Chapter 675: Countdown to the Decisive Battle [1]

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Jieqiu is already a grand ceremony, not to mention the Sacred Mountain of Jieqiu Haigal?

After the joint meeting of the Senate passed, not only Lao Liu, but also the entire Beamon Kingdom was in full swing, and all the administrative departments seemed to be running at full power.

In addition to the four major items of tribute, guard of honor, dress and security, the prisons and the Inquisition in Bimon also prepared amnesty for prisoners, and the economic department was busy formulating a tax-free program, preparing gifts to reward the people, and sending celebrity chefs to finalize the recipes for the carnival feast.

The witch doctors have to rack their brains to use their brains to find out all kinds of good signs through divination as soon as possible, and verify that the Divine Comedy Shaman Jiechu Haigal is both in accordance with the will of heaven and in line with the hearts of the people.

But how could Ruizhao be in a hurry to pick it up?

So what is the light of the snow-capped mountain in the east, what is the local people in the south to offer Jiahe unearthed, what is the north has the turtle spitting pearls, what the west has the tidal property market, all kinds of false and far-fetched and even forged auspicious ones have been introduced, for Liu Zhenjie Qiu Haigal to create a lot of money in the early stage.

Claiming to the outside world, Shijieqiu Haigal, of course, could not clearly say that this was requested by the Divine Comedy shaman himself, so under the "crying blood and request" of King Thrall, the four Quentin elders and the red-clothed high priest, Lao Liu finally accepted Jieqiu's matter "reluctantly" after the prescribed procedures of three requests and three resignations.

As the Kingdom of Beamon began to announce the abolition of dual citizenship, the Beamon Divine Comedy shaman was about to introduce Hipjal, and the service of his subordinates could enjoy eternal worship by joining Beamon nationality, which spread throughout the Aegean continent almost overnight, and the international classics were in an uproar.

The sensation caused by this incident is far more out of control and crazy than Liu Zhenzhen and all the previous expectations of the top brass of Bimeng.

10,000 years of Aegean civilization. Beamon has been the master of the continent for at least seven or eight thousand years, and has a long cultural origin, which is by no means comparable to that of other races, and because of this, the Aegean natives regard the "Jieqiu" as a boolean religious ritual that has no limits. The envy and jealousy in my heart are getting stronger and stronger, and those who can seize the opportunity and let go can't miss it.

Under the temptation of leaving the name of the Hyjal Walk of Fame, the Beastmaster of Doberman and Medusa, who are also followers of shamanic teachings, sacrificed to a Bura, and all asked to join the kingdom of Bimon.

"This is a test of our faith and devotion by the god of war, Camppass!" I don't know if it's a canon deliberately spread by someone, anyway, the Doberman Beastmaster and the Medusa priests said so. Although there are duplicitous people among them, if they do not follow the crowd at this time, they will surely be rejected as weak-willed heretics by their fellow Campas believers, and the word "apostasy" is too heavy for any servant of the god of war to joke about his faith.

The magic of religion really made the human king panic for the first time in a long time. It is said that the old yellow calendar of "divine authority of kings" has long been in the past, but the kings of various countries have seen it with their own eyes, and the summer palace of the god of war only uses a simple edict. It is easy to condense believers of different races, colors, and countries together, and this kind of appeal and centripetal force is too terrifying!

In addition to the heartbeat, the human kings couldn't help but secretly make up their minds that they must strictly control religious beliefs and support factions in the future. To maintain a balance, there must not be a situation in which Beamon is theocracy.

The events continue to unfold and subvert the human imagination time and time again, except for the dragon knight Frank Lampard and the little nun Joan of Arc who insist on their original nationality. Without hesitation, all the other foreign subjects switched to permanent Bimon nationality – in fact, they had no second nationality at all.

Such as Flower Elf, Shepherd, Freshwater Mermaid, Duigar, Yunqin Traveler......

Like the wandering Aegean Bepsies, these Emerald minorities had never established a sovereign state of their own. The Beamon Kingdom's adjustment of nationality policy this time has not hindered them at all, anyway, when the household registration is recreated, they will not change their ethnic origin to Pig, what is unacceptable!

Unfortunately, the human mage group was also affected by this thought.

