidhogg behind the scenes.
At least half of the vicious incidents that have occurred in the countries of the Aika continent in recent years have been related to the Shepherds' Association. The core purpose of the organization at this stage is to bring about social chaos and turmoil in various countries.
Having gained what they thought was an incomparable power, many in the Shepherds' Society were eager to perform in order to win the favor of their masters and gain more.
The ransacking of caravans carrying goods for the city of Bann was the work of the organization.
More specifically, it is part of a series of events. Prior to this, there had been incidents of monsters malignantly injuring people and spreading the disease in the slums of Dead Bane.
In just one week, the situation continued to deteriorate, and even the uptown area went wrong, causing a lot of noise and panic.
The medicinal materials and supernatural materials transported by the caravan were all procured by the Holy Sect in order to deal with the incident.
Although the Holy Sect pays for the goods, the caravan has an accident, and the main loss is borne by the merchant himself.
can know that it is a disaster relief item, and it is a goods ordered by the Holy Church, this dares to rob, which is tantamount to a slap in the face. Naturally, the Holy Sect would not give up.
The Shepherds' Society had planned to be silent for a while, waiting for the limelight to pass before it was active.
But the news that Rulun had spread was obtained by them.
They weren't sure if it was bait for them, or if it was actually something.
But the current collective atmosphere within the Shepherds' Association is self-confidence and daring, and there are many people who do not take the Holy Religion seriously. In the words of a certain high-ranking person: "If it weren't for the master's plan and the need for us to follow the steps, I would have taken the war servants to attack the Holy Court of the Moon Lord Society a long time ago." So that those wastes can be sober and sober, and their strength and means are not worth mentioning compared to what we have at our disposal. ”
Therefore, the shepherds' association is not afraid of things, and there are many people who want to do things, and this time it can be regarded as a famous teacher, and many of them feel that they can continue to spread their joy and let the people spread their prestige, so they signed up enthusiastically, and even went to find out for whom they almost fought.