The war in the north is still going on, and in the process, the thirteen divisions of the Far East, which could only be said to be initially united, are becoming closer and closer to each other;

There are signs that they are gradually transforming into a truly unified state.....

From this point of view, unless the three Western powers really plan to destroy the national Yi clan in a war, they will become the driving force for the integration of other countries.

Specifically....

At the high end, according to the information detected by the elven headquarters, the Far East has completed the internal integration in terms of faith through the establishment of the 'natural god system';

At this time, the thirteen gods had united their altars and shamans into a unified system, and the sacrifices of the core people of the kingdom had also shifted from a single god to the entire god system.

And such a way of sacrifice and organization made the feedback from the gods inside for a while, and it became extremely strange in the observation of the witch doctors.....

On the whole, they seem to have formed a kind of relationship between them, such as 'sharing of qi' and 'sharing of power', and they can faintly perceive the flow and exchange of information represented by their respective fields.

At the individual level, the fluctuations in the minds of the people who are close to the gods have also changed dramatically, and they seem to be becoming 'not like themselves', at least not like they were before they formed a divine system and shared beliefs.

Based on this, the witch doctors in orbit speculated that if this change could continue, then the thirteen close gods might have irreversible changes in their personalities, physical forms, and even the shaping of the rule realm.

Of course, that may be a very long evolutionary process, and the specific length of time should be closely related to the number of believers and the level of piety.

In addition, another kind of doubt also floated in Nesta's mind....... 'Although they are not gods yet, they are too easily distorted, right?' ’

Of course, he hadn't actually been to any other world, nor had he seen the existence of the other demigods and gods, so he was just wondering at this time, and he didn't dive into it to think 'why'.

At the same time, the elven scouts, as well as the controlled, or controlled, unwitting alien spies, have another kind of discussion that is taking place in the Far East......

The grass platform team's 'natural god system' seems to be weighing whether to include all the servant and slave departments in the kingdom into the scope of faith.

The witch doctors speculated that the thirteen gods may not have noticed the changes in their bodies, and the reason for this plot may be that they have tasted the benefits of the 'expanded scope of faith', so they want to further strengthen their individual and the collective power of the 'god system';

Or have they noticed it, but under the pressure of the three Western powers, they can't care so much about it at the moment?

In any case, it is vaguely evident from the attitude of the shamans who are still arguing that the 13 gods have not yet made up their minds, otherwise the shamans would not have been able to argue on their own.

In addition, something unusual was mentioned from the intelligence.....

The reason why such a discussion can emerge and take shape in the Far East should be that there is another impetus behind it;

At the very least, the investigators intercepted the electromagnetic signal from the Menglu Realm, and after cracking it, they determined the role of the two kings in it, but the traces of the rest of the parties are unknown.

According to the current situation, it is clear that the Protectors have completely cut off the beliefs of other peoples, but at this time, they have begun to push the gods of the Far East to accept them..... Is this a trap for the Far East, or is it using the thirteen near-gods as pioneers?

For the time being, the witch doctors are not yet able to make a judgment on this.

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Unlike the treacherous changes that occurred at the high-end level, the 'mundane' forces of the Thirteen Far Eastern Divisions showed a considerable degree of resilience in the war after being accelerated and deepening the integration progress.....

Even if each race in it is relatively weak compared to the top three in terms of individual strength, the slave army cannot compete with the West in terms of number and combat power;

But there is one thing that is 'advantage' for them - the total number of people in the core race.

After the integration of the thirteen departments, the main population that can be gathered is actually much more than the three Western powers;

And this kind of numerical superiority, after forming a unified pattern from the top down from the level of the near god within it, can be regarded as being truly developed, and combined with the rest of the advantages brought by the home battle, it has produced changes that should not be underestimated in terms of combat power.

Since then, they have not only gradually blocked the offensive of the three Western powers, but also used their flexibility in grain and grass rationing and troop scheduling to create many victories in local areas.

In addition to the defenders who were responsible for the hard resistance of the first-line fortress group in the middle road, the extreme east not only sent troops to cut off the supply routes, but also left a larger number of mobile troops and additional troops on the second and third lines to deal with emergencies.

For example, after the sudden attack of the two kings of Menglu on the southern front, after the Far Eastern Kingdom learned the information by accident, they immediately requisitioned several times the enemy's strength, lurked in the fortress group on the southern front, and gave the comers a head-on attack, thus causing some of the plans of the Menglu Kingdom to fail.

