Suldak sighed softly, turned around and walked back to the yard.
It can be seen that the lives of the people in the remote mountainous areas of the Ganbu plane are very difficult. The lord army has to collect taxes here twice a year, which also increases the burden on the people.
The young people in the village have not left the mountains and seem to have nothing to do in the town.
There is no doubt that there should be rebels here, and the rebels here should have some close connections with Tenley Town.
The children subconsciously avoided those topics, probably because they had been subjected to similar cross-examinations and the adults at home had warned them in advance.
Surdak sat back on the chair next to the campfire. The magician Avid asked Surdak curiously: "What did you say to those children just now? Why did you become so depressed when you came back?"
Evening in the mountains always comes early, and the sky dims.
The firewood in the bonfire pile burned down to only some red charcoal fire, accompanied by sporadic crackling sounds, some charcoal exploded and splashed with some sparks.
Surdak sat down, took a drink of water from the cup, and said with some worry:
"There should be rebels here. After the lords stabilize the situation in Takarai Town, they will definitely go around to wipe out the rebels. The residents of this town will inevitably be implicated."
Avid's eyes widened, he struggled to sit up from the recliner, and asked Suldak:
"You mean this is the rebel home?"
Surdak shook his head and said: "Probably not, but there should be some rebels here."
After hearing what Surdak said, Aved exhaled, lay back on the wicker chair again, and said, "Why do you think there are so many rebels in the Ganbu plane?"
Suldak thought about what the child just said. In the Bena Province and even the entire Green Empire, the taxation of private lands is controlled by the lords. Normally, taxes are basically collected once a year, almost after the Harvest Festival.
This is also the time when territorial residents have the most money.
If there were years of famine or war, the lords would have to reduce or reduce taxes appropriately.
In the event of a larger natural disaster, many lords would have to spend their own money to help the residents of their territories tide over the difficulties.
But this is obviously not the case in the dry cloth plane.
When he owned the territory of Pudu Mountain, he had not considered these things.
Surdak only gradually came into contact with this matter after owning the large land of Invercargill Forest. After all, there are still thirty-seven aboriginal tribes in the territory. How to appease these indigenous tribes, Surdak has also known before.
Think about it carefully.
He put down the water glass in his hand and said to the magician Avid:
"It may be that the taxes set by the local lords are too high. If Lord MacDonnell dares to fight the Bena coalition in Tarapa, he will definitely need a large amount of gold coins and magic crystals. In addition to part of the savings from their treasury, the remaining part is destined to be
It must be shared among the people of the Ganbu plane."
Magician Avid was slightly startled.
As a magician noble, he does not need to pay taxes, so he is not very sensitive to these things and usually does not even think about it.
Samira jumped off the roof and whispered close to Suldak: "Our whereabouts have been exposed, and a black magician is chasing us over there."
His light red eyes looked toward the town entrance with murderous intent.
"How many people came?" Surdak asked.
Samira whispered: "Three black magicians!"
Suldak thought for a moment and said to Samira: "Maybe I just happened to search here."
Samira slightly bent her knees and jumped up to a mango tree in the courtyard. The moment she stepped on the horizontal branch, her body stretched and she easily crossed more than ten meters and stepped on the roof. In a few steps, she jumped onto the chimney and headed towards the entrance of the town.
Look.
"They stopped at the guard tower at the entrance of the town and were questioning the guards at the guard post."
Surdak rubbed his forehead. Originally he just wanted to wait for the magician Avid to recover his mana, repair the temporary teleportation circle and return to Bena City, but these black magicians always followed behind, and indeed
It's very annoying.
Thinking of the demon stuck in the door of Lord MacDonnell's manor, Suldak felt that he should give these black magicians a little more color.
"Then teach them a lesson, go and get rid of them!"
Surdak put down the water glass and said to Samira on the roof.
Gulitem quickly stood up and prepared to go out to fight together with the stick. He was worried that the beef leg would be burnt on the bonfire, so he conveniently picked up the beef leg that had been stripped to the bone.
