Chapter 132 Shady Has Lost Value
The life of Shaq, the prince of the sea country, suddenly became busy, but his mood was very good.
Because Shady was finally going to catch Roger, he finally felt the hope of going home.
The sea is calling!
Shady's IQ completely crushed her existence. Having seen through Roger's true identity and setting the goal of arresting Dio, their preparations have been very smooth.
The security forces he enjoys are completely different from the duke's brother and the commander of the night guard.
Even though Dio must have arranged for a dark protective power, the dark power must be hidden after all, and the absolute number will be greatly limited.
Moreover, for Dio's residence, the scope of daily activities and security standards are laxer than Roger's.
"Because his greatest protection is to hide his true identity. If he mobilizes the crowd, it will arouse suspicion." Shady concluded.
After the series of operations performed by the Night Guards on the noble class, Roger's reputation in the hearts of the people of the empire was skyrocketing, but there were also a large number of nobles whose living standards had seriously declined, who hated him to the bone.
These people can't take revenge on the Queen of Eternal Night. If they don't keep it together, they will be a little bit upset and try every means to take revenge on Roger.
Some escaped from the Green Vines Empire, wandering outside, missing their good life in the past, and their mood at that time. Maybe they would also want to change their minds with Roger's limit.
As an exiled ex-princess, Shady is very able to empathize with the thoughts of these nobles.
In the dark underground world, Roger's head bounty had already reached tens of millions of gold coins, but no killer or organization dared to accept it.
The formidable combat power displayed by the Dark Night Guard and the great reputation of the Eternal Night Queen is enough to make even legendary assassins flinch.
There are many ways to make money, why would you take the risk to earn something that would kill you if you were not careful?
But even so, with the reward, Roger's travel will inevitably be affected.
The security forces provided by the Queen of Eternal Night and his sister also made his life much more inconvenient, so he would be more careful when going out.
From Shady's point of view, the side of the Eternal Night Empress can be regarded as sophisticated and scheming, thus arranging Dio's false identity for Roger early on.
So those nobles are a bunch of stupid pigs, completely falling into the schemes of the Queen of Eternal Night without knowing it
Without the constraints of the nobles, the Queen of Eternal Night is directly in charge of the Green Vines Empire, making it more difficult for the Tianming Army to start an uprising, and Shady also has a headache for the subsequent actions
It's all the fault of these damned nobles, who collectively fell into a series of schemes arranged by the Queen of Eternal Night.
A certain queen who had a lot of fun: A chain trick? Meow meow meow?
In short, Shady felt that Roger's caution, to a certain extent, was quite a legacy of his own.
On the surface, a magic puppet with super magic resistance is used as bait to attract the attention of the enemy.
The real Roger was a simple commoner, living an unrestrained life, with little influence or power to speak of.
Unfortunately for them, we have seen through everything - Dio must have nowhere to escape!
Shady has already made an extensive analysis of the environment around Dio, security forces, and the route of daily activities.
In the end, the plan to capture Dio was relatively simple, and it consisted of three steps:
The first step is to open the refrigerator door...
Sorry for playing tricks, let's start again.
The first step is to take advantage of Dio's opportunity to go to the Xinghan Palace to attend a cabinet meeting, and sneak into his residence to make arrangements;
The second step is to create a commotion to attract the Queen of Eternal Night's attention;
The third step is to eliminate the security forces around Dio with internal and external cooperation, carry him for a 100-meter sprint, and then find a suitable place to sacrifice to Nalinelle.
Of course, it looks very simple and only has three steps, but there are still many variations in the actual implementation.
For example, what additional resistance might be encountered when lurking in Dio's residence, what disturbances to use to attract the attention of Empress Eternal Night, the location of the sacrifice of Dio, and so on.
These are all minor difficulties!
And most importantly, is the escape route of the Tianming army after completing the operation.
Although the Tianming Army has been defined as a terrorist organization, Shady doesn't want to force his men to carry out a suicide attack.
She was only doing it for Nalinelle's interest-free gambling agreement, so that the Veronica Dynasty, which was already carrying a heavy load, could lighten some of its burdens.
Otherwise, even if she becomes a queen one day, she won't be able to bear it if she doesn't make huge profits!
Constantly arranging and reorganizing, investigating, and arranging various plans and backup plans, Shady didn't know whether she had prepared too much or was lucky and found that the preparation work was carried out extremely smoothly.
