The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 337 The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish.

"If that's all, then the Virtual Kingdom of God's current round of tactics is disappointing..."

The war was not over yet, but Pastor Luo secretly expressed such feelings.

He casually cast a spell, and the magic circle transmitted a wave of electromagnetic force to the star fortress, completely killing the bugs embedded in the bricks and stones.

It is these special magical creatures that act as the eyes of the Aurora Society, monitoring the situation in Mesana Star Fortress like a pinhole camera.

This is why, even though the building was deserted, the Aurora Club was still able to know the exact time when the Northern Tour Group arrived and moved in.

However, this alone does not seem to explain all the questions.

Pastor Luo now suspects that the hostile forces that executed more than a hundred Maisanadinkou in the small woods north of the Star Fortress are probably not in the same group as the Aurora Society.

At least until now, he couldn't see any necessary connection between the two behaviors.

The battle was over after about a quarter of an hour from the time the whirlpool trap was activated. All resistance from the Aurora Society proved to be futile. No one was left alive. They either died with the sunken ship or were killed by the death rays.

From the perspective of Ioannis and Hector, things seemed a little unreal.

After all, the battlefield was far away, and they did not have a grand God's perspective of 45 degrees downward. They only saw several sampan-sized ships with glowing sails floating up and down among the dark muddy waves, and then disappeared. In the meantime, slender green lights flashed. It was neither grand nor beautiful, and the audio-visual effect was very average, not nearly as thrilling as the low tide after a tsunami.

After a while, everything fell silent. It was quite boring.

What was interesting was the next morning.

Because of the impact of the tsunami, they were emotionally excited. Although they had the whole night to rest, only a few of them could sleep well. Most of them suffered from insomnia, tossing and turning, and felt dizzy the next day.

On the contrary, the cavalrymen who never left the barracks slept well.

Then everyone witnessed together the small fleet being completely recovered by Priest Luo.

In fact, it is not small. There are five ships, and the smallest one is of 3,000 tons.

In modern times on Earth, it is indeed just a gunboat, and the coast guard ships of the East China Sea have a lot higher tonnage than it. But in this world, in this era, 3,000 tons is quite good.

Pastor Luo was impressed by the design, materials and appearance of these ships, which were all quite good, so he took the trouble to drag them ashore from the seabed and repair them.

"How is it? Are you interested? It has been fully restored. If you want it, I can give it a discount."

Ioanni smiled bitterly and said, "I really can't afford this. But if you are in a hurry, I can help you think of a solution."

"Can we contact the Aurora Society? See if they want it."

"..." Yoani was speechless, thinking: "You really don't intend to have any moral integrity at all just to do business!"

Seeing that Ioanni really couldn't eat it, Priest Luo used a magic circle to open a large space gate and put it into the void warehouse.

Joannis and Hector were already numb. The knights and cavalrymen of the Northern Patrol looked at Priest Luo as if they were looking at a god walking on earth.

"What about the amateur puppet? Are you interested in it?" Pastor Luo asked again.

"That's true." Ioanni gave the answer immediately.

In fact, the previous batch of amateur puppets have not been completely sold yet.

Ioanni was also a cautious man, and he picked a few to send to the Spire of Order for quality inspection.

It can both please the organization and verify the true status of the amateur puppets. After all, he found that it seemed that the standard used by Priest Luo was quite different from the mainstream standard used by the supernatural world. Priest Luo's standard was more stringent.

This is a good thing, but it is not necessarily a good thing. For example, a small problem in the eyes of Pastor Luo may be very dangerous in the eyes of others, and it may be the kind that will cause you to lose your skin even if you don't die.

Therefore, it is better to be cautious.

But no matter how cautious you are, you also have to have the courage to take action when necessary. Anyway, Ioanni is not afraid of being hit by these amateur puppets.

In his opinion, these are hard goods whose price can at least double after being resold.

Whether it is royal power, divine power, or the supernatural circle, no one would complain that the violence in their hands is too strong.

On the contrary, many problems in reality, in the final analysis, are caused by the fact that we have to endure and maintain the situation because of insufficient strength. We have no choice but to endure, waste time, drag on, and wait, hoping that change will occur.

Of course, Ioanni also knew that relying on problems like this was actually a bit superficial. After all, most problems are not caused by violence. Violence can only eliminate the people who represent the problem, but not the problem itself.

But just like the biggest helplessness in reality, it is that we understand the truth but cannot do it. Using violence to solve problems is almost the fastest and most effective way in reality. At least those who hold power in the world today, from barbarian chiefs to nobles who think they are civilized countries, are all accustomed to it.

Even the lower-class people are used to it. They do complain, but what they complain about is not the use of violence to solve problems itself, but that they themselves are often used as tools or costs of violence by those in power.

