On the lookout of the Costa Fortress.

"Goo-dong, goo-dong! Ahhh

"Hey, give me a bite too!" said one of the guards to his companion as he stood guard. It's early autumn now, and it's still a little cold at Costa Fortress at night, so he wants to take a couple of bites to warm up.

"It's just a sip! This wine is a good product that the bar owner himself treasures, and I spent a lot of money to get this little jug!" The companion handed the jug out, although he was a little distressed.

"I know that the next time I get something good, you will be indispensable. The guard nodded, and drank greedily.

"Hey, I've said it's only allowed one bite!" "My companion hurriedly snatched it back.

"Hiccup!" the guard burped, "It tastes really good, and I want to take two more sips." ”

"What if you get too drunk?" said his companion, "I heard that some of the guards we sent out to patrol the valley recently reported that there was a situation in the valley, and it seems that something might be going to happen. ”

"That's right. The guard nodded: "I heard that General Tamro also feels that something is not quite right, he has already asked for support from the rear, but he doesn't know if he will be in time." ”

"Hmm, what do you see that?" the companion pointed ahead.

More than a thousand meters away from the fortress lookout, a faint orange-red point of light was floating in the air. At first, they thought it was someone's bonfire, so they didn't particularly care, but now they noticed that the point of light seemed to be getting closer and closer to them. It's moving here!

"That's ......," the guard narrowed his eyes as well.

The point of light is getting closer and closer, and it's getting faster and faster. When they saw what the point of light was, the two guards couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"That's ...... That's a man!" the guard shouted in horror.

The man was floating lightly in mid-air a few dozen meters away from them, his whole body radiating orange-red light, and he was waving his hands as if he was doing something.

"Alarm ......," his companion muttered, and then suddenly shouted loudly, "Quick!

"What level of alarm?" the guards didn't seem to figure out what the man was here for.

"Level 1 alarm! There is an enemy attack! That's ......" his companion said with some horror, "That's the Red Flame Demon Sorcerer Saron!

"Good ......" The guard was also shocked when he heard this name, and he hurriedly ran over and rang the alarm bell beside him with a rapid and coherent frequency.

But the alarm went off for only three seconds before it came to an abrupt halt, replaced by another earth-shattering bang.

"I'm not going to sneak around at all, so you don't have to bother. Saron waved away the flames that remained on his fingertips, and he had just blasted the watchtower with a fireball.

"So......" Saron rose to a certain height, looking down at the people of Costa Fortress like a god. Then the Red Flame Sorcerer took out two fist-sized gems engraved with magic patterns from his spatial pocket. It was the thunderbolt that the Stoke Intelligence Bureau used in the previous attack on Annelot's alchemy laboratory.

"The fireworks show has begun. Saron injected a dash of mana into the two thunderbolts to activate the circle, and then threw them into the Costa Fortress at random.

Boom! Boom!

The power of the two thunderbolts was really not small, and Sharon felt that even if he still had fireballs, they were not much stronger than this thunderbolt. Listening to the violent explosion on the ground, Saron was in awe of his teacher a little more.

This thing was developed by his teacher a month ago, and it is a kind of magic weapon. The specific principle is to use a gemstone that stores the energy of the fire element as a raw material, and engrave a magic circle on it. When the user injects a little bit of magic power into the thunderbolt, the magic circle on the thunderbolt will activate, and all the fire attribute energy contained in the gem will be released in an instant to achieve the effect of explosion.

Although it seems that the production principle of the thunderbolt is not complicated, Saron knows how delicately this magic circle is set up. If it is simply to cause the magic power of the gem to be released, then basically any mid-level mage who is proficient in the magic circle can do it. However, this slow emission of energy has no destructive power at all, so only a momentary violent release can have destructive power. And this is the most critical and difficult part of the production of Thunderbolt.

Of course, this powerful magic weapon is not without its drawbacks. The first is the high cost of production, this thing is made of Molten Flame Crystal, although Molten Flame Crystal is not as precious as the Heart of the Ocean, and even the regular Magic Storage Crystal is not comparable. But in any case, it is also a magic reserve prop, so a thunderbolt requires more than 300 gold coins just for the material, plus fine processing such as magic circles. The cost of the Thunderbolt is about five hundred gold coins.

