Lord of the Nation: My talent is 100 million points strong

Chapter 1235: The Lord's Thoughts and Deployments

Chapter 1235: The Lord's Thoughts and Deployments

"First, there is the dimensional storm."

Gray Old Man's wrinkled face was full of seriousness as he said to Lei Xiao, "I'm sure Your Highness has heard about it. Especially in the past hundred years, this special and extremely dangerous natural phenomenon has appeared more and more frequently. If it is not stopped in time, it will inevitably cause great harm to the local area."

"Therefore, summarizing and analyzing the locations where the dimensional storms occurred is one of the key targets of the Mercenary Guild's investigation."

Gray Old Man stroked his white beard and continued, "After all, the human world is too vast. If we search inch by inch, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack."

"That makes sense. Given the vastness and complex terrain of the human world, if we don't have a targeted approach, it would probably take a thousand years, let alone hundreds of years, to find any clues."

Lei Xiao gently stroked his chin, withdrew his gaze from admiring the surrounding antiques, and said thoughtfully: "The essence of the dimensional storm is a crack that tears open the void space. Maybe it really is related to the crack of the catastrophe."

"And the most important point is that the dimensional storm was originally a special phenomenon before the blank era. After the blank era, it disappeared for at least two thousand years."

"But now, the catastrophe prophecy is appearing more and more frequently under the premise that it may become a reality at any time. It is hard not to combine the two together."

After hearing what Lei Xiao said, Gray nodded and said affirmatively: "Your Highness really understood it immediately. Just as Your Highness considered, these two points are exactly why the Mercenary Guild is eyeing the Dimensional Storm."

After receiving Gray Elder's affirmation, Lei Xiao paused for a moment and asked, "According to what I have learned, although the dimensional storms in the human realm have appeared in various countries, the situation in the Verdant Kingdom is the most serious. I guess this should be the key target of the Mercenary Guild's investigation, right?"

"That's right, just as His Royal Highness said. Especially in the past ten years or so, whenever I have time, I will personally go to the Verdant Kingdom to investigate."

Gray Elder led the group around the corner of a corridor, and said solemnly: "During this process, although I also led my mercenaries to suppress the dimensional storm eye that was discovered, due to the excessive frequency of dimensional storms, many towns in the Verdant Kingdom were still affected."

"This is indeed a problem. After all, compared to the other six kingdoms, the Verdant Kingdom is vast and sparsely populated. In addition to large tracts of grassland, there are also many deserts and sandy lands. Even a sixth-level expert cannot take care of every corner of such a vast land."

Lei Xiao nodded slightly and said, "However, I have completely restored the mature technology of Cold Flame Kingdom for monitoring dimensional storms to Cangcui Kingdom and several other countries, and have successively established many monitoring stations and early warning mechanisms. I believe that dimensional storms will no longer pose a threat to the human world."

"Your Highness's noble contributions to the human world cannot be measured by any words."

Gray Elder first praised Lei Xiao generously, and then changed the subject: "However, after a thorough investigation on the ground, surprisingly, the Verdant Kingdom is not actually the place where the dimensional storm is most severe."

"Oh?"

A hint of curiosity flashed across Lei Xiao's eyes, and he continued to listen to the other party's words.

"To be honest, Your Highness, the area where the dimensional storm is most severe is the sea area surrounding the Verdant Kingdom."

Gray Old Man stopped in front of a large map depicting the human world. His old finger then pointed at the azure blue surrounding the human world, and his expression became more solemn.

"It's actually on the sea?"

Lei Xiao looked at the vast blue that extended to the border of the map, his eyes flashing with brilliance.

The human world is located at the bottom of the entire plate. Except for the Lengyan Kingdom, which is located at the center of the human race, the other six countries are more or less bordering the sea.

But compared with land and air trade, maritime trade in the human world has developed relatively slowly, and even wars rarely occur at sea.

This has led to the fact that various countries do not pay much attention to the development of maritime power, which is far less powerful than on land.

"Except for helping Catherine break out of the siege, I have never experienced a real battle at sea. This is indeed an area that is easy to overlook."

Thinking of this, Lei Xiao nodded thoughtfully.

