Chapter 362: The Precursor of the Great Schism (7000, Ask for a Monthly Pass~)
According to the Voice of the Silver Peak, in March 776 of the Terra calendar, the Canaan Moore envoy represented by the Anfa Ember Lantern visited the key areas of the Silver Peak Territory, mainly in Xiahui City, and gained an in-depth understanding of the modernization of the mountain people in full swing, and fully understood the general trend of the thriving development of the southern ridge of the empire.
After making sure that all of the investments offered by Canaan Moore were on the right track, the elven envoys left Southridge with the gifts they had exchanged.
In addition to the few prosthetic bodies that Anfa carried, to the surprise of passers-by, Theo's mother, the king of the True Dragon Mountain, also said that she would go with him to Canaan Moore.
It sounds strange - though after Ian became the heir of the Dragon, he was theoretically free, either returning to Dragon Island or finding a place to live and waiting for the next mission on Dragon Island...... But in general, the King of the Mountains, who has been living in the Baison Mountains for a long time, should continue to stay here.
After all, there is his lair, his subordinates, and his long-standing dragons—for true dragons, the reverence and yearning of other creatures is a necessity that must be tasted, so they attract everyone's attention wherever they go.
What happened to get the true dragon out of his lair?
The answer, of course, is another real dragon!
Not long after Anfa and his elves arrived at the Silver Peak, the messenger of the City of Knowledge also arrived, and the messenger of the City of Knowledge was none other than Romani, the tower master of the Molten Iron Spire, and the dragon witch Lady Scarle.
Ms. Scarlet, possibly a man. All in all, the real dragon is a very free-spirited, willing to follow his own emotions, a bit of a social terrorist, and very slimy when he gets close to him.
How much trouble is it? As soon as the Lord of Romanita arrived at the Silver Peak Domain, he went directly to Ian for a meeting, and after determining the relevant technical cooperation, he immediately flew away alone under the pretext that the City of Knowledge had been busy recently, and threw Ms. Scarle on the Silver Peak Territory.
And Ian, who was very unhappy, immediately seized Anfa and Theo to visit all the important places in the Silver Peak Territory, mixing together all day and night, not giving Ms. Scarle a chance to get close.
Feeling lonely, Ms. Scarley entangled her old friend the King of the Mountain, and bluntly said that she watched the younger generation gradually grow up and began to appear on the world stage, and she also wanted a child to raise, and Romani refused to give her one, so she would let the King of the Mountain give her one.
After the king of the mountain refused, she said that she could also be him, and it was okay to give one to the king of the mountain herself.
The King of the Mountain fled - in fact, with the original character of the King of the Mountain, maybe he would really try it with Scarle, but Theo is not yet an adult (fourth level), and Terra's situation is becoming more and more serious, he feels that he can't take care of one more child by himself, and Scarley is a bit reliable, but he is not particularly reliable, not quite like a dragon who can raise good children.
Good friends can, the child's father and forget it.
In short, because of the intricate dragon vein relationship between the true dragons, Yinfeng Ling lost a good helper of the fourth energy level.
However, at this time, Ian didn't need the protection of the Mountain King too much - the Silver Peak Territory had grown stronger, and with the power of the Heart of Terra, the assistance of Adalbert and others, and the growing armament of the Silver Peak Territory, they could defend their territory even without the support of Dragon Island.
What's more, Canaan Moore's side is actually turbulent, and the King of the Mountain and Ms. Scarley went to Canaan Moore with Anfa, which is also good news for Ian, and when the time comes, his prosthetic body in Canaan Moore can join forces with the King of the Mountain to deal with some emergencies.
Horizontal and vertical are not lost.
And that's not all.
In fact, the dark tide has been raging much more than Canaan Moore in recent times.
Because of the attack on Atlan Megacity some time ago, the empire and the Seven Cities Alliance worked together to knock out the defense lines of several inland sea islands on the far shore islands, and the two alliances were originally going to approach the West Quiet Sea area and press the far shore islands directly, but there was a big problem within the Seven Cities Alliance.
This is a big problem, Ian can guess, there are probably a few city lords who secretly have contact with the forces of the Far Shore Island or the Flying Flame Land of the Capital of Knowledge, and the two sides played tacit cards and participated in the looting of the Atlan Giant City together.
When this matter was discovered, the loss of those magical beast materials in Atlan Giant City was not worth mentioning at all, as a traditional ally and important trading partner of the empire, the Seven Cities Alliance had such an internal scandal, and immediately lost the ability to fight externally. The major fleets returned in unison and confronted each other around the Qishan Peninsula, looking like they were going to fight a civil war.
