In a quiet room, the light is dim. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The bright sunlight only scratches a golden line on the edge of the heavy curtains, and it is no longer allowed to enter. This makes the huge study look a bit eerie.

Donald's face was so engraved.

"The four master foundries of the Bano family have been thrown into the arms of the Federer family, and they have been poached with a lot of money, so that the two weapons shops in the imperial capital may not be able to operate......"

At his desk, a middle-aged aristocrat was reporting to Donald while flipping through the papers in his hand.

This kind of debriefing has been going on for a whole prayer hour. However, in the thick documents that the middle-aged nobleman flipped through, there was little good news.

Donald rested his elbows on the desk, his chin propped up, his eyes half-closed. The ghostly gaze remained motionless, and I didn't know what I was thinking.

Next to him, several henchmen stood quietly, and they didn't dare to come out.

Everyone knows that the wind seems to be starting to change in recent times. Lord Donald's life has become more and more unpleasant day by day.

First, the puppet on the throne became more and more powerful.

In the recent Imperial Council, whether it was military or civil, Edward I was able to stand up to the Lords. There are even times when it is clear that the situation is not under the control of adults.

This has never happened in the past 30 years.

At that time, the words of adults were the true divine decrees. Edward was nothing more than a humanoid stamp. He nods when he needs him, and sits honestly in his seat when he doesn't.

But now, Edward is calling the shots at the meeting. Wills that were never possible to be adopted and still less carried out are now unimpeded.

Just look at the faces of those royalist nobles and you can see how proud they are now.

Then, now there are more and more voices from adults in different parts of the empire.

Especially after the Battle of the Lulian Abyss, those southern nobles even came to the imperial capital on the air magic ship to express their anger. Their carriages passed through the mansions of the princes and nobles every day, and in private conversations, at banquets, at balls, they made accusations.

Everyone pointed the finger at the adults.

It's like an old proverb in the East, how do you say it? By the way, the wall is falling down and everyone is pushing it.

And what's worse is that even within his own faction now, there are more murmurs. As far as everyone knows, many people are privately talking about the deaths of Barnes Sr. and Watts, and about Stevenson's betrayal of Renault. There are already quite a few families that have begun to look at other forces.

And what is strange is that the adults seem to be a little indifferent to all this.

It's time to deal with it, but adults have been dealing with it these days. But for those voices from the outside world, he didn't seem to hear them.

What was he thinking?

In the silence, the middle-aged nobleman had finished reporting the previous thing and took out the last document.

This is a sealed letter. The letter is a red parchment roll. The seal on the lacquer seal is the mark of a fox. On the back of the parchment scroll, a miniature self-destruct circle was constructed with inlaid magic gold filaments. Once opened, the letter will be automatically destroyed.

The middle-aged nobleman carefully placed the document in front of Donald and took a few steps back.

When they saw this letter, the nobles next to them were a little commotion. As Donald's henchmen, only they knew what the fox's mark meant, and only they knew how amazing the news would be when the agency intervened and sent back a secret letter in such a way.

In silence, Donald stared at the letter in front of him for a long time before picking it up.

As the emerald ring on the ring finger of his right hand crossed the letter. The filaments of the magic pattern circle dimmed. He picked up a gold paper cutter and opened the lacquer seal.

Unfolding the parchment roll, Donald glanced at it and suddenly laughed.

Everyone looked at each other. I didn't know why, but I saw Donald rub his hand, and the parchment turned into thousands of pieces and then burst into flames.

In the firelight, Donald's smiling face flickered.

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The day after Duke Reynolds secretly arrived in Muni City, a team of two hundred knights, under the cover of the Muni City Guard, entered the Muni City military camp in a dispersed manner.

This is part of the Black Hawk Guard of the Renault family. The leader was Scott, the third son of the Duke of Renault.

Scott is forty-two years old and set foot in the Sanctuary six years ago. He is the most talented and the most mysterious of Duke Renault's four sons. He was not tall, with a sturdy physique, a cool appearance, a pair of eyebrows on his square face that lowered his eyes, and a somewhat taciturn personality.

However, when Adolf and Fano and others first saw Scott, everyone's impression of this man was only one word.

Dangerous!

In his calm expression and his body, which was wrapped in a large body, there seemed to be a hidden barrel of gunpowder that could make people smell the breath of rage. People can't help but hold their breath and be cautious, for fear of sparking a little spark.

