"Ahem!"

A sudden cough immediately pulled the three of them out of their respective musings. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Alright, Krezer, let's separate here!" said Rossini, the owner of the bar, with his hand pointing to the fork in the road in front of them.

"Here?" Krezer, who had just come back to his senses, was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized that under the leadership of the former, he had unconsciously walked out of the path, and now in front of him was a wide stone road, and several of them were standing on one side of the road, facing them two forks in the road, one left and one right.

"Well, that's right, right here, you can follow the road on the right and you will see the residence of the Henry Family Chamber of Commerce!" said Rossini, the owner of the bar, with his hand pointing to a large stone road on the right side of him, before he continued. "When you're done, you go back to this fork in the road, and then follow the road on the left until there's a little bar at the end of the road, and it's easy to recognize!"

Looking at the main road on the left, then at the main road on the right, and looking back at the surrounding buildings, as if to remember the scene in his mind, Krazer nodded and looked down at the bar owner.

"Then, Monsieur Rossini, let's go our separate ways! If it goes well, I'll leave Conyounis tonight, and if it doesn't, I'll go to you again!"

Glancing at Kraser again, the barkeeper reached out and patted his arm, and then hurried to the fork in the road on the left with the girl Mira, and disappeared into the crowd in a short time.

Witnessing the departure of the bar owner Rossini, Kratzer changed the position of Thanatos hanging on his shoulder, then looked at the two people standing beside him, and strode forward, because at this moment, time is extremely precious to him, and not a second can be wasted.

The fortress city was plunged into a brief period of chaos due to the sudden catastrophe, and the restlessness not only lingered in the hearts of the people who lived here, but also caught Fassbinder Fasino, the head of the Garrison Legion, a little off guard.

Conyounis City was originally a frontier fortress city, and it was the gateway to the eastern frontier of the Opdos Empire, so the personnel mobility in the past was extremely mobile and difficult to manage, and it was easy to cause great chaos if you were not careful, because in many cases, the security army of the city lord's mansion alone could not compete with those powerful mercenaries, so this also created a situation where the garrison corps often interfered in law and order.

This kind of friction between mercenaries and the security army is not common, after all, no matter how strong the mercenaries are, they can't compete with a country's war machine, but there are always exceptions, just like today.

The Fassbender knight sitting on horseback always thought of the silver-haired girl just now, and the mercenaries from Sophia's mercenary group who stood behind her without revealing their true faces.

The dispatch of this kind of legendary mercenary group, after all, is accompanied by important events, and obviously this time will not be an exception, such a powerful team of mercenaries came to Conyounis City at this moment, how can this not make him as a knight captain wary, not to mention, the words that the silver-haired girl seemed to say unintentionally just now, which made him unable to calm down.

Suddenly, a voice came from behind him, pulling him out of his musings.

"My lord, the knight is sir, the city lord's mansion has arrived!"

"Hmm!?hmm!" Fassbinder looked up suddenly, only to realize that he had arrived at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion at some point, and the brightly armored guards in front of the gate were looking at him with wide eyes and curiosity.

"Let's go, don't keep the head of the regiment waiting, I still have important things to report to him!"

After glancing up at the tallest building in the high wall, Fassbinder took off his helmet, threw the reins in his hand, stretched out his hand to push away the guards who had come to stop him, and strode into the palatial palace of the city lord.

"Knight, you can't do this!Captain Fassbinder, please wait!" the guard who was pushed away by the former shouted at the back of the black-armored knight, trying to stop him, but was stopped by Kane, who was accompanying him.

At the same time as the knight chief Fassbinder broke into the City Lord's Mansion, in the spacious reception hall of the tallest building in the City Lord's Mansion, although there were only three people, the tense atmosphere made people feel suffocated.

But in this suffocating atmosphere, two of them did not feel it, and the figures of these two were completely opposites, the one sitting in the main seat was extremely bloated, like a mountain of meat, and the other was wearing golden armor with black patterns, and at all times exuded a sense of slaughter.

The Roshan-like man took a sip of the steaming teacup before he spoke. "Captain Serial, don't be so excited, first taste the refreshing tea that the city lord finally got with great difficulty, it's very good!"

"Tatum City Lord, I didn't come to you for tea, I want to know, why do you want to take the opportunity to increase the city tax at this time, I know you like gold coins, but there must be a limit to greed for money, if you don't explain this matter clearly, I will report this matter to Your Majesty!" the man in black and gold armor asked unmoved.

It turned out that in this spacious reception hall, the two people sitting were actually the two most powerful people in the city of Conyounis, Channing Tatum, the lord of Conyounis, and the man in black and gold armor was Serol Joseph, the commander of the Garrison Regiment of Conyounis City, and the two were obviously arguing over the matter of refugees.

"I also have to do it as a last resort to increase the collection of entry tax!" Waving his hand to signal the people standing next to him to leave, the Tatum City Lord slowly put the teacup in his hand on the coffee table beside him, with an aggrieved expression on his face.

"Oh, then I'm going to listen to you, Lord of the City!" Hearing Tatum City Lord say this, the Captain of the Serol Legion raised his two sword eyebrows, as if he had heard a funny joke.

As if he didn't hear the former's sarcastic words, the Roshan-like Tatum City Lord tapped his finger on the coffee table, but he didn't speak immediately, as if he was organizing language, and it took a while before he suddenly spoke.

