Chapter 7 Politics
Raymond's face was pale, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, the blood vessels in his neck were still pulsating violently, and he coughed violently for a while before he calmed down. Bayi Chinese Network
At this time, a tall and strict old man walked into the door of the teleportation hall, and when he saw Raymond's appearance, he immediately quickened his pace and walked over, saying, "Raymond, do you want to find a priest to come over?"
Raymond shook his head weakly and said, "No! This time the portal fluctuates a little more violently, just rest for a while." I can't use the priest's magic ....... much. You don't have to worry about me, father, but time is limited, let's go to the war room first, and I'll tell you about the progress of this campaign. â
The Joseph family's war room is spacious and tall, and the table in the center is a high-end alchemical utensil, capable of storing up to nine holographic stereoscopic magic maps. In addition to the Norland continent map, the Joseph family has five exclusive planes. It was the dream of all Josephs to one day be able to realize the full potential of this alchemy table.
The waiter had already moved a high seat, which was reserved for Raymond, and was able to save his body and look down on the entire magic map. Raymond didn't always need this chair, but it's been used more recently.
After the two family mages were infused with magic, a map began to appear. They immediately withdrew, which was the highest secret of the Joseph family, and they were not allowed to watch it.
Raymond inserted a message crystal into a special slot on the table, and the magic map instantly changed, revealing many cities, strongholds, and marked special locations. And there are knights, swordsmen, magicians, etc. representing the corresponding classes on it.
Raymond pointed to a vast river valley with a special magic silver indicator stick, and said, "The July Battle of the Alpha Plane has ended, and we have won a decisive victory. Here we inflicted heavy losses on the main forces of the combined forces of the enemy, and occupied the valley of the Rapids. This is the meticulous process of this campaign. First of all, I asked the 6th Hussar Regiment to make a detour through the Werewolf Valley and insert it behind the coalition forces......."
Raymond's voice was soft, with occasional quiet coughing, but in the midst of a gentle narrative, a gripping battle unfolded on the magic sandbox. The two sides mobilized a total of nearly 50,000 troops, and Raymond was still slightly at a disadvantage. However, in this tug-of-war, which lasted for more than a month, Raymond finally dragged down the opponent with unpredictable tactics and constant attacks, and completely routed the enemy's main force. By the end of the campaign, the enemy coalition had lost no more than 4,000 dead and more than 15,000 captured, most of whom had been captured in the process of retreat.
After this battle, the Joseph family's front in the Alpha plane advanced a large area, adding a fertile land with more than half a million local inhabitants to the territory and gaining the choke point of the Kara Pass. And to be able to achieve such brilliant results, Raymond's command should be the first credit.
Duke Joseph only glanced at Raymond after a few glances on the magic sandbox, his eyes full of complexity and sorrow. He knew Raymond's physical condition, and now even the portal through the plane was about to become a heavy burden. If it were possible, he would rather be able to trade the alpha plane for Raymond's health.
After finally finishing the July battle, Raymond raised his head and said confidently: "Father, no one can drive us out of the Alpha Plane now! â
"Sacrifices are not a problem. Duke Joseph sighed first, and then said slowly: "Raymond, when you come back this time, you don't want to go to other planes." Recuperate and stop worrying about these things. I hope that in the years to come, you will be able to take it easy and do something you love. Those planes, just a few of your siblings will go. It's true that they are not as good as you, but they can still do it. I really can't, and what about me, you don't think I'm too old to go to the exclusive plane, do you?"
Raymond coughed a few times before he said, "Father, we are not in a good situation. Over the years, ....... war with Akmund has consumed too many resources. Now we are completely strong from the outside, and we may not be able to support it at any time. I can't...... Look at the family like this. The progress of the Plane War is crucial, and our resources are simply too scarce, especially for sacrifices. I've never asked you, but I'm well aware that we've bottomed out our sacrificial reserves, ......right? Our opponent is Gordon, and there may be Richard in the future, and war with these madmen...... To be slow is to die. â
The corners of Duke Joseph's mouth moved, and he walked back and forth in the room with his back hand a few times, and finally made up his mind and said, "Raymond! My old face is still worth some money, and several old friends have promised me that they will help me make some sacrifices. In this way, with our own inventory, it is enough to make two intermediate sacrifices! These two sacrifices are up to you, and if there is a time-type divine grace, you will use it on yourself! If you are lucky enough, you may be able to have more than ten years of extra life!"
Raymond shook his head with a light smile and said, "Father, you are confused again. You don't know the condition of my body, the torrent of life has no great effect on me, it only prevents the body from aging, but it cannot cure the disease. Why waste divine grace on me, we have finally opened up the situation in the alpha plane, and we must try to avoid indirect interference from the gods of the plane. If the gods do whatever it takes, won't the good situation be ruined? Do you have to re-establish the plane passage? As for me...... It doesn't matter at all a few years earlier or a few years later. As a member of Joseph, I am willing to give to my family. What's more, what I have sacrificed is just a body that has been shaken by storms. No matter what you say, I'm not going to sacrifice. â
Speaking of this, Raymond coughed violently again, his face swollen red, and his body arched like a shrimp out of water.
Duke Joseph slammed his fist on the table and said angrily: "If you want to cure your illness, isn't it just a sacrifice of a high-level sacrifice?
Raymond smiled bitterly and said, "Once, father, you were impulsive. You should know that even if we have a high sacrifice, we will be able to receive the divine grace we need?"
Duke Joseph was stunned, and finally only sighed very heavily.