But in front of Duke Renault, Scott seemed very gentle. On the afternoon of his arrival in Muni City, under the command of Renaud, he led a dozen high-ranking knights of the Black Eagle Guard to take over the training of a new battalion of the Muni City Guard. Be conscientious, focused, and patient.

Although it was a little embarrassing, both Adolf and Fano had to admit that in terms of leading troops, the gap between Lulian and the top knights of the empire was indeed not half a star.

When I first met Scott and a dozen Black Hawk knights, the knights of this new battalion were a little baffled. They didn't know why they had suddenly changed instructors, and they didn't know where these knights, who seemed to smell as cold as steel, came from.

This made them somewhat resistant.

This battalion was selected from the mercenaries recruited this time, and each of them had the strength of a fair or higher level, and several of them were Knights of Glory. Therefore, Fano attached great importance to this battalion, and in the future prepared to assign this battalion to the Guard of the City of Muni or to the long knight sequence of the Bavarian Knights.

When the temporary change of instructors sparked a mass of resistance, Fano wanted to stop training until they had accepted Scott and the others.

However, before Fano could change his mind, Scott took control of the situation in just half a prayer hour. And all he did was let the Black Hawk Knights demonstrate a textbook charge to break the formation.

Even the most unruly mercenary fell silent when the Black Hawk Knight, dressed in a dusty and inconspicuous armor, sliced through the ranks of mercenary knights ten times larger than his own in a tight and neat formation, like slicing cheese, and completely shattered them in the next few turns.

And Scott apparently didn't take this act as a stand. After the demonstration, he jumped off his horse and walked into the crowd to carefully explain to the mercenaries the tactics he had just adopted.

Why keep a tight formation, why do the knights in the middle of the arrows and flanks be in danger while the knights in the center can do nothing, why pierce the enemy's formation and not take advantage of the enemy's confusion to expand the gains, why do you prefer to spare some enemies to keep the queue intact......

These tactical discipline requirements, which are completely different from the mercenaries' combat principles, made the mercenaries suddenly realize.

Then, after observing the queue training of the mercenaries, Scott directly dismantled and regrouped the originally assigned team.

His eyes are so poisonous that he knows who is suitable to work with almost just one glance.

Sure enough, in the subsequent training, the mercenaries' feelings became much more comfortable and smooth. And at this time, Scott had a dozen Black Hawk Knight instructors join the queue.

Some of them stand at the front of the queue, while others are inserted into the middle of the queue, and their positions are not fixed.

But this kind of placement, which seems to be irregular, has made the scattered queue of recruits solidify. It's like a muscle with a bone.

After two prayers, when the Black Hawk Knights withdrew from the queue one after another, the queue problem of the new knight camp had been resolved.

If you look at the indicators of training subject segmentation, this battalion has already completed the first stage of training in the cohort. And that means that the foundation is laid, and all that's left is to spend more time getting acquainted with it.

For a whole afternoon, Fano and other Lulian generals watched the training from the sidelines.

Recruit training, especially basic platoon and tactical discipline training, is the most boring for these generals. But this time, everyone was fascinated.

The same training, in the hands of Scott and his Black Hawk Knights, became a complete art. Whether it is the control of details, the discovery and handling of problems, or even the rhythm of training, it is all impressive. The whole training process is smooth and pleasing to the eye.

At the end of the first training, everyone had no doubt that given enough time, Scott would be able to train any motley army into an elite unit like the Tomahawk Knights.

That's power.

That night, Adolf, who was convinced, threw a secret and sumptuous dinner for Renault and Scott. At the banquet, Scott offered to begin training for the Knights of the Southern Cross as soon as possible. However, without finding Roy and getting his approval, Adolf couldn't just agree.

"He's not here?" was clearly Scott's surprise.

"Yes," said Adolf, a little embarrassed, "Mr. Leo lives here temporarily, but his whereabouts have always been mysterious, and we don't know when he will return. ”

Scott put down his knife and fork and turned to look at Renault.

Duke Renault already knew about this. He picked up his glass and said lightly, "Then wait." ”

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Desperate.

Roy stood on top of a tall snowy peak, looking down on his surroundings with high spirits.

Nine days passed.

In these nine days, after conquering the Golden Fire Lion of Mountain No. 3, with the help of the Beast Emperor's might, he swept all the way, and conquered No. 4 to No. 9 Mountain one after another. Coupled with the surrounding plains, canyons, forests, and rivers controlled by these peaks as the center, the territory has expanded tenfold!

