King from scratch

"But before that, I hope you already know the rules." Nubida looked at the players who were gradually surrounding them, and walked into the main city.

The players who heard the news did not get too close, and Ye Yeye's lessons learned from the past were enough to keep them away from the missions of the Diman Empire.

Of course, dogs can't change eating shit, and players can't change their eagerness to try all possible tasks.

"The mission came too fast, the main mission has started?"

"Are you going to establish diplomatic relations with the Diman Empire?"

"It was just a small game, isn't it a bit too anticlimactic?"

"Why don't you ask Nubida later? Maybe there is a mission?"

"Ask the devil? Forget it, I choose to give up this task."

"Do you have any unrealistic fantasies about demons? Don't think about it, demons can't have serious missions. The meaning of this race is to plan the realization of maliciousness."

The players watched as the demons and missions entered the main city. Some players didn't learn their lesson and walked in, only to be stopped by a notification box that popped up.

The main city is currently not open to players. Including the beta players, there are only two players who have permission to enter the main city—He Shu and Du Ming.

In their first conversation with the king, they obtained the king's dispensation, but after that, they never entered the main city again.

It can also be said that the main city is the eye of the hurricane. In the chaos caused by the expansion of the player and the kingdom, it always remains calm and has the right to decide where the chaos will spread.

After entering the main city, the harassment of the players was completely cut off, so the mission was able to face the city directly without external interference.

The turmoil quickly spread within the mission, and it was difficult for them to remain indifferent in front of this unimaginable city, not to mention that they stepped into science and the future from magic and swords.

Hunting Mountain lost his language for a short while, he stared at the astonishingly tall buildings and the road floating in the sky, it seemed that this country even conquered the sky.

Its territory is vast beyond their imagination, and its cities prove that this is by no means a small frontier country.

What the Diman Empire is facing is not a countryman who is lucky enough to have a powerful weapon, but an ambitious man who has shown his fangs to the mainland.

This is not good news, Lie Shan took a deep breath and controlled his emotions.

Nubida was very pleased with the reaction they gave, he liked it, the demon instinctively chased all strong emotions, and was keen to create it in other races.

Compared with the satisfactory response of the mission, Du Lei's unresponsive appearance really disappointed the demon.

Of course, considering the existence of Anuta, it is not surprising that Du Lei can be so calm, after all, he probably already knew what the plants and trees here look like from Anuta.

As soon as Nubida's eyes fell on Du Lei, Du Lei noticed it, and before the devil was ready to provoke, he precisely diverted the other party's attention: "Aren't you going to explain the rules to be followed in detail?"

Nubida was successfully distracted: "It's actually very simple, don't violate the laws of the kingdom, and don't do any... disrespectful behavior to the king."

He glanced at Hunting Mountain: "Of course, it's best not to leave the team and walk alone in the kingdom. These are all for your safety, please be sure to abide by them, otherwise you will bear the consequences."

Nubida took the mission on public transport.

They did not intentionally keep the distance between the mission and the people of the Kingdom, and the people of the Kingdom got on and off the bus at every station, and the people of the Kingdom did not pay attention to the missions from foreign countries at all.

Hunting Mountain noticed that the people of the kingdom were very indifferent. Not only were they not interested in outsiders, but there was almost no dialogue between them.

Very quiet in a moving vehicle.

An existence that is completely opposite to the player, almost in contrast, Lieshan couldn't help asking after frequently casting his gaze at them: "Do they have some kind of physical disorder?"

Nubida, who has long been accustomed to the performance of these inhuman creatures, asked in surprise: "How could that be?" He said in a very relaxed tone: "They just don't look like humans."

Lie Shan said dryly: "But they look like humans...so they are not actually humans?"

Nubida casually called out the name of an NPC: "Fish, are you human?"

Yu stopped, without any emotional fluctuations: "You have wasted a lot of time, I don't think it is a good idea to let the king wait for you."

