Ryan slowly sorted out his belongings, waiting for the leader of the caravan and the guards of Seker City to negotiate at the city gate.Three days later, the day of the coronation of Senat, the lord of Seker City, in order to arrange this grand ceremony, Seker City opened a rich purchase list a month ago. Although the Paradise of Freedom has fallen to Cassano under the leadership of Chilaviv and others, the merchants are profit-oriented, not to mention that the materials purchased by Seker City this time do not involve military aspects, so a large number of chambers of commerce still smuggle the goods on Seker City's orders to their destinations.

"My lord, it's not that we deliberately delayed, we really didn't dare to reveal our whereabouts, so we had to go into the dense forest with a large number of goods, and we accidentally got lost......" The chubby caravan leader kept complaining to the captain of the city gate guard, but his hand quickly stuffed a sinking money bag into the other party's clothes.

"Well, if that's the case, then you should go in quickly. But I would like to remind you that you can wait until after His Majesty's coronation, but there are more rules in Seker City now than before. You must remember that the city is now under military control, and if you go after dark, do not leave your area, or you will live or die!"

"Cheer up, after we have delivered the goods, we can rest for a few days,、!," the fat caravan leader "Money Bag John" shouted behind him, and Ryan and the other mercenaries agreed in unison, urging the carriage full of goods to enter Seker City.

This time, Ryan disguised himself as a mercenary with the help of Freya and secretly infiltrated Seck City, and his main intention was to come for the artifact "Mercy of the Gods". In the past month, Ryan and Freya have conducted a series of research on the transformation of magical energy, and have achieved very good results, and now Ryan can use complex magic arrays to transform the power of fire into the power of ice, and the mutual transformation of elemental energy in advance, but when he began to try to convert other powers into divine power, he encountered an inevitable bottleneck - Ryan has not personally contacted the divine power of any god of light.

Although there are several artifacts around Freya, these artifacts are all made by using the power of the Moonlight Goddess without exception, this power is completely different from the artifact of the Church of Light, the Angel Staff, if the former is the bright moonlight, which makes people feel like a spring breeze, then the latter is the violent sunlight, directly evaporating all the darkness in the world, and the two naturally have no way to learn from it. If you want to continue your research, you can only come into contact with the divine power of the God of Light in person, with Red's current strength, it is very difficult to use the "Praise of Light", and Ryan hopes that he will do this by burning his soul, so he focuses on the only intact artifact in the Church of Light, that is, the "Mercy of the Gods" in Seke City.

It happened that Senat had a rich purchase list for his own coronation ceremony, so Ryan simply changed his appearance with the help of Freya and entered Seker City as an ordinary mercenary. The caravan that Ryan is in has nothing to do with Cassano and the Imperial Capital, it is a medium-sized chamber of commerce registered in Freedom Paradise, and there is no problem with its innocent background, and Ryan also joined here under clever planning, and the level 5 mercenary William he pretended to be is also a real person, but now this unlucky guy is currently secretly staying in the dungeon of Tekken Castle.

John "Money Bag" followed closely beside the soldier who led the team, and kept talking to the other party, hoping to learn more about Seker City, maybe it would be useful at a critical moment. John's nickname for this "money bag" is very apt, his chubby appearance really looks like a money bag full of gold coins, and John also carries a large number of money bags of different sizes full of various currencies, just at the city gate he bribed the captain with a big money bag, and now he took out another small money bag and stuffed it into the soldier who led the team.

"You see, we are all strangers, and it is the first time we have come to such a good city, will you tell us about the current situation here, and save us from any punishment for accidentally breaking any rules?" said John of the Money Bag to the soldier cautiously.

The soldier took the money from John the Money Bag, and naturally had a very different relationship with him, and seeing that there was no one around, he lowered his voice and said in the ear of John the Money Bag: "Now the entire Seker City has been completely controlled by military affairs, and all His Majesty's people are his soldiers, because if you do not join Your Majesty's army, Your Majesty will not guarantee the safety of him and his family." Well, you end up staying where you live, don't go anywhere, don't ask if anything happens outside......"

