Chapter 1267: Take advantage of weaknesses
Being suddenly released made the hidden-winged bird scout a little panicked.
"What...what do you want to do?"
The consequences of falling into the hands of the church are often self-evident.
At this time, Zong Shen was dressed like an elder.
There is also a crow's mouth mask on his face.
This kind of ornament with the obvious characteristics of the Calamity Raven is very common in the church.
"do what?"
"Of course I'm letting you go."
Zong Shen replied in a low voice.
This answer made Hidden Wing Bird Scout somewhat unexpected.
"Let me go...?"
He still couldn't believe it.
Zong Shen nodded.
"Go back and tell Archduke Jonathan."
"Prince Carter Pendragon is in the hands of our church."
"He is welcome to Jackdaw Dale within a month."
"The church is willing to have a serious discussion with His Excellency the Grand Duke about the release of the second prince."
"But if it's more than a month..."
"Hehehe."
He didn't finish his words, but anyone could hear the threat in them.
With that said, Zong Shen raised his hand and shook out a strand of hair.
Just by looking at the hair color, you can tell that it comes from a member of the Pendragon royal family.
"This is the certificate."
"It's time for you to go back and pay the Archduke the respect of the Calamity Raven Church for me."
Watching the scout take the lock of hair with his own eyes.
Zong Shen made a gesture, and several sixth-level heretic giant guardians standing behind him immediately stepped forward and put a sack with rune seals on the guy.
Then he just put it on his shoulders and took it away.
He and his birds will be released after ten hours, several hundred kilometers away.
By the time Grand Duke Jonathan received the news, Zong Shen had already run away.
This move would also prevent the hidden-winged bird scout from seeing the outside world and noticing the fact that the giant city was being emptied at an accelerated pace.
After arranging this foreshadowing, Zong Shen breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the Sanji Church's plan is clever, it might really cause trouble for Zong Shen if he is caught off guard.
But I'm sorry, in the end it was Zong who was slightly better.
Use the card to release the news that Prince Carter is in the hands of the church to further divert the attention of Archduke Jonathan.
At the same time, they kept accelerating the pace of transporting supplies and evacuated before the end of the Sanji Church's divine sacrifice.
Grasping with both hands, both hands are strong.
Considering the relationship between Prince Carter and Grand Duke Jonathan.
Even though Jackdaw Valley and the Kingdom of Avalon are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, Jonathan will definitely go to negotiate.
At that time, you can also use Prince Carter as a bargaining chip to make a big deal.
Squeeze the last bit of value out of that guy.
After completing the layout of his backhand, Zong Shen opened the big bag and released the girls.
Together with Xiao Heizi and Hamis, they help transport supplies.
Heroes only have portable storage compartments.
And after the skill points are abundant, dozens of [Item Management] points will be added.
Everyone can help transport the goods together, which can also increase the transportation capacity a lot.
After having the goal, the scene became busy again.
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Ten hours later, the released Hidden Wing Bird scout rushed to the nearest communication point.
He had to deliver this important message to the great Persian city.
The reason why Archduke Jonathan issued a war order angrily.
To a large extent, it was because of the disappearance of Prince Carter.
Therefore, this information is crucial.
As long as Grand Duke Jonathan can know the whereabouts of Prince Carter and confirm that his life is not in danger for the time being.
This will definitely ease the current tense atmosphere.
It took two hours of flying to reach the secret messaging point.
This is already the closest point to the giant city of Lentax.
Through the long-distance communication devices deployed here, messages can be sent to giant cities with nodes.
Emergency information was transmitted through messaging points to the giant city of Dapos, tens of thousands of kilometers away.
That was the rallying point for the War Order.
Archduke Jonathan has been staying there these days.
An army of nearly ten million people is rapidly gathering.
In this war order, Grand Duke Jonathan showed considerable courage.
They are ready to fight to the death with the Calamity Raven Church.
Now there are clues about the whereabouts of Prince Carter.
This war lost a very important reason for Archduke Jonathan to start.
As a high-level frontline scout, he naturally did not want a war to start out of nowhere.
A war without a reason will bring nothing, but it will kill countless people just because of the conflict of will.
Therefore, the hidden-winged bird scout did not want to see the war break out.
After arriving at the messaging point, he quickly reported the news.
But the final decision can only be made by the Grand Duke.
