My blood regeneration is 100 million points faster

Rexall's words were correct.

Before the smoke of creation overhead lifted, Xia Zuo's area of ​​activity was so large. Any place under the sky belongs to either the temple or the Church of Strange Demons.

If Xia Zuo is really convicted of disloyalty by Nie Jingjia in the grand review, there are only two consequences waiting for him.

One is to follow the laws of the temple, deprive him of all rights and status, seal all spellcasting abilities, and throw him into a prison in the frozen snowfield to receive life imprisonment.

The second is to take the initiative to hand over the power of blood, become a master alchemist who only knows elemental spells and masters some alchemy, and stays in the designated position until death.

With the help of Golden Finger, how can Xia Zuo resist this harsh punishment?

Slaughter the creatures, recycle vitality, harvest experience, break out of the temple territory, and then be hunted by the temple, and turn against your former friends?

Or maybe he is praying that Golden Finger can resist the sealing array of the temple, forcibly retain part of it during the operation to extract the power of blood, and quietly accumulate energy for the prison escape?

Xia Zuo felt that he did not want to see either of the above consequences.

And he didn't think that Rexor was deceiving him.

After witnessing the decision-making process of the two palace meetings, Xia Zuo deeply understood the profound meaning behind the sentence "Classical MZ may become the tyranny of the majority."

(Note: Please note that what is written here is classical MZ, not modern MZ. It specifically refers to the MZ system similar to ancient Athens. The original words are from a history textbook.)

Judging from the experience of participating in the meeting of the two temples, when the interests of the majority of people can be satisfied by sacrificing one person, voting on something that may be in compliance with the law, or may be contrary to the law or moral principles, will happen without hindrance.

The most typical and vivid example is Kallus.

Replacing Kallus with a full-metal body must be against Kallus' personal wishes.

But if this plan is approved by the vote of the two palace meetings, it will be inevitable. No matter how much Kallus himself objects, it will be useless, because there are many people who want to get his biological materials and bloodline power.

This time, Xia Zuo successfully avoided the trap with the help of Rexor and Selena, but it may not be the case next time.

If he doesn't want to become the target of tyranny, he has to think of a countermeasure:

Taking advantage of his wall-mounted position, he seeks a position in the temple that no one can defeat and no one dares to touch. The ultimate goal is to have a high influence in the meeting between the two temples. At that time, Xia Zuo can not participate in the decision-making of regular matters and not express his own opinions, but when the matter involves him and his allies, Xia Zuo must have power similar to a veto.

Only when the smoke of creation disappeared and Xia Zuo had the strength to leave this planet and go to other planets did he have the capital to leave the temple.

It's really troublesome... In order to be able to show off publicly and show off to legitimate people, you have to form a gang... This is because the ruler of this world is very powerful and controls almost everything in the territory - the temple The mages who rely on the element of light to rule the elite class use laws to bind ordinary mages and ordinary people, while the Church of Strange Demons relies on dark rooms and blood connections.

Faced with this time-travel situation, Xia Zuo felt somewhat helpless.

Start changing the situation by finding reliable allies.

Is the big bald head in front of me suitable?

Xia Zuo looked at Rexor thoughtfully and nodded secretly to express his approval. He was a good choice in terms of virtue, character, experience, etc.

"Master, I can completely trust you." Xia Zuo said.

Rexor nodded calmly, "It's an honor to gain your trust. It's really not easy. According to the experience summarized by the Demon Hunting School, a pure-blood mage's caution and isolation are often directly proportional to his true strength. .Among the pure-blood mages I have met, your caution and isolation can definitely be ranked in the top three. So...are you willing to talk to me about your blood magic?"

Xia Zuo was a little hesitant. He was thinking about which blood magic to reveal.

Rexall said, "There is something you may not know yet."

The bald man took out the parchment from his alchemy pocket and spread it on the table. "The Warriors Guild drafted a wartime mobilization order, and this is what you have in front of you. The Strange Demon Church is coming menacingly, with an army of more than 1.1 million strange demons. It is a big stone that weighs on the heart of everyone who knows about it. Although the temple will definitely defeat the Strange Demon Church, this belief still needs to be supported by sufficient military strength."

