When ordinary people want to capture a city, they will definitely not notify the enemy in a big way, and then wait for the enemy to prepare for war, and then kill them all in one fell swoop. Similarly, ordinary people will not expose their own weaknesses when they know that the enemy is going to attack them.

Inform the enemy that, as it happens, Balliard and Shelley are not ordinary people.

"The strength of Xuyin City is very strong. As early as decades ago, Xuyin City had the power to unify the cities in the southern desert. Do you know why Xuyin City is still only a commercial city and not a commercial federation?"

Shelley observed Balliard. This was the first time he encountered someone whom he could not understand.

In this world line, there is no extraordinary power that is common in other world lines. The only thing that can be called extraordinary is the most essential "will" power in the world. As we all know, the vast majority of people are unable to use their will throughout their lives.

, Normally, only those who have reached the ninth level can use the power of will.

The few special cases are freaks like Galen and Yi. The universal special case is the "scientific" will that can be used by all people who believe in science in the technological world line. All scientific creations can be called "scientific" will.

The influence of scientific will.

However, because this world line has lost other extraordinary powers, people in this world line have great advantages over people in other world lines in awakening and using the power of will. To express it vividly, people in the normal world line

To use the power of will is equivalent to touching the stars in the sky by jumping high, so it is difficult for people who are not strong to come into contact with the power of will.

In this world line, the power of will is due to the will of "national destiny", so that people in this world line are "eroded" by the power of will from birth. Being eroded by rune energy can make it easier to use runes.

When literary energy is eroded by the power of will, it will also be easier to access and use the power of will.

Similarly, being corroded by rune energy will have a negative impact on people, and being corroded by the power of will will also have a negative impact on people.

Energy is matter, and energy is the interaction between objects. Its essence is driven by the divergence and convergence of matter, and rune energy is the smallest particle that exists in matter. Of course, it has such characteristics. The powerful caster passes

The use of rune energy in the casting process, from a macro perspective, gives new "characteristics" to the material, such as hardness and sharpness, that is, resistance and penetration. From a micro perspective, the caster uses rune energy to change

The original atomic arrangement of matter has been destroyed, or some atoms have been eliminated, or some atoms have been created with rune energy, and then brand new molecules have been transformed, causing the cloth armor forged from a piece of cloth to have become the same as "plants".

Fiber" has nothing to do with it.

Therefore, the negative impact of rune energy on people is concentrated on the human body, that is, the negative impact on the material level.

Will is the soul, and the soul is the non-material substance produced when substances interact with each other. The tiniest substance is almost out of the definition of matter, and the soul is a "loss" of the tiniest substance when substances interact with each other.

", but energy is conserved and will only be transferred from one place to another.

In the magic academia, Runeland is called the main material world. This is the material world. Even if there is the existence of soul and will, it cannot be denied that the foundation of this world is material, and what exists corresponding to it is

It is the world of will. The great wills live in the world of will. It is called the abyss, which is the "state of pure thinking". They observe and affect the material world in the abyss.

However, the power of the great wills is too strong. In order to protect the material world, the great wills reduce their power to "energy", which is a kind of "exhaust gas" exhaled by the wills. They use energy to interfere with the material world, and

A world of special energy between matter and spirit has opened up between the material world and the world of will. Except for the great will, any matter or spirit entering it will be decomposed into energy, so that special world is called

Call it a place of nothingness.

It is said that there are many "watchers" trapped in the land of void. They want to destroy the material world to free themselves from the prison. The void creatures are the creations of the watchers, but even the void creatures cannot

To survive in the Void, in order to allow their minions to reproduce and wait for the opportunity to attack Runeterra and destroy Runeterra, the Monitors opened up a new material realm - the Void, which is between the Void and the material world.

When substances interact with each other, the "loss" of the tiniest substance is to transfer this tiniest "matter" or what can be called "energy" to the world of will - this is the most perfect

However, to achieve this state, one needs to pass through the void, through the land of nothingness, and across the barrier between the material world and the world of will. Only prophets, sages and true wise men can occasionally achieve such a state.

The reason why Malzahar was called by the "void" is because his soul was noticed by the monitors when it was connected with the world of will. The monitors used this subtle connection as a medium to bewitch Malzahar and bring him to the world of will.

Malzahar was induced into the void.

Under normal circumstances, when substances interact with each other, the "loss" of the smallest substance will become part of a person's "soul", and the human soul exists in the material world.

In the world, otherwise the undead would not appear in the material world. In this case, why do these "losses" that enter the material world become part of the soul of life?