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The great city of Dapos.
Justice Jonathan hugged Mayfair Heiyoulan to discuss the matter of the divine sacrifice.
He planned to start from the giant city of Dapos.
As long as each giant city, village, and settlement within its jurisdiction provides some population.
The number of sacrifices to the gods of one hundred thousand souls can be easily collected.
But this matter was shady, so a more clever excuse had to be used.
At present, Archduke Jonathan has summoned the governor of the giant city of Dapos.
In the form of an emergency military order, he was ordered to send air cavalry to various places, and he must gather 100,000 "reserves" before dawn to assemble at the designated location.
At that time, this group of people will nominally be taken to other giant cities for training.
In fact, they will be taken over by the believers of the Sanji Church and become sacrifices to God.
The cruel ritual will be carried out in secret.
With the help of the power of the divine sacrifice, a large teleportation channel was opened from the giant city of Dapos to Lentax.
In this way, the seven million troops can be fully deployed within two hours.
Regardless of whether the heretics of the Calamity Raven Church have captured the giant city of Lentax.
The army under his command can have a crushing advantage.
In addition, many legendary and demigod level experts were transferred in advance.
This battle will never be too difficult.
Archduke Jonathan is quite confident about this.
When the divine sacrifice is completed, he will defeat the damn Calamity Raven Church in one fell swoop, and then take advantage of the situation to divide and isolate the Lancaster family, depriving them of control over the giant city of Lentax.
And save poor Carter.
It's simply killing two birds with one stone.
As for the mere 100,000 people who were sacrificed, it was not worth mentioning to him.
If a regional war breaks out, more than this number of people may die every day.
To Archduke Jonathan, human life is just a cold number.
This is reflected in regional tax changes and demographic reports every five years.
The Endless Continent is vast and rich in resources, especially the Kingdom of Avalon.
Located in the eastern part of the continent, the soil is fertile and the terrain is flat in most areas.
Villages and settlements can easily form.
The population is growing at an alarming rate like a wild weed.
It can be said that it is extremely cost-effective to exchange for the convenience of quickly opening a large transmission channel with only 100,000 people.
Fei'er, who was accompanying him, didn't speak.
She could feel Archduke Jonathan's ambition growing and expanding.
Having experienced the power of God, he will be addicted to it.
As long as you pay a trivial human life, you can get a lot of convenience.
This is a wonderful taste that no one in power will ever forget.
From the moment Jonathan Pendragon agreed to the divine sacrifice, it was the moment the fish took the bait.
He will not give up and will only become more addicted in the future.
At this moment, a Shadow Dragon Guard suddenly appeared beside him.
He bowed and handed Archduke Jonathan a brief letter.
As Jonathan's confidant, the high-level Shadow Dragon Guard has the right to meet at any time without reporting.
Taking the letter, Grand Duke Jonathan unfolded it.
After seeing the content above, my eyes immediately opened wide.
This information was brought back from the forward communication point closest to Magtan City.
The messenger was a Hidden-winged Bird scout who had disappeared previously.
The content of the information is very simple, that is, Prince Carter is still alive.
The Calamity Raven Church requires the Grand Duke to meet in Jackdaw Valley within thirty days to discuss the release of the prince.
Although there is no threat mentioned above.
But Grand Duke Jonathan couldn't help but feel fear.
The performance of the Calamity Raven Church this time is indeed somewhat abnormal.
Hearing the news about Carter at this juncture suddenly extinguished the fighting spirit in Grand Duke Jonathan's heart.
After all the hard work until now, everything was for Carter.
This information letter calmed him down very well.
"The matter of the divine sacrifice is put on hold for now."
He crushed the magic letter and said to Mayfair solemnly.
This change made Mayfair Heiyoulan frown.
However, she didn't have any extreme reaction, she just nodded slightly to show that she understood.
The Sanji Church also needs to rely on the command of Archduke Jonathan to draw nourishment.
She will never be impulsive.
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From Zong Shen's layout to Grand Duke Jonathan receiving the information.
Almost twelve hours passed.
From early morning to night, Zong Shen spent most of his time helping to transport supplies.
Every two or three hours, he would pay special attention to the situation of Archduke Jonathan.
This ensures that no accidents occur.
After personally participating in the material transfer, Zong Shen realized how huge the giant city-level material volume was.
