I’m afraid it’s hard to describe the Mukuso City in front of you just by using the word ‘rundown’.
It is more like a ruin with only four complete walls. Although some buildings are still intact, the entire city suddenly has no residents. The silence on the street makes it look like a forgotten corner.
Scattered burrowers and hellhounds can still be seen outside the city, but their army has withdrawn further north.
Chased by a group of light cavalry, the Cerberus Legion crossed the North Pass of Mukusuo. According to the regional map of the Ganbu plane, the demon army had left Mukusuo.
The demon army not only destroyed the entire north of the Ganbu plane, but also destroyed the central city of Ganbu plane, Mukusuo, although it is still in human hands.
Suldak felt that he was so tired that he could hardly stand upright. He walked out of the marching tent and stood on the steps at the door of the city hall.
A group of cavalrymen walking out of the city hall saw Surdak resting against the statue of the swordsman. They all stopped and saluted, and then left quickly, even their voices became much softer.
In fact, Surdak was quite annoyed by these etiquettes in the army. When subordinates saw their superiors, they had to salute, and Surdak also had to return the salute, otherwise he would be regarded by the soldiers as an arrogant and rude commander.
But he was too lazy to lift his heavy arms now. He just wanted to find a quiet place to rest for a while.
In the square garden across the street, a huge figure was sitting on the ground with his back to the direction of the city hall. There was a bonfire in front of him. The firewood seemed to come from the doors and windows of a certain house. There was a large piece of barbecue leaning on the bonfire. The smell...
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Well, lately there is a smell of barbecue everywhere in this city, and Surdak feels a little nauseous.
Originally, he wanted to walk over and have a casual chat with the two-headed ogre Gulitem, but now he changed his mind.
A white hand stretched out from the side, holding a red apple in its palm.
Surdak turned around and found Samira standing aside wearing the 'Devil's Fang' magic pattern structure. Her leather armor collar was slightly open, and her fair skin was exposed from the collar, which was so white that it was dazzling...
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I remember when I saw Samira in Wozhimala City, she was wearing old leather armor, her right arm was covered with bandages, her skin was an extremely healthy wheat color, and the lines of her arms had clear muscle texture.
But now she is like a white butterfly emerging from its cocoon. After two transformations, even her skin has become white and has an ivory luster.
Those light red eyes, the center pupil is even more red, and the water chestnut-like lips have a hint of rebellion.
Suldak took the apple and took a big bite. The sweet and sour juice immediately filled his taste buds.
Like a nimble leopard, Samira rushed to the square stone platform of the statue. She held her hands on the statue's thick stone legs and looked toward the northeast.
"Will they come back again?" Samira asked quietly.
She was talking about those demons from hell.
"I don't know, but we will fight until they are driven out of the dry cloth." Suldak stretched out his arms.
A hell dog jumped out of an alley not far away, and several warriors from the adventure group caught up with it. They looked a little angry, but they couldn't outrun the hell dog.
Samira stood on the stone platform, fully drew her bow, and two fine steel arrows flew out.
The hell dog obviously saw the two feathered arrows, but at the moment it saw it, it had already jumped forward, with its body in mid-air, as if it was actively hitting the arrows.
One arrow passed through the hell dog's eye socket, and another arrow passed through its abdomen, nailing it firmly to the street.
The warriors from the adventure group rushed over panting. The four of them lifted the corpse of the hell dog and pointed towards Samira.
Samira waved her hand, indicating that they could carry it away.
A soldier from the adventure group pulled out the two arrows, wiped off the sticky purple blood on them with a rag, and brought them over himself.
"Don't you really want to take a piece of that hell dog? After all, it was your arrow that killed it..." the adventure group soldier asked Samira.
Samira took the arrow and waved her hand.
"Thank you for your help..."
The soldiers of the adventure group thanked Samira before turning and leaving.
Now in this city, apart from the Bena coalition, there are only some adventure groups and mercenary groups left. They spend the whole day hunting cavemen and hell dogs in the city. The cavemen themselves are not valuable, but they are very valuable.
They are easy to hunt. You can only make a small fortune by meeting the Crypt Warriors occasionally. Only these hell dogs are worth some money. If you want to capture the hell dogs, in addition to using your brains, you also need a little bit of intelligence.
It takes skill.
Samira looked at the adventure group carrying the corpse of the hell dog and happily leaving along the deserted long street, and asked:
"Once the army leaves, what will happen to Mukusuo?"
Suldak had already eaten up the apple, threw the core under the steps, then rubbed his face vigorously with both hands, and then said:
"You don't need anything in Mukusuo City, you just need to guard the portal here! This won't be too difficult, and the news that hell dogs can be hunted in Mukusuo City has probably already spread to Bena City.
