Chapter 181: Founding of the State
Looking back on the past and looking at the present, Gustav's heart fluctuates one after another.
The demons are no longer undying enemies, but objects that can be communicated with on an equal footing.
At the end of the day, it's all about money.
"When I was young, I fought with you demons, and I became famous for killing the knight leader of the demons," Gustav scratched his head a little embarrassedly and lowered his voice to Vincent, "Once upon a time, I thought that demons would hate me, and if it weren't for my sister's high recommendation, I wouldn't have known such an interesting character as you."
"Hatred makes people stop the past, tolerance makes people see the future, this time and that." Vincent said magnanimously, "The team battle is a legendary hero, and I don't think there will be any regrets if the "death maniac" dies in battle."
This is not a compliment, it is indeed a truth, although the body of the death madness Veratta was defeated, but the soul recovered by the necromancer still said that he had no resentment towards this wonderful battle, and he would challenge again after his body was repaired.
Theoretically, as long as the body is repaired and the balance magic is reinfused, the Dark Knight can rise again.
However, this repair, which made the "death maniac" look forward to it so much, ultimately failed due to the consumption of too much mana and materials in the later stages of the war......
"My sister said that you are a capable lord who has made money and made money, and indeed you live up to your reputation." Gustav praised Vincent, "The Great Stone Chamber of Commerce has had a very good business this year, all thanks to you, and I am surprised that you have achieved victory, fame and wealth without killing many people."
From this sentence, Vincent could see the joy of the group leader, as well as the indescribable envy.
Barbarians, lacking the skills to earn a living, had a hard time making a living in all countries except as mercenaries, and the other tribes were afraid of their physical strength and did not dare to let them gain status.
Even if Shi Ni Coolster has an older brother as a backer, he can already be regarded as an outlier in the business world.
Not to mention the ability to do business, having a famous brother as a backer is actually considered open, and others don't have this kind of luck.
The incident of Herode's unpaid wages is only a microcosm of the discrimination against the highlander ethnic group, and it also shows the decline in the strength of the mercenary group.
In fact, even if he offended Shi Ni, the tens of thousands of soldiers that Vincent was worried about would not appear when they set foot on Silver Dragon Castle, because in the war with the Northern Beast Clan, more than 3,000 plateau mercenaries have been killed in the past few years, and the rest will depend on the Demon Clan to seek justice.
The economic disadvantage is the disadvantage of social status, and the plateau people are physically strong, and there must be no other diseases, only poor diseases.
A small abacus, even if it can sell well for a while, will not be able to solve the livelihood of thousands of barbarian warriors, let alone feed the hundreds of thousands of people who are struggling to live on the plateau.
There is no reason why Vincent should not take advantage of the opportunity to be delivered to the door.
"There is a big project in my territory that is about to be prepared, and it should be very suitable for you warriors, so that everyone will not suffer from hunger, poverty and discrimination."
Vincent took out a map and explained it in a rambling manner, and Gustav listened patiently to his words without any impatience.
Logistics?
Highway?
Toll booths?
Road Guards?
Anti-smuggling brigade?
Security Brigade?
Escort brigade?
A bunch of fresh nouns appear one after another, leaving the invincible Gustav feeling both strange and full of unknown challenges.
The harvest of this meeting may be greater than imagined.
A small territory like the Coastal Territory is completely incomparable in size with a large country, and the population of the territory is not even comparable to the number of soldiers that a large country can mobilize.
Even if he is the son of the demon king, he is not the top person in the continent, not to mention that there are many demon kings and princes, plus the princes and princes of various countries, the head of Gustav, who has been active since the time of the war, has seen it, not a hundred, but eighty.
Many people are mediocre all their lives, and they can only be obscure little lords.
However, not all the minor lords dared to call Prince Banshirod and completely annihilate his army on the battlefield.
Even with the help of Grand Duke Xia De's bone dragon group, this kind of victory was extremely rare, after all, Vincent had won the outpost battle at least alone, and he had held out until the Grand Duke was supporting.
Asking the eccentric Demon Grand Duke to help, the difficulty is even greater for the nobles than winning the battle alone.
Now, the small lords who have won the big country are starting to become rich.
No one likes mercenaries more than rich people, plateau people are poor and honest people, and there is no honest pretentiousness when they see the gold owner, whether it is a demon or a human race, as long as they pay for it, they are all customers.
