Chapter 139: Laying a Solid Foundation
Chapter 139: Laying a Solid Foundation
Under a hidden jungle at the foot of a mountain, Prince Beamon Cruz kicked down the intelligence leader who had been planted in Newcastle and roared: "Fool! Such a good opportunity, not only did you not kill him, but you also let the weak human escape back to Aragon, damn it!"
"Your Excellency Abby, you have disappointed us so much!" next to Cruz, a woman with a black veil on her face laughed softly, but her tone was extremely cold, and Abby couldn't help but shudder when she heard this.
"Temple... Your Highness, please give me another chance!I will definitely not disappoint you and the Empire again!" The old fox man Abby's narrow face kept breaking out in a cold sweat.
"Give you another chance, I think it's better for you to mine in the Alps, you're really insulting the wisdom of your fox clan!" Cruz looked annoyed, and under the intense turmoil of his emotions, he had a faint tendency to reveal his original form.
Abby was discouraged, and her heart was full of desolation and despair. His Highness Cruz's temper is the hottest in the entire orc race, and he has encountered a lot of bad luck according to the experience he has witnessed in the past.
However, although Abby is old, her heart is more vicious. He secretly pricked up his heart, and suddenly there was a fierce light in his eyes, and he took out a dagger from his bosom that shone with a faint green light and emitted a trace of powerful power fluctuations and stabbed it at His Royal Highness Cruz, who was close at hand.
The latter was angry, and even more angry, only to see Cruz's right hand suddenly swing out, and he directly grabbed the tip of the dagger containing powerful energy, and shouted angrily: "Suffer death!"
Cruz in his original form is undoubtedly ugly, but at the same time it means extremely dangerous and powerful, and with a slap of both palms, he actually slapped the old fox man Abby into meat sauce, a blur of flesh and blood.
After killing the old fox man, Cruz seemed to feel that he still had a lot of anger and shame to vent, and suddenly turned around and slapped the face of the woman who Toure had been afraid of, and scolded angrily: "Damn it, rotten bitch, are you just watching Prince Ben being attacked by this sinister and cunning fox man?"
Cruz's strength is now level nine, although he didn't use any fighting energy, but the slap he slapped under his anger was naturally not trivial, but when he slapped it on the woman's face, it only made the other party's body shake slightly, and a few traces of blood oozed from the corners of her mouth, and the woman didn't move, as if it wasn't her face that was fanned.
The woman's ground was as cold as ice as always, and she looked at Cruz expressionlessly without saying a word. Cruz also quickly calmed down after the slap, but his face was still unapologetic, as if the woman who was secretly jealous of Toure was nothing more than a plaything in his eyes that could be commanded at will.
Ever since the attack on Aaron, the forces in Newcastle have been in a state of tension, which only calmed down a month after Aaron set foot on Aragon soil.
After a few days of secret inquiries in the Milan tavern, Zabas and Ivanova and other old subordinates who had followed him from Kingston were found. It turns out that since they secretly absconded to Syria, they have been abiding by their original agreement, and quietly lurking in the streets of the Milan tavern, waiting for Arun's arrival.
Ivanova's wit and social skills, Zabas's shrewdness and sophistication, the unity of two powerful undead creatures, and dozens of loyal members of Aaron's backbone have led to the creation of a small area of oily commercial street in Victoria Harbour, the heart of the province of Syria, known as the "Shining Pearl of the East Coast!"
Victoria Harbour is tied with Memphis City in the lower reaches of the South as the twin star cities of the Aragon Empire. Unlike Memphis, a purely commercial city, the source of Victoria's prosperity is the turmoil in Syria.
Whether in peacetime or when the Aragon Empire was strong, the province of Syria was not at peace, and even when the Empire's legions were stationed in Syria, the struggle here never stopped.
The starting point of the civil unrest here is different from that of Memphis, which disobeys the orders of the Empire and nominally honors Aragon, but in fact implements native autonomy in everything except the payment of taxes and tribute. All this is the reason for the historical legacy, and the Memphis people do not want to regain their former status as a powerful independent kingdom at all times.
Victoria Harbour is different, the people here are all Aragon people, and their turmoil stems from thousands of years of harassment by orcs from the northwest, and on the other hand, the huge economic benefits of smuggling. Their fierce confrontation has nothing to do with politics and more just for survival and profit.
After reuniting with Zabas and others, Arun also got a rough idea of the situation in Syria. Here, almost every force on the continent has spies lurking here.
At present, Alun's gang can only be regarded as a third- or fourth-rate force organization in the local area, not even a second-rate, which is due to the fact that they do not have a stable source of financial resources and enough backbone to expand their power.
However, these circumstances began to change subtly after Aaron's return. With the help of two powerful ninth-level immortals, it only took Arun half a month to return to normal combat power, and there were faint signs of hitting the ninth-level.
On the other hand, Aaron asked Zabas to send his right-hand men to Kingston with a lot of money to inquire about the situation, buy off the greedy magnates who held real power, and at the same time bring back all the magic costumes in the Magic Forest.
After recovering all their strength, under the will of Aaron, two powerful ninth-level immortals attacked in four directions, constantly annexing or exterminating some of the surrounding weak force organizations, and the methods were cruel to the point of outrageousness. It took only a month for Alun to take Oldridge Avenue on the east coast of Syria and become the leader of the third-rate forces.
For this rapidly rising new power, the various large organizations on the coast did not pay much attention to it. I just paid a little attention at the beginning and didn't pay attention to it. In the Syrian world, new forces emerge every day, and every day a new star rises rapidly, only to be replaced by other new forces the next day. The only forces that have always occupied the fattest areas of the coast are those who are admired by them.
Keeping a low profile and doing things in a high-profile manner! Coupled with the attitude of the bigwigs from all parties to Arun's gang, Alan and the others also seized the opportunity to make Oldridge Street impenetrable and as solid as an iron bucket. Thus, by the time the men sent to Kingston returned, Audreych Street had been firmly ruled by Aaron, and only organizations with his approval were allowed to find oil and water here.