Blue Sword

"I want to keep following Ask," she replied.

Appiris keenly heard that she did not "want to be a mercenary", but "wanted to follow Aske", so he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked with a smile:

"He's pretty good, but he's going the wrong way."

"A mercenary is a career with no future. He has no fixed abode and travels around the world, relying on the wars in various places to make a living. Sooner or later, he will be tolerated by the lords of various places."

"The lords only regard mercenaries as a temporary source of supplementary military strength. Once the military construction in the territory is complete, they will regard mercenaries as a serious threat to public order."

"The rising period of the demonic tide is coming, and extraordinary beings will soon appear on the secular stage. According to the historical practice of each era, the lords and aristocrats will merge with high-level extraordinary beings to eventually form a stable extraordinary ruling class. At that time, the servants will There will be even less room for soldiers."

"What you have to do is to settle down as soon as possible, and steadily improve your rank with the help of Olympia's power and resources. This way, even if the demonic tide rises rapidly and new forces continue to rise, you can still maintain your existing power and status with your own strength. "

"Instead of following a wandering mercenary and dying in a wild corner without anyone noticing."

Ask was listening beside him, with a noncommittal expression on his face, and secretly laughing in his heart.

This idea of ​​​​Apilius represented a very marketable genre among players in previous lives, namely the "Farming Style".

The essence of "Tangtian style" is not to explore various ruins and mutated copies, and to go to the battlefield to absorb extraordinary power to increase attributes, but to interact with the NPC camp to enhance reputation and camp strength, and to use the improved status to ultimately gain benefits.

Compared with the orthodox sword and magic adventure flow for players, although the farming flow was weak in the early stage and only started to gain momentum in the later stage, it is also deeply loved by RPG enthusiasts.

However, starting from the seventh version, the game company planned to transform into e-sports, so various gameplay methods to encourage in-game PvP were introduced, and the PvE gameplay was greatly weakened.

The most typical one is the demigod level. In order to encourage everyone to quickly level up and improve their level, we planned and compiled a setting that "the intensity of this demonic wave is unprecedented", which resulted in the demigod level being greatly enhanced.

This is how the forum famous saying "Below a demigod is mortal", which means that once you rise to the demigod level, it is basically difficult to be killed by ordinary people who are not in the demigod realm.

As a result, the shortcomings of the slow progress of players in the farming stream are exposed: you have worked hard to farm and develop your power, and others have been promoted to demigods.

You have thousands of troops, but they can be destroyed with one punch.

If you are in a high and powerful position, others can destroy you with one punch.

You are sitting on the world, and others can destroy you with one punch.

Of course, "Destroying it with one punch" is just an exaggeration, but that's what it means. Similar famous sayings include "Those who kill and set fire to the golden belt will be eliminated by farming" and so on.

"Grandpa." Sheila said calmly, "If I stay here, can you help me revive the Eastern Solomon Empire?"

Appirios was stunned when he heard this, but was speechless.

As the strength of the Seljuk Empire has surfaced recently, anyone with a discerning eye can see that even if the demonic tide comes again, it is difficult for the Eastern Solomon Empire to be revived. The number of extraordinary beings and demigods on the opposite side is no less than that of Siris.

Unable to conquer Constantinople, it is entrenched in the Achaean Peninsula and calls itself the "Eastern Solomon Empire". It is simply deceiving itself.

"Even if the empire has lost its future, at least grandpa hopes that you can have a life of your own." Appilios said slowly.

"So, Grandpa, I have chosen my own life." Sheila looked at her seriously.

Appirios was a little distracted.

In Theodora's eyes, he vaguely saw the shadow of his daughter Helena.

As a child born of a strong demigod who suppressed his bloodline, his daughter Helena was born with a weak body, and childbirth would cause great harm to her body.

However, as the queen of the empire, she must have no heirs, so when Appirius tried to persuade her, she just stared firmly and stubbornly into his eyes and said seriously:

"Father, I want to have a normal family."

With that kind of expression, Appelius simply couldn't refuse. Now what he saw in Theodora's eyes was the shadow of Helena.

Children and grandchildren have their own paths, and you cannot choose life for them.

Appirios took a deep breath and said with difficulty:

"good."

He turned his head to look at Aske, his expression gradually turned cold:

"Ask, the thing I regret most now is that I failed to kill you at the overlapping place of the underworld."

"Now that the matter has come to this, I will not take action against you again. However, if you dare to let Theodora down one day, I will let you experience what it means to 'die without rest'!"

Sheila:? ? ?

Asker:? ? ?

"Grandpa!" Sheila shouted in embarrassment.

Asker was also completely confused, but he soon realized acutely that Appirios' "disappointment" was a double entendre. It could be an emotional betrayal or an ideal betrayal.

Regardless of whether you are in love or a like-minded partnership, as long as you dare to make Theodora sad, you will be dead. This is what Appilios meant.

What else can Aske say about this? Just smile politely.

Fortunately, Appelius did not force him to express his position. Faced with Sheila's angry shouting, he immediately raised his face and said:

"What? Grandpa taught him a lesson for you, are you still not happy?"

What a smart girl Silla is, she immediately reacted at this time. Appirius didn't know what the relationship between her and Asik was, so he used implicit and vague rhetoric to hit each other.

Even so, she still felt a little shy and said reluctantly:

"Then you can't use such ambiguous terms."

"Hmph." Appirius rolled his sleeves, "I don't want to pay attention to the grudges and grudges of you young people. But you are my granddaughter of Appelius, and you cannot be bullied by others outside."

"If you feel tired one day, come back to Olympia as soon as possible." He looked at his granddaughter's pretty face, and his eyes softened again.

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Ask took the two girls downstairs.

"Huh." Silla breathed a long sigh of relief, clasped her hands together, and smiled broadly, "It's really great to be able to recognize grandpa."

"Sheila." Asik said hoarsely, "When you settle the exchange for military merit in a few days, ask your uncle to give us a discount."

"Hey!" Sheila shouted, "That's my family's wealth! You actually want to steal money from my family?"

"Don't say it so harshly, the money is also used for you, okay?" Ask defended.

"Okay." Sheila said, "Since I want my family to give me additional discounts, I will include this subsidy into the team's equity ratio."

"Why don't you plan so clearly?" Ask complained.

"Peggy?" Sheila suddenly noticed that Peggy's face next to her was a little ugly. She wondered if the recognition of her relatives had triggered her grief over the death of her parents. She quickly put her arm around her shoulders and asked, "Are you okay? ."

"It's okay." Peggy said gloomily, her right hand unconsciously rubbing the hilt of the sword at her waist.