In this case, Naigh, who had a habit of spoofing, kept complimenting Rick, and the sycophants were shocking, but on the way, the faces of Rick and the others slowly became gloomy.

Along the way, although Rick and the others returned to the Haitian Empire with the joy of victory at the beginning, they soon found that something was wrong, the closer they got to the border of the Haitian Empire, the people of the Black Sky Empire began to maintain a high degree of vigilance against Rick and his party, and Rick's people also found that there seemed to be a lot of patrol soldiers in various market towns, even in a large city that they passed through, they only found a few thousand soldiers, which was almost unheard of in the Black Sky Empire, a country that was founded by force!

Is there going to be a war! Is it the Haitian Empire?

"Lord Lord, it seems that the Black Sky Empire is mobilizing for war! It could be a war against the Haitian Empire! Akure said to Rick heavily.

Although the five members of Acre were a group of thieves who used to rob the Black Sky Empire, the five people were not the people of the Black Sky Empire, so Akere only judged the problem from the perspective of scrutiny.

"Well, I also thought about this question, it's just that the Black Sky Empire's war mobilization this time seems to be much larger than before, could it be that the consumption suffered in the war of the undead has been restored?" Yao Chen was a little puzzled, and his subordinates couldn't answer this question.

"Alright, no matter what else we do, let's hurry as soon as we can, and try to get back to Black Rock City before the real war between the Black Sky Empire and the Sea and Sky Empire begins," Rick made the final decision.

After that, Rick and his party, who originally returned to Black Rock City with the mentality of playing, followed by Rick and others in order not to cause unnecessary trouble. I had to speed up the journey of eating and sleeping.

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A few days later. Rick and the others rushed back to Black Rock. At the same time, martial law also began in Black Rock City, and the center of the Haitian Empire discovered the war mobilization of the Black Sky Empire for the first time, and the order to impose martial law and carry out war mobilization in various border cities of the Black Sky Empire was quickly issued, and the war clouds were thick on the border line between the Haitian Empire and the Black Sky Empire.

In the Black Rock City Lord's Mansion, Rick arranged the five Akure separately, and handed over the briquettes to Natasha to discipline, and came directly to the office room. Bonn, the faithful butler, was already there waiting for Rick.

"Bonn, it seems that the war mobilization of the Black Sky Empire this time is not so simple?" Rick asked in an inquiring tone like Bonn.

"Yes master, according to the news, since the invasion of the undead was exterminated, the Black Sky Empire has suffered a great loss of national strength, population loss, and national strength...... Although it has recovered a lot in recent years, it is really a lot worse than the national strength of the Haitian Empire, which has not lost much at all, according to the situation. The Black Sky Empire should not be capable of waging war against the Sea and Sky Empire. ”

"Well, then why did I go all the way back. I found that the Black Sky Empire had carried out a great war mobilization, if my calculation was correct, once again the Black Sky Empire had at least one million troops on the border of the Haitian Empire, which was more than half of the forces that the Black Sky Empire could use. How can this be explained? ”

"Well, according to the intelligence, the royal family of the Black Sky Empire seems to be a little unstable......" Bonn slowly uttered a speculative piece of information.

According to the intelligence, the Black Sky Empire currently has 400,000 garrison troops for various cities, 100,000 for the imperial guards and 200,000 imperial capital guard regiments, 800,000 border defense troops, 1.2 million standing troops belonging to the four major legions, and about 300,000 noble private soldiers. The total number of troops is about 3 million.

And in recent times, the old emperor of the Black Sky Empire, Field. Holman seems to be seriously ill, so there is a crisis on the throne, and Field's five heirs are all stepping up preparations to fight for the throne left by Field's death. And this war mobilization against the Haitian Empire was the product of the compromise between several princes.

Although military power is the best bargaining chip to consolidate and compete for the throne, if these forces are not used for themselves, then military power becomes a stumbling block for themselves. The millions of troops mobilized to attack the Haitian Empire this time were completely composed of more than 600,000 troops in the north and east of the Black Sky Empire, which was completely controlled by Emperor Field, as well as some northern border defense forces and some city garrison forces.

And when there is a war between these millions of troops in the Haitian Empire, it may be the last moment when the princes compete for the throne, because the remaining army is completely in the hands of the princes......

"Yes! It seems that the Haitian Empire has really been wronged this time, well, in the past few days, what new orders have been issued by the central government of the imperial capital in addition to war mobilization? Rick said lightly.

"Back to the master, the deputy city lord of Kent has been promoted to the rank of imperial earl, and he has been transferred to a large city in the northern Sanjiang Plain as the city lord six days ago."

"Oh?" Rick's eyebrows raised, and then he said with a smile: "It seems that the name of the dragon knight is really good, and this guy Kent is really lucky!" Any large city in the Sanjiang Plain has a lot of oil and water...... Who is the deputy city lord who will take over now?"