Seeing with his own eyes that the Herodians had already taken out real money and supplies and slaves, Gustav was thrilled, and finally made up his mind to put down his body and negotiate with Vincent formally.
I heard that Vincent was not a lord who was extremely poor and luxurious, and suddenly had so much money, even if it was of other use, the rest was enough to hire his own team for a while.
The boulder plateau is located in a remote area, neither invaded by the demons, and the number of battles with the demons during the war is not much, the two sides have no grudges, thirty years have passed, even if they give their lives to the demons, the mercenaries have not resisted.
Compared with the reasonable and powerful demons, those sanctimonious Terran nobles are not a good thing.
Although Prince Lingus's reputation was many times louder than Vincent's, judging from his very different performances before and after this war, the Grand Master still thought that this man could hardly live up to his fame.
Abandoning his fallen fiancée for political gain is already a villain, and it doesn't look like a hero to show weakness less than three days after the defeat on the battlefield.
Looking back, Gustav found it hard to believe that it was a young warrior who had been inextricably beaten against him.
Both the human race and the demon race show a different side from their own stereotypes.
In contrast, choosing the winning side is definitely more advantageous for the mercenaries.
"We don't want and can't go to war with the Orcs, you probably don't know, the situation in the North is terrible," Gustav told the truth, "The tribal alliance of the Orcs is attacking the Northern Mountain Territory with all its might, the lord is killed, and all three of our teams there have been wiped out in a month, losing thousands of warriors, and if we go again, there will not be enough people to die."
"I understand your responsibility to your people, after all, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, and I will not make a harsh evaluation of your difficult choices......" Vincent said, gradually showing a confused expression, "However, I also have a problem......
"When did the orc tribe become so strong?"
Vincent wasn't alone, but he knew as little about it as most people.
In his or most people's minds, the northern orcs are a backward race, and their performance is only to keep up with the human race in terms of technology, but in reality their development is still far behind the various kingdoms.
It has only been the last fifty years that orcs have ceased to be hunted as prey and slaves. They relied on the birth rate and the protection of the mountains and wilderness to stalemate with the border nobles, and occasionally made a sneak attack to make a profit, but the large-scale counterattack was really unexpected.
Compared with the small lords who live in a corner of the southern part of the continent, the mercenary group leaders who fight everywhere are still well-informed.
But what surprised Vincent the most was not the victory of the orcs on the border, but the reason for the victory.
"I've got word from my men that the Orc Alliance has elected a new leader in the summer, a young leader from the Grizzly tribe and protected by the Elemental God."
"Oh? Is this new leader a magician who is proficient in all kinds of magic?" Vincent heard something that broke through common sense, and asked with interest, "I've heard that mages among the orcs are extremely rare, and they rely more on the blessings of the ancestral gods."
"No, this leader is a true warrior, after entering a state of rage, he can attract metal to forge his body into armor, his body is as indestructible as steel, and his power is as endless as a volcano, and he is called "an army of men" by the Herodians, and it is at his hands that the Duke of Kitayama died."
"And this kind of operation?"
Vincent couldn't help but be stunned, this kind of protection was really unheard of.
"It's true, so I have to admit that the praise of others is too exaggerated for this young warrior to be called the "God of War"......
Only then did Vincent know that La Nina's father did not die in a head-to-head confrontation, but was stoned to death at a distance by the metal on his body liberated by the orc leader during the rout of the army.
Not only can it increase defense, but it can also be turned into an overwhelming flying prop, and this leader's fighting style is truly beyond common sense.
Gustav's self-evaluation is not entirely modest, if a bunch of weapons and armor on the battlefield are folded on his body like crazy, where will he still be an orc after it is formed, it will simply be a grizzly tank full of weapons!
Needless to say, the infantry of the Herodians, even if the Golem Army of the Magic Academy came, I am afraid that there would be a fight.
No, maybe the golem will be manipulated by him with protection.
As soon as he thought that he might face this kind of tin can beyond his cognition in the future, Vincent began to seriously consider whether he should rub some RPG just in case?
However, the orcs from the north shocked one after another, leaving Vincent feeling overwhelmed.
