Chapter 253 Chapter 735 New World
Chapter 253 Chapter 7.35 New World
On the southern continent, various forces are mixed.
And this mixture is not just a mutual mixture on the territory, but also an intersection on different levels.
For example, the largest armed force, the Pirate King, controls the pirate port and a black magic fleet with dozens of pirate ships. He is a high-reputation force among pirates.
However, on the southern continent, the most official and mysterious magic power is the "Dead House", and the number of magicians and organizations are unknown.
This is like the dung business responsible for carrying dung and the beggars responsible for begging in the old Beijing city. The two sides rarely meet, and it is unclear how many people there are, but they coexist there. ~
In the black market exchange in the pirates' dark castle, members of the "Dead House" are tacitly allowed to come and trade. As long as the magicians of the Dead House are willing to abide by the rules and pay enough money,
and the magicians of the "Dead House" will also sell scrolls to the pirates. As long as the pirates can help them collect materials, they can do dirty work such as "plundering the village population" and "digging corpses".
Both sides are in cahoots with each other in the dirty insider affairs.
There are many "organizations" of different levels like this in the South Continent, which makes the South Continent very "diverse".
Oh, the formation of "diversity" does not mean tolerance, but represents the inability to build a ruling order.
All parties can only make peace, make peace, make peace. Make sure that all parties are rotten, and make sure that there will not be a strong existence among everyone.
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Specifically, you can refer to the social status of the "United States of America" in the ancient times.
At the grassroots governance level, they are quite diverse: "various ethnic groups", "minority groups", "anti-gun control", "drug liberalization", "various local small religious groups", almost everything. Because they can't govern, they simply advocate,
As Master Wen Yiduo said: Pour leftovers into this stagnant water, let the colorful oil flowers cover it, and then let the green mold that grows be used as a gem to embellish it.
However, at the level that the power can control, it is absolutely not said to be diverse, but flexible standards, such as the Internet, - all that does not conform to their own values are banned! At this time, we don’t talk about diversity, we don’t talk about freedom, we only talk about “correct values”.
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When people get used to diversity, it is easy for people in this environment to think that this is “right” and “reasonable” in the voices of various compromisers.
However, once external strong forces intervene and ruthlessly defeat all resistances. Such a stagnant “pluralistic” world will be completely overturned.
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In the 3589th year of Fengfu calendar, the diversity on Fengfu continent is difficult to maintain.
The “machine” coming from the main continent is a strong force. They capture the king first and directly choose the biggest “chicken” to kill.
On March 13, outside Shark Harbor, the pirate king’s warship was defeated in the artillery battle in the open sea. A lot of broken wood and garbage floated in the tide.
After all, this is the place where the pirate king has been entrenched for generations. At the entrance of the bay, there are a large number of underwater magic traps, which are as effective as the mines in the modern world of the main world. Of course, the physical effect of these traps is not necessarily an explosion, but it can also cause great damage to the steel hull.
In the face of this, the colonial army must respond flexibly.
After the high-altitude reconnaissance puppet sent the news, Shan Zhen made a mark on the map: do not break through from the front coastline, find a shallow beach to break through directly.
Just like many landing battles in the main world, the naval artillery covered the flanks of the coastal defense line with firepower to cover the landing battle. (The Qing Dynasty's coastal defense artillery was lost in this way. Later, the bald man was defeated from the side and rear in the Battle of Shanghai and Song.)
At 8 o'clock in the morning, fifteen 10,000-ton battleships circled 20 kilometers east of Shark Port and carried out artillery baptism on the shore.
These battleships are all in the style of Earth battleships, with heavy riveted metal armor, turrets arranged on the central axis, and thick gun barrels.
But the physical rules of this world are different. The mode of artillery attack is not the kind on Earth, "flames burst out from the gun barrels, projectiles fly over thousands of meters in an arc, and explode on the ground."
There is an upper limit to the energy level in this world. The energy in the barrel is controlled by the rune structure, but when flying out of the barrel for several thousand meters, the extremely high energy level will quickly dissipate on the track. ——Such an ultra-long-range attack will eventually draw a shining energy belt in the air. Such energy loss at a distance is not cost-effective.
So the naval magic cannon in this world has no trajectory when firing.
In the solid barrel (prism), energy accumulates in the runes, and then an energy collapse point is formed about ten meters in front of the muzzle, and the teleportation magic circle is deployed.
In the captain's room, on the sighting system, the magic circle will shoot a large number of positioning beams, aiming at the coordinates outside the field of view, forming a terminal node.