After that, several main divisions that were known for their speed further penetrated into the territory of the Fangs and Menghu countries, and launched several sneak attacks on their client tribes and sheltered settlements in the Near East, which to a certain extent could be regarded as burning the flames of war into the enemy's territory;

In addition, the long supply lines behind Laiyin are constantly harassed, which also forces some air cavalry to pull back from the battlefield and win more respite for the frontal battlefield.

Of course, the top three did not sit idly by.....

On the one hand, although the Twin Kingdoms did not know what their purpose was in the beginning, reinforcements on the southern front had become an established fact at this time;

On the other hand, the fanged kingdoms in the north and the Laiyin kingdoms in the west are also constantly increasing their troops to the front line, and slave soldiers composed of various races are marching to the battlefield one after another.

And in such a situation, the elves' movements inside and outside the battlefield have never stopped.....

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Far from the war, or even irrelevant, the Black Forest brought back a large number of inferior races by fleets and airships, and settled them in the mountains, large and small broken plains, and even scattered on some large islands abroad;

This movement lasted for several years, and the war on the mainland was bogged down in a tug-of-war, which also continued for several years and continues to be carried out.......

In addition, in the area farther away from the battlefield and the four countries, the fifth-order witch doctor took advantage of the various busyness of the near gods to capture a group of high-level demonic beasts;

As a result, the number of mother trees in the headquarters has been raised to 200, and the number of mother trees in space has been replenished to six.

And related to the battlefield are espionage activities that take place in the rear.....

Using the upgraded microscopic processing capacity, supplemented by the long-term continuous research on microorganisms and genetics, the Black Forest modeled the all-powerful cell structure of the fourth- and fifth-order witch doctors, and modeled the 'brain parasitic subconscious control chip' based on bacteria;

When the number of parasites is small, it can inadvertently slightly affect the host's subconscious, causing it to make extremely limited non-self-controlled physical behaviors without knowing it.

With the gradual increase in the number of parasites, the chip totem will have the spare power to form clusters, and gradually acquire different functions such as 'monitoring', 'dream influence', 'intra-brain communication', 'intermittent control', 'strong control', 'brain replacement' and so on.

Of course, each 'growth' requires the input of a large number of parasites, or waiting for a relatively long period of self-proliferation;

In the end, the 'replacement brain' that is actually the 'biological brain' even needs to be completed by hundreds of billions of bacteria, or wait for hundreds of years for the initial parasitic group to gradually devour the brain domain and complete the functional replacement while deceiving immunity and deceiving the host's consciousness.

In addition, its 'functionality' is inversely proportional to its 'viability in an unsuitable environment', and the stronger the former, the more severe the weakening of the latter;

In terms of the current technology, after integrating the overall performance of immune deception, parasitic ability, and actual function, in order to ensure that the parasitic group has at least secondary functions such as dream influence, the headquarters can only use the method of 'immediately injecting it after leaving the petri dish' to put it into the host body for the time being.

However, despite its limitations of one kind or another, this technology has made a visible contribution to the Republic in the field of intelligence, such as the secret information obtained in the Far East, which came directly from the parasitic shaman himself.......

And after the early attempts have been made in the Far East, parasitic actions against the rest of the parties will also be launched one after another, such as the Mother of Laiyin, the Fanged Princess, and the high-level members of the Menglu Clan, all of which are excellent candidates for selection.

For the future directions, the relevant research institutes have carried out follow-up projects in the aspects of 'survival', 'self-proliferation', 'application functionality', 'dissemination', 'dormancy and initiation'.

The initial idea is to temporarily target the lower three paths in terms of 'proliferation', and combine it with the exploration of 'bodily fluid transmission' to strengthen its ability to spread within a group.....

If the means of application in this direction are developed and perfected, then according to the chaotic relationship between the continent tribes, it is very likely to help the Black Forest avoid the relatively complicated injection process, and instead complete the spread by themselves.

In addition, although the elves have not really appeared on the battlefield, the power of the kingdom has been quietly touched;

For example, the base stations on the continent near each battlefield area, and even the camouflage trees formed by some reconnaissance trees, began to extend their roots to the closest bloody battle area early on.