This complex human magic force is not composed of all humans, but includes dwarves, elves, and exiled mages whose countries have been destroyed by the Sea Clan. There are also many utilitarians who are dissatisfied with the status quo and want to get ahead as soon as possible.

What's even more unfortunate is that Liu Zhenzhen is precisely the nominal supreme leader of the Human Mage Group - that is, as long as a magician is willing to change his court and join the Beamon nationality, he can obtain the qualification of Jieqiu Haigal to stay on the Walk of Fame.

Although the magicians are not all fame and fortune maniacs, it is true that none of them can be so high as to regard fame and fame as dung - the simplest magic experiment will cost hundreds of gold coins, if the mages are indifferent to fame and fortune and resolutely do not rely on the powerful forces, where will they get the funds to continue studying magic? Do you rely on selling your kidneys?

Even if he is as strong as Master Puskas, he would have to go to the Holy See of St. Paul to make a name.

In three days, in just three days, forty percent of the human mage group has changed their nationality {Most of them are second-rate characters, there are very few masters, and the human kingdom also knows how to recruit outstanding talents with favorable conditions, and the Lucerne mage group is even more exaggerated, eighty percent of the fallen elf mages have joined the Beamon nationality - the fallen elves, who have always been known for their brazenness, are so enthusiastic in their pursuit of fame and fortune that they have to sigh the wisdom of an old saying: "You must be a bitch, but you must also build an archway!" ”

However, the Aegean Continent is not without hard bones, Lao Liu saw that the situation was good, and his self-confidence was a little bursting, so he pretended to inadvertently convey an important message to Dragon City and Phoenix City very vaguely - he currently has no genuine magic pets.

According to Lao Liu's assumption, as soon as this news is released, Dragon City and Phoenix City will not be able to send the highest-ranking dragons and immortal birds to their own choice?

Helen has the convenience of translating war songs from the war dance, and has collected enough six pets, Lao Liu's eyes are almost hot, and he thinks that he has the temporary help of "parrot learning to tongue snails", as long as there are dragons and phoenixes provided by Dragon City and Phoenix City who are willing to accept the summons, saving him the time to run around looking for pets. Plant pets and wild pets aside, at least the four major pieces of verbal pets, killing pets, hidden pets and demon pets have been settled.

Even just thinking about the four fifth-order dragons and immortal birds accompanying him to charge into battle, he wanted to pee excitedly.

But what he didn't expect was that Dragon City and Phoenix City, which were strong in strengths, were stunned and didn't give face. There was no follow-up to a cold response.

Fortunately, the Jose siblings, Vivien Leigh, the second and third youngsters, and the Buddha Giant Chief Desaili returned in time to fill the trauma he had suffered.

There must be surprises, but Lao Liu was not too surprised.

He is well aware of what kind of feud he has with Mourinho, and that feud is by no means easy to resolve. Out of reason, he has never been embarrassed to tear his face with the swan priest, and snatched Gotanni, Golini and the second and third young ones back by force.

Soft knives kill without seeing blood, and in the face of the honor of Jieqiu Haigal, it is normal for Mourinho to be soft first.

The four brothers and sisters of the Jose family had been working for Fei Lengcui before, and they were still the descendants of the Cambridge Archpriest Helen, plus Gotanie, Golini and Vivien Leigh had an inexplicable ambiguous relationship with Lao Liu. They certainly have enough qualifications to be on the Hyjal Walk of Fame.

There are now countless Beamon warriors and shamans beating their chests and shutting their feet, regretting why they didn't join the Summer Palace Guard in the past. Now it is in vain to lose the eternal glory of following the Divine Comedy Shamanic Jieqiu Holy Mountain. Even Pierre, who had only spent a few days in Fei Leng Cui last year, sacrificed Deschamps and Le Maire, and now he is cheeky to come back to rub the oil, insisting that he is the early descendant of the Fei Leng Cui Sacrifice Troupe, and he has to climb the last train of Jieqiu, how can the real lineage turn a blind eye to this supreme honor?

Lao Liu firmly believes. In such an environment, whether as a father or as a sacrifice, the old swan has to think about his children. Sensei said that he was reluctant, even if he could harden his heart and push away this unparalleled honor, he still had to consider whether he would force the children to commit suicide.

