Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 1 Two Meetings (Part 1)
William opened the lid of the porcelain cup in his hand, and green mist slowly rose from the cup, filling the entire conference hall with a fresh fragrance.
He first gently sniffed the aroma in the cup, then took a sip of the bitter light green liquid inside, and finally leaned back in his seat with his whole body relaxed.
The wound on the shoulder caused by the hungry lady was healed by this rich breath of life.
After William returned to the human world, the wound caused by Camilla herself could not heal. This was quite normal. He had caused Her such a great loss before, so now in Her rotation year, She would naturally use this as a medium to continuously project power and cause Him as much pain as possible.
William has been trying to use high-level life magic to completely heal the wound during this period, but no matter how much effort he puts in, the opponent will project more power onto the wound, causing it to remain festering and corrupt.
If we want the wound to heal completely, we may have to wait until the year of famine and corruption is over, or we can find the cathedral of the "Mother" of the Holy Spirit and perform a large-scale expulsion ceremony.
Thinking of this, William sighed slightly and took another sip of the bitter liquid in the cup that looked like tea.
There is no such thing as tea in this world. This light green liquid is an alchemical potion prepared by William using the tender leaves of the holy tree. It can slowly replenish vitality and delay the spread of the curse. Just drink a cup a day, and you don't need to use additional life spells to suppress the curse on the wound.
This made William like a retired veteran during this period, holding a porcelain cup wherever he went and taking a sip whenever he had nothing to do.
Not only were he physically injured, but most of the equipment he had brought with him were also damaged to varying degrees.
The other equipment was fine, except for the disposable [Tear Crystal] which was consumed, the other equipment could be barely repaired with the equipment in the Dawn Fortress. But the seven Holy Spirit Guardian Rings were all seriously damaged, and they had to be blessed in the main churches of the Holy Spirit before they could be repaired.
In other words, for a long time, I won't be able to face the Void King with full equipment and condition like before.
Fortunately, their real bodies cannot appear in the world for the time being.
"Lord Kane, everyone is here."
A voice pulled William out of his thoughts, and he looked around - he was currently in the conference hall in the Dawn Fortress. This was not the round table hall where the members of the Tribunal held their meetings, but the conference hall that was used to receive representatives of other forces in the past. William had some insistence on this aspect.
The people sitting in the meeting room were representatives of various forces that William had gradually developed over the past two months:
Vincent, Lord of Thorn City and first citizen of Blackwater Swamp;
Roy, Bishop of the New Holy Spirit Church and chief preacher of doctrine;
Nezemar, the executive officer of the New Holy Spirit Church's Punishment Temple;
Julian, the head of Blacklight City and the Serpent's Scar guard;
The fourth seat of the new Tribunal, Lord Blake of Dawnhold;
Cass, the last seat of the new trial bench and the leader of the "Thunder", a rapid response force to the Moon Realm.
The one who just spoke was Nezemar.
"oh……"
William came back to his senses, put the cup down, and said, "Then let's start."
It was Vincent's idea to hold a meeting every once in a while. Initially, it was mainly to coordinate the elimination of the Moon Realm worship sects still in the territory of Black Light City and Thorn City, and to ensure the support of various places for the missionary work of the New Holy Spirit Church. After William standardized the format of the meeting, this meeting has now become the real highest authority in the entire Blackwater Province.
William originally planned to name this meeting the Senate Meeting, but later he thought it would be better to call it that after taking over Platinum City.
"The last round of reports we received showed that the spread of the blight in the entire Blackwater Swamp has been slowed by about 40%. If this trend continues, and if we take into account the food reserves in Thorn City, we should be able to survive this year of famine and corruption on our own."
Vincent reported this first.
William shook his head and said:
"The delay of the blight is definitely only temporary. Based on my understanding of Lady Hungry and Corrupted, she will definitely make big moves here this year. So we still need to prepare various response strategies, especially the security of the granary. We must not relax. At least half of our life mages must be transferred there to guard it."
In the past, Ms. Hungry and Corrupted had once made a whole granary full of maggots overnight. After suffering such a big loss this time, the other party would definitely find a way to get back at her. Maybe she would use this method again.
Thinking of this, William subconsciously touched his aching shoulder and asked:
"By the way, what were the test results of the last batch of magic affinity people sent to the Stranger Lighthouse for enlightenment?"
