"Duran, did you think they would come along?" Kate asked a little nervously, and she couldn't help but stiffly pretend to glance behind her inadvertently—she found nothing but barren land and scattered bushes, but not finding it was not necessarily safe, and in this hurried glance, Kate found at least three or more places large enough for one or two people to hide.

The thought of confronting the Lord Guards of White Sands Town made Kate feel a little unbelievable - even when the forces of the Black Men were strong, they were not arrogant enough to face the Lord Guards of a town. They use more roundabout methods, poisoning, murder, etc., which are not enough to break the bones of the dragonman nobles, but they will definitely give them a headache for a while. As for confronting the Guards, it is the same as rebellion, which is very different from revenge like anger, revenge with blood and hatred, and formal rebellion. This can be seen from the attitude of the empire towards the black-clad people, who have been active in the south, and the targets of revenge have generally stayed on the murderous lords of some small and medium-sized places, and they are far from setting their sights on the real nobles of the real big cities, such as the big pudding city. So the real attention of the Empire did not come to the south, and they ordered the black-clad people to be arrested and burned to death, but not to the point where a real army or other violent agency could be dispatched to deal with this group of outlaws, and for the higher-ups, these small troubles were left to the local lords to solve the problem.

But once the revenge turned into a rebellion, the Ruha Empire's assessment of them would be very different, and the scene of the Three Northern Provinces planned by the White Tower Wizard many years ago is still vivid. It is said that when the three northern provinces succeeded in expelling or killing all the dragonmen, the humans completed a brief reading power with the help of two young White Tower wizards, but while everyone was celebrating their freedom, the evil dragons that had not appeared for many years once again revealed their hideous claws, and the knights of the Legion of the Burning Blood Oath were invincible, and the blades fell and blood splattered everywhere they went.

Kate knew that the Tusosians of the three northern provinces were still swallowing the bitter fruits of the rebellion, and that the people there were regarded as the descendants of rebels, living a harder life than the rest of the empire, almost equal to slaves. Adult men do three times as much hard work every day, while women are forced to catch by hand on the half-frozen lake in the cold winter days the delicious sturgeon that floats to the surface to breathe, and these sturgeons are eventually transported by griffons or bipedal wyverns to the capital of Ruha, the Last City of Scantantine, an ancient city with titles and names as the head of the twelve dragons and the founder of the empire, which gathered most of the dragonman nobility. The hard work of the Tusosian people is to enable these noble lords to live without leaving home and have enough food and clothing.

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"It's not necessarily a good idea to fight the Lord's Guard." Kate couldn't hide the worry in her heart, although she was quite uncomfortable to be rejected by Duran before, but she still put forward her own opinion.

"Relax, this is the middle of nowhere, a marginal place that even Sivi may not even notice." Duran calmly explained, "Even if we get rid of this team, it's nothing, Andrew won't know about it - because I'll kill him before he knows it." ”

"Well, even if you can convince me that you have a way to deal with Andrew, you can't stop the news from leaking out - the blacks assassinate the Lord of White Sands while taking a tough stance against the Lord Guard. Such an act may really irritate the nerves of the nobles of the Grand Pudding City, who will be uneasy and prepare plans for revenge...... We didn't do that before, even if we wanted to assassinate the lord, we had to find a way to cover it up and keep it from the real upper echelons of the empire from noticing us. Kate insisted on her opinion and told Duran about the Blacks' routines.

"To be honest, I don't understand what you mean, or rather, what my teacher used to mean." Duran shrugged: "We're a bunch of Avengers?" Isn't it? Since revenge, you should be prepared to stain your hands with blood or bury your surname's life. Or are you content to just be a bunch of vandals? While disrupting the order of the Empire, he carefully hopes not to irritate the nerves of this behemoth? Don't you think it's a bit embarrassing or even funny? ”

