Casting spells

"Of course! Don't you think she's a very good ruler?" Catti-brie was obviously a fan of Alustriel, and turned her head and rolled her eyes angrily.

"Sorry, I don't think this lady is great at all. On the contrary, I think this lady has completely wasted hundreds of years in power without solving any fundamental problems at all."

Without concealing it at all, Zhang Cheng straightforwardly expressed his contempt for Alustriel Silverhand's ability to rule.

"What do you mean? Do you think you can do better than the lady you want?" Catti-brie stared angrily.

"That's right!" Zhang Cheng gave an affirmative answer without thinking.

Just when the two were staring at each other and preparing to start a quarrel, a woman wearing a gold crown studded with jewels and a white silk robe appeared not far away out of thin air and asked with a smile: " Hello, mighty dragon, can you tell me what you would do if you were the ruler of Silvermoon City?"

"Alastriol Silverhand?!"

Sensing the surge of magical energy contained in the opponent's body, Zhang Cheng's pupils shrank violently.

"That's right, it's me. Don't be nervous, I didn't come here specially to fight, but just happened to pass by and heard an interesting topic." The woman stroked her long silver hair, and her eyes revealed the light of wisdom that had been baptized over the years.

"Good day, Ms. Hope, it's a great honor to meet you." Catti-brie hurriedly bowed and saluted, her face flushed with excitement.

"Good day, lively and kind girl, I know you. You are the adopted daughter of Bruno, the dwarf king of the Warhammer tribe. Your adoptive father and friends are on their way to Silvermoon City, and you will be reunited with them soon." , Ailas Zhuo beckoned to the girl.

The latter didn't even hesitate, and directly abandoned his original protector and defected to the other party's protection.

Zhang Cheng watched all this happen with great interest, and had no intention of stopping it at all.

Perhaps because he felt that the "hostage" had left the relationship controlled by the evil dragon, Alaszhuo's attitude relaxed a little, and he quickly continued to ask: "Mr. Dragon, you haven't answered me yet. If you are from Silvermoon City Ruler, what will you do?"

4Chapter 17 Crossing the Line

"What will I do? First of all, I will revoke the powerful magic protection covering the entire Silvermoon City, let every resident face threats from orcs, barbarians, goblins, ogres, trolls, etc., and then lead them Water and cast the soul of this city with blood and fire." Zhang Cheng looked into the other party's eyes and gave the answer without hesitation.

"But that will kill a lot of people!" Alustri frowned subconsciously.

Obviously, she doesn't like this iron-blooded style of rule at all.

Zhang Cheng smiled indifferently and shrugged his shoulders: "No, this sacrifice is worth it.

At least people will learn how to use their own strength to fight and defend their own property and right to life.

Look now, what has become of the civilians in Silvermoon City under your strong protection?

They are so weak that they only want to ask you for help when encountering a sneak attack by a small group of monsters!

I don't deny the contribution of your city, I just think you are overprotective.

You must know that competition and elimination are eternal laws in nature, but you are trying to eliminate competition and elimination with powerful force, at the cost of turning ordinary people into a group of weak sheep.

Maybe when you are alive, the enemies hidden in the dark will not act rashly, but once you are missing or dead, guess what will happen to Silvermoon City?

It will decline rapidly under the fierce attacks of the enemy again and again, and even go to perish.

And the inhabitants who live here are enslaved by the purest and most savage violence!

Because they have been protected for too long, they have lost the spirit and strength to resist.

Although Silvermoon City has achieved peace and prosperity under your rule, this peace and prosperity are fragile, false, and soulless, and are entirely based on your strong personal strength and prestige.

Your people adore you and yearn for your selfless help and protection.

But remember, this world is dangerous, so dangerous that even the gods on high will fall.

As a ruler, if he cannot establish an administrative system that can continue to function after his own death or retirement, then he is not unqualified.

In my opinion, you are such a naive, childish ruler who is immersed in his own beautiful fantasy..."

Without any cover-up, Zhang Cheng straightforwardly pierced the hope of Alaszhuo's life-long struggle in his heart.

