Chapter 2548 o(｀ー)oZi Feiyu, how can he know the joy of fish?
Santo Rabona City.
After several days of non-stop running, Annie, Elena and their group finally arrived here from the small town of Pieta in the far north, arriving at this gigantic and glorious city that was divided into several internal and external layers and districts.
Of course, giant is relative, it is actually just a few times or a dozen times larger than an ordinary town.
But even then, it is already quite remarkable in this continent, otherwise Anne would not have specifically chosen this place and tried her best to trick Elena and the others into coming to this place.
Since it was not the first time for Anne and Elena to come here, and the leader of the city guard here still recognized them, and there were no monsters raging in the city now, so the other party only did a little inspection when they entered the city.
For a moment, and then under the influence of 'money power', after paying a large deposit, the other party acquiesced to Anne bringing twenty-six fully armed guards into the city, and even the weapons they carried behind them were
Acquiesced.
After all, no matter where they are or what the regulations are, they are always used to embarrass the people at the bottom. As for the rich and powerful, there are always some privileges or other ways to get around them.
then!
Not long after entering the city, Annie and others continued to use the 'money ability' to open the way. They once again found the steward of the luxury hotel and explained their idea of ​​​​finding a place to buy or rent.
He introduced them to them diligently and bought a luxurious manor in the inner city on the same day.
It is said that the manor belongs to a certain noble family who escaped with his life when there was a demon in the city last time?
However, now that nobleman has moved to the castle in the countryside to hide during the last demon incident, and he probably has no intention of coming back, so he put it up for sale without any bargaining by Anne and others.
, naturally it took only half a day to complete all the handover procedures and move in in advance, saving even the excessive budget of temporarily staying in a hotel.
As for the gardeners, maids, chefs and other servants in the manor, Anne, Elena and others were too lazy to recruit and purchase them themselves, so they directly hired the steward of the luxury hotel at a high price and asked him to send someone to take care of them.
As for a transaction that is within the scope of responsibility and can still make a lot of money, the other party will naturally have no reason to refuse.
then!
When it got dark, Anne, who had eaten and drank enough, Elena, Miria, Claire and others who had not eaten much, finally settled in the aristocratic area of ​​the city of Labona.
Come down.
And then, after finishing the chores and rejecting some irrelevant people, Anne, Elena, Miria, Flora and Claire and other 'Great Swords' naturally began to sit in the luxurious living room of the noble manor.
Inside, a meeting was held in front of a detailed map of the holy city of Labona.
The theme of the meeting was naturally how to peacefully capture the holy city of Labona!
In the hall, except for the four people gathered around the table with Annie, the warriors such as Jane, Tineb, Huilian, Cynthia, Tabatha and Yuma were of course distributed in twos and threes with the other warriors.
Around the heavy atmosphere in the living room, they did not rush over to interfere rashly, they just met their eyes and more or less paid attention to the progress of the discussion between Anne and the four people.
And so does Ophelia!
Although she can be regarded as the veteran of the 'Giant Sword', she is not good at certain things, so she is naturally lying leisurely on a comfortable sofa not far away, seemingly uncomfortable.
Why do you care about the outcome of the discussion between those four people?
"Na!"
(ω)
"Perhaps we can directly attack here and here, so that we can directly capture the city, and perhaps reduce the chaos and loss of buildings?"
(ψ｀▽′)
And since she was preparing to seize the city, she didn't say anything. Of course, Anne stretched out her white little finger rudely and crossed the dots on the map, and then stopped at two key locations in the city of Labona, that is.
On the site of the town hall and cathedral.
"Didn't you say that this is a city where politics and religion are integrated?"
(^▽^)
"Then why don't you just go and knock down these two most important places? Why do you need so much trouble to discuss it, right?"
(゜▽＾*)
Anne is indeed right. Since there is a unity of politics and religion, the City Hall and the Cathedral are undoubtedly the two core places in the city. Controlling there is indeed equivalent to controlling the entire city. There is nothing to discuss or struggle with.
of.
"ah?"
