The reappearance of the Dark Magic Hermitage on the streets of Hylanza and the blatant assassination of the Grand Master of the Hylantha City Guard Battalion is not only a conspiracy for power in the city, but also a test for those currently in power in the city, or one would like to know the actual control of the city during the time Surdak left the city.

Apparently they were eyeing even Mariana. Lady Christie's mistress and a close friend of Lord Surdak Baron Kesment.

This assassination can be described as carefully planned, and the other party knows Carl's whereabouts well, and can summon several dark mages to complete this assassination mission.

The only thing they missed was that the few Dark Mages they had hired were too low-level to use high-level Dark Magic during the assassination operation, so that Cal had a chance to escape.

In the next few days, the entire city of Highlanza was under full martial law, not only the Knights of the Guard Battalion, but even the law enforcement team of the Magic Guild was also participating in the city's anti-crime operation to hunt down black magicians.

In the headquarters building of the Hylanza Guard Battalion, the lights are still on in the regimental commander's office.

Even though it's time to get off work, the entire building is still running at high speed.

All the knights of the guard battalion very consciously stayed behind to carry out a city-wide raid.

Carl looked tired, and he sat at his desk, with two steaming cups of lemon tea in front of him, but he didn't drink anything.

His friend Lance sat across from him, staring at the map hanging on the wall, and was silent for a while, when he noticed that the room had become quiet.

"You said that the assassination incident the night before yesterday, who was secretly helping us?" Karl scratched at his blonde hair and asked in a determined tone.

Lance squinted his eyes and said, "Who else could it be, it must be Surdak's follower who left in the city of Highlandsa, the mysterious Lady Aphrodite, when I first saw her in Wall Village, I thought her magic was unfathomable, usually wearing a Mithril mask, and liked to wander alone in the mountains of the barren land. ”

"With my many years of experience dealing with dark magicians, this lady Aphrodite is well-versed in the dark arts."

"She also came to me a month ago, Surdak brought me a batch of magic herbs, and asked me to help refine healing potions, I hope Surdak can change the proportion of healing potions and spirit potions......"

"Yesterday I also asked the village chief of Bryt, and I found out from him that this lady Aphrodi is Surdak's liaison officer on the side of the city of Highlandsa, and almost all the materials processed and manufactured in the workshops of the village of Wall are currently being shipped to Handanar County on the Warsaw plane."

After the magician Lance finished speaking, he also smiled smugly at Carl.

Only then did Carl realize that he said:

"So, this time that mysterious person of mine is a follower of Surdak?"

Lance nodded and said, "That's why I didn't let people continue to track down, but searched around for the dark magicians who participated in this assassination......

"What exactly did you say this follower of Surdak had stayed in the city of Highlandza?" Karl asked, somewhat puzzled.

Lance glanced at him, stared at Karl's eyes with a strong questioning gaze, and mocked: "I really don't understand sometimes, how did you, the Grand Master of the Guard Battalion, do you have such a big move in the city now, and you still don't notice it......"

"It's not just Wall Village, it's the entire city of Hylanza that is now a logistics supply depot for Dak."

"The entire city is constantly supplying a large number of armaments and supplies to Handanar County on the Warsaw plane, and the weapons and equipment that Surdak has procured in the city of Highlandsa in recent times alone is almost enough to equip a heavy infantry corps of more than 100,000 men."

"Of course, the huge amount of money spent on this is inseparable from the frequent victories of Surdak's Western Route Army."

The magician Lance is still quite sober, and the law enforcement team recently accidentally discovered that the trading houses of Hylantha City were sweeping a large number of magical weapons sources, and after this period of investigation, Lance found out that the source of the purchase of these magical weapons was actually his friend Lord Surdak.

Unexpectedly, the magic weapons needed in his legion actually boosted the economy of the entire magic industry in Highlandsa City.

To this day, there is still a large amount of magical equipment flowing into the city of Highlandsa.

Karl rubbed his hands, his tone full of uncertainty: "I always feel that during the assassination the night before, I felt the breath of Surdak......