With Ryan's strength, even if he was more than 30 meters away from the money bag John and them, he could still hear the conversation between the two of them very clearly, but Ryan still pretended to be a countryman entering the city on the surface, deliberately looking around, with an indescribable surprise on his expression. It's a pity that Ryan looked at it like this, and he felt a little emotion in his heart. It's not the first time Ryan has been to the city, as Sec City is still a bustling city when he was on an adventure with Elendor, but now the city has completely changed.

There are almost no people on the once prosperous street, and there are no shops on the side of the road, because the supply system has been implemented under Senat's rule, and everything is rationed by Senat, a special agency established by the Second Empire of Movol, and any buying and selling is illegal, so this shop naturally cannot continue to open.

There were no idle citizens in the streets, for, according to the explanation of the soldier who had led the group just now, all the subjects of all the territory of Senate were now required to be conscripted into the army, and they had lost their freedom and could only take Senate's will as their goal, and those who would not do so were all missing, and they were never seen again.

Now the city of Seck is empty, Ryan and they walk in the middle of the entire wide street, there are almost no people in front of and behind, it seems unusually deserted, occasionally a team of people in soldier clothes walk by in a hurry, but fortunately there are still living humans appear, otherwise Ryan even thought that this place has become a dead city.

"Hurry up and hang all this!" a supervisor on the side of the street picked up a whip and whipped his laborers a few times, and then scolded viciously: "There are three days left until Your Majesty's coronation, and you bastards haven't finished these decorations yet? Are you looking for death? If you want to die, cut off your own heads, but don't involve me, you must know that if this work is not finished, I will not feel good! Hurry up, don't be lazy!"

Ryan pretended not to care, glanced at the talking overseer, and found that he was directing dozens of ragged laborers to hang various decorations on the walls of houses beside the street, and when he saw the decorations on the hands of the laborers, Ryan's heart moved slightly, because he realized that they were actually woven with Mithril thread. Aside from the value of Mithril, generally speaking, the metal that can be used with Mithril is often related to magic, could it be that what they are doing now is still related to the magic array?

"William, hurry up!" the other mercenary next to him saw that Ryan had slowed down, so he opened his mouth to greet him.

Ryan was suddenly startled in his heart, and hurriedly said: "I know, I'm tired along the way, I don't know if there is any pastime at night!"

"Haha, you don't want a woman before you can get together?" the mercenary laughed and cursed, and was about to continue talking, when he heard John, who was walking in the front, shouting at them not to speak, so the mercenary looked at Ryan with a look that a man understood, and then continued to urge the carriage to go.

Ryan dealt with his companions, and once again quietly cast his eyes on the sides of the street, this time he kept an eye on the side of the road, and sure enough, he found that the side of the road was covered with various decorations, and most of these decorations were made of Mithril, which obviously could not be described as luxurious, and Ryan believed that Senate must have some kind of conspiracy.

Since Ryan was now in the city of Seker, he couldn't see the whole picture, and it was difficult to tell what the other party was doing, he looked up at the sky, thinking that if he flew high in the sky, he might be able to figure it all out, but it would be too easy to reveal his identity. This time, Freya's method of disguise Ryan was very ingenious, she applied a transfiguration spell on Ryan, turning Ryan into a human, so that Ryan's appearance naturally changed completely, which was originally a common method used by dragons and other races, such as Galib. As long as Ryan doesn't eliminate this transformation, he doesn't have to worry about being detected by the enemy with magic, but once Ryan releases his flying technique, it is likely that his strength will be exposed, after all, there are not many magicians on the continent who can fly freely.

"Alas, let's tolerate it for the time being, I believe that no matter what the other party wants to do, it will not work until Senate is crowned at the earliest, and I still have two days and two nights to spare, which should be enough. Ryan weighed it again and again, and decided to connect with the spies in Mochizuki City first and find the whereabouts of the artifact "Mercy of the Gods" through the other party, which was the purpose of his trip, and all other details had to make way for this matter.

Ryan's eyebrows jumped slightly, as he saw an inconspicuous sign in the corner of a closed shop on the side of the road, which Clifford had repeatedly explained to him, and it was through this shop that the spies of Mochizuki City were sending news to the outside. Due to Sennat's use of rationing, the secret communication channel of this Mochizuki City has been closed, but Ryan believes that as long as he sends a signal according to the corresponding process, the hidden spies in Mochizuki City will definitely appear. Ryan looked around quietly, remembering the surroundings of the shop, and he decided to come here tonight to give that signal.