"this……"
Unfortunately, Elena was startled at first, and then she looked at Miria dumbfoundedly, and then hesitated for a while, and finally had to shake her head and reject Anne's suggestion, which sounded unreliable.
.
Of course, negation is negation, but necessary explanations are still indispensable.
"This is not good..."
"Master Anne!"
"If we launch an attack, we will directly face the city's defense forces. Although we are not afraid of them and are confident that we can defeat them with zero losses, that is not in line with our original intention."
"We are here to establish a base area, not to create conflicts and unrest."
After all, so many of their 'Giant Sword' warriors are now Anne's personal armed forces in name only, and since they are servants and soldiers under Anne's command, no matter what the matter is, they are necessary
A little consideration for Anne's opinions and ideas, no matter how unreliable they sound?
"yes."
"Although it is not difficult to capture the city hall and the cathedral, and it is not a problem to clear out the armed resistance in the city, how to maintain rule is a big problem."
"You don't know, do you?"
"Rapona is a big city that claims to have a population of 100,000 people!"
"People attach great importance to God and faith. We can't just be busy and end up with a chaotic ruin, right?"
"Besides..."
"Our original intention is to overthrow the organization, then destroy the demons and protect the people. If we act recklessly, what is the meaning of our existence?"
"Although if necessary, I am not opposed to using force to establish authority!"
"but……"
"It's really not a good idea to directly attack the city hall and the cathedral. We must think twice before doing so?"
After Elena finished speaking, Miria on the side also hurriedly stepped forward and expressed her opinion, saying that she, like Elena, opposed the use of force directly and indiscriminately.
"..."
"..."
Although Flora and Claire next to them did not speak, it is not difficult to know from their expressions that they obviously did not agree with Anne's random plan just now, even if it was really the simplest plan.
, the most direct way?
"..."
(**;)
"Then what do you think we should do?"
(~)
Seeing that there was no one who supported her best, fastest, and simplest plan, Anne thought for a while, and became a little angry. She simply sat down on a chair beside her angrily, then spread her hands and said that anyone who has the ability can speak!
If she wanted to see, what could they possibly tell us?
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"this……"
When Elena was in the organization, she was just a warrior who ranked at the bottom of the list. She was not the kind of person who was good at making suggestions. Therefore, in this moment, how could she have imagined that she could do it without too much resistance?
The perfect solution to take over a giant city in this situation?
"I haven't figured out what to do yet."
"Miriya?"
So, with a somewhat embarrassed expression, she had to look at Miria who was better at this kind of thing. After all, the opponent had a commanding sword, and he was a single-digit warrior ranked 6 before. He was making plans for peace.
In terms of commanding operations, he is definitely far superior to her and her other companions present.
"I don't have any good ideas at the moment."
"but!"
"No matter what, we must proceed with caution!"
"After all, the city of Santaolabona is an important and huge city, which is crucial to our subsequent plans. We must ensure that we take it peacefully and let the people here recognize our existence."
"That's crucial!"
Although Miria didn't have any good solutions, she still stated her opinion steadily and reiterated a certain big strategy she had mentioned before.
"That's right!"
"Milia is right!"
"We must not act rashly, we must think carefully to ensure that our plan is foolproof?"
Although she didn't have any good ideas, Flora hurriedly echoed, saying that she didn't support the random behavior of a bad little girl just now.
"..."
But Claire still didn't say a word, just stood silently watching them and listening to their discussion.
Of course, as for whether there are other reasons, such as still thinking about the spirited young man Lackey whom Anne had long forgotten when she left Northland, she wanted to find him, etc., that is not known for the time being.
Already.
"Anyway!"
"We must find a reliable and relatively peaceful solution. We cannot let people in this city misunderstand our actions!"
"Yes."
"We can even be a little more conservative. Although the goal is to take over the city, it would be great if it could be done without any bloodshed, right?"
"After all, they are not our enemies, the organization, the demons, the awakened ones, and even the abyssal ones are!"
"Everyone..."
