In the end, Karl did not refuse to board the ship with the Knight of Hanbani, as he discovered that the scope of the Silver Tide City, which was limited by the Magic Seal, was unexpectedly large—it contained the sea within twelve nautical miles of the coastline.

So Karl decided to wait and see, if the voyage was beyond twelve nautical miles, he would disembark even if he wanted to offend Lady Loris.

As soon as he got on board, Karl noticed a figure lurking under the sails, almost blending in with the shadow of the mast. He was covered in a pitch-black cloak, and his presence was so weak that if it weren't for the dim vision of Karl Dragon's Awakening, who could see the slight distortion of starlight on the edge of his cloak, he would have almost ignored his presence.

Karl couldn't help but turn his head to look at Knight Hanbani.

Knight Hanbani nodded slightly, and said in a low voice, "That's an assassin from the 'Shadow Sage' guild, and I hired a mercenary. ”

As if embedded in an automated search engine, Carl's mind came up with information about the original and Princess Alicia's knowledge.

The Shadow Sage, the sixth-ranked thief guild in the mainland, has a sphere of influence on the northern shores of the Harp Sea, the city-states of the Yilei Peninsula, and the southern region of the Holy Hyrule Empire. They have a way of training the "Shadow Assassins", and the core members can borrow the power of the shadows to perform all kinds of mysterious and unpredictable abilities, making them very terrifying and difficult assassin killers.

In this world, the history of the Thieves' Guild is very ancient, born in the era of the Ancient Magic Empire, when the knights were far from the stage of history, they hide in the shadow of civilization, active in the dark secret rooms of noble castles, the dark races of the settlements, the merchant rooms of the lower city, the many gangs in the slums, and the gangsters and bandits on land and sea, using assassination and conspiracy, in addition to the light rule of the nobles and the church, a dark order has been established.

Whether it was the mages who once ruled the world, or the nobles and churches today, they all wanted to fight the Thieves' Guild and cut off this dark hand that threatened their ruling order and stole their majesty, and even in the "Dark Millennium" that frantically burned heretics, the number of members of the Thieves' Guild burned in the name of blasphemy far exceeded the true Xenopathy ten times.

However, the thieves' guild is rooted in the shadow of the order of civilized society, like a hidden black thread, connecting the nobles at the top, the burghers and merchants at the middle, and the commoners and thieves at the bottom.

As long as the authority of the nobility could not penetrate into the slums of the city, as long as the rule of the lords could not avoid the bankrupt peasants from becoming outcasts and thieves in the wilderness, as long as the intrigues of the court could not be separated from assassinations and rebellions. There is absolutely no way to put an end to the existence of the Thieves Guild.

Of course, just as there is no great empire in this world that unifies the entire continent, there is no such thing as a thief guild that unifies the entire dark world. In the entire dark world, there are at least hundreds of large and small thief guilds, and they are entrenched in cities, city-states, and villages of all sizes, firmly guarding their territory like beasts in the forest, not only vigilant against intrusions from outside the dark order, but also vigilant against each other's similar attacks.

As the leader of the dark order of the underworld, the ancient forces that can occupy a place under the suppression of powerful knights and priests, the top ten thieves' guilds all have their own unique forces.

The Shadow Sage is the most powerful thief guild in the northern shore of the Harp Sea, and the Shadow Assassins they control are a very complete power system, and even have the potential to advance to the legendary realm. The lord of the Summer Hall, who once set off dòng luàn in the Saint-French Empire and almost revived the "Elemental Courtyard" of the Magic Empire, was assassinated by a legendary assassin of the Shadow Sage during the war, which indirectly caused the rout of the mage forces in the Saint-Franc Empire.

"Raheem Sterling has three forces under him!"

Knight Hanbani summoned Carl and the weapon master Zod, who had just changed into full-body armor, and introduced in a deep voice the enemy situation they were about to encounter: "The mercenaries and thugs of the Haichao Chamber of Commerce have been disbanded and seized by order of the Silver Tide Council! ”

"Stirling's privately controlled smuggling boats and sailors, we have already killed three boats last time, plus this dock attack, he has lost at least a hundred sailors, and the rest is definitely no more than fifty. ”

"The one who needs to be most careful, though, are the ten Innocent gladiators under his command. ”

Knight Hanbani glanced at Karl with a calm face and Master Zuode, who was full of indifference, breathed a sigh of relief, and introduced with a little solemnity: "The Unsullied are the best gladiatorial warriors, they began to receive the elimination training with a high mortality rate at the age of six, and they began to enter the gladiatorial camp at the age of twelve, each of them must survive the fight of the beast before they are eligible to enter the next step of training......"

"Hey, Unsullied, I've heard of it!"

Zuo De, who carried three big swords on his back and a short sword and a bǐ shǒu inserted in his left and right waists, smiled and said with an obscene expression: "I heard that they have all cut off their balls, and they can't get on when they see a woman?"

Knight Hanbani glanced at Zuo De, his face did not change, but he said calmly: "No, their tools are intact, but the slave owners of Hasta have given them a secret medicine, yān gē their ** and reproductive ability, in exchange for stronger physique and combat power!"

Carl couldn't help but laugh secretly, the so-called refining and refining qi, this world also has a similar theory. Since reproduction is the fundamental driving force for the survival of living beings, which contains great power and potential, there is a balance in nature, the more powerful the species, the weaker its reproductive ability. Using secret methods or secret medicines to suppress one's own reproductive ability, so as to exchange for more powerful vitality and combat effectiveness, is a secret that many extraordinary professions will involve.

In Princess Alicia's memory, there were at least seventy-six methods of training arcane warriors that used this technique, and even in the ancient wizarding era, before the birth of knights with blood and magic fusion, wizards generally used this method to create knights.

"The Unsullied of Hasta, known for their painlessness and lack of fear of death, will not give up fighting even when their hands and feet are cut off and their stomachs are disemboweled, and they are not only skilled in individual combat, but they are especially proficient in small group combat, and a team of ten, led by a champion gladiator, can even defeat a Black Iron Knight head-on. ”

Knight Hanbani said so, then looked at Zuo De and said: "Master Zuo De, your profession is the weapon master who is the best at dealing with group battles, and the Sullied One around Sterling will be solved by Your Excellency!"

"No problem!" Zuo De, the weapon master, agreed, and said nonchalantly: "It's just ten innocent people who don't have eggs!"

"Well, not only are there ten Unsullied, but there is also a champion gladiator who has won twenty consecutive matches in the Hasta Arena without defeat!"

"it!"

Master Zuode's face collapsed instantly. 11