novelraw #151 - Section 151
#151 - Section 151
In the end, the plan to capture Dio was also relatively simple, consisting of three steps:
First step, open the refrigerator door...
Sorry, wrong script. Let's start over.
First step, take advantage of Dio's opportunity to attend the inner cabinet meeting at Xinghan Palace and sneak into his residence to make arrangements;
Second step, create a riot to attract the attention of the Eternal Night Empress;
Third step, cooperate from the inside out to dismantle the security forces around Dio, pick him up and sprint for a hundred meters, and then find a suitable place to sacrifice him to Nalineal.
Of course, it looks very simple with only three steps, but there are many detailed changes in the specific execution.
For example, what additional resistance might be encountered when sneaking into Dio's residence, what kind of riot to use to attract the attention of the Eternal Night Empress, and the choice of location for sacrificing Dio, etc.
These are all technical difficulties!
And most importantly, the Tianming Army's escape route after completing the operation.
Although the Tianming Army has been defined as a terrorist organization, Xia Ti doesn't want to carry out suicide attacks with her subordinates.
She is only doing this for Nalineal's interest-free gambling agreement, so that the already burdened Veronica Dynasty can alleviate some of the pressure.
Otherwise, with compounding interest, even if she really becomes the empress, she won't be able to bear it!
Constantly arranging and combining, investigating and arranging various plans and backup plans, Xia Ti doesn't know if she is too well prepared or if she is just lucky, but she finds that the preparation work is going exceptionally smoothly.
Needed a nearby location for an advance ambush, and it just so happened that someone around Dio's villa was selling a house;
To create a riot to attract the Eternal Night Empress, she learned that the Arcane Society was exploring the abyss and found a small team's trail, which could be used to mobilize the Empress to provide support;
To arrange an escape route, she just happened to find a muddle-headed official who only recognized money and didn't know what loyalty was...
This smoothness made Xia Ti a little puzzled and couldn't help but sigh: "Why is my luck so abnormally good?"
Sha Ke couldn't help but show an expression that you have been played: "Your Highness, you call this good luck? We often try more than thirty backup options, and only one or two of them have a chance of success. We haven't escaped the sensitive word of life being unsatisfactory ten times!"
Xia Ti frowned and pondered, and found that this was indeed the case, so she was relieved and didn't delve into the small doubts that suddenly arose in her heart.
Little did they know that their conversation just now scared the Dark Night Guards responsible for monitoring, and their heartbeats soared to one hundred and eighty.
This woman's intuition is really terrifying, we almost exposed ourselves!
Fortunately, she discovered the abnormality because she often doubts herself, and her shortcoming is that she is very good at doubting herself.
Someone else's word offset the truth she accidentally grasped, and now she is rushing into the big net woven by the Dark Night Guards without hesitation.
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Outside the City of Mysteries, the Stellar Temple.
Roger locked himself in his office, forbidding anyone from entering, and began to think about a very serious question.
Was his arrangement for the Tianming Mentor too merciful?
After learning that the Tianming Army wanted to capture Dio alive, his original idea was to play along, cooperate with the Tianming Army to act as if he was captured, and finally give Gou Sheng(苟圣: Cunning Saint) an unexpected reversal.
For the Empire, the Tianming Army taking down Dio's identity would help Roger break free from the identity of the Minister of History, and in the future, the despicable Empress would have no room to exploit him with super multipliers.
For Xia Ti, capturing a shadow puppet for sacrifice, even if it doesn't lead to the wrath of the gods, should be considered a waste of effort, right?
Even if Roger doesn't know about Xia Ti and Nalineal's gambling agreement, he can also deduce that Xia Ti is targeting him, and there are definitely traces of the Seven Gods behind it, rather than her original intention.
With the character of Tianming Gou Sheng(苟圣: Cunning Saint), after the Ashfort City drama ended without success, he would definitely reflect deeply and find a place to hide and reflect, and would never seamlessly rush to the City of Mysteries to target him, the weak and helpless Minister of History.
Although he doesn't understand why he is always being targeted by big figures who don't belong to this world, it should be quite fulfilling to disrupt their plans, right?
Then, relying on the intelligence advantage of the Dark Night Guards, Roger knew every step of Xia Ti's actions like the back of his hand, minimizing the impact of her actions on the City of Mysteries.
As a result, the Tianming Army's plan to capture Dio went smoothly, and his plan to let Dio be captured also went very smoothly.
But this smoothness didn't bring Roger happiness.
Instead, he felt very bored and had a feeling that something was wrong.
His plan seemed to be very, very unprofitable!
Xia Ti is about to sacrifice herself, and he still has to safely send her out of the city?
