After crossing the forest of Miselle, the traversers were broken into pieces and scattered.

More than fifty heavily armed adventurers acting together is too eye-catching. In this world, a large team of more than fifty adventurers is enough to form a crushing advantage over most knight leaders, and even many slightly smaller towns can't resist it. If they attacked the city, the city of Tarakhan would also be greatly damaged.

In the face of such a large force, the lords will definitely be on guard, and the news will soon spread, even to the ears of Count Tara Khan.

That's too bad!

In order to prevent the grass from startling the snakes, everyone must disperse, in groups of several people, slowly gather to the place where the Earl of Tarakhan is scheduled to ambush, lurk, and quietly wait for the opportunity.

The members of the troublemaking team can gather in the village where they lived before, and they have already shown their faces anyway, so it is not a problem. As a team of star adventurers that have risen like rockets near the city of Tara Khan, they have enough reputation to support their base in a small village.

That village was of course lorded, and it was the direct domain of Count Tarakhan. But in the face of a team of adventurers who are strong in battle, able to toughen the demons and win the battle, and have enough prestige, Count Tara Khan will not trouble them - as long as they do not prevent the tax collector from collecting taxes in the village.

Of course, the trouble-making team will not hinder the tax collectors from collecting taxes, and they will not collect taxes from them anyway.

The travelers were semi-settled in this village, and the benefits to the village were immediate. Of course, there is no need to talk about public security or something, and it also helps a lot in terms of economy - although the traversers are versatile, most people hate simple and repetitive boring labor, so whenever there is hunting outside, they often pay the villagers to help deal with the prey, after all, if you use the "gathering" command, it is convenient to be convenient, but the amount of harvest is a bit tragic.

Of course, the pay for this kind of work is not very high, and it is generally paid in copper coins. But for the villagers, who usually have nothing to do other than farming, mosquito legs are also meat, and the pay is not high, which is better than nothing. Moreover, the traversers have no interest in those scraps, and usually give them directly, and these scraps, such as minced meat, are not sold for money, but they are excellent for their own use.

So in the past few months, the villagers have received a lot of benefits, and it is easy to pay taxes, and the tax collector can easily receive enough taxes by walking around the village, and it is not troublesome at all.

As for the "insatiable black-hearted tax collector" that often appears in knight novels...... First of all, the tax collector must have a good brain, and go to the door of a group of ruthless people who kill the devil as a chicken and kill a mountain of corpses? A person with such a terrible idea can only be the head of the body of the Celestial Dynasty, and he cannot be the tax collector of Tara Khan City.

The lurking spot chosen by the traversers was in a valley about a day's journey south of the city of Tarakhan.

The valley is remote and lacks resources, and has never been cared for. The traversers dug a large hole in it, and everyone lived in the hole, waiting for the battle to come.

Of course, a new log cabin was built in the valley, and there was an altar at the back of the cabin. Both the wooden house and the altar are full of eerie atmospheres, and you can tell by looking at them that they are not good things - they are not designed randomly, but are designed after the real things that exist in Hell in the game. Amateurs can only see the words "not good", but in the eyes of professionals, it is equivalent to a full-level ridicule skill, which is full of hatred at once.

The only thing the traversers are worried about now is whether these two things will work so well that they will attract some bigwigs in the sky.

In order to avoid this, they arranged a very large Shielding Aura Circle in the valley - although whether it was a wooden house or an altar, it was actually a vain appearance, but they were not afraid of ten thousand, just in case.

Moreover, the Shielding Aura Circle can also be used to do something else at a critical moment...... Just tweak the magic node a little.

Once everything was laid out, the plan began in an orderly manner.

"Report!" the intelligence director said to the door of the earl's study, "we have found traces of the old woman who seems to be an orphan of the old Loka family. ”

The earl, who was reading the documents, raised his head: "Tell me more about it." ”

A few days ago, a group of adventurers discovered a magical array with a hidden aura in an unnamed valley south of the city. They approached out of curiosity, and then saw a very suspicious wooden house with an altar behind it. Neither the wooden house nor the altar was built for a very long time, no more than a year at most. "They did not dare to come near, but dared to look far away, and saw a terrible-looking woman, half young and half senile, praying at the altar, and she offered a fawn, and after the living fawn was brought to the altar, it withered so quickly that it was finally turned into a dried corpse without even a knife." Above the dried corpse, a crow spun around and disappeared without a trace. ”

The Count frowned and asked, "What else?"

"That's all they see, and they don't dare to look more because they're afraid. When the woman returned to the house, she quietly fled back to report. "One of the thieves was a good painter, drawing the altar, the hut, the woman, and the crow. ”

The Count did not rush to take the papers, but asked, "So, what happened to those adventurers?"

"They were frightened, and I arranged for them to rest, and no one could disturb them. ”

The Earl's face finally showed a smile and nodded: "You have done a good job of letting them rest until they have my orders." ”

"Yes!"

The Count took the papers, looked at them, and asked casually, "Do you have any clues about these things?"

"No, sir. The intelligence chief replied, "I can't investigate anything without your orders." ”

The Count was noncommittal and motioned for the intelligence chief to leave, and after a while he sighed and said, "This is a smart man. ”

"But it's too smart. A voice in the shadows replied.

"There's nothing wrong with being too smart. The Earl said, "If you don't do anything without my orders, you won't be able to cause trouble." I can't punish him for not doing things well. ”

"What is the use of an intelligence officer who doesn't take the initiative to collect intelligence?"

"He didn't want to be this intelligence officer. The Earl smiled slightly, "When my son takes over my class, I will naturally find someone to replace him." ”

As he spoke, he got down to business, pointed to the pieces of paper and said, "Look, what is the origin of this?"

Something wriggled in the shadows, morphing into a strange human with fly eyes and jackal ears, and walked up to him, glancing at the ring he was wearing in his right hand before his gaze fell on the papers.

"It's Your Majesty Lamer. It said, "The Count of Hell is able to know the past and the present, and to foretell the future." But I think the reason that the man made a covenant with Him was because of another power of Him. ”

"What ability?"

"He is able to destroy the cities of his enemies. ”

The Earl was startled, stood up, and his face changed greatly.