In the northeastern corner of the Alpha District, adjacent to the Kingdom of Hadrang, there is a city named ...... Prell City.

That's right, the city is named after Richie. When Li Qi first built the territory, he moved the town under the castle to the edge of the territory, and the townspeople of the town, as well as those who Li Qi thought were not suitable for renovation, lived here.

In just over two years, the construction of the Fei Gong on the Shenyuan Plateau has advanced by leaps and bounds, and this town is a building close to the water, benefiting a lot, and has also developed into a town with tens of thousands of permanent residents and 20,000 or 30,000 floating population.

In the system of the Phillips Communist Party, the city is a very unique existence.

The citizens here are not counted as people under the rule of the Fei Gong, they still regard themselves as subjects of the Hadran kingdom, and the institutions follow the traditions of the old era. At the same time, they also think that they are the subjects of Richie-Prell, and when they talk about Richie, they are still full of "Duke Lord" or even "Viscount Lord", the latter is obviously the "Old Prell" who watched Richie grow up, and holds a full sense of superiority in front of the former.

In any case, according to the tacit understanding between Li Qi and Theresia at the beginning, the city does belong to Li Qi. Although it was not developed as a revolutionary asset of the Ferdo, it was part of the Alpha Zone after all. The agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry developed in the Alpha District is just the scum that falls on the ground, which is enough for the citizens of Prell City to eat to death.

It's not that the Alpha Zone is mismanaged, but that the Phillips really needs such a "window" to absorb talents and materials from the outside. Not to mention anything else, the predecessor of the Slime Commune, the Caring Slime Association, collected various slime samples all over East Fein through the Adventurer's Guild in Prell City.

Another important use of Prell City is the information channel, the Dawning Empire's joint communication network has built several communication towers in close proximity to Prell City, and the communication range covers the entire city, where the Filipino Communist Intelligence Bureau and the Technical Intelligence Department of the Commission of Science and Technology can closely track all aspects of the Dawning Empire's movements.

The Alpha District not only distributed free food and household supplies to the thousands of registered Dukes of Prel, but also regularly sold some defective goods to them at very low prices. The former is mainly based on basic daily necessities such as flour, meat and eggs, beer, and textiles, and has a reputation as "exclusive for the total amount of money" in the outside world. The latter includes all kinds of food crops and livestock, and even if they are defective, they are not comparable to the output capacity of other places, and they can definitely be regarded as first-class goods.

The citizens of Prell City mainly relied on reselling these things to the wealthy families and even nobles of the Hadron Kingdom for profit, which also attracted merchants from all over East Fein. Based on their previous experience, they felt that there must be a black market trading channel from the hinterland of the Fei Gong to the outside world in this place, and they also came into contact with such a channel as they wished, that is, the trading company established in Prell by the Planning and Development Commission presided over by Nicole.

Through this "official black market", the Planning and Development Commission sold the surplus materials of the Fei Gong to merchants from all over East Fein, and bought from them various scarce materials of the Fei Gong. In the whole year of 1227, the Planning and Development Commission exchanged extremely cheap copper and mythril for dozens of tons of magic steel from informal channels, which strongly supported the magic industry of the Fei Gong.

Of course, all of this is based on the premise that Empress Aurora turned a blind eye to this smuggling underground deal, and when Empress Aurora issued a proclamation of the Holy War of Order through various news channels, the prosperity of Prell City seemed to have come to an end.

In the city hall in the center of the city, with the title of "City Lord Deacon", it is actually the mayor who buried his body deep in the wide leather chair, looked at the mirage screen on the wall, and did not blink his eyes for a long time.

This is a middle-aged man with a white face and a gloomy eyebrow, and the deep wrinkles in the center of his eyebrows look close to old age.

"Natsu ......"

The young lady covered in jewels said impatiently, "What are you thinking? Count Donn has made it so clear that as long as he cooperates with the people of the Hadron Kingdom to eliminate the forces of the Crimson Church here, his imperial legions will not enter the city!"

