A strange world

Chapter 504 Chapter 161. Devil’s Contract

"Thank you Mad Dog Archduke for the gift." Annan chuckled while looking at Mad Dog Archduke, tilted his head and said to his companions: "Everyone can take it as you like."

The first one to rush out was Broken Tooth. It ran in front of the commotion soldiers and snatched away the sword of an innocent soldier.

"I never thought I would have the opportunity to plunder humans..." the old orc sighed and followed him.

Other alien races followed suit. Even the musketeers were not idle, taking away the weapons, horses and armor of knights and soldiers one after another. Under the suppression of Lord Lorraine, the soldiers dared not speak out in anger.

Also following were some minor nobles and wealthy businessmen, who looked at the Mad Dog Archduke as if they were asking for help.

"The Grand Duke..."

"Let him take it."

The property that could be searched at the scene was worth more than 10,000 gold coins at most... But what made them unbearable was the humiliation caused by the body search.

The Mad Dog Archduke's eyes flashed coldly, as if he was planning something... At this time, a figure stood in front of him.

"Give way." Martin lowered his head and said.

The Mad Dog Archduke stared at him fiercely, and Martin, not to be outdone, stared even wider than him.

The silent Mad Dog Archduke stood back. Martin picked up the velvet blanket he had stepped on before and happily raised it to show off to Annan: "Cousin, I can lay it out at the door!"

"Remember to wash it off." Annan said with a smile.

Before it was over, Martin looked at Mad Dog Archduke for a few moments and suddenly started to take off his clothes.

"you……"

Just as the Mad Dog Archduke was about to roar, he saw Annan's half-smiling gaze and the cursed crystal he was holding.

The Mad Dog Archduke began to take off his coat on his own initiative - he had never been so good-tempered.

"And there are pants!" Martin pointed at Mad Dog Archduke's pants and stretched out his legs to show them.

"You are humiliating an archduke." Mad Dog Archduke looked at Annan, suppressing the emotions that almost burned him.

"Did you hear that? Girardi, he said he was the Grand Duke."

A figure wearing a hat with his head lowered stepped out from behind Annan and took off his hat: "Gilles, your madness will end here."

The Mad Dog Archduke looked at him in surprise and sneered: "It seems that the escaped wild dog has found a hunter who is willing to take him in, but -"

He suddenly felt his legs were cold. He lowered his head and saw Martin taking off his pants.

"you--"

"Um?"

Annan threw the cursed crystal to Girardi.

Mad Dog Archduke lifted his legs in cooperation, allowing Martin to take off his pants and boots.

Annan frowned slightly, and suddenly realized that Mad Dog Archduke was not a real madman... He would still be threatened and valued his own life.

"Rotten cabbage."

Martin uttered a Northern slang with disdain and left with his blanket, clothes and boots in his arms.

The mad dog man, who was left in only his underwear, was trembling with rage...or maybe he was freezing.

"It doesn't matter." Annan comforted, "Your soldiers are just like you."

Behind the Mad Dog Archduke were a group of people wearing only cotton-padded clothes, no horses, no armor, no weapons. In order to avoid suspicion, even the gray robe mage and Lord Lorraine had a lot of things taken away.

"Hush -" Belludonna, who had been watching for a long time, whistled, "Have you considered part-time male grooming? Many demons like your type."

Annan responded cooperatively: "So this is the reason why he was favored by the Demon Lord?"

Amidst the ridicule, all the fierceness, anger and hatred of the Mad Dog Archduke, who was about to explode, suddenly disappeared.

"Do you think I don't know about your betrayal?" Mad Dog Archduke glanced at the people present with cold and dangerous eyes. "Dal Frank, Girardi, Lorraine..."

"Don't count me." Girardi said coldly: "You took away my identity and made the principality a mess-"

The Mad Dog Archduke chuckled: "Without me, do you have any chance of becoming the heir?"

"Without you, I would just be an heir waiting to die, but the principality will maintain peace."

"Continue to be a dog in the Tatooine Empire?" Mad Dog Archduke stopped talking to the "dog" and looked at the "Hunter": "Hurry up and sign the contract. I can't wait to tear you apart..."

"let's start."

Annan nodded to Belludonna.

Two lines of patterned text appeared on a piece of parchment that appeared on fire:

Annan Reeves, the Lord of Liberty City, exchanged the Cursed Crystal for Archduke Gilles Montabroux's 400,000 gold coins.

The Lords of the Free City, Annan Reeves and Gilles Montabourlock, are prohibited from attacking each other on the day the contract comes into effect.

As Annan and Mad Dog Archduke signed their names, the contract burned and disappeared, and their souls became insignificantly heavier, representing the effectiveness of the contract.

Belludona licked her lips like an occupational disease: "Annan, I will remember your help."

"You speak much better than your sister."

After completing the contract, Belludonna returned to hell to claim credit. Annan quickly caught the falling parchment and put it away before others saw it.

"Do you have anything else to say?" Mad Dog Archduke looked at the two subordinates who betrayed him.

"I will not sit back and watch as you bring the Duchy to its end."

The gray-robed mage said, but Lord Lorraine said nothing.

Annan watched Mad Dog Archduke and his naked men withdraw from the battlefield, and he knew that the real war had begun.

…

The workers seized the time to set up rows of horses and ground spurs on the front line. As a drawback of not having a city wall, the elite knights would be almost unstoppable if they charged.

The Mad Dog Archduke gave up building the city wall and the siege of Free City.

Lord Lorraine took away some soldiers, and the gray-robed mage also took away some mages. Mad Dog Archduke now has about 2,000 knights, 5,000 soldiers and hundreds of mages left.

Free City has a thousand musketeers, about two hundred mages and three hundred knights, blue dragons and white dragons.

This disparity can still cause heavy losses to Liberty City.

Under the orders of Al...the heroic city lord Annan, the Free City entered a state of war. Young men are selected and trained as musketeers, and all residents are trained to reach arcane nuclear range when the bell rings.

But others maintained the status quo - the tavern was still busy, the mage tower, port and mansion were still under construction.

Late at night, the Mad Dog Archduke showed no sign of attacking. As a result, in the dark hours before dawn, the earth began to tremble dully.

Intensive gunfire and cannon fire, the flames and halo of spells became the first light in the morning.

The first attack lasted until the morning. During this period, the musketeers were dangerously bombarded with spells and opened several gaps. It was only the knights who rushed back to prevent the gap from widening.

The Mad Dog Archduke left behind the corpses of nearly a thousand soldiers and more than two hundred knights and retreated. The Musketeers also suffered casualties for the first time: 13 dead and 24 wounded.

Judging from the number of casualties alone, there is no doubt that Liberty City was victorious, but Olmedo said that the Musketeers were tested for their weakness: they lacked the ability to fight in melee.

and their death itself.