Everyone has their own way of survival. The great lord who wants to be a king has one set, and the civilians who are recruited to fight have another set. And if these civilians who want to survive on the battlefield and make some money unite with the old nobles who want to escape from Feinberg as soon as possible and enter the model leader, the two ways of survival are integrated, and then a profit-filled Yangguan Avenue will be born.
What is internal and external cooperation? Feinberg's nobles, Aria's commander, soldiers from both sides, and Feiqi Hall who was in the rear, cooperated with them. With the earls in the center, some allies and nobles who were close to the Hall family supported each other, and with the prestige of the Marquis of Famas, nothing could be done. Feiqi even suspected that the Marquis of Famas himself, who was missing on the battlefield, might also be mixed up. No one exposed this matter, let alone investigated it. This was a tacit understanding.
Opposite the tacit understanding, on the other side of a "camp boundary", Aria was busy. He was busy meeting the surrendered nobles, appeased the citizens, dealing with the endless public security incidents, and even more busy with the ceremony of his promotion to the king. But at this time, he saw everyone like a bad person. So, doing it himself was equivalent to being unable to do it, which was a good opportunity for his subordinates to do their own things.
The large convoy of Minas Ishir went in empty and left with a load, just like an ant moving. Fitch relied on "home learning" and knew very well that he was able to share the benefits and never ate alone. The Lighthouse Corner is his own family and is indispensable. The Arian nobles gathered by Earl Hall must also manage the land they passed along the way, even the Anlin Corner of Gresham was affordable. Of course, the Feinberg nobles now valued the most safety and protection, as well as the hope of making a comeback. This is a product that only the model corporation can provide, and of course they have to sell it at a good price.
Such an opportunity is once a year old, and Fitch stayed in the Lighthouse for a while. Anyway, his brother was a lord here, and everything was free of charge, which was lower than living in Minas Ishir. By the way, he designed and created a protective rune array for Andrew's new castle, which was enough to deal with the invasion of most enemies.
What spell should be used? The main spell is of course the earth element bondage. After all, the effect this magic can have in dealing with ground enemies is beyond imagination. As long as the magic array is activated, countless earth element tentacles will extend from the city walls, ground and ceiling, turning the entire area into a "hair ball monster". Any action towards the inside of the castle will trigger the attack of the spell, followed by binding, tightening and hanging. This spell will not attack the goddess' priest and paladin, so Andrew and most of his guard knights can move freely. For this design, Andrew's adjutant Pierce expressed opposition because he was just an ordinary knight, missing the word "saint". However, the opposition was invalid, and before they knew what the spell was, Fitch had completed the work.
"Don't worry, this magic array is absolutely easy to use, and its biggest advantage is that it saves money. On the ground, the earth element is a better source of energy collected than thunder, so its maintenance cost is very low. And once it is filled, the earth element tentacles will tighten the city wall like the roots of trees to strengthen it." Feiqi said very seriously: "Believe me, I am definitely not trying to practice your spells with your spell rune materials."
Andrew rolled his eyes, but his younger brother took advantage of him. He had been used to it since he was a child. "Feich, have you received the letter? Did Little is coming. I think this elf woman is afraid that her chief consultant will stay in a better lighthouse all day and then be abducted, so come to you quickly?"
"Please don't use the word "kill", it seems that I will be interested in men."
"Yes, you've passed that stage."
Damn! What did you say! Feige widened his eyes and looked down at his body. Did "Master Hall" ever do that kind of thing?! Andrew looked at his expression and suddenly laughed: "Okay, I know I promised you not to mention it, but the scene at that time was indeed very similar, and it always made people want to laugh. Sometimes you can't tell the difference between men and women. You haven't noticed Eddie dressed as a man for so long, and you didn't recognize the liar who dressed as a man..."
"Are Paladins so noisy now?" Feiqi didn't want to talk about this issue again: "Dear Lord, you are very idle today. Is there nothing to do outside?"
