The Duragon Empire, the imperial capital of Herram, is a prosperous city that is very famous in the Western Continent.

The Duragon Empire is a country with a long history, and when it comes to which of the greatest emperors and His Majesty is the greatest, the people will not hesitate to say two names.

The first, William Alduin, was the founding emperor of the Duragon Empire nearly a thousand years ago, and the most powerful dragonborn in legend.

The second, Will Emerald Alduin, the Emperor of the Last Dynasty fifty years ago, was an emperor with the title of "The Iron and Blood Lord Who Guides the Future".

The first emperor aside, His Majesty Will is already the sixteenth generation of Alduin the Great since the founding of the empire, and in the evaluation of the people, this is a great emperor who is wise and martial. He was brilliantly brilliant, open-minded and wise on the inside, strong and resolute on the outside, and although he was known for his toughness, and was even rated as a cold-blooded tyrant by the younger, lighter do-gooders, he remained unchanged from the recognition and reverence of most of the people.

In particular, the people of the older generation who are over sixty years old in the empire have especially embraced this emperor after seeing the changes in the empire in the last fifty years.

As the imperial capital, Heram is the most advanced city of today's empire, with neatly distributed street lamps for lighting, public communication booths, towering signal base towers, and from time to time you can see spirit guide cars running on the specially set up central lane, as well as large transportation stations dedicated to spiritual trains set up on the outskirts of the city, and several large production factories in the city that support countless laborers......

It was at that time that His Majesty Will came to the throne after a major reform fifty years ago, and the Emperor made very significant changes to the Duragon Empire.

Under the leadership of His Majesty, the entire empire at that time changed its feudal and conservative style and began to vigorously pursue the development of spiritual guidance technology.

The results have been gradually reflected in the past 50 years.

Vigorously recruiting technical talents, and forcefully introducing a variety of related welfare policies, thus greatly stimulating the research and development enthusiasm of domestic scientists, and finally establishing various research institutes throughout the country, laying the foundation for the birth of various new technologies;

The development of a new type of psionic engine has transformed the original energy-intensive and expensive spirit guide car that can only be used by the upper aristocratic class to the extent that it can now be purchased and used by small merchants with a wealthy family;

founded a public elf academy that civilians also had the opportunity to study, opening up a path for the people at the bottom of the empire to change their status and promote to the top of the world by their own efforts;

Vigorously promote the service of free Lingzi affinity test for children, and even make it a civic duty, stipulating that all citizens of the empire are obliged to go to the relevant institutions established by the empire at the appropriate age to take the test. Among them, those with excellent qualifications can even get free elf academy admission sponsorship qualifications;

Base stations for transmission lines have been set up throughout the country, and through the link of the newly developed spiritual guide signal cable, the high-speed transmission of intelligence information between cities and towns across the country has been realized without delay......

After all kinds of reform measures, the people have clearly seen the changes in their country, how can they not admire and even support His Majesty the Emperor who has achieved such a great cause?

Among the many achievements of His Majesty Will, especially the establishment of the public elven academy for the commoners, it was especially praised by the people, even if the aristocratic faction was not satisfied that the new large number of civilian academy graduates would impact their privileged position, but they had to admit that this move did bring great benefits to the entire empire.

With the continuous cultivation and blood supply of the Elven Academy, generation after generation, more and more elven warlocks and elven envoys have emerged from the civilian class, which has greatly filled the grassroots combat power of the empire, so that even if the empire has experienced the bloody changes of the previous generation, its strength has not decreased but increased, and even faintly has the great cause of recovering the old divided subject country in this generation or two generations.

Of course, it is said that the aristocratic faction actually made a lot of trouble for this at the beginning, but all of them were forcefully suppressed by the iron-blooded emperor, which once caused renewed turmoil in the upper echelons of the empire decades ago, and then with the assistance of the newly grown reformist nobles and the compromise of the old aristocracy, peace was restored within the empire again.