One Arrow! Before the carved Lao Liu had time to be complacent, the major human kingdoms, the Dubin Kingdom and the Bonaparte Medusa Kingdom came to the door. His blow to the corner of the wall this time was too wide, and he offended everyone. Especially the Kingdom of Doberman and Bonaparte Medusa, he almost broke his backbone overnight, and it was polite to start a fight without turning his face.

Divide a group, win over a group, and suppress a group. This set of political tricks Lao Liu is now playing with the stove vegan, fooling, sophistry, and ruthlessness, anyway, whatever works will be used, in a word, except for the concessions of the Dubin Kingdom, human beings and Medusa don't want to take back Lao Liu's fat in his mouth.

Just when the entire Aegean Continent was circling around him alone, the demons came.

The two air-to-ground bombardments on 21 October were like a catalyst that caused the situation in the Aegean to have a chain of chemical reactions like dominoes, and the world war finally thawed after a period of cold war.

On October 26, four million demon army soldiers marched into the Bering Mountains and marched towards the Fort of If, the Duchy of Dolot. The vast Saline Forest of Floronto was almost overwhelmed by the sea of menacing demon warriors in a week.

Starting from the ChΓ’teau d'If , the beacon flints all over the Aegean suddenly stretched into a long line of black smoke on the horizon.

What no one expected was that although the demons had just arrived, their position was unambiguous, and they sent envoys to publicly issue a declaration of war to all Aegean countries, stating that they would form a military alliance with the Sea Clan to fight against injustice.

The news was like a bombshell, buzzing the heads of all the Aegean natives.

Although the demons have sent a large number of crypt shooters and Black Radiant destroyers to support the sea tribe in the battle, in the minds of all the high-level leaders of the Aegean country, the reason why the demons provide military aid to the sea tribe is nothing more than to make the war between the sea tribe and the Aegean burn more vigorously.

However, no one thought that the Demon Clan and the Sea Clan would openly form an alliance.

If two prostitutes put their hands under the skirt of a prostitute at the same time, can they tacitly agree to the point of harmony between the sea and the sky?

What's more, the Demon Clan and the Sea Clan are not little prostitutes, one of them is the Demon King of the Mixed World, and the other is Hua Hua Tai Sui, who has been thinking about it for so long. They don't want to share the autumn colors of Aegean with others!

Regardless of the meaning form, military strategy or fundamental goal, the Sea Clan and the Demon Clan have irreconcilable conflicts and contradictions, even if these two great river dragons want to coexist peacefully, with the progress of the war and the expansion of their territory. Sooner or later, there will still be sparks!

Aegean understands this truth, the demons understand, the sea clan also understands, and everyone understands it.

But it is precisely this that is the most frustrating, although everyone knows that the demon race and the sea clan are bound to eat dogs in the near future, but at present, the two bandit groups are preparing to join forces to settle the Aegean first, and then consider the others - for the Aegean continent, there is no worse situation than this.

There were three world wars in the history of Aegean that involved multiple races, among which the Sea Clan and the Demon Clan invaded Aegean each accounted for one, and the arrival of these two robbers once left countless bloody and bloody records in the Aegean history books. Dead out of many long-standing races: Now that these two Raptors are ready to join forces, no one can guess how much damage they will inflict on Aegean.

Count the underworld and Mulan. Today, Aegean has already fought against four invaders of different ranks!

After opening their eyes and seeing the situation around them clearly, the Aegean race not only did not lose heart, but burst out with a stronger sense of pride and courage to kill themselves!

The long-unborn berserkers of Tel Aviv donned bear skins, took up their ancestral battle axes, and stepped out of the reckless north, the elves of the forests and the dwarves of the mountains. Forming a mighty coalition from all directions to the center of the battlefield, Hobbit Halflings, Volcanic Red-Skinned Men, Setters, Tuskals, Druids, and other ethnic minorities who seemed to have disappeared into the dust of history emerged from the mountains, caves, canyons, and swamps to join the surging resistance camp.

Even the Kingdom of Doberman has begun to seriously consider whether to send troops. Although they are the 100,000 mountain natives far from Middle-earth, they are also Aegean.

There is no longer room for anyone to escape this war!

When he received the Demon Clan's inscription, Liu Zhenzhen was leading his subordinates to take magical portraits, which was prepared for the Avenue of Stars, as the real backbone of the summer palace, group photos and individual portraits were necessary, with these magical portraits, the royal literati could specifically describe their achievements.

