"Okay." Slite nodded and began to tell Roland what he knew.
In the rising hegemony of the Charles Empire, the powerful dragon knights born from the contract with Dragon Island, as well as the shadow thorns trained with secret methods, conquered and annexed weak countries one after another. .The country where Lu Yi is located is one of them.
When her homeland was absorbed into the Charles Empire, Lu Yi used her beauty to have an ambiguous relationship with a low-ranking nobleman in the rising Charles relying on this relationship, she used her business talent to gain a favorable advantage, and many of the products of the Lulan Chamber of Commerce are indeed more competitive, whether it is more refined salt or more mellow wine, or the novel The business philosophy allowed Lulan Chamber of Commerce to gain a firm foothold in the Charles Empire step by step.
As the Charles Empire gradually developed and expanded, the Lulan Chamber of Commerce opened its mouth just like the Charles Empire annexed other small countries. It used insidious or deceitful means to greedily annex the chamber of commerce of the defeated countries, and gradually developed into a behemoth.
"Finally, when our great Charles Empire stopped expanding, Lu Yi also officially married that low-class nobleman and joined the ranks of the nobility. The nobleman she married was the head of the Stacey family, so She also changed her name to Lu Yi Stacey. Later, through Lu Yi’s methods, the original head of the Stacey family became her puppet, and the current Stacey family is Lu Yi’s one-word hall.”
"She has always been able to betray men." Roland chuckled, then frowned and asked: "I have heard that after Lu Yi betrayed me, he found a local nobleman as his partner to run Lu Yi together. Lan Chamber of Commerce. How did she get involved with the head of the Stacey family?"
Hearing this question, even the defeated Slit showed a look of disdain on his face: "Huh, just like you said, she has always been able to betray men. That vicious woman invited Stacey's house The head of the Stacey family came to his home as a guest and designed to frame his partner. The head of the Stacey family was a stupid young boy at the time. After a few fiddles, he got angry and killed Lu Yi's then-husband for the sake of beauty. After that, the two of them fell in love naturally. combine together."
Roland fell into silence after hearing this, and then a self-deprecating smile appeared on his face.
It turns out that she is actually such a snake-hearted person. We have known each other for many years, but they are just like , she designed to kill her second husband, which also gave me one less target for revenge.
"Do you want to take revenge on her? I have read records about you, 'Immortal' Roland, the true founder of the Lulan Chamber of Commerce, and the first husband of Luyi Stacey." Slit saw Roland's expression immediately continued: "I have been unhappy with this poisonous woman for a long time. She has made people in Charles's empire miserable. But unfortunately, she has control of too many nobles' financial resources, and many people are under her control. She works within the Lulan Chamber of Commerce, and even many armies rely on the Lulan Chamber of Commerce for their military pay. To touch her rashly would cause shock to the whole country. And she has too many protective umbrellas above the court, and even I have never been able to find a chance to deal with her. She took action."
"If you let me go back to the country, with the cooperation of powerful soldiers like you, you can definitely turn Lu Yi's death into a vendetta, promote someone who can control it as the puppet president of the Lulan Chamber of Commerce, and minimize the loss of domestic turmoil. . In this way, you can get revenge and gain the friendship of our Charles Empire."
When Roland heard what General Slit said, he raised his eyebrows in surprise and laughed. "Doesn't the Charles Empire have any economists or keen politicians? Or is the emperor of your country an invincible person?" Big idiot? How dare you let a selfish capitalist control most of the country's economic lifeline? Hahaha, you really laughed me to death. What is the Lulan Chamber of Commerce? You should call it the Lulan Consortium."
"You actually brazenly said that I would let you go back to the country. Let's not say that I am not stupid enough to let you go back. Even if I let you go back, I can say that you will be defeated by Lu Yi Stacey the next day. With good luck, you will be a rich man for the rest of your life. But with Lu Yi's methods, your family may be killed by suicide in less than a week."
Roland laughed heartily under Slit's angry and puzzled eyes. He didn't expect that some of the things he had said casually to this woman before would actually be played out by her.