If they were to take over, they would still be accustomed to using violence, and would even be more bloody and brutal.

In short, in order to survive and live the good life that one wants, violence has become the main theme of this world. The high EQ says that it is the law of the jungle and the fittest survive.

In this context, using the barrel of a gun to attack can make others succumb to your reasoning, and using the barrel of a gun to retreat can make others listen to your reasoning patiently. This shows how valuable it is.

The puppets produced by Pastor Luo are loyal, strong, and energy-efficient. They are definitely good guns with high cost-effectiveness. Good things will only appreciate in value and rarely depreciate. They are worth holding even if you can't find a market for them for the time being.

In fact, this time, Pastor Luo has something better in his hand, a corpse witch puppet.

Those are the spellcasters that were killed by the death ray.

The death ray might be seen as a cruel ritual, a ritual to please death.

With this ceremony as the beginning, the foundation for the creation of corpse witches was laid.

However, if we follow the general process, even with advanced technology, it will be difficult to reduce costs.

But Priest Luo now holds the genes of the Old Ones.

With the blessing of the biochemical avenue of the cult leader Robo, the body cells of Priest Luo that have been transformed are like the biochemical virus sources in science fiction novels. Through controllable infectious means, they can transform qualified targets into creatures within the system.

Secondary horror beast, with this label, the corpse wizard was produced in an unusual way, which can be called a high-tech shortcut overtaking.

The forty-seven corpse wizards were divided into three leaders and two teams by Priest Luo.

The Alpha Group, led by the corpse wizard Esther, has 20 members and is stationed in the Mountain Castle.

The Omega Group was led by the corpse wizard Oster and had 20 members. They went to garrison in the town of Forbsnong.

These two corpse wizards both have outstanding blood talents. Their potential was activated during the transformation ceremony and they broke through to level 15.

Of course, to reach level 15, one must not let down in terms of soul or even the laws.

It just so happened that Father Luo had some zombie souls obtained from the Montes Star Fort incident on hand as materials, and then he selected qualified souls for strengthening, which enabled him to make a breakthrough.

Moreover, with this breakthrough, he was reborn, cleansed of his tendons and marrow, and refreshed from the inside out, thus breaking the limitations of the 'assembler'.

The most intuitive manifestations are spirituality and space for growth.

However, this method of forging an owner also has a price. Unless Esther and Oster can expand their active stage to the multiverse, they will never have the opportunity to enter the ranks of the gods. Legend is the last stop on their climb.

From another perspective, this is already very good, and even the most powerful Pastor Luo can't hold on.

After all, he was playing with a puppet system that was more restrictive than slavery.

Such a system means that there will be no such thing as "I am very happy to see that there are successors who are better than my predecessors!"

This is not a question of mind, but whether the initiator of this practice will have no descendants. No one dares! No one can do that.

Two necromancers who could eventually grow into legends would be enough to serve as the backbone of a spellcasting team for a period of time.

In fact, what Pastor Luo was worried about was not the lack of people, but the extraordinary power.

Supernatural powers do not appear out of nowhere, nor are they some inexhaustible free clean energy.

On the contrary, this thing can be regarded as an alternative conventional resource.

If the power of elements is compared to iron ore, then the power of death is like titanium ore. In theory, it is not rare, but it is rare because it is difficult to extract.

Titanium has active properties and requires high smelting technology.

The power of death is extremely inert, so the matter and energy that can interact with it in a positive way are very limited, making it difficult to absorb.

Then why does the power of death seem as cheap as cabbage in the legends of various worlds, giving people the feeling that it can be obtained as long as one has hands?
Because the dark side is three times stronger. To be more specific, it means surrendering to power + drinking poison to quench thirst.

Killing, torture, and death, with these as the core terms, constantly creating a dark and bloody atmosphere is a means of extracting the power of death.

The remaining death power transformed from the deaths of countless creatures in the past years is gathered and extracted from under the earth, and can even form a siphon effect.

Therefore, the undead system is like a natural disaster. Wherever they appear, they will cause large-scale destruction and death. Not only will they kill people, but they will also cause comprehensive damage and distortion to the ecological environment.

Pastor Luo is not willing to be a slave to power. High skills are used to conquer and control power. Otherwise, the self will be distorted and become an existence that caters to the attributes of power. How can he be so awesome?
This is also one of the main reasons why Joanni did not call for the killing of Priest Luo because he used the power of darkness.

Strong strength and high cost of hostility are indeed major reasons.

But the Spire of Order has had its share of demigods and even gods in the past, including the so-called evil spirits that they now hate.

Demons are false gods. Great demons are at the same level as gods, and even stronger than many weaker gods, or even gods with ordinary powers. Therefore, cost accounting is not the only criterion for the Order Spire. They are mages, not businessmen. The organization relies on management. Profits are important, but ideas and even dreams are also important. The cohesion of this organization lies in the latter, not in the petty gains.