The demon envoy who delivered the message was a strong fear knight, after delivering the text. He stood aside with great interest, snickering as he watched the rows of summer palace guards chanting "eggplant".

It was fine, but something happened with one more mouth.

"You're not bad armor." Seeing Corina walk by after taking a magical portrait, the Dreadknight greeted him very well, it was the first time he had seen the gilded crown thorn armor, and the three-edged steel thorns on his body like a rose bush made him very curious.

A puff of sparks exploded, and Collina ejected the cigar butt in her hand directly into the Dreadknight's face as she brushed off the ground.

A row of mammoth Hercules walked past without squinting, then turned around in unison and scattered, encircling the Dreadknights in the center.

Each Mammoth Hercules was more than half a cut taller than this Dread Knight, his arms thicker than his waist, and the saber on his body was suitable for eighty percent of the demonic civilians to be a goalpost.

As a messenger, the Dreadknight did not have the slightest timidity, did not even wipe the cigar ash on his face, raised his head high, glared at a large group of Beamon's number one wrestlers with horizontal eyebrows, and roared in the not-so-standard Aegean lingua franca: "What kind of skill is relying on the number of people, there is a kind of one-on-one with me!" ”

The Mammoth Hercules laughed.

"Just a little joke." Corina touched the horns on the head of the demon warrior like a shepherd boy caressing the mane of the beast: "This is called the crown thorn armor I wear, and the outside is pure gold!" See this cluster of steel thorns? Geometric angle design, with a cross-block function, don't believe in trying it with your crystal sword. ”

The Demon Courier was not polite, drew his sword and slashed at Korina's face, the flickering fighting spirit on his blade proving that he indeed possessed considerable martial arts.

The crystal saber was held out of thin air by a large, powerful hand.

Liu Zhenzhen broke the crystal sword body in two like folding sugar cane, and he stood by the side of the demon messenger, of course, to stop the bloody conflict.

"Throw him into the river of lava underground, take a bath." Three times five divided by two dismantled the joints of this demon messenger, and the lord stuffed the declaration of war into the other party's mouth, and without looking back, he dropped a sentence and went to continue taking pictures.

"Richard, hurry up. Fast! Golini held the memory crystal ball and beckoned to Lao Liu.

This time it was a photo with the Cambridge sacrificial group, and Helen and Mo'er both took out the bottom of the box, one was a colorful and gorgeous peacock feather robe. One is a heron feather robe like gathering snow under the moon, and Lao Liu, who is dressed in black mane, is sitting in the center with the same dressed two young and three young people, like a blind bear breaking into the bird circle.

"Changing the line head, changing the line head, you have to change the group photos of all the troops, how can you just wear this set of shaman crowns!" Ellie jeopardized on the sidelines.

"It's still ...... And Helen and Mo'er, hurry up...... Hurry up! Ellie stammered again.

Lao Liu couldn't be forced, so he had to smile wryly and take Helen and Mo'er's hands, get up and change clothes again.

All units of the summer palace have now determined the regular civilian clothes, and the female priests of the Cambridge sacrificial group have unanimously selected the classic costume of Cixi Lafayette with "cheongsam, flag, head material, flower pots, shoes, ivory fingersticks", and the male priests are almost as beautiful as Lao Liu. All chose a modified version of the tunic suit, a double-row style bronze buckle, and a black softball cap. At first glance, it looks like a group of Aegean versions of Chen Zhen are alive.

If you hit the earth and cross a Chinese at this time, you must think that you have run to Shanghai Beach at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

But that's not the most exaggerated of all, the Servants now officially have a full pirate outfit as standard, hats bitten into the shape of a ship with teeth, and gold rings strung around everyone's ears. Although he is an archer, he wears a sword, walks on tiptoe, and makes good use of eye contact. It feels like the economy is in a downturn, and they're getting ready to be laid off and change careers.

This ethos is completely top-down, previously inconspicuous, but now it has been completely formalized for the sake of Jieqiu Haigal.

Under the leadership of Guoguo, the newly formed group of Dipichu mages each held a pot of pothos, wore a black trench coat and ankle-length black pants, a steamed bun line hat, and toad sunglasses on the bridge of their noses.

These pichu have even changed their habits, usually only drink skim milk, and must do sit-ups before going to bed. Because they are up to a meter tall, they walk with their short opposite-sex couples and act like a bunch of Italian killers who are not too aloof.

