Chapter 298 The Situation Is Stable
We and Matsumoto Masaga are completely on our side, so I will definitely not let the demon kings deal with Matsumoto Masaga, but the problem is that Ghost Hand Nobunaga and the others don't know this, and we can't either Let others know that we are actually on the same team, so we still have to do superficial things.
I looked at Masamoto Matsumoto pretending to be generous and said: "Masaka Matsumoto, don't worry. One of my characteristics is trustworthiness. Now that I have reached an agreement, I will abide by it to the end. Of course, the premise is Don't make the mistake of taking the initiative to find trouble."
Masamoto Matsumoto nodded and said, "I understand the importance. There is no need to remind me of this matter."
I nodded without saying anything and turned directly to the old lich who had been restrained over there. This guy's current energy intensity is less than one-fifth of what it was at the beginning, and his body has changed from almost opaque to one that feels like a layer of mist. It is estimated that if someone is present now, he will give him a soul shock. , this guy is definitely doomed.
"Gold coins, don't be stunned, go over and collect them. Didn't you say it's useful?"
"Oh." Gold Coin also reacted at this time, and quickly ran over and took out a piece of yellow paper and covered the old lich's head. With a scream, the yellow paper collapsed quickly, and when the gold coin was picked up, it was discovered that there was a portrait on the yellow paper, printed on the paper like a photo.
In fact, according to European legends, lichs should be demigod-level existences, the kind with boundless strength. Moreover, the Lich's body should actually be an object called a phylactery, and the ghost-like one that usually comes out and move should actually be called a power projection, which is similar to a clone. Anyway, as long as the Lich's phylactery is fine, the projection will be fine no matter how damaged it is. Even if it is completely purified, it doesn't matter. As long as the life box is still there, it will be automatically resurrected after a period of time.
Of course, the above are all legendary and orthodox settings, and the settings in the game "Zero" are like this. The lich in "Zero" is generally the same as in the legend. After all, it is designed based on the legend. but. The lich abilities in the game are not uniform. Liches in Europe, such as the ones I met in the Dark Temple, are all orthodox lichs, similar to the legendary ones. However, the situation with lichs encountered in other areas is more confusing. It feels like the way to make lichs in the game has been leaked, so people can make lichs all over the world, except in Europe. Liches elsewhere are basically knockoffs.
These copycat lichs are basically all kinds of strange things, and some don't have phylacteries. Just like a ghost, the projection is the original body. If it is eliminated, it will completely cease to exist and has no ability to be resurrected. Some lichs are so weak that they can't even defeat high-level ghosts. There are even some lichs that seem to be hybrids with necromancers, but they are actually physical, and damage to the physical body will affect their souls. I basically attribute these strange lich characteristics to the difference between the development direction of the copycat version and the original version, and the old lich just now is obviously a copycat version. Firstly, it is impossible to find orthodox lich production technology in Japan, and secondly, this guy is a demon king. His own racial characteristics determine that even an orthodox lich is unlikely to get involved with him. Therefore, this old lich is a copycat version of lich. As for why he turned into a lich...in fact, the origins of lichs are basically the same. A certain powerful being was about to die. If he didn't want to die, transforming into a lich was an option, so the transformation was a matter of course.
This old lich was Lei Ya's father when he was alive. He was also a great demon, and he was quite powerful, but even the most powerful creature could die. Even the gods are the same. Therefore, this old guy may have had some kind of accident, and he had no choice but to be forced to transform into a lich. But now it is advantageous for us.
The lich was put away by the gold coins. Naturally, Lei Ya tried his best to resist his father who wanted to save him, but he didn't resist before. What's the use of resisting now that he was captured? Although Lei Ya, who was pressed to the ground by a group of demon kings on our side, twisted his body desperately. However, all the beings on his body were on the same level as him, and there was no way to break away.
Looking at Lei Ya struggling and twisting over there, I asked the demon kings: "Which of you knows how to take over Lei Ya's territory?"
The banshee who had taken a liking to Matsumoto Masa stood up at this time and said: "We will naturally discuss how to distribute Thunder Ya's territory. You just want those small tribes that were previously subordinate to Thunder Ya to withdraw and not attack your city. That’s all. This matter was originally quite troublesome. After all, Lei Ya was defeated by us, and it will take time for us to gather his subordinates again. But for the sake of your faith, we big monsters can make a special trip to deal with it. Those little guys are rushing back. Although they are not our subordinates yet, they should have heard of our reputation. If we have so many demon kings here, no little demon will dare to go against us."
As soon as I heard this, I nodded and said, "I'll trouble you all." As I said that, I took out the previous Power of Faith storage tank again, and then said, "Everyone, come here, and I will distribute the Power of Faith. "
Because it was divided equally per person, there was no issue of order. I had already calculated the portions, so everyone naturally lined up to receive the power of their faith one by one.