"Gulitem, you stay to protect Aved and Thea. Samira and I are enough to deal with those black magicians."
After Suldak finished speaking, he took out the magic pattern structure from his magic belt bag and quickly put it on his body. Thea quickly ran over to help him fasten the shoulder straps.
The two-headed ogre sat down again.
Samira put on the 'Devil Snake's Fang' on her body. This set of magic pattern structure almost completely wrapped her body, and the two quickly walked out of the hotel courtyard.
The evening light in the town was a little dim, and Samira disappeared next to Suldak as she walked.
There is only one commercial street in the town. There are not many pedestrians on the street in the evening. The young people playing cards under the tree opposite the hotel have dispersed. Suldak holds the hilt of the broad sword in one hand and walks towards the village entrance step by step.
As he walked forward, his eyes became extremely firm.
The three black magicians were still standing on the sentry tower at the entrance of the village. Although the two guards put on a submissive look, they did not say a single useful word.
A magician had no choice but to take out two silver coins from his pocket and ask the question again.
"Yes, there are five of them in total. I saw them passing by here at noon. The ogre looks really vicious. He actually has two heads on his shoulders." The guard immediately said with a smile after receiving the silver coin.
They don't care who the other person is
The three black magicians' eyes lit up, and they felt that they could ask each other about the situation in more detail. They looked at each other and felt that this time they had gained quite a lot.
"Besides that ogre, who else is there?" The magician stood on the simple sentry tower and continued to ask.
"Two more women with their faces covered, a knight and a magician"
The guards felt that the two silver coins were worth providing them with some information, but that was all they knew.
Just when he wanted to say something more to make this information seem more worthwhile, his companion secretly tugged at the corner of his clothes and pointed at the figure walking towards the sentry tower on the street in the town.
The three black magicians also noticed something strange in the guards' eyes. They followed their gazes and turned to look into the town. They saw a knight with a sword hanging on his waist and a shield on his back striding towards this side.
The black magicians immediately mounted their magic harpoons and flew up into the air with a whoosh.
They received the news from above that the group of people stranded on the Ganbu plane were all second-level powerhouses. Only by riding the magic shackles could they be in an invincible position.
The three black magicians did not have the urge to take action. One of the black magicians rode a magic harpoon and flew out of the town, apparently wanting to return to Takarai Town to fetch reinforcements.
The other two black magicians are going to stay in the town to keep an eye on the knight.
However, they ignored an important factor: the opponent was a team of five people.
The black magicians thought that Suldak happened to be walking towards the town entrance. They also wanted to ride the magic harpoon to fly behind a building at the town entrance. They were not prepared to be exposed too early.
The magician who returned to Takarai Town to bring in reinforcements had just flown out of the town when he felt as if something was staring at his back. The hairs all over his body stood up and he used all his strength to activate the magic weapon to fly south.
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He poured mana into the magic pattern array with all his strength, and the magic pattern array on the magic handle completely lit up, and his speed immediately increased.
The black magician even made an evasive move while riding the magic handle, twisting into an 'S' shape in the air, but he still felt the sharp pain from his back, and a sharp arrow passed through his heart.
, the tip of the arrow emerges from the throat at an angle.
He raised his head, his Adam's apple made a gurgling sound, and a stream of blood rushed out of his throat.
Both hands could not hold the magic handle, and the magic handle lost its magic power and fell directly from the sky.
When the two black magicians saw that their companion who was about to return to Takarai Town to report was shot by an archer, they were so frightened that they hurriedly pulled up the handle of the magic weapon in an attempt to get out of the shooting range of the archer hiding in the dark.
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Unfortunately, it was too late when they realized this. Two arrows were shot from their feet at the most tricky angles, avoiding their sight. The arrows were extremely powerful and almost all flew in through the magic shackles.
In the body of a black magician.
