Chapter 612: The Elven Opposition is Trying to Challenge Lady Elsa
"Hehe, Vanilla, I will help you, but I need to know more now." Rand recalled the kind expression that Bishop Kahn sometimes put on, and slowly said to Vanilla.
Vanilla nodded: "What do you want to know?"
"Then maybe you are too kind." Rand looked at Vanilla.
"According to what I know, there are people who dare to assassinate you, there are people who dare to disturb you, and there are people who want to seize your power. Although these things are an inevitable part of the road to power, the number of times you have encountered them has exceeded the limit a little bit." Rand whispered.
"What do you do with people who don't know their limits?" Rand asked.
"Just follow the laws of our sanctuary. If someone assassinates a public official, he will be arrested first and then tried. If someone obstructs public service or embezzles public funds, he will be put in solitary confinement for reflection and must compensate for the losses." Vanilla said as a matter of course.
"Here is the problem, merciful Archon Vanilla. You are still a civil servant of the Sanctuary, but your current job is to be a good archon of an elven faction. As an archon, being too merciful will inevitably lead to consequences." Rand is already a veteran in these political matters, so he can give Vanilla some advice at this time.
Vanilla is a fairly intelligent elf, but is a little inexperienced, at least for now.
After Vanilla waited for Rand to finish speaking, she understood what he meant.
In fact, old people like Nidhogg have more or less noticed the problem, but they probably think that the current situation is good enough, so they didn't mention it much.
After all, in front of his subordinates, Vanilla always behaves like a consul, so no one can see how much this wise and far-sighted consul hates working long hours.
If Vanilla is a workaholic, it is not a big problem. But if Vanilla can't stand such work, then if the ruler cannot adapt to the work, it is very likely that there will be flaws with significant impact.
All we can say is that Vanilla did the right thing by asking Rand for help in time.
"In short, you can try to use more fierce means to deal with the enemy first. If it doesn't work, I will help you try other plans. I will stay here for a while." Rand summarized.
Vanilla nodded to show that she understood.
"Then here comes the next question," Rand said. "Now, in your opinion, when will the enemies of the Royal Court and the Renaissance launch a general attack on us?"
"I estimate that it will take another year or half a year. Although they have made up their minds in theory, it is not easy to send out an organized army for an expedition in the Elven Forest, which is already sparsely armed. In addition, the Renaissance Faction and the Royal Court Faction have to be wary of each other. They are not allies to each other."
When it comes to normal work, Vanilla is quite familiar, even experienced.
"Actually, I'm not too worried about the attacks from the Renaissance Faction and the Royal Court Faction. I'm more worried about the interests of our Sanctuary and the evil sources of the Renaissance Faction." Vanilla personally moved stools for Rand, Lisa and Elsa, and found a stool to sit on herself.
"Now the reformed elves' senses towards humans have improved, but if we are really successful in the future, it may be difficult to strengthen the cooperation between the Elf Forest and us and obtain the rewards mentioned before." Eyes as blue as the vanilla sky stared at Rand.
"The problem is that the Elven Forest currently only regards us as a speculative foreign force, right?" Rand asked.
"Yes, Your Majesty, I think the Elf Forest should also be part of the Moon Kingdom." Vanilla said.
"Vanilla, I think there's nothing wrong with the Elven Forest being independent, but it's not good to take too big a step."
"If the Elf Forest is the Elf Forest and the Lunar Kingdom is the Lunar Kingdom, then those of us elves who join the Lunar Kingdom will really become traitors of the Elf Forest. But our Lunar Kingdom is not a kingdom of a single race, right?" Vanilla's eyes were a little pitiful.
Rand had no intention of directly invading the Elf Forest, as the Moon Kingdom and the Elf Forest were too far apart.
Anyway, Rand's plan all along has been to gradually establish friendly relations with the Elf Forest after controlling the upper power of the Elf Forest. The follow-up will naturally be "mutual benefit, win-win and common development."
