Chapter 690: Undercurrent
The eyes of the entire continent were completely attracted by the fact that the Council of Light had mobilized its troops to the frontier front. However, most of them did not think that the Kingdom of Light and the Night Council were really at war, after all, everyone knew that such conflicts had been happening, and many of them knew what was going on with the Council of Light being so tough right now. Therefore, in their opinion, the Council of Light's mobilization of troops is just a strong statement, and it will not really attack the Night Nation. Sometimes international politics is like two people pointing at each other's noses and scolding, "There is a kind of you beating me", "You dare to try, see if I don't slap you", "Come on, come on, I'll put my face on this and you fan" "I fan, I want to really fan you and don't fan you" "Don't chirp crookedly, you have the ability to do it, if you dare to beat me, wait for the whole family to die" "I'm sorry, still die the whole family, do you think you are the old man worthy of Lao Tzu's own hands........."
Don't look at the scolding and scolding, the mouth is frothing, and I want to kill my son and rob my wife, but if you really want to do it, neither of you will do it. Therefore, the controversy between the Council of Light and the Night Nation has only been brought up to a normal level, and not many people have thought deeply about it. Most of them believe that the Council of Light is just trying to show their toughness to the people to win back, and they don't dare to send troops to attack the Night Nation.
Indeed, their thoughts are correct, but the Kingdom of Light doesn't want to fight, just because the Night Nation doesn't want to fight either!
Unlike the Land of Light, where contradictions accumulate and there are a lot of internal and external troubles, the Night Country can be said to have grown and prospered under the leadership of the Night Dragon Ion. They have strong military and financial resources, in addition to the four major families led by the four demon generals, the strength of various small and medium-sized families has also begun to grow and develop, and Ion is also very clear. If you want to develop in an all-round way, then you must only go through the road of external expansion. If they don't expand, then with the growth of the power of those emerging families, they will inevitably have conflicts with the Four Demons, and may even have internal wars and disputes as a result. The Night Dragon Soul is not Lillian, nor is it the Council of Light. Of course, I won't let this kind of thing happen under my nose, so starting a war, occupying land, and expanding power is the inevitable outcome.
Ever since he learned that the Land of Light had sent troops to the frontier front, Rhodes had already begun to prepare for a possible war, and so far, the Night Dragon Nation has not reacted at all. It was the Council of Light who was shouting there, and then they were so noisy that they couldn't give a response, but that's all, they didn't mobilize their troops, and they didn't warn each other seriously. So in the eyes of others, this is nothing more than an ordinary international dispute.
But Rhodes knew very well that there was no need for the Night Dragons to mobilize their armies at all, and everything they were doing now was to conceal their true purpose. In the game, they do just that. That is to paralyze the opponent, and then launch a lightning raid on the target to capture the opponent in one fell swoop.
And the nature of the undead armies of the Night Dragon Nation proves that they are almost flawless when it comes to blitzkrieg. As undead creatures, they don't need to be supplied on the spot, so naturally there is no need to mobilize troops in advance. And they don't get tired or tired, so they can travel day and night without having to run around camp. As for the replenishment of supplies and soldiers, it is even less of a problem. As long as there is a necromancer, then all the corpses on the battlefield will be summoned by them to become their fighting power. Coupled with their tirelessness, they are not afraid of death, and they will not back down. It was also decided that once the undead army actually launched a lightning raid, almost no one could stop their attack by surprise.
This is also one of the reasons why the country of light collapsed in the game. After all, they are human beings, living beings, and naturally they will be tired, tired, and afraid. In the face of tactics such as the Night Dragon Nation, the Land of Light was completely powerless at first, and it was not until they sacrificed a large area of territory and manpower that they relied on strong fortresses and defenses to re-block the attack of the undead. However, as the saying goes, any strong line of defense begins to crumble from within, and in order to prove the correctness of this truth, Rhodes led the player to sweep from behind and clean up the Council of Light before the Night Dragon Kingdom.
Although at that time, even if Rhodes did not take action, the Council of Light would eventually be destroyed by the Night Dragon Kingdom, that did not mean that the strategy was useless. The most important thing is that the Council of Light itself is too wastewood, and even the Council of Light, which is too waste, can still slow down and contain the attack of the Night Dragon Kingdom to a certain extent after adopting a rigid defense strategy, which shows that this trick is quite effective against the Night Dragon Kingdom. After all, blitzkrieg is to take them by surprise, and once the other side is prepared, then it is useless to take them by surprise.
Of course, Rhodes didn't forget to send a letter to Lydia again, warning her of the possibility that the Night Dragon Kingdom might take the opportunity to sneak attack, this time he didn't even bother to hide anything, but based on the analysis of the causes of this war on the forum, he wrote a large article with enthusiasm, and told Lydia that he was 100% sure that the Night Dragon Kingdom would take the opportunity to invade the Land of Light and Moon. After all, as the bridgehead of the Land of Light, with Moon's geographical location, it is difficult to even lie down and get shot.
