The lights in the House of Lords conference room are concentrated and dim, reflecting the papers and maps on the table.

Duke Moretti took a deep breath.

"Wilford, you've made a mistake, whether our enemy is the Honin Empire or the Blood Clan, what we need to consider at the moment is the possibility of war. The War of Resistance will inevitably fail, and continuing will only lead to the destruction of our army. ”

In contrast, Duke Moretti was more calm and prudent, reminding everyone present of reason and realism.

The other members of the House of Lords present were a little hesitant in the debate.

They exchanged worried glances, sometimes at the Prime Minister at the table, sometimes at the Duke.

The tension is almost palpable.

"The northern strait of the mainland is our natural trenches and battlements, and it is the broadest water area that the southern Yankees of the Honin Empire have never seen, we have experience and geographical advantages, and the blood clan does not dare to personally fight with us at sea, if it is on land, this group of guys who can't see the sun will no longer have absolute security during the day."

Ranch spoke slowly.

"Then men, women and children will despise our bad decisions and dereliction of duty—because we have not done our duty to protect them and leave them defenseless against the Blood."

Duke Moretti pressed forward step by step,

"Once the Kingdom of Fukluo and the Kingdom of Edith on the east and west sides fall, we will be surrounded and encroached upon on land, and even the northern snow fields behind will be blocked, and the naval battle you said will not be established, what will we use to confront the Huoning Empire? Do you think they won't fight a tug-of-war with us? The Huoning Empire has patience, and they are backed by the entire southern continent, and what are we backed by? Crumbling neighboring countries that could turn enemies at any moment? That perennial snowy field? Or the group of demons on the other side of the snowfield who are eyeing each other and are also unable to communicate? ”

"I will try my best to try diplomacy and seek the support of neutral countries."

Ranch said immediately.

Compared with Duke Moretti's sharp questioning, his response was extraordinarily short.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you should not go past me and try diplomacy with other countries, this is distrust of me."

Duke Moretti, Minister of Foreign Affairs, shook his head and said.

"But so far, in addition to considering seeking an opportunity for peace talks with the Horning Empire, have you considered putting down your posture and going to a neutral country for help?"

Ranch questioned.

"Hehe, I don't even know whether the Prime Minister is optimistic or naïve. Neutral countries, even if you catch a young person who knows a little bit about history in the parliament, and you ask them why there are still countries in this stall that remain neutral, they can tell you the answer. If we can be a neutral country that reaps the last benefits, why don't we want to end up in the end? ”

This question, in exchange for only Duke Moretti's cold sarcasm,

"Don't ask for the kind of overlord who is far stronger than us, you have the ability to persuade a neutral country that is even on a par with us to help the Kingdom of Bliss and give the people a little more confidence? Instead of letting us risk ourselves on the premise that we have no chance of winning, talk on paper and talk about it. ”

Although his tone still showed the restraint of a diplomat, the dispute between the two men had clearly become more and more intense, and there was a tendency to quarrel.

After Duke Moretti's words fell, after all, many parliamentarians hung their heads and sighed weakly.

It's not that the Prime Minister is less argumentative than Duke Moretti.

But in the face of this time and facts, the whole Hersharem was panicked, and they couldn't help but be more inclined to Duke Moretti, and think about the possibility of peace talks that the Duke said.

No one sees any hope of victory, and no one wants to put a moth to a flame, even if the prime minister's courage is like a flame.

As long as the Prime Minister relents, they will be able to comply with Duke Moretti's proposal, change the direction of Hersharem's current winds, and actively prepare for negotiations.

"Needless to say, I won't change my mind, our Pyrant Empire just wants to show the Blood Clan our backbone, they will definitely not be able to conquer all humans. I will take full responsibility for this. ”

Lanchi stood up, pushed his chair into the table, glanced around the room, and said.

"Are you sure?"

Duke Moretti's voice was finally cold.

"Yes, that's why I'm sitting in this seat."

