Gods: Civilization Cultivation, Infinite War

Chapter 225 The Position of the Ruler
After the middle-aged man named Liu Yuan walked out of the Disaster Relief Office, he bowed respectfully to Ni Die.

Before Ni Die could say anything, the surrounding guards bowed to Liu Yuan again: "Lord Si Zheng!"

"Sizheng..."

Upon hearing this title, Ni Die felt a chill run down her spine. The so-called Si Zheng was the highest-ranking official in charge of the Disaster Relief Department.

Of course, the official in front of him named Liu Yuan was definitely just the highest-ranking person in charge of this disaster relief office, equivalent to the head of a branch of the entire disaster relief office system.

In terms of status, he was actually not as high as the commander of the Great Wall outside Tiandu City.

Although they can be considered natives of the blue level, they are basically at the bottom of the blue category.

Without thinking further, Ni Die returned Liu Yuan's greeting and then asked a question.

"Lord Sizheng, why do you address me as Lord Ling?"

Faced with Ni Die's question, Liu Yuan quickly answered.

"You are unaware of this, but whoever holds the laws of the Heavenly Capital is the agent of all the superiors in the Heavenly Capital."

"Those in positions of authority are often busy with important responsibilities, so they delegate some trivial tasks to their subordinates."

“Those who hold the Heavenly Capital Laws are qualified to carry out these trivial matters.”

"Of course, if we call it trivial matters, that's only in comparison to those in higher positions."

"In fact, every person who holds the Heavenly Capital Decree bears certain extremely important responsibilities and has great power. Within the Heavenly Capital system, they are also respectfully called the Decree Master."

"It is thanks to the joint efforts of many rulers that the capital has been able to maintain its stability."

Liu Yuan's tone remained respectful.

He also knew that the reverse butterfly in front of him was not a native life form of Tiandu, but rather an existence from the outside world.

However, since she holds the Heavenly Capital Decree, it means she represents the will of a certain superior and has important responsibilities to fulfill.

As for why the person in charge would choose such a weak outsider to handle his trivial matters, that's not something a mere official like him could question.

Even the Grand Master of the Disaster Relief Headquarters is only barely qualified to be on par with the Lord of the Order, and is even slightly weaker in rank.

The difference between my position as a mere division chief and that of the commander is immeasurable.

As for the choice of superiors, all you need to do is carry it out.

Hearing Liu Yuan say this, Ni Die also understood some things and felt a little emotional.

She originally thought that the long-term mission of "Stabilizing Internal Troubles" was just a good place for Tianheng to quickly level up.

As for actually completing this task, that's basically impossible.

After all, even S-rank difficulty missions are highly likely to involve legendary realms, let alone SSS-rank difficulty missions.

Even though this was not a personal task but a collective one, she saw no hope of completing it.

After all, Tiandu City had been doing its best to suppress the insectoids within the city, and even so, the difficulty of completing the mission still reached SSS level.

In other words, the difficulty of this task is SSS level, achieved only after Tiandu City has invested countless manpower and resources.

Otherwise, its actual difficulty would probably reach an even more exaggerated level.

In this situation, what can a player change as an individual?

Let alone the fact that she has just become a superhuman, even a legendary superhuman would probably have no hope of completing the mission.

After all, Tiandu City is not lacking in legendary superhumans. If it were so easy to deal with the Zerg, then it would not have been necessary to continue to invest a lot of manpower and resources to suppress the Zerg.

So Reverse Butterfly never intended to complete the quest from the beginning; she just wanted to use the quest to level up.

But the situation now seems to be somewhat different.

What Tianheng ultimately gave her was not some simple certificate, but the Tiandu Law, which was regarded as a treasure by the natives of Tiandu City.

Once he possessed this token, even the natives on the blue panel would respectfully address him as the Token Master.

According to the native standard, the level of the Lord's panel is mostly in the purple tier.

A single task randomly issued by the natives on the blue panel can create a large number of extraordinary individuals.

The natives with purple panels possess even greater power and can exert a greater influence on players.

