In the year 329 of the Holy Calendar, the Pope declared it the most peaceful year in a century.
I made an indelible contribution to this.
Because I was caught.
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In the ye...
Chapter 614: If you can’t have fun on the battlefield, you can only have fun on the x field…
Elsa still hasn't found someone worthy of her full efforts.
However, the rebel forces in Giant Wood City were basically wiped out.
There are also some chronic illnesses that can be cured through this opportunity.
Likewise, the influence of the Holy Land will also deepen.
In short, at least for the current Giant Wood City and Rand, it is a win-win situation.
All that's left to do now is to torture these enemies.
As for the time before the torture.
Well, it was defined by Elsa as "fun" time.
In short, Lysa went to interrogate the elf opponents, while Elsa and Rand started their private time.
In the room that had been arranged before.
"Stare..." Elsa stared at Rand.
Rand's eyes narrowed, and then he tried to cover his crotch.
"Hehe." Elsa easily conjured up a pair of Rand pants in her hands like magic, revealing an evil smile.
"It's impossible to protect your things in front of the master thief." Elsa chuckled.
This is a special ability that Elsa has since birth. Her omnipotent hands allow Elsa to completely ignore physical reality and complete theft. It was difficult to control in her early years, but now she has completely mastered it.
Now combined with another ability, Void Walking, it can create incredible effects. Rand understands all of this.
But putting aside all these battle-related matters, it would be easy for Elsa to steal some pants anytime she wanted.
Rand glared: "Give me back my pants."
Elsa chuckled: "No."
Rand pushed Elsa down on the bed and pulled at his pants.
It was completely impossible to get it back, but Rand managed to get Elsa's pants.
Elsa turned her head away with a blush, and resisted weakly, but she had no intention of taking back her pants.
Although it was a bit embarrassing to expose her vital parts in front of Rand, she really didn't need to cover them up.
Elsa said softly, "The fight just now was really not satisfying, so you want me to have fun now?"
In terms of combat effectiveness, he has always been at the bottom among the high-level officials in the Holy Land.
But if it comes to Rand's abilities as a male master, then Rand is invincible among the high-level officials in the Sanctuary.
"Then you will definitely lose." Rand laughed viciously.
Elsa snorted, "Then you beat me."
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Two days later, Rand finally obtained some new intelligence.
This information comes from the information revealed by the Sunshine Adventurer Team and the rebels.
Rand met with the Sunlight Adventurers Team in the upper city hall of Giant Wood City: "I have understood the information you gave me and will verify it later. Thank you for your help. The Moon Kingdom and the Adventurers' Association will give you different forms of rewards. In addition to the regulations, I can personally promise you some special rewards."
Rand smiled.
In his previous life, Rand had fantasized about traveling through time, but the content of his fantasies was mostly adventure stories, not becoming a wealthy lord who provided rewards.
Now Rand can be very generous and magnanimous in rewarding these kind and capable adventurers.
For Rand, the top-grade magical equipment, wealth, fame, and status that adventurers dream of are nothing to be stingy with.
"We want some magic equipment." The Sunshine Adventurers were very happy about Rand's reward.
Although the Sunshine Adventurer Team now has the potential to become the best adventurer team of the new generation, they only have two or three pieces of magic equipment, and only one of them is not a defective product, while the others can only be considered barely usable.
It might take them more than ten years of hard work before everyone has a good piece of magic equipment.
Magic equipment is extremely precious to the top professionals and is worthy of being a family heirloom.
But it really means nothing to Rand.
"This is not a big request. Your previous contributions are enough for you to exchange for some suitable equipment. You can make some more special requests." Rand smiled. He did not want his reward to be wasted.
The members of the Sunshine Adventurer Team had a discussion among themselves.
Then the captain Luca said, "Well, can we apply to own a restaurant in the restaurant district? The kind that doesn't require rent?"