At the location of the magic cannon, as the beam arrives, it will first condense into a point, and then a large number of nodes at this point will be synchronously deployed, and the arcane will be released together with the magic circle in front of the muzzle.
In this world, all high-energy attacks do not have fancy trajectories, but directly attack the arcane at the coordinate point in the form of "tunneling"!
The magic cannons do not only release flame explosions of the evocation system, but also frost, and more likely spell summons.
For example, now, when the battleship Mutsu in the ocean senses a large number of dark creatures (ghouls) in the area, the magic cannons fire and teleport "light spirits".
As the teleportation array unfolded, thousands of glowing triangles spread out. These triangular cursors, on the defensive position of the pirate king, spread out like boomerangs, searching for skeletons and ghouls on the thousands of meters of positions, spinning and strangling them.
Under this gorgeous big move, the entire position was quickly cleared.
Then the landing troops of several large ships, holding muskets and pushing small steam crossbows (similar to infantry cannons), occupied the position and carried out a roundabout attack, detouring ten kilometers and cutting off the pirate city-state's retreat.
This kind of troops supplied by industrialized logistics, even a small landing force, is a regular force of 4,000 people, and it is definitely not something that the pirates can resist.
As for trying to use magic to change the situation.
Indeed, there are many warlocks among the pirates, and even high-level dragon vein warlocks, who can release various kinds of magic. But-this is to compete with the colonial army backed by Xuan Ao and the Northern Industrial Party to compete with the consumption of arcane magic, and they are obviously wrong.
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On the 23rd, four hours after the landing battle, the colonial army had taken over the outer territory.
The "mechanical cans" with blue and gold patterns stood on the ground.
They were wearing the magic knight uniforms imported by the Southern Chamber of Commerce from the Northern Industrial Party, and in their hands were "shaping arcane firearms" prepared with core high-energy runes provided by the Xuan Ao Alliance. These equipments were used by special high-level legions as the finale of the colonial army.
The southern warlocks and idle mages in the pirate port tried to break through with their own forces during the siege, but they were all targeted by the northern colonial army first.
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On April 3, in addition to the fishy smell, the sea breeze was also mixed with the stench of rotten corpses.
On the black pirate city wall, there were countless gallows, and countless skeletons were hung on the upper layer of the gallows. On the platform at the front of the middle of the city wall, the fate of those who challenged the order of the pirate king was shown.
For hundreds of years, this pirate city was immersed in this dark atmosphere. The pirates' exaggerated splendor on the towers of the city wall was dotted with absurdity in the darkness.
However, it is now in a doomsday situation. Thousands of soldiers and dozens of warships have surrounded the city from land and sea. ——A large number of pirates with chapped lips in the entire pirate city are desperately waiting, waiting, waiting, and there may be a miracle of turning things around.
However, these guys who are unforgivable and only believe that they can do whatever they want with enough strength, now they are being abused by stronger forces, how can fate help them?
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The food in the pirate city is stored for several years, and if it is worse, they can still use grain making techniques.
But the water source cannot be changed
The colonial army pushed the river channel upstream to change its track, and at the same time, a large number of vertical shafts were dug to guide the underground water veins away from the castle. All the wells in the pirate city are exposed to silt.
More importantly, above the pagoda on the warship, a gaseous light mirror with a diameter of more than 50 meters appeared, irradiating microwaves to the entire pirate city. These microwaves are not lethal. It just makes the water evaporate three or four times faster.
The air in the city has become as dry as the desert.
After a few days, with insufficient water, the pirates soon appeared, and at night they began to stab each other with knives and drink each other's blood.
Of course, those who can kill each other in desperation can also betray their teammates.
After a week of siege, the pirate king's tyrannical rule failed, and his subordinates directly betrayed and blew up the city gate, allowing the colonial army to enter.
When the biggest pirate was destroyed, the next step was to wipe out the other participating pirates. A large number of pirates directly drove their ships to the ocean and fled.
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After June
After solving the pirate problem, the colonization and development in the south continued, and large-scale immigration continued, and tens of thousands of troops began to develop inland.
This further expansion invaded the territories of the native races on the continent, such as tribes of ogres, centaurs, and bristle pigmen.
However, few of these tribes could reach a scale of tens of thousands.
When the colonial army encountered these wild tribes, they all used steam crossbows and bombardment, and then a set of modern musket tactics at close range to push them across.
Of course, in the course of this colonial war, the northern colonial forces also used a lot of auxiliary magic when fighting with local forces.
Generally, the spell of dispelling is used first to sweep away all the magic effects such as bloodlust, violent spells, ancestral protection, and sharp stone armor. Before the volley of gunfire, a wave of fear is released with a huge amount of sonic bullets.
