novelraw #230 - Section 230
#230 - Section 230
If following such a nation, even becoming a vassal wouldn't be so bad?
Shak subconsciously tightened his grip on the sword in his hand.
He was still filled with dread at the thought of battle, and the color of blood was jarring to him.
But from this day on, he would no longer retreat because of this fear.
When he shouted "Follow me!" inspiring the morale of the Sea Country army and breaking through the blockade painstakingly maintained by Nicol, he suddenly understood the responsibility and honor of being the Sea Country's crown prince.
He didn't need to be exceptionally talented, doing his best in every aspect; he only needed to have the courage to take responsibility and fight alongside these people who yearned for ordinary lives.
In that battle, he personally chopped off Nicol's head, and the liquid, hotter and thicker than seawater, splattered all over Shak's face, but he no longer felt fear.
He could even grab the head by its hair, hold it high, and lead his men all the way to the Black Shark Fortress.
Now, the head representing his first military achievement still hung on his mount.
He spurred his hippocampus out of the army formation and into the range of the Dark Guardians.
But no arrows were fired at him; the Nagas knew that Shak must have life-saving equipment, and ranged attacks from this distance would be useless.
The eyes of both sides converged on him. If it were before, this pressure might have made Shak nervous, tremble, or even vomit, but at this moment, he simply pursed his lips and raised the head in his hand.
"Where is Kami Blue Coral? Come and see your son! See how scared he looked before? He was calling for Daddy to save him!"
A water tornado rushed towards Shak but was easily blocked by the guards behind him.
Kami, the vice-commander of the Naga expeditionary force, stood on the camp's protective wall, roaring with a ferocious expression: "Do not insult my son! You have already defeated him!"
"I am not insulting him; I am merely stating the facts. If you don't believe me, it doesn't matter; you can return to the divine kingdom soon and personally ask little Nicol in the last moments of his life... whether he called out to Mommy or Daddy for help ~"
Shak whistled lightly, and the Sea Country soldiers behind him couldn't help but laugh.
How ridiculous, adults don't ask their parents for help; only children do that.
Who would have thought that the Naga's general would be such a spineless thing ~
Kami on the city wall was furious; if his colleagues hadn't desperately held him back, he would have rushed out to fight Shak.
But he wasn't the kind of peerless powerhouse with unparalleled personal combat strength, but a commander known for his operational and coordination skills; he might not even be able to beat Shak in a one-on-one fight.
At this moment, the morale of the Sea Country was rising, and the Naga's military morale was shaken. If the vice-commander was defeated again, I'm afraid this battle wouldn't need to be fought.
Shak suddenly restrained all smiles, straightened his body, and looked in the direction of the Nagas: "Merfolk want to live, and Nagas want to live. We ordinary individuals are not that different; we all have simple wishes and just want to survive. The sea is so vast, so why do our two countries have to fight a war?"
"Because you are heretics," Nicole answered Shak's question.
"Oh, heretics. Because we worship different gods, we are heretics. Because we are heretics, we have to fight to the death... Don't you think it's ridiculous and troublesome?" Shak looked at Nicole, his voice suddenly rising into a question, "Wouldn't it be better not to believe in gods?"
Nicole was stunned, not understanding how anyone in the world could not believe in gods, and subconsciously responded with doctrine: "God gives us light, God gives us grace, we must praise the name of God and lower our sinful heads..."
"Bullshit, bullshit, it's all bullshit! Light is given by the sun, grace is given by parents, what does it have to do with gods?"
"You are uttering blasphemous words..."
"I said it, what are you going to do to me? You and your god should all die; it's enough for mortals to live!"
Shak roared hoarsely, "In my eyes, gods only bring us conflict, bring us death, plunder our faith and wealth, and pollute the land where we live and work... This world should not have gods!"
"You damned heretic, shut up!" Nicole could no longer control her anger, and with a wave of her hand, countless holy lights enveloped down, along with the Dark Guardian Fortress, spikes rained down on Shak.
But the Sea Country's powerhouses would not allow them to attack their commander like this, and timely sent up a magical shield.
