Chapter 441 98. Gold Digger
Of course the Earl would not snatch two children from Annan, "Leave it to you." He said nonchalantly and let his men continue to search the town.
He still owes Annan fifty thousand gold coins.
"I will send you to my territory later, where it is safe and there are many children." Annan continued to say to Sister Jon.
“Let’s not leave!” Little Jon, who was sitting in front of him, grabbed the bread crumbs and gestured: “Sister fights very well!”
Greatjon made a swinging motion in response.
Annan believed what they said. They had all seen the rat corpses in the kitchen, and even adults might not be able to do that.
"Can I touch it?" At this time, Little Jon's attention was attracted by Lily and the silly cat who came together, and his dirty hands reached out to the silly cat.
The silly cat ran away, and Little Jon extended his dirty hands to Lily again, but Big Jon held him back: "We are too dirty."
Lily took the initiative to rub her dirty hands. He rubbed it, causing Little Jon to chuckle.
Annan didn't ask their parents, that wouldn't be pleasant news. After the Jon sisters had eaten, Annan used the portal to send them back to the Gem City, and by the way, he temporarily armed the Earl's men with fifty muskets.
The count also wants fifty pieces of plate armor.
“The plate armor is too heavy.”
Annan said that his malnourished men floating at sea could not support dozens of pounds of plate armor, so he only gave him ten pieces of plate armor. There are only ten warriors each with one piece.
They continue to set off and use the ruins along the way to gradually become adept at "accepting the legacy". They are dead but the legacy will help those who are still alive.
As they got closer and closer to the high city of Sollen, the team moved slower and slower.
The Skaven began to appear frequently, and they encountered several small rat tides consisting of thousands of Skaven. The elements began to intervene in the battle two days ago.
But no more survivors were encountered... Sister Jon was the only one they found still alive.
They had a few more towns along the way, but they had to take a few days more detour, and Count Ulmit didn't know the heritage of those places.
They camped by the river, which was only one day away from Solrengao City, preparing to rest and rush to Solrengao City in one go.
Annan and Earl Ulmit were sitting in the tent, and the Earl was holding a wine glass - they found several bottles of wine in the cellar of a winery - of course the rat people knew how to drink, and these wines should have been hidden by workers who stole the wine. stand up.
Annan continued to talk about his efforts for the floating city: "I thought the most expensive thing was the construction of the second arcane energy core and the gem city, but I didn't expect it was orichalcum..."
The orrichalcum required to levitate an arcane energy core in the floating city is enough to buy another arcane energy core... There is still no discount from the purchasing department.
No one told him this at all!
Annan couldn't ask, because they would definitely say: "You don't even know this?"
This cannot be blamed on Annan. People in this world know nothing about common sense knowledge. For example, succubi and vampires are extremely dangerous... but this is also the reason why Annan has never been prejudiced.
A small cup of kindness, a small cup of ignorance, and a small cup of charm——
“Oh, that’s too much——”
The count exclaimed and put it back The wine bottle, and the red wine in the wine glass was so full that it was about to overflow.
“It seems that this is a sign from the gods that I should drink more today…”
At night, the drunken count left his tent, and soon the sound of singing came from his tent, which gradually disappeared late at night.
Early the next morning, everyone woke up after resting all night and embarked on the final stretch of the road.
And the Rat Man follows him like a shadow.
Annan dispatched another fifty water elements to clean up the ratmen in front of them according to the speed of the team. The high city built on the hills appeared in front of them.
At the same time, there are also rat men scattered across the vast plains and hilly areas.
"Too many..."
The chief earl frowned. There are at least hundreds of thousands of Ratmen scattered at night... there will only be more in Gaocheng. They broke in only to be swallowed up by a tidal wave of rats.
“Your Excellency, it’s too late for us to go back now.” Count Ulmit asked Annan for help: “Is there anything you can do?”
“I can summon The two epic mages will help, but at least one share must be given to them.”
"One share is tens of thousands of gold coins..."
Not even Legend can refuse this money.
“But we can’t contact the legend, and we can’t trust the legend.” Annan gave him the choice, “and the two epics are our own people.”
The Earl still didn’t want to let him go. Kinnaar: "Wait a minute...let me think about it..."
Looking back at this time, we should be able to collect twenty to thirty thousand gold coins from the towns on the road...but dozens of times the inheritance is here In the city less than 30 miles ahead.
"If the destruction of the high city of Sauerlun was led by the rat man elders, the legacy would be less than we imagined." The chief mage said at this time.
They temporarily camped on the back of a low hill to let Count Ulmit think.
As a result, a turning point occurred after Annan asked the wind element to investigate: the wind element found a camp with human traces next to a lake.
There will be no survivors, the survivors will just escape from here. The continued reconnaissance of the wind element allowed them to determine the identity of the camp: it belonged to the gold diggers.
They are also eyeing the high city of Solleng.
It was roughly estimated that there were hundreds of people in the Diggers' camp, much more than Annan imagined.
"The gold diggers actually cooperate with each other?"
The chief mage answered Annan: "They are just another kind of mercenaries. Of course they will cooperate and betray."
" Do they have any way to deal with the rat people in the city? "
"Your Majesty, King of the North, I'm afraid so," the chief mage said. "No one knows the rat people. The fact that they gathered here shows that they are. There is a way.”
"What about the scavengers?"
"Including the scavengers."
The scavengers are just ratmen who clean up the town, but the gold diggers have been rummaging for treasures in the old land where the ratmen were infested.
"We can try to make contact." Annan said.
“The Nuggets won’t welcome us.”
"It'll be fine if we are also gold diggers."
Olmedo is not here, otherwise she would be able to get along with the gold diggers easily with her character of joining various organizations.
At this time, the rat men scattered in the plains and hills in the distance suddenly showed strange movements. As if they were attracted by something, they turned into a moving gray line and gathered towards the north. Even the ratmen in Sollengao City came out.
Annan asked all the elements to withdraw and observe the changes behind the low hill.
Not long after, the wind element came back with Lily.
"The cat saw them packing things."
Lily jumped into Annan's arms and said that the gold diggers were getting ready to set off.
The changes in the rat population seem to be related to them.
"It seems we don't have to deal with them anymore." Annan thought this was an opportunity, "We will also enter the city."
"Now?"
Annan pointed at a soldier in the musketeers: "Do you know him?"
"We have no contact." The chief mage answered.
"Those gold diggers, too."
(End of Chapter)