Chapter 19 Negotiation (VI)

"But as a representative figure of jumping flames, if we say that she is transformed into a demonized orc hero, will it cause other heroes in jumping flames be disgusted?" Di Qing said with a frown.

In the past, when the Mage Exchange Association was included, Nasdra was not converted. Although the Southern Human Alliance was included, Surshak was converted, Rofaen was also left behind. Even the orc bloodline whose bloodline was closest to the demonized orcs was left behind. The Elf Ranger was even a trump legion, and this was not converted, which was all taken into account the emotions of other heroes.

But now there is some trouble with Zeda Lace's handling. Although she is a representative figure of jumping flames, her prestige is not too high in jumping flames. It is said that it is nothing to change her race.

The trouble is that because Zeda Lace is a rare female hero of the Demon Lord and a very powerful hero, although she does not have enough prestige to become the leader, she is very supportive in other aspects. Moreover, Zeda Lace is the first demon lord to surrender voluntarily. If she just switched her race, then who knows what other demon lords would think? This is likely to cause them to resist. Although it cannot cause too much damage to Chiyou Xingtian’s camp, it is also very troublesome. If it can be avoided now, try to avoid it.

The current situation is that Chiyou Xingtian's camp has blocked the passage to obtain reinforcements from jumping flames, and at the same time, it has surpassed the jumping flames in terms of the number and quality of the troops. Moreover, Chiyou Xingtian's camp occupies the southern continent of the Sea Blue Continent. The area of ​​this area is more than twice that of jumping flames. In terms of the logistics of the war, Chiyou Xingtian's camp also has a very advantage.

Another point is that although the attacking party will lower the people's hearts, the place on the battlefield will also lower the public security. If the attacking party is unlucky and is attacked into the local area, then the public security will decline together, and they can only admit that they are unlucky.

Now, because Di Qing’s Holy Lord and the founder of the First Race, the people’s hearts in Chiyou’s Xingtian camp have not declined at all. Even the people’s hearts in the Mage Exchange Association and other affiliated forces have declined very slowly. And there are so many internal heroes working hard to improve the people’s hearts, so the continuous combat power of Chiyou’s Xingtian camp is extremely strong.

On the other hand, because the battlefield is on their side, what is reduced is public security. For the demons, reducing public security will take their lives. The demons implement violent rule, so their people do not take very seriously. If they do not resist under violent oppression, they are considered good people. If they want them to truly support themselves, then they are a joke.

Because of this, many demon lords have zero people's hearts, and few of them have more than ten anyway. But don't think that the demon lords' castles will have no residents, because the castle also has an attribute called public security. Public security refers to the degree of enforcement of the law in the castle, and the degree of compliance of the castle residents with the laws formulated by the city lord. After all, no one breaks the law, public security must be high. Therefore, in many castles of other races, public security is only an attribute that helps improve public security.

However, in the castle of the Demon Lord, public security is a very important factor, because the castles of the Demon Clan are governed by high pressure rule, so the law is very strict. Let’s compare it with the two extreme sacred tribes of the Demon Clan, and compare it with their tax laws, which is related to the hero’s income.

The tax law of the Holy Temple tribe only stipulates the number and proportion of taxes paid by each person and each profitable building. Such laws are relatively loose and residents generally enforce them themselves. Of course, this is when the people are highly convinced and everyone supports the owner of the castle. The security attributes basically have no impact during this period, and of course they do not mean that they are useless.

If the public security in the Holy Temple clan is too low, then some other events will occur, such as some residents will become hooligans or gangsters and make trouble, which will affect the mood of others and reduce the hearts of the people. Therefore, in the Holy Temple clan, although public security is not a useless attribute, its effect is actually not very large. Just control the hearts of the people.

The people of the Demon Clan's castle are very low, and no one expects residents to pay taxes consciously. Therefore, the tax law generally stipulates how much tax each resident must pay, and the same is true for profit-making buildings. This is actually the same as those of the Holy Clan. The difference is that the taxes of the Demon Clan are directly collected by the City Guards. If they do not pay or pay less, then the median law of the Demon Clan has prepared various forms of punishment clauses.

