Chapter 686 Euphemism

Restoration of the Iron Throne is complete.

This news made Gao Wen truly relieved.

That armored train is currently the most powerful land combat force of the Cecil Empire - the special properties of the armored train allow it to quickly move to the area covered by the railway line and support considerable strength on its own without additional support Its powerful firepower and shield system are no less useful in this era than an additional frontier fortress, and what the empire lacks most now is such a frontier fortress.

The Changfeng Fortress is sending back all kinds of news every day. The increase in troops of the Typhon Empire has risen to the blatant level. Although the peace agreement signed between Ansu and Typhon in the past has not been torn up yet. , but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the binding force of that document on the two countries is actually not as strong as a few swords and guns, just as Gawain had predicted from the very beginning: Peace between countries never depends on any gentleman's agreement. can be maintained.

In this case, the value of the Iron Throne is self-evident.

"Where is the railway line now?" He raised his head and looked at Hetty.

"It has passed through the eastern border and is currently approaching the Karon Valley area. A newly assembled engineering train is advancing along with the railway line, and the project will be shortened to 20 days to complete," Hetty nodded, "After the completion The Iron Throne will be deployed to the Paramel Heights near Changfeng Fortress, the artillery will cover the entire Changfeng defense line, and other military trains will be able to quickly transport subsequent armored troops to the border."

Gawain nodded as he listened. After Hetty reported on the Iron Throne and the Eastern Railway, he asked again, "How is the cleanup of the polluted area of ​​the Holy Spirit Plain?"

"Currently, the purification zone has been advanced to the fertile woodland, and the speed of advancement will be further accelerated," Heidi smiled, "After the fall of the 'artificial god', all the giants of the crystal cluster have undergone a substantial decline, not only The strength has weakened, and the mobility has also been greatly reduced, and it has lost the ability to actively spread the plague. Now the purification team is seriously investigating the pollution area on the Holy Spirit Plain, and there is no sign of pollution counterattack."

Immediately after the death of the monstrosity created by the End of All Things, the Legion of Giants of the Cluster fell into a state of decline - just as the staff of the previous army and the scholars of Cecil City had estimated.

The cluster giants have a special organizational form. Their subordinate units are controlled by the mind of the superior, and even the thinking ability of the subordinate units depends on the superior node. This organizational form allows them to have far more than the contemporaries. Action efficiency and communication ability, and even make them have a certain degree of telepathy, but their weakness is that once their superior nodes are destroyed, all subordinate nodes will immediately collapse - the original crystal cluster legion was formed by the entire All Things Ending Society. A large number of bishops are controlled separately, and the destruction of one node only causes a problem with one branch legion.

This weakness is not fatal, but after the "artificial god" got out of control, its superior nodes were all concentrated on the "god", and this weakness was fatal.

The fall of the man-made god directly caused the Crystal Cluster Legion to turn into a group of weak and loose beasts, which greatly reduced the work pressure of the subsequent purification of the Holy Spirit Plain. Otherwise, there would still be nearly one million monsters left on the entire plain. It is not easy to completely clean up the severe shortage of troops in the post-Empire.

"A rotten tree has fallen, and there are dead branches and leaves scattered all over the ground... It still takes some effort to clean it up," Gawain sighed softly, then raised his head and said to the three grand consuls, "Everything The Death Society has a huge structure and has been operating in this country for a long time. Even many small nobles, businessmen and church priests have been deceived and depraved by it. Now the main body of this church has fallen, but those branches must still be left. Little, it's not just the monsters on the Plains of the Holy Spirit that have to be cleaned up."

Victoria lowered her head deeply and said in a cold voice, "Yes, we understand."

"No, you only understand part of it," Gawain shook his head, "The remnants of the cult will definitely be uprooted, but we must be wary of this process evolving into extreme violence like the Church of the Holy Light burning heretics - the empire has just been established , we are promoting a new order of justice and the rule of law, and at this time there must be no old school style, no slap in the face, and no panic to create chaos."

