"We're here."

Annan and the dean stood on the border of the Kingdom of Dimon, and in the distance was a barren hill.

"Where is this?"

"Dark Forest."

The devastated land has long since lost its natural breath, and a dead silence lingers in the sunset twilight. Annan remembered the group of moon elves he met in the dark forest, and wondered if they had moved away.

"Take a day off, and tomorrow rush into the old royal capital."

Annan said, and went to the dean to the dean's desolate town and opened the portal for the last time today.

The expeditionary force of nearly 6,000 men was used here to repair just in time, and Annan told them that starting tomorrow, they would take the initiative to find trouble with the rat people and demons.

Mira Dia brought the information of the three thousand. Two-thirds are professionals, and one-third are homeless and hateful.

104 elites, two masters...... This is a profession that the Freedom Expeditionary Force takes only one day to admit.

If you stay on the border for a few more days, more people will join the expeditionary force. But frankly speaking, if it weren't for the need for meditation to restore his magic, Annan would have wanted to run to the old royal capital at night.

Mayor's Mansion.

Annan fell asleep after meditating. But this time it was not the familiar phantom that appeared, but the body that was getting heavier and heavier and the light that suddenly appeared.

Annan was captured and imprisoned in the Divine Temple Council.

The Divine Temple Council has a higher priority than the Demon Lord's curse...... That's probably good news.

This meeting of the High Thirteen Kings was actually because of the Free Expeditionary Force. Annan quietly puffed out his chest.

Some monarchs and lords propose to support them, but there are also others who think that the rat tide and the demon tide are endless, and that killing one nezumi elder will make a hundred nezumi elders tomorrow, and this kind of expeditionary force that exists for the sake of fighting is meaningless......

The smoke bombs that were scattered worked, and no one knew Annan's true purpose except for the old ancestor and Ou Lin and a few people.

Annan's seat was so far away from the periphery that Khamis VI, who was on the penultimate lap, was almost unable to whisper to him.

"My envoys should be here in two months, and their names are ...... to you."

"That's me."

Khamis VI was comically shocked.

The Council of the Temple ended, and the end result was that the High Thirteen Kings encouraged all monarchs to reclaim the Old Lands, and the territories they recovered would also belong to them.

This seemed to be an important decision, which made many monarchs breathe harder, but Annan didn't pay much attention to it.

It is enough for him to govern Liberty City. It is scenic, free from foreign enemies, and has a peaceful ......

When I woke up from the temple, the white of the fish's belly had already appeared on the horizon.

On a new day, Annan asked the Magic Mirror: "The Magic Mirror, the Magic Mirror, is Princess Sayles okay now?" ”

"It's bad."

The Magic Mirror's answer remained unchanged.

Annan came out of the bedroom, where Dean Brehim was sitting in the living room flipping through the mayor's collection.

"Good morning, Dean."

"Hello, Mr. Annan."

Dean Brehim was the key to Annan's raid. As the dean of the Salz School of Magic and Wizardry and Lilith's teacher, he did not reject Annan and became more and more tied to Liberty City.

Mr. Svarro would not refuse, but he did not mind making Annan suffer in the process of helping......

Annan came to the window, and the expeditionary forces woke up one after another. Some thieves loot the town out of professional habits.

Annan is optimistic about the next move: the main force of the rat people and demons is in the Black Iron Mountains near the Violet Old Land, and there will not be too many troops in the hinterland.

"Maybe we didn't encounter any resistance, and we can go back to Xingyue Bay to have a look."

"Lord Annan."

At this moment, an elite ranger walked in, his face ugly. "You should come to the border to take a look at ......"

Annan's good mood in the early morning gradually subsided.

Ten minutes later, Annan, the Dean, Mira Dia, and the rangers came to the low wall of the border, and saw the endless tide of rats in the distance spread across the land like a black carpet.

It is mixed with a large number of elite nezumi and nezumi priests who hold bone staffs.

The size of this rat tide will only be larger than the rat tide that once hit Starmoon Bay.

"Why are there so many in the hinterland, and what do they live on......" Annan frowned and whispered.

"Companion."

A ranger's eyes bloomed with hatred.

"Change your plans." Annan's dark eyes reflected the black waves in the distance.

At the end of the day, the Joint Expeditionary Force is too indisputable.

If the expeditionary force holds out in the Old Land for a month, then they will be joined by some mercenaries and homeless people.

If the expeditionary force holds out in the Old Land for two months, then mercenaries, believers, and border soldiers will appear on the battlefield.

If the expeditionary force holds out in the Old Land for three months, then the Kingdom of Dimon, the Tatunn Empire, the Duchy of Montabulllock, and the nobles who have lost their homeland will join the war.

If the expeditionary force held out in the Old Lands for four months, all the attention of the nezumi and demons would be attracted to them and they would frantically converge to the south.

If the expeditionary force recaptures the Elven Pass or the Black Iron Mountains, aid from all races will emerge from the soil and sprung up from the trees.

It's a pity that they didn't stick to it from the beginning, and they have been in a state of defeat and attrition, which makes people see no hope.

There was no flash and no heroes on the whole expedition, and a singing and crying story was born, as if it was just to tell everyone, "We have tried".

Back in town, Annan asked the rangers to tell the expeditionary force about the discovery.

"Is there anything you can do?" Mira Dia asked.

"These rat tides are coming for the kingdom of Dimon." Annan said that he asked Mira Dia to send the rangers to the gathering place in the east, cooperate with them, and let the lord send troops to defend against the expeditionary force. Then retreat to the south. ”

"You want them to be bait?"

"It's not a bait, it's a lure away. Then we slipped away to the old royal capital. ”

The initial plan was for Annan and the dean to set off alone. He also wanted to take the bard with him and ask him what he was good at.

The bard's fingertips run across the lute: "I can keep the rats in a good mood." ”

"I mean us."

"It keeps us happy to be eaten."

Bards are not at all useful.

Kicking him into the expeditionary force, Annan allowed everyone to make a fire and cook.

At this point, there is no point in hiding your existence, and you can use this to attract the attention of the rat tide.

Annan found Fermi and Losi and told them that the next task of the expeditionary force was to distract the nezumi and bring the rat tide south, and they must not be surrounded by the rat tide.

That's how the Combined Expeditionary Force lost. They gathered countless elites, masters, and epics, but because of their rashness, they were surrounded by rat tides and demon tides, and they were eaten away little by little.

If it weren't for the last epic mage breaking through the confinement and opening the portal, the expeditionary force would have no survivors.

(End of chapter)