18. The Netheril Empire of Natural and Man-made Disasters (Part 2)
.In the Feren continent, there was a group of green environmentalists who had the responsibility to protect the ecological environment very early. They believed in gods who advocated nature such as the god of earth, the goddess of the earth, the goddess of forest and ranger Melikay, the god of nature Sifanaus, and the goddess of new buds, and under the guidance of the gods, they tried hard to resist the damage caused to the environment by civilization exhibitions.
Unlike the Greenpeace organization, which only marched and attacked hunger strikes and mobilized the public to sign the signatures, the environmentalism of the Feren continent has powerful magic as a backing of force, likes to speak with attack magic and weapons, and often uses military conflicts to restrict the reclamation and mining behavior of various countries. This too advanced concept has caused great fire to governments and people in various countries, calling these guys a barbarian who hates civilization. The exhibition of civilization is always accompanied by the development and utilization of the natural environment, and only when it reaches a certain level can one have the ability to practice environmentalism. If you simply give up the exhibition of civilization because you want to protect the ecological environment, it is no different from being slaughtered, and it also goes against the interests of most intelligent lives in this world.
Among the above gods who advocate nature, the earth mother god Shang Da Ya has gradually transformed her clergy into farming, thus reaching a compromise with other countries. Although the churches of forests and the ranger goddess Melikay and the new sprout goddess Chianglia insist on protecting the forest, they are also willing to find the balance between civilization development and nature protection. Therefore, governments can at least negotiate with them and obtain their acquiescence to forest resources by issuing some environmental laws. For example, saplings should be replanted after cutting down, and cultivated land with severe soil erosion should be returned to forests. After all, everyone must live on the same land, so these compromises have actually protected the fundamental interests of governments, plus coordinated consultations between gods. Although the two sides have been in constant conflicts in recent years, there are not many real serious conflicts.
But the believers of Sevenus, the god of nature, have a completely different face. If the believers of Sevenus are representatives of the Agricultural Association, and the believers of Melikay and Sionlia are environmentalists and forest guards who like to arm the demonstrations, then the believers of Sevenus are simply green terrorists. And they are the most unreasonable, and they like to be reckless and reckless.
"The servants of the Father of Oak are kind and love peace." Although the believers of Syvanus are always so boasting, in fact, the servants of the Father of Oak are extremely cruel, savage and indifferent to life. They firmly believe that everything in the world is in the great cycle - the exquisite and wonderful "oneness and balance". The divine "oneness and balance" exists beyond any kindness, mercy, tolerance and morality. Maintaining this balance is the justice of the Sivanus druid - the supreme justice.
If this is the case, it is not much different from the believers of Melikay and Chionlia. But the problem is that all believers of Sevenus are violent elements, and only believe that fists are the boss. In their opinion, fighting is undoubtedly easier than negotiating. Hunting humans is undoubtedly more reliable than signing agreements. Therefore, the Sevenus Church decided to use force to protect the ecological environment and regard it as a holy war to defend the world order.
To give a simple example, if a forest is to be protected from deforestation, the believers of Melikay and Chianglia will give warnings in advance and negotiate with the deforestation, and in some cases will make certain concessions. Even if the deforestation is invaded by the forest without permission, it will usually just drive them out;
But when the believers of Syvanas hear the news, they will take the initiative to attack without hesitation, razing the towns or villages that intend to deforest, and killing all humans with this plan. Even if it is proven later that this is nothing but false news, there is no guilt. Because maintaining the sacred "oneness and balance" does not require any consideration.
To give another extreme example, if a group of hungry people fled into the forest and bark and grass roots, the believers of Melikay and Chianglia will try their best to help them find a way out and reduce the harm of hungry people to the forest. The believers of Sifanaus will only kill them without mercy and buried their bodies in the soil to serve as fertilizer - because they destroy the balance of the forest.
Many times, believers of Sivanas will attack towns and massacre residents for no reason. It is just because they believe that the town is over-expanded and must be turned into wilderness to restore the balance of nature. With the addition of the Harpist Alliance and the increase in the world's population, such terrorist attacks have naturally caused great hostility from governments committed to developing their national strength.
