Quadruple split.

Chapter 2601: Separation and Barrier

Game time PM16:19
Bloody Region, Skolk Village, 2nd floor of Skolk Hall

"Take the initiative?!"

The loud-mouthed gray dwarf who was in charge of the entire Skork armaments, Dagran Modgud Rison, who was still drunk, slammed the table and stared at the calm and composed young priest across the table. He repeated in disbelief: "Take the initiative?!"

"Yes, Lord Dagran."

Mo Tan nodded, showing a peaceful and calm smile that didn't sound crazy at all, and confirmed: "Take the initiative."

"This is clearly not some outrageous hallucination from drinking too much."

Dagran tapped his head, turned to look at the harpy sitting next to him, and whispered to the scout leader, "Shouldn't it be?"

Su Rui Blade Feather shrugged and said nothing.

In fact, although this girl is in charge of the scouts and intelligence system of Skolk, it is only because she is a very smart, excellent and analytical scout. But in terms of strategy and tactics, Su Rui almost never expresses her opinions, or in other words, she always unconditionally supports the decisions of the current 'Skolk' Elgar Yale.

"honestly……"

Bayer Dan, who is in charge of logistics at Skork, sighed and said helplessly, "Although I understand the importance of creative ideas in strategic games, taking the initiative to attack is indeed a challenge to the cognition of us rebels."

Avery, the Son of Justice, frowned and said in confusion, "That's not right. I remember that you, Skolk, sent people to harass those blood barbarians every now and then, either to rob supplies, rescue innocent people, or sneak attack the barbarians' troops. Isn't this considered taking the initiative?"

"You are right, Your Highness Avery. Continuously fighting against those vicious barbarians and spreading the seeds of hope have always been the main policy of our Skolk resistance army."

Dominic, a human strategist who has been with Skork for quite some time but is still highly valued, smiled and then changed the subject: "But the problem is that the scale of our actions in the past has been relatively restrained. Even when we attacked the Blood Barbarians, we mainly focused on destroying supplies, assassinating the evil leaders, and creating chaos. We rarely took the initiative to provoke large-scale conflicts."

Romeo stroked his chin and said softly, "But you all call yourselves the 'Rebels', but you dare not engage in large-scale conflict with the ones you are rebelling against. Isn't this strange?"

"That's certainly not surprising."

Dominic turned his beautiful milky white ring and explained calmly, "Because as you all know, although we do call ourselves the 'Skolk Resistance Army', in this village, less than 60% of the people are actually able to fight and are called 'army'. The rest are all old people, children, and members who have no fighting ability."

Knowing most of the situations in the Blood Barbarian Territory, the leader of the Dunbuya City [Organization], Xia Liya, crossed her arms and said noncommittally: "So I always feel that you haven't really understood the concept of 'resistance'. It's easy to say that you won't abandon or give up anyone, but it's not that hard to do it."

"We did it."

Batu looked at the aggressive Xia Liya with a serious look, and he did not give in.

"Yes, you did, but at what cost?"

Xia Liya sneered, which was not polite at all, and said leisurely, "You clearly want to overthrow the reign of terror in your respective hometowns, but now you can't even let those people take time to target each other when they are fighting each other. It shows how regrettable Skork's weight is."

Dagran burped and shook his head, "Little girl, it's not nice to talk like that. After all, you are not us. You don't understand our situation."

"I really don't understand your situation, but I don't think being a cancer or a troublemaker like now will help Skork achieve his long-cherished wish."

Xia Liya raised her eyebrows and said bluntly: "We didn't come here to be played by you and tormented by those petty fights."

Philip coughed awkwardly and tried to smooth things over: "Well, Adjutant Xia Liya, I think..."

"Don't interrupt. If you want to say anything, you can wait until it's your turn."

Although his status within the Holy Church Union was not comparable to that of His Royal Highness the Son of God, he was a whole level higher than the two Sons of God in the Dumbuya City Front Army. Xia Liya waved her hands impatiently, successfully making Philip shut up. After taking a deep breath, she said to the Skork people sitting opposite her in a deep voice: "Don't forget what we are here for, and don't forget what you promised before."

