Chapter 103: Separate Actions
A rare hurricane began to blow from the Roentgen Sea, from north to south, across the Atak Sea, to the Kadra Sea, countless seaside cities were severely affected, and countless ports were hit by the tsunami, enduring great losses.
There is only one exception.
Mozambique.
Favored by the goddess of magic, Mozambique is a place that is never struck by any wind and waves, as powerful magicians protect the city.
The two majestic statues standing in the harbor look more like the landmark buildings of Mozambique to outsiders, showing the majesty and nobility of Mozambique to every passerby.
But in fact, between the two statues is actually an open magic door, and on either side of this magic door is an invisible magic cover, this magic cover is like a cauldron, covering the top of Mozambique, surrounding the city from any wind and rain.
It is precisely because of Mozambique's unique magic that many merchant ships that pass through Mozambique but are threatened by the storm choose to dock in Mozambique to escape this rare storm at sea.
As soon as the sky dawned, three merchant ships with extremely deep drafts and the golden lion flag of the Pound Empire slowly sailed into the port, this is a four-masted lion-class sea ship, and its huge body is really like three majestic lions entering the port, which immediately attracted the attention of the sailors at the dock.
Link carried a huge cargo bag completely disproportionate to his body on his shoulder, tilting his head curiously to look at the three cargo ships entering the port.
Judging from his habits and experience of running the docks since he was a child, these three cargo ships are really strange.
First of all, the front mast of these three cargo ships is playing the imperial flag, but the main mast is hanging the flag of the Grintt Chamber of Commerce.
Secondly, the draft of these three cargo ships was extremely deep, and it was obviously full of goods, which could be seen from the goods they carried down, nothing more than some dry grain goods, and most importantly, the draft position of these three cargo ships did not change at all when these goods were carried to the end.
"Hey, little ghost, what are you looking at?" a shout interrupted Link's train of thought, and a shirtless, rugged-looking man stood on a brig Exocet-class ship and yelled at him, "Do you want to get on my ship yet?"
"Think, think!" Link immediately replied, his back, which was a little bent by the heavy cargo, straightened up, and his feet quickened two steps, and he boarded the ship along the boarding board.
At Tang Jie's behest, Link was sent back to Alcatraz by Tang Jay to contact Lilith, while Tang Jie himself and Octavir stayed behind.
Originally, Tang Jie was very worried about whether a teenager like Link could complete such an important task, but Link had a thin and thin body, and said loudly: "I am the captain's sailor, and I will never disgrace the captain!"
Fortunately, although Link was frighteningly young, the agility in his eyes really made Tang Jie admire, Tang Jie grinned and patted Link on the shoulder hard, and pinched it vigorously to show his trust and closeness.
The fastest way to return to Sisis from Mozambique is by sea, by boat.
The "Conch" returned to Sisis on the third day after Tang Jie's arrival in Sisis with a batch of goods and guests, but Link could not spend a lot of money on a ship to Sissis as Tang Jie did when he came.
Because he's too young.
At sea, many merchant ships that make a living at sea and shuttle from port to port will sometimes accept some passenger work to carry someone from one port to another.
But the captains and sailors of these ships were fierce and rough men, and many of them were like pirates, and if they came across the fat sheep that made them feel loved, and these fat sheep had no ability to resist, they would unceremoniously slaughter the fat sheep, swallow their money, and throw their corpses into the sea.
Link is obviously this kind of fat sheep who has no ability to resist, and Tang Jie doesn't even dare to give him any money.
But Link dared to return to Sisis from Mozambique penniless!
The clever boy wandered around the docks for two days, and finally he found a ship to return to Sisis.
He went to the house on his own accord, saying that he was proficient in all sailors' work, and that he was capable of doing rough and heavy work, and that he was willing to help the captain work on the ship, not for a penny, as long as he was willing to take him back to Sisis.
In every port there were a number of free and scattered dock workers, skilled sailors, but with no permanent residence and no family, who followed a ship from one port to another, and on the way they were hired by the captain to help the ship as temporary sailors, and when the ship came to shore, the captain paid them.
