Chapter 448 Know Yourself and Your Enemy

The first person on the right is Eglas, the chief of the Mountain Tribe, and Carissa sits next to him, which is considered a seat. They naturally represent the Goliaths of the Mountain Tribe, and they can fight with up to a hundred troops.

The second person on the right is Nora. After she escorted the dark scourge plant to Misnoel, she knew that Gavin was in trouble, so she asked Zalanda to lead the hundred Nott Guards cavalry and stay here to assist Gavin. .

The third person on the right is Lola, the tree spirit. She represents the group of dark activated plants under the Tower of Domination.

These are the reinforcements on the left side, and the local troops on Tethyr's right side.

When Gavin finished introducing the general capabilities and military strength of the six parties, the entire combat conference room was silent.

Not to mention the two leaders of the mountain tribe and the tree spirit Laura, people who had limited knowledge of Gavin's background were so shocked that they couldn't open their mouths from ear to ear.

Even Daphne, who thought she was Lord Gavin's personal secretary and had eaten him through, was a little dizzy.

Although she has never seen most of the other powers, she at least knows a little bit about them, or has heard of them, but what on earth are the dark treants represented by the tree spirit Lola?

Is there any place that Misnoelle doesn’t know and can’t go to?

Although the root of the god that was sealed is gone, the nature of the sealed place has not changed. It is still an isolated place. Except for Gavin, who is the operator of the Tower of Domination, he personally uses the teleportation technique poured into the Tower of Domination. Others No one has the ability to enter or exit this place, including Daphne in the shadow state.

But there was no ordinary person present who had a fast receptive ability.

General Stelina was the first to speak: "Lord, joint operations are not necessarily a good thing, especially when so many races come together and cooperate for the first time.

Not only will they not exert supernormal strength, but they may restrain each other, especially in the case of most unnatural races.

Fighting in dense forests will have a greater impact. I suggest that before formally facing the enemy, we should conduct several exercises to cooperate. "

"This is inevitable." Gavin nodded in agreement, "It is far from enough to understand by words, especially when you need to deal with cunning enemies like drow elves. If you are not careful, not only will they be If you slip away, they will bite you back."

Gavin is now experienced in multi-racial alliances and is well aware of the difficulties, especially the various cognitive dislocations caused by racial differences. Once they are not handled well, it can easily lead to huge misunderstandings, and then draw swords against each other, or even break out conflicts. War, even if both sides are kind races.

But once they are well adjusted, the complementarity they bring can achieve the magical effect of one plus one being greater than three.

Stelina continued: "I suggest holding a self-prayer ceremony to guide the power of the fairy wilderness, giving these unnatural races the temporary ability to travel through the forest, and reducing the obstruction of the dense forest to them."

"Is there such a ceremony?" Gavin looked surprised, "What do I need to prepare?"

"There is no need to make any preparations." Stelina replied solemnly, "This ceremony is a self-ceremony. You must pray devoutly, love nature from the heart, and be willing to embrace him and accept him. Whether it succeeds or not, It’s entirely up to him and not everyone will respond.”

"Understood." Gavin nodded clearly. This thing is similar to the kobold's dragon-seeking ritual. One embraces the power of his own blood, and the other embraces the power of nature.

Gavin thought for a while and then said: "Then let everyone give it a try, but this attempt must be placed in the Tower of Domination. It has the ability to amplify people's consciousness, especially perception, which may make it easier for them." Feel the power of nature.”

"The lord looked at the arrangement, but as far as my personal experience is concerned, it is of little use, because everything depends on their personal reverence for nature. If this is lacking, no matter how powerful the perception is, it will be useless." Si Trina was somewhat unfazed.

"When it comes to reverence for nature, we Goliaths are not inferior to our friends in the forest, but we all have different reverence directions. What you revere is that nature gives birth to all life, and what we revere is the majestic power of nature. I believe At this point, we can find a common language and unlock the blessings of nature.” As the great shaman of the mountain tribe, Carissa has the most say on this matter.

Because many of her abilities are not simply the use of elements, but also guided by primitive beliefs, especially those involving Goliath's own markings. They are out-and-out natural forces, but their natural forces originate from From the earth, from the mountains.

Who said that only forests are natural?

Aren’t mountains also an important part of nature?

"Very unique way of thinking!" Stelina couldn't help but take a deep look at Carissa, not only because of the other person's unique ideas, but also because of the part of the drow blood that the other party showed.

Regarding this part, Gavin was afraid of taboos on both sides, so he did not say it directly in public.

But as mixed-bloods, especially drow mixed-bloods, they are very sensitive to each other. They can basically determine each other's condition at the first sight.

Compared with ordinary people, they are more curious about each other's hidden stories about the drow. Perhaps they want to find resonance and allies with the same hatred and hatred from this matter.

When Stelina was examining her, Carissa looked back, and their eyes met in the air. For a moment, they seemed to understand each other's eyes, smiled kindly, and seemed to have reached some kind of agreement. tacit agreement.

