The flaming candlestick pulls on and blooms with warm tones. They swayed gently, with the ministers as they entered the palace.

"Your Royal Highness, the Snow Mountain Fortress is asking why we haven't cleaned up the rat plague."

"The rats went up? It seems that it is time to announce ......"

The young silhouette leaning lazily on the throne whispered, stood up, and followed the minister out of the palace.

Officials and nobles stood silently in the square, raising their heads as the eldest prince appeared.

"Our country is facing extinction!"

The fierce emotions that did not conform to the usual style of the eldest prince echoed in the square, "The rat tide in the north has attacked the snow-capped fortress and released the demon tide!" ”

A flash of magic cleared the rats in the distance, and an indescribable emotion permeated.

"The traitor who colluded with the nezumi is dead, but he is still poisoning our people!"

"We have lost so much land, the north is no longer safe, and it is time for us to leave this land that has lived for generations and find a new home...... And I, the eighty-eighth of Montreal, Chloe Montreal will lead you to victory! ”

Farro Barros buried his head, and Millers Bernard emerged fanatical. Princess Sayles and Prince Minos were silent.

The towers of the mages, the scavengers, the knights, the officials, and the nobles did not hesitate any longer, and their cries echoed in the gardens of the palace around the mountain:

"Your Majesty."

Or reforge the splendor of the Montreal Golden Family.

Or lead the nobles to the abyss.

……

Opened books lay on the floor, with nowhere to stay. "Mr. Schwaro?" Annan called out, and at first he also tried to pick up some and put them away, but gave up because there were too many. Annan waded over his ankles and into the depths of the labyrinth of bookshelves and books.

Annan saw Mr. Swarro, surrounded by a pile of books, sitting at his desk flipping through something. Annan breathed a sigh of relief, as the library looked like it had been in an accident.

"What are you looking at?"

Annan regained his politeness and picked up the book at his feet and put it on the empty shelf.

"A legend, or the birth of a disgrace." Evaro flipped through the book titled The World, "The royal family has begun to flee......"

"Escape? I thought they would reclaim the land that had been taken over by the nezumen. ”

The destroyed Violet Kingdom, together with those independent city-states, made it possible for the entire western part of the North to be owned by the Kingdom of Rikanre.

"And then get caught between the rat people and the demons?" Once the opening of the Snow Mountain Fortress is opened, it can no longer be closed...... It was only a matter of time before the North became a paradise for rat men and demons. Fortunately, their cooperation will not last long, one evil, the other chaos, and they will break their heads and bleed.

The large army of McKenn rats is still continuing to move north, and maybe they are really trying to block the demons in the northern part of the snowy mountains instead of humans.

"The Montreal family wants to leave the trouble to them."

"Who are they?"

"The second bookshelf on your right."

Annan followed the prestige and saw a map of the continent of Allen stuffed in the history books, and the western part of the northern border was painted with gray lines, from the snow-capped mountains to the Obiris Strait. Then he saw behind a group of small countries bordering the Gray Line...... It's the Tatoon Empire.

"Is this what they really do? Weaken the Tatunn Empire? ”

Mr. Schwaro looked at the book, noncommittal.

The glow of magic flickered outside the library window, and the rat tide had become fierce not so long ago—because Breeze City wanted to support the snowy mountains.

It's too late. The rat tide completely blocked Breeze City and Snow Mountain, and as many reinforcements went out as many as they died.

"Is Agarwal also a supporter...... Annan broke the silence.

"I don't know."

"He never showed up?"

"Hmm."

Breezy City is besieged by a rat tide, and Agarwal abandons the Mage Tower...... It seems that Agarwal, like the legends of the royal capital, is on the side of the royal family.

In what way did the Montreal family seduce them?

Annan was puzzled, and was indifferent to the complicity of the legends and the royal family, and to the Holy Council, which has so far been indifferent to the Golden King.

"Because the Montreal family hid it from them."

"Can you hide it?"

"As long as they don't leave anyone in the know."

Mr. Schwaro glanced at Annan meaningfully: "It just so happens that you are the one who knows." ”

Annan inexplicably felt cold and insecure, and wanted a soft and warm embrace...... Or flee from danger.

"We want to leave the North and move to Wilhelm." Annan picked up the purpose, "Do you know where we'd better go?" ”

"The Tatooun Empire."

"Isn't the Tatunn Empire out of Wilhelm?"

Mr. Schwaro told Annan that the boundaries of Wilhelm were both clear and blurred: the World Island was Middle-earth, but Middle-earth was not just the World Island. Strictly speaking, outside of the World Island, the area bordering the Obiris Strait is considered Middle-earth.

"What about the rat tide and demon tide that the Tatunn Empire is facing?"

Mr. Schwaro added that inter-ethnic wars can be described as protracted. The devils and demons of the abyss fought for millions of years, and the wars between the major races and the nezumi lasted for tens of thousands of years. Even humans and the newly rising vampires have been fighting for hundreds of years.

As one of the thirteen supreme kings of the Holy Council, the pillar of mankind, and the outskirts of the World Island, the ancient and powerful Tatunn Empire is far beyond Annam's imagination.

The fall of the kingdom of Rikanr meant that the royal family was hopeless. But if the Tatoon Empire falls...... It means that humanity is hopeless.

"And only where you are safe." Mr. Schwaro said it was as if a wanted warrant hovered over Annan's head.

This dispelled Annan's desire to take refuge in the King of Gold. The royal family may dare to go to the land of the Golden King, but what about the Tatunn Empire?

Mr. Schwaro also introduced some humanities.

As the core of the continent of Allen, there are too many ancient and new things in Middle-earth...... Throw Annan to the royal capital, he is the redneck. Throw the royal capital to Wilhelm, and they're the rednecks again.

But for Annam, how to get the fiefdom and settle the people was the most important thing.

"The 'King of the North who ran to Middle-earth' will certainly be ridiculed by the nobles, but you should be able to obtain a fief by virtue of your status."

As for the resettlement of the vassals, Mr. Evaro's suggestion was to let them join the towns and recall them after Annam had obtained the fiefs.

Annan accepted Mr. Shvarro's suggestion, but had the feeling of being driven by rat people and demons.

"Breezy is also migrating...... Do you want to join us? ”

Mr. Schwaro pondered.

"And your daughter Alice."

Mr. Schwaro refused.

Coming out of the Mage Tower, Annan looked back at the snow-capped mountains that were about to turn into black mountains, and a hint of yearning for Middle-earth washed away his sorrow. Annan came to the musketeers who had withdrawn to rest in the open space and announced:

"We're going to Wilhelm!"

The musketeers raised their weapons and cheered for a while before a shout rang out:

"What is Wilhelm!"

(End of chapter)