The leaders of the slave traders who were captured in the lair of the petrified lizardmen were pushed down the city, and the slave traders stationed in Irip were the first to mess up.

And Irip's walls are not much taller than most goblin giants, let alone jumping, they stretch out their hands, and it seems that they can climb directly to the edge.

The two sides were in a stalemate for less than an hour before the other side opened the gates and surrendered.

The most difficult thing about this kind of criminal nest is not the attack and occupation, but the question of conviction after that.

It is an exaggeration to say that the whole city is involved in the petrified lizard's human slave cartel, and to say that they have a direct or indirect connection with this industrial chain is not added at all.

Gavin and Villanika discussed it a little, and directly cut through the mess, gathered Irip's representatives, and directly issued a series of orders.

There are two core contents.

1. Only punish the first evil, and not punish the accomplices.

2. Hand over all those private prisoners and slaves in captivity, but they will not be blamed for the past, and once they are found to be secretly hiding or repeating crimes, they will be punished according to the first evil.

In just one day, they rescued all the slaves, and by the way, swept away the stolen money and goods of the petrified lizard-man slave trafficking group, and did not even leave the basic troops, and all of them were withdrawn.

Because there is no point in doing that.

The geographical location of these two towns determines their fate, and their fate is determined by the city of Evanthor.

If the army of conquerors defeated the city of Ivanthor, they would not need to send another soldier, only a ruler.

If there is no way to take the city of Ivanthor, even if they send troops to garrison it, they will be separated from them and stumbling on them behind their backs.

Gavin's reason for them to take the two towns first is to completely cut off these local evil forces, because once they defeat Ivanaor, they will immediately turn into the shadows, and if they want to eradicate them, the difficulty will increase exponentially.

The process on Yeshandara's side is also beyond imagination, whether it is a purple mask or a tide flower, the combat power that can be used is more than a dozen transcendental, and the rest are either small thieves or ordinary thugs, it is enough to dominate a small town, but in the face of an extraordinary war group, it is not enough to see at all.

The more famous, the faster it will die.

On the contrary, those who are unknown can hide in the crowd and escape the catastrophe.

But their ability to loot wealth is quite impressive.

Even if the tide flower and the purple mask, the wealth accumulated over the years, are distributed to the local residents, and the wealth collected back is nearly one million.

At the beginning, Gavin said that half was just an imaginary number, not really cut in half, and most of the things that were distributed to them were not very useful to the conqueror's army and were not easy to carry, such as furniture and other daily necessities, and then a relatively large number of loose coins that were not easy to carry, and so on.

Because of the help of the half-blue dragon goblin, the harvest of the petrified lizardman is even more amazing.

In addition to the three three-masted galleons, which were valued at a total of 500,000 yuan, the wealth seized from their secret lairs and warehouses amounted to 1.5 million, plus more than 500 slaves, only a fifth of whom came from the shores of the dragon and were escorted home by the army of conquerors, and the rest were incorporated into the army of conquerors.

Just as Gavin expected, when these three local dark forces were destroyed, the dark forces around the Dragon Coast were all shocked, and they became more efficient than ever before, and a secret meeting of the dark forces was held at the West Gate.

Simon.

Not only is it the most influential city on the Dragon Coast, but it is even one of the most influential cities on the entire South Shore of the Falling Star Sea.

It is said to have an economic power equal to the entire Dragon Coast cities combined, and this enormous power makes them the third largest trading power in the inland sea, after Sambia and Cormier.

Simon is largely responsible for the Dragonshore's reputation as 'everything has a price', and its citizens are not ashamed of it, instead priding themselves on being an open city – open to all races, open to all faiths, open to all currencies.

It was this radical openness that brought them a great deal of wealth, and a lot of transactions that were not allowed elsewhere were carried out here in large quantities and openly – such as the filthy sale of stolen goods by pirates.

Both the kingdom of Sambia and the kingdom of Cormier were severely cracked down, at least on the surface, but in the West Gate there was a public auction in a grand manner.

Nominally, Simon was ruled by an aristocracy made up of wealthy families, but in reality, it was a guild of thieves called the Night Mask that controlled all of Simon's key areas.

This secret dark meeting was naturally presided over by the Night Mask, and they were the only ones who had this influence on the Dragon Coast, which fully showed that even they felt the pressure from the army of conquerors.

There were more than 30 dark forces of all kinds, and countless heads were crowded in the dimly lit conference room, and that situation, as if their identities were not exposed to the sun.

