Chapter 46: The War That Ends at the Beginning
After hearing about Lijielit's plan, Roth discovers a huge contradiction.
"Lijlit, if you can suck even zombies into dust, what about the corpses that just died?"
Lijielit smiled with a lingering smell of blood: "That's different, there is no such thing as vitality in the body of zombies, but the vitality of people who have just died will not disappear immediately, it is better to say that it is precisely because of the troublesome characteristics that will not disappear immediately that the undead will appear." The same is true of the miracle of the resurrection, which can only be called a legitimate miracle if it is performed on a corpse whose vitality has not yet been exhausted. ”
As if to bring back some kind of memory, Lijielit said something extra.
"I know it's too late to stop you, but don't you feel like you're doing something contradictory?" Roth asked.
The tension of the war was not caused by Lijlit, she just kicked away the small boulder that was stuck in the boulder, and the war stone that was falling down was no longer something she could stop.
Roth is now tempted to change the course of this illusion, and although he doesn't know if it will actually change the past, this time it's not so much that he missed the opportunity as it was that he couldn't do it in the first place.
The battle with Kosey and the war that is about to break out now are not at all on one level, and the power of an outsider is too small in the face of such a tide.
But that's not the most important part, it's Lijielet herself that is more important to Lot.
Although the explosive barrel called War was not prepared by her, she was indeed the one who lit the fuse, so is this really different from her killing people with her own hands...... There may be spiritual differences for ordinary people and even vampires, but the impression that Lijielit brings to Roth makes Roth think differently.
Taking 10,000 steps back, it would cause a lot of deaths anyway, so why didn't she just use the corpses on the battlefield to restore her strength?
"Ah, it seems that you have a lot of misunderstandings~" Lijielit shook her head and laughed, "This [war] will indeed produce many dead in the end, but do you think that the upcoming battle will kill a lot of people? Lockland's army is very weak because of me, this will not be a close battle, and there is no need for Kevre's army to slaughter." The fundamental purpose of this war is to gain profits, and neither side will do anything that damages the value of the chips. In fact, if the general on Kevray's side had been more decisive, for example, by attacking tonight, Lockland's army would probably have surrendered directly, but since there was a delay, it would have given this side time to call for help, and the situation might have become more chaotic, which suited my plan. ”
"As for my approach, it is contradictory...... Ha, do you mean the fact that innocent people are stained with blood? Let's not talk about whether a soldier can be counted as an innocent person, this war is an analogy...... If you want to stop the explosion of the mine, you can only give up mining temporarily, but in this conflict, either side has something that must not be given up in the mine, not only the benefits brought by the mine itself, but also the honor, dignity and net worth of many people, so it will explode sooner or later. In that case, wouldn't it be nice to have it blow up a little once when it's convenient for me, and maybe because of my actions the final death toll of this war will be less, you can't say!"
Roth couldn't think of a rebuttal, he also saw it, no matter who the owner of the illusion was, this should not be the point he/she wanted to change, it couldn't be so boring to see if there were a few more or fewer deaths in this war.
Seeing that Roth was silent, Lijielit said proudly: "Although human beings as individuals are often unexpected, you have hardly changed since you were a group, and I have seen a lot!"
Roth shook his head and looked at the sleeping Jieli, and Lijielit's voice suddenly sounded in his head: "She was woken up by you!
Roth was busy thinking to himself, "Is this okay?"
"It's just that I found out that she woke up that I have to tell you so much detail, so I don't have to explain it again. I also thought about it temporarily, you can see that she is a person who admits death, if I take the initiative to explain to her, it will not be easy for her to accept. It's just right like this, eavesdropping always makes humans feel more credible, and I've never seen an exception, and your race as a whole is very awkward!"
With the words "plan successful" almost written on her face, Lijielit said to Roth: "Anyway, you can wait quietly for the past two days, and I will come back to you when the time comes!"
Roth watched Lijielit turn into a bat and fly away, feeling a little excited.
Not because of her plan, but because of Lista's apparition.
On Lista's side, the conversation didn't go that way.
Even if he couldn't hear the voice, just looking at his expression, Roth knew that Lijielit had won Lista's admiration by simply introducing her plan, and the conversation ended quickly.
And thanks to the fact that Lista is a careless person, even if he doesn't dare to really attack Jieli, it is inevitable to peek while she is sleeping, and Roth also saw the state of Jieli on his side through him by the way.
Roth didn't dare to say that he was a very delicate person, normally it was difficult to see too much through a person's sleeping face, but now with this comparison, he really felt that his Jieli here looked much more relaxed than that of Lista.
He felt he might have found the right direction.
The previous adventurers didn't know the magic of [Realm of Vanishment], let alone Roth's personal experience, and they didn't know how many percent of them could stay calm and persist until this point, and they had no idea what was happening to them.
