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With the return of Qi Lian, the last puzzle in Rhodes' hands is now completely completed. Until now, it can be said that under Rhodes, a complete system has been completely established. The internal affairs part of the territory is under the responsibility of Marlene, who is in charge of the entire finance, internal affairs and diplomatic work under Glenbel. Ann Clark also officially became Rhodes' subordinate and began to work for him. As Marlene's deputy, Ann was mainly responsible for negotiating with those chambers of commerce and merchants in the country. According to

In Marlene's report, this former young lady did have great potential in this regard. Although she was not in her experience in dealing with people, she had an innate sensitivity when facing economic changes and business negotiations. She could keenly detect the loopholes and traps in business negotiations and contracts, and pointed out it. Although An is still too naive now and cannot be "no business, no business, no business." But Marlene believes that as long as time goes by, An will become a capable assistant under Rhodes.

The military was completely handed over to Bilan Heart, recruiting soldiers, training, mobilizing and distribution of legions. This can also be said to be the busiest department in Rhodes' territory at present. Rhodes had no specific military idea before, but John had just given John the temporary responsibility for the management. John was naturally his cavalry regiment first, so he didn't care enough about the infantry. So, although Rhodes's subordinates were majestic, there were not many private soldiers at all. In addition, John's cavalry team was only more than a few hundred. Fortunately, Rhodes only needs to maintain public order, and there were small bubble gum and canary in the fortress. Otherwise, just such private soldiers would have been a mess.

However, after Bilan Zhixin took office, things changed a lot. This senior sister, who seemed to be sleepy all day long, had no big demands on her subordinates' military resources. She only had one - just be obedient, even if she lacked arms and legs, it didn't matter. As long as she could meet the conditions, fight and be loyal, it was enough.

Under such "loose" conditions, the vigorous conscription work was also launched. The fortress is now much more prosperous than before, and many nearby people immigrated here. When he heard that he was leading the main conscription, many people immediately came to sign up. Most of them passed smoothly. However, although this part of the manpower was a lot, they did not have rich combat experience. Therefore, Rhode promoted a group of experienced old mercenaries from the Starlight Guild. With the support of the reputation system, he could of course easily find those mercenaries who were very loyal and admired to join and be responsible for discipline.

And training these new recruits. Among the mercenaries, many people have retreated from the army, so they are naturally very familiar with these. They are also very skillful in doing these things, but instead solved a problem for Rhodes. As for Rhodes' decision, the mercenaries naturally welcomed them. Originally, many mercenaries chose to join the Starlight Guild in order to be valued by Rhodes in the future and become his retainers. Now, these mercenaries not only joined Rhodes' army, but also had titles such as team leader or instructor, gained fame, status and wealth, which naturally made those mercenaries extremely envious.

With such an example, the mercenaries who joined the guild began to work harder and wanted to gain Rhode's attention with their outstanding performance, and finally became his retainers and subordinates as they wished. In other places, many mercenaries joined in and wanted to develop here. In this way, the Starlight Guild also entered a virtuous cycle. In just a few days, the private soldiers under Rhode's men had increased to about 3,000. After that, in order to maintain stability, Bilan Heart temporarily suspended the recruitment work, but even so many soldiers suddenly increased, it still had a certain impact on the fortress. In this way, another person was miserable, that is, Labis.

Although the alchemy department under the charge of Labis has also become more stable with the increase in personnel, because of the current surge in the number of private soldiers, Labis and others have placed more energy on the production of alchemy potions and alchemy structures in Rhode's hands, and suspended the research and development of new potions and alchemy equipment. This made Labis complain a little, but she also knew that the resources in Rhode's hands are not enough to support her in completing those imagined inventions. After all, this requires a lot of materials. Although Rhode made a harsh note from the Alchemist Association before, these are only enough to make equipment. If you want to do research and development, it is probably not enough to double it.

Although the manpower brought back by Marlin has been greatly accelerated by Labis's production speed, the improvement is still limited after all. In this regard, Rhodes gave Labis a suggestion to Labis with reference to the production players in the game. In the game, there are also many Alchemy players. Although they occasionally work part-time to collect herbs, they have to be responsible for a series of crafts from carving to inlay to production. Even players can't bear it. It not only takes a long time, but also has low production efficiency. Therefore, Alchemy players often purchase various collected raw materials and semi-finished products from other people, and then assemble and sell them themselves.

Rhode also referred to this experience and proposed a reform plan for Labis' alchemy department. In the past, because Labis was the only one, Rhode did not propose this plan for safety reasons. However, now there are more and more people around Labis, and they are more or less proficient in alchemy and have matured conditions, so Rhode proposed this plan. That is, to divide the people at Labis into several groups, and hand over those work that are not very technical in alchemy to others, such as collecting magic plants.

