Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 498 - 247: Consequences of the Raid, Darkness Approaches, Preemptive Strike
Raiding a farm village and attacking an entire Oasis Town are completely different concepts.
The former is just a minor incident, even if it has a short-term impact on Oasis Town, like triggering a food shortage crisis...
It does not affect the existence and continued development of the Oasis Town settlement.
Moreover, the target of the looting is merely the farm village and the Li Family behind it, without causing much loss to the Oasis Holy Spring Sect and the Oasis Battleship.
Even if it’s recorded, it just adds a minor crime to the Salvation Army’s record, with a bounty reward of tens of thousands of points.
Not only does the Holy Spring Sect not care, but even the bounty hunters in the Guild wouldn’t risk challenging a top second-tier influence for those points.
In Bai Ye’s view, at this time, their attack on the farm village is completely helping the Oasis Church deal with the rebellious Li Family.
If it weren’t for the Wanderer’s outlaw status, the Salvation Army could completely cooperate with the Church, launching a legitimate attack on the farm village and the Li Family after being hired.
Unfortunately, the Church would clearly never do that.
This would undermine the legitimacy of the Holy Spring Sect’s rule.
This is also another reason why Bai Ye values Lin Feng so much; he holds a free identity and can negotiate an alliance with the Church.
Even so, the Salvation Army’s unpaid attack on the farm village to strike at the Li Family’s power, in such a tense moment, is essentially helping the Church suppress this uprising sweeping the Oasis.
Therefore, Bai Ye is not worried that the Salvation Army’s actions will incur the resentment of the official Holy Spring Sect.
On the contrary, the Oasis Church might even help conceal the event and erase the traces of the Salvation Army’s existence.
Additionally, the Salvation Army has already negotiated terms of cooperation with Lin Feng and has placed informants within the farm village. For this raid, even without the Desert Wolf Race to assist and restrain, they can deal decisively with the Li Family.
But all these situations are based on the Salvation Army only targeting the farm village, robbing the Rock-Horned Horse industry.
However, if the target of attack and plunder is an entire Oasis Town...
Then the situation and consequences would be completely different!
To the Holy Spring Sect, a small farm village and the Li Family are just a group of fish bred for leisure in the pond of Oasis Town.
Casually catching a few fish to eat now and then, and when the fish grow up and fatten, casting a net to catch a big haul.
If fishermen from outside occasionally steal a few fish, it doesn’t really matter.
As long as the pond remains, the fish can continue to grow. Even if ruthlessly, all the big fish in the pond are caught, it actually doesn’t affect the Church.
At worst, waiting a few more years to cultivate a batch of higher quality, more obedient fish from the lower-level fry.
But if those coming to steal fish blow them up, electrocute them, or even poison them, killing all the fish in the pond, and destroy the pond dam, draining and letting out the water that sustains the fish pond of Oasis Town...
Then not just the Oasis Church, even the Bishop’s Diocese in the Holy City, would be enraged and lay down a thunderous strike.
For any force launching an attack and participating in destroying the foundation of Oasis Town, it won’t just be a matter of recorded crimes and increased bounties...
At least a Level 1 arrest warrant would be issued, with bounties upgraded from points rewards to restricted-level weapons and equipment, including Advanced Power Armor, Tier Two Evolutionary Source Material, and even heavy weapons ammunition, etc.
Furthermore, a Holy Order might be issued, dispatching a Tier Two Squad from the Holy Temple Knight Order to go out into the Wilderness and hunt down the criminals involved in the action.
Even if the Salvation Army were lucky enough to escape the Holy Spring Sect’s dominion, after Bai Ye advances to a Tier Three King and establishes her own Royal City Influence in the future...
They would still be listed as a key strike target by the Holy Spring Sect for today’s crimes.
Not acknowledging the legitimacy of power means that normal trade and economic exchanges with the Holy Spring Sect and its subordinate forces are impossible.
The development of the Royal City would be restricted by the harsh environment, and its upper limit would be locked.
That Bai Ye’s ultimate goal, to build a spaceship and escape the wasteland apocalypse of Three Days in the Sky, would naturally be out of the question.
But now the perfect plan to raid the farm village has evolved into the plunder and slaughter of the entire Oasis Town because of the collective intervention of the Desert Wolf Pack...
Bai Ye just wants to flatly refuse this matter.
She doesn’t yet have the guts to destroy a medium-sized settlement under the command of the Holy Spring Sect.
Although Oasis Town is located in the Wilderness on the fringe of the restricted area, with limited development potential, from a population perspective, it is genuinely the foundation of a Royal City.
Counting the nearby Deserters seeking refuge, the population is close to 100,000, belonging to a top-tier medium-sized settlement.
From Bai Ye’s current perspective, Oasis Town is fully qualified to become a small Royal City, used as the foundation for an early Tier Three King’s rule, without any issue. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Destroying such a Royal City foundation would be no small loss even for the affluent Holy Spring Sect.
After all, the Oasis Church has invested seven or eight hundred years in growing Oasis Town to its present size.
Moreover, wanting to capture Oasis Town would mean facing the power holders of the Oasis Church, that Deputy Bishop.
Though the Deputy Bishop is only an agent, and their Evolution Level hasn’t reached the Third Stage, being only at the Level 29 Archdeacon level and quite advanced in age...
But after all, they are a Level 29 Evolver.