Lanch easily let go of the hand pushing the chair, accompanied by a heavy crash of the chair's feet falling to the ground, which made the surrounding councillors suddenly come back to their senses.

Duke Moretti was not at all intimidated by Lanchi's momentum.

"Can we understand that His Excellency the Prime Minister has completely rejected any possibility of negotiating with the Horning Empire?"

After Duke Moretti finished speaking, he silently looked at the group of conservatives.

“……”

Lanch was silent.

This time he didn't refute Moretti and show his toughness, but walked out of the conference room alone, announcing the end of the meeting with his back.

……

In the Capitol.

As Ranch walked around the corner of an uninhabited corridor, Boss Cat jumped out of the shadows and slipped into Ranchi's coat.

"Meow meow, why don't you fight, are you really considering surrendering?"

Boss Cat asked Lanchi in an undetectable voice.

It was terribly worried, afraid that Lanch would really be convinced.

It saw that the current situation in the Pyrant Empire had become—

[People's Opinion: 132→145/1000 (People's Support and Cohesion)]

[House: 419→305→252/1000 (support rating of the top brass within the Velant Empire)]

[Military: 124/1000 (based on the Honin Empire)]

[Treasury: 221→222/1000 (current productivity status of the Pyrant Empire)]

[Diplomacy: 115/1000 (Diplomatic relations with the Demon Realm and surrounding countries that have not yet surrendered)]

Unsurprisingly, the overall odds are still locked at zero, as the combined numbers start to get worse.

It's been more than a day since they came to this shadow world.

At present, there are still more than 43 days left.

On the first day, in addition to getting acquainted with and enticing the people around him, after a public speech in front of the media after taking office, the popularity of the people quickly rose from 132 to 145, and it seems that it continues to rise slowly according to the speed of transmission.

But because he openly expressed the idea that he should take the initiative to fight, as if offending the conservatives, the House plummeted from 419 to 305, and fell again because of the quarrel with Duke Moretti.

The fiscal change may have been due to the fact that Ranch had been buoyed, and the people had more confidence and a modest increase in productivity.

There has been no change in military power, in diplomacy.

"If I had continued to refute Duke Moretti's words just now, I would have been left with documentary evidence that 'all possibilities for peace talks' were rejected, and he was taking my word for it. It is likely that the Duke of Moretti arranged for a note-taker to record our conversation in the next room, and that would have been a lever for the conservatives to impeach me, so I must not admit it just now. ”

Ranch replied to the little black briquette in a whisper.

"Meow."

Cat boss realized.

There is such a trap.

It's good that your kid reacted just now, otherwise the council might have dropped directly to 100 to declare the game over.

No, you're a little too skilled.

How did you get to Congress as an art student, like an old fritter?

……

The meeting room on the highest floor of the main building of the Academy of the Sages, the light-walled meeting room is filled with light, and the plants placed on the spacious windowsill always bring the space to life.

But at this moment.

In this conference room, because of the controversy that continues to be discussed, it suddenly becomes heated from time to time, and it is in a chaotic state.

"Now Lanqi has several options, first of all, he can only take care of the people's hearts and parliament, first of all, he has to balance as much as possible, use his knowledge to transform the Velant Empire, and increase the military or finances as much as possible in a short period of time, so that there is hope to change the 0% chance of victory."

Many professors discussed.

Chairs and tables are arranged in the form of round tables, with several large round tables surrounding a central projection screen.

There are five or six faculty members sitting at each desk, frowning at the projection screen or actively communicating with the professors around them.

It's more like a seminar or a lecture than a conference.

"Actually, Lanch's situation in raising the people's morale is not bad, if it weren't for the fact that the House was not able to deal with it, he might be able to make the people's support higher at the end."

Seeing that Lan Qi in the shadow world is in a dilemma, he also found the relationship between [People's Heart] and [Parliament] in this movie world.

Although Ranch seems to have some talent for uplifting, the corresponding price has been to cause the parliament's approval ratings to plummet.

