The group nodded thoughtfully. They were receiving a portion of their funds from Ed each week to hire some Soul Returner to do things that were inconvenient for them to do.
At first, Nuolun and the others felt that using money as a reward was an insult to the veterans like the Soul Returner, but after getting used to it, everyone realized...
The older generation enjoys this kind of humiliation!
Today, this method of assigning routine tasks has become an indispensable part of their work.
Ed addressed the crowd:
"What you need to do is to provide support for the Soul Returner outside Fir City and the many dangerous areas behind it. As long as you do this, our plan will definitely succeed."
"We are now assigning you new defense zones. Everyone should begin adjusting immediately after today's meeting."
The core members of the Second Holy See immediately perked up. Ed looked around and first looked at his most loyal and devoted subordinates:
" Duolin, you'll continue to be in charge of White Wax Town. During this time, you need to pay close attention to the Dungeon rotation issue and the expansion of the Adventurers' Guild."
"Yes."
" Tailun, you were the one who led the defense of Weeping Willow Town, so you're in charge now. Your job is the same as Duolin's. If you encounter any difficulties, you can use your ' Left and Right Arms ' to summon the Soul Returner to help you solve the problems."
"Yes, Son of God Highness."
" Aoda, Tasi, and Baluo, the three of you will be in charge of Ginkgo Town, Blackthorn Town, and Chinese Pine Town. These three towns are not far apart and are not large in size. Since you lack relevant experience, you can use them to practice first."
"Yes, sir."
" Jerry, you will lead the Pure Ones from your Knights Order to garrison Blue Gum Town. Nuolun, lead the Fourteenth Knights to garrison Black Locust Town. These are the two largest towns in the province, and also the two closest to Fir City. If Antiya Lisi were to launch an attack on us, these two defense zones would be the first to be hit, so I'm entrusting them to your command."
"Clear."
Ed looked at everyone and said seriously:
"The entire province of Aduolin Province must be recovered before spring arrives!"
"Yes!"
The crowd answered in unison, their voices brimming with undisguised confidence.
At this moment, Jerry looked at Ed and asked:
" My Son of God, how do you plan to have the Soul Returner launch their attack? According to previous intelligence, Fir City has high walls and thick ramparts, making it difficult to scale even with ordinary siege equipment."
Finally, someone asked the question. Ed smiled and pointed to the sky:
"As long as the height of the city walls isn't infinite, they will definitely be able to get in."
You mean...?
Jerry was shocked to hear this, while Ed smiled and nodded.
"By flying."
The Second Holy See, on the periphery.
A large tree began to wriggle abnormally; it had just been forcibly connected to Ed's Root Network, completing the connection with Ed was far away in White Wax Town.
A massive amount of information was transmitted, and an unprecedented transformation began to occur inside the tree.
Ironwood as the skeleton, Strangler Fig as the flesh, Resilient Beechwood as the bark, supplemented by several color-changing plants and Green Tooth Headphones for synchronizing the senses...
Soon, a body identical to Ed emerged from the large tree. After determining its direction, the clone headed southeast, venturing into the chaotic and Wilderness of Chaos before it.
This was an experiment for Ed. After entering the Middle Tier, his control over his abilities was much stronger than before, and the release of some abilities was no longer limited to the coverage area of Root Network.
Now, he needs to find some vehicles for his players.
Despite his confident assurances to the core members of the Second Holy See, Ed had not actually resolved the issue of the vehicle.
As Jerry said, a ground-based assault would inevitably come at a heavy price, as for the air...
Very few creatures are born with the ability to fly. To achieve flight later in life, aside from some special exclusive abilities like Ed's Gravity Reversal, one must at least reach the Middle Tier Intermediate to utilize their own abilities and Psionic Energy to do something similar.
So Ed came up with three plans for how to get the players into Fir City to cause trouble: first, to cooperate with the Queen Bee; second, to hire Seraphina.
The difficulty with the former lies in the fact that the queen bee may not agree, while the difficulty with the latter mainly lies in its exorbitant price...
If neither option works, Ed can only temporarily grant the players his Weightlessness, just as he had done with Oliver before, to allow them to enter Fir City.
So now he plans to go into the Sea of Flowers to talk to the queen bee. If the two sides can reach a certain level of cooperation, then the vehicle problem can naturally be solved.
Ed knew that there couldn't possibly be only one intelligent race in the world, and besides, under the Alienation of the Demonic Tide, humans were no longer pure. So, unless it was a race like the Blood Corpse that actively opposed the world, he actually had no reason to exterminate them.
In the previous probing, the Hive forces in the Sea of Flowers demonstrated strong combat capabilities but did not show any tendency to expand outwards.
Based on this, Ed felt he could have a good talk with the other party. After all, the Second Holy See was a power in the plant realm, and while planting trees all over the Wilderness of Chaos, he wouldn't mind adding a few more flowers as embellishments.
This was his bargaining chip. If the queen bee wasn't expanding because she couldn't adapt to the rules of the Wilderness of Chaos or because there were no flowers to pick, Ed believed he could use this to reach an agreement smoothly.
After a period of high-speed movement, Ed's clone entered the boundless Sea of Flowers of flowers.
The enormous, vibrant flowers gave him the feeling that he had been shrunk to the size of an insect. Ed used his clone to look at the surrounding flowers and recognized them as the same enormous flowers he Planting when he had diverted trouble last time.
Just as unused appliances need to be turned off, Ed severed all contact with the plants after the last mission ended.
He was somewhat surprised that these flowers were still alive. Even though winter had fallen in the territory of the Tree Worship Church Sect, the Sea of Flowers still looked thriving and full of Vitality.
The rules here are indeed different. Ed had suspected this before, and now he is even more certain that there are at least two rules in the Sea of Flowers area where the Hive is located: one affects the weather conditions here, and the other affects the size of the organisms here.
Could it be that the bees here gradually shrink until they become as large as real-world bees after being away from their habitat for a long time?
Ed had this unfounded conjecture, but he continued walking forward.
He soon encountered a Worker Bee diligently collecting honey.