Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 79:

The mazes and traps are finished. The main part of the new rye fortress is almost finished, and only some corners and corners are left.

However, these retouching work is actually very important. Sui Xiong met an illustrator before crossing. He was very good at painting, but his business has not been very good. The reason is that the artist’s paintings are very simple and the background It is almost nothing, and the clothes of the characters are not decorated in any way—in fact, the artist is keen on painting the characters wearing ancient Greek white robe, in order to realize his aesthetic view of "simplicity is beauty".

From Sui Xiong's professional point of view, the artist's level is really excellent, simplicity is beauty, nothing is wrong. However, buyers and players disagreed with this point of view, so until the time he crossed, the painter was still confused, and all depended on opening a small grocery store...

Sui Xiong is not a concise school. He belongs to the kind of relatively kitsch artist. Making the audience like his work is his greatest pursuit. So he is going to spend a little more time to make this fortress as gorgeous as possible, so that every visitor can enjoy the beauty.

As for how to enjoy beauty in a labyrinth full of traps? He hadn't thought about it at all.

So he got busy again. At first glance, the work this time seemed to be smaller than before. In fact, because of the pursuit of meticulousness, the workload did not drop but increased. In particular, Sui Xiong has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder. He pursues that every set of decorations cannot be repeated, and every mural must have a source, which greatly increases his workload.

It’s like a writer creating a novel. If he doesn’t want to type anything, he may be able to type seven or eight thousand words in an hour; but if he wants to conceive a plot while composing sentences, and then typing and revising it from time to time For a moment, if you can type two thousand words in an hour, you are already very productive.

Sui Xiong was busy in the new rye fortress on his own, but the Northwest Republic started an important work.

Train the army.

The contradiction between the gold coin federation merchant faction and the aristocratic faction shocked the entire continent, and all countries are very concerned about this. The Northwestern Republic, as a country directly adjacent to the Gold Coin Federation, is of course also very present.

Although Sui Xiong is currently on the border between the two countries, with him guarding it, it is absolutely impossible for the war to spread to the Northwestern Republic, but after discussion, the leaders of the Republic finally agreed that the Republic should send troops to support if necessary. Merchant party.

In any case, the Northwestern Republic is, after all, a country based on commerce, and even abolished the noble lord system. Although the current relations with other countries are pretty good, fundamentally speaking, there are irreconcilable contradictions between them and the countries ruled by the nobles.

So, even if peace is still being maintained, the Northwestern Republic should strengthen its national defense and provide support to the federal merchants of gold coins who are at least equally anti-aristocratic.

As for how strong the support should be, the leaders of the Northwestern Republic are still discussing or arguing.

According to the opinion of the Grand Archon of Felix, we should fully support the merchant faction. It is best to defeat the noble faction and establish a republic. Everyone will be horns and watch each other, so as to ensure national security.

But this radical plan was jointly opposed by several other great consuls. Whether it was Mrs. Teague who is in charge of the people’s livelihood, Leonard who was in charge of the military, or Gerrard who was the representative of the church, they all did not approve of it. way of doing. Even the leaders of Gals City, Geertengling, Keenling, and Grey Tower City disagree with this.

Mrs. Teague has always opposed military operations, and her position is anti-war. In her opinion, the Northwestern Republic is guarded by His Majesty the Void Mask, and there is no need to worry about danger at all. If one day, His Majesty the Void is unwilling to protect the Northwest Republic, or cannot protect it, then no matter how hard they work, they may not be able to keep the country. Therefore, it is a waste of time and energy to think about those that do not. It is better to seize the time to deal with some government affairs.

Reynard thinks that the merchants send the mud to the wall and they are really a bunch of waste wood that can't be supported. The Northwestern Republic sent some instructors or something. If they sent troops directly, I was afraid that they would be dragged down by the trash. He felt that if the situation was right, the Northwestern Republic could consider sending merchants to annex and expand its territory. If he is fighting to expand his territory, he is willing to support.

Gerard feels that the Merchant Faction is not necessarily a good character. Compared with the Noble Faction, it is nothing more than a "bad guy" and a "bad guy". There is no need to support the merchant faction in order to oppose the aristocratic faction. It always feels a bit silly. If you have to support it, it is better for the people who support the Gold Coin Federation to rebel.

Leon’s identity is not suitable for this kind of discussion, so the spokesperson of Gals City is Lord Kalissa. She believes that the Northwestern Republic should provide support to the merchants in terms of materials and instructors. As for sending troops directly...Unless the merchants are defeated and need to save lives, it is better not to send troops lightly.

Geltenling and Keeneling have similar attitudes, but they are slightly more aggressive. Both Orion and Anna said they could send some troops to support, but not too many.

Old Hart, the lord of Gray Tower City, is more conservative. He said that Gray Tower City and surrounding cities can jointly send about a hundred mid-level mages, led by ten high-level mages, to help merchants do some nonsense. Combat work. If more spellcasters are needed, they can also help to contact ~IndoMTL.com~, but he especially emphasized that these mages can only be responsible for logistics or support work, and will never go to the front line.

In addition, other high-level people in the Republic also expressed their opinions. In addition to the intelligence director East’s insistence that "intelligence personnel should not interfere in the internal affairs of the country" and resolutely refused to express his position, even the medical director Steer, who was lying on the table and slumbering, was awakened and asked half-forcedly. Her attitude.

Finally, the result of the discussion was that the Northwest Republic stepped up its military training, but did not send its troops to support the merchant faction.

"If you don't fight, what do you want to train the army for?" Mrs. Teague asked dissatisfiedly. "The soldiers are all young and strong laborers. This is too wasteful!"

"Be prepared." Leonard said with a smile. "Maybe we can take advantage of something by the way. If we don't have a chance, then forget it. If there is an opportunity, but we don't have enough troops to grasp the opportunity, it would be a pity. Up!"

Therefore, 1,000 people came out of the Republic, 100 people each from Gelten, Keene, and Gals City, and two hundred people came from Grey Tower and several nearby cities that were united and independent, a total of 1,000. An army of five hundred people quickly assembled and began intensive training.

This group of troops is different from the group of new recruits from the merchant group. They are all veterans with a certain foundation. There are three main parts of Leonard’s training for them. The first is to adapt to the new equipment specially built for them and to be familiar with those armors and weapons; the second is to strengthen the running-in and improve the efficiency of executing orders; the last is for some special situations. For example, night raids, rapid marches, etc. are used for training, so that they can fight as they come and win at a critical time.

As for how long does it take to train? Military director Leonard said that training can last as long as possible, in short, the more elite the better.

"No one would think that his knife is too sharp," he said.