"Are you going to retire and open a restaurant like the Pyrosteel Team?" Rand was a little surprised. "But if you want to do that, of course you can."
"We don't plan to stop taking risks, but we want to think about the long term first. When we retire in the future, we may not be able to afford to rent land in the restaurant district," Luca said. "The competition is fierce now. Chefs who think they have the right level from all over the world want to prove themselves there."
Rand nodded: "I will write back and make arrangements, don't worry."
The Sunshine Adventurer Team was a little excited. It seemed that the adventurers were quite obsessed with food because they had been adventuring outside for many years and could not eat good food. For example, the Burning Steel Adventurer Team, their entire adventurer team liked food.
Now it seems that the Sunshine Adventurer Team is also showing such a trend of change.
As for renting the restaurant area to them for free, this was not a problem at all for Rand.
To be honest, Rand really didn't want the kingdom's capital to become a place where every inch of land was worth a lot of money and only the rich and nobles could live there.
But in some places, if Rand demands low land prices forever, then the only way to fight for land may be to duel.
So Rand still allowed land prices in the capital to rise.
However, Rand still imposed strict restrictions, such as arranging cheap houses that could not be bought or sold and could only be lived in, and strictly limiting the price changes of basic necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Moreover, Rand also strictly restricted the types of clothing and food. In short, civilians would be able to taste better quality food and drinks after working for a period of time, instead of only being able to eat the most ordinary food forever.
In short, Rand allows the birth of luxury goods, but ordinary people must never be unable to afford food or housing again.
That would completely defeat Rand's original intention.
If someone appeared at this point and opposed Rand, Rand would not resort to political or economic means, but would simply draw his sword.
Then Luca left happily with his adventurous team.
His Majesty Rand promised them an opportunity to open a shop in the restaurant area for free after retirement.
This undoubtedly makes them happy. Now the chefs opening shops in the restaurant area are all from all over the country. After they retire, it will be very difficult for them to compete.
There is no need to worry too much now, otherwise they will continue to hone their cooking skills through adventures.
They are not worried that gourmet food will no longer be popular in the Sanctuary in the future, because it is obvious that His Majesty Rand is very fond of gourmet food. His Majesty Rand even held the Sanctuary Chef Conference to promote the development of gourmet food, which has become a grand gathering for chefs of the Sanctuary.
As for the weapons and equipment they need for survival and combat, Rand said they don't have to wait until they go back, as someone will soon deliver them here for them to use.
As for their adventurous teams that focus on squad combat and field operations, their combat effectiveness will be significantly enhanced after they have suitable magic equipment.
After Luca's Sun Team left, Rand looked at the elf Lysa in the house and said, "According to the intelligence of the Sun Adventurers, most of the evil power obtained by the Renaissance came from the Scourge Apostles, and a small part came from the God of Struggle."
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"According to the intelligence obtained through torture, some of the members of the Renaissance faction seem to have become cultists. And the Scourge Cult is trying to spread the gift of death in the Elven Forest, a place that lacks the power of the Torch Church."
"In addition, there is a very important piece of information." Rand took out another sheepskin fragment. One sheepskin fragment came from the Sunshine Adventurer Team, and this one came from Nidhogg. Nidhogg had already translated the ancient elven text on the sheepskin fragment, so there was no need to trouble Lisa for help this time.
Rand squinted his eyes and read the contents on the sheepskin fragment: "The God of the Elves is the god of the elves. If you pray to Him in the woods on a full moon night, you may get a response from Him. If a large number of elves are in danger, then the God of the Elves will send a messenger to rescue them. This messenger is naturally an ancient elf."
"This should be the front content of the parchment fragment we obtained last time. The parchment fragment we obtained last time said that the God of Elves no longer favors the elves. This one talks about how to make the elves get the response of the God of Elves."
To be honest, it is not realistic to get a fragment and then gradually be able to complete it.
The probability of putting a shattered fragment back together is incredibly low.