Of course, it's not just because of such a trivial matter as secretly collaborating with the enemy country that has to fight a civil war - which faction in Terra does not have people who secretly cooperate with the enemy country? If nothing else, Ian has too much.
The problem is that there are already great contradictions within the Seven Cities Alliance, which has always been suppressed by the support of the empire and external contradictions.
Now, in this period of war, the secret abacus between the seven cities has become blatant, and the cities that already have old feuds have begun to shout and confront each other, one said, 'You impersonal thing, go and be the dog of the empire, we are an independent country and have independent diplomatic rights', and the other angrily shouted, 'Don't run to the Flying Flame Land and the Far Shore Island, you are not a personality problem but an IQ problem', and the two sides are fighting in newspapers, online bards and various public opinion channels.
Ian didn't have much to say about this, the Seven Cities Alliance was not a normal country in the first place, it was a big force condensed by the support of the empire and the pressure of the outside world, and its internal top inheritance was the same as that of the Ridge Castle, not a bloodline inheritance, but a mysterious 'Strange Thing in the Void Realm', and its source even had a great connection with the ancient 'Realm of Light Realm' in the middle of the Quiet Sea.
The fifth energy level of this generation of the Seven Cities Alliance declared neutrality very early, and she was old enough to retreat on Mount Kantamas, perhaps just waiting for whoever won the victory, she would give the blood of this throne to whomever she wanted.
As for the quarrel between the two sides, Ian believes that half of it is true, and the other half is fake - the contradictions within the Seven Cities Alliance are indeed extremely difficult to contain, but it is not necessary to say that it is necessary to fight a civil war.
The reason why it is so fierce is entirely because the Seven Cities Alliance does not want to join the Empire in an all-out war against the Far Shore Island so soon.
The empire has gone crazy, and recently it has been going crazy to go to war in all directions, fighting the Heavenly King Court in the east of the Flying Flame Land in the west, pressing the Junling Fort in the north, deterring Yanjiang, and now it is going to expedition to the far shore island...... Now all countries are wondering if the defenders are dissatisfied with their titles and want to turn the defense of the territory into a 'frontier'.
This is why the Anfa Society told Ian that the nations saw that something was wrong with the Empire and even Axel, so they no longer took the initiative to go to war, but began to make frequent detours from other aspects.
His grandmother's, it's impossible for this old bastard to suddenly change his sex and do it, right?
There is a conspiracy, there is definitely a conspiracy! Axel: It is absolutely impossible for him to go to war for the sake of war!
In response, the empire did not say a word, and launched a plan to popularize the floating city.
And as one of the territories that responded to the empire's floating city plan the fastest, the floating city of the Silver Peak Territory ...... To be precise, the floating island has been successfully completed, and the test flight has been successful.
The technology of the Floating City is not complicated, the Silver Sky Cloud Scene is essentially to create a sub-etheric material called 'Light Cloud', and with the pumice stone skeleton, it can use the power of the planet's natural psionic field itself to resist gravitational levitation, and the Empire's Floating City Aether Furnace is essentially the engine that pushes it to move, rather than the supporting power that supports its floating.
Without the Aether Hearth, the Floating City will not fall directly, but will not be able to maintain the momentum that holds it together and will fall apart - at that time, as the skeleton collapses, the Floating City will turn into a falling meteorite shower, but there will be no grand explosion.
Of course, there are difficulties in this technology, after all, not every territory has the ability to process pumice alloys and make 'light clouds', especially the creation of light clouds requires a special spiritual quality, and this spiritual quality can only be produced in the capital of knowledge, and it is precisely with the capital of knowledge that the empire has reached a resource import agreement with the capital of knowledge, which can make floating cities on a large scale.
Fortunately, Ian has a relationship with the Imperial Capital - when he communicates with the Great Prince about the arts, the Silver Peak Territory has become a priority supply area, and the Baisen Mountains are rich in minerals, so there is no need to worry about raw materials, so the construction of the Floating City is progressing extremely quickly.
Just on the banks of the Sandton River in the northwest of Xiahui City, around Lone Flame Peak, a small aerial platform is suspended at a height of more than a thousand meters, it looks very stable, and a vertical elevator chain is located in the center of it, so that the crane transporting materials can go up and down steadily.