"Duran, this is probably the attitude of all the forces in the world that oppose the Dragon Empire, not only the black-clothed people, but also our White Tower wizards." Erijia interjected: "Of course, that reading power in the three northern provinces was an accident. Those two genius brothers of mine were conceited of their magic skills, which was why they disobeyed the orders of the elders and arbitrarily planned the rebellion that was half successful. In most cases, although the wizards of the White Tower have been working hard to overthrow the dragon empire, they have rarely considered using too strong means - this is also related to their own strength, I have overheard the teacher's dream words more than once, can you imagine a two-hundred-year-old white-bearded old man angrily patting the bed board and saying to Xiwei, 'If I can advance to the realm of the second god in my lifetime, I will go and tear down the rotten city, and before those reptiles can sleep enough, I will smoke the bones of their children and grandchildren, and then fight with them, Whether it's a win or a lose' scenario? Those twelve dragons are so powerful that as long as they are there, the Dragonman Empire will not collapse. ”

"You're right." Kate gave Eregar a grateful look.

Duran listened quietly, and gradually had some numbers in his heart: Eregal's teacher obviously had a high status among the wizards of the White Tower, and it could be seen from his old man's words that he should still stay in the realm of a legendary mage, and if he couldn't condense his godhead, he would never be promoted to a second god, which was a rule set by Xiwei. And the power of those twelve evil dragons is above the sub-gods, so it's no wonder that the wizards of the White Tower are difficult to match.

Kate's worries Duran fully understood, she was worried that Duran would lead the black-clothed people to the path of destruction, but Duran knew that blindly compromising and retreating was useless, he was familiar with the history of the continent and the changes in the next few years, and knew that the twelve dragons had already gone to the chaos to explore the secrets of a higher level, and the rule of the Dragonman Empire was not as stable as it seemed on the surface.

Duran's preknowledge of Fernan's knowledge is limited to the past and the next few years, and he knows that the game data sets players to enter the game to play the role of the chosen son who came out of the shelter, it was the year of God's blessing, the continent was ignited with monstrous wars, the Rouha Empire was disregarded, and these originally closed shelters were all opened, and the humans, elves and other races who had been cultivated for thousands of years poured back into the continent, and they fought side by side, just to push Rouha into the abyss of destruction.

After that, Duran didn't have time to see what the fate of the Luha Empire was, and he had no way of knowing. He only knew that none of the twelve dragons would appear on the Finan Continent until the Year of God's Blessing, so all he was facing was the power of the dragons.

"I know your concerns, but even if we don't want to clash with the Lord Guards, they won't necessarily let us go." Duran reminded: "The guy in the back is a veteran, not far away, not close, there are a few times when I almost can't perceive his presence, such a guy is not so easy to dismiss." ”

"I can kill him." Simodo leapt with his greatsword.

Iron Hide thought to himself, the appearance of Simodo allowed Duran's strength to continue to grow, but it also took his place. If he didn't fight for it, he was afraid that he would never be able to hold his head up again among Duran's followers, so the ogre patted his chest and volunteered, "I can too." ”

"I admire the courage of both of them." Duran angrily pointed to the continuous wolf howl from behind, and said nonchalantly, "If you two can directly deal with them all, I don't mind being a spectator." ”

As he spoke, a small group of figures appeared on the plain in the distance, they were fully equipped and tall, there were about eleven people, plus the guy who had been following Duran, it was a dozen people.

"A dozen well-trained and well-equipped guards, a few wolf-like beasts, very challenging the task." Simodo grinned and said cheerfully, "Let's listen to Lord Duran's opinion." ”

"Into the valley." Duran waved his hand and motioned for everyone to speed up, although both sides could already see each other on the barren plain, but in fact, except for the guard, the rest of the people were still quite far away from Duran and his party, even if they ran wildly, it would take five or six minutes. This period of time was enough for Duran and the others to calmly hide in the valley, the land in front of them suddenly bent, Duran pulled Kate, and said to Seamodo and Ironhide: "The time has come to test the strength of the two of you, if I remember correctly, there are a lot of ready-made stones in the valley, go and move some to block here...... No, it's there. ”

The group quickly entered the valley, and Simodo and Ironhide glanced at each other, both of them showing puzzled expressions. The place that Duran was referring to was a narrow spot that turned after entering the small valley, and if they were to be stoned, the guards might not be able to catch up with them.

This is not in line with Duran's previous rhetoric that he wants to deal with this group of guards here.

However, the two did not raise their own questions, after all, time was running out, and at the moment, under the leadership of Du Lan, the group walked quickly to the depths.

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