MEMORIZE

"Wait a minute."

It was then.

Just as the wonder was not gone, Han So-young quickly stopped his brother's words.

Han So-young's face was as hard as ice. It wasn't until I saw the attitude that I could understand why he cut me off on the way.

a northwestern alliance

They formed an alliance with the West and the North.

At first, I strongly thought it was out of the blue that it was an alliance in the midst of the attack.

But apart from that, the weight of the word alliance is never light.

Most of all, I have a lot of hearing now.

If one column of details about this is leaked out in any way, it will never have a good effect in the future. Rumors are misleading.

"As for what you just said…I think we'd better talk separately.”

Expectedly

As if I was right, Han So-young asked for a one-on-one conversation. My brother nodded as if he didn't care, and in the end, I and other users had no choice but to raise themselves.

…I'd be lying if you weren't actually curious, but now it was a place to distinguish between construction and construction.

"Just in case, what I heard in this tent today will have to be strictly confidential. Any story."

Han So-young did not forget the warning, emphasizing the word "anything."

I winked at my brother before leaving the tent. After talking to Han So-young, it was a signal to come to the tent where I was staying.

My brother replied with a bright smile.

*

It was well past dinner time, let alone lunch, that my brother came to the tent.

"Oh, Soohyun~ I'm so tired that I'm going to die. Eastantel Low Road, really fastidious…What? Suhyun?

My brother stretched and groaned as soon as he came in, but I grabbed his shoulder and forced him into the chair. My brother looks at me with a puzzled face.

"I was so tired of waiting. Now, tell me. Come on, say it.”

As he spoke as if he were Chae Geun, his brother looked pitiless with his shoulders drooping.

"…Dear brother. Hey, can you take a break? I suffered to death from Eastantel Low Lord a little while ago."

"Okay, tell me. You can rest while talking."

"Please... consider my position of saying the same thing twice."

"So you won't tell me? Are you sure you won't?”

I said, glaring at my brother to the fullest. The next thing I'm ready for is, 'Yes. Then do as you please.' The tone is very sharp.

Maybe he felt that, but he dropped his head with a resigned face. Then, he picks up the drinks on the table and gulps down and sighs.

"Well, if that's what you look like, I can't help it. Yeah, I'm curious about the radish.”

"Of course I'm curious about everything. What the hell happened during our attack? What else did she do?"

"Oh, come to think of it, Lee Hyo-eul asked me to deliver it. It's not my fault, so don't swear at me!"

“…….”

…I felt like Lee Hyo-eul's voice was playing automatically in my head, so I shut up for a moment.

After a bitter smile, the older brother slowly stroked his chin and nodded his head.

"Well, that's great. I was going to tell you something else anyway. …but there's one condition.”

"Condition? Watch your mouth?”

"No, it doesn't matter. It'll be revealed whether it's early or late anyway. I just hope you don't interrupt while I'm talking. Like someone."

"…Huh?"

I blinked three or four times at the thought of something quite exotic. Then, he kept touching his chin (maybe because he talked too much), but he shuddered with a face that he was suddenly sick of it. It was a very short time, but suddenly I felt sorry for my brother.

"…Was it that bad?"

"Oh, very, very bad. Every time I say two or three sentences, I pry...I can't say anything. Is he always like that?”

My brother repeatedly emphasized the emphasis.

Then, he suddenly looked at me and cleared his throat with a cough or two.

"Well, anyway...If you promise me that, I'll tell you right now. From the beginning, all of it, as you wish.”

I mean, just listen to me.If you have any questions, you can ask all at once afterwards.

Thinking so, I verbally promised not to intervene in the middle, and then my brother began to tell me everything that had happened. I listened to my brother quietly.

At the beginning of the story, it was a theoretical story about the structure of the North Continent.

The North Continent can be divided into a total of five parts.

Central, Eastern, Western, Southern, Northern.

And three years ago, when I just started my second car.

At that time, the West and the North had friendly relations based on the Golden Lion Clan in the center, and the East and the South, which were in conflict with them, also formed an implicit friendly relationship with each other…No, wait a minute.

"Hey, I know this....”

"You promised, didn't you?"

…foolish.

Anyway, one day.

An event occurred in the North continent, which had been in conflict with each other, subtly, or publicly.

It was the first attack on the Steel Mountains.