"The autumn harvest has ended. After the celebration, the road is being built. This was done last year. This year is no different, so it is quite leisurely. I thought this year was dull, but I didn't expect that I could earn more income because of Feinberg's war."
"Yes, this is indeed an unexpected surprise. I didn't think that smuggling nobles could make money like this." Feiqi spread his hands: "Now I understand, the nobles in this world are like fruit trees, and they can pick them from time to time."
"What are you saying? War is bad, and it is the same for the conflict between nobles. Alas, I am not qualified to say to you. You understand more than me in many things. By the way, Aria is preparing to officially become king next spring. His Majesty King Saloyan Aria, how does this title sound like?"
"Next spring, so fast? Why is he anxious?" Feiqi snorted: "So what if he becomes the king? He is essentially a grand duke with more land than before, and the stool under his butt is becoming increasingly unstable. Anyway, I don't like this king, and he can't forgive me, why should I cheer for his ascension to the throne?"
"I think so too." Andrew nodded: "Originally, the main function of the Lighthouse Leader is to isolate the influence of the Model Leader on the Principality of Aria. I should be slightly biased towards Aria. But now it seems that a king who is untrustworthy is not worth biasing towards him."
"That's right. Although the church is a bit bureaucratic and pedantic, and cannot understand some things well enough, he will shirke responsibility..." Feiqi wanted to continue, but Andrew stared at him, so he hurriedly said, "But! But the church still follows the rules. If you have faith, you will protect your own people. This is much better than the king!"
"When he ascended the throne, I will send someone to give him a gift." Andrew suddenly frowned: "Fech, do you say that your father is still in the Principality of Aria, will it be in danger? And his mother, younger brother and younger sister..."
"It will be a bit dangerous, but I believe the Earl can handle it. Moreover, picking up other people is a sign of preparation for action, and it may be a waste of time. Why not do this? Send someone you can trust and ask. If the Earl agrees, you can take them to the lighthouse to get them. Make up any reason and say... your wife is about to give birth."
"You don't speak like a nobleman, you deliberately make me anxious?" Andrew shook his head: "Okay, I'll go to the butler to see how the banquet is prepared. What do the elves like to eat? Do Did Little have any preferences?"
"Just prepare whatever you want, just have more fruits, don't slaughter live animals on site. Diderit likes chicken and red fruit."
Andrew made a strange expression of "It turns out to be so, I understand" and left with a "weird" smile, which made Monk Feich lose his mind. Diderit was a little beyond Feich's expectation. He just wrote a letter to ask Eddie to come over and take over the job of smuggling nobles and noble assets as soon as possible. What's wrong with Diedier! Moreover, there are still a lot of resettlement work in the territory, so how did Diedier find time?
No matter what, she will be here today, just ask again when meeting. Feiqi sent Andrew away and got a rare time without anyone to disturb him - of course, Shani's company has never been disturbed. If she was not in sight, Feiqi would feel uncomfortable all over. What is this time used for? Of course it is for research! The recent research progress made him feel that it was time to figure out some problems.
When he was with Shani, Feiqi had many wonderful ideas, but he still needed some prerequisites to put the ideas into practice. Recently, he has obtained some clues that may help solve the current chaotic mysteries.
He just needs to use the soul-harvesting dagger to gently cut a small wound and he can return to hell smoothly. Before, he had never considered whether this "setting" was reasonable, but now he wants to understand the magic principle behind it. Every time he enters hell like this, he will "wake up" in the throne hall in the state of the soul. However, according to his previous discovery when calculating the flow rate of time with a pocket watch, Fitch will spend a little more time than returning to the world every time he enters hell.
Hell welcomes all souls to "fall". Even if angels want to enter, they are just preparing for the army to fight without being turned away. On the contrary, the mortal world has a barrier to the entry of the devil, especially under the management of the Goddess of Truth, it will be difficult for normal devils to break in. Therefore, entering hell is more time-consuming than returning to the human world. This does not make sense in theory, and it should not be the opposite.