Then just wait for the plot to begin, and she will arrange for the protagonist group to bring down himself and the Empire?
Even if this drama ends with the shadow puppet saying "You guessed wrong" to the Tianming Mentor, Roger feels that this fun is not big enough.
Stepping out of his own perspective, he realized that it was simply some villains defeating the protagonist and letting him leave, and then the protagonist with divine equipment bringing teammates, and finally successfully slaying the dragon's stupid [beep] operation!
Even if he has already joined the villain camp, he completely doesn't want to become a tragic villain character because of this completely free and confusing behavior!
So, after a series of intelligence wars of "I predict your prediction", although he has an absolute advantage on the surface, Roger suddenly realized that his current operations are simply asking for trouble and ineffective output!
Because the current situation is completely different from when the Tianming Army first appeared outside Serena City.
At that time, he dissuaded the Eternal Night Empress from delaying the action against the Tianming Army for two reasons.
One was because chasing and killing was troublesome and resource-consuming, and Xia Ti, as a core believer of the God of Knowledge, had so many life-saving methods that she definitely had the possibility of counter-killing the Eternal Night Empress.
The second was because he understood the character and flaws of Xia Ti Veronica, the Tianming Gou Sheng(苟圣: Cunning Saint), and with her existence, it would be easier to control the game plot and serve as a reference for the protagonist's growth.
But now Roger has discovered that with the butterfly effect constantly occurring, the second reason no longer exists.
According to the current strength of the Empire, there is no basis for the game plot at all.
The pattern of the Qing Teng Empire, and even the Eternal Night World, has been twisted by him and the Eternal Night Empress into something completely different from the original plot.
Originally, Yong Ye(永夜: Eternal Night) Year 3 was the peak of the Qing Teng Empire's national strength, and the key moment for it to turn from prosperity to decline.
In the game, in this year, the Empire's national strength was greatly damaged due to the forced suppression of the Seventeen Kingdoms Rebellion, and domestic production recovery stagnated.
In order to maintain the operation of the country and the interests of the nobility, militarism rose in the Qing Teng Empire, and the Eternal Night Empress helplessly opened the mode of exhausting military force.
It seems that the territory is constantly expanding, but it is actually a false prosperity brought about by plunder.
The empire's population is constantly decreasing, elite soldiers are suffering heavy losses, and production cannot keep up, completely over-consuming national strength and accumulating.
And because of continuous battles, the Eternal Night Empress's physical hidden dangers are also getting bigger and bigger.
At the same time, the Qing Teng Empire's endless barbaric conquests aroused the panic of the surrounding countries, and the power of the church expanded unprecedentedly.
The Tianming Army, as the front-line organization against Qing Teng, received support from all races and was able to develop rapidly.
Finally, the protagonist group successfully completed the layout to kill the Eternal Night Empress and disintegrate the Qing Teng Empire.
Looking back at the gods' game, they directly used their own power very little.
Only in the key battle of the Qing Teng Empire's conquest of the Elf Empire, the God of Nature descended an avatar to protect the World Tree, injuring the Eternal Night Empress, who was already at the end of her strength, causing the empire's military morale to be scattered and unable to fight, and could only retreat.
It seems to be just a failure, but the Qing Teng Empire really couldn't afford to delay at that time. The bitter fruit of failure led to unprecedented intensification of various domestic contradictions, and then there was inevitable destruction.
But the Qing Teng Empire after Roger's transmigration easily solved the Seventeen Kingdoms Rebellion, not only did not lose national strength, but also made a lot of wealth accumulation, and won the hearts of the people.
As for the militaristic hidden dangers of the aristocratic class, it has now basically declared a complete withdrawal from the empire's political stage.
The empire has achieved central centralization, and whether to fight or make peace completely depends on the Eternal Night Empress's mood.
The publication of "New Arcana", magical industrialization is brewing, and the empire's agricultural and industrial indexes are rising like a snowball...
The battle to conquer the Beastmen tribe was won cleanly and neatly, and no country around it dared to actively invade the empire.
The Eternal Night Empress only wants to accumulate national strength during this period, and is preparing to wait until she has developed well before winning a big one.
With all these conditions combined, the empire's national strength will only get better and better, and there is no sign of decline at all.
Therefore, in Yong Ye(永夜: Eternal Night) Year 3, the empire will no longer turn from prosperity to decline, but will become a key node for turning from prosperity to even more prosperity.
In contrast, the Tianming Army launched in advance, and the mass base is very poor.
The surrounding church states do not have a sense of crisis, so there is no reason to support the Tianming Army.
Most importantly, as time goes by, the empire is getting stronger and stronger, and the Eternal Night Empress is also getting stronger and stronger after embarking on the path of extreme self.
