King from scratch

"So? They ran away halfway through the fight?" He Xingwen didn't know what expression to make to this result.

Although he had already learned the news of the victory from the fact that the number of npcs had stopped falling, this victory...whether it can be called a victory now is a question.

He Xingwen confirmed with the NPC who was sent back to report the news: "Or did you run when they had the upper hand?"

The young npc nodded: "Yan and Huang are expanding the search area and exploring the terrain in the endless forest, but the endless forest covers an area that is too vast, so there is no progress yet."

The question marks in He Xingwen's mind were exactly the same as when Yan and the others saw the druid disappear: "What's going on with these extremist druids?"

Can you just run away?So this is an admission of defeat?Or fight another day?

Perhaps, this is an extremely insidious war of attrition?After all, the kingdom's army has penetrated into the endless forest, and supplies are difficult. It only takes a few more days until the army of 10 people runs out of ammunition and food...

Thinking of this, He Xingwen was stunned. The weaker side took advantage of the terrain to do so, which can be called "scheming", but what is the purpose of suppressing the enemies of the Kingdom's army?

He Xingwen had new doubts: "When you cleaned up the battlefield, did you compare the number of dead?"

npc: "No druid casualties."

Their head-on confrontation lasted only a quarter of an hour, and the npc was still exchanging death for a chance to gain a foothold, and it hadn't entered the stage of using more deaths to consume druids at all.

"Then why are they running?"

He Xingwen fell into this doubt, and did not come to a reliable conclusion.

Of course, it is also difficult for normal people to come to the unimaginable conclusion that they were scared away.

He Xingwen glanced at the light and shadow on the side, and fell into the sight of the other party, and the system was watching him.

When He Xingwen's eyes fell on him, the system gave his conclusion: "Perhaps it has something to do with the druids not being a regular army."

So they retreated when they wanted to?He Xingwen pondered this conclusion, his eyes paused on Guangying for a few more seconds, and the ubiquitous sense of strangeness emerged again.

He Xingwen frowned, and wanted to say something, but the current situation was obviously not suitable for them to struggle with the strange feeling that there was no answer again.

So He Xingwen interrupted his thoughts and refocused on the business.

"In short, they ran away, and they didn't plan to continue this war in a short time..." He Xingwen said with a final word: "But there must be a result."

It's not like the kingdom's army really has to accompany them in a war of attrition, right?

This is too shameless!

Players who waited for half a day outside the border of Everfree Forest didn't wait for the npc to leave the Everfree Forest, let alone receive a large task.

The players' patience ran out, and whispers began to fill the air.

"What's the matter? Isn't it over?"

"Is it true that there is no movement?"

"Did the npc lose?"

One word stirred up a thousand layers of waves, and the discussions among the players instantly became lively.

"Fuck, it's not really the same as the guesses of the old buddies on the forum, is it? Planning to release a new version? The rise of tree people?"

"What? The setting of the son of the kingdom plane has fallen?"

"I said why no player can transfer to a Druid. Finally, there is a job transfer task that is so difficult. It turns out that this is the Chosen One of the next version."

"Fuck, is it true or not? Isn't it open to switch camps? If you really change the son of the plane, what are the players playing?"

"Maybe once the new version comes out, it will be open to switch camps?"

"I still don't think it's possible. The plan is obviously to use the kingdom as the player's base. How could the kingdom suddenly lose?"

"A strong enemy can promote the player's game experience, and I feel stable."

"Then is it still too late for me to gain favor with druids?"

"I guess it's a bit difficult..."

"It's a bit difficult, no one has increased favorability with Druids, and it's negative for all of them."

"Wait, I remembered. Didn't so many treants enter the kingdom before? From this point of view, this is planning to prepare for the next version, the rise of the treants! At that time, the inside and the outside should cooperate to take the kingdom in one fell swoop." Come on, isn't it flattering?"

"It's so simple? Why do I think you guys are thinking too much? Besides, are the iron-eating ants still here?" The only sober player on the scene pointed to the endless iron-eating ants outside the boundary and raised an objection: "Druids can't do anything with them."

The other players naturally ignored his words.

"So, a group of treants are in the kingdom?"

"The next version of the Chosen One..."

The players met each other's eyes, and the next second they plunged into the forest of the kingdom next to them.

The kingdom's forest was forced to liven up.

When He Xingwen came to Kingdom Forest, he never expected that he would see such a scene.

The peaceful forest in the past is no longer peaceful, and the noisy voices of players are everywhere.