Other fragments may have been destroyed or buried somewhere underground or in the deep sea.
These are all possibilities.
Rand felt a little unbelievable or strange that he was able to get the second fragment? If we consider that there are extraordinary powers in this world, it could be the will of God or the will of the world, or the arrangement of fate? Although Rand has not felt such a thing yet.
This so-called fate only exists in the strange knight novels that Rand occasionally writes and publishes in the bookstores of the Sanctuary Force.
Anyway, it was weird. Rand felt that someone might be behind it, but he had no evidence.
Anyway, the information we have obtained so far is quite important.
At this stage of intelligence gathering, Rand could at least guess clearly what the Renaissance faction wanted to do.
They want the whole big thing.
Start a war, or bring about a terrible disaster, and then let the God of the Elves watch over them and guide them again.
As for how the revivalists would deal with the disaster if the God of Elves did not pay any attention to them, they did not care at all.
"Lysa, as a senior ancient elf, do you have any guesses about the decision of the Renaissance faction?" Rand asked while sitting in his office seat.
"I think that apart from the common disasters such as war, famine, and plague, there is only one disaster left for the elves - the Golden World Tree. If anything goes wrong with this protector that protects the elves from foreign invasions, the God of the Elves might really take notice."
Lisa still had no expression. "Of course, the mass deaths caused by common wars, famines, and plagues could also be an option for reviving him. Now everything is just our speculation and there is no basis for it."
"Now that you mention it, I think the probability of something going wrong with the Elven Golden World Tree is quite high." Rand sighed.
He looked up. To the north of Giant Wood City, at most 200 kilometers away, was the location of the Golden World Tree.
In the era when time began to curl into a circle, the roots of the Golden World Tree pierced the land.
This giant tree, born in the age when the gods were still ignorant, melted the glory and suffering of the elven civilization into flowing golden liquid light, and built the elven forest - "paradise" in the eternal twilight.
This monument, born in ancient times, this golden world tree, was planted by the legendary God of Elves, the Bright Moon in the Forest.
It represents the gaze of that god, as well as that god's will and existence.
The God of Elves does not require the elves to offer their faith to Him.
Because everything He does is rooted in the breath and heartbeat of the elves.
Theoretically, this giant tree is impossible to destroy.
Because the power of the God of Elves truly lies on it, unless another god spends a huge price to try, even if all the kings in the world use their power together to "gnaw" the roots of this giant tree, it will not have the slightest effect.
And even if there really is a god, whether it is the evil god or the torch goddess, who decides to pay the price to destroy the giant tree.
They might not succeed, because no one knew how powerful this ancient god, the God of Elves, was, or how terrible his trump card was.
The Golden World Tree of the Elves has protected the elves since ancient times, but it is precisely because of the comfort brought by this Golden World Tree that the elves lack some of the determination to expand outward on their own.
Rand withdrew his gaze and no longer looked at this miracle that was born in ancient times.
"That brings us to the next question. If someone wants to try to destroy the Golden World Tree, how do you think they can do it?" Rand asked.
“Perhaps they will try to use the evil altar to attract the evil god’s attention?” Lisa whispered, “and then use the evil god’s evil power to destroy the world tree.”
"That's going to be very difficult to deal with, and hard to counter." Rand scratched his forehead.
If it was in the past, before the gods' influence on this world was weaker, the gods' interference in this world was limited, and the altar was obviously unable to offer sacrifices to the Golden World Tree.
But now the altar is still unable to sacrifice the Golden World Tree.
As long as the attention of the gods is attracted and the gods are caused to personally intervene in this world, then this world tree, which is theoretically indestructible, may be destroyed.
"Although it's still just speculation, we should still prepare early." Rand sighed.
As a human being and a foreigner, we may not care much about whether the Golden World Tree will be destroyed.
But he knew very well that if this miracle was destroyed, it would most likely be beneficial to the evil god.
(End of this chapter)