At this moment, this kingdom of its own is under its feet.

Standing on the highest mountain No. 7, Roy's line of sight went from No. 1 Mountain to No. 9 Mountain, and then from No. 5 Mountain on the left to No. 8 Mountain on the right.

"White two!"

Roy whistled and soared into the air.

Like a bolt of lightning, Bai Er flew from the sky, caught him steadily, and immediately let out a tiger roar and swooped down the cliff.

Flowing waterfalls, tumbling clouds, rushing to the face.

The pine branches on the cliffs, the forests on the land, and the rivers and lakes reflecting the sunlight all retreated like a flying back.

"Ohoo!"

When Bai Er crossed a canyon, crossed an arc along Mountain No. 3, and arrived at Mountain No. 5, Roy, who was excited, shouted, activated the Fire Wing Spirit Devourer Armor, and flew up.

And with his voice, the earth shook.

Countless demonic beasts came out of different places, flying into the air, and non-flying converging into a torrent, running wildly along Roy's trajectory.

"The parade has begun!"

Roy laughed, rolled in the air, and swooped down.

A golden fiery lion soaring into the sky met him.

"Jin San. As it staggered past the golden fiery lion, Roy patted it on the head and continued downward. The golden fire lion flapped its wings, and its body took a sharp turn in the air, roaring and following him.

On the ground, a group of galloping snow golems appeared. Fifty huge snow demon elephants, led by an old elephant that was twenty meters tall, ran along the ridge with every step that was earth-shattering. The surrounding mountains and forests trembled in the fierce wind and violent tremors.

"Elephant Seven!" roy shouted as he swept over her husband's elephant.

With a long roar, the galloping husband elephant raised his proboscis in response. It is three meters long and reflects the light of metal in the sunlight.

Soon, more Warcraft appeared.

Running silently through the forest, as fast as a black lightning bolt, it was the ruler of Mountain Six Hidden Demon Leopard.

Not fast, but rampage, knocking over trees and smashing rocks with every step, it was the silver-armored Tyrannosaurus rex, the ruler of Mountain Four.

As soon as he rose into the sky, he was thrown away by Roy, and he could only wave his wings hard, and the clumsy and ridiculous one who chased him far away was the ruler of Mountain Five, Firewing Flying Bear.

And proudly soaring above the clouds, only a small dot can be seen, is the ruler of Mount Nine Golden-eyed Lei Peng.

Led by Roy, these beasts flew and ran, cruising the nascent realm of nine peaks shaped like an irregular spindle.

It's a show that Roy emerges on every day. Every time he saw thousands of magical beasts galloping after him, he felt a childlike satisfaction.

However, there are exceptions.

For example, the herding ant poison lizard on Mount 8 is an outlier.

It wasn't until Roy and the monsters had had enough of chasing each other and playing and landed on the grassy slope of Mountain No. 3 that the slow guy crawled out of the grass with a big belly and short legs, and lay down beside Roy and panted. The long tongue swayed left and right.

However, instead of being angry, Roy grabbed its head and kneaded it with a smile.

You know, among these ninth-order demonic beasts that have recently surrendered, this guy is a treasure.

The germad poison lizard is a giant lizard. With a length of over six meters and a height of more than two meters, it doesn't look much smaller than an Earth-Walking Dragon.

This type of monster is extremely rare. Its number is so small that even as early as the time of the God-given continent, anthropologists once thought it was extinct. After the final battle, almost all the books about Warcraft were rarely written about it. Occasionally, one or two books mention a sentence, which must also be a sign of extinction.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the herding ant poison lizard is not high. The only thing worth mentioning about all of them is its near-invulnerable scales and sprays of highly toxic acid. If you fight alone, you can't even beat a seventh-order demonic beast. An ordinary Goldfinch Tiger can kill it.

But the Ant Poison Lizard has a special ability, and this ability makes it leap from an ordinary seventh-order demonic beast to a ninth-order peak existence.

That's the control of the Gold Eater.

The gold-eating ant is a terrifying ant that makes people smell and change color.

They are the size of a thumb, black all over, and have thin wings on their backs, allowing them to fly short distances and be extremely fast. And their talent is to devour metal. The sharp mouthparts are capable of secreting acid to corrode any metal, including cold iron, and bite it to pieces.

