Banner of the Evil God

(The previous chapter is actually Chapter 122. I was confused this morning and made a mistake. Now the chapter name has been changed. This chapter is Chapter 123)

The capital of the Thousand Springs Kingdom is called "Yuquan City". Before the Void City appeared, this city was known as the most beautiful city in the main plane. It uses beautiful stones like white jade to build the city walls. When the weather is good, the city walls under the bright sun are like a huge piece of jade, which is really beautiful.

It has always been called "the paradise on earth" or "a beautiful city like the kingdom of God". Not only did the bards write countless ballads to praise it, but even the gods often descended to incarnate and stay here. Among them, the most frequent one is the goddess of springs.

This medium-level god of the natural god system likes to wander between mountains and springs. The core requirements for believers are "protecting springs" and "increasing springs". He doesn't care about anything else. He doesn't care whether it is good or evil, a soldier or a thief.

It is precisely because of his attitude that he was favored by the gods of mankind, who used him as a springboard to push his power into the ancient forest and the Broken Cloud Mountains, and fully supported the Thousand Springs Country.

As the capital of the Thousand Springs Country, Yuquan City is full of springs. These springs are not like the famous Spring City in Qilu on Earth, which comes from the gushing of groundwater, but are three-tenths natural and seven-tenths man-made. When the city was built, more than a dozen legendary magicians joined forces to build a portal to the water element plane under the city. Through the portal, clear water flows into the ground continuously, and then flows out of the ground along the excavated springs, turning into a wonderful scene of "one city and a thousand springs".

In this city, surrounded by white jade walls, there are exactly one thousand springs.

When the city was built, the Thousand Springs Country was only in its infancy, and the name had not yet been determined. It was after the construction of the Thousand Springs City that the goddess of springs descended to incarnate, personally blessed the country, and named it "Thousand Springs Country".

However, behind this beautiful city is a sea of ​​blood and corpses.

There was no Thousand Springs Country or Jade Spring City in the world. In the southeast of the Broken Cloud Mountains, there was a continuous hilly area. It was backed by the Broken Cloud Mountains in the north, overlooked the Golden Desert in the south, connected to the Great Plains in the east, and bordered the Ancient Forest in the west. Dwarves, gnomes and other races lived together here and lived a peaceful life.

After the rise of mankind, they first fought a series of battles with the orcs under the leadership of the Knight God and fell behind. Then the God of Vengeance came to power and changed his strategy, leaving only a part of the human race to guard the fertile land between the three mountain ranges of Broken Cloud, Gray Stone and Behemoth to prevent the orcs from further expanding their power. The remaining humans were sent out to attack eastward.

This is the famous "Eastward Movement" in human history. In this war that lasted for thousands of years, humans annihilated the countries of gnomes, elves, dwarves and other ethnic groups that originally occupied the eastern part of the continent, and established the Twenty-Eight Cities Federation on the world's most fertile eastern plains - the prototype of the Blue Moon Kingdom later.

After that, humans were divided into two groups. One group believed in the sun god and attacked the north, completely destroyed the dwarf kingdom and established the Holy Angel Kingdom. The other group marched to the southwest, seized the opportunity of the elven pantheon being annihilated by the Lord of Mysteries and the elves being severely damaged, and united part of the power of the natural pantheon to destroy the dwarf and dwarf forces in the hilly area and establish their country.

In this process, there was a lot of killing. The "ingenious people" of the elves, who were once famous for their skill in small mechanical manufacturing, were almost wiped out. The remaining remnants left the main plane under the protection of their gods and went to an unknown world; more than a dozen large and small dwarf countries were all destroyed, and the dwarfs became a famous wandering race on the continent; only the dwarves relied on their strong physique and unquenchable fighting spirit to resist tenaciously.

Over the years, about every thirty to fifty years, the Thousand Springs Kingdom would organize an army to attack the dwarf kingdom in the Broken Cloud Mountains. On the one hand, they covet the local mineral deposits and the treasures of the Dwarf Kingdom. On the other hand, they also want to do things to the extreme, forcing the Dwarfs to leave the main plane like the elves, and put an end to their worries.

Every time they prepare to attack the Broken Cloud Mountains, they will set up a temporary military camp outside the main gate of Yuquan City in the east, hang up a recruitment order, and recruit a large number of adventurers every time. When the official war comes, these adventurers will naturally charge in front and retreat in the back, specializing in those dangerous tasks. Although most of the survivors have made a lot of money, in the end, less than one-third of them can survive and return with a full load.

Of course, people can't deny their debts when they die. Every time the Thousand Springs Kingdom has to pay a large amount of pensions. Otherwise, the adventurers are not fools. Who would take the huge risk of three deaths and two deaths to gamble for this wealth? Many injured or elderly adventurers actually come for this pension.

What they want to earn is not that wealth, but this life-saving money.

This is the sorrow of the poor, and it doesn't make much difference where you are.

But the situation this time is a little different. Outside the east gate of Yuquan City, a temporary military camp was set up again, and the recruitment order was hung up again, but most of the applicants were strong and sturdy. The usual situation of ordinary or even weak applicants did not happen at all.

The person in charge of recruiting soldiers was an earl of Qianquan Kingdom. He was sitting on the high platform of the military camp at this moment, watching the situation at the registration office under the recruitment order from afar. After a long time, he sighed deeply.

"Sir, is there any problem?" asked the confidant next to him.

"We didn't recruit much cannon fodder this time."

"If there is no cannon fodder, let the militia be cannon fodder." One of his sons said casually, "As long as the elite come, it will be fine."

The earl shook his head and did not explain in detail to his son, but frowned.

The death of outsiders is not painful, but the death of our own people is painful!

Although the life and death of civilians is not a big deal, this time it has set a bad precedent, and it is hard to say in the future. Maybe in the future Duanyun Mountain Range development war, the country will tend to let the militia be cannon fodder instead of recruiting low-level adventurers in order to save the pension.

This is of course a good thing in the short term, saving a lot of money, but it is not good for the long-term planning of the entire country.

The people of Qianquan Country are happy to hear about war, on the one hand because they can get benefits from war, and on the other hand because the war brings them less losses. If every war will lose a large number of militias, thousands of families will be in mourning and crying after a war, which will be a heavy blow to the people's hearts.

Over time, war is no longer an opportunity for the common people of Qianquan Country to stand out and get rich, but a heavy burden.

Of course, he will not see all of this. But thinking about such a future, how can he not worry!

The double monthly ticket has ended, and a total of 33 chapters have been updated. This is the most diligent period of my writing...