Chapter 382 New Year Celebration
As the bells of the Apocalyptic New Year rang, the War Council entered the year 1455.

After a year of hard work, the core work of the occupied areas has been basically completed, and the Donnar people are not very resistant to accepting the rule of the War Council.

The main reason was that they didn't know much about the War Committee and didn't know what it was, but he could get in touch with the officials and soldiers sent by the committee.

In order to reduce the resistance in the occupied areas, the War Committee sent out only Donar people. Therefore, facing their fellow ethnic groups with the same appearance and language, the people in the occupied areas were relatively honest.

Of course, there were some riots in the occupied areas when the committee forcibly merged villages and towns, but under the suppression of the army, no major problems were caused overall.

As the core construction of the occupied areas was successfully completed, the tense spirits of the entire War Committee finally relaxed a little.

At Roland's suggestion, the Executive Committee passed a New Year celebration resolution, deciding to take advantage of the New Year to hold a New Year celebration to celebrate the New Year and peace, to cool down the entire Donnar and relax.

Ever since the green tide violently hit Donnar, Donnar has experienced decades of turmoil and unrest, and countless people have been displaced.

And now, everything is over, the Green Tide has declined, and the War Council has enough power to defend the peace and prosperity of Donnar.

However, despite this, whether it is the political and military leaders of the War Committee or the ordinary people, most people's thinking and ideas are still stuck in the previous turbulent times, and everyone is ready to flee at any time.

Although this idea is indeed correct in turbulent times, it is not a good thing for the current war committee.

Since they are prepared to run away at any time, most people do short-term work paid by the day. As for long-term jobs like farming, people have little enthusiasm for work. Basically, the committee pays them to farm and they have to be paid every day, otherwise they are unwilling to work.

Therefore, the War Council needs a grand celebration to tell everyone that the turbulent times are over and peace and prosperity will return to the suffering land of Donnar.

To this end, Roland also allocated a special fund for the preparations for the New Year celebrations. He also acted as a human transporter, working overtime to deliver the materials needed for the celebrations to various parts of the committee.

Thanks to Roland's efforts, when the New Year's bell rang this year, all parts of the War Council spontaneously held their own New Year celebrations.

However, due to local conditions, New Year celebrations vary from place to place. For example, in some villages that are a collection of villages, village officials can only organize a big banquet, gather everyone together, eat and drink for free, and at most try to organize some entertainment activities based on the situation within the village, such as the traditional Donnar duel.

In addition to banquets, larger towns also arrange a variety of entertainment activities. Some towns even invite circuses and bards to add to the fun, while other towns, after notifying in advance, send out extraordinary people to release various light and shadow effects and perform all kinds of fancy tricks throughout the celebration.

As for Apocalypse, as the capital of the War Council, its New Year celebration may not necessarily be the best, but it is certainly the largest.

Standing on the highest balcony of Apocalypse City Hall, Roland, who had just finished his New Year's speech, walked to Hela's side on the balcony.

Roland placed his right hand on the stone railing of the balcony and looked up at the bright and bustling Apocalypse City in front of him. Countless strange machines were installed all over the streets, illuminating the entire Apocalypse City.

On the bustling streets of Apocalypse City, countless Apocalypse citizens are celebrating the New Year.

Looking at the bustling city in the distance, Roland nodded slightly and smiled with satisfaction. Then, he looked at Hela and spoke.

"Don't you want to go for a walk? The celebration planned by the administration department is quite interesting."

Hearing Roland's words, Hela shook her head slightly and said.

“I don’t really like crowded places.”

Compared to the bustling celebration area in the distance, the city hall on the Tianqi side seemed a bit deserted. Only a few officials who maintained the normal work of the city hall were still at their posts.

Of course, Roland would not exploit them endlessly. For them, Roland adopted a rotation policy to ensure that they all had time to enjoy the current New Year celebrations.

Since the officials who stayed behind had to maintain their important posts first, there were only Roland and Hela on Roland's side.

"is it?"

Roland smiled and said nothing more. He raised his head and looked towards the sky of Apocalypse.

Afterwards, countless bright lights and shadows appeared in the sky. The extraordinary people of Apocalypse manipulated the elements, used the sky as a canvas, and began their own creations.

Although Donnar is mainly composed of knights, knights are not equal to reckless men. In fact, there are many scholars among the Donnar knights.

Among these scholars, there are also some experts in art.

Therefore, Tianqi specially gathered a group of extraordinary people and scholars to plan the current creation.

With the concerted efforts of countless extraordinary people, the sky of Apocalypse revealed a dreamy moving beauty.

Even the well-informed Roland was amazed by the beauty before him, let alone others.

Even the scholars who designed all of this personally were staring at everything in the sky in a daze.

Faced with this first time in the world's history, ordinary people were extremely shocked and stood there in a daze.

After admiring it for a while, Roland turned his head to look at Hela beside him, while Hela was looking at the painting in the sky with her bright eyes.

Hela was also somewhat obsessed with the beauty before her eyes. However, as a fourth-ring spellcaster, Hela was not particularly obsessed. But after Roland looked at her, she quickly reacted and turned her head to meet Roland's gaze.

Roland looked at Hela and asked again.

"You really don't want to go shopping?"

Hela blinked and shook her head.

"Oh okay."

Roland smiled and said with some regret.

"What a shame. Looks like I'll just have to go shopping on my own."

"what?"

Hearing Roland's words, Hela opened her mouth and made a surprised sound.

She turned around and looked at Roland with some surprise.

"What? Can't I go to the festival?"

Facing Haila's surprised look, Roland chuckled and continued.

"I've been busy for seven or eight years. Can't I take a break?" "Of course."

