It's been drawn again.,The previous updates have been drawn one by one.,So the update doesn't come with the format first! It's a habit to smoke and smoke!!

For Rod, time is his worst enemy.

After the midsummer festival, there is still half a year to enter the winter break, during this time, Rod's task can be said to be very heavy——— he must not only build the fortress, but also complete two five-star missions to ensure that his guild will not be demoted, but also train his subordinates to prepare for the war that is likely to occur next year. Through Chauvin's intelligence network, Rhodes received a lot of information about the Land of Light. As he expected, with ongoing internal turmoil in the Land of Light and the Governor's approval rating already dropping to the extreme, it looks like it will be difficult for him to be re-elected next year.

However, not everything is as historical as it is, from this information, Rhodes also learned that due to the trouble he had previously solved the seal of the trade routes, which led to the resumption of the originally stagnant trade exchanges, which made the opposition within the Land of Light not as strong as in the history of the game, and on the other hand, because Parfield did not turn his back to cause a commotion, Archduke Lydia had enough energy to free up his hands to face the possible situation in the Land of Light. For Lydia's political wisdom, Rhodes is very trusting, before leaving the Golden City, he had a very short communication with the other party in private, at that time Rod had already vaguely put forward the threat of the country of light, and looking at Lydia's appearance, she is also confident——— but because of this, Rod is not easy to say too much, he now also understands that the prophet is not so easy to be, sometimes you know the correct history, but you can't make people believe your words, because in your opinion, the established future, For them, the possibilities are endless. It seems that because of his personal experience in the game, Rhodes believes that the Dark Dragon Kingdom will definitely take this opportunity to attack in a big way, but for those who live in the present, it is still unknown whether the Dark Dragon Kingdom will attack.

But fortunately, Lydia also knows that the new inheritor of the Dark Dragon Soul is a very strong person, and she also knows the current situation in the country of the Dark Dragon, and after learning this, Rhodes can only say this, since Lydia already knows something about the Dark Dragon, and now there is no trouble with Parfield and the Trend Trade Road, then there should be no problem. Of course, if history does change, it will be a good thing for Rhodes. And if history hasn't changed, it's important for Rhodes to plan ahead.

Although the situation looks optimistic, Rhodes feels that this battle may eventually be inevitable.

In the history of the game, the most important reason why the Kingdom of Light caused the conflict in the Soragon Mountains was because the approval rating of the Speaker of the Koh-No-Light fell and he could not be re-elected, so he colluded with the military generals who supported him and tried to develop the Soragon Mountain incident into a local war. And it is hoped that this will be used to gain re-election and regain the support of the people.

But the old man with dizzy eyes didn't expect that this time the Dark Dragon Kingdom did not maintain restraint, the reason is very simple, the newly appointed successor of the Dark Dragon Soul has a strong personality, and after he took office, in order to enhance the national strength, certain changes were made to the original hierarchical system.

The Dark Dragon Nation is a very hierarchical nation, not only determined by its system, but also by the people who live in it. In the Dark Dragon Nation, most of life is made up of dark creatures, including death knights, lichs, ghouls, vampires, dark elves, and more. And since most of the Dark Dragons are undead, this also causes them to rank in the power level——— low-level lichs cannot resist high-level death knights, and ordinary ghouls cannot disobey the orders of vampires. This is determined by the characteristics of the undead creatures themselves, they are originally undead spirits who have lost their lives and continue to survive by relying on unnatural strength, and because of this, the strength of the strength directly determines the IQ and ability of these undead creatures. Therefore, the hierarchy of the Dark Dragon Kingdom is very strict, and you can't let a high-level vampire communicate with a ghoul who is not even well organized in the language, and the latter has not yet fully developed his IQ. …,

Therefore, in the Dark Dragon Kingdom, it is completely a pyramid system existence. At the top is the Dark Dragon itself, and further down are the four demon generals——— "Soul Chaser" Barend, "Blood Countess" Esvier, "Master" Garcia, and "Fallen Angel" Shaliye.

