After being untied and the wound treated.

Jacob just sat there and looked at Annan with some confusion.

“…… Do you trust me that much? I've also set up a ceremony for you before...... This is just the ...... of you."

Not even a minute.

This middle-aged man with withered grass-like hair opened his mouth and stopped talking.

- You misunderstood, in fact, because you don't understand how strong I really are.

Annan thought silently in his heart.

Even if Jacob did teleport them to the encirclement...... I'm afraid that it was Zorgen who started to kill and bomb everywhere.

Only in places where there is no fear of accidentally injuring allies and affecting innocent people, the DPS of destroying wizards will be particularly high.

And if there is really a danger.

Annan can insert a teleportation point in place, and then open free teleportation, infinite resurrection, and then rush to the same place to start writing the text of the main quest......

Oh no, the main quest isn't good yet.

If you want to summon a player's body protection urgently, you should activate the limited-time event, confirm that the target is rewarded with points for killing and the target cannot be respawned, and then open the redemption of the limited-time points shop...... Put an invitation code, free teleportation permissions, and unlimited resurrection permissions for a limited time.

Although players need three people to fight three nightmares and stay for a week to open the waypoint - that is actually a restriction that Annan has put on players. The purpose is to urge them not to forget to level up, and by the way, to cleanse the local nightmares to do some good deeds and gain some prestige.

There is no limit to how he can set up his own waypoints, just like resurrecting the player. You can always stick a waypoint under your feet if you want.

And the setting of teleporting experience consumption is also an additional setting for Annan. The purpose of this is to limit the player's high frequency displacement...... This controls the player's long-term presence in an area and infiltrates the local population.

If Annan really fully turned on the permission to teleport infinite resurrections at will, or even allowed them to kill people, then the player would really be the fourth plague - like a locust plowing through the ground without fear. In this world, the dead will not be refreshed...... If the players really go crazy, even if it's only six hundred, it's enough to bulldoze the entire world.

You must know that grasshoppers are gentle, cute, and even edible when they are scattered. But if the concentration of grasshoppers is too high and it becomes a social creature...... That's the yellow locust.

In a sense, the same goes for players.

Annan has confirmed it many times...... In this world, it should be fortunate that Annan, the mastermind, mastered the Book of Heavenly Cars, not the Great Demon King of the World who doesn't know anything about the player.

If you really don't guide and control the player...... The Book of Heavenly Vehicles is only four pages, and it is enough to assemble an army of demon kings that must be jointly resisted by the entire continent.

Annan is naturally the backer of the players.

But in reality - the player is also Annan's backer.

From this point of view, Annan can actually be regarded as self-sealing the power of the Book of Heavenly Cars. It's just that he didn't seal it with some ritual or spell...... Rather, use your own morality and conscience.

Allowing a full player to wreak havoc in this world can of course be extremely fast to collect resources and make them grow rapidly.

This means that a large number of innocent people will die, which means that the world will be thrown into chaos in an instant.

Attack wizard towers in hordes, team up to assassinate vendetta transcendents, storm high-level hunters who defend borders, smuggle illegally, and even become unequaled when they are discovered...... Even the deliberate looting of villages and towns to attract regular troops, the attack on ordinary people or the destruction of buildings to test their moves, the direct entry into other people's rooms to rob, the robbery of merchants or the sabotage of railroads, the digging of graves and the loss of the wealth of the dead - these are all predictable "some kind of future".

Just as it is impossible to expect players to follow the rules of the road in the game.

That is, Annan used his "favorability" and "experience level of teleportation and death loss" to restrain them, so that players gradually integrated into this world...... And finally decided to embark on a glorious and noble path.

Annan didn't think he was a good person.

— but he also doesn't want to be a despicable person.

It's not their fault that players do evil because they don't have any scruples. Because they weren't originally from this world, they were mechanically allowed to do that...... They're just playing. At most, it's a sin of "ruining someone else's gaming experience."

But Annan has the ability and authority to guide the players. There was a way for him to reverse that possibility—if he understood it but didn't do it, then it was Annan's sin.

Like a "herding wolf".

Gamer...... In other words, these souls summoned from the other side of the dream world by the "Book of Heavenly Cars", and these visitors from the other world who were given simulated bodies by the "Book of Heavenly Vehicles", are just Annan's herds.

Now they will be restrained, it's just that Annan "doesn't want to...... Not that you can't.

But Jacob apparently didn't know anything about it.

He didn't know anything about the Book of Truth, and he didn't know how terrible the player was.

In his opinion, Annan was just a young grand duke with "only five" subordinates who dared to step directly into the enemy's nest in person.

