Chapter 33: On the Road
On the way to the Ankara Business Alliance, Rocky gloated more than once about the fate of the Golden Knight Dhoni, and it was clear that he was extremely excited and proud to be able to trap a fourth-order golden knight and ten third-order silver warriors to death.
In Rocky's imagination, even if Doni escaped from Blackwater, it was impossible for him to be unscathed, and it was impossible to track him down.
And this time, instead of catching him as a blasphemer, he also lost ten silver warriors in one fell swoop, and Rocky wondered how Doni could deal with Semnua.
However, he didn't know that Dhoni didn't have time to think about what to do right now, because not long after it teleported out of Blackwater City on its front foot, it found that the legendary warrior McCage had been teased by it, and had already chased after it through the guidance of the Bishop of the Temple of Radiance.
Faced with the pursuit of a legendary warrior, Doni had no time to think about anything else, and if he was able to escape with his life, he would have to thank the gods.
When it was dawn the next day, the gates of Blackwater City were opened.
Although there was a major incident of lizardmen infiltrating the city last night, the impact of this incident only spread among the higher-ups, and for ordinary civilians, today is no different from yesterday, and the most they can do is discuss the shrill sonic boom and the angry shouts that resounded throughout the city last night.
And among the merchants and civilians who had rushed in and out of the city, Hax, who had abandoned his mage's robes and was wearing only an ordinary linen robe, sat down in a caravan carriage and left the city with a tired face.
His spirit had been in a state of intense tension since he had accepted Rocky's final assignment yesterday, and God knows how much hesitation he had gone through before he had the heart to pour the cursed dragon's blood into the mouths of some of the gangsters in the ghetto.
When witnessing the humans who had been infused with the blood of a cursed dragon turned into bloodthirsty monsters, Hax's conscience was greatly condemned, and his spirit almost collapsed.
It's not that he hasn't killed people, but this kind of thing of turning people into monsters, he hasn't said he has done it before, or he has never seen it.
Although mages will also use various living creatures when conducting experiments, and even humanoids such as goblins and gnolls, it is absolutely forbidden to use humans of the same race for experiments.
Only those lichs, necromancers, and evil mages will have no scruples about using their own humans to carry out some evil experiments.
Hax didn't dare to imagine how miserable his fate would be if the people of the Temple of Radiance or the City Lord's Mansion knew that the demon incident yesterday was actually caused by him.
After he finished what Rocky had told him, he spent most of the day in a state of confusion, and he only instinctively hid in a tavern in the slums to avoid the sight of the temple personnel.
And the battle that took place in the civilian area last night made Hax almost scared to death, and he spent the whole night in a panicked mood.
He was worried that before Rocky was killed, he would be buried because of the contract, and then he was worried that after Rocky was caught, he confessed what he had done, which would be worse than death.
Until the sun rose today, Hux suddenly felt lighter, as if something had left his body, and the whole person became much more relaxed.
The contract is broken!
Harks immediately understood why he felt this way, and then his whole body became excited, because from this moment on, he was free again.
So, there was a scene of rushing out of the city early in the morning.
After leaving the city gate, Hax glanced back at the bustling city gate, and his eyes were full of relief.
Since then, the mage Hax has never returned to Blackwater City, and the Blackwater City Demon Man incident has become an unsolved case.
It was only many years later that the city lord's mansion of Blackwater City suddenly received a huge donation, and the donor clearly requested that it be used to improve the environment and life of the slums, and witness it as a guarantee in the name of the legendary mage.
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The Ankara Business Union is not a pure business alliance in the literal sense of the word, it is in fact a sovereign state with a land area larger than the Dibes Kingdom, but unlike a monarchy such as the Dibes Kingdom, the Ankara Business Union does not have a royal family or a king, but a parliamentary system.
About 700 years ago, the southern part of the Kadolan continent was still a chaotic area of lord warfare, because the Ankara Empire, which had previously unified the southern continent, and the independent dominions and independent cities formed independently, no one was subservient to each other, and they attacked each other in this land, using all means to expand their territory.
Years of war and chaos led to the rapid decline of population and commerce in the region, and many people fled to the kingdom of Dibes, which had just been established for less than a hundred years, to the north, and to the kingdom of Auckland to the west.
The continuous decline of the population and the withering of commerce have led to a series of strong sequelae that cannot be ignored, such as the difficulty of conscription and the sharp weakening of tax revenue.
Many of the lords found that if this situation was not changed, then in the end, not to mention the glory of the Ankara Empire, it was also a big question whether their families and territories could be retained.
So, when the army of the Dibes Kingdom in the north finally couldn't help but enter the territory of the Ankara Empire, the seventeen surviving lords jointly held an alliance in Karazhan, the capital of the Ankara Empire, and the new Ankara Business Alliance was officially established.
After about two years of sweeping, the territory of the Ankara Business Union was largely fixed when the new Ankara Business Union repelled the invaders of the Dubis Kingdom, and launched a war of unification against the other non-members of the Alliance.
Today, the Ankara Business Alliance, which strongly encourages commercial trade, has become one of the most prosperous countries on the entire Kadolan continent, and its capital Karazan has surpassed the Shining City, the capital of the Radiant Empire, to become the most prosperous city on the continent.
It has to be mentioned here that in the process of the creation of the Ankara Business Union, the role played by the Red Dragon Queen Erica cannot be ignored.
When it was learned that the seventeen noble lords planned to form an alliance against their own army, the Kingdom of Dibes specially sent five legendary powerhouses, including the chief mage of the court and the chief knight of the kingdom, to Karazhan to assassinate these people, but these legendary powerhouses finally returned only the chief mage of the court who escaped quickly.
According to the intelligence released by the Ankara Business Alliance afterwards, the Red Dragon Queen Erica killed three legendary powerhouses with a single dragon, completely disintegrating the power of the Dibis Kingdom to launch a war from the high-end combat power, so that the menacing Dibis army could only retreat without a fight in the end.
It was also this battle that made the entire Kadolan Continent know the strange female dragon among the red dragons.
Because of the battle in the city of Karazhan, the reputation of the Red Dragon Queen rose to an unparalleled level in the Ankara Business Alliance, so much so that the first generation of parliamentary rotating elders unanimously decided to grant her the title of Guardian of the Ankara Business Alliance, and spent a lot of money to build a red dragon castle for her on the Rus Peninsula in the southeast of the Alliance, and at the same time divided the entire Rus Peninsula as its territory.
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