Although Joshua has no soul, his external thinking organ is heavier than a mountain. When he starts to think, basically no details can be hidden from him.
"Your Majesty, are you in the Far South Kingdom now?"
Joshua, who saw the palace style behind the other party, nodded and said, "I will go over to see you right away."
Saying this, he hung up the communication device, spread out, and turned into countless stars and light particles.
At the same time, Mycroft Continent, the royal court of the Far South Kingdom.
A black-haired man appeared in the side courtyard of the palace.
As one of the established forces in the mainland, although the Far South Kingdom is now much weaker than in its heyday, it still has a powerful mage group that arranges various defensive spells for the palace, including anchoring space teleportation and prohibiting portals. Functions such as opening are just the basics of the basics. In theory, even a cockroach cannot get into the royal palace without permission.
But this level of spell is just useless to Joshua - the effect of any spell has its upper limit. The ethereal body is said to be immune to all physical attacks, and the flame incarnation can 100% ignore high-temperature flames, but when the attacker's fist It can induce nuclear fusion, and when the temperature of the high-temperature flame reaches hundreds of millions of degrees that can incinerate everything, even the soul will be shattered, and the flame will no longer be a flame.
In the same way, when a being whose personality is equivalent to a celestial body wants to teleport himself, mere mortal spells are unlikely to have any effect.
And just when Joshua showed his incarnation behind the old pope, Eagle had turned his head and asked strangely: "Why are you so anxious? Radcliffe, I don't think you are a A guy who cares about current affairs.”
To Eagle, the warrior's behavior was indeed a bit strange.
Although he did complain a few times that the current situation in the mainland was not right, Joshua did boast a few days ago that the entire continent had actually been unified, at least to the point of peace and harmony - but even if he was beaten by the fact Face, shouldn't he be so angry and hurried over
Even if he ran over, what would happen? These are domestic affairs of other countries. Strictly speaking, these are things that should have happened. Many conflicts existed hundreds of years ago, but for some unknown reason, they were ignited on the same day.
"... Do you think I came here just because I couldn't save my face?"
Joshua righteously criticized Eagle's subjective personal discrimination, and then he told the old pope about the strange phenomenon of internal strife and extinction he had observed in the abyss.
Frost demons pollute their breeding pools with venom, acid demons destroy their lairs, Balrogs extinguish volcanoes, Salamander demons bury lava lakes, horned demons seal their nests in mountains among rocky ruins, and The blood of the abyssal dragons and various marine demons living in the deep sea completely dyed the already turbid world of the abyss into a dirty deep blue.
Twelve demon worlds, twelve civil wars, and twelve traces of destruction. Wherever Joshua passed, no demon was spared. This was the first time that he did nothing and achieved the goal of "Everywhere he passed was in ruins." 's achievements.
On one side, the old pope, who was listening carefully to Joshua's story, nodded slightly while listening.
Although the two life forms can completely transmit information in the form of light waves, and one eye contact can explain most things clearly, but because of habit and because 'the words spoken are more powerful', Qiao Xiu Ya still chose the original sonic communication system.
After hearing Joshua's guess, Eagle, who was originally just a little worried about how to sort out the situation, couldn't help but look serious.
"If everything is as you said...then things will be much more serious this time."
With that said, the old pope raised his head, his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the wall, and looked at the palace where the royal family lived. He rubbed his forehead and whispered: "Actually, I was also very surprised, why conflicts broke out in a concentrated manner, yours The guess is actually very convincing, is it a sign of the evil god..."
Since the Holy Mountain of the Far South is itself in the Far South, popes of all ages often used incarnations to communicate with the royal family. Therefore, there is such a temple-shaped palace specifically for the use of the church in the palace area. And because in recent times, the nobles of the Far South and the royal family have The conflict broke out. In order to reconcile the conflict between the two, Eagle's incarnation has always stayed here, but no one dared to disturb it.
