Chapter 808 39. All the prizes belong to me
"...I gave Annan the mouse ears, and he smuggled you out."
Jerry lowered his head and hid it. All the emotions in my heart.
Class is deeply rooted in the clan. Even the most despicable and greedy slave rat will spare no effort to save a seriously injured champion rat, even if it sacrifices itself... This is an instinct engraved in their blood.
If the gray-haired rat priest says it is hungry, it will cut off its own flesh and blood without hesitation.
"My name is Philos."
Jerry raised his head in surprise.
The name is naturally the same.
Just like no slave rat knows Jerry's name, no champion rat knows the gray fur rat's name.
Now Jerry knew the name of the gray rat priest.
The gray-haired rat priest moved his slender legs and looked at the silent hive in the distance.
"Let's go back and take away the rat mother and the craftsman."
"But the human things know the hive..."
The gray-haired rat priest under the silver moon made an exception. Explanation: "This is an opportunity to test Annan."
Jerry raised his head in confusion.
The gray-haired rat priest turned back: "If humans break in, Annan will betray you. If not...the clan will have the opportunity to corrupt Annan."
"Corrupt Annan stuff..."
...
Annan returned to the station, passed by the soldiers who puffed up their chests, and asked the centurion to call Femi.
Even during the days of hunting, the soldiers did not stop breathing.
Their physiques gradually increased, but the number of soldiers who became professionals slowed down. After the most promising soldiers became professionals in the first four months, the rest had no talent and could only rely on hard work to change their destiny. soldiers.
It would be great if the warriors also had corresponding magical hearts...
Or the price of the mountain essence would be greatly reduced...
It’s not that Annan has never coveted the privately brewed mountain essence, as long as he can By reducing the cost of a mountain essence to a few hundred gold coins, he could grit his teeth and spend a few years converting all members of the Hellfire Legion into warriors.
But Annan didn’t even know where to start developing it.
We still need to encourage the development of alchemy in Liberty City...
Femi, who was still wearing plate armor during the break, came over. Annan handed him ten pieces of mountain essence and asked Fermi to share it with him as a reward. The ten warriors who performed best during the hunt.
Hellfire has already given rewards once, and Fermi directly named ten names: "But three of them are already centurions..."
"Give it to them too, Let them decide the distribution themselves.”
Anyway, whoever gets the mountain essence will enhance the strength of the Hellfire Legion.
"One more thing, let's ask the other forces what they got. If there is anything we need, I will come and ask for it."
Annan thought that the second one is the essence of ten mountains, and the third one should also be It won't be any worse.
Femi asked the centurion to ask, but the centurion rode a white dragon around the Great Wall of the North. As soon as he came back, he was beaten and scolded by Fermi for being stupid - he should have gone to the Black Watch station and asked. Well, I actually went to ask other forces one by one.
The centurion left with the punishment of cleaning the toilet, and Femi knocked on Annan's door to report the news.
Tax relief for one year? Liberty City is not a vassal of the empire and does not need to pay taxes; fifty sets of imperial standard armor? It's of no use. Hellfire's plate armor is heavy and hard enough for non-professional soldiers to use it; the Empire sends garrison troops? It seems that this kind of reward cannot be traded; the Imperial Commendation Order...why is there such a perfunctory reward? Oh, this is the last one. But the last one is actually not the last one - the rewards of the hunting plan are not available to everyone, there are only twenty, and they are basically divided equally by the coalition forces led by Annan.
Of the thirty coalition armies, Annan recovered nineteen of them, and of the remaining nine, three were wiped out by the Rat Men, four were left alive, and only two escaped all the way back to the Great Wall of the North.
However, as members of the hunting plan, they still have a participation reward - the reward is that they will not be liquidated.
They, the adventurous, deserters, and arrogant people who were supposed to be tried, not only saved their lives, but also gained a reputation for actively fighting rats. Why are they not considered rewards?
There are not many rewards in the top twenty that Annan is interested in. Only the third to fifth place are of interest to Annan: 100 ounces of mithril for the third place, and ten seven-ring magic scrolls for the fourth place. , fifth place is a bag of gems.
Annan asked Fermi to find the third and fourth people: "Ask them if they are willing to sell things to us."
The answer is of course yes.
The rewards given by the empire were national rewards, but the money sold to Annan would go into their own pockets - they even gave the "kind-hearted" Annan some discounts.
The magic scroll is used to fill Liberty City's resistance to enemies, and Mithril Annan is given to Lilith. This magical metal is a natural medium for casting spells, just what the Mage Tower needs.
The Great Wall of the North experienced a period of peace for a few days. The empire seems to have forgotten that there is a rat nest in the mountains to the north. After the continuous gloomy weather, the first ray of sunshine pierced the dark clouds. Greenery emerges from the devastated earth and is covered with new clothes...
...
"Great victory in the north! Tens of millions of ratmen were killed in the hunting operation, and Liberty City won the first prize!" The part-time newspaper boy at the orphanage ran through the streets waving a magic newspaper.
The customer who bought the "Voice of Freedom" held the newspaper, and Evelin's voice came out of it: "...The Hellfire Legion, the Fourth Legion and the Empire's Black Watch Legion jointly defeated the McKeon Clan The vanguard was annihilated north of the Great Wall. "
My family knew about their own affairs, so "Voice of Freedom" did not mention the hunting rankings and Mouse Ears at all, but only said that Liberty City and the Empire worked together to repel the Skaven.
The Empire did not mention it, but it mentioned in the content that the coalition forces led by Black Watch and Annan defended the enemy outside the Great Wall, and the grand occasion when more than 10 million rat ears were transported to the Montreal Mountains.
And soon Olmedo also knew about some deeper inside stories.
“Should we also form our own ‘Skeleton Edge’?”
“Is it necessary?” Annan asked.
"The Skeleton Edge is far...bigger than you think." Olmedo used "huge" to describe them. "Eavesdropping, assassination, and instigating rebellion... these are all their jobs. They are responsible for the stability around the empire... and so are the nobles who were hanged."
"We don't need it."
Annan thought about it seriously, shook his head and said: "We don't have the foundation of the empire. It takes far more effort to cultivate a qualified secret organization than imagined... You should know better than me. And do you still remember, we want to become the leader of Middle-earth?" Wilhelm'."
"What do you mean?"
Annan said with deep meaning: "There should be no dark corners in Wilhelm."
The Empire needs people to be afraid of it, the Free Cities don't.
Olmedo asked others: "When are you going to come back?"
"Is there something going on at home?"
"No, but have you ever heard of any city lord running around outside all day?"
"I know."
"Which one ?”
“The Lord of Liberty City”
(End of this chapter)