This must be mentioned that Emperor Veril is another eye-catching move of the world, he forcibly smashed the promotion system from the commoners to the upper class, which was largely monopolized by the old aristocratic class in the past, and implemented a more enlightened and naked meritorious promotion system of the supremacy of the strong.

No matter who you are, no matter what your previous status, as long as you can make enough contributions to the empire, then you can get a promotion in status - even from a lowly serf to a real nobleman with a title and actual territory!

This policy was naturally resisted by a large number of old aristocratic groups at that time, but it was still forcefully suppressed by Emperor Will and the power of a large number of transcendents from the commoner class, who had grown to a large scale at that time.

Will Emerald Alduin XVI, who has achieved such great feats, although there are some flaws in his personal style, it must be said that he is generally a very great emperor. Although it has a lot of bad reviews among the old aristocratic faction, it has a very large popularity among the commoner class and the emerging aristocracy.

Even in the eyes of Jiang Yan, who has a broad vision that transcends the limitations of the world, this emperor is a figure that he has to really admire.

As for why Jiang Yan thought of this, it was indeed because he had now come to Herram, the capital city of the empire, and after seeing that it was much more developed than Billon City, he felt it.

However, Jiang Yan is not here to wander, he still has tasks to do.

Recently, after letting the subordinates under his command increase their actions, the officials of the Duragon Empire have obviously taken this seriously, and even members of special assassination teams like Jiang Yan have begun to receive tasks related to these 'Demon Contractor' suspects.

So far, the Imperial authorities have only stopped at the level of speculation about these suspects, and have not completely determined their true information, whether there is a person behind them, and what the purpose is, are still unknown.

Even those strategists of the Ministry of Intelligence can't deduce from the actions of these contractors that they have anything in common except for the suspected 'demon contractors', because Jiang Yan is in a laissez-faire attitude towards these sub-aircraft reserves for the time being, and after signing a network agreement contract with them and giving them the seeds of extraordinary power, they no longer care about it, and what these sub-aircraft reservists plan to do in the future, as long as they don't violate the terms of the contract, Jiang Yan will not interfere for the time being.

After all, the contractors that Jiang Yan is currently aiming to develop are basically level 0 and level 1, and these guys are still too weak now, and they are basically people at the bottom of society and have no power in terms of identity, even if Jiang Yan wants them to do things, they are not strong enough, so Jiang Yan's side has only one requirement for the sub-machine contractors at present, just try to be stronger!

Jiang Yan's original intention in developing the human sub-machine contractor was to experiment with his half-finished exercises, so he didn't plan to directly use the ability to help these contractors grow until there were perfect results in the stage of exercise demonstration, because there would be no point in experimenting.

Under such circumstances, although there are more and more of these sub-machine contractors created by Jiang Yan, their overall strength is not high, so even if there are some criminals who dare to challenge the official power of the empire, they will not cause any serious disasters.

However, this is a lot!

On average, there are hundreds of people in a city, and there are repeated bans, even if the official arrests all the suspects of the demon contract, it will not be long before another batch will run out; even if the government sends people to issue a ban, telling the citizens to be vigilant and not to easily accept the temptation of the evil demon species, but if this ban is really effective, the demon species and the dark church have been eliminated a long time ago, where is there still a chance to lurk in the shadows to continue to develop to this day?

Even though under the leadership of the Iron Emperor, all aspects of the empire are developing rapidly, and the new technology and military strength are on the rise, the overall atmosphere of the country has not changed much - the law of the jungle is the strong, and the strong are supreme!

The Empire has not shown the slightest sign of abolishing the 'slavery' system, which is the best manifestation of this.

Those who are weak can only be trampled to the bottom and dying. On the contrary, these 'weaklings' are the ones who cannot resist the temptation of this mysterious contract.

Up to now, although the empire and the surrounding countries on this side of the Western Continent have not given up their attempts to control these demonic contract suspects, they have gradually lost their attitude as radical as they did at the beginning.