Remembered Van Helsing's whisper.
Could it be you?
Roth thinks it's me!
In the vortex of blood and darkness, the Lijliet was studying the pieces of flesh she had gotten from Rot.
"What's the point of changing this illusion without really changing the past......" She shook her head and smiled bitterly when she noticed Roth's thoughts, "I still don't know the meaning of Van Helsing getting me here, how can you guess it." ”
Poof.
Half of the flesh in her hands was shattered by her distraction, turning into an uncontrolled stream of blood qi that scurried around, causing great confusion to the dark color, which was originally equal to the color of blood.
As a result, the power of the blood color in this vortex expanded a lot, but that special blood qi was quickly exhausted in his reckless actions, and the endless dark color soon began to fight back.
Instead of trying to do anything about it, Lygeret allowed the darkness to regain the territory that Scarlet had laid down, only to regain a state of mutual balance.
No matter how much you try, it is impossible to completely eliminate it, and in the end it is just a waste of limited power.
But Lijielit didn't know how to be discouraged.
Even if she could accurately calculate the date of her death, she would happily stick to that day to see if her calculations were really accurate.
What's more, there is already a little variable at this time?
"No matter what that Roth wants to do in the end, whether it can be done or not, I owe him a favor. Noticing that Rot's consciousness in the illusion had fallen asleep, Ligilet sneaked up on him one more time, taking some more pieces of flesh - he didn't look like he was voluntarily entangled in this thing anyway.
"Gotta save some play, this thing is regenerating very slowly. ”
The attack that Lijliet described came two days later.
Lot breathed a sigh of relief, because the panic in the city was barely effectively controlled, and sure enough, some people connected this strange "plague" with the very coincidental time of Jieli's group, among which Lijielit, the person who appeared with her that day but then disappeared, was even more suspicious, of course, she had no intention of hiding it.
But what Roth couldn't figure out was that it was not the lord of the place who sent people to arrest them, but the panicked people who surrounded the inn where they were staying, and the only reason why they didn't really do it was the guards sent by the lord to monitor the situation.
When the news of Kevray's army was spread by no one, the worst-case scenario that Roth had predicted, when the emotionally discouraged crowd stormed the inn, did not happen.
When the agitated crowd showed signs of rioting, the guards did not stop them, but ran away first.
The guards may have just wanted to return rather than flee, but whether the disappreciated populace could understand this is another question, and as a result, it led to riots in another sense.
As a result, it was the lord who protected them, much to Roth's surprise.
Unlike the haramura girl who could only pray incessantly, and unlike the tense apparition of Listana, Roth now observes the behavior of the city's inhabitants from the perspective of an enigmatic bystander.
Was it influenced by Lizzett's previous words, or was it just to pass the time?
If the guards tried to stop the people, maybe they would want to rush in?
Roth looked at the headless fly-like citizens from the window on the second floor of the inn, and believed the phrase "Humanity as a group has hardly changed".
It was the first time he had tried to observe a crowd, but it was too easy to understand.
If it was any stranger, it might be very difficult for Roth to immediately predict the other person's next move, and maybe some people have the ability to deduce the character of the other person in that instant, but Roth felt that he couldn't do it.
But when the word group was added to the back of the person, things suddenly became a lot simpler, and he felt that as long as he was willing, even he could control the crowd after a little practice.
It's just that how to turn people into crowds is another question, hey, although it is to pass the time, but what are you thinking?
Roth couldn't help but snort, startling Jieli.
"Strange, why are you so quiet?" said Ligerett, who slipped into the inn room in a cloud of mist in broad daylight.
"Quiet?"
"So there's no one looking at you, isn't it?Jieli, is your lord really capable?" asked Jieli after answering Rot.
Jieli put away the emblem of the god of light (a point of light in the center, with six radiating horns sticking out around it, which refers to the light of the sun, and can also be seen as stars, representing all light from strong to faint), clenched her fist and said, "Your Lord, you should have your own thoughts......
"Huh...... But not only here, but even the army has no measures to deal with it, the anemic soldiers have no morale, he will not lead his knights to charge the army to death, right? There are usually a few days when there should be a chance to do something, but now it seems that all he can do is to defend the city, I don't think this can hold for a day. Ligeret wondered.
Lot didn't understand what was going on with Lijielit, she seemed to be quite understanding when she comforted Jieli in the village a few days ago, but now her emotional intelligence has suddenly decreased, and she hurriedly said: "Don't talk about this yet, how can we cross the border?"
