Chapter 170, This Group Consists of Four Individuals, Three of Whom Are Undercover
Nightime, the magician's camp, Tasika's exclusive message area.
Roger was explaining to her the main content of the Green Vines Empire's five-year plan, and then he was arranging the work priorities of the Terra Kingdom based on this plan.
The Empire's assistance to the orcs in founding their own nation was all part of an initial investment, and as the Terra Kingdom enters the fast lane of development, it is time to reap the rewards.
"The technological assistance provided by the empire to Terra will be publicly announced in the form of your spy's mission achievements. This way, you will become the vanguard against the rebellion of Green Vines, while there are also several military exercises taking place on the border. Please be well prepared."
Roger suppressed a laugh throughout the entire assignment.
Even though we have all undergone professional training, this is really difficult to hold in!
The Empire's military department is also made up of geniuses, and this script is written with meticulous details. The legendary color of Tasika's character is becoming more and more prominent, which makes neighboring countries have high expectations for her.
"Promise to complete the mission!" Tasika obediently agreed, without any psychological pressure to resort to espionage or other means.
If we steal based on our own skills, why should we have to pay, right?
They want to perform this large drama for other countries in the world. It’s a win-win situation for both the empire and the orcs. The only ones who will pay the price in the end is the audience.
It was originally just a moment of softness, to reduce the cost of ruling and minimize casualties, and then to support and create Tasika as a puppet regime of the Orc Kingdom.
It is now realized that this casual move will play a much greater role than expected as the situation in the Eternal Night World changes.
It is a pity that Roger's idea of using orcs to make up for the labor shortage has failed. The orcs are also facing a shortage of labor as they carry out large-scale infrastructure construction in the desert.
Tasika has already hired foreign laborers. Their international relations are a billion times better than those of the Green Vines Empire. They also have the support of the War Goddess Church. Everyone is family, and the surrounding churches will not prevent their countrymen from earning money from orcs.
On the Green Vines Empire's side, even if they offer high salaries, there will never be a large influx of foreign labor.
As the church had portrayed them as a cancer to the Eternal night world, the common people regarded the empire as a dead end and would not go there unless they could not survive anywhere else.
Of course, due to the greed of those nobles, there were actually quite a few who could not survive.
However, even those who were determined often resorted to smuggling as underground labor, which greatly limited both the quantity and quality.
Fortunately, the existence of the Kingdom of Terra provided the Empire with great maneuvering space.
First, the recognition by the war goddess officially legitimizes Tasika's identity as the queen of the orc tribe.
Then, under the leadership of Tasika, the anti-Green Vines alliance gains a natural advantage in intelligence, as part of the empire.
Going forward, with the strength of the Terra Kingdom, it will become a bastion for the world to fight against the tyranny of Green Vines.
As long as the empire desires, it can continue to build a close relationship with the Terra Kingdom, who is constantly embroiled in war until it matures and can take over the surrounding regions.
Eventually, the Terra Kingdom will pour industrial products and weapon equipment to the surrounding countries through "technology leakage", earning quick cash from those deeply rooted nations.
Additionally, the fearless overseas version of the Outer Space would also be exported by the Terra Kingdom to achieve the cultural exportation desired by the Empire indirectly, while evading the Church's vigilance on Green Vines products.
It's just like hackers and machines, LSP and VPN, crossdressers and wigs. Due to the existence of the Terra Kingdom, many actions that are inconvenient for the Empire to do can be accomplished effortlessly in the name of Terra.
Screenshots of chat logs appear more credible when it appears that two separate accounts are conversing, rather than just one person rambling on.
Actually, all of this was generated by software tools!
The relationship between the Green Vines Empire and the Terra Kingdom can be summed up as a coordinated performance, with the two parties working together to deceive and gain the empire enough time for their development.
However, for the poverty-stricken Orc tribe, the newly established kingdom proved to be the greatest opportunity for development in their history.
The era of scattered Orcish tribes comes to an end, and from here on, cohabitation, intermarriage, and joint construction will become more common, gradually breaking down the barriers that once divided the tribes.
This diverse multiverse is home to many intelligent beings of various races, among which there are significant individual differences, but surprisingly, there is no reproductive isolation; both humans and dragons can give birth to offspring.
The half-dragon princess before us is a living example of a hybrid.
Therefore, the Terra Beast people have varying physical characteristics such as animal ears and tails, but they can still produce offspring regardless of how they mix, although the hybrid offspring's beast traits typically don't show outwardly.