As a player, one cannot issue tasks to other players; players do not have such authority.

However, if I could use this so-called Lord's identity to gain corresponding power within the Heavenly Capital City system...

She doesn't need to issue quests to players herself; she can simply have her natives issue quests, and that will achieve the same effect.

Of course, achieving this level of achievement is certainly not an easy task.

According to the normal power transfer process, to obtain the power corresponding to the lord, it is certainly not as simple as just having a Heavenly Capital Decree.

Moreover, he was just a player and had no foothold in Tiandu City.

If one wants to seize the power corresponding to the ruler, one would probably need to rise to a higher position, meaning that Tianheng would personally appear to support one.

However, since Tianheng disappeared after leaving this task, and did not use the contact information he left behind to let me know the meaning of the Heavenly Capital Decree in advance.

That means Tianheng had no intention of supporting her or helping her seize the power corresponding to the Lord.

As the superior of Tiandu City, it should be a very simple matter for Tianheng to support him if he wants to.

But since he didn't do that, he must have had his own reasons.

After all, Reverse Butterfly knew that she was just an ordinary player with no particular strengths in any area.

If she only relies on Tianheng's support to gain control of the Lord's power, she will most likely not be able to maintain it.

The rapid transfer of power in a short period of time will inevitably cause chaos, and the resulting losses will certainly be significant.

Tianheng left behind this Heavenly Capital Decree, probably intending to test him as well.

If I can grow up smoothly, it shouldn't be difficult to gain the corresponding power by virtue of the Heavenly Capital Laws.

At that time, I might be able to recruit a large number of players to help me complete this task.

Players have already swallowed up even a world-ending insect swarm, let alone the insectoid race that was born in Tiandu City.

With enough players, even SSS-level difficulty missions cannot stop their progress.

"The most important thing now is to improve our own strength, because that is the foundation of everything."

"Without sufficient strength as a backing, neither the natives of Tiandu City nor the players will easily obey my orders."

"Furthermore, the players haven't fully integrated into Tiandu City yet, and the natives aren't entirely comfortable entrusting such an important task as suppressing the Zerg to the players." "If there's an opportunity in the future, we should try our best to promote friendly exchanges and mutual understanding between the two sides."

"There is also the inability to prevent the emergence of the Zerg, which is a major problem. The mission difficulty will reach SSS level, which is largely related to the fact that the Zerg cannot be completely eliminated."

"Even if we can't completely wipe out the Zerg in Tiandu City, we should at least reduce their chances of being born, or improve the detection capabilities in Tiandu City."

"As long as we can kill each Zergling as soon as it is born."

"Preventing it from rapidly splitting and evolving, and reducing the cost of suppression in Tiandu City, is equivalent to completing the mission, or at least part of it."

With many thoughts flashing through her mind, Ni Die quickly followed Liu Yuan into the Disaster Relief Department.

Upon entering the Disaster Relief Bureau, Ni Die's expression changed. The earth's energy here was far too concentrated; no wonder it was called an important place.

Ordinary people probably couldn't even withstand the pressure brought by this earth vein energy, but Ni Die had already done so before arriving at this disaster relief office.

Having already completed the job change to become a superhuman, they wouldn't be unable to withstand this pressure.

Before Ni Die could even ask, Liu Yuan, the magistrate, very sensibly took the initiative to explain.

"My Lord, the Disaster Suppression Division is responsible for suppressing all insectoid creatures within the territory of Tiandu."

"The insectoid creatures are untouched by cause and effect, and they have always been hiding deep underground, making it difficult to find their traces using conventional methods."

"However, since it is hiding deep underground, it must be connected to the earth's veins."

"Since we're not involved in cause and effect, let's use other methods to investigate any clues."

"The Disaster Suppression Division is located on the various large and small earth vein nodes of Tiandu. With the support of the formation, it has the power to control the surrounding earth vein energy."

"For example, the branch I am stationed here can control the earth's energy within a radius of eight hundred miles."

"If any abnormality occurs, the Disaster Relief Division can receive immediate feedback and dispatch soldiers to the corresponding location to suppress it."

