Blue Sword

The third volume is just too fucking long.

The potions involved in the Bloodline Path range from Level I to Level IV, with Levels I and II available on the market.

Levels III and IV almost never appear on the market and are only owned by a few extraordinary sects or large families.

Therefore, if Asik wants to obtain the formulas or finished products of these high-level potions, he must trade with extraordinary sects or large families.

Due to the scarcity of high-level potions, ordinary people are simply not allowed to conduct such transactions with sects or large families.

Asker was given the opportunity because there were several members with strong backgrounds on the team.

That is what we often call nepotism.

Throughout history, in troubled times, most of them are "the ones who are capable", and in the prosperous times, most of them are "the ones who are virtuous."

The so-called virtue is, to a large extent, connections.

When you climb to a certain height, if you want to continue going up, ability alone is not enough.

You also need someone to support you.

Another ironic fact is that the transition from prosperous times to troubled times is often caused by too many noble people supporting the incompetent in their own family, preventing the capable from taking the position, resulting in the overall weakening of national power.

In March 242 of the Sixth Age, the Cang Qing Sword Mercenary Group was at the moment when it was about to transition from a prosperous era to a troubled era.

The ancient and decadent Eastern Solomon Empire was wiped out by the emerging challenger, the Seljuk Empire.

The Holy See, which has not yet completely decayed, is about to accept the challenge of the emerging Holy Solomon Empire.

Corresponding to the bloodline period of everyone, the old social order has not yet collapsed, and the old interest groups have not yet disintegrated, so Asker can only obtain these high-level magic potions by doing tasks (working) for major sects and nobles. .

Of course, he will also use some more "efficient" means.

Therefore, the entire third volume was artificially stretched because the Imperial Civil War must have such a long span.

The perspective focuses on Eleanor’s family, the Principality of Bavaria ruled by the Weisbach family:

The first stage is when the civil war is about to break out, and the temptations and conspiracies of the Wolf family envoys are revealed.

The second stage was when the other party's conspiracy broke out, and rat plagues and plagues swept across the principality.

In the third stage, the Wolf family army took advantage of the situation and occupied the southern part of the duchy. The team helped defend Innsbruck.

The fourth stage was the final fall of Innsbruck, and the entire southern part of the principality was occupied.

However, due to the efforts of the protagonist team to delay, the Wolf family's blitzkrieg strategy was greatly slowed down. As a result, the Bavarian side's initial disadvantage due to plague and rat plague was gradually made up, and the two sides returned to a situation of even strength.

The fifth stage is for the protagonist team to go to Swabia to help the Sauron family make up their mind to join the emperor's camp and cut off the supply line of Wolfe's army in the Principality of Swabia.

After completing this crucial task, the balance of victory began to tilt towards Bavaria.

The sixth stage involves the attack on the Wolf family's demigod, Alberto, the Hidden String, forcing the Wolf family to lose all power in Bavaria and forcing them to surrender quickly.

Looking at some wonderful large-scale battles in real history, most of them are "A suddenly declared war on B", "B fell into a disadvantage under A's sudden attack", "B reversed the disadvantage and turned into a stalemate with A", "B Development lines such as "gaining advantage through key events" and "B dealt a heavy blow to A and made A surrender".

For example, the Battle of Guandu between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in the Three Kingdoms, World War II, etc.

There are six stages, from beginning to end, and if any stage is missing, it won’t work.

Each stage has a team of protagonists playing key roles. Except for the initial failure to prevent the rat plague and plague caused by the Lord of Filth, every other task was completed perfectly and exceeded the target. The Duke of Bavaria should award the protagonist team a three-ton gold medal.

Therefore, the structure of the third volume is generally complete, although there may be various minor flaws in the details. The reason why it seems so long is probably because the first and second volumes are too short.

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After the civil war, the Iron Throne once again regained control over the entire HRE Empire.

Due to the imminent arrival of the second demonic tide, Emperor Otto II had to issue the "HRE Declaration" in advance in Al, the capital of the Principality of Burgundy. This declaration was considered to be a symbolic statement of the upcoming war against the Holy See.

The southern expedition to Italy and Canada was something that every generation of HRE emperors wanted to do.

The initial reason should be that Charlemagne ("Man" means "Great Emperor", but here we adopt the domestic translation and are uniformly called Charlemagne) was canonized by the Pope, so all the subsequent HRE emperors wanted to fight Go to the Holy See and let the Pope crown you with the crown of Emperor Solomon.

The second reason is that the current emperor Otto II's father, Otto I, also conquered Italy and Canada. Of course, that was a good opportunity to seize the rebellion of Italy and Canada and the Holy See was isolated and helpless.

The third reason is the biggest hidden line in the book, that is, the "mysterious man" who secretly manipulates Otto II's mind.

Unlike the Succubus Queen's suspicions and speculations that lack evidence, in fact the Holy See's artificial intelligence Raphael has been monitoring and analyzing this "mysterious man" for nearly a thousand years.

It believes that the "mysterious person" may be a person, a force, a supernatural object with a will, or some kind of mutation or some supernatural phenomenon.

This variable is codenamed "Antichrist".

Raphael's analysis shows that the Antichrist instigated the HRE Empire to declare war on the Holy See, a move that would trigger a series of all-out conflicts in the coming years.

1. The Shinra Empire will definitely lose in this battle, but the Holy See will also be drained of energy.

2. The Holy See was forced to relax its blockade of the Mediterranean and its control of the westernmost Iberian Peninsula. There is a high probability that the Moors in the southern continent will pass through the Strait of Gibraltar and attack and occupy the Iberian Peninsula.

3. The conflicts between the Kingdom of Angevin (Plantagenet) in Britannia and the Kingdom of West Francia are likely to intensify. These conflicts revolve around Angevin's Aquitaine and Normandy regions on the mainland, and may escalate in the future. .

4. With the defeat of HRE, the control of the North Sea by the Hanseatic League in the northern part of the empire has also been greatly weakened, which will most likely trigger a counterattack by the Kalmar Empire in the north.

With Shinra declaring war on the Holy See as the trigger, a full-scale war of iron and fire sweeping the entire continent is about to begin. This is also the ultimate goal of the Antichrist.

War cannot be stopped, war is coming.

Please look forward to the fourth volume of "The Bones Are Everywhere, the Unjust Crusade"