However, Lydia's reply left Rhodes speechless, and the eccentric Grand Duke's highness did not express his opinion in the letter, but instead passed Rhodes a copy of the internal meeting of the Duchy of Moon on the matter of the Land of Light. It can be seen from this document that most people just think that this dispute is the same as usual, and that the Council of Light has lost face in the Dragon Soul Sacred Codex, so they want to try to redeem it. Although they also thought that this was a bit risky, they did not think that the Night Dragon Nation would take the opportunity to attack. However, Rhodes can also see that these people do not think that the Night Nation will not go to war, but rather that they "hope" that the Night Nation will not go to war. In any case, the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Night are the two largest countries on the Dragon Soul Continent, and once they go to war, the consequences will be catastrophic and devastating, and due to the strength of the two countries, it is also destined not to end as soon as a big country annexes a small country, or a war between two small countries that are not strong enough, it is not an exaggeration to last for years, decades or even centuries. This is not unfoundedβββ if you think about the creation war, it was fought for hundreds of years, and many races were exterminated in that terrible war, and some races were divided as a result, like the elves and the black elves, the dwarves and the gray dwarves, the angels and the fallen angels. This time. If the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Night really fight, whether it will turn into another creation war again, no one knows.
Not everyone's concerns are just out of fear of illusory war, they think that there is no movement on the side of the Night Kingdom, and once they are fully guarded first, it is likely to cause a bad consequence, and maybe the Night Dragon Kingdom will have some bad thoughts and misunderstandings about them. Rod scoffed at this, but he also had to admit that these people's statements were not all based on weakness.
Compared to the Night Dragon Country. The other nations have a great weakness, and that is that they can hardly get any information from the upper echelons of the Night Dragon Nation. The reason is simple, look at what the upper echelons of the Night Dragon Kingdom are, necromancers, vampires, death knights, dark elves, etc., many of these races are very good at reading minds and controlling minds. Vampires can get information from the blood of their prey. While the necromancer can even squeeze everything he knows from the brains of the dead, the dark elves also have a unique spell to determine whether the other party will lie or not. In such a dark country. There are few moral limits to their use of these techniques, and they are not despised. The Night Dragon Kingdom is a country of strength, as long as you have enough strength, then whatever you do is right. And even if you are not strong enough, as long as you are loyal, you can at least be used, but those are not strong. But those who daydream all day long will become the prey of others.
Because of this, in such a country, it is almost impossible for living people to get information, even if they get the equipment to shield the ideological investigation. Or it doesn't help to have a talent that is immune to psychic exploration spells, and once these people are discovered, they will be immediately captured by the undead for research and investigation. At that time, if the other party's information can't be obtained, but let those undead creatures squeeze their absolute secrets out of their brains and blood, it will really outweigh the losses.
Because of this, there are basically no countries on the Continent of Light that dare to send spies to the Night Country to search for any confidential information, at most they are only mixed in the lower areas inhabited by humans, but the information that can be obtained in that kind of place is already limited, let alone useless. On the contrary, many nobles and high-ranking officials in the Continent of Light are willing to sell their souls and intelligence to the undead for the sake of false and eternal life, and there are countless such things.
If you can't get accurate information, you can't make accurate judgments about the enemy, and because of this, many people judge what the Night Dragons will do more from what they do. But everyone knows that this kind of thing on the countertop can't be counted, but unfortunately, they can't see the things under the countertop.
But not everyone thinks so, because in this meeting record, there is one person who is clearly on the side of Rhodes, and that is Garling.
She made it clear at the meeting that according to the report of Dongfang Yamabara, the invasion of the undead has been greatly reduced during this time, and many times it is even routine, although they are usually routine, but now it feels more like a show than a real battle, so she has reason to believe that the undead are planning a big thing. Moreover, as a person born in Dongfang Yamahara, Jia Ling has always been afraid to guess the intentions of the undead with the greatest malice, so no matter what the Night Dragon Kingdom says, she will not think that the other party is sincere. This coincides with Rhodes. How brain-deficient it must be to believe that the dead can live in peace with the living............ No, fraternism can do that.
In the entire meeting record, the two sides fought endlessly, and Lydia never spoke, but according to the last record of the meeting, it was a synthesis of the opinions of both sides, that is, not to be vigilant on the surface, but to take precautions in private, and Rod was also keenly aware that although there was something that was not stated in the meeting minutes, Lydia said vaguely that she would mobilize the War Angel Legion to take precautions.
Rod could only shrug his shoulders at this, and the outcome was better than he expected, but not very good. Because he didn't know how much of a difference the private preparations of the Lunar Dao would have, but fortunately, at least after this meeting, the Duchy of Moon was mentally prepared to be attacked by the Night Nation. Therefore, even if it is attacked suddenly, it will not collapse immediately. As for the country of light, Rhodes didn't have the heart to care anymore, and he didn't know if Lydia would warn Lillian about it, although Lillian was working hard, but Rhodes knew very well. She is too weak, this weakness is not only in age and strength, in the face of a war of this scale, Lillian is not qualified or capable of commanding, in the end, the Council of Light will still take over.
It is better to count on the country of light than to count on yourself.
