Game of the World Tree - Chapter 696

Chapter 693: The Empire’s Response

Western Territory, Morning Star City.

In the lobby of the temporary city lord’s mansion.

“What did you say? Maple Leaf Territory has been completely recaptured by the elves?”

Duke Berencia looked at the affairs officer who reported the news with a look of astonishment.

“Yes… yes, Your Excellency.”

The affairs officer replied cautiously.

Duke Berencia took a breath, and his eyes could hardly hide his shock and confusion.

“One month… no, it’s less than a month? How could they do it?”

“Your Excellency, it is said that they have a floating fortress that can fly in the air. Several strong cities were captured in this way, and… and the God of Dusk and Sunset is said to have fallen in the hands of the Goddess of Life.”

“The Goddess of Life took action? The evil god fell?”

Duke Berencia was slightly startled.

“Yes, according to the intelligence, all the statues worshipped by the cultists have cracked on their own.”

The affairs officer replied respectfully.

The Duke opened his mouth, as if he was not ready to accept this news.

After a moment of silence, he finally said to himself with difficulty:

“Isn’t it said that he is an evil god so powerful that even gods fear him? How… How could he be defeated so quickly?”

The agent did not answer this question.

To be honest… This is no longer something that a being of his level can investigate clearly.

Of course, the Duke of Berencia did not expect the agent to answer it. He just couldn’t calm down the shock in his heart.

He raised the crystal glass and wanted to take a sip of wine, but found that the wine in the glass had been finished without knowing when.

However, when he raised his head, he found that the agent standing in front of him was hesitant to speak.

The Duke’s heart skipped a beat.

He glanced at the agent, and his face became more and more unsightly:

“Is there any other bad news?”

The agent’s Adam’s apple rolled, but… because he was so fat, his fat neck could not be seen at all.

“Duke… Duke, Maple Leaf Territory… Maple Leaf Territory has declared independence from the empire…”

He stammered.

With a light “crack”, the precious crystal wine glass in the hands of the Duke of Berencia turned into pieces, and the Earl of Miss beside him twitched his eyes and felt a pain in his flesh.

“Say it again? What happened to Maple Leaf Territory?”

The Duke of Berencia narrowed his eyes and looked at the clerk who reported the news with a gloomy and dangerous expression.

The temperature in the whole hall seemed to drop a few degrees because of his gloom.

The fat clerk wiped the sweat from his forehead and stammered in response:

“Duke… Duke, Sophia, the heir of the Wells family, announced that Maple Leaf Territory is independent. Not only that, she also abolished the noble title and hereditary noble system of the entire Maple Leaf Territory, and renamed it Maple Moon Free Territory…”

As he said, he took out a wrinkled pamphlet from his arms:

“This is the manuscript they use for propaganda…”

The Duke of Berencia snatched it away and squinted his eyes to read it, but as he read, his expression became more and more ugly.

After reading the entire manuscript, he threw it directly to the ground.

“Maple Moon Free Territory? She’s going to abolish the nobility? Is she going to be the enemy of the entire empire?! It’s just a territory!”

He almost laughed out of anger.

The Holy Mannia Empire is not without free territories, but they are all separate cities, also known as free cities.

Free cities are not under the jurisdiction of the central government of the empire or the local nobility, but are highly autonomous, but even so, they dare not say anything like abolishing the nobility system.

“Duke… Duke… Not only that… They have announced an alliance with the Forest of Elves, and they also regard the Church of Life as the official church.”

The affairs officer said cautiously.

“Forest of Elves?”

Duke Berencia was slightly startled, and then became furious:

“These damn long ears dared to reach out to the territory of the empire! Do they want to start a war of faith?!”

The legend was furious, and everyone in the hall felt an irresistible sense of oppression, and even the magic lights lit in the hall flickered dimly.

Noticing the pale faces and trembling bodies of others, Duke Berencia barely suppressed his anger and put away the pressure on his body.

However, he looked at the manuscript thrown on the ground, and his face became more and more ugly.

He never expected that the Border Earl, who had defeated the imperial expeditionary army, would be defeated so quickly!

Even with the battle of the gods in front, this speed was too exaggerated.

The Elf Kingdom could still hold on for hundreds of years after the fall of the World Tree!

