From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 240 The situation in the Northland and several small achievements

In the past ten years or so when the troll tribe has been developing rapidly, the situation in the north has been undergoing some changes.

On the plateau, the horn-hoofed species have never stopped dividing due to the rules set by the Republic;

Not only do large clans seek independence from their own alliances, but the many branch clans within large clans also have a strong centrifugal trend.

Naturally, there are not only the desires of the horn-hoofed careerists at work here, but also the deliberate guidance and connivance of the Republic, which plays a considerable role.

But when time came to this point, these horned hoof species, which had grown to a total of more than 200,000 people, actually separated 23 isolated political powers.

Externally, they were either in alliance, opposition, or hatred towards each other. After a period of intensifying changes, they even reached the edge of a 'world war'. In the end, they reluctantly stopped under the inducement and strong intervention of the Republic.

before it completely explodes.

However, this kind of 'stop' only avoids the occurrence of direct conflicts. Under the peace, there are other undercurrents flowing.

Although major wars have not occurred, local battles often occur. The scale of these battles is often not too large, and they are just low-intensity battles over mines, water sources, cultivated land, and pastures.

But such a battle also caused the budding of slavery to arise again for these horned hoofed species, who had struggled to escape from their status as slaves due to the intervention of the two mammoth kings;

However, this time the 'bud of slavery' occurred within their race, rather than enslavement from other ethnic groups.

Internally, those in power are committed to fighting for the right to speak, and they have launched fierce struggles within their clan's political power. There are endless assassinations, bribes, corruption and other means, making the political environment in which they are surrounded by crises.

In addition, in order to reduce the cost of governance and strengthen the stability and rationality of their own ruling positions, these ruling groups are also committed to creating the characteristic culture of their own regimes, constantly artificially creating differences in language, etc. between the various regimes of the horned hoof species.

gap;

Under such a scheme, even the cadence of a syllable can be elevated by the rulers as a sign of their own 'independence', and based on this, the concept of 'clan' is very creatively upgraded to the concept of 'nation', which is excessive.

Emphasizing the uniqueness and integrity of its own group.

Although this kind of approach ensures to a certain extent that the existing political power will not continue to be divided, it also makes it basically impossible for the originally unified Hornhoof tribe to be integrated.

To a certain extent, all the changes that have taken place on the northern plateau are like mirrors, serving as a warning to the Troll Republic in many aspects;

As a 'profession' developed by talents, it has developed a very characteristic nature from the beginning.

For Freya, and even other elves, there are two ways to become an initial-level witch doctor;

First, wait for the body to develop on its own, and then naturally become a 'primitive witch doctor';

In this case, they will gain the ability to cast spells with magic crystals, and because the energy contained in their bodies can quickly replenish their attributes, they will not be like the original witch doctor of the trolls who often suffer from a loss of vitality due to magic crystals casting spells;

As for witch doctors, Cui Wenli and Zhuo Erni's weird "employment methods" have also caused a wave of questions, which are likely to be solved with Nesta's promotion.

But 'unfortunately', it had to be shelved due to the Republic's restrictions on software, hardware and other aspects.

Of course, the decision of the meeting was only ‘shelved’ and not ‘abandoned’;

The parliament believes that it can be brought up for discussion in the future when conditions are met, because this is indeed a plan worth spending time to try.

At the same time, while the idea put forward in this case makes the listeners' eyes bright, it also brings some additional worries.

A group of relatively suspicious witch doctors were even looking at everything around them with suspicion at this time. They seemed to be worried about whether themselves, the Republic, and even the world were the products of evil experiments from higher civilizations.

'Good guy, now you start to think that this experiment is evil?' Nesta thought in her heart at this time.

However, as far as theory is concerned, if there is really a civilization that can create such a giant experiment with an entire world as the venue, then they should be able to make corresponding observations without being discovered at all.

and influence.

‘Witch Doctors’, especially the ‘New Path Witch Doctors’ who have been magically transformed by Nesta all the way, are not something that exists innately in nature;

3. Longer battery life. This seems to conflict with the second item, but because the base of elves is the 'light energy electron transition' invented by Nesta, and the original purpose is to solve its own energy problem.

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As for warriors, becoming elves will undoubtedly make them stronger, and it also truly proves the feasibility of the previous idea. It is indeed a road of life level improvement where "nature changes from nurture to nurture";

But even this plan, which in Nesta's view was already very "inappropriate", still encountered some criticism.

