novelraw #275 - Section 275
#275 - Section 275
But I don't know when it started, the mosquitoes are becoming more and more numerous, biting more and more bumps on her body, and also biting continuously and repeatedly.
Those swollen bumps are all connected!
Even if she doesn't think this threat is worth taking seriously, Taberra's mood is gradually changing.
It won't kill people, but it's disgusting, annoying, understand?
Yawensali, that useless thing, always says that she has back-and-forth with the Qing Teng Empire, but in fact, the Qing Teng Empire is carrying out crazy destruction in the outside world, that guy doesn't even look at the mini-map!
You are laning peacefully, but other lanes are about to collapse!
Although Taberra can't get away, she will definitely focus her energy on obtaining her own power of faith.
She discovered that with just the Qing Teng Empire, a mortal kingdom, the gods she cultivated, and the holy spirits she accumulated, couldn't solve it?
"A bunch of trash, complete trash, wasting so much of my power of faith, and they can't do anything!"
Taberra's expression has reached the edge of rage.
She originally thought they were just a few mosquitoes, but now the Qing Teng Empire's fleets are becoming more and more numerous, harassing her rear like crazy, giving her the illusion of breaking into a mosquito nest.
The gods have accumulated for tens of thousands of years, with extremely deep power of faith, just like a real estate company's trillions of market value, an absolute behemoth, controlling large and small churches, just like buildings.
But market value is one thing, and the cash flow in hand is another.
The gods' own abilities, the operation of the church, and the maintenance of the divine kingdom all require the consumption of the power of faith.
Although they are wealthy, they are all "fixed assets" that have settled down. Many times, in order to take immediate action, the gods need to consume massive amounts of faith power.
This is why Nariel was able to play with six gods in the palm of her hand in the form of loans.
The gods themselves would not burn their bodies like the Qing Teng Empire to use them as energy for a war.
If the gods are forced to that point, they are basically on the verge of falling, to the point of fighting with people.
At this moment, the Qing Teng Empire is interfering with Taberra's acquisition of cash flow. Although the other gods think this is harmless, Taberra is always a little uneasy.
Although this is only a mortal-level action, the degree is getting more and more intense, the frequency is getting higher and higher, attracting the attention she needs, and many times the front-line operations have become stretched.
Fortunately, the current war is being supplemented by the God of Knowledge, otherwise the Goddess of War may have to withdraw from the battle sequence.
But even so, it is not a long-term solution. Taberra is paying more and more attention to the Qing Teng Empire and the worlds attacked by the Qing Teng Empire.
"I'll let you be rampant for a while. You guys are good at stealing homes, aren't you? Give me some more time, and the big one is coming!"
Taberra's patience has reached its limit. Soon there will be a break in the front-line war actions, and she plans to take advantage of it.
Her idea is also very simple. Those fleets are running around the world, she won't catch them, but the Qing Teng Empire is always there, how can they run away?
Although Yawensali is a waste, stuck in front of the Elf Empire for a long time without being able to take it down, she also has one advantage, which is that she is obedient enough.
And she is also close enough to the Qing Teng Empire.
So Taberra issued a divine decree, and the dark elves are preparing for a super battle that mobilizes all the resources of the Underdark.
If that one breath can penetrate the Elf Empire, that would naturally be good news. If the action fails, using the war casualties as a means of sacrifice, it can just prepare for her avatar to descend.
If you can use the power of faith in other people's pockets to fight, of course you can't spend your own savings!
Gods usually do this, because mortals have limited abilities, and many things can only be done by praying to the gods, but the gods choose lambs who look almost the same.
It was the Qing Teng Empire who completely angered Taberra this time, challenging her tolerance limit through various means, and finally reached a critical point where results were about to come out...
Chapter 252: A Copy of "Xiana's Quotations" for Everyone
Three years after the Eternal Night Empress and Roger visited Target B Plane.
The existence of the Tianming Army was suppressed to death. In the minds of most people, this world is still a world ruled by gods, with churches and nobles occupying the mainstream influence.
The vast majority of suffering lambs are still contributing their labor and faith day and night, seeking a glimmer of life in the dark and endless exploitation, completely unaware of when they will be able to endure to the end of their suffering.
Perhaps, they really have to entrust everything to the afterlife, and welcome a glimmer of hope in the unconscious world after death?
In the deep mountains, that vibrant base has gathered more than one million people. Now it is a city, the military center of the Tianming Army, the holy city in the hearts of countless sufferers, named Chuanhuo City.
Pass on the spark, in the long cold night, even if there is only a spark left under the ashes, it is enough to give those who have never touched hope a little expectation for the future.
Chuanhuo City is not the mainstream city of this era. In order to deal with the encirclement and suppression by the church and nobles, it is militarized and fortified. The surface part is high walls and giant cannons, energy supply towers, and a maze-like alleyway slaughterhouse.
The main population lives underground, and supporting living facilities, factories, and farms are built in the thick underground mountains to prevent the church from escalating its divine術 attacks.
Digging out a deep mountain to build a city with a million people is definitely a long-lasting and miraculous project, even in modern Earth.