Thinking about it, the old pope raised his head and looked at Joshua. He whispered: "In that case, Radcliffe, can you guess what kind of evil god is capable of provoking internal fighting like this?" Ability?"
"There's no way to guess."
In response, Joshua shook his head: "But it can be speculated."
The abilities of evil gods are all kinds of strange, and most of their names are their own abilities.
[Imbalance] The evil god has the ability to break the inherent balance of all things, causing energy imbalance and uneven hot and cold. Its recruitment means that the sun is getting bigger and smaller, it is getting hot and cold, some low-level transcendent beings lose control of their power, and all kinds of extreme weather Natural disaster occurs.
Needless to say, [Natural Disaster] and [Plague] are the evil gods. The appearance of natural disasters and plagues is simple and easy to understand. When I was dark in the world of Ilgona, I completely experienced the signs of the appearance of the evil god. Although Joshua and others were halfway through Joined, but also experienced most of it.
As for the [weakening] evil god, it is more subtle. Its symptoms are probably that people become lazy and fragile, the civilization loses its ambition, and even anti-intellectualism appears.
But now, the phenomenon of 'suspected signs of evil gods' appearing in the surrounding space-time realm is somewhat difficult to describe.
"Evil God [infighting]? Evil God [dissension]?"
Joshua said to himself: "They are all similar, but I feel like I can't fully explain the nature of this evil god... After all, we haven't seen the true form of this evil god, so naturally we can't know the true nature of this evil god. strength."
But then again.
Starfall Year 840... Isn't this the same year in the game of the previous life, when people from all walks of life came together to fight, and after the dragon disaster, the whole world blossomed, and they beat each other's brains into dog brains
The civil strife at that time was much more terrifying than the petty quarrels now. In the world line without Joshua, the remnants of the dragon disaster still remained, and the various tribes disliked each other. The human forces in the eastern plains There have been several small-scale battles with the fishman tribe, and the Far South royal family has long lost its substantial rights. Now that there are nobles who want to overthrow it, it means that the royal family itself still has their rights worth peeking into. At that time, the royal family Even the value of overturning is gone.
The empire was in a state of chaos. The disheartened Israel had basically made arrangements for himself and was just waiting to choose a good day to die. Now it seems that the princes and princesses who are brothers and sisters would have been there by that time. It has split into God knows how many forces and alliances. The secret offensive and defensive agreement between any three people is probably more than four completely different manuscripts, and its complexity is comparable to Joshua's college women's dormitory in his previous life.
I remember that the Abyss Demon began to infiltrate at that time - I have to say that compared to the original world line, the era that Joshua is now in is really playing house.
At least for now, except for the Roman Emperor in Xishan, all the protests are just protests and there is no real fight.
Both the Pope and Joshua defaulted to blaming this weird situation on the evil god who didn't know whether it existed or not.
Regardless of whether it is the evil god or not, whether there really is such an existence that creates this weird phenomenon of internal strife and strife in multiple time and space realms, the two of them will publicize it to the outside world in this way, temporarily transferring all conflicts to the evil god.
Today's Mycroft world is in a period of rapid recovery and development. Any civil strife and stagnation will be a waste of this hard-won golden opportunity. It can even be said that this will even matter when the evil god arrives decades later. Whether civilization has the power to fight is a major world event.
Even if it turns out that all this is just a coincidence, the chaos within Mycroft's civilization is really just an ordinary conflict. Then Joshua and Eagle will both create an 'evil god' to deal with this conflict. Create a reason that everyone can believe in.
"In recent days, my incarnation has been here in the Far South, trying to mediate the conflicts between the nobles and the royal family."
After reaching a consensus with Joshua, Eagle sat on a chair and took a sip of cold tea: "The system reforms mentioned by the nobles and citizens, and those who want an independent dominion, all have very convincing reasons."
The Far South Kingdom was originally a very loose traditional feudal lord country. It was not so much a modern kingdom as a loose alliance of many great nobles.