It’s not that they criticize it for being ‘unsuitable’, but that some witch doctors and scholars believe that such experiments still involve too many outside forces;

They believed that the regime born under the military pressure of the Republic was extremely distorted, and the result lacked the 'sense of order' that natural evolution can bring.

But the seeds have been planted. What changes will these governing rules backed by the force of the Republic bring to these city-states?

Therefore, the elves will have more than double the time and a longer period of infancy to go through.

Therefore, as a profession, ‘witch doctor’ has an element different from the level of life – ‘consciousness integration degree’.

Later, after they gradually accumulated their own independent cultures over the span of several or even ten generations, they opened up the originally isolated communication channels between these tribes, allowing them to discover each other without knowing it.

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2. Higher energy consumption, and the physical body becoming stronger does not mean "energy saving", but it means that more energy is needed to drive. At least at this stage;

After becoming a witch doctor, you have to seek the first advancement. But when it comes to the elves, the meaning of advancement has greatly deviated from the original development intention of Nesta.

With this progression step by step, the advancement is completed at the end of the third stage.

That was why Freya, as a second-level being, was not directly promoted to the ‘second-level witch doctor’ as expected.

But the situation is different on Freya's side. She was born with a 'second-level' body and a complementary mental activity.

Of course, the advantages of life level are still reflected in her.

The years that Freya was stuck were not worth mentioning in the eyes of the other witch doctors, because they had not been able to touch the edge of the second level until now, so who should they complain to?

Therefore, now that one-to-one large-scale cultivation of implants has been put on the agenda, all that is missing are ‘raw materials’.

In addition, the ruling government’s plan seemed quite radical before, but now it seems that it has been approved;

In some areas, other tribes from the Northland can be cultivated using the same method.

In chronological order from back to front

About four years ago, Freya completed the jump to the second-level witch doctor and became the fifth advanced witch doctor in the Republic;

This case impressed many observers, who felt that it was a creative and courageous research project. While highly applauding the proposer, they really began to discuss its feasibility.

However, after Nesta went through the internal process of the Military Commission, he no longer took the matter to his heart;

The gap between the two sides is already too big, and it is not worth spending more energy on this.

But the Speaker of the Parliament did not immediately return to research or practice, but instead paid attention to several other things that had happened in the 'recent days'.

Second, the reason why an elf's juvenile development period in an embryo can be reduced to three years, which is equal to that of a troll, is because there are high-level resources based on statistics and biology that are point-to-point accurate (accurate to the organs and even cell groups) at any time.

feeding;

In order to launch it smoothly and with less trouble, the headquarters decided to send a part of the new standing army equipped with reaction chamber weapons to the northern plateau to conduct a cross-country training exercise;

The purpose of this trip was not only to verify the reliability of the equipment, but also to intimidate the top leaders of the various political powers on the plateau, so that they would be obedient and carry out their own system reforms in accordance with the requirements of the ruling government.

At this point, whether it is witch doctors, scholars, or everyone in the ruling government, they all feel extremely curious and expectant.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, she already possesses all the elements needed to become a 'second-level witch doctor' in advance. As long as her life cycle reaches that point, she should be able to complete the upgrade as a matter of course, just like becoming a 'first-level primitive' as described before.

Witch doctor' kind of thing.

Think about what Nesta has accomplished before and after his first advancement.

The first step is the electron transition on the body surface to obtain more sufficient energy;

The second step is to rely on these energies to change the muscle composition of the body and increase the proportion of high-energy-consuming, high-output cells in the body;

In the third step, more active cells bring higher mental activity, thereby completing a qualitative change in the meditation space and improving the connection between the visualization body and the body.

For example, more exquisite food, ever-changing and beautiful clothing, colorful mixed wines, jewelry of all levels, and beautifully decorated houses. These may be some flashy things, but over time they have become the rigid needs of hornhoof society.

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Scholars have conducted quite in-depth discussions on related topics such as 'power and degradation', 'freedom and restriction', and 'culture and nation'. They have also started a sociological research boom, making the relevant textbooks of the Central School thicker and thicker.

Becoming more and more fulfilled.

After all, the development time is too short. Although the witch doctor profession has gradually become somewhat similar due to the development of Nesta and subsequent explorations by everyone,

However, the samples are too small, the roads are too narrow, and many areas are still blurry;

In addition, this department has never stopped for so many years. Almost all witch doctors have devoted most of their energy to the growth of the overall civilization.

