Chapter 9: Undead or Elemental Creature

"It is undeniable that the biggest weakness of the undead is that they have no consciousness, no intelligence, and instinctive hatred of a living being, only knowing how to blindly chase after the living, and assimilate them with death. Pannis's fingers tapped lightly on the table, and said seriously: "But if you think about it from another aspect, no consciousness and no wisdom can also be said to be their greatest strength." Conscious will have sentient beings, wisdom will have thinking, and sentient beings will have fear of death, even if they are only undead, but once they have individual consciousness, they will have fear of death that will never lose individual consciousness again, at the same time, thinking means that they will also make mistakes, and they can also be provoked to divide and pull together, the most important thing is that having the ability to think means that there is the possibility of contact with them, and there is room for mutual compromise and mutual concession, at this time, they can even no longer be regarded as undead, and can be regarded as a large number of alternative elemental creatures。 ”

"Wait, elemental creatures?" Lina frowned, "It's better not to talk nonsense, if death is regarded as an element, then the life on the other hand will also be regarded as an ordinary element." ”

"I didn't want to blaspheme life, so I added the word alternative as a modifier. "If this would offend the gods, then please apologize on my behalf to Lord Denia and Lord Yggdrahir and Lord Kaeya." ”

"Well, my lord and the other two adults don't mind, in fact, it is us believers who mind. Lina paused, as if listening to something, and nodded after a moment: "Well, I'm convinced, Kateria is right, since both light and darkness can be regarded as a special element, then there is nothing wrong with life and death being treated as special elements as well. From a certain point of view, they are indeed a special type of energy condensed into elements, so let's consider them to be special elemental creatures. ”

"Very well, we have reached a consensus on this issue. Pannis nodded, "Then let me tell you what I think, Your Majesty...... Well, Floral, see if you can accept it, and if you can, you might as well use this idea to convince your Council of Elders, and even put it in a high-level meeting of the tribes for discussion. ”

"In my name?" Vral frowned, "Aren't you going to come forward?" if you come forward, I'm afraid that Cheng DΓΉ, who is valued will be higher than me, why don't you come forward?"

"That was before, and now it is now. Pannis shook his head with a wry smile and said, "And I don't want to come forward, I have more important things to do." ”

"Well, let's talk about it first. For the more important things that Pannisy said, Floral didn't even ask, Her Majesty seemed to know what Pannis's thoughts were very clear, and she didn't intend to say it in front of the girls, so she just nodded casually and said: "I'll relay it for you, but I want to warn you that maybe your reputation is fading among humans and orcs, but among other races, your reputation is no different from that of a hundred years ago, of course, provided that you can be serious when you have a meeting." ”

"Ahem, ahem, I've always been very serious. Pannis coughed dryly in the teasing snickering of the girls, quickly avoided topics that were unfavorable to him, and put on a stern expression, as if he had really always been serious: "First of all, we need to figure out a question, what is the biggest threat of the undead to the world of Yara, why we regard the undead as the greatest enemy, this is not the most recent start, since the Tertiary period, intelligent beings tend to see the undead as a threat, and the last time the dead returned, this threat was also verified. Why don't people fear sandmen, fire, ice, and thunder?"

"Because the undead hate the living, and kill them aimlessly. Lina replied without thinking, "Other elemental creatures don't have this kind of appearance, and they can communicate with them normally, but the undead cannot." ”

"There's one more problem. Vral added: "The number of undead is so large that it squeezes the living space of other races, while the number of other elemental creatures is relatively small, and the impact is not great. ”

"I also think the most fundamental reason is these two. Pannis nodded, "But now, both of these issues have been solved. The current situation proves that the undead have come to their senses, and if they want to, they can communicate normally, and they obviously don't have much interest in slaughtering living beings who are idle now, even if the living beings are dangling in front of their eyes, they are just driving the living beings away in order not to be disturbed by their work, and the number, it can be seen from the fact that the number of undead who are pouring out of the door of death is no longer increasing, at least the number of people is limited, so the problem of quantity does not exist. ”

"Well, you go on. Vral lowered his gaze, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes from time to time, and only then could the girls feel that the gentle and elegant lady in front of them was after all the queen who controlled a powerful race. Her Majesty's eyes flashed, and she said thoughtfully: "What you said is not unreasonable, there should be others." ”

"Well, since the first thing is solved, let's move on. Pannis said in a low voice: "The second question we need to figure out is why we are fighting the Second War of the Dead, for which we do not hesitate to consume a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and it can even be said that we have concentrated the strength of the entire Yala Continent. ”

"For self-preservation, of course. Vral replied, "There aren't many people who really want to die, everyone wants to live, that's why it's so easy to respond to your offer and unite against the undead." Hmm, by the way, speaking of which, you brought it up, and now you actually came to ask us why. ”

"Ahem, ahem, whoever proposes it first put aside, plans are one thing, change is another. Pannis coughed again in embarrassment, and forcibly continued: "Then now the question comes back again, since the undead no longer kill at will, and no longer squeeze the living space of other races, why do we continue to fight this war? What is the meaning of consuming the essence accumulated by the Yala Continent for thousands of years every day? Is the vast sighing desert really unable to accommodate a group of conscious and intelligent skeletons?"

"I suddenly had a feeling. Vral raised his eyelids slightly, and said softly, "This method of dealing with problems is familiar to me, don't you think so?" )