Hela pursed her lips and spoke softly.

She felt a little regretful. If she had known that Roland was going to the celebration, she would not have said that she didn't want to go.

After all, this was the first time Hela encountered such a thing, so she was definitely interested. However, compared to her interest in the celebration, she naturally cared more about Roland. With the idea of ​​accompanying Roland, Hela said that she was not interested in the celebration.

Now, she is shooting herself in the foot. She just said she was not interested, so she can't be interested right away.

Do I have to stay here alone tonight? No.

While Hela was daydreaming, Roland naturally saw at a glance the confused and tangled thoughts beneath her calm face, so he did not continue teasing Hela.

Roland smiled, reached out and held Hela's hand, gently squeezing her hand to bring her back to her senses.

After feeling Roland's touch, when Hela came back to her senses, Roland's voice also reached her ears.

"However, I still feel a little bored being alone, so, Miss Hela, who doesn't like crowds, could you please make a fuss and walk with me?"

Hela looked at Roland who was smiling in front of her, turned her head with a blush, and responded in a low voice.

"Ah."

"Then, let's go?"

"Ah."

Roland cast a layer of enchantment spell buff on himself and Hela, hid his identity, left the Apocalypse City Hall, and started to visit the New Year celebration.

Although Roland and Hela did not participate in the New Year celebrations and were just strolling around, the atmosphere of the celebration soothed their moods.

The War Council's New Year celebrations lasted for five full days.

Although it was costly, the effect was very obvious. The five-day New Year celebration swept away the decadence and deadness that permeated Donnar, and the entire War Committee was obviously more energetic and vibrant.

After the New Year celebrations, the War Committee received unanimous praise from all levels, and the sense of belonging to the War Committee also increased.

After discussion by the Executive Committee, the New Year celebration officially became one of the War Council’s statutory holidays.

As for the War Council's New Year celebration, outsiders from the countries of Sinnar had mixed opinions.

Although they all knew that Roland was trying to win people's hearts, in their opinion, Roland was still a little stupid. It was completely unnecessary to spend such a huge price to win people's hearts. He was just acting like a nouveau riche.

Moreover, what is the status of a transcendent? How can a transcendent perform for ordinary people? This is completely insulting to transcendents.

However, when the War Committee does things, there is no need to care about their opinions. Moreover, the committee is very satisfied from top to bottom, so these outsiders are nothing.

The extraordinary people on the committee are not as pretentious as them.

Therefore, the War Council simply ignored their whining.

Moreover, what they didn't know was that a large number of tense supernatural beings in the War Council had some realizations after the New Year celebrations.

They kept talking about bonds, protection and so on, and one by one they broke through and were promoted.

Even Hela was successfully promoted to a fifth-ring spellcaster, but Hela did not tell Roland why she was promoted.

These promotions were something Roland had never expected. If these promoted extraordinary people were counted, this New Year celebration could be said to be a complete success.

If a large number of extraordinary people break through and advance every New Year celebration in the future, Roland would be so happy.

However, Roland also knew that this was impossible. The reason why so many extraordinary people broke through and were promoted this time was mainly because of the special nature of this New Year celebration.

A large number of extraordinary people who were born from turbulent times and countless wars are experiencing this kind of peace and prosperity for the first time. This effect will be caused by the stimulation caused by the contrast between the two. The possibility of such a situation happening again in the future is very low. After all, such a thing can only be encountered by chance.

After the New Year celebrations, when the War Councils in various places resumed their normal lives, Apocalypse did not stop like them.

Because, as the New Year celebrations come to an end, the second plenary session of the War Council is about to be held.

由于第一届全体委员大会展开的时间是1447年的1月10号，因此，第二届大会也定于1455年的1月10号。

Therefore, five days after the New Year celebrations, Tianqi will officially launch its second plenary session.

Therefore, after the New Year celebrations, the administrative department quickly returned to work and made full preparations for the second conference.

The committee members who had arrived in Tianqi before and also spent five days celebrating the New Year now had a different mentality than when they entered the city.

After the New Year celebrations, the war-crazed commissioners had to admit that peace and development are indeed important, and that it is indeed inappropriate to squeeze the national strength and continue an all-out war against the green tide.

After all, Roland also said that the Green Tide was no longer a threat, and there was no need to attack it with all their might. Instead of wasting national strength, it would be better to be steady and slowly erode the enemy.

Because of the change in mentality and ideas, the committee members also had new views on the main tone set by Roland for the second committee meeting. Therefore, they also began to adjust the proposals they had prepared before the meeting was held.

However, five days is neither long nor short, and soon it was January 10th.

In the newly built Parliament Hall of Apocalypse, the Death Knight Primarch Legion led by Alfonso is responsible for the security of the Parliament Hall. A large number of strange machines are arranged in all aspects of the Parliament Hall to build a strict monitoring network. At the same time, a large number of spell runes are hidden in the Parliament Hall, waiting to be activated.

On the morning of the 10th, committee members from all over the Apocalypse came from all directions. After undergoing several security checks including checks by primarch soldiers, strange equipment, and magic arrays, the committee members were able to pass the checks and walk into the parliament hall alone.

Since the committee members had previously confirmed that they had all arrived in Apocalypse, it only took one morning for all the committee members to pass the inspection and enter the parliament hall.

After the last committee member entered the council hall, the door of the council hall closed automatically, and countless magic runes emerged around the hall, forming a large and tight magic circle, which enveloped the entire council hall, isolating the inside and outside from each other and leaving only a single communication channel.

When the magic circle took effect, in the parliament hall, facing the gazes of countless committee members, Roland opened his eyes and spoke.

"The second plenary session of the committee is now officially underway."

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