The graces bestowed by the dragons of eternity and time are limited to a certain scope, and in the case of advanced sacrifices, this category can indeed be narrowed down to the most urgent desires of the sacrificer, but it often still contains hundreds of choices. The specific charisms will still be randomly selected from the hundreds of divine graces. Even if you're lucky enough to have one or three options, you'll still need a lot of luck to draw out the hundreds of graces you need.
Either you have great strength, or you have great luck, or you can make the old dragon especially like, this is the whole path to a specific divine grace.
Both Duke Joseph and Raymond seem to be a little far away from being lucky, otherwise how could they provoke an enemy like Gordon?
"There's never a harm in trying. The Duke said with a wry smile, and then he subconsciously said, "Maybe I should go and ask His Highness Su Helen, she must have enough sacrifices in her hands." It's just that the interest rate is higher!"
Raymond couldn't help but laugh and said, "Father, you are really confused! Have you forgotten that Richard is from Deep Blue? I heard that His Royal Highness Su Helen is very concerned about this student, and the joy he gave him has set a record." And if it weren't for His Highness's backing, where would the Akmund family or Gordon have so many powerful sacrifices? What we have done in the past is like pushing Richard, His Highness's most proud student, into a desperate situation! Don't forget, not only have we changed the coordinates of the lower plane that Richard was originally going to, but we have also interfered with Gordon's search for Richard's sacrifice twice in a row!"
Duke Joseph only sighed deeply and said bitterly: "Actually, if we hadn't touched Richard in the first place, maybe it would have been better." After paying so much price, it is still impossible to determine whether Richard is dead or not. â
"No! Richard must die!" Raymond was surprisingly determined. "He's not a genius in the ordinary sense of the word, but a man who can change the whole situation of war! If he's just an ordinary constructor, it's not worth the price. But he's not! I've seen his work, and it's an indescribable feeling! His compositions are unimaginably precise, full of imagination, breaking conventions, but conforming to the rules. All in all, his constructs have souls, and his own soul is a frozen volcano!"
The more Raymond spoke, the more agitated he became, his face swollen red again, and finally he coughed violently, and had to interrupt his speech. With great difficulty, he came back and said, "If we let him grow up, we may even be expelled from Faust." In the entire history of Norland, who has a good end for the Saint Builder?"
Duke Joseph frowned and said, "Richard shouldn't be able to come back, although we are almost running out of sacrificial stock." But there is also Mensa ......"
Speaking of this, Duke Joseph remembered something, and suddenly stopped talking.
"Mensa ......" Raymond groaned, and it took a long time before he said, "Father, we have to be careful with Mensa. The Duke of Mensa is one of the few people I find difficult to see, but I know that his ambitions are very great! It would be a mistake to think that his ambitions would be curtailed as he got older. Therefore, the war with Akmund also needs to be controlled, so as not to be taken advantage of by the Duke of Mensa. He...... He is a most cunning wolf. â
Duke Joseph nodded.
Raymond suddenly remembered something, and said, "By the way, I almost forgot about it, how happened to the trap prepared for Gordon? Did his army set off? Calculating the time, it should be about the same." â
Duke Joseph hesitated for a moment before saying, "Just yesterday, Gordon led eight knights, with the main force of the knights and an army of 40,000, into the Luoqi plane. â
Raymond was surprised and delighted: "What about his portal?"
"Completely blown up. It's the same as the one you conceived. The Duke said calmly, but there was not much joy in it.
"Great!" Raymond jumped up with excitement and said loudly, "No matter how good Gordon is, no matter how good he is, and how good he is to create a zĂ o spectacle, it will take at least ten years to come back! Of course, it is more likely that he will never come back, and he will die in the alien plane from then on, after all, Luo Qi is now equivalent to a plane without the Eternal Dragon Hall and has not been discovered by Noland. Since that's the case, then I'm not in a hurry to go back. There are still a lot of difficult ones in Akmund, and I'll stay and deal with them, lest they jump off the wall. â
Duke Joseph glanced at Raymond, sighed again, and said, "Just today, Duke Mensa announced the news of the Luoqi plane in the House of Lords. He also announced the second news, which was that Lucky would be engaged to Dario Schumpeter. â
"What!?" Raymond visibly froze. He stood for a moment, and suddenly his face turned pale, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Duke Joseph didn't know what to say, all he could do was pat Raymond on the back and soothe his disordered qi with his deep fighting spirit.
After spitting out another mouthful of blood, Raymond took out the square scarf, wiped the blood from his mouth, his face slowly calmed down, and then smiled bitterly and said, "This is the political ...... Is it?"
The next morning, on floating islands 5-4, the Emperor of the League walked into the breakfast room with the same precision as the magic clock, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window overlooking Faust, and squeezed his huge body into the chair.
The chair had long since been replaced, and the reason why the throne made of ink was not made bigger was entirely because the material was too rare. Even if the Emperor of the Alliance wanted to use the fourth-order construction main material to make a chair, he wouldn't be able to make too much.
After the aperitif, the main course for today's breakfast is roasted dragon tail, which is also half-rare, so much so that there is an occasional piece of dragon scales left on top. This was also the Emperor's unique taste demand, and at certain times, chewing on the crispy and delicious dragon scales was a complete treat. As the emperor began to serve the main course, the courtiers began to read out the solemn events that had taken place on the continent the day before, as usual. Among them, the loss of Gordon's army to the Rockety plane was read as a headline.
Philip suddenly stopped eating, and his whole body froze like a stone statue. The courtiers knew that this was a sign that the emperor had begun to meditate, so they did not read it any further, but quietly waited for the emperor to think.
Philip's body grew warmer and hotter, and after three minutes, his sluggish face suddenly moved, and then a hot flame erupted from his mouth, roasting the dragon's tail, which was still half-cooked between his teeth.
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