Lords: From Civilization to the Stars.

Chapter 106: A Cold-Blooded Clan

The fleet of the Negative Stars set sail from the Golden Land. The ships of all kinds followed behind, representing the power brought by money and precious metals. Many news reports even said that this was probably the largest fleet in the history of the Old World that could enter the top 30.

Although its quality is still unknown, some large organizations, such as the Empire, the Dwarf Summit, even Chaos Dwarves, Skaven, and even some more distant forces have begun to pay attention to the movements of this fleet.

Although the Negative Star Wizard King claimed that this fleet was purely to explore possible Chaos pollution around the world, who in the old world doesn't know that the biggest feature of Chaos pollution is accusation? If you are called Chaos pollution, you are Chaos pollution, even if you are not. You are not now, and you will be in the future.

There are countless prophecies and possible futures, and there is always one that suits you. So when this huge fleet sailed out of Ulthuan and began to disperse at the bottom of Bretonnia, the knights of Bretonnia almost thought that the other side was going to take the opportunity to declare a war of annihilation and block all the ports of Bretonnia. But it turned out to be just a false alarm.

But looking at the large warship that is over 200 meters long, with its countless gun barrels and the symbol of a burning psychic torch on the top, everyone will feel awe for this large organization.

Especially the messy player ships that were like the guards around a beehive, and the indifferent elf guards on the mothership, all proved the chaotic thinking of this wizard king. He could accept the arrogance of the elves and let the players go with the team. He was an impeccable realist.

At least this is the attitude that everyone wants to believe. As for whether it is true or not, no one can tell for sure.

At least when the golden fleet arrived, everyone felt a sense of awe.

It was as if a giant creature that had been sleeping for a long time had begun to wake up again, stretched out its arms and legs and arrived at the children's playground. The confidence from countless wonders and supernatural phenomena made all witnesses feel terrified.

Most importantly, people have eyes. The golden lights that never go out in the distant corners at night, which penetrate the entire old world, have now made the leaders of countless factions sleepless. This is especially terrifying when the faction that calls itself the Negative Stars never communicates with other forces.

It has been a month, and the Negative Stars have never sent any diplomatic missions abroad.

Like giant machines, they blocked the Chaos Sea, occupied the Island of Albion and established the Golden City. Moreover, he generously divided the entire area into territories that could be developed.

Although the players were not good people, they still knew what to do in the face of such goodwill. The Negative Star's strength was expanding like it was inflated, coupled with the inexplicable elf team, which made all factions in the world somewhat unpredictable about this sudden behemoth.

It's only been a few months, it's like it just popped out of nowhere.

The Norscans, the defected Bretonnians, and a group of elves, this strange combination is the Star Bearers. And no one has ever really questioned what Olivien the Silent thinks.

Being sarcastic in meetings is a privilege granted to them by their species and the law. But if you really want to question it, you are questioning the decision of the Phoenix King. The mass disappearances in Ulthuan have not been properly handled, and it is clear that those leaders do not want to become some of the disappearances.

So the countries of the Old World were watching, and just watching the terrifying and countless fleets advancing at an impossible speed on the sea.

Among them, there are not only vampire pirates with strange faces, but also the dark elves' ominous arks, and some Bretonnian fleets that make a living on the sea. There are even some species that are impossible for most people to exist.

In the Lustria continent, which is covered by fog and jungle and is almost considered an area where humans cannot move, the horned and scaled people are observing the fleet that casts a huge shadow even in the warp and on the stars in the observatory in the jungle. The light of the psychic torch always accompanies the fleet, so that they will never get lost.

But from another perspective, the fleet carrying the psychic torch can also become the coordinates of other individuals in space, which will become very conspicuous in the psychic network.

In other words, unusually conspicuous.

In the first settlement left by the ancient saints, countless figures sat on suspended silver plates.

They imitated the images of those great men, they obeyed the will of those great men, they recorded the most authentic history of this world, and incorporated everything into the scope of the great plan.

The eyes of the masked creatures blinked, and countless cold-blooded creatures in the cold room looked at the shining psychic lighthouse in the psychic sand table, which was marked as the crash site. It was as if the sun-like light was building a large-scale psychic channeling network that was completely different from Lustria.

Only the Lizardmen realize how terrifying this Negative Star is. They are also the only ones who realize what this force is doing.

The younger race never hides their actions when they do things.

The direction of the fleet sent by this arrogant wizard king was so eye-catching in the eyes of many cold-blooded creatures.

