A strange world

Chapter 440 Chapter 97. The first pot of gold

After completing his goal, Annan can go back at any time, but he still wants to stay for a while and be a gold digger.

Ilimoyas's dragon lair lacks a decent sapphire, and by the way, she can consolidate her uncrowned title of rat-hunting champion.

On a new day, Annan returned to the floating platform. His urging caused Earl Ulmit to change his plan and choose the first location in the most prosperous city-state in the west of the kingdom, the city of Solrengao.

"Man, there are rats and gold diggers everywhere right now..."

"Don't worry, they are the ones to worry about."

In order to reassure Count Ulmit, Annan displayed two talismans: one belonging to Mr. Svarro and the other to Dean Blehim.

The advantage of mages is that as long as they want to leave, it is difficult to be left.

Annan was the main force in the operation. He opened the portal and let the Hundred Musketeers led by Fermi arrive... That's all that's left.

After the initial evacuation from the northern border, many soldiers integrated into the local area like the residents. Only 300 elite soldiers followed to Typhoon Shelter Town, and today, three months later, there are only more than 100 left. But each soldier is a centurion who has killed hundreds of ratmen.

"A group of ordinary people?" the Earl was suspicious.

"You can think of them as mages who continuously release arcane missiles."

Looking at these musketeers wearing plate armor covered with claw marks and graffiti and holding special weapons, Count Ulmit was unconvinced.

These soldiers were not enough for them to penetrate deep into the old violet land, so there were a hundred large earth elementals and ten water elementals, wind elementals, and fire elementals to follow.

The water element serves as logistics to provide a safe water source; the air element serves as a scout in the air; the fire element is used to make fires and maintain the temperature - the Violet Kingdom borders the north, which is still very cold at this time.

The elemental army originally conceived by Annan has taken shape.

Count Ulmit only had the chief mage Farias and a team of professionals who could barely make up the team.

Before setting off, the worried Earl whispered something to Farias, and then Farias found Annan and asked him something about Gem City.

Although mages and warlocks dislike each other, Annan usually gets along well with mages. After talking for a while, Farias asked Annan about yesterday's story.

"I made it up." Annan chuckled calmly: "Otherwise my stubborn brother wouldn't agree."

"The Count has underestimated your strength." Farias said, "He asked me to tell you that you can get three shares of the inheritance."

After getting off the New Initial, Farias told the Earl, who was worried about Annan's strength: "He agreed. You can rest assured that Annan has a character that many people do not have."

Near morning, they boarded the New Initial and landed on the shore.

Annan opened the portal and sent the horses and carriages to the old land. Before setting off, he excitedly shouted: "This is our expeditionary force!"

It was just that Earl Ulmit, who had little information, failed to understand what Annan meant.

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Sorrengao Castle.

This is a city built on the highlands of a vast hilly terrain.

When the rat plague came, the city relied on its terrain to hold on for a long time, but just as no matter how hard the rock was, it could not stop the tsunami, and the high city of Sollon eventually disappeared together with the kingdom.

"Isn't there a floating city in the Violet Kingdom?" Annan and Earl Ulmit sat in the carriage.

"The garden of the royal city is a floating city, but it is of no use."

"The floating city can't resist the rat people?"

"They don't need to attack, they just need to destroy everywhere in the floating city."

This sounds a wake-up call for Annan. He must be careful of the Stuun Rats infiltrating everywhere...or let the Stuun Rats become allies?

It is almost 700 miles from the coast to the high city of Solleng, and theoretically they can arrive within a week. But in the crisis-ridden old land, accidents will always happen, such as the remaining ratmen——

Annan did not let the earth elemental punch a rat man, but handed it to the musketeer who was about to get rusty. The sound of gunshots would carry far across the plains, but it didn't matter either.

When the musketeers lined up to face the two to three hundred ratmen, the magic muskets fired and the ratmen fell like wheat in pieces, Count Ulmit's eyes widened.

"What's this?!"

"Magic Musket."

"Can civilians use it too?!"

"With some training."

Count Ulmit grabbed Annan excitedly: "I want this! My brother, you must give it to me...!"

No one understood his anxiety. His men stayed in the old land all day and night, and only found more than a hundred survivors in one winter. I am afraid that the people in the old land are not enough to make up the population of a city-state. Professionals will only become more scarce...because he hasn't found one yet.

"The magic gun is my foundation..." Annan hesitated.

"We are allies!"

The clever chief mage made an offer: "50 gold coins a handful."

Annan was moved, but still shook his head: "The magic gun is not worth the money, 10 gold coins each. But don't give it to others."

"Only 50 gold coins a handful, I want 1,000 first!" Count Ulmit said firmly, "I will give it to you if I find the inheritance."

At any time, war is the best way to make money.

After all the ratmen were eliminated, the musketeers who had moved their bodies returned to the team, and they continued to set off. On the third day of departure, I encountered a second surprise - a survivor in a small town far away from the coast.

Rats are everywhere, but they always ignore some corners.

Annan's "expeditionary force" had no hope when passing by this unknown town. They came in to look for the inheritance because the place had not been visited by gold diggers. As a result, after clearing out the ratmen in the town, they were found at the mayor's house. Fresh carcasses of Skaven were discovered, and a search revealed the Jon sisters hiding in the kitchen closet.

"Who are you?" Fermi asked.

But since he looked scarier than the Rat Man, the two girls refused to answer.

Annan came to the kitchen and asked gently: "Are you relatives of the mayor?"

The older sister bravely said, "We escaped here..."

"Are there any other survivors?"

"have no idea."

Sister Jon feeds on Skaven these days. In a way, the Skaven saved them - both of them would have starved to death in the wilderness.

Annan asked Femi to make some noise in the town, but they were the last two survivors in the town.

Count Ulmit's men were searching and found more than two thousand gold coins and treasures worth several hundred gold coins. The money is temporarily contained in Annan's magic ring.

Annan asked the fire element to heat up some fish soup and bread for them. The two sisters looked at Annan timidly, and only started to eat hungrily after he said "Eat it."

Earl Ulmit, who had earned his first pot of gold, was in a good mood. He looked at the rescued Jon sisters: "My sister is too young to have children. My sister..."

Annan interrupted his next words: "I'm going to take them back to Gem City."