King from scratch

"Long time no see." He Xingwen turned his head, and his eyes flicked past the old acquaintance Duoti. He was in good condition, and he didn't look like he was distressed by the harassment from the players.

The other mages behind Duoti are very unfamiliar. Judging from their age, they should be other instructors of the Arcane Academy.

It seems that the Arcane Academy is very sincere this time.

He Xingwen came to a conclusion and got straight to the point: "How do the mages think?"

Doti sat opposite He Xingwen: "There is no doubt that the kingdom is powerful, but the academy has its own rules."

He Xingwen retracted his previous conclusion. It seems that the sincerity of the Arcane Academy is not as sufficient as he thought.

"Sounds like you guys are not ready to accept reality."

"If that's the case, we won't be here," Duo Ti stroked his white beard and said, "I just think that before the peace talks, we need to reach an agreement on certain aspects..."

The non-existent Zhe glanced at the mage, and quietly exited the room.

He Xingwen confirmed with the other party: "The current situation is not enough for you to recognize the situation?"

This sentence sounds like a question.

Doti coughed, hinting at the king and said: "You should know that we didn't attack the players too much."

"Then you should also be clear that the Kingdom has not launched a war against the Arcane Academy." A loud voice came from the door, retorting forcefully against Duoti.

Yan walked into the room, pulled out the bone blade at his waist, and pointed it at Duoti's throat from a distance. The sharp edge flashed on the blade, and the threat was self-evident.

Following his movements, the standing postures of the mages changed slightly, showing a posture that could counterattack immediately, and the situation on the scene was filled with the smell of confrontation.

Yan didn't care about the reaction of the mages, Dao Feng pointed at Duo and said: "Disrespect to the king, I think you want to test whether our knives are fast enough."

Duo Ti raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the king: "This... seems to have misunderstood us."

He Xingwen called Yan's name, and stopped his behavior: "Yan."

The bone blade made a beautiful arc in Yan's hand, and inserted it back into his waist.

Yan took two steps forward and walked in front of He Xingwen: "King, does a guy like this have the right to be tolerated by you?"

Because Yan's direct threat attracted everyone's attention, Zhe who walked into the room behind him was as inconspicuous as walking in the shadows.

"We don't mean to be disrespectful to the king." Duoti said: "It's just some weak people..." He thought about the wording: "There is nothing we can do."

Yan glanced at Duoti, feeling very bad about the other party, turned to He Xingwen and said, "King, the 12 people of the kingdom are ready to fight for the kingdom at any time!"

His vigorous warlike desire is undisguised: "These guys can't know from the player's attack at all, how benevolent you are, let's go, let the real war tell them that they have no qualifications to negotiate."

Let's take a closer look at Yan. It is impossible for an ordinary human to defeat a mage, not even 12 ordinary humans.

But the opponent is full of confidence, and seems to be naturally dissatisfied with the player's attack-but any bystander will recognize the player's lethality.

The player is evaluated by Ai Zhijin as the most dangerous existence in the kingdom.

Duoti didn't know where Yan came from to express dissatisfaction with the player's attack, but the purpose of the Arcane Academy's visit this time was definitely not to start a war with the kingdom.

If they choose to fight against an invincible existence, then the mage will not appear here. He should persuade other forces on the continent to form a continent-wide alliance to oppose the expansion of the kingdom, instead of negotiating with the king .

That's right, although the Arcane Academy chose the latter between continuing the war and surrendering, their premise for this is that there is room for surrender.

There are too many things and rules to consider in the Arcane Academy. The ancient inheritance has accumulated a lot of complexity. Unless it is defeated in countless blood and death, otherwise, if you want to get a complete Arcane Academy, you will have to face the Arcane Academy. Many requirements of the college.

They didn't even do it intentionally, but it was inevitable that this ancient existence would continue to be maintained.

History has proved these two points countless times.

A bloodless war cannot achieve a thorough result.

In the same way, bloody wars can most thoroughly destroy everything—including inheritance, elites, and pride.

Regarding this point, the system has given a complete report, analyzing the pros and cons of completely defeating the Arcane Academy and winning with the greatest avoidance of casualties.

He Xingwen knew the pros and cons, but still chose the latter.

It’s not too holy, but He Xingwen’s only requirement for the Arcane Academy is to get it. As for what it looks like, whether there is pride and struggle in his heart, He Xingwen is not very concerned...

In Yan's excited mood, He Xingwen asked another person present: "Zhe, you also have the same idea?"

Zhe took a step forward: "I think it is a bit too arrogant." Zhe glanced at the mages and reminded each other: "The player is not the most dangerous existence in the kingdom, but the holy guard."

The mages even need to think for a few seconds before they can find the existence corresponding to the name "Holy Guard" in their minds.

