Chapter 50: Moon Bay

Shangguan Ziyang felt as if he could already see the light, but he seemed to feel that Alice, who had been glued to him, seemed to have changed somewhat. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Looks like your eyes are fine. After carefully examining Shangguan Ziyang's clearer and clearer eyes, Amiri said, "It is estimated that you will be able to return to your original state in two days." But I still have to apply medicine for a few days. I have to say, Kenji doesn't know where he got this herb 'Morning Dew Flower' is really effective!" Amiri said as she turned her gaze to Kenji, who was leaning against the hatch and squinting and pretending to be asleep.

"......" Kenji is still the same, looking like "don't get close to the living", and he didn't express any opinions.

"Yes, I can feel like I can see very bright things now. Shangguan Ziyang said, "Thank you very much, Kenji." ”

"......" Kenji still leaned against the door and pretended to be asleep, without saying anything.

"Where are we now?" Shangguan Ziyang asked.

"We are now in the sky over Moon Bay. "From the map, Moon Bay is a circular area of sea surrounded by a peninsula that looks like a crescent moon jutting out from the mainland. We are now in the outer area of Moon Bay, and Moon City is above the 'Sky Mirror' in the center of Moon Bay, and it may be a few days away. ”

"In other words, is the sea area below us now?" Shangguan Ziyang asked.

"Yes!" said Amiri with certainty, "why don't you go out and breathe, it's really stuffy to be in the cabin all the time!"

"That's right," Shangguan Ziyang asked Amiri to tie an abrasive cloth to herself, then got up and said, "Then let's go out and breathe!" and walked to the hatch under Alice's guidance. Seeing this, Kenji gave up and let the two of them walk out of the hatch smoothly.

"It's so close to the capital city of Moontown, and there are a lot of ships below. "As soon as I got to the deck, I heard the voice of Gu Xin.

"That's too much, isn't it?" said Ike's tone, one of incredulity.

"And what the hell are so many Hayabusa Knights?" Blue was also very surprised, "It's almost like a seagull in the sky!"

"After all, as the capital, it must also be the end point of a large number of spaceships, is there a problem with the Hayabusa Knight escorting?" Gu Xin paused, "Look! There's another spaceship flying over there—it's the same size as our spaceship!"

"Really, this is the third ship I've seen this morning! And so many escort Hayabusa Knights! Are they all from Moon City?" Patrick the Minotaur shouted excitedly as he looked at another ship flying in the direction of Moon City.

"Of course! And not only in the sky, but also in the sea below, the number of ships entering and leaving Moon Bay every day is unimaginably huge! Just the sea ships below us, there are hundreds of ships, and this is only part of the sea area that we can see. In other seas that we can't see, you can imagine how huge the number of sea ships is!"

"Damn, are the elves so powerful?" said Blue, who seemed surprised.

"I didn't say that these ships were all built by the elves themselves, of course they were sea ships from various countries - after all, the Demon Martial Arts Conference was about to be held, which is why the sea ships in Moon Bay would be so dense - but even if it wasn't for the events of the Demon Martial Arts Conference, the number of sea ships here would not be much less. Gu Xin said.

"Then the Great Qin Empire, a human country where you are located, is said to be much more powerful than this elven empire, could it be that there will be a scene even bigger than this?" asked Werewolf Ike.

"No, no, no, you can't see such a scene in the Great Qin Empire......" Gu Xin said.

"Hey, why?" asked Patrick and Blue.

"Because the main means of transportation of the Great Qin Empire is land transportation composed of trains, there will not be such a huge scene of simultaneous sea and air transportation. "But one thing is for sure, the train is very little affected by the weather, and it's much faster—if we had traveled by train instead of a spaceship, our time would have been cut by at least half." ”

"Rub, you're not bragging, are you?" asked Patrick, incredulous.

"Do you think I can blow you?" Gu Xin pretended to be very helpless.

"You ......" Patrick was speechless!

"Poof......" The other Shangguan Ziyang and others who were watching were laughed at this sentence.

"But no matter what, there is a prosperous atmosphere everywhere here, and it really deserves to be the capital of an empire!" Arath said with emotion as she looked at the sea below, which was almost full of sails, and the groups of wandering Hayabusa Knights flying in the sky from time to time, and the spaceships escorted by a large number of Hayabusa Knights neatly arranged in the air, said with emotion. And in order to expand the living space in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, in order to maintain the maximum number of members with combat effectiveness, each scattered tribe will eliminate the disabled and old people who have no combat effectiveness, leaving only the prime of life and children. There's no way there's such a scene...... And compared to humans and elves, we orcs are really not good at managing and building......"

