On the opposite side of the subdimensional tower is the high-seat meeting space of the Ikaruga Alliance. Twenty-six long-backed chairs are arranged at equal intervals around a circular table.
All the surviving World Trees in the world were present and gathered together. If someone has a Leica and sends a photo as a souvenir, it will be a legendary picture for future generations.
However, the gathering of World Trees was not to reminisce about the past, but to plan for the subsequent transformation of the land. During the process, there was some dispute over the details and various filings. The point of conflict lies in the persistence of the new friend, Gaius.
To put it bluntly, the descendants of the World Tree are used to attack other places instead of immovable plants. With the defensive strength of the World Tree itself, it is almost impossible to attack it as long as it is not suppressed by other World Trees. But as long as it is suppressed, the dependents will be the last line of defense of World Tree.
The powerful empires in history were able to burn down the World Tree because their collections contained sacred relics left behind by other World Trees, making it possible to fight against them.
During the defensive battle, the main force must be the World Tree, and the dependent races are only used for miscellaneous tasks. Only when the battle extends beyond the realm of the World Tree is the time for the dependents to show off.
After a long period of cooperation, the World Trees chose elves as their dependents because the elves have excellent physical qualities in all aspects, as well as magic perception capabilities, and their intelligence is also not bad. The comprehensive evaluation ranks it at the forefront among all Homo sapiens races, and even ranks first among the outstanding races. It was only after the big waves dug out the sand that they established a symbiotic relationship with the World Tree.
But Gaius, who had been treated cruelly by the elves, was unwilling to trust this group anymore. Not only did he secretly summon the demon, but he also killed all the elves who came to his domain and belonged to the Belzinshi Kingdom. When the two sides have reached this point, it is really difficult to imagine that other world trees can be reconciled like the Elf Kingdom. Of course Lin had no intention of persuading him to do so.
Of course, the race originally chosen by Gaius as his dependent race, the demons, would not be accepted by the trees. Regardless of alignment or issues of good and evil, do demons understand what it means to cooperate obediently? And how to ensure that elves and demons don’t start fighting when they cooperate?
Gaius did not persist. In other words, even if he wanted to persist, there was nowhere to persist now that all the demons had been killed. So He made a decision that puzzled all the World Trees. He would not protect or take in any dependents. This is equivalent to giving up the only offensive ability of the World Tree. After being suppressed by the power of other trees, Gaius will be defenseless and at the mercy of others.
When Lin discussed this decision alone with Gaius, he did not express his opinion, but only respected the other party's ideas. But when it came to the high-seat meeting, the other World Trees all opposed it.
The main force of opposition is, of course, McKinen, who loves to play the devil's advocate. He said: "You should know that we have an agreement to protect each other. If any party is attacked, you will send troops to help. But you don't have any troops in your hands, which means you are protected by us without paying any price. Isn't this right? The attitude that equal collaborators should have.”
Although what McKinen said seemed a bit pretentious, it was a valid point. The twenty-five world trees have strong and weak powers. It is inevitable that the strong will pay more and the weak will pay less. But if you are like Gaius, you don't have to pay anything and enjoy the rewards. If things go on like this, it will easily lead to the beginning of disputes, which is not a good thing.
However, for matters of this level, Lin and Gaius had already discussed their words. World Tree, incarnated in the image of a rickety old man, said: "Gentlemen, although I cannot provide troops, I can provide everything except troops. Do you think this price is enough?"
"Except for military strength." McKinen asked doubtfully, "Anything can be done?"
"Do you want the foundation for advancement? Okay, come and get it yourself. Anyway, don't put disgusting things like elves in front of me. Everything else can be discussed." Gaius did not hide his likes and dislikes . It seems that this dear friend was indeed disgusted by the elves in the past.
At this time, Lin Ye helped this new partner and said: "I know that your Majesty will hope that every participant in the plan can play the same value. But there is no fairness in things in this world. You are powerful There are weaknesses. If everyone's contribution is unified, whether it is labor, military strength or other project standards, will it become a situation where the strong have it too easy and the weak can't do it? If the strong pay more and the weak pay less, what happens? How can it represent that you are all on an equal footing? If you all pay less, then why should we do the work? Why don’t we just pack up our things and disperse, and go back to wash and sleep. It saves you trouble and I save trouble."