Because they found that as long as they didn't casually try to forcibly dig up the intelligence information about the master behind the contract, it was not difficult to negotiate, except for some fools who were themselves criminally inclined, the rest of the people could be appeased and co-opted.

These people don't like to make things like the demon contractors I've seen before, for example, they make a demon blood sacrifice ritual at every turn, and the people are panicked all over the wilderness, and the official found that as long as they don't deliberately oppress them and cause them to be forced to resist, it's okay to treat them as ordinary citizens.

Even in this context of the gradual escalation of friction with border neighbors, don't these people happen to be a good batch of cannon fodder?

Of course, to achieve such a change of thinking, the catalysis of some examples is also indispensable.

Jiang Yan remembered a report he had received about an incident related to a sub-machine contractor that happened in a town in the empire.

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The sun is setting, and the sunset is shining on the sky.

Under the dim sun, it should have been the eve of the night when everything gradually returned to calm, but there was a place on the earth where thick black smoke was wafting, mixed with the sound of fighting.

On closer inspection, the black smoke was rising from a small town, and the sound was that of a manor owned by an obviously upper-class person with a luxurious area. However, at this moment, the originally beautiful and lush flowers and plants in the manor have all been dyed with flames, and there is eye-catching blood floating on the ground, and there are already several corpses on it, and the rich bloody atmosphere has completely destroyed the original gorgeous manor image.

"Kill him, you kill this pariah for me!!" A richly dressed middle-aged lady pulled a young man, retreated behind the line of several guards with a frightened face, and screamed loudly and without any image, pointing in the direction of the front yard of the manor.

Mr. Carter, who was in his forties, glanced disapprovingly at his wife, who had lost his square inch, and his son, who was also flustered, and scolded: "Be quiet for me, are you a member of the noble Carter family?"

Ignoring his resigned wife and children, Mr. Carter looked at the battle in the arena and frowned slightly.

I saw a resolute-faced plain-clothed man covered with crystal-colored translucent full-body heavy armor that shimmered with glittering aura, but his body was like a feather that could fly several meters in one step, and with incredible dexterous movements, he dodged the combined sword strikes of the seven or eight guards around him, and Xun Gap smashed a fist on a guard wearing iron armor.

Click!!

The sound of tooth-sour metal shattering came out, and I saw the guard's face suddenly change and spurt out a large mouthful of blood, screaming and flying upside down, smashing directly into the flower bed in the courtyard, crushing all the flowers that were carefully cared for in it, and then convulsed twice and then disappeared.

The plain-clothed man's face did not change and he turned sideways again, and his arm covered with crystalline spirit armor reached out and directly grabbed the blade of a long sword slashed from behind, and with a forceful pull, he dragged it directly in front of him, and another punch slammed into the chest of the person with the blade.

The armor on the guard's chest was visibly dented, his eyes lost his brilliance, and his sword-wielding arm hung down weakly.

Dahan grabbed the hilt of the sword with his fist, and the muscles of his arms visibly stirred, and a trace of spiritual light appeared on the skin of his arm.

Then he threw the guard's corpse and the long sword one after another, and the corpse smashed into the three guards who were guarding in front of the Carter family, but the force carried was unexpectedly large, so that the three guards couldn't help but fall crooked, and after vacating the defensive line, the long sword that followed flew towards the Carter family with a sharp roar, so frightened that the young man pointed by the sword blade closed his eyes directly.

"It's all a bunch of rubbish!" Mr. Carter frowned again when he saw this, and after scolding, he shouted softly: "Old man, you still have to play!"

Roar!!

Mr. Carter's body flashed with a flash of inspiration, and in an instant, a huge black claw with a little blue light poked out of the void in front of him, and with a slight flick, the long sword was knocked away.