This small island of about 65,000 square meters is not large, only the size of eight or nine football fields, it looks like a platform made of rock, metal, and various spiritual materials, but it is the core of the future floating city.
In the future, this small island will carry the central system and core furnace of the floating city, which will be expanded into four or even eight groups in the future, but each furnace will be coordinated by the central furnace and the center, and then make the floating city move.
With the help of the Heart of Terra, exoskeleton armor, and a large number of arcane path practitioners, a shelter that can be provided to the entire population of the Silver Peak Leader can be roughly completed by the end of the year.
That's Terra Efficiency!
The only problem is that everyone has found out that the imperial capital seems to be serious, they really don't have any shrinkage and card procedures, and they can provide complete plans, materials and corresponding construction materials for all areas that want to build floating city territories all the way.
You must know that the empire is not as good as the island of Yuanshore is an island, and in such a large country, one-third of the material drift from top to bottom can be regarded as a golden age of the empire.
But it didn't drift at all, and all the resources and funds were given to ...... Is this a prelude to another empire to achieve greater glory?
How can it be! Something is definitely going to happen!
Now, even the most sluggish people feel the smell of the coming storm.
Ian's body, which is located in the Holy Mountain, can't help but ask Huaiguang. He didn't ask Axel what he was going to do, but he asked in a roundabout way if they knew if Inaga II had any plans to destroy the world.
[This is a bit much]
The younger sister of the Huaiguang Twins said: [The independent implementation of the Settar Empire may cause the extinction of the biosphere There are a total of fifteen back-hands, and there are three plans that are enough to raze the surface in cooperation with other countries, which one is you asking? 】
“……”
Ian wanted to speak and stopped, but after thinking about it, just the imperial capital, he himself could play seven or eight ways to destroy the world, and he was immediately relieved: "Thank you, because of you, Terra can survive." ”
[It doesn't have a lot to do with us]
The elder brother of the Huaiguang twins shook his head: [Actually, it's normal, the civilization of the previous era was so stable and peaceful, just in the laboratory where my sister and I stayed at the beginning, there were seven or eight super viruses with a high probability of being able to eliminate 70% of the species. If the photoelement symbiote is weaponized, even the sea can be burned dry, not to mention that those Void Realm Gods only need to strike, and the current Terra people will most likely be eroded and died out by demons]
[In the final analysis, Terra has not accepted the transformation of the star god, it is just an ordinary planet of life, for a civilization that has not gone to the starry sky, a planet is already huge enough, just like in the hearts of people who have not left the country, their cities and provinces are unimaginably large, not to mention the entire country and foreign countries]
[But for the pre-era civilizations and the Star God, the True Dragon, and other Tinder civilizations, the planet is just a springboard and foundation, if they can't even destroy the biosphere on a planet, how can they say that they have the ability to protect themselves in the starry sky? 】
[As we said to you a long time ago, every fifth energy level has the possibility of destroying this world. So we have to witness, observe, and reverse this possibility at a critical moment.]
Huaiguang's faith was the same as ever, and after learning their origins, Ian was able to trust them even more.
Although it is said that 'the heart of a non-human race must be different', the heart of the human species may sometimes be more popular, neither can understand the ultimate evil and chaos like demons, nor can it understand the pure goodness of Huaiguang, this human heart is certainly the source of power for human beings to move forward step by step, but sometimes it is also the reason for hindering cooperation.
"Then you really can't guess what Axel is going to do?"
Ian thought for a moment, but continued to ask: "Although I don't think Axel will choose to destroy the world, I always feel that what he wants to do will also cause misery to the living." ”
【Our Foreknowledge】
The twin popes of Huaiguang glanced at each other, and they said in unison: "No one was foreseen dying.
Our foreknowledge is not perfect, we can only foresee great natural disasters and endless deaths. Together with the Cult of All Souls, we foresaw the Scourge of Light, but we did not foresee the extinction of the global population - after the Lonely Mountain Conference, several major powers led to the Empire, Falling Star City, Yanjiang and the Capital of Knowledge announced that the planetary shield technology had begun to spread, and that the Scourge of Light could not wipe out humanity, not even any of them.
[Ian, we know your doubts, but in Terra, there is no fifth-level powerhouse whose purpose is to live for the sake of life, they have their own dreams and goals, we have witnessed. Perhaps, for the sake of their dreams, they will start a war and even kill thousands of people, but they will not kill for the sake of killing]
[You think that the popularity of the floating city may be a harbinger of something big, and we think the same. But no matter what, it can protect more lives, and we think it's more important to guard the 'Thousand Stars Beast' than that.]
