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White Slope is a hilly area located between Wintersnow City and Nigal City. This undulating hill is covered with white trees known as poplars.

Whenever the breeze blows, those white leaves will sway with the wind, and from a distance, it looks like a sparkling white lake, so the locals call this special area on this day.

Since the hilly area was not conducive to vehicle traffic, the people of Dongxue and Nigal mobilized craftsmen to build a large road between the two cities that could be used by horse-drawn carriages in order to facilitate travel and communication.

The distance is long, the road is time-consuming and laborious, and for many years, there was only one road between the two cities that could be passed.

On foot, you can also hike through overgrown hills, although few normal people are willing to do so; But if you take a horse-drawn carriage, you have to and can only take this road.

Reece and his party were lying next to a mound in the middle of the white slope, waiting for Nigal's convoy to appear.

"Do we only have that number of troops? Don't you have a lot of black hands? There were only a few dozen people before the meeting, and Reese couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

The black hand put the short knife in his hand aside, took the wine bag from his waist with his free hand, poured a sip, and breathed a sigh of relief, before replying:

"I do have a lot of subordinates, but this is not for the Empire, if I don't find someone who can be absolutely trusted, I'm afraid that I will be denounced on the back foot after I finish doing things on the front foot."

The black hand brought this time was all the subordinates who were demonized by Lilian, and they would never be able to betray the demon city.

You have to be careful when doing things for the demons, if one is not good, showing the horse's feet, and being known by the temple, it is a treatment that is worse than death.

Don't look at the righteousness and kindness that the temple preaches all day long, it's all for the believers of the temple, if it's a mortal enemy demon clan, it's a world of difference.

"But, I remember that there are at least a hundred guards in Nigal, so we can do it with these men?"

Reese shook his head at his companion on the other side, looking a little skeptical about the feasibility of the robbery plan.

"Humph! Stupid human, do you think everyone is like you! Just wait a while and watch it! ”

Reese's worries were met with a taunt from Luna, who leaped down from a nearby poplar in her black cat form and looked at her with disgust on her face.

Reece smiled awkwardly, but he understood the situation.

He's not really a great character, but he's a new force anyway; Luna doesn't need him to fight now, on the one hand, she is naturally worried that her threatened 'ally' will be holding back.

On the other hand...

Reese raised his eyebrows, and with a plan in his heart, he looked at the sun that was about to move behind the mountain, and asked:

"Your people won't be lost, why haven't you waited so long for the other party to arrive?"

"No, I can feel it, they're approaching here!"

The black cat said no, and climbed up the poplar back up the trunk, seemingly checking the location of the target.

"Oh, I almost forgot you could sense it." Reese smiled suddenly, then turned to the black hand and asked in a low voice:

"Speaking of which, how did you get together with this black cat, Black Hand? I think you must have been a subordinate of your father. ”

"Well, although I want to say something pretty, but unfortunately, I was forced to join the gang out of desperation, just like you."

Maybe he remembered some bad experience, and the black hand's face was a little ugly, but when he finally talked about Reese, he had a sense of schadenfreude.

"Well, how do I feel like I'm on the road of no return..."

"They're coming!" The voice of the black cat came from the tree, and the two suddenly stopped talking and looked at the road vigilantly.

In the distance, a convoy of dark blue flags came into view and headed in the direction of their ambush.

"Wait a minute, follow the first plan, which is what Rees said. Black Hand, you lead someone to attract attention from the front, and I'll use my magic to blow up the carriage Lily is in, and then we'll take her and go. If you can't use the power of the Demon City, you can't use it, Lily has commanded, and we can't expose our existence yet. Luna said in a serious tone.

"No problem, but you'd better be efficient, we don't have a strong frontal combat capability." The Black Hand nodded, reminding Luna by the way.

"Hmm!"

Luna nodded and ran towards the convoy, and the Black Hand was ready to fight...

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I don't know if it was because the city lord of Buton was too anxious, or for some other reason, the convoy was traveling very fast, but in just a few breaths, the small convoy in the distance came closer.

If it weren't for the speed limit imposed by the walking guards, perhaps the convoy would have been able to go up a notch faster.

"Huh!"

"Shhhh

One of the horses pulling the cart in front of the front was suddenly pierced through the stomach by a sharp spear, and it neighed and fell to the ground suddenly.

The beam of the carriage was crushed by the dead horse and struck on the ground.

The carriage was overturned by inertia and lay in the middle of the road, blocking the way of the carriages in the back.

At the same time, more than a dozen black balls were thrown into the convoy.

The explosion sounded, and the gray-black fog immediately dispersed, obscuring people's vision.

"There is an ambush, cough~"

Suddenly, some of the guards standing on the periphery immediately choked on the thick fog and coughed, coupled with the tear-jerking effect in the smoke, they suddenly lost their ability to fight.

And the guards who had isolated the gray mist with their fighting spirit in time did not breathe a sigh of relief when they met the attackers covered in black cloth, and the unlucky or unskilled ones were immediately hit by the incoming ones, and then touched by the dagger in the neck.

Creating and taking advantage of favorable circumstances, sneak attacks, and assassinations were all common tactics of the Assassins.

"Protect your lordship!"

The captain of the guard, who was fighting at the front, shouted with a fighting spirit that he wanted to make the convoy move closer to the carriage of the Lord of Buton and protect the safety of the lord.

But as soon as he finished roaring, he saw a swirling black circle from the dense fog that gradually dissipated, and a black light shot out from it, rushing towards Buton's carriage at an alarming speed.

"Watch out for the mage!"

The chief of the guard roared, and a sword split the masked man in front of him, trying to go up to the rescue, but the black light had already passed through the body of the guard who was trying to resist, and hit the carriage with no less strength!

"Bang ——!"

Sawdust flew, a cloud of smoke rose from the carriage that had been struck by the black mang, and the two horses pulling the cart were also shocked to death by the aftermath of the magic, and they collapsed limply on the ground. The guards stared at the exploding carriage with some despair, but they didn't expect their city lord to be killed like this.

"Whew~"

The breeze rose and fell, the smoke cleared, and what appeared in front of everyone's eyes was not an imaginary corpse, but a translucent barrier that shimmered with golden light.

Behind the golden barrier is a fat man with a rich face and a blue-haired girl trapped in chains, who are none other than Ronier's Lord of Buton and Jasmine, the remnant of Balktor. Luna's target, Black Egg, is lying quietly next to the blue-haired girl.

And behind the two of them is the culprit who creates a barrier to block Luna's attack.

This is an old man in gray who is dressed in a low-key manner, and he is holding a glowing divine book in his hand, and a soft and warm light is shooting out of the book.

This golden light illuminated the hope of the guards, but frightened Reese, who was watching the battle,

"Law... Lawrence!!! ”

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