Barren, gloomy, hopeless.

The devastated earth stretching to the horizon is a dilapidated scene after the rat-people have wreaked havoc.

They eat almost everything, animals, insects, trees, weeds, feces, humans...... Their droppings and shedding hair are natural breeding grounds for plague.

In the past few days, there have been frequent coughs on the ship, and from time to time the crew has been infected with the disease, but fortunately, there are druids to help get rid of the disease.

After sailing for about ten days, the new initial returned to the vicinity of the Obiris Strait. The headland that once resisted the nezumi was gone, leaving a deep pit filled with seawater.

Unexpectedly, some of the nezumi were wandering around the beach and had not yet left.

"Warriors! Revenge on me! ”

Ulmet raised his tomahawk and roared, jumped from the ship after the New Initial approached, and rushed towards the nezumi with his less brave men who had fallen into the shallows on their ropes.

They are just a group of nezumi lost here, and there are many more such nezumen, scattered everywhere the clan passes.

The reconquest of the bear-like earl will not be too smooth......

Watching a group of humans chase down the squeaky ratmen like savages, Francois asked the crew to load heavy horses and lower the small wooden boat.

The portal opened, and the busy crew began to carry supplies.

Some druids turned into birds and scattered to land.

There was enough food and tools for them to use until autumn and the next year, and enough cement for them to rebuild a castle or fence a low wall the size of a town.

Then in the fall, the new ship or other sailing ships will arrive again with the grain - making the nezumi realize that "these green wheat fields will produce heavy wheat than it is for the nezumi to learn the lingua franca", and that the land will be polluted by them, and that there will be no more food to be harvested where the nezumi pass for the next few years.

The solution that Farrias thought of was to find the druids to purify the land, but the wasteland of the Violet Kingdom probably couldn't find even a single figure. So Ulmet went to Annan with a box of gold coins, and Annan went to the druids with this box of gold coins, and asked them to divide half of the druids to help.

Ten minutes later, Ulmit, covered in rat-man blood, and his men returned to the beach. Only the mage robes of Pharias were as clean as new.

"Uh...... I'm not going to go! ”

He and his men soaked themselves and their weapons in the sea to wash away the blood, and shouted in this direction. After a while, the Treant Druid approached the shallows, and the bark face full of ravines could not show emotion, only the deep voice could feel the anger and sadness: "The soul of the forest is mourning......"

"Druid, uh...... Your Excellency, I don't understand this, so you tell us what to do! ”

"We'll clean up your camp first, but it's too far away for us to cleanse it alone......"

"Do you need money? It doesn't matter, I have it! ”

Ulmit had a lot of money, and the treeman druid politely refused, saying, "The 500 kinnars that Annan gave us have not been used......"

This sentence was exchanged for Ulmit's exclamation: "He gave you all 500 gold coins?" ”

Francois in the distance looked over and crossed his waist, making him willing to do things for Annan precisely because of this ideal that no one else had.

It's just that this fine character was exchanged for the white eyes of Ingrid.

The last box of grain was carried to the beach, "Good luck." Francois said.

Without heavy horses to distribute to them, these people who have lost their country will have to rely on themselves. Hopefully, when the new Primordial returns in a few months, it will see a thriving town, not a ruin.

The new initial number turns around and returns. They won't go back yet, but will catch up with the McKenn rat people and observe the progress of the rat tide on the surface of the sea.

……

Dade and the druids who stayed in Starmoon Bay to ward off the plague for the porters and continued to return to the north of the glacier river to plant forests.

Back at the Lord's Palace, in the evening, Annan learned the news of the royal capital from Olmedo: "...... It is said that the nobles were still arguing about who would fight. ”

"The old rules?"

"Hmm."

The old rule means old news.

Given the distance between the royal capital and Breeze City, the "new news" they got was actually the news from more than twenty days ago, when the nobles were "arguing" - if they wanted to get real-time news, they had to wait for the returning new initial to catch up with the nezumi.

"But twenty days ago, the nezumi had already arrived in Louis City, on the border of the kingdom, and they still wanted to escape?"

"It's actually different from what you think, they're fighting over who's going to fight."

Annan subconsciously sensed that something was wrong, and the people of the north were fierce, but he didn't think that the nobles in the royal capital who were insiders and outsiders would have this kind of ability - this prejudice came from the wanted warrant a few days ago.

"Don't they know it's a nezumi clan coming?"

Olmedo muttered, "I'm afraid I know, but they arrogantly think those nezumi are easy to deal with. ”

“…… Hopefully they won't be so stupid. ”

The next day, Annan and Olmedo learned the news half a month ago "in advance": the Knight of the Holy Grail led a team to the south of the kingdom to defend against the rat plague.

Annan: They were finally able to relax a little. The Kingdom of Rikanr is not a small country in Middle-earth that is neither south nor north, nor is it attacked by demons or invaded by nezumi. The demons of the north drain the power of all the Northlands, but they also make their soldiers brave and skillful.

As long as the Rikanr Kingdom resists the rat plague normally, other countries will support from other directions, and maybe they can really leave the Thirteen Ratmen clan in the Northland.

As soon as the portal was closed, Ingrid knocked on the study door and said that a young girl who had arrived with the caravan claimed to be from the royal capital.

"She's also a mage apprentice."

Then it is not to come to want Annan.

Just in case, Annan called Deella first and then asked Ingrid to bring the girl, who was a delicate-looking girl, and as soon as she saw Annan, she shouted in surprise: "Jack! You really are the king of the North! ”

"The Fall of the Mage Tower" has taken the royal capital by storm?

"Hello, my assistant said you were looking for me?"

Annan motioned for the girl to sit on the wooden chair, and as soon as the girl holding the burden sat down, her head hung down and she did not move.

"What's wrong with her?"

“…… She fell asleep. Dela, who sensed that her breathing had become weak, said, "There is something strange about this girl......"

"Is she an enemy?"

"Probably not."

Annan asked Deira to carry the girl to the guest room to rest, but Deira refused, saying, "She has many protective spells on her body, and contact may touch the spells." ”

It seems that her origin is not simple.

Annan had no choice but to cover her with a blanket and let the maid Abby look at her, and when she woke up, she went to call out to herself, and walked out of the study with Dela.

Annan, who had nothing to do, remembered the broken magic mirror and rummaged through the drawer to find it. I couldn't think of what to ask for a while, so I said casually:

"Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror, where is Liliana Loree now?"

(End of chapter)