If you think about it carefully, even though he is currently vigorously developing land and even air combat capabilities, his attention to maritime power is relatively limited.

In this case, if the Cataclysm Rift really appeared somewhere on the sea, it would undoubtedly put us, who have weak sea power, into an extremely passive situation.

After all, the content of the catastrophe is still unclear. Whether it is some terrible natural disaster or the balance between real space and void space is broken like a dimensional storm, if one's naval force is strong enough, perhaps one can find a way or idea to solve the problem in the first place.

Even if we cannot prevent the catastrophe from happening, it is much better than being unprepared.

Furthermore, the plate wars with other lords will definitely start at sea. If you are not strong enough, you will also fall into an extremely passive situation.

Thinking about this, no matter from which perspective, I must put this matter on the agenda as soon as possible.

Having made up his mind, Lei Xiao pulled his thoughts back to reality and asked again: "Old Chairman, after confirming the specific location where the dimensional storms frequently occur, have you gained anything else?"

"Your Highness, this is exactly what is puzzling."

Gray shook his head helplessly and responded, "Your Highness must have known that no matter how large the dimensional storm is, it will eventually dissipate due to the balance between real space and void space, as if it had never appeared."

"So, even though I led people to almost every place where dimensional storms had occurred, we still found nothing. We did not find any abnormal space cracks or similar space phenomena."

At this point, Gray Old Man and other high-ranking members of the mercenary guild, including Diana, looked at each other, and all saw a hint of helplessness in each other's eyes.

"In any case, the Mercenary Guild has indeed found an extremely important direction."

Lei Xiao turned his eyes away from the map, nodded to the mercenary leaders and said, "It is no coincidence that dimensional storms appear so frequently. When I have time, I will send a capable space expert like Jiang Li to assist you in a more detailed search."

"No, to be more precise, this is no longer a big task for the Mercenary Guild alone. I will mobilize the resources of the entire human race to find this cataclysmic crack."

Lei Xiao paused for a moment, then added: "Don't worry, the hard work of the old president and everyone else will not be in vain."

"We are deeply relieved by your words, His Royal Highness."

Gray Elder nodded heavily and continued, "In addition to the search route of the Dimensional Storm, we have also opened up a second search direction for the Cataclysm rift, which is the dislocated objects scattered all over the place."

"Misplaced objects? This is indeed a cause for concern. After all, these erroneous objects have deviated from their original locations and inexplicably appeared thousands of miles away, or even farther away."

Lei Xiao nodded slightly and immediately asked, "What did the old president learn about this?"

"Your Highness, please take a look."

Gray Old Man brought Lei Xiao to another map of the human world, pointed at the temples and collapsed buildings on it and said, "This is the distribution map of dislocated objects known to the Mercenary Guild."

Looking at the map, Lei Xiao noticed.

There are more than twenty icons on it, distributed throughout the human world. Some are located between mountains, some are located around cities, and some are even in rivers, but no matter how you look at it, they have no connection with each other.

Among them, even the dwarf ruins under Luolong City were marked out. It seems that the old man Wang Xi also provided some clues back then.

As expected, just as Lei Xiao was thinking about this, Gray Old Man's introduction sounded: "To be honest, Your Highness, most of these misplaced objects were discovered by the Mercenary Guild, and some were provided by the Hero King. I have personally investigated almost all of them on the scene."

"These erroneous objects involve many alien races. Some are just a temple or other buildings that appear alone, while others are part of a city. There is no pattern at all."

Gray Elder sighed lightly, then immediately became serious again, saying, "However, we cannot rule out the possibility that one of these dislocated objects is the location of the Cataclysm rift. After all, they should not be located at these locations on the map."

"I agree. I will gather the power of the entire human world as soon as possible to draw a complete map of the ruins and dislocated objects, just in case."

Lei Xiao expressed his thoughts and said, "At the same time, I will set up multiple observation stations, barracks and corresponding sealing measures at all the locations of the dislocated objects. Once there is any abnormal movement in any place, we can react and seal it off immediately."

Hearing this, Gray Old Man, Diana and other high-ranking mercenaries were all delighted and nodded in agreement.

You must know that these ruins are located all over the human world, and all countries are involved. Although the status of the Mercenary Guild is transcendent, it does not have the power to command the royal power.