Liu Yuan's face was filled with confidence, as if the insectoids in Tiandu City were truly no match for him.

"It's probably not that simple, is it?"

Reverse Butterfly isn't being argumentative, but if the Zerg were really that easy to deal with, then the [Stabilizing Internal Troubles] mission wouldn't be at an SSS difficulty level.

Even if this is calculated based on the entire Tiandu City as a whole, it still shows just how troublesome the Zerg are.

Hearing Ni Die say that, Liu Yuan smiled awkwardly.

He wasn't exaggerating on purpose; he was just facing a superior whose position was even higher than his own.

This made him want to try his best to make a good impression on this leader.

"Just as you said, Lord, the actual situation is not that simple."

"This is not because the Disaster Suppression Division is unable to detect the abnormality of the surrounding earth vein energy."

"But the Zerg creatures are truly cunning; their adaptability is simply unbelievable."

"They can even mimic the aura of the earth's veins, concealing their presence within the veins to the greatest extent possible."

"Over time, this simulated aura can even achieve a perfect match."

"At this point, they will begin to devour the earth's veins, and even the Disaster Suppression Bureau will find it difficult to detect the anomaly quickly."

Hearing Liu Yuan say that, Ni Die narrowed her eyes.

"This is indeed a tricky situation..."

In the recent cataclysmic insect swarm, Reverse Butterfly also personally killed hundreds of insectoids.

During this process, she, as a player, also gained a deep understanding of the Zerg's adaptability.

Putting aside the fact that players can plunder Zerg trait, and that players themselves don't have any additional resources.

The Zerg have also begun to split themselves, significantly reducing their inherent traits.

This prevents players from gaining any advantage and forces them into a pure war of attrition against the Zerg.

This rapid understanding and response to the rules is the Zerg's greatest asset in traversing the endless void.

In addition, during the battle with the Zerg, Reverse Butterfly could also clearly feel the Zerg's powerful adaptability.

Even if it's just a low-level Zerg, if you can't kill it in one hit, it will take much more effort to kill it later.

Because after intercepting her attack, the Zerg had developed a specialized defense against her attacks.

The same force applied to the opponent will have at least 10% less lethality.

This is only a preliminary specialized defense; if we can't kill them quickly, we'll just keep getting entangled.

This specialized defense can even reduce the lethality of each attack from the Reverse Butterfly by at least 30%.

As for whether it can be reduced further, Reverse Butterfly is not quite sure.

Because she was constantly entangled and unable to quickly kill her opponent, Nidie soon fell into a disadvantageous position and was directly killed by her opponent.

After being resurrected, she would not return to the original battlefield, and it would be impossible for her to encounter the Zerg that killed her.

Of course, if they were to actually encounter each other, Reverse Butterfly would definitely run away immediately, since she was no match for that insectoid creature at the time.

"According to you, the Zerg could even devour ley lines right under your nose and not be detected quickly."

"So how would you respond to minimize the losses?"

The city of Tiandu was able to easily suppress the Zerg within, and naturally it had its own ways of dealing with these Zerg tactics.

Otherwise, once the earth's veins are completely devoured, the destruction of Tiandu City will not be far off.

"As you, Lord Commander, know, the Disaster Suppression Division uses the earth's veins as its foundation to suppress the insectoid race."

"Under normal circumstances, once the Zerg have simulated an aura that perfectly matches the ley lines, they can begin to devour them."

"Therefore, in order to prevent the Zerg from devouring too many ley lines, our local disaster relief offices will conduct a deep cleanup of the ley lines every once in a while."

"We will use formations to mobilize all the earth's energy in the surrounding area and explore every inch of the mountains and rivers."

"Even if the Zerg can perfectly simulate the aura, they are ultimately not the ley lines themselves."

"Once all the earth's energy has been mobilized, the insectoids within the earth's veins will naturally have nowhere to hide."

"According to the plan, our Disaster Relief Office will conduct a land purification ceremony in three days."

"At that time, all the insectoid creatures in this vast land will be completely wiped out."

(End of this chapter)