Mayor Marco is used to being strong in the town.

He has always been the same in the town hall, and few people dare to be so unkind to him.

Especially the commander of the cavalry battalion of the Langdon Legion, after coming to Dodan Town, he has never had any conflict with Mayor Marko, so Mayor Marko feels that the commanders of the cavalry battalion in the Legion are so easy to talk to, and they usually patrol the border line to fight the indigenous tribes along the border line in Dodan Town.

As a local magnate who had taken root in the town of Dodan and was the supreme consul of the town, Mayor Marco did not take the new cavalry battalion commander of the Luthor Legion in his eyes from the beginning, and he habitually thought that Surdak would keep a low profile in front of the local authorities like the commander of the Langdon Legion cavalry battalion, after all, the mayor of Marko also had to make financial allocations to the cavalry battalion from the town to ensure the daily expenses of the cavalry regiment.

Perhaps because of this, the commander of the cavalry battalion of the Langdon Legion has always seemed to have little confidence in front of the mayor of Marco, and even handed over the power of the city defense guard to the town to be responsible for management.

Now Surdak suddenly stood up and demanded the power of the city's defense guards from Mayor Marco, which is understandable according to normal procedures, even if the lawsuit is brought to the council of Wilkes City, no one will blame Surdak.

On the contrary, the mayor of Marco will inevitably be asked by the council to report to Wilkes City.

A round trip from Dodan Town to Wilkes City would take more than half a month if the horse ride went smoothly, and Mayor Marko knew that the councillor behind him would not stand up and speak for him because of such an unreasonable triviality, and if it didn't work, it would make people think that he was ignorant and put his hand on the side of the army.

Although he can usually reap a lot of benefits if he controls the city defense guard, and it is also extremely convenient for those slave hunters who secretly support him to enter and leave the town, but now he has no reason to hold the city defense guard team in his hands.

"What are you still doing standing at the door, making two cups of tea slowly!" Mayor Marco, who had nowhere to vent his anger in his heart, scolded Mrs. Luna, who was standing in the doorway with a tea tray.

Mrs. Luna hurriedly lowered her head and placed two cups of black tea on the coffee table in the lounge area.

Mayor Marco was a little calmer at this time, although he was destined to hand over the power of the city's guard brigade, but he didn't want to be obtained by Surdak so easily.

Thinking of this, Mayor Marko's anger and depression in his heart were greatly reduced, and he motioned for Surdak to sit down, and said quietly:

"I'll go to the city defense guard later, conduct a material inventory, check the list of personnel of the city defense guard team, and then the city defense guard team will have to bother Commander Surdak to bother to manage, they are usually responsible for guarding the north wall of Dodan Town, this is the north gate of our Bailin plane occupation area, and the north wall of Dodan Town that can be defended is very important to the situation of the Bailin plane."

"The city defense guard of Dodan Town has always been under the jurisdiction of the town, mainly because I don't want to separate finance and government affairs, since you want to take back the military power of the city defense guard, it can't be better, but the finances of the town have always been barely maintained, and now I can get rid of such a big burden as the city defense guard, it is really good."

Of course, Mayor Marco didn't want to pay an extra penny for the city guard team, and Surdak had to allocate some supplies from the garrison to the city guard team, and now that I think about it, this is probably the main reason why the Langdon Legion commander is reluctant to take over the city guard team.

Surdak did not want to leave the management of the north gate of Dodan Town in the hands of others, so he said:

"Then I'll go back to the barracks and wait for your news, if you're ready, you can send someone to the barracks to find me at any time."

After saying that, he didn't drink the steaming cup of black tea, and turned around to leave the mayor's office.

Mayor Marco stood in front of the window, watching Surdak stride out of the town hall, ride the Guborai horse, and walk slowly out of the long street, unable to suppress the anger in his heart any longer, and was so angry that he slammed the teacup in his hand on the oak floor.

……

Yesterday, Surdak ran to the town square and stopped Mayor Marco from executing him with a very strong attitude, which greatly reduced his prestige in front of the townspeople.