As for whether we can further unite in the future, that is a matter for the future.
In short, Rand now sees the Elven Forest as a nation, not a race.
"Vanilla, we can't be too extreme. At least for now, we only need to obtain those ancient technologies and secrets that are suspected to be related to the evil god." Rand said.
Vanilla said she understood. Actually, what she said before was just a thought. However, she really hoped that the Elf Forest as a race could become a race of the Moon Kingdom.
"But now, we do need to strengthen the influence of our Moon Kingdom. The key point is to emphasize the help of the Moon Kingdom, not the help of humans." Rand emphasized.
Vanilla nodded again.
"So are there any other questions?" Rand felt that today's work was almost done and it was time to get off work.
"There's another question." Vanilla said.
"What?" Rand raised his eyebrows.
"Do I not have to work overtime today and can go home normally?" Vanilla asked.
Rand smiled: "Of course, I will implement the working model of the Sanctuary."
Then Vanilla cheered softly.
After saying goodbye to Vanilla, Rand went to meet Nidhogg.
Nidhogg also looked a little tired.
It can only be said that ever since Nidhogg decided to rise up for those innocent elves, he has been in a relatively exhausted state.
Nidhogg is different from Vanilla. Nidhogg has always had a very high status in the elf race. Many problems that are not suitable for Vanilla to handle have to be left to Nidhogg to solve.
Nidhogg also wanted to take a break, but he saw that his student, the once naive vanilla, now worked without rest every day as a consul.
Nidhogg felt embarrassed to rest. Now was indeed the time to decide the fate of the elves. If he relaxed too much, he might suffer some unbearable consequences.
"Long time no see. It seems you're working as hard as Vanilla?" Rand said to Nidhogg.
Nidhogg rubbed his forehead and said, "So now Archon Vanilla has decided to take a rest?"
"Yes, Mr. Elder." Rand smiled faintly.
"Then I can finally take a rest." Nidhogg finally felt comfortable enough to take a rest.
"Vanilla has been very tired recently. I suggest you don't be angry with her. She has always been embarrassed to really close the door to visitors. I suspect that's one of the reasons why you are still working." Rand had a sharp eye and saw through Nidhogg's thoughts.
Nidhogg snorted coldly and said calmly: "Don't talk about those nonsense, let's talk about the real things."
"Vanilla believes that the working model of the Sanctuary is the appropriate working model, and I decided to promote it here." Rand said.
Vanilla finds it hard to cope with a job that has no clear dividing line between working and off-get off work states, and Rand just wants to implement the Sanctuary's working model.
This matter has been discussed with Vanilla just now, and now we need Nidhogg's assistance to move forward.
"What do you want to do?"
"It's the same system in our Sanctuary. You've worked in the Sanctuary, so you must be familiar with it. It's working six days a week and resting one day. You go to work on time and leave work on time." Rand said.
"I remember that in the Sanctuary we worked five days and rested two days, but now it has become six days?" Nidhogg said in a teasing tone.
"Don't you have to adapt to your current situation? Now is a critical period for you. If you take too long a vacation, something might really go wrong." Rand didn't care about Nidhogg's ridicule.
"The Elf Forest may not be suitable for your human working mode." Nidhogg's words were somewhat unclear.
"You're not thinking that the elves have a longer lifespan, so they need a slower lifestyle? The world won't slow down just because of your lifestyle." Rand chuckled.
Nidhogg shook his head helplessly: "Of course not, it's just that the elves may not be able to adapt in a short period of time."
"Then adapt faster. Believe me, this will definitely be more efficient and..." Rand's expression became a little serious.
"Nidhogg, this is an order. This is the order of Archon Vanilla Moonshadow. This is the will of me, Rand Nicholas. Do you want to refuse?" Rand's face was calm.
Nidhogg's expression also became more serious. "Your Majesty Rand, if our cause is successful, the Elf Forest will establish eternal friendly relations with the Moon Kingdom, but the Elf Forest will not become a toy in your hands."