There is no doubt that all of this stems from the desire to destroy in his mind.

After all, destroying a city is far less fulfilling than destroying someone else's hope, especially if this person is also a voter of the goddess of magic, Alustri Silverhand, known as Lady Hope.

Alaszhuo obviously did not expect to hear such a clear and direct comment from a dragon, his expression changed slightly, and he retorted without showing any weakness: "No! You are wrong! As long as people still There is hope! Silvermoon City will never be destroyed! Maybe my ideal is indeed a bit naive, but you have not seen how many people came to Silvermoon City because of this naive ideal, just to help me realize it .”

"Hahahaha! So this is your excuse for not making progress for hundreds of years and letting Silvermoon City maintain its status quo? Stop making excuses, you are not a qualified ruler at all, and I don't even need hundreds of years , at most ten years can create a miracle that you will never be able to achieve." Zhang Cheng laughed and sarcastically said.

"Ten years?!" Alaszhuo keenly grasped a key word.

"That's right! It won't be long before I control Luskan, and you'll understand what I mean by then." After saying this meaningful sentence, Zhang Chengzhen rose into the air and transformed into a huge black dragon slowly Disappeared in the clouds.

After watching him fly higher and higher and finally turned into a black spot, Alastriol finally breathed a sigh of relief, narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself: "It's unbelievable! I've never seen a dragon with Such mature and rational thinking..."

As an "old woman" who has lived for nearly 600 years, she has long seen all kinds of dragons, some of them are good and some are evil, but most of them can't change their arrogance and arrogance. The world will also maintain a lofty attitude and look down. How can there be such a deep understanding of politics.

Although she herself is not willing to admit that there is anything wrong with the current policy implemented by Silvermoon City, the crisis just mentioned does exist objectively.

Especially the news from outside adventurers, the number of monsters in the wilderness seems to be increasing, and there is a tendency to gather.

If she really disappeared one day, it would be impossible for the remaining spellcasters in Silvermoon City to resist for too long.

"Perhaps... it's time to unite the surrounding towns to form a stronger federation." Alastriol's eyes shone strangely.

She is not an idiot, let alone a fool. She is old enough to see through many things, so she is also very aware of the shortcomings of Silvermoon City. She has long formulated a series of plans to make up for the shortcomings. All the important towns of the region unite to form a unified confederation.

As long as the covenant is concluded, then with Silvermoon City as the center, millions of kind people will unite together, enough to resist all forms of threats.

Of course, it is not easy to achieve this, and there are conflicts of interests in many towns.

That's why she has been building up a tall image of herself as righteous, selfless, and unrequited for hundreds of years. She intends to use this deep-rooted personal prestige to mediate the rift between each other. At least when disputes arise, the two sides can Sit at the negotiating table to resolve conflicts, rather than raising arms to fight each other.

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As Alustriel and Catti-brie disappeared in place with the help of teleportation magic, Artemis Entreri, who had been hiding behind a tree for a long time with the help of an invisibility cloak, finally came out.

The ace killer first glanced at the surrounding environment, then took a deep breath and said sarcastically, "The way you recruited me is really special! If you don't mind, you can tell me what happened to Sergeant Luskan What the hell is going on with his sudden explosiveness?"

"You mean Gildan? It's nothing, I just used potions to activate the magical energy hidden in his body. Believe me, if you drink something similar, you will definitely be a hundred times stronger than him."

Zhang Cheng, who was supposed to fly away in the form of a giant dragon, suddenly walked out from behind another big tree.

"Tell me! What exactly do you want?" Entreri's eyes showed deep fear.

"I don't know!

do you know?My head is filled with all kinds of stuff that would drive most people crazy in an instant.

In order not to drive myself completely crazy, I had to find some things to do for myself, such as controlling and transforming a city, or confronting those big men who claim to be kind, and destroying their so-called "hope" bit by bit. ".

To use a classic character line, I'm like a dog running after a carriage without really thinking about what I want to do and what I want to get, but when I catch up, some very interesting things will happen .