So, he designed a test method. First, he took the dagger and gently stabbed it on the back of his hand.
Once again, Yan Rui "opened his eyes" and "discovered" that he was standing in the throne hall, no different from the past - except for having more questions in his heart. He did not say a word, waiting in the hall, with eyes made of black fog in soul body looking around nervously.
At this time, in the mortal world, Shani looked at the pocket watch given to her by Feiqi. When the pointer was walking two squares, she grabbed Feiqi's hand holding the soul-harvesting dagger and slashed it on Midnight. The black cat's innocent and helpless eyes left an extremely deep impression on Shani, but her obedient and unstoppable spirit also moved her. This means that Midnight can't speak, otherwise it would definitely accuse Feiqi of his enslavement and control of it, and the irresistible temptation that the little fish could not resist.
Fitch can take Midnight into hell, or leave it in the mortal world to guard the "corpse". Now, with Shani who can be trusted, the guard work of Midnight has become a substitute, so it is automatically "promoted" to experimental materials. They communicate with their souls, and in theory, they should enter hell in the same way. Then by observing Midnight, just like observing themselves through a mirror, you can know what the "soul body" is.
Silently calculating the time, then there was movement on the soul crystal, and Yan Rui immediately ran over.
The soul crystal is a huge red columnar polyhedral, which usually emits a faint fluorescence and will be slightly brighter when absorbing the soul. It occupies a square room in hell, living in the center, and naturally has no decoration around it. Because he wants to return to the mortal world from here, Yan Rui has been here many times and has stopped and stared for a long time, but he never saw any strangeness or clues.
"That's because my soul is different from other souls used to 'take the account'."
Midnight is coming, and a black liquid suddenly appears in the center of the soul crystal column, about the size of a person. It tumbling and looks very sticky, like greasy ink. At the same time, a very vague, huge human-shaped outline that can be said to be looming is presented in the soul crystal, wrapped in this black liquid.
The black liquid looks unstable, rushing left and right; the huge outline is not stable, blocking left and right, and the two are in a certain confrontation. It can be seen that about one or two drops of black liquid are separated from the main body, gradually vaporized, and then slowly move outside the soul crystal.
After this change, the huge outline became quiet. At this time, Yan Rui was finally able to recognize that it was a devil. It was a strong devil with wings closed behind the back, with a long tail and a horn on his head, but its horn was missing, and the left and right became asymmetrical. But from the outline, both the Horn Demon and the Deep Demon were in line with this image, but considering the material of the soul harvesting dagger in his hand, Yan Rui felt that the Horn Demon could be eliminated.
After the separated liquid droplets were vaporized, they turned into clouds and mist and left the room of the Soul Crystal. Feiqi followed it, then watched it stop in the corner of the Throne Hall, and then slowly turned into midnight. The magic pet kitten opened his eyes, as if he had just woken up, and his unscrupulous owner glanced at him, curled up and waited for him to go home, and there were dried fish when he went home...
"It's just a contract demon? I'll go! I don't believe it!" Yan Rui rolled his eyes. There was only one explanation in the previous situation: the fork-way demon is probably a deep-sentence demon. For some reason or purpose, he used the appearance of the contract demon to deceive. The core of this hell territory: the soul crystal, which is actually the embodiment of its ability as a deep-sentence demon.
Every Deep Demon is a competitor of the Hell Lord's position, and the power of the Hell Lord is the territory! Yan Rui slapped his head, and now he can finally match the clues. "A contract demon who is smart and capable of obtaining territory" is a story that sounds very legendary and difficult to do, so it will mislead people and think it is true. People have this problem, which is usually defined as "self-righteous", "smart but mistaken by intelligence" - "Smart is like a contract demon, and will not deceive people with lies that will obviously be exposed, so this must be true. The more legendary the story is, the more authentic it is."