"Perhaps we can bribe a certain official, and then use the conflicts between the nobles, officials and churches in the city to divide, win over and divide them, and then use those traitors to create chaos and sneak in to start plotting?"
"!!"
"Flora, your plan sounds really insidious..."
"What is the problem?"
"no problem!"
"But I'm against that!"
"I don't feel very good either..."
"yes."
"I don't think we need or can trust those who create internal conflicts and fight against each other. They can be bribed by us, and they can also be bribed by the organization or others. That is not a good sign."
"But!"
"If we don't do that, it won't be easy if we want to reach the city's power class as soon as possible. After all, we are foreigners and have no roots here!"
"no!"
"Think of other ways..."
In this way, in this large aristocratic mansion with a large area, gardens, groves, and a living room that is large enough to accommodate dozens or hundreds of people without feeling crowded, Elena and Miria
, Flora and Claire just gathered around the city map found in the study, continuing their heated discussion.
During this period, they put forward several hypothetical plans on how to seize power as quickly as possible and how to get people here to recognize them as soon as possible, but in the end they were still rejected and they couldn't argue, so that the atmosphere in the living room gradually became tense.
Then, naturally, the faces of the surrounding soldiers who were watching and listening gradually became filled with anxiety and helplessness.
"Hello!"
"How long will they continue to argue?"
"have no idea……"
"This fight cannot be fought directly, and we must be careful about this and that..."
"It's better to go to that small town we promised before!"
"yes……"
"Although there are few people in the town, the problems are not as complicated as here, right?"
"That's right."
"There are only twenty-six...seven of us. Let's take over a small town first. When it develops slowly, it won't be too late to make plans here, right?"
While being anxious, some people even started to discuss in whispers, saying that it would be better to go to the town they had chosen at the beginning. In that case, at least with the support of the local mayor, they could be together in twos and twos.
Get the situation under control and start work within a day?
"Shh!"
"Please keep your voice down..."
"Flora seems to have heard..."
"oops!"
"I really heard it, the look in her eyes was so scary!"
"spit!"
"Her ears are really good!"
"Shhh!!"
"Stop talking..."
"..."
But soon, under Flora's gentle and terrifying glances and silent threats, the warriors who gathered together and began whispering gossip about the four of them quickly shut their mouths together, and then just continued to be bored.
, staying in groups around the living room or in corners, not daring to comment on decision-making issues.
"If it doesn't work..."
"Let's just rest first?"
"Anyway, we have just come here today, and everyone may be tired. Can we go back and think about it first, and then wait a few days until everyone has thought of a good solution, and then we can discuss it together?"
Seeing that it seemed that the discussion could not produce any results for the time being, Flora thought for a while and did not want so many soldiers to watch the four of her make a fool of herself, so she stepped forward and continued to use her super gentle voice to implicitly tell Elena
He Miliya suggested.
Although they are not very tired, after all, they have traveled for several days to get here, and they have not had much rest along the way. Now that they have arrived at the Holy City of Labona and have a place to stay.
It’s a good place. Let’s take a good rest for a few days and then think of a good entry point. That doesn’t seem impossible?
"..."
"..."
"..."
Hearing this, Elena, Miria and Claire looked at each other, and then felt that Flora was right, so they were ready to agree and announced that everyone should go back to rest first and wait until tomorrow to talk about anything.
However……
"etc!"
!(;o)o
"They've come up with another idea. Do you want to listen to it?"
(^▽^)
Seeing those people were about to announce the adjournment of the meeting, Anne became anxious and jumped up quickly, then stood on the chair and raised her little hands to speak.
"??"
"ah……"
"..."
Upon seeing this, the three people looked at each other again, and although they didn't have any hope in their hearts, they still compromised and looked at Anne, indicating that she could speak.
Anyway, as long as it's not some random bad idea, such as directly attacking the city hall, barracks and cathedral, or coercing the archbishop, they will definitely accept it with an open mind.
“It’s very simple!”
|ω)
"Just use magic to directly control them! Control all the bosses in this city, and then you can control this place peacefully?"
