This great punishment brought by the followers of Talos, in addition to the direct face of the Eastern Crown, the disaster caused by the tsunami and volcanic eruption even affected the other three islands, among which Xizhi was destroyed an entire port and part of the building because of the closest relationship to the Eastern Crown, and the South Pass and the North Crown had cracks in the ground, and some ships were hit and sunk by the blazing stones that fell from mid-air, not to mention the "dragon" The smoke and dust that erupts when they wake up and the lava that flows into the sea will cause a mass death of polyps, and even if you can hire druids and white robes, it will take more than ten years to recover.

The lords of the three islands quickly summoned their warlocks and mages, of course, the spellcasters who had completed the spell on the island of the eastern crown could not understand why the volcano of the eastern crown had suddenly erupted again, only the two mages hired by the eastern crown lord had a guess if it was related to the black-haired spellcaster, but they were not idiots enough to rap at this time.

None of this prevents them from casting spells to understand why, whether a mage or a warlock can summon souls roaming the mourning wasteland to inquire about the cause, or cast peep and prophecy spells, and the lords soon learn that it is the priests of Guntarus who are attacking the Eastern Crown.

"You see," the lord of Nanguan sighed as a young man a few years after inheriting his father's position, and if it weren't for the disaster of the Eastern Crown, which affected his island, he might have watched this splendid scenery with a wine glass in his hand: "I said that the priests of the gods are all insane," They also paid tribute and tribute to Talos, but not for his protection but not for his revenge, so even if the people of the Dragonfire Islands offered more sacrifices and money than any city near the sea, they absolutely did not want to have anything to do with the priests of Talos, only the lords of the Eastern Crown, not only regularly, irregularly and on specific dates. He also gave one of his islands to the priests of Talos, perhaps he wanted some undeserved help from them? The other three lords were indeed always jealous of these cloaked priests with lightning stripes, and although Talos was a petty god, he did say that his priest could destroy the fortresses or ships of the latter's enemies at the request of the devout.

Perhaps because the other three lords were always vigilant, and they also sealed a lot of money and soul relations, these priests did not intervene in the island-to-island war, and the old lord of Nanguan had more than once mocked the lord of the Eastern Crown in front of his children as a fool who had made a loss-making deal, and now it seemed that the poor Eastern Crown Lord might have to dedicate his last capital to the powerful and crazy Talos this time.

Thinking of this, the young lord of Nanguan jumped up from his couch suddenly. The slave girl in his arms rolled nimbly to the ground and dodged from under her master's feet, and it was only a small matter that she was stepped on in the abdomen or in the shin by her master, but if her master fell because she was unsteady on her feet, she would be immediately dragged out and brutally put to death - her master did not notice her at all, and he strode out of the door, and when his eunuch leaned down on him and kissed the ground with his lips, he was heard crying out loudly, "Where is the mage?"

"And my soldiers!" he said. "Call my knights!" The knights here are just a title, there are no knights on the Dragonfire Islands, and it is difficult for real knights to endure what they see, and the knights of the lords are essentially just the leaders of mercenaries. They are loyal only to the gold in their purse, and are willing to feast on and trample on the lowly weak—and if there is anything to be praised, it may be that they do not hesitate or disobey a vile command when necessary, and with considerable speed and zeal. It's like now.

The leader of the "knights" of Nanguan, the mercenaries, was originally a pirate leader, and after offending the Azorean archduchess, he had to find another way and infiltrate the Dragonfire Islands with pirates who were still willing to follow him. Starting by blackmailing the wandering merchant without the protection of the lord, he climbed up step by step with vicious means and careful thought, and finally climbed to the lord's side, he always wore a black blindfold, but his eyes were fine, but pirates often did it - in order to ensure that he would not be temporarily unable to see when jumping into the dark cabin due to the sudden change in light, he stopped being a pirate now, but kept the blindfold still retained.

After listening to the order of the lord of Nanguan, there was even a rare hint of sincere surrender and joy on his broad, fleshy face: "Very good," he cried, "this is the wisest and most astute command I have ever heard!, my lord!" he said, waving his hat with its great ostrich feathers.

The lord of Nanguan didn't pay too much attention to the mercenary leader's nondescript compliments, "Then are you willing to do it?" he asked.

"A hundred and twenty thousand honors!" replied the chief, respectfully, "if anyone wants to rob me of this deal...... No, in this case, I'm going to dig thirteen transparent holes in him and hang him on my mast to dry salted fish. ”

"Then go ahead and prepare," the lord of Nanguan looked at his mage, "I'll give you one, no, two, and they'll cast spells to make your ship fast." He paused: "We're going to get ahead of the others." ”

Yes, it's not just the lord of Nanguan who is smart, when the other two lords learned about the current situation of Dongguan, and then realized what a good opportunity this was, they were not ashamed to make the same arrangements as the lords of Nanguan, and even some merchants were ready to move, everyone knew that Dongguan was now a fragrant and sweet fried dough, even if the lord of Dongguan did not die or had a new lord, he would not be able to reorganize his army in such a short time, not to mention, those mountains of beet sugar and cane sugar and shiny silver and gold coins piled up in the warehouses of the port could be equal at all。

They even forget that the Eastern Champion is still under the wrath of Talos. For the sake of money, they can deal with the devil, let alone a priest of an evil god, they can sacrifice a part of it after the plunder, and they can completely destroy the Eastern Crown, which is one of the things that Talos, the god of storms and the sea, wants to see.

The mercenaries and merchants prayed nervously and excitedly on the turbulent ships, but what they didn't expect was that in addition to the priests of Talos, there were also the followers of Suron and Rosada.

