A Beekeeper in a Magical World Chapter 179: The idea of the Knights of Light
Chapter 180 The Concept of the Knights of Holy Light
After talking about his affairs, Karen changed the topic to the card table in front of her, and said with a playful expression:
"Would you like to play a game of military-breaking cards?"
"..."
Hua Mi said she didn’t know how.
This is a popular game among nobles, and it’s normal for him to be a mountain villager who doesn’t know how to play.
"The rules are very simple. It can be played by 2 to 7 people. Choose an identity at the beginning and use the Seven Kingdoms as the background to expand your power through war cards, trade cards, trick cards, etc...."
Listening to Karen’s brief explanation, I found that the rules of this card game are indeed not complicated.
What is complicated is the introduction of the various cards.
How to use various cards flexibly and cooperate with each other to gain advantages, this is where you need to use your brain.
I played a game for teaching purposes, and as expected I lost miserably.
Hua Mi also gained a general understanding of the game while being beaten passively.
Pojun Card, as the name suggests, is a card game based on the overt and covert struggles of the Seven Kingdoms.
As the saying goes, games come from life. As a form of artistic expression, they can reflect the current social situation to a certain extent.
From this we can draw a conclusion:
On the surface, the seven countries are friendly to each other and are allies, but fundamentally speaking, they are still in a relationship of opposition and competition with each other.
Under this situation, if a war breaks out between the Emerald City and the Kingdom of Tulum, 80% of the other six countries will not provide full support in accordance with the alliance.
Everyone must have their own agenda.
It would be righteous if you don’t stab someone in the back.
For details, you can refer to the history of the Warring States Period in China, when a mob of six kingdoms attacked Qin.
"If we really want to fight with the elves in Emerald City, the situation faced by Tulum Kingdom will be more severe than I imagined." Hua Mi thought to herself.
Play another round and Karen still wins.
This princess's card skills are quite good. It can be said that she can calculate three steps in one step.
She doesn't just rely on conquest cards, she also makes good use of trade cards and trick cards.
Sometimes when a trade card is played, both sides will win-win, or even she will suffer a loss. However, after a few rounds, she will find that it was actually her plan, and she will get back all her money later with profit.
"Salon, the Elf King of Emerald City, is a careerist. She has always believed that humans occupy too many resources. Since she came to power, she has never stopped plotting expansion. Recently, she has become more and more high-profile. She must be almost ready."
Even when Princess Karen was talking about such a serious topic, she acted calmly and casually, as if she was telling a distant story.
"The elf army is not as large as ours, but its individual combat power is generally stronger than that of humans - not in terms of weapons and equipment, but in the application of magic. Those arrogant guys are a race blessed by the goddess of magic."
This is a very helpless and realistic problem.
The gap in equipment can be narrowed by efforts, but in terms of magic talent, the only way humans can think of at present is to use magic potions to temporarily improve their strength.
But this is usually accompanied by side effects and various sequelae——
Soldiers who came back from the battlefield generally have physical defects of one kind or another. Not all of them were injured when fighting the enemy, but some were caused by taking a large amount of magic potions.
Now there is an even more desperate fact:
Humans can take potions, and so can elves.
Moreover, most of the resources in the alchemy field are now in the hands of Emerald City, which undoubtedly greatly enhances the overall strength of Emerald City.
According to Princess Karen, this is also the result of the elf king's years of management.
The elves' innate high perception of magical elements makes their achievements in alchemy much higher than that of humans.
After Saren came to power, she began to vigorously develop alchemy in a targeted manner. Under her operation, the headquarters of the Alchemy Society was eventually moved to the Emerald City, which further attracted more and more talents to the Emerald City. Further education forms a virtuous cycle.
The result is that now, at least in the field of alchemy, the seven countries combined cannot compete with the Emerald City.
"Can we only rely on numbers to win?" Karen asked herself and shook her head: "No, this is not a normal phenomenon. It's time to make changes. Human lives are equally important as elves. , the ratio of casualties on both sides must be at least 1:1, or even less.”