When Link went to the door himself, the captain saw that he was thin and young, and he looked down on him very much.
But Link reacted quickly, he grabbed a few ropes not far from the captain's side, quickly tied a few sailor knots, and ran to the dock to silently carry a bag weighing more than forty pounds.
The captain saw that this child was quite stubborn, worthy of being the child of the sea god Tira, and made a decision on the spot, okay, you can get on my boat!
After carrying the huge cargo bag to the deck, Link unloaded the cargo into the cargo hold, and when he walked to the deck, he saw the shirtless captain looking at him with a frown: "What were you doing just now?
Link smiled, since he followed Tang Jie, although his life was not a good thing, but the wine and meat were in charge, and the strength in his body and bones had grown a lot, and he didn't see this goods at all.
"Captain, these three ships are so strange, where did they come from?" Link asked curiously, pointing to the three merchant ships flying the golden lion flag.
The captain glanced at it, and said with a smile: "The draft is so deep, it's either an imperial cannon or a golden ...... of the Southern Continent."
The naval howitzers of the Pound Empire had a long range and great power, and many countries secretly bought such arms, which were never bought or sold in public.
Like Agatha, the Clumber Chamber of Commerce behind her was a large arms dealer who specialized in providing arms to the various kingdoms.
"Smuggling?" Link's eyes changed slightly.
Which chamber of commerce drives out the smuggling of such goods?
The captain glanced at him: "I can't see that you are not very old, but you are very careful!"
Link was very proud, and of course that was what my captain had always taught me, and he had taught me to look at things in the smallest detail, and to deduce the whole thing from the clues.
But this kind of thing can't be said, Link can only talk to him left and right: "But if it's smuggling, then what are these three ships doing in Mozambique?"
"Who knows?" the captain shrugged, "maybe to avoid this damn storm? If it weren't for this storm, we would have been on our way three days ago!"
"It's not like ......," Link's eyes flashed brightly, "since the ship entered Mozambique, no officer has come to question them, is this a tacit understanding? Or do these officers in charge of the merchant ships know what these ships are?"
Link was talking to himself and analyzing them one by one, verifying some of the reasoning methods that Tang Jie taught him on weekdays, but he didn't notice the strange look of the captain next to him.
There was a hint of wariness in the captain's eyes, and he glared at Link, "What do you care about so much?"
Link's heart tightened, he knew that he was talking too much, so he grinned and pretended to be innocent: "Yes, it's me who is cranky!"
The captain patted Link on the back of the head: "Go, get back to your place, we're going to sail!"
Link hurried two steps, turned his head and glanced at the three ships, and his heart was full of doubts: Are these three ships really loaded with gold or cannons?
Link's observation was indeed very sharp, but he had guessed the wrong direction.
The three ships were loaded with neither ferocious cannons nor precious gold.
Mozambique never needed a cannon, there are more fierce magicians than cannons, Mozambique doesn't need gold, and the land here is so rich that you can pinch out oil at will.
These three sea ships were loaded with three ships full of soldiers, a full 1,200 magical warriors!
"Are they all back?". Harris stood in the golden drawing room, sitting on his throne like a king, holding his magic staff in one hand and the Achillus Crystal on the staff in the other.
"Yes, my lord! The second, fourth, and fifth legions of the Magic Legion were the first to return after the emergency call was issued. They have secretly sneaked back to the harbor under the banner of the Chamber of Commerce, exactly as you asked, and now they are waiting for your orders in the merchant ship hold of the harbor, my lord!"
"Very good...... Harris nodded in satisfaction, "plus the 1st, 3rd, and 10th Legions stationed in Mozambique, we have the strength of six legions on hand! ”
When Ryan Nado created the Magic Legion, he used 400 people as a legion and eight people as a detachment, and each legion had five detachments, from one to ten, and built ten magic legions.
The warriors in these magic legions, each of them is a powerful magic swordsman, proficient in both fighting spirit and magic, although the number of a legion is only four hundred, but the strength they can exert is stronger than forty thousand!
