"In the game between the gods, if you win the bet, the profit will be huge, but if you lose the bet, it will be easy to be buried with them." The Storm Queen said disapprovingly, "Especially this kind of existence that does not know which god it represents, even more It is easy to get involved in the unknown god war, so we must treat it with caution."
"I didn't expect Queen Xinbu, who is always known for her short temper, to be so stable in her philosophy of governing the country." King Yasan smiled like an old fox. "After the turmoil among the gods last year, the laws of belief of the gods changed. Most gods Zhuan's reliance on secular beliefs has greatly increased.
Last year's catastrophe was not the end, but a beginning. It is very likely that the pattern of the gods will undergo tremendous changes and adjustments.
The gods are all making plans, but the gods themselves have no control over how it will develop.
Their chess pieces are not dead objects without will. In the process of development, they often undergo unexpected changes. This is the case with Commander Gavin now.
He is now not only the chosen one of Ms. Strategy, but also has a close relationship with Melikai, who advocates development in the natural pantheon. Now there is a natural balancer of unknown origin.
He integrated a series of resources in his hands, and unexpectedly used a migration path to start dabbling in path priesthood. This is a brand-new pioneering neutral priesthood. It is not only extremely useful for secular development, but also related to most people. The interests of gods are consistent. Whether it is those good gods or evil beings, they are all in a wait-and-see state that is happy to see what happens. This gives him countless possibilities. "
When he reaches the position of King Asan, he needs to weigh not only worldly interests, but also the interests of the gods.
If the series of development plans they formulated are complementary to the interests of most gods, then when implemented, it will be like sailing with the current, traveling thousands of miles in a day.
But if the situation is exactly the opposite, then it is not as simple as sailing against the current. It is very likely that you will be unable to move even an inch, or even die halfway.
If the implementation of the plan completely violates, or even shakes the faith of most gods, the matter will be serious. It is common for the ruling position to be unsafe. In the words of the Far Eastern Empire, it is called going against heaven.
"So, you are also one of the people who are happy to see it happen!" After King Yasan explained this, the Storm Queen, who was originally not very interested in the famous young man, couldn't help but become somewhat interested.
Although she spends most of her time leaving the daily affairs of the Kingdom of Agolalon to the advisory team led by the chief advisor, she is the real queen of the kingdom after all. She is still very concerned about the development of the kingdom and knows her own rights. Where the strengths and weaknesses lie.
Roads are one of Aglalon's fatal shortcomings. Although it has become one of the means to resist the invasion of the Kingdom of Cyre, it also limits its own rapid development.
"Yes." The smile on King Yasan's face couldn't help but get wider. "The development of a road can drive many more things than we imagined. It can not only open up more territories for intelligent creatures, but also drive surrounding people. economic development.
With convenient transportation, those cities are no longer isolated cities, and the territories no longer develop on their own, but are connected in series and closely related to each other, and learn from each other's strengths to offset their weaknesses.
It can maximize the advantages of each city and create five times or even ten times the wealth while maintaining the same population.
This has laid a solid foundation for the establishment of a huge trans-regional empire. According to his current development model, even I cannot predict his future achievements. It is not impossible to become a god as a mortal. "
In the past period of time, King Asan has been working hard on Gavin, studying the secret of his rapid rise.
The deeper the research, the more I find that the other party's success is not an accident, it is the general trend of future development.
The development model of the isolated city of intelligent creatures in Faerûn has reached a bottleneck - when the population reaches a certain level, the supplies around the city alone cannot be loaded, and satellite cities must be expanded to assist with supplies.
However, without sufficient military support, this newly established settlement is very dangerous, and the entire settlement will be massacred at every turn.
Even if it is established, roads are the top priority.
Even the Kingdom of Cormyr's demand for roads has increased significantly with the steady development in recent decades.
As long as new planning and construction can be completed for all roads in the country, their tax revenue will be conservatively estimated to increase threefold without any increase in land area.
