At noon, the three of them came to the central square of Freedom Paradise, which is the most prosperous place in the entire Freedom Paradise, around the entire square, there are scattered buildings, there are villas of rich businessmen, and there are also powerful mercenary groups to put their headquarters here. The entire square can be filled with about 200,000 people, which is quite a huge number.

By the time Ryan arrived, it was already crowded, and under Franner's leadership, they had barely found a place to stand in the middle of nowhere. It is about 500 meters away from the viewing platform in the center of the central square, and it is basically impossible to see the faces of those standing on the viewing platform, and there is a lot of noise around them, let alone the sound of their voices, the only advantage is that there is no shelter between here and the viewing platform.

After a while, the place where Ryan and the others squeezed in was also densely packed with people, and even if they wanted to go now, they probably wouldn't be able to squeeze out. Ryan suddenly had a ridiculous idea, if he threw a fireball spell here, he was afraid that it would set a record for the number of people killed and injured by a single fireball spell since the beginning of magic. Ryan shook his head self-deprecatingly, he didn't sleep all night last night, and he went back to draw scrolls after eating in the morning, and he has been busy until now, it seems that it is not a good thing to be too tired, no, they are all starting to think about it.

After a while, Franner gently tugged at the corner of Larain's coat and whispered in his ear, "Here, the old man walking in the middle is Chilaviv." ”

Ryan squinted his eyes and looked closely, only to see an old man dressed in white slowly walking up to the viewing platform, followed by four people, two of whom were wearing mage robes, but because of the distance, Ryan couldn't see what the badge on their chests was. The other two were wearing cloaks, the black cloaks enveloping them all over, and even their faces were not exposed.

Allendo's voice suddenly sounded in Ryan's ears: "Those two people wearing cloaks are very powerful warriors, and it is estimated that I and Xiaobai can barely deal with one." ”

Ryan nodded slightly, as the richest man on the mainland, the president of the Dorlock Business Alliance of the First Chamber of Commerce in the mainland, and the chairman of the Free Paradise Merchant Alliance in the commercial capital, it would be strange if Chilaviv didn't even have a bodyguard by his side.

Kiraviv walked to the front of the viewing platform, and a magician beside him walked up to him quickly, chanting a large incantation, and Ryan couldn't hear the magician's voice, so he couldn't tell what the spell was, but then again, Ryan had no formal training as a magician, and even if he could hear it, he still couldn't hear it if it wasn't something he would use, if it wasn't something he often saw people release.

Ten seconds later, the magic was completed, and a large ball of colorful light appeared in front of Chilaviv, and at this moment, Ryan suddenly heard an old man's coughing voice, and then the old man spoke: "Hello all the residents of the Free Paradise, all the merchants, all the mercenaries, and other people from all walks of life!"

"Ahh Ryan let out a soft exclamation, he had already guessed what spell the magician was casting, and it was a remarkable magic to be able to spread the sound of Chiraviv throughout the bustling central square.

"Hey, it's amplification!" Flanner smiled as if he had guessed what Ryan and Alendor were thinking.

Neither of them spoke again, though, for Chilaviv's voice rang out again. In a few breaths, the entire central square was silent, and the square, which was at least full of 300,000 people, could be so quiet, if you could not hear the sound of breathing one after another, you would never believe that there were so many people here without looking at it.

"Thank you all for being here on time, now let's get started. Let me introduce myself, my name is Chilaviv, the president of the Merchant Alliance of Free Paradise. ”

"Ahh

"Wow!"

"Oh!"

"Huh!"

A steady stream of voices rang out in all directions, and it seemed that many people had seen the legendary figure for the first time, but everyone just made some noises, and soon the central square was calm again.

Chilaaviv continued: "Just last night, we received a messenger to the Northern Thor's Fortress, and they brought important news that the orcs of the Northern Talon Prairie were preparing to go south again, and they had gathered a large army to plot to capture the Thor's fortress. ”

"Let them die!"

"Kill those green-skinned mongrels!"

Many grumpy guys had already started shouting, and the order of the scene was slightly chaotic, but Chilaviv immediately controlled everyone's emotions: "Yes, it's normal for everyone to have such thoughts. We are gathered here today to assist the warriors stationed in Thor's Fortress and drive our enemies away. ”

"After the consultation of the heads of our seventeen chambers of commerce, we have decided to fully support Thor's Fortress in the following ways: First, all members of the Free Paradise Merchant Alliance must participate in this support operation. The specific list of supplies needed for Thor's fortress can be obtained for free from the Mercenary Guild. Once the Thor Fortress is accepted, it will be paid at the price set by the Free Paradise Merchant Alliance. If anyone is found to be adulterated with inferior goods, they will be severely punished according to the laws of the Empire, and in serious cases, they will be hanged for treason!"