Rexall pointed to a few lines on the parchment, "The number of regular mage troops in the temple is 320,000. After the wartime mobilization order is issued, 120,000 retired army mages can be urgently recruited, and the existing mage army can be 150,000 reserve army mages have been converted into full-time soldiers, and a total of 590,000 army mages are the current main force of the temple. This number is only half of the number of strange demons, which is worrying."

"Look here." Rexor clicked on a few more paragraphs. "The Temple Army will continue to recruit non-combat mages to serve in the army. Such mages will enjoy the same right to distribute spoils as army mages. In principle, The latter must accept the command of the former.”

"Look here again." Rexall's finger moved to another place, "In order to maximize the incentive for non-combat mages to join the army and fight, the Warriors Guild proposed to use the territory of the Strange Demon Church as a reward. Each of them established a prominent Participants with military merits can exchange for a permanent fiefdom within the territory of the Strange Demon Church after the war is won by relying on the military merits established in the war."

Xia Zuo looked slightly moved, "Permanent fiefdom? Everything on the ground and underground belongs to the lord forever?"

The land ownership situation in the temple territory is somewhat similar to Xia Zuo's previous life, where all ownership is in the official hands. For example, completely owning a piece of land was something that was unthinkable, but unexpectedly, I had the opportunity to realize it after traveling through time.

Rexor nodded and said, "As you think, the 'lords' mentioned on the parchment are the lords of the previous era. Since the establishment of the temple, this is the first time that the temple has canonized a lord as a certain person. The reward for this mission is probably the last one. You should know what it means to have a territory that truly belongs to you. As long as what you do does not violate the laws of the temple, you will always have absolute control over the land. Lord. You can have your own people, property, manor, farmland, and a legal private guard team."

Xia Zuo's expression gradually became weird.

There is nothing wrong with using land as a reward. After all, this is an unprecedented battle related to the life and death of the temple.

The problem is, if Xia Zuo remembers correctly, the territory of the Strange Demon Church, that is, the inside of the Forbidden Magic Field, should have been severely eroded by the shadow energy in the dark room, right?

Even though the Temple defeated the Strange Demon Church and obtained all of the opponent's territory, it could not change the fact that the land was riddled with holes.

Any military mage who has been granted land has to spend a lot of money to buy alchemy equipment to improve the ecological environment, hire expensive alchemists and tower mages, and repair his land before it can be officially put into use...

The cost of repairs is expected to be sky-high, even higher than the value of the land itself.

Xia Zuo scratched his head and asked Rexor his question, "Master, are there any discounts on repairing the land?"

Rexall asked, "Are you worried that after you get the land, you won't be able to afford the cost of improving the environment?"

"Yes." Xia Zuo nodded.

"The truth is exactly the opposite, Xia Zuo." Rexor turned the parchment over and pointed to the text on the back. "Army mages who have obtained fiefdoms do not need to pay any fees to transform the environment. Not only that, if they can cooperate with the temple, By recycling shadow energy, the lord will also receive rewards from the temple, mainly material support for building the territory."

"Why is this?" Xia Zuo asked.

"Because the temple lacks shadow energy." Rexor took out another parchment.

On the parchment is a three-dimensional image constructed using illusion magic.

Xia Zuo recognized the three-dimensional image at a glance, "Isn't this the internal structure diagram of the energy center of the Strange Demon Church?"

"Yes." Rexor nodded, "After getting the information you brought back for Kallus, the tower scholars immediately started researching the internal structure of the energy center. They came to a preliminary conclusion: copying the name The plane device for [Saguma's Eternal Obsession] requires the use of nine different energies, the largest proportion of which is shadow energy, which happens to be the rarest energy in the temple."

Rexall put the two parchments together and said, "While the Temple will attack the territory of the Strange Demon Church and seize the land, it will extract the shadow energy from the land to imitate the plane device. At the same time, it will use the created The plane device consolidates the natural laws of the land, completely erases the cracks and cracks in the dark room, and prevents the counterattack of the Church of Strange Demons. If all goes well, these two things will start at the same time and end at the same time."

After hearing this, Xia Zuo immediately thought of a wise saying: Without guns and running, the enemy will create it for us.