"I will ask Pittman to compile a booklet on the methods of distinguishing dark druids' activity patterns and magical characteristics, and distribute them to priests and official druids. Ordinary people who have been deceived or low-level religious members with shallow beliefs, try their best to deal with labor and thought reform - the collective burning of heresy must be banned."

Victoria blinked: "What if this gentle method can't effectively deter those believers? The thoughts that have been bewitched by cults are often deeply ingrained, and it is difficult to correct them in a short time..."

The Duchess, who had captured cultists in the North and dealt with many heretics, obviously knew a lot about those who went astray.

"First of all, you should have confidence in the Cecil-style labor + thought transformation project. We have transformed many people in the same way, and I have also prepared special spiritual food for the believers of the Society for the End of All Things," Gao said. Wen smiled and said patiently, "I plan to show them the video of hunting and killing man-made gods repeatedly - from the trapping of the brave, to the meal of the siren, the whole process will be played without any deletion, and I will arrange for a special person to play it. The knowledge about the artificial gods is explained on the side, and it is broadcast every morning, noon and evening. On the rest day, you can also play a documentary about cutting the bones of the false gods and processing the throne of the skull.

"Secondly, if there really are the kind of stubborn people you mentioned - I believe there will definitely be such people - then it doesn't matter, the empire now has mines that lack people, and those people will reform two if they can't be reformed in a year. Years, 20 years if they are not completed in ten years, and if they are not completed in a lifetime, we will award them medals after they die, thanking them for their outstanding contributions to the construction of the imperial industry.”

Duke Baldwin Franklin listened to Gawain's words in a daze - his eyes widened as soon as he heard the first half, and after the second half did he exclaim with an exaggerated expression: "If it really works, On the 'spiritual food' you mentioned, I am afraid that no one can last for more than two years, unless they are not only blind but also fools."

"Sometimes people who are brainwashed by cults are not much better than fools," Victoria shook her head, "but I also think His Majesty's plan will be very effective."

Gawain smiled and looked at Hetty again: "Hetty, is there any new progress regarding the underground 'lair' near Solimburg?"

He was referring to the lair where all things will die in the east of the Holy Spirit Plain. After the man-made god was killed, the search team found a large-scale rift near Solimburg. According to the information provided by Pittman, the rift was under the It should be the base camp of the Society for the End of All Things. The scale of the camp may be close to the fortress of disobedience, and part of its structure may even extend into the Eastern Territory, where countless secrets are buried.

"The surface and shallow caves and passages have been cleared, but they have not gone deep," Hetty shook his head gently, "The structure below is too complicated, and scholars are currently trying to decipher its magic traps and mechanisms. Before that The team did not dare to go deep. In addition, after Rebecca knew about this, she suggested that the expert team throw bombs underground to disarm the trap, please rest assured that they have already fought.”

Gao Wen: "..."

"Cough, I understand," Gawain coughed dryly after a few seconds, "This is really something Rebecca can do, but after all, the child is old, so we still need to take her face into account when talking..."

"Yes, Ancestor." Heidi nodded solemnly, while the two grand consuls, Victoria and Baldwin, looked at each other with a tacit understanding in their eyes.

Seeing Victoria, a person with almost no expression change, the corners of his mouth cocked up, Gawain knew that Rebecca's deeds might have already spread in Saint Sunil... Also, if the girl hadn't made one after another When the trouble comes, a stable person like Heidi should not be able to take such a big resentment when reporting work to let the ancestors pay attention to the evil deeds of the bear children...

But it's embarrassing to say, in fact, when Hetty mentioned that there are many traps and traps in the underground lair, Gawain also had the idea of ​​blasting and removing obstacles in his mind, but what he conceived was high-precision blasting technology. The fireball brewing in Ka's head may be bigger than the city gate...

"Rebecca..." Gawain couldn't help but sighed softly with a helpless smile, then turned his head and looked in the direction of the window.