Among them, in addition to Garcia the "Master", who is a human, Barend, Eswell, and Shaliye are all undead, vampire, and fallen angel race leaders, respectively, and this power structure lasted for many years until the new Dark Dragon Soul reformed arrived.

In order to increase the power of the nation, the new Night Dragon Ion promoted several "inferior races." "Some of the original "lower races", including the dark elves and gray dwarves, were reused, which naturally caused conflicts between the old nobles and the new gatekeepers. After all, political resources are limited, the cake is so big, one more person will get a less, and the four demon generals generally look down on those lower races, so they are naturally unwilling to let them share resources with themselves.

Because of this, the current political situation of the Dark Dragon Nation is also very volatile, and the emerging forces need to show enough to prove that they are worthy of this qualification. The old aristocracy, on the other hand, needs to defend the interests and dignity of their race, and this kind of thing is useless to talk about it alone, and it must be proven.

War is the best way to resolve all these disputes, and once the war starts, the Dark Dragons can receive additional resources and land to distribute to the new races, and the old nobles can also use it to show their strength and majesty, and swear that they still have enough strength to secure their position. And for those new races who are eager to gain recognition and improve their status, war is also the fastest and most convenient means for them to increase their strength and show their importance.

But the Radiant Dragon Kingdom didn't notice this undercurrent flowing from their neighbors at all, and they stupidly thought that this provocation would be the same as before, the two sides would fight with each other, and then declare that the situation was tense, and take advantage of this time to be alarmist, at most a local war would start, and it would end soon. They didn't expect that they were doing this for the Dark Dragon Country, it was completely dozing, someone sent a pillow over——— and soon, the Dark Dragon Kingdom developed a local war into a full-scale war.

Rhodes could persuade Lydia to be careful, but he couldn't do anything about the Council of Light. If the other party is really stupid enough to give the Dark Dragon Kingdom the truth to go to war, then Rhodes really has no way to do it. I'm afraid even Lydia can't ——— you can pull away from a guy and tell him that it's very dangerous to tease that ferocious hound. But if that person just wants to go up and get bitten, you can't prevent it.

As for being pounced on by a hound and then biting off your neck or something, it's even more out of your reach.

If it weren't for the fact that the Duchy of Moon had half of the buffer zone at the junction of the two countries, then Rhodes would have liked that the Dark Dragon Kingdom would attack the Land of Light as soon as possible, so that the other party would be exhausted, at least then they would have no time and energy to fight Moon's idea.

But unfortunately, this possibility does not exist, and in the end, it is up to you to figure it out.

Standing on the balcony, looking at the mercenaries below, Rhodes nodded slightly.

"That's what we picked?"

"Yes, Captain."

The canary stood beside Rhodes and smiled softly. After she and Little Bubblegum appeared, the power structure of the guild changed again, but not much, of course. Marlene is still in charge of the vice-president, and Lijie is still the representative of the spirit masters. Shanna is also the captain of the entire colony's garrison, and there is no change in the roles of Kavos and Anne. Canary and Little Bubblegum are only in charge of training, of course, Rod has also told others that they can ask Canary and Little Bubblegum if they have any questions, but at most they are consultants——— because neither of them can leave the stronghold, so it is naturally impossible to do those complicated work. …,

But in fact, the power of the two is almost the greatest in the entire mercenary guild except for Rhodes, and the reason is that in this guild, everyone except Rhodes has to train under them.

At this time, everyone realized that their training method was really different, and of course, it was also thanks to the blessing of the Mystery Ball.

After Jī resurrected the half-dimensional space of the Orb of Mysteries, Rhodes was able to create a variety of scenarios and virtual enemies to train, and those who failed would not die, but would be forcibly sent out——— similar to the dungeon in the game, and in fact, Rhodes used it as a dungeon.

This period of training was a nightmare for these mercenaries, as they were broken up into different groups, and then they would enter the half-dimensional space under the leadership of Canary and Little Bubblegum, where they would meet the enemy in battle.