Today he came to the town hall again, and directly asked for the power of the city defense guard brigade, not caring at all how ugly Mayor Marco's face was at that time, this scene happened to be seen by several town officials passing by the mayor's office.

Before noon, the news of such a powerful garrison commander in the town quickly spread in the town hall.

Mayor Marco was reluctant to hand over power, and went directly to the city guard brigade to arrange the back hand, now several important positions in the city guard brigade are almost all close associates of Mayor Marko, and the material warehouse of the city guard brigade is like the private warehouse of the mayor of Marco, usually for the convenience of access, the slave traders under the mayor of Marco are stored in this warehouse.

These include some shady adventure group armor and weapons, of course, more Warcraft materials, except for the native slaves of the plane, there is almost everything in the warehouse, most of them are some valuable things, these are the belongings that Mayor Marco has accumulated in Dodan Town in the past few years.

At this time, it is necessary to quickly count it, Mayor Marco does not want to give Surdak the belongings he has worked hard for so many years to give to Surdak in vain.

Hans, the captain of the city guard brigade, was personally raised by Mayor Marco, and Hans's own sister is the third wife that Mayor Marco married home.

Captain Hans didn't expect that Commander Surdak, who didn't seem to have a temper, would take back the power of the city guard brigade without a word.

Mayor Marco sat in the office of the City Guard Brigade, and Captain Hans stood by with his hands down.

Mayor Marko said, "Let the clerk on your side who is in charge of registering the accounts of the goods in the warehouse make a new account, and we must transfer these materials before handing over the city guard brigade." ”

"What else do you want to do?" Captain Hans asked cautiously.

Mayor Marco rubbed his eyebrows with his hand, turned his head to look at the warehouse under the city wall, and said, "I have arranged for a team of four-wheeled trucks to find some trustworthy people to use these nights to transport these things out overnight. ”

"All the supplies?" Captain Hans asked.

Mayor Marco said as a matter of course: "Of course it's all of it, just don't forget to close the accounts." ”

Thinking that the large amount of war reserves in the warehouse would be transported by Mayor Marko, Captain Hans was a little flustered, and hurriedly walked to Mayor Marko's side, and asked in a low voice, "What will I do in the future?" ”

One of the things that Mayor Marco hated most about Hans was that it was difficult to keep calm in the event of an incident, and he said in a deep voice:

"What else can I do? Of course, it's to clamp your tail and be a man, don't let people find an excuse to put you out of the city defense team, as long as you can control the third leg and don't make any major mistakes in the management of the city defense team, I can still keep you. ”

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Captain Hans said in a deep voice, "Come in......"

The guard stood in the doorway and reported, "The tax collector wants to ask to see the mayor. ”

"Let him in......"

Mayor Marco sat behind his desk and commanded calmly.

……

Surdak was not in a hurry to take back the management of the city's guard brigade on this day.

After leaving the town hall, he didn't rush to find Selena, they had to buy daily necessities in the town, and they shouldn't have done so many things so quickly.

Surdak wanted to find out more about Invercargill's Monster Forest and the Beast Tide.

There was no library in the town, but he found a magic grocery store, which was not very large, but through the only glass vitrine, he could see the bookshelves inside, on which were a row of quaint books, probably not precious magic books.

Surdak only wanted to learn about some of the high-level monsters that lurked in the depths of Invercargill's Monster Forest through some local travelogues and miscellaneous conversations.

Walking into the grocery store, there was an old man copying the pattern of a magic scroll sitting at the counter in front of the store, and in the corner of the wall and window of the grocery store, there were books less than half a shelf, in addition to this, there were also some magic scrolls, metal rune plates, magic ink, and magic engraving pens in this bookstore.

Surdak walked into the grocery store, and the owner didn't greet him, allowing him to walk around the store casually.

Standing next to the bookshelf, Surdak found a biography of the ranger, and flipped through a few pages, most of which told the story of how many high-level monster heads and beautiful girls' hearts this ranger had captured in the process of traveling the world.