As an extremely far-sighted ruler, King Asan only contracted roads related to the King's Forest, which are needed and related to natural races, to Gavin to assist in the construction. Other roads were left to the domestic construction team. construction.
Building your own modern magic construction team is the latest topic for all war mages of the Kingdom of Cormyr.
As long as they are given a little time, King Asan believes that their explosive construction speed is only stronger than Gavin. After all, their huge foundation is there, and the number and quality of the spellcasters they have are not just a few. Rising young people can match.
For a mortal to become a god is a very high level of praise.
It is not too rare for Faerûn to be ranked among the gods as a mortal.
But one by one, they were all promoted by more powerful gods. Some were reborn by the previous gods, and some became carriers of godhood.
Currently, there is only one mortal who can make himself a god by relying on his own strength - Karsus.
Although he only became a god for a short moment, he was destroyed by out-of-control magic.
"So, it is not an accident that he chose the relatively remote city of Uxmail instead of the city of Tefram in Sesk, but to further use his own advantages?" Xinbu said thoughtfully.
"Yes." King Yasan nodded affirmatively, "His layout there has now taken shape. Just wait and see. Within a few months, it will become a brand new giant valley, with all the All forces will be completely mobilized by him, including the natural forces there.
Her Majesty the Queen should know best. Although those natural races are the most stubborn and conservative people, if you become their friend and benefactor, they will spare no effort to support you in some matters.
Yamen Khan previously used the power of the Lord of Blight to disrupt the situation in the Great Valley and put pressure on the Leatherman Kingdom from behind.
It is also a double-edged sword. If it succeeds, it will certainly put a lot of pressure on the Leatherman Kingdom and even disrupt the situation in the entire Eastern Region.
But once it fails, it will also backfire on itself, making the residents of the giant valley share the same hatred and join the resistance. "
"I want to see if this young commander is as magical as you said." The Storm Queen's interest was completely aroused.
Because the Kingdom of Aglalon she rules has a very unique geographical location. It is located on a huge peninsula deep into the Sea of Fallen Stars. However, they are at the end position. The front end is wrapped by another kingdom, Auton Bell, and there is another kingdom in the middle that occupies the land area. Nearly half of the ancient forest is eucalyptus.
This layout makes them more dependent on sea transportation than land transportation.
It's just that communication in coastal cities is simple, but it's more difficult between the north and the south. Things that can be solved by land transportation of 200 to 300 kilometers will require a detour of thousands of kilometers by sea transportation.
What really limits the development of roads within the Kingdom of Agolalon is the same old issue.
The issue of balance between nature and development, especially the roads that cross the forest.
It will have a very great impact on both the wild animals in the ancient forests and the original residents, and many natural races are naturally excluded.
In many places, the roads across the forest were forcibly carved out with swords and axes.
The natural forces that occupy a dominant position in Aglalon, especially half-elves, rank first in Faerûn in terms of number and proportion. One of the three people here is a half-elf.
They are the descendants of wood elves with a relatively strong sense of nature. Even half-elves love and protect the forest far more than some elves who are more open-minded.
Therefore, three hundred years ago, a sharp conflict broke out between the half-elves and the human residents, and a war called the "Arm of Indal" began.
This war caused the peninsula to be divided into two. The half-elves established the current Aglalon with Yumu Forest as the center. Those humans who refused to put down their axes were driven to the end of the Indal Peninsula, a place full of rocks and islands. The place where Altumber was built.
To this day, the relationship between the two parties is still not harmonious.
Even though Xinbu is the most prestigious queen in the history of the Kingdom of Aglalon, she still has to treat matters related to racial disputes with caution and follow ancient traditions as much as possible.
And these traditions are not entirely beneficial to the prosperity of a country.
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Whether it is the witches of the Kingdom of Leatherman or the high-ranking officials of the Faerun Alliance in Teflam City, they only have a glimpse of the war in the Lesir Forest and cannot imagine the subsequent impact and changes. huge.