"There is no use in just guessing about this kind of thing. The important thing is to try. This is a very good direction. Do you have any better opinions? The main purpose of our operational meeting is not to formulate a strategic plan, but It is to pool our wisdom and provide more possibilities from multiple perspectives to completely crush the enemy's conspiracy plan." Gavin asked enthusiastically.

No matter how many people are able to complete their prayers in the end, in Gavin's opinion, they all have a good start.

"It is said in the military book that if you know your enemy and yourself, you will be victorious in every battle. Master, we are just close friends now. Can you tell us what you know about the enemy? This will make it easier for us to formulate targeted tactics." Nora asked , she is the ultimate admirer of the book of strategy, and has long memorized it by heart.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, this matter was my mistake. I forgot such an important thing." Gavin couldn't help but sigh, "Sure enough, reading military books is one thing, but actually applying them is another. ”

Fortunately, Gavin never admitted that he wrote the book of strategy, otherwise it would be a big loss.

Except for Nora and Veranika, no one else knew the deep meaning of his exclamation.

After sorting out the information in his hands, Gavin said: "The enemy intelligence I have is pieced together, and a lot of it can only be used as a reference, not as direct intelligence.

But one thing is certain, these drow elves are not spider-kissers, but followers of the masked king Velen. They are better at hiding their traces, and they are also better at driving monsters from the shadow plane, especially Night Shadow. Daphne, tell me what you gained there. "

"As ordered." Daphne, who had been prepared, stood up respectfully and replied, "Under the Mir Forest, there are three drow colonial bases: Holdbin City, Iskayur City and Delnox City. They There is a common origin in the ancient city of Aldus. This city is located underground in the Calimshan Empire. It has a huge underground network of relationships and once controlled the political situation of this slave empire.

A secret Dark Night War has been going on between the four drow cities, and Ancient Aldus City has always had the absolute advantage.

Until a masked king-priest named Masojinas, the Venomed Blade, appeared. He led an elite team called the Night Blade to defeat the spider-kissers where they did best.

Spread a large amount of intelligence information about Ancient Aldus City in the Calimshan Empire, expose their conspiracy in the Calimshan Empire, assassinate the other party's political puppets, support their own rise to power, and reveal the secrets of Ancient Aldus City's manipulation of the Calimshan Empire. , leading the Calishan Empire authorities to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Spider-Kissers.

At the beginning of this year, the followers of Velen achieved a brilliant victory.

Guodus City had no choice but to raise the Dark Mystery Lock, completely hiding itself and cutting off all connections with the ground.

The Poisoned Blade became the uncrowned king of the three drow cities. From the beginning, there were rumors that he was the chosen one of the Masked King. Once this happened, it was 100% certain.

The Masked King values ​​victory in the war with the Spider Queen above all else.

In the confrontation between the two, it is rare for the Masked King to achieve such a comprehensive victory. It is one of the few cases. The Masked King will definitely give a heavy reward. "

The first half of what Daphne said was all information extracted from the soul of the flying winged night shadow that Gavin killed.

The fate of the flying winged night shadow was the same as that of the Red Dragon Ghost. After being dragged to the Weizeme Manor, he was eaten and wiped clean, and turned into a general building bearing point. What he provided was different from what the Red Dragon Ghost provided. Not much, this seems to have a certain relationship with their life dice.

As for the last few sentences, they are obviously Delphine's personal speculation.

There was a hint of dissatisfaction in Gavin's brows, and he warned: "When sharing information, don't include too much personal conjecture. You will have the opportunity to express your own views later."

"My subordinate knows my mistake." Daphne admitted her mistake in a good-natured manner, "The matters regarding the other party's voters did not come from intelligence, but from my personal reasonable reasoning.

The three cities are all nominally loyal to the Poisoned Blade, but like all drow cities, their loyalty is not worth placing too much expectation on.

They each have their own plans and secrets.

The drow that fought against the friends of the mountain tribes before came from the city of Delnox, and the one who was killed by the lord was one of the most powerful rulers of this city, Terrifying Night Shadow Bunir.

It was they who first discovered the secret that the root of the gods was sealed under Mys Noel, and revealed it to those Moando servants.

The purpose is to use it to seize control of Myth Noel and obtain an above-ground base.

Although the terrifying night shadow Bunir was transformed into a shadow after his death, it did not hinder his resurrection. His shadow has confirmed this. "

Unless it's some extremely special spells, such as Black Heather's Prisoner of Souls.

Otherwise, ordinary ghosts, ghosts and shadows will not hinder the resurrection of the body, and in most cases, they will not destroy the existence of these spirits.

This situation is very consistent with what the dark tree people said about yesterday's me, today's me, and tomorrow's me.

The existence of these spiritual bodies represents the person he was yesterday, and the resurrected person represents the person he is today. There is no conflict between the two.