Shak trusted his subordinates, so he did not retreat, looking at Nicole with extreme disdain: "Gods are too far away, so let's start with these clerics..."
He pulled out the blood-stained blade from his waist and roared, "All troops attack, let them all roll back to the divine kingdom!"
"Roll back to the divine kingdom!"
The emotions of the Sea Race soldiers reached their peak. Combatants drew their weapons, mages chanted spells, and suicide fish swarmed towards the lush Dark Tree.
This was the final battle, no tactics were needed, just use absolute advantage to crush the enemy!
And regarding gods and the harm they cause, the corpses seen along the way were too clear to everyone, so Shak's speech completely resonated with their emotions.
This was a battle without any suspense, and the miracle that Nicole prayed for did not come.
The huge Dark Tree fell, the Naga's camp was breached, and countless generals committed suicide.
Before Nicole committed suicide, she was found by the Night Watch, who severed her connection with the Sea God, preventing her from casting even zero-level divine spells.
Nicole's expression was filled with confusion. Shak's words, although she was angry, were also because she had listened to them and thought about them, causing her anger.
If there were no divine decrees, so many Nagas wouldn't have died, right?
A young man in an Imperial military uniform appeared in front of her.
"Roger Charles?"
"You can also call me Joestar!"
"!!!"
Nicole suddenly widened her eyes, her heart skipping a beat in shock.
ps. Yesterday I wanted to grab the top three in the word count competition. I prepared 20,000 words in advance and threw them out at eleven o'clock, ready to snipe the third place.
Unexpectedly, someone threw out 40,000 words in advance, also wanting to snipe the third place.
When the event ended, I was fourth, and the original third became fifth.
I didn't get a single penny, sob sob sob, I was dumbfounded.
National Day Holiday Event: Typo Extra Update Event
Happy National Day seven-day holiday, providing everyone with a little fun, the legendary typo extra update event, let's try it too.
Let bygones be bygones, starting from chapter 206, one extra update for each typo found.
From today until the 7th.
Format requirements:
Typo - Correction
It must be standardized like this so I can see it and count it.
emmm let's see how much I can owe by the 7th
Chapter 207: He is Skilled at Fooling Young Girls
Nicole wasn't stupid. To be chosen as a saint, she was naturally considered to be extremely intelligent.
That's why she was able to stand out at a young age, confidently allowing Collins to hand over the Sea God Church to her management.
When Roger opened his mouth and admitted that he could be called "Joestar", the first thing Nicole thought of was Joestar in the Anti-Thorn Alliance group, the Terra Kingdom's spy stationed in the Empire...
She understood many things in an instant.
During this period, the changes on the land and the quiet changes in the seabed situation seemed as if an invisible hand was disrupting the entire chessboard, making her unable to understand and only feeling that the world was crazy.
But when she connected the Empire's Night Watch Commander, such an important official, with the Terra Kingdom's "spy", the Dragon King in the Anti-Thorn Alliance group, the vague scene in front of Nicole suddenly cleared up.
No wonder Terra could continuously obtain the Thorn Empire's advanced technology, no wonder the newly established orcs had such strong productivity, no wonder Crown Prince Shak was able to seize Cromwell's central army with one move, no wonder that Overlord fungus would blow up the Naga's camp at a crucial moment...
If Roger was Joestar, and the Thorn Empire was the Naga's arms supplier, combined with her own statements in the chat group, then it would be easy for Roger to do the above things and lead the final direction of the Naga and merman battle.
When Nicole first accepted Tasika's aid, she had already stepped into a trap of eternal doom.
It turned out that everything that had happened in this world recently was the Thorn Empire's layout and planning.
It turned out that the victories that the great powers were celebrating were just the victories that the Thorn Empire wanted them to see.
That Eternal Night Empress... was truly a ruthless and insidious person!
A certain empress who had just rescued a System Child from danger sneezed wildly: Who is throwing the blame on me again?
Nicole looked at Roger, her eyes flashing with shock, anger, fear, despair, and hatred in turn, and finally returning to self-deprecating calmness:
"So Tasika is the Empire's spy?"
