Chapter 554 211. Zorn Tut Grand Canyon Side Town
The Freedom Expeditionary Force is like a snail.
As lord and leader, Annan moved forward, dragging the heavy shell.
The first to join them was Orin's lieutenant, Mira Dia. This elite knight with a broad back and a strong body is actually a woman and has been a retainer of the Montreal family for generations.
Someone has to recruit the next professionals to join the Freedom Expedition for Annan, and Mira Dia, who represents the Montreal Gold Family, is the best candidate. Moreover, Annan guessed that Olin's decision might have involved the palace garden.
The United Expeditionary Force, which was pulled in different directions by several horses, was completely defeated, but the volute led by Annan had no second thoughts.
As for whether the empire wants to release goodwill or use the Freedom Expeditionary Force to wash away its shame, Annan doesn't know.
He only knew that as soon as he entered the northern province, he encountered a group of bandits outside a village.
The town behind is indifferent, or the village is just a den of bandits... They usually farm, and when outsiders appear, they work part-time as bandits.
This is a common thing at the border, but they found the wrong target.
Annan was too lazy to "release magic to summon the blue dragon to scare the bandits into fleeing", so he directly summoned Mira Dia and let her solve the country's affairs on her own.
Annan watched Mira Dia walk up to the bandits holding the knight's sword, and killed the leader and the minions next to him with a few swords. The remaining bandits fled back to the village in embarrassment.
As a result, Mira Dia followed him in. A few minutes later, she came out with the bleeding knight's sword: "They can't stop you."
Annan and the dean approached the village and found that there were still some slaves covered in blood carrying the picked up things. The Nongcha and the Iron Sword looked like they had just experienced a battle.
“They are civilians captured by bandits.” Mira Dia said.
"The people of the empire are indeed rough."
Whether it is bandits, slaves, or Mira Dia.
The freed slaves began to plunder property, and neither the dean nor Mira Dia looked down upon them. Annan, who fell in love with her, had no intention of robbing these poor people.
But the piles of belongings still amazed Annan.
The dean taught Annan: Don’t just look at the scene when the thieves accumulated wealth, but also think about how they were killed when they failed.
Annan said he remembered it and asked Mira Dia: "How far are we from the town at the edge of Zorn Tut Grand Canyon?"
"It's not that far."
......
Zorn Tut Grand Canyon side town.
This grand canyon from north to south was once heavily defended by both countries. Because there are always constant border frictions between the Tatooine Empire and the Kingdom of Dimon.
But after the demonic tide in the north got out of control. The Kingdom of Dimon withdrew all its soldiers from the southern defense line and sent them all to defend the north.
Maybe the Dimon Kingdom still hopes that the Empire will come in, so that they can leave the trouble to the Montreal Gold Family.
There are no changes on the Tatooine Empire side, mainly to prevent the rat tide from suddenly rushing out of the canyon.
As soon as Annan arrived at the heavily guarded border town, he was warmly entertained by everyone from the mayor to the border guards to the mercenaries - no matter who it was, it was a good thing to take the initiative to cause trouble for the rat people at this time.
If Annan could still refuse the mayor's dinner on the grounds that "it's not the time to celebrate yet", those soldiers who ran away from the border guard and wanted to join the expeditionary force would make it difficult for Annan to decide.
Mira Dia suggested that Annan accept these soldiers and the empire would not punish them.
“Why?”
The empire is not really barbarian, this empire is still controlled by order.
Mila Dia whispered to Annan the secret: "The empire wants to make up for it." "To make up for it?"
"The branch of the family has done something wrong. Now you have to save the people of the branch. There is no way that Mount Montreal can just stand by..."
No wonder the Tatoon Empire, which had been lukewarm when Liberty City was founded, suddenly became enthusiastic. stand up.
Of course, there must be the efforts of the ancestors and Ou Lin.
Annan does not need to actually travel through this deep canyon that is dozens of miles long. As long as Dean Blehim's anchor falcon reaches the other side of the canyon, he can teleport there.
After Mira Dia gathered about 300 soldiers and more than 20 mercenaries in the border town, Annan followed the dean there first, and then opened the portal.
Annan observed the border of this unfamiliar kingdom. There was a serious lack of city defense here. An important border town was guarded by only a few soldiers and dozens of militiamen.
They didn’t know Annan’s true purpose. They only thought that the Freedom Expeditionary Force, like the previous Joint Expeditionary Force, was going to hunt ratmen.
Jumping along the western border between the Kingdom of Dimon and the Old Violet Land, Annan also traded magic stones with the locals wherever he went.
While traveling quickly, trading, and conscripting troops, the expeditionary force expanded to 5,000 people and encountered the first wave of ratmen since its departure: the Stun ratmen.
“Let’s go over and say hello.”
Annan planned to let the expeditionary force stretch their muscles before the official rescue, and maybe the news would reach Maria.
The number of this group of Stun ratmen wandering outside the border city wall is about 20,000 to 30,000.
Annan allowed mages and rangers to attack freely, warriors and soldiers to cover the musketeers, and then asked everyone to be mentally prepared.
As they took the initiative to come out of the city wall, the Stun Ratmen began to raid.
Three teams of muskets were lined up in three rows, waiting for the small tide of rats that was like a cloud to come from far to near.
The mages and rangers were the first to unleash their firepower, but the number of fifty or so people made their impact like throwing a boulder into a river.
The pervasive dark clouds were getting closer and closer. When approaching the range of the magic gun, Fermi roared: "Fire!"
......
Three minutes later, the young man was numb all over. The man came down from the second floor holding his waist.
"Is this the succubus..."
He was even proud of himself for taking off his clothes for one minute, doing business for one minute, and coming out for one minute - just like the mage apprentice who survived the attack of the legendary warrior.
When he came out of the tavern, the warm sea breeze blew in his face, and the young man felt that he should pursue something more important.
He continued his unfinished exploration and saw the City Lord's Mansion, which was far worse than in the south, and the crystal lair, which was pretty good. When he saw the skeleton ratman in the wheat field, the young man couldn't help but reveal his expression. A hint of disgust.
Ratmen and undead, a double hatred.
He couldn't help but ask a resident, who replied that he didn't think the skeleton farmer was a mistake and that people had to be liberated from these basic tasks.
"Why liberate? Who did they liberate to be farmers?"
The young man asked in confusion. Thinking that if it were him, just...just...he suddenly realized that this wasn't a bad idea. The nobles of the southern countries only need farmers, and it doesn't matter who becomes the farmer.
Skeletons are tireless, don’t collect taxes, won’t make trouble, and can fight with ratmen, vampires, and other lords at critical moments.
The young man found that he had finally found an opportunity to cooperate with Liberty City. As for magic images and magic newspapers... they are just boring trades.
“I want to meet your city lord.”
(End of this chapter)