"But the orcs have their own merits...... After all, elves and humans don't have the same strong physique as the orcs. Gu Xin glanced at several orc companions and said, "So please don't be presumptuous, you have to give up one thing if you get it." For example, the elves, every elf is a powerful mage, but the elves do not have men, so if there is a war, the combat effectiveness of the elves' regular army is very low, but their mage army can destroy everything. ”

"Compared to the combat effectiveness of the conventional troops, as long as the orc legion is armed, it is completely unstoppable. So this world is always fair, there is no such thing as only advantages and no disadvantages, and there is no such thing as nothing but shortcomings and no disadvantages. What we can do is to hide our shortcomings as much as possible and give full play to our strengths. This is the proverb that the God of War taught us. "Although the words on my lips are very exciting, but ...... Why did Gu Xin's expression make people want to beat him up? The good and righteous speech was completely destroyed by Gu Xin's obscenity.

"Play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses. Shangguan Ziyang suddenly said a word of Mandarin Chinese, because she couldn't see Gu Xin's expression in a painting style that was completely inconsistent with the style of speech, and said to Gu Xin, "Your 'God of War' seems to be ...... Is it really pushing the art of war to the limit?"

"Of course! At the beginning of the founding of the Great Qin Empire, it was just an ordinary small tribe. However, under the wisdom of the god of war, the Great Qin Empire established the first centralized state on the continent - the Great Qin Empire under the social form of human beings and tribes in other parts of the continent. At the peak of the Great Qin Empire, one-third of the entire continent was the sphere of influence of Great Qin. It was not until after the War of Human Independence and the Eastern Crusade of the Holy Religious Army that the Great Qin Empire gradually became its current territorial state and stabilized, and in the two subsequent continental anti-Qin wars - commonly known as the 'Holy Cult Army' wars, the Great Qin Empire stood strong, and also broke up the Holy Religious Army, and now became three branches - that is, the current Ilva Holy Cult State, the Gamma Empire, and the Lycian Alliance. Therefore, the advantages can be used to the extreme, and the disadvantages can be covered. For example, like me, you usually only notice my handsomeness, but never my wit!" Gu Xin said with a cheap expression on his face.

"You mean, the three branches that the Holy Sect Army has formed now are the reason why the war with the Great Qin Empire was broken up?And you said that the previous Great Qin Empire's peak sphere of influence occupied one-third of the entire continent?" Shangguan Ziyang was not sure what Gu Xin said, who knows if he was bragging about something.

"Oh, indeed, there is a partly reason - there is no absolute unity within the church itself, and a little stratagem can divide it. Although the areas of the Cult of the Illuminati are still under the nominal rule of the Church, the Gamma Empire and the Lycian Alliance are both almost completely autonomous empires. As for the sphere of influence, I don't mean that it is the territorial area, but it includes the Great Qin Empire itself, its vassals, the established prefectures, and the conquered regions. The areas that were basically directly influenced by the Great Qin Empire were collectively referred to as 'spheres of influence'. For example, the current four surnames of the Western Zhao: Shi, Mu, Gou, and Zhuang, the six surnames of the Northern Zhao: Wen, Chen, Li, Guan, Ye, and Xiao, and the four kingdoms of Dongyi, Goguryeo, Capricorn, and Korea in the east. These are all vassal states of the Great Qin Empire, and there is basically no difference between them and the Great Qin Empire itself - the only difference between the local counties is that they retain the existence of vassal kings. Then the area west of the border line between Nanzhao and the Elves is the territory of the original Dark Moon Empire, which is now occupied by Great Qin and is being divided and ruled, and the sphere of influence that Great Qin can directly influence is currently the above area, which is now the sphere of influence of the Great Qin Empire. ”

"Then what is the current situation of your Great Qin Empire's original sphere of influence?" asked Alice, who was an elf, with great interest.