From design to construction, it requires mobilizing an unimaginable amount of labor and collecting a huge amount of materials.
There are countless technical difficulties that need to be overcome in order to complete the million-level population carrying capacity, as well as traffic and logistics channels with the outside world.
The consumption of food, clothing, housing, and transportation for a hundred people is definitely a terrifying number. Even if the city establishes production facilities to maximize self-sufficiency and form a material cycle, the technology possessed by the Tianming Army is still unable to completely get rid of trade dependence.
Moreover, such an underground city must have a complete medical system.
From body to mind, solve a series of problems caused by people living and working underground for a long time.
After all, the human body was not evolved for living underground. There are too many differences between the underground and surface environments. Not all races are like dark elves who are willing to abandon their original racial characteristics to adapt to the Underdark.
Even under the influence of divine power and magic power, the speed at which races in this world mutate to adapt to the environment is far greater than that of Earth. Three years is not enough for the races of Target B Plane to transform into a cave-dwelling state.
More importantly, living underground year after year, with the Tianming Army's military government uniformly planning life and production, and implementing semi-military management, is extremely stressful on the ruled.
Carrying the enemy's constant encirclement and suppression, facing one sacrifice after another, the residents of Chuanhuo City have always maintained extremely high efficiency in combat and production, and are becoming more and more skilled, showing an optimistic expectation for future life. It has to be said that this is an almost miraculous performance.
This is the morale that the Papal Crusades and the noble core guards can show.
Even if the comprehensive combat level, professional level, and individual combat power of these soldiers in the base, who were just ordinary people before, cannot gain an advantage when facing the elite powerhouses accumulated over a long period of time in this world.
But they have never given up fighting, and are not afraid of any head-on battles, showing unparalleled resilience.
No matter whether the enemy is the Church of the God of War or other allied forces of churches who come to join in the fun, they have all fallen under the Tianming Army's unified and three-dimensional combat system.
Although they have been suppressing the news to prevent more untouchables from knowing the existence of the Tianming Army and Chuanhuo City.
But the churches also expressed great admiration for the Tianming Army, who used messy weapons, had ugly and earthy military uniforms, and whose best equipment was even snatched from them.
They have relied on the most rudimentary conditions, but have been guarding for three years, and can continue to develop and grow stronger in the intervals between attacks, as tenacious as weeds, and will grow wildly as long as they get a tiny bit of opportunity.
The lowest level of Chuanhuo City.
An office that looks simple to the point of being heartbreaking belongs to Xiana, who is known as the Tianming Mentor and is respected by all the soldiers and affiliated residents of the entire Tianming Army.
Everyone in the Tianming Army no longer believes in gods, but they have a fervent belief in their hearts that is no less than that of the most devout believers, and that is the hope that Xiana brings them, the promised beautiful future.
Now Chuanhuo City has also set up access to the Dreadnought Space. Although not everyone is equipped with a Soul-Mimicking Bracelet, at least the administrative office is all online, which is more convenient and faster. This is far more efficient than the church and noble territories.
Xiana is currently online, conducting a discussion meeting on the future three-year development direction of the base.
Outside the office, Roger waited patiently for Xiana to finish her heavy official duties before knocking on the door and entering, looking around at the furnishings here, and couldn't help but marvel:
"It's still the same here? It's completely the opposite of your research institute in Aodu. Is the situation still so difficult now?"
Xiana was a little embarrassed. When she was still in Aodu, she lived a life of enjoying herself every day. Her research was unprecedentedly successful, and she had endless investments and funds in her hands.
She was not like Frankenstein and Lydia. She was attached to the Mystical Society's research institute, and the largest shareholder was the Eternal Night Empress. She was a completely private research institute and had absolute control over those investments.
As long as she wanted, it would be completely equivalent to personal wealth, so Xiana lived a very luxurious life during that time. She liked to buy, buy, buy to pass the emptiness, and the layout of the research institute was no worse than those of traditional nobles' castles.
That period of time is now black history for her. She glared at Roger fiercely and deliberately didn't answer:
"The situation is much better, but the expenses required in all aspects are still huge. As for me, I can rest here, and I don't need those messy things... By the way, what are you doing here again?"
"It's the Imperial New Year, and I'm here to give you a New Year's gift." Roger took out a well-packaged gift box.
"New Year... I understand, Your Majesty is celebrating, and you have nowhere to go, so you came to me for refuge!"
"Thinking about it, I'm really miserable, and I don't have the boring mood to give gifts to others."
He pretended to put the box away, but Xiana quickly said: "I was wrong, I was wrong, I'm super happy to see that you remembered me during the New Year, otherwise the customs and calendars of the two worlds are different, I'm super lonely and super lonely!"
Roger saw that she was becoming more and more spineless, and suddenly felt bored, handed the box to her, sat casually on the chair opposite her, and sighed helplessly.
Xiana happily took the gift box. She didn't have many friends, and most of them were followers in this world who wouldn't celebrate the New Year in the Eternal Night World, so Roger bringing a gift was still precious to her.