She asked a question that she thought was quite crazy.
She actually suspected a country's queen, the leader loved by the orcs, and her "good bestie" with whom she had countless topics of conversation, to be a spy of Terra's enemy country?
But this was the only reasonable speculation that could explain the current situation.
Roger replied with a smile:
"The word spy is not suitable; we are comrades with common goals."
"Your ultimate goal of interfering with the ocean is to make the merman Sea Country another Terra, to cooperate with your performance?"
"The Naga Empire will also be another Terra."
"It's really sad, Tasika actually betrayed her faith and cooperated with you demons."
"No, it should be said that faith betrayed her first; the gods are the demons who use holy light."
Roger briefly told the story of the Thorn Empire's conquest of the orc tribes in the past.
The Goddess of War sat by and watched Old Joestar use the lives of the orcs to lay out a plan, only to kill more Imperial people to vent her anger, and finally failed, watching the orcs be defeated utterly.
Nicole remained silent, unable to speak.
A similar scene had just been staged on the seabed.
Her god was also just using the lives of the Naga expeditionary force to lay out a plan and complete the divine decree.
When the divine decree came down, the support given was minimal, but the Nagas had to bet everything to seize the landing point...
Originally, Nicole was fanatical and would not measure the cost and benefit. Dedicating herself to God was the meaning of her life.
But the great defeat of the war, Shak's words, and Roger's self-exposure, fatal blows came one after another in one day.
A crack appeared in her once unquestionable faith.
The omnipotent, loving, and tolerant Sea God did not descend a miracle to turn the tide when the Naga expeditionary force was completely defeated, which Nicole found quite unacceptable.
We launched a holy war, betting everything for God, but to God, this was just an dispensable idle move.
Hearing about Tasika's similar experience, and thinking about the history of this world over the past countless years, she suddenly realized that the gods in the sky had always been like this.
It's just that she used to be a saint and selectively turned a blind eye, not thinking about what role God played in it.
She believed that those believers were not doing well enough, their faith was not pure enough, and if it were her, she would not end up like that...
As a result, reality gave her a heavy slap in the face.
How ironic.
The expedition she painstakingly launched ultimately gained nothing, only creating countless killings and destroying countless good things.
This room was arranged in advance by the Mystic Society, with auxiliary magic arrays that could detect thought fluctuations and emotional changes, while enhancing the persuasiveness of every word Roger said.
Originally, with Nicole's strength as a legendary priest, these magic arrays and interferences should not have any effect.
But she was currently in a state of violent emotional fluctuations, and her insight and judgment had greatly declined, making it impossible for her to control her thoughts.
So, unknowingly, Roger grasped the changes in her emotions, spoke targeted content, and frantically messed with Nicole's mentality.
Faith shaped Nicole's piety, enthusiasm, and madness, but there was still a kind and soft side in her heart.
Roger frantically touched her soft side, using language to shake her, presenting the impact of this war to her, and telling her about the consequences for the Nagas next.
Nicole was about to collapse. Everything Roger said was like the whispers of ancient gods, making her unable to bear it.
If the Nagas won, seized the landing point, and fulfilled the Nagas' ten-thousand-year dream, she would become a hero.
One general succeeds and ten thousand bones wither. Since ancient times, those who achieve great things do not stick to trifles. As long as she can bring victory to the Nagas, doing something out of line will not have any consequences.
But she failed, failed completely, lost the Nagas' last bargaining chip, and introduced the evil wolf Tasika into the Nagas.
She remembered Roger saying that the Thorn Empire wanted to turn both the merman Sea Country and the Naga Empire into new Terra Kingdoms.
Their ambition was obvious.
The Nagas already owed an astronomical amount of debt, and after this failure, they would face a counterattack from the merman Sea Country.
Crown Prince Shak's growth and transformation, and his attitude towards the Nagas, would become an indelible nightmare for the Nagas.
In order to survive, the Nagas would only become more and more dependent on Terra's support, and then fall into Tasika's clutches...
Her good bestie was very kind, but she was only kind to the orcs and would not care how much blood and tears the Nagas shed.