Surdak sighed softly and turned to walk back into the courtyard.

It can be seen that the life of the people in the remote mountainous area of the Ganbu plane is very difficult, and the lord army has to collect taxes here twice a year, which also increases the burden on the people.

The young people of the village did not go out of the mountains, and they seemed to have nothing to do in the town.

There is no doubt that there should be rebels here, too, and that the rebels here should have some close ties to the town of Tanley.

The children subconsciously avoided those topics, they should have been interrogated similarly, and the adults in the family had also told them in advance.

Surdak sat back on the chair next to the campfire, and the magician Arvid asked Surdak curiously, "What did you say to those children just now?" How did you come back and your mood became so low? ”

Evening in the mountains always comes early, and the color of the canopy darkens.

The firewood from the campfire burned to the point that only a few red charcoals remained, and with sporadic crackling and popping sounds, some of the coals burst open and some sparks were splashed.

Surdak sat down, took a sip of water from his cup, and said with some concern:

"There should also be rebels here, and when those lord armies stabilize the situation in Takkale Town, they will definitely wipe out the rebels everywhere, and the residents of this town will not be implicated......"

Avid's eyes widened, and he struggled to sit up from the recliner and asked Surdak:

"You're saying it's the rebels' lair?"

Surdak shook his head and said, "Probably not, but there should be some rebels here as well." ”

Hearing Surdak say this, Avid exhaled, lay back on the wicker chair, and said, "You say how can there be so many rebels on the Ganbu plane?" ”

Surdak thought about what the child said just now, In the province of Bena and even in the entire Grimm Empire, the taxation of private territories is controlled by the lords, and the normal situation is basically that the tax is collected once a year, almost after the harvest festival, and this is also the time when the residents of the territory have the most money.

In the event of a year of famine or war, the lords had to reduce their taxes appropriately.

In the event of a greater natural disaster, many lords also need to pay out of their own pockets to help the inhabitants of their territory to tide over the difficulties.

However, this is clearly not the case with the dry cloth plane.

When he owned the territory of Pusbag Mountain, he hadn't thought about these things.

Surdak only gradually came into contact with this aspect of affairs after owning a large area of Invercargill Forest, after all, there are still thirty-seven indigenous tribes in the territory, and how to appease these tribes and natives, Surdak has also seriously thought about it before.

He put down the glass of water in his hand and said to the magician Arvid:

"It may be that the taxes of the local lords are set too high, and if Lord MacDonnell dares to go to war with the Bednar coalition forces in Tarapa, he must need a lot of gold and magic crystals, except for a part of the savings from their coffers, and the rest is destined to be distributed among the people of the Ganbu plane."

The Evid Wizard was slightly stunned.

As a magician nobleman, he doesn't need to pay taxes, so he's not very sensitive to these things. sense, I don't even think about it in normal times.

Samira jumped from the roof and whispered to Surdak, "Our whereabouts have been revealed, and a dark mage is catching up over there." ”

The light red eyes looked in the direction of the town, murderous.

"How many people came?" Surdak asked.

Samira whispered, "Three black magicians! ”

Surdak thought for a moment, and said to Samira, "Maybe it just happened to be here to search......

Samira bent her knees slightly and jumped on a mango tree in the courtyard, and the moment she stepped on the horizontal branch, her body was stretching, and she easily crossed more than ten meters and stepped on the roof, and jumped onto the chimney in a few steps, looking towards the entrance of the town.

"They stopped at the guard tower at the entrance of the town, and were interrogating the guards at the guard at the entrance of the town......

Surdak rubbed his forehead, he just wanted to wait for the Evid mage to recover his mana, and then repair the temporary teleportation circle and return to Bena City, but these dark mages always followed behind, which was really annoying.

Thinking of the demons stuck in the door in Lord Macdonnell's Manor, Surdak felt that he should give these dark mages a little more color.

"Then teach them a good lesson, go, get rid of them!"

