Chapter 440 97. The first pot of gold
After completing his goal, Annan can go back at any time, but he still wants to stay for a while and be a gold digger.
Elimayas's dragon lair lacks a decent sapphire, and by the way, she can consolidate her uncrowned title of rat hunting champion.
On a new day, Annan returned to the floating platform. His urging caused Earl Ulmit to change his plan and choose the first location in the most prosperous city-state in the west of the kingdom, the city of Solrengao.
"Man, there are rats and gold diggers everywhere right now..."
"Don't worry, it's them you need to worry about."
In order to reassure Count Ulmit, Annan showed two talismans: one belonging to Mr. Swaro and the other to Dean Blehim.
The advantage of mages is that as long as they want to leave, it is difficult to be left.
Annan was the main force in the operation. He opened the portal and let the hundred-man musketeers led by Fermi arrive... That's all that's left.
After the initial evacuation from the northern border, many soldiers integrated into the local area like the residents. Only 300 elites followed to the Typhoon Shelter Town, and today, three months later, there are only more than 100 left. But each soldier is a centurion who has killed hundreds of Skaven.
"A group of ordinary people?" the Earl was suspicious.
“You can think of them as mages who can continuously release arcane missiles.”
Looking at these musketeers wearing plate armor covered with claw marks and graffiti, holding special weapons , Count Ulmit was noncommittal.
These soldiers were not enough for them to penetrate deep into the old violet land, so there were a hundred large earth elementals and ten water elementals, wind elementals, and fire elementals to follow.
The water element serves as logistics to provide a safe water source; the wind element serves as a scout in the air for reconnaissance; the fire element is used to make fires and maintain the temperature - the Violet Kingdom borders the north, and it is still very cold at this time.
The elemental army originally conceived by Annan has taken shape.
Count Ulmit only has the chief mage Farias and a team of professionals who barely made up his mind.
Before departure, the worried Earl and Farias whispered something, and then Farias found Annan and asked him something about Gem City.
Although mages and warlocks dislike each other, Annan usually gets along well with mages. After talking for a while, Farias asked Annan about yesterday's story.
“I made it up.” Annan chuckled calmly: “Otherwise my stubborn brother wouldn’t agree.”
"The Count underestimated your strength." Farias said, "He asked me to tell you that you can get three shares of the inheritance."
After getting off the New Initial Ship, Farias told The Earl, who was worried about Annan's strength: "He agreed. You can rest assured that Annan has a character that many people do not have."
Towards the morning, they boarded the New Initial and landed on the shore.
Annan opened the portal and sent the horses and carriages to the old land. Before setting off, he excitedly shouted: "This is our expeditionary force!"
It was just Wu who had no information. Count Ermit failed to understand what Annan meant.
……
Solren High Castle.
This is a city built on the highlands of a vast hilly area.
When the rat plague came, the city relied on its terrain to persist for a long time, but just as no matter how hard the rock was, it could not stop the tsunami, and the high city of Sollon eventually disappeared together with the kingdom.
"Isn't there a floating city in the Violet Kingdom?" Annan and Count Ulmit were sitting in the carriage.
"The garden of the royal city is a floating city, but it is of no use."
"The floating city can't resist the rat people?"
"They don't need to attack, they just destroy everywhere in the floating city. That’s it.”
This is a wake-up call for Annan. He must be careful about the Stuun Rats infiltrating everywhere...or let the Stuun Rats become allies?
It is almost 700 miles from the coastline to the high city of Solleng. Theoretically, they can arrive within a week. But accidents will always happen in the crisis-ridden old land, such as the remaining ratmen. Annan did not let the earth element punch each ratman, but handed it over to the musketeers who were about to rust. The sound of gunshots would carry far across the plains, but it didn't matter either.
When the musketeers lined up to face the two to three hundred ratmen, the magic muskets fired and the ratmen fell like pieces of wheat, Count Ulmit's eyes widened.
“What is this?!”
“Magic gun.”
“Can civilians use it too?!”
"As long as there is some training."
Earl Ulmit grabbed Annan excitedly: "I want this! My brother, you must give it to me...!"
No one understands His anxiety. His men stayed in the old land all day and night, and only found more than a hundred survivors in one winter. I am afraid that the people in the old land are not enough to make up the population of a city-state. Professionals will only become more scarce...because he hasn't found one yet.
"The magic gun is my foundation..." Annan hesitated.
“We are allies!”
The clever chief mage offered a price: "50 gold coins a piece."
Annan was moved, but still shook his head: "The magic gun is not worth the money, 10 gold coins a piece. But don't give it to anyone else. "
"Just 50 gold coins, I want 1,000 first!" Count Ulmit said firmly, "I will give it to you if I find the inheritance."
No matter when, the war will happen. It is the best way to make money.
After all the ratmen were eliminated, the musketeers who had moved their bodies returned to the team, and they continued to set off. On the third day of departure, I encountered a second surprise - a survivor in a small town far away from the coast.
Rats are everywhere, but they always ignore some corners.
Annan's "Expeditionary Force" had no hope when passing by this unknown town. They came in to look for the inheritance because the place had not been visited by gold diggers. As a result, they cleared out the ratmen in the town. Later, fresh corpses of ratmen were found in the mayor's house. After searching, they found the Jon sisters hiding in the kitchen closet.
"Who are you?" Fermi asked.
But because he looked scarier than the Rat Man, the two girls refused to answer.
Annan came to the kitchen and asked gently: "Are you relatives of the mayor?"
The older sister bravely said: "We escaped in..."
"Are there any other survivors?"
"I don't know."
Sister Jon feeds on Skaven these days. In a way, the Skaven saved them - both of them would have starved to death in the wilderness.
Annan asked Femi to make some noise in the town, but they were the last two survivors in the town.
Earl Ulmit's men were searching and found more than two thousand gold coins and treasures worth several hundred gold coins. The money is temporarily contained in Annan's magic ring.
Annan asked the fire element to heat up some fish soup and bread for them. The two sisters looked at Annan timidly, and only started to eat hungrily after he said "Eat it".
Earl Ulmit, who had earned his first pot of gold, was in a good mood and looked at the rescued Jon sisters: "My sister is too young to have children. My sister..."
Annan Interrupting his next words: "I'm going to take them back to Gem City."
(End of this chapter)