He Xingwen stopped outside the forest, stared at the lively forest with swaying branches and leaves for two seconds, and wondered: "If players don't go on missions, what are they doing in the forest?"

What else can you do, harass the tree people.

The forest is already very lively from the outside, and it is even more lively inside the forest. The trees scattered in the forest are more or less surrounded by a group of players.

"I'll get it for you!"

"Are you tired after walking so much? I'll give you..." The player took out the water bottle and said courteously, "Sprinkle some water?"

"Are you looking for this? Here, come quickly, don't be preempted by other trees."

These are unpretentious players who want to gain some favor first.

But the other players were not so tactful.

"What do you think of me? Is it particularly suitable to be a Druid? Actually, let me tell you the truth, I have loved environmental protection since I was a child. I have never done anything like picking flowers and grass..."

"I'm better than him. Not only do I not do these things, I also stop other people from harming plants!"

"I'm pure. I have no selfishness in protecting the environment. I don't care about honors or rewards. I think I'm especially suitable to be a Druid."

"Although I have changed my job, my love for environmental protection is enough to make me betray my teacher!"

The tree people have been attacked by noise for a long time. Although they don't know how much the player loves environmental protection, they know exactly how much they hate it.

After working for a long time, the players who successfully harvested a bunch of negative favors also murmured.

"Is this going to work? Why do I feel like they're keeping their favor?"

"Is it because our way of gaining favorability is wrong?"

"Then how do you brush it?"

"Has no player ever gained favor from tree people and druids?"

"The favorability of this group of guys won't be locked, right?"

"It doesn't matter, I'll go directly."

A certain warrior, after working for a long time and gaining hundreds of favorable impressions, finally couldn't hold back, rushed up and boldly said: "I want to change my job to a druid!"

After being harassed for a long time, the tree man caught by him was on the verge of breaking out. He glanced at the weak and annoying player, and answered very simply: "Get lost."

To be honest, the player did not die on the spot when he harassed the tree man so much, the tree man was definitely very restrained.

Most of the credit for this is due to the king's final reminder and Arnold's repeated emphasis on the fate of violating the kingdom's laws.

The tree man didn't intend to repeat the mistakes of Arnold, and tried to see how invincible the "Holy Guard" that was said to make Arnold almost die instantly.

The arrival of He Xingwen put an end to the noisy scene.

"What? The king is here? Why is he here?"

The players who entangled the tree man soon learned of the news, whispered to each other, and shifted their attention from the tree man who only deducted favorability to the king who might bring the mission.

"Is it because the NPC lost? Come to make peace with the Treeman?"

"Where is the king?"

"Outside the forest? Why don't you come in?"

"How dangerous is it to come in? The forest is the home of tree people."

The treant, who couldn't establish a connection with the forest on the kingdom's territory at all, couldn't help but move the leaves, surprised by the ignorance of the players.

As a citizen of the kingdom, players don't know as much about the kingdom as they do.

Even the treants who haven't been in the kingdom for a long time know this clearly - in the kingdom's territory, the king controls everything.

Accompanied by the sound of discussion, the players surrounded the treants and walked out of the forest until they saw the king standing calmly outside the forest.

He seemed to have no doubt that the tree man would take the initiative to come to see him, and the appearance of standing with his arms folded was inexplicably powerful, making the whispering players shut up in unison.

Of course, this is mainly because the king deducts favorability and reputation much harder than druids and treants. Druids and treants at most deduct the favorability of a race, but the favor and reputation of the king deducts all npcs in the kingdom. , If you don't look carefully, you can't tell which reputation has been deducted from the dense notifications about the reputation deduction.

The scene finally quieted down.

The treants who came out from all over the forest looked at the king silently, as if they were looking at an unexpected visitor.

It's the momentum of confidently treating this place as his own territory again.

The conversation didn't really start until Inz stepped out of the forest at a slow pace.

He Xingwen looked up at the other party, and asked for an answer directly: "What happened to those druids?"

"They wavered." Although Inz was on the territory of the kingdom, the distance could not stop the message from nature.

The life and death of plants, the cruelty of war, and the fear of druids were clearly presented before their eyes. Inz sighed almost pity in his tone: "They are not warriors."

Same answer as the system.

He Xingwen thought for a while and said, "I don't care why they retreated suddenly, but what does it mean to disappear in the Everfree Forest after retreating?"

The players just shut up for a few minutes. Hearing this, they couldn't help but burst into heated discussions.

"Fuck, the druid ran away?"