It is undeniable that legends do exist, but what is more common is boring, ordinary, and unscrupulous. A deep-sacred demon who already has a territory needs to disguise himself as a contract demon because of some change, which is more credible in reality. It is too wasteful to actively lower the ranks, and the devil always pursues power. Therefore, the soul crystal, which can store soul energy, is created. Continuously collecting souls and storing them here, the contract demon can turn back into the deep-sacred demon.
If you think about it this way, the question of the Hell Contract can also be answered. Baier is now the lord of the first level of hell, and the former lord is Zarel. The change of lords is always accompanied by betrayal, combat and killing. Since there are devils who will be promoted, then there are devils who will be demoted. If the Fork Demon is from Zarel, then it can explain why it has the Hell Contract signed by Zarel, and it can also explain why it was derogated. Of course, the greater possibility is that the Fork Demon wants to please both sides, but he is not a human being. He can only run to the seventh level to hide in order to make a comeback.
To hide and pay 20% of the property, and then make a comeback, is it too much like the nobles of Feinberg now. Isn’t the family of Marquis Mafas doing this?
But what is the black thing? Why can Yan Rui separate and form a soul body? Yan Rui has never found his connection with this world, nor does he know why he was summoned to travel through time. Now he found that what is more closely connected with him is not the devil, but the black thing.
Judging from the struggle state of the black unknown matter and the devil's outline in the soul crystal, they are hostile to each other and are currently in a balance. However, every time Yan Rui enters hell, he will divide the black unknown matter; every minute Yan Rui earns will strengthen the devil, so the balance will be broken sooner or later. "It's really a link, and there are traps everywhere! He walked in without realizing it..." Yan Rui sat on the throne, and in the mirrors on the left and right, the avatars of the Fork Road Demon and Master Hall appeared.
"How many layers of chain deception is this?" Yan Rui said to the fork-road demon: "The identity of Master Hall is the first layer, the temptation of the devil's ability is the second layer, the third layer is the recovery of his body, and the welfare of the hell territory is the fourth layer..."
In fact, he also discovered many layers of "hell contract", "real hell contract", "deep devil refining", "hell first-level lord battle", etc., but Yan Rui did not want to reveal all his discoveries to the fork demon. The fork demon sets up layers of traps. As long as he felt that he was sure to win at any previous layer, he unintentionally gave up and continued digging downwards, and decided to take action against the fork demon, then he would be cheated.
"I still think I'm smarter than you and can find your loopholes." Yan Rui said to the fork-way demon: "But pride is a sin, and I must be careful of this. I'm smarter than you, but you have a longer life, can create a deeper situation, and then defeat me with the accumulation of time."
"What are you talking about? I didn't want to defeat you. Let's cooperate and then part ways, right?" The road demon looked confused and said in a caring tone: "What's wrong with you? Are you too tired recently? Are you having any worries? I think you haven't killed the demon for a long time."
Yan Rui looked at it, his eyes narrowed, and his fingers gently tapped the throne. After collecting the clues, his thoughts jumped out of the previous Devil Contract and the Hell Contract, and began to look at a larger angle. "Forward Demon, Master Hall, you two tell me what my parents are called? What is the name of the place I came from? Under what circumstances is 1+1 equal to 10?"
Both people in the mirror were silent. Yan Rui looked at the mirror on the left and said to Young Master Hall's confused face: "The fork-way demon has reason to hide whether he is aware of it and thus confuse me, but you have not. According to the identity arrangement, you should be on the side of me, but you just have a weird temper. So tell me what the answer to those three questions are."
"No, I don't know, this is something I don't know. You are in the dominant position and I can't see your memory." Master Hall said.
"You do not know, but it has nothing to do with my memory, but..." Yan Rui turned to look at the fork-way demon: "It's because Feiqi Hall has no autonomy. He has lost to you, and he has his body and soul. He is just an illusion, a place to temporarily store 'me'. He is not the party to the fight, he is not my ally, but an assassin you arranged by me. He doesn't know, just because you don't know!"