Because the interaction between matter causes the tiniest matter to enter the world of will, the interaction between will will also allow the tiniest will to enter the world of matter, and the "loss" in the material world enters the world of will.

, there will be a corresponding part of the "loss" in the world of will entering the material world, which is the original origin of the soul.

However, this method takes too long to give birth to a soul. In nature, people see many non-human creatures, some of which are stupid and even without wisdom and thinking. Some are as smart as humans, and even

Beyond humans, it all has to do with the length of time it takes to give birth to a soul.

According to the point of view in "The Theory of Evolution of the Soul", in the process of exchange between the material world and the world of will, human ancestors constructed souls that were incomplete compared to today more quickly than other creatures, but this part of the soul made human ancestors

The illusion of "gods" arose, which led to the birth of the first batch of great-willed human beings in the material world.

Since then, Runeterra has entered the Far God Age, which means "an era very far away from the God Age". Primitive humans have fantasies about "gods", and of course they also have fantasies about "demons" and "ghosts". When the humanity of great will

After birth, due to the simple, or stupid, thinking of primitive humans, the human nature with great will was not smart either.

As a result, human nature with a great will began to "create" various ancient elemental creatures and various extraordinary creatures that raged in the age of gods. Except for a few races that gave birth to part of their souls in very ancient times like humans, most of them were great creatures.

The human nature of the will is created based on the fantasies of its own "believers" (they regard this fantasy as needs and prayers of believers to gods).

As time goes by, the "soul" gradually improves in the communication between the material world and the world of will, and Runeterra enters the Age of Gods.

In the Age of Gods, civilization has been born and has developed to a certain extent. Humanity with great will has also learned to think over a long period of time. They think - why is the development of life so slow? The souls of some tribes are compared with thousands of years.

, there is no change, what causes this difference, and how to deal with this difference?

The underworld is the "transit station" created by the great-willed human beings in the Age of Gods in the gap between the material world and the world of will in order to allow the soul of life to be perfected at a faster speed. Since the original development of the soul and

The speed of perfection is greatly limited because it needs to pass through the land of nothingness and cross the barrier between the material world and the world of will. Then create a world above the land of nothingness and let the tiniest matter that makes up the soul (

Will the exchange process of will be shortened, will the speed of soul development and perfection be increased?

Facts have proved that when the underworld was opened, civilization entered an era of great development. As civilization continued to develop and souls became more perfect, the attention of the monitors was attracted to Runeterra. They began to monitor and they began to observe.

.

At the end of the Age of Gods, the individual life and soul development of civilized races was approaching perfection. The best among them were finally able to feel the "exchange" between the material world and the world of will. These people, or non-humans, discovered that they were observing Runeterra.

The sight of the monitors.

"God?"

These extremely talented people or non-human beings have questions, and questions need to be discussed. Discussions will allow more talented people to know the questions and know the sight of the monitor. Finally, one day, the humanity with the great will discovered the monitor.

What happened next, even Balliard is not very clear. He only knows that the humanity of the great will conflicts with the monitors. The humanity of the great will induces humans and other beings to deceive the monitors and let the monitors

The observers had an opportunity to enter Runeterra... The final result was that some reckless monitors were imprisoned in the Void Land, while other monitors continued to watch Runeterra in the abyss. The Void was born at the end of the Age of Gods.

After that, the Age of Gods ended, and the human nature of the great will opened up another world between the void and the material world, called the heaven. Either voluntarily or forced, their bodies lived in the heaven, and the original existence on Rune Terra was

All kinds of magical creatures disappeared, leaving only a few blood descendants. From then on, Runeterra will expel all existences that have reached the twelfth level of strength.

So, the will and the soul essentially have the same "attributes". Just like the human body and rune energy are both matter, matter can influence each other, and the same is true between will and will. Things like national destiny

The power of "will" mainly affects people on the soul.

In this world line, this kind of influence on the soul has caused the souls of many people who are talented and hardworking enough to be "eroded" by their will. Compared with other people's souls, their souls have more "will"

, the manifestations in the material world are various special abilities, which are called "talent".

Shelley's talent is called "insight", which is simple, simple and practical. With this talent, he can easily see through a person based on the information in his mind, just like a person.

A supercomputer with a lot of material and case information, when there is relevant information in Shelley's brain (database), as long as he wants to obtain information about a certain person, he can immediately draw a very data-based report.

