Chapter 505: Recourse (3)
To the east from Hyderabad, not far away is the Swamp.
This is an extremely vast depression with more than a dozen provincial sizes, and after the mighty Rhine River plunged in, the channel widened, the flow slowed down, and countless tributaries, large and small, spread wantonly around it, and finally gave birth to this huge swamp.
The vast swamp, roughly circular in shape, is surrounded by hills about 1,000 feet high, enclosing the entire swamp.
Many, many years ago, a well-known scholar in Medland made an ancient goblin airship and flew to the extreme altitude of the airship, looking down on the entire Everglades from a high vantage point.
Then, His Excellency the scholar wrote an article in which he swore that the Everglades of the Delen Empire was a huge crater that the stars in the sky had fallen and crashed into.
The Golden Oak Church acted decisively and burned the scholar at the stake.
Since then, no one has investigated how the Everglades came to be, anyway, it just creeps quietly in the eastern part of Hydrderabad, silently breeding countless exotic animals, plants, and the dense and thriving Black Forest in all directions.
In the swampy area, it is extremely humid, there are countless poisonous insects, and there are even highly toxic miasma that appears and disappears from time to time, which is not suitable for normal human habitation.
However, because of the property, there are tens of thousands of large and small villages around the swamp, near the mountain range that is more than 1,000 feet high.
Hunters, herb pickers, lumberjacks, mercenaries...... Countless people survive on the dangerous, magical cornucopia of the Swamp.
Xilan Village, a village with nearly 1,000 households and a permanent population of nearly 8,000, is a well-known village around the swamp.
The villagers of Sealand are mostly hunters and lumberjacks, who are rude, savage, fierce and aggressive, and have fought countless times with neighboring villages for the sake of forest grounds and prey.
Aggressive, and can basically win, Sealand Village's fame is built by fists, bows and crossbows, and logging axes.
Of course, Sealand Village also has a bad reputation - foreign medicine pickers, mercenaries, etc., often disappear near Sealand Village, and some people say that Sealand Village occasionally works part-time as thieves!
With its notoriety, the village naturally became closed and conservative, and outsiders were rarely willing to approach this fierce, ill-known village. In addition to selling animal skins and furs, various medicinal herbs and felled timber every year, the people of Sealand Village rarely communicate with the outside world.
In short, this is a very ordinary village, made up of a group of rude, savage coolie ordinary people.
The cold wind rolled and fell with heavy snow.
The rooftops of Sealand Village are covered with more than a foot of snow, and they look white.
It was late at night, and it was dark everywhere in the village, except for the only tavern in the village, which was brightly lit, and from time to time the rude howls and insults of men came from inside.
During the long, bitter winter, the villagers had nothing to do, and alcoholism, fighting, gambling, and even finding women in taverns became the only option for the villagers of Sealand to vent their excessive energy.
On the second floor of the two-story tavern, made of granite, in a huge room with gray wolf and black bear fur on the walls, a dozen stout men with tall cows and horses and sweaty bodies were lying on the ground twitching slightly.
These men were pale, their eyes were sunken, their cheeks were emaciated, their skin drooped down, and they were full of haggard and weak energy, like a group of grapes that had been drained of a lot of water in a short time.
Mia and Mike stood in front of the fireplace in the room with their long hair scattered, holding white and soft silk scarves, wiping each other's sweat and some inexplicable gadgets.
After wiping their bodies clean, the two picked up the white gauze skirt hanging by the fireplace, dressed them seriously, and then Mia clapped her hands gently: "Someone." ”
The door to the room opened, and a thin old man with a frenzied flame in his eyes walked in with a dozen big men, who bowed their heads and bowed respectfully to Mia and Michael.
"Archbishop." The thin old man said respectfully.
"Take these dregs out...... Oh, it's really useless, they all look tall and big, how long has it been, and it's not good? Mi Ke narrowed his eyes in disgust: "Tomorrow, pick another batch of good ones." ”
The thin old man looked at the group of big men lying on the ground breathless, and said with a dry smile: "As you wish, the honorable archbishop......"
The thin old man waved his hand, and the big men he brought with him walked to the big men lying on the ground, and quickly carried them on his shoulders, and led them out of the room.
The thin old man coughed lightly, and he said softly: "Archbishop, the news that has just come back is ...... from Hyderaberg"
"Oh, no, no, no, don't talk to us about those things now." Mia took a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet by the fireplace and poured herself and Micha a glass each.
"Now is the time to take a vacation, to enjoy, at least for the next week, and don't let us hear anything about Hydrerabor, and those bastards in Hydrerabad." Michael picked up his glass, smiled and touched Mia.
The thin old man bowed deeply to the two of them with great eyesight, and then maintained a bowing posture and exited the room step by step.