Where the roots spread, the remnants of flesh that infiltrate the ground are collected, then connected to each other by the roots, sent to continental base stations outside the battlefield, and then converted into nutrients and transported back to the Black Forest.

Later, they will either be used to enrich the land of the Black Forest, or they will be used by mother trees and totemic plants in factories to slow down the extraction of nutrients from the earth.

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In the midst of such actions, in the blink of an eye, the calendar has been turned to the 106th year of the rune calendar......

If you start counting from the preparatory stage, then the war in the north has already lasted until the seventh year, and if you start counting from the time of the war, it can also be counted for about five years.

In the past five years, a large number of lives have died on and off the battlefield, and the vast majority of them are servants and slaves of the powerful.

The situation is already obvious, when they are not fighting, they are oppressed, forced to produce, and when they fight, they are the first to be sent to death, and it is a large-scale collective death, even in the oppression of the rather obscure Twin Kingdoms, which is essentially using the shelter army as cannon fodder.

In addition, judging from the consistent methods of 'smashing' against the 'inferior prisoners of war' by the powers, the servants and slaves who chose to surrender would not usher in the forgiveness of the new master, but would first welcome a wave of deterrent killing, in which there was obviously some kind of control and consensus.

All in all, it seems that all the parties involved in the war are committed to creating a common environment....

That is, servants and slaves should sacrifice their lives for their suzerain, surrender is shameful and punishable, and only by fighting bravely in battle can they have a chance to change the rank of treatment of their clan.

As a result, the elves also understood one thing through this war...... Why the so-called 'inferior' with such a high fertility rate has not crowded the world until now;

It turns out that non-wartime oppression cannot be regarded as the overall situation, and the current battlefield consumption of 100,000, hundreds of thousands, or even millions is also one of the important reasons why the north can maintain such an empty space now.

In this way, the northern plateau is simply paradise.....

In fact, the elves are self-aware of the actual situation of the city-states under their command, and they know that many of the things they do are not really glorious.....

For example, in the mountain city-states belonging to the elves, the totem machine is a high-mysterious, low-material, supernatural tool that belongs to the gift of the higher races, and all the inhabitants of the city-state need to do is to learn 'applied skills' such as driving;

Any individual who attempts to conduct a blasphemous study of it, or even the area in which it is located, will face some kind of horrific consequence that is considered 'heavenly punishment';

The researcher, and some of the individuals in the vicinity, may have died in corrosion, or in sudden lightning strikes, or spontaneously combusted......

But even so, even if the subordinates of the republic grow food that will be iteratively degraded and raise animals that will degrade regularly, they will not be called as slaves at least, nor will they be sent to die on the battlefield;

Moreover, even though they are in a state of 'knowing it but not knowing why it is', they have been given advanced tools to assist in production, and they have been able to live a new life that is not bad, if not bad.

It turns out that we are still very kind! ’

Naturally, this idea became the consensus of the elves......

But in addition to such emotion, the changes that have taken place in the past few years have made the witch doctors above the orbit gradually raise their vigilance.

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In the West, the realm of the brave is beginning to become more and more solid, and the history of the heroes, the ruined cities, and the extinction of the 'kingdom' is gradually becoming clear in the process;

And when this change is fed back to the war, the entire Laiyin population is blessed, has a stronger physique, and naturally obtains the combat power that comes from it.

In the center, the Protector's sphere of influence begins to extend to the sky and underground......

In the feedback of the two kingdoms inside, there is a faint building resembling the 'Heavenly Palace' in the area representing the sky, although it is only a prototype that has not been formed, but the massive thunder feedback that gathers is already quite large-scale.

In addition, the boundary between the underlying atmosphere of the parent star and the outer universe seems to have a certain tendency to solidify;

In the feedback from within, the shadows of the sun and the stars even appear in the shadows, the former of which is slowly giving birth to a certain logic-based 'glow' function, while the latter is almost completely detached from reality, and is gradually forming a mysterious nature given purely by belief and imagination.

Underground, the characteristics of the planet in the area of the Two Kingdoms are also changing at an extremely slow rate, and it seems to be moving towards the multi-layered structure of the 'quadrangular plane'.

Deeper, a more complex and distorted image of nature is taking place, which seems to be the beginning of 'death' and 'new life'.

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In the north, there is also an ocean of life formed by the sea of blood and the lake of decay, which is slowly giving birth to something inside.