"...Another lunatic who wants to end Chaos. His search and efforts are doomed to be meaningless, but the huge psychic beacon is likely to interfere with the grand plan. Should we eliminate this organization called Negative Star? The power it holds is likely to rebel against the will of the Ancients."

In the dark and damp room, a grumbling sound rang out from all directions, vibrating the eardrums of the cold-blooded people.

"Moreover, the Ancient Saint's Place of Sorrow has been occupied by him, and has even been used to a certain extent. If he continues, he is likely to cause unspeakable influence. What do you think?"

"..."

There was a moment of silence, and then countless voices began to sound from all directions.

"The grand plan cannot be changed. We must follow the will of the Ancient Saints and continue to observe. What the warm-bloods do is of no significance to us."

"But this time, the elves are also involved. We can't just sit back and watch. It seems that there have been drastic changes on the elves' side."

"That was nothing more than friction and conflict from the younger races."

"The Phoenix King is working hard to clean up the garbage among his own species, but he doesn't care about dragging the elves into the abyss. Perhaps in a few thousand years, we will take over the management of the Great Vortex and take back the main control center that suppresses the demons. As for the Negative Star, he is just a lucky wizard. He can't understand his enemies at all."

"Perhaps he understands, but even so he can't do anything. This man's name does not exist in the Old Ones' great plan. He is just a wizard king. We have seen this story many times."

"But his speed is too fast, and the power he controls is too strong..."

The cold-blooded man's voice didn't have much emotion.

Although it sounded like a quarrel among many people, in fact, each cold-blooded person analyzed the problem calmly from his own perspective and tried to reach a consensus with all the members in the observatory.

This is the way they understood each other, passed down by those prominent saints a long time ago when the ancient saints were still in the world. The cold-blooded people understand that their own vision will often become narrow, but the vision of many people can make up for the gaps between each other and finally achieve the perfection of the plan.

They are the most loyal servants of the Ancient Saints and their most trusted servants.

Long before the elves appeared, and even before they first walked out of the world, the Lizardmen became assistants and servants of the Ancient Ones, accompanying them in creating all the races in this world.

They even witnessed the great building rising from the ground into the sky, turning into stars to protect the world, and also witnessed the great product falling from the sky, and the world gradually closing. The Lizardmen wanted to see much more than the elves.

But they are also confused. Although the existence of the Great Plan is real, the Ancient Saints once defined the direction for this world, and the Lizardmen will ensure that the plan spanning countless years can be implemented. However, after the fall of heaven and the closure of the world, many Lizardmen chose to close their consciousness, walked out of the jungle and drifted to all parts of the world. They chose to integrate into this world in another way, leaving only the Lizardmen of Lustria who have been maintaining this broken world for tens of thousands of years.

As the first landing place, they used psionic technology to create a psionic network, hiding all the greatness of Lustria in the rainforest.

They witnessed the rise and fall of the major races in the old world, and even used the genetic instincts of some lizardmen from outside the world to begin recording the dynamic changes on the entire planet. The psychic network operated in every corner of the world, suppressing the demons in the chaos and preventing them from descending into the world in their true form.

But there is a limit to this. At the edge of all realms, facing the overturned geological disasters, their psychic network has little effect. So it can only be used to suppress, but it cannot be the only answer.

However, at this moment, the Negative Star appeared in front of the Lizard Man like a meteor.

In fact, there are many sudden conquerors like Leon in the long history of Lizardmen. There are always some brilliant individuals who master powerful forces and build a great empire in a short period of time. They are always able to achieve great feats that others dare not even think of.

There are also many talented spellcasters who can always come up with unimaginable ideas. Even the lizardmen often have to admit that these short-lived species can always solve all these problems in a fantastic way.

However, these two often do not overlap, and currently, there are less than twenty people in the history of the Lizardmen who overlap.

Among these twenty people, there are only seven individuals like Leon who occupied the ancient saint ruins.

Although the number is still not too small, according to the observation of the Lizardmen, this must be recorded. In the countless civilization changes and tens of thousands of years on the vast planet, only seven people have appeared. And there is no one like this Negative Star who wants to target the demons so furiously.

Most conquerors only thought about how to expand their population and territory, how to become a more powerful empire, and how to start their great conquest of all the areas that could be conquered. It was rare for someone like Leon to hold back a fleet to explore.

As for why the Negative Star was able to build an entire fleet that was beyond the times in a short period of time, the cold-blooded people had no idea about this. He occupied the ruins of the ancient saints, so it must be the great power of the ancient saints.

