Ask what Liberty City is best known for. It's not Annan itself, it's not the feud with the Mad Dog Grand Duke, it's not the kingdom of Recan, it's not even the magic image, it's not the magic newspaper.

It's solitaire.

The cards that Annan first casually made up for the filming of "The Fall of the Mage Tower" were brought from Breeze City to Starmoon Bay, and from Starmoon Bay to Liberty City, and did not receive much attention.

A deck of cards costs only 10 copper coins, and if you want to make 1,000 decks, you need to sell 3,000 decks, and anyone can do it. So Annan just perfected it, and replaced the kings, queens, and nobles of the four colors of spades, hearts, plum blossoms, and squares with various characters in the Allen Continent and ignored them.

But precisely because of the cheapness of solitaire, it spreads outward from the tavern, from the aristocracy to the refugees, there is always a way to play.

Even children can lie on the ground and slap cards around.

So "Glory of Rikaner" is not lying to slander Liberty City as a cultural invasion.

The husband hurried to the tavern with a magic newspaper and an umbrella to play cards with his friends, and the wife and her friends enjoyed lemon soda at the café and were about to go to Diagon Alley to buy a corset. The child, who shouted to see the magic image, stayed at home and was bathed in soap by a maid dressed in a fast suit.

It's dangerous.

If it were the Tatoon Empire or other countries, the impact of this scale would definitely cause the major families to be vigilant. But Annan and his Free City were too young and charismatic...... Who worries about the ambitions of a city that has been built for less than a year?

And the main market in Annam is in the Tatooun Empire, do you want to say that Montreal Mountain will care...... The ancestors of the Golden Family were guests in Liberty City.

The empire is almost the warlock's garden!

If it weren't for the fact that the King of Bones was a young and upright emperor, they really thought that Annan had charmed him in some way.

The week-long autumn harvest is over.

There is no shortage of food in the Free City, and the plan of the City Lord's Mansion is to send it all to the Winter Collar and the Count of Ulmit, because the situation in the north suddenly becomes serious.

The rat tide encountered by the Winter Leader has changed from once every ten days to once every few days, and the number is also increasing, and even once it almost broke through the city wall, but it happened that because it was close to the fixed portal time, the hellfire team was urgently sent to resolve the crisis.

The second time Annan proposes to let Lady Winter move to Liberty City, her reply is to wait.

The Earl of Ulmet stopped accepting the inheritance and retreated back to the newly built seaside town, as the rat people around him suddenly increased again. The Count scolded that these were the rat people, and that they were always coming out of the stubble like the autumn harvest.

Towards mid-term, the strategizing kingdom of Rikanr began to retreat. Two legends led the team, two knights, and a whole army of mages.

There is disturbing news from the people lurking in the kingdom of Rekanr from various countries: what have these nezumen driven out.

At this time, Montreal suddenly announced that a great wall would be built in the northern part of the empire.

The Tatooon Empire, one of the Thirteen Kings, was not left to chance, which meant that they foresaw a pessimistic outcome: the fall of the North.

Officials from Montreal Hill also came to Liberty City and offered 100,000 gold coins to buy the "cement" invented by Annan.

It seems that they know everything.

"Do you represent the Ministry of the Interior or the Golden Family?" Annan asked these strange officials, whom he had never met.

"We represent the Empire."

"So is it the Ministry of the Interior or the Golden Family?" Annan continued to ask.

The leading official frowned and said, "What do you want to say?" ”

"If it's the Golden Family, I'll agree to your offer. If it's the Interior ......" Annan asked Ingrid to hand the September finances of Liberty City to the officials of the Interior Ministry.

The string of numbers made the corners of their eyes twitch...... They know that magic images make money, but they don't know that much money.

"How do I know if this is true?" An official said.

"I pay nearly 10,000 gold coins in taxes to the Imperial Treasury every month, you can check it." Montreal Hills pays about 700,000 gold coins a month...... Annan himself contributed one percent.

"That's a lot...... Do you guarantee that you are not evading taxes? The officer sitting in the back sneered.

Faced with the threat, Annan lowered his voice: "Shh......h Be quiet, don't make noise to the ancestors resting in the garden. ”

“……”

Imperial officials returned in vain. They stayed at the embassy for three days, and on the fourth day, they again came to the city lord's mansion and gave a new offer: three hundred thousand gold coins.

It's almost a one-time income, and Freetown won't be able to do it again - the South will have a lag of a month or two to get the Gundoer Collar looking for a good price.

Annan happily handed over the formula, and the imperial officials also happily handed over a magic ring containing 300,000 gold coins.

Now it's time for Annan to worry about Liberty City.

The walls of the north have not yet been closed, but there is not much of a problem. The trouble came, and the new Grand Guild blocked it.

With the Empire's 300,000 gold coins and the proceeds from this period, Freecity procured another Arcane Core. The floating diameter expands to 1,000 meters, about half of the urban area.

And then there were the musketeers.

Expand Liberty City and everyone will really be soldiers. So this time it was just a matter of replenishing the musketeers to 6,000 men, expanding the three musketeers from 1,000 to 2,000 men, and abolishing the reserves. Hellfire and the Third Musketeers are based in Winterland, the Guards are half in Liberty City and half in Lady Orlocke's Sweet House, and the war on the Play Peninsula is coming to an end.

All the attention of Liberty City was in the north, and even Annan's original plan to go south was temporarily postponed.

As time progressed, getting colder and colder day by day, the betrayer finally couldn't help it.

The ambitions of the Rikanr Kingdom are crushed by the nezumi, and with the continuous "smearing" of Freetown, they try to break the game...... They can't clean up the rat people, and they can't clean up Annan?

On a cool October night, a blazing beam of light suddenly rose from the garden of the City Lord's Mansion.

Before Annan could react, Deira jumped out of the shadows and told Annan that there had been a magic fluctuation in the sky.

Annan had already felt it, and a terrifying tide of magic erupted in the air, making his magic vortex almost stagnant.

Two distorting halos of light hung high in the sky, similar to the original "little bat", and a beautiful woman full of confidence and pride confronted them, her eyes seemed to twinkle with the light of stars.

Annan, who saw the true face of his ancestor for the first time, waved his hand on the terrace.

She seemed to glance at Annan at this time, exactly like the oil painting...... No, more beautiful than an oil painting!

The terrifying magic began to unleash and bloom in the sky of Liberty City, but the people of Liberty City did not feel so.

The blazing flames suddenly bloomed around the ancestors, like endless deep sea waves surging in the air, enveloping Liberty City like a burning city.

When the people of Liberty City were in terror, the flames in the sky suddenly melted away, turning into countless falling petals of flames.

The restlessness vanished as the night sky returned to coolness.

(End of chapter)