Under the cliff in the north, half a mushroom cloud rises along the cliff, covering dozens of kilometers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info had a similar vision in the sky above the giant city-state, but it was far less spectacular than it is now.

In order to avoid the dust that was about to obscure the sky, the hot air balloons in the sky floated south under the command of Gunther. Ten minutes later, it was over the edge of the dust cloud.

At this time, in a semicircle with a radius of more than 20 kilometers, the sunlight was completely blocked by dust, as if the night had suddenly descended.

Farther away, the knights and the surviving peasants all looked up blankly, watching an endless black cloud plunge into the sky in an extremely furious manner.

Gunther watched as the black cloud rose from the bottom of the cliff in the north, like a mountain rising from the ground, and like a demonic obstacle stirred up by the devil.

For a moment, Gunther felt like she was going to be caught up by it, and then relentlessly swallowed up...... However, the sudden appearance of strong air currents blew the hot air balloons away.

Gunther didn't know that it was the aftermath of the terrifying shock wave, the mushroom cloud in the sky was caused by this shock wave, and tens of thousands of knights on the ground within a dozen kilometers of the epicenter died in an instant under the strong air pressure caused by it, and even if it was farther away, many were seriously injured.

On the other side of the circle, there seemed to be someone shouting, but Gunther still had a rumbling sound in his ears, and he didn't even know if the rumble was real, or if the loud noise from the fall of the boulder had pierced his eardrums.

The balloon flew higher and higher, farther and farther, and the black cloud finally stopped spreading and was blown north by the wind.

I don't know how long it has been, but Gunther's hearing has gradually recovered, and he can vaguely hear the shouts of the head of the Zhongshan Mu in the sound transmission array.

Gunther ...... Do you hear that? Hear the reply! How are you there......

"Commander...... I'm fine......" Gunther glanced at the situation in the hot air balloon cage, and the three young mages were all fine, but they were all stupefied by what had just happened.

"Good...... Now resume the reconnaissance mission and keep an eye on the invading knights. As soon as you find out that they have a tendency to move south, report it to me immediately!" Sam's voice was still a little nervous on the other side of the Transmission Circle, and in the past ten minutes, he thought that he had lost the hot air balloon formation.

In order to hear the order from Captain Sam, Gunther almost put his ear to the dense element curve of the sound transmission circle.

"Yes!" he turned his head and shouted into the center of the circle, "I must keep an eye on them!"

"It's okay, it shook for a while, and now it's stopped...... Ellie is fine, too!" Sam replied.

"That's good!" Gunther said as he reached out to activate another sound-transmitting circle, only then did he realize that his hands were still shaking uncontrollably.

Immediately afterwards, the sound transmission circle on more than 60 hot air balloons sounded Gunther's voice at the same time.

"Attention all ships! Carry out patrol tasks according to numbers, the No. 33 ships remain suspended, and the rest of the ships will be small to the east and large ships to the west, and the visual distance between the ships will be 12 kilometers...... Keep an eye on the invading knights, and report to me if there is any change!"

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The headquarters of the Banque du Nord is one of the most conspicuous buildings on Avenue Louis in the upper town of Coennas. The 20-meter-tall building, similar in style to the Parthenon in ancient Greece, is made of brown stones similar in color to a certain layer of ashlar on the walls of Coennas, and it has been concluded that the building was built during the Aryan period. That is, it may be more than 1,200 years old.

Three years ago, Grande, the president of the Bank of the North, bought the building from the Marquis of Dominig for a high price of 7,600 magic crystals. Prior to this, it was the largest and most luxurious bathhouse in Coennas, and the most favored social place for the nobles of the imperial capital.

Near noon, Alex Medici sat on the balcony of the luxurious private room on the third floor of the Frost Flower Hotel across the street, drinking tea while looking at the crowd at the entrance of the Northern Bank.

Alex had only arrived in Coenas the previous day, and it was only natural that he should have hurried to the province of Oviere, to meet Cynthia Vida, and to discuss with the Duke of Venne the establishment of a shipping company.