This means that even if the mercenary guild knew that the catastrophe was coming, it would be difficult to gather the strength of the entire human race to do the same thing.

After all, the wars between countries are complicated, and conflicts of interest arise one after another. They are eager to destroy each other and cannot stand together at all.

Because of this, even though the three neutral organizations had determined a hundred years ago that the catastrophe was inevitable, there was still no way to get the seven human monarchs to sit together, and they could only hold a meeting among the three neutral organizations.

As a result, coupled with the fact that the three neutral organizations were already hindering each other, and the Temple of Light was becoming increasingly isolated under the leadership of the Chosen Son of the Evil God, this led to the fact that the human world generally knew very little about the Cataclysm, let alone being prepared.

And now, Lei Xiao has stood on seven golden crowns and has become the true master of the human race. Now all these problems have been solved!

While the mercenaries were rejoicing, Lei Xiao casually opened his mind, assembled the monarchs of the seven countries, and deployed them all.

At present, except for Catherine of the Iron Hand Islands, Queen Ariel of the Cold Flame Kingdom, Willy, the new king of the Holy Night Kingdom, Eckhart, the new king of the Verdant Kingdom, Phil, the new Speaker of the Canglan Federation, Lawrence, the new Holy King of the Grim Kingdom, and Cecilia, the new Queen of the Pars Empire, are all Lei Xiao's direct subordinates, so it is undoubtedly easy for him to issue orders.

Then, under the guidance of Hui Lao and other mercenaries, Lei Xiao passed through the huge exhibition area and continued to move towards the depths of the pioneer city.

As the group went deeper underground, the structure of the entire dungeon began to become more and more complex.

Elegantly decorated corridors crisscross with residential areas, various warehouses, training grounds and other areas, just like a huge maze.

"Your Highness, the forbidden treasure vault area of ​​the Mercenary Guild is ahead."

In front of a spacious corridor, Gray Elder nodded to Lei Xiao and introduced: "According to your instructions, I have gathered all the equipment above level three, magic potions of various levels, magic scrolls and other items here for Your Highness to check."

"Thank you for your hard work, old president. As for the other low-level equipment, we will recycle them all after the complete replacement. We cannot miss any resources in the human world."

Lei Xiao nodded slightly and spoke to Gray Old Man.

"A full costume change?"

After hearing Lei Xiao's words, Hui Lao and others were stunned at first, and then an irrepressible excitement flashed in their eyes.

The fact that the soldiers under Lei Xiao's command are equipped with extraordinarily sophisticated equipment has long been known to everyone in the human world. This undoubtedly means that the overall strength of the mercenaries can obviously rise to a whole new level!

"That's right. According to my standards, all first-level soldiers should be equipped with second-level equipment, all second-level elite soldiers should be equipped with third-level equipment, and all third-level elite soldiers should be equipped with fourth-level equipment. There shouldn't be any problem at all."

Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly, his face calmly said: "Of course, I mean to meet the needs of the entire human world."

In the past few days, after comprehensively upgrading the equipment of the Holy Night Kingdom, Canglan Federation, Pars Empire, and Verdant Kingdom, plus the Cold Flame Kingdom, Iron Hand Islands, and Grimm Kingdom that Lei Xiao had upgraded before, the equipment inventory has already reached an unprecedented level of fullness.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if Lei Xiao's inventory is constantly consumed without being repaired, it will be enough for the current human world to use for more than several decades.

Of course, Lei Xiao has also been working hard to build up equipment-making teams such as the blacksmith team and the magic craftsman team, and this number will undoubtedly continue to grow at a very fast pace.

As long as Lei Xiao is given enough time, the current equipment level will continue to improve. Even if all members have equipment above level three or even level four, it is not impossible.

Needless to say, after hearing Lei Xiao's words, Hui Lao and others were very excited. After all, even if the three neutral organizations were combined, they would not have such powerful equipment capabilities.

In other words, Lei Xiao, with his own strength, has raised the equipment capabilities of the entire human world to several levels!

"Your Highness, this is the first treasure room."

Following the guidance of Old Hui, Lei Xiao stepped into the door of the treasure house.

(End of this chapter)