This can be roughly understood just by looking at the achievements achieved in less than a hundred years;

And under such circumstances, where do witch doctors find the time to develop career paths?

Regardless of whether such an enemy exists or not, it is not something that the Republic at this stage can contend with.

Therefore, not only Nesta himself, but most of the witch doctors who had come to their senses now put such thoughts behind them and began to invest their energy in research that can actually bring progress.

About twelve years ago, Big Tooth completed the preliminary integration of its own will, began to transform the organs implanted in the body, and thus entered the process of elf transformation. It took about two years to become the first elf-turned-elf.

warrior.

In addition to the economic aspect, the Republic also had limited involvement in part of the traditional culture of the horn-hoofed species in the early days.

Among them, the most important one is to vigorously promote the superiority of polygamy in the northern plateau. This is also an important reason why the number of horned hoof species increased during this period.

In this process, magic blockade and monster blocking will limit their movement direction, and use some synthetic creations disguised as natural resources, as well as some disguised knowledge, to accelerate their growth, or to affect their growth as needed.

development tendency.

Second, learn rune knowledge and meditation knowledge, and then practice meditation according to the rules, accelerate the growth of your own spiritual power through active exercise, and complete the construction of the meditation space;

After completing this, the elves will become a "new path witch doctor", possess the ability to cast spells with runes, and be able to use their physical advantages more easily.

In addition, Daba, Sarakin, and Quinates. About a dozen of these warriors who became the first batch of implant experiment participants also completed the implants in the few years after Big Tusk.

Assimilated, and each took two to three years to complete the elves.

They stunned troll observers, and while lamenting the magic of society and the distortion of politicians, they also produced several papers of great academic value;

But let's turn our attention back to the north for a moment.

At the political level, due to the demands of the Witch Doctor, Central School, and scholars, and because the 'alliance system' seemed to have lost the possibility of continued division, the ruling government, after integrating the demands of many parties, came up with a relatively bold and radical

plan

The main axis of the plan is to transform the alliance into a city-state, and while no longer seeking to continue dividing the political power, the northern plateau will be turned into a testing ground for political systems and sociological research, and the 'aristocratic republic', 'popular consultative system', and 'multi-party

/Dual-Party/Single-Party Parliamentary System', 'Absolute Monarchy', 'Parliamentary Monarchy', 'Constitutional Monarchy' and other governance models are forcibly implemented among city-states.

Of course, in order to avoid wasting the Republic’s additional experience due to unnecessary conflicts during the process;

According to the plan, most of the ruling groups in the city-state will just change their status quo. They will continue to enjoy their original power in the short to medium term after putting on a layer of skin called 'nobles' or 'members of parliament'.

But just when Nesta was surprised by the 'kindness of their words', they revealed their 'true colors' and proposed an even more evil plan.

The plan is to create isolated environments in the mountains, on the seaside, in the forest, and next to large and small rivers, and through the method of artificially synthesizing embryos, cultivate several people with the same culture and tradition from scratch.

Blank tribes will take a relatively long time to develop on their own;

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Putting aside the witch doctor path and the innate level of elves, there is also good news about the promotion of warriors.

During this process, some senior officials of the ruling government also proposed implementing such a system within the Republic in order to obtain more population growth rates;

But is it the result?

Not long after the advocate made such a speech, he was blocked by a group of angry female warriors and was severely injured. If it were not for the powerful self-healing power of the trolls and the timely intervention of the internal security forces, death would have almost happened before their eyes;

In addition, the proponents have to face the hostility of female senior officials and administrators in various departments of the ruling government, and the fierce impeachment of female civil representatives in the Tribunal. Many female witch doctors of the Rune Council also scolded them at the impeachment acceptance meeting.

Cold eyes.

All in all, there is obviously no room for 'polygamy' to be promoted in the Republic. On the contrary, the 'mixed polygamy' system that was tried out in the 'pilot' more than ten years ago has gradually become more popular in recent years.

audience.

Putting aside aesthetic issues, there are three most intuitive changes in Elfization.

1. A stronger body, embodied in strength, agility, physique, perception, etc.;

Of course, the overall situation on the plateau is still under the control of the trolls, who maintain orderly social production activities apart from local struggles.

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In addition to the above-mentioned achievements, the gestation of elf embryos has also achieved natural results.