For the work of making objects, making containers or engraving and casting shells, Labis can recruit some blacksmiths, herbists and craftsmen to complete them according to the design drawings, and then hand them over to the students of the academy brought by Marlene around Labis to be supervised. After the production is completed, they can also take the opportunity to select some skillful and alchemy talents from them to train them to become apprentices, and then expand the scale, and also speed up the production of alchemy equipment and potions.

Labis was objecting to Rhode's suggestion at first, but in fact it was not only her, but even Marlin and others who did not understand this. It has to be said that the people of this era were still relatively conservative. They generally believed that without sufficient alchemy knowledge, they could not produce alchemy products because they did not understand the essence of these things at all. What if there was a problem with the production?

But Rhodes disagreed with this. In his opinion, it was the work of the creator. In fact, even a worker would not prevent him from making tires without driving a car for the rest of his life. Of course, it would be a different matter if he wanted to design a new tire.

It has to be said that the power of tradition is powerful.

Although Rhodes tried his best, Labis and Marin still had doubts about this. Although they admitted that Rhodes' idea was feasible to a certain extent, they still believed that there was no sufficient knowledge of magic power equipment like alchemy that could not be made. Rhodes could not do anything about it. He was just a player, not the designer of this game, and in the game, although the semi-finished products of the alchemist players were also made by other production players. However, it was not like in reality that you need to carve and make them yourself, but just put the raw materials and what you need in front of you. Then you can start the skills to do it. Although the things you do have a certain failure rate, after success, they must be "qualified products" that meet the system program specifications. But that is the game, and this is reality. Maybe there is a difference...

In the end, both sides took a step back. Labis and Marlene agreed to hand over some of the less important work to allow those people to complete, and in the end, the important equipment inlay and carving work should be done by themselves. Of course, if it goes well, they will consider following Rhode's advice to carry out the next step of expansion...... In this regard, Rhodes can only go with them. After all, in magic technology, Labis is an alchemy master, and Marlene's Shania family is a magic family. They are experts in this regard, and they have already done what they can do. As for the effect, they can only look at it slowly in the future.

Among them, the one who comforted Rhodes the most was Christie. Now she has become a very important assistant to Labis. The drawings and drafts she designed are not only beautiful and generous, but also very practical. Even Labis, whose head is full of alchemy knowledge of the Belhems clan, couldn't help but admire it after seeing it.

However, Marlene expressed some concerns and doubts about Rhode in private. According to her observation, the magical lines in the drawings designed by Christie are not just as simple as beauty. They are all designed with some alchemy techniques. Such design drawings are simply impossible to design if they are not someone with rich alchemy knowledge and experience. But looking at Christie...... she doesn't look like she knows alchemy, and even if she starts learning from birth, she cannot achieve it.

Not to mention what kind of life Christie had lived before, Marlene knew as well as Rhodes. In that case, how could she learn the design of magic technology? What surprised Marlene even more was that after she asked her sideways, Christie had no idea what she was talking about. She said that the reason she designed this way was just because she thought it was beautiful. If a blind cat hit a dead mouse, it would be said by chance once or twice, but - it has always been like this, isn't it very abnormal?

However, Rhode did not explain much about Marlene's question, but asked her not to worry too much. In fact, although Rhode didn't know why Christie understood this, he had a vague answer in his heart, that is, everything that Christie did unconsciously was probably related to the "other Christie" he saw in his dream. Although he had only met with that "Christie" twice, each time, the other party gave him great help. She first helped herself to repair Grayhill and Madaras, and then showed him the root of the two Holy Sword cards. That "Christie" must not be a simple character. Not only that, what made Rhode feel strange was that he seemed to have seen the scene he saw in his dream somewhere... But he couldn't remember it for a moment.

However, there is no rule in the appearance of another "Christy". Although Christy often comes to Rhode to sleep with him, that "Christy" only appeared twice in Rhode's dream.

However, in recent times, Rhode has never asked Christie to come to him again, because the reason is very simple. He was entangled by Anne.

Since Anne, who was in estrus, she came to Rhode every few days to linger, which made Rhode feel a little overwhelmed. Although Marlene and Lijie had such a period after first tasted the human affairs, they all had the reserve of a girl after all, and they just secretly hinted it when facing Rhode. But Anne was completely different. Whether it was day or night, as long as there was no one, Anne would make courtships to Rhode. Faced with the meat delivered to her, Rhode naturally took the gun and fought hard without hesitation. Until the ammunition and food were exhausted, she stopped and stopped the gold and stopped the army. Not only that, Anne would come to Rhode almost every night, which also led to Rhode having to temporarily let Christie sleep in her room, so that she could encounter some "not suitable for children".

