“…… I gave Annan the rat ear, and he smuggled you out. ”

Jerry lowered his head and hid all the emotions in his heart.

Class in the clan is deeply rooted in the marrow. Even the meanest and most greedy slave rat will go to great lengths to rescue the badly injured champion rat, even at the expense of itself...... It's an instinct engraved in their veins.

If the Grey-Haired Rat Priest says he is hungry, he will not hesitate to cut off his own flesh.

"My name is Philos."

Jerry looked up in surprise.

The name is naturally the same.

It's like no slave rat knows Jerry's name and no champion rat knows the name of the gray mouse.

Now, Jerry knows the name of the Grey-Haired Rat Priest.

The gray-haired rat priest moved his fluffy slender legs and looked over the silent nest in the distance.

"Let's go back and take the mother rat and the craftsman."

"But the human thing knows it's all ...... nests"

The gray-haired rat priest under the silver moon made an exception and explained: "This is an opportunity to test Annan. ”

Jerry looked up in confusion.

The gray-haired rat priest turned back: "If the humans break in, Annan will betray you." If not...... The clan will have a chance to corrupt Annam. ”

"Corrupt Annan ......"

……

Annan returned to the station, passed by the soldiers with their chests puffed out, and asked the centurion to call Fermi.

Even during the days of the hunt, the soldiers did not stop breathing.

Their physique gradually increased, but the number of people who became professionals slowed down - after the most promising soldiers became professionals in the first four months, the rest were soldiers who had no talent and had to rely on hard work to change their fate.

If only the warrior had a corresponding magical heart......

Or the mountain essence is slashed in price......

It's not that Annan hasn't coveted the mountain essence brewed, as long as he can reduce the cost of a mountain essence to a few hundred gold coins, he can grit his teeth and spend a few years turning all the members of the Hellfire Legion into warriors.

But Annan didn't even know where to start the development.

Or do you want to encourage the development of alchemy in Liberty City......

Fermi, who was still wearing plate armor during the break, arrived, and Annan handed him ten portions of the mountain essence, and asked Fermi to distribute them as a reward to the ten best warriors in the hunt.

Hellfire has already been rewarded once, and Fermi directly said ten names: "But three of them are already centurions......"

"Then give it to them too, let them decide the distribution for themselves."

Anyway, whoever the mountain essence falls into will increase the strength of the Hellfire Legion.

"One more thing, go and ask what the other forces have gotten, and if there is anything we need, I'll come over."

Annan thought that the second was ten parts of the mountain essence, and the third should not be much worse.

Fermi asked the centurion to ask, but the centurion rode around the Great Wall of the North with the White Dragon, and as soon as he came back, he was scolded by Fermi for being stupid - obviously he went to the Black Watch station to ask, and he actually asked other forces one by one.

The centurion left with the punishment of cleaning the toilet, and Fermi knocked on Annan's door to report the news.

A one-year tax deduction? Freecity was not a vassal of the empire and did not have to pay taxes; Fifty sets of Imperial armor? Nothing to use. The Hellfire's plate armor is heavy and hard enough for soldiers who are not yet professionals; The Empire sends garrisons? This kind of reward doesn't seem to be traded; Imperial Commendation ...... How can there be such a perfunctory reward? Oh, and that's the last one.

But the penultimate is not actually the penultimate - not everyone has the rewards of the hunting plan, only twenty, and they are basically divided equally among the coalition forces led by Annan.

Of the thirty coalition forces, Annan recovered nineteen, the remaining nine were wiped out by the nezumi group, three were wiped out, four survived, and only two escaped all the way back to the Great Wall in the north.

However, as a member of the hunting program, they still have a participation prize - the reward is that they will not be liquidated.

These adventurs, deserters, and arrogant people who were supposed to be judged not only saved their lives, but also gained a reputation for actively fighting rats, how can they not be rewarded?

The top twenty prizes didn't have much to look up to Annan, only the third to fifth places were of some interest to Annan: 100 ounces of Mithril for third place, ten seven-ring magic scrolls for fourth place, and a bag of gems for fifth place.

Annan asked Fermi to go to the third and fourth places: "Ask them if they are willing to sell us something." ”

The answer, of course, is yes.

The reward given by the empire was a reward from the state, but the money from the sale to Annan would go into their own pockets - they even gave some discount to the "kind" Annan.

The magic scroll was used to replenish Freetown's resistance to the enemy, and Mithril Annan gave it to Lilith. This magical metal is a natural casting medium, exactly what the Mage Tower needs.

The Great Wall of the North then experienced a few days of peace. The empire seems to have forgotten that there is a rat's nest in the mountains to the north. And after a continuous period of overcast, the first rays of sunlight pierced the dark clouds. The greenery burrows out of the devastated earth and is covered with new clothes......

……

"Great victory in the North! The hunt killed tens of millions of rat men, and Liberty City won the first place! "The part-time newsboy at the orphanage ran through the streets brandishing a magic newspaper.

The customer who bought "The Voice of Freedom" held the newspaper in his hand, and Evelyn's voice came out of it: "...... The Hellfire Legion, the Fourth Legion, and the Imperial Black Watch Legion joined forces to defeat the vanguard of the McCain Clan and annihilate them north of the Wall. ”

His own family knows his own affairs, so "Voice of Freedom" does not mention the hunting ranking and rat ears at all, but only says that Liberty City and the Empire have teamed up to repel the rat people.

The Imperial newspaper didn't say anything about it, but it did mention the Black Watch and the allied forces led by Annan outside the Great Wall, and the pomp and circumstance when more than 10 million rat ears were transported to Montreal Hill.

And about some of the deeper insiders, Olmedo soon found out.

"Shall we also form our own 'Bone Blade'?"

"Is it necessary?" Annan asked rhetorically.

"Bone Edge is far more than you think...... Huge. Olmedo used the word "massive" to describe them. "Eavesdropping, assassination, rebellion...... It's all their job. They have a share of the stability around the empire...... The same goes for those nobles who were hanged. ”

"We don't need to."

Annan thought about it seriously, shook his head and said, "We don't have the background of the empire, and it takes far more work to cultivate a qualified secret organization than you think...... You should know better than I do. And remember, we're going to be the 'Wilhelm' of Middle-earth. ”

"What do you mean?"

Annan said with deep meaning: "There should be no dark corners in Wilhelm. ”

The empire needs people to be afraid of it, and Liberty City doesn't need it.

Olmedo asked about the others: "When are you going to come back?" ”

"Is there something going on at home?"

"No, but have you ever heard of a city lord running around outside all day?"

"I know."

"Which one?"

"Lord of Liberty City."

(End of chapter)