The Golden Lion, who led the first attack on the Iron Mountains, formed an expedition focusing on the West and the North, which had friendly relations with them. In the process of organizing, the East and the South deliberately excluded them.

However, the attack ended so horribly that the word "failure" seemed insufficient.

Seven out of the top ten participated, resulting in the deaths of all.

At first departure, the expedition was more than 5,000 people, but less than 10 percent survived.

The 4,700 elite users, who were in charge of the real power of the North continent, were exterminated by a single attack.

There were even cases in which the Clan itself was completely exterminated.

At that time, the damage was enormous enough to be said, "The level of the North Continent has regressed for years."

Even though they barely made it back alive, the rest of them had to face the storm.

Starting from the collapse of the clans, who had dominated each wealth, one by one, the balance of power slowly began to tilt. Before and after the attack on the Steel Mountains, positions in the central, western, northern, eastern and southern regions began to reverse.

However, the ordeal did not end there.

Even before the wound healed, a large coalition of Western and vagabonds invaded the North.

Starting with the surprise attack of the northern small town of Mule, western cities such as Halo, Beth and Dorothy were completely occupied. In the past, Barbara had to suffer from the humiliation of falling. To make matters worse, to make matters worse.

Eventually, they managed to repel, but the North Continent again made an unintended sacrifice.

It was self-evident that this incident made the West and the North more difficult. I was in the middle of a stumble, but I was hit hard enough to destroy the city.

Rather than the west, where all the cities were destroyed, the north, which only one city was destroyed, is a nobleman.

The East, of course, has also made significant sacrifices in recapturing Barbara, but the situation is different from the previous two. At least their foundation was in good shape.

It is also hard to ignore the reputation of defeating the main power of the West continent, and the acquisition of a symbol of Barbara, the symbol of the North continent, that is appealing to its users.

The South played the role of reclaiming a nearly empty western city in the first place, so there was little damage.

As such, two more years have passed, with each department's situation unfolding in various ways.

Since the launch of the central government agency, Lee Hyo-eul has focused on only one thing for nearly two years. It treats accumulated damages on the North continent and raises the level of regression to the past.

In short, the plan was somewhat successful.

Since the war, there has been a boom of new users, and recovery efforts have been actively carried out with the support of the central administration. New strong men also began to emerge one after another.

Such a cyclical process naturally healed the wounds that the North Continent has suffered, and at some point, it has provided more power than before.

But.

To put it mildly, that's it.

In terms of the entire North Continent, it is clear that the desired objective has been achieved.

However, if you think about wealth separately, not the whole thing, it wasn't that there were no problems at all.

None other than the balance of power each wealth had was a problem.

If you really look at it coldly, it was inevitable.

No matter how hard Lee Hyo-eul tried to operate the central management body reasonably, the difference between the starting line of each department is inevitable. If the West and the North spent two years rebuilding the city and establishing new users, the East and the South would use their original power to call it.

So, if you had given me a few more years, would the West and the North have regained their old status one day?

No, it wasn't.

For urban development, it is essential to have resources to build performance, such as stabilization through hunting or excavation of historical sites.

But the resources that the North Continent has are never infinite. There is a certain limit or limit, and it is difficult to expect further development in cities where resources are scarce. (It was a little bit perplexing when I heard this.)

Not long ago, the North Continent was in a similar state. Users are increasing time by time, but resources are drying up.

Now that we've reached such a kind of saturation, no matter how much time we spend, the city doesn't develop.

At best, the phenomenon will be maintained, or the fixation will only get worse.

After all, there was only one road left.

Pioneering a new continent.

This is why Lee Hyo-eul declared a second plan to attack the steel mountains by adjusting the appropriate timing.

A long-awaited attack on the Iron Mountains by the user, Clan, or the North Continent.

But just because you've been waiting, it's not natural that everyone can participate.

The Central Management Organization has set three conditions for participating in the attack on the Steel Mountains.

1. No participation in the 0th and 1st year.

2. Select by Clan.

3. Establishment of expedition groups by east, west, south, and north.

The first and second conditions were already implemented during the first attack, and the third conditions were newly supplemented using the failure as a mirror.

In fact, with the exception of a few large clans whose selection was almost confirmed, other small, medium-sized clans were moving fast in advance. The plan to target the Steel Mountains has already been an open secret for months, and accordingly, Clan, who wants to participate, has opened the door wide early and is gathering users.

Because I said I'd select them by clan, but that didn't mean all the clan would be selected.