"I'll just say that you are just guessing. Even if you plan to come up with a new version, the kingdom must be the chosen one. Look at the king's aura. Although he is much shorter than the tree man, is he cowardly?"

[Kingdom Favor -30] [Kingdom Prestige -30] [King Favor -30] [You Favor -30]...

As soon as the voice fell, a dense group of notifications jumped out of the player's eyes, and the deduction of favorability and prestige was frantic.

The lively discussion sounded for only two seconds before the spark was extinguished in an instant.

The scene returned to silence, and Inz didn't care about the players' comments at all.

"I think their meaning is obvious enough. Congratulations, your people have won."

So, isn't the druid so eager to fight a war of attrition?

After He Xingwen ruled out this guess, he was a little unbelievable: "Victory without a druid dying?"

He looked at the tree man: "I thought this was a serious enough... internal strife? Rather than treating the kingdom like a fool's game?"

The tree man swayed his branches, and said in a tone that was completely out of the way: "You have to understand that the kingdom's intervention in this matter was beyond their expectations. They never thought about facing the regular army of the previous country, so it's normal for them to behave poorly. .After all, they are still young."

The thousand-year-old druid is still young, so the king in his twenties might not be a cell?

He Xingwen was not interested in the unique concept of time of the longevity species, and said directly: "Either continue this war until the real winner or loser is determined; or the endless forest pays the price of playing with the kingdom...you can choose yourself."

"Really winning or losing?" The tree people whispered to each other, a little confused about this word: "Does it mean that one side dies completely?"

Another tree human said: "It sounds like you don't just want to help the druids solve the immediate internal strife, but also want to solve this problem forever?"

"What's the problem?" Another tree man asked slowly.

Inz answered him: "The question of the Druid's disagreement."

"Do they disagree?" A tree man asked in surprise, "What disagreement?"

"It seems to be some kind of external statement such as neutral or extreme?"

The other Treant slept for a shorter period of time and knew more, so he hurriedly explained: "Norman Jin and the others reject intelligent creatures more than Lincoln and the others?"

The tree man was even more surprised when he heard this: "How can they reject intelligent creatures more than us?"

"That's unlikely, but we're always sleeping, and intelligent beings out there know very little about us."

The tree people talked and talked, but they didn't understand what the druid's disagreement meant, but fell into more confusion.

Obviously, it is unrealistic to expect the tree people to give a solution - they don't even understand the cause of the druid infighting.

But without understanding the cause of the internal strife among the druids, isn't it too irresponsible to let them kill each other?

But the tree people had no intention of being responsible at all. Their only requirement for the druids was not to let them all die.

He Xingwen fully realized how unusual the brain circuits of the tree people who had lived for a long time were, and by the way, realized that they could not comprehend the reality of language hints at all.

He Xingwen directly gave his solution: "The kingdom needs to be treated as the winner should. Regarding the internal debate among the druids, I hope that a satisfactory final result can be reached and this meaningless internal strife will end. .”

Wouldn't it be over if I said that earlier?

The tree man stopped whispering, and the branches swayed. After a little silence, Inz told He Xingwen: "They have already started talking."

The army that was still looking for the extremist druids in the Everfree Forest also got the news from Lincoln and the others.

Lincoln listened attentively to the voice from the plants: "Don't look for it, they're here."

Yan and Huang looked around the quiet forest.

In the rustling, the vine poked its head out, and the druid who ran away not long ago appeared in front of Yan and the others again.

"We're here for peace talks." Norman Jin said with a long face, before the human army could react: "The tree man asked us to quickly end this meaningless internal strife."

The druid behind him muttered: "This word is commonly used by humans. The tree man must have been deceived by the human king."

Lincoln dismantled the situation on the spot: "The tree man's original words are clearly, since you have lost the courage to fight, then end this meaningless internal strife as soon as possible."

Yan and the others cast their gazes at Nuomanjin: I lost the courage to fight, so you ran away on the spot because you were afraid?

"It's as if you don't have the same." Norman Jin glanced at Lincoln: "Your performance is much worse than ours, and basically didn't play any role in this war."

This is not only because Norman Gold and the others are so much stronger than Lincoln, but because the neutral druids were first taken away by the cruelty of the battlefield, so that they were unable to concentrate on competing with Norman Gold and the others for control of the plants.

After the two sides exposed each other's past to show their friendship, the conversation continued.

Of course, there is actually not much nourishment in this dialogue. Most of it is mutual ridicule among the druids, and each other's dark history, and a very small part is their request for peace talks.

He Xingwen: "So, the extremist druid also made a request?"

