Urban Sims

Many people find it difficult to understand why Zhou Ming rejected the Lucis family's marriage, and why he allowed the situation to continue to worsen, leading to the outbreak of a large-scale war?

The first reason is that he personally does not want to get married and no longer wants to be bound by marriage and family.

The second reason is that the aristocratic faction in the empire is too powerful and is a huge factor of instability. Zhou Ming had to find a way to weaken the aristocratic faction.

Especially weakening the strength of the Lucis family.

Zhou Ming doesn't really hope that there is a force in the Orunian Empire that can challenge his authority. He wants the world to bow his head and no one dares to be arrogant... In this way, no matter what he wants to do, no one will question him. Making a chirping sound.

He wanted to keep his ears clean.

After a series of operations, the power of the aristocratic faction was reduced by half, and the Lucis family was in a state of collapse. Its territory was less than half of its original size. It would be impossible to recover for less than thirty to fifty years.

But Zhou Ming's attention was no longer here at this time.

His energy was mainly focused on another thing.

What happened to Conan Cecil.

It has been more than half a year since he was sent to the headquarters of the Blue Hand Guild. What happened to him?

Is there some ulterior conspiracy happening to him?

Through communication with Conan, he is in good condition and is not in danger for the time being.

However, based on various clues, Zhou Ming basically concluded that danger was approaching Conan.

What's the danger?

The dangers of acting as a “purifier.”

In the past six months, Conan has entered a closed magic academy. The type of magic he studies every day is not the power of blue, but another type of magic called "power of red."

"Red Power" is similar to "Dark Power". It is a kind of magic with negative energy attributes. Its attack power is equivalent to that of Blue Power, but it is highly corrosive. On the spiritual level, it is easy for warlocks to fall into the so-called The "magic way" has become cruel, murderous, and sinister.

The power of the dark red is also the main type of power that erodes the "blue power" of the magic network.

The magic academy that Conan entered not only conducted in-depth research on the "power of ghost red", but also introduced the power of ghost red through special methods to form a spiritual array for students to practice.

After Conan's recent theoretical courses are over, he will also enter the "training room" to practice the so-called "red power".

So far.

Zhou Ming finally understood what the Blue Hand's purpose was in actively collecting those "self-connected people"?

Cleanse the ley line.

Yes, the purpose of Blue Hand's approach is also to purify the magic network.

However, the purification method adopted by Blue Hand is completely opposite to the method Zhou Ming came up with.

Zhou Ming's method is to clear the blue power in the magic network, introduce all the blue power into the material plane, let the source of pollution "red power" remain, and then find a way to remove it.

The method adopted by the Blue Hand is to introduce the blue power in the material plane into the magic network as much as possible, and then use some methods to introduce the source of pollution "red power" into the material plane, using the material At the cost of the plane being polluted, the magic network is purified.

Although the two methods have the same purpose, the specific means of implementation are completely opposite.

So which method is better?

Zhou Ming must think that his method is better, because the material plane is not polluted, and in the energy layer, it is more convenient to reconstruct a new magic network far away from the source of pollution, and is no longer affected by the "power of the dark red" Impact.

Where is the Blue Hand?

They must feel that their method is better. Although after the blue power on the material plane is drained out, it will enter the "End of Law Age" for a period of time, but as long as the magic network is purified, the power of the Blue Moon Continent will develop again. Usher in new glory!

However, the price after completing the purification is that the material plane is contaminated by the "power of the red."

Of course, since the amount of "Red Power" is not very large, the degree of contamination should be within an acceptable range.

But in Zhou Ming's eyes, this method of purifying the magic network can only be described in two words: stupid.

Extremely stupid!

This is clearly treating the material plane as a "garbage dump", polluting the material plane that was not originally polluted, exposing the warlocks who were able to practice normally to the mixed environment of the two forces, seriously affecting Warlocks practice.

