For this war initiated by the Beast Spirit Clan, the Imperial side did not expect that the other party's intention was not to plunder but to invade, and because it was dragged down by the national war between the South and the Free Federation, in short, it was quite a bit of a hurry to deal with it. On the Northeast Front, thanks to the participation and assistance of the player legions, the Imperial Army quickly regained its foothold after the initial retreat, and finally held the last line of defense on the border based on several border military forts, but on the Northwest Front, the battle situation for the Imperial side can be described as erosive.

Because of the sudden appearance of the Golden Beamon Elo and the activity of the Beamon Legion under his command, the Beast Spirit Clan was completely unstoppable in the face of the Imperial Army and the Player Legion in the Northwest War. And seeing that Iro, the unsolvable boss, was invincible, the enthusiasm of the players who were originally actively involved in the main plot of the imperial forces to fight with the army was immediately dispelled a lot, led by the Shepherd World Guild, and the players began to withdraw from the northwest battlefield in a large way, and turned to the northeast battlefield to make war achievements.

As the High Priestess of the Beast Spirit analyzed, even if they are affiliated with the Empire, it would be a joke to say how deep the player's sense of belonging and loyalty is to the Empire, a native national organization. Players don't care too much about the outcome of this battle, they care more about what kind of loot and merit points they can get by hunting the Beast Spirit Clan in this main story campaign. Since the Beast Spirit Clan in the northwest has such a "bug" as Ello, it is enough to avoid him and the Beamon Legion and find another place to participate in the war, the reason is as simple as that.

So, because of the unfavorable situation in the northwest, a large number of players withdrew from the northwest to the northeast defense line to garrison, and as a result, the originally relatively stable eastern defense line is now more stable, and even the large-scale player legions led by Mu Tianxia have begun to plan to turn from the eastern defense line to the northern wasteland hinterland to counterattack the past, and on the other hand, the battle situation in the northwest is getting worse, and the already weak imperial army has lost the strong reinforcements of the dragon clan and then lost the assistance of the players, and it is simply unable to stop the soldiers of the beast spirit clan. In just ten days or so, most of the territory in the northwest of the empire has been conquered and occupied by the Beast Spirit Clan.

In this context, the battle of the Beast Spirit Clan's army led by Golden Beamon Airo to besiege Iron Sword City, an important town in the northwest of the empire, is naturally of great significance.

As the most important transportation hub connecting the central plain of the empire with the northwest territories and even the coastal areas of the northwest inland sea, Iron Sword City has always been regarded as an important military center used by the central power of the empire to stabilize the rule of the northwest territory. If this war empire can hold the Iron Sword City, then even if all the rest of the northwest is temporarily ceded to the beast spirit clan, as long as the empire has the ability to counterattack in the future, they can start from the iron sword city at any time to regain the northwest, and on the other hand, if this war beast spirit clan can take the iron sword city, then it not only means that they have a solid ability to rule and control the northwest territory of the empire that they have invaded, but also means that their army can go south from the iron sword city at any time as long as they want. Sweeping the central plains of the empire may even lead to the Radiant King.

Because of the importance of Iron Sword City, the imperial army that was beaten by Airo and Beamon's army in the northwest finally cheered up for a while, and gathered all the defeated troops in the northwest back into Iron Sword City early, and transferred the reserve army that was originally intended to be sent to the south to support the national war from the royal city, and at the same time, the emperor also personally issued a call to defend the city, and provided more favorable calculation and exchange conditions for the adventurers who came to Iron Sword City to assist in the defense, that is, the players. It has re-attracted a considerable number of players who were originally scared away by Iroh back to the Northwest side of the battle.

However, even so, not too many people were very optimistic about whether the Imperial Army would be able to hold Iron Sword City. After all, Golden Beamon Airo has proved his strength worthy of the 120-level transcendent-level powerhouse with one battle after another, and the strongest on the empire's side is only a 110-level old sword saint sitting in charge, without the support of the dragon clan, and most of the players who came back just took advantage of the "discount" here to make a fortune and then ran away when the Iron Sword City was about to fall, as long as there was no unexpected sudden incident that everyone expected, the Iron Sword City would eventually be taken by the Beast Spirit Clan. The difference is in the amount of time it takes and the cost of the battle.

Even if Iron Sword City is finally lost, at least Iroh and his Beamon legion will suffer heavy losses under Iron Sword City, so that they will no longer be able to continue to move south and take advantage of the situation to invade the Central Plains - this is the bottom line goal set by the Imperial Court for the troops of the Northwest Front. If it weren't for the national war on the Southern Federation's side to drag on and retreat, such a large national organization as the empire would not have been beaten so weakly by a transcendental powerhouse in Ailuo, but now it is useless to say this, the empire has suffered a big loss this time under the joint efforts of the beast spirit clan and the federation, and there is little hope of turning over and fighting back, so they can only try their best to ensure that they have enough respite after that they will not be defeated once.

