The corpses of humans and elves piled up into mountains and filled the cracks in the ground. Blood and fire burned the entire land red. Although there was no way to revive the land that had been permanently frozen, at least after the "Ice Disaster" was completely dead, the ice and snow land would no longer spread southward.
The demons pushed hard to the front line, while humans and elves also pushed forward like crazy.
Countless corpses of humans and elves were left in every place, and on top of these corpses, there were bound to be the remains and flesh of demons left behind.
Even the demons could not bear such damage. They retreated. After returning to the starting point of the demonic disaster known as the Great Rift, they were thinking about how to break through the enemy's defenses and how to deal with one of them first.
The land of the elves is also naturally poisonous to the demons. So they chose to deal with the long border of the Bayerzhan Empire first. And to deal with Bayerzhan, they must deal with the Bayerzhan priests.
Regardless of whether it is a conceptual god like "Light", a god of faith, or a usurper - as long as they are clergy based on God, they all have one thing in common.
[The more believers around, the greater the power of the priest... ]
[The greater the power of the priest, the stronger the protection of the believers... ]
This troubled the demons at the time. After all, compared to priests, although mages could release powerful spells one after another through the circulation of magic power, they could not be as omnipotent as priests when there were many people.
How can we fight against the priesthood? How can we break this yoke
After countless thoughts and contemplations... a demon later known as the "Clergy Slayer" seemed to have an idea.
The priest will seem almost invincible among the believers.
But he couldn't release two magics completely and perfectly at the same time! Because this is a common feature of clergy!
They draw power of faith from believers, and also use the power of believers to release divine arts!
But priests can only have two channels at the same time! They can't release multiple magics at the same time like magicians. The most they can do is to reserve one divine spell for themselves.
in other words…
Between "protecting himself" and "protecting his comrades", he can only choose one.
Or focus on protecting yourself—and then watch your companions get killed.
Believers are the key to the priest's release of divine magic. Once believers begin to die, the priest's power will weaken as the number of dead increases. In the end, he will be killed by the devil without being able to release divine magic.
[A pastor who has lost his followers is a lamb to be slaughtered and is useless. ]
Either focus on protecting your companions, or watch yourself being precisely killed.
This is even better - because as long as the priest dies, the crusader army centered on the priest will collapse directly.
Those crusaders may be well-trained, but in the final analysis, their greatest use is to provide divine power to the priests!
[The Skitarians without priests are just a group of ants on the ground. They may cause some trouble to the invasion of demons. But to put it bluntly, without priests, they are nothing in the eyes of demons.]
Or if they try to work together, and then are defeated by the demonic power that exceeds the threshold at the same time, then they will die together, without distinction of which comes first or which comes later.
thus…
"The demons created a "surface and point tactics" specifically targeting the clergy. They used this tactic to break through the defenses of the Bayerjans Empire in a short period of time, and broke into our major cities before the elves' reinforcements arrived.
As a last resort, in order to prevent the demons from losing their allies and causing a greater impact on the world, Constantine XII decided to pull the demons underground, along with all our people and cities.
And it was at that time that the barbarians we had protected in the rear also attacked our city—
St. Petersburg stopped sinking after falling less than 50 floors because it was attacked by barbarians and everyone inside was massacred.
I'm not sure whether the demons inside St. Petersburg have been cleared of sensibility, but this is not the point of our discussion this time.
The point is that the "area and point tactics" developed by the demons in the last disaster are a complete kill against priests.
We can learn to use this tactic, and if nothing unexpected happens, we can also use it on the army of the Church of Light."
After saying that, Theresa coughed twice, took the sweet juice handed to her by Qinna, drank it all, and then sat back in her seat.
The old elves looked at each other in bewilderment. After all, they did not understand why the defense of the Bayerzans Empire collapsed so quickly at that time. But after understanding the facts, they looked at the purple princess with more guilt in their eyes.
An old elf stood up with the help of a cane and bowed to the purple princess:
"I'm sorry, Princess Purple. We didn't make it in time..."
"No, you don't have to apologize for this. To be honest, if the elf was there, I'm afraid there would be one more item written in my parents' handbook -
That is, the elves chose to die with Bayerjans as a brotherly alliance. Moreover, I don't really have any idea about Bayerjans. After all, thousands of years have passed, and this empire is gone, so I don't care much about it. Please treat me as a nun and deal with the important matters first."
Mother Teresa's shrug made the elves even more ashamed. But as she said, what was more important now was the feasibility of the "surface and point tactics".
