Nerema has never been so quiet.

Rod's spells plowed the inside and outside of the city, leaving behind a dusty glass - with plenty of mana as a backup, Rhodes could control the range and level of his spells with considerable ease, and the entire battlefield and walls were washed by this burst of fiery glass, and the arcane trap left by Zelas was completely destroyed, but the city of Nerima was not affected in the slightest.

However, some nimble guys lost their weapons and ran to the residential areas in the city as soon as possible, plus the sand thieves who were originally responsible for maintaining order, in fact, there were still thousands of sand thieves in the city of Nerema.

However, when Rhodes came to the sky above Nerima and broadcast with a loud voice, the sand thieves were all silent.

What Rhodes says, that's what it is.

Especially after a few guys who were quite bold and wanted to take advantage of the night to break into the house and grab a sum of money were blown up into fireworks by Rodra in mid-air.

To be honest, Rhodes actually can't take care of the entire Nerima by himself, but his suspended appearance in the air is too oppressive, tens of thousands of sand thieves have been submerged under the fire glass, and the rest of the sand thieves, no matter how big their hearts are, they don't dare to have any other thoughts for a while.

What's more, Rhodes promised that they would be taken in by Azir as prisoners......

If you can't die, then don't die.

Seeing that the sand thieves had honestly begun to maintain order in Nerima, Rhodes was a little more relaxed.

Well, the next thing is to look at the situation on Azir's side - although the law of ascension is very restrictive, the answer is not enough for Rhodes to know where Azir has gone and what he has seen, which is a bit regrettable to say.

I really don't know when this guy will be able to come to Nerema.

I should have brought Jana with me...... Now that he couldn't walk away from Nerima alone, and there was no arcane laboratory to experiment with, Rhodes felt simply uncomfortable.

Unfortunately, what Rhodes didn't know was that when he was uncomfortable, a legend about the Demon God had quietly spread in Shurima.

After the turmoil and the restoration of peace, the Shurima began to use their imagination to try to explain the death of the sand thieves in a situation that they could understand.

Some say that the sand pirates angered the great gods, some say that the most powerful warriors of the gods have been resurrected, and the most widespread legend says ...... A new demon god was born at the expense of tens of thousands of sand thieves.

Considering the previous Nashrami blood sacrifice incident, many people really believe this statement.

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On the other hand, when Rhodes had dealt with the sand pirates of Nashram, Azir also crossed the Sacred Mountain Range alone and came to the south coast of Shurima.

Meandering down the southern foothills of the mountains, Azir felt a rare sigh of emotion.

When Azir was not yet enthroned as emperor, he was only a thin, undignified prince, and his personal safety was not guaranteed even before he met Zelas, and he even traveled far away from Shurima for long periods of time to avoid being poisoned by his brothers.

At that time, he used to be here.

That was a long, long time ago - at that time, the whole of Valoran commerce was still in a rather primitive state, not to mention that the Grand Canal of the Twin Cities had not been opened, even the sea was not popular, and at most some nomads from the big rivers rowed boats offshore.

In this case, the southern coast of Shurima, south of the Sacred Mountain Range, was naturally the most pristine area, and when Azir came here, the people here did not even know who the emperor was.

Although at that time Antahir had already been born, and it was also included in the territory of the Shurima Empire, which belonged to ancient times, but when it comes to control...... That is, hang a name.

But it was such a place that left a deep impression on Azir at the time, where he didn't need to hide his identity, because even if people knew that he was the prince of Shurima, they didn't know what the prince was, and the whole of Antarhir was only known to the people in the port governor's palace about what the prince of Shurima meant - and these people who knew the identity of the prince also knew about Azir's embarrassing situation, so they didn't take him too seriously.

In this way, the young Azir had a relaxing time in Antahir, not much of a happy time, but it was also a rare time when there was no pressure.

And now, thousands of years have passed, and Azir is here once again - he can barely recognize the city if he hadn't checked the map for directions.

Although it is difficult for Shurima, which is severely desertified, to have the lush forests of the past, it stands to reason that Antahir, on the southern side of the Sacred Mountain Range, will not be affected too much, right?

Azir had consulted the map before he came, and the Antahir region was already the largest area in the entire Shurima Forest - and now, he had barely seen a large forest since he descended the mountain!

With the exception of a few decorative greenery (greenery is the latest design in Peel City), there is hardly much vegetation in the whole of Antahir, and there are only roads of unknown materials, large areas of houses, and ...... A criss-cross water network.

Descending from the Sacred Mountain Range, Azir could clearly perceive the use of water by the Antahir people, with hundreds of trickles artificially diverted together to feed into a carefully planned network of arteries that breathed new life into the ancient city of Antahir.

Azir had never seen anything like that.

Even in the heyday of the Shurima Empire, the Ascension Force artificially created many oases centered around various cities, and there was never such a magical thing as a water net.

Then, as Azir pondered the specific purpose of the net, a sharp-eyed creature approached.

"Sir, you're coming to Antahir for the first time, aren't you?"

"I don't know where you heard about it, but I'm going to say you're here."

"Now is the time for the Hexfactory to employ people, many factories are recruiting, and each of them has food and accommodation!"

"You don't look like you have any family, right?"

"Coincidentally, I have several factories that only recruited female workers before, do you want to come...... Try? ”

After becoming an ascendant, Azir, who was nearly two meters tall, obviously became a sweet spot in the eyes of these brokers, and they rushed over and treated the Desert Emperor as a foreigner who went south to work, throwing out one set of different treatments one after another.

In the face of these enthusiastic foremen, the corners of Azir's mouth under the hood couldn't help but twitch at last.