Because they are mages, they are wiser, have a broader perspective, and have extraordinary thoughts. Mages know that there is a huge difference between controlling power and being enslaved by power, especially when discussing negative energy.

It is inappropriate to classify them as good and bad. Instead, using order and chaos, creation and destruction can explain the problem.

Priest Luo is undoubtedly orderly and creative. Even the creations he produces have held back the uncontrollable and negative factors for the selling price. This characteristic is very important.

As the most powerful vested interest group, the mages of the Spire of Order seek stability and order, but also welcome those who create wealth to join, the more the better.

Father Luo met their needs perfectly, so he was naturally a potential friend.

As for Pastor Luo himself, it is more appropriate to describe it with his pretentious words: It is harder not to kill than to kill!
All aspects, including the absorption of the power of death.

Wherever there is war, there we are. We are the alternative battlefield scavengers...

Well, if there is an operational crisis, this statement may not necessarily become a reality.

Of course, this is Pastor Luo's concern for the future development of the corpse wizard team from the perspective of the team. The current scale is not so difficult to deal with.

As for himself, he had the support of the Old Ones, the assistance of psychic powers, and the ability to use the laws of the outer realm, so it was not a problem for him. However, he did not want to serve the necromancy team like a master, so at the beginning of the team building, he thought about the way out of being a killer without killing people.

Hackers become hong kai? The prerequisite is that there are enough hackers to cause trouble. Without prey, the hunters lose the meaning of existence. Going hungry for three days and nine meals, what kind of sunset profession is this?

Forty-two corpse wizards left, and there were five corpse wizards left, including three commander-level corpse wizards, and Kosar was the most successful one in this wave of transformation.

This is his real name, and even his soul is his own soul. He is a special case and has the potential to break through the legend. Because of this, although Pastor Luo is very sure that this guy will not have any problems with loyalty within ten years, he still chooses to tie him to his side.

As a result, Priest Luo's entourage became more complete, with three bone sword guards, five corpse wizards, and nearly a hundred undead laborers.

After selling the second batch of amateur puppets, Pastor Luo gathered some materials and helped arm this group of followers.

At least the immortal coolies have to wear uniform clothing.

Of course, what is more important is the bone magic weapon consisting of wristbands, shackles, and collars. This investment is appropriate in the long run, otherwise a large amount of supernatural power expenses will increase over time.

Especially when these undead creatures are exposed to the sun, ordinary clothes alone are not enough to withstand the effects of the scorching sun.

Three days passed in the puppet sales and team building. For Pastor Luo, apart from being busy, everything else was fine.

But for Hector, it was more tormenting.

Among them, what he was most worried about was that the Northern Patrol Regiment would be stationed in Mesana Star Fort, replacing the missing garrison and becoming a member of the frontier defense force.

On the morning of the fifth day after arriving at Messana Castle, instead of receiving a reply from Grand Duke Maros, he received the bad news that Kroni Castle had been captured.

This news was told to Hector by priest Luo through Joannis.

Specifically, it involves a magical weapon, the soul detector.

This magical weapon was created by Priest Luo after the evil spirits wreaked havoc on Montes Star Castle.

At that time, the Northern Patrol had already reached Fort Akkad, the western neighbor of Montessau.

In order to prevent the evil from happening again, the Northern Patrol Group did not enter the Star Fortress for the night, but camped outside the city. Even the tents and all the necessary equipment were delivered from the air cavalry storage boxes of the Order Spire.

That night, Priest Luo borrowed the blacksmith shop in Akkad Star Fortress and made 150 rune headbands, and also made a soul detector.

The principle of this thing is somewhat low-level. Simply put, it is to use normal souls as the standard for comparison. If there is any difference, it will be marked as problematic.

So the question is, how is this standard determined? What is normal?
This is more complicated. It is naturally impossible for Priest Luo to say that my data is not only endorsed by my boss, Luo Bo of the sect, but also endorsed by the relevant technology and information mastered by my boss's boss, Black Luo Bo, and is therefore quite reliable.

He could only say that as a psychic master and soul wizard, I endorsed it with both my professionalism and my own personality.

It sounds very impressive, but to put it bluntly: you have to believe me!

Well, let’s just trust the experts.

The second question followed, does the abnormality mean that the virtual kingdom of God has opened a backdoor and welded it?

the answer is negative.

Due to the lack of sufficient sample data for analysis, the judgment cannot be precise and can only roughly distinguish between normal and abnormal.

To put it more realistically, if you use this magic weapon to test Ioanni, the answer you get will be abnormal. Even if you test some knights who are between awakening and not awakening their supernatural powers, the results will also be abnormal.

Such accuracy is unacceptable.