The npcs who got on and off the car in an orderly manner turned their heads to look at them.

"This is public transportation, and the speed is not under my control..." Nubida muttered, but with the devil's sense of current affairs, he could always persuade him just right: "Just pretend I didn't say anything."

Qi Shushua, who was watching them, moved his eyes back and continued to get on and off the car in an orderly manner.

The public transportation that stopped briefly at the station resumed operation and drove towards the terminal.

What surprised Lieshan was that Nubida actually did what he said and became quiet instead of turning his head and breaking his promise.

Judging from the performance of the demon, the people of the kingdom suppressed the demon.

As a human being, this is a very remarkable achievement, but if it is an unknown non-human creature...

Hunting Mountain is very worried, which means that the enemies facing the empire are composed of a group of non-human creatures that can suppress demons.

The situation has gotten worse. In fact, Hunting Mountain has not received any good news since entering the kingdom. Everything in the kingdom proves that it is not a coincidence that it can defeat the imperial border guards.

Even if it gains an advantage in the next all-out war with the empire, it will not be a coincidence, it has enough confidence to win the war.

Lie Shan looked at Du Lei who remained silent. Du Lei noticed his gaze and cast a puzzled expression.

"I remember that in the team led by the dwarves, the people of these kingdoms did not appear," Hunting Mountain repeatedly studied the brief contact battle, so he was impressed: "Except for the dwarves and players, I didn't see them." to any human."

Nubida's eyes moved, remembering the npc's urging just now, he restrained his urge to interrupt, and waited for the public transportation to arrive without squinting.

Demons are not afraid of those NPCs, but ignoring their reminders or even irritating them is a very bad way, after all, they are the cornerstone that supports the operation of the kingdom.

Their connection with the king is much closer than the connection between the devil and the king.

Du Lei: "Indeed."

The scene fell into silence after Du Lei answered, and Nubida sighed deeply in his heart, deeply regretting that he could not provoke at this moment.

The guards of the mission stopped outside the administration, and the members of the mission who were responsible for negotiating stepped into it.

Unexpectedly, after entering the vast building, they saw many human beings, but they were not human beings who served His Majesty the Emperor in the concept of the empire.

This is not a palace of entitlement, just a busy workplace.

There are round tables and chairs in the meeting room, except for decorative furnishings, there are no extra luxuries.

He Xingwen, who was sitting at the head of the round table, had a thick stack of documents in front of him, while a teacup was symbolically placed on the rest of the round table.

Nubida took a seat under He Xingwen, and by the way greeted the hesitant mission to take a seat.

He Xingwen closed the file folder of to-do items, glanced at Lieshan Mountain, and cut straight to the point: "Are you here to participate in the celebration of the unification of the Dwarf Kingdom?"

Lieshan is not used to it, no matter such a simple interview process or everything in this room, he can understand that a new civilization lacks etiquette, but he can't understand that a powerful civilization still has no 'order'.

He moved his body slightly, let himself sit up straight, and said with a serious look: "Greetings to you, respected king, I bring the goodwill of the empire and the greetings of your majesty."

Then he answered He Xingwen's question: "Yes, we are happy that the dwarves who have been separated for thousands of years have been reunited."

"Then go and participate." He Xingwen listened patiently, and said to him: "The celebration will be held at the former site of the dwarf kingdom on the top of the mountains. You can confirm the procedure with the dwarves, and that's it."

This is the end?Hunting Mountain picked up his teacup, realizing the difference between the king and Diman Karen III.

Diman Karen III is a typical, powerful and ambitious ruler. He is used to strengthening his authority in front of his subordinates and gaining their submission to achieve the goal of dominating the entire empire.

And this king, he is not strong, and he doesn't care whether others have expressed enough surrender to him.

Lie Shan put down his teacup and modified the way of conversation.

"Will you be there then?" Hunting Mountain asked, "As a king's king?"

"No." He Xingwen: "That's a celebration for the dwarves."

