But Annan's heart was more peaceful than ever.

He took advantage of this peace and contemplation: with the attention of actively invading the rat tide and containing the rat tide, he won the second place in the hunt without doubt, but he had no chance to surpass the Black Watch......

An idea suddenly popped up: Does this mean that the empire is really preparing a rich reward. And because the Black Watch Society is a well-deserved number one, it can not only fulfill its promises with precious treasures, but also strengthen its own legion?

I didn't have a chance to get it, but I was able to find out what the treasure was.

After going out and walking around, the soldiers in the camp were languishing everywhere as if they had lost a battle.

But after one more day of rest, they will be reborn and completely fade away from their youth and immaturity.

As night fell on the Great Wall in the north, Annan still wore a mage robe and came to the celebration banquet at the Black Watch Station.

Before the commander of the legion appeared, Annan got together and talked with several forces that had formed friendships in the past few days.

The topics of conversation are all about business and trade. Annan drove theaters and commercial streets to their country, and then bought ore, grain from them.

Speaking of gold coins, they complain that the country has recently popped up with a bunch of guys with counterfeit gold coins. No one had dared to do this before: as the goddess of wealth, all kinnars were emblazoned with busts of the goddess of wealth, who controlled all the kinnars in circulation, and was ready to punish those who destroyed and counterfeited gold coins.

However, after the loss of contact with the gods, the order created by the goddess of wealth quickly collapsed, and the Church of Fortune could only maintain its majesty in the big cities, while in the small cities and villages and towns, imitation Jinnar had quietly circulated.

You know, gold can't be smelted into a kinnar at will: the formation of a gold coin first requires the nobility to get the wealth of the church, and the church gives it the right to mint money - it is equivalent to paying a tax to the church: every kinnar you smelt will be divided by the church.

As the king of the north, Annam has always had the right to mint coins, but there are no gold mines around Liberty City, so there is no chance of minting coins.

And after the disorder, some small nobles began to secretly bypass the Church of Fortune and mint coins to the people privately. Fortunately, although there is no Fortune Church certification, at least it is still made of gold, and it can't be seen from the outside.

The most hateful thing is the guy who counterfeits gold coins by plating a layer of gold on the outside of the lead block. Had it not been for the torture of the officials and the hanging of the users on the gallows, the imitative Kinnar scandal would have only intensified.

All the rules of the Allen Continent are based on the order set by the gods...... The gods lost contact, and the world naturally fell into chaos.

Remembering this incident, Annan temporarily finalized preliminary cooperation intentions with several forces.

The various powers received the theaters, the shopping streets, and the tax revenues.

Annan received benefits and influence.

So who loses?

The banquet lasted for a while, and the Legion Commander finally arrived, followed by the Archmage of Albek.

Annan left them and walked over on his own initiative: "Your Excellency Commander of the Legion, Mr. Albek." ”

"Well done, you have warrior blood in your veins." The Legion Commander approving.

Annan humbly said: "I am honored by your compliment. ”

I was also a little touched - someone finally saw through the appearance of their warlock and discovered the essence.

Annan exchanged a few words with the commander of the regiment and talked about the reward for the hunt.

"What do you get for second place?"

Annan's appearance can hardly make people wary and reject him. Coupled with his relationship with the Empire, the Legion Commander revealed the answer: "Ten Mountain Essences." ”

"So rich?"

The mountain essence that Annan bought from Wilhelm cost 2,000 gold coins.

"But it's a lot worse than the first place."

Mountain Essence is actually a bit of a chicken rib, and not many people or forces will buy it. It seems that it can unconditionally turn an ordinary person into a warrior, and the effect is powerful. But the nobles who want to change their lives according to this cannot get 2000 gold coins, and those who can get 2000 gold coins do not need to change their fate.

Even if it is to cultivate dead soldiers, compared to spending 20,000 gold coins to train 10 dead soldiers, is it not good to spend 200 gold coins to collect 10 warrior seedlings outside?

"What is the reward for first place?" Annan took the opportunity to ask.

"A heart of magic."

Annan cooperated with surprise.

"You know?" Archmage Albek suddenly spoke.

"Uh...... Of course, this is a treasure that can give a mage a magical talent, which even a warlock will covet......"

The commander of the Black Watch Regiment should have been calm and angry, but he still had a look of "what are you talking about" because of Annan's words.

"Am I ...... wrong?"

"The Heart of Magic is a legendary item installed in the Mage Tower, which increases the affinity of all mages in the Mage Tower." Archmage Albek said.

Annan restrained his shame and said seriously: "I think it suits me very well." ”

The Legion Commander let out a dull laugh, still seeing Annan as a junior rather than an opponent: "It depends on whether you have the ability or not." ”

This discourages people, and Black Watch is always a mountain that cannot be bypassed.

They harvested about 450,000 rat ears, which is not a small amount. But Blackwatch should be dozens of times more than them.

"Can I make another trip to the north?"

Annan wanted to dispose of the rat carcasses piled up on the grassland, and secretly worked hard for a while by the way.

"Of course, tomorrow is the last day of the hunt." The Legion Commander of the Black Watch was not a dull man, and he joked, "You want to work hard for another day?" ”

"I'd like to try, but the rat ears are not good."

Annan complained about why he collected rat ears, although it actually benefited himself - slave rats and elite rats were obviously different, but their ears were the same.

"This is the only criterion for judging the merits of the war."

"As long as it's a rat's ear?"

"As long as it's a rat's ear."

Annan was thoughtful.

In the middle of the feast, the Legion Commander announced that they had captured a Nezumi Priest, alive.

"What's so strange about that?"

If Annan wanted to be willing, there were many opportunities to catch the rat priests in the old kings, and there was more than one.

Archmage Albek said that the Nezumi Priest knew a lot of the secrets of the McCain Clan, and that Blackwatch could pry it out of its mouth - this was impossible when the Great Horned Rat was still controlling the Thirteen Clans of the Nezumi.

After the feast, Annan left the Great Wall of the North overnight with the dragon boy Elder, Blom, the scorched girl, and the sketchboard, and landed in a lonely camp.

Rat corpses were still piled up around, and some of the undead, attracted by the strong aura of death, roamed outside the camp.

It doesn't matter what happens to the rat corpse anymore, Annan's attention is all about rewards.

The ten bottles of mountain essence in the second place are also good things, but what can be bought with money is not important in Annan's eyes.

Once you've got the Heart of Magic, Freecity will be able to train its own spellcasters.

Compared to the loss, the gain is worth a try!

When he was discovered, he begged the ancestor to push the wheelchair out and said, "He's still a child." ”

With this in mind, Annan took out the token placed in the magic ring and opened the portal to the Morrell family.

Annan exclaimed in a theatrical voice: "Oh, my Williams nephew......"

(End of chapter)