And it even let Maple Leaf Territory declare independence and abolish the aristocracy system!

If this matter spreads to the imperial capital, I don’t know how many sinister villains will attack him in the parliament.

After all, it is his Berencia family that is dealing with the Maple Leaf Territory!

When he thought of the impact of the news of Maple Leaf Territory, the Duke of Berencia felt a headache.

Looking at the Duke rubbing his temple, Earl Mis hesitated for a moment and said:

“My Lord Duke, it is better for the elves to intervene than for the evil gods to control the territory. I think we need to handle the Maple Leaf Territory carefully…”

“My Lord Earl, the area around Augs City has also been merged into the Maple Moon Free Territory.”

Seeing Earl Mis’s unhurried expression, the Duke of Borencia’s affairs officer reminded him in a low voice.

Earl Mis: …

His face changed, and he quickly changed his words:

“My Lord Duke! We can’t let the lost land fall into the hands of the elves! What Maple Moon Territory… must be a puppet of the elves, and Maple Leaf City was once the capital of the elves! This must be the revenge of the elves!”

“My Lord Duke, we have to send troops quickly to recover the territory while Maple Leaf Territory has not been completely settled!”

Earl Mis’s expression was anxious, leaving the Duke of Borencia speechless.

He sighed and said:

“Your Excellency Earl, do you think we can defeat the elf army that can easily destroy the Red Maple Army?”

Earl Mis was speechless for a moment.

“But isn’t this a declaration of war? The elves actually dared to stand up for Maple Leaf Territory’s rebellion. As you said, isn’t this going to provoke a war of faith?!”

Earl Mis insisted.

The Western Territory was not wealthy to begin with, and the land near Augs City was fertile and strategically located. If it were really gone, it would be like cutting his flesh.

The Duke of Berencia did not comment, but his slightly clenched fist showed that he was in a very bad mood at the moment.

After a moment of silence, he gritted his teeth and said,

“Report this matter to the parliament and ask the parliament to make a decision.”

“My Lord Duke!”

“Stop talking! Lord Earl, this is not just a problem for Maple Leaf Territory, but a problem for the Church of Life and the Church of Eternity, the elves and our empire! If we want to solve it, we can only rely on the pressure from the empire and the church to make the elves return to the Elf Forest and promise not to participate again!”

Berencia stopped Earl Mis’s persuasion.

As he spoke, he looked to the south again and sneered:

“Abolish the nobility? Equality and harmony? Haha… Without the powerful power of the nobility, without the rich knowledge of the nobility, without the municipal bureaucrats loyal to the nobility, a group of ignorant civilians want to rule Maple Leaf Territory?”

“It’s ridiculous!”

…

The players did not know the waves that the Maple Moon Reform had set off in the northern and western territories, and they did not know how much impact it had on the two human kingdoms as the news spread further to the entire Holy Mannia Empire and the Kingdom of Iris in the south…

Only some players who often traded with the human chamber of commerce had heard about it, as if the Maple Moon Reform had broken the sky in the human world.

However, most people did not care too much.

Although today, players have been trained to experience and play the world of Segos as a real world, in fact, unless some plots are closely related to themselves, most people don’t bother to care. No matter

how big a turmoil Maple Moon Free Territory caused in the human world, as long as humans did not openly send out troops, few players would pay special attention to it or worry about it. Maple

Moon Territory strengthened its defense against the north.

Of course, at this moment, most of the soldiers defending were humans.

Most of the players have evacuated with the completion of the mission, or returned to the Forest of Elves, looking for other dungeons to spawn monsters, or exploring the underground world.

That’s right, the underground world.

When the map of Maple Leaf Territory was opened, the corresponding underground world area was naturally opened to players. Harassing the underground world and cheating in the chaotic dark country is also one of the interests of players.

However, this does not mean that there are no players in Maple Leaf Territory. In fact, there are still many players staying in the entire territory, because the construction of Maple Leaf Free Territory still cannot do without the support of players.

Players can participate in preaching faith, suppressing bandits, repairing city walls, or resuming production and opening schools.

Of course, there are rewards.

In addition, although the Maple Moon Reform abolished the aristocratic system and built a new framework from top to bottom, it is just the beginning.

If you really want to run the entire territory well, you need to keep exploring and improving. It is

not realistic to rigidly move some systems of Blue Star to the Segos world, and you also need to consider the specific local conditions.