Need a nearby place to ambush in advance, just happened to meet someone selling a house near Villa Dio;
To create a disturbance to attract the Queen of Eternal Night, I know that the Secret Law Association is exploring the abyss, and found a trace of a small team, and they can call the Queen to support;
To arrange an escape route, I happened to find a corrupt official who only cares about money and doesn't know what loyalty is...
Such success made Shady a little puzzled, and couldn't help feeling, "Why is my luck so abnormally good?"
Shaq couldn't help but show the expression on which you have been spoiled, "Your Highness, Aren't you also lucky? We usually try more than 30 alternatives, and only one or two of them have the hope of success. We have not escaped the unsatisfactory life at all. Isn't the rule of sensitive words good?"
Shady frowned and pondered. When she found out that this was the case, she was relieved and didn't further analyze the small doubts that suddenly arose in her heart.
Little did they know that the conversation between the two of them just now scared the night guards who were in charge of monitoring their heart rates.
This woman's intuition is scary, we almost exposed it!
Fortunately, she found out that the abnormality was due to frequent self-doubt, and the shortcoming is that she's very good at self-doubt.
A word from others can cancel out the truth she accidentally grasped, and now she has started rushing into the big net woven by the Dark Night Guard without hesitation.
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Outside the City of Mysteries, the Hall of Stars.
Roger locked himself in the office, not allowing anyone to enter, and began to think about a very serious question.
Was my arrangement for Mentor Tianming too kind?
After learning that the Tianming Army wanted to capture Dio alive, his original idea was to use his tricks and get caught by the Tianming Army's performance then finally give Gou Sheng an unexpected reversal.
On the side of the Empire, the Tianming Army's removal of Dio's identity is to help Roger get rid of his status as the Minister of History. In the future, the Queen Scraps will have no room to exploit him if she wants to exploit him twice.
For Shady, catching a shadow puppet as a sacrifice, even if it doesn't cause the anger of the gods, is a waste of work, right?
Even if Roger didn't know about the gambling agreement between Shady and Nalinaier, he could still deduce that there were traces of the Seven Gods behind Shady's targeting of him, not her heart.
With Tianming Gousheng's character, a big drama in Ashford City ended up with nothing. It must be a painful experience. Find a place to nest up and reflect. You will never come to the mysterious city seamlessly. For him, a weak and helpless historian Minister.
Although I don't understand why I'm always being persecuted by big shots who don't belong to this world, disrupting their plans should be quite rewarding, right?
While relying on the intelligence-gathering capability of the Night Guard, Roger knew Shady's every move and guided her to minimize the impact of this operation on the city of mystery.
As a result, the Tianming Army's plan to capture Dio went smoothly.
However, such success didn't bring happiness to Roger.
On the contrary, I felt very bored and felt that something was wrong.
My plan seems to be very, very loss-making!
Shady wants to sacrifice herself and send her out of the city safely.
Then she just sits and waits for the plot to start. Does she arrange for the protagonist group to bring down herself and the empire?
Even if the scene ended with the fun of using a shadow puppet to say "You guessed wrong" to Mentor Tianming, Roger felt that the fun wasn't great enough.
Jumping out of his perspective, he realized that it was some villains who defeated the protagonist and let him go, then the protagonist dressed up in a magic costume and led his teammates, and finally succeeded in slaying the dragon's stupid [Beep——] operation!
Even if you've already joined the villain's camp, you don't want to become a tragic villain because of this completely free deceptive behavior!
So after a series of "I predict your prediction" intelligence battles, although he had the absolute upper hand in the scene, Roger suddenly realized that his current operations were asking for trouble and invalid output!
The current situation is completely different from when the Tianming Army first appeared outside Sleina City.
At that time, he dissuaded the Queen of Eternal Night from mobilizing the Tianming Army for two reasons.
One is because chasing and killing are troublesome and consume resources, and Shady, as the core beliefs of the God of Knowledge, has many ways to save her life, so there is absolutely a possibility of killing the Queen of Eternal Night.
The second is because I understand the character and flaws of Xiadi Veronica, the Tianming Gousheng. With her existence, it is easier to control the direction of the game plot and serve as a reference for the growth of the protagonist.