Surdak put down the glass and said to Samira on the roof.

Gulit quickly stood up, ready to go out to fight with a stick, worried that the corbel on the bonfire would be burned, and he also carried the corbel in his hand.

"Gulitham, you stay to protect Avid and Thea, and Samira and I are enough to deal with those dark magicians."

After Surdak finished speaking, he took out the magic pattern from his magic belt bag and quickly put it on his body, and Thea hurriedly ran over to help him fasten his shoulder straps.

The two-headed ogre sat down again.

Samira put the 'Snake Fang' on her body, and the magic pattern almost completely enveloped her body, and the two quickly walked out of the courtyard of the hotel.

The evening light in the town was a little dim, and Samira walked along...... The whole person disappeared around Surdak.

There was only one commercial street in the town, and there were not many pedestrians on the street in the evening, and the young men playing cards under the trees opposite the hotel had dispersed, and Surdak held the hilt of his broadsword in one hand, and walked towards the entrance of the village step by step, his eyes becoming extremely determined.

The three black mages were still standing on the sentry tower at the entrance of the village, and although the two guards were putting on a submissive look, they didn't say a word of usefulness in their mouths.

A magician had no choice but to pull two silver coins out of his pocket and repeat the question.

"Yes...... There were five of them, and I saw them passing by here at noon, and the ogre looked really vicious, and he actually had two heads on his shoulders......" The guard said with a smile when he got the silver coin.

They don't care who they are......

The eyes of the three black magicians lit up, and they felt that they could ask each other about the situation in more detail, and they looked at each other, feeling that this time the harvest was quite large.

"Who else but that ogre?" The magician stood on the humble watchtower and continued to ask.

"Two more women with their faces covered, a knight and a magician......"

The guards felt that the two silver coins were worth a little bit of information, but they knew so much.

Just as he was about to say something more and make the message seem more worthwhile, his companion stealthily tugged at the corner of his coat and pointed to the figure on the street in the town walking towards the watchtower.

The three dark mages also noticed the strangeness in the guard's eyes, and followed their gaze to look into the town, only to see a knight with a sword and a shield at his waist striding towards him.

The Dark Mages immediately mounted their magic handles and flew into the air with a 'whoosh'.

They received the news from above, the group of people stranded on the Ganbu plane were all second-turn powerhouses, and only by riding the magic handle could they put themselves in an invincible position.

The three black mages were also not impulsive to make a move, and one of them flew out of town on a magic handlebar, apparently trying to return to the town of Takkale to bring rescuers.

The other two dark mages were ready to stay in town and keep an eye on the knight......

They overlooked an important factor, the other side was a five-man squad.

The Dark Mages thought that Surdak had just happened to be walking towards the entrance of the town, and they wanted to fly behind a building at the entrance of the town on a magic handle, but they weren't going to expose it too early.

As soon as the magician who had returned to Takkale Town to move the rescuers flew out of the town, he felt as if he was being targeted by something behind him, and the hairs on his whole body stood up, urging the magic to fly southward with all his might.

He sent mana into the magic pattern circle with all his might, and the magic pattern circle on the magic pattern was completely lit up, and the speed immediately increased by a bit.

The black mage even made an evasive move on the magic handle, twisting out an 'S' shape in the air, but he still felt a sharp pain in his back, and a sharp arrow passed through the back of the heart, and the tip of the arrow slanted through his throat.

He threw his head back, his Adam's apple grunting, and a stream of blood gushing out of his throat.

Unable to hold the magic handle with both hands, the magic handle lost its magic power and fell directly from the sky.

The two dark mages were terrified to see their companion being shot dead by the archers as they were about to return to Takkale to report the news, and they quickly pulled up the magic handle, trying to get out of range of the archer hiding in the shadows.

Unfortunately, they realized that it was too late, and two arrows came from under their feet at the most tricky angles, avoiding their line of sight, and the arrows were extremely powerful, and almost all of them flew into the black mage's body through the magic handle.