"Shut up! Don't insult our Emperor. His Majesty Judah's wisdom is something that civilians like you will never be able to understand." When Slit heard Roland insulting the emperor of his country, he puffed up his chest and shouted angrily: "If not Your Majesty Judah, our Charles Empire is still just a corner effect. Besides, you want to say that Lu Yi’s power can kill me and my family? It’s ridiculous! Do you know how many of my favorite disciples are in the Charles Empire Army? ?"
"Old general, let me ask you a question." Roland finished laughing and said, "Then do you know how many of your most popular disciples received military pay from Lu Yi Stacey?"
"This..." Slit subconsciously wanted to refute Roland's words, but suddenly found that he had no evidence to support him.
Roland then said coldly: "Lu Yi Stacey is not even a member of the royal family of the Charles Empire. How dare you to let her control the economy like this? Do you believe it will take a few more years for the Charles Empire to continue like this?" Just changed your surname to Lu Yi?"
"How...how is this possible? There are so many loyal ministers who are loyal to His Majesty..." Slit muttered, his eyes widening after hearing this.
Can your ministers who are loyal to His Majesty cultivate food or smelt metal?So what if they are the kind of strong men who can be defeated by thousands of people? Maybe the resources they use for training now are provided by Lu Yi, and Lu Yi can also spend money to cultivate strong men of his own power.
Roland shook his head slightly. He instantly lost interest in talking to him. Talking to someone who had not studied any basic economics was a torture in itself.
"Who is it?" Ikosela, who had been staying behind Roland to observe the surroundings, suddenly raised his golden shield and came to Roland, shouting towards a burned-out the same time, he raised his right hand and prayed directly with Gu Long, and a precise lightning strike hit the crumbling wall.
"Crack-" The wall struck by lightning shattered to the ground, causing the people hiding behind the wall to give up their hiding place in disgrace.
Roland looked up and saw a group of people covered in blood and gray faces squeezing out of the thick smoke from the ruins. Flames brewed directly in Yaqir's mouth and he wanted to spit them out.
"Wait, Yakir." Roland raised his hand to stop Yakir's movements: "Are you... local residents?"
Roland squinted his eyes to carefully identify the faces of some of them, and recognized a few familiar people.
The crowd whispered and pushed each other, and a man who was barely dressed in neat clothes was pushed to the he walked towards Roland, he looked back at the crowd and muttered something. After he was some distance away from the crowd, he stopped looking back, rubbed the back of his head and laughed at Roland.
"Stop, if you have anything to say, it's enough to stand there and say it!" Ikosela shouted angrily at the man.
"I recognize you. You were a guard captain under Marek before." Roland frowned and continued to ask: "What's wrong? What's the matter? Where is Marek and the others?"
"Well, Lord Marek actually died in tonight's war." The guard captain said with a gray face.
Roland paused, nodded to indicate that he understood the news, and then looked at the guard captain without saying a word, waiting for him to continue speaking.
The army pressed on the territory, the city was destroyed and people died. There is nothing to be surprised 't naively think about how good the military discipline of these soldiers can be. In ancient times, there were countless generals who used rhetoric such as slaughtering cities and looting to inspire their soldiers. At that time, soldiers mostly used their own strength to earn a relatively good meal.
There is almost no ideological construction education for generals, so if you tell these soldiers to fight for the country and the peace of their own country, they will only widen their eyes and ask you what he should eat for his next meal.
Rather, he was a little surprised by the quality of Roland's soldiers. Of course, it was more likely that their high faith in Roland prevented them from doing anything beyond Roland's orders.
"It's like this. When they attacked Duogu City, they burned, killed and looted us, leaving our families separated and our families destroyed." The guard captain carefully recalled what they had discussed, and the organizational language revealed: "Many of them killed The executioner who killed our family, so we would like to ask you, Lord Roland, not to spare these guys lightly."
The "them" in the guard captain's mouth was pointing to the soldiers of the Charles Empire kneeling on the ground behind Slit.
Obviously, except for the cavalry who entered the city first, the infantry who entered the city later were not very 's just that the guard captain didn't see any cavalry, so he could only point at the infantry.
"Are you sure you pointed to the wrong soldier? The soldiers of the Holy Empire of France are all kneeling on the other side." Roland followed the guard captain's finger and said suspiciously after realizing that he was pointing at a soldier from the Charles Empire. .