But now Roger finds that, due to the omnipresent butterfly effect, 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 structure of the Green Vines Empire, and even the Evernight World, has been twisted by him and the Evernight Queen into a completely different look from the original plot.
In the beginning, the third year of the Eternal Night Calendar was the moment when the Green Vines Empire's national power peaked and turned from prosperity to decline.
In this year's competition, the empire's national strength was greatly reduced due to the forcible suppression of the Seventeen Kingdoms Rebellion, and the recovery of domestic production.
To keep the country running and maintain the interests of the aristocracy, militarism in the Green Vines Empire was on the rise, and the Queen of Eternal Night had no choice but to start a militaristic campaign.
It seems like their territory is constantly expanding, but it is a false prosperity brought about by plundering.
The population of the empire keeps shrinking, the elite soldiers suffer heavy losses, and the production can't keep up. This is a completely unsustainable use of national power.
And due to the continuous fighting, the hidden wounds in the Queen of Eternal Night's body became more and more serious.
At the same time, the Green Vines Empire's endless and barbaric conquests caused panic in the surrounding countries, and the power of the church expanded unprecedentedly.
As the leading organization against the Green Vines League, the Tianming Army has been able to develop rapidly with the support of all races.
In the end, the leading group succeeded in killing the Eternal Night Empress and disbanding the Green Vines Empire.
Looking back at the chess game of the gods, they used very little of their power directly.
Only in the crucial battle of the Green Vines Empire against the Elven Empire, did the God of Nature descend to protect the World Tree. Wounded the Empress Eternal Night, who was at the end of her strength at that time, causing the Empire's army to be demoralized unable to fight anymore, and had to retreat.
After a failure, the Green Vines Empire really couldn't afford it at that time. The bitter fruit of the failure led to an unprecedented intensification of various domestic conflicts, followed by an unavoidable demise.
However, in the Green Vines Empire, after Roger crossed over, the rebellion of the seventeen kingdoms was easily resolved. Not only did it not lose national power, but it also made a fortune and won the hearts of the people.
As for the aristocratic class, they announced their complete withdrawal from the politics of the empire.
For the empire to achieve centralization, whether it is through war or peace, it all depends on the mood of the Queen of Eternal Night.
With the release of the "New Arcane Art", the industrialization of magic is gaining momentum, and various indexes of the empire's agricultural industry are snowballing up...
The battle against the orc tribe was won simply and neatly, and no country in the surrounding area dared to take the initiative to invade the empire.
The Queen of Eternal Night also wants to accumulate national power during this period, and she is going to win a big one after she develops well.
With the above conditions combined, the national power of the empire will surely flourish, and its decline is nowhere in sight.
Thus, in the three years of the Yongye calendar, the empire's prosperity would not decline, but instead, only grow further.
Compared with the early stage of the Tianming Army, their public support is very poor.
The surrounding Theocracy had no sense of crisis, so they had no reason to support the Tianming Army.
The most important thing is that as time went by, the empire became stronger and stronger, and the Queen of Eternal Night too became stronger and stronger after she went on the path of self-existence.
In the plot, the protagonist group faced a dying empire and had to pay the price for several weeks before finding the perfect ending that would lead to overthrowing the empire.
Now that the empire is in full swing, the Tianming Army is in shambles. With the deviation from the original story, the protagonist's group has no possibility of recreating the plot of the game.
To sum it up, because of the butterfly effect, the Tianming Army will inevitably be abandoned by the Seven Gods, and Roger will not be able to use Tianming Gousheng as a reference...
As the strength of the empire increases, it's possible to face the Seven Gods directly.
Then think about it again, it seems useless to keep Tianming Gousheng?
The empire doesn't have diabetes, so wouldn't taking metformin only have side effects, all harm but no benefit?
After some reflection, Roger became very interested in the suggestions of some of his subordinates:
The leaders and main members of the Tianming Army appeared one after another, and an extra prince from the Mermaid Sea Kingdom was presented. This is a great opportunity to make a delicious one-pot meal!
Especially since the Dark Night Guard has an absolute advantage in intelligence and is fighting at home, there is absolutely no reason to let this kind of credit go!
The Tianming Army caused the tragedy in Ashford City and proved that they possessed quite terrifying strength.
If the Dark Night Guard can annihilate their vitality in one fell swoop, making them unable to carry out further damage, wouldn't that prove that their strength is even more terrifying?