"The Holy Cult Army's crusade to the east, neither Great Qin nor the Church has gained any benefits, the Church of the God of Light has not promoted the doctrine of the God of Light as planned, and the Great Qin Empire has also lost a large number of spheres of influence. On the contrary, it allowed the original second-rate Guran to rise in chaos, and the current Xuanyue Dynasty and Carter Commercial Principality are all Gulan countries that have become independent from the sphere of influence of Great Qin, and other kingdoms and principalities in various regions have become Gulan countries. The Guran developed rapidly, and in the later stages of the Second Holy Army's Crusade, it had developed to the point where it could compete with the Church of the Illuminati, but the Guran was very good at hiding itself, so during the Third Holy Army's Crusade, the Guran pretended to be on the side of the Church, but from time to time it stabbed in the back. As a result, local conflicts in the 'War of Faith' broke out, bringing the Illuminati and the Qur'an to the opposite side after the end of the Third Holy Army's crusade. However, in any case, for the three Holy Cult Army's crusades, it is said that it was an incident of internal conflict among human beings, but because of territorial conflicts, the elves have stood on the side of the church, and on the southern front, the elves have always been the main force against the Qin army. However, the elves were on the wrong side, and in the three anti-Qin wars, the elves not only did not take the opportunity to regain the territory occupied by the Great Qin Empire, but lost a large amount of territory again. I really don't understand, do you think that the people in the church are good at stubble? It's just using the elves as knives, all they want to do is to spread the teachings of the Illuminati to all corners of the continent, and at that time, as a church, they will have totalitarian power. In the eyes of the church, everything else can be discarded in order to achieve such a goal. Suppose, if the Great Qin Empire is really defeated and collapsed in the Anti-Qin War, and the Illuminati Cult has completed its goal by then, do you think those Quranism and Elven Clans, which are obstacles to the church's ascending to totalitarian power, will be spared? Don't you want to think about what happened to the beast race, the strongest race on the continent since the Human Independence War? Most of them were driven into the Demon Beast Mountain Range and left to fend for themselves, and the remaining beasts were all enslaved within the church's sphere of influence. Therefore, the church will be soft-hearted, jokes!" Gu Xin unknowingly turned on the "speech mode" and pretended to be forced in front of everyone.

"So, it is precisely because the Great Qin Empire is standing firm that the delicate balance of the continent is maintained?" Shangguan Ziyang asked.

"That's pretty much the case," Gu Xin now seems to be indulging in a state of pretending to be forced and unable to extricate himself, "The three largest branches of mankind, the Church of the Light God, the Great Qin Empire, and the United Alliance of the Guran Religion, among these three organizations, the Light God Religion and the Guran Religion are religious conflicts, the gods of faith are different, and the fundamental contradictions cannot be reconciled, and because they launched three continent-wide anti-Qin wars, the contradictions with the Great Qin Empire cannot be reconciled." The countries and regions that were independent of the United Alliance of Gulan were basically the spheres of influence, vassal states and territories of the former Great Qin Empire, so if a formula could not be reached on this issue, the contradictions between the Guran and the Great Qin Empire would not be reconciled. As for the attitude of the Dark Moon Empire, the only country on this continent that was not established by human beings, it seems to be the rhythm of going all the way to the dark with the church, and the Great Qin Empire is a hostile side, and it is almost united with the church, and there is nothing wrong with the attitude towards the Guran in general, but because it is too close to the church, it is not welcomed in the Guran world. ”

"Actually, you said so much, and it has nothing to do with us. Ella unceremoniously interrupted Gu Xin's pretense, "But there is one thing I care about, you say, 'In the sphere of influence of the church, the original orcs are enslaved', and there are no enslaved orcs here, by the way, in your Great Qin Empire, aren't the orcs enslaved? Enslaved only in the area of the church? Is there any prejudice? In your opinion, what can be called 'enslavement'?"

"First of all, although the Darkmoon Empire is united with the Church, it is not the Church's 'sphere of influence', so the orcs here are not enslaved - and for the elves, there is no need for this. And in the Great Qin Empire, no matter what race you are, whether it is a human, an orc or an elf, as long as you are the people of the Great Qin Empire, then as long as you are willing to work and contribute your own strength to the empire, then you will definitely not starve to death - in fact, as long as you work hard, you can live a very rich life in the Great Qin Empire, but if you are lazy, sorry, no one will sympathize with you if you starve to death. As for the sphere of influence of the church that you mentioned - I don't think what I said directly is convincing, if you have the opportunity, you should go directly to the sphere of influence of the church and see it with your own eyes. Gu Xin seems to have entered a "state of pretending to be forced" and can no longer be stopped.

"But what you say doesn't mean much to us. The most important thing now is to plan our next move, and we have to get everything done before we can participate in the Demon Martial Arts Conference. Shangguan Ziyang said expressionlessly to Gu Xin, who was still in a "pretending state".

Gu Xin also seemed to realize that he seemed to be pretending to be too much, so he straightened his face, "What the head of the group said is that we estimate that we will arrive in Moon City in a few days, let's prepare first, after all, there are so many days, and there are unimaginable accidents...... Next, the first thing we will do after arriving in Tsukijo is to solve the matter of Kenji, help Alice get a unicorn, and then go to participate in the registration of the Demon Martial Arts Competition, and then we will act according to my instructions, understand?"

"No problem, it's up to you!" Shangguan Ziyang said with certainty.