Volume 17: Enemy of All Things Chapter 5: Broken Covenant
"Your Majesty, are you awake?"
“…”
Li Lin, who was sitting on the throne, blinked and looked at the man in white kneeling in front of him.
This is a righteous god of the Holy Light, responsible for the intelligence work of the Undead Hall. But now the fleet of revenge has set off, and all the personnel of the Holy Light faction will go with the fleet to the countries of the traitors to impose some justice on those traitors. It is obvious that the man in white in front of him is such a person .
It was just that Li Lin, who had just come online, was still confused about the situation. Five days, or about ten hours of self-awareness, was enough for the feeling of boiling blood or overwhelming anger to gradually dissipate. Li Lin just glanced at the empty space around him, leaving only the throne above the starry sky covered by countless positions, and then looked at the white-clothed god kneeling in front of him, and turned his head to look at a more conspicuous light spot under his feet.
"What is that?"
"It is the remains of the Star Soul, my lord."
The god in white was extremely respectful in answering Li Lin's questions, without any disrespect.
"You have issued a total extermination order. All life on the planet will be annihilated by the star-destroying array. All historical records will be devoured by our missionary fleet. We will selectively let go of planets without souls. But for planets that already have star souls, we will send a special fleet to annihilate them."
"Oh, so it's something that happened before the planet died."
Looking at the flickering light that seemed not far away from his feet, Li Lin nodded thoughtfully.
Although the distance in the starry sky was quite far, Li Lin inexplicably felt that his magic perception seemed to be getting stronger. He even felt the information and thoughts left by the strongest person on the planet. The resentment and resentment spreading from them almost condensed into substance. The resentment brought by the sudden death of a populous planet could even drag down the gods directly.
However, the machine that performed this task was a man-made device that carried Li Lin's apocalyptic magic. Li Lin could feel the strife and chaos brought about by the spread of his power. Everything on the planet could not even maintain its most basic self. It split into countless parts and then dissipated in the attacks of each other.
As for what happened on this planet, Li Lin did not feel any empathy or grief.
After returning this time, Li Lin found that it seemed that because of the breakup with the NPC who he once thought was his friend, his feelings about this aspect became less and less. The wailing and crying of billions of dead people only made Li Lin feel that it was very noisy. He stretched out his hand and pinched the wandering star soul. The huge magic power radiating from the battleship instantly tore the remaining resentment of the planet into powder. Not even a trace of dregs remained.
"Tell me what happened when I was away." As if he had just done something trivial, Li Lin slowly stood up from the throne, looked at the white-robed god kneeling in front of him and said, "I was in a bad mood and temporarily left for a few days, but the plan is all there, so there shouldn't be any problem, right?"
"Just as Your Majesty expected, the Freedom Alliance was completely unable to resist our attack."
The man in white was half-kneeling on the ground, looking a little surprised:
"What surprised our Vanguard Fleet even more is that many planets of the Free Alliance have been infected by demons, which is more serious than the infection of some cultists' planets. Sometimes the entire planet has been inhabited by demonic forces. We can use holy light to efficiently kill all enemies on their fallen planets. But there are still many completely innocent or unaware people on the planet. Your Majesty, what you mean is..."
"I have always believed in one truth. When an avalanche begins, no snowflake is innocent. A deformed society cannot be created by one or two people. They need a whole system to maintain the society, a whole set of theories to build the society, and they also need the support and non-resistance of everyone. In this world where belief is power, if you don't choose to resist, then the consequences are self-evident. I don't think any of them are innocent, and I don't think there is anything good in what they advocate. Just kill them all as cultists."
"Your will, Your Majesty."
The man in white did not say anything about Li Lin's cruel idea. Holy Light maintained absolute order and justice, and the means used would often cause great terror and cruelty. This kind of behavior of killing an entire organization had happened before.
It's just that the targets before were some large organizations and countries that openly believed in the devil. Now it's the first time that such an act has been carried out by a former ally. However, this kind of thing will become accustomed to it after practice. The man in white is not a mindless defender. Everyone knows what kind of atrocities these people in the Free Alliance have committed. However, looking at Li Lin who was stretching his body, the man in white suddenly thought of another piece of news.
"The university claimed that we were conducting an inhumane act of extermination, so they took over several sectors before us."
"University?"
Li Lin, who was about to walk down the void bridge to the meeting room, stopped and looked at the man in white with some surprise.