The more metal is devoured, the stronger the Eater Ant's body becomes, and the color of the body will also appear with golden lines. A golden pattern represents the Gold Eater Ant's level up. A ninth-level gold-devouring ant covered in gold, its body is simply indestructible.

With speed, defense, and sharp mouthparts, the ninth-level Gold Devouring Ant will not fall behind even against the sixth-order demonic beasts. In battle, they fly at high speed, often directly through the opponent's head.

A gold-eating ant is so scary, what about a nest of gold-eating ants?

It was a nightmare.

No one wants to taste what it's like to be besieged by thousands of gold-eating ants. In human records, there was a caravan of more than 300 men and carriages and camels that stretched for nearly a kilometer, but they were all wiped out in just half an hour because they accidentally provoked the gold-eating ants.

Not only were people, horses, and camels all turned into dry bones, but even the wagons and cargo boxes that transported goods were turned into piles of debris under the impact of the high-speed gold-devouring ants.

Among the known man-eating ants, the gold-eating ant is the most dangerous and terrifying.

However, the herder poison lizard is the nemesis of the gold-eating ant.

The venom of this giant venomous lizard is the most obsessed food for gold-eating ants. By sucking venom, the gold eater ants are able to quench the impurities in the metal, making the body harder and living longer.

At the same time, the poison sac in the body of the ant lizard is also a nest for the queen ant with a fragile body. In the body of the ant killer lizard, not only can the queen follow it around, looking for the precious spiritual fluid needed for growth and improvement, but the strong scale armor of the ant germ lizard is also a natural protection.

Therefore, when they were young, they were prone to death. But once it encounters the Gold Devouring Ant, it can transform into a top-notch existence among the ninth-order demonic beasts.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that among the magical beasts that Roy subdued, except for the golden-eyed Lei Peng, the other magical beasts maintained awe of this herding ant poisonous lizard.

Especially the silver-armored Tyrannosaurus rex, it was simply subservient. You must know that on the food list of the gold devouring ants, it is a majestic silver armor, but it is a top-ranked delicacy.

Therefore, when Roy subdued this herder poison lizard, even if he already had a Beamon giant beast like the Star King, he couldn't help but feel a little excited. You must know that under certain circumstances, the role and value of this herding ant poison lizard need not be less than that of the giant beast.

Letting go of the germad poison lizard, Roy looked up.

At the foot of the hillside, thousands of skeleton soldiers are tirelessly running to work.

Farmland, canals, rudimentary roads and cisterns, slowly but surely, are being rolled out, and now they have completely encompassed Hill 3 and are moving towards Hill 4.

And within the confines of Hills 1 and 2, taller walls and stronger fortifications are also evolving towards the appearance of a fortress. Their existence has turned this barren mountain into a living kingdom.

Sometimes Roy would think that if one day humanity was really defeated, there would be no place for humans to stand on the entire continent of Avalon. Then, before the race disappears into this world, you may be able to bring the people around you here and spend your last time.

So, Roy decided to keep it going. It's okay to be a little shabby, it's okay to be slow, anyway, as a necromancer, the last thing you need is skeleton soldiers. Permanent skeletons, in particular, require more mana when summoned, but they will always work unless the Soul Star runs out of energy.

In the past nine days, Roy has cast summoning spells whenever he has time, and has successively recruited more than 2,000 permanent skeleton soldiers. With the addition of some skeleton soldiers, skeleton archers, death knights, and skeleton commanders used in battle, the total number has exceeded 5,000, and it is like an army.

Originally, Roy could have captured more peaks, but after exploring Ten and the mountains behind it, he chose to give up for the time being.

Because he found that if these nine peaks on the verge of desperation were chaotic and scattered city-states, then the area behind Mountain Ten was something similar to a principality.

Ruling that area was a level 10 demonic beast.

Roy didn't look at the beast, but retreated directly. He knew that this level of demonic beast could not be conquered by relying on the current level of beast emperor coercion.

Roy estimated that he could keep a safe distance from the other party across a few hills, and once he captured Mountain 10, he would be standing at the door of the opponent's house. A big war is inevitable. For the current self, before digesting the current territory, it is not the best choice to start a war rashly.

Plucking a bitter grass and putting it in his mouth, Roy sat down on the hillside, and after a moment of pranayama, began his daily meditation.

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。 (To be continued.) )