When Lance heard Carl say this, he was a little disapproving, and said casually:

"It may be that this guy has been away from us for too long, and he often misses the hallucinations that appear, at this time he is thousands of miles away in the plane of Warsaw, how can he suddenly come back to help us break the siege......"

While the two were talking, a voice suddenly sounded outside the door:

"Report!"

Before Carl could let the man in, the door to the office was pushed open from the outside, and the Constructed Knight, who walked in, was the captain of the First Brigade, and he saluted Carl and said:

"The house on the west side of Derek Johns Street has found traces of the Dark Magician, and it is tentatively determined that it is a point of contact for the Dark Arts Order."

"Send someone around there immediately, and try not to let go of a suspicious person!" Carl said, slapping the table.

"Yes, Captain!" The captain of the first brigade strode out with his chest held out.

At this time, Lance also stood up, pushed open the window of the office, pulled out a magic broom from the magic fanny bag, turned over and rode up, turned to Carl and said:

"I'm going over there to see how many dark magicians are hidden, and so many black magicians are living under our noses so blatantly......"

With that, Lance flew out of the window on the magic handle, leaving a string of magical brilliance at the end of the handle.

"Hey...... You guy, the city of Highlantha is in a magical no-fly zone......" Carl shouted at Lance as he stood at the window, disappearing into the night sky.

Lance flew away without looking back.

The ban on flights over the city of Hylanza has been in place for many years, and the magicians have maintained this habit all this time.

However, for the dark magicians of the Dark Magic Retreat, they have no such consciousness at all, and they fly around the city on magic poles, without any scruples.

If the law enforcement team of the Magic Guild wants to capture these black magicians, they also need to ride the magic handle.

……

At the same moment, Aphrodite was standing on the roof of a house on Derek Johns Street, but her body was like a shadow, sticking to the chimney on the roof, completely becoming one with the chimney.

It's impossible to make out that the shadow is actually hiding from a person.

Seeing a group of knights of the guard battalion hurrying from the streets in all directions, Aphrodite exhaled a little, and whispered to himself on the roof:

The fat that was delivered to your mouth, this time you won't be able to eat it!

There was a crescent moon hanging high in the night sky, and the whole city of Highlanza was covered with moonlight, and there were hardly any pedestrians in the streets, and there was a clear sound of horses' hooves in the streets, and the crisp sound of horses' paws and slabs striking together could be heard far away in the night.

The house is an enclosed courtyard with a row of storefronts on the west side, and in the courtyard grows two huge golden oak trees, covered with green acorns.

Unlike other small buildings, which are detached and lived, this courtyard is built more like a courtyard house, and the inner courtyard has an extremely private space.

Now the people in this courtyard are not in a good situation, several people in magic robes are all hanging from the golden oak tree, their hands and legs are tied with ropes, and everyone's mouth is stuffed with a stinky sock, this group of people is hanging upside down from the branches, and there are a lot of magic books scattered in the courtyard, as well as some other items related to black magic.

As the gate of the courtyard collapsed, a team of knights of the guard battalion burst in from the door, and their eyes suddenly fell on the group of magicians hanging from the trees.

And those magicians are also like seeing relatives at this moment, they are hanging upside down on the tree, and their whole faces have already been suffocated into purple because of the reverse flow of blood all over their bodies, and if they hang for a while, if they don't do it well, the magician's head will bleed and die.

Seeing the guards battalion knights breaking into the courtyard, they immediately twisted their silkworm chrysalis bodies with all their strength, trying to attract the attention of this group of guard battalion knights as soon as possible.

There was no time in their lives when they could compare to this time, and they hoped in their hearts that the knights of the guard battalion would keep an eye on them......

Before the knights of the guard battalion could completely occupy the courtyard, a number of magicians flew in the night sky, and they quickly landed on the roof of the courtyard, and each magician was lit up with a magic pattern.

Seeing this group of magicians appear in view, these dark magicians hanging upside down from the oak tree completely extinguished the idea of escaping.

