Quadruple split.

Chapter 2381 Rules and Reality

【trade】

When Danon said this word solemnly, the 'Reverend Black Fan' who was sitting opposite him slightly widened his eyes, but he was not surprised at all. After all, when he learned from Xia Liya's writing that Broken Head Cliff sent people to visit his territory, he had roughly guessed the general direction of the matter.

As the undoubted strongest of the four blood barbarian forces in the north, Cliff of the Broken Head can be said to be at a fault level in terms of combat power. Before setting out for Dunbuya City, Mo Tan had made a very easy judgment based on the information provided by Fialy Graham, namely - before the Holy Alliance sent a large force far exceeding the size of the Sumir Expeditionary Force to support the North, even if Dunbuya City and Gospel Mountain City were tied together, it would be impossible to compete head-on with Cliff of the Broken Head.

I can't do it myself.

Archbishop Jost could not do it.

Even Grand Knight Jeff Harrington of the Sun Cult who had achieved outstanding results at Bloodfeather Terrace, and that brat Day Black couldn't do it.

In terms of population, the combined population of Dunbuya City and Gospel Mountain City is no more than 100,000, including the civilians and soldiers. Even if we put aside the [Black Lizard Hunters] whose individual strength is far below the epic level and can even be compared with the second echelon of the knights of each sect, there are also the [Grey Lizard Hunters] of the Cliff of Broken Head, which have extremely high combat power and caused huge losses to the newly formed elite of Dunbuya City with only 700 people, and there are as many as 10,000 people!
Under the "Everyone is a soldier" decree of the [Evil Eye] in recent years, all the adult population of the Broken Head Cliff belongs to the [White Lizard Hunters]. Although many of them don't even have lizard companions, after at least three months of high-intensity iron-blooded training every year, these "militias" who are equipped with only a white cloak and obsolete weapons and even lack proper armor are still very deterrent and not much worse than the regular military strength of the City of Dunbuya!
In this situation, if we don't consider that the Holy Church Alliance is likely to make a crazy decision, Mo Tan believes that as long as the [Evil Eye] Lizard King at the Cliff of Broken Head can make up his mind, he can pull out the two "nails" in the northern border of the Holy Land in at most half a month.

Of course, having said that, as long as the lizard boss who sounds unfriendly is not crazy, he will most likely not do something that is equivalent to handing a knife to the Holy Church Union. After all, even if the garrisons in the two northern cities are all troublemakers, and are not well received by the major sects, these guys are troublemakers with faith, and having faith... means that when other troops collapse due to losses exceeding a certain proportion, these warriors with gods above their heads will not waver at all, and will most likely fight the enemy to the last soldier!
And considering that ordinary people in the two cities basically have faith, and are even relatively devout believers (otherwise they would not come to such places to farm, forge iron, tailor clothes, or open shops), whether it is the Cliff of Broken Head or the other three bloody barbarian forces, even if they can take down these two cities by force, the ending will definitely be that the entire city of Dunbuya and Gospel Hill will be destroyed, with no one surviving.

That is - massacre of the city.

Okay, then since you, heretics who are defined as brutal barbarians but still protected by basic rules, have done such a thing, then the Holy Church Union naturally has only one response, which is to conduct a continent-wide "heresy trial" without hesitation, inform the world of the enemy's actions, and then start to find a few people from each sect to lead the team, and bring 1,800 bloodless and tearless experts from the "Inquisition" to the north.

Don't get me wrong, actually, starting from the "Inquisition" stage, the "Inquisition" that can make children cry in the story and usually scare ordinary kids to pee outside the story has nothing to do with the subsequent actions, and sending out a thousand people is just a show.

The ones who really do the work are the 'team leaders' mentioned above.

For example, the Dawn Sect should dispatch a standard unit of Xia Lian Zhu Ye after such an extremely bad situation occurs.

As for the Justice Sect, which has been experiencing a lack of young people in recent years, His Holiness Saint Tychus Folsom, who is not too old and can still work, would not mind exercising.

As for the Cult of the Abundance, although His Holiness the Pope is busy with affairs, the Grand Master of the Knights Defenders and Chief Grand Knight Alonsus Sodahan Sunwalker should take on this task to ensure that someone from the Cult of the Dawn does not cause too much trouble.