When Lao Liu just took a photo with the Pichu Mage Group, he was forced by Ellie to dress up like that, Ning Yu was even more narrow, she found a twelve-year-old beautiful little fox girl to come over, and had to let Lao Liu take Little Lori's hand and take pictures with evil together, the old hooligan's face was flushed, and the happy others fell into the group, and even Avril, who had been in a bad mood, was laughed.

"Next batch!" Holding the memory crystal ball, Golini brought up the frame of the picture she had just taken, and felt very satisfied.

"Who's next?"

Lao Liu looked beside him, a group of aviation soldiers with four-meter-long silk scarves in their throats and a group of Doberman rainbow guns wearing only boxers to expose their pectorals were waiting, and not far away, there were strong old men with red foreheads tied to their heads, and dense Doberman Beastmaster and Medusa sacrifices were queuing.

"Tie up the scarf, it's Stuka Aircombat Wing's turn!" Ning Yu checked the notice book: "Did everyone pull out the mount and fly into the sky to take a formation formation?" ”

"Boom!" Without waiting for the boss to agree, all the aviation soldiers grinned and released their mounts from the hibernation badge, turned over and saddled, and after running, brought out a strong wind, and one giant beast after another flapped its wings into the blue sky.

After the diamond-shaped air formation was completed, the four-meter-long snow-white silk scarves around their necks faced the wind in the air, and they generally danced in the air, although they were all dressed in civilian clothes, but they looked more spectacular and chic than when they were fully armed.

Dragon Knight Frank Lampard and his fellow humanoid dragons stood on the ground in a daze, their eyes red as if they had played mahjong all night, gritting their teeth and using their boots to puff off the ants on the ground.

"Frank, what kind of pose with me, tie a scarf, and go to the sky together, you won't be Stuka without Stuka!" Liu Zhenzhen whistled at the Golden Dragon Knight and tied a bright red extra-long scarf with a beautiful Chinese knot at the neckline.

"Me?" Lampard pointed to his nose stupidly, and when he saw his boss nodding, he could only refuse with a gloomy face: "Sorry boss...... I can't become a Beamon citizen, I can only be a member of the Thivansi Church. ”

"You're an idiot! Is this an extrajudicial grace? I'm making an exception for you alone! For today, he didn't know how many difficult flight actions that subverted the law of conservation of motion were designed in advance, but now he could only watch a group of stubble playing cool in the sky.

"Hasselbaink. Your landlord is stunned, and your brain is also funny? Elder Andulan reluctantly knocked his bald head with his cane, and scolded with a look of hatred: "Oh my God, it's the first time in my life that I've seen you so stupid and stupid!" ”

The golden two-headed dragon immediately passed away. showed a huge and brilliant appearance, flowing away from electric sparks, and the good-looking Bulbo chased after the saltwater goose in the window.

'Boss......' Lampard was moved to death.

"Hurry, hurry! I'm going to make a few kung fu albums of martial arts masters below, and I'll talk about it slowly if I thank you! "Golini is in a hurry, and her sister Gotanie has been preparing for a long time and hasn't taken turns to show off.

"Wait a minute!" Tanya and a Boer nurse held Liu Yiku and Liu Sitian's two little babies, standing on the second-story slope and shouting: "There is another aviation team coming soon!" ”

Liu Zhenzhen and Lampard are a little confused about this, and the air team? Aren't all the air forces here anymore? It would be unreasonable for the other Beamon Air Force to get involved now, they haven't followed the Emerald Lord, and they are not considered to be from the Summer Palace.

"Obis Rakhi! Didn't I tell them to shoot a magical portrait alone in the dark. Will you help them make up for the honor in the future! Liu Zhenzhen frowned, and his face was very bright.

He thought it was the wolf cavalry of the underworld who wanted to make an appearance, and these Wolf mounts were all mutated salt wolves. After the transformation of the Mudfoot Giant and the Crystal Six King Snake Land, they had been completely transformed into phantom beasts more than a month ago, and after the special training of the goblin beast tamers, half of them were now ready to be used as ordinary air forces.

However, they are Lao Liu's hidden killer features. Even if they are qualified enough to go to Jieqiu Haigal, they shouldn't be exposed to the world now, and their doing so will have a crucial impact on Liu Zhenzhen's strategy in the future!

