Green Monster Epic

With the arrival of a five-hundred-strong goblin team from Green Lake Town to Namur Fortress, Allen's burden was greatly eased, finally allowing him time to properly adjust.

Sitting cross-legged in the manor building that once belonged to Byleir, Allen began to meditate, meticulously reviewing his actions over this period to identify any potential issues.

The idea of using a small force to achieve a large gain, of a snake swallowing an elephant, by annexing the Aginaga tribe, had been in Allen's mind for a long time.

Ever since Eric, the human taken in by Green Lake Town, advanced to the Legendary rank and expressed his willingness to become a member of the Green Field Tribe, Allen had been planning to join the Mansa Alliance.

There are two basic requirements for becoming a member of the Mansa Alliance: possessing two or more Legendary-level powerhouses and having over one hundred thousand tribesmen.

The Green Field Tribe had already met the requirement of having a Legendary powerhouse. What they lacked now was the basic element of a large tribe: a population of one hundred thousand.

Allen had once worried that by the time his tribe's population reached the required number, they might not be able to cultivate another Legendary powerhouse. But who would have thought that the thing he worried about the most would be achieved, while the problem he thought would be the easiest remained unresolved.

To reach the population requirement faster, Allen even reactivated the slave-catching group connections he had previously abandoned. Furthermore, the 'Allen' noodle restaurants spread across various tribes in the wilderness were constantly promoting the comfortable life in the Green Field Tribe, attracting more goblins to settle down, etc., but the final effect was minimal.

Over decades, the total population of the tribe had only just exceeded forty thousand, still short by more than half of the basic requirement for joining the alliance.

If calculated based on the tribe's current population growth rate, without any unforeseen events, it would take at least another generation, roughly twenty years, to reach the target of one hundred thousand people.

For other Legendary leaders, perhaps a development period of twenty years would not be unacceptable. After all, upon reaching the Legendary realm, even the shortest-lived kobolds and gnomes could live for over 250 years.

However, for Allen, who had single-handedly developed the Green Field Tribe to its current state and was considered by the Green Field people as the great leader who founded the enterprise, twenty years was too long. He could not tolerate himself and the tribe he had painstakingly built still being used as pawns by others, continuing to live that life for another twenty years.

In Allen's mind, only by joining the Mansa Alliance and becoming a member of it could he and his tribe truly escape the fate of being pawns and gain the qualifications to become chess players.

At that time, every sacrifice made by the tribe's children would become the cornerstone for the tribe's future development, exchanging for the long-term benefits it deserved, instead of benefiting other tribes and forces for nothing.

In twenty years, who knows how many children of the Green Field Tribe would die due to various tasks and demands from the Wilderness Alliance.

Therefore, Allen needed to find a shortcut to accelerate the tribe's development and growth, and complete the tribe's transformation from pawn to chess player as soon as possible.

After much deliberation, Allen finally found a path: annexing the neighboring tribe of the same race -- the Aginaga.

Initially, when Allen thought of this, even he himself felt it was a bit whimsical. However, as the relationship between the Green Field and Aginaga tribes became closer and he learned more about the secrets of the Aginaga tribe, Allen increasingly believed that he might have a chance to accomplish this audacious plan.

The Aginaga tribe had been living a stable life for too long, so long that the tribesmen from top to bottom gradually lacked awareness of crises.

Don't look at the open and secret struggles between the Aginaga tribe and the Snow Minks in recent years, with various means of alliances and maneuvers. In reality, Byleir and his confidants never believed that their tribe was at risk of extinction.

Even the powerful Snow Mink tribe, which initially overwhelmed Aginaga, although Byleir clashed with them and suffered losses many times, he never believed that the Snow Mink tribe could pose a threat to his tribe's foundation.

After Byleir gradually weakened the Snow Mink tribe and strengthened his own tribe by forming the Thorns Ring, assassinating Arel, etc., Byleir no longer took other tribes in the Northern Border seriously. At least, he didn't think his tribe would have problems.

Not to mention a medium-sized tribe like the Green Field Tribe, which was far inferior to his own tribe in terms of both strength and population. No matter how Byleir thought about it, he couldn't have imagined that they would dare to dream of using a small force to achieve a large gain.

The upper and middle classes of the Aginaga tribe were living too happily. They were so happy that they had begun to ignore the lives of the lower-level tribesmen, only pursuing their extravagant and enjoyable lives.

The prosperity of the trade routes brought all kinds of wonderful lives from the civilized world, various novel things and knowledge, and at the same time, it also brought all kinds of vulgarities from the civilized world.

