Marching through the mountains, the 'Jennysar' nest.

At this point in time, except for those fighters who have a task on their hands, it is the busiest time.

Even a child as old as Maria often has to help adults do what they can.

For example, it is easier to pick mulberry leaves in the mountains and feed silkworms than these heavy tasks, such as finding bark and mineral salts for tanning work, collecting waste materials for reuse in metal products workshops, and helping mussels from the Karin River to open their shells and extract pearls.

Most of the slaves who can have some premiums are born from some crafts, and it is precisely because of the selfless dedication of these emancipated laborers over the years that Jeanie Sal has been able to barely survive until now.

Just like those grass-roots companies in Bluestar, before waiting for external financing to arrive, first of all, you have to live.

It's just that today is a little different.

When they watched the three hundred knights dressed in their 'Jean Saar' blood-colored battle suits in the early morning towards the boundless Karin Desert, many people were not very optimistic about their actions this time.

Because the vast majority of ordinary people can't judge the approximate combat power range of professionals through some details, this is a skill that only some experienced warriors, adventurers, and professionals can master.

In the simple perception of the vast majority of civilians, the victory or defeat of a battle is often judged by the number of people, and even when they 'Jean Saar' are in action, they are victorious with absolute local superiority.

There were thousands of people escorted by the Ponte Exchange, and it didn't look like just 300 people could be saved.

It is because some people can't help but have some dark thoughts:

If they don't return, then the ornate knight's plate armor and the moving metal cart they left here will become their Jennysar's property.

In particular, the metal cabinet that resembles a coffin has also caused many people to speculate.

However, when someone tried to touch the armor that had been left in the stone hall, he was captured by the half-elf ranger in charge of patrolling, and he was shown on the spot and given the man ten lashes as punishment.

So no one dared to touch the property left behind by these Northland knights.

In the evening, when the knights, who had changed into blood-stained linen robes, returned to the mountains with a vast array of slaves, everyone was shocked by what they saw.

They counted three hundred knights when they went, and when they came back there were only a hundred left, but they brought back nearly six thousand.

'Presumably... These knights must have gone through a bitter and bloody battle...'

People couldn't help but think about it, and then looked at these Northland knights who came triumphantly, and their eyes appeared with respect from the heart.

Little Maria cried out on the spot when she saw that the knight brother who came back was so much less at once, and that 'everyone was injured'.

Connie, who returned from watching, couldn't help but laugh, but didn't know how to explain, in her opinion, Levi's mission should be confidential, and she was worried that if she leaked it early, it would affect them.

It was Pantos, the head of the battle group, who found out that the atmosphere was not quite right, and took the initiative to explain to the half-elf ranger lady with reddish eyes, so that he didn't make a joke about erecting a well-dressed mound for a group of colleagues who were still alive at night.

Jeanie Sal declared the entire organization into a dormant stage that night, as agreed with Levi, in order to accommodate and digest the slaves who had been freed from the Ponte Exchange.

Except for the three hundred slave servants and the six hundred young men who were specially selected, most of them were women, teenagers, and children, and there were no old people.

In Karinshan, the old and the sick have no value in being a slave.

And as long as the slave grows to the height of the wheel, he can be labor.

That night, when Jeanie Sal had a headache about how to settle the slaves and how to distribute the limited food, Pantos directly ordered a container of frozen meat to be opened, accompanied by mushrooms that were special to the mountains of the march, and everyone drank an unforgettable bowl of mushroom broth.

The slaves, who had been apprehensive, spent the night in the cave with the furs distributed by 'Jeanie Sal', and their bellies were warm, but they didn't feel too cold.

And the wounded like XIII. and a strong man who called himself a war doctor came to give them some herbs.

It was night, and XIII., who had been scattered and separated, looked at the dome of the cave and felt that the fate of the captives seemed to be a little different from what he had imagined.

The next morning, XIII. and his companions were woken up and each handed out a tool and task.

XIII. Distributed to the hands was a chisel and basket for the extraction of some white stones, which were said to have been ordered by the warriors who had beaten them all the hard yesterday.

After eating, I didn't seem to be any different from before. ’

As XIII. returns to the valley with gravel as tall as him, he sees a metal monster emitting a cloud of white steam and throwing a large hole in the ground with its long 'claws' thrown into the ground to the cheers of the onlookers.

Probably the amount of one claw alone is enough for them to carry seven or eight back and forth on their backs.