After hearing this, the guard captain shook his head in fright and explained in a panic: "I'm not mistaken, Lord Roland. It's all these Charles Empire soldiers wearing blue armor who are attacking us, and those soldiers wearing white armor are attacking us. We didn’t encounter it.”
It’s not that the soldiers of the Holy Empire of France have better military discipline than those of the Charles Empire, but their purpose of entering Dogu City is to ambush the Charles Empire, so the commander-in-chief Enluxius specifically emphasized that no soldiers were allowed to enter the city until the end of the war. To harass the residents and expose their position.
On the contrary, Slit, who believed that his side was sure of victory, did not restrain his soldiers too much.
After hearing what the guard captain said, Roland showed a playful looked at Slit, who was bowing his head silently, and asked: "Hey, old general. Aren't these people the subjects of your Charles Empire? Why are you your own people burning, killing, and looting in the city?"
Roland asked this deliberately. Of course he knew that these soldiers might not regard the residents of border towns like Duogu City as people from the Charles Empire.
But he still wanted to hear those words from Slit's mouth. Maybe Roland was expecting another answer from the old general?
"These border people are not worthy of being called the subjects of our Charles Empire. The Charles Empire is vast, and countless such delusional guys become members of the Charles Empire every day. The empire can only allow them to survive within the territory. The greatest kindness." Slit was still thinking about what Roland said about Lu Yi before, and answered without thinking after hearing this question.
Then Slit continued: "Let's not talk about these untouchables for now. Mr. Roland, I would like to know more about your views on Lu Yi Stacey. I have just thought about what you said seriously, and I feel more and more like you You should cooperate with me to eradicate Lu Yi and the Lulan Chamber of Commerce behind her."
"Well, you nobles really all look the same." After hearing Slit's words, Roland said with indifferent eyes.
Slit looked confused: "Sir Roland, what are you talking about?"
"Forget it, I don't blame you." Roland waved his hand and sighed: "The limitations of the times... I'm afraid you people will never be able to understand the world in my eyes."
He shook his head at the confused Slit and said, "No, thank you for your kindness, old general. Lu Yi Stacey will be solved by me personally, so you can go on your way with peace of mind."
Then Roland suddenly shouted: "Yakir! Burn all the soldiers of the Charles Empire who are kneeling here, and let them return to the embrace of the golden tree."
"Roar——!!" After hearing Roland's order, Yaqir immediately spread out his wide bat-like dragon wings and flew in the air. Dragon flames were condensing near the ferocious dragon's mouth, and the surrounding air was distorted and fluctuated by the high temperature.
Slit's face changed greatly: "Wait! Mr. Roland, you can't kill these soldiers! I can make them all obey your orders."
"I don't need it. Their souls will help me recruit soldiers who are stronger and more loyal than them. Of course, the same goes for yours." Roland showed an unknown smile, then leaned over and whispered in Slit's ear. Said: "I suddenly remembered an interesting thing about Judas, the emperor of your Charles Empire. This name represents betrayal in a religion in my original world. I will personally find out about him when I kill you nobles. Does the name also fit this meaning?"
Recruiting more powerful soldiers, my original world, Roland, who is known as the "Immortal", and unheard of products from the Lulan Chamber of Commerce.
Slit's pupils dilated instantly. He seemed to understand many things in that moment. His voice was distorted and frightened: "I understand, you are really not this..."
"Ikosela." Roland called out the name of Knight Rodel, and kicked Slit's gray-bearded chin coldly, preventing him from uttering the rest of his words.
"Yes." When Ikosela heard Roland calling his name, he took a step forward. He held up the knight's sword that could only be used by knights serving demigods, and then quickly slashed it down. The afterimage of the sword was illuminated by the golden tree. A golden arc was drawn below.
Slit's old head, which was still staring at death, flew up with blood, and then hit the ground heavily.
At the same time, Aqil also spit out the flames of unfair judgment. More than 2000 people were baptized by the dragon flames that fell from the sky, and no one survived.
"Keep this head safe and send it back to the capital of the Charles Empire at some time." Roland told Ikosela.
The dragon flames spewed by Akil illuminated his side, hiding the other half of his face in darkness.