Dotti wasn't sure: "I thought it was just a..." restricted, or an existence that could only be driven within the kingdom: "A law enforcement agency."

The King's use of the Holy Guard is so restrained that most beings ignore what they can do.

"The law is determined by the king." Zhe said with a smile: "Everyone, this conversation can stop here. Before you know whether you are qualified to ask the king, there is no need for the kingdom to talk to you."

Guangying nodded again and again: "I agree with his statement."

He Xingwen turned his eyes away from the two confronting parties and landed on the system.

"Obviously, they are taking advantage of your goodwill." The system said: "Of course, most intelligent creatures are like this. In this situation, they will not miss any opportunity."

"But other people won't like their behavior." The system said: "The weak are not qualified to make demands."

Make it clear who is the only one who can make the decision. He didn't take Zhe's words, but said to He Xingwen: "It's just something that needs to be confirmed in advance. After all, this is a very important decision for us, and even for the entire continent. important choice."

He observed He Xingwen's expression, but as always, the king's expression had no information, as if the king was not interested in it at all.

Doti continued: "We hope to achieve a peaceful and win-win situation. As you said before, unnecessary deaths should be reduced as much as possible."

He Xingwen thought for two seconds, and was about to speak when there was a crisp knocking sound on the window, and everyone's eyes moved accordingly, looking at Chi Qing who was knocking on the window with his beak.

Zhe took two steps forward, opened the window, took off the thick leaf from the red-green paw, glanced roughly, and handed it to He Xingwen, saying, "A letter from the Druid."

Chi Qing didn't wait for a reply this time. After confirming that He Xingwen had received the letter, she soared into the sky again.

He Xingwen glanced roughly at the writing on the leaves, and Lincoln strongly asked the kingdom to stop the migration of iron-eating ants, and asked them to evacuate from the border of the endless forest immediately.

【This threat is very likely to anger the tree people. I hope you can stop this before the situation deteriorates further. 】

He Xingwen casually inserted Ye Zi into the processed file, brought this little episode over, and continued the previous topic: "What did you just say?"

He Xingwen recalled: "A negotiation?"

Duoti's gaze stayed on He Xingwen's hands for two seconds, and he nodded.

He Xingwen confirmed with him: "Negotiation for peace?"

Doti nodded again while thinking about the current situation between the druid and the kingdom.

"Then let's talk." He Xingwen said in a relaxed tone.

"King." Yan yelled, and he asked for a fight again: "Let us fight for you."

"The people of the kingdom have never fought." Yan said: "This world doesn't even know us. It's not like there are no other people in the kingdom who can fight except those players."

He Xingwen glanced at him, and said kindly: "In this case, then..." He Xingwen looked at Duoti: "The war between the Kingdom and the Arcane Academy will not end until an agreement is reached and the negotiation is over."

Duoti expected something, followed by looking at Xiang Yan.

"Yan, organize a team yourself..." He Xingwen said in a relaxed tone, "Go and see the situation in the South China Sea."

If it is to send humans to train soldiers... I haven't finished thinking about it, but I was confused by the big turn in He Xingwen's words, wait?South China Sea?

Yan also showed a blank expression: "South China Sea?"

He Xingwen: "The expedition team that set out before hasn't come back yet. Go and see if there is any accident in the South China Sea."

Yan glanced at Duoti and snorted twice, but obviously he would not protest with the king.

After dismissing the most aggressive Yan, He Xingwen looked at Zhe.

Zhe lowered his head slightly: "I obey your order."

Very well, he saved himself from being sent to the top of the mountains.

"I understand your loyalty to the kingdom, but remember, first of all, follow my orders." He Xingwen beat Zhe casually, and then gave the mages a meaningful warning.

"You have plenty of time for negotiation. I'm not in a hurry to conquer the Arcane Academy, but there is one thing I hope you don't mind. Players will not withdraw from the Arcane Academy until the negotiation is completely over."

The weak do not have the right to make demands, and not only the system knows this, but also the mainland aborigines-mages know this better.And the reason why the mages violated this point, stood here, and proposed negotiations with the king was that the king's kindness gave them confidence.

Regardless of whether the king was a hypocrite or a true gentleman, there is no doubt that he chose to advance his conquest with a gentle attitude.

The weak want to use fewer deaths to expand, that is whimsical, daydreaming.

And the strong use less death to expand, that is called benevolence.

At first, the mages didn't understand the true meaning behind the king's meaningful warning. They didn't understand until the news that another mage tower was destroyed by the imitation ether energy hedger reached their ears. Before the negotiation ended, The real meaning of the player not retreating.

The longer the negotiations go on, the more damage will be brought to the Arcane Academy by players who are like locusts crossing the territory of the Arcane Academy.

The results brought by the imitation ether energy hedger can no longer satisfy the players, and the players are thinking about using more effective ways to get more points--for the Arcane Academy, this is definitely not good news.

