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First, the invasion of the Abyssal Demon brought Lulian into the spotlight. Immediately afterwards, in the silent war for mercenaries, the Lulian family caused a sensation in the entire imperial aristocratic circle with a hundred knights of the Heavenly Transformation who appeared at the entrance ceremony.

And the chain reaction that followed was also wave after wave.

First of all, the auction of the Golden Skull Auction House that night was directly crowded by the nobles and the high-level executives of the chaebol business group who poured into the venue.

Adolf's announcement at the entrance ceremony became the best advertisement. Not only was the venue full of seats for 500 people, but even the aisles were packed. And the box on the second floor is even more difficult to find. So much so that many of the small nobles and small chaebols who had set up boxes earlier were uneasy when they saw the big people crowded in the venue below.

Judging from the number of buyers, identity and status alone, the scale of this auction exceeds the year-end auction of the imperial capital head office.

Although most people came for the finale of the Heavenly Transformation Costume, the auction in the early auction also greatly increased the transaction price.

In particular, a bottle of celestial meteorite milk and a bottle of ten-star two-headed dragon quenching pill, which are also lone wolf lots, have triggered fierce competition.

At this time, the value of the thing itself is no longer important.

The reason why many people participated in the competition was actually for only one purpose, and that was to show favor to this genius demon master who had created a hundred sets of Heavenly Transformation Demon Costumes for the Lulian family!

Imperial hero, genius knight, plus genius magician, Leo, the upstart, is simply hot. At this time, whoever wants to treat him as a rookie who has just entered the aristocratic circle to teach him a lesson, establish rules or something, his brain must be broken.

And the grand occasion of the Golden Skull Auction House directly led to the incomparably deserted auction of the Divine Craftsman Hall that started at the same time.

It is said that not only are there very few buyers at the Jinjiangdo auction, but even many of the lots have been temporarily withdrawn. Some would rather pay liquidated damages than hand over the lot to the Golden Skull auction house for auction. Of course, it was Tracy who was behind it.

Tracy is not soft on the enemies who come to bully her. A series of combo moves were struck, causing Ejiman, the head of the Divine Craftsman Hall, to lose his armor. And with the performance of this auction, she also shook the head office of the auction house.

Almost instantly, the voices questioning her promotion to head office elder had disappeared without a trace.

The next day, another shocking, but unexpected, news came out - a total of 1,153 mercenaries announced that they had joined the Knights of the Southern Cross. Among them, there are 650 Knights of Justice, 395 Knights of Glory, and 56 Knights of Great Light.

In addition, there are two Sanctuary-level mercenary captains and more than forty magicians above the Dragon Moon Magician.

And this is still the result of the Southern Cross Knights, who originally only recruited five hundred people, once raised the recruitment conditions to a fair three-star or more.

As for the other middle- and low-level mercenaries of the mercenary group, they let Lulian pick up a big bargain.

As a staunch ally of the Knights of the Southern Cross, Adolf's Muni City Guard took on more than three thousand mid- and low-ranking mercenaries in a single day. Among them are also hundreds of just knights. Not only that, but after that, there were a large number of mercenaries, who came in a steady stream under the summons of the mercenary captains.

It is initially estimated that after digesting these more than 30 mercenary groups, Lu Lian's military strength will increase by more than 70 percent. This made Fano, the commander of the guard, smile from ear to ear. Even if he was so busy that his feet were sweating profusely, he didn't cry out for bitterness.

What surprised Fano even more was that three days later, two huge migration convoys arrived in Muni City one after another.

The first to arrive were the elven tribes led by the elven saint Xiangxiang. Arriving later were the dwarven tribes led by the dwarven Tetsube.

Not only did they bring their own tribes, but they also brought with them other neighboring tribes. Among them, the elves have an additional lakeside city with a number of 1,000 people, and the dwarves have brought two dungeons, the stone department and the gold department.

The arrival of these alien races made the nobles everywhere jealous.

You must know that the two elven tribes and the three dwarven tribes not only provided the Southern Cross Knights with four hundred of the most elite elven hunters and six hundred dwarven heavy warriors, but also allowed Lulian to pick up a lot of bargains again.

Under Fano, there was an additional team of sixty elven hunters and a battalion of two hundred dwarven heavy warriors.

Of course, in terms of number and strength, these elves and dwarves are not as good as those who have joined the Knights of the Southern Cross. However, the arrival of the five tribes had a greater significance for Lulian.

Elves are the children of the jungle and the darlings of nature. Not only are they agile, they are good at running and bowing and arrows, but they are also good at cultivating various herbs. At the grand welcome banquet held by Adolf, the water bladder of life on the waists of several elven elders did not know how many envious glances they attracted.