[Task 5000 (optional): Kill the enemy commander and complete. [-] points of ether energy have been distributed, please check the host. 】
As the commander-in-chief of the frontline combat forces of the Holy Empire of France, Enlucius Wilhelm, was killed by the dragon knight "Heart of Fire" Necott, the commander of the Charles Empire, General "Axe" Slit, was killed again. Died by Knight Rodel's sword.
Therefore, Roland completed this task naturally.
The 5000 points of ether energy consumed in summoning Aquile were instantly restored. Even because Aquile killed Necott and Salisbury, the Dragon Knight and the Dragon increased their total ether energy by 4900 points.
A total of 18000 Charles Empire soldiers who were burned to death by Yakir just now provided 42000 points of ether energy, as well as 4000 points provided by the French Holy Empire soldiers who died in battle (excluding the soldiers who died before summoning Yakir).
The ether energy stored in the Golden Tree now reaches an astonishing 58900 points.
Seeing so much ether energy, Roland's irritability caused by the impact of memory recovery became much smoother.
Very good, this wave is really great, and I have the thought happily in his heart that so much ether was enough for him to raise an army.
Whether it's the Storm King's elite army of homeless knights working with the exiled soldiers, or Grek's army of kings, they can all be drawn out.
"Okay, the executioners who killed you have been dealt with. It's time to go home." Roland looked up at the uneasy-looking guard captain and waved his hand, trying to send them away.
When the guard captain heard these words, he smiled bitterly. After thinking for a while, he knelt down and kowtowed to Roland: "Sir Roland, I know that you are not actually interested in staying in Duogu City. You are probably staying here for What secrets I cannot know. But our current home has been destroyed by evil dragons and war, and we have lost our place. Lord Roland, please forgive our greed, and please don’t abandon us. We can all feel your presence, Lord Roland, these days. In fact, he is a city lord who respects us very much. Neither Marek nor the previous city lords have ever cared so much about our life, death and feelings. So if you go anywhere, please take us with you. I I will swear my allegiance to you forever."
Roland looked at the guard captain blankly. He remembered that in his previous rebirths, he treated the civilians with a more kind attitude and approach, but in the end what he got in return was ridicule and betrayal.
How is he different this time from before?
It seems that the only difference is that there are more majestic soldiers and flying dragons flying in the sky behind him, as well as the burning ruins behind him and the soldiers and horses who died on the ground.
Strong force makes people fear, weak kindness makes people fact, I should have thought a long time ago that only when I become stronger can I decide my own destiny and then the destiny of others.
"Okay, I allow you to join my golden dynasty." Roland agreed: "But you and the residents behind you must remember two things. The first thing is that if betrayal is discovered after joining my dynasty, everyone in the family will be killed. "
"Don't worry about this, Lord Roland. We have all experienced your kindness and will not betray you."
I'll just listen to it lowered his eyes and thought.
"The second thing is, in my dynasty, no matter who you face, don't kneel down so humbly." Roland softened his tone and said: "You can kneel down on one knee to express respect for the hero, or you can Show this by bending down or raising your hands in salute, but never again kneeling on the ground.”
"I don't ask if you can understand the meaning of this request now, but please just follow my instructions first."
Then he blinked and looked at the stunned guard captain on the ground: "It doesn't count this time, be careful next time. Get up."
"Ah, yes." The guard captain quickly stood up from the ground. For some reason, under Roland's gaze, he subconsciously dusted himself off, not wanting to be so embarrassed in front of Roland.
"Let them come too. How many residents are still alive in Duogu City?" Roland asked.
The guard captain called the people behind him to come over and repeated Roland's hearing that Roland agreed to take their request, some of them showed gratitude and were about to kneel down, but were repeatedly stopped by the guard captain, who told Roland's two requests.
Those people, like the previous guard captain, blinked blankly, wondering why Lord Roland would make such a strange request.
"Back to Lord Roland, there are currently only more than 800 surviving residents of Duogu City. The others...all died under the swords of Charles Empire soldiers."
Roland nodded silently, and then said to them: "Okay, I understand. But from now on, Duogu City will no longer be called Duogu City. I will give it another name, and you will be the new residents of this city."
"No longer called Duogu City? Master Roland, what should we call it?"
Roland leaned against the golden tree, raised his right hand in a fist gesture, and answered loudly: "Moen City!"