Of course, when they do these things, they usually first pretend to be bandits, or fund the real bandits to start, inquire about intelligence, purchase weapons, plan attack strategies, act as guides, open city gates, etc., so as not to destroy their image.
But their opponents are not fools either. Governments in various countries have started propaganda machines and promoted the hypocrites of the Sifana Church. As a result, they simply tore off the last layer of masks and began to shout the slogan "A world of green and pure" and kill and set fire openly. This will of course lead to joint strangulation of various countries, but at this time, the "Elf Invasion" began.
In order to stabilize the occupied areas, the limited number of elves generally burned, killed, looted and plundered in the occupied human countries, and massacred various "alien races" according to the "reduction" policy. Moreover, in order to ensure the dominant position of the local economy, the elves forced the destruction of all industrial foundations in the occupied areas in order to earn profits from the scissors and eliminate the resistance foundation of the colonies.
In this way, the urbanization of the elves occupied the area was transformed into ruins, the cultivated land turned into wilderness, and the white bones were everywhere. All civilized countries were hated. The Syvanus Church was attracted to it as a confidant. With the development of the times, the population of various places increased significantly, and the cultivated land was also cultivated on a large scale, and emerging industries began to cause damage to the environment. In the view of the Syvanus Church, these situations have reached a point where they seriously affect the "one-to-balance", and they must "return to the right path" through extreme means like massacre. The love for nature and the love for elegant elves living in the forest is the best maintenance of "one-to-balance", which is much more suitable than the greedy humans, the evil drow elves or the rude dwarves.
Therefore, the Harpist Alliance, or the Church of Sivanas, quickly formed an alliance with the Elf Kingdom, becoming an important accomplice in the war of aggression in the Elf Army, and was committed to returning the Feren continent to the wilderness. The elves' destructive behavior of polluting Yongju Island from environmental disasters due to industrial production. The believers of Sivanas turned a blind eye and pretended not to know.
Therefore, as the evil in the mind of the Sifana Church, the Neseril Empire immediately became the target of key attacks, and suffered heavy losses in 1990 and 1991 due to the harpists' ruthless actions.
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"I came here specifically to ask for help from you."
In the official residence of CEO Gan Melier, Ilminster Daxian lowered his head, "I know you are in a difficult position, but the Shadow Valley really can't hold on anymore. Please give me some food to me for the sake of my teacher."
"Teacher, what are you doing? As long as I can do it, will you not agree to you?" After receiving such a great gift from Ilminster, Gan Mellier was suddenly at a loss. "But what happened in Shadow Valley? Although the climate is not very good everywhere, I remember that because of your magic adjustment, the harvest there was not bad last year? Why did something go wrong so quickly?"
"It's not that your teacher, the boastful guy, is useless, and let the thieves of the Harpist Alliance burn all the granaries." LaWick, who was sitting beside him, snorted coldly, robbing Daxian's words with some contempt. "Originally, because the Harpist Alliance burned the granaries everywhere to create famine. The people in Shadow Valley concentrated the grains of the harvest outside this guy's magic tower to seek peace. Unexpectedly, your teacher was as stupid as a pig, and was too confident in his magic defense. He was lured into the forest by several shadow druids who were attacking. When he came back, he stopped talking about food, even his house was burned by the harpist! So now he has no face to meet people and runs to you to beg for food. That's it. See if there is any way."
Ilminster's face turned slightly red by LaWorker's mean words, but he still spoke with embarrassment. "It is because of this that the remaining grain reserves in Shadow Valley can only last for one month at most, and the famine in the nearby areas is more serious than Shadow Valley. I have traveled to many places, and I can't imagine it, so I can only ask you for help with shamelessness."
Ganmeir couldn't help but frown and scratched himself with a golden long golden color. Although he was a lich, his magic level was actually very bad. Therefore, he had always relied on the permanent deformation technique used by others to help him to maintain the appearance of a young man, and had never recovered his true form of a skeleton. "Teacher, you know that the granary of the central government has only been out and not in since last year, and has been attacked by harpists. Now it is empty. But the front-line troops and hungry people from all over the country have relied on this inventory to make a living, so it is not easy for me to squeeze out some. How many do you need?"