In the plot, the protagonist group faced an empire at the end of its strength, and had to pay several weeks of price to find out the perfect ending to subvert the empire.
Now the empire is in full swing, but the Tianming Army is useless, and with the ebb and flow, the protagonist group has no possibility of reproducing the game plot.
In summary, under the butterfly effect, the Tianming Army will inevitably be abandoned by the Seven Gods, and Roger will not be able to use the Tianming Gou Sheng(苟圣: Cunning Saint) as a reference...
The empire's strength has been improved, it is possible to directly face the Seven Gods, or it is possible that the Seven Gods feel that this world is too thorny and give up, as Roger expected.
Then, on second thought, keeping the Tianming Gou Sheng(苟圣: Cunning Saint) doesn't seem to be of any use?
If the empire doesn't have diabetes, then eating metformin only has side effects, and is completely harmful and not beneficial?
After some reflection, Roger developed a strong interest in the suggestions of some of his subordinates:
The leader of the Tianming Army and the main members appeared one after another, and an extra prince of the Mermaid Sea Kingdom was given as a gift. This is a great opportunity to make a delicious hotpot!
Especially since the Dark Night Guards have absolute intelligence advantage and are fighting on their home turf, there is no reason to let go of this credit that is delivered to their mouths!
The Tianming Army created the Ashfort City massacre and proved that they have considerable terrifying strength.
If the Dark Night Guards can wipe out their living forces in one fell swoop, making them unable to carry out destruction again, wouldn't that prove that their strength is even more terrifying?
You want to capture me, Dio, alive, and even have me surrounded?
Sorry, it's me, Dio, who has you surrounded!
Come all and be prisoners!
To be honest, thinking about this scene, Roger was moved.
But one thing is that the Dark Night Guards' strength alone is not enough to take down the Tianming Army.
He knows the strength of the Tianming Gou Sheng(苟圣: Cunning Saint) very well, far surpassing ordinary legends, at least at the level of one-tenth of the Eternal Night Empress, right?
"So, we must call for strategic support!"
Roger stroked the Zheng character on his thigh and applied to enter the palace for a secret talk.
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But at this moment, the Eternal Night Empress is not in the Feng Ling Yue Ying Palace.
She is not even in this world.
The Bottomless Abyss, a certain layer, a temporary camp constructed by magical power.
The Eternal Night Empress is an elite team of the Arcane Society, after she witnessed the dream of the Goddess of War appearing from the abyss, sent to explore the situation of the abyss.
But several teams spent a lot of time, sampled many layers of the abyss, and did not find any abnormalities.
The demons generated by chaotic power are still fighting each other, blood-battling with devils, coveting the material plane, and doing all sorts of inexplicable things every day...
Powerful demon lords such as the Succubus Queen, on the other hand, have a tendency to restrain their nature and shift to the order camp, intending to use the skills of devils to control ghosts...
According to the evaluation of the Arcane Society, the abyss is still the same as before, there is no change at all, and no "traces of the Seven Gods' activities" prompted by His Majesty have been found.
Fortunately, the Arcane Society is extremely loyal to the Eternal Night Empress. After observing that they have not found valuable information, they decided to go to the demons, hoping to exchange more information.
The fastest way to integrate into the demons is through blood-battle.
No matter which plane you come from, as long as you want to fight, the front-line commander will welcome you with six limbs.
Oh, because this team encountered a four-armed snake demon.
Anyway, the blood-battle never stops, and there are never enough cannon fodder.
The native inhabitants of the outer layers will always arrange for travelers from the main plane to the most dangerous battlefield with a very bad taste, watching those hicks fall into the endless stream of enemies, revealing desperate expressions.
Fortunately, the Arcane Society has enough understanding of the blood-battle battlefield, and the equipment has also been strengthened in a targeted manner.
The intensity of ordinary wars cannot stop them at all.
Not only did they not die, but on the contrary, they fought very bravely, with a sense of endless scoring.
Compared to Lord Kaz's Endless Tower, the intensity of this blood-battle is too low, right?
Everyone intentionally piled up military merits on one person. In a very short time, they actually created a "strong man from the main plane" who quickly rose among the demons.
Hicks will be ridiculed, but strong people who fight more and more bravely will be respected in any world.
The legendary mage of the Arcane Society who piled up all the team's military merits was promoted to a position similar to that of a division commander in a very short time.
He heard a very interesting piece of news from an old demon lord: the abyss layer where he was born has been inaccessible since some time ago, as if it disappeared out of thin air.
It's just that the abyss is endless, and the demons are chaotic by nature. No one will accurately count how many layers disappear and how many new layers are born.