During this time, Rhodes also kept a low profile, using his excuse to increase his private army. The Silver Scales Chamber of Commerce bought and sold food in large quantities, while reducing the supply of magic potions. Internally, Rhodes also kept silent about this, he had discussed this matter with others, but Marlene and Lijie both thought that this kind of huge battle could not be fought for a while, but the old Walker and Rod were on the same page in this regard, but Rod didn't say anything more, just let them all do their jobs.
The days passed.
The bitter cold of winter continues. This period seemed to Rhodes to be so slow, and he even felt that this winter was incomparably long. It's like it's going to last for decades. Because Rhodes knew very well that if the Night Dragon Kingdom wanted to launch an attack on the Land of Light, then winter was the best time, and their undead army would not be affected by the cold weather, not to mention, on the contrary, the cold could also be their best cover. The Night Dragon Kingdom will never wait for the spring season to bloom. They are not decent men and gentlemen, and they have to issue a declaration of war before the war starts.
The snow was falling, and the sky was cloudy almost every day, and the goose-featherlike snow fell from the sky, completely enveloping the ground into a silver-white world. Winter. It has become the only main theme in this world.
Night falls.
The dark and deep night sky swallowed up all the light, and the heavy dark clouds obscured the moon hanging high in the sky, and the dark shadows gradually spread. It was like ink, and it was like some kind of venom that was gradually spreading, slowly but unswervingly, moving forward, continuing to move forward............
"Woo..................!!"
A groan of pain rang out.
The girl's eyes widened suddenly, her hands tightly covered her chest, her petite and weak body trembled on the bed, pain, faint moans echoed in the wide and warm bedroom, and soon, hurried footsteps sounded, and then, several war angels rushed into the room and came to the girl's side.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Your Majesty!! β
"Uh............ Ah...............h
Lillian clenched her teeth, her delicate and lovely face was now as pale as paper, she opened her mouth and breathed heavily, but there was no light in her eyes, as if at this moment, the girl's consciousness had left here and gone to some distant place.
"Get out of the way."
At this time, a silent and calm voice came, and then, the figure of the archangel appeared beside Lilian, she stretched out her right hand with a serious face and put it on Lilian's chest, and soon, the white light emanated from the hand of the archangel and wrapped around Lilian's body, and with this radiant emanation, the girl's original uncomfortable expression gradually eased, and her body that was tense because of pain was also at this moment, suddenly relaxed.
"Hah............ Ha............ Ha...... Ah...............h
Lillian was paralyzed on the bed, her eyes widened, her whole body was already wet with cold sweat, but the girl didn't care about this at all, she raised her head and looked at the archangel in front of her uneasily.
"Sling............ I, I feel ............ Someone............ Invaded my domain! β
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Hearing Lilian's words, the archangel's face changed slightly, she turned around, looked at the Seraph Archangel Boulder who didn't know when he appeared in front of the door, nodded slightly, and then she said seriously.
"Convene the Council of Light now!"
The snow is still falling.
"This damn weather is damn bad."
Looking at the white snow outside the tent, the captain of the garrison sitting on the chair did not have the slightest appreciation, but cursed indignantly. He reached out and picked up the flask that was placed on the brazier next to him, opened the lid, and poured a large mouthful of the fiery liquid from his head, and then shivered comfortably.
"What bastards, those old immortals in the council actually want us to come to this border wilderness to suffer for the sake of face, if it were at home, I would have been happy in bed with my wife in my arms by now! I really don't know how long we're going to have to stay in this hellish place before it's over! β
"Alright, alright, shut your mouth, where is so much whining."
The companion next to him took the flask he handed him and pursed his lips.
"Anyway, we're just here for show, and when the group of officials above finish what they want to say, we can go back. Okay, now shut your mouth, it's time to patrol soon, and if the commander hears your words, be careful to keep you here and garrison the border, it will be really miserable at that time. Keep your mouth shut and look around, really, it's just a vigil, don't talk so much nonsense, waste calories. Take it easy, there's not much left in this bottle! β
"I know that I just complain and complain, those old immortals......... Well? β
"What's wrong?"
"Strange ..............."
The captain of the garrison frowned at his colleague's inquiry, tilted his ears and listened carefully to his surroundings, then shook his head.
"Did I have a problem with my ears, how did I hear 'Sha...... The sound of sand ...... like the waves of the sea? β
"You can't drink too much, don't you have a sea around here, there's not even a river............ Woo, it's really freezing to death, why is the weather so cold, it feels like even people are going to freeze............ Damn, my armor is all frozen together! How ............... this winter?"
"Boom!!"
At this moment, only a few dull sounds were heard outside, and then a soldier rushed into the room in embarrassment.
"Report, report Captain, we've been attacked! Enemy attack! There is an enemy attack! β
"Calm down, where is the enemy?!"
The captain of the garrison shouted angrily, drew his sword at his waist, and strode out of the tent, and then he froze in place.
A steady stream of white waves whistled from afar, they were like ocean waves, sweeping the whole land, even the blizzard was blown away in front of them, as if a faint breeze was not worth mentioning, and in this white sea, you can vaguely see countless blue and white, like candle flames swaying in it.
Seeing this scene, the captain of the garrison only felt that the blood in his whole body was completely frozen at this moment.
"The ..................... of the Undead Legion" (To be continued......)