In Munich in the rain, the streets are empty and deserted.
After saying goodbye to Elder Xiangli, Roy climbed up on Huobao's back and gave a soft drink.
The undead unicorn shot out like an arrow.
The flying raindrops rushed toward him, and flew to both sides under the impact of Roy's powerful energy. They were immediately thrown behind him with the rapid sound of horse hooves.
The living treasure was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, Roy had already descended the ramp of Huhoupo Street, turned at the intersection of Qiangzhe Street, and sped away in the direction of the Golden Skull Auction House.
While speeding, Roy thought about the current situation.
Although he had foreseen this chaotic situation before returning to Redemption Continent. However, he still did not expect that the situation was far more serious than he imagined.
Lulian is located in the southernmost part of the Redemption Continent, more than 5,000 kilometers away from the Pompeii Empire's Mostok province occupied by the demons.
Even the distance from the northern border of the Solan Empire is more than three thousand kilometers.
This is still a straight line distance. If calculated based on a winding road, this distance would be even longer.
However, in just two months, the impact of the war has crossed this long journey and penetrated into every corner of Munich.
Prices are soaring and people are panicking.
The only wish of the people at the bottom every day is to have a full meal.
The brown bread in the food store was sold out as soon as it came out of the oven. Even the fallen bread crumbs were scrambled by sallow children to stuff them into their mouths.
The high-end pastries that could be seen everywhere in the past have disappeared, and one or two plates of meat and eggs can only be seen on the dining tables of rich people such as nobles or manor owners.
Even the mercenaries who have never worried about their livelihood feel like they are celebrating a festival now that they can hunt a small beast in the mountains and forests.
In the past, when performing missions, they hunted monsters such as three-eyed bears, striped lynxes, etc., because their meat was rough and sour, making it difficult to eat. Therefore, they took things like magic cores and skin and bones to make them.
Throw it away.
Now, even the most unpalatable meat is devoured. The remaining meat is carefully cut and smoked with pine and cypress so that it can be stored for a longer period of time.
The originally fragile ecological balance was broken with the invasion of demons.
Everything is like dominoes, falling at a speed that is too late to react.
A large number of refugees are spreading from the province of Mostock to all directions. It is said that civilians from the Pompeii Empire are already trying to cross the Solan border and seek refuge in the south.
The shortage of food and the emergence of refugees have also caused a sharp deterioration of the security situation.
Groups of bandits left their original settlements and appeared around the city at the risk of being wiped out. Like hungry wolves, they closely watched every convoy entering and leaving the city.
As long as they find a little bit of oil and water, they will swarm it and tear it into pieces.
In addition to these gangsters who originally made a living by robbing homes and houses, many refugees also joined the ranks of looting because of hunger.
Compared with organized bandits, they are more destructive.
They almost never choose their prey. Even if the opponent only has a piece of bread, they will rush forward with a knife. Even internally, bloody conflicts will break out due to competition for food.
The original social order is rapidly collapsing.
And the law, which is the cornerstone of order, has become a piece of paper. The nobles and their troops who maintain order are busy with themselves at the moment.
They cling to their castles and territories, and carefully guard the crops in the farmland. Not only do they have to be wary of passing refugees, they have to expel the eager bandits, and they also have to always be wary of neighboring nobles.
Chaos is intensifying into unrest.
What's more serious is that the upper-class nobles, represented by the Bano family, have used their selfishness and arrogance to set an extremely bad example for this already chaotic world.
They hoarded food and various emergency supplies, raised prices, called for the wind and rain, and took advantage of the chaos to make a fortune from the war. In order to force the dwarves and other races to submit, they even openly launched attacks in an orderly city under the jurisdiction of the lord, killing people and setting fires, using all kinds of means.
Don't go to extremes.
After talking with the dwarf chief and the elf elder, Roy deeply felt that these two races, which fought side by side with humans three hundred years ago, were extremely wary of humans now.
If this bunch of stupid nobles were allowed to continue like this, the scattered human coalition would have collapsed without the demons coming to the city.
"Maybe," Roy thought worriedly, "I should talk to Adolf Dagong. Lulian is his territory. If he still sits idly by with the mentality of not offending those nobles, the situation in the future will be corrupted and all races will be separated.
, I want to clean it up again, but it’s extremely difficult!”
Thinking of this, Roy then thought of the North and Bandez.
Roy had no idea about the situation in Bandez at this moment. He also didn't think that with one or two hundred knights in the bandit military area and more than a hundred elf hunters, he could fight against an army of tens of thousands.
What decisive role does it play in it?
Compared with the familiar Lulian, the current bandit army in the north is a helpless and lonely army.