The autumn wind blew through the towers of the castle, circling between the intricate spires and walls, bringing the autumn leaves and the cold air from the north. Before he knew it, this was already his identity as Gawain Cecil. The fourth year of awakening is also the fourth year of knowing Rebecca and Heidi.

"It's been four years... This kid should be more focused on learning, right?"

The autumn wind blew through the courtyard of the castle, blowing the tall and straight dragon leaf trees, neatly trimmed bushes and flower beds, and a piece of withered and yellow leaves fell from the sky in a whirl, and was gently caught by a slightly slender hand.

The black-haired maid Maggie looked at the dead leaf that fell on her palm. This leaf has a special asymmetry. The shape of one narrow side and one wide side and the jagged serrations on the edge are inevitably reminiscent of the legendary dragon's wings. She still vaguely remembers that in her hometown, when autumn came, the streets and alleys would be full of such leaves.

The "Dragon Leaf Tree", which is more valuable in Ansu, is extremely common in the Duchy of Shenglong.

Maggie gently held her fingers, and the withered yellow leaves shone between her fingers. After she opened her palms again, the leaves had turned into a bird composed of illusory dust, and fluttered into the sky. .

"Flying so well..." she muttered softly.

A burst of footsteps suddenly came from behind, and Maggie immediately regained her mind. She regained her usual shrewd and capable appearance, and turned around to see the person walking towards her.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Empire - Rebecca Cecil.

"Your Highness." After Rebecca walked a certain distance, Maggie bent down just right and greeted respectfully.

There are many rules in the upper class, and there are countless unwritten etiquettes in addition to the explicit rules and etiquette, so that the right time to bend over is the homework of a qualified maid - when a noble person other than the master comes to him , although the servant does not have to go to meet him, but he must bow in time, and bending over too early is an offense, as if urging the other party to respond to him quickly, bending over too late is uneducated and slow to respond Performance, the rules inside really can't tell how many.

Although Victoria had said that sooner or later, these cumbersome rules would disappear or be simplified with the old aristocracy, but for Maggie, this kind of action had already become her habit, and there was no need to maintain it deliberately.

"Hey, don't be so troublesome, don't be so troublesome," Rebecca waved her hand quickly, she didn't understand the hidden details of these rules, the maid she usually interacts with the most is a dumb Betty, the latter is a heavenly A girl who takes a while to make a thunderbolt, so that Rebecca doesn't even know that there are a lot of doorways in Maggie's bow, "I'm not quite used to it..."

Maggie showed a gentle smile: "You are a member of the royal family, you always have to adapt to these."

"Don't mention it, I'm still a little dizzy now. Why did the ancestor go out to fight, and when I came back, my title changed..." Rebecca scratched her hair, the blankness on her face was not adulterated at all, " Let’s not talk about this, I’m looking for an opportunity to talk to you—I haven’t met you at the dinner party before, and you don’t usually come out to walk around, this time I only found out that you were in the yard after inquiring with the guard!”

Maggie frowned slightly. She had almost never had contact with Rebecca, so she could not guess the thoughts of the maverick princess: "What are you asking me for?"

Rebecca thought about it for a while, and slowly burst into a very bright and favourable smile. She leaned in and said, "That... I heard from the ancestors, you are actually a dragon, right?"

Maggie was stunned for a moment, and her expression seemed to change, but in the end she breathed a sigh of relief and lowered her head slightly: "Yes."

She doesn't want to publicize her identity, and has always guarded her true body like a secret, but in the previous war, her true identity has been exposed to many people in the Cecil Corps. None of the Cyr people had any strange attitude towards her because of her special status. Rebecca was usually a very pleasant and lively girl. The humanoid dragon put down her heart and admitted it frankly.

"Oh, that's good, that's good!" Rebecca nodded again and again, then opened her mouth, mulling the next words——

She still remembered that the ancestors said to be polite and try not to offend Maggie's self-esteem, because there seems to be something unspeakable in the blood of this black dragon sister, so she must be more euphemistic when speaking in this regard.

So Rebecca brewed for a while in her heart, and then said with a smile: "Then let me see if you become one!"