Go, it won't be long before this place will be filled with adventure groups and mercenary groups. After all, compared to other low-level monsters, hell dogs are easier to hunt."
Samira was a little stunned, and then asked:
"No wonder you want to move all the residents in the city to Ruit City. When will we set off?"
Surdak said calmly: "I'm waiting for the logistics supplies from Ruit City."
After hearing Surdak talk about supplies, there are now nearly 50,000 Bena coalition troops stationed in Mukusuo City, plus Surdak's 25,000-strong heavy armored infantry regiment and Mukusuo City's city defense.
There are currently nearly 90,000 troops stationed in this city, and the military expenditures consumed every day are astronomical.
But now the whole city was smashed to pieces, and the heads of all the hell dogs were used to feed the injured soldiers.
Samira then said:
"We don't seem to be making much profit from this war. So many people died, and all we got back was such a large piece of ruins. If we go to the Northern Expedition, you still have to convince the commanders of the lord armies in the coalition to at least let them see some benefits.
Bar……"
Surdak said: "In the north, we have a large area of unclaimed land..."
"Only the northern lands?" Samira asked.
Surdak said matter-of-factly: "Of course, except for the southeastern corner, one-third of the land in the south belongs to me, and the remaining two-thirds and half belong to the Green Empire, and the other half belongs to the Bena Province.
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Seeing Suldak's proud look, Samira said with disdain:
"The land here is not valuable... there are no minerals, no magic potions, and no magical beasts. Who would want to come here!"
Surdak said with determination: "Believe me, as long as it is land, it will become more and more valuable!"
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The dark clouds in the sky have retreated to the north, and occasionally some low-level demons can be seen in the fields outside the city, fleeing dejectedly.
The hunters are still only willing to hunt the cave dwellers hiding in the sewers in this area of the city every day. As more and more adventure groups enter Mukuso City through the portal, some groups are finally willing to go outside the city to pick them up.
Rubbish.
In the ruins of the slums outside the city, not only are some cavemen and hell dogs hidden, but occasionally a few silver coins and the like can be dug out of the ruins.
Surdak stationed two heavy armored infantry regiments in the square outside the portal.
Sure enough, as Surdak expected, the commanders of the Bena coalition armies were not opposed to the northern expedition. They even wanted to conquer the small towns in the north occupied by the hell demons in separate areas.
Perhaps it was the great battle outside Mukuso that gave them full confidence. The day after the logistics supplies shipped from the Bena province arrived in Mukuso, the Bena coalition couldn't wait to embark on the northern expedition.
The light cavalry explored the way in front, followed by the heavy cavalry regiment, and finally the heavy armored infantry regiment, the archer regiment, and the logistics department's baggage regiment.
Along the way, various noble emblems and flags fluttered in the wind...
Surdak discovered one thing during this plane war. The noble lords of the Bena Province did not actually have no troops in their hands. They just didn't want to lose the war. Every failure meant losing a lot of money.
Some declining families cannot afford to lose.
So this also caused Duke Newman to have difficulty in the Warsaw plane. After all, in the Warsaw plane, except for the Bena Army, the other lord armies had no intention of fighting. What they were thinking about was when can they leave this ghost place.
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In comparison, although the Ganbu plane is not rich, what they have to face here is the MacDonnell family, which is at the end of its rope. Although demons appear on the plane, they are also low-level demons. These demons are in the cavalry.
It can be said that he has no fighting power in front of him.
Regarding this northern expedition, Suldak was much more cautious.
At least the first legion of Lord MacDonnell's Army returned with a disastrous defeat in the north. Although Suldak didn't understand what they encountered, he still very much recognized the combat effectiveness of Lord MacDonnell's Army.
Perhaps relying on the morale gained from the battle north of Mukuso City, the coalition forces pushed almost all the way north.
On the first day of the expedition, the light cavalry built their camp at the foot of the westernmost mountain of the Gamonapia Mountains, two hundred miles away from Mukuso City. Less than twenty kilometers to the west is the town of Avaru.
The town is the nearest and largest town in the north of Mukuso, with a population of 150,000.
Originally, there was a gold sand vein along the river, but the land here belonged to the McDonnell family. The gold diggers here had to sign a lease agreement with the McDonnell family. However, after the gold sand in the Jinsha River was panned out, this place
The town gradually declined.
According to the news delivered by the mage group, the Hell Legion has completely occupied this town.
Moreover, the vanguard of the Bena coalition arrived at Ganmonapia Mountain, and the low-level demons in the small town there showed no signs of evacuating.