Two days later......

Raymond, who obtained a name and address in the Golden City from the sea gate of Maine City, was going to go directly to the city where the expeditionary force was trapped, but because he sensed that the area where the expeditionary force was located was limited in space, he had to distance himself, so he arrived smoothly.

Located at the end of the Ember Mountains, this golden city was built by the humans of the Nightmare Plane when it was at its most powerful, and its precipitous and the rivers that surround it have made it a sacred place in the hearts of ordinary humans on the Nightmare Plane for two hundred years after it was built.

It's just that humans can't become the dominant of the nightmare plane after all, and when the Golden City was destroyed because it couldn't resist the attacks of the nightmare creatures, it was no longer as glorious as it used to be, and in the end only the stories and legends that have been passed down from generation to generation by humans, as well as the soul of the founder hidden under the Golden City, so that even though the entire city has been destroyed many times, it still exists at the end of the Ember Mountains, sheltering those humans who are still willing to come and stay here.

It took four hourglass hours for the desertified one-eyed sandman Shariman to reach its periphery before sunset, and although the golden city bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun was silent, the golden brilliance of the outer city walls made people feel a kind of decadent vicissitudes, and the mood couldn't help but become heavy.

The forces from the far north formed a blockade line that stretched for dozens of miles outside the Golden City, leaving only a large road more than 100 meters wide leading to the city gate.

The luster of the force field of various colors makes these allied species clearly distinguishable, and the various camps in the distance look like wildflowers blooming in spring. Clusters and clumps dotted the desolate land outside the Golden City.

Becky, sitting on Raymond's left shoulder, after the one-eyed sandman Shariman had lifted the sand. He pointed to the tall mounds on the outermost part and said strangely. "My lord, is the area where those mounds are located occupied by the Glowworms?"

It was more than a thousand meters away from the blockade. Raymond, who was hovering in mid-air, took a look and spoke. "There should be some caves tens of meters deep under these three-meter-high mounds, and it seems that there are quite a lot of glow rats stationed here......"

"It's just a bunch of mutant rats, their rate of reproduction can only be described as amazing, in my hometown they will be killed as soon as they are discovered, they will only bring plague and famine......"

Shaliman, the one-eyed sandman who seems to be disgusted with the rats, has rarely expressed his opinion, and even Adolf, who has always been bad with it, echoes it, much to Becky's surprise.

The ability of the rat people to spread the disease. They can reduce the population of an entire city by eighty percent in a matter of days, and in terms of the speed and scope of their spread, they can even affect the entire basin downstream of it with the help of rivers, and they are technically one of the most feared races in the Nightmare Plane, no less than the extinct Spirit Suckers......

Thinking of Clement, the commander of the Third Legion, what he had said about the glow rats, Raymond's gaze at the towering mounds became cold.

Although the Golden City has a great reputation, it actually has the least number of besieged expeditionary forces and the weakest strength.

If it weren't for the fact that he needed to find the contact person for the House of Shadows that Haimen said he was talking about, he would have gone straight to another city hundreds of kilometers away.

I'm thinking about it. Becky, who was sitting on his left shoulder, spoke in vain. "My lord, Clement said that the expeditionary force of the wizard plane is under siege, but why are there still ordinary humans and wizards going out at the gate of the city?"

After turning his gaze, Raymond saw that the city gate, which was still closed just now, had been opened. Some humans with heavy loads on their shoulders are coming out, and some nightmare creatures are gathering inside some tents outside the city gates.

It seems that the whole city is not locked down. Raymond and the others, who were heading towards the outer blockade, passed through the area of the Glowworm until they approached the city gate. None of them were intercepted, nor were they subjected to any sentient detection. When they appeared in front of the city gate, they were all a little puzzled.

Raymond, who was dressed in a scarlet wizard's robe, was originally the size and appearance of a human being.

Becky, who sat on his left shoulder, only attracted some curious glances.

Adolf and Shariman the One-Eyed Sandman, although different from humans, were also clearly different from the nightmare creatures, and following Raymond obviously did not attract the attention of the uniformed wizards in front of the city gate, but was signaled to pass quickly after he approached the city gate and not to stop at the city gate.

Sensing that the guards at the gate of the city were obviously from the wizarding plane's expeditionary force, Raymond stepped forward directly to inquire about the situation of the street market gathered outside the city.

The middle-aged wizard who was questioned by Raymond relaxed his expression after looking at the scarlet wizard robe he was wearing, and patiently explained. "Before, the Golden City was besieged by those nightmare creatures, but because the situation has begun to ease recently, both sides have carried out appropriate exchanges and communication, and it is estimated that everyone will be able to return to the wizard plane for a while......"

"Do you know what the reason is?"

"I can't say this well, I was besieged here for more than three months before, and the other party didn't attack at the beginning, so I should have started communication under fear, and finally the top of the expeditionary force reached an agreement with them......

The middle-aged wizard's attitude and tone made Raymond feel that the atmosphere here was not tense, so after inquiring about the location of the business district in the city, he went directly into the city.

The Golden City, built more than 1,000 years ago, has been destroyed but the entire city is still quite grandiose, even though most of the buildings on both sides of the road are broken and have not been repaired, but the grandeur of the time can still be vaguely felt.

It's just that the ordinary humans on the Nightmare Plane seem to be restrained and controlled by the Expeditionary Force, and except for the wizards who can be seen from time to time on the main road along the way, you will rarely see ordinary humans and fighters among the ordinary people on the Nightmare Plane.

After a while, when Raymond arrived in the business district, he found that the atmosphere here was becoming more relaxed.

Some nightmare creatures belonging to the Far North have also appeared in the business district, although they are generally not strong, but they are communicating and trading with the wizards of the expeditionary force, but many shops that seem to belong to local humans are mostly closed.

Most of the human wizards who joined the expeditionary force came from the surface of the wizard plane, and they seemed to have known about the destruction of the Sith clan, and they had also received news that the threat was about to be lifted, so they all seemed relatively relaxed, even if they were trading with nightmare creatures in the street market, they all still had a certain sense of superiority, so that Raymond and the others, who slowly walked through the market, were very speechless.

"My lord, it seems that they are all quite relaxed, the old wizard over there just now was able to sell the Cloud Grass for eighty medium crystals, was he mistaken?"

Raymond also knew about the transaction mentioned by Becky, so he was a little helpless. "One possibility is that the cloud grass is exactly what the buyer urgently needs, and the second is that the old wizard thinks that his trading partner is better, so he will offer more than twenty times the price......

Becky nodded at Raymond's statement, but then she exclaimed in surprise. "But even if the expeditionary force and the coalition forces in the Far North are about to come to an agreement, there is no reason to open the entire city to those nightmare creatures at this time, right?"

The more he walked into the market, the more he saw such phenomena, and Raymond was a little confused. "I always feel that something is wrong, and when I find the local contact person of the House of Shadows, I should be able to know the real situation......" (To be continued......