Mia smiled slightly, watched the old man withdraw and gently closed the door, and said leisurely: "Ah, I feel that I am the richest woman in the Metland continent...... Michael, what to do, I don't want to fulfill my promise with that old fellow. ”
"Then, break the promise." Mi Ke narrowed his eyes and said disappreciably: "Isn't it a matter of course to tear up the agreement?" Oh, do you want to throw out all their role in this matter? ”
The two looked at each other silently, and then 'poofed' at the same time.
They raised their glasses, held hands, and danced merrily around the room. They wore their long hair and danced in their white dresses, and they looked like two mad witches.
Extremely high in the air, the Celestial Chariot brutally smashed through the cold wind and the thick clouds.
The Celestial Chariot slowly swept over the village of Sealand and then stopped above the only small valley leading to the outside world. The heavy metal hatch of the Celestial Chariot slid open silently, like a burning black poppy-poppy-flower, and Margrethe III smiled softly, floated out of the hatch, and slowly landed in the void step by step.
Behind Margaret III, Mata XIII, Mediga, and more than a dozen figures whose bodies were wrapped in thick black cloaks floated out at the same time, and they, just like Margaret III, stepped on the void and landed steadily step by step as if they were descending steps.
Behind them, two hundred and twenty Hydra secret guards, as well as ninety-eight Imperial officers who had just taken the Abyssal Six-Eyed Corrupting Demon Wolf Elixir, all descended lightly at the same time.
There was a faint light rushing under their feet, and they fell silently in the snowy valley like light birds.
Two hundred and twenty Hydra guards......
This is the largest cutting-edge mobile force that the Delen Empire can draw on the premise of maintaining the minimum defensive red line of Hydrderabad.
With two hundred and twenty sixth-order combat powers, the lethality they burst out was enough to inflict extremely terrible damage on any country on the Metland Continent...... Today, they are only used against the small village of 8,000 people.
The entire body of the Celestial Chariot shimmered with a faint electric light, and it fell silently from the sky.
Margaret III had already stepped on the snow and walked slowly towards the village of Sealand, and the chariot of the gods slowly descended on the hill beside it, and fell to a height of only a dozen feet above the ground.
Joe, wrapped in a thick winter coat, jumped out of the Celestial chariot with a 'thud'.
"Sixth Order...... Flight! Ah, what an enviable force! ”
Behind Joe, Caesar the Great and Caesar the Younger rushed out of the Chariot of the Celestials with a large group of knights of the Knights of the Great Order, and a large group of knights of the Royal Order.
These knights, the weakest of whom have reached the third order......
Well, in terms of rank alone, Joe belongs to the weakest class in the team that attacked Sealand Village this time.
There are three thousand teams of the Knights of the Sea Era, a team of 10,000 people of the Royal Knights, and thirteen thousand combat forces above the third order, and all the knights are fully armed, they wear a full set of rune armor, and most of them carry special rune crossbows behind them.
A torrent of more than 10,000 people poured out of the chariot of the gods, and they quickly divided into teams of 100 people, and ran quickly through the snow. In just half an hour, they occupied the key hills around them, firmly surrounding the entire Sealand Village.
The Celestial Chariot flew high into the air, hiding in the thick dark clouds, hovering above the village of Sealand.
Joe took the big Caesar and the little Caesar and ran wildly in the almost waist-deep snow for a while, and finally caught up with Margrethe III and the others, who had flown directly from the sky before.
Margrethe III is calling the shots: "Which province is this place under its jurisdiction?" The governor of this province was downgraded by one rank...... The chief inspector of the province, as well as the director of the police station, were all removed from their posts, and the Ministry of Supervision was able to properly investigate them. ”
"Which city is in charge of directly managing this village? All officials, up and down, were sent to the Ministry of Supervision. ”
"Hehe, a village has become a den of corrupted spirits, and the local officials don't know anything?" Margrethe III raised her hands a little hysterically: "I'd rather believe that they took bribes, and I don't want to believe that the officials of the empire are a bunch of incompetent rubbish." ”
"Anyway, everyone, find out." Margaret III was spewing black flames in her eyes at the moment, and the whole person looked extremely dangerous, and at the same time there was a bewitching and terrifying beauty.
After a seizure, Margrethe III looked at Joe: "Are the little ones in place?" If yes, do it! ”
Joe nodded and looked at the Great Caesar.
Grand Caesar pulled out three fist-sized flares and threw them into the sky.
'Boom, boom, boom', three clusters of scarlet fire exploded in the air, countless red points of light splashed and jumped in the air, constantly exploding, the loud noise shook the surrounding mountains, there was a dull echo, and the blood-colored light illuminated the entire Xilan Village.
On the hills on all sides of Sealand Village, more than 200 new mortars of 120 millicalibers were fired at the same time.
After a single breath, more than two hundred huge flames erupted in all directions of Sealand Village.