However, although the upper echelons of the Empire, including the Emperor, had already set a general policy for such a attritional defense for this battle, not everyone was satisfied with the outcome.

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In the evening, in an inconspicuous small block in the city of Radiant King City.

Walking down the block with a cloak that has the function of hiding personal information, Mu Yun ignored the players who appeared sporadically on this secluded street and cast curious glances at him under the cloak, lowered his head and quickly turned into a small alley on the side of the block, and then pushed open the door of an inconspicuous tavern on the side of the alley.

This tavern is not big, and the decoration looks a little old, and even some dirty feeling that has not been cleaned seriously for a long time, but Mu Yun didn't care about it, and walked straight to the counter of the tavern, and spread his hand to the tavern owner NPC who was standing there with a gloomy face and wiped his wine glass, showing a gold coin with a strange pattern printed on the palm of his hand.

The moment he saw the gold coin, the hotel owner stopped wiping the wine glass, and then, after raising his face and looking at Mu Yun with a gloomy gaze, he turned around and groped around the side of an empty bar in the wine cabinet behind, and then on the empty wall next to the wine cabinet, a secret door clicked out of the wall.

Opening the secret door, the boss took out an envelope from it, then closed the secret door again, turned around and handed it to Mu Yun.

“…… Good luck, honorable Marquis."

Mu Yun, who got the envelope, looked up suddenly, only to find that the NPC boss had withdrawn his hand, lowered his head and continued to wipe his cup that looked like it couldn't be wiped clean, as if the person who spoke just now was not him but someone else.

Twitching the corners of his mouth, Mu Yun sealed the envelope into his personal prop space, then turned around and pushed the door, and walked quickly out of the gloomy tavern.

Leaving the remote neighborhood, Mu Yun walked all the way back to an NPC tavern that he had booked in the royal city, and after entering the guest room, he took out the envelope again and opened it to read the contents of the letter.

[Dear Marquis Muyun,

This mission is very dangerous, only open to members above the rank of marquis, even the marquis, has the right to choose whether to take this task, once received, whether it is failure or giving up halfway is not allowed, please think twice.

The empire is now facing a great crisis, and the Dragon's Tooth Society must do something. Our target this time is the Beast Spirit Butcher, Golden Beamonelo, who has brought great disaster to the Empire. The opponent's strength is strong, and the guards around him are also elite and strong. This time, several of the Dukes of the Dragon's Tooth Society will personally deal with Ello, and your mission, Marquis, if you choose to accept this mission, is to contain and prevent the guards from coming to the rescue before the dukes can successfully assassinate them.

If you choose to accept the mission, in two days you will go to the village of Lyme on the west side of the royal city with your Marquis voucher in hand, and you will be guided to the secret meeting house, where you will receive more detailed information on the operation.

The dragon's tooth, the enemy, all for the honor of the empire! 】

After carefully reading the contents of the letter, Mu Yun first showed a sigh of relief, and then frowned again.

The Dragon's Tooth Society, which is said to be a secret society founded by Wendeke, the first emperor of the Radiant Empire, during the Creation War, specializes in carrying out unsightly work such as spying and assassination for the imperial family, but it is not an administrative organization officially recognized by the laws of the Empire, and it is one of the dark sides under the glossy exterior of the Radiant Empire. However, regardless of the nature of this organization, purely in terms of the content of this organization, this organization can be called the top NPC-controlled assassin organization in the empire, and it can even be said that it can better interpret and represent the connotation of the "assassin" profession than the assassin guild where bounty assassin players learn professional skills.

In the previous life, this NPC assassin organization has done something in many main plots on the side of the empire, and the most famous of them is that in the invasion plot of the beast spirit clan in the previous life, this organization once directly assassinated the actual leader of the beast spirit clan in the late stage of the war between the beast spirit clan and the human race, the high priest, and in this life, although because of the appearance of Iro, the beast spirit invasion plot is very different from the previous life, but a similar plot is really staged again, but the assassination target is no longer the high priest of the beast spirit clan, And it has become the golden Beamon Elo who dominates the battlefield in this life, making the northwest battle completely different from the previous life, and showing a one-sided situation.

Mu Yun didn't know whether this change was good or bad, he spent a lot of effort in order to be able to reach the Marquis level of the Dragon Tooth Society at the current level, in order to be able to participate in the assassination of the famous high priest in his previous life, and now although the goal has been achieved, the assassination target has become Ello, an NPC powerhouse who has never appeared in his previous life.

The game plot of this life has developed to the present, compared to the previous life, it can almost be said that the changes are almost unrecognizable, in the previous life, several dukes of the Dragon Tooth Society made a move, and finally exchanged a huge sacrifice for the fall of the high priest of the beast spirit clan, and this time their opponent was Airo, who was stronger than the high priest......

…… At this point, it's useless to think about it...... You can only grit your teeth, right?