It was not easy to find a chapter about the Invercargill Warcraft Forest, but unfortunately the ranger did not seem to devote a lot of time to this Warcraft Forest, only saying that he chased a ghost leopard into the depths of the forest, and found the lair of the horned eagle beast in the depths of the forest.

He tried to steal an egg from a Hippogriff, but was unfortunately discovered by the alert Hippogriff, and escaped from the Invercargill Forest after being chased by the Hippogriff.

Surdak didn't think that there would be such a third-order flying beast in the Invercargill Monster Forest, but there was no trace of the Horned Eagle Beast in the Bena Province, and this rare Beast was probably extinct in the Invercargill Monster Forest.

Towards noon, Surdak ran to the rented house and had lunch with Selena, Signa, and Nika at a small restaurant down the street.

Selena said that during the meal, she told Surdak that the owner of the tailor shop should know that the commander of the garrison rented his own small building, and in the morning he personally ran to the small building with two exquisite vases, and openly and secretly proposed to Selena to halve the rent, but Selena refused.

Surdak rubbed his nose and said to Selena self-deprecatingly, "Why do you think he thinks I'm the kind of person who can't pay the rent, anyway, I'm at least a noble lord with a private army......

Selena covered her mouth and smiled: "It's not that you noble lords, who are usually used to exploiting the residents of the town, make him feel that if he doesn't come over and take the initiative to give some gifts, you 'big guys' will have to make trouble with others!" ”

The restaurant was small, and there weren't many guests even at noon, which was why Selena dared to taunt Surdak so unscrupulously.

She was a maid in Hoyle Manor when she was a girl, and knew a lot about the dirty things of the nobles.

Outside the window, there was a burst of horse bells, and when the four-wheeled carriages passed by, they made a 'squeak' sound, and this kind of four-wheeled carriage only when it was heavily loaded, the lubricating oil on the bearings would lose its effect, making this screeching sound.

Surdak couldn't help but look out the window, and the four-wheeled carriages on the street drove past one after another, almost all loaded with goods.

He remembered that the carriages had stopped at the trading house in the morning, and he did not expect that by this time they were already full of goods, and they were beginning to prepare to leave the town of Dodan.

Recently, the adventuring group has not been able to enter the Invercargill Warcraft Forest to hunt, and the trader group can still muster together so many supplies.

After waiting for a while, the convoy passed by one after another.

You don't have to guess to know, probably in order to avoid unnecessary losses, the comptoir is transferring supplies.

Of course, it is not known whether this was affected by the 'robber group looting and slave hunting incident'.

However, before the convoy could leave Surdak's sight, a group of guards in hard leather armor hurried after them, and they quickly surrounded the convoy with well-textured spears in their hands.

The caravan was forced to stop, and the coachmen did not panic, but slowly pulled the wagons to the side of the street and were inspected by the guards.

An armed regiment dressed in leather suits, armed with alloy bows and swords, led by the two knights, quickly arrived here, and the two sides confronted each other almost without saying a word, although the atmosphere was a little tense, but it could be seen that neither side was ready to move.

Surdak and Selena sat by the window of the small restaurant, just enough to sit and watch the excitement.

Some of the town's residents who passed by the street also stopped and stood on the side of the street curiously watching.

A series of horses' hooves sounded in the distance, and I saw Captain Hans of the City Guard Brigade riding a Gubolian horse to the scene, and before he could dismount, a person in charge of the convoy came out of the convoy in gorgeous clothes.

He frowned and looked up at Captain Hans......

Through the glass window, there was still a not too short distance from there, and what they were talking about, Surdak couldn't hear at all.

The caravan leader and captain Hans had not been talking for long before a group of city guards began to search the four-wheeled wagons, and some of the supplies on the wagons were also unloaded from the wagons for some unpacking and inspection.

The city guards made a mess of the streets, and left the street under the leadership of Captain Hans.