Put it on the head of the temple, this sentence becomes: Without shadow energy, the strange demon church will create for us...

This idea of ​​using war to support war sounds indeed feasible.

But this will only work if the mage army in the temple can advance steadily in the forbidden magic field.

Xia Zuo thought about it for a while and understood one thing:

This is an unequal war.

The biggest advantage of the Strange Demon Church is not actually the 1.1 million strange demon army, but the forbidden magic field.

In the early stages of the war, the Temple could only adopt a passive defensive posture.

Because the army mages under his command who can fight in the forbidden magic field are only mages who are proficient in psychic energy, pure-blood mages who are proficient in blood magic, self-enhancing bloodline power awakeners, and a small group of shadow mages who can control shadow energy. .

It is estimated that there are less than 300 mages of the above four categories, and they are completely incapable of success.

If the temple wants to counterattack the Strange Demon Church and seize the land in the Forbidden Magic Field, it must first expand the above four types of mages to at least a thousand people and successfully establish the first base in the Forbidden Magic Field.

Only in this way will the scale of the war begin to tilt toward the temple, the situation will turn around, and the war phase will enter the mid-term counterattack phase.

The most critical part lies in the above four types of mages.

How to quickly expand the capacity of these four types of mages?

There is no need to consider mages who are proficient in psychic energy, because such mages have limited frontal combat capabilities.

The shadow mage doesn't have to think about it. Throwing them into the forbidden magic field is equivalent to giving a big gift package to the shadow demon master.

Then there are only two choices for the temple.

One is a self-enhancing bloodline power awakener. The Artificial Bloodline Project just caters to the need to expand the capacity of such mages. However, the research process of this plan is relatively slow, and it will take at least one year to produce qualified results.

so!

If the temple wants to explode troops quickly, there is only one way!

That is to use Xia Zuo's hematogen servants to mass-produce pure-blood mages, secretly form a powerful team of pure-blood mages, and give them a head-on attack when the Strange Demon Church is temporarily vigilant.

After thinking about this, look at the current conversation.

Tsk tsk tsk.

It's all a routine.

Fortunately, I always think rationally and rarely act emotionally. Xia Zuo nodded secretly and gave himself a thumbs up.

The Temple wants to take advantage of his hemonic minions?

Can.

But he has to give a suitable price. He is not someone who relies on feelings, affection and loyalty to give for free.

Taking the initiative to put forward your own quotation is equivalent to revealing your background, which seems very disrespectful. After all, Xia Zuo had lived an extra lifetime, and he still knew these negotiation tips.

And in order to protect himself and avoid being robbed by the two hall meetings, Xia Zuo must set up some secret and reliable back-ups, including but not limited to doing some tricks on the blood magic shared by the hematin servants, or deliberately vague On certain key matters, mislead the partners without leaving any trace, but without leaving any clues or causing any negative impact.

Xia Zuo quietly constructed a plan in his mind by reading the parchment.

After reading the wartime mobilization order, he thought for nearly a minute and then said with careful tone:

"Master, do you want to encourage me to join the battle, earn military merit, and get a fiefdom? I admit that I am a little moved, but I also know the cruelty of war. Compared to fighting in person, I feel that I spend more time sitting at the rear. , and provide support to the front line.”

In this passage, Xia Zuo implicitly revealed that he already knew the temple's intentions, and at the same time put forward some of his demands, hoping to start a bargaining topic.

But Rexall didn't accept this.

He glared and said:

"Don't play tricks on me, Xia Zuo, I am a demon hunter, not ZK. I know you know what I mean, and I know you know that I know what you mean.

"I admit that the previous words did have some ulterior motives, but since we have established a foundation of mutual trust, let us make it clear."

"Ahem, okay, I'm all ears." Xia Zuo coughed lightly, but unexpectedly the other party flipped the table first...

The bald man controls the rhythm of the conversation so accurately, he deserves to be an old guy who has lived for thousands of years...

Rexall said, "I think you have discovered that your hemogen servants are crucial to this war. Its ability to transform normal people into pure-blood mages is exactly what the temple urgently needs now. The temple army Entrust me to ask you what price they have to pay in order for you to help transform 1,000 well-trained army mages into pure-blood mages."