For this reason, the mage who almost let the players do whatever they want had to take action to curb the crazy actions of the players.

The mage starts attacking the player.

In the beginning, this had a little effect, and the players easily collapsed under the mage's attack, but soon, the quickly revived players used the tried-and-true method again-grinding.

The resurrection of players is unlimited, while the attacks of mages are limited.

At least in this world where perpetual motion machines have not yet been developed, there is no endless attack method, and all attacks need to consume the ether they control.

After the mages killed players several times and quickly ushered in resurrected players, they soon realized that they were going back to the old path, and the fate of Ethernet had clearly told them the result of competing patiently with the players.

So everything is back to square one.

While happily looking for a more efficient way to attack the tower, the players used the imitation-ether energy hedger to destroy the mage towers on the territory of the Arcane Academy one after another.

Player actions on the Arcane Academy cause ongoing negotiations to proceed in a more efficient manner.

Because the mage can't consume it.

"Fuck, the countdown to this mission is up?!"

At first, a certain player glanced at the task in progress as usual, but at a glance, he saw that the countdown that was originally four question marks turned into an exact number.

"What?" The player who was waving his weapon vigorously said, "I can't hear you, what are you talking about?"

"I-say-mission-task-count-count-time-only-one-hundred-days-left."

The crowd surrounding the mage tower was silent for a moment, then turned to look at the shouting players.

"One hundred days?"

"No, isn't a hundred days quite a long time? Why are you surprised? I'm surprised that this task actually takes a hundred days? It feels like ten days and a half months can completely dismantle the Arcane Academy."

"The task is about the game time, who will tell you the real time."

"Wait, the ratio of game time to real time...then there are only ten days left?"

"Fuck, if you exclude the eight hours of anti-addiction, then there is only... forget it, it's too complicated, I can't figure it out. Anyway, it won't be long."

With a groan, the players realized the reality that this large-scale task was coming to an end.

That's why players started looking for more efficient ways to attack towers - because for them, there wasn't much time left, but they obviously didn't have enough points.

Because the players spent a lot of time consuming ether and figuring out how to break through the defense of the mage tower, but the time actually spent on attacking the mage tower has only recently progressed - still relying on Li Ming's invention.

"Knowledge is power, comrades, you said that if we got this thing out earlier, as for the mission is almost over now, are there only so many points?"

"Facts have proved that technology is the primary productive force, no, I'm going to gain favor with dwarves."

"I'm going to gain the favor of the great scientist."

"When will the career of a great scientist be opened? I also recognize the auxiliary profession, and Li Ming is so handsome! If it is not limited by IQ, who would not want to be a scientist?"

"You said it all, the IQ limit, do you think the great scientist in the game doesn't have this limit?"

"??? I feel that I have been discriminated against. What's wrong with my low IQ? Is it not worthy of being a great scientist?"

"Anyway, lazy and stupid people definitely don't meet the criteria for a great scientist's job transfer."

"Wait, what you're saying is right... Has the job requirement for a great scientist come out?"

"No, but it seems to be a bit out of tune."

"Where's the tone?"

"That metastructure went to school a few days ago, and it seems to have opened a new academy."

"Fuck! Why hasn't there been any news about such a big movement?"

"Nonsense, everyone is busy with quests. The Arcane Academy has quests. Players who haven't changed their profession have quests in the Everfree Forest. There are only two or three players in the school, two or three players. What waves can it cause?"

The cooperation between the Salfa Federation and the kingdom has been advancing smoothly, mainly because the kingdom has not made too many demands on the Salfa Federation. Apart from keeping a space teleportation controlled by both parties in the Salfa Federation, only great scientists This requirement is given to the player class.

The space teleportation was quickly completed because it was related to the research of the players by the Salfa Federation.

As for teaching the players, the Salfa Federation took a little time because they needed time to formulate appropriate courses and teaching materials.

But it didn't take long.

After the large-scale migration of iron-eating ants began, the Safa Federation immediately prepared courses and teaching materials, and told He Xingwen that they were ready to teach players.

"Then you can go to school." He Xingwen raised his head from the thick documents and looked at the etheric structure full of inhumanity: "The kingdom has prepared a science academy for you."

"Academy of Science, I like this word." Far away in the Safa Federation, Anna, who was manipulating the metastructure, muttered to himself.

There are not many great scientists around him watching their conversations. After all, great scientists care more about their own research than watching meaningless conversations.

The same is true for Anna, but his research object has just recently changed from the influence of etheric vibrations on some minerals to the kingdom.

So he contracted most of the time to manipulate the etheric structure, and used it to observe this mysterious kingdom.

"Before then..." Anna said bluntly, "I'm very interested in the recent developments of iron-eating ants. Can we conduct in-depth, safe, and non-harmful research on it?"