This is also the reason why Huaiguang hasn't made much of a move recently.
Although Huaiguang did not know that in one of Ian's lives, the Scourge of Light would awaken the Thousand Stars Beast and destroy most of Terra, they were also keenly aware that the Thousand Stars Beast was the greatest source of calamity.
And speaking of which......
Ian suddenly thought of something, and then his eyes lit up, and he said, "Although it may be a little abrupt...... But I beg your pardon for taking the liberty of His Holiness the Pope. ”
"Can you tell me about it...... The King of the Crystallized Dragons who guards the Sea of Meditation. His Majesty Golitnir? ”
【Yes】
Huaiguang Daqun said: [Gletnir is very happy to see a junior with potential like you, he is also a neutral fifth energy level guarding the center of the Thousand Stars Beast...... But Ian, after all, he's just a crystallized dragon, not a real emperor and king, and it's fine if you just want to talk to him, but if you want something from him, it's better to trade fairly.
"Don't worry."
Ian smiled, "I just want a ...... Nature is fair trade. ”
……
Today's holy mountain is still peaceful, even if it is the founder of the Arcane Path, Mahdi Yougu, who is sheltered by Huaiguang here, there are no big spies trying to infiltrate.
It's not because I don't want to, but because among the neighboring countries, Junling Fort is at war with the Empire, and Yanjiang's respect for Huaiguang can be called the first, comparable to the empire of Inaga II, and the Heavenly King's Court ......
The Heavenly Court also had a big problem.
Just when the battle between the Empire and the Heavenly Royal Court was in full swing in the Eastern Front Mountain Range Battlefield and the Plains Theater, the Royal Court suddenly withdrew its troops unilaterally, leaving a large blank position.
The Imperial side believed that this was some kind of conspiracy trap, so they cautiously pushed forward the battle line, but the commander was shocked to find that the royal court had really withdrawn and left, leaving behind the front they had defended with a lot of blood.
And a few days later, news came from the core of the royal court, which solved the doubts of the imperial side that still did not dare to act rashly.
The old khan of the Heavenly Court, Ankatuo Ximoor, is seriously ill.
All the wolf blood of the Heavenly Court came from all sides and gathered at the place where the Royal Court was
This is clearly not normal.
When Ian learned the news, his first thought was, 'Huh? The second thought was, 'It's a trap!' It's a trap! ’。
Although the old khan is more than a hundred years old, even if he is a fifth-level powerhouse, he has entered a period of decay in his life, not to mention that the old khan is young and fights all year round, and he is prone to premature aging.
But it will take at least another ten years before there is a problem.
Not to mention, the old khan had only made a move a few years ago, confronting Axel and the distant wind, and the Great Khan of Damnation at that time looked quite healthy, without the slightest precursor to an accident.
Although reason told Ian that this kind of news had reached the Empire, even if it was fake, it was absolutely true that the old khan had a problem with his state - even if it was a strategic deception, it was his own people who deceived first, and the wolf blood generals on all sides abandoned the front and returned, and it was just a fool to pierce one of his own kidneys in order to deceive people.
But Sensual tells Ian that there is definitely a big conspiracy behind this incident.
- Is there such a strong sense of déjà vu? Did I get involved in this in my previous life?
Ian muttered in his heart that it was very likely that he had been involved in this incident within the Heavenly Court in his previous life...... This is probably a branch option, after the incident of Canaan Moore's Xenomorph Research Institute, if Mahdi's identity is not revealed, but chooses a certain party to join, whether it is Yanjiang or the Heavenly Royal Court, or other forces, it is very likely to catch up with some big events.
That's another world line, I'm afraid there is a conspiracy behind it similar to the Ember Lantern Silver Gate and other kings' blood plotting the fifth energy level of the country, but it's a pity that in this life, Ian chose the line of Dragon Island and the Capital of Knowledge, and transferred to the New World, so he really didn't have the energy to care about the Heavenly Court.
In the final analysis, the line that can be abandoned means that there should be nothing big enough to affect Terra behind it, so it will be abandoned.
But for the Heavenly Court, the two fifth-level inheritors inherited the blood of the Heavenly Wolf, and the most powerful Great Khan temporarily fell, so the other fifth-level of the Emperor, Gai Orn, should preside over the situation - but this can only ensure the smooth operation of the Royal Court, and cannot prevent the return of the wolf's blood.