A king's king will not fail to attend the celebration of the kingdom under his control. If he does not emphasize who the real master of the country is on such occasions, then the country will sooner or later forget their status as a vassal state and the awe they deserve.

"So the dwarves are not your people?"

"Of course it is."

Hunting Mountain saw a lot of differences from the empire in this kingdom, including the way it treats dependent countries, which is surprising.

But the aborigines of this continent have encountered too many surprising new civilizations, and they all assimilated them into a part of the continent with an amazing tolerance.

Therefore, Lie Shan was briefly surprised for a few seconds, and then directly entered the theme of his mission.

"Your Majesty is a little uncertain about the future of the empire and the kingdom." Lie Shan said, "We want to know, are you here for conquest?"

"After unifying the dwarven kingdom, where will your eyes fall?" As a matter of habit, even if you get to the point, in front of a powerful king, Hunting Mountain subconsciously reserved enough respect: "If you are willing to show kindness , Your Majesty is very happy to cooperate with the kingdom."

He Xingwen repeated what he once told Diman Karen III: "The kingdom is not wary, but it is not afraid of war."

Hunting Mountain: "So you didn't come here to conquer?"

"Of course." He Xingwen affirmed.

As for expansion... can peaceful expansion be called conquest?

The next second, the door was knocked twice. Zhe poked his head out from behind the door, glanced at Lieshan, and felt that the other party's existence was no hindrance, so he told He Xingwen the unfortunate news: "The mage has made a decision."

The reaction of the mage to make a decision was much faster than the system estimated, He Xingwen: "So fast?"

He glanced at the light and shadow on the side, and the system seemed a little helpless: "Obviously, most of the time, it is difficult for intelligent creatures to maintain reason."

It seems that the conclusions drawn by the system are quite far from peace.

Zhe corroborated the systematic speculation: "The Arcane Academy does not recognize the peaceful expansion of the Kingdom, and brought a notification letter to completely suspend the cooperation between the Arcane Academy and the Kingdom..."

He paused, and finished the sad news: "The Kingdom is listed as a high-risk target by the Arcane Academy, and the people of the Kingdom are forbidden to enter the territory of the Arcane Academy. The other party warned us that if the Kingdom does not intend to restrain the behavior of territorial expansion, The Arcane Academy will take measures to defend their legitimate rights and interests."

Zhe finished talking about the notice from the other party and asked, "How do you plan to respond to them?"

Hunting Mountain listened to the whole scene, and although he couldn't figure out exactly what happened, one thing was obvious—the expansion of the kingdom drew a serious warning from the Arcane Academy.

This is definitely not a peaceful gesture. Judging from the warning from the Arcane Academy, the opponent's next target of conquest is clear at a glance.

Because the chairs by the round table were full of people, the system stood behind He Xingwen and approached him and said, "In my prediction, the Arcane Academy is the most likely to accept the existence of peaceful expansion. They are obsessed with the study of ether, and The kingdom has everything they're obsessed with, the aether, the black bloodstone and even the demiplanes, and if they were sane, they shouldn't have reacted like this."

The sound of the system was close to his ears, and He Xingwen didn't pay any attention - no matter how close he was, the other party would not give He Xingwen the warmth and breath of a human being. He had no weight, no temperature, just a blurry light and shadow.

He Xingwen followed his train of thought.

The system stared down at a small piece of skin belonging to the back of He Xingwen's neck. He could draw the texture of this piece of skin in an instant. There is no real difference between human skin. This is just a piece of ordinary...skin.

The system stared at it, and a part of the data was running related data, and came to the same conclusion, but he didn't stop thinking about it.

And the other part of the database is faithful to why Xingwen thinks about countermeasures and solutions: "But since they made this choice, there may be other factors that I don't know about..."

"But no matter what, a war with the Arcane Academy is not the kingdom's optimal solution. There is a better way to solve this problem..."