Bonn said respectfully: "It's Viscount Ryser of House Ogden. ”

Rick's eyebrows furrowed, "The Ogden family? Is it the Ogden family, the six golden families of the continent? ”

"Yes hosts! That's the Golden Family! Bonn said respectfully.

"Looks like those guys still want to rub some sand into Black Rock City! Viscount Ryser of House Ogden? Isn't that the guy who became a knight of the earth at the age of 30? Hmph......" Rick snorted heavily, he was unhappy with the behavior of the bored nobles of the imperial capital.

The Golden Family, an extremely noble title, has a total of six Golden Families on the continent, each of which is a golden family with a long history that has been inherited for thousands of years, compared to the empire.

What is the Golden Family?

The continent has the wind dragon, the fire phoenix, the earth Xuanwu, the ice white tiger, the dark purple electric demon leopard, the light unicorn of the six divine beasts, and of course other divine beasts, but these six divine beasts are the guardian beasts of the six golden families!

Although it is not like Rick and Natasha who have signed a master-servant contract, the six divine beasts have signed their own different guardian contracts with the six golden families, which means that when there is a different crisis in the big golden family, you can ask the six divine beasts to give different help. This alone is enough to become a deterrent to the six golden families, and the power of the divine beast is definitely not to be underestimated! That's already the top power on the continent!

For Viscount Rysr of the Ogden Golden Family to become the vice-lord of Black Rock City, Rick's only concept is that the nobles in the imperial capital want to use the name of the Golden Family to suppress their dragon knight prestige.

But Rick has no way to prevent the central government of the imperial capital from sending officials to subordinate cities, and Rick has no idea of rebelling for the time being, even with Natasha's help, he wants to come and rely on these millions of people, the desolate and barren Lami County, and want to rebel? In a few hundred years!

Besides, Rick's ultimate goal is still in his homeland, the Earth, where Rick's roots are!

Rick shook his head and stopped caring about the affairs of the Golden Family, anyway, with the name of the Holy Dragon Knight, he thought that the Golden Family would not provoke him, and ordered Bonn to continue his intelligence work, and Rick's thoughts turned to focus on this sudden war between the Sea and Sky Empire and the Black Sky Empire.

Since the princes of the Black Sky Empire want to direct the attention of these millions of soldiers from the Black Sky Emperor Capital to the Sea and Sky Empire, then the intensity of its war mobilization will not be small, and it seems that Fort Lil will be under a lot of pressure. There are only more than 100,000 imperial soldiers there, and they will face the attack of at least 500,000 or more of the main force of the Black Sky Empire, which seems to be a bit fierce and unlucky, and I don't know when the reinforcements of the Sea and Sky Empire will arrive.

For the commander of Fort Lear, Mabel of the Malone family. Ma Long, although his strength is good and he has a lot of command experience, but at his age, he has never commanded such a huge war scene, I don't know if he can hold it? Rick thought to himself, a little maliciously......

As Rick expected, nearly 600,000 main forces of the Black Sky Empire launched a fierce attack on Fort Lear on the second day after Rick returned to Zhongcheng, although Fort Lear had received information from the Empire and carried out martial law and war mobilization in time, but it was still intimidated by the Black Sky Empire's large war forces.

Although Fort Lil was originally the number one fortress to defend against the Black Sky Empire, its defensive power was absolutely amazing, but under the superior forces of the Black Sky Empire, Fort Lil soon became precarious.

It's just that what Rick didn't expect was that on the morning of the second day of the Black Sky Empire's attack, a hundred thousand urgent letters asking for help had already arrived at Black Rock City from Fort Lear, and the object of the request for help was only His Excellency Rick's Holy Dragon Knight.

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In the conference hall of the Lord's Palace, since the vice-city lord Viscount Resr was still on his way to Black Rock City, Rick gathered all the high-ranking officials of Black Rock City for the first time in the name of the lord.

At the meeting, Rick and Natasha went to Fort Lear first, and the original 5,000 troops and 500 lords' guards in Black Rock City would organize the residents of the city to defend against the attack of the Black Sky Empire's partial division.

Of course, the commander-in-chief of the city defense will be the original captain of the lord guard, Hank, and the lord guard will be held by Acre, without Kent's control, the officials in Black Rock City will quickly understand Rick's decision, no one dares to talk back to the Holy Dragon Knight, is not afraid of being trampled by the dragon?

After clearing the defenses of Black Rock City, Rick and Natasha set out on the road to Fort Lear again, and the briquettes were once again irresponsibly thrown by Rick to the bad old man Karl to control them, and Akre and the others were all incorporated into the army system of Black Rock City. (To be continued......)