Leaving Fort Finbre, Eshy set out on his way to Raven City alone, and although Viscount Ivanles had warned him to keep his distance from Duke Alaric, this did not mean that Eshu should not even approach Duke Alaric's domain. He had to follow the map's instructions and follow the edge of the Arrowfall Peninsula all the way south, stopping briefly at Shendefu for supplies, and finally heading north across the Ice Breaker Bridge to emerge in a large "U" shape from west to east. Instead of taking a rough straight line, across the deep and dense mountain forest in the middle of the Oroku Peninsula. Safety wasn't an concern for Eshu, and he even wished he had a few more batches of Misty Mountain bandits on the road in exchange for more bounties, but he only had one mount. With just a hidden tripstring, Esher might have to trek through the dense forests with difficult terrain and miss out on the title that would have been within reach.

Along the way, Esher was constantly looking back and thinking about what happened in Fenbreb. It was not difficult for him to guess Viscount Ivanles' intentions, which were to win him over in an absolutely stable and reliable way, and despite his illusory identity, a warrior capable of killing the Wolf of Omen would still have the value of recruiting. But where exactly is Viscount Ivanles trying to win himself over? In Silverlake, the old man asked a mercenary to swear loyalty to the North during his service, only to mock the value of loyalty in front of a future baron two months later. Things are going far beyond what Esher and Kea had hastily envisioned, and before he even officially entered politics, there were already turbulent currents waiting to draw him into the maelstrom. Estheus was desperate to know the old man's position, he knew very little about Viscount Ivanles, he knew that it was the old man who had been a staunch defender of Ursula in the previous coup, but was suppressed by Duke Alexis with brutal and brutal means, and was stripped of his first rank by Gregory IV to make an example. After that, the old man completely faded out of the aristocratic circle of the North, and although he still had a place at the round table, he was like a silent shadow most of the time.

Could it be that Viscount Ivanles is still in contact with the princess who is away? Eshua guessed that he had wooed himself so that he would one day need him to balance the fierce dogs and iron bears in the north. However, his intuition told Esher that such an inference was wrong, but that there was no concrete reason to refute it. Perhaps that Prutor would have solved some of the mystery for Estheux, and the family name in his full name would more or less convey the position of Viscount Ivanles—otherwise the old man would not have gone to such great lengths to force Esher to make an irresistible blood cross oath. But what Esher knew so far about Plutor was limited to a name, and that he was still underage. It's ridiculous, he can't keep a name until adulthood, could that person suddenly come up to Essho at some point in the future and introduce himself, saying "Hello, my name is Plutol"?

With a lot of worries along the way, Eshu has already walked out of the Zhiluo Peninsula. Crossing the Ice Crushed Bridge, where the Famous of Fire would become famous, he could already see the walls of Raven City, the capital of Livingston. Geographically speaking, Raven City is not an ideal place to settle down, this city is only a hundred miles away from the border line of the three kingdoms, but if there is some setbacks in the frontline battle, Raven City will immediately be exposed to the iron hooves of the enemy. This is not alarmist, as in the First Battle of the Dragon and Lion, Sarion's army, led by Duke Brennus the Elder, broke through Ravenston's defenses from the Darkfalcon fortress and laid siege to Raven City for three months. The city was in a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food, but fortunately it finally held out until the Salionites withdrew. In the nine years since, it has become common for Raven City to be invaded, but Gregory IV has never moved to the heart of the North. For no other reason, Raven City is a territory inherited by the Gregory family from the old Pander Empire. His great-grandfather, the famous Grand Duke Gregory, one of the founders of the Dragon Knights, organized a counterattack against the Omenwolf during the Siege of Ryan, and was the first to respond with a fierce attitude to the criticism of the so-called "Orthodox Knights" from the Central Plains. ”； At the first round table of the lords of the North, he revoked the title of Grand Duke for himself and instead proclaimed himself king, and the great North was named after his territory, which in Pande, "Livingston" agreed with "Bitter Raven", and thus was distinguished by written language in the literature.

Eshu arrived at Raven City in the middle of the night, and he was only one person, so the guards who were in a hurry to change the guard didn't even bother to question him. After a long and monotonous trip, Eshua was also burned out, so he found a tavern with lights on on the side of the road and rented a single room at the cheapest. Estheu lay down between two thin planks that stood upright. Not long after, two drunken mercenaries came up, and they occupied Eshy's next door to the left and right, but they did not sleep, and talked loudly across him:

"Did you hear about it, a new event held at the Raven City Arena! Dude, I went to take a look today, obediently, that battle, it seems that half of the mercenaries from Silver Lake Town are here. ”

"The registration fee is not cheap, three gold dragon coins, that's three hundred dinars!"

"But you have to think about it, if you win the first game, not only will you get back to your capital, but you can also earn two hundred; And if you win the second game, the prize money is 1,000 dinars - damn, Lao Tzu works hard for his employer for a week to earn so much. Bayev's old boy, who is tall and big, has just passed the third hurdle, if it weren't for his own lack of self-knowledge, he would have gone to the fourth game, wouldn't he have gotten two thousand dinars? Now it's good, not only is the bonus gone, but the person is also beaten half to death, crying wolf on the stretcher. It's not that it's seriously injured, it's probably because I'm worried about money. ”

"Hey, I heard that there will be a total of ten consecutive battles, and if the bonus can be doubled every time you pass a level, how much can you get in the end?"

The other end of the board vaguely calculated for a long time, and finally said, "No matter what, it must be 200,000, right?" But who can make it to the tenth level in one go? It's better to go to the handicap opened by the boss to place a bet on winning or losing and make some small money. ”

Two hundred fifty-six thousand. Essor mentally helped the two mercenaries give the exact number. But he didn't take it too seriously, 256,000 was not a small amount, comparable to half a month's tax in a town in good economic condition. The northern border beyond the Luo Peninsula has always been strained, but it is difficult not to feel strange that an arena can be used as a capital. Either it was hiding a few strong players at the bottom of the box, or it was a complete gimmick to attract spectators and gamblers, reaping the stubbornness and greed of the applicants as much as wheat - the unlucky bastard named Bayev in the mouth of the two mercenaries was one of the wheat harvested. But Eshua was still a little nervous, and the ten-game battle was not difficult for him, and he might be able to move his muscles after the last level - it was still quite difficult to find one or more fighters as strong as Eshua in the arena. And the participation fee is only three golden dragons, which is worth a try. The worst result was that he was deprived of 300 dinars, and he helped people recruit audiences for no reason, which was better than the last time he lost a whole set of Death Knight armor in Laria and took the life of an old nobleman. There are still three days left before the deadline given by Gregory IV, and it is more than enough time to set aside this day to play an arena - maybe two in two days, what if?

Why don't you check it out tomorrow? Amid the snoring sound on both sides, Eshua closed his eyes and thought so. Tonight he dreamed that he was lying in the glorious Dinar, and although the hard metal made his back very uncomfortable, he did not reject such dreams, and it was more pleasant to dream of money than to dream of those gods and goddesses, after all, the Dinar could not fight.

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