"Seliol, do you know what your and my priorities are?"

"Guarding the eastern gateway of the empire!"

"That's right, you and I are responsible for guarding the gateway to the eastern frontier of the empire, in other words, you and I are the first line of defense in the eastern frontier of the empire, am I right!"

"That's right!"

"So, what are the responsibilities of you and me?" asked the Roshan-like Tatum City Lord, who was comfortably lying in a special chair.

But he didn't wait for the former to answer, and went on to himself. "Don't be in a hurry to say it first, see if what I say is right!"

With that, he reached out and gestured to Captain Serol, who was sitting on his left.

"It's your job to keep this fortress safe!"

Then the Tatum City Lord pointed at himself again.

"And my duty is to maintain the peace and stability of this fortress, and I am not wrong about that!"

"Well, that's right!" Captain Serol nodded.

"With so many refugees pouring into the city at once, the security in the city will definitely become very difficult to manage in the short term! Not to mention that more than half of the refugees who are pouring in are green-skinned dwarfs, so I don't need to say the consequences!"

"Uh... That's right!" Captain Serol hesitated, but nodded slightly, for what the former said was not wrong at all, and the goblins were now synonymous with thieves.

"In other words, even if I can detach a large number of men to maintain law and order, I would like you to ask what I would do if the enemy took advantage of the opportunity to attack the city when the refugees poured into the city?"

"Close the gates, of course...!" Commander Serol blurted out an answer without even thinking about it, but he swallowed it back into his stomach only halfway through the words.

Because with his rich combat experience, how could he not think of how difficult it would be to do this, it is no exaggeration to say that once the kind of assumption in the mouth of the Tatum City Lord happens, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Hehe~!It seems that I don't need to say the rest of the words!" The Roshan-like Tatum City Lord looked at the Serial Legion Commander with two sword eyebrows intertwined with a smile.

"This...!" the Serol Legion hesitated, as if to say something.

But before he could say anything, the Roshan-like Tatum City Lord spoke again.

"Commander of the Serials, it is my duty to appropriately increase taxes and maintain the stability of Conyounis City, so don't you think your hand is stretched too long!"

Speaking of this, the smile on the face of the Tatum City Lord, who was originally smiling, suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the eyes that were already narrowed into slits suddenly burst out with a terrifying light.

"If I want to arrange for someone to serve in the Garrison Legion, will you agree?"

"Okay! I know what to do, but I still don't think you're doing the right thing by increasing your taxes...!"

"Alright, Commander Serial, I think you should leave!" Seeing that the former was still entangled in this issue, the Roshan-like Tatum City Lord beckoned to the people around him. "Pip, tell him what you saw!"

"Okay, Lord Castle!" The man standing behind the Roshan-like Tatum City Lord stepped forward and looked at Legion Commander Serol with a respectful expression. "Legionnaire, when I returned from the city gates, I saw three Zeppelins of the Deshalesinu floating over Berkeley, and the Knight Captain Fassbender also saw it, and led a team of knights to investigate, and I believe that the results will be available soon. ”

"No need, he's already here!" said the stern-looking Commander of Seriel, turning his head to look at the door.

With a fierce sound of stopping, the door was rudely opened, and a knight in black armor appeared in the sight of the three of them, it was the Knight Chief Fassbinder mentioned earlier.

After a cursory glance down the hall and seeing the man he was looking for, Fassbinder walked towards him with his helmet in his hands, without the slightest intention of saluting the owner of the place.

"Legionnaire!"

"Well, you're here at the right time, Fassbinder! Tell me what the Zeppelins of the Deshalhinu are doing in Berkeley!"

"Looks like you already know!" Fassbinder glanced at the man standing beside the Tatum City Lord before speaking slowly. "Actually, it's nothing, the Deshalesinu were just circling the skies over Berkeley, and by the time I got there, they were already on their way. ”

"Oh, then, you, the knight chief, have made a trip for nothing!"

"What do you mean by that!, Berkeley's trip was a wasted run, but on my way back, I came across an interesting incident at the city gate, and it had something to do with you, Lord Lord!" As if not hearing the sarcasm in Pip, the butler, Knight Chief Fassbender set his eyes on Lord Tatum, who was sitting in a chair.

"Something to do with me, then I'm curious, let's talk about it!" As if he hadn't seen the former's expression, the Roshan-like Tatum City Lord raised his eyebrows unmoved.

"At the city gate, I met the people of the legendary mercenary group, the Sophia mercenary group!" "Looking at the unmoved Tatum City Lord, the Fassbender Knight said slowly. "But some of them leaked their mouths, they came at your invitation, so is there such a thing?"

As if shocked by the news coming from the mouth of the Knight Chief Fassbender, the other three people in the room did not speak immediately, because they all knew the terrifying status and strength of this Sophia mercenary group.

In other words, everyone who has a relationship with a mercenary group of this level wants everyone to know, and of course there are people who don't want to, and this Tatum City Lord is one of them.

"People from the Sophia Mercenary Regiment?" Hearing the words of Knight Commander Fassbinder, Captain Seriel, who was originally sitting there with a blank face, finally changed his face. "What are they looking for from you, Tatum? I'm curious, can you explain?"