Farming in a Parallel World and Becoming a God
Chapter 897 - 565: Profound Impact_3

Chapter 897: Chapter 565: Profound Impact_3

For instance, the elderly, weak, and disabled are more likely to die; after their death, the likelihood of them turning into undead dramatically increases. These citizens of Efanso have no chance to bury their loved ones — the deceased are all taken by the authorities, and as can be expected, they are transformed into the undead. This explains why Arms has so many spiritual ghosts under his command; most of them were originally citizens of Efanso.

Moreover, there’s a significant decline in birth rates and a sharp increase in infant mortality among other issues.

Gaven didn’t even have to ask. Led by Darnell, the Holy Warriors would automatically help the citizens of Efanso to purify and heal; this was their sacred duty.

Now promoted to the quartermaster of the Conqueror Army, Anna also refused to be outdone and led the entirety of the Conqueror Army’s priests and heal teams, tirelessly helping without expecting anything in return. Not only did this spread their god’s faith, but it also earned the Conqueror Army a great deal of goodwill. Many citizens of Efanso, already fearful, chose to join the Conqueror Army, preparing to leave this place together.

This was an expected outcome.

With an utterly victorious stance, the Conqueror Army took Efanso in just half a day, sweeping the necromancers clean. The news spread as if it had wings, not only quickly reaching the entirety of the Giant Dragon Coast but also crossing the sea to Komeer Kingdom, Sambia, and the Valley.

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Sambiyan capital, Odulin, great hall.

Another emergency meeting was called, something the citizens of Odulin have grown accustomed to as merchant emergency meetings have become frequent recently, always focusing on the same issue — the flooding of the Ashaba River.

This year’s rainy season in Comanso was unusually long, and the rainfall was exceptionally heavy, far exceeding the usual maximum level, chasing last year’s standards — last year’s rainfall was abnormal, involving disturbances caused by the descent of the All Gods and the Natural God’s retaliatory punishment of Sambia.

Last year, the breach of the Ashaba River had a tremendous impact on Sambia, and its effects are still not fully mitigated, with many merchants vividly remembering the situation.

As a result, the Sambiyan Business Council was extraordinarily unified and efficient this time, organizing and mobilizing a large number of citizens and mercenaries to the dangerous river sections to reinforce the dikes, successfully preventing breaches multiple times.

However, this time, the reason for calling an emergency meeting wasn’t a new threat of the Ashaba River breaching its banks but the news coming from across Dragon Lake.

"We absolutely cannot allow such a scale of migration to smoothly reach Battle Valley and enter the Three Rivers Region. What has allowed us to keep the Valley firmly suppressed over the years?

It is the vampiric and division tactics set by our founders, constantly draining the Valley of its blood, transforming their population into ours, siphoning their wealth to become our wealth, and fueling conflicts between the different valleys to prevent them from uniting.

They have always been unable to grow their population beyond a certain limit, rendering them incapable of confronting us.

But if this Conqueror Army returns to the Valley, it would completely shred our core tactics.

Their common origin and large-scale migration will greatly enhance their unity, making it incredibly difficult to divide them and use them to our advantage.

Moreover, their numbers are frighteningly large, enough to match half of a sub-valley’s total population, and if they truly migrate here, whether they like it or not, the surrounding sub-valleys would inevitably rally behind them.

Additionally, the Three Rivers Region’s strategic advantage is too great; with the Ashaba River alone, they could influence and control seven or eight sub-valleys.

You’ve all witnessed the methods and capabilities of that young Duke firsthand. Given time, he could achieve what even the Cloak King, Anka, couldn’t — he might very well become the King of the Valley.

When that happens, what will become of us, Sambia?"

The one delivering this lengthy speech was none other than Councilor Kendrick, who has now completely changed his initially somewhat lenient stance towards the Three Rivers Region and Weizemay Manor, becoming an unequivocal proponent of war.

His stance might not even be called a change; initially, that rising Duke from the Valley barely counted as a potential threat, at best an opportunist force for the taking.

For such a person, swallowing whole and hard consumption isn’t a wise choice. Using a soft knife or what they are best at, corruption and co-optation to turn him into one of their own, playing political games that they excel at to outmaneuver their opponent, is the wisest choice.

Among Sambia’s wealthy ruling class, the atmosphere isn’t amiable but filled with a great deal of undercutting and plundering; successful parties gain everything while the losers are purged from the ruling class, and death isn’t an uncommon occurrence.

However, this plundering isn’t done haphazardly but operates within specific rules, of which their Merchants Council are the creators, protectors, and utilizers.

But the situation is now different. With Gaven possessing the Conqueror Army, he can genuinely threaten Sambia, especially their gradual encroachment plans for the Valley.

"Councilor Kendrick makes it sound simple, but what do we use to stop such an armed migration? A city run by necromancers for years couldn’t withstand them even for half a day, let alone us fielding an open battle.

"Indeed, even the West Gate is now thinking about how to protect themselves, how to drive them away, not about rallying all forces to wage war on them and crush them thoroughly. Even local powers on the Giant Dragon Coast are thinking this way; what can we do across Dragon Lake? If we send ordinary mercenaries, I fear they would be defeated and incorporated by them just like the last time."

"It doesn’t necessarily have to be on the Giant Dragon Coast where we make our move. They only have two paths to return to the Valley."

"Which two paths are there?"