After the kingdom's army confirmed the peace talks and withdrew from the Everfree Forest, Yan and Huang tidied up a bit, and then met He Xingwen with a detailed map of the Everfree Forest and the extremist druid's request for peace talks.

At this time, as the winner, Lincoln was very generous: "Didn't the mage also negotiate?"

Zhe put a thick document to be approved in front of He Xingwen, and took over the words: "The negotiation between the mages is over. Based on your previous request and on a reasonable basis, we have completed the following agreement and respect the mages' respect for Austrian law. Inheriting the traditions of the Arcane Academy, and respecting the old rights of mages in the territory of the Arcane Academy..."

After a series of respects, it was the kingdom's turn: "The mages should agree to the following points based on the agreement: the arcane academy belongs to the kingdom's territory, the supreme ruler of the arcane academy is the king, and the arcane academy should fulfill the needs of the kingdom's people. fulfillment of obligations, etc.”

"It may take some time for the kingdom's credit point system to be popularized in the Arcane Academy..."

When Zhe said this, he turned his head and glanced at Lincoln who was aside: "What request did the extremist druid make?"

Lincoln recalled the series of requests similar to prohibiting the kingdom's people from entering the Everfree Forest, and made a decisive decision: "I think you need to talk to them in detail to confirm whether these conditions are reasonable."

He Xingwen opened the document that Zhe handed over. On the first page of the document, there were two flamboyant signatures, and a notice popped up in front of his eyes.

[The expansion of the kingdom's territory has been detected, do you need to upgrade these areas in a targeted manner? (Considering the current situation of the kingdom, it is recommended to upgrade after completing the unification of the surrounding areas)]

He Xingwen stared at the small print for a few seconds, thinking about another question - the reason why the Dwarf Kingdom didn't jump out of this notice was because he didn't sign a binding contract with the other party?

Does that have to be added?

This idea immediately popped up in He Xingwen's mind.

South China Sea.

Under the calm sea surface, there are splendid underwater civilizations and underwater creatures beyond imagination.

It is often difficult for others to see these treasures hidden in the deep sea, but under certain coincidences, occasionally intelligent creatures will stray into them.

"Cough cough cough" Hai choked out the sea water he inhaled when he fell into the water, looked around the first time he woke up—and then met the countless sea creatures that surrounded him.

Hai held the box in his hand and sat up, only to see those sea creatures of various shapes backing away one after another, all moving in unison.

Right now Hai didn't have the time to explore the reasons for their behavior. He was looking around to obtain enough information for him to judge the current situation.

He saw the rest of the expedition team lying in a mess...in a giant bubble?

This huge bubble is ten meters high, and the npc has to stand up straight and stack up the personal tower to reach the top.

Colorful lights flashed on the bubbles, providing them with enough oxygen in a way that didn't conform to swimming cognition, and separated the sea water.

And outside this bubble, there is endless sea water. When I swim down and look down, I don't see the ground, but I see a bunch of strange creatures.

In the farther part of the sea, you can vaguely see huge crystal pillars standing in the deep sea, and they still have a strong sense of existence across a long distance.

These crystal pillars are concentrated in a certain direction, and there are many of them.

You's gaze paused for two seconds, and then returned to his eyes. In front of his eyes, to be precise, around Bubble, there were all kinds of strange creatures.

Most of them are very perfunctory, but their fighting power... Judging from the huge size of these strange creatures and the ubiquitous sharp scales, they should be called powerful.

Almost all of these strange creatures are more than a hundred meters tall - Bubble is really just a Bubble in front of them, and of course the NPC is almost like a villain who has strayed into the kingdom of adults in front of them.

Because of the large size of these strange creatures, the sense of oppression brought about by them being crowded around is also strong, but they look... seem to be very vigilant?

Youzai took a step forward in the bubble, and they all took another step back in unison.

You's gaze moved down slowly, and landed on the box he was carrying - the tightly closed box was pushed open with a slit, and the golden arms and feet rested on the mouth of the box, shaking slightly.

Intimidate the audience.

You can fully understand why they behaved like this, and the expedition team has fully realized the horror of Du Dolan through this period of voyage.

Hai sighed and shook the other expedition members awake one by one.

"We have to contact the kingdom." Hai looked at the group of huge creatures outside the bubble, "tell the king that something happened."

Hai did not treat the ship as a victim of the expedition team that fell innocently into the bottom of the sea. On the contrary, he believed from the bottom of his heart that these unlucky underwater creatures were the real victims.