Castle Lord's Mansion

Busy Olmedo remembered that he hadn't seen Deville Steelor for a day.

"Where are our guests?"

Ingrid, who was tidying up the table, said, "Tavern." ”

"Let Abby come." Olmedo called out to Abby outside the door, "You didn't arrange an embassy for him?" ”

"Arranged, but ...... The tavern has services that the embassy does not have. ”

Olmedo understood, "Men ......," she sighed helplessly.

The succubus business has made Liberty City more attractive to professionals, and countless mercenaries have come to visit it. Of these, the most chaste is the most notorious warlock...... Annan.

Olmedo selects the merchants and goods to go to the Steeldord, and sends someone to inform Deville Steel.

It wasn't long before Deville Steel, who had tried to keep his steps from being frivolous, arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, but his emaciated size betrayed him.

"Don't you have to rest for a while and then go back?"

Olmedo feared that Deville Steel's return would create a rift between Liberty City and the lord.

"I'll only be thinner that way." Deville Steeldo was self-aware, he had to go, but he still had some regrets: "I didn't see that genius city lord. ”

Olmedo remembered that Annan had always had some unspeakable longing for the South...... It's a good opportunity.

"There's going to be a chance." She said.

……

Winter Collar

From the top of the castle's tower, Lady Winter looks out over the barren land.

Rat nests and demon tides wreak havoc outside, and the barrenness fades as we approach the Winter Collar. Around the castle at the top of the hill, grass and shrubs are still blooming, and farmland is thriving.

Nezumi and demons are not utter fools. After they couldn't nibble on the Winter Collar, they went to attack the surrounding border, and as a result, the Winter Collar became more and more prominent.

It won't be long before it is completely fenced off and becomes an island that is once again coveted.

At this moment, a brown horse came from the south, and after the bridge over the moat was lowered, he entered the castle and came to Lady Winter.

"What is the reason?"

"It's still your old acquaintance, Annan Reeves." Lady Winter's chief guard reports on the situation in the south.

Annan Reeves assembled a Free Expeditionary Force and traveled north along the western border of the Kingdom of Dumon, encountering a converging rat tide near the Dark Forest, and then retreating south as he fought.

The chief guard thought for a moment and said, "I think he wanted to join you. ”

Lady Winter was noncommittal, recalling the appearance of the charismatic warlock boy:

"Send a team of knights, a team of mages to support. Erin, you lead the team personally. ”

……

“…… I'm the warden of the dungeon. ”

"What?"

Annan heard clearly, but felt that he did not.

Maria said, "The princess I said is under my supervision. ”

Lady Luck is on her side - Annan realizes this: "You have taken me in and locked up with Princess Sayles!" ”

"Princess Sails is an important prisoner, you can't be locked up together......"

"It's okay, as long as you can send me to the dungeon, I'll find a way."

Maria doesn't mind helping Annan one more time, for the sake of the non-existent friendship of the Sturne clan. As for the punishment of the prisoners who are guarded when they are released from prison...... At least not to die.

They stayed at the farm until the night, and Maria took off the grass ring and tied Annan's hands in the manner of the nezumi. At this time, Maria was able to easily kill Annan, who had sabotaged her two missions, and then had to destroy the third time.

But Maria deliberately changed the rope that tied Annan to a slipknot, and Annan only took the initiative to rub his head against the wall, making the black hair messy.

Humans and rats, who are supposed to be vulnerable, maintain a strong friendship with each other.

Next, Annan followed Maria into the high walls of the old royal capital.

The once bustling, lively streets have become desolate after the loss of humans, and the old kings have been completely overrun by the nezumi, and there is not a single living person......

The covetous rat men around him stared at Annan, who lowered his head and said nothing, remembering the route.

Following Maria to the dark dungeon, Annan was locked in an empty cell. Maria, who spoke to the nezumi guards, uttered a sinister, cunning nezumi language. Annan guessed she was saying, "Don't harass him, I'm still useful." ”

Then Maria left for a while, and soon she returned, and gave Annan a piece of parchment.

"This is the road map of the dungeon, and the princess you are looking for is at the bottom. This is the key to the prison door......" Maria made it easier for Annan to save people: "I will gather all the guards at midnight, you will hear the bell, and that is your chance to act." ”

Annan was grateful for Maria's help, and he remembered something: "You are the warden, and I am here to rob the prisoners in your care...... Will you be in trouble? ”

“…… My brother is a champion rat man, and he won't let me get into trouble. ”

"Say hello to my brother for me."

Maria left, and Annan hid the key and waited quietly in his cell for midnight to come.

In the middle of the night, Annan heard a distant bell echoing in the dungeon.

Annan opened his dark eyes as dark as night, opened the cell door with the key given by Maria, and followed the route map to the deepest part of the dungeon.

The process went exceptionally well, and Annan did not encounter a single nezumi.

"Princess Sayles?"

Annan asked the dark shadow hanging his head in the cell.

窸窸窣窣窣......

The dark shadow looked up: "Who are you?" ”

"I'm Annan."

"Annan......?"

She had forgotten many things from her past...... But remember apple pie.

"How did you end up in ......"

Click-

The sound of the cell door opening interrupted her, and Annan came to her, and saw the princess who was about to be emaciated to dry bones in the pervasive stench.

"I'm here to save you."

"No...... Let me die here......" Princess Sayles, who had no hope, did not want to leave.

"The Montreal family is still saved."

Annan told Princess Sayles. His rescue was tacitly approved by the Montreal hills. She didn't have the face to face the Montreal Golden Family, but then Annan said that the second prince's life box was in his hands, and Asimov said that he still had a chance to be resurrected.

"Princess, you don't want your brother to have no sister, do you......"

Annan picked up Princess Sayles, who was light and almost weightless. The way out was unobstructed, and no nezumi showed up and blocked it.

As they escaped from the dungeon, the night sky appeared overhead, and Princess Sayles stared in amazement. Annan thought that Maria must have paid an unimaginable price......

At this time, looking for Maria again will only fail her efforts. Annan holds Princess Sails by his arms and dodges the patrolling nezumi on the streets.

The patrol rat man was completely unaware that there were two more little rats in the rat nest, and he was lazy and perfunctory in his patrol duties, and even the rat man at the city gate was still napping......

Annan and Sayles walked slowly past them, then sped to the outskirts of the old royal capital.

"Goodbye ......"

Maria on the city wall looked at Annan's back and said goodbye softly. The grass ring on her head was torn off by the wind, and the darkness behind her swallowed her little by little.

(End of chapter)