Even the person involved, Gai Wen, didn’t think of it.
The Mother Dragon Oak Tree not only purifies the Lord of Blight and the damage he caused, but directly uses her corpse and the blighted land as nutrients to forcefully give birth to a Dragon Acorn Tree.
Although this new dragon acorn tree is not comparable to the Lord of Blight, it is still about three times taller than the one in Eagle Cliff Town, the Dragon Oak of Rockland.
It looks like a combination of the dragon oak mother tree and the devil tree. It has the dragon scale bark of the dragon oak mother tree, but also has the thorn crown of the devil tree, as well as the representative eight vine tentacles, which also have a large number of gourd-shaped fruits hanging on them. .
It's just that these fruits are not purple, but emerald green, and there are no scary mouths on the trunks.
It abandoned the Demon Tree's lifestyle of quickly giving birth to Demon Tree people by eating flesh and blood, because it had a more convenient source of energy.
On the one hand, it relies on the dragon oak mother tree, and on the other hand, it has a close connection with the forest. And it is not a unilateral draw, but a mutual benefit. Through the attributes of this dragon acorn tree, it is more Be more intuitive.
Dragon Acorn Tree.
Vitality: 512 (32D8+384)
Size: super giant
Attributes: Strength 39, Agility 7, Constitution 35, Intelligence 12, Perception 18, Charisma 12
Special abilities: Plant traits, partial immunity to puncture, damage reduction 10/-, telepathy, tree sensing, root entanglement, improved grapple, paralysis, thorn shooting, hatching natural guard, dragon oak portal, dream purification net.
Most of the Dragon Acorn Tree's abilities are very similar to those of the Demonic Tree. Some of them are even abilities common to tree people, such as plant traits, partial immunity to puncture, damage reduction, tree perception, tree root entanglement, etc., all due to their size. , there is a big difference in strength and weakness.
Paralysis, thorn shooting and hatching natural guards are inherited from the magic tree, especially the last one. It has been repeated several times in the entire nature. The magic tree is also the only one that is currently known to have no semicolon.
It’s worth highlighting the last two abilities, which are unique to Dragon Acorn Tree.
The Dragon Oak Portal is no stranger to it. The first Dragon Acorn tree in Eagle Cliff Town, the Rockland Dragon Oak Leader, was planted because of this ability.
They can teleport through the connection between the mother dragon oak tree and its daughter trees.
Not only can transmission be done between parent trees and subtrees, but also between subtrees.
The significance to Gavin can be imagined. He can directly transfer some kobold artificial soldiers and supplies from the Dragon Oak Territory or the Dragon Oak Mother Tree.
It needs to be emphasized that the use of portals is not unrestrained.
Even in Faerûn, we must abide by the law of conservation of energy. This law is more diverse due to magic and the characteristics of the multiverse.
Each portal has the effect of gathering magic power. Once the accumulated magic power is used up, it means that the portal will temporarily stop operating until it has accumulated enough energy to be used next time.
This means that for the same teleportation gate, the number of teleportations per day is closely related to the teleportation distance and the weight of the materials that need to be transported.
The closer the distance, the more the same energy can be transmitted, and vice versa.
The Dragon Oak Portal is no exception. Without putting too much pressure on the Dragon Acorn Tree itself, it can transport up to one hundred kobold artificial soldiers carrying no more than ten kilograms of equipment and cargo from Eagle Cliff Town every day. If all other functions are available, In the case of a 24-hour shutdown, the number can triple.
The same process applies to other sized creatures. Humans can only teleport fifty people, twenty-five large ones, and twelve extra-large ones. They can only reach this size at most. Giants and above cannot pass through the dragon oak portal. .
If you want to transport troops on a large scale, you have to transport them by land or air, and the portal is just a supplement.
For Gavin, the daily transport volume of a hundred kobold artificial soldiers is enough. After all, it is in the early stages of troop deployment. What he currently has in his hands is only a team of 500 human elites and a 100-man kobold road construction team. and two squads of field medics.