In the short contact, the great scientist quickly learned about the king's style, and he was somewhat inexplicably excessively kind, whether it was towards his subjects or towards his enemies.

For the Kingdom, this may not be a good characteristic, but as a potential enemy of the opponent, the Great Scientist appreciates this characteristic very much and hopes that the opponent will continue to maintain it.

An overly benevolent conqueror is far better than a perfect statesman.

"Who can be sure that this is not one of the opponent's strategies?"

Another great scientist complained: "This camouflage is very useful, isn't it? When people know that his enemy is very 'benevolent', it is difficult to arouse the determination to fight desperately, just like a mage, if the king does not behave so 'Merciful', it wouldn't have happened so quickly and so peacefully."

If the number of meaningless deaths of players is erased from the war, people will be surprised to find that no one died in this massive war.

How miraculous it is that a war in which no one died has successfully reached the point of peace negotiations.

"But the other party's kindness is based on the premise that the other party has strong force. Forced kindness is weakness, and the kindness given by the strong is the prerequisite for mages to be willing to negotiate peace with him."

The other party shrugged: "You know, I belong to the evil school."

During the small debate among the big scientists, He Xingwen replied: "I'm afraid not."

The unexpected answer redirected their attention to the conversation with the king.

Anna: "Maybe I can know the reason for the refusal?"

He Xingwen: "Ai Zhijin once told me about the danger of iron-eating ants and asked me to exterminate them again."

Anna: "But obviously you didn't."

"I promise they're safe for the world."

He Xingwen said: "This is the reason why I rejected you, considering that the... products you developed in cooperation with Ai Zhijin have crossed certain limits, I must make sure that all the characteristics of iron-eating ants only exist in them body, to guarantee my promise."

"But players..." At this point, Anna reacted: "You reminded us before that it is difficult to replicate the miracles of players with the research results obtained from players."

He Xingwen corrected his words: "What I said is that it cannot be copied." It is absolutely impossible for them to copy everything on the player.

"So, you don't mind us conducting some controllable safety research on players. But you refused our research on iron-eating ants."

"You understand well." He Xingwen glanced at the time: "Is there anything else?"

Anna thought for two seconds: "But how did you do it? The iron-eating ants are active in the kingdom's territory, but they didn't eat up the entire kingdom."

"Miracle of God the Father." He Xingwen has been able to use this sentence to answer all the miracles that happened in the kingdom.

And Anna in the distance discovered a new problem.

"It's also the miracle of the Father God. The king is sure that the player's special features cannot be copied, but he thinks that we may crack the miracle of the iron-eating ants?"

The junction of the Everfree Forest and the kingdom's territory.

The players wandering here have tried many ways to enter the Everfree Forest, but in front of this forest with self-will, all of them failed.

"We have to think of other ways."

As Dudu said, he took a step aside, avoiding the iron-eating ants that slowly crawled past his feet, and then stepped on another iron-eating ant.

There was a soft touch under his feet, and a system warning popped up in front of him again.

Dudu was about to turn off the system warning casually, when he saw the words 'protect animals' on the system warning, he had a flash of inspiration, and read the system warning carefully.

【You are trying to attack the kingdom's protected animals. This behavior will cause the relationship between the kingdom and you to enter a state of hatred. Please choose carefully. 】

"Wait a minute, I have an idea!"

The depressed players didn't react to Dudu's words.

"Again? You just came back to life, can you rest for a while?"

"This druid is too perverted..."

"What idea? Try again tomorrow."

Dudu clapped his hands: "A good idea to bring disaster to the east."

Players responded with disbelief.

"gab."

"how is this possible."

"Are you crazy?"

Dudu jumped around excitedly, stepped on countless feet of the iron-eating ants, and the warning in front of him became stronger.

"Listen to me! Did you see what that warning said?"

"What warning?"

"Where is the warning?"

Dudu: "Warning from the iron-eating ants, harming protected animals will cause the relationship between the kingdom and you to enter a state of hatred!"

"See, so aren't we making peace with it?"

"Wait? You don't mean that..." A player reflected, looking at the iron-eating ants crawling around slowly: "Bringing disaster to the east?"

The other players also reacted one after another.

"Fuck? Is it too ruthless?"

"Directly let the kingdom go to war with the endless forest? If it can be done, that would be too awesome."

"Wait, don't be impulsive. Think about Ye Yeye's end first. If the system judges that the player who caused the damage to the iron-eating ants is the player, the account will be invalidated immediately."

"No way, is the system so smart?"

"It's all a holographic game, isn't it strange that the system is a little smarter?"

"Fuck, it makes sense."

"Then what do we do now?"

"Go to the forum to discuss with the boss, no matter how bad it is, you have to find a bad luck who is willing to bear the consequences... Ah bah, I mean a warrior."