By controlling the key points of the prosperous trade routes, they could obtain a large amount of materials and money without labor, and finally distribute them to the middle and upper classes in the tribe who held power. The accumulation of materials and money eventually led to the heads of the middle and upper levels and their families beginning to pursue enjoyment in life; at the same time, the Aginaga tribesmen at the bottom seemed to have been abandoned. Although they could share the superficial benefits of the fortress, the gap between their lives and those of the middle and upper levels widened, and thus, they naturally developed emotions of resistance and alienation.

Whether a tribe is strong often needs to be measured as a whole, but when the lower-level tribesmen, who account for the majority of the tribe, disagree with the minority middle and high levels, then this tribe will definitely not be truly strong.

The Aginaga tribe, which looked like a behemoth, after Allen, as an ally and partner, deeply understood many inside stories, he had already realized the hidden crisis behind the strength of the Aginaga tribe.

All along, while developing the Green Field Tribe, Allen had placed great importance on cultivating the tribesmen's sense of belonging to the tribe. Because Allen knew that if the tribesmen of a tribe did not even identify with their own tribe, then when a crisis occurred, the disintegration and collapse of this tribe would be easy.

In Allen's feeling and understanding, the current Aginaga tribe's lower-level tribesmen no longer had much sense of belonging to the tribe, because the average lower-level tribesmen basically had little chance of getting ahead. As long as there were some lucrative and beneficial positions, most of them were controlled by hereditary families.

If it weren't for the harsh living environment in the wilderness, where they had to rely on a powerful tribe to have a relatively safe place to live; if it weren't for the fact that the Aginaga tribe still retained a little bit of the law of the jungle, allowing those talented combat-type talents to have a glimmer of hope of getting ahead, I'm afraid that if they were in the living environment of the two continents, countless refugees would have moved to other places to settle down.

This situation is actually not uncommon among the hundred or so member tribes in the wilderness, especially the tribes with a longer history of inheritance, where the gap between the rich and the poor and the solidification of classes are more serious. And as the Aginaga tribe, which has inherited the power of more than a dozen generations and at least a thousand years, their predicament is actually very serious.

Originally, Byleir, as the leader of the tribe, should have had a clear understanding of the problems of his tribe, but problems like this were everywhere in the wilderness, and everyone was used to it, which made Byleir turn a blind eye to these problems.

Even more so, Byleir, who was accustomed to the style of leaders of other tribes scheming against each other and calculating conspiracies, ignored his own biggest problem.

Any conspiracy or trickery ultimately needs the support of strength. Byler and the others had been stuck at the intermediate stage of Legend for many years, and Manolan King below them only had the initial stage of Legend. Moreover, after they advanced to Legend, they rarely had the opportunity to engage in actual combat. Compared to the Legendary combat power of most tribes in the alliance, the Agina tribe could be considered one of the lowest ranked.

The weak Legendary combat power was not necessarily a disadvantage. After all, even if a Legendary powerhouse couldn't win, they could still escape if they wanted to, unless magic items like the Misu, which were so expensive that ordinary tribes couldn't afford them, were used, or unless there was a complete crushing of strength. Otherwise, they would basically have a high chance of escaping.

However, who would have thought that Eric, the human unbeliever taken in by Allen, after abandoning his former faith and embarking on his own new path, would逆天 create domain abilities with extreme targeting, such as the Forbidden Air Domain and the Expulsion Domain.

These abilities might not bring much benefit in a battle between two Legends, but in Allen's hands, they were like a cheat code for his plan.

Of course, a large part of this stemmed from the problems of the Agina tribe itself, which was not the main factor in Allen daring to put his plan into practice. Instead, the external environment of the Northern Territory was the inducement for Allen to finally decide to take a gamble.

The Cartor Canyon controlled by the Agina tribe was too rich. In order to win over Allen and his tribe, they only shared a little bit of the profits, which had greatly benefited the Green Field tribe over the years.

Every year, the Green Field tribe could steadily obtain more than 10,000 gold coins from the profit sharing of the two fortresses. This was a tempting income for the Green Field tribe, whose pillar industry was very simple and did not have many profitable channels.

The biggest source of income for the Green Field tribe was the 'Allen' noodle restaurant, which gradually covered the entire wilderness. Now, there were 70-80 noodle restaurants, and after deducting various expenses, it could bring in more than 20,000 gold coins of income to the tribe's public property every year.

In addition to the magic medicine planting industry gradually developed by the tribe, the tribe's adventure rewards, etc., the tribe's public property could have an income of more than 30,000 gold coins a year.

According to this income ratio, the share of income that Byler gave to Allen was really a very generous gift.

