In fact, it didn't take half an hour at all, and it didn't even take five minutes.

When Gerwulf and Rose rode away on the Wyvern, Baka opened the gates and led the remaining warriors in the fortress to lay down their weapons.

He surrendered.

In order to show his sincerity in surrendering, he even led people to push the bed crossbows erected on the women's wall down the city wall and smashed them, and then tied a few rags and curtains into a white flag and shook it in the air.

After Tuse's repeated pleas, Lear finally stopped his attack, and in order to repay Rothko for breaking his promise, he originally planned to slaughter all the defenders in the city.

"Where are the Ares Column and the Magic Guild?"

This was Lear's second foray into the Mudstone Keep, the last time he was a magical apprentice with nothing, and when he set foot on the land again after a few years, he was a complete master.

The reason for asking these two places is because the former will bring some help to his captains, and later he will need to do something with the magic guild.

"Please come with me, sir. "As a general who has been stationed at the Mudstone Fortress for ten years, no one is more familiar with this fortress than Tuze.

It is no exaggeration to say that even with his eyes closed, he can walk from the deepest part of the dragon's lair to the tavern in the residential area.

So when Lear asked that question, he jumped on the boat that was docked before Baca could reply.

Unlike all towns, the interior of the Mudstone Fortress is actually a water, and not only the Mudstone Fortress, but almost all Tartaglia fortresses are built in this style.

The abundant underground water system of Enris's marshes overflowed the ground behind the city walls, and the towering cliffs along the way were converted into barracks and dwellings, and with the exception of a few dry lands for people of status and soldiers, almost all civilians, including soldiers' families, lived in a few stilted buildings suspended above the water.

The black groundwater is highly toxic and undrinkable, and there is a thick miasma floating above the water, and few people except the native Tatarya can adapt to the environment.

Without adaptation, there is no exchange and no circulation of wealth, which is one of the reasons why Tartaglia is so barren.

However, it was precisely because of this environment that the city was finally protected, and although the bombardment of Ilore caused heavy casualties to the fortress, the fire was strictly contained in several areas.

Otherwise, after such a long time, the fortress would have been consumed by raging fire.

"My lord, it's here. Half an hour later, Lear and the others appeared under a strangely shaped building.

It looks like a wall but not a wall, like a tower not a tower, because if it were a wall, then the building was obviously a little taller, and it was also guarded by two slightly shorter buildings of the same kind in the back.

And if you want to talk about the tower, the height of less than five meters does seem a little shabby.

However, Lear knew that this was indeed a tower, and that it was the third most important building in the city, the Blood Tower, after the House of Interior and the Magic Guild, as could be seen only by the blood stains that remained on the surface of the building.

The Blood Tower is a spiritual symbol of Tartaglia, and it exists in almost every fortress, and through the special means of witches to perform sacrifices, the Blood Tower can provide great courage and substantial combat power for the swamp people stationed in the fortress, almost reaching the effect of a general with the rhythm of war and an additional red dragon sword.

Lear judged that it was some kind of mysterious and ancient blessing technique, related to the gods worshiped by the Tatartians, but he didn't dig into it.

And the column of the god of war carved above the blood tower is a description of the method that can allow qualified generals to enhance their combat skills, and in normal times, this place will be guarded by guards, and idle people are forbidden to approach, but now it is natural for Lear to come and go freely.

"You stay here and see what you can realize, Tuze will take me to the Magic Guild. ”

Lear said to the people around him.

He brought with him all the warrior captains and an army of five thousand, but left Adela and Valenque and a third of his army in Spartacus, where his most important stronghold was not to let his guard down at any time.

This scale is used to fight a fortress like Mudstone City, and with the magical power that Lear has mastered, it may be able to barely gnaw, but if you want to push deeper into Tartaglia, it is a bit insufficient.

This is not presumptuous, if the defenders of the Mudstone Fortress had not been intimidated by the artillery and musket teams, and had been a little more determined, and the commander had not made the foolish decision to flee from the battle, Lear, lacking heavy siege equipment, would not have taken the Mudstone City so easily.

He couldn't just blast the mud fortress into ruins with artillery, and then how could he fight the battle? Shells and gunpowder were real objects, not magical.

But it's not a big deal, and Lear is going to solve this problem now.

Ten minutes later, Tuze points to a two-story building leaning against a low hill wall and tells Lear to arrive.

Compared to all the grandiose and even resplendent magic guilds Lear had ever seen, this one in the mudstone fortress looked like a broken thatched hut built in the corner of the palace wall, and except for the amethyst at the top, which barely served as a symbol of magic, this magic guild looked not much different from the stilted buildings along the way.

However, this is also in line with the barren national conditions of Tartaglia, and if it were not for the power of the swamp witches after West came to power, this place might be even more unbearable.

Lear jumped onto the muddy ground and strode towards the Magic Guild.

There was a dead silence along the way, and the nest of poisonous flies that had stood in the woods at the edge of the Magic Guild was now empty, along with the surrendered animal tamers, they were all gathered in the open space outside the city to be guarded.

So when Lear stood in front of the gates of the Magic Guild, no one came out to stop him, and of course there was no welcome.

He walked in.

Like all local magic guilds, this building had to be built on top of an abundance of magical leylines so that there were enough flowing magical elements for the mages or witches who entered it to meditate.

This leyline is very barren in Lear's opinion, and it is already capped if it can be built up to a level 3 magic guild, but he doesn't care, because he only needs to use the magic nodes here.

By the time Tuzer appeared behind Lear, he had already begun to carve out a magic circle on the ground.

Unlike the witches who were chattering when they cast spells, Lear simply took a few steps up the ground and then a few diagonal corners, as the glow of magic fell from him.

Soon, a six-pointed star circle that revealed absolute order in its simplicity took shape at his feet.

"Earth dragon floating in the void, please show your power so that the earth will no longer hinder me, and the gates of space will open for me. "The Gate of Time and Space. ”

In Tuze's stunned gaze, the six-pointed star array emitted a dazzling green light, and then Lear's figure completely disappeared in front of him.

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