Right here, the relationship between Clan and user began to work strangely.

Of course, there were not many users who wanted to participate in the attack on the Steel Mountains, and they had to be part of the Clan to participate.

Finally, a clan that tried to gather users was created as a site number, so the user had to respond to a place where they thought it would be highly likely.

However, users are not fools.

I'd love to join the Iron Mountains, but it's your own safety that puts priority on it: your life. The rosy future of success is the privilege of being alive.

It wasn't something to think about easily.

The notoriety of the Steel Mountains, even those where the terrible dragon fell asleep, had folded in a few numbers. What was the result of the first expedition, led by the golden lion, which was a group of elite people at that time?

I'd like to participate in the Iron Mountains.

But my life is precious.

What decision did the user make while weighing these two propositions?

It's simple.

As long as he decided to participate, not give up, he would have knocked on the door in the first place looking for a Clan who could protect his safety best. And those clans were concentrated in the east and south, not the west and the north.

From this point on.

So from the time the third condition was released, the situation in the North began to become quite ambiguous.

"There are many criteria when users evaluate Clan.”

Maybe it's because I've been talking for a long time.

My brother, who stops talking for a while, drinks all the rest of the drinks. And then he connects the words right away.

"What famous users are there, how much funding and support are there, how much performance are there, what is the Clan Rank, and so on..”

By defining all those criteria as "reputable," there were no prestigious Clan in the North that would attract users.

It was definitely what my brother said.

In the east, there are many traditional clans, including the Goryeo Clan. Using the reputation and symbolism gained in the war, the Goryeo Clan continued to recruit its users, implicitly emerging as the loser of the East.

The South is also tough. During the events listed earlier by my brother, it was the southern part that preserved the most electricity.

He continued to expand his rent and gained strength just like the East, and in the process, a clan named Istanbul Low (although I helped him a little bit) began to make a name for himself.

Is that all? Our mechanical clan also swept all kinds of ruins and achieved the S-rank for the first time in Clan history, and the dragon, which was considered impregnable, attacked the sleeping mountains.

"But what about the North?"

I kept silent on my brother's sudden question. Because I couldn't think of anything to talk about in the North.

As if he knew it, his brother immediately continued.

As said, the North was in a pretty equivocal situation. Would it be better to be judged out of power in the first place like the West? But not all of them, like the West, were ruined, so they were able to recover relatively quickly.

However, it is "relative" to any extent.

Like the East, which has a long tradition, it did not boast a large user base.

There was no such thing as a clan that had a flurry of performances or a splendid reputation for having placenta of the 10 rivers.

The newly appointed representative clan after the war has no performance and no reputation. I was just busy maintaining the status quo.

In the past, there were many prestigious clans such as North Korea, Stella, and Chihwarang. But it's nothing more than a past glory, and it's now a remnant of a faded memory.

No matter how the Northern expedition was formed, there was no guarantee that the level would be better than the first expedition three years ago.

In any case, they may have tried to raise the level by recruiting external users as there is sufficient demand, but considering that they have already skipped once in the east and south, it is hard to expect a big increase.

In a word, the North is better than the West, but less than the East or the South, just a cutline to form an expedition.

However, he had to participate at all. Aside from the feeling of regret, there was no reasonable justification like the West.

Furthermore, if you step down from here, it's obvious that the North will be on the path of collapse in the future. There is no reason for users to remain in areas where potential development has disappeared.

As such, the North has fallen into a huge dilemma of one's own.

Unless it was obtained by scabbing the representative Clan, users of the North were probably aware of this situation.

Anyway, even if it's forced, participating is essential if you don't want to destroy yourself.

Thus, although he decided to participate, he inevitably had a problem with his position as commander-in-chief.

From what my brother heard from Gong Chan-ho, the North had a very fierce argument over the position of commander-in-chief.

It's not that we'll do each other, it's that we won't do each other

Originally, Clan, the representative of a general city, is in charge of the standard, but there is no law that's not the case.

Just by looking at the Southern expedition. The blue wolf, Khan's representative Clan, volunteered to stand in the rear and transferred power to Istanbul Low.

But if there is one big difference between the South and the North, the current situation is quite different.

Han So-young was an acknowledged user and had such a reputation. Even if the blue wolf retires, there is a great successor, Istanbul Low.

