In the early years, the Nine-Nation Business Alliance was not a complete country in the actual sense, but more like an international cooperation organization. With the rise of the two empires of Desik and San Jose, the small country in the west began to be unable to withstand the pressure of the great powers.

As a result, the business alliance at that time began to unify from economic to political, and soon, the main ~ seat of the business alliance was established, which was responsible for unifying and coordinating the political policies of various countries. After that, including diplomatic, economic, military, etc., all countries must comply with the requirements of the business alliance chairman~. The delegates of the main ~ meeting, mainly the envoys of the monarchs of various countries or the feudal monarchs themselves, to a certain extent, can decide the political direction of the business alliance through the meeting.

Among the nine countries of the business alliance, Manning is the number one power, whether in terms of land area, economic strength or geographical location. As a result, the leader of the business alliance ~ Xihui naturally chose to establish its headquarters in Manning City.

When King Rodlin of Southern Madur released the last flamingo in the burning palace, in the city of Manning, the great elders of the Lord~Council were discussing the adverse effects of the increasing pressure on military spending on the merchant alliance, and King Manning's proposal to increase the military expenditure of various countries to support the 40 new brigades was being strongly opposed by the representatives of various countries.

The flamingo flew hundreds of miles to the city of Manning, where it landed in a bird's nest on the Tower of Babel (Note 1). The Adventurer's Guild has a dedicated bird keeper who takes care of the flamingos, which were originally born in this nest on the Tower of Babel.

Therefore, every delivery to Manning City is a return journey for the Flamingo.

Today, the bird keeper at the top of the tower is called Jennifer, she is a little girl with freckles on her face, her father was originally a bird keeper in the Adventurers' Guild, and when her father was old, Jennifer took over this job, and today, it is her first day to work in the Adventurers' Guild.

"The birdkeeper's job is quite simple," Jennifer said, recalling her father's advice, "and every day, you should clean the aviary and prepare fresh water and food." The aviary of the Adventurer's Guild is very busy, with a large number of flamingos coming and going every day, and people from the guild coming to pick up the birds and deliver letters. You have to do a good handover, and you have to carefully check the physical condition of the birds that come back. ”

However, my father also said that flamingos are huge and have few natural predators in the sky, and even falcons are generally reluctant to provoke them. Therefore, Jennifer's mood was still very relaxed, looking at the flamingos coming and going overhead.

However, this day is destined to be an extraordinary day for Jennifer. In the distance, another flamingo was returning to its nest, it was a bird coming from the west, staggering and flying slowly, as if it was about to fall to the ground in the next second.

"What's going on?" Jennifer noticed the bird in the distance, and she stood up suddenly.

The flamingo flew close soon, and from this angle, it could be seen that the flamingo was actually black, stained with something that I don't know if it was black ash or black mud, and the originally beautiful and slender tail feathers were actually broken!

Eventually, the bird flew to the nest and fell to the ground. On its back, there was a broken feather arrow! The blood had dried up and solidified into a dark purple lump from the wound of the feather arrow.

Jennifer exclaimed, fell to her knees beside the flamingo, and carefully hugged its body. The bird seemed to be overdrawn and was slowly wheezing, but still trying to stretch its front paws towards Jennifer. On the front paws, there is a tightly tied parchment roll, and the red binding rope is quite dazzling.

Although it was her first day of work, Jennifer, who was born into a family of bird-keepers, knew the hierarchy of letters on flamingos' legs from an early age, and in her father's story, for so many years, she had never received a flamingo message with a red letter, which had only one meaning, which was "a hundred thousand urgent". Jennifer blankly took the red letter from the flamingo's leg, not knowing what to do.

In normal times, after obtaining the letter from the flamingo, the bird keeper only needs to put the letter into the letter box on the lower level, and naturally the administrator of the adventurer's guild will come to collect the letter and distribute it, and after hesitating for a while, Jennifer made a bold move, she released the injured bird from the nest, lifted her skirt, and ran towards the "floating ladder".

A staircase at the top of the tower leads to all rooms on all floors of the Tower of Babel, including the one of the Presbyterians. Jennifer held up the red letter in her hand as she ran and shouted, "Emergency letter! Urgent letter!", all the adventurer guild members along the way were shocked, most of them didn't know who Jennifer was, but they all saw Jennifer running by like the wind and heard her exclamation.

The news of Desik's brazen invasion of the kingdom of Southern Madur bypassing the Grand Canyon spread throughout the city of Manning like wings, and in the morning, the wounded flamingo brought the news, and in the evening, the whole city of Manning was talking about the war.