The most terrifying consequence is that once the concentration of "Nether Red Power" becomes high, a large number of "Demon Sect" warlocks who practice the power of Nether Red may appear on the plane of Blue Moon, and Demon Sect Warlocks generally They are bloodthirsty and cruel, and do all kinds of evil. If their number continues to increase, it will lead to "good overcoming evil".

In the end, the entire Blue Moon Plane fell into a state of eternal destruction.

Zhou Ming had seen this kind of phenomenon in other planes, and there were more than one cases. He naturally knew that Blue Hand had taken a detour.

There is also one last question: The Blue Hand wants to purify the Magic Network by transferring "pollution" to the material plane, but why do they search for so-called "self-connectors" to join this purification plan? ?

Is there anything different about self-connected people?

There are differences, of course.

And the advantages are very obvious.

Because compared to ordinary "purifiers", the average efficiency of highly talented self-connectors in transmitting "red power" from the magic network is 2 to 5 times that of ordinary purifiers.

The time they can stay awake every day is 1 to 3 times that of ordinary purifiers.

As for the survival lifespan, most self-connected purifiers can survive for about 10 years.

However, ordinary purifiers can only live for two or three years at most due to the erosion of the power of Youhong.

Therefore, from the perspective of comprehensive purification efficiency, one self-connector is roughly equivalent to 100 ordinary purifiers.

But even so, with the number of self-connectors being born every year in the continent at around 10, even if the Blue Hand collected them all, they would only be equivalent to 1,000 ordinary purifiers. With this number of people, it is necessary to complete the task of purifying the magic network. , I don’t know that I have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

If you want to speed up the purification efficiency, it is better to recruit more ordinary purifiers. There is no need to collect self-connected people and consume them like cannon fodder.

But what really kills the Zilians is their outstanding talent.

Because the senior officials of the Blue Hand discovered that if the self-connected person can survive ten years under the erosion of the power of the dark red, not only will he not die, but he will completely degenerate into a "demon" with a lifespan of more than ten thousand years and transmit The efficiency increases a hundred times, and day and night, the purification efficiency skyrockets!

There are currently more than 20 "demons" like this in the Blue Hand Guild's back mountain forbidden area, and their purification capabilities are off the charts.

Therefore, the purpose of the Blue Hand's senior management to actively search for self-connectors is to hope that there will be more "demons" in the forbidden area of ​​​​the back mountain, so that the purification of the magic network can be completed as soon as possible.

This is why after Zhou Ming connected to the Magic Network, Carlo Hisnari was particularly excited when he noticed his existence. Because with Zhou Ming's talent, if he devoted himself to the work of purifying the Magic Network, Carlo Hisnari felt that , he has a probability of more than 80 to 90% that he can become a "demon".

So Carlo Cisnari couldn't wait to send an elite team to the Orunian Empire, trying every possible means to find his whereabouts.

"Ma Dan, a highly talented self-connector, has actually become the top purification tool in the eyes of Blue Hand?"

"They really know how to play."

Zhou Ming, who understood everything, shook his head.

…

the other side.

After half a year of key training.

Not knowing what to expect, Conan Cecil was sent to a well-guarded cave.

Then his vision went dark and he was knocked unconscious with a palm.

When he woke up, he found himself lying on a cold stone bed, with heavy iron chains and shackles on his hands and feet, with no possibility of breaking free.

And immediately ushered in his painful journey.

The connection point of his soul string, under the extremely expectant eyes of President Carlo Cisnari, slowly moved to the end of the magic network, entered the source of pollution, and was connected to the "Red Power".

The red power, which is extremely corrosive to the soul and body, was poured into Conan's body through the soul string.

"ah!"

"Ah! It hurts! It's so itchy!"

"Save me, come and save me!"

Conan rolled wildly and let out extremely miserable screams that echoed back and forth in the cave.

There are tens of thousands of caves like this where screams are heard, densely packed on the hillsides of several tall rocks in this forbidden area.