Not to mention the dwarves, all of whom are born blacksmiths. In today's wartime, Lulian has thousands of dwarves from three tribes, which means that he has a complete, skilled and continuous supply of weapons and equipment.

No one can imagine what the future of Lulian will become.

But everyone is fully aware of the enviable multiplier effect that occurs when human resources, systems, and the natural abilities of elves and dwarves are fused.

And that's just the superficial benefits.

Deeper ...... As long as the nobles from other places thought about it, they could only sigh. They don't even have the strength to be jealous.

Because of the estrangement, the major alien races and humans have not communicated with each other for more than two hundred years, let alone worked together. The human alliance of the final battle of the year had already fallen apart by this time. On weekdays, except for a very small number of alien races as craftsmen or mercenaries, roaming the human world and cooperating with humans, the two sides are more distrustful and even hateful.

Especially the aristocratic slave hunting team, I don't know how many bloody cases have been caused. Whether dwarves, elves, or barbarians, they all place their tribes in the deep mountains and forests far away from humans and even underground, and they do not come into contact with any humans except for a few tried and tested caravans.

And this time, there are five whole tribes that have migrated to Lulian!

With its prime location and the trust of these tribes, Lulian has a head start!

Everyone can think on their toes that with the example of these five tribes, when more aliens are willing to reunite with humanity, their first choice will be.

The rise of Lulian, no one can stop it!

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The castle of Grand Duke Adolf, at night, is still brightly lit and full of people.

The carriages with the coats of arms of the major families are like flowing water, and they come and go endlessly. The nobles who were doing all kinds of small actions in private a few days ago, and even openly opposed Lulian, have completely changed their smiling faces at this moment.

They chatted and laughed in the halls of the castle, flattering the lords of Lulian such as Adolf and Fano, Karn, and others. If it had been a civilian who had not received similar training, I was afraid that he would have died of goosebumps a long time ago.

The news has long spread throughout the empire.

After an earthquake that swept through the nobility, all the families began to re-examine their attitudes towards the Lulian family, and showed their goodwill through emissaries and in various ways.

In this regard, Adolf naturally did not refuse to come.

Able to stand tall in the circle of imperial aristocracy for decades, Adolf is not the kind of stunned young man who has no brains.

When it's time to slap him, he will never use half his strength less, and the shot will be fast and heavy.

But when it was time for the fake model to be angry, he also became faced. After the ceremony of entering the city, Lulian has already made a lot of friends, both openly and secretly. In particular, some neutral families who have no conflict of interest find it much more pleasant to cooperate with Adolf than to be an enemy of him.

However, to the pity of these nobles who hurried to the Grand Duke's Mansion, the young man they most wanted to befriend was nowhere to be found.

Roy closed the window and kept the excitement out of the room.

He walked over to his desk and sat down, staring at a parchment map on it.

This map, he has been looking at for a long time. In the flickering candlelight, his fingers followed Lulian all the way north, through the Great Heath north of Lulian, along the Redstone Mountains, east through a small part of the northwestern Saxon province, into the Imperial Capital Plain.

Then, from the edge of the Imperial Capital Plain, enter the province of Anthos, and further north, across the Tianhe Basin and the Dark Forest, to the province of Valen. And there, a small town called Kohler, lies quietly on the map.

Eretia said that she had left a gift for herself in Kohler City, but what was it?

Roy was a little curious.

His gaze lingered on Kohler City for a moment, he touched his nose and his fingers continued to move northeast. About 300 kilometers past it, it's Banderz.

Looking at this familiar name, Roy's mood was a little complicated.

At the beginning, the elder Grandet led more than a thousand Pollabel people to Bandez, and it was this road that he followed. Later, Malt and the bandit army went to Bandez, and they also took this road. Finally, after all that has happened, I will also set off for Bandez.

Thinking of the shock at the discovery that everyone was still alive, the corners of Roy's mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile.

What does Malt look like today?

After the dark elves' seductive talent awakened, she was in the process of transforming almost every day. This racial talent makes her quite dangerous. Just like a beautiful hell demon flower, no one can resist her temptation, but the consequence of approaching it is to be crushed.

Before, Roy felt that he couldn't resist Malt's seduction. And these days have passed, and I don't know what kind of demon this girl has grown.

What makes people laugh and cry is that according to the age of the elf, she is just a little girl.

And that Oliver guy, he should be fat again, right?