The letter was written by King Nanmadur in the last moments of his life: "At this moment, the Steppenwolf cavalry of Desik has broken through the inner city and is about to enter my palace, the defenders of Southern Madur have been dispersed, and the people of Southern Madur have been slaughtered. As a king, as a chieftain of a mountain tribe, I can't protect my subjects, and I can't live in secret. I hope that this letter can be sent to the Lord of the Business Alliance~ Xi Hui, God bless the Business Alliance, God bless Nanmadur, and Rodlin is absolutely authored. ”

King Manning looked at the letter in front of him with a pale face, and after the news reached the Manning Palace, the king put down half of the opera he had watched and personally came to the venue of the Lord of the Business Alliance~ Banquet. The Adventurer's Guild was shaking when she took the letter from Jennifer's hand, Jennifer didn't understand the danger of the Red Flamingo letter, and the elders of the Adventurer's Guild naturally understood. In the history of the Shang League, the appearance of red flamingo letters often meant only one thing, and that was war.

The Lord of the Business Alliance~ The meeting is usually manned by ambassadors from various countries, but today, King Manning and the chief elder of the Adventurers' Guild came together, which shocked all the ambassadors, "What happened?" King Manning made a look, and the chief elder stepped forward and said in a heavy tone: "I just received the news that the Steppenwolf of the Desik Empire rode around the Grand Canyon, and I don't know how to cross the Sunset Snow Mountain for thousands of miles, and attacked the territory of the Merchant Alliance from behind South Madur. The latest news, the whole territory of Southern Madur has fallen, and what I am holding in my hand is the last letter of King Southern Madur!" he said, raising the red letter in his hand.

"Ah!" there was an exclamation in the venue, and a middle-aged nobleman couldn't help but get up, "This is impossible!"

The Chief Elder gave him a sympathetic look, "Ambassador Rodrin, this is true, please be careful." As he spoke, he handed the letter to the middle-aged nobleman, and when he took it, several ambassadors around him gathered around and craned their necks to see what was going on.

After just one glance, Ambassador Rodlin's body shook and he couldn't stand in an instant, and the Earl Munch beside him hurriedly helped him, but he didn't expect Ambassador Rodlin to scream "Brother!" and fainted.

The Chief Elder approached King Manning and explained in a low voice, "Ambassador Rodlin is the younger brother of King Nam Madur, and I heard that he has always had a deep affection, and he also has the trust of King Rodrin. "

King Manning nodded, "It's normal to react like this. ”

Seeing that everyone had almost digested it, the Chief Elder continued, "It is imperative that the supreme meeting of the Shang Alliance must be convened now, and the monarchs of all countries need to rush to the Shang Alliance as soon as possible to coordinate the resources of various countries to launch a resistance struggle. The actions of the Desik people are outraged by the gods and gods, and we will never give in!"

The meeting ended quickly, and the ambassadors left the venue in a hurry. According to the regulations of the Business Alliance, the war and foreign policy of the Business Alliance must be voted on by the Lord of the Business Alliance ~ after deliberation, and under normal circumstances, the ambassadors of various countries, as representatives of the monarch, can make weighty decisions. However, this time the invasion of the Desik Empire was such a major event that even the favored ambassadors of various countries could not make decisions independently. The first thing they had to do was to report the matter to the kings and dukes of all countries, wait for their arrival, and all the monarchs would discuss how to deal with it.

This is what the Chief Elder calls the Supreme Council of the Chamber of Commerce.

The Adventurer's Guild, as a special independent organization within the Business Alliance, at this time, they will also become the main military intelligence agency within the Business Alliance, contributing to the entire Business Alliance. Therefore, after the meeting, the Chief Elder also hurried back to the Tower of Babel, where the elders of the Adventurer's Guild and the members of the Hunter Regiment were still anxiously waiting for news.

And in the far northwest of the continent, General Jim is reorganizing his army. In the siege of Southern Madur, the losses of the warriors of the wasteland were not large, Southern Madol was too weak, and the superior geographical location made the country's soldiers forget how to fight. At this point, His Majesty Edward's first phase goal has been achieved, and the attention of the entire merchant alliance has been drawn to this remote and small country at the foot of Sunset Mountain.

And Jim Guderian, he thought that this would be the first battle in which he became famous on the continent, and he gave this method of battle a name, called "Blitzkrieg"!

For Jennifer in Manning City, her first working day may be remembered for a lifetime, and in this evening, a stream of high-ranking nobles climbed the Tower of Babel of the Adventurers' Guild, and in front of the bird's nest at the top of the tower, one after another flamingos were released, and one after another red emergency flamingo letters were taken to various countries of the merchant alliance.

Until nightfall, in the empty nest at the top of the tower, there was only one flamingo left, the wounded flamingo from South Madur. Jennifer had already removed the broken arrow from its back, dressed it with medicine, and the bird's vitality was so tenacious that it could barely stand up and peck at Jennifer's palm affectionately with its beak.

"Hehehehehe", Jennifer was amused and laughed. Although the red letter was delivered directly to the Chief Elder, she did not know what the war meant to the young Jennifer, and she also did not know, and under her feet, the entire city of Manning was in action, and countless warriors, nobles, commoners, and soldiers would have to face their different fates.

And Jennifer, already holding the flamingo, fell asleep.