Next, Stella continued to sit in Nalant's camp for a while, asking Nalant about the process of discovering the clues and the situation in the city at the moment, and then left the camp.
Looking at the beautiful figure of Stella leaving, and then looking at the silver pot in his hand, Nalant smashed it, and then stayed in the camp.
"This side mission has been completed, but the next lottery will take several days. I will practice hard now and see if I can break through two realms in a row!"
As the saying goes, good steel is used on the blade. Through Nalant's hard work during this period of time, plus the help of intermediate monster meat, strengthening fruits, and flame crystals, he is now on the verge of a breakthrough.
Therefore, his plan is to first break through to the Bronze Peak Knight on his own, and then take the ‘Enhancement Fruit’ rewarded by the system to break through the Silver Knight level.
After all, compared to the small realm within Bronze, it is more difficult to break through from the Bronze Knight to the large realm of Silver.
And if he can achieve a rapid breakthrough with the fruits of system rewards, it will definitely be a bloody profit.
Of course, the imagination is wonderful, but Narant is still not 100% sure about the reality.
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Time passed by in the evening. At this time, the Agate Principality army finally received the notice to enter the city, because the monsters in the city had been cleared.
According to the news coming from the city, the more than a hundred monsters must have been starved for many days by the Northern Principality, and then fed some kind of magic plant and fell into a coma.
And when they were awakened by the movement of the rangers, they immediately began to hunt for food.
The king and the earls only waited on the city wall for more than an hour, and two-thirds of the monsters in the city died due to internal fighting.
Immediately, the king and several counts sent extraordinary knights to encircle and suppress them.
In the end, these remaining monsters were completely wiped out at the cost of a few minor injuries.
This time does not seem to be long, in fact, I have finished everything before lunch.
The reason why it was delayed until evening to allow everyone to enter the city was because the king and the earls were worried that besides these monsters, there would be other ambush.
Therefore, for the sake of safety, the king and the earls once again sent a large number of rangers to conduct a city-wide investigation in the afternoon.
In the end, even the count's castle above was also inspected, and only after it was confirmed to be completely safe did the army enter the city.
Along with the news of the investigation, there were also two news that the minor nobles were more concerned about.
The first one is how the real guards in Maple Leaf City escaped.
After investigation, it was found that brackets and slings had been arranged in advance behind the castle.
In fact, from the first day they started filling the river, Maple Leaf City began to slowly smuggle people and equipment out of the city.
And because there is a big river at the foot of the mountain behind, and the Northern Principality only smuggled supplies and personnel in the dark, so even the rangers did not notice it.
It was not until last night that the Northern Principality finally smuggled away the last remaining guards and small trebuchets, and then set up a trap.
As for the fake guards on the city wall, they are all serfs from various doomed places in the Northern Principality.
They were forced to stand on the city wall as props to deceive the Agate Principality army and induce the Agate Principality army to attack the city.
After hearing the first news above, the reaction of the little nobles was not too violent. After all, people just ran away, and they had nothing to do.
But when they heard the second news, it was obviously bad news for the little nobles.
That means that all the money, goods and other valuable things in Maple Leaf City are no longer there and have been emptied out long ago.
This is actually not too surprising. The Northern Principality has evacuated even the entire city of civilians and serfs. How could there be anything valuable left behind?
It is said that not only Maple Leaf City, but also the Earl's Castle on the top of the mountain above Maple Leaf City has been evacuated, leaving not even a single copper for the Agate Principality.
In an instant, the original expectations of the small nobles suffered a devastating blow.
It has to be said that the Northern Principality’s strategy this year is the most brilliant.
From the initial ambush in the valley to the present ambush in the empty city, the Agate Principality army was included in the plan.
Although the Onyx Principality has captured Maple Leaf City without any blood at this moment, the military morale of the Onyx Principality has dropped to the lowest level during the Autumn Campaign in recent years.
Faced with such a problem, the king and a group of earls had already held emergency discussions in Earl Brock's castle.
"What are your thoughts on the series of unreasonable traps in the Northern Principality this year?"
Although the castle has been evacuated, fortunately, some wooden furniture and the like are no match for gold coins and food, and the area of more than ten meters long limits the possibility of it being taken away.
So the king and the earls were sitting at the long table in the castle's conference hall.
The king sat at the head of the exquisite long table and looked at the earls sitting on both sides.
"Your Majesty, I can easily understand the ambush in the valley a few days ago. After all, it can be said to be an unexpected ambush. Regardless of whether it is successful or not, the loss to the Northern Principality is not particularly big!"
"But this time, the Northern Principality directly abandoned Maple Leaf City, which I can't understand." Bernard was the first to speak.
"Count Bernard is right, why did they abandon Maple Leaf City? Don't they know that it will be very difficult to take Maple Leaf City back after it is occupied by us?" A count immediately echoed Bernard's thoughts.
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In fact, this question is not only puzzled by Bernard and the earl, but also everyone else can't figure it out.
"Your Majesty, could it be that the Northern Principality knew that they definitely couldn't stand Maple Leaf City, so they chose to abandon Maple Leaf City? Otherwise, when we capture it, they will not only lose Maple Leaf City, but also all the wealth of the Earl of Brock.
It will also fall into our hands!" At this moment, Batman pondered for a moment and proposed a possibility.
"Batman, what you said makes some sense, but this means that the Northern Principality already knows in advance that we are preparing to attack Maple Leaf City with all our strength. After all, it will definitely take a lot of time to completely clear such a large city."
Bernard frowned when he heard this and said, "This is not to cause trouble for Batman. The earls still know how to measure their balance in such a major matter, especially when there are no internal conflicts of interest."
"Bernard, if we can plant spies in the Northern Principality, they can definitely also plant spies in our Agate Principality! Moreover, the preparations of those Warcraft clearly indicate that they must have anticipated our attack on Maple Leaf City in advance!"
Batman nodded and replied.
"Your Majesty, have you revealed your plans for the autumn before coming here?" Immediately, everyone looked at the king.