Do you want to capture me Dio alive, or even surround me?
Sorry, I, Dio, surrounded you!
Let's all be prisoners!
To be honest, thinking about this scene, Roger was moved.
However, relying on the strength of the Dark Night Guards alone, they really cannot defeat the Tianming Army.
He is well aware of Tianming Gousheng's strength, which is far beyond ordinary legends. At least it has... 10% of the level of the Queen of Eternal Night, right?
"So, we must call for heavy support!"
Roger stroked the orthographic letter on his leg and applied to enter the palace for a secret talk.
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But at this moment, the Queen of Eternal Night is not in Fenglingyueying Palace.
She's not even in this world.
The bottomless abyss, a certain floor, a temporary camp built by magic power.
The Queen of Eternal Night is an elite team of the Secret Law Association. After she witnessed the dream of the Goddess of War appearing from the abyss, she was sent to investigate the situation in the abyss.
However, several teams spent a lot of time sampling many layers of the abyss and found nothing abnormal.
The demons generated by the power of chaos still fight each other. Fighting bloody battles with other demons, coveting the material plane and blowing some random wind every day...
Powerful demon lords such as the Succubus Queen tend to restrain their nature and shift towards the order camp, intending to learn from the devil's skills to control the ghosts...
According to the evaluation of the Mystic Society, the abyss is still the same as before and has not changed at all. No "traces of the activity of the seven gods" that His Majesty is searching for have been found.
Fortunately, the Secret Law Society was extremely loyal to Empress Eternal Night. After observing and finding no valuable information, they decided to go to the devil, hoping to exchange more information.
The fastest way to integrate into the devil is a bloody battle.
No matter which plane you are from, as long as you want to fight, the frontline commanders will welcome you with all six limbs.
Oh, because of the four-armed snake demon that this team encountered.
Anyway, the bloody battle is endless, and there is enough cannon fodder.
The aborigines on the outer plane would always arrange for the main plane travelers to go to the most dangerous battlefields with a wicked sense of humor and watch those bumpkins fall into the endless hordes of enemies, showing despairing expressions.
Fortunately, the secret society had a sufficient understanding of the battlefield of bloody battles, and its equipment had also been strengthened in a targeted manner.
Ordinary war intensity can't stop them at all.
Not only did he not die, but on the contrary, he fought very bravely, with a feeling of unfinished scoring.
Compared to Lord Katz's Infinity Tower, the intensity of this bloody battle is too low, right?
Everyone deliberately piled military merits on one person, and in a short time, they created a "main plane powerhouse" who rose rapidly among the demons.
Country bumpkins would be ridiculed, but a strong man who fought harder would be respected in any world.
The legendary sorcerer of the Mystic Society, who has accumulated a lot of military merits, was promoted to a position similar to that of a teacher in a very short period.
He heard very interesting news from an old demon lord: the abyss level where he was born had been unable to enter for some time as if it disappeared out of thin air.
It's just that the abyss is endless, and demons are chaotic by nature. No one can accurately count how many layers disappear and how many layers are newly born.
Unless it's the place where I was born, I will pay more attention.
I asked some demons who were old enough and found that several of them had similar memories. The level they were born in and some levels they had been to seemed to be missing.
But these demons will only be puzzled for a while, and when the horn of battle is sounded, they will forget about it when they enter the battle.
Speaking of which, their lives are carefree and happy.
However, the magicians of the Secret Law Association recorded the news, and after further investigation, they found a close layer of a certain closed layer.
But they couldn't get in either.
We can only set up a camp and call Empress Eternal Night for strategic support.
After the Queen of Eternal Night arrived, she carefully sensed the power of the seal and opened her eyes.
"Your Majesty, what have you found?"
"Not found."
The queen showed a puzzled expression, "This is not the method of any of the Seven Gods."
"Then... what should I do now?" The Secret Law Association was also stunned. Is there nothing the Queen can do?
The Queen of Eternal Night chose a simple and crude method of proof:
Break down the door and see what's inside, don't you know?
A small white hand was raised, and the magic resonance caused the entire level to vibrate. Countless demons were driven away from the camp by instinctive fear.
The magical power of the near god forcibly tore through the blockade of the strange law, revealing the hidden layer of the abyss.
