(The previous chapter was actually chapter 122. I was confused in the morning and made a mistake. Now the chapter name has been changed. This chapter is actually chapter 123.)
The capital of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs was called Jade Spring City. Before the appearance of Void City, this city was known as the most beautiful city on the Main Plane. It was built with beautiful white jade-like stones. When the weather was good, the city wall looked like a huge piece of jade under the bright sun. It was really beautiful.
It had always been called the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, or the Kingdom of God as beautiful as a city. Not only did bards write countless songs to praise it, but even the gods often sent their incarnations to stay here. Among them, the Goddess of Spring Water was the most frequent.
This mid-level Divine Power of the Natural God System liked to wander between the mountains and springs. Her core requirements for her believers were to "love the spring water" and "increase the number of springs." She didn't care about anything else. Good or evil, soldiers or thieves, she didn't care about anything else.
It was also because of her attitude that it was chosen by the human gods as a springboard to enter the Ancient Forest and the Mountain of Broken Clouds. They fully supported the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs.
As the capital of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs, Jade Spring City was full of springs. These springs were not like the famous Spring City in the Land of Qi and Lu on Earth, which came from underground water. Instead, they were 30% natural and 70% man-made. When this city was built, more than ten Legendary Great Mages worked together to build a portal to the Water Elemental Plane under the city. Through the portal, clear water flowed into the ground continuously and flowed out of the ground along the springs, forming a wonderful scene of a city of thousands of springs.
In this city, surrounded by white jade-like city walls, there were exactly one thousand springs, no more, no less.
When this city was built, the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs was only in its embryonic form, and its name had not been decided yet. It was after the construction of this city that the Goddess of Spring Water sent her incarnation to personally bless this country and named it the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs.
However, behind this beautiful city was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Originally, there was no such thing as the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs or Jade Spring City. In the southeast of the Mountain of Broken Clouds, there was a continuous hilly area. It faced the Mountain of Broken Clouds to the north, the Golden Desert to the south, the Great Plains to the east, and the Ancient Forest to the west. Dwarves, gnomes, and other races lived together here, living a peaceful life.
After the rise of the human race, under the leadership of the God of Knights, they fought against the Orcs continuously and were at a disadvantage. Then, the God of Vengeance came to power and changed his strategy. He only left a part of the humans to guard the fertile land between the three mountain ranges of Broken Cloud, Gray Stone, and Giant Beast to prevent the Orcs from further expanding their power. The rest of the humans were sent out to attack the east.
This was the famous Eastward Movement in human history. In this war that lasted for thousands of years, human beings annihilated the countries of the gnomes, goblins, dwarves, and other races that originally occupied the eastern part of the continent. In the world's most fertile eastern plains, the 28 Cities Federation was established, which later became the prototype of the Blue Moon Kingdom.
After that, human beings were divided into two groups. One group believed in the Sun God and attacked the north, completely destroying the Kingdom of Gnomes and establishing the Kingdom of Holy Angels. The other group marched southwest and seized the opportunity when the Elven God System was annihilated by the Master of Mystery and the elves suffered heavy losses. They united part of the power of the Natural God System and destroyed the power of the dwarves and gnomes in the hilly area, establishing their own country.
In the process, there were many killings. The "smart people" goblins, who were once famous for being good at making small machines, were almost wiped out. The remaining survivors left the Main Plane under the protection of their God and went to an unknown world. More than a dozen gnome countries, large and small, were all wiped out, and the gnomes became a famous nomadic race on the continent. Only the dwarves, with their strong bodies and inextinguishable fighting spirit, kept resisting tenaciously.
Over the years, every 30 to 50 years, the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs would organize an army to attack the Kingdom of Dwarves in the Mountain of Broken Clouds. On the one hand, they coveted the local mineral resources and the treasures of the Kingdom of Dwarves. On the other hand, they wanted to be ruthless and force the dwarves to leave the Main Plane like the goblins.
Every time they prepared to attack the Mountain of Broken Clouds, they would set up a temporary military camp outside the main eastern gate of the Jade Spring City and hang up recruitment posters. Every time, they would be able to recruit a large number of adventurers. When the war officially started, these adventurers would naturally charge at the front and retreat at the back, specializing in those dangerous missions. Even though most of the people who survived would earn a lot, in the end, only less than a third of them would be able to survive and return with a full load.
Of course, when people died, they couldn't deny it. Every time, the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs had to fork out a large sum of compensation money. If not for this, the adventurers weren't fools. Who would take the huge risk of losing two out of three people just to fight for this wealth? Many of the injured or elderly adventurers had actually come for this pension.
What they wanted to earn was not that wealth, but the money they earned by risking their lives.
This was the sorrow of the poor. It didn't make much difference where it was.
However, the situation this time was a little different. Outside the eastern gate of the Jade Spring City, a temporary military camp was set up once again, and the recruitment posters were hung up once again. However, most of the people who came to apply were strong and sturdy people. The usual situation where ordinary or even weaker applicants gathered did not happen at all.
The person in charge of recruitment was an Earl of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs. At this moment, he was sitting on a high platform in the military camp, watching the situation at the recruitment site from afar. After a long time, he sighed deeply.
"Sir, is there a problem?" asked a trusted aide beside him.
"This time, we didn't recruit many cannon fodders."
"If there's no cannon fodders, let the militia be the cannon fodders," said one of his sons casually. "As long as the elites are here."
The Earl shook his head and didn't explain in detail to his son. He just frowned.
He wouldn't feel bad if outsiders died, but he would feel bad if his own people died!
Even though the lives of civilians weren't a big deal, it was hard to say what would happen in the future if a bad start was made. Perhaps in the future, the country would be more inclined to use the militia as cannon fodders instead of recruiting low-level adventurers in order to save on the compensation money.
This was, of course, a good thing in the short term as it saved a lot of money. However, it was detrimental to the long-term plans of the country.
The people of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs were happy when they heard about the war. On the one hand, it was because they could gain benefits from the war, and on the other hand, it was because the war brought them fewer losses. If a large number of militia were to be lost in every war, thousands of families would mourn after the war, and it would be a heavy blow to the hearts of the people.
Over time, the war would no longer be an opportunity to stand out and make a fortune for the civilians of the Kingdom of Thousands of Springs. Instead, it would be a heavy burden.
Of course, he couldn't see all of this. However, how could he not be worried when he thought of such a future!
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