Public opinion does prefer a prime minister who can lead them to victory, and the House of Representatives is largely dominated by conservatives, with a solidified structure that Ranch cannot shake for a short time.

However, both of these are clearly co-factors.

The formula for calculating the odds of winning is unknown, but one thing is certain, military strength and finance are the two indicators that have the greatest correlation with the winning rate of this movie world, even if the two items of popular opinion and parliament are very high, the military strength is not enough or the financial is too low, the probability of winning must still be zero.

"Time is Ranchi's capital now, and every day is almost expendable to him, except for the time necessary to stabilize the hearts and minds of the people and the council, it depends on how he chooses to allocate his time to improve the other three things."

"Lan Qi, as a demon craftsman of another era, a dead horse as a live horse doctor, should be able to increase a little military strength in more than forty days, but unfortunately he is not a seventh-order or eighth-order magic craftsman, it is difficult to cause a significant improvement."

"In peacetime, Ranch can be uplifted by sacrificing diplomacy, but in wartime it is difficult to fabricate productivity out of thin air, and diplomacy cannot be lower. Although encouraging the people can also have a small impact on productivity, there is a limit. ”

"In terms of diplomacy, it is mainly time-consuming, and the above four indicator options are basically based on days, but choosing a diplomatic path will take time at least in weeks, and once it fails, it is a pure waste of time, and then zero gain."

Ron, the vice president of the Sage Academy, put away his pen and summarized the conclusions they had reached in the past two days.

He glanced at Loren on the main seat of the conference room, and then at the silver-haired woman from the Church of the Goddess of Fate beside him, the legendary saint of the Northern Continent, and did not speak more.

He knew that Dean Loren was already too busy to take care of himself at this moment.

Ever since he rushed back to the royal capital of Ichrita, and then back to the emergency meeting room of the Sagehouse, Loren hadn't spoken much.

This time, the Seventh-Order Shadow World was not only an internal meeting of the Sage Academy, but even professors from the Magic Craft Academy and the Alchemy Academy came over to discuss and analyze the situation in real time.

They need to give feedback to the United Council of the Southern Continent Kingdom and the Shadow World Management Association, and once the Shadow World falls into a violent or uncontrollable situation, resulting in an unpredictable natural disaster, the council and the association will also take immediate measures to deal with the aftermath of the natural disaster.

At present, according to their evaluation results, this shadow world is not an ordinary seventh-order shadow world, and it belongs to an extremely difficult strategy type.

"Loren ......"

The Ice Witch gritted her teeth and sat beside Loren, who followed her to the conference room of the Academy of Eceryta, as if to cool the air around her.

Originally, when I came to the Southern Continent, I planned to come to Icherita slowly to see how Huberian was living, but I didn't expect to hear a thunderbolt on a sunny day as soon as I arrived in the Hutton Kingdom.

As soon as she learned of the situation, she almost choked Loren by the neck and demanded that Loren return her Hubertarian.

Huberian didn't turn on the live situation, she didn't seem to want to record the situation around her, and she could only see Lanchi's condition at the moment, and she didn't even know if Huberian was still safe.

“……”

Now Loren was sweating profusely, like pins and needles.

He didn't know how to survive for more than 40 days.

Originally, he was looking forward to Lan Qi learning a lot of new skills after this half a year, maybe he really had some hope of passing through the Seventh-Order Shadow World, but seeing Lan Qi's first day in this Seventh-Order Shadow World, he was even more cold.

This shadow world is more strategic and mechanical than combat, and even throwing him Loren into it may not have much hope of clearing the level, because it is impossible for him to rely on his own strength to fight against the entire Honin Empire.

Not only did he not know why Lanch had suddenly returned and started working again, but he also felt as if he was about to start fighting against the whole world.

The Hutton magnates, His Majesty the King, the Federation of Southern Kingdoms, and the Church are all starting to question him like crazy!

(End of chapter)