But as soon as he arrived in Coennas, he had a sense of foreboding—he had entered the palace to present a batch of gifts to the Empress Lucia, but had not been able to see the Empress herself all morning.

Although with today's situation in Middle-earth, the empress has enough capital to do so. But with Alex's knowledge of Empress Femont, nothing unexpected happened, and she would not have left herself hanging out of the foyer of Auston Palace, spending more than two hours with the expressionless guards.

Something must have happened.

After a closed meal at Auston Palace, and after returning from a sneer, Alex realized that he had guessed correctly. Coenas, who had been at peace for a long time, actually closed the city gates.

The news that followed almost made Alex not believe his ears: an army of knights had appeared in the north of the Femon Empire, and could come to Coenas at any moment.

Alex couldn't figure it out, there were millions of dwarf dwarfs living in the five northbound cities of the Hels Continent, acting as a barrier, how could there be knights who climbed the northbound cliff and came to the north of the Femon Empire?

But no matter how unbelievable it is, the facts are still in front of us. If it weren't for the great enemy, Coenas would never be as chaotic as it is now, and there would not be a crowd of people shouting to exchange the bills for magic crystals and gold coins in front of the Bank of the North across the street.

Alex understands these people's thoughts. If Don Naveen, King of the North, could not withstand the invading knightly army, the credibility of the Northern Bank would collapse overnight, and the bills could become worthless. And the occurrence of this seems to be quite likely.

In fact, the door of the headquarters of the Northern Bank has been closed since this morning, and a notice has been posted at the door to suspend business. If it weren't for a team of dozens of knights, the gate might have been breached by the angry crowd.

Alex felt that he was not much different from those who held up the bills and asked for exchange. The chips he pressed on the Femon Empire were no less than these people.

From the docks of Dorn, to the Fabric Exchange in the province of Cope, to the half-expanded Por River docks outside of Misty Town, the Medich family has invested more and more in the Femon Empire.

No one here yet knows what has become of Kaios, who is tens of thousands of miles away. The forces of Patin the Lion and Goth the Barbarian have already appeared, and the two sides have not completely torn their skins, but that day will come. At that time, the Emerald City will also be unable to escape the flames of war.

Needless to say, with the protection of the Far North and a genius like Donaveen, Hulse could have become the mainstay of Middle-earth, the only safe place, a haven from the wind. Because of this, Alex planned to shift the focus of the Medici Chamber of Commerce here, and he even had his father's consent to move the entire family to Femont.

But who would have thought that Hulse's situation would suddenly become what it is now. In Caios, the strength of the lion and the barbarian was at least a constraint on each other, so that they did not look too ugly. But in Hers, the power of the knights, the dwarves, and Middle-earth itself had long been made hostile.

In Alex's heart, there were two voices arguing with each other, one saying, "Go quickly, while it's still too late," and the other said, "If Fermont falls, there will be no pure land in Middle-earth, so what can I do if I escape for a while?"

Now, Alex's only hope is in that Miss Lisa.

He didn't know how many knightly troops had come to the north of Huls, and if it was just a mercenary group, Miss Lisa should have a way to think about it. No, and those dwarves, no matter how the knightly army that slipped through the net came here, once the dwarves found out, they would definitely come back.

Over the past few years, Alex has had a close relationship with the Far North. From any angle, he could not see that the dwarves had a motive to betray Donalveen.

Alex thought as he stared distractedly at the glass teapot on the round table in front of him. Suddenly, he felt that he was hallucinating, and the water in the teapot was dangling for no reason.

No, not an illusion. Because soon he noticed that the chairs and the round table were shaking, and the whole building seemed to be shaking.

Across the street, in front of the Northern Bank, people suddenly dispersed and fled in all directions.

"Here we are...... The knightly army is coming......"

Alex heard someone shouting hoarsely.

But the tremor quickly disappeared, and after an interval of ten minutes, it came again, more violently, but there was no knightly army to come to the city.

The streets of Coenas were calm, but Alex's sense of foreboding deepened.

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