What someone said was neither serious nor serious. Although the World Trees are plants, they don't understand people's hearts or don't understand the truth, they just ignore it sometimes. Lin raised it here, which certainly aroused their thinking.
Having said that, of course it's not over yet. Lin continued: "Besides, do you hope that when anyone still has some energy left, they should contribute their energy without reservation?"
"What's wrong with this, human being?" Yggdrasil asked in confusion.
"What's wrong is that when the one who has the spare power is you, are you willing to put all your efforts into the plan to transform the land? This requires completely giving up what you have done or are doing. Work hard. Are you willing to be forced by other beings with the same status as yourself?"
"Human, you have many bad ideas. What do you think about this matter?" Yggdrasil asked to smooth things over.
"Is the so-called contribution just a rigid standard of the number of troops supported? I don't think so. In our plan, there are countless things that everyone has to do. In these things It's even worse if you ignore it easily. So if you really care about this kind of thing, let me make a mathematical model. According to the types of all contributions, give parameters and give them upper and lower limits, and finally get something Expectations of completion.”
Lin used whiteboard techniques to demonstrate several simple economic models, with annotations. Lin didn't even have the desire to explain something of this level. Rather, it talks about the precautions for constructing the model and how to use the model. Finally, he said:
"I think this matter should be easy based on your Majesty's ability. Especially regarding the quantification of each task, I believe there will be no one who has a more say than the parties involved who actually run the matter. And after getting this model, I believe you can calculate how the increase or decrease in each person's contribution will change our goals, so as to make the most appropriate choice."
"What is the most suitable choice, human being?" Youshu asked.
"It's very simple. It's about respecting your majesty's wishes. Under this premise, what is the best expectation that can be obtained. Maybe this is still far from the best expectation that you can get if you try your best. But there is a gap between Is the gap acceptable to you? If you still can't accept it, how to adjust it? Or do you have to sacrifice your own will and put all your efforts into the plan, and you have to complete everything in the shortest possible time? .”
"Human, have you ever thought that the reason why we are so urgent is that we hope to complete all our plans in your limited life. The life span of a human being is really too short. Especially now that you are among humans, It’s not considered a younger generation either. I don’t think the gods can tell when the mission will end.”
Facing Yggdrasil's straightforward words, Lin Wei could only smile bitterly, not knowing how to answer. In the end, he could only say with embarrassment: "No one in this world is still running. To be honest, even now that the Midi Transformation Plan has been completed, I don't think my importance is as important as it was at the beginning. And the really troublesome part, It's all preparation in the early stage; the waiting in the later stage is just waiting for the moment when things will come naturally. So without me, as long as the foundation laid in the front is solid enough, your majesties can complete it all by themselves. Unless you don't plan to continue playing. , give up on your own.”
Regardless of whether the previous remarks about someone's life span were artificial or sincere, the World Trees had no intention of continuing this topic. Instead, they began to discuss and deduce the mathematical model mentioned by a certain human magician, and of course Lin participated in it.
With the computing power of more than twenty World Trees, the model was quickly established. It's just that no one dares to judge whether it is correct or not.
However, the mathematical model constructed shows that the World Trees, which are ranked lower in strength, are all in a state of resource imbalance. The most powerful World Tree has plenty of resources.
This illustrates the phenomenon that the strong become stronger and the weak become weaker. Because while the strong one makes a lot of contributions, he also has the energy to do other things; while the weak one not only has to dig out his family and capital, but even needs a blood transfusion to catch up to the contribution of the strong one or two.
At this time, just like Gaius did, simply being a logistics staff and providing necessary resources and assistance would be a good help to those World Trees who are lower in strength. Let them obtain more useful results, or focus resources where they are more needed. As for those strong ones, like the two ancient ones, of course they don't need Gaius's assistance.
For Gaius, his contribution in doing so was no less than those who sent troops to fight and kill.
The main reason is that the four elven kingdoms have been solved, and for World Tree, there is no target worthy of their active attack. The next war will only be a defense of a certain World Tree to deal with attacks from the human kingdom or other homo sapiens races.
Since the war may not be fought, compared to the materials or services Gaius can provide, they are all fixed. The opportunity cost between the two can be figured out by anyone who is not too arrogant.
Therefore, the World Trees agreed to Gaius' arrangement for them. The incident of hating elves has come to an end.