Especially after they were declared a heretic, their situation would be even more difficult if someone followed the clues and linked the clues to the bandits.
What's more, Malya'er is still an out-and-out dark elf.
Roy became frightened when he thought of this.
This secret has always been a hidden worry in Roy's heart. It is also his most fatal weakness.
Before, he had carefully protected Ma Ya'er. Even the closest people, no one knew Ma Ya'er's true identity.
However, now that he is not with Ma Ya'er, if Ma Ya'er's identity is exposed, the consequences will be disastrous.
Roy didn't know what choices Kalenich, Percy, Miki and others would make after knowing Mal's true identity, but he knew that the Holy See would definitely pounce on him like a shark that smelled blood.
That is definitely not a disaster that little Bandez can bear!
Thinking of this, Roy felt that his current strength was still too small.
Only when you grow big enough that anyone who wants to pounce on them will first consider whether they will lose their teeth, can you have enough strength to protect the people you want to protect. Only then can you do what you want to do.
without being threatened or restricted by anyone.
But before that, I need time and a strong enough ally!
Now that the demons are heading south, I don't have much time.
To protect Bandez, to make a difference in this war, even if he just has a small say in the future imperial coalition to resist the demons, he needs the support of a top noble in the empire.
The best choice for this person is obviously Archduke Adolf.
Lulian's geographical location and rich land destined this principality to be the natural rear area in the war against the demons. The major nobles sent people to Lulian one after another, which proved this.
For Roy, the most important thing is the trust and friendship he has established with the people here in previous battles.
After returning to Munich this time, Roy discovered that even if he was declared a heretic, no one in this city really viewed him that way.
Whether it was discussions in the streets, announcements in churches, or from the mouths of foreigners like Tie Laoer and Xiangli. What he heard were people's almost stubborn defense of themselves and their doubts about the Holy See.
As for people who are closely related to him, such as Bandit Jun and Maler, they were able to avoid the investigation of the Holy See and leave Lulian safely under the eyes of the Kingdom of Heaven and go to Bandez. Naturally, they cannot do without the protection of Sophia and Archduke Adolf. This has already happened
It's enough to explain everything.
Roy was not afraid of his identity being exposed in front of Archduke Adolf.
He knew that Adolf would not surrender himself to the Holy See no matter what. This was the bottom line that this trustworthy old man would adhere to at all costs.
The only thing he was not sure about was how much trust and support Archduke Adolf could give him under the current circumstances. After all, after becoming the thunder bearer of the dwarves and the son of the Holy Spirit of the elves, everything he had to do was equivalent to destruction.
The plan of those nobles.
Once the problem of these two races is solved by oneself, then the plans of the Bano family and other wealthy families who have joined forces with them can only go completely bankrupt.
For Archduke Adolf who is involved in this, this will be a difficult choice.
If he supports himself, he will face the enemy of these powerful wealthy families!
I was thinking as I walked. Before I knew it, Roy had passed the Avenue of the Strong.
At this moment, suddenly, a sharp sword light flew from the roof of a small blue building on the street and hit his neck.
This sword was fast and sinister. Roy was thinking about something and didn't notice it for a moment.
His reaction was quick. When the attacker's sword edge was less than two meters away, he flipped his wrist, and the sword of judgment drew a black sword light, and stabbed out with his backhand.
Dang! A crisp crash sounded, and sparks flew everywhere!
Roy felt a huge force coming, and his body couldn't help but tilted on the horse.
The attacker flew backwards, his body somersaulted in the air, and landed on the roof. He stumbled back a few steps, unable to control the force under his feet, and crushed several tiles.
In this fight, although there was no winner between the two sides, the opponent suddenly made a sneak attack and struck from the air. Although he was in the right place at the right time, he was knocked back by Roy's sword. He obviously lost.
Roy looked intently.
He saw that the person who attacked him was a man wearing tight-fitting black leather armor. After being repelled by his sword, he was looking at him with surprised and ferocious eyes.
Under his feet, eight battle rings were rotating at high speed.
And on his breastplate was the red-winged eagle emblem of the Bano family.
"Bano Family!" Roy grabbed the living treasure and looked coldly at the Glory Knight who sneaked up on him, while quickly opening the Eyes of the Undead.
Through the eyes of the undead, he discovered that there were clusters of condensed blood elements on the nearby streets, speeding toward him at high speed.
In the small building on the street, some residents seemed to have been awakened and were leaning on the windows to carefully investigate.
"No wonder the Black Demon Snake died in your hands." The glory knight half-squinted his eyes, a dangerous light flashed in his slender pupils. "It seems that you are not just a just knight. Ordinary justice." Knight, there is absolutely no way he could take the sword I just struck!"... (To be continued...)