He alone transported all kinds of materials to Jackdaw Valley in these ten hours.
The consumption of protecting a state city is more than enough.
And this is just a drop in the bucket of the total size of the giant city of Lentax.
In addition, Zong Shen paid special attention to it.
Penny harvested a large amount of basic resources from the lumberyards, quarries, and mineral warehouses outside the city.
According to the lord's storage unit, there are hundreds of millions of copies of each type.
The wood storage yard outside the city covers a large area, and it is full of logs stacked into towers.
The basic resource that is currently less available is hemp.
Although a lot of hemp rope was found in the city, it was only equivalent to tens of millions of hemp pieces.
Fortunately, the hemp resource is only consumed in low-level buildings.
Basically, buildings above level three do not need hemp.
As for the lack of hemp in the subsequent construction of the territory, it can be easily solved, as long as the focus is on trading the hemp resource.
What's more, the Calamity Raven Church should be able to squeeze out some basic resources.
The basic resources harvested from the giant city of Lentax are almost enough to build a quarter of the giant city.
The rest can be figured out slowly.
While compressing functional areas, this part of the construction quota is prioritized for the construction of living areas, which can fully accommodate 20 to 30 million people.
You can add them gradually in the future.
It is really difficult to build a huge city quickly.
Counting from the time of arrival to now, it is exactly half of fifty days.
It took less than two months to develop the territory to its current size. It was already a rocket ride.
In fact, basic resources are only a small item in the material reserves of the giant city of Lentax.
There are tens of thousands of items confiscated throughout the city.
The workload of counting and transshipment is huge.
Moreover, Zong Shen had previously given Penny a list of secret storage locations in the city.
Only about two-thirds of it has been inspected so far.
Many secret vaults are difficult to find even if they know their location.
There are often deadly traps inside.
Therefore, it is still too reluctant to complete the transfer of supplies across the city before dawn.
At most, it can only achieve 70% of the original plan.
Fortunately, after nightfall, Zong Shen learned the good news that Grand Duke Jonathan had changed his mind through the strategy module.
Prince Carter's status in the heart of Grand Duke Jonathan is indeed high.
This move was originally Zong Shen's backup plan, but unexpectedly, it hit his soul.
He directly grasped the Archduke's weakness.
Let him choose to give up the divine sacrifice simply and neatly.
There are even plans to lift the war order.
"Jonathan Pendragon is an impulsive guy."
"He values feelings, but is not smart enough. He is not a qualified royal prince."
Zong Shen was thinking.
Although he has never met Archduke Jonathan.
But experienced a series of overt or covert confrontations.
Jonathan's personal character portrait is still very intuitive.
He shook his head, this was good news for him anyway.
As for whether Grand Guild Jonathan would lift the war order, Zong Shen didn't care.
The blame has been completely placed on the back of the Calamity Raven Church.
The army that Archduke Jonathan had assembled in the great city of Dapos was meaningless.
Unless, he intends to use this as a dividing line to officially open a war with several other people.
But Zong Shen estimated that he would never be so impulsive before rescuing Carter.
The eastern part of the Kingdom of Avalon is a complex area.
There are six huge cities on the east coast that belong to Grand Duke Chloé and are now controlled by Princess Anna.
Most of the remaining forces of Grand Duke Chloé are in the southern part of the kingdom.
In the eastern area near the north, there are about a dozen giant cities belonging to the radical reformer camp.
This camp is a tight alliance of nobles.
This alliance is also the supporter behind the Fourth Prince.
The situation in the Kingdom of Avalon is becoming increasingly clear.
Many of them are neutral forces that have the ability to not take sides.
Among the hundreds of giant cities in the entire kingdom, the proportion of neutral forces is approximately 37%.
This ratio is not low, but it is dispersed.
Many neutral forces are now being actively courted by all parties.
It shows the situation of regional clumping.
Usually two or three adjacent giant cities form alliances with each other.
Supplemented by family marriage.
Ever since there were signs of turmoil in the kingdom.
The proportion of marriages between nobles with adjacent territories has been greatly increased.
Spontaneous small-scale grouping to increase resistance to turmoil.
This is a common self-preservation behavior.
It will contribute to the future evolution of the kingdom's situation.
Therefore, Zong Shen is very concerned about the changes in the situation in the kingdom!