The ships and armies led by the elves intercepted the people who wanted to take advantage of the fire in the waters outside the main island. The ships were filled with Highland Norman soldiers, who were not very good at wielding their weapons on the rickety deck, after all, the Highland Normans were not a seaside country, and some of them had not even seen a river beyond the moat before being banished, and fighting at sea had never been their forte. But the elf Kerry summoned clumps of seaweed from the bottom of the sea, and when they grew like a forest in the shallow sea, they soon completely occupied the sea, and as soon as the enemy ships entered it, they would be entangled in the oars and the steering wheel. Even with the sails drawn, the sloth-like slow movement was better than nothing - the Normans of the Highlands could draw their longbows hundreds of feet away, shoot rockets, throw balls of brimstone and bottles of white phosphorus, and as soon as they landed on the wooden decks and cabins, they would burst into flames, and the sailors and soldiers had to jump into the sea one by one, and before the battle was over, Kerry had simply ordered the Normans to drop the planks so that they could survive.

Some of the so-called "merchants" did not dare to get ahead of the lord's army, but only dared to fall far behind the fleet. Seeing this, they immediately circled to the sides, trying to avoid Kerribben and they went to attack the other ports - they didn't believe that there would be a second Ranger, Kerryben, unfortunately. There really wasn't a second Kerryben there, but there were Colbert and his friends, the rangers who were more accustomed to expounding Suron's teachings on the sea, had ships that weren't as tough as the new Sparrow, but they and their sailors were veterans of confronting pirate ships head-on. It's a breeze to deal with these unskilled idiots.

In addition, there are flocks of jellyfish or "sea" and turtles that follow the jellyfish, large and small. The jellyfish floated like translucent bags in a crowded manner, and it was much worse to get caught in them than to get caught in the seaweed, because of the stinging of the jellyfish, the oarsmen did not dare to jump into the water to untie them, and the turtles, whose beaks were as powerful as steel axes, let alone oars, and even the lead plates wrapped around the outside of the boat could be bitten off by them.

When Cremar and Adel summoned the soldiers of the Eastern Crown with the help of magic, the ambitions of the other three lords were dashed, and although they eventually demanded a compensation for the Eastern Crown's mistakes (even though they did not know what was going wrong between the priests of Talos and the Eastern Crown), and several warehouses far from the port were plundered by small groups of soldiers (it is not known whether they were soldiers outside the Eastern Crown or soldiers inside), but after a day and night, the Eastern Crown was forcibly pacified.

The one who became the new lord was, of course, Amos, the youngest son of the previous lord, the name Dada had been thrown into the lava along with the broken body, and the former eunuch miraculously did not die, but continued to serve by his new master's side, and no one questioned it, because Amos's first order to the mercenary leader was to let him kill all the male members who were related to him, that is, the male descendants left by Amos's brothers.

This was customary, but before carrying out this order, the mercenary leader asked if he needed to leave a part of the castration as a supplement to the new eunuchs, but his new master simply shook his head: "No," he said, "I don't need to." ”

The leader of his mercenaries bowed indifferently: "Yes, my master," he said, "I will bring their heads to you." ”

After the mercenary leader left the room, Ji'er glanced at Amos, "Is it because of the eunuch?"

"There's also my relationship. "Dada, no," said Amos, "castration destroys their hopes, but not their ambitions," but there are not many people like the great eunuchs and him, perhaps because of their education, and most of those who are forcibly converted from sons of lords to eunuchs have only thought about how to gain the trust of their new masters, and do everything possible to secure their position, to ensure that they can live for a long time, and to have some authority that can make their lives more comfortable, not like them- Or, more accurately, like the Great Eunuch - he disdained the so-called trust and favor at all, and he even ironically put a eunuch on the throne of the lord, at the great risk that he would be completely devoured at any moment, leaving no trace behind.

"Then you won't need eunuchs in the future?"

"Perhaps......" said Amos hesitantly, "the merchants outside should be able to provide enough ......"

"Will Cremar allow it?" said Ji'er, boldly, "he's a half-elf, and he doesn't seem to like slaves very much, I mean, he sympathizes with them." ”

"Every newcomer to the Dragonfire Islands will have such a stage. Amos said, "Soon he will know that he is doing useless work - and if he is dissatisfied with our system, he will have to fight not only me, but the entire Dragonfire Islands." ”

Ji'er didn't speak, she had always been smarter than the other slave girls, and she always felt that things wouldn't be so easy to solve.

"What does he want now?"

"Side islands. Amos said.

"But now the side island is his island. Ji'er said.

"Not my father's. Amos said solemnly, "It is complete dominion, and within twenty years the side islands will belong to him." ”

"Twenty years. Ji'er said, "That's a bit long." Do you think the side islands will still belong to us in 20 years?"

"If it weren't for his army," Amos glanced at Ji'er with a smirk, "even the Eastern Crown wouldn't belong to us now." ”

"He wants to build his mage tower on the side island?"

"I don't think so," said Amos, "according to my mage," yes, the mage who had served Amos' father: "A druid has come from Grey Ridge and may have brought news that they would need to leave for a while. ”

"You're saying they're going to go back to the mainland after all?"

"Cremar asked me for the side islands," said Amos, "and I think it's more for the Norman soldiers of the Highlands than for the sake of the Norman soldiers of the Highlands, twenty years, enough for their children to grow into warriors." ”

"Three thousand warriors, they may buy slave girls, then there will be more children, and in twenty years, there will be tens of thousands of Normans in the Highlands on the side islands," Ji'er lowered her voice: "By then," she said, "even if you take back the rule of the side islands, you can't expel these people at will." ”

"Why should I expel them?" said Amos, "they will be my soldiers." ”

I hope so, Ji'er said to herself, but she knew that if the soldiers could be loyal to Amos, then the black-haired spellcaster wouldn't need to do anything more, and Amos knew that, but they couldn't do anything. (To be continued.) )