Chapter 01: Provoking the City
800 years of the Guangming calendar, early summer.
Arantis, the imperial capital of the Terrans, held a grand celebration to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Empire of Light and the second anniversary of the accession of the 14th Emperor of Light, Grantham.
On this double celebration, the celebration lasted for three consecutive days. During the day, the imperial capital is full of colorful streets, drums surround the city, the emperor dresses up to patrol, and the people of the imperial capital celebrate each other. At night, dazzling magic fireworks bloom, all kinds of lights will light up the imperial capital, people parade the streets to watch the lanterns, and pedestrians rub shoulders one after another.
What a prosperous scene celebrated by the whole world!
Ordinary people don't know what kind of embarrassment the Bright Emperor's family is hiding under this prosperous scene?
The Imperial envoys sent invitations to the celebration early on to the orcs, dwarves, elves, and dragons, but until the day of the celebration, none of the races sent a delegation to congratulate them. Only the dwarf king Ulantuk sent some congratulatory gifts, which can be regarded as retaining a trace of the imperial family's face.
Don't say that the envoys of the alien race, even within the human race, only the three kingdoms of Holo, Locke and Lu Ri sent a delegation to meet the emperor to send congratulatory gifts, and the monarchs of the three kingdoms also did not attend the celebration. Isaac, Kildan, and Norman still did not recognize the legitimacy of the fourteenth Emperor of Grantham.
To the comfort of the Imperial Family, Pope Cylius V arranged for Christman of the Church of Light to be the representative of the Church of Light to send the blessings of the God of Light to the Empire and the Imperial Family, and attended the celebration throughout the ceremony.
Both Grantham and the Empress thought that the Church was firmly on the side of the Imperial Family, but they did not know that Christman did not say a word about the "Divine Punishment" operation of the joint raid of the four clans that took place a year ago.
Although the joint operation of the four clans that happened a few years ago finally eliminated the most mysterious killer organization of "Divine Punishment" and killed its leader, no one knows who the dead person was?
A super strong man with more than the peak combat power of a martial artist, a character who needs the strong men of the four clans to be surrounded and killed, is actually a person that no one on the continent knows? This fact itself is incredible.
The warriors of the four clans spent three full days searching every corner of the entire palace complex, but found nothing. Not to mention that the Broken Seal Stone that was snatched by the "Divine Judgment" has no clues, and there is not even a single text left in the entire palace.
If it weren't for the corpses all over the ground, everyone would think that this was an illusion, and an organization that had been passed down for 10,000 years had not left any record of existence.
Although the "Divine Judgment" perished, it still left behind a series of puzzles.
Such a big thing happened on the mainland, but the church did not report it to the imperial family at all. It's not that the Church of Light deliberately conceals it, but the current church no longer thinks that the Bright Emperor Family still has the ability to gather the strength of the entire human race to maintain the Beland Continent.
Thinking back to 800 years ago, the Bright Emperor Jialanlot, who can be called the first person of the human race, all the martial artists and magicians of the human race referred to by Jian Feng served for him, which race on the continent was not afraid of three points?
It's a pity that the world is changing, and the years are impermanent.
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The territory of the Guangming Dynasty is vast, and the battle between temples and inter-ethnic wars is too far away from ordinary people.
The border town of Juaores of the Kingdom of Isaac.
In recent years, the border between humans and beasts has been extraordinarily calm, and even the border towns have become more and more prosperous. Caravans traveled between the interior of the kingdom and Huaorez, bringing to the city a wide variety of goods from the Terran hinterland, and as they went, they were laden with medicinal herbs, furs, and other specialties from the Orlando Mountains.
The news of the border city is blocked, and it may have been half a year since the news of the 14th emperor's accession to the throne reached here. Moreover, the local people did not care about the things that were so far away, and the news they were more interested in was that the seventh concubine of the castle lord Xinna was originally a courtesan, and a mercenary had accidentally made a fortune in the Orlando Mountains.
Recently, the most widely circulated news in the tea shops in the city is that a piece of abandoned land in the southern corner of the city, along with a large area of land in the surrounding area, was bought at a high price by an unjust boss from other places.
The ruins in the south of the city have been destroyed by a tragic accident eight years ago, and no one has been willing to take over since then. As for who lived there and what happened to them, almost no one remembers, except that a fire burned to the rubble, and dozens of corpses were carried out of it.
Now, not only have people bought that piece of land from the city lord's mansion, but they have also bought a lot of land from the surrounding people at a high price, and the area is three times the original size.
The man who bought the land was a young fat man, who is said to be the son of a wealthy merchant from the royal city of Singaluru, and after buying the land, he began to hire people to build houses and courtyards, which were larger than the city lord's mansion.
Although this fat man is a big wrongdoer, he is kind and generous, and he takes the initiative to treat people he meets in the tavern restaurant. After coming and going, the nearby businessmen gradually got acquainted with this fat man, and began to inquire about what business his family was doing, intentionally or unintentionally, why did he come to the border to buy such a large piece of land?
The fat man smiled at him, didn't answer, and was anxious to be asked, so he prevaricated: "On the day of the opening, I will definitely invite you to come and see it!"
The fat man was indeed a man of his word, and when three months later a luxurious mansion with a seven-story courtyard rose up in the south of the city, he threw invitations to the people with heads and faces in the city.
On the opening day, there was a crowd of people outside this mansion in the south of the city, and all kinds of people in the city came to cheer for the fat man. Most people may not have a deep friendship with the fat man, but more out of curiosity, what kind of business did this businessman from the capital come here to make such a big battle?
The blue plaque on the brass door had been hung last night, but it was still tightly covered with red silk cloth, and it remained mysterious until the last moment.
The auspicious time has arrived, and the fat man also invited the drum class to play, and set off a burst of magic fireworks in front of the door, so that the whole Huaorez can see the movement of the southern city.
After the fireworks, the fat man did not invite the leading figures in the city to give speeches and cut the ribbon as usual, and greeted the onlookers, then turned around and gently pulled the rope with his hand, and the red cloth on the plaque fluttered down, revealing four golden characters "Blue Enchantress"!
The audience was stunned at first, and then dumbfounded, and most people instantly remembered what this name represented?
Is it a coincidence?
Never!
The people of "Blue Enchantress" are back!
The fat man bowed his hand to the surroundings unhurriedly, "Everyone, the Blue Enchantress Mercenary Group will set up a wine and banquet at the Nightingale Bar tonight, and welcome all friends to cheer up! In the future, even if the mercenary business is looking for me Moral, from now on, only our Blue Enchantress in Huaorez City will have the strength to take on the biggest and most dangerous mission!"
The people around looked at each other, was this a provocation? As soon as the blue enchantress appeared, she challenged the mercenary group in the city!
The calm Juaorez is destined to be lively from today......