At the beginning, the request of the two was very simple, just asking these mercenaries to destroy the enemy within the set time and complete the task. However, as the training progresses, there are more rules and restrictions——— such as how many people must survive when the training is completed, how many casters will survive when the training is completed, how many casters will survive to the last day, and others who have various tasks to complete. Not only do they have to learn how to make the most of themselves, but they also have to learn how to dodge attacks and cooperate with others to protect themselves and their peers. Learn how to "coquettish moves, advanced consciousness and sharp micro-manipulation", ————frankly speaking, they don't understand what these two little sisters mean at all.

The mercenaries are miserable, but for the canary and the little bubblegum, it's just as painful.

The biggest difference between players and natives is their attributes and talents. The player's talent tree is common, with the only tendency being the direction of specialization. Just as Canary is a mage who maximizes output, then she naturally specializes in the Fire Wind talent, and Little Bubblegum is a control stream, so her talent is basically support.

In other words, the player's talent grows straight and has traces to follow. But on the other hand, the talent of the aborigines is crooked, no matter how they are, it's no wonder, after all, they are not players, they can't intuitively see the development of their talents, and they naturally think that which aspect is suitable for them to train, and as the so-called no one is perfect, you can't expect a spirit master to output, nor can you expect a mage to do MT. In this way, then the effect is naturally very tragic.

Little Bubblegum has complained to Rod more than once, she feels like taking a group of rookies who have never played online games, and they are as depressed and painful as they go to the next copy with their own feelings, and what is even more depressing is that these rookies can't wash and delete the number and repractice——— the latter sentence has become a popular word among the mercenaries in the Starlight Guild after Little Bubblegum has complained repeatedly many times, when they feel that someone's performance is too poor and not good at all, These mercenaries will pat each other's shoulders like little bubble gum, and then say with a look of hatred, "You can't do it, delete the number and retrain.........

Of course, they themselves don't know what it means to "delete the number and retrain".

The training is painful, but for these mercenaries, it is exciting.

At the beginning, many people were not satisfied with this kind of rigorous training, and they only reluctantly continued for the sake of the face of the two strong men, but with the deepening of the training, they were surprised to find that their strength had improved by leaps and bounds. In the past, they trained by themselves, even if they couldn't break through a little bit even for ten days and half a month, but now, after training almost every day, they can feel that they have improved, and it is not a little bit or two. …,

In this regard, there is the bonus of the Orb of Mysteries——— in its area of influence, the training speed is increased by three times, which naturally has a great impact on these natives. And more importantly, the mention of Rhodes, Canary and Little Bubble Gum is actually the so-called talent tree is just a data-based and intuitive reflection of people's efforts. It's like a person who is full of artistic cells, but has no mathematical mind, he doesn't upgrade his "artistic" talent, but instead adds all his skill points to "mathematics", which can only be promoted to three or five levels at most, and as a result, his ability is not brought into play, and his potential is not enough to improve to the peak of mathematics, and in the end he achieves nothing. And now, Rhodes and the others are carefully observing the fighting methods of those mercenaries, so as to give them a suitable "upgrade route." "Some people are good at defending, while some people like to attack. Some people's sense of rhythm is very good, and some people have a strong sense of the overall situation, these people have not been able to make a breakthrough before, largely because of this, they can't see the conflict between their talent tree and their profession, so they naturally can't make a good judgment and training direction, and now, with the guidance of Rod and others, these mercenaries who have found the right direction are naturally more and more handy in training. And after tasting the sweetness, these mercenaries

In the first half of the month, Rhodes was almost exhausted, and he had to go in with the team every time he trained, observing their battles by the side of those mercenaries, and talking to them one by one after the training, pointing out their main points, the direction of training and the deficiencies that needed to be supplemented.

And Marlene and the others are not idle, although their training direction has long been designated by Rhodes, but their tasks are far from the same, they not only have to fight with the team, but also be responsible for giving orders, combing the battlefield, and commanding their subordinates. Among them, Marlene, as Rod's deputy, needs to grasp the overall situation and make adjustments at any time. Lijie has to lead the spirit master to protect and heal the other mercenaries. Both of them have a high level of understanding and are doing very well.

But on the other hand, Anne ............... You can only shake your head.