During the repeated calculations on that piece of skin, an erroneous data suddenly flashed, the system shook its head, and when it realized, the strange sense of touch had already permeated his electronic perception.

He Xingwen looked back at the system for the sudden strange sensation on the back of his neck, and the figure's hand reached into his neck—this scene was a bit scary, but considering that the system had no entity, it was actually more like a touch.

The system withdrew its hand and stared at it for a few seconds, feeling a little dazed: "There was an error in the data just now."

"You will also have wrong data?" He Xingwen muttered: "Is there any other influence?"

The system stared at the small piece of skin for a few seconds, and the database restarted its repeated calculations. He shook his head honestly: "No."

"Do you need to care?"

The system stared at the skin on the back of He Xingwen's neck, rationally and objectively: "I think this may be related to my recent behavior of analyzing human emotions, and I will deal with it."

He turned the topic back to the Arcane Academy, and the database faithfully came up with the optimal solution: "Send an invitation to the Salfa Federation, I think they should be very interested in the kingdom."

After talking about the optimal solution, the system explained the reason without haste: "Considering the reaction of the Arcane Academy, it is difficult to convince the other party through communication alone. After all, you have already done this, and the other party is obviously not convinced by you. Then the best option is to 'persuade' it in another way."

"Whether the Arcane Academy admits it or not, it really cares about the Salfa Federation, a research organization that has the same behavior style as them, but ended up on a different path."

"The Salfa Federation can completely replace the Arcane Academy."

When the system casually talked about these, it revealed the unique coldness of intelligent creatures, as if discussing the discarding of an object that lost its value, rather than the survival of an ancient organization that lasted for several epochs.

"Of course, you won't do this, but the Arcane Academy knows this very well, so the existence of the Salfa Federation will arouse their vigilance, defense and even anger." System: "Intense emotions help them reason Think about how to deal with the relationship with the kingdom."

"Of course, given that they've already exceeded my expectations, it wouldn't be a surprise that they exceeded my judgment again, but it wouldn't matter too much because we've already found a replacement."

System: "The Salfa Federation is obviously better at convincing. This is a new thing. They are still groping for their own development direction. The kingdom can offer them a bargaining chip that they cannot refuse."

In fact, before the Arcane Academy refused to accept the Kingdom's 'peaceful expansion', the system's judgment on the Arcane Academy was the same - the Kingdom could give them a bargaining chip that they could not refuse, that is, the Black Bloodstone.

But judging from the choice of the Arcane Academy, it wasn't impossible to refuse.

Therefore, the system's plan had to be revised accordingly, involving the untouched Safa Federation.

Having said that, the system feels a little regretful: "Unfortunately, the distance between the Salfa Federation and the Land of God's Fall is really far away." If the Arcane Academy was not located next to the Land of God's Fall, the system would never choose to contact the Arcane Academy first. touch.

An ancient existence that has lasted for centuries often means that it is very stubborn and difficult to keep up with the times.

Lieshan watched the king talking to himself on the spot, and almost suspected that the king had some kind of mental illness.

Of course, soon, amidst the indifference of the devil and Zhe, he realized that it was not the king who had a mental illness, but that the other party did have the ability to talk to something that they couldn't see.

While I know this kingdom is full of wonders, not even the king himself is human...is that a little too much?

Under this premise, the many differences between this kingdom and the Diman Empire have suddenly been sufficiently explained. After all, human beings understand the country formed by humans, but it is quite normal not to understand the country formed by another species.

Lie Shan paid attention to the king's movements from the corner of his eye, and realized that the other party was very calm throughout the whole process. Except for the only movement of raising his eyes to look behind him, it was difficult to detect what kind of existence the other party was talking to.

But since he looked behind him, it at least meant that the unknown existence had a certain form, and it was right behind him...

Lie Shan glanced at the empty place behind the king, and looked away.