On the surface, it seems that we are actually at a loss this time, because I lost a can of the power of faith, but if you think about it carefully, you can figure it out. Even according to common sense, we are not at a loss. First, we achieved our strategic goal, which was to prevent the relationship between Japan and China from deteriorating further. Secondly, we got a lot of prisoners during this battle, and these prisoners can eventually be transformed into magic pets. Judging from the current price of familiars in the game, even including the bottle of Power of Faith, we have made a huge profit.
Of course, if we look at it according to the actual situation, then we will make even more money. After all, the power of faith is now the same in our eyes as oil in the eyes of Arab countries. There is a lot of it. What is even more exaggerated than the oil in Arab countries is that although they have a lot of oil, they still have total reserves there. Even if it is not the kind that can be used up in a few years, after all, the depletion time can already be calculated. . But in comparison, the power of our faith is simply endless. At present, the power of faith collectors in the underworld cannot work at full power. Not only can they only operate at a low speed, they also have to take turns to suppress output. According to the current consumption rate, there is no possibility of exhaustion within the time we can predict. Such a terrifying reserve. Do you think we care about the power of faith? If we hadn't known that scarcity is more valuable, and were worried that opening up the supply would make those NPCs too powerful, we would have mass-produced the power of faith and sold it all over the world.
After distributing the power of faith, the demon kings did not waste any time and immediately began to absorb it on the spot. Although the number of these powers of faith is not large, it cannot be said to be too much when distributed to everyone. Of course, in terms of the amount absorbed in a single time, the demon kings actually feel a bit full now. However, this feeling of being sustained by the power of faith is really a rare experience for them. It can be said that the demon kings are both in pain and happiness now. On the one hand, it felt like the inner alchemy in the body was being stretched to the point of bursting. On the other hand, the whole body felt full of power, as if it was about to burst out.
Although I also know that these demon kings have not yet fully adapted to the effects of the power of faith, we do not have much time. It is already past four o'clock in the afternoon Japan time, which means that it will be dark in a while. If the monsters outside Fulcrum City decide to attack the city, they must do it before dark. After all, although they all have very good night vision, the problem is that our guild's night fighting ability is even more exaggerated. Japanese players have done special tests on this before, and the conclusion is that the night combat effectiveness of our guild personnel will increase by 18%~% on average. The reason for such obvious changes basically comes down to three reasons.
The first reason is that there are a lot of undead in our guild, and it is well known that undead creatures get excited at night. This characteristic determines that the overall combat effectiveness of our guild begins to skyrocket at night, especially those undead troops.
This second reason should be attributed to the dual role of military god and detector. Our guild has a variety of battlefield detection systems, from the most basic individual crystal observation eyes to the most advanced super-large battlefield scanning magic array. The configuration of our guild can be said to be extremely luxurious. These detectors form a three-dimensional intersecting battlefield map, and because of the cheating existence of the God of War, the players and NPCs in our guild are almost equivalent to getting a battlefield data link system. Can you imagine what would happen if an ancient army that relied on signal flags and various musical instruments to direct operations encountered a digital corps equipped with a battlefield data link system? This is pretty much how players in our guild fight against players from other countries at night.
As for the third reason... I think this may have something to do with the super building of our guild. Because we have the largest guild library in the world, our guild has a complete way to learn and share skills. The reasonable and relatively low learning cost means that players in this guild are happy to learn some practical skills. In addition, the powerful auxiliary training capabilities brought by large training venues determine that almost all players in this guild have played the specialized night battle mode, so It is not difficult to imagine what would happen if a group of players with night vision skills and special training in night fighting encountered a group of ordinary players. The fact that there was no one-sided massacre was only a blessing that the weapons in the game were not as fast as modern weapons in killing people. What if The swords in the hands of our players have all been replaced by submachine guns. I guess if we fight at night, other traders may plan to run away when they see us. That was basically a one-sided massacre. Unfortunately, melee weapons determine that even if we can find the enemy thousands of meters away, we still have to rush forward to fight. At most, we can just throw a few throwing knives in advance to weaken the combat effectiveness of some enemies. Of course, mages and archers still have an advantage at night, but unfortunately there are not many archers, and the attack methods of mages are actually very dynamic. Therefore, their concealment is very poor, and they basically cannot be expected to have the same effect as snipers at night. After all, you have mages, and so do others. Although you can spot the enemy first, the enemy will know where you are as long as you use spells. Our mages don't have much advantage other than grabbing the right to strike in the first round.
Based on our strong night fighting capabilities, as long as the enemy's head is clear, they will not consider fighting us at night, let alone if we are fully prepared. Therefore, we must stop them as soon as possible. Those demons may attack at any time before dark.
Although the demons were a little reluctant at the urging of Matsumoto Masa and I, they had already signed the agreement, so they had no choice but to return to the outside of Fulcrum City with us as agreed.