Black magicians are like birds with broken wings, falling from the sky.
Surdak walked over slowly and searched the three black magicians carefully, not missing anything valuable.
The body was dragged to the tidal flats by the river outside the town, a large pit was dug in the sand of the river bed, and the black magician's body was directly thrown into it and buried together.
When Suldak returned to Tanli Town, many residents of the town had gathered at the entrance of the town, and everyone looked at him coldly.
No one spoke, but the coldness and resentment in their eyes could not be hidden.
Surdak stood under the guard tower of Tenley Town, spread his hands and said to everyone: "I know what you want to say to me. You think that if I kill these three black magicians, it will bring disaster to you."
"They came to arrest me. I didn't want to be captured without mercy, so I had to kill them." Suldak said while standing at the entrance of the town.
Just in the crowd, a bolder town citizen said loudly:
"Knight, please get out of here!"
Surdak knew that since these black magicians could come over, there would definitely be black magicians coming later.
Even if the townspeople don't say anything, he will leave tomorrow morning.
Now that the situation is like this, I have to leave early and have to sleep in the wild tonight.
"Okay, let's leave now"
Surdak didn't even argue, strode to the hotel, called out the two-headed ogre, Aved magician, and Siya, walked through the town in the night, and continued walking north.
After the small town residents left Surdak and his party, a group of young people took advantage of the darkness and went to the river. Relying on their familiarity with the river, they quickly removed the three black magicians from the sand on the river beach.
After digging it out, they worked in pairs and carried the three black magicians to the entrance of the village again.
Everyone hurriedly searched the three black magicians who had been dead for a long time, and then took off the last clothes and placed them on the wooden table.
The town residents who had just stood up to speak came out at this time and told everyone: "Put them here and wait for their people to come and claim them."
"knew!"
The young people in these towns were very convinced of this leader and quickly took care of everything.
The corpses of three black magicians rested under the big tree.
It was not until noon the next day that the second wave of black magicians from Takarai arrived at the town successfully. When they looked under the big tree at the entrance of the town, they happened to see three companions lying on the wooden planks.
Corpse.
The black magicians called several small town residents to inquire about the situation, and the general information they obtained was: three magicians discovered an adventuring group, and they fought last night. Unfortunately, the three magicians were defeated.
"The one who killed them was an archer," one of the black magicians said, "What should we do now?"
"Keep chasing, notify the garrison in Takarai Town to dispatch and come here to round them up," said an older black magician.
After saying that, he took the lead in riding the magic harpoon and continued flying north along this mountain road.
"Cheer up, everyone. This time we are chasing a team of second-level experts. We don't want to end up like them." The older black magician frowned and said. "Customized in town.
Three coffins, take them back with you when you return!"
"is teacher!"
A black magician stood nearby and said respectfully.
Surdak originally wanted to find a small town to live in and wait for the magician Avid to recover and return to Bena City, but he did not expect that these magicians could catch up.
Now they could only continue heading north, but the group didn't go very far. They found a woodland with few shrubs and weeds in the forest, set up a few tents in the forest, and rested for the night.
The next morning, before the three of them walked out of the forest, they saw a burst of dust flying in the direction of Tenley Town.
A group of cavalry came out of Tenley Town carrying the flag and continued to pursue northward along the mountain road.
Surdak and others hiding in the forest couldn't help but look at each other. They didn't expect the lord's cavalry to catch up so quickly. What's more important, they actually caught up to the front.
Since this mountain road cannot be walked, Suldak thought of walking up the river valley, so that at least Siya would be more comfortable.
After walking upstream for a whole day, the pebbles along the river turned into rocky beaches. The river sometimes passed through some canyons. The dense woods on both sides of the canyons were full of shrubs. Unless you use a hatchet to cut them out,
A road, otherwise it would have to be waded through.
Fortunately, with Siya here, the team could barely pass through the rapid canyon waterway even if they cut a few logs and built them into rafts to push into the water.