But after all, everyone has their own specialties - the elves are powerful wizards, but they really don't know much about the clergy system.
For this reason, Theresa looked at the noisy old elves, and finally had to stand up again under Finn's gaze and personally introduce the system of divine arts to them.
In this world, magic and divine arts are two completely different systems.
From the perspective of magicians, the magic they cast is "cyclical" and limited to certain regions.
After a spell is released, the nature of the magic power changes, and it becomes a "foundation" that is conducive to the release of another spell.
Among the four major spells, after casting a fire spell, the fire element will facilitate the release of earth spells. After the earth spell is released, it is the wood spell. And after the wood spell, it is the water spell.
The essence of basic magic lies in the circular connection between the four major spells - and for magicians, whether they can release more powerful magic depends on their own accumulated magic power and the "local magic power reserves."
The best way to prevent mages from casting spells is to directly affect the magic cycle of the entire area, turning the magic into "magic residue" that mages can hardly use.
In contrast, priests are special people who rely on believers to cast divine spells.
They need to undergo the same boring training as mages, but what makes them better than mages is that priests have the ability to create conditions of "abundant divine power" for themselves.
The key lies in the believers themselves.
"If a magician can only release small fireballs in an area with a magic power limit of only 100, but can release strategic magic in an area with a magic power limit of 10,000, then a priest can forcibly raise the limit from 100 to 10,000 in an area with a magic power limit of only 100 by leading believers."
Theresa explained and demonstrated with the weak power of light.
"The priest and the mage will have an easier time comparing spellcasting resources by having more or fewer followers - but on the other hand, if the priest only has that many followers and there is no way to replenish them, then while the mage is waiting for the area's mana to return to 10,000, the priest will become increasingly weaker due to the constant death and injury of his followers.
From 10,000 to 9,000, and then directly cut from 9,000 to 2,000—
At a certain threshold, the lives of believers are worthless. But below a certain threshold, the life and death of every believer will affect the power of the divine spell released by the priest... "
"So, Your Majesty Theresa, what you mean is... as long as we can find a way to reduce the number of believers to a certain threshold, then the priests of the Church of Light will "collapse" at some point?"
"Yes. Not only will it collapse, but it will also bring about a chain reaction - because those enhanced group barriers are also linked to the number of believers. If the priests are still performing some kind of divine magic, the power may even differ by more than ten times due to the death of a believer.
But the core issue is how we should implement the "surface and point tactics".
We must pose a huge threat to both the believers and the priests themselves. As of now, it seems that the only strategic spells that can pose a fatal threat to ordinary armies are the elves' magic groups."
Because of the different mechanisms of the two, although mages can release strategic spells in a flexible manner, in addition to their own magic reserves, they seem to share the total magic power of an entire area to cast spells. It is easy for someone to release a large-scale spell first, resulting in an "empty mana" situation in the entire area.
Theresa optimistically estimated that there were a large number of mages in Caparia now, and they should be able to cast large-scale spells without restraint in the Elf Forest - but the problem was that the magic reserve in the Monster Forest was lower than that in the Elf Forest.
To put it in a simple and easy-to-understand way, the magic reserve of the Elf Forest is like a normal adult male who has not conducted magic for 7 days, while the magic reserve of the Monster Forest is like a young man who conducts magic every day and does not take supplements.
When facing the same woman, the former may be able to have sex with her seven times a night, while the latter may become exhausted before even entering the show...
Although it was vulgar, the elves still accepted Mother Teresa's metaphor of dirty jokes.
"So, do we have to fight a decisive battle with the parish in the Elf Forest?" An old elf said worriedly, "Although we do have a way to "target the priests" and force them to cast a divine barrier on themselves, we lack large-scale lethal weapons that can threaten a large number of fanatics..."
"Rifle won't work?"
"Idiot! Have you ever seen someone kill hundreds of people at once with a longbow?"
"Those golems..."
"There are still too few of them... and to be honest, they are too bulky..."
"The demons..."
The elves started to quarrel again. This time Theresa finally didn't have to stand up and explain.
She sat back in her seat and watched the elves making noise. She was also thinking about whether there was any way to solve the problem.
Indeed, the "area and point tactics" of the Demonic Disaster Demon is based on the premise of having both large-area damage and single-point damage.
But the elves do not have the ability to continuously inflict large-scale casualties outside the Elf Forest. And this time, the northern expeditionary force of the diocese is obviously not a formidable enemy that can be defeated with one or two strategic magics...