"We did promise to cooperate with Pastor Heifan, and even now, we don't really oppose your proposal, but we also have the right to question it."

Because his son was safely brought back to his side, Baier Dan, who had a very favorable impression of Mo Tan and Dunbuya City, sighed and said with a wry smile: "The problem now is that your arrangement really seriously violates the formal logic of our Skolk."

Jenny took a puff of her cigarette and said calmly, "But if I remember correctly, the name of this joint force is the [Black Fan Independence Army], not the [Skolk Independence Army]."

Su Rui sneered: "I think..."

"I think it's not a bad idea to call it the [Skolk Independence Army]. Is that what you want to say?"

The chief astrologer of Dumbuya City glanced at Su Rui and said calmly, "Do you want to know the shortcut to defeat Elgar in the shortest time? If you want, just shut up."

"You are such a brave liar!"

Su Rui snorted and sneered, "Just shut up."

Jenny made a scissors gesture: "Yeah."

Everyone from Skolk: "..."

"cough."

As the person involved, Elgar coughed awkwardly and tried to get the topic back on track. He said to Mo Tan, who kept smiling and said nothing after giving Dagran the affirmative answer, "First of all, I have no intention of taking the initiative back from you, Pastor Heifan. As I mentioned before, I have seen both the strength of the city of Dunbuya and your ability, Pastor Heifan. So there is no problem in following your will in future actions, but——"

"However, under normal circumstances, once we have established the core of command, there shouldn't be any unnecessary follow-up."

Mo Tan interrupted Elgar with a smile and said softly, "But it doesn't matter, because I know very well what you are worried about, so I can fully understand your thoughts. It is better to say that this kind of 'dispute' is an inevitable process for both parties to establish comprehensive cooperation."

Elgar breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, "So, you will give us an explanation, right?"

"That's natural. In fact, I can even give you five, ten, a hundred explanations."

Mo Tan smiled, crossed his fingers, and leaned forward slightly: "But the problem is, even if I can fully explain the first question, the second question, and the third question...what about the tenth, twentieth, fiftieth, or even the hundredth question? Do you all need me to break down my thoughts, my original intentions, and my intentions and explain them clearly?"

Elgar: “This…”

"It's irrational, impossible and unrealistic."

Mo Tan still kept smiling and said calmly: "So in order to set a tone for our cooperation, a healthy, good and sustainable tone, the only promise I can make at this stage is that I will ensure the safety of the non-combatants of the Skork resistance at all costs. In addition, before the possible "disputes" between the two sides completely disappear, the Dunbuya City Front will always serve as the main force, and the Skork resistance will serve as a supporting force, support force and reserve force, and will be deployed to the battlefield as appropriate under certain circumstances."

Elgar paused for a moment, then shook his head solemnly and said, "Reverend Heifan, you should know that this is not what we meant, and Skork did not..."

"There are no cowards in Skork. Skork is fearless and brave. Skork's will is no less than that of the clergy of the Holy Church. I know all this."

Mo Tan narrowed his eyes and said softly: "But the problem now is that Skork cannot fully trust me, and I also dare not rely on a fighting force that cannot fully trust itself." Elgar fell silent, his expression becoming increasingly ugly.

Obviously, the current 'Skolk' Elgar Yale, who had just expressed his unconditional trust in the other party and was even willing to hand over the overall command to the other party, and did not mind agreeing to nickname the [Dumbuya City Front & Skolk Resistance Army] as the [Black Brahma Independence Army], and who had almost given all his sincerity, only then noticed that this cooperation was actually far from as simple as he thought.

"Trust is a word that actually means much more than it seems. From an objective point of view, the problem we are facing at this moment may not be a bad thing. After all, you should all know that ideals that do not pay any price will always be empty talk."