In particular, secret tests revealed that all star fortresses, including Fort Akkad, had problems with their garrisons, and the problems were quite serious.

Now, Ioanni and even the Spire of Order behind him could no longer hold on.

If this news gets out, even if people are willing to believe it, how can we solve it?
Grand Duke Malos is not the biological son of the Spire of Order.

As Ioannis said to the Roman priest in his reply to the Spire of Order: "If you don't have fresh meat, don't tame the lion..."

What's more, the detector is not accurate enough. This alone makes it easy to be targeted, which is a thankless task. If the enemy takes advantage of the situation, both Pastor Luo and Yoanni will easily become people who lose their credibility, or even be accused of having ulterior motives.

But Pastor Luo is not the type who would let things deteriorate and do nothing even if he has the ability.

He reported to Ioanni and said, "Well, I will also weld. The prerequisite is that the target dies suddenly, and the result is the transformation of immortality. The shelf life of the magic is one month."

After a month, the Northern Tour will most likely be over.

Even if a disaster occurs at that time, it will be a new round. Father Luo will decide whether to get deeply involved based on the situation at that time, instead of rushing to take the lords' responsibility on himself.

Ioanni finally agreed.

Intelligence is important in any era.

The difference between mastering something early and knowing it late is often very huge.

Take the Order Spire as an example. If they can get first-hand intelligence in time, they can respond in time and reduce losses. In the past years, they have gained a lot of benefits in this regard, so there is a tradition and consensus, and they all attach great importance to it.

But Ioanni himself does not have cost-effective magic in this area.

Now that someone is willing to put in the actual work, and he is only guaranteeing his reputation, this deal is still feasible. After all, the entire Northland is full of twists and turns, and accidents can happen at any time.

So he represented the Spire of Order and cast protective spells for the personnel in each star fortress.

In the spirit of scarcity, a simple lottery was held, and everyone relied on their luck. In fact, there was some manipulation, and the winners were those with normal test results.

Some soldiers stationed there complained to Grand Duke Malos: "With the money for hiring mages to cast spells, wouldn't it be better to give us a few more? Roughly speaking, this money should be enough to solve the problem of implementing the two baronies, right?"

There is some truth to this, but even if Grand Duke Malos really has the money to hire a wizard to draw a lottery and cast a spell, he cannot use it to fulfill the promise he made in the first place.

Don’t worry about scarcity but inequality.

It would be fine if this group of people didn't have it, but if some were given it and the others weren't, trouble would definitely arise.

This is one of the biggest difficulties facing Grand Duke Malos: he cannot even repay his debts slowly.

In fact, in the past few years, I have really saved money by tightening my belt, but when I have some money in my pocket, I will start to do things and have enough reasons to spend money.

To put it bluntly, the overall situation is downward, and there are loopholes everywhere that need to be filled. If they are filled, the situation will slow down, but if they are not filled, it will be even worse. Under this background, the so-called saving money to do big things is basically not tenable.

In short, with Yoanni's sweet-sounding interpretation and priest Luo's curse of "If you die suddenly", the goal of ultra-long-range perception of immunity to erosion and transformation into an undead creature after sudden death was achieved.

So, when the incident happened in Fort Rickroni the night before, Pastor Luo informed Joanni immediately, and Joanni sent a message directly to the Spire of Order.

And what could Hector do even if he knew it in time?

Even if he had the courage to send troops to support overnight, it would be too late by the time he arrived. Fort Kroni was separated from Fort Messana by two star forts, and was located close to the middle of the defense line. It would take dozens of hours to gallop even if he had to run a horse to death, and it would be out of reach.

Informing them now is just to allow them to prepare.

Generally speaking, when faced with such a situation, high-ranking nobles would have no choice but to spend money, and would inevitably activate the extraordinary system to exchange what they have and mobilize troops.

So, the relevant appointment will arrive around today during the day.

Pastor Luo guessed correctly, but what he didn't expect was that Grand Duke Malos was so bold that he skipped a series of procedures, set aside many explicit rules and implicit regulations, and directly promised him a happy ending.

The general meaning is: help resolve this crisis, use Kronenberg as the boundary, and demarcate a non-strip area of ​​no more than 300 square kilometers as territory, and be granted the title of Earl.

If the Spire of Order is willing to endorse him, he may not even have to pledge allegiance to Grand Duke Malos. As long as he is willing to acknowledge his status as a member of the kingdom and fulfill the most basic obligations for his country and his people, he can become a free earl.

"Free Earl, huh..." Pastor Luo felt that some people were making plans, and he could hear the sound from hundreds of kilometers away.

Power has always been linked to responsibility. Being the "Count" means being willing to take on the corresponding responsibilities.

Freedom, how free can it be? Grand Duke freedom? Or King freedom? They are all in the same trap. It's just a matter of how to compare and with whom to compare...

(End of this chapter)