Because of the existence of the Demon City Guards, their castles generally have super high security and low public sentiment. Many castles have a situation where the public is one hundred but zero public sentiment. The military force of the City Guards is the guarantee of the public security of the Demon Castle, but in war, the City Guards will also be affected, so public security will be reduced.

Once the public security is reduced, some civilians will become more courageous and dare to resist at this time. Therefore, when the public security is reduced, the life of the demon lord will be difficult, so they hate starting wars in their territory.

Because of this special situation, the demon race is a very offensive race. Because they don’t care about reducing the people’s hearts in their own territory, their ability to fight continuously has a great advantage over other races.

Of course, they also dislike defense very much, because if war occurs within their own sphere of influence, the decline in public security will shake their rule. If it drops severely, it can even automatically collapse their own forces. Especially after they are defeated, the capabilities and morale of the city guards will decline for a period of time, which will lead to the decline in public security of the castle, which is a very deadly situation for the demon lord.

So the situation of Jumping Flames is very bad. They were attacked into the power, and they experienced a battle that was not very tragic, but also a very morale-damaging battle. The fall of three fortresses, the defeat of sixteen ace legions, the surrender of one ace legion and his subordinates, and the route of seeking help was cut off. These unfavorable factors reduced the public security of all members of Jumping Flames by dozens of percentage points. Because of this, when Zeda Lace proposed to compensate Lauval, even Lethas did not object. This time their losses were too great.

According to the usual tactics of the Demon Lord, even if others hit their doorstep, as long as they can draw some strength, they will fight back, and some of them will drag the enemy down, and then other heroes will pour into the enemy's territory to force them to withdraw. However, four of the fortresses that jumped to the outside world were occupied by Chiyou Xingtian's camp, and there was no chance to implement this tactic at all. In this way, their only choice seemed to be to surrender.

If there was no blocking battle between the three fortresses, then Lauval would definitely be the first to surrender at this time. It seemed that all creatures with eternal life were more afraid of death, at least most of them were like this. Moreover, the demon lord believed that the winner was the king. For jumping flames, Chiyou Xingtian's camp was completely a strong man, a behemoth they could not resist.

Facing the Chiyou Xingtian camp, whose power is twice the total of all of them and is much united than his own forces, except for Lauval, who was unable to surrender because of the blockade, other demon lords who worship the strong actually had the intention to surrender, and Zeda Lace, who was the first to stand out, became a way to ask everyone.

If Zeda Lace was killed by Lauval, or was treated unfairly after surrender, at least in the eyes of the demon lord, then they would join Lauval's camp and survive to the end with Chiyou Xingtian's camp. If Zeda Lace surrenders smoothly and the treatment can be accepted by other demon lords, then there will be a craze of surrender, which means that Zeda Lace's problem should not be careless at all. This determines whether it is possible to quickly solve the jumping flames or take a long time to solve them, so everyone needs to discuss it.

"So, how about we let her continue to take charge of her original power and help her resist Lauval's attack, and then let Zeda Lace persuade other heroes to surrender?" said Lan Anier.

"This is a solution, but for the demons, will this condition cause other demons to have unnecessary thoughts? They even think that we are weak and contempt for us?" Di Qing continued to rub his forehead and said, the demons here are not the etiquette country on the earth. They will not regard this kindness as a gift, but will only think of your weakness.

"How about this, let Zeda Lace make an opinion on her own and then think about it?" Harrotels suggested, and this was also a solution.

"But what if Zeda Lace makes some excessive demands? The demon race is not as easy to talk and reason as other races, we have to guard against it." Dantonji shook his head and objected.

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After discussing for a long time, no results were discussed. The main reason is that the issue of Zeda Lace is really difficult to deal with, because her problem is not only a hero, but also a question of whether others surrender. This is more difficult to deal with, otherwise what does it matter if she is forced to change her race directly?

"Husband, it's almost ten o'clock. The time we agreed with Zeda Lace is coming, so let's negotiate with her first." Zhitong reminded him that Di Qing looked at the time and it was indeed ten o'clock soon.
Chapter completed!