The Dark Mages are like birds with folded wings, planted from the sky.

Surdak walked over slowly, and searched the bodies of the three dark mages, leaving nothing of value behind.

The corpse was dragged to the riverside tidal flat outside the town, dug a large pit in the sandy riverbed, and threw the black mage's body into it and buried it together.

When Surdak returned to Tanli Town, many residents of the town had gathered at the gate of the town, and everyone looked at him coldly.

No one spoke, but the coldness and resentment in their eyes could not be hidden.

Surdak stood at the foot of the watchtower in Thanley, spread his hands and said to everyone, "I know what you want to say to me, you think that if I kill these three dark magicians, I will bring disaster to you......"

"They rushed over to arrest me, and I didn't want to be captured, so I had to kill them." Surdak said standing at the entrance of the town.

In the midst of the crowd, a bold townsman shouted:

"Knight, please get out of here!"

Surdak knew that since these black mages could rush over, there would definitely be black mages looking for them later.

Even if the townspeople don't say it, he's going to leave tomorrow morning.

Now that it's like this, I have to leave early, and I have to sleep in the wild tonight.

"Okay, let's go ...... now"

Without even arguing, Surdak strode to the inn, called out the two-headed ogre, the Evid Magi, and Thea, and walked through the town in the night, continuing north.

……

After the townspeople had left Surdak and his party, a group of young men took advantage of the night to touch the river, and relying on their familiarity with the riverside, they quickly dug the three black magicians out of the sand on the river beach, and in pairs, carried the three black magicians to the entrance of the village again.

Everyone swept aside the three long-dead dark magicians again, and then stripped off the last of their clothes and placed them on the wooden table.

The townspeople, who had just come out to speak, came out at this time and commanded everyone, "Put them here, and wait for their people to come and claim them......."

"Got it!"

The young men of the town were convinced of the leader and quickly took care of everything.

The bodies of three black mages were parked under the tree.

……

It wasn't until noon the next day that the second wave of dark magicians from Takkale arrived in the town, and when they saw the corpses of three of their companions lying on a plank under the big tree at the entrance of the town.

The Dark Mages approached a few townspeople to inquire about the situation, and the general information was that the three mages had discovered an adventuring group, and that a fight had broken out last night, and that the three mages had unfortunately been defeated......

"It was an archer who killed them...... "What do we do now?" said one of the dark magicians. ”

"Keep chasing, go and inform the garrison of Takkale to come here and round them up......," said an older dark mage.

After saying that, he took the lead in riding the magic handle and continued to fly north along this mountain road.

"Cheer me up, this time we are chasing a team of second-turn powerhouses, don't end up like them." The elder black mage said with a frown. "Customize three coffins in town and bring them back on the return trip!"

"Yes, Teacher!"

A black mage stood beside him and said respectfully.

……

Surdak had originally wanted to find a town to live in and wait for the magician Arvid to recover and return to Bena City, but he didn't expect these magicians to catch up.

Now they can only continue to march north, but the group did not go far, found a woodland without many shrubs and weeds in the forest, set up a few tents in the forest, and rested. Night.

The next morning, before the three of them could walk out of the woodland, they saw a burst of dust in the direction of the town of Tanley.

A group of cavalry came out of the town of Tanli with a banner and continued the pursuit north along the mountain road on horseback......

Surdak and the others hiding in the mountains and forests couldn't help but look at each other, they didn't expect the cavalry of the lord's army to catch up so quickly, and more importantly, they actually chased to the front.

Since the mountain road could not be walked, Surdak thought of going up the valley, so that at least Thea would be more comfortable.

After a long day's walk upstream, the pebbles along the river turn into rocky beaches, and the river sometimes passes through canyons with dense woods and shrubs that can only be crossed by wading unless a path is carved with a wood knife.

Fortunately, with Thea, the team could barely pass through the turbulent canyon waterway even if they cut a few logs and tied them into a raft to push them into the water......