"They are a group of lawless executioners, butchers, and robbers, who can capture Pros and Irip today, and destroy the purple masks, tideflowers, and petrified lizards, and tomorrow they will be able to capture Teshir, and destroy you Astorian, and the day after tomorrow they will occupy Bosku, and slaughter your Light of Boschu, and the day after tomorrow will be able to occupy Simon and uproot your Night Mask, so we can no longer sit idly by, we should unite and form our own army to protect our dragon coast, A city that belongs to us, once and for all, defeat this evil group of invaders. ”

A pirate leader waved his arm and roared in indignation.

"Hey, Thornes, if you weren't the leader of the Purple Mask, maybe it would be more convincing, but who knows, if you want to use our hands to avenge your fallen branch?" Cold words came from the darkness, unceremoniously dismantling the stage of the purple mask leader.

These dark forces on the Dragon Coast have never been in harmony, and there are countless battles between each other, both open and covert.

Fights between dark organizations in the city will also be carried out in secrecy and in private to prevent wars between cities.

These pirate groups in the Inland Sea don't have so many scruples, many of them meet at sea, they are directly greeted by ballistas, they can huddle together in this small conference room, without drawing knives from each other, except for the strong dragon of the conqueror army pressing outside, but also because of the fear of the mask of the night.

The Night Mask is very secretive, not to mention the citizens of other cities on the Dragon Coast, even most of the citizens of Ximen are not clear, in fact, it is a secret thief guild that controls this city.

But these dark forces are very aware of this, and they know their terror methods, the Night Mask has such a high voice in Simon, it is not a pie falling from the sky, but they kill it, and their enemies will either disappear into thin air, dead and dead, or in front of the public, slammed into slag, or torn to pieces alive by a group of ferocious rats.

They preferred this kind of public execution to the secret assassination as a warning to other enemies.

Thornes said angrily, "I'm telling the truth, if you don't have that concern, do you need to sit here?" In any case, we cannot allow them to toss and turn on the Dragon's Shore, as this will seriously hinder our business, and we must unite to defeat them. ”

"I agree with the first half of yours, but I can't agree with the second half, why do we have to use force to solve it? And not negotiating? They are essentially a group of civilians, and migration is their main task, as long as we send them out of the Dragon's Shores, they are no longer a problem for us. ”

"Naive, negotiation is based on absolute force, if we don't unite and prove to them that we are strong, will the other party leave so easily?"

"They just killed a few small guilds and scared you like this? They seem to be powerful, in fact, there are only thousands of real professional soldiers, relying mainly on those two transcendent warbands, as long as these two transcendent warbands are defeated, they will not dare to act rashly, and their main energy now is Ivanaor, before the whole problem is solved, they should not have the energy to use force against other cities, they sent troops to Pros and Irip, probably to relieve their worries. ”

"Stupid, so stupid, how can you put your hopes in someone else's plans? It's the right thing to do with everything in your own hands. ”

"You seem to have forgotten that they have more than that, they have a city of goblins on the Plains of the Giants, and an army of goblins that is constantly expanding, and their main force has been roaming the east of the Plains of the Giants lately, do you think we will sit idly by if we were to use the army of conquerors?"

"Forming an army, it's easier said than done, it's not a simple street battle with a large number of people, but it requires precise command, and most importantly, to whom is the command of this army handed over?"

Soon the leaders of the dark forces quarreled with each other, some in favor of forming an army, and some dismissive.

This disdain stems from their own nature, and their origins determine that they are full of distrust of each other.

How can a union that does not even have basic trust form a united and cooperative army, but without an army, there is no confidence to confront the army of conquerors.

"The Faceless One has arrived." With the sound of a loud voice, the noisy conference hall like a vegetable market instantly became silent, and all eyes looked at the entrance.

The first thing to enter was a domino mask, which was the kind of hunting mask commonly used in aristocratic dinners, only showing his eyes and chin, but this mask was snow-white, without any shape, leaving only three hollows, and the whole person looked like there was no face from a distance, which should be the origin of his name.

In the hollow eyes, there was a scarlet light, and whoever swept it on, their bodies couldn't help but shudder, because in the other party's gaze, they didn't feel any emotion, and the other party's gaze at them was not like looking at their own kind, but more like looking at delicious prey, and they were measuring where it was more appropriate to take a mouth.

This man is the Uncrowned King of Simon, the supreme ruler of the Night Mask, the Faceless One known as the Lord of the Night.

As for his name and true face, no one knows, and he has always shown himself in this way in front of outsiders.