【Are you sure to summon 'Moen City'? 】
confirm.
The golden tree shines brightly, and the earth rumbles violently.
In the shocked eyes of the residents of the ancient city and the surrendered soldiers of the Holy Empire of France, countless golden lights dispersed from the golden trees and quickly gathered into brand new houses, towering city walls and stern castles.
[Moen City ends with city lord "Edgar" has been unlocked, the lion hybrid (currently the only one) has been unlocked, and the Skeleton Great Sword (Legendary) (the only one) (cannot be damaged) has been unlocked]
[Nimgefu Building Summon has been can spend ether to summon all the buildings, mines and catacombs in Nimgolf and place them within the blessing range of any golden tree. 】
["Melina, the one who goes with the fire", has been unlocked. 】
Chapter 60: The mystery of Melina and Roland’s life experiences
"Melina?" Looking at the text on the system log, Roland showed a surprised expression.
"Little Wood", "Old Acquaintance"... Players have various names for this girl.
"Elden's Ring" is a new soul-based suffering game released by Hidetaka Miyazaki, which made a group of old ASS who were seriously transformed into zombies extremely when this graceful girl told the faded person her name in an elegant and melodious voice, and took off her brown cloak to reveal her gentle and pleasant face, she also learned that the faded person played by our player can When she can consume runes to upgrade, everyone shouted that this was the new "ring-proof girl", Hidetaka Miyazaki's new wife for the player.
The key point is that her English dubbing is You'er Shika, the leader of the Dark Moon Knights in Soul Three. I believe many people heard that unique voice the moment Melina opened her white teeth.
In addition, the games released at that time were suffering from Western political correctness. The female characters in the game did not have very masculine faces, or they were simply vilified.
So when a rare and beautiful girl like Melina appeared in everyone's sight, she gained great popularity.
And contrary to her huge popularity, everyone in the game thinks that she will be an NPC who accompanies players similar to the fireproof woman in "Dark Souls 3".As a result, Melina didn't have many roles in the main storyline, so she was overtaken in popularity by "Moon Princess" Lani who came from behind.
For a while, there was even a saying that "she is not as popular as Kura La". (PS1)
But as time went by, videos released by various environmentalists, some fan works, and the voice deleted by Hidetaka Miyazaki made players realize that Melina was not actually the "wood" they said.
The Faded doesn't see Melina that many times in the game, only a few , in the actual plot, Melina, whose body has been burned and only her soul remains, is always attached to the player, clearly watching the player's every word and action.
This can be confirmed by Melina's voice in the deleted case "Bionic Teardrop", and even Melina showed an unexpectedly playful and cute side.
But all of this was deleted by Hidetaka Miyazaki! !I unilaterally declare that the old thief Miyazaki has fallen directly from the altar.
She has feelings for the Faded One that are beyond ordinary friends but do not reach the level of love. However, this girl's sense of mission is greater than anything else, so she does not reveal this feeling in front of the players.
Only before she threw herself into the furnace to feed herself into the fire, the slightly trembling hand that stretched out to the player and then restrained herself from withdrawing in the middle showed that Melina's heart was not as peaceful as she showed.
On the way to becoming the King of Elden, Melina is more like a "comrade" than a "companion", guiding the player in the direction of progress, and telling the player the motto Malika left in churches everywhere, allowing them to gradually Understand what happened in the past at the junction.
She is willing to sacrifice herself as a fire for all living beings in the junction, to burn the closed thorns of the golden tree for the player, to help the player become the King of Elden, so that the junction that has been dilapidated and even stopped for thousands of years can once again enter a new era. era.
[You have been staring at the interface of this NPC for so long. Is she special? ] The system popped up and asked curiously.
Roland came back to his senses from the system interface and glanced at the surrounding Duogu City who looked at him with adoring eyes. Oh no, he should call the residents of Moren City now and gently waved his hand to let them choose their own residence.
"Well, it's very special." Roland thought about what happened in the game and smiled lightly: "She is like a friend who always reminds you of the way forward. She has been with me for a long time."
[In that case, why not summon her? ] The system suggested: [Anyway, your current amount of ether is very I think since you describe her like that, summoning her will definitely play a big role in restoring your memory now. 】
