Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

"Carrots and Sticks" was a plan that Harvey and Asdarren had long discussed to deal with and deal with the Grizzlies' group of nobles.

After all, the physical distance between Grizzly Castle is too far from Harvey’s Wasteland Base Camp. Unless you use flying magic or magic carriages to travel together at night, it takes at least one week for normal vehicles and horses to travel.

If it is just used as a strategic defense target like the River Valley Outpost, it would be unnecessary to rotate the troops to control the city. However, if you want to go deep into the administrative level of the city, the price and benefits that Harvey needs to pay will be It's obviously not proportional.

Therefore, he needs a person or a family to become his "agent". This candidate must be very familiar with the complex forces in the city of Grizzlies, can quickly appease the current chaos after the war, and take the initiative to become others The "target" in the eyes of the nobles disrupted the past relationships formed by these people for Harvey, and prevented them from standing on the opposite side of Harvey again.

In addition to asking the other party to hand over a certain amount of population as the cost of redemption freedom, Harvey also requested that Trevor "Earl" who manages Grizzlies Castle instead of him, paying him 30% of the city's operating tax every quarter as " Protection fee”.

This cost is exchanged for the Northern Army's long-term garrison of Grizzly Castle to resist the siege of His Majesty, the royal master of the royal capital Jinhui City. After all, according to past practice, the Fegan family wanted to maintain the rule of the fiefdom. It is much more than just paying 30% of the taxes to satisfy the Grand Duke.

Trevor "Earl" was very satisfied with this transaction. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to inherit the title of Earl, coupled with the actual management rights of a city, will make him directly become the entire border territory of St. Valen and Ha. The greatest power in the dimension.

Relying on a powerful force as a support is a wise choice for the noble family to continue for a long time. Compared with Grand Duke Saint Valen who is far away in Jinhui City, a powerful wasteland lord who is close to you is obviously a better target to rely on.

After sending away the "Earl" Trevor who had been talking to him in the study for a long time, Harvey stretched his waist and asked Asdaren, who stood beside him without saying a word from beginning to end, "How is it ? Do you think the other party’s sincerity in cooperation is OK?”

The crimson soul fire condensed in Asdaren's metal eye sockets slowly spread out, indicating that he was breaking out from the "absolute rational" mode of alchemy life. "It's basically honest, but his expression and words are incapable. The suppressed greed seems that this gentleman has been coveting the throne of the earl for a long time…”

"Haha, that's good. Compared to those stubborn and loyal Count Feigen, I prefer guys who can be moved by power and interests..."

Asdaren said slowly, "What are you going to deal with those earls' loyal factions?"

Harvey waved his hand and arranged casually, "Take it to the mine and logging yard. These two places have always been short of people. This kind of free coolie is the most popular."

Then he stood up and said to his chief consultant: "Today you log in to the Spellcaster Forum with me to listen to this routine forum exchange meeting... They will discuss the matter of the church restarting the full-scale civil war with the Spellcaster. This is also very important to us.”

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In fact, as early as a week ago, Harvey received a forum message from Mr. Cairo, and informed him of the content of today's exchange meeting in advance, and was very clear that the other party was testing the forum's position indirectly.

But after the exchange meeting really began, Harvey found that he still underestimated the impact of the current situation on all parties.

Even Mr. Elemental Hand, who has always been the first to greet the show, has changed his always elegant speech habits.

[Hand of Elements: Praise Mr. Turing and Mr. Neumann! Good evening for everyone... The matter of the church and the Spellcaster Federation restarting the war has seriously affected the stability of many factions in the Seventh Wizards. Everyone, we must pay attention! 】

Harvey had locked these first group of old members who joined the forum through Magic Net Positioning in the past. It was naturally clear that Mr. Elemental Hand was not an insider of the Federation, but a neutral spellcaster with a huge force among the Seven Wizard Kingdoms. Faction personnel.

Even he raised the seriousness of the current situation so directly, indicating that the two sides' covenant broke down and the impact of the outbreak of a comprehensive conflict is already difficult to control.

[Captain Ghost: As far as I know, the current war is limited to only a few small secular priests in the central part of the continent. Grand Duke St. Valen was one of the first noble princes to formally declare war on the Federation. The church did indeed send a large number of people to the church. The troops passed, but they and Daus had only two or three small-scale conflicts. 】

Mr. Captain Ghost is an independent high-level spellcaster who is obviously in a corner. His daily display positioning has been entrenched near the coastal islands of Faros, the "country of Thousand Sails". It seems that he can't see clearly the current situation in the southern border. .

The Son of Flame, who has always been hot-tempered, was very rude to speak.