Leon himself is just a lucky man, but whether this luck is allowed by the ancient saints is the question that the lizardmen need to consider.

The huge torch on the psychic map did not look like something that an ordinary person could light. Even on the world psychic map, the current magic power level of the Land of Descendants was already in the top ten. And it was growing rapidly at an almost terrifying speed. The World Wound and the psychic torch were rapidly siphoning the power of the subspace.

That's why many cold-blooded people began to evaluate the position of this wizard king. Is he a part of the big plan? If so, how will he guide the big plan?

Because of the hasty departure of the Ancient Ones and the fall of the final palace, the Lizardmen did not know what the full picture of the grand plan was.

They just try to maintain the original appearance of Lustria, maintain the production facilities and equipment left by the ancient saints, and try to use the most primitive way to ensure that the grand plan is implemented without interference. So this is always the case. Now there is another force that can influence the whole world. Is this within the scope of the grand plan?
"...Observe. Just as we always do."

The final indifferent voice provided an anchor for all the quarrels.

"Let us observe the future of these fleets, let us observe the ending of this Negative Star. He has mastered the power that can suppress Chaos. In this old world that has already been occupied, he will inevitably reach the ending we want."

"He will be arrogant and conceited, and will regard all demons as objects that can be ravaged. But he will never understand that demons will never be destroyed. Until one day, when the god of chaos begins to laugh grimly and launches an attack on his world, we may be able to obtain his technology from him."

"All this takes time, and we just have to wait. There is no room for error in the big plan, and we can't take more risks to do things."

"Teams will be dispatched to guard all singularities and ancient ruins. All intruders will be killed without mercy."

"agree."

"agree."

"agree."

Indifferent voices rose and fell in the observatory, and finally returned to silence.

Demons are an incomprehensible natural phenomenon. As long as there is the will of living things in the Subspace Soul Sea, demons will exist. Therefore, attacks on demons are often ineffective.

When the ancient saints left, the world gradually fell apart, and in the final demon frenzy, no one knew the existence of these demons better than the ancient saints. Even in the establishment of the elf vortex, these cold-blooded species also intervened a lot. According to the rough spiritual power level of the elves, if the vortex was really established, it would explode soon.

It was the countless years of maintenance and help from the Lizardmen that ensured that the Phoenix King's genius creativity did not disappear completely. This vortex, which used a very simple principle of positive and negative pressure, drew the wind of magic from the world and sent it into the subspace, throwing most of the demons into the subspace. However, it allowed the spreading power to overflow at the North and South Poles, which was a natural choice.

Because the demons cannot be killed, we can only ensure the normal operation of most areas.

Only after that did the lizardmen become convinced that the Phoenix King might be an important figure in the grand plan.

The Grand Plan was not written at all, which must be because the Lizardmen themselves interpreted it unfavorably. As the most humble servants of the Ancient Saints, they knew where the problem was, but they would never admit the cause of the problem.

So the lizard people finally chose not to actively interfere with the activities of the short-lived species.

In the cold and damp observatory, the cold-blooded species were very satisfied. They once again maintained the existence of the Grand Plan and once again put the ignorant short-lived species and young races back on track.

Death is always the most straightforward way to protect a secret. Although the Negative Star Fleet is huge, the Lizardmen don't care at all. They are the heirs of the Ancient Saints, and they have such rights. They know better than anyone how difficult it is to deal with demons, and the importance of those secrets.

So they vowed to guard the secret until their death, and waited for the Wizard King to lose his life completely.

At the same time, on the exploration fleet's flagship, the Indomitable Expedition, Leon was staring at the map in his hand in a daze.

He was thinking about a very serious problem.

“It’s okay to eat the demons in Antarctica directly, but if too many players die, will I be unable to handle it?

Hundreds of thousands of players who don't want to live are filling the line, which can be regarded as millions of manpower. One million people go to find some suspicious plots of land, and they can turn out the land for you, right? Do I have enough precious metals?

If it’s not enough, can we temporarily use the accounting audit as an excuse to allow more time for preparation…”

After taking a look at the precious metal reserves at the place where he landed, and then looking at the huge team of players and small boats like wings behind the battleship, Leon couldn't help but mutter to himself.

(I'm sorry, everyone! I'll write 5,000 words first, and I owe you 15,000! I really can't take it any longer. I've been sitting there for hours and my brain is shattered and I have a splitting headache. I'll try to adjust myself!)
(End of this chapter)