But the North had no users like Han So-young in the first place (I had to feel guilty here again). Originally, it was said that no one wanted to take charge of the beech clan, which would have had a significant impact on the North by now, had passed by his head. Because the position of commander-in-chief was a position where he had to take on such a heavy responsibility.

Although it was a place where you could taste sweeter fruits than anyone else if you succeeded in the attack, it was also a place where you had to be prepared for such an opposition in case of failure.

And this was why Gong Chan-ho was able to be the commander-in-chief.

Technically, Gong Chan-ho had some reputation, but not enough to serve as commander-in-chief.

But what can I do when the representative clans say, "I hate the general commander," and the other clans say, "I hate the general commander, too?" Since the order was rejected, an offer was also made to Gong Chan-ho, who was a little far from the priority list.

To be honest, I don't know what Gong Chan-ho was thinking when he suddenly accepted the proposal.

But to put it bluntly, the current "general commander" Gong Chan-ho was nothing more than a face madam or a throwaway.

When the commander-in-chief was so barely appointed.

At that point, there was an additional variable.

It is the announcement of the agenda to target the fire industry, which was planned under the auspices of the users.

Firefield attack plan.

The plan was the best variable that could save the Northern Expeditionary Force in a dilemma. The reason was simple. At least we can get through the area where the fire attack plan was implemented more safely. For the relatively low northern expedition, the plan was like a rope.

But

The movement in the east following the announcement of the plan immediately blew the expectations of the North. Cho Sung-ho quickly took away the opportunity to enter the first round, citing the reason that the Eastern expedition team was the number one power. It was a ridiculous situation for the North to run away from home.

There is a clear difference in the level of expedition in the east and north. Of course, the law that someone must go first has not been established, but the North wanted to go first because of the province's

Indeed, the East has shown a demure behavior even though it has strong power.

Rather, if the eastern part had advanced that much more without including the distance from which the fire attack was conducted, at least it would have understood. At least we can take it as a position to do our best equally.

But the East did not. He calculated the distance from the beginning and sent a report that he had stopped advancing within 10 days and completed the attack at exactly seven days' distance. There was no damage or assault in the process.

I have nothing to say from the north side of the country that tried to do the same, but it will make me even more frustrated.

I don't think of the East very well either, but from the north, would it be funny?

“…….”

Suddenly, I thought that Han So-young might have been predicting this situation.

Objectively speaking, the actual distance of the South Korean expedition team's march is similar to that of the Eastern expedition team, but it took an additional four days.

But later, Han So-young added quite detailed data when reporting completion of the attack. The bodies and monsters that we've collected so far. We even filmed the battle in the pit.

At the time, I thought you were just working hard, but now that I hear you, I think you were trying to avoid misunderstanding.

"Anyway, in that situation…The West and the North. These two areas have a common interest. That's how the Northwest Alliance was formed."

My brother said in a slightly hoarse voice, perhaps tired of talking.

a northwestern alliance

Now the meaning is starting to come out distinctly differently.

the concordance of interests

It was definitely what my brother said.

The choice of joining hands with the West was the best choice the North could make in the situation since the attack was decided.

Hamill Clan, which is considered to be powerful. Above all, the existence of a brother who can perform the role of commander more than anyone else would have felt like a drought welcome from the north. That's why they offered an attractive offer to share the privileges they could enjoy in the future if they helped them target.

The same was true of the West.

Anyway, so far, the attack on the Steel Mountains has been successfully. In the first place, the West, which was not involved in the official attack, would have had no regrets.

He must have taken on a support mission anyway, so there is no problem in justification.

On the other hand, rather than waiting for the bean powder to fall like this, they would have wanted to eat the rice cake itself, even if it was only half. There, the North said it would hand over the command authority with the general commander as Gong Chan-ho, so as a brother, there would have been no reason to refuse.

"Whoo. That's a bit of a talk..”

As soon as I saw my brother lying on the bed looking pretty exhausted, I was still lost in thought.

I certainly understood the meaning of the North-West alliance, and I understood that it was a reasonable situation. It wasn't a difficult story, just complicated interests entangled.

"Are you satisfied now?”

…and most of all, I suddenly felt sorry for my brother.

A long time ago.

Soohyun, don't you really want to come to the west?'

My brother once asked me half-jokingly to come to the West.

At that time, I let it slip. I thought you were just trying to put me in a safe expedition.

But that wasn't the case by the way.

He also wanted to target the Steel Mountains himself as a user, so he needed the help of the Commercial Clan.

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