"Are you sure it's a real university, and not some organization with the same name as a university? That university attacked other star regions on the pretext that we caused a humanitarian disaster? Didn't they negotiate with us?"
"No. They claimed to have had a secret communication with you, but the communication was obviously broken. They claimed that you have become somewhat paranoid and are no longer acting purely for justice, so they decided to strike first. At present, the university has occupied a considerable part of the star zone and built a defense line. All their control facilities are aimed at us, and the reason is still unknown."
"...I think I understand now. What he said at that time was indeed not a joke. The university is really trying to stir up trouble now."
Li Lin thought back to what the vice president said before he was offline, and felt more and more annoyed.
Although I was prepared for this, after hearing the news, I still felt a little dissatisfied or aggrieved.
We were clearly the best of friends, and I wanted to join you at first, but you threw me to the Holy Light. Now I'm the boss of the Holy Light, and you want me to be your grandson, and even let me sell out the interests of all mankind. Of course I can't agree to that.
As a result, we were still working on a few mixed events, thinking that we could mend the relationship, but the other side raised their hands and stabbed us. They almost said that Li Lin was an ungrateful person who didn't give the university any face and deserved to be humiliated. But he is not a slave of the university. To put it bluntly, no matter how good the relationship is, there are definitely things he doesn't want to do. We made it clear that we are still friends, so don't touch the bottom line. As a result, as soon as this side refused, the other side made a big fuss about it. This behavior...
"They are petty, don't bother with them. Where is our commander?"
"A combat meeting is underway in the meeting room."
"Take me there."
Li Lin straightened the white robe he was wearing and instructed the white-robed god:
"Now we must complete our mission objectives before the university. At least we must seize the home planet of the Free Alliance. Their planet must be purified by our power. This is the punishment they deserve. Don't worry about the university for now. Wait for my instructions when the time comes."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The god in white nodded.
The unique wave-like information transmission of Holy Light quickly conveyed the news of Li Lin's return to the main camp of the Holy Light Fleet.
The fleets that were originally on patrol in the void quickly began to organize their formations and speeded up to the next star field. At the same time, Li Lin followed the white-robed god and arrived at the meeting room. Those familiar faces, including the loli interfaces of the three races and representatives of some cooperative units, were standing beside the round table and saluted Li Lin who was walking slowly. It was obvious that they knew the news .
"Since His Majesty Li Lin is here, I will reiterate our current position and orientation."
The artificial intelligence figure that was deducing the tactical map pushed up his glasses and tapped the round table with his pointer, and a crystal map appeared on it.
Li Lin found an empty seat and sat down, looking at the star map in front of him and analyzing it with his eyes narrowed. If it were in the past, Li Lin would definitely be completely clueless and unable to understand anything. But now, for some reason, his thinking became more agile and brisk.
At least looking at the defense lines indicated by the star fields, Li Lin felt that he had several offensive routes to choose from to effectively crush the defense lines of the entire Free Alliance. But the problem was that he was not sure whether the Free Alliance deliberately exposed these flaws. For the business that he did not know, it was better to leave it to professionals. Li Lin still understood this most basic delegation of power.
"Because of His Majesty Li Lin's departure, we are temporarily unable to mobilize the Holy Light Main Fleet, but the situation has improved a lot as we gradually advance."
The AI said, pointing to some star regions marked as light red.
"It can be seen from the star map that several of our outpost fleets are shuttling through the universe and can crush our enemies at any time. The drone reconnaissance unit reported that many planets have fallen into chaos and panic, and it is almost impossible to organize a complete resistance array. The Free Alliance is almost in a semi-paralyzed state after our declaration of war."
"Can you confirm the exact source of the information? Isn't this a deliberate act by the Freedom Alliance to make us underestimate the enemy and advance rashly?"
"If the Free Alliance is willing to completely shut down its 714 inhabited planets, then I think we won't lose out even if we fall into this trap. This is because it means that more than 30% of the Free Alliance's regions will be temporarily unable to communicate. It would be perfect for a few outpost fleets to bring about such an effect."
After taking a look at the cooperative army that asked the question, the artificial intelligence once again waved its pointer to light up other areas on the star zone.
"But what really makes people feel there are some problems is not the chaotic Freedom Alliance. Their loose organization proves that they can only do some backstabbing at best, and they will never get any results when they really do things. However, we can see that these star regions have maintained considerable order and vitality, and have made different voices. They claim that they follow the leadership of the university and are out of the control of the Freedom Alliance."