Just when XIII. looked at the metal monster in a daze, he saw a half-elf girl in front of him waving at him:

"Here and here, pour all the broken stone into here, the dolomite and the volcanic ash. ”

XIII. Pursing his lips and bowing his head, he poured the basket of stones on his back into the pit with some difficulty, just halfway through it, when he found that his hands were lighter.

He was stunned to see that the half-elf actually helped him raise his hand, and then said to him with his big eyes:

"Oh, why do you carry so much in one basket, you can't do it for long according to your way of carrying it, maybe you will hurt your waist, we may have to do this job for a while. ”

XIII. opened his mouth, did not dare to look directly at the other party, and whispered:

"It's okay, I... I'm used to it. ”

Yes, for these slaves, daily overload of work under the whip of the slave owner was the norm.

"No, you have to get used to the rhythm of our work as soon as possible, you have to remember, you are not a slave now, my name is Maria, what about you?"

“XⅢ。 ”

"Kermit?"

Maria didn't hear it very clearly, but the pronunciation was very similar to this, and this pronunciation means ocelot in Elven language, a very cute but fierce carnivorous little animal, and she immediately laughed to herself.

XIII. Before she could correct herself, Maria excitedly pointed to the big pit in front of her:

"Kermit, do you know what we're doing right now?"

Kermit shook his head blankly, just thinking that the half-elf in front of him looked good at smiling.

"We're doing an alchemy ritual!"

Maria said with a serious expression and a three-point relentless joy.

"Alchemy rituals?"

Kermit's eyes widened, in his limited cognition, wasn't the alchemy ritual something that only mages could cover?

Could it be that this half-elf in front of you, who looked very small and small, was actually a mage?

Maria raised her two little hands excitedly and said:

"Yes, Uncle Pantos told me, and he said that this was the idea of their lord, that if you mash the dolomite and mix it with a certain percentage of volcanic ash and water, it will turn into a gray mud called... Cement, yes, that's it, cement can be used to build houses and walls, and when it's dry, it'll be as strong as stone! If we can make enough cement, we'll be able to make a castle in the whole mountain range! Then the whole of Karinshan will have a home. ”

Kermit listened to the other party's beautiful idiotic words, and knew that this could never be an alchemical ritual, but if it could really be as hard as a stone after solidification, it would be very powerful.

Every year, just by repairing the city walls, I don't know how many slaves are killed alive.

And he couldn't bear to break the other party's beautiful illusions.

He was not good at words, so he could only ask:

"Then are we going to use these alchemy materials to build a house or a city wall?"

Maria shook her head, as if she had thought of something fantastic, and both eyes glowed:

"No, what we're doing now is not a house or a city wall, and the current cave is enough for everyone to shelter and live in.

"What we're building now is a school. ”

"School?"

Kermit was a little confused, as if he didn't understand what this strange word meant.

"Yes, school. ”

Maria said wistfully:

"When it's finished, you, me, and many, many children who like to learn will be able to learn what they want to learn, and maybe even play a game called 'Bloody Football' together." ”

When she thought that one day, she would be able to kick the ball with the child with the door, and Maria was faintly excited.

Then she raised her index finger at Kermit and said with a smile:

"By the way, it has a nice name.

"It's called...

"Karinsan Dawning Elementary School. ”

......

While Pantos' infrastructure in the mountains was in full swing, Levi's journey to the sea was smooth sailing.

Only this time they didn't take the Strait of Exeville, because the main road was bound to run into the Luskan patrol boat.

In order to minimize unnecessary trouble before landing on the southern shore of the Moon Shadow Islands, they almost clinged to Lantan Island, risking a storm and crossing the Sea of No Trace.

Anyway, this trip they seem to have pulled more than a dozen new broken ships purchased from Karin Harbor, but in fact, except for the people on the Intrepid, the other two-masted boats used to hide people's ears are some slime salted fish that are not afraid of drowning.

And this time, Levi also brought more than 200 sets of amphibious suits made according to the 'Sea King suit' of Miss Frost Giant, and put a layer of film under everyone's equipment.

Therefore, the tolerance for risk is relatively high.

Even if you encounter an accident, you can abandon the ship and run away.

The only bad news is...

The gorgony elf named Merlin Dela is dead...

Damn it...

This left Levi speechless...

After investigation, it was really not the responsibility of the druid Senarian.

Instead, this gorgon-haired elf actually activated the sleeping paralyzing vine by using the Moon Elf's [Plant Activation] spell during the interrogation at night, not only activated, but the vine that was originally only the thickness of a radish was catalyzed into an eggplant by herself.