"Are you still ready to die for Duke Prell's loyalty? There is no Duke Prell anymore, only the traitor and cult god Richie Prell!"

Sebadian's eyes finally blinked, he looked at his wife, and then looked up and shouted, "Sony!"

"No! Xia Wen! I was wrong!"

Hearing this name, the noble lady knelt on the ground with a puff and slapped herself: "It's me who is wrong! I shouldn't insult the master! Xia Wen, don't let Soni fix me...... Don't ......"

A slender figure squeezed out of the air, and a slight tap on the back of the noblewoman's neck made her faint.

The masked girl looked at Sebadian, did not speak, and waited for his next command.

Sebadian said lightly: "Change her into a servant's clothes and throw her in the stable." ”

The girl nodded, and disappeared with the noblewoman in her arms.

Confirming that the girl named Soni had disappeared, Sebadian shook his head and said, "I don't even have the right to inherit the viscount's concubine, dare to scold the master, where did I have the guts." ”

Then his determined and indifferent expression finally collapsed, and he held his head and groaned in pain: "Where did the lord get the courage to rebel against Her Majesty?"

The correspondence between Li Qi and the witch flashed in his mind, and Sebadian sighed: "I have long known that the goddess of the master's faith has come from the wrong way and has ill intentions!"

"Sir, sir!"

His little squire rushed in from the outside: "Something happened to the Adventurer's Guild!"

After listening to the little squire's story, Sebadian closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the hesitation on his face disappeared, and he said in a cold tone, "Now you go out of the city to find Count Donne......"

Not far from the city hall, in the adventurer's guild next to the city's central square, a dispute sparked countless onlookers and crowded the guild gates.

In the guild's reception hall, a dozen or so soldiers were smashing the counter, yelling and screaming at the receptionist, and a circle of guild guards moaning and screaming on the ground lay on the ground. Dressed in armor as smooth as a mirror, the soldiers were clearly not Hadran accents, and some parts of their hilts and shields shone with the brilliance of copper mythril, and they were all transcendent.

These soldiers were unusually arrogant, and seemed to treat the Adventurers' Guild as their trophies.

"If you want to save your lives, move the vault out immediately!"

"Don't think we don't know who you really are, everyone in this guild is in the service of the Crimson Church!"

"The Crimson Church has been ruled by Her Majesty the Empress as an enemy of God, and you are still doing business in broad daylight, thinking that you can get away with it?"

"The Hadron people are embarrassed to clean you up, we Saqidans are welcome!"

The onlookers finally understood that the soldiers were from the army led by Earl Donn.

The city of Prell is now facing a great catastrophe, and the Earl of Don has arrived with the Imperial Legion and is encamped not far from here. Now they are still gathering a large army, and it seems that they are going to break through to the Divine Fall Plateau from here.

The townspeople have petitioned the city lord, Deacon Sebadian, to fully cooperate with Earl Don and not turn Prell City into a battlefield, even if the name of the city is changed and a proclamation condemning Richie Prell is issued.

Unexpectedly, their representatives were driven out by Sebadian, so another group of citizens temporarily gained power. They claim that as citizens of Prell City, they should stand firmly on the side of Prell. The city of Prell has the support of the Lord, and the Earl of Donn was still a duke...... No, the subordinate of the cardinal of the Fei Gong, the city of Prell is absolutely as stable as an old dog.

These Sachedonian soldiers immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction from the audience, but they did not dare to perform more radically except for cold eyes and boos, let alone rush forward to relieve the delicate receptionist sister.

The boos of the citizens seemed to misunderstand the soldiers, who thought that they had everyone's support.

The strong man who looked like a captain grabbed the collar of a receptionist and said with a hideous smile: "If you don't take out anything again, you and your sisters will be taken away as prisoners." I have eighty more men in the barracks, and they will entertain you. ”

This receptionist was a beautiful millet girl, with a pair of eyes as bright as the stars of the night, she was not panicked at all, and said lightly: "You didn't come here on the orders of your superiors, did you, which merchant instructed you?"