On the way back, we were worried that what we would see when we came back was a battlefield full of smoke, but fortunately, nothing happened as we expected. Those Japanese players who were preparing to provoke a war were being stared at by Masa Matsumoto's people at this time, and could not find any chance to start a war. On the other side, Yamato no Orochi was still being stared at by August Kaoru. There was no chance to instigate those monsters to join the war. However, even without Yamata no Orochi's participation, those demons seemed to be approaching the limit of nexium.
Demons are not a patient race to begin with. Strictly speaking, these guys are from the chaotic camp. It is quite difficult to restrain their impulse to attack until now. Of course, I think they misunderstood Yamata no Orochi as the main reason. After all, Yamata no Orochi is too powerful. They were all afraid that if they did something wrong and Yamata no Orochi attacked them, they would be in trouble. This kind of fear caused these demons to not dare to rush in and fight even if they were impatient, so they persisted until we came back.
Because there is an agreement. So we and Matsumoto Masa did not deliberately return separately, but we all came back together. Anyway, Nobunaga is here, so there is no need to hide anything. Of course, when I came back with Masamoto Matsumoto, not only Yamata no Orochi, but the Japanese guild presidents who followed Masamoto Matsumoto were also stunned. The demons who were originally blocked by these presidents saw that these players were frozen and immediately wanted to take the opportunity to launch a charge. As a result, before they had time to move, they saw a large group of familiar figures appearing in front of them.
"Holy crap, why are there so many monster kings here?" A leader of the monster tribe recognized the identities of these guys at once.
A tribal leader next to him squinted his eyes and searched the crowd for a long time before asking: "Strange, why is our king not here?"
"Could it be..." One of the guys seemed to have guessed.
really. Just before he finished speaking, the demon kings in front suddenly gave way to a path, and then they saw Masamoto Matsumoto and I walking out from behind side by side. A guy who was tied up like a rice dumpling was thrown directly to the ground by me. When the demons lowered their heads and saw it, they were immediately frightened. It turned out that this was their demon king Lei Ya.
"Demon King!" Some of those demons were excited and wanted to rush forward, but in the end they were held back by their boss.
Seeing the tribal leaders holding my younger brother, I smiled and nodded, and then said: "Thunder Ya has been defeated by us. His territory will be ruled by these demon kings in the future. Do you want to resist these demon kings? Do you want to choose surrender?"
The monsters on the opposite side took a step back when they heard my words, and then started a chaotic discussion. In the end, I don’t know which monster took the lead. All the monsters knelt down towards us and shouted: " Long live the king."
In fact, this choice is not difficult. No matter how strong Lei Ya is, he is still a demon king, let alone being captured now. They took refuge in Lei Ya just to seek shelter. Lei Ya could protect them, and so could these demon kings. Although Lei Ya was not very harsh to them in the past, he was definitely not kind to them, so they did not have to be loyal to Lei Ya. Besides, there are twenty demon kings opposite! I only dared to challenge them when my head was filled with water. What's the difference between that and seeking death?
"Okay, since you are willing to surrender, evacuate here immediately. Return to your residence with these demon kings, and you can discuss and resolve the next matters yourself."
The monsters below responded in unison, and then the tribe bosses stood up and began to gather their subordinates and prepare to evacuate. However, while they were preparing to withdraw, Yamata no Orochi could not sit still. Originally, he had always thought that there would be a fight here, but who would have thought that we actually found so many monster kings and restrained those monsters that were ready to move. Once these guys evacuate, Yamata no Orochi's plan will be completely ruined. Under such circumstances, how can Yamato no Orochi sit still?
Although August Xun's mission was to stop Yamata no Orochi, since Matsumoto was congratulating them on their return, and the demons here seemed to be planning to withdraw, August Xun did not stop Yamata no Orochi anymore, and now The Yamata no Orochi has obviously lost control. If he tries to stop him again, there may be a conflict. Once they really break up, it will be difficult to handle.
Yamata no Orochi quickly rushed to our side, and the demon kings here immediately swayed a little. Although they are both demon kings, Yamata no Orochi has accumulated power for a long time. What's more, this guy has an official title from the gods and holds a core of divine power in his hand. In addition, he is already more powerful than ordinary demon kings. This All gathered together, the demon kings present were naturally a little afraid of him. However, although he was a little scared, it was because he was not as powerful as him in one-on-one situations. Now there are twenty demon kings here, and with the addition of Matsumoto Masa and I, who are actually not weaker than the demon kings, those guys are much more confident. If we really want to fight, let us use our fighting power together. Even if the power of faith in our hands is burned, Yamata no Orochi will definitely pay a heavy price if he wants to kill us all today, and he might not even be able to keep his nickname. . The demon kings would not take such a big risk, and neither would Yamata no Orochi.
"What are you doing?" Yamata no Orochi asked excitedly as soon as he rushed over. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)