In other words, the appearance of the mixed-race offspring of Beast people tends to resemble that of humans.
Roger and Tasika discussed, that if the Terra Kingdom could successfully eliminated the underlying biases and hostilities between the different tribes, they may eventually be able to appear as a new human race.
Additionally, with the constant influence of the empire on their technology and culture, the two countries are becoming more and more alike. With the right timing, direct integration into the empire would be imminent.
Tasika thinks that would certainly be a great future, and at that time she can work with Lord Charles with legitimacy together.
On the other hand arranged by the goddess of war and the god of the sea, the cooperation between the Orc Kingdom and the Naga Empire will investigate the detailed intelligence of the Green Vines Empire from two directions.
Nalinair's faith cannot be easily earned; the information she requires goes beyond surface-level details such as population, area, and agricultural productivity. Rather, she needs to understand the combat strength of the Empire's elites, the average level of military armaments of its troops their morale, and a host of other detailed information.
She presented a terrifyingly long and meticulous task list that must be entirely completed in order to receive the final reard.
The War Goddess and the Sea God dared to accept because Nalinair is indeed as she claimed person who keeps her promises and respects contracts.
As long as the task is complete she will definitely not default.
The difficulty lies in the fact that the tasks she assigns are not so easily completed
With Tybella relying on the Sea God, their power in the Eternal Night World had ready been developing well, and with a tentative attack, they should be able to obtain a lot of information.
With cooperation on both sides, the ultimate payoff should be very good
Although Nalinaer's swordsmanship is precise because she vanished inexplicably while in disguise, trying to trick others into tking the fall for her, the benefits offered must also be tempting enough for anyone to take the bait.
At this moment, Tasika has successfully brought the Holy Maiden Nicole Chianxiala from the Nagas Empire into the chat group through the split body function of the Super-Dimensional Drawing Board and the first round of cooperation has been reached between the two sides
The Orc Kingdom has proclaimed that it is in the stage of post-war reconstruction and therefore unable to deploy its troops. It can only let the Nagas Empire launch the first attack against the Mermaid Kingdom to establish a landing point and obtain more detailed information about the Empire
Although it cannot send troops, the Orc Kingdom will support a batch of weaponry and equipmet, ensuring that alchemical equipment accounts for thirty percent.
This made Nicole very surprised, as the powerful warriors were not lacking among the sea tribes, but handy weapons were very scarce
The ocean has vast areas, abundant resources, and the marine races hardly ever worry about food.
Those intelligent races each have the skill to summon fish, and with a simple song, they can all avoid hunger.
Afu expressed great envy towards this, as he had sung until his voice was hoarse, yet the Empress still wanted to trick more Miss Eris worms to come, putting him in danger of being pushed back every day.
While there are advantages in agriculture, there are also major flaws in metal processing that persist in the ocean.
In the environment they were trapped in, only a few races in the ocean possessed the innate ability of "cold refining" to purify metals. The yield was only enough to equip the most elite troops.
They also had to face the serious problem of rust.
The common weapons used by the ordinary troops of the ocean races were made by polishing shells and corals, which, due to the unique nature of the world, were certainly stronger than the varieties on Earth, but were still lacking compared to other materials in this world.
Many powerful whale warriors held ship anchors from shipwrecks of the land races as their weapons, a pitiful sight to behold.
Yes, I'm talking about you, the Lord of Tides.
During the heyday of the Mermaid Kingdom, their ultimate dream was to step onto land, yearning for the sunshine and environment of the surface world.
However, as the mermaids' power waned and the Nagas rose, their goals were reduced to mere self-preservation.
The Naga tribe, located in the middle of the ocean and with no contact with any landmass, needed to break through the blockade of the Mermaid Kingdom in order to acquire new landing points.
Despite being in the early stages of development, Terra Kingdom was able to provide a valuable batch of weapons, with a guarantee that alchemical equipment would make up as much as thirty percent of it - an enormous wealth for any faction.
Given the steel production of this world, those large countries seeking to equip a heavy cavalry force would have to wait for several generations, gradually accumulating armor pieces.
Nicole naturally felt more confident about the upcoming war against the mermaids upon seeing the weapons sent by the Orc Kingdom.
Both the quantity and quality of the steel weapons were surprising, and the weighty sensation made them realize how fortunate the surface races were to have so much steel!