It wasn't the wolf cavalry who came. It was a golden elf archer, after these elves stepped out of the magic teleportation hall, they jumped in an instant, jumping directly from the twenty-meter highland red clay slope, not half of them stumbling, all of them stood firmly on the square.

A silver six-edged ivory baby elephant walked on the ground in the ethereal air, flashing one flash after another, and stabbed in front of Lao Liu. Xiangba shook off the situation and took away half of the alder banana in his hand.

"Richard, these Golden Elf archers were seconded to me by you, they belong to the human mage group, and they can be regarded as your generals! Why don't you ask their opinions? Rommel sat on the back of the silver elephant, opened the bead curtain, and smiled at Lao Liu.

"Will they change their nationality?" Liu Zhenzhen was a little weak when he said this, although he also knew that Rommel couldn't be idle enough to be so, so he had nothing to do to take all the golden elves to the red clay slope to walk the birds.

"Our golden elves haven't established a country in the Western Continent, so why can't we come to the Beamon Kingdom to get a nationality?" Xia Fei, the head of the Golden Elf Archery Division, still spoke so impulsively: "The sage Ellijie can lead by example to join the mixed nationality of the Beamon Kingdom, and we are also high-ranking elves, why can't we?" ”

"What do you mean by mixed nationality?" Lao Liu's nose was crooked, if it wasn't for Ning Yu quietly pulling his sleeve, maybe he would have let the golden elves get out of the way in a shameless way.

"Welcome, Lunny's darlings!" Aegean Flower changed the topic with a smile, glanced at Lao Liu, and pouted quietly: "You can let the golden elves eat deflated like this, you will be content, they return to Aegean to make a name for the ages, and you don't want to be too unpopular." ”

Where does Lao Liu eat this set?

Although he also knew that the elven empire had already fallen apart, and as long as the elves looked at each other, they did not exclude joining a certain force to serve, and the golden elves were also doing this now as a disguised way to submit to softness, but he was still a little resentful - what is mixed nationality?

An incomparably valuable gift made him look for the golden elf again, and his thoughts came to naught.

"Richard, even if this is an extra payment I paid you for renting a golden elf...... Rommel waved the seventh-degree gold ring given to him by Lao Liu, releasing a huge object, and then lowered his voice and said softly......... I can also help the golden elf apologize to you by the way...... In fact, they already know that they are wrong, you are a meat eater, you might as well take out some belly. ”

Liu Zhenzhen didn't speak, because his mouth was already open to the point where he couldn't speak.

There was silence in the red clay square, and everyone watched in amazement at the snorting dragon that suddenly appeared in the clearing.

This giant dragon has a purple body, a mustache like a flag, a jewel-like crystal body surface that seems to be free from the ocean spring, its body is like a hill, it is fifteen meters long, its wings are covered with beautiful cold scales, its cold and magnificent jaws are full of gills, its claws are like anchor hooks, and its fangs are sharp.

There is no doubt that this is the overlord of the sea, the outlier of the dragon family, the legendary blue sea dragon whose blood can detoxify all kinds of poisons.

Judging from its purple appearance, it is probably already a deep-sea diver with at least fourth-order strength among the sea dragons!

"How did you get this sea dragon captured alive?" Elder Andulan looked up sharply, and looked at Rommel in a daze.

"It's an interesting message that the Sea Clan sent to touch my head." Rommel sneered and glanced at the sea dragon lying on the ground unable to move: "It seems that the sea tribe has been engaged in national unity recently. ”

"Good skills! It's not easy to kill a dragon, but it's not easy to capture a dragon alive! Liu Zhenzhen gave a thumbs up, and admired the five-body throw: "I haven't seen you do it with my own eyes so far, I didn't expect it to be so extraordinary!" ”

"It's too much of a lift-up for me, this sea dragon was caught by me and the eight-headed Hell Black Dragon." Rommel smiled, leaned over and picked up a double-edged axe with blue flashes, inlaid with rare gems, and floating with mysterious runes: "Remember how I brought the Tel Aviv Berserkers under my command?" ”

"That's right, this is the guy that the legendary Thor God Odin used to cut people, and you Aegean Continent is full of fakes flying in the sky: "Thor's Fury Battle Axe"! ”