He Xingwen ended the conversation with the system, and looked at Zhe who was still waiting for his answer: "Tell the Arcane Academy that I respect their choice."

Zhe waited for two seconds, before he could wait for the second half of the sentence, he understood: "Then shall I notify the other party like this?"

He Xingwen continued: "By the way, send an invitation letter to the Salfa Federation..." He Xingwen paused: "Invite the other party to participate in the celebration of the unification of the Dwarf Kingdom, and choose someone who has a good relationship with the Salfa Federation to send it."

Nubida sighed, his relationship with the Salfa Federation is not good, it seems that he has nothing to do with the Salfa Federation this time.

It's a pity that the devil can't jump around repeatedly and sow discord.

Zhe nodded calmly, and hurriedly left without waiting for He Xingwen's next sentence.

After Zhe left, the scene returned to the scene where He Xingwen was talking to Lie Shan.

But after this small hiatus, Hunting Mountain's aggressiveness towards the kingdom clearly has a clear definition.

"It seems that your kingdom is full of aggression." Hunting Mountain said carefully: "The Arcane Academy has never actively participated in wars, but even it has expressed almost warning intentions to you. From this point of view, we It is difficult to confirm the friendship of the kingdom."

He Xingwen was very puzzled by Lie Shan's words.

"After the conflict between the Kingdom and the Diman Empire, I don't think there is any possibility of peace between us. It is only a matter of time before the two countries break out again. Even if the Diman Empire promises to be friendly, it will not gain trust, and the same , even if we express friendship, you will not trust this...so you came here to learn about the kingdom's relevant information?"

And definitely not to confirm the friendship of the kingdom.

Although the king's words were too direct, there was nothing offensive about it. On the contrary, it was like a friendly conversation about things that should not be talked about in the open.

The other party's frankness, on the contrary, gained trust.

As the other party, he had enough options, and he chose to be frank, which proved to some extent that the other party did not intend to do anything to the mission—when the relationship between the two countries was not clear.

One of the missions of Hunting Mountain is indeed to obtain as much information about the kingdom as possible.

"Obviously, if the mission hadn't come here in person, we would never have known so clearly how vast and powerful the kingdom is."

"Ai Zhijin has detailed information about these." He Xingwen turned his head to look at Du Lei who had remained silent all along: "As a businessman, it's really not surprising that you appear in their team."

"But at the same time, the news that Ai Zhijin sold the kingdom will not surprise people." He Xingwen asked the other party: "Did you do this?"

Nubida gloated on the sidelines. He reminded the other party that Ai Zhijin's appearance in this team would make Ai Zhijin very embarrassed in front of the king.

This kind of embarrassment refers to the embarrassment of which side to stand on.

A weak person who is unable to control the situation will not care about Ai Zhijin's neutral attribute, but this king is not a weak person who is unable to control the situation. On the contrary, he dominates the entire situation and has enough confidence to question Ai Zhijin's neutrality.

"In order to maintain the friendship between Ai Zhijin and the kingdom, from the very beginning, the relevant information of the kingdom will not be sold." Du Lei can fight back against the devil's provocation, but he will not ignore the king's doubts: "Ai Zhijin believes that doing so is enough Show our friendship."

Du Lei said gently: "At present, you don't plan to start a continent-wide war, so we helped you establish a communication channel with the Diman Empire."

In terms of the vast territory of the Diman Empire and the objective distance between it and the kingdom, once these two countries start a war, it will undoubtedly be a war that will affect the entire continent.

Therefore, Ai Zhijin built a communication channel for the kingdom and the Diman Empire to buy time for the king.

Businessmen who swing at both ends are not flattering. Ai Zhijin never swings at both ends in such a situation. They will only choose the strongest one.

Although he was at the scene, he felt neglected: It seems that Du Lei didn't mind at all. When he said that, I was also listening?

In other words, Ai Zhijin didn't mind at all that Lieshan brought the news that Ai Zhijin was biased back to the Diman Empire.