The alchemical equipment, with myriad variations, amazed the onlookers with the magician's ingenuity, although some presented minor issues that could accidentally harm allies.
However, everyone had gotten used to the characteristics of a wizard's creations.
It wasn't mass produced, each piece was individually handmade and it was normal for issues to arise...
As a result of this batch of equipment, Tasika and Nicole's friendship blossomed quickly, expressing their eagerness for a more comprehensive collaboration in the future.
These two girls met too late. Tasika's innate goodness, gentleness and her sympathy for the lower classes made her get along well with Nicole who wanted to protect the Naga people.
The only difference is that Nicole is a true believer in the sea god while Tasika has seen through the true face of the goddess of war.
These weapons supplied by Tasika are naturally from the Green Vines Empire. Those alchemy devices are small, medium and large explosives produced by the secret magic association.
The imperial military, who are well aware of the characteristics of those free-spirited magicians, were delighted to see someone take the first step in testing this batch of equipment, so they could then equip themselves with an improved version that fixes various minor flaws.
Tasika and Nicole were chatting while Roger peeked at the screen with his dimensional drawing board in hand.
By the way, his name in the group is Joestar and he is an undercover orc sent to the empire.
"The people of the empire think he is dead, but he is actually alive, and has been monitoring every move of those barbarians, bringing us back many useful technologies."
This is how Tasika introduced Roger to Nicole, setting up the operation.
"Joestar-sama is a great man." Innocent Nicole had no doubts, after all the information provided by Roger about the empire was all true.
The Terra Kingdom has indeed been secretly replicating the new technology of the empire; it is impossible for them not to have placed spies of a fairly high rank within the empire.
Even if the Naga Saint were killed, one could never imagine that in fact, Tasika was the insider arranged by the empire within the Seven Gods camp.
After the equipment was in place, Frankenstein was also pulled into the group chat by Roger and named "Bronze Beard".
This is a typical dwarf-style name, and her profession is a blacksmith in charge of after-sales service for the equipment of the Naga tribe.
[Simply because there were too many problems with the equipment, and my hands were numb from copying chat logs. I decided to let the culprit take care of it themselves!]
In summary, the Anti-Green Vines Alliance has four members: Tasika, Nicole, Roger and Frankenstein...
Thus, the situation was three imperial spies chatting to pass time with a believer in a deity...
Just imagine how absurd this scene is!
According to Roger's plan, the next person to be recruited into the anti-Green Vines alliance is Shana.
The projection of that little angel is now surely standing on the opposite side of the empire with joy.
However, the misunderstanding between her and the empire can be resolved, but the relationship between her and the seven gods is a script that requires Shana to die and the projection to vanish...
"I suddenly felt so sorry for Nicole!" Tasika looked at Roger with sorrowful eyes.
It's all because of this guy's deviousness that he turned himself into an accomplice in trafficking young girls.
Roger nodded seriously, "Indeed, just catching one believer won't do. You should hurry up and launch the Terra Development. Then, you can lure the Elf Queen, Dragon High Priest, Dwarf Chieftain, and Necromancer Sage, among others, into it and fool them together."
"Well, I started to feel sorry for myself. When they find out the truth, they will hate me to death..."
Tasika hugged herself in distress.
This guy must not be preparing for suicide, but to wipe them out by drawing all the leaders of the strong nations in the Eternal Night World into the Anti-Green Vines Alliance.
Poor me, just a piece of meat thrown out to attract those greedy bald vultures...
"You should learn to appreciate the way they hate you, yet cannot kill you," Roger comforted.
"It shouldn't be like this," Tasika sighed.
"Then how can it be?"
"Other boys carry their girlfriends, saying they will protect them; but the great hero I waited for told me, Tasika, you go and sell it..."
Tasika's speaking eyes stared at Roger without blinking, making him feel a little guilty.
They have become the queen of the orcs, yet they shamelessly wander around recruiting people. It is truly disgraceful and carries a high risk.
He reached out and placed his hand on Tasika's shoulder, giving her a firm support. "Don't be afraid, I'll help you get the most protective gear."
"I don't want it!" she protested.
Tasika bit down on his hand.
Why is everyone else a little fairy, but I have to suffer the worst punishments?
[Achievement unlocked, "The Resentment of Female Gamers" - Finally reached a higher rank with my CP, but had to choose Zhang Fei, the beefcake, to protect my AD at home.]
