The Path to Lordship Begins in the North

In the Gog Empire, Avelia had two intelligence reports in front of him. One was from his daughter Tia, containing the latest information about Capet, and the other was from the ancestor of the High Tower.

Facing the messenger from the tower, Avelia experienced a range of emotions upon hearing about the tower's current state. In particular, when the messenger said that their ancestors hoped she could coordinate the relationships between human nations, work together to drive out the invaders from the other side, and contain the remains of the demon god, a tremendous sense of mission welled up within her.

Unlike the high-level human professionals who roamed around aimlessly, the tower elves almost all returned to the Gog Empire, which was indeed qualified to lead this continent.

But after finally shouldering the mission and getting rid of the grief, Avilia saw the message, or rather advice, left to her by her ancestors.

In short, Capet is in a critical situation. He has just finished a coup and is surrounded by enemies. On one side are the demons who have used super-level magic and have strange demon god corpses in their hands, and on the other side is the Kingdom of Anjou, which is using human traditional skills to fight Capet.

Cape and the Tower have a good relationship, and Cape has promised not to use super-level magic. Therefore, it is hoped that Avilia can mediate and help Cape so that Cape and Anjou can fight against the enemy on the other side. Even if Anjou sides with the Kingdom of Avar on the other side for the sake of interests and super-level magic, Cape can still become a great help to Avilia.

Avilia looked at this fellow clansman from the tower and asked, "Does our ancestor know about Cape's recent battle reports?"

"Director Deborah mentioned it to the Ancestor, but the Ancestor doesn't care much about worldly wars. He only knows that Governor Cape repelled the demons. As for the friction between Cape and Anjou on the border, the Ancestor is not very clear about it."

Avilia opened the latest letter that Tia had written to her.

Tia wasn't just doing nothing but eating; she did know something about the new weapons and steel monsters in the North.

Helping Capela... Did our ancestors have some misunderstanding about Capela's current overall strength?

Having spent a long time by Lind's side, Tia's intelligence-gathering habits began to resemble Lind's. Compared to weapons, Tia sent Avilia more intelligence about the production situation in the North.

What's the cheapest thing in Anjou?

It's all about manpower. Those wealthy and noble people, if they can replace it with manpower, won't even glance at those tools from the North.

What's the cheapest thing in Cape North?

It's artillery shells. Ever since the war against Doug was declared, the war in the North has never ended. Everything has been produced to wartime standards, and it's still the same today. Nobody knows how many weapons and ammunition the North has manufactured using their production lines.

According to Tia's estimate, in extreme cases, the cost of a single shell could be even cheaper than the manpower in Anjou.

In this situation, the governor who already had control over Capet was already showing consideration for the overall situation by not taking his anger out on Anjou directly. And now the old ancestor is actually telling him to help Capet more?

Do we really...really need help? Isn't it better to help Capela annex Anjou and then fight together against the enemy from the other side?

Avilia fell into deep thought.

Meanwhile, Deborah immediately learned about the situation from her companions who came from the tower.

When Deborah learned that everyone inside the tower had entered the ocean of consciousness to cleanse themselves of contamination, and that those outside the official ranks were no longer under the tower's control, she paused, wondering if she should call herself lucky. Because she was in charge of the handover with the Governor of the North, she hadn't returned to the tower.

At the same time, the companion also brought Anastasia's Holy Grail and said to Deborah, "My Lord, Anastasia said that if Capet cannot withstand the attack from the enemy, this can be given to the Governor of the North."

Although this Holy Grail can no longer connect to the Tower server, it can still provide some computing power and make some simple predictions.

But at this moment, Deborah had just finished talking with the Lantern Dreamers. The Lantern Dreamers' research had progressed to the collective dream realm. The next step would be to delve into the sea of ​​the collective unconscious. If they could go even further, they would grasp the secrets of the gods.

In Deborah's opinion, what would happen if the Holy Grail were handed over to that governor of the North... to be honest, Deborah was a little afraid to imagine it.

And they can't even withstand an attack from an external enemy? Could this external enemy be referring to Anru's side?

Should we hand it over? This Holy Grail...

While Deborah was still hesitating, Lind summoned her, clearly because of the Tower.

Deborah explained the situation at the tower to Lind exactly as it was described.

"So, in other words, the Tower might be unable to control those high-level professionals in the future, but it hopes that I can unite with other countries to fight against the invaders from across the strait, right?"

"Yes, sir, at this time, we humans must unite."

Hearing Deborah say that humans should unite, Lind couldn't help but laugh: "To be honest, the only people I can trust right now are the elves. In my opinion, everyone else is an enemy."

This is also true; even some small countries have begun collecting materials needed for super-level magic, and apart from Lind's old allies, none of them are easy to deal with.

Looking at the silent Deborah, Lind sighed, "Alright, I'll try to contact other countries, even if the results might not be good."

Although Deborah said that the tower had not collapsed, but was just temporarily unable to control those high-level professionals, to Lind, it was no different from a collapse.

I just revised the regulations governing domestic professionals, and now a bunch of highly capable professionals are about to emerge, which will be a huge problem to manage.

However, if Linde could absorb these professionals, they would be quite useful, such as for high-level magic and high-level enchantments. Linde can only rely on the strength of numbers to slowly build the model now, since he can't find any high-level professionals outside. Linde, whose progress is slow, wants to give up.

Just how strong are the combat abilities of high-level professionals?

Linde looked at Deborah. The only professional combatant Linde had encountered was Lena. There might be others stronger than Lena, but they were not from the proper path. So Linde planned to see how strong a professional from the proper path really was.

"As for this, you don't need to worry too much. Although high-level professionals have undergone a qualitative change compared to sixth-level professionals, they are not yet powerful enough to form an army on their own."

"Ninth-tier professionals might be able to, but they are not common, especially since a large number of them have been absorbed by the Tower. Most of those who came out this time are unofficial seventh and eighth-tier professionals. They are very powerful. Although they cannot destroy an army by themselves, it is not difficult for one person to change the course of the war if the enemy does not have high-level professionals."

“In the past, a high-level professional knight could charge directly into the enemy's camp, and a high-level professional mage could crush the enemy's army with a single spell.”

But then, Deborah glanced at Flora, who was waiting for her report beside Lind, and added, "Of course, that's all in the past..."

But Linde only heard that high-level professionals could charge into battle at will and rout an enemy army with a single spell, so naturally they had to be on high alert. He said to Flora beside him, "Distribute all the equipment we prepared for the professionals. Let the Lars Knights of the North put on their new power armor and get moving. Don't let those high-level professionals cause any trouble around the capital and in the North."

Hearing that Lind had new equipment, Deborah's heart skipped a beat. Why did this Governor of the North seem more dangerous than those of other countries? Should she hand over the Grail Terminal she was holding?

Deborah even felt that if she handed it over, a monster equal to, or even far surpassing, the Empire would awaken in her hands.