For example, by analyzing facial expressions, we can infer the possibility that a person has encountered something not long ago. To be more specific, it is like analyzing the bitter look on a person's face to get the following possibilities:

One, I ate something unpleasant, two, I broke up, three, I accidentally dropped my phone on the ground (funny), and then further analysis is performed based on the information in the database.

With the blessing of the national destiny of the Seal City, Shelley is always using his "insight" talent to observe and analyze everyone who appears in the national destiny of the Seal City. Not long ago, he discovered that Balia

De, he analyzed part of Balliard's character, as well as his possible origin and identity, but he was unable to find Balliard's specific identity from the existing database.

The unidentified person had not appeared near Marrow Seal City for a long time. So, when Balliard entered the city, Shelley appeared around Balliard.

There is a big difference between the things seen through the medium of national destiny and the things seen with one's own naked eyes, because Shelley can only see "action" through national destiny. Then, he saw the unique clothes on Balliard.

With his gift of insight, he could not tell the material of the clothes. Then, he found that by observing the "person" of Balliard, he came to the conclusion that Balliard did not know "martial arts".

Not long ago, when he analyzed and evaluated Balliard through the national fortunes, because of Balliard's behavior of slaughtering the thieves, based on the time spent and the strength of the thieves, he believed that Balliard was at least a

A master-level expert. The two conclusions are contradictory, and this is the scene where Shelley actively invites Balliard to dinner. In the final analysis, Shelley not only wants to analyze Balliard more, obtain relevant information, and discover

In addition to the loopholes and shortcomings of the "insight" talent, he also wanted to control the unstable factor of Valliard under control.

"Why? Let's talk about it. Businessmen are all profit-seeking. I don't think the cost of taking over the cities south of the desert is higher than the benefits brought by taking over those cities south of the desert. They should have attacked it long ago.

Lower Zerima and the Garden City.”

Balliard didn't feel that Shelley had any need to deceive him. Even if Marrow Seal City had the capital and ability to dominate a long time ago and could put it into practice, what would it have to do with what he was going to do next? Could it be that

After Shelley boasted about the strength of Seal City, wouldn't Balliard intend to capture Seal City? He didn't believe that a pillar of the country who could use the power of national destiny would have such superficial ideas.

"Because the army of Xuyin City is controlled by businessmen. Except for the 20,000 soldiers of the Marquis's army, the other 100,000 troops are private soldiers of various merchant families in Xuyin City. The weapons and food of these private soldiers are provided by the merchants.

Although the Marquis is the master of Xueyin City, as long as he does not destroy the ancestral traditions of his family, he will not be able to completely control the army of Xueyin City. Do you think other merchants will

Are you willing to let your army exert great force and then have a lot of benefits taken by the Marquis?"

Shelley sighed, many things backfired. The Marquis had no intention of seeking hegemony, so he would not send troops to avoid destroying his ancestral precepts and letting his own intelligence network be destroyed by nobles from other aristocratic families in other areas.

Although there are some in the merchant family who have the idea of ​​sending troops to conquer Zerima and Garden City, they are all nominally ministers of the Marquis of Seal City, and the city they conquer will be under the name of the Marquis.

Otherwise, they are rebellious. There is no place for their family in Xueyin City. Apart from Xueyin City, it is extremely difficult for other cities to establish a country through business, not to mention the cities in the southern part of the desert with inconvenient transportation.

Even if these business families conquered other cities and then moved their families to become independent, they would not be able to survive for long. They had to deal with the remnants of the previous rulers, govern the country, stabilize people's livelihood, and at the same time make their own families grow stronger. In this world

Where can there be such a great city that allows them to solve these problems effortlessly?

"I see. Therefore, if I want to capture the Seal City, I must defeat all the merchant families. Otherwise, even if the Marquis surrenders, there will still be resistance forces in the army. I am only one person. If someone resists, it will be very troublesome.

"

As Valliard spoke, he was eating the food that the waiter had just brought. He didn't know if the waiter was being arrogant or if he didn't take him seriously. He heard him say such bold words and blatantly wanted to take away the food.

There was actually no movement in Xiasuyin City, and there was no look of surprise on the face.

"The Marquis will not stop you, and neither will I. As long as you can beat them until they bow their heads and admit defeat, Marrow Seal City will belong to the City of the Sun and under the name of the Great Emperor. Moreover, I can make the decision on behalf of the Marquis and promise you that before you fight

When you leave the Seal City after serving those business families, you will temporarily stabilize the Seal City for the emperor and wait for the officials appointed by the emperor to arrive to take over the relevant work."
Chapter completed!