Fortunately, Rhodes' physique far exceeds the human value, otherwise he would have been squeezed out by Anne until no drop left, but even so, Rhodes felt numb under him several times and lost consciousness... Now he could only hope that Anne's estrus period would end soon, otherwise, Rhodes would have to put his face down and secretly go to Labis to help her create a few bottles of inconvenient medicine to use.

Of course, for Rhodes, this is just an interesting thing in his spare time, and besides mingling with Anne, he naturally has more important things to do.

Since the start of the Skynet plan, information from all over the continent of Light has been continuously transmitted, which also allows Rhode to obtain first-hand information. This is very useful for Rhode. Although as a top player, Rhode can be said to have experienced everything that happened on this continent before traveling through time, he is a player and not a history recorder after all. He can still remember some of the history he has participated in, but in addition, those who only hearsay only know what they happened in which year, month and day. Now, based on the information sent by "Skynet", Rhode can use this to judge the clues above, and rely on his own memory and understanding of this continent to know what is or is about to happen.

What he paid the most attention to was the news of the Kingdom of Light.

After the Dragon Soul Book, Rhodes and others patted their butts and slipped back to Mun, and they were happy. But the Council of Light fell into chaos. Under the spread of intentional and unintentional people, the old president of the Council of Parliament gave a half-kneeling ceremony to Lydia and the subsequent defeat of the Knights of the Magic spread throughout the Kingdom of Light. For a moment, the Council of Light was carried to the forefront. Many people scolded the actions of the Council of Light as humiliating. They were ashamed of their ancestors who had dedicated everything for the freedom and belief of mankind. Some even called that day the day of the National Shame, believing that the Council of Light betrayed him.

Their belief in freedom and justice has completely fallen. Even the House of Commons has filed a solemn protest to the Council of Light on behalf of the people. Not only that, the people have spontaneously organized demonstrations in front of the Council of Light to protest their weakness and incompetence. This has almost wiped out the face of the Council of Light. Not only that, judging from the situation of the territory around the Kingdom of Light, most of the territories that support the parliamentary faction have remained silent during this period, and at the same time, they have maintained a distance from the Council of Light. It seems that they are also worried that the Council of Light can stabilize the situation this time.

And Lilian also took action at this time.

It can be seen that the Majesty of the Dragon Soul of Light is still an idealist. She sent people to Darkest to talk to the people there, and made a series of decisions to re-plan and transform the place to ensure that those people can live a normal life and have a job. However, these things were definitely not what Lilian thought of, and the residents of Casablanca mixed opinions. They had already had a lot of opinions about the place Darkest, and now Lilian is willing to solve this problem, which is better for them. But on the other hand, many people are worried that this would be the first step for the Dragon Soul of Light to try to regain the dominance, and are full of concerns and doubts.

The prestige of the Council of Light began to shake, and the Dragon Soul of Light began to interfere in the internal affairs. At present, the country of Light is in chaos, and the people are worried, angry, and uneasy. Various emotions are intertwined. According to the information, even in other cities outside Casablanca, some people began to march and demonstrate to protest the inaction of the Council of Light. In addition, this time, the Council of Light has not received Moon's funds, and although the money was taken by Lilian was also used in the country. But she would definitely not use it to fill the financial loopholes of the Council of Light. It can be imagined that once next year, the Council of Light is not enough to make ends meet, they will face a greater crisis.

Rhodes knew very well that the five major consortiums would never take action at the first time. If they really wanted to completely and deeply control the Light Council, the best way was to let the financial loopholes be exposed. When the Light Council was unable to handle everything, they would appear as a savior.

Why are heroes always welcome? It is because they always appear in the demon king raging the earth, bullying men and women. Blood flows into a river. This world is full of war and death, and people are in a panic all day long in the shadow of despair. Only in this case, a hero who can defeat the demon king is the most respected and welcomed. If the demon king just ran out and laughed to the sky, he said "Hahaha, I want to destroy this world!", and was killed by the brave before he even had time to show his ambitions and ideas. Then how many people would respect this hero?