On this basis...... He also began to worry about Annan's safety:

"Otherwise, I'll send you their addresses. Your Majesty, send troops in there first, and then go in and judge it. ”

"—then, if there is a specific location for them."

Annan turned to Zorgen and asked, "Can the frost beast forces defeat them?" ”

"There's nothing to ask about."

Zorgen replied in a low voice: "It's okay to pay a certain price...... The Frostbeast's strength is unresistible, but the soldiers who wield it will suffer casualties.

"If they hadn't hidden any traps or special weapons, the casualties under my command would have been under three hundred - more than two hundred and eighty of them human soldiers...... The war will end in two weeks. ”

What he meant was that the true loss would only be twenty frostbeasts.

Insignificant price.

Those who will enter the frost beast army are basically felons, and they are just consumables. Only a very small number of young people will risk their lives to enter the Frost Beast army and come into contact with the Frost Beast.

…… However, it's too slow.

Two weeks......

If the other party wants to destroy something, or activate something, it will definitely be too late.

"Let's open a gap from the inside first."

Annan said calmly: "Those who can work hard - I'm not a father, don't underestimate my combat effectiveness."

"They don't deserve to die here. At least not to die in battles with fellow citizens...... Although the Far Northern Brotherhood conducts forbidden research, colludes with the Fallen, and studies the Frost Beast, it has violated many taboos. But before they really raise the anti-flag...... Their troops, their staff, and their guards, are still my subjects.

"At the very least, then, I should kill them myself."

- This guilt, and experience.

I'll do it alone.

Annan said in a deep voice.

…… Do you take this sin upon yourself?

Jacob's pupils contracted slightly.

Such valor, such a measure—it really made Jacob's heart surge.

He finally realized......

This is a completely different kind of ruler from Grand Duke Ivan, who has extraordinary political wisdom.

- He also gave up on exhortation completely.

He read from Annan's eyes an unwavering determination.

…… Whether this is a recklessness or the courage to take the lead is for my eyes to judge.

Jacob thought, smiling genuinely.

"Is there any wine, Your Majesty?"

He straightened up and spoke softly.

"—There's blood and thorn wine."

The answer was Zhuoya, who was silent on the side: "This is a specialty of Wrangel Province, and you can't buy it anywhere else." ”

There was a hint of malice in her words.

Bloodthorn wine is indeed a specialty of Wrangel Province, and it is true that it cannot be bought anywhere else. But it's not because it's in short supply...... It's because it's so bad to drink.

Because Blood Thorn is not some kind of fruit, but a medicinal herb that makes people's hearts beat faster.

The last time Annan heard about Blood Thorn, it was a "decoction of blood impulse" sent by Salvatore.

It is a decoction made by mixing two magic ingredients, "madman's blood" and "mad cow's blood", which are protected by transformation spells, and boiled in an iron pot for five hours.

It can make people soar in power and bloodthirsty in a short period of time. But if the technique is not good, it can have some side effects – such as loss of mind, high blood pressure, or damage to the liver.

And this blood thorn wine is also hurtful and unpleasant.

It is unusually sour and tastes like an underripe kiwifruit, and after drinking it, the body briefly becomes stronger...... If it is described as an attribute, it is [strength +0.5.].

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"Well, that's fine."

Without hesitation, Jacob took the bottle from Zoya's hand.

Instead of taking the glass, he drank it from the bottle, which ran down his chin and soaked his chest.

It was swallowed without any taste at all, as if you had drunk a bitter soup.

It's not so much about wine tasting...... It's better to just give yourself courage, just to seek that trace of drunkenness.

One way or another. He thought.

Whether this operation succeeds or fails, it will surely go down in history.

The young Grand Duke, who was only fifteen years old with only five escorts, had only five guards with him...... Accepts the allegiance of a strange foreign spy who has just tried to assassinate him, and is willing to teleport him to the hinterland of a hostile nobleman who wants him dead.

There is not a single gold-level transcendent to escort them, and there is no cardinal. Jacob's will was not controlled with a soul-snatching spell.

And all this just because of ...... He didn't want the sinners of the Frostbeast Force to kill each other with his own people.

…… What a foolish king this is haughty.

Why don't you take this as a huge sacrifice and first give it to the wolf in the valley of the god of wine. If they fail, they will give it all to the other side of the wolf in the valley - the tragic writer.

This is what a drunkard does!

Jacob tilted his head, the high intensity of the liquor pouring down his throat - his heart pounding violently.

A bottle of blood thorn wine was drunk by him.

"I'll go with you."

Jacob whispered unwaveringly.

A hazy thought crossed his mind.

Ah, even after all this time......

I still can't get used to drinking wine in the cold of winter.