She opened the gift box, and inside was a book with a bright red cover. She couldn't help but widen her eyes: "'Xiana's Quotations'? Wait, I never said these words!"
She casually flipped through a few pages, and putting aside the old-fashioned cover design and the embarrassing title, the content inside...
...was also completely fabricated, forcibly put on her head!
Roger smiled sarcastically: "Didn't you publish a 'Theory of Gods' a few days ago? It clearly explained the relationship between gods, nobles, and believers, but such a book is actually too profound. This book will be much more widely spread."
Xiana quickly finished reading this "Xiana's Quotations" and accepted Roger's statement:
"Okay, I admit that the 'Theory of Gods' was originally intended to allow the Tianming Army to better understand our ideas and then spread them outwards, but the effect was not good. Yours is much more suitable. But this name is too embarrassing, right?"
She is not the kind of narcissistic person. She would feel embarrassed to see others summarizing her quotations while she is still alive, and maybe there will be autobiographies in the future.
"Is there a more appealing name than yours in the entire Tianming Army? Only by putting on the name of you, the mentor, will the most people want to see it."
Roger was very confident. This was an operation that had been practiced.
"Theory of Gods" is more inclined to professional treatises. For the Tianming Army's soldiers and civilians who have barely completed literacy, it is profound and complex, and it is too difficult to chew.
The quotation style is much simpler. It directly writes many conclusions into words that seem very reasonable and sharp, and it also allows the Tianming Army's grassroots officers, who have priority in civilization, to understand many of their decisions:
"A route, an experience, must be talked about often and repeatedly. It is not enough to only talk to a few people, but to make the broad masses know about it."
"In a class society, everyone lives in a certain class position, and all kinds of thoughts are branded with the mark of the class."
"Revolution is not a dinner party, not writing articles. Revolution is an uprising, a violent action of one class overthrowing another."
Many things in it are mentioned in "Theory of Gods", but the wording and strength are several levels different.
The most superficial language contains the most profound truths, knowing that the Tianming Army continues to fight the enemy and maintain a clear direction of progress. This is the value of spreading "Xiana's Quotations".
She is no longer the carefree girl she was back then. More than three years of leadership responsibility have made her grow significantly, and she can also very skillfully substitute into the perspective of ordinary people to think about problems, and she quickly understood the value contained in the book Roger took out.
It can only be said that he deserves to be the creator of "New Arcana". He is really good at creating content that can be widely spread.
“I will arrange the publication and distribution as soon as possible, thank you.” Xia Na was very touched and even regretted mocking Roger for coming to take refuge.
Even if that was true, it was not good to be so blunt, especially since he brought her a very important gift.
Yet, she had nothing to give in return.
“Don’t mention it, the better you develop here, the easier it is for the Empire to copy your work.”
Roger chuckled. In truth, it was just that he was bored a few days ago, sorting through the odds and ends in his system treasure chest, and he found a red-covered book. He didn’t even remember when he had obtained it.
At the time, he thought it would never come in handy, but when he thought about the work Xia Na was doing, he immediately realized that it would be very suitable to give it to her.
After some modification and deletion, removing the content that didn't fit this world, the remaining content about struggle was indeed very suitable for the Tianming Army's resistance against the Church and the nobles.
Thinking about it, Roger felt a little helpless again.
Although his career was developing smoothly and the situation on the various fronts controlled by the Empire was excellent, the time he personally spent back in the Empire was getting shorter and shorter.
At this moment, countless families were celebrating the New Year, but he could only be far away in another world, huddled together with Xia Na, who didn't celebrate the New Year.
Just thinking about it was miserable!
“Speaking of which, Your Majesty still doesn’t want to see you?” Xia Na noticed Roger's low mood, opened a bottle of wine, and asked softly.
Roger drank half a glass and said with a wry smile, “She’s still avoiding me. I can only hope that Tyberia will be more effective. Surely she’ll have to see me during the decisive battle, right?”
“We have received another batch of defeated and fleeing rebel armies. Take as many people as you can absorb.”
“Well, I like this return gift very much.”
“It’s not a return gift… Never mind, think whatever you want.”
Xia Na was also a little weak, and to be honest, she didn't even know what she was thinking.
This guy's mind was not on her at all. She was helping him increase his military strength to close the distance between him and the Eternal Night Empress, which was really cheap of her!
Now, Roger leads the Empire's Second Fleet, which has expanded to far exceed the size of a single fleet.
He now has twelve Godslayer-class ships and various types of support and escort ships, with a total force of nearly 500,000 people, active on the plane battlefield, and is one of Tyberia's most troublesome mosquito swarms.
The Second Fleet uses the Empire's elite as the legion, constructing the command system, but the basic source of soldiers comes from different worlds.
There are progressive people who have seen through the essence of gods, believers of the new gods who have been scattered, and children of the system.
The most numerous are still the soldiers transported from Xia Na's base, who they couldn't afford to support but had combat awareness.
Their first wish is to defend their homeland, but Transmission Fire City doesn't need so many people to defend it.
Hearing that Roger was recruiting soldiers to defeat more churches, it also attracted many people to join his fleet.