The Fork Road Demon smiled, and then the avatars in both mirrors became it. "I admit, you caught me. Can you tell me how you started to doubt?"
Because Feige Hall's memory does not have any information about him and the Forward Demon contract, this contract cannot be found everywhere. In addition to being hidden, there is another possibility that the contract cannot be found: it has been executed and can be destroyed.
"No, I don't want to tell you." Yan Rui shook his head and said, "I only know that from this moment on, no matter in hell or the mortal world, there is no more Feiqi Hall, only me."
"It's as you like." The Forbidden Road Demon smiled slightly: "Then what, can we continue to cooperate?"
"Of course. I really like the identity of Feige Hall, and I really like the ability of the contract demon. I have been doing well in the world and have been much better than my previous life. Moreover, since Feige Hall is no longer there, his body is my trophy, and I can do something that felt a little awkward before."
"But you promised that you take your body back, let me out, and then we part ways: you go and enjoy your life, and I become the devil of freedom."
"If I am not tired of this body, if I don't have so much obsession with getting my original body, why do I have to help you restore your freedom and why do I have to return to the original situation? In fact, I don't owe Fitch Hall anything, let alone you." Yan Rui sat on the throne, breathed comfortably, and then deliberately said to the fork-way demon: "How great this is! I kill the demon, the church likes me, and hell likes me too. I get the reward and I become stronger! I have territory, wealth, beauty and status, and I still have an immortal body!"
"No! That's all mine! They're all mine!" The fork demon roared loudly.
"Shut up, I am the one sitting on the throne here." Yan Rui snapped his fingers, and the sound of the fork-way demon could not be heard from the mirror, even if it opened its mouth wide and shouted wildly.
"Midnight, come with me." Yan Rui-or Feiqi, there is no difference or misunderstanding now. One person and one cat open the passage to hell, walked out of the hall, and came outside the ruins.
Hell made a body of a contract demon for him and automatically installed his soul in it.
"Only the soul body is real." Yan Rui can confirm it now. "There is still blocking the unknown black substance between my soul and the devil, so the fork-way demon cannot obtain my memory. All the information it knows about me was told by me before."
"Whether it is harvesting a dagger with the soul, or the devil's contract, or the hell's favor, or even the hell contract obtained by killing the demon, this is all given by the fork-way devil. With the help of these, it will always be stronger than me." Yan Rui looked at his devil's palm and smiled bitterly: "Especially putting the demon into the territory and killing it, isn't this equivalent to directly increasing the achievements of the devil? This devil is not me, but the fork-way devil, the outline of the deep scrubbing demon in the soul crystal. The good feeling of hell? It's just to give me some sweetness."
"All the previous plans cannot completely solve the problem. In the end, there is only one way to go: self-reliance and hard work. There is never a shortcut to self-success. If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?"
Yan Rui raised his head and looked at the gray sky. If he passed through the clouds, he could see the bottom of the sixth floor of hell. Above it, there was 54321. The eternal war between the devil and the demon continued on the top layer. There was Baier, the lord of hell, and the secret of the former lord Zarier. Yan Rui (Feich) gradually figured it out that if he wanted to defeat a devil in hell, he could only follow the method of hell. The mortal cleverness belonging to humans is meaningless.
The reason is very simple. Hell itself is order, a completely evil order. It is neither tolerated chaos nor allowed to exist. Therefore, there is no other logic, no other reason, and no room for other plans and plans to be implemented!
"It seems that my two-faced sects are going to play to the end... well, I have no faith in the Kingdom of God, and the same is true in the mortal world, so why not in hell? What's next is just facing one test after another. Even if they come like a tide, what's the fear? After all, I'm stronger than the fork demon! Whether in intelligence or combat power! Level suppression? Level suppression! This is the most powerful and essential force in hell! The power of evil order! You can turn from a inferior demon into a contract demon, or even a deep-sinned demon. Can I not do it?" Feiqi sighed, but then laughed louder and his voice became higher and higher.
Chapter completed!