Of course, this is also because in the ancient Far South, there were two major forces, the Seven Sacred Mountains and the Elf King's Court, in the small Far South. Although the Far South Kingdom had an advantage in terms of numbers and territory, in essence, its However, its strength is far weaker than the first two. Due to this influence, and the fact that nationalism and nationalism have not yet risen, it is easy to understand that the cohesion of the Far Southern Kingdom is not strong.
During the Dragon Disaster, although the Far South Kingdom was prepared in advance because of Joshua's prompts, due to the lack of hard power, half of the country's territory was lost. A large number of nobles died and countless civilians were displaced. Although the royal family led The army reluctantly organized a line of defense and preserved the remaining half of the country, but conflicts lurked as a result.
Half of the country that was originally occupied, because the nobles who originally ruled that land were all wiped out, were used by the royal family as bait to attract external talents. In order to throw this burden away, they were awarded to thirteen heroes who had outstanding performance in fighting against the dragon disaster. Or, this is the origin of the Thirteen Dominions, but this move undoubtedly angered the remaining nobles. They believed that the royal family deliberately used this half of the country and noble territories as a buffer zone to 'sell' the Five Colored Dragon Clan. In addition, due to the warning of the soldiers, the Far South royal family suffered the smallest loss among the nobles. This also set off a trend of conspiracy theories and turned into calls for the royal family to abdicate.
As for the Thirteen Dominions, which were originally occupied areas, basically all the residents hated the Royal Family of the Far South for giving up on them so easily. The lords of the Dominions who became new aristocrats did so, firstly, to comply with the wishes of the people, and secondly, they really felt that independence was important. It was better for them, so he also joined the camp that criticized the royal family.
If you analyze it carefully, you can find that the so-called "sudden conflicts and internal strife" are inherently unfounded. Countless pains began to settle a few years ago, and now they are urging the nobles and lords to cry out. In fact, most of them are not the wishes of these high-level officials themselves, but the pain and tears of civilians who have suffered from the dragon disaster, lost their relatives, lost their hometown, and lost everything.
Until now, there are still residents of the Far South living in simple temporary villages and towns, using rough and crude agricultural tools for farming. They live numbly in the mud, unable to even see the light of the future, and even the nobles are overwhelmed. , the territory is on the verge of collapse.
But even so, the royal family still ignored them, even acting like an ostrich, living in the "illusion of peace" they created, enjoying flowers and wine.
-This is not a civil strife caused by a twitching of the nobles' heads, nor is it a dispute provoked by conspirators for their own interests. It is simply a resistance and roar that breaks out at the last moment because life is too painful and people can no longer bear it.
The protests that took place in the eastern plains, under the careful analysis of the two powerful men Joshua and Eagle, also exposed the real contradiction between the two sides.
As the most powerful mage organization in Mycroft, the White Tower is naturally the overlord of the eastern plains, occupying nearly half or more of the fertile area. Its existence itself has oppressed the living space of many small mage organizations, and Ordinary people naturally cannot understand what this group of master mages are going to do. They just passively follow the crowd and bear excessive taxes and voluntary labor due to the competition among the mages.
This is the origin of the contradiction—so it appears.
In fact, the trend of the Guantian White Pagoda to unify most of the eastern plains has already appeared two hundred years ago. Many small organizations are not so much unwilling to join the Guantian White Pagoda as they are begging to join but have no way. Although the taxes of civilians are Heavy, but that is also compared to the local area in the Eastern Plains. In fact, compared to the kingdoms in the Western Mountains, the taxation in the Eastern Plains can even be said to be very conscientious, far from being fatal.
But the problem arises from seemingly unrelated civilians.
In recent years, under the auspices of the Guantian White Pagoda, the entire eastern plain has begun to undergo large-scale magic technology reforms. A large number of factories and production workshops have appeared in various regions. With the efficient action capabilities of the mages, in a short time In just six months, all the major cities in the Eastern Plains have successfully carried out preliminary magic energy modifications. Every household has used cheap magic energy heating. There is no longer a need to purchase firewood in the city, but magic energy stoves can be used.