The Council of Light is not a fool. Of course, they also know the idea of ​​the five major consortiums, but Rhodes understands that they will not let the five major consortiums succeed so easily. As Rhodes said before, the reason why the Council of Light dared to seize power from the Dragon of Light is for itself. Although the five major consortiums will also exert influence on them on weekdays, the Council of Light still has political rights after all. If they are trapped by the five major consortiums this time, they will really become puppets of the five major consortiums in the future and say whatever they say. If this is the case, it would be better to continue to surrender to the Dragon of Light and be her subordinates. After all, it is still the Creation Dragon Soul, which is much nobler than a group of humans, and it is not embarrassing.

Rhodes was sure that things would not end so easily. Moreover, whenever he looked at the information coming from the country of Light in his hand. The more embarrassed the light council was, the less he could not laugh. Although as a player, he wanted the light council to die quickly, it would be better for the whole person to hang himself in Freedom Square. But now, seeing the light council so swaying, he had an unknown premonition. It was like a man standing on the plateau, watching the thick black clouds rolling in the distance, and about to cover the entire sky. Even if there is no need for weather forecast, it can be seen that a heavy rain is coming.

Sure enough, things began to change gradually.

In the information collected by Rhodes, the Council of Light was silent, but another thing slowly began to spread. That is the rumors about the Dragon Kingdom of Dark Night. I don’t know when it started. In the Country of Light, the rumors about the Dragon Kingdom of Dark Night attacking the Frontier Guard of the Kingdom of Light began to spread gradually, and the people of the Kingdom of Light gradually turned their attention away from the embarrassing situation before the Council of Light, and began to worry and talk about these things.

In fact, the border disputes between the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom and the Light Dragon Kingdom have existed in ancient times, even between Mun and the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom. As we all know, the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom is mostly undead creatures. Some of them secretly cross the border for various purposes and come to the Light Kingdom and Mun, which are more living people. Some are spies, and some are for their own necromancers or other purposes. Of course, the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom itself will definitely not admit that they are from the regular troops. Mun and the Light Kingdom did not expect them to admit that they just came back. Just like Dongfangshanyuan has always been the front line of the battle between Mun and the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom, where people have fought against undead creatures.

But now, rumors about the attack on the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom and even about to attack the Light Dragon Kingdom have begun to spread everywhere. In the past, people didn't know much about this, because most of these messages were blocked at the border, but they have never been widely circulated. But now, there are obvious problems with the spreading speed of these information. If it is only one or two places, it's okay to say, after all, this kind of thing cannot be prevented and there are always loopholes. But if the entire Light Kingdom suddenly starts to spread these, then things will be different immediately.

These rumors have caused many people in the Kingdom of Light to fall into panic, and there is even more opinion that the Council of Light is now sweeping away the majesty, and the Dragon Soul of Light wants to seize power, and the Dragon Kingdom of Dark Night obviously intends to take this opportunity to attack the Kingdom of Light!

It has to be said that this kind of opinion has a very market among the people. In the information collected by Rhodes, many people in the Kingdom of Light think so.

And at this moment, the Council of Light, which had been silent, suddenly took action.

Through diplomatic channels, they formally protested to the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom, demanding that they hand over the murderer who attacked the Border Guard of the Light Kingdom!

The Dark Night Dragon Kingdom naturally did not take the words of the Light Council seriously. Faced with the request of the Light Council, they just said that it was just an accident, and there was no evidence to prove that the attack on the Light Team was a regular army. They believed that it was done by some defected undead creatures, so they expressed regret for the attack on the Light Team and said that they would investigate it, but it was just that. You want us to hand over the murderer...... That was impossible, because the murderer did not exist at all. How should we hand over it?

However, in the face of the arguments of the Kingdom of Night, the Council of Light was unconventional. They showed a large amount of evidence and witnesses that the regular army of the Kingdom of Night was attacked by the Kingdom of Night, and made tough remarks again, demanding that the Kingdom of Night of Night must explain this.

As a result, this time, the Kingdom of Night did not play with the Council of Light. They said that there might be some misunderstandings in this. We can communicate with the Dragon Soul of Light... From this we can see that the Kingdom of Night is also very familiar with what is happening in the Kingdom of Light. They absolutely don't care about the Council of Light.

But then, things changed.

Faced with the statement of the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom, the Light Council was still unwilling to let the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom negotiate with the Dark Dragon Soul. Therefore, the Light Council once again demanded that the Dayton Kingdom must apologize and compensate. However, this time, the Light Council was not just talking nonsense. On the contrary, during their statement, several troops were mobilized to the border area where the rumored Light Kingdom was attacked by the Night Team, and they claimed that this was a routine military exercise for the new year, but everyone could see what they wanted to do.

After learning the news, Rhodes already understood that war was inevitable. (To be continued)
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