What should I do? What should I do
The nun was thinking, and inadvertently her eyes flashed some of the things that Yang Hao always whispered to himself in her arms after they finished every night.
He told himself a lot of trivial things.
Divine soldiers descending from the sky, giant flying beasts riding on some kind of steel flying creation that continuously drops explosives, iron boxes that can fire a hail of bullets in an instant, and... many, many more.
The nun thought of the Hippogriff they had ridden on.
Although it is not a flying monster, it can indeed fly, and apart from mages and priests, there should be few units in the Roman Empire that can cause damage to the Hippogriff flying high in the sky - but the Hippogriff cannot rush down to attack the enemy, right
That…
(Explosives thrown downwards...huh?)
Explosives... Explosives...
…
Isn't the ammunition for the Gappa 1404 rifle made from the explosive ore from the Elf Forest?!
The nun suddenly felt a surge of inspiration rushing to her mind. She looked happy, but soon became distressed again.
Because she just had the inspiration but didn't know how to do it specifically.
As expected, I still need to discuss it carefully with Yang Hao... But when will he come back from the front
The nun looked at the noisy meeting in front of her and just sighed heavily.
At this time, the sky of Caparia was dim with moon and stars. In the temporary gathering place of the demons, these people who had left their homes to accept the protection of the elves were sobbing.
On the other side, at the meeting place prepared by the Ishgard advance team.
The battle between Yang Hao and Nia is over.
Because of his efforts, Isgard not only had to reach a defensive alliance and non-aggression relationship with Caparia, but after signing the trade contract, all goods from Isgard had to pay a hefty tariff when entering Caparia.
On the surface, Yang Hao seems to be trying to make more money, but in fact, this is an effort to protect Caparia's industry.
The advantage of industrial countries over agricultural countries lies in the fact that they can crush the handicraft workshops in agricultural countries with their explosive production efficiency at any time.
In the time it takes you to manually produce one longsword, Ishgard can directly produce 100 for you using standardized workshops.
With extremely high efficiency, even if more than 20% of the finished products are defective, Ishugard can still use countless industrial products to overwhelm the civilian industry in Caparia, which can be said to have not yet started.
In order to prevent the country of Caparia from being flooded with Isgard's civilian products in the future, to the point where even toilet paper has to be donated by Isgard, doesn't Yang Hao have no choice but to use his authority as regent
But trying too hard may not necessarily be a good thing.
The meeting was too tiring even for Hei Long, and it made Yang Hao even more exhausted.
He was so tired that he wanted to go back and have a good sleep immediately - but for the time being, he still had a job to do here.
The little queen is still in the Roman Empire. Once the Roman Empire tends to be stable, according to Gasson's idea, he is likely to marry his brother's daughter to someone.
She was not even ten years old, but she had to suffer the pain of having her tongue pulled out because of her uncle's ambition - this made Yang Hao feel extremely guilty, and it also made him understand one thing.
As long as the Roman Empire remains in chaos, Gasson will not attack the little empress for a while.
And what is the way to make the Roman Empire more chaotic
That is to speed up the invasion of Isurgard. Anyway, the two sides have signed a contract now. Even if Isurgard invades Roman, it will probably take more than ten years to digest it... So, it is reasonable for Yang Hao to think that he needs to tell Isurgard a good thing...
"Lady Nia, before you go to Caparia to become the "ambassador" of Isgard, I will give Isgard an extra message."
He raised his head and looked into Nia's dark red eyes with his bloodshot eyes. After the black dragon nodded slightly to show that he was listening, he said:
"You have obtained the core design of the steam plant from me. Have you ever thought about why the Roman Empire has blocked their ports and prevented you from entering or leaving?"
This question made Nia stunned for a moment. Then she gave a thoughtful answer:
"To prevent us from acquiring technology?"
Black Dragon is very smart, but obviously, her low IQ does not allow her to guess the true purpose of the Romans.
It's just like a normal person can't imagine no matter how hard he tries that there are people in the world who are willing to eat shit.
So Yang Hao just smiled and decided to stab Roman a few more times: "That's because they want to prevent the merchants at sea from discovering the emptiness within the Roman Empire!"
"Empty...empty?"
"Yes, it's emptiness." Yang Hao handed the signed contract in his hand to the elf beside him.
"Do you think that after they exiled me, they would preserve what I built?"
This sentence made Black Dragon show an extremely strange and surprised expression: What does it mean
Regent, are you going to tell me that after they expelled you, they even tore down everything you had built