"Not only have some star regions rebelled, but the university's fleet has also arrived very quickly. They are using some magical means to squeeze our jump space, and many routes on the star map have been blocked by the university. They are slandering Your Majesty with a very ridiculous rumor, and at the same time, they are quickly occupying some star regions of the Free Alliance. In the five days since Your Majesty left, they seem to have taken advantage of our kindness and began to march to various star regions in large numbers. In addition, many ships from other colleges of the university have come to support us. Now a quarter of the Free Alliance is being irradiated by their fleet."
"Not only that, the reinforcements from the mysterious Eastern world that the Free Alliance brought over also seem to be making some strange moves. Their star field is shrouded in some completely impenetrable fog. These strange people claim that it is a formation and demand corresponding courtesy."
Some pale yellow spots began to appear on the star region. Although small, they were inexplicably tenacious.
The artificial intelligence pushed its glasses and pointed at these star regions in a strange way.
"We naturally rejected this unreasonable request and attacked them. Those strange Eastern practitioners have some strange methods that often make our abilities and experience ineffective. If it takes a long time, we can use exhaustive methods to find out the ability and means to fight against them. But now, we are very lacking in the ability to uproot these Eastern strongholds. They are like nails driven into the star region for us."
"As for all this, the university actually sent a message some time ago claiming that they have cracked a considerable part of the Eastern World's capabilities and have the idea of destroying the Eastern World's strongholds. In order to prove this news, they did destroy a considerable part of the Eastern World's strongholds."
"But their request is very strange. They said they can make the information and data public to us, but they want Li Linmian to negotiate with them again—"
"Just tell them to stop dreaming."
Li Lin interrupted the AI's speech without thinking and gave his conclusion directly.
This decisive aura even made some of the sleepy dwarves nearby alert and subconsciously wanted to raise their hands to agree, but then they realized that the atmosphere around them was not right, so they slowly sat back - after all, he was at almost the same height as he was standing and sitting, so it was not awkward.
Li Lin pretended not to see the dwarf's embarrassing performance, but straightened his robe and stood up. He put on a leader's style to the people around him. This was not what he wanted to do. In fact, many of them were not from the Holy Light. Li Lin felt that he had to make such a gesture to prove whose side he was on and for whose benefit he was speaking.
"If the university still wants to ask me to do something based on the previous relationships, or make me compromise on something, then let them do it."
Li Lin looked at those people who seemed to be somewhat confused and whispered:
"If they come and dare to threaten me, I will kill them all without leaving a single one alive. It's time for us to wake everyone up. I am Li Lin, the undefeated Li Lin, and I am also Li Lin with temporary A-level authority. More importantly, I am Li Lin, the tenth champion of Holy Light. If you want to negotiate with me, you should treat me as an equal."
Being considerate of old times is a good trait, but unfortunately, Li Lin doesn't think there is anything good in being too considerate of old times.
If the university is really so greedy and ignorant, then Li Lin doesn't mind using a massacre to tell the university that he is not a lamb kept by NPCs. He is a player, a greedy player who loves whoever feeds him. If you treat me well, I will treat you well. But if you, as an NPC, want to scheme against me, even if we had a good relationship before, I will still kill you.
"I believe that universities should be able to make the right choice. I also believe that those so-called scientists who are obsessed with exploring the world will not be so irrational. Although we have argued, we have not reached the point of fighting, so don't worry. Our goal is still to destroy the Freedom Alliance first. This is my promise."
Li Lin waved his hand and finally ended the topic.
However, everyone looked at Li Lin who seemed to be unconcerned, and an inexplicable feeling surged in their hearts.
It seems that you are the one who said that you killed the whole family all the time? The university was just testing them secretly, but did you just pull out a knife?
Li Lin was also aware of the different expressions on the faces of the people at the round table, but he didn't want to explain anything. At least the temptation in college really pissed Li Lin off. It was indeed vulgar that former friends became enemies, but Li Lin also felt that there was a reason for such a thing to happen.
There is probably only one reason for turning against each other. That is greed. Whether it is the recipient, the giver, or both parties, once such a consciousness appears, betrayal and struggle are almost inevitable. And Li Lin is very experienced in this. At least this time the betrayal is much softer than when he went to jail for no reason. He quickly adjusted his emotions and re-invested in the entire battlefield.
The others also showed expressions of approval, and seemed to become much more relaxed and happy during the discussion.
There are still five thousand words to go.