Originally, Rhodes and Canary's idea was to let Anne be in charge of leading the shield warriors for protection, but they soon found out that Anne was very outstanding in individual battles, but let her lead the team, then she didn't know what to say at all——— for Anne, her command was only two simple commands, "Everyone!" Follow me! And "You go first!" I'm on top! ”

Of course, this kind of command is not able to integrate the whole very well.

In the end, Rod had to make a new decision, and let Annie be responsible for protecting Lijie and the other spellcasters——— in regular warfare, MT is divided into two layers, one is responsible for the outer protection, and the other is responsible for the interior, and the original idea of Rod was to let Annie command both the inner and outer layers of protection. But now it looks like he's thankful as long as Anne takes care of the protection inside. As for the outside protection............ Of course, finding someone else is a long process, and until then, Rod has to do it himself.

Although there is a bonus from the Orb of Mysteries, it took a full month and a half to achieve the goal requested by Rhodes——— and now, it is almost June. And Rhodes is ready to set off for the Land of Atonement. His first goal is to build the fortress, and next, he will face two five-star missions.

"How many people are there?"

"There are twenty-five people in total, the regiment commander, just the number of people in a regiment. Their loyalty is unquestionable, and their strength will stand the test. ”

Hearing the canary's answer, Rod sighed, and then looked down, at this moment, the twenty-five mercenaries were standing there seriously, arranged in a straight row, although their number was not large, but Rod knew very well that these twenty-five people had passed all the training assessments, and perfectly completed the elite of the target task——— it can even be said that these twenty-five people already have a certain level of player level strength. …,

"Among the twenty-five people, there are eleven swordsmen, two shield warriors, three spirit masters, five rangers, and four thieves, plus Sister Marlene, Sister Lijie, and Sister Anne............ I guess there should be no problem. ”

"I hope so."

Rod nodded, his face was a little loose, the past month and a half has tired him enough, but it also made Rod a little nostalgic——— he remembered that when he had just established the guild, in order to make those new members who joined the guild have a sense of belonging to the guild, Rod helped them get off the dungeon, improved their skills, told them some combat experience, and reminded them of the points again and again every time they got off the dungeon, and let them not be nervous......... In retrospect, that nanny life was tiring, but it was fulfilling. And the foundation of starlight is also laid in this way. And those former rookies later became important figures in the Starlight Mercenary Group, and some of them chose to leave, but most of them stayed in the end.

So, how many of these people can stay until the bottom?

After I leave, the stronghold will be handed over to you, take a good look at it, and feel free to contact me if you have anything............ Also, help me take care of Christie. ”

"Zhilu has spoken, Commander."

The canary smiled and nodded, and then she glanced at Rod intentionally or not.

"Bubbles has a good relationship with her, I don't think you need to worry about that."

"I understand, that's why I'm worried about that............ I'm sorry for you. ”

Hearing Canary's answer, Rod smiled bitterly. As Canary said, Little Bubblegum and Christie have a very good relationship——— at first, they both express some surprise at Christie's existence, but they quickly accept the girl. For Christie, little bubblegum is the closest existence to her own age in the entire guild, and the relationship between peers is always better. As for Little Bubble Gum, she also likes Christie's bland, gentle attitude——— compared to those rigid NPCs who only take a bite of "adult" to themselves, Christie can be regarded as much closer.

Rod wasn't worried about getting along with each other, of course, but he was worried that some of Little Bubblegum's habits that weren't worth learning would also pass on to Christie............ If it were to turn out like that, it would be a big cutlery for Rhodes. Therefore, in desperation, Rod can only ask the canary, hoping that she can look at the little bubblegum, and not let this middle two sister infect the originally well-behaved and obedient Christie into the middle two. If it really became like this, then Rhodes wouldn't be able to cry.

"When are you going to go? Head? ”

"In two days, when all the preparations are ready, we will set off. I want to try to be as fast as possible and clear all obstacles to the forest trail by July. ”

Hearing this, the girl lowered her eyes, as if thinking about something, and then, the canary raised her head slightly and leaned into Rod's ear.

"Well, wait a minute............ Come to me in the back, Captain. ”。"