In addition, the applicability of the thunder is not particularly wide. As mentioned before, the magic circle of the thunderbolt must be guided by magic before it can be activated. It only takes a little bit of magic, but this little bit of magic is destined to be used only by mages. Therefore, the thunderbolt can usually only be used for key tactical strikes, and cannot be used as a conventional weapon on the battlefield.

And now, it's time for Saron to execute a tactical strike.

Saron first threw two thunderbolts to test the power, and then flew in the direction of the barracks.

Although if you silently launch a direct strike on the barracks, the effect should be greater. But with Salon's character, he didn't want to do such a sneak attack! that was a tactic that only a weak guy like Regner would use. Salon, on the other hand, likes to attack with dignity, because he believes that he can crush any enemy with dignity!

Boom Boom!

"Anyway, it's all the money that the old immortal gets, I won't feel distressed!" Saron threw the thunderbolt out of his space pocket as if he didn't want money. The two countries have been at war for some years, not to mention the empty treasury of the Hawke Empire over the years, in fact, the Stoke Empire is not very good. But seeing the army retreating on the battlefield, Kilron began to get anxious.

Then the old king had an unprecedented hatred for the fat and oily arms dealers in the thousand-year-old capital. In desperation, Kilron mobilized some means to investigate a small arms dealer in the imperial capital, ransacked the poor fellow's family, and then replenished all the wealth into the treasury.

It has to be said that those arms dealers did make a lot of windfalls because of the war. Even just a second-rate arms dealer gave the Stoke Empire a fortune of hundreds of thousands of gold coins. And the thunderbolt that Saron threw out this time was actually throwing the poor arms dealer's gold coin in a sense.

Seeing that the Empire's financial problems were alleviated by his own means made Kilron can't help but admire his own wisdom. He even began to think about who he would take next time.

But Ralvin, after knowing this, sneered a few times with disdain. He didn't expect Kilrohn to be so idiotic after nearly a hundred years of life. It may be easy to use the power of the state to murder a wealthy businessman, but it is absolutely undesirable.

Maybe this time wasn't enough to get any attention, but if that old guy from Kilron dared to come two more times. Hehe, raid your home today, raid his house tomorrow, and the rich businessmen will definitely become panicked because of this kind of thing. Don't think about it! When the time comes, it's good that they don't run away with their possessions! When that time comes, you see who else wants to do business with the Stoke Empire!

This old fellow is doing something that shakes the foundation of the country for the sake of temporary gain! Ralvin knows this very well, so he has no intention of following Kilron's example. Instead, he took this opportunity to let Andrew entertain many wealthy businessmen from Melindale. Andrew made it clear to the wealthy businessmen present that His Majesty the King did not agree with Kilrohn's approach. At the same time, it was also revealed that the empire would find a way to pay off the debts of the various chambers of commerce as soon as possible, and finally the chancellor licked his face and continued to borrow money from the rich businessmen present......

Although there is a certain gap between the two empires in terms of their current financial resources, Ralvin believes that this gap is only temporary. If that old guy from Kilroon continues to die, then Ralvin is confident that his Stoke empire will not last long.

However, financial resources are a very obvious advantage on the battlefield. For example, now, Saron is so unscrupulous to throw five hundred gold coins all over the streets. The Hawk Imperial soldiers below were hesitating whether to shoot the arrows of the five silver coins in their hands into the sky. Wouldn't it be a waste if it didn't hit? The Empire now has a limited number of arrows!

A fireball flew towards Saron, who smiled disdainfully before letting the magic strike at him.

Rumble!

The fireball exploded, and Saron opened his mouth to swallow all the flames.

"It's still a little cold, but it's quite a bit!" Saron said as he wiped his mouth and turned to the old man not far away.

"Is Your Excellency the Red Flame Sorcerer Saron of the Stoke Empire?" the old man was the high-ranking mage who had been following Tamró's side all along. He was in charge of guarding the Costa Fortress, and since there was a mage attack, he naturally had to intervene.

"That's right, that's me. Sharon nodded.

The old man made a mage salute to Saron, and then prepared to introduce himself: "I ......"

"No need to talk nonsense, I have no interest in the names of dead people. Sharon shook his head, then threw another thunderbolt down.

Seeing that Saron was so arrogant, the mage couldn't help but be angry: "You are so confident that you can win me?"

"You're not as high as me, and I'm still an attribute ability, how can you fight me?" Saron pouted.

"Hmph! First the Koldak squad, and then you, there are quite a few arrogant young people these years!