However, although the lower class civilians have received great convenience in terms of quality of life, those mages obviously did not consider the issue called 'magic pollution'.
In fact, this is not correct, because in the early days of the establishment of the magic energy factory, many high-level mages discovered that the energy furnace core of the magic energy factory would emit a large amount of colorful magic dust. This dust carried special magic power that was extremely difficult for humans to absorb. Crystallization will cause damage to ordinary people's bodies, so they closed some factories and tried to find a solution.
This solution is not difficult to find. After learning from the experience of the Northern Empire and adding an anti-pollution array to the magic energy factory, Guantian White Tower began to open large-scale magic energy factories within its own sphere of influence, trying to maximize its own power. All towns within the sphere of influence are undergoing modern magic energy modifications. However, many plans sound good when they are thought of, but they are completely different in execution.
Because the anti-pollution magic circle requires a silver-level or even gold-level mage to set up, and the funds required for both setup and maintenance are very high, many magic energy factory owners who have obtained operating rights have privately withdrawn this step and directly removed the pollution. Emitted into the atmosphere or even rivers - anyway, they themselves do not live near the factory, and the pollution has nothing to do with them, but the villages and towns surrounding the factory cannot avoid being greatly affected, and there have even been a large number of deaths from magic poisoning.
Mages are extremely resistant to the pollution of this special magic crystal, and can even digest part of the magic crystal. The so-called magic pollution is not only a small threat to them, it can even be said to be a small benefit. In addition, In order to ensure the success rate of the modern magic energy reform, the high-level mages of Guantian White Tower also turned a blind eye to this kind of cutting corners... just like those magic energy factory owners thought.
It’s not like they live in a polluted area anyway, so who cares about what ordinary people think
The ordinary people in the eastern plains who live in those polluted areas, as well as the small mage forces living around the Guantian White Tower's sphere of influence, are forced to bear the poison of this pollution.
What can they say and what can they do
There is nothing they can do.
In the Eastern Plains, mages and non-mages are two different classes. Even extraordinary people from other professions, unless they reach the gold level, are naturally inferior when facing mages. Needless to say, ordinary people have no need to explain the meaning of their existence. Just to produce new mage seeds, as long as a civilian has the talent of a spell caster, he will be immediately pulled into this circle and assimilated by this circle.
Ordinary humans, in the eyes of the mage, are not even considered fourth-class people.
They are just tools in the eyes of mages, humanoid devices used to produce basic resources. They don't get any respect at all, and they are not allowed to have any questions or opinions - even because they are not spell casters, even their lives are not at stake. In the eyes of those mages.
—Can Master Master still not be able to figure out the problem? Where do you commoners have the wisdom and courage to question the Master's orders? Just do it.
- Ridiculous, will the orders from above change because of your complaints? You are the one who should adapt!
-Pollution and other things will be solved later. As for now, just endure it. The sacrifice now is a necessary sacrifice made for progress and truth.
—But we won’t remember your names, hahahaha!
The sorrow spread, and countless families cried. Men lost their wives and daughters, and women lost their husbands and sons. Some of the severely polluted villages even lost half of their population, and the remaining people had mutations and deformities. No one could endure this. A life, unless he does not regard himself as a human being, loses the gene of resistance, and forgets the last roar.
The marches that took place in the Eastern Plains, like the revolutions that took place in the Far Southern Kingdom, were not essentially civil strife and strife.
Instead, he fell into despair due to sorrow and roared before death.
As for the Northern Empire... To be honest, if Joshua hadn't been sweating now, he would have been so happy to wipe off a cold sweat.
Because he knew very clearly that compared to the Far South and Eastern Plains, if it weren't for Israel's Skynet plan some time ago, the 'sorrow' accumulated at the bottom of the Northern Empire would definitely be ten times and a hundred times greater than in these two places.