But in fact, the monetary benefits were not enough to make Allen reluctant to give up. Through the two fortresses controlled by Byler, many long-term merchants and chambers of commerce would try to meet some of their needs in order to maintain a good relationship with the Agina tribe.

For example, some magic medicine plants that were difficult to collect in the wilderness market, as well as basic knowledge books that were not precious in the two continents but were extremely scarce in the wilderness, and so on.

Thanks to the influence of Agina, the Green Field tribe had gained many valuable things through the two fortresses over the years. If they lost this channel, then it would probably not be so easy for the Green Field tribe to collect various precious resources in the future.

However, as the Agina tribe turned to join the camp of the Church of Nature, the Green Field tribe also participated in the action of destroying the Church of Nature's efforts to win over the Drow in order to tightly hug the thigh of the Oak Vatican. In fact, the stable alliance relationship between the two tribes had also come to an end because of this.

Allen was very clear that Byler, a clear-headed tribal leader, would not continue to send a lot of profits to the Green Field tribe as he had in the past, in the situation that the Green Field tribe had not shown the determination to continue to follow him, and had even gradually drifted away.

Once the two tribes turned against each other, then the more foundation the neighboring Green Field tribe had, the more dangerous the Agina tribe would be.

Allen was reluctant to give up the benefits he had obtained, but the initiative had never been in his hands. When he heard from Lena that the Agina tribe was about to send a mission, Allen knew that Byler was forcing him to make a choice.

When he had to face the loss of benefits, Allen would naturally not give up, and he was also thinking of ways to solve this problem, and the solution he finally chose could indeed protect this benefit.

At the same time, the external environment of the Northern Territory was actually very delicate. The two powerful tribes of Snow Midge and Raven's Claw, which had hundreds of thousands of people, had lost the land they had managed for dozens of generations because of the invasion of the Drow.

Although, if they were willing, the churches of the Natural Divine System and the Wilderness Alliance could also solve the problem of their re-stationing, but compared to those barren and unfamiliar areas, the two leaders, Yariel and Maggot Eye, and the hundreds of thousands of people under their command, still hoped to regain their homeland.

At least, they were more willing to take root in the familiar Northern Territory, rather than facing various arduous challenges in an unknown place.

Along the way, there were too many tribes to pass through, and the possible risks were not something that Yariel and the others could completely control. The escape and falling behind of the tribe, the coveting of other tribes, and even the materials needed to re-develop the land, etc., which one was not a problem in front of Yariel and the others.

However, the other tribes in the Northern Territory were not willing to send their own tribe's warriors for the benefit of the two tribes of Yariel, to fight a war that had little to do with them.

And with the strength of the two tribes of Snow Midge and Raven's Claw, there was no possibility of defeating the Drow and driving them out of the wilderness.

In the end, the matter fell into a stalemate. Yariel and Maggot Eye wanted to counterattack, but Byler and the others opposed attacking the Drow.

Byler, Zolf, and the other tribes located south of the Cartor Mountains were more willing to see the two tribes of Snow Midge as a front-line buffer to help resist the possible attacks of the Drow in the future, so that they could get early warning, which was also the reason why they had always been willing to support the two tribes with limited supplies.

But Byler forgot that the hundreds of thousands of people in the two tribes of Snow Midge and Raven's Claw consumed a lot of materials every day, which was a huge burden for two tribes that had lost their territory and sources. Even with the support of other members of the Thorns Ring, this kind of support could not be a long-term thing after all, and eventually some members would be stingy with their contributions without return, and cut off support for the two tribes.

Moreover, even with the supplies supported by the members of the Thorns Ring, there was still a considerable gap in the rations of the two tribes, and many of the bottom tribes could only barely maintain a state of not starving to death.

Over time, it would inevitably weaken the strength of the two tribes, causing them to weaken step by step.

It was this kind of predicament that allowed Allen to find an opportunity to persuade the leaders of these two newly joined Oak camp tribes to cooperate with him.

The final result, there is no need to say more, with the support of Yariel and the others, Allen will have the strong confidence to carry out this plan.

Next, it is time to continue to hang the two tribes of Yariel, postpone the fulfillment of the promise, and provide assistance for Allen to control and annex the Agina tribe. At the same time, he can also use the power of the two tribes to resist the troubles and difficulties that will come to his door.

Allen slowly woke up from his contemplation. Through self-examination, he found many problems that he had not thought of before, and at the same time, he continued to improve the next plan.

This chapter can be regarded as a summary of the previous plan. Although there are still many details that have not been laid out, it can at least provide a reasonable explanation for Allen's behavior of a snake swallowing an elephant.

At least I hope that the ideas in my book can stand up to scrutiny to some extent, rather than completely YY.