Mo Tan smiled peacefully and said in a brisk tone, "Just like the current Skork, it can survive in the gap between the Blood Barbarian Forces and the Holy Church United Forces at such a scale, and even grow to such a scale. Behind this proud achievement, there must be countless efforts that we can hardly imagine."

Su Rui licked her lower lip and said faintly, "I hope you are not being sarcastic, Pastor Heifan. After all, your friends seem to have different opinions."

"Different opinions come from different perspectives. My statement was mild because they have already said many sharp words."

Mo Tan shook his head, then turned back to Elgar and asked, "So, is this the decision?"

"What else can I say?"

Elgar smiled bitterly and shrugged, "To be honest, Pastor Heifan, although I am still unsure, I always feel that it won't be long before I will apologize to you for my procrastination today."

"Because from a consequential point of view, it is better for you to apologize to me than for me to apologize to you."

Mo Tan replied with a teasing remark, saying calmly: "I emphasize again that your ideas are not 'wrong'. Today's disagreement is only due to the conflict between the two sides' ideas and styles. So this kind of dispute is actually something I welcome. After all, if we want to work together in the true sense, the sooner the barriers are eliminated, the better. After all, it is never a good thing to let either side be 'wronged'."

Elgar nodded and asked, "So let's stop here for now?"

"Well, let's stop here."

Mo Tan stretched himself and slumped down on the chair, with only his two arms propped up. He clapped his hands and said in a lazy tone, "Thank you for your hard work, let's adjourn the meeting."

"Chat?"

The moment the meeting was over, Su Rui rushed in front of the charlatan she had mentioned and looked at him expectantly.

"I'm free anyway, why not chat?"

Jenny, who never liked to be a riddle teller, yawned and walked out while sucking on a cigarette: "Do you have anything you want to treat me to?"

"No, I don't have the habit of saving money."

"Oh, then have that drink you hid under the bed."

"!?"

The two of them left quarreling.

"Drinking is good."

Dagran also stood up and called to Romeo and Avery who were standing opposite him, "Romio, Justice, would you like to come to my house for a drink?"

Avery, who rarely gets the chance to get drunk in the City of Light, smacked his lips with shining eyes and nodded desperately, "Yes, yes!"

"I have to send a message to hand over my work, so it will be a little late."

Romeo also took out a cigarette, lit it and took a deep puff. "You two go first, I'll be there in a minute. Old Dagran, if it's convenient for you, ask your sister-in-law to grill some skewers. I think your stove is pretty good."

"You bastard, that's my blacksmith's furnace!"

Dagran glared at Romeo and then left with Avery.

"Why do these people just drink all day long?"

Danon sighed and asked Xia Liya, "Ms. Ain, Dominic and I have a few lists of supplies that we need you to go through. Do you have time?"

Xia Liya scratched her messy hair and said helplessly, "Didn't I say before that there is no need to count every head, as long as it is almost there, it's fine. You have been short of supplies for a long time, so use them first."

"That won't work."

Dominic shook his head vigorously and said seriously, "There is too much room for maneuver here. We will not feel at ease if we don't let you go through it once."

"I think you guys are just idle..."

Although Xia Liya kept complaining, the corners of her mouth lifted up imperceptibly: "Okay, then let's check it out. Bring me the list."

In this way, Danon and Dominic were busy compiling a list of support materials while reporting, verifying, and confirming a large amount of lengthy and necessary data to Xia Liya.

"so……"

Elgar crossed his legs and asked Mo Tan curiously, "Why should we take the initiative?"

"Ah? Isn't that obvious?"

Mo Tan yawned, pinched his nose, took the thing that Luna handed over from the side, which smelled a bit like Huoxiang Zhengqi water, and shrugged his shoulders.

"It must be because they don't dare to fight back in a big way."

"Why?"

"Because they have to cooperate with the Holy Church's joint investigation."

"what?"

"Ah."

"No, they are cooperating with the Holy Church in the joint investigation. Why would they care if we can take the initiative?"

“We don’t cooperate.”

"……Clam?"

Chapter 2592: End