Lords: From Civilization to the Stars.

Chapter 70: Star Negator and the World
Almost a month has passed since the ghost ship of the Chivalrous Expedition returned to Bretonnia and caused a stir.

During this month, the entire Bretonnia was digesting these huge shocks one after another.

First up is the result of the Bretonnian Knights’ battle against the Green Tide in the Southern Badlands.

The first thing that disappointed all Bretonnians was that Bretonnia did not achieve the great victory they had imagined. The Knight King and his knight army were intercepted by the orc colossus while charging in the southern badlands.

The entire Badlands was now in chaos, and almost no one knew what the end of this troubled land would be. In addition to orcs and dwarves joining the battlefield, the legendary ratmen and elves also began to join the battlefield.

The elves tried to recover their former colonies, so they recruited four elven colony regiments to go to the Badlands, intending to clear out the original cities. However, those ruined cities were already full of uninvited guests. A brutal war between the elves and the ratmen broke out in an instant.

At the same time, the struggle between the underground kingdom and the dwarfs has never stopped.

But while the ratmen were fighting on a two-front battlefield together with the dwarves and elves, they also received some extremely bad news from themselves.

It is said that a player, relying on his own immortality, filled the sealing pit with flesh and blood and other things, and released an ancient undead mage who was sealed. This unimaginably powerful evil is now gathering corpses in the underground kingdom, intending to carry out his unspeakable horrific plan against the living world.

However, the orcs who were happy to hear about war poured into the underground tombs of the dead in large numbers, intending to fight these undead creatures to their heart's content. Because the undead creatures had no sense of pain and had teeth, they were very much in line with the orcs' love of fighting, and could also greatly supplement the scale of their economic system - the orcs generally used different teeth as currency.

So in this situation, the chaos pollution that occurred within the country caused the Chivalrous Expeditionary Force to march northward in large numbers, and then they were killed without leaving a single soldier. To be honest, this was not a big deal.

After all, looking around Bretonnia, everyone is fighting happily.

The Empire on the right side of Bretonnia is fed up with the battle royale between players and fairies, and is preparing to deploy witch hunters to purify the surrounding environment. On the other side, things on the Norsca Peninsula are always so bad. In addition to the fight between players and fairies, there are also propaganda teams of the Negative Stars wandering around.

These guys with golden eyes and runes on their bodies are not enemies to Bretonnia, but they are not friendly units either. They often drag serfs over while chatting, and come back as different people.

After the heresy charges against the Negative Stars were lifted, the Bretonnians actually had a very complicated feeling towards the Negative Stars.

On the one hand, these weird guys who came out of nowhere fulfilled one of Bretonnia's long-cherished wishes, which was to station in the Chaos Wastes, hunt Chaos Daemons and permanently shape their own great cause there.

In fact, many knights and reserve members chose to secretly organize their teams in order to follow this chaotic enemy and complete their great hunt, intending to sneak into the Broken Land where the Negative Stars were located - now it should be called the Land of Advent - to fulfill their lifelong dreams.

However, Bretonnia has strong opinions about the fact that the Negative Star took away the Holy Grail and used it.

If the Negative Stars could return the Holy Grail, then Bretonnia could reluctantly list them as a target for communication and contact. But now the Negative Stars didn't even say a word, so Bretonnia's garrison troops naturally wouldn't take this force of only tens of thousands of people seriously.

Although the Lady of the Lake and other temples and forces did not say anything, Bretonnia, as a country of knights, was indeed very concerned about this aspect of face. Another small problem was that the sea elves blocked the route to the Broken Land because of the chivalrous expedition.

After these treacherous elves took control of the strait of Orbion Island and the route to the Land of Descendants, they claimed that they would make Bretonnia and the Land of Descendants pay the price they deserved. For both parties, everyone knew that this was a misunderstanding, but no one wanted to resolve this misunderstanding.

For the people of the old world, it was normal to fight and kill each other, but it was rare to discover misunderstandings between each other and start making peace.

Therefore, Bretonnia didn't care too much about such a small matter as disconnecting from the Negative Stars.

Generally speaking, the Old World didn't pay much attention to this aspect. Everyone had their own dozen enemies to fight, and Bretonnia's expeditions had failed and been contaminated by Chaos, and there had been dozens of such incidents over the past few hundred years.

Everyone was in a stable mood, but there was only one person whose mood was not very stable. As another victim and the poor man who was blocked by the sea elf, Li Ang's mood was not very stable.

"...I will expel all sea elves from this world, leaving no one behind."

Sitting in the observatory, Li Ang said with a dim gaze.

The murderous intent contained in those words made the people around watch in fear, not daring to say a word.

The Negative Stars had been established for a month. Thanks to the Norse Migration and the Chaos Wasteland Conquest, several towns had been built in the expanded area of ​​Stonehenge to support the operation of the entire Negative Stars.

These included the God-given Plains, a grain-producing land, the Divine Thinker Realm, a scientific research area built around the Infinite Labyrinth, which had been wrapped in the Life Boundary, the Giant Tree Outpost as the core of the expedition, and the Fool's Beach, which was headed towards the coastline with the Heavenly Fortress as the fulcrum. Together with the final capital of the Land of Descendants, a thriving large territory had already taken shape.

Moreover, after the negative stars joined Leon's psychic network, oh no, sphere of influence, they would naturally find that their abilities and qualities had been elevated to a higher level.

'Star Bearers: A group of people who carry the stars on their backs and look at the universe. Led by their only leader, they vow to gain absolute liberation from this filthy world, no matter what sacrifices they have to make, no matter what the price.

Civilization Characteristics: Under the leadership of the only leader, Leon, the output of all factions increases by 50%, the construction time of wonders is reduced by 75%, the war exhaustion system is blocked, and it is regarded as a state of psychic (magic) awakening, and each individual can cast spells or spell-like abilities.'

But such a great group is now trapped on land.

"When I send out a ship, I have to send sea beasts to watch it and bring people to plunder. Every time I send out a fleet, I need a frigate with 50 people to accompany it. Now one-third of our population are seafarers. Is this reasonable?"

Looking at the silent crowd around him, Leon shouted angrily in the observatory.

(End of this chapter)