The leader of the soldiers sneered: "To fight the enemy of order, you still need an order from your superiors!?"

He glanced at the other receptionists, who seemed to be calm, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm on the counter, and said disdainfully, "We know very well that those Hadrangs are hooking up with you. We Sachidonians don't have so many scruples, we are only loyal to Her Majesty!"

"Earl Donn won't let us enter the city, he has a good relationship with Richie Preor, he has disobeyed His Majesty's edicts! We don't need the approval of some bullshit superiors! There is an enemy in front of us, and if we find an enemy, we will fight!"

The guy turned his gaze back to the receptionist's pretty cheeks, and said with a confused smile: "So, be well-behaved yourself, we can be lenient." ”

As he spoke, he untied his collar and touched the receptionist's towering breasts.

The receptionist raised his arm and put his arm on his arm, his slender eyebrows raised, and his tone was full of pity: "Count Donn restrains you for your own good, and he is afraid that you will casually bury your own life." ”

The leader glared and let out an exaggerated oh, and his men laughed loudly.

At this time, a few cloaked guests crowded in from outside, looking very ordinary, but as soon as they appeared, the buzz of those spectators was much lower, and they were even retreating.

The leader couldn't think about why the other party, a weak girl, could hold his arm steadily and turn his head to look at those people.

As you can see from the outline of the cloak, there is no armor inside, and there are no weapons such as swords or magic guns.

The leader pointed to the guards who were still lying on the ground and said, "Are they their companions? Don't you see what happened to them?

A middle-aged man at the head frowned, and said in an unbelievable tone: "I can't figure it out either, where did you have the courage to come here to make trouble?"

The middle-aged man lifted his cloak, and except for the surprisingly wide belt around his waist, he was dressed in a very ordinary swordsman's suit.

The leader is still saying, "What do you think of the war?" street fights?"

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up: "Oh, it sounds like you want to fire the first shot of the Holy War of Order here?"

He clenched his hands into fists, and his joints clicked: "Great! This honor is ...... by me."

"Dick!"

The beautiful receptionist shouted, "Don't rob me of my job!"

There was a loud sound, and the spectators and some of the Sachitonian soldiers suddenly exclaimed, and the leader turned his back to her, and before he could understand what was happening, he was suddenly grabbed by the neck, and the whole person was lifted.

The girl, who was wrapped in the refined full-body armor, carried a Sachitonian with at least 200 kilograms of armor, drew half a circle in the air and slammed it on the counter, making a muffled sound.

The Sachiton's face was firmly pressed against the thick phlegm he had spat on the counter, and the bridge of his nose shattered on the spot and his head was bleeding.

His physique was indeed strong, and he hadn't fainted yet, but then the girl took a step of more than ten meters, carrying him and flashing to the wall of the hall in an instant.

In the blurred vision, watching the wall quickly approaching his face, the Saqitonian subconsciously raised his arm and shouted: "Don't ——!"

There was a loud bang, a cloud of rubble and smoke, and the Saqitonian slammed into the wall, his whole body embedded in it.

There was a constant rattle, almost out of thin air, and the other receptionists were wearing the same armor, even hiding their heads in their helmets.

They wielded their oddly shaped magic spears and aimed them at the stunned Sachitonian soldiers.

The receptionist who cleaned up the leader also had an extra magic guide gun in his hand, glanced at the other party, and said coldly: "I don't know what the intention of seducing you people to come here is, but in his eyes, you are already dead." ”

Since he knows so well the relationship between this adventurer's guild and the Fei Gong, he should know that the most powerful and unprovoked person in the Fei Gong's adventurer guild is the receptionist. ”

The girl pointed the magic guide gun at the Sachitonian soldier: "My name is Luminous Anne, if this is the first shot of the Holy War of Order, I will gladly shoot." ”

There was a pop, and the Sachitonian soldiers all knelt on the ground, their hands raised high.

Next to him, sighed: "It's a pity, none of us can fire the first shot." ”