As for other sects, the only wealthy sect will definitely not support them with money, but everyone will more or less support them with personnel, and send special talents of similar level if conditions permit.

And then...

If nothing unexpected happens, it should be Xia Lian Zhuye, a standard unit of the Dawn Sect, who carried the cross and walked through the ruins of the two cities. After a simple prayer, she continued to move north, while the others stayed in the ruins to pray for the dead souls. For example, the prayer of His Majesty Saint Tychus Folsom should be - Brothers and sisters, go with peace of mind, the murderer has been sent to where they should go.

While everyone is praying, Xia Lian Zhuye, a standard unit of the Dawn Sect, will earnestly "send away" all the blood barbarians in an extremely simple, straightforward and neat way.

During the process, Her Highness the Saint will open her blessed 'Eyes of Dawn' throughout the whole process to directly examine the soul of every blood barbarian. If anyone is found to be stained with the slightest bit of blood or black, the most optimistic estimate of his fate is just a little here and there.

It is worth mentioning that, considering the ecology of the Blood Barbarians, even some people with conscience, such as Luna’s apprentice who was once the mother of a harpy warrior in the Blood Feather Terrace, will surely die!

All in all, with this development, Xia Lian would probably complete this extremely efficient "Inquisition" within two days. If this time exceeded three days, then the only Grand Knight of Abundance who had the strength to defeat Xia Lian, Alonsus, would take action to ensure that the environment would not be damaged too badly.

I have to emphasize once again that Xia Lian Zhuye, the veteran legendary warrior and favored by the Dawn Goddess Paksi, is extremely powerful. Not only is she worthy of her rank, but she is also relatively difficult to deal with even among the legends. As for her almost invisible performance during the plague in Misha County, the fundamental reason was that she was "indirectly" glared at by the Dark Goddess Delia, which not only seriously injured her vitality, but also completely sealed her signature divine skills.

Not only that, Xia Lian’s situation at that time must never be reported back to the City of Light. After all... the time when Mo Tan almost died in Sumir was never an accident.

This might be a bit cruel, because morally, no one's life is more precious than another's. If reporting Xia Lian's situation to the City of Light could save the lives of countless civilians in Misha County, then this unwarranted risk must be taken legally, but... that is impossible.

In the same way, when Xue Man did not give the Holy Church an excuse to [massacre the city], it would be absolutely impossible for a legendary powerhouse like Xia Lian to take action.

Although this seems unreasonable, it is an unavoidable reality.

That’s right, reality. Although it’s ridiculous to talk about reality in a game, considering that [Boundary of Innocence] is an absurd enough game, this logic does make sense.

In the final analysis, in the eyes of players like Mo Tan who have a deep understanding of the game background, the so-called "Legendary Class" is basically equivalent to the "nuclear deterrence" outside the game. Xia Lian and her gang are the nuclear warheads of the Holy Church Alliance, and under the tacit understanding of the world, even if there is no nuclear weapon, no matter how much they jump off the cliff, as long as they do not cross the red line, or even cross the red line a little bit, as long as there is no heinous behavior at the level of massacre, the "Legendary Class" must not be deployed.

There is no other way. After all, the rank of 'Legend', which can crush epics, is too extraordinary. If it is not restricted, the whole world will be in chaos. In fact, the reason why everyone strictly abides by this rule in the year 9571 of the Holy Calendar is not as simple as a decision made by the big guys in a meeting, but it is the result of countless lessons learned from blood and tears.

It is also because of this that, despite the countless evil deeds that Broken Head Cliff has committed in the northern border of the Sanctuary for countless years, the City of Light has not completely destroyed it through super-standard attacks, because reality is never simple, unreasonable... or even immoral.

There are too many complicated things involved, too many games and calculations, and too many decisions that ordinary people cannot understand.

To give an inappropriate, imprecise and unreliable example, just like outside the game [under the four-fold split world view], a federal republic with superior natural conditions and abundant resources has a large number of criminal groups that defraud others by editing false information, and these groups often use various means to deceive people from neighboring countries to become grassroots criminals, not only restricting their personal freedom, but even corporal punishment and killing are common. Among the victims, in addition to some idiots who want to speculate, there are also many truly innocent people. Those people did not do anything wrong, but still suffered a lot of vicious treatment.