(^0^)/
Just like that, under the expectant eyes of those guys, Anne directly and openly stated a perfect plan that she felt was very consistent with what they had just discussed.
"!!"
"Use magic to control humans?"
"Will there be that kind of magic?"
Elena and Miria were startled for a moment, then subconsciously blurted out questions.
"no!"
"That's so evil!"
However, before Annie could answer, Flora frowned and rejected it immediately.
"evil?"
(゜-゜)
"Where is the evil?"
(˙o˙)
Of course, Anne was a little baffled by this. After all, she had done that before and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Besides, that was really the best plan she could think of that perfectly matched the 'no bloodshed', 'no opposition', 'no resistance' and 'no chaos' they just mentioned. There was absolutely nothing easier or simpler than that.
There is a way!
And if it had been someone else, she wouldn't have done so many troublesome things!
Besides, it would be the erudite, smart and lovely Lady Queen Anne. If it were another arcane archmage who wanted to use magic to control so many people for a long time, it would be absolutely impossible.
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"Well……"
"If you think about it carefully, it's really not a good thing?"
"you do not say?"
"No one in this world likes to be controlled by others!"
"That's so evil!"
"Just like an organization?"
"yes……"
Elena, Miria, Flora and Claire discussed quietly for a while, and finally they all shook their heads with regret, saying that Anne's 'evil' plan was somewhat unacceptable to them.
Because that is indeed contrary to their original intention. The original intention of everything they do is to protect and revenge. If they do that, it will probably be the same as the evil that creates monsters and then releases them and forces people to pay and send tasks to be protected.
Organizations are no different.
"But!"
(°ー°〃)
"You are not those people, how do you know they don't like to be controlled?"
()
In this regard, Anne said that she has the most say!
Because, not to mention how much she likes those people who were controlled by her in the past!
Not to mention anything else, just like the leaders of the three tribes in the Keprulu Star District, even though she had eliminated the control magic long ago, they still didn't cry and beg to be loyal to her, and they still rushed them all.
The kind that won't leave, how can it be as exaggerated as they say?
After all, she just controlled those people and made things simpler, and she didn't want to do anything evil!
(…)
(`)
(Tibbers also said that that is indeed true! Of course, except for Uncle Bear? If some bad little master terminates the contract and lets him go, he is guaranteed to pack up and leave immediately, and then he can go find fresh food every day
How comfortable and comfortable would it be if a female human went to eat it, guaranteed to change places every day, eat dozens or hundreds at a time, and not bring the same thing every day? That kind of thing, just thinking about it, makes it feel like it is a bear.
Sorry.)
"Yes!"
At this time, before Elena wanted to comfort a certain little girl who became angry again, Miria suddenly gave her a high-five, and then she thought of a brilliant idea, and everyone was watching.
He looked at her and said excitedly:
"Although it is true that you cannot and should not directly control others..."
"but!"
"We can definitely win the support of some high-level people in this city and use it as an entry point to let the people here slowly accept us!"
After saying that, before Elena, Flora and others could ask any more questions, she looked at Claire and continued to add:
"Claire!"
"Aren't you familiar with Priest Vincent of the Cathedral?"
"so!"
"You're going to write a letter right now and invite him to come here tomorrow to talk?"
In this way, under the angry and unhappy eyes of a bad little girl, under the surprised gazes of Elena and Flora, and under Claire's confused and surprised expressions, Miria thought of the idea she just had.
A certain method was explained.
"!!"
"I see!"
"I will write a letter and have it delivered!"
After glancing at Elena and looking at the troubled little girl who didn't seem to object, Claire nodded, then quickly turned around and walked straight towards the study.
"so troublesome!"
(╭╮)
"I won't play with you anymore!"
o(*｀ー)o
Seeing these people discussing for a long time, and then rejecting one of her suggestions one after another, but finally choosing a stupid method that she didn't know, Annie felt annoyed, and then she jumped off the table, and continued
He quickly ran towards the gorgeous and spacious staircase and quickly disappeared into the corridor on the third floor.
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