Then, the light dust of a large number of spirit sons instantly gathered into a clump and turned into the body of a giant claw, which was a two-meter-tall lizard monster that stood upright covered with heavy hard armor, with strong muscles on its limbs and waist and abdomen that could not be concealed even if it was full of scale armor, a tail described as a steel whip, and two forelimbs were covered with black claws that were more than three feet long and faintly revealing cyan lines, and there were two fleshy wings on its back.

Dire claw armor lizard, phantom beast species, soldier-level high-level elf. A pair of claws with a natural spirit pattern with a sharp amplification effect, possessing the destructive power to easily tear through an armored vehicle. With its powerful leg muscles and high-speed jumps, its fleshy wings give it the ability to fly for short periods of time, and its scale protection is strong enough to withstand direct fire from medium guns, this is an elf that is even elite in the ranks.

As a qualified nobleman, even if he is only a viscount, Carter's family has enough hole cards to ensure his own safety, so Mr. Carter has the courage to scold his wife and children and educate them.

"Wes, if you've always been this virtuous, how can I trust the guardian elves of our family to hand over to you?" After scolding his son in hatred, Mr. Carter looked at the intruder who had defeated all the guards.

"Although I don't know where you came from and what kind of witchcraft you hold, but after all, the power of elves is the mainstream in this world!" Mr. Carter's eyes showed anger and murderous intent, and he waved his hand: "Dare to trespass on a nobleman's territory, I think you have already come to your senses, right? In the name of the Viscount of the Empire, I will condemn you! Old man, kill him!"

"Roaring ——!"

The dreadclaw lizard let out a thunderous roar in response, its body bowed slightly, and then a kick shot out, and the aftermath of its body movement alone set off a gust of wind that blew countless petals in the manor.

However, the plain-clothed man looked at this scene very calmly, without the slightest wavering in his eyes, only a cold glow of murderous intent.

He looked at the dreadclaw armored lizard that was rushing at a speed that ordinary people could not see, but could only see a trace of the afterimage, and a glimmer of light flashed in the depths of his eyes, and a low groan sounded.

"Spirit martial arts?" ”

Then, Dahan turned his gaze, and without hesitation, he clenched his fist and aimed at the side front and bombarded up.

Bang!!

The fist was like a hammer, and with a landslide-like aura, it slammed into the head of the dreadclaw armor lizard that happened to bully in front of his fist.

"Roar............?!"

Blood echoed over the manor with the screams of the dreadclaw armor lizards.

The big man didn't dodge or dodge the claw that burst out of the fierce lizard that had a small part of his head shriveled, and let the other party tear the spirit armor of his right arm with one claw, almost tearing his right arm off directly, but his face was only distorted and returned to his original state in an instant.

The extremely humane dreadclaw armor lizard couldn't help but froze when it saw it.

Then the big man took advantage of this gap to poke out his left hand, and quickly pinched the neck of the dreadclaw armor lizard, and a series of spirit patterns appeared on the skin of his arm, and the muscles began to roll like waves, just by looking, he could know that a terrifying power was rapidly brewing in it.

"'Restriction lifted'!'Super muscle explosion'!!"

There was another crisp sound of snapping bones, and the dreadclaw armor lizard, which had not yet reacted from the amazing performance of the human in front of him, was actually directly twisted by the big man with one hand, and its proud scale armor with defensive power comparable to stainless steel was also directly scratched by the human flesh like a fragile piece of glass!

Although in order to obtain this huge power, the big man obviously paid the price, his left hand also made a crisp sound, the sound of bone cracking continued, and even every inch of skin cracked at the same time, and a large amount of blood mist mixed with the light dust of the spirit son floated out.

The big man's eyes glared directly at the carcass of the dreadclaw armor lizard and looked at the Carter family, as if the flames that were about to burn people's hearts burned in the depths of his gaze.

"I'm short on time, let's finish it early...... Now, it's time to settle the score, Wes Carter, you...... Are you ready for my revenge?"