Winter is coming to an end and spring is approaching.
Spring is the season of life, when all things revive, the earth will be covered with green, red flowers and green grass, green mountains and green waters. Even the animals have completely regained their vitality after surviving the long cold winter, and have begun to reproduce and reproduce, starting another cycle of life.
But today's spring is different.
Very cold.
It's not just the air that's cold, it's also the people's hearts.
The calendar of the main plane is similar to that of the earth. The year is also divided into four seasons, and the shortest day of the year - that is, the winter solstice - is the new year. This calendar is simple and crude, and very convincing.
The winter solstice is the midpoint of winter. One and a half months after the winter solstice, it is the beginning of spring. In the last month and a half, the first half is almost the coldest time.
Generally speaking, if there is a war, most people will choose winter. Mainly because farmers have nothing to do in winter and are very idle.
For the orcs, fighting in winter can consume a lot of people, save food, and optimize the population. It is a policy worthy of recognition and praise.
Sui Xiong floated on the terrace on the roof of the Void City City Hall, staring at the eastern sky.
The war cloud has almost condensed into substance, an iron-gray color that makes people feel very uncomfortable just looking at it.
"I don't know how many people will die in this battle!" He sighed deeply and shook his head.
"After all, it is their own choice." Leon stood beside him and said calmly, "We will try to protect the refugees and prevent the massacre, but we cannot stop them from fighting. If a person wants to die, others cannot do anything about it. "
Sui Xiong nodded, but still couldn't help but sigh.
He loves life and hates war. The act of putting the lives of thousands of people as a bet to fight for external things such as land, wealth, power, and status is simply a desecration of life in his opinion.
But he can't stop the war because both sides want to fight it.
As Leon said, this is a choice shared by humans and orcs.
Even if only one side does not want to fight this war, Sui Xiong will stand on the side forced to fight and use his fists to persuade the attacking side to give up the war. However, both sides wanted to fight, and both wanted to kill a river of blood and corpses, so there was nothing he could do.
These days, he has been calling for peace and for people to withdraw from the war. Whether they are humans, orcs, or other races involved in this war, as long as they are willing to withdraw from the war, Sui Xiong is willing to protect them and let them escape from the war and live in a republic like a paradise. .
But what he did was not very effective.
Indeed, many mortals who believed in him decided not to participate in this war. They were brought to the Northwest Republic from all over the world and settled there. But there are more people who are willing to participate in the war. For mortals, faith is important, but their own lives, their own families, their own loves and hates... these are also equally important.
For example, take the Eagle Kingdom. This country has been fighting with orcs all year round. Almost every family has an elder who died on the northern battlefield. In order to completely defeat the orcs, few of them are willing to withdraw from this war. However, many priests of Sui Xiong took off their robes with the jellyfish holy emblem after praying and confessing to Sui Xiong, put on armor, picked up weapons, and walked to the battlefield.
As for the Secret Tower Federation, even in the Four Cities Alliance with Gray Tower City as the core, many scholars and mages walked out of their studies, picked up the wands that were rarely used, took off their scholar robes, put on mage robes, and went to Military camp assembly.
These scholars know a lot of knowledge, so their hearts are full of a sense of responsibility for the entire human race. Even if they have to violate the orders of the gods, they must participate in this war and fight for the future of mankind.
Not to mention places like Gars City, large numbers of young people flocked to the north, heading to the Kingdom of Glory to join the battlefield of blood and fire. Leon once wanted to use strong methods to stop all this, but Sui Xiong vetoed it.
"It's going to rain and my mother wants to get married, so let her go." Sui Xiong said in a very open-minded tone at that time, "As long as they don't regret it."
"These guys are not religious at all!" Leon said unhappily.
"People should live for themselves first, and then for others." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "No matter what choice they make this time, as long as they do not point the sword at the church members, I will still welcome them back in the future. .”
"Your Majesty... you are too lenient! Such generosity is not enough!"
"Why not?" Sui Xiong smiled, "Isn't the reason why I want to become as strong as possible just so that I can say, 'Because I want to, there is nothing wrong with me'?"
Leon was at a loss for words, and in the end he chose to move away those people in Gars City who were unwilling to participate in the war, and temporarily moved to the Northwest Republic.
Of course, the city cannot be moved away, but as long as the important things are taken away, the rest doesn't matter.
Where the Gars people are, there is the city of Gars. Without the Gars, it would be nothing more than an empty city.
All of this is naturally based on Sui Xiong's incredible and vast divine power. When the immigrants saw a city in the ash forest in the ice and snow that was exactly the same as the Gars they lived in before, they were all stunned.
In fact, it is very simple for Sui Xiong. It is nothing more than scanning the appearance of the entire city, and then finding a place to shape the land into the corresponding shape.
Although the amount of work is huge, it only takes about ten days.
Several other territories belonging to the Northwest Republic did not choose to relocate. After all, they were far away from the battlefield. The Gerten Territory is located in the central and eastern part of the Gold Coin Federation and is adjacent to the Graystone Mountains. The Dal Territory is in the south and slightly east of the Gold Coin Federation and is adjacent to the Great Swamp. The Keen Territory is in the prosperous area of the south-central part of the Principality of Thunder. The Gray Tower Four Cities Alliance is in the north-central part of the Secret Tower Federation. Close to the ancient forest.
Compared to Gars City, which is not far from the Kingdom of Glory and is an important commercial port on the entire continent, they are considered a safe zone away from the battlefield. Of course, there is no need to relocate.
Even so, there were large numbers of people from various places who believed in Sui Xiong and were unwilling to join the war and headed towards the Northwest Republic. The most of them, of course, come from the Blue Moon Kingdom.
This population has put tremendous pressure on housing in the Northwest Republic and has also stretched the land that has been developed.
People in this world are not used to living in "pigeon cage" apartments, and neither Void City nor other cities in the Northwest Republic can accommodate so many residents.
They need to develop more land and settle more residents. Not only should they have a place to live, but also a place to work, rest and have fun.
Therefore, something that has been planned for a long time, and many people have been prepared for it, is finally about to be implemented.
Purify the entire Ash Forest!