"He has a problem, how can an ordinary person run so far?" Blom looked at the woods where the man had disappeared.

"It doesn't matter who he is." Annan doesn't care, "What I care about is what he revealed...... The rat people from the north are coming so fast? ”

Annan was about to investigate, but was stopped by Blom: "No, if the nezumi are really all over the mountains, they must have wizards." ”

Like the psionics Annan encountered a long time ago, the nezumi use a very different energy from magic - evil energy. It represents a curse and a weakening that is difficult for even archmages to remove.

It is said that the curse of the gods of the ancestors has the shadow of the Great Horned Rat.

"I'm just observing ...... from afar"

But Blom was adamant – he promised Olmedo not to put Annan out of danger.

Annan had no choice but to let the dragon trainer Elder and the sketcher go to the north and draw the situation in the distance.

Two white dragons soared into the air and headed north.

The two large armies that had dispersed followed one after another. Annan asked them to prepare a fire for cooking.

Looking at the fertile grasslands, the warm breeze blows, waving undulating ripples.

But soon, this beautiful view will be no longer ...... with the arrival of the nezumi Until the nezumi were stopped outside the Great Wall of the North and completely annihilated.

"It's going to change." Blom next to him said suddenly.

Annan turned his head: "Why do you say that?" ”

"The direction of the wind."

Blom lowered his raised hand: "There is a proverb in the north, the north wind is on the winter solstice, and the south is stormy and rainy. ”

When Annam turned around, he could no longer see the wonder-like Great Wall of the North, but he could not see the dark clouds either.

But Blom was right, there were still a few days left in August, and it was the rainy season in the north.

"It shouldn't change during the hunting season...... Annan frowned slightly.

"Who knows."

It's fine if it's drizzling, if it's heavy rain or even stormy...... Although the nezumi will get dizzy in the heavy rain and may lose their numbers, the magic musket is no different from a burning stick when it enters the water.

In general, they are more disadvantaged.

At this time, the soldiers who came one after another came with a familiar figure.

"We caught this man, and he was going to run away as soon as he saw us, and he was carrying a jar of gems and wanted to bribe us!" The centurion carried the jar in one hand and the man in the other.

"This is my wife's relic!" The man is still quibbling.

Annan looked at him calmly: "You lied to me. ”

The man still had to quibble, but when he came into contact with Annan's dark and clear eyes, the thought of guilt suddenly appeared.

"I won't ask you where these things came from, but tell us more about the situation in the north."

Now that the rain was approaching, Annan had to prepare in advance.

"I ...... I've told you everything I know. "Men are so stumbling that it's impossible to tell the truth.

"You can still be let go if you say it, but you can only be locked up in a dungeon by us." Blom stared at him.

Annan said patiently: "Does this have anything to do with your jar of gems?" Don't worry, I won't take anything from you, we are the Middle-earth coalition army, coming to fend off the McCain clan, we just want to know the dynamics of the nezumen. ”

A man is not a fool who can believe what others say, especially if he is a nobleman...... But when Annan, a young nobleman, said this, he couldn't help but think, "He may not have lied to me, I have been caught, how bad can it be".

"I don't know if it's a McKenn rat, but there are a lot of ......"

"How did you escape?"

"I'm on another mountain, and they didn't find me."

"What else but the nezumi are." Blom interrupted suddenly, "Do you see the banners, the altars, and the giant nezumi? ”

The man meditated carefully for a while and shook his head: "It seems that there is no ......"

Blom breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not the main force of the ratmen, at most it's the vanguard or a mixed rat tide." ”

Annan bowed his head and said to the man: "My vanguard has gone to investigate. If what you say is true, I'll let you go. ”

The man grimaced: "Do I have any other choice?" ”

Tell the centurion to bring the jar.

Blom said, "Are you really going to let him go?" ”

"He's not a nezumi spy."

"I mean, you didn't snatch the gem and keep asking if he had it."

"Blom, you misunderstand me deeply. I'm not a robber. Annan explained earnestly.

Blom laughed a few times, "Haha, the incorruptible lord can't make Freetown what it is. ”

Opening the jar, Annan frowned at the ashes mixed with weeds and dirt.

"It can't be ashes, right?" He looked at the man suspiciously.

"It's just the ashes of a campfire...... "The man's heart was dripping blood, and he barely managed to smile as he watched Annan pour out the gems and pick them up.

These gemstones are like peridots, erasing the ashes and leaving them pure and sparkling.

After all, the best gemstones are found in the North.

Annan picked a ruby and a sapphire. The man could only watch and comfort himself, at least he had only taken two......

"I want these two, how much?" Annan raised his head and said.

The man was slightly stunned, and said cautiously: "If you like it, I'll give it to you......"

"No, I just want two gems for a friend."

The man's voice suddenly became louder: "I'm serious, as your reward for saving us!" ”

"Then I'll take it as a return gift...... Annan groaned for a moment and opened the portal to Liberty City: "This leads to Liberty City, you can go back to Middle-earth directly." ”

"Liberty City ......," the man hesitated.

"Haven't heard of it?"

"Hmmm......"

"What about Sertovis?"

The man nodded.

"Villefranche is much closer to Slertovis than here to Montreal Hills."

The man thought that it was Annan who wanted to be able to snatch his belongings at any time, and there was no need to trick himself into entering, so he picked up the jar containing the gems and entered the portal in a daze.

"Lord Annan, this is ......," the guard guarding the anchor asked.

"The people I save in the wild can be treated as rich tourists." Annan bit the accent on "rich".

"Yes, Lord Annan."

Annan thought to himself that the rich man sent it back by himself, and it was up to you whether he could empty his pockets or not......

The smoke rose, and the Hellfire Legion had all returned, and the Fourth Legion had mostly returned, leaving some scouts still outside to harvest twos, threes, and threes.

Just as they were about to start, two white dragons appeared in the sky and landed in the clearing.

"How?"

The people gathered around, and Annan asked Elder the dragon ...... I don't know if he was blown by the wind or frightened, his face was frighteningly pale.

"A lot of nezumi ......," he said.

Annan looked at the sketchboard man again, and he shuddered as he described a few ratmen on the board.

The screen zooms out and there is a group of rat people. The picture is further zoomed in, and the dense rat people are moving. At the end of the picture, in the depths of the mountains, there is no end to the swarm of rats like black waves.

Annan's expression gradually became solemn.

He suddenly realized that the "hunting" of the first phase of the empire did not refer to these wandering nezumen...... It's them.

(End of chapter)