Lead-gray rain clouds loomed over the entire Cormirs, the Shadows' conspiracy failed, the long-accumulated water vapor raged, and the long-awaited heavy rain of the Cormirs was finally coming.

Link shivered involuntarily as he walked on the road leading to the Tivanton Plains, feeling the moist moisture in the air.

Tightening his woollen coat, Link shifted his gaze behind him, where the two hundred mountain infantry led by Konid followed in a neat line.

These infantry wore straw sandals, leggings, and most of them wore simple leather armor or animal skins, holding short bows, spears and wooden shields in their hands, and Link, who lacked fabric, could not equip them with uniform clothing, and the infantry in different costumes looked very messy, but due to the efforts of Konaid, who was born in the regular army, there was no shortage of standard-bearers and trumpeters in this team, and the red flag, conch, and wooden whistles were also available, and the soldiers could already be under the command of the flag-bearer and trumpeter, according to the different order of waving the flag, and the conch horn, so as to achieve the basic queue direction change and the tactical actions of stabbing spears, raising shields, and opening bows。

Fifteen hundred goblins, bear goblins, gnolls, and orcs from more than sixty tribes walked in the center of the line in a chaotic queue, followed by five hundred orc mercenaries under Link's command, and the number of about two thousand goblins and kobolds hung at the back of the team, making the whole team look bloated.

It took a lot of effort for Link to convince the chiefs to agree to send troops, and the chiefs didn't understand why Link, who had previously said that he wanted to do business with the Cormiers, would attack the Cormiers' territory.

Link explained that now the north and south of Cormir are opposed, although the business can barely be done, but it is likely not to achieve such a good effect, it is better to take the opportunity to go to the north of Cormier to loot, the chiefs sneered at Link's explanation, and almost pulled Link from the position of the president of the Chamber of Commerce, fortunately, the shadow prince Revaran, who supported Link's plan, appeared in time and forced the chiefs to send troops, but looking at the gloomy eyes of the chiefs, Link knew that if his plan failed, I was afraid that his foundation in the rocks would also be torn apart by the angry chiefs。

The destroyed city of Tivanton is located on a vast plain, this plain is bordered by the Cape of Storm Mountains and rocky fields in the west, the Mokou Mountains not far from the Wild Bull Desert in the north, and the Thundering Peak known for its orc commandos in the east, and the Hook River that originates from the Thundering Peak flows through the southern part of the plain, making the plain form a topographic feature surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river on one side。

When Tivanton was still a free city-state, Tivanton was famous for its abundant water, soil and products, the plains were full of rich yeoman farms and pastures, well-tended crops and herds of livestock were scattered across the plains, blacksmiths and leather goods workshops were dotted between the farms, processing the leather produced in the rocks, and processing ironware as a commodity traded with the rocks。

The rich plains attract raiders from the rocks and thundering peaks, the abundant armed peasants, the well-equipped town guards, the armed knights from the Eastern Valley, the mercenary brigades of the Sambia Kingdom, the caravan guards from complex sources, and even the arrogant mercenary mages, relying on the wooden walls of the towns and the stone fortresses of the merchant inns to fight against the raiders, after Cormier annexed Tifanton, there were many more well-defended Purple Dragon Knights' Manors on the plains, and when the orcs went south, the orcs would rather face the dangerous rock fort garrisoned by the Purple Dragon Legion than attack the large number of strong fortifications on the plain that had been built over hundreds of years to the east。

When the Iron Regent Alousel led the army to confront the Gauntlets, the Purple Dragon Knights brought their squires and armed farmers to join her army, and still chose to follow her after her defeat and retreat south, while the town guards and country lords' private soldiers on the plains either rebelled or refused the call of the Iron Regent, and were suppressed by the Iron Regent, after the destruction of Tifanton, the Gloomy troops led by Revalan plundered the towns and manors on the plains from time to time, and the strong fortifications could not stop the powerful spells of Revaran, and now the plains are withered, and there is almost no power to protect themselves。

Riding on a captured pack horse, Konid looked at the orcs on the march with some gloom, as a veteran of the Purple Dragon Legion, taking the orcs to attack his own country, which made Konid a little unacceptable, he wanted to stay in the rocks to train recruits, Link had just asked the twenty mountain villages that participated in the Chamber of Commerce to provide three hundred youths in the name of establishing a caravan armed force, and the recruits who lacked weapons were learning to march in formation under the leadership of a few students taught by Konaid.

Lacking officers, Link refuses Konaid's request, and eventually Link secretly informs Konend of his secret pact with the Steel Regent before Konaid agrees to continue working for him.

"Will you help the Lord Regent put things in order, and His Royal Highness has promised you the title of Count of Iwaji?" Conrad confirmed.

Link nodded casually, he was originally negotiating with the merchants in the Dangerous Rock Fort, who knew that the steel regent suddenly appeared, Durag had already checked his whereabouts, the commune had been attacking everywhere in the rocks under the banner of the Shadow City during this time, for the steel regent, the Shadow People not only destroyed Tivanton, but also caused their own defeat and was questioned by the northern nobles, and Revaran almost killed his former chief war mage who was also a teacher and friend, and the first time Link met him, he saw the undisguised killing intent in the eyes of the glamorous steel regent。

Fortunately, Link got the news of the drastic changes in Ghost City from Revaran before, revealed the news to the Steel Regent, and analyzed the situation of the Steel Regency in his shoes, and exaggerated his importance to Revaran, and finally reached an agreement with the Steel Regent, and Revaran was also happy to see the strength of his power, and played an important role in supporting it in the middle.

"Alright, the mercenaries of the Sambia Kid are about to cross the border, let's start with this manor, Prince Revaran will also lead the army to join us in the east, and the three of us will meet at the Tifanton Ruins. Interrupting Kneyed's inquiry, Link pointed to a knight's manor on the plain with wooden walls and arrow towers.

Looking at the hundreds or so of farmers with various weapons looming on the wooden wall, Konid sighed and began to give orders, while Link dismounted, brushed his hand over a patch of somewhat dry winter wheat, and glanced at the increasingly gloomy sky.

At the same time, in a secret room in the royal capital of Susar, the killer organization composed of Cormier's exiled nobles, Faerun's famous "Flame Dagger", is leading its leader "Grandfather" to plot a plot to overthrow the royal family and take revenge on the royal family.

Falling Star Sea, the pirates of the Pirate Islands, under someone's secret order, began to assemble and go to sea, silently heading towards the anchorage of the Cormier royal navy.

In the trading houses of the Sambians, many exiled nobles who had sneaked back to Cormier in disguise had sneaked back to their original territories to recruit the old department, and the Sambian "Beast" mercenary group, composed of more than 300 beasts, began to disperse into Cormier from various passes, preparing to carry out the secret orders of the highest authority in Sambia, the Twenty-two Regiment.

In a remote Cormier Coast, three three-masted galleons from the city-state of the Dragon's Coast - Simon City silently docked, and a large number of vampires from the dark organization Night Mask, the most powerful force on the Dragon's Coast, took advantage of the lack of sunlight to row their dinghy through the deadly current and land on the Cormier Coast.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the rain clouds were constantly discharging in the sky, and there was a faint thunder.

Heavy rain is coming.