……

Surdak didn't pay attention to the situation in the city of Hylanza, he only saved Karl's life that night, and immediately returned to the military camp in the northern pass of Moyun Ridge.

As for the specific situation in the city of Highlandza, he handed it over to Aphrodite to continue to pay attention to, and on the premise of ensuring that the situation would not continue to deteriorate, he could help them if he could......

Surdak began to adjust the garrison plan of the city defense army on the side of the North Pass camp, and he mainly determined the plan for defending the city against the large group of demon warriors south of the city wall.

This time, the demon legion gathered outside the walls of the North Pass again, and it seemed that it was imperative to the North Pass camp.

However, Surdak's side has also made full preparations these days, not only Andrew and Wolf Knight Tiger are leading the Constructed Knights to practice the city defense battle, but even the indigenous alliance army is also learning the specific combat methods of the wall defense battle.

They need to get used to fighting on the walls, and it is basic to hide behind the battlements and use the Paglio spear to assassinate the ghost warriors who rush up.

In the past few days, they have mainly practiced how to defend the city with fire and phosphorus bombs, explosive barrels, rolling stones, fire oil and other armaments.

If these armaments are not used properly, they can inflict incalculable and devastating damage on the walls.

Therefore, Surdak required every native warrior who climbed the city wall to participate in the defense of the city to be proficient in the use of fire phosphorus bombs and fire oil......

This time, there is no magic bed crossbow on the city wall, and it is impossible to suppress the demon warriors in the initial stage with giant crossbow arrows, and the pressure of defending the city is much greater than that of the defenders.

It was probably because the higher-ups of the Demon Legion also realized how fatal the loss of the North and South Gates was a fatal blow to the Demon Legion, so they sent so many Demon Warriors to surround the North Mountain Pass.

Although the number of troops of the Demon Legion exceeded Surdak's estimates, their own supplies were also extremely scarce, and most of the Demon Warriors came from the camp hungry, and they were already hungry when they arrived......

Now it was found that the human army had built a wall, and all the warriors hid on the wall, refusing to run out to fight......

For a while, the demon warriors also had no choice but to accumulate more troops, preparing to break down the city wall and recapture the northern gate of Moyun Ridge in one go.

The hillside outside the city was full of black and oppressive demon warriors, and that invisible pressure made all the warriors on the northern city wall feel a strong panic in their hearts.

However, in the past few days, there have been knights in the city wall with the 'aura of courage' under their feet, and the guards on the city wall can no longer feel the strong pressure outside the city.

Andrew and Wolf Knight Tiger take turns on night duty every day to ensure that the Constructed Knights can participate in the battle at any time.

The Indigenous warriors of the Confederate Army were training every day, and everyone was staring at the demon warriors south of the walls, waiting for them to be earth-shattering when they charged a blow.

In fact, everyone in this group of aboriginal warriors is proficient in throwing spears, especially condescending throwing, and the demon warriors have no way to climb the city wall with their bare hands surrounded by aboriginal warriors.

In addition, they have been frightened by Surdak's cavalry regiments, because of the existence of the fog of war, the evil spirits do not dare to fight at night.

This meant that the Indigenous warriors would have plenty of time to rest as long as they held off the Ghost Warriors' daytime attacks......

In the face of the impending battle, all the aboriginal warriors were gearing up, and the optimism of their group really infected the ant cavalry in the cavalry regiment.

It was another quiet day, and the northern mountain pass in the twilight was hidden in a huge shadow, and only the snowy peaks in the distance were still white.

Surdak stood on the wall, looking out at the demon warriors on the south side of the wall, their army now pressed two kilometers away from the wall.

Andrew was already a little unable to contain the fighting spirit in his heart, and every day he pestered Surdak, begging him to rush outside the city walls with the Knights of Formation to fight the demon warriors.

These giant ghost-patterned soldier ants also seem extremely restless every day, and if it weren't for the Druyin's efforts to suppress them, they might have caused some kind of trouble.

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out......