After another long day of walking, the Emperor's army finally made its way out of the Alps and arrived at a small town called "Valdaño".

This is the northernmost region of Italy and Canada, only about 35 kilometers away from Verona in a straight line, and it is already a veritable "enemy zone".

The Emperor's forces took the town without much effort, and the defenders surrendered with a few shots in a matter of disparity.

The next is plunder.

It's just across the Alps, but it's much richer than Bavaria. What shocked the soldiers the most was the giant Borgia supermarket chain in the center of the town, with its dazzling array of goods.

In the Holy Solomon Empire, food and clothing of this quality were not unavailable, but the supply was extremely limited, and it was basically for the nobility, and the price was very high.

Here, just by seeing the neat shelves stacked with all sorts of food, drink, and clothes, and the frighteningly low prices on the tags, the soldiers encountered some kind of terrible culture shock for the first time.

These Latins were so rich that even the poorest of the burghers could buy cheap beef patties for dinner in the supermarket for nine coppers.

In contrast to them, the Empire was so poor that they could only buy black bread for the same price, or coarse bread mixed with wheat bran and gravel that could break their teeth.

Why are they living a good life, but we are living so hard?

With a certain pleasure of robbing the rich and giving to the poor, the soldiers began to plunder spontaneously, and even the knights could not restrain their men, for there were so many people involved in the rebellion.

In the end, it was the fantasy dragon Bruno who intervened and applied a "contagion hint" in the center of the town that forced the low-level soldiers to stop.

However, in this way, the relationship between the imperial team and the local residents completely deteriorated.

Soon, His Majesty the Emperor ordered a strict occupation, military control, and curfew in Valdaño, and soldiers began to set up camp in and out of the town.

As for the goods in the Borgia supermarket, they were requisitioned and stored by the quartermasters in the army, and no one was allowed to use them privately.

The house to which the Blue Sword was assigned this time was a small Latin-style two-story building, and the owner and his wife had been killed by soldiers during a previous raid...... Maybe it's not a mistake, it doesn't matter, anyway, the owner is dead.

After moving into the house, Asker found an empty basement, locked the door, and carefully lit the candle that Malkina had given him.

The flame of this candle is milky white and emits a faint light that is not too strong.

Asker stared at the candlelight for a moment, only to realize that Malkina had appeared across from him at some point, staring at the candlelight as well.

"Alright." She straightened up and said, "So you've already infiltrated Otto's army?" ”

Asker told her about the events of his trip, including the encounter with the devil in the town, the subsequent incident with the strange prison watchman team, and the contact and analysis of Bruno, the dragon of fantasy.

"Interesting." Malkina touched her chin, "First of all, I can tell you that the devil in the town was not summoned by us. ”

"Of course." Asker nodded and said, "I've been over there too, your devils...... The appearance is relatively unique and very recognizable. ”

Knowing that he was talking about the ivory puppet "fanatics" and "believers", Malkina also giggled: "According to you, since the prison watcher team knows His Majesty's real name, it is likely that they are ignorant of the devil on our side. ”

"So he's selectively concealing this fact in order to point the war on us." "Catch the priest if you have the chance," Markina said, "and summon me...... There are rewards~"

"What reward?" Asker asked.

"For example, me?" Malkina pressed her lips and blinked.

"We already have Medea on our team." Aske politely declined, "And I don't think you're going to do better than her, so I'm sorry, we're not going to hire anyone yet." ”

Malkina: ..................

This guy doesn't understand the meaning of making a promise? Or is it implying that I'm inferior to Camillega in this regard?

Either way, it made Malkina suddenly feel frustrated. If it's just this man's hard-hearted heart, if it's just that he loses to Camille in terms of charm...... Malkina wanted to die.

No, no, no, I guess I just thought I was going to join his team. Malkina used her psychic ability to forcibly stabilize her emotions, and then Masashi said:

"I can give you the properties of Shadow IV. If I remember correctly, that little girl on your team should have a need for that, right? ”

Shadow IV? Asker was stunned for a moment, is this reward too high? Wait, if that's the case......

"Don't think about it." Malkina smiled, thinking to herself that if it weren't for Your Majesty's efforts to win you over, we would have paid such a big price, "It's just that I just want to give you benefits, and it has nothing to do with the difficulty of this task." Since you don't want the original reward, I'll take something else in place. ”

And this kind of thing? Aske was amazed. It stands to reason that the reward should be positively correlated with the difficulty of the task, right?

Don't...... Is it really that I am handsome?

Malkina: ..................

Not to mention anything else, with your face, it's definitely R4 level.

"Oh, this is the Jade Hope III potion that I said in advance, give it to Camillica on my behalf." With a flick of her wrist, she pulled out a bottle from under her skirt, "I'm leaving, see you later." ”

Her figure faded and vanished without a trace, and the milky candle flame was extinguished.

Asker was silent for a moment, then put away the potion and turned to leave.

Back in the hall on the first floor, he saw that Eleanor had just returned from outside.

"Got it?" Eleanor asked, referring naturally to the potion given to Medea.

"Got it." Asker nodded, "You just got back from your father?" ”

"Hmm." Eleanor nodded, and continued, "I just got the news: the road to Verona has been blocked. ”

"Blocked?"

"A large number of trenches, pillboxes and machine-gun points, as well as the most intractable large minefields, completely blocked the way to Verona." "It seems to have been improvisedly in the last few days. ”

Mine...... Asker thought to himself, this is a bit ruthless. You must know that mines are easy to bury, and it is troublesome to dig them out after the war, after all, mines that can survive the magic tide definitely do not contain circuit control switches, so there is no way to remotely disable them, and this minefield is also located on your Holy See's own territory.

"What is the Emperor going to do?"

"The emperor intends to have the soldiers clear the mines by hand." Eleanor said, "But the dukes didn't do it, so the afternoon meeting was deadlocked for a long time. ”

"In the end, it seems that I am planning to find a demigod to use the law to solve this problem, such as a large-scale earthquake or something...... There don't seem to be such demigods in the army. ”

Actually, there were originally, such as the Wolf family's hidden string, but this one has already been killed.