By the time Cenarian arrived in the cabin the next day, the elf lady was already dehydrated and cold, which made Cenarian fall into a frenzy in an instant...

Levi did not punish his family for this.

Therefore, there are two causes of death for the other party, but neither of them is directly related to Cenarian.

One is that she tried to break the vines through a plant activation spell in an attempt to escape from prison. As a result, the backlash power of these vines was underestimated, and it was directly cool.

However, Levi preferred the second option, and she suffered two major mission failures in succession in the forty-six years she received.

Especially the second time, it was a fleet of ghost ships and the biggest secret of their Luskan navy, forcing Aklem to start this war with little way back when he was completely unprepared.

She's in Luskan, in the Arcane Brotherhood, and she's basically socially dead.

So when he knew that Levi's fleet was about to go to the Moonshadow Islands, he simply cut himself in advance.

According to this reasoning, Akram must have some kind of means of being so restrictive to his subordinates that a girl like Merlin Dela, who is so cruel to himself, would rather judge himself in such a very undignified way of death than face his existence.

Thinking of this, Levi's heart suddenly moved, and said:

"Senarian, dissect her body and see if anything can be found. ”

The druid's mind fluttered, and he seemed to have thought of some possibility, and immediately responded:

"Follow your will. ”

More than two hours later, Cenarian, whose forehead was covered with sweat, re-entered the cabin, and said to Levi as if in disbelief:

"Your Majesty, there is a new discovery! We have found traces of a demonic pact in her ovary. ”

"Demonic Pact?"

Levi chewed on the word, and for the first time felt that things were a little more than expected, and a little troublesome.

In this way, the president of the Arcane Brotherhood is still in trouble with the bottomless abyss.

In Corell, any event that is a demon hook is tricky.

Almost every demonic invasion is a thousand miles of red land, and blood is flowing and drifting.

Because it is essentially the Abyssal Will in its invasion of the world of Corell.

And this invasion has been going on since the time of the gods.

In the early stages of Corell's formation, demons came uninvited.

They represent chaos in the first place, born of chaotic nature, and demons kill each other everywhere.

This chaos became unbearable for the gods of Order, who were also nascent, and a war between Order and the demons began.

The war lasted for an infinite number of centuries, and gradually, the gods of order felt as if the demons were being killed, they were tired of the war, and they wanted to focus on other places, such as the creation of the world and intelligent beings.

They first created warriors with beautiful wings as servants and endowed them with divine magic.

These glorious creatures are called angels.

One of the angels, Asmodeus, was the most warlike and the most beautiful.

He has killed more demons than any other angel, or even any god.

But as the infinite ages passed, Asmodeus and the other angels gradually acquired some of the characteristics of their enemies.

Gradually, their original beauty became ugly, and the gods of order and other angels were terrified of them.

Finally, the inhabitants of heaven begged the god of order to expel the Asmodeus.

So, Asmodeus was called upon to stand trial before Heyronis, the god of courage.

Asmodeus gladly accepted the accusation and the trial, but before he left Bato in hell, he left the gods speechless for a long time:

The first order is to destroy chaos. ’

At least on this point, I do better than all your gods. ’

Demons are such crazy and chaotic creatures.

"Dancing with demons, Aklem, crazy enough. ”

Levi couldn't help but sigh.

Being able to control his subordinates through the Demon Contract is enough to show that the relationship between Aklem and the Abyss is likely to be much deeper than usual.

It's not comparable to his behavior of raising a little devil as a mascot.

Just when this sudden new discovery cast an unknown shadow on this war, there was a sudden alarm from Herbert's side:

"Your Majesty, thirty nautical miles ahead, an enemy ship has been spotted!"

"How is that possible?"

How could it be possible to be here?

Just as Levi soared into the sky, his pupils contracted, and sure enough, he saw that more than twenty ships were docked on the coastline of Quines Island, as if they were waiting for something.

'Have our whereabouts been revealed?'

Levi vetoed this possibility for the first time.

At this moment, under the outermost two-masted ship on the right side of the side, eight thick tentacles suddenly stretched out and dragged the entire ship straight into the sea.

With a loud bang, the Karinsan ship, which was already of poor quality, fell apart under the tearing of this huge force.

Levi looked back silently, and his thoughts seemed to be echoing with the wails of countless slime saltfish warriors when they were killed.

"Enemy Attack !!"

"An unknown enemy has appeared beneath the surface of the sea!"

At the same time, the dreadnought's sonar emitted a piercing buzzer.

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