In the Far East, where persecution is fought, war has not only brought destruction and death, but also more devout beliefs.

And the divine lineage, which is composed of thirteen near-gods in one, follows the footsteps of the first three step by step in the suffering, victory, perseverance, and frantic prayers of the people.

It is not clear to the witch doctors whether all this is a temporary manifestation of their practice or a sign that they have grown to a certain extent;

But the only thing they know is that they must not allow this situation to continue to develop, if in a hundred or hundreds of years, the entire home planet is fully covered by these two types of near-god realms, and the situation they will face may be even more miserable......

At that time, the planet under our feet, which was formed in the universe and operates in the universe, may change into an existence like a fantasy 'plane';

Now that this 'law of nature' occupies the upper world, it is also possible that under the erosion of the realm of the gods, the 'mystery' will take complete dominance.

To put it mildly, the witch doctors may have to learn new rules from scratch in order to gain spellcasting abilities again;

At worst, anything bad can happen.

But strictly speaking, it is not without good news......

On the one hand, in the 'voyeurism', the witch doctors were able to further understand the bias of the rules of the realm of the gods;

On the other hand, the various concrete feedback that occurs inside also gives the orbital witch doctors the opportunity to 'copy' and 'borrow', and they may one day become the intellectual wealth of the elves.

In addition, in the past few years, the elven kingdom in the south has not stagnated, but is launching a new round of high-speed progress at an unprecedented speed......

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First, the number of fifth-order witch doctors rose to 44;

Although the primordial witch doctor essence of the tribal period has been completely transformed so far, the growth rate of the tree elves is also considerable, among them, the one like Freya is close to the fifth-order promotion stage, and the other first three groups of borns have also begun to accumulate related ones one after another.

In this way, presumably the next round of concentrated breakthrough will not be too far away......

Moreover, just the number of fifth-order orders at this stage has actually played a huge role in promoting many aspects, such as the 'mimic micro-withering' technology, which has been strengthened from 1 nanometer at 22-in-1 to 0.5 nanometers today;

In addition to the 'brain parasite', the algorithm array intelligent brain, industrial machine tool and other aspects have also ushered in technological upgrades, and the rest of the industries closely related to it are naturally taking this opportunity to advance by leaps and bounds......

At its most point, the concept of 'labor' is virtually non-existent in the vast majority of industries in the Black Forest today;

Single-digit engineers + smart brains + plural totem factories, such a lineup has been able to solve most of the production problems, and engineers are the least lacking here.

As for the original labor-intensive industries, some of them were handed over to the northern plateau, where the number of mouths increased again, for the purpose of stability and development;

With the supply of 'out-of-the-box' machinery, 'iteratively degraded' grain and livestock breeds, and the deliberately created 'model lake essence' of the re-application of the educational environment, the fertile soil in the mountains is being developed in an orderly manner, and the headquarters is being supplied with abundant materials year by year.

On the other hand, the unmanned submarine base has also become another major source of nutrients and metal minerals;

The elves, who do not have colonial needs, have successively built hundreds of various production bases in the offshore and deep seas, with the least manpower input in exchange for a steady stream of material output.

In short, when the intelligent brain and mother machining capabilities are upgraded again, for the elf headquarters, which has transitioned labor-intensive industries to the northern plateau or transformed into 'intelligent machinery-intensive', the manpower problem, at least in production, almost no longer exists.

Of course, the 'laid-off' elves don't starve because of this.......

The supplies from many sources can be said to be in a state of extreme wealth, and the 'laid-off elves' are not really completely idle;

In addition to the more and more abundant extraordinary professions, which need to be tried and explored by them themselves, various scientific research fields also require them to devote their energy;

In addition, there are now more important 'education mouths' that urgently need the support of the elves in their prime, because with the passage of time, the elven kingdom has officially entered a period of population explosion.....

Even without the increase in mother trees during the war, counting only the mother trees that were previously owned and have begun to realize their production capacity, the number of citizens of the republic increased from 340,000 to nearly 3 million between 99 and 106, and will further rise to about 8 million in the next four years;

And with the naked eye, it can be seen that in the next cycle starting from the 110th year of the rune calendar, this increase will also surge again to the level of tens of millions every ten years as the production capacity of the new mother tree is realized.

Even if the future growth is not considered for the time being, the current 2.6 million young elves raising and educating work alone is enough to keep these 'laid-off workers' busy.....