The Faceless One sat down in the chair, but he didn't mean to speak, and immediately behind him, the mysterious woman who was also wearing a domino mask spoke, "Forming an army, this kind of idea is something you brainless pirates can come up with, if you really do that, do we still belong to the guild?"

What do you think of the aristocratic rulers?

Aren't you afraid, you haven't started a war with the conqueror army yet, and you've fought with these noble rulers first?

Aren't you afraid that those ordinary citizens will unite against you?

Secret manipulation is where we are founded.

Even if we are forming an army, it is not we who form it, but who urge those overtly rulers to do it, and it is their sacred duty to protect our city. ”

This person is wearing a purple close-fitting robe, showing off her delicate figure perfectly, the mask she wears is not faceless, but a fox mask, the exposed eyes are standard fox eyes, every move has a seductive taste, the arc of the red lips is perfect, smeared with bright red lipstick, and it is very charming.

"Madam Zi, what you said is right, this kind of thing, hiding behind the scenes and manipulating is the wisest choice, if you succeed, everyone will be happy, and if you fail, those merchants and nobles will be in front, and there will be no loss for us."

"We can do both, that is, we can urge those merchant nobles to form an army to pose a frontal threat to the army of conquerors, and we can also secretly organize the elite to form a team of assassins, so that they will not dare to act rashly."

"We can contact Avantor Arms and give them a link to fight the army of conquerors over there, preferably with both sides."

"Stupid, this kind of playing with fire, a little careless, will bring disaster to ourselves, the horror of the plague virus of Ames, I believe you have seen it with your own eyes, once it spreads on a large scale in the city, the damage caused will be devastating, if the army of conquerors completely exterminates it, it is better to say, once the army of conquerors fails to attack Ivanaor and let these necromancers obtain a large number of corpses, what will be the consequences, I don't need to say more, right? It could even cause an undead scourge on our Dragon's Coast, devastating all the cities, and the damage done to us at that time would be ten times greater than the army of the conquerors. ”

"That's right, we can use all the methods, except the method of using Ivanaso's necromancers, don't mention it, in this matter, we must firmly stand on the side of the living, even if the army of conquerors will pose a threat to our interests, but this is still a matter between the living, and the undead are involved, and the nature changes."

"Isn't the army of conquerors going to the valley? We can use this as a bait and use our superior shipping capabilities to send them across the Dragon Lake to plague Sambia, which will save them a lot of time and energy. ”

"This proposal is so whimsical, you seem to have forgotten who you are, who will trust the promise of a group of pirates to hand over their goods and people to you for transport? Aren't you afraid of shipping to the end with nothing left? ”

"We can give it a try, and even if it doesn't work out, we have nothing to lose."

"I wonder if there is a better proposal for the Faceless One?"

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the bewitching woman named Lady Purple was obviously the spokesperson of the Night King, and what she said was no different from what the Faceless One said, and these leaders of the dark forces did not pay attention to it.

And the opinions she put forward were also very pertinent, tickling the itch of many leaders.

The Purple Mask Leader's proposal to form an army was met with strong opposition because it was grossly inconsistent with their previous ways.

Although the Dragon Coast is evil, it has not yet reached the level of hell on earth, everyone is a vicious devil thug, if that is the case, the basic rule cannot be maintained at all, and this place will be in ruins long ago.

Most of them are relatively kind, easy to rule and slaughter ordinary citizens, the vicious people are a minority after all, they can only be manipulated in the shadows, once they surface, even if the citizens of the Dragon Coast do not unite to overthrow them, the heroes from other countries and cities will not sit idly by.

Feren has never lacked such presences, especially the harpist's guild, which is notoriously nosy, and the valley is their headquarters, and many cities are active with their spies, especially Simon, the evil capital has always been their focus.

If they found out that the dark forces of the entire Dragon Coast were preparing to form an alliance, they would certainly not sit idly by.

On the contrary, it is the method that secretly manipulates those merchant rulers and makes them act according to their own will is what they are best at and most commonly used.

"So, you have no problem with secretly prompting major cities to form city armies?" Madame Purple asked again, her eyes falling mainly on the two leaders of the Poscu Light and Astorian.

They represent the cities of Bosku and Teshir, which, along with Ivantor and Simon, are the four core cities of the Dragon's Coast.

As long as they are steadfast in this strategy, the remaining small and medium-sized towns will naturally follow.

"There's no problem on our side of Bosku." The reply was a woman, most of her body hidden in the darkness, unable to see her real face or distinguish her body, like a ghost, the leader of the Light of Poscu.

"There's no problem with Tessil." A dull male voice replied.

"We don't have a problem either."

"I agree."

Others followed.

(End of chapter)