"In addition, in addition to the leader of the Elemental Protection, there is also a girl from the White Wolf tribe who has been elected to become the Great Shaman of the Orcs," Gustav continued to introduce the movements of the Orcs, "This half-orc shaman does not know how to fight, but she is the chosen choice of the gods of nature and life, and can use the Great Resurrection Technique to resurrect the war dead."
"Resurrection?" Vincent's jaw closed in shock, "It's not scientific......
Not to become undead, but to rise from the dead!
"During the war, she has resurrected many orc warriors, and this is widely spread among the orcs, and everyone worships this white wolf shaman, and the warriors who are fortunate enough to receive her blessing are full of courage to defy death on the battlefield and become true bloodthirsty beasts."
It's open, it's completely open!
How much virtue has the beast clan accumulated, so that the gods can give the race two peerless divine choices that are rare in a hundred years at the same time!
Vincent, who has a probe, is full of interest in detecting their divine power data, but unfortunately he is far away in the south, and he can't reach it, and his heart yearns for it.
A warrior who is feared by the gods of war is enough to deter the enemy, but a female shaman who can unite her people and condense faith is even more excessive.
Compared to the steel bear in front, the wolf shaman who can use the resurrection technique is purely a bug, for the orcs who are often demoralized and are lagging behind the Herodians in terms of equipment and tactics, as long as they can resurrect even one person, it will make the morale of other warriors explode.
There is nothing more terrifying than not being afraid of death, and you can be resurrected after death anyway, what else is there to be afraid of?
Even if it may not be his turn, as long as there is hope, the soldier will dare to go forward and fight the Herodians to the death.
The more brave and fearless, even after death, the easier it is to get the favor of the shaman, no wonder the beast clan is suddenly unsightly during this time, it turns out that they are really not afraid of death.
The resurrection was shocking compared to healing, but the church at this time was probably more jealous than Vincent, but there was nothing they could do.
"After this battle, the orcs will become the greatest enemies of the Herodians, and you are lucky, in order to strengthen the army, the king would rather break the bank and buy back your captured army, and send it to the north to defend the castle and strengthen the defense."
It seems that he should have stabbed the big basket this time, and did not attract the national revenge of the Herodians, or did the orc brothers in the north help out?
"Are orcs that hard to deal with?" Vincent thought carefully for a while, and still thought that the Herodians were making a bit of a fuss, "In the past, when there were more orcs and stronger heroes, the Herodians were not so nervous, and many people were still in a hurry to hunt for fortune."
"This time it's different, it's different." Gustav said solemnly, "The orcs have announced that they are going to establish a state."
A new nation will be born in the North?
A wonderful feeling of the accelerated flow of history reappeared with Vincent.
Time, fate, and fortune, Vincent tasted the direction of his fate, and also launched a reverie about the possible orc country in the future.
New countries are the easiest to influence.
If diplomatic, military, and economic ties with the North were strengthened, and even alliances were concluded, the situation in which one's small territory was unilaterally suppressed by Herodes would be greatly improved.
At least for now, she should not be considered a big woman in the eyes of the orcs to do a lot of evil, not only rescued the orc brothers and sisters in distress, but also treated them well and entrusted them with important tasks, and also clearly opposed the discrimination and oppression of the orcs.
Isn't this a good start for an unintentional willow insertion?
"Honorable Captain, this time I negotiated the rescue of a large number of orc slaves from the brutal Herodians," Vincent made up his mind and asked Gustav, "There must be some of these people who miss their homeland and are unwilling to stay, can you send them back to their homeland through the mercenary channel?"
The Plateau God of War looked at Vincent with incomprehensible eyes, and he didn't understand why the demon prince had gone to great lengths to get a slave and send him back to the north if he didn't accept it.
"It's not that it can't be done...... With all due respect, I don't quite understand your intentions." Gustav asked suspiciously, "Slaves are also valuable, and your territory has a small population, so wouldn't it be a huge loss to put it back like this?"
To be honest, slaves are not as good as skeletons as consumables.
Vincent stood up and shook his head slightly, his eyes revealing a rare emotion of compassion among the demons.
"There is no shortage of degenerates among the demons, and I want to be different from them...... Yes, I'm going to do something different so I don't regret it on my deathbed."
"I'm getting worse and worse out of you."
"It's not a good thing that the demons are easily seen through, and I like to keep a little mysterious."
"Young people, you just have a lot of ideas......
The Plateau God of War smiled and stretched out his right hand, which was held with Vincent's hand.