"Maybe a little too much," Ilminster said embarrassedly, "because the harpist polluted large areas of cultivated land and poisoned the water source, Shadow Valley could only get new harvests in summer, so it would take about 20 million pounds of wheat or rice."
"So much!" Ganmeill was so scared that he slipped from the chair to the carpet. He finally came to his senses and sat on the ground and kept smiling bitterly at Ilminster, "Teacher, why don't you kill me? 200,000 pounds may be able to think of a way. Where do you let me move 2,000 pounds of food? Even the entire front line of the army can't use 2,000 pounds!"
"There is no way. Shadow Valley has 200,000 mouths waiting for dinner, and they are all starving because of me." Ilminster was helpless, "Of course, I will never ask for your food in vain. Although the house is gone, the teacher still has some valuable things here." Daxian took out a bunch of magic scrolls, several protective rings, enchanted daggers and magic necklaces from the space bag, all of which were shining with golden light, and they were very high-end goods. He looked back at Ganmerel, and saw that the consul had no reaction, so he was cruel and put the sea soak stone pipe that he never left on the table. "Although this pipe doesn't look very good, I actually attached a reflection spell, a dimensional gate, underwater breathing, and many other advanced magic. Last time someone offered to buy 500,000 gold coins, it should be enough."
Looking at the Qizhen on the table, Gan Melier didn't know what to say for a moment, but LaWorker snorted disdainfully, "The past is the past, the present is the present. Now even the magician is starving to death. Who can take over these things? In my opinion, it can be sold for 100,000 gold coins in total, but do you know how high the food price in the market is?"
"How many?"
"The worst wheat, one third of a gold coin per pound; bacon that has begun to rot, half a gold coin per pound; even rats are sold for 5 copper coins. How much can you buy for yourself?"
"...You lich don't have to eat, so why do you care about the price of food?"
"I don't have to eat, but my students have to eat. I am now the principal of the Imperial Capital Comprehensive Academy!" LaWach was obviously very dissatisfied with Ilminster's attitude. "Because of the famine, my students have been filling their stomachs with potatoes and radishes for three months, and they don't even drink wine during the New Year. Now the food expenses that the boss has allocated has been spent, and even the research funds have been moved to buy food, but it is still not enough." He said angrily.
"That's why we came with you, and wanted Gan Melier to think of a solution. Who knew that you would cost 20 million pounds with just one mouth! I gave it to you, why are we? The scholar also looked dissatisfied.
"How could it be..." Ilminster was stunned by the two people in the education industry, but he was stunned for a moment and turned his skeptical eyes to the old lich, "Hey, LaWorker, you shouldn't have made money from school funds like when you were a consul."
"You bastard!" LaWorker was obviously angry at these words. Although he was just a skeleton and could not see the specific expression, every bone of his bone trembled violently. "Ilminster! Don't always look at people with tinted glasses! What do you think of me LaWorker? When you have time to go to my floating city, I even planted taro in my arcane garden, just to prevent the students from waking up hungry in the middle of the night! And Karthas," he stretched out a finger bone and pointed at the female professor. "In order to allow students to eat some meat during the Chinese New Year, they sold their ornaments and magic wands. And they also used the spells he remembered every day to cultivate crops - such a cold ghost weather, without magic, can't even grow potatoes! And you, the elector of the Magic Goddess, do other than asking people everywhere?"
Ilminster was speechless for a moment, and Gan Melier quickly smoothed out the situation. "Everyone, please relax, don't be so angry as soon as you meet." He patted the dust on his clothes and stood up from the carpet. "I don't have any preparations here today. Why don't you go out for a drink together? This is also a welcome to the teacher. If you have any important things, you can wait and talk about them later. How about it?"
"I'm not interested in drinking with this guy." LaWick was not grateful for this. He took care of his robe and walked out. "Kalsas, let's continue to talk about the issue of increasing funds. I have to go back and see if the school canteen is open. It's better to allocate some real food instead of depreciating the banknotes every day, and say goodbye." The female professor could only smile apologetically.
Chapter completed!