With Malt's doting on it, this guy must have eaten and slept well all day long and was lawless. If it goes any longer, I'm afraid I won't even be able to walk.

Roy decides that he will have to give this a good when he sees it!

And Daddy Ken, Sergeant Hans, Karenich, Mr. Percy...... The more he thought about it, the more Roy missed them.

It's just that......

Forcing himself to shake the distractions out of his mind, Roy looked at the map carefully.

This map was specially made by Adolf at a great expense to find Ignorance. There are not only terrain and city roads, but also the lords and army strength of various places, as well as mercenary groups, magic towers, bandit groups and even the sphere of influence of the Chamber of Commerce along the way.

All kinds of annotations, densely packed.

And more importantly, Shirando, an intelligence agency in every corner of the continent, also listed the changes in the situation in the Banderz area, including the empire, and the chaotic land, according to the latest intelligence.

This was of great help to Roy to grasp the situation in the north.

And judging from the intelligence, as the demons are getting closer and closer to the south, the situation on the northeastern border of the empire, especially in the chaotic land, is becoming more and more complicated.

The shortage of food and the collapse of order have put the entire northern region in turmoil. Countless people have taken risks for a bite to eat, and countless villages that were originally peaceful have been attacked by bandits, natural and man-made disasters, and the people are struggling to survive.

And between the major forces, they are attacking each other.

In just a few months, more than hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives. Five of the city-states in the Land of Chaos have perished. One of them was slaughtered because of his resolute resistance.

It can be said that before the demons arrived, there was already chaos within the human race.

No one was surprised by this. After all, the Land of Chaos has been like this for hundreds of years. The major city-states form an alliance today, and turn their faces tomorrow. The lord of the castle was killed by his men, and when he asked for help, he was killed by his allies.

Roy doesn't care how angry these guys are, he's just worried about Banderz.

From the map, tiny Bendez is like a puppy caught in a pack of lions. Even with Karenic and Percy in charge, even with nineteen sets of Power Storm, they must be careful. If you are not careful, you may be torn to shreds.

Looking at the black arrow on the map that stretched from the north of the Pompeii Empire to the south, Roy's brow couldn't help but furrow.

The demons are approaching every day. And the Pompeii Empire was completely open. Not to mention the regular army of the Pompeii Empire, even the lords along the way abandoned their territories early and led their families to retreat in the direction of the western capital Roman City.

The most odious thing is that in order to avoid the formation of a wave of refugees to the rest of the country, the road to the west of the Pompeii Empire was blocked by the lords and border legions along the way. No one was allowed to pass except for the nobles who were able to pass through. As a result, a large number of refugees were driven south.

This is also why the situation on the Solan border has deteriorated so quickly.

Roy pressed his hand to an area of magical patterns made of extremely thin magic gold threads on the edge of the map, and with the input of mana, a light lit up, and everything on the map seemed to come to life.

The fire was burning, like people the size of sesame seeds running and shouting. Bandits stormed the towns, robbed and killed, and the army moved on the criss-crossed roads. In the wilderness, in the city, there was fighting everywhere. The long line of refugees stretched for hundreds of miles.

This is not an illusion.

This is the scene of the troubled times recorded through secret methods when Shirando made the map! Everything is real.

Roy's gaze wandered across the map. Is the Salvation Continent big? Even the three great empires plus the Land of Chaos were only a small area to the west of the Broken Sky Mountains. There's also much more space, hidden in the unexplored fog.

However, the Salvation Continent is very small.

This barren and bitter cold land is just a place for human beings to survive. Over the past three hundred years, countless human pioneers have tried to build more cities, reclaim more land, and turn the Salvation Continent into another God-given continent.

To the west, to the north, someone has even organized a huge fleet of ships to try to cross the endless sea south and find the fabled New World.

However, they all failed.

Most of them disappeared into the depths of the wasteland and the raging waves, and even if anyone could return, the places they went to would not be suitable for survival.

A hundred years ago, someone came to a conclusion.

The Land of Redemption is not the starting point of human salvation, but a cage. Humanity is just surviving here. The demons who occupy the rich God-given Continent will become stronger and stronger. Humanity, on the other hand, will become weaker and weaker.

When one day, the Broken Sky Mountain Range is breached, it will be the time when the human race will perish.

If it was said that before, because of the protection of the Broken Sky Mountain Range, everyone just regarded this prophecy as alarmist, then at this moment, the demon race has really come. And human beings are really standing on the precipice of racial extinction.

Roy let go of his hand. The map loses its magic, and the chaotic image fades. But in my heart, the sense of imminent crisis is getting deeper and deeper.

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. (To be continued.) )