After the embryos leave the culture chamber, such feeding methods cannot be achieved;

During this period, some areas can create the illusion that there is only one intelligent creature in the world;

And it is these ‘characteristics’, as well as some of them that are different from the growth path of natural life, and at least are not in line with the characteristics that the ‘second-order’ should have;

In addition, Zoltertes and Cui Wenlites, two "co-cultivators of spirit and will in the early stages", also completed their own transformation into witch doctors almost eleven years ago, and have spent nearly a year since then.

In two years, driven by the implant, he completed his transformation into a spirit.

After all, over the years, the northern plateau has become an important base for obtaining food, meat, and minerals in the Republic. It is an important part of reducing the production pressure of trolls and activating the economic operation of the Black Forest;

Therefore, under the strong pressure of the Republic, the various political powers must maintain such a divided but "fight but not break" way of coexistence.

At the same time, the previous excessively exploitative economic policies proved to be incapable of bringing much benefit to the Republic.

However, the energy efficiency ratio of magic crystal casting is extremely low, so this does not seem to be a cost-effective path.

This method is used to increase diversity so that the Republic, as an observer, can obtain more comparative values.

They believe that although it takes a long time to observe the evolution of civilizations of different races in different environments through this method, it is definitely more valuable than creating "four different images" on the northern plateau.

Since there is gradually a surplus of labor, the council originally planned to start with the third batch of elves, instead of waiting for them to enter the juvenile stage before being born. Instead, they planned to launch the embryos when they reached the juvenile stage, thus saving three years.

The resource occupation period is used to cultivate a new batch of embryos;

However, subsequent research found that if the infancy of elves is spent outside the embryo, there will be two disadvantages.

First, the gap in resource investment within three years will take longer to make up for;

Therefore, after communicating with the Rune Yuan and the Bao Min Yuan, the upper management of the ruling government switched to a softer approach to get everything they wanted.

After the initial confusion, Nesta gradually realized the fact that 'life level' and 'professional level' cannot be confused.

The former represents the innate endowment of a life, which may be biased, but generally refers to all the elements that constitute the strength of life;

The latter is different. It should refer to some kind of biased growth after specialization.

Looking back at Nesta's path of advancement, from the current perspective, it is obvious that the 'third stage' is the consolidation of one's own consciousness, which is also an important indicator of the advancement of the witch doctor path.

At the economic level, the ruling government has adjusted goods prices and bank loan policies to make the production of horn-hoofed species profitable;

In addition, they also re-enacted the ban on sales, allowing all production tools except "totem rune products", such as relatively primitive metal steam tractors, steam pumps, etc.

It can appear in the purchasing market in the form of commodities, and thereby greatly improve the production efficiency of plateau governments in mining, planting, etc.;

Of course, what the trolls provide are only mature products and usage technologies, but more advanced smelting technologies, manufacturing technologies, and even maintenance technologies are still on the 'banned' list;

Perhaps, in the relatively distant future, trolls may open up this knowledge, but it will never be now

However, the horn-hoofed society has indeed gradually become more affluent because of this, and has increasingly increased its 'high-end' needs besides eating, drinking, and defecating;

No matter which class it is targeted at, targeted products are developed and accurately placed on the market.

Although the qualification gap caused by this will not lead to a qualitative change, it will still cause a drop in the same life grade;

If we use the theory commonly used in Nesta's previous life novels to describe it, if the elves who have spent their infancy in the embryo are of the golden upper race, then the elves who have spent their infancy outside the embryo will become the golden middle or golden lower race.

Race;

Maybe it's not quite accurate, but that's roughly what it means.

But in fact, the result was not like this. After Freya experienced the rapid growth at the first level, she was stumbling upon a threshold that should not have existed in the first place, and lingered at the critical point of advancement for several years.

Not only Nesta, but also Azshara and other three witch doctors may have different details, but after all, they can be divided into these steps.

About fourteen years ago, the second batch of thousands of tree elf embryos was born, and the third batch of elf embryos has been gestating for four years so far.

Therefore, after comprehensively considering these two factors, the 'infancy birth' plan was rejected, and the third batch of elf embryos will still be born within a ten-year period.

The timeline completely confused me. I couldn’t figure out how many years it had been since the main character was born, and in what year all the important events happened.

I found that I have a particularly big problem when writing books, which is that I always like to blur the time, and in the end I am confused.

I actually spent nearly two hours sorting it out today, which made me dizzy and very inefficient.

(End of chapter)