A strange world

Chapter 441 Chapter 98. Nuggets

Of course, the count would not snatch two children from Annan. "Leave it to you." He said nonchalantly and let his men continue to search the town.

He still owes Annan fifty thousand gold coins.

"I will send you to my territory later, where it is safe and there are many children." Annan continued to talk to Sister Jon.

"We don't want to leave!" Little Jon, who was sitting in front of him, grabbed the bread crumbs and gestured: "Sister is very good at fighting!"

Greatjon made a swinging motion in response.

Annan believed what they said. They had all seen the rat corpses in the kitchen, and even adults might not be able to do that.

"Can I touch it?" At this time, Little Jon's attention was attracted by Lily and the silly cat who came together, and his dirty hands reached out to the silly cat.

The silly cat ran away, and Little Jon reached out to Lily again, but Big Jon held him back: "We are too dirty."

Lily took the initiative to rub under the dirty hands, making Little Jon chuckle.

Annan didn't ask their parents, that wouldn't be pleasant news. After the Jon sisters had eaten, Annan used the portal to send them back to the Gem City, and by the way, he temporarily armed the Earl's men with fifty muskets.

The count also wanted fifty pieces of plate armor.

"Plate armor is too heavy."

Annan said that his malnourished men floating at sea could not support dozens of pounds of plate armor, so he only gave ten pieces of plate armor to each of the ten warriors.

They set off on their way, becoming increasingly adept at "accepting the legacy" using the ruins along the way. They are dead but the legacy will help those who are still alive.

As they got closer and closer to the high city of Sollen, the team moved slower and slower.

Ratmen began to appear frequently, and they encountered several small rat tides consisting of thousands of ratmen. The elements began to intervene in the battle two days ago.

But no more survivors were encountered... Sister Jon was the only one they found still alive.

They had a few more towns along the way, but the journey had taken several days longer, and Count Ulmit had no idea of ​​the heritage of those places.

They camped by the river, which was only one day away from Sorrengao City, and prepared to rest and rush to Solrengao City in one go.

Annan and Earl Ulmit were sitting in the tent, and the Earl was holding a wine glass - they found several bottles of wine in the cellar of a winery - of course the rat people knew how to drink, and these wines should have been hidden by workers who stole the wine. stand up.

Annan continued to talk about his efforts for the floating city: "I thought the most expensive thing was the construction of the second arcane energy core and the gem city, but I didn't expect it to be orichalcum..."

The orichalcum required to levitate an arcane energy core in the floating city is enough to buy another arcane energy core... There is still no discount from the purchasing department.

No one told him this at all!

Annan couldn't ask, because they would definitely say: "You don't even know this?"

This can't be blamed on Annan. People in this world know nothing about common sense knowledge. For example, succubi and vampires are extremely dangerous... but this is also the reason why Annan has never been prejudiced.

A small cup of kindness, a small cup of ignorance, and a small cup of charm——

"Oh, that's too much——"

The count exclaimed and put back the wine bottle, but the red wine in the wine glass was so full that it was about to overflow.

"It seems like this is a sign from the gods that I need to drink more today..."

At night, the drunken earl left the tent, and soon the sound of singing came from his tent, which gradually disappeared late at night.

Early the next morning, everyone woke up after a whole night's rest and embarked on the final stretch of the road.

And the rat men follow them everywhere.

Annan dispatched another fifty water elements to clean up the ratmen in front of them according to the speed of the team's march. The high city built on the hills appeared in front of them.

Also emerging are the Rat Men scattered across the vast plains and hilly areas.

"Too much……"

The chief earl frowned. There are at least hundreds of thousands of Ratmen scattered at night... there will only be more in Gaocheng. They broke in only to be swallowed up by a tidal wave of rats.

"My Lord Earl, it's still too late for us to go back now."

Count Ulmit asked Annan for help: "Is there anything you can do?"

"I can summon two epic mages to help, but at least I have to give them a share."

"One share is tens of thousands of gold coins..."

Even the legend couldn't refuse this money.

"But we can't contact the legend, and we can't trust the legend." Annan gave him the choice, "and the two epics are our own."

The Earl still didn't want to part with his Kinnar: "Wait a moment...let me think about it..."

Looking back at this time, we should be able to collect 20,000 to 30,000 gold coins from the towns on the road...but dozens of times the inheritance is in the city less than 30 miles ahead.

"If the destruction of the high city of Sauerlun was led by the rat man elders, the legacy would be less than we imagined." The chief mage said at this time.

They made a temporary camp on the back of a low hill, leaving Count Ulmit to think.

As a result, a turning point occurred after Annan asked the wind element to investigate: the wind element found a camp with human traces next to a lake.

There won't be survivors, the survivors will just flee here. The continued reconnaissance of the wind element allowed them to determine the identity of the camp: it belonged to the gold diggers.

They also set their sights on the high city of Solleng.

It was roughly estimated that there were hundreds of people in the Diggers' camp, much more than Annan had imagined.

“The gold diggers actually cooperate with each other?”

The Chief Mage answered Annan: "They are just another kind of mercenary. Of course they will cooperate and betray."

"Do they have a way to deal with the Ratmen in the city?"

"Your Majesty the King of the North, I'm afraid so." The Chief Mage said, "No one knows the rat people like gold diggers. The fact that they gathered here shows that they have a solution."

"Where's the scavenger?"

"Including the scavengers."

Scavengers are just Skaven who clean up towns, but Gold Diggers have been rummaging through Skaven-infested old lands for treasure.

"We can try to make contact." Annan said.

"The Nuggets won't welcome us."

“It’ll be fine if we’re also gold diggers.”

Olmedo is not here, otherwise with her character of joining various organizations, she should be able to easily get along with the Nuggets.

At this time, the rat men scattered in the plains and hills in the distance suddenly showed strange movements. As if they were attracted by something, they turned into a moving gray line and gathered towards the north. Even the ratmen in Sollengao City came out.

Annan asked all the elements to withdraw and observe the changes behind the low hill.

Not long after, the wind element came back with Lily.

"The cat saw them packing."

Lily jumped into Annan's arms and said that the gold diggers were getting ready to set off.

The changes in the rat population seem to be related to them.

"It seems we don't have to deal with them anymore." Annan thought this was an opportunity, "Let's go into the city too."

"Now?"

Annan pointed at a soldier in the musketeers: "Do you know him?"

"We have no contact." The Chief Mage replied.

"Those gold diggers too."