But the situation of the shadow is relatively special. The resurrected person will lose his own shadow until he destroys the shadow and then he can take back his own shadow.

Similarly, the shadow will also sense the resurrection of the main body at the first time and strive to kill the main body, because once it succeeds, it can extract all the life essence of the main body and replace it, becoming the unique me today - in other words, the person killed by his own shadow will have his soul dissipated and lose the possibility of being resurrected again. Even if the real shadow is destroyed, the real shadow will be resurrected in the end, not the original body.

Unless the gods take action personally, after resurrection, they will become new independent individuals and will not affect the real shadow.

Daphne looked at Gavin carefully and found that he did not classify this information as unauthorized speculation. Then she continued: "The population of drow elves in Delnox City is between 2,500 and 3,000, the population of Iskayu City should be about the same, and the number of Holdbin City is the largest, at least the sum of these two cities."

Hiss!

Hearing this population number, everyone present couldn't help but gasp.

More than 10,000 people, if placed in humans, really is nothing, at best it is a small city.

But placed in the drow elves, it is quite terrifying.

Because of the problem of spider queen Rose's partiality, she gave the drow elves a longer life.

I have only heard of drow elves being killed in internal strife, and rarely heard of dying of old age.

The cruel internal strife environment of the drow elves has caused their internal rhythm to be even faster than that of short-lived humans. They are typical of seizing the day and planning for the long term, which is the privilege of the strong.

But they are the long-lived species among the long-lived species, which also makes their internal quality very high.

I dare not say that everyone is extraordinary, but at least they have a professional level, and it is not too low, usually two or three or more.

Don't think that two or three is low. Drow elves are born with spell-like abilities and have three natural life dice. Their upgrade difficulty is relatively high, and naturally they are more powerful.

Stelina couldn't help but ask: "The population you are talking about refers to the population of the drow elves? Or is it counted together with the servant races?"

The drow elves are famous for enslaving other races to serve them, whether they are intelligent or not.

If these slave races are included, it is not surprising that they have so many people.

"Pure drow population, if the slave races are included, their city population will double or triple on this basis. The situation of the slave races in Holdbin and Iskayur is not clear. The most noteworthy thing about Delnox City is that there is a high-ranking Medusa lord in this city, and it has a Medusa elite team, which is best at driving petrified lizards and sneak attacks on petrified enemies." Daphne replied.

After listening to the introduction of the enemy's strength, everyone couldn't help but be 100% alert.

They look very powerful, but compared to the enemy, they seem a little bit inferior.

"What about the drow elves who are making trouble outside of Mythnoel? They can't come out in full force, right?" Norda was a typical rough but meticulous person. Although she had never fought the drow elves head-on, judging from their performance, they definitely didn't have tens of thousands of them.

If they really had this much force, they would have attacked the city on a large scale long ago.

Even the maze locks are not omnipotent. They can be broken by force. It's just a matter of cost.

Seeing that Daphne seemed to be hesitant to speak, Gavin waved his hand and said, "After the intelligence, I will talk about my personal analysis. Whether it's right or wrong, I will forgive you."

Daphne herself didn't feel anything about Gavin's harsh attitude towards her, or she was used to it.

Others looked at her sideways. Although she was his direct subordinate compared to others and acted completely according to his mood, this kind of dogma was a bit too much. However, thinking of the character of the drow elves, she seemed a little relieved.

Daphne then replied: "I think what we need to face in a short period of time should be the military force of the city of Delnox.

There are three reasons. First, the enemy is also unclear about the situation of the Lord, especially when the Lord comes with the might of the Root of Destruction God and kills Winged Night Shadow with force, they must be cautious."

"That makes sense."

Everyone nodded involuntarily. Compared with the second point, the deterrent power of the first point is stronger.

The followers of the Masked King had to be more cautious. When fighting against the Root of God, Gavin dispatched two unconventional beings.

The incarnation of Ms. Strategy is relatively easy to evaluate, but the Dragon Oak Mother Tree, which appeared in front of the world for the first time, is more unpredictable.

If they attack in a large-scale, who knows if they will provoke these two unconventional people again. At that time, their only way is to ask the Masked King to descend his incarnation.

It's fine if they win, but if they lose, the anger of the Masked King is not so easy to bear. It's not surprising that a god known for chaos and evil would do something extremely evil.

"What's the second reason?"

"The second reason is because of their nemesis. They only burned down the ancient city of Odus and wove a huge spider web in the Calimshan Empire, but did not completely crush the spider to death. The followers of the Spider Queen will not easily admit their failure, and will definitely wait for an opportunity in secret. This makes them dare not come out easily to prevent their nest from being destroyed by their nemesis.

If they lose the war with us, they will just retreat to their underground nests. The surface races won’t dare to chase them underground to fight with them.

But if they lose the war with the followers of the Spider Queen, they will most likely be uprooted. "