Vincent shook his head and said:
"Unfortunately, no one has successfully awakened. It seems that the Star Council has completely blocked the enlightenment rights of the entire Blackwater Swamp area."
With the collapse of the Serpent Star Lighthouse, William originally planned to follow the principle of waste utilization and transfer the staff responsible for magic awakening in Serpent to the still intact Stranger Lighthouse, and let them be responsible for the awakening of the magic affinity people in Thorn City.
Now it seems that the Stranger Lighthouse is completely inactive. Apart from being a time bomb that could turn into a lunar rift at any time, it is of no benefit to William at all.
In the past, the enlightenment of magic casters relied on the mentor system, where mentors guided apprentices to connect their etheric domains with the astral world. However, now the enlightenment process is completely done by the laws of the stars, which has resulted in magic casters themselves not knowing how their etheric domains were connected to the astral world in the first place, and naturally they are unable to guide new apprentices.
If new magic casters want to emerge again under the blockade of the Star Law, they must be led by practitioners of the "classical magic" system. But now, William is probably the only "classical" magician in the entire Blackwater Swamp.
Although William was good at using magic, he was undoubtedly a very bad teacher when it came to teaching others magic - after all, it was far less troublesome for him to learn so much magic back then.
"I see... So a large number of classical magic practitioners are needed, right?"
William nodded.
There is no doubt that the number of mages is an important indicator of the strength of a party. Although William has basically recruited all the official mages in the entire Blackwater Swamp area, if they cannot form a system that can continuously replenish magic casters, they will definitely be at a disadvantage in this regard in the future war with the empire.
After Vincent finished his report, the next person to report was Julian, the former keeper of the Serpent Lighthouse and now the guard of the Serpent's Scar Moon Rift.
"...Since then, the invasion of the entire Serpent's Scar Moon Realm monsters has basically maintained a frequency of once every two days. According to the comparison of the monster illustrations, more than 80% of the Moon Realm monsters come from the Dark Tide Lord's Moon Realm 'Filthy Abyss' and the Pale Poet's domain 'Bone Tidal Flats'. In addition, the strength of the invading monsters has been increasing in the past half month. In the past two days, high-level Moon Realm monsters such as the 'Drowned Banshee' have begun to descend, which has also caused considerable casualties to the Battle Mage Order..."
Hearing this, William rubbed his eyebrows with a headache.
With no way to replenish magic casters and constant small-scale invasions into the Moon Realm, the exposed Moon Realm rift in Blacklight City is now a wound that constantly bleeds their own forces.
Before Black Crow Watch was completely contained by Dawn Fortress, William could not move it through the coordinates to block the Moon Realm Rift - that would flood the entire Black Light City. As for directly sealing the Moon Realm Rift, it was even more absurd. The materials for repairing the World Shell were plot props that disappeared after being used up, and they were not even in his own treasure hall. And if he wanted to get those materials again, the price he had to pay was something William could not afford at all.
After a moment of silence, William said slowly:
"Cas, lead 'Thunder' to reinforce the defense of the Serpent's Scar. Kill all the Moon Realm monsters you see with the Judgment Armor. This will probably make them restrain themselves a little. Also, pay attention. I seriously suspect that the Whispering Queen has also sent her followers here, but they have not been exposed yet."
William turned his gaze to Vincent and said:
"If you transfer Cass away, the pressure on your side will be much greater, so I will come to Thorn City during this period of time to help you deal with all those troublesome things first. By then, even if I am not in Blackwater Swamp, you will be able to control the situation."
At this point, William couldn't help but sigh.
It's a pity that Blake can't leave Black Crow Watch for a long time, because once he leaves for too long, the storm in the entire Black Crow Watch will get out of control and cause huge safety hazards. Otherwise, letting Blake guard Thorn City is definitely the best choice.
When he was about to leave for Ava Continent, troubles popped up one after another, forcing him to postpone his plan again and again. His previous behavior of stopping the plane fusion plan in Black Crow Watch was undoubtedly a declaration of war against the four Void Kings, and now they are naturally setting up troubles for him one after another without any hesitation.
Now he could still suppress it temporarily, but William suspected that as soon as he left, the entire Blackwater Swamp area would be in complete chaos. At that time, as long as the other party spent a lot of money to bring two or three demon generals into the world, and as long as they had some brains and didn't get close to the Black range of the Sorrow Mountains, it would be a massacre for the current Blackwater Swamp.