[Son of Flame: Hum, a small-scale conflict? That's because they are still afraid of our strength. After all, during this period of war in the Evil Moon Mountains, we were in a one-sided crushing situation when we faced the demons alone. The charlatans of Gores and The stupid noble prince kneeling at their feet, of course, was afraid...]

Harvey looked a little amused. Mr. Son of Flame's political sense was not too keen. He did not realize at all. It was because the Union chose to fight against the demons independently that the Church had given the opportunity to unite some secular kingdoms to attack them. After all, double In the case of line combat, the Federation cannot draw its hands to deal with the enemies from the rear with all their hearts.

However, his words made Harvey understand the theme and real purpose of today's exchange meeting - the forum occupied most of the federation factions, and wanted to test out other non-confederation members and their representatives. What position do the forces behind this civil war initiated by the church?

Of course, the most important thing is to draw the forum's position from the forum's "agent" Mr. Kel Thujad, as usual, whether he stands on the side of the Federation representing the "spell caster".

[Frost Giant: No matter what, we don’t want the war in the South to rekindle. After all, this will harm the interests of most people. The situation has been tense during this period, and the transactions of magic stones and magic materials have been affected. Don’t you feel it? 】

The attitude of the dwarf tribe on the ground is undoubtedly revealed. After all, their tribes have mixed beliefs, and most of the dwarfs believe in simple primitive totem gods. Only a few have converted to the God of Glory, accounting for the proportion. Almost negligible.

Mr. "Heart of the Forest", who has always been unwilling to hide his identity, also immediately expressed his neutral attitude.

[Heart of the Forest: The Golden Forest has never welcomed outsiders. Neither the Federation nor the Glorious Church are allowed to build and develop their own relevant forces here. Therefore, we do not want to participate in this extraordinary power struggle within the human race. . 】

Although these words are true, Harvey still disdains the other party's arrogant and reserved style. You should know that the various magic plant materials and defensive magic weapons produced by the high elves are the main sales and buyers that he said are what he said The human spell caster.

The two members of the Mirror Man and Fadun, who were clearly marked as the background of the Federation, also spoke in turn, expressing their unoptimistic views on the situation. The hint of the words in their words is not just a power struggle between the Federation and the Church, but The serious dilemma that all spellcasters will face. After all, wizards who pursue truth and magic will naturally be rejected by churches with gods, believing that they have blasphemed and stole the great authority of the Creator.

Unfortunately, this formulaic speech was a bit too cliché and did not inspire the neutrals in the forum to easily change their positions.

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In the end, it was introduced to the most authoritative legendary spellcaster Mr. Cairo, who made a proposal that everyone thought was reasonable to set the tone for this exchange meeting.

[Scarred Lord: Regarding this extraordinary civil war involving the Federation and the Church, is it just a power struggle between the two forces, or a truth battle between the caster and the gods' beliefs. I think as the situation develops further, everyone will naturally become clearer. It's clear...but now the Federation has shouldered the heavy responsibility of fighting against the demons to defend the southern border alone. Isn't it worthy of some degree of support and help from you in some aspects? At least in the case of foreign invasion, we should have a cooperative relationship that will prosper and lose the same, right? 】

This is indeed a bit naked and slapped some neutral members in the face. When you rely on the Federation to obtain benefits, you are not in this right now, but once the fight breaks out, you will watch it all. Have you watched the show?

[Scarred Lord: Our demands are not excessive... Since the secular kingdoms attached to the church have chosen to expel all the union caster organizations in the country, does the wizard kingdom and the dwarf elves who have always had a harmonious relationship with us also need it. Make a certain statement, to close all missionary institutions such as church parishes and monasteries within the control of the power? This is not difficult, right? 】

After the legendary spellcaster's speech, the forum exchange meeting fell into a long-lost silence. All neutrals were obviously still hesitating and were clearly waiting for the forum to stand up and replace them with the form of an organization to express their support for the Federation.

[Falun: @Mr. Kel Thujad, as the forum's real agent, what do you think? 】

Harvey raised his eyebrows, knowing that the highlight of today's exchange meeting was coming, and the protagonist was obviously himself.

[Kel Thuzad: Well... we have always had a close cooperation with the Federation and have a harmonious relationship! Oh, by the way, you have been too concerned about the situation between the Federation and the Church recently, and you may not be aware of a small conflict breaking out on the border at St. Valen…]

[Kelthuzad: The Grand Duke of St. Valen and the Church of Glory encouraged a fief of the Count to declare war on me with the excuse of slaughtering the caster... Now he has been defeated and died, and his vassal nobles have already gone to the point of view of slaughtering the caster. I swore allegiance, and at the same time I had a clear position and chose to stand on the side of the Federation from now on to assist domestic spellcasters in fighting against the unreasonable persecution of the church and nobles...]