So in actual combat, it is often enough to shoot down this group of tribal troops with a wave of muskets, and then draw bayonets and line up to chase them.
After the collapse of the tribe of these humanoid monsters, the dead hut was soon involved.
The number of human mages in the dead hut only accounts for 30%. Most of the rest are shamans from various local races.
Of course, you can't see the specific racial identity of these mages. Their dry bodies, even the skeletons that have become dead words, are wrapped in black robes or black iron armor.
Maybe a tall undead mage, under the floating dark cloak. It may be an ogre who gnawed off one of his own heads.
The Dead House is undoubtedly the most bizarre force here.
When the colonial army marched inland, they soon encountered a terrible disease. After a sudden attack by the poisonous miasma, a whole row of troops were bleeding all over their bodies, showing symptoms similar to "Ebola", and quickly fell to the ground.
Or, outside the army camp, high-level undead flying dragons appeared. They broke through the air defense network of the steam crossbow and sprayed dragon breath full of phosphorescent fire.
The unprotected soldiers, after being infected with the dragon breath, were instantly burned to their internal organs and turned into undead skeletons. Even after they turned into skeletons, some of them did not know that they had turned into skeletons, and they were still blindly touching their surroundings. Well, these dead are extremely sensitive to the breath of the living, and will run towards their former teammates with the flames of death.
Therefore, in this southward colonial war, the colonial army is also full of ghost stories unique to the development of the wild world.
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Such a headache is not the turn of "industry" to work hard,
The magician group of the Xuan Ao Alliance went to the south for "investigation". They and the necromancers of the "Dead Hut" had intercontinental exchanges.
The same sentence, Xuan Ao's Truth Alliance is a modern scientific organization, in terms of scale and advancement, it is several generations ahead of other magic organizations of the same era.
There are only thirteen groups in the Dead House. Each of the first twelve groups is led by a high-level necromancer, while the thirteenth group is all high-level necromancers, and they are no longer living beings. The struggle for power and profit makes it impossible for them to produce together.
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When the colonies have already occupied strongholds in the coastal areas, the Truth Alliance built forty wizard towers in just one month!
Each wizard tower is an energy tower. For example, the No. 23 wizard tower is erected on the seashore. The sea surface within a radius of 80 kilometers is waveless because the tidal energy of the waves is collected by the wizard tower.
The Truth Alliance relies on the energy and logistics advantages to find the guys in the "Dead House" to fight!
Orthodox arcane mages: What's weird? Unrecognizable, the arcane system is a fair exchange, and anything can be cracked as long as it pays enough value. There is nothing that "explosion magic" can't solve with one shot. If there is, then two shots.
During the process of the arcanists of the Alliance of Truth seeking the Dead House for a discussion
The Industrial Party of Carret can only deliver some large forgings necessary for the Mage Tower. Uh, now, the more than 20-ton delta-wing aircraft hovering over the southern continent is also the mass production of all parts except the "high-level runes" by the Industrial Party when receiving the order.
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June to August
In the dragnet set up by the arcanists of the main continent, the dirty necromancers ushered in a cross-era crushing.
In front of the ordinary soldiers of the colonial army, the bone dragons that had been arrogant for less than ten days were killed by super-powerful fire storms, disintegration, and radiant furnaces.
Then, it was the process of growing mushroom clouds on the ground. In addition, two green dragons were killed in the middle.
How did the green dragons get involved? This is the sixth group of high-level mages in the Dead House deliberately leading the arcanists into the so-called "forbidden land", and then these green dragons felt that their territory was violated, and the result?
It was the grumpy wizards of the Alliance of Truth, who beat up the green dragon together!
Because they were laying down order on the entire continent anyway, and they didn't care about the involvement of the "chaotic evil" forces.
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In this way, the Southern Colonial Army, sponsored by the industrial forces of the main continent, and its high-level armed forces, under the platform of the Alliance of Truth, quickly established a new power zone.
This is an area that has never allowed human forces to establish a country in the past.
After 3590 years of the Fengfu calendar, in this unfamiliar area, as farmers who lost their land began to plant crops, various craftsmen began to produce, and new city-states were established.
For these benefited human people, is this unprecedented fact behind ~~~ God's promise?
When you "get" something inexplicably, you will want to find spiritual sustenance to confirm that this "getting" is reasonable.
This is the reason why "those who get windfalls burn more incense and worship God" in the main world.
"Industry, science, machinery", now there is a brand new continent in this world to be worshipped and believed.