Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time, Stephen remained in Arantir, and the Arondo-Shepherd had begun to form the Druids, which was also supported by the Council of Chanda. Now that the refugees from the Quarter Moon have settled down and the cultivated farmland has been cultivated, next year's harvest should not be too bad thanks to the druid's spell blessing. In the last week, there have been a lot of outsiders in Arrantiel, some of them dark wizards across the channel, some of them witchers from the crow's nest, and many merchants from the southern wind valley have also come over, and there are only traces of them where there is interest.

Stephen was very accommodating about it all.

Even though the arrival of these people exacerbated Arantil's secret conflict, he conceived that the newly built floating city should resemble a place called the Seal City, where people of good, evil, neutral, order, and chaos could be accepted, as long as they could follow the rules set by Stephen.

The Witch Liana from the Five Rings has sent good news, and after a week of negotiations, the Naga of the Deep Sea has finally compromised.

Countess Illya, on Arrantiel's side, was ready to take Dragon City, and this matter was supported by the nobles of Windwind City, who also hoped to get a piece of the pie. In fact, Stephen didn't need their help, but he agreed to it, considering that the nobles could help him share some of the pressure from the north. What Stephen needs is mineral resources, and what the nobles crave most is land, there are large plains near Dragon City that can be cultivated, and according to the aristocratic laws of this world, at least more than ten earls can be divided.

Dragon City has been a place of war since ancient times.

The former rulers here were half-dragons, who were later defeated by the Normans in the north, but in the past hundred years, the Normans have not been able to conquer the aborigines of Dragon City, and almost every once in a while, Dragon City will break out in rebellion. Since Stephen arrived in this world, Dragon City is now in its third rebellion, which means that it is almost every year. The unruly natives of Dragon City believe that they have the blood of true dragons, and they are indeed stronger and more powerful than other lizardmen, so although they are also intelligent creatures of the lizard family, they have always insisted on calling themselves Wurmians.

The leader of this rebellion is named 'Thea', a powerful half-dragon, the illegitimate daughter of the former lord of Dragon City, who is full of hatred for the Normans.

As mentioned earlier, the Normans were arrogant, belligerent, harsh, and brutal, and were not friendly to other races, even if they were also humans, they were a bit racist. After the successive rebellions broke out in Dragon City, about thirty years ago, the Norman king ordered the execution of most of the nobles of Dragon City, including the lord of Dragon City. Thea, who is now leading the rebels, is said to be the child of the Lord of Dragon City and a human maid, which means that she is not of orthodox half-dragon origin.

The direct bloodline of the half-dragon people has been almost slaughtered!

But.

The ensuing counterattack was extremely ferocious, the Argonians themselves had a lot of talent, they were agile and powerful, and many of them were assassins who were proficient in assassination, and their unruly nature made the Argonians never give in to the Normans, so they launched a brutal revenge for this massacre.

The Norman king was assassinated and poisoned by the Argons, and many of the originally unified Norman tribes gradually split, and the nobles were unwilling to give up the power they had already acquired, and soon the entire northern territory became the current situation.

(Note: Half-dragons are oviparous, and wurmists are viviparous.) The rebel leader - Xia is said to be born in viviparity, so she is not a pure-blooded half-dragon. ）

This time the operation was led by the prophets - Ankara and Countess Illya.

The people of the Five Rings Tower will also cooperate, but they will not send the battle wizards of the elemental pool, only a small number of gray-robed wizards will assist. Stephen himself won't make a move this time, he needs to exercise the abilities of others, and the most important thing for him at the moment is to seize the Dark Abyss, and the next part after taking Dragon City is to attack the Dark Abyss, which is the main thing.

Inside the Wizard's Tower.

Stephen looked at the fiery red sword in front of him with a curious expression, and wondered, "This is the Flaming Sword?"

"It feels very average......"

Hearing this, the corners of the High Angel's mouth twitched, and he said softly, "You can try to reach out and hold it." ”

So, Stephen reached out and picked up the flaming sword.

The next moment.

He felt a rush of heat, which turned into a blazing flame that Stephen could even see his skin scorched.

This is not normal.

Because Stephen has fire resistance, ordinary flames are completely immune, he closed his eyes and felt it, and muttered, "Divine flame......?

"Taling 1. ”

"Parse target!"

A huge stream of data emerged, and in Shaar's eyes full of surprise, the flaming sword in Stephen's hand suddenly burst out with blazing energy, and then the runes engraved on it were swept by the spell aura one by one, about ten minutes later, the energy on the flaming sword gradually calmed down, and Stephen waved it: "I take back what I just said." ”

"This sword is indeed powerful!"

Shar looked deeply at Stephen in front of him and asked, "Can you use it?"

"Hmm. Just hack the permissions. Stephen nodded and said, "There is a genetic code set on it, which can only be used by angel species, and it can be cracked as long as you change the genetic code." ”

The so-called artifact dripping blood to recognize the owner is actually to set up a genetic code.

Many powerful weapons have race restrictions, faction restrictions, ability restrictions, etc., but these are not a problem for Stephen, the activation code of the Flaming Sword is the angel gene, and the angel is also required to provide divine energy to exert greater power, but Stephen can change this step to use it directly.

The really powerful thing is the Death Scythe in Sophia's hand, that is a soul-bound artifact, no one else can use it except her, and if you use it forcibly, you will inevitably be counterattacked.

"You're going to war?" said the High Angel Shar as he glanced at the army assembled outside.

"Hmm. Stephen nodded and said, "We are ready to quell the rebellion in Dragon City. ”

"It's not for profit, it's not for profit!" squirmed Shar unconcernedly.

"Of course. Stephen was not ashamed and said, "Why should I act if there is no benefit?"

Shar turned to look into Stephen's eyes and said slowly, "What about the Death Omen, you are taking a lot more risk against him than you can gain......

Stephen's expression couldn't help but drop a lot when he heard this, and muttered, "I think I've probably been fooled by a bald head......"

O Void Master!

You've really left me with a burden!

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