Back then, when Ryan's ten magic legions, which he cherished as treasures, were put into the battlefields of various countries in batches, they were also questioned and ridiculed a lot.
"These nerdy bookworms who spend their days in the ivory tower studying books, they can also go to war? They can also take up arms and stand at the front line of the battlefield? No kidding, they still honestly hide behind our giant shields and release their magic!
But in fact, these skeptics are very wrong.
The magic legion created by Ryan Nado is definitely one of the top ten ace legions in this world with the strongest strength and strongest combat effectiveness since there were humans.
These magic swordsmen who were hand-selected one by one by Ryan Naduo, they all used wide spiral magic swords and magic giant shields carved with precision magic arrays, these strange warriors who came out of the magic ivory tower, they dared to face the heavy armored, dense cavalry torrent for the first time on the battlefield without fear, and in one fell swoop defeated the steel cavalry regiment known as "invincible" in the Noah continent.
The prestige of the Magic Legion has since become famous all over the world.
At that time, there was also a saying that the magic legion could not be an enemy if it numbered a thousand.
After the death of Ryanardo, Mozambique entered the era of the Big Three.
Morpheus, Piccoor, and Harris split the ten Legions, with Morpheus in charge of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Legions, Picall in the First, Second, and Third Legions, and Harris in charge of the Fourth, Fifth, and Tenth Legions.
After Morpheus' death, the command of his four magical legions fell into Fiona's hands.
Harris and Piccoux fought fiercely for power, and as a result, Harris defeated Picso and took over Picco's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Magic Legions.
Fiona herself was not enthusiastic about power, and the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth magic legions that were theoretically loyal to her were sent to Noah's continent and the southern continent under various names by the ill-intentioned Harris, to help those countries that paid a lot of money for hire to fight wars.
Fiona was completely overwhelmed in ignorance, and after she was framed by Harris, she didn't even know that she could mobilize these four terrifying magical legions to save her predicament.
If she had transmitted the news of her trapped trap to the hands of the leaders of the four magic legions through her henchmen at the beginning, then it would be the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth magic legions that would now be driven to Mozambique, and Harris's absolute strength in Mozambique would be immediately subverted.
It's a pity that character determines fate.
Fiona is a female magician who naturally does not like to deal with people, she prefers to immerse herself in the world of magic, and is more willing to indulge in the joy and joy that comes from making magical breakthroughs.
Lilith was like that.
For someone like Fiona, even if she knew that she had four magic legions that could turn the tables around, how could she send the news to the hands of these four magic legions?
Where did she get her cronies?
If Fiona hadn't met Tang Jie, I am afraid that what awaited her would be an extremely bleak end, and the once glorious Queen of Magic would soon be drowned in the long river of history.
But history is often full of coincidences and adventures.
"By the way, has the news of Tang Jie been found out clearly?" Harris suddenly thought of something, he looked at Barbaria and asked.
Barbaria replied respectfully, "Yes, my lord. We got some information about him from the Kelsmans' intelligence point, and we learned that he was a pirate from the Ataq Sea, who had recently wandered into the Roentgen Sea and wiped out the 3rd Coastal Guard of Sisis in one fell swoop. ”
"I'm not concerned about this ......" Harris suddenly opened his mouth to interrupt Barbaria's words, he turned out to be an elder with a flat temperament and a very peaceful way to deal with people, but unfortunately his temperament changed little by little after a long time in power, and he began to become rigid and conceited.
Harris stared at Barbaria coldly, now he is more like an arbitrary dictator than the earnest elder when he met Tang Jie: "What I care about is whether he is a domain-level powerhouse or not!"
Barbaria was swept away by Harris's gaze, and a layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back, and he lowered his head: "Of course not, my lord! It is said that when he first became a pirate, he was even a second-level ......"
"That's enough!" Harris interrupted Barbaria, laughing out loud as he finally let go of the biggest stone that had been weighing in his heart.
If there is a realm-level expert who helps Fiona against him, it will indeed be a headache.
Barbaria opened his mouth, he wanted to remind Harris of some things and information about this Tang Jie's rapid rise, but when he saw Harris's appearance, he hesitated, and still didn't say it after all.