If these things are left to the illiterate poor, they will naturally cause chaos.

But fortunately, on the one hand, there are interested players who give advice, and on the other hand, there are also many learned people among the human civilians.

This is the biggest difference between the Segos world and the medieval times of Blue Star.

In the medieval world of Blue Star, the nobles controlled knowledge, and the retainers loyal to the nobles directly managed the territory, and most of the civilians were ignorant.

If the civilians do not awaken, the rule of the nobles will be unbreakable.

In the Segos world, the spread of knowledge is far more profound than that of Blue Star. The core advantage of the nobles is actually extraordinary power and extraordinary knowledge.

And extraordinary power and extraordinary knowledge, in the final analysis, are nothing more than tools to maintain violent rule.

At least in the world of Segos, extraordinary power is far from becoming a means of developing productivity.

In this world, the nobles are more like an umbrella, protecting the weak ordinary people.

However, as time goes by, no one can tell whether it is more protection or more oppression.

And now, without the power of the nobles, there are still the Church of Life, the players, and the extraordinary people who can take on the heavy responsibility cultivated by the future territory.

They can also serve as indispensable extraordinary power.

From this perspective, without the nobles, the entire territory can operate normally as long as there is a strong force as a backing.

As for whether the new extraordinary people will gradually form a new class over time, or aristocrats in another sense, that is a matter of the future.

And these things are not Eve’s concern.

In the final analysis, abolishing the nobility is just a way for Him. After all, the human nobles in the world of Segos are too deeply bound to the Eternal Church or the churches of other human gods…

Over the past thousands of years of development, although the nobles and the church have been in constant friction, they are interdependent on the whole.

Without dealing with them, it would be difficult for Eve to pry open the faith of the entire human society.

Equality?

Just a slogan.

At least that’s how it is for Eve.

But having a slogan and a pursuit is at least better than having nothing.

Just like Kuafu chasing the sun, maybe you can never really catch up with the sun, but in the continuous efforts, when you look back and look behind you, you will find that you have come a long way, at least it is much better than not working hard.

And if one day the dragon slayer becomes an evil dragon…

Well, to put it in an extreme way, if this evil dragon is good for Eve, He doesn’t mind turning a blind eye.

In the final analysis, His ultimate goal is to strengthen himself, not to bring changes to the world of Segos.

He is not a savior.

Although some believers of life in the human world have boasted like this…

Regarding the Maple Moon Territory, the noble council of the Holy Mannia Empire discussed it for three days and three nights.

But as always, no results were discussed. What

‘s interesting is that this time the nobles’ reaction was much more intense than when the Border Earl rebelled, but the Eternal Church was relatively calm.

In fact, it is understandable that this reform has really touched the foundation of the nobility.

However, no matter how much they argue or refute, no one in the entire Holy Mannia Empire thinks that this is the time to confront the elves and Maple Moon Territory head-on…

The Red Maple Kingdom was destroyed in less than a month, which really scared the nobles.

But for the church, it is just a parish with a population of five million.

If a war really breaks out with the elves at this moment, the war will continue, and with the evil forces that are ready to move everywhere, it will not be a matter of just five million people.

Only the real top leaders of the church know that the most important thing for the church now is actually the war between gods and demons in half a year.

In the end, the Imperial Parliament and the Eternal Church only sent representatives to Maple Moon Territory to condemn it.

Even the Imperial Expeditionary Army disbanded the levy, recalled Marshal Duke Berencia, and only stationed the Second Guards Corps in the Western Territory.

Eve knew, however, that it was not that the other party was really afraid of the players and Maple Moon Territory.

They were just waiting for the Segos world to be completely unblocked in three years.

In the Segos world, the struggles of various races are ultimately struggles between gods.

This is the game of the true God, and the sorrow of mortals.

Let me apologize first. I said yesterday that I would update more today, but my mother pulled me out of bed during the day and cleaned up for most of the day, and then I visited relatives. When I had some free time, it was already past eight o’clock in the evening, so I only wrote this chapter.

However, I have cleared all the time for tomorrow, and I will make up for it tomorrow. Apologies!

PS: I heard that there are no recommended votes displayed on the Android side?

(End of this chapter)