"We will follow the orders of Archon Vanilla," said Nidhogg.
In fact, the relationship between Nidhogg and Rand is not bad. In Nidhogg's eyes, Rand is a monarch who has no dignity and airs at all, but he is definitely 10,000 times, 10 million times, or even 100 million times better than the current one in the Elf Royal Court.
Nidhogg believes that Rand has many qualities and abilities that the vanilla Archon needs to learn.
Nidhogg was also quite happy to cooperate with Rand, a qualified ally.
But Nidhogg could not accept that the Elf Forest had become Rand's appendage. Nidhogg had to admit that if Rand was the king of the Elf Forest, the Elf Forest would definitely be more in line with Nidhogg's expectations.
But Nidhogg also had to admit that he was an old thing from the old era. It was a little difficult for Nidhogg to face the fact that the Elf Forest would really surrender to the human Rand.
Nidhogg may not stop such changes, but at least now he is very clear that he also represents the ideas of many old things, and Nidhogg will not agree to such changes now.
Nidhogg didn't say anything else. He actually had a second half to his sentence, which was that he would only obey the orders of Archon Vanilla, and not the will of His Majesty Rand.
Rand could clearly hear the hidden meaning behind Nidhogg's unsaid words, but he didn't care. "In any case, the working model of the Sanctuary must be implemented. If there is nothing else, I will take my leave."
The working mode of Sanctuary is the vanilla Archon's command, so it will be promoted.
This is the method Rand has come up with so far to ensure the interests of the Sanctuary in the future.
Perhaps it can be described by a very abstract and vague concept? For example, ideology? "One more thing." Nidhogg tacitly agreed to the implementation of the Sanctuary's working model. "As far as I know, a rebellion is about to happen in this city, Giant Wood City. I was planning to deal with it myself, but now that you are here... then allow me to take a break for a while?"
Okay, okay, now that Rand has arrived, Nidhogg and Vanilla both want to take a vacation.
But Rand was just planning to do something. Vanilla never stopped reporting to Rand on his work, and many of them were complaints, such as about some stubborn opponents, insidious opponents, and stupid opponents.
"Elsa, you need to practice now, don't you? Let's go and give it a try?" Rand waved goodbye to Nidhogg, leaving the great elf elder with his back and then left.
Rand was actually also interested in Elsa's strength.
Rand has never forgotten that Elsa is one of the protagonists of this world. Now, after so many years of training, it may be difficult to describe Elsa's fighting power at the highest level.
The classification of occupational levels in this world is actually not too rough.
From ordinary professionals to elites, and then to superiors, and the highest level professionals.
Each level has relatively clear nodes, and the difference in combat effectiveness between people in each level will not be particularly large.
But this is only true in general cases.
This does not apply to Elsa or other high-ranking officials in the Sanctuary.
…
at this time.
The dark side of Giant Wood City.
Many elves are gathering together.
"I heard recently that the human lord is here too, so it's a good opportunity to catch him all in one fell swoop." The leading elf hid himself in the shadow of his cloak, the dagger in his hand flashing a cold light.
"It's a shame that they actually intend to curry favor with the human lord." The elven assassin continued, "Is everyone ready?"
The elves behind him, also wearing cloaks, nodded.
"Very good. Let me emphasize the plan again. The first step is to seize their arsenal. After causing chaos, we will pretend to be guards and go to protect Archon Vanilla. Then we will take the opportunity to hijack Vanilla and make the city submit to our will."
"The enemy we have to face is the Great Elder Nidhogg. The Great Elder Nidhogg's combat power is very strong, but it doesn't matter. We have obtained... "support", and there are also many top professionals among us. We just need to delay him for a while and then hijack Vanilla."
"That human lord may also have some powerful guards or something, but it doesn't matter. After kidnapping Vanilla, we can threaten Nidhogg and get rid of those humans."
(End of this chapter)
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