"Since he's not, then he's worthless!" Harris sneered with a cold smile, "Go, fetch his head!"
Barbaria said with a bitter face, "My lord, he left Mozambique three days ago......"
"What?!" Harris snapped his eyes open and stared at Barbaria like lightning, "Where did he go? There was a storm three days ago, can he still go to sea?".
Barbaria didn't dare to look at Harris's gaze, and he lowered his head and said, "According to the sentry post we set up around him, he left Mozambique and headed northwest of the Dark Corridor. ”
"Huh, the Dark Corridor?" Harris's eyes slowly lowered again, and he muttered, "What is he doing there?"
Barbaria didn't speak, the atmosphere in this spacious room was so heavy that he didn't dare to take another breath.
"Did he go alone?" Harris asked in a deep voice.
He was accompanied by his maid. Barbaria replied.
"Oh, the maid who can use forbidden spells at will?" Harris's snow-white brows gradually twisted together, "Doesn't he have an entourage?".
"Yes, my lord. Tang Jie's entourage did not leave with him, he went to the port. Barbaria said.
"Arrest him and ask Tang Jie where he is and what his purpose is. Harris said lightly.
Barbaria bowed respectfully, bowed, and walked backwards out of the room.
He gave Harris's orders to a magical officer, who immediately rushed to the harbor in a carriage.
After inquiring about Link's whereabouts, the magic officer learned that Link's ship had just left port, and he was so angry that he almost broke the whip in his hand, and immediately rushed back with his horse.
When Barbaria heard this, she didn't dare to slack off, and immediately reported the news back to Harris: "My lord, do you need us to catch up immediately?".
Harris hesitated for a moment, he smiled faintly: "Forget it, a flea, he can't set off the towering wind and waves!"
"Where's Fiona, where is she?" said Harris, who was more concerned about Fiona's whereabouts.
Fiona's strength and identity can be said to be a key role in the winner, if it falls into the hands of someone with a heart and makes great use of it, it will definitely be able to divide a part of the swing power from Harris's hands, which will have a great impact on his plan to establish a country and become emperor.
Barbaria heard Harris's words, and he hesitated: "No, I don't know. ”
Harris's brows immediately erected: "How could you not know?"
Barbaria muttered, "We haven't heard anything from the White Tower for three days......
"Huh?!" Harris staggered to his feet, "I haven't heard anything in three days?"
Harris stared at Barbaria with sharp eyes, and his voice was cold: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Barbaria lowered his head, one of his extremely powerful ninth-level magicians was so trained by Harris that he didn't dare to speak.
"Three days...... Didn't the pirate named Tang Jie also go for three days?hmm!bastard!!" Harris was furious, "Fiona and this pirate named Tang Jie have left Mozambique together?!"
Barbaria trembled, he raised his head, and said in horror: "Really not, only his maid left with Tang Jie!"
"His maid, the maid with her face covered from head to toe, you stupid pig, can't this maid with a veiled face be disguised by Fiona?". Harris was furious, "You don't even know that they lowered their bags under your eyes, you idiot!!"
Barbaria's face was sluggish, he opened his mouth wide, and said, "Is it the maid who is in the White Tower now?"
After all, he was also a proud and noble ninth-level magician, and when he thought that he was being played with like this, his face was very ugly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to arrest this maid!"
"Idiot!!!" Harris roared, "you hopeless stupid pig! Go and catch Fiona and kill the pirate named Tang Jie! You must not let Fiona fall into the hands of anyone else! What are you messing with that forbidden spell magician? What does it matter to her in the White Tower? Just send enough men to keep an eye on her, the key now is to capture Fiona as soon as possible and kill Tang Jie!!"
Barbaria bowed her head in horror and replied loudly, "Yes, my lord, I will go at once!"
Harris looked at Barbaria's hurried departing figure, he stomped the magic wand in his hand to the ground, and the empty hall let out a dull echo, and he said in a low voice: "No one wants to stop me from regaining the glory of the Magic Empire!"