It may sound like it is just an ordinary eruption of internal contradictions between countries.
But Ian was keenly aware of one thing.
He picked up the map, looked at them one by one, and then couldn't help but look stunned.
The Flying Flame Land, temporarily forced back by the Floating City, is now at a disadvantage.
The Seven Cities Alliance, mired in civil strife, the Empire administers justice,
The Far Shore Island, which seems to have snatched the authority of the Dragon of Terra from the Empire, mobilized the Grand Fleet to the New World to compete with the local Warcraft for the Crystallization Holy Land, but in fact, it made the western part of the Empire no longer threatened and completely safe.
The Ridge Fortress, pressed and beaten by the Empire, they themselves are used to it.
Yanjiang, separated by the Holy Mountain, has no sign of war at present. Yanjiang is still in a period of contraction.
Ganter Righam, an ally of the Empire, is on the defensive at war with the Heavenly Court.
Canaan Moore, with the support of the empire, overthrew the pro-Heavenly Imperial Court's Domain Ancestor, and now he is also an ally, trading for the potential to compete for hegemony in the future at the cost of a temporary decline in strength, confronting the Heavenly Imperial Court, and there is no possibility of external action for the time being.
Whale Song Cliff. A group of fishermen are still catching magic insects in the sea.
The Nine Cold Alliance, an ally of the Heavenly Royal Court, although it is possible to export power, it is too far. It's just a pair of Canaan Moore and Ganter Righam, and it can't affect the empire.
As for the Heavenly King's Court......
"There was civil unrest ...... too"
For a while, Ian was shocked to find that there was not a single force that could really stop the empire from doing anything big - Huaiguang was guarding the Thousand Stars Beast, the Hall of All Souls was still contacting all ethnic groups and countries for the scourge of light, and the Spirit Weapon Church was estimated to be shrinking because of the turmoil in the City of Knowledge, and I don't know what the Netherworld Order is doing now, but it is likely that it will not come over to do anything......
The empire seems to be hostile to more than half of the forces of Taila, but in reality...... At the beginning of the all-out war, the empire became freer!
"Axel, is it really that powerful?"
For a while, even if he didn't want to, Ian had to admit that the turmoil in the Heavenly Court might really have a lot to do with Axel, just as the battle with the royal blood behind Canaan Moore may also have the fall of the empire behind it.
Even, the other party's drive away 'Mahdi' can be regarded as attracting the attention of a wave of other big forces - if he Mahdi is still in the empire, then there may be many people who will focus their eyes on the empire and on Mahdi, the second generation of immovable fortified cities. And then Mahdi shows his arcane path, and the empire is the center of all Terra.
Although Axel was lucky to have this point, his decision was indeed right - Mahdi can't be killed in this big trouble, but he can't stay in the country, and he must be kicked out!
"Grandfather, he's not going to do anything, he's almost done."
After telling Isengard about his speculation about Axel, the blond young man frowned and thought for a while, and then said slowly: "According to my thoughts, he must have secretly prepared everything, and even the plan has started for a while before he began to divert his attention and shift firepower, so that even if the countries react, they will not have time to stop it." ”
"Ian, are you going to do something?"
"No, as you said, it's too late. What's more, even if someone were to stop something we didn't know about, it shouldn't be us. ”
Ian shook his head, he just said in a deep voice, "It's just, I thought of one thing. ”
"Do you remember? In my past life, when Mikael became the fifth power level and returned to the empire to rebel against Axel, that was the threat that Axel could not eliminate after plotting all the big forces in Terra. ”
"His own son."
"Mikael is the one who can really stop Axel, and although he was defeated in that timeline, the empire also shrank until the subsequent 'Great Schism'."
Speaking of this, Ian raised his head thoughtfully and looked at the map in his hand: "The contradiction between the two bloodlines of the Flying Flame Land has reached a critical point, and the same is true of the Seven Cities Alliance. Far Shore Island is essentially divided between the native islanders and the New Worlders, and their division is a matter of course. ”
"The division of the empire is the struggle between the Grand Prince and the Grand Empress after the silence of Mikael and Axel, and the independence of some sporadic small forces. The Heavenly Court is also divided, and Canaan Moore has not yet bridged the contradiction between the blood of the ten kings, and even there are two transformation plans, and their division is a matter of course. ”
"It's interesting, there are two fifth-level forces, or maybe there are two fifth-level forces that are all split...... Is this the 'precursor' to the beginning of a great event, or is it the 'result' of a major event? ”
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