Years of war with the orcs, heavy tax pressure, open and secret struggles between old and new nobles, and private shadow disputes. As an empire with a traditional aristocracy, the nobles have the right to ask for and take from the common people, even from the original imperial law. It is said that ordinary people who are not citizens are themselves the property of the lord.
Protection fees from gangs, human traffickers who traffic in people privately, land oppression and annexation by big families against small families, arrogant exploitation and abuse by nobles... Under the rosy appearance of the Northern Empire's victory over the orcs, it was actually riddled with holes. Devastated everywhere.
As long as a fire is ignited, the foundation of the empire will collapse. This is why in the previous life, after the death of Israel, the great emperor who suppressed the situation, the seemingly strong northern empire split on the spot and fell into a full-scale civil war without any delay. s reason.
Because ordinary people would rather die in the flames of war than live in the dark.
"So, Israel's comprehensive and absolute dictatorship is actually a good thing..."
Thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help but sigh: "Justice will not promote itself, only strength will... Haha, [Lightless justice requires force to promote.], I didn't expect that the situation in the empire is currently easing, really. It’s caused by the justice of might.”
The current Northern Empire is much better than before. At least Israel publicly executed a large number of despicable nobles with extremely bad reputations, and also completely wiped out God knows how many gangs, bringing the entire empire's bottom-level atmosphere into one. net.
In addition, many recent policies have made ordinary people's lives better, so the sadness that was originally hidden in the darkness did not explode into a wave of resistance like that in the far south and eastern plains.
People who have lost the target of hatred and live a good life are forgetful. What they want is to live with dignity. As long as they can have enough to eat and have the right to speak out, no matter how critical the situation is, they will become The power of civilization, not the other way around.
After analyzing the truth of the conflicts in the three regions, Joshua and Eagle turned their attention to the final Xishan region.
Then, the two of them couldn't analyze anything.
No matter how you look at it, the Roman Emperor in Xishan just started to expand and annex because of the surge in power. Relatively speaking, this is actually the most normal party.
After all, for Mycroft Continent, especially Xishan, war is the norm, and not fighting would be weird. Many kingdoms have been fighting piecemeal for hundreds of years. Now that there is a strong force unifying the surrounding areas, it is actually okay. This is a good thing - ordinary people are also happy to see this. After all, if you have military exploits, you can be promoted to a noble. After a war, the war dividends alone can feed the residents of the country for a long time, not to mention the opportunity to become a noble
As for the residents of other countries... Well, in a place like Xishan, it is a great honor to be a resident of a powerful country. According to Eagle's intelligence, there are even many residents of other countries who have taken the initiative to defect to the Roman Empire. Now there are even The momentum of hundreds of nations coming to court—if this new powerful man can be recognized by the various psychic royal families in Xishan and the Holy Sword User clan, he might really be able to unify the entire Xishan region.
"So... it's very possible that he's not an evil god?"
Thinking about the results of his analysis, Eagle whispered to himself and couldn't help but think of the fate of the many demons in Joshua's mouth. He was a little confused again: "But this can't explain the changes on the other side of the abyss. .”
"I think it's the evil god."
Joshua insisted on his opinion. He frowned and said: "At least, our world is relatively stable, and most people can survive. But over the abyss, those races whose civilizations have perished and the world is on the verge of destruction, they have accumulated The 'sadness and despair' must be a thousand times greater than ours."
"In our world, there may only be some civil strife and strife, and it can be foreseen that it can be resolved, but the civil strife and strife that appears among demons can completely destroy them and completely shatter their hope of survival."
"Despair due to sorrow, destruction due to despair, days without hope, it is better to die... If behind this, it is indeed caused by the signs of the evil god affecting people's hearts, then the name of this evil god."
At this point, Joshua paused, exhaled, and said in a deep voice: "It should be [sadness] or [despair]."
"His Majesty the Pope, there is no need to care about such weak things as 'other countries' internal affairs'. This is a question of the survival of civilization. I suggest that the legendary powerhouse immediately take action and directly interfere with these 'sadness and despair'." source."
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