"I had reserved time to deal with the people who were supposed to be watching you, but it didn't happen at all!" Lijliet sat on Jieli's bed, "Now that the army on Kevre's side is on the march, and with two mages whose strength is close to that of a legend, it won't be easy to slip through, at least wait for the fight to start." Because Lockland's side is not prepared at all, the battle will be more one-sided than I expected, and if it wasn't chaotic enough, I might not be able to take you both over without being detected. ”
Roth sensed Ligerett's disappointment in the lord of Lockland and asked, "Wouldn't that be bad?"
"It's not like that, it's just that I can't go to the army over there anymore to pretend to be a ghost, and maybe the security on the other side of the mine will become higher...... Hmm, Gilly, Rot, do you think the mages who came to help Kefrey for the sake of the Elemental Stones are innocent?" Ligeret said distressedly.
Hearing this, Jieli exclaimed: "How can they be considered innocent! Kevray is a person who has committed a felony of treason, and this kind of treacherous behavior violates the teachings of the God of Light, and he is even more of a betrayal! Those mages are so innocent ...... to do evil."
As she spoke, she realized something, and Roth saw the indentation from her grip on the emblem in her loosened hand.
"Ah, that's easy, I can eat a few in moderation, right?" said Ligerett with an innocent smile.
Realizing what her words meant, Jieli clenched her fists again, stroking the indentation of the emblem with her fingers.
Roth hesitated for a moment and said to Jieli: "There is no way for good or evil, but people call themselves." The death of those mages at the hands of Lijielit can be regarded as evil retribution, that is, providence...... Well, I guess it's divine will. As for whether they died from a knight's sword or a vampire's tooth, it really didn't make a difference. ”
Jieli's pupils shrank, and she didn't say a word.
"Oh, traveler, is there a proverb in your homeland?" said Lijliet excitedly, "but there is one thing I want to correct you well, and that is that I have long since used my teeth to suck blood, and there are other vampires who think this is too savage and who think this is the elegance of a vampire!"
Roth heard her say this and wanted to try to change his words, but after thinking for a while, he was stunned: "Then what should I say without teeth?"
"You...... Huh?" Lijliet herself was stunned.
"You, you wait a minute, that, hand...... Everyone has hands! Wings...... Vampires aren't geese!That, the punch is wrong, the whip, well, it's my personal interest, the cane ......" Lijielit was completely confused.
Jieli suddenly spoke: "Knights, they don't all use swords......
"Ah, I see! It's a symbol, isn't it! Although there are more knights who use hammers and spears, but when you think of knights, you think of swords! I'm sorry, Rot, I'll take back what I just corrected!"
Roth looked at Jieli, and she smiled and nodded at Roth.
It seems that she has calmed down, is it her own words that have helped her?
Roth hopes so.
"Greetings to Count Rockland of the Kingdom of Wicken! Earl Sickrov of the Land of Lantan!" a voice blessed by magic suddenly echoed throughout the city.
"It's been a pre-war propaganda, after all, morale is already low here, and the people are panicking, so when you shout a few words and really fight, it may be the final word. Lijlitt leaned over to the window and said.
Born in the United Kingdom, Roth didn't know what a man-to-man war should look like, so he imagined it and asked, "If the people had faith in the lord, this kind of shouting would not have done much, but now it is different...... No, even if it doesn't work, it doesn't mean that there won't be anyone who listens to the other party's words, can't this kind of sound-spreading spell be intercepted? It's like a soundproof barrier or something......"
"I respect your determination to be loyal to your country, but a good lord should put the people first and recognize the reality......" the voice still said.
Lijielit shook her head and said, "How can anyone arrange a soundproof barrier that can cover the whole city for this, haha, but it shouldn't be difficult to interfere with this kind of spell, why let it go like this......"
Jieli's eyes lit up and said, "Could it be the lord's strategy!"
"No, no, no, how can there be such a strategy, to show that the enemy is weak, then you have to keep a hole card for yourself, right? Where is his hole card? You see the person standing in place listening to the shouting on the other side, and that one, all of them are terrified, aren't they?" Lijielit pointed to the citizens who disagreed, "But if you can really surprise me, Jieli, you have always said that he is a good lord, so I am a little looking forward to it, it is best not to disappoint me~~"
It suddenly occurred to Roth that Lijielit suddenly became less concerned about Jieli's feelings, could it be because this Locklan Lord's performance disappointed her, and she was also a little angry with Jieli by the way?
It's actually quite moody to think about it, but for some reason Roth feels like he's got the hang of it.
"That's it, if you are still obsessed with thinking about your soldiers and people, I can only regret to do my duty!"
Lijlitt patted the window frame and said, "Oh! it's finally going to start, Lockland had better ...... this guy."
Before Lijielit's words fell, a strong fighting spirit suddenly erupted at the border between the Kevray Territory and the Locklan Territory in the distance!