So, can the homeland of those innocent people, relying on its economic, military, scientific, political and cultural strength that can shake the entire planet with just a stomp of its feet, destroy the small country that condones the criminal group, or directly destroy those criminal groups that like to abduct their own people?

The answer is no. Although the big country outside the game [under the four-fold split world view] can use various means to check and balance in this "extremely inappropriate example", and even have ways to make the leaders of those criminal groups surrender or commit suicide in despair, it is ultimately impossible to directly clean up those bastards through "nuclear peace", "missile plowing", "mass killing" and other methods.

Because this is the rule of the game. It is a rule that is designed to prevent the world from falling into chaos and world-destroying weapons from flying everywhere. It is one of the basic rules to protect all of humanity.

When it comes to the survival of a civilization, conventional morality and honor are totally worthless, because this is not about being "cold-blooded" but about being "pattern".

Just as Xia Lian concealed her own injuries, which indirectly led to the Holy Church Alliance misjudging the situation, resulting in countless more victims in Misha County.

Just as the Holy Alliance always maintained a certain degree of tolerance towards the Northern Barbarians, allowing these heretics to burn, kill and loot countless times in the northern border of the Holy Land, causing countless warriors in the city of Dunbuya and the city of Gospel Mountain to martyrdom, but did not annihilate them completely with thundering force.

They must abide by the rules of the game within certain limits, because these rules are not used to protect "plague" or "blood barbarism", but to maintain world stability.

It is precisely because of this that Mo Tan, as the rule maker of 'Dunbuya City', knows very well that the Lizard King far away at the Cliff of Broken Head will never completely break off relations with him. The evidence is the two fingers belonging to Danon on the ground.

However, Mo Tan also didn't think that the Lizard King would lower his posture so much that he would ask someone to say such an obviously inferior keyword as "request". After all, sincerity is sincerity, and since Danon never denied that the seven hundred [Gray Lizard Hunters] just wanted to cause trouble for the city of Dunbuya, the word "transaction" should be the best solution.

however--

"trade?"

Mo Tan chuckled, resisting the urge to pull the female knight beside him into his arms to enhance the "visual effect". He tilted his head to an angle where his ears could touch his shoulders, and asked leisurely, "Who does your king think he is? How can he trade with me?"

"..."

Danon's eyes flashed with obvious and undisguised anger, and then he said in a respectful and polite tone: "The king deliberately told me that even with my intelligence gathering capabilities at the Cliff of Broken Head, I can only get a rough idea of ​​your son, the son of heaven, and even that is a rough idea under strict control of intelligence. However, one thing is certain——"

Mo Tan leaned lazily on the back of the chair, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "Speak."

"That means Lord Hei Fan, you are definitely not a mediocre person."

Danon took a deep breath and said seriously, "And the king's 'deal' is just for smart people like you."

"What a shame, the amount of flattery I've heard over the years has accumulated to a point that's sickening."

Mo Tan shrugged, but still spoke in a relatively friendlier tone than before: "So, let's talk about that stupid deal."

"Yes, my lord!"

Danon realized that he had finally passed the test and his face lit up with joy. Then he tensed up and took a deep breath.

"Your Majesty is willing to bring me, Broken Head Cliff, to submit to the Holy Church Union, and assist the Union in incorporating the so-called barren land into the Holy Land!"

"Ah."

"In addition, Your Majesty can promise not to use the power of the alliance to clear obstacles, and continue to form a four-legged force with the Blood Feather Plateau, the Pale Plains, and the Steel Mane Tribal State, and as the spokesperson of the Holy Church, let you and the crowned kings of the City of Light rest assured."

"Ah."

"Our request is very simple. As long as you are willing to lead people to vacate the city of Dunbuya for three... no, two months, we can..."

"the first time."

"Eh? What do you mean by first time?"

"If I hear you say something as stupid as that three times, I'll have Philip turn you into fertilizer for the flower in the office on the third floor."

"My Lord! The King sincerely wants to convert to the Holy Church..."

"the second time."

"..."

"Please continue, Mr. Danon. I, along with the plant on the third floor, will be looking forward to your next speech."

Chapter 2372: End