"Second, all mercenary groups registered with the Free Heaven Mercenary Guild must participate in this support operation. The specific content you have to do will be collected according to your own strength in the form of a task issued by the Mercenary Guild, and you can get the corresponding reward after completing the task. All those involved must unconditionally submit to the management of the Thor Fortress garrison, and if they are violated, they will be severely punished in accordance with the regulations of the army!"

"Third," Kilaviv said this, pausing slightly, he seemed to be thinking about the wording, and after a few seconds, he continued: "The Dorok Business Alliance will take the lead in sending two of the three mercenary groups under its name, and will also send twenty magicians, and the other member chambers of commerce will also send corresponding personnel, I will not describe them all here." I say this mainly to remind you that since you have to do your best, you must also do what you can. This may seem contradictory, but it is quite important. ”

"This time the orcs are menacing, no more than usual. In the past forty or fifty years, although the orcs have attacked many times, each time the scale is not large, and Thor's fortress can easily cope with it even with its own garrison. However, this time is different, according to the current reliable information, the orc army has exceeded 500,000!"

"500,000 ?!?!" Hearing this number, countless people gasped, this is really a huge number. Everyone knows that without considering factors such as training, morale, logistics, equipment, and commander-in-chief's command, one orc can defeat three human soldiers just by virtue of the physical fitness between soldiers. These 500,000 means that the human army defending them will be 1.5 million.

Although the human population of the entire continent may be between 5,000 and 60 million, the Holy Empire under the rule of the Fernando royal family is not a fully unified state, it implements a system of lords, and those lords only need to pay taxes in the areas ruled by the lords, and the population there is not under the central management of the empire. The population directly ruled by the Fernando royal family includes the imperial capital area, that is, the population of Fernando City and its surrounding areas is about 10 million, plus some cities such as Sunrise City and Sea Breeze City under the control of the Fernando royal family, the population definitely does not exceed fifteen million.

And the main force that really resisted the attack of the northern orcs was the soldiers recruited from this population of 15 million. The annual taxes that the entire empire can receive, after various discounts, are equivalent to the taxes of 20 million people at most, and excluding other expenses, the empire really has an army of only about 1.7 million. And this number includes the garrison army and the reserves, and the real elite is only 600,000. Thor Fortress has a permanent garrison of 200,000 troops, which is one of the most elite troops in the empire.

Originally, everyone thought that it was probably the same as in previous years, and the orcs were only a hundred thousand, according to the convention that the defenders could use one block five, the 200,000 troops in the Thor Fortress could resist a million human troops at will, and then according to the three-to-one ratio of humans and orcs, that is, it could defend against about 300,000 orc troops. But now that they heard Chilaviv say this, those merchants and mercenaries who were bent on making a fortune through this war suddenly calmed down a lot, and they were not stupid, and immediately understood why the garrison of Thor Fortress took the initiative to contact the south this year to seek support.

Seeing that his words had made the atmosphere drop a lot, Chiraviv suddenly laughed, and he said loudly: "I know what you are thinking, but I can also tell you that sometimes, the so-called conversion ratio is just a coward's game to comfort himself! At that time, the orcs were extremely powerful, and some people calculated that their army, those green-skinned guys, had a whole million warriors capable of fighting!"

"But what is the result? everyone knows that our great Majesty Fernando personally led an army of 100,000 to conquer the orcs, and wherever His Majesty Fernando's two-handed giant sword 'Holy Avenger' pointed, the orc army was all defeated, even if they gathered more than seven times the number of soldiers of our human army, they were finally driven out of the South Tarren steppe by His Majesty Fernando!"

"What does Your Majesty Fernando rely on?" Chilaviv shouted loudly, "Who can tell me, you cowards?"

"Royal Knight!" shouted thousands of people together.

"I can't hear you, you cowards!"

"Royal Knight!" tens of thousands of people roared out together.

"No, it's too quiet, haven't you eaten?

"Royal Knight!" more than 300,000 voices shouted the name together, and the entire central square of Liberty Paradise was drowned out by this huge sound, and the earth seemed to tremble, and the surrounding buildings seemed to be crumbling.

"Yes, that's right!" Chilaviv said loudly: "You are right, we have invincible royal knights, we have invincible victories against General Orlando! As long as we unite, we can defeat all the enemies in front of us! 20,000 years ago, our ancestors united, slaughtered countless ancient beasts, and gained the right to live on this continent! Two thousand years ago, our ancestors united and conquered the entire continent and became the masters of this continent! Two hundred years ago, our Majesty Fernando drove out the greenskinned orcs with a united humanity and established a powerful nation!