Half-elf Ranger

Chapter 329: status quo

Thorne came to the streets of Lower Town and walked out of town.

While biting on a string of hard boot-like grilled squid, he analyzed the reason why Carlos agreed to invest in the wizard tower so readily.

The moment he heard Carlos respond so readily, he was indeed a little confused by the decisiveness of the other party.

However, after he left, he wandered around the street for a while, and he could probably guess the other party's long-term intentions.

Obviously, for this cooperation between the two parties, Carlos has already considered the future of their player group to dominate the Emerald Wilderness. I have to say that this guy really thinks far.

If their players can really wipe out the Hulk Hobgoblin and drive out the gnolls from the Great Sword Scar Mountains, then this vast emerald field can indeed become their own territory.

As long as they find a way to get the druids of the Emerald Garden, they can mine the rich natural resources and minerals.

Then based on this, the power will gradually grow, and it is possible to gather compatriots who are wandering around the world, and even build a kingdom of their own.

As Sarayan, the lord of Twilight Town, said, the dawn of the ancient Netheril civilization was due to the fact that the seven fishing villages jointly defended against hordes of orcs. In order to protect themselves, the fishermen decided to form an alliance to help each other.

From this, the seven pledged villages established a country, taking the first step that will be remembered forever by future generations.

In the end, the Arcane Empire ushered in the most glorious Silver Age and Golden Age.

In this form, these five small towns located in the emerald field will definitely find a way to unite together to defend against foreign enemies.

Perhaps with a common foreign enemy, everyone can unite and form the most powerful force.

However, when the external threat is completely eliminated, this cohesion will definitely be dissolved due to various small frictions and contradictions.

What will greet them will be how to divide the land of the Emerald Wilderness reasonably. In this case, whoever has the bigger fist will get more benefits.

Solidarity and mutual assistance is a means of survival engraved in human genes, and infighting is also hidden in the deepest part of human genes.

Therefore, Carlos directly agreed to invest in the construction of the Wizard Tower without hesitation. He wanted to use the common interests of both parties to bind the upper and lower urban areas of Pushang Town together to form the most powerful force and become the Emerald Wilderness. In the player's territory, the force with the strongest discourse power.

For the other side's future thoughts, Thorne does not intend to continue to think about it, because he is not interested in these power struggles.

His goal is to strengthen his power as much as possible. If the two sides do not touch their respective bottom lines, for him, the more benefits he can get, the better.

After all, he really can't afford the consumption of the wizard tower alone.

The cost of just one clay golem would cost 20,000 gold coins, not to mention a fully-organized golem army, as well as diamond golems, which made people frown.

He is not the kind of person who likes to be a leader, and he is not proficient in various ways of making money, so under the reminder of Malvasia, he needs an ally with common interests to help him bear this huge consumption.

The stronger the strength of the ally, the more benefits the two sides will win, so this is a mutually beneficial cooperation for both sides.

At that time, if his strength is strong enough, all the calculations under his eyes will be clouds for him.

Just like the last council, almost everyone forced him to persuade the half-elves in the upper city to give up some land for development, but after he said a harsh word, he kept silent on the matter since then.

Why? Naturally, he has a strong personal strength, and he relies on these.

After all, this is a world where strength is respected.

Of course, the premise of all this is to solve the immediate predicament first. There is nothing wrong with having a long-term vision, but this kind of long-term goal requires action to support, otherwise it will be broken by the Hobgoblin, and all fantasies will be avoided.

Moreover, the goals of Carlos and the goblin wizard Malvasia are less surprising, and even a little ridiculous, when compared.

The goblin wizard thought that it was a fatal crisis facing the Emerald Field in the future. As for what this crisis was, Thorne was not very clear.

He only knew that the Planar Insight, whose alignment was in chaos and neutrality, had threatened that one day, this place would become a barren desert.

As for what caused it, in fact, just by referring to the Black Pearl Forest, which almost suffered this fate in the turbulent year, he can almost understand something.

Thorne threw the leftover grilled squid in his hand into the trash can not far away, probably because the raw materials were not too fresh, which made the taste a bit unflattering.

At this time, the streets did not have the hustle and bustle of the past. In the warm spring breeze, he felt a hint of depression, and most of the original residents and players in the past seemed very dull.

Even Thorne heard a rogue player walking past him cursing, and of course, he heard what the other party said.

It's nothing more than some helpless complaints about the garrison of the waterfall, and the Heruk Hobgoblin who cursed the Serenity Forest.

In the entire town, Xiacheng District, a town dominated by player groups, not all players are willing to join forces in Xiacheng District.

There are always a very small number of people who are out of character and arrogant and do not like to be bound by various rules and regulations.

These people spontaneously formed a multi-person cooperative small adventure group, wandering on the edge of the Emerald Fields and the Great Sword Mark Mountains, to maintain their livelihoods and improve their strength by collecting tasks in the Adventurer's Hall in Waterfall Town.

But it's different now. Many hobgoblin assassins who have reached Tier 3 strength bring a group of subordinates, and they often squat outside to attack the people who are left alone, causing the guards, adventurers and outsiders from other places in the entire lower city to stay. Don't dare to walk around in the town.

And in this case, the most unfortunate thing is the loose people who rely on doing tasks to make a living.

After more than a month, most of the adventurer players without a fixed income have begun to fall into the embarrassment of financial constraints, and some even have problems with food and accommodation.

After all, most of the adventurers who lick the blood seem to have easy money, and at the same time, they spend a lot of money.

In this place where there are few entertainment activities and there are very free and unrestrained places, it is conceivable where the money on their hands can be spent.

As for saving money to marry a wife, what a joke.

In such a free and unfettered day, as long as he has money, wouldn't it be good to take the bus every day?

After all, it has been so long, and most people have almost begun to adapt to life in this world, and all kinds of new tricks are emerging one after another.

So Torvi in ​​the lower city organized them to build a tower for cultivating the wizarding profession and a shrine to the Mother Earth, in order to prevent people who had no money to eat from causing trouble.

Letting them get paid for their labor can be regarded as a solution to most people's urgent needs.

Thorne walked to the city gate of the lower city, and briefly said a few words to the two guards, and then disappeared into the wilderness outside the town on the waterfall under the surprised eyes of the two.