What really made Gavin feel that he gained a lot was the last ability.
Dream Purification Network (Special Ability) - After entering the rooted state, it will automatically establish contact with the surrounding natural plants to form a life cycle network, which can slowly purify all living creatures within the envelope and expel all kinds of corruption from them. strength.
Creatures that stay here for more than eight hours will regain at least a point of vitality (equal to their Constitution modifier), and also have a certain chance of being cured of their diseases (the chance of dispelling diseases caused by corruptive forces is greatly increased).
The coverage area of the Dream Purification Net is related to the physical constitution (physical adjustment value/km, the current coverage radius is 12.5 kilometers).
If an intelligent creature with sufficient intrinsic attributes can access the Dragon Oak Dreamland through this network.
To put it bluntly, this is a signal tower of the Dragon Oak Mother Tree in the material plane, which allows all creatures in the coverage area to have the opportunity to enter the Dragon Oak Dreamland.
To be more precise, it should be the local area network.
Just like the temporary dream weaved above the Leisle Forest, the Dragon Acorn Tree can also weave a small dream of its own with itself as the center. This dream is independent of the Dragon Oak Dream and is connected to each other. .
The benefits of doing this are obvious. This will become an affiliated external network of Dragon Oak Dreamland. Only those who pass the assessment and selection will be eligible to enter Dragon Oak Dreamland.
This is done for the sake of the safety of the Dragon Oak Dreamland. After all, for those powerful spellcasters and some special beings, the dreamland can also become a passage, and you can follow this passage to reach the other side - the nine-ring spell can travel to other worlds together. Can.
The Dragon Oak Dreamland is completely tied to the Dragon Oak Mother Tree. Gavin and the others don't want enemies to follow the Dreamland and attack them, so they naturally have to set up heavy protective nets.
Not only this, the Arrow Dreamland being established in the forest of the Kingdom of Cormyr and the Eagle Cliff Dreamland supported by the dragon acorn trees in the Dragon Oak Territory are also affiliated outer dreams, with strict restrictions on each other.
This ability means much more than that.
Don't forget, the dragon acorn tree also inherits another ability of the magic tree - hatching natural guards.
In fact, they are the activated seeds of each dragon acorn tree, and they will inherit all the abilities of the dragon acorn tree, including the ability of the Dream Purification Net.
As long as enough natural guards are hatched, the affiliated network of Dragon Oak Dreamland can cover all parts of the world.
The druids of the Great Valley, headed by the two great druids Netiyat and Hanso, were even more excited than Gavin when they learned about the special abilities of the dragon acorn tree.
Han Suo couldn't help but tremble and said: "Natural Balancer has lived up to his name. He planted a natural guard tree in those corrupted places. It won't take long before the place will be completely purified."
Compared to Gavin, these druids still consider the role of purifying the forest.
"This is indeed the general direction to purify the forest from corruption, but please don't think too brightly. Like this time, the Natural Balancer personally intervened to launch a large-scale war because of the strong help of your Les Order. If it hadn't been You, there is no way to mobilize the power of the entire Lesser Forest.
The natural guards spawned by the sub-trees will inevitably be the same as the newly born magic trees under normal circumstances. They are very weak and have relatively limited purification capabilities. If they are rashly thrown into the battlefield, not only will they not be able to purify, but they will be counterattacked by those evil forces. Put it out. "Gavin vaccinated Hanso Archdruid in advance.
The fact that the Dragon Acorn Tree of Leisl can grow to its current level in a short period of time is not only due to the unsparing support of the Mother Dragon Oak Tree, but also the large amount of nutrients it absorbs from the Lord of Blight and the contribution of all the creatures in the Forest of Leisl. It cannot be ignored either.
When the child trees incubate the natural guards on a large scale and fully bloom, the mother dragon oak tree will not have the ability to support multiple battlefields, and may not have the corresponding conditions.
(End of chapter)
