"Prince, wake up... We're already here."

It was already daytime when Sean was called, and his confused head raised slightly.

It's not easy to sleep in a pterodactyl class!

I couldn't fall asleep the whole night no matter how hard I tried. Finally, when dawn came, I was so sleepy that I fell asleep as soon as I lowered my head...

"Where is this?"

Look around you, or up in the sky.

Subconsciously pulling the reins at hand...

"Be careful, Your Highness. We have arrived at Abuza, a city in the center of the empire. This is where the tribute team is temporarily staying."

Since the incident the day before yesterday, the tribute team did not dare to continue along the previous route. They quickly moved towards the nearest desert city in the vicinity, trying to use the power of the local army for protection, and also asked for help from the capital of Jagong.

Only one day had passed.

Nothing's wrong for now...

Sean looked at the city in the desert below him, with a pool of water on the side.

The main condition for building a city in the desert is water resources. People will only live near water.

"Come on, let's go down!"

More than three thousand flying dragon cavalry appeared in the sky, making it impossible to keep a low profile.

Almost everyone in the small city was watching the countless flying dragon cavalrymen gradually descend from the sky...

"It must be the reinforcements from Jagundu."

"It should be... No one in this place would have so many dragon knight corps."

Sean also landed towards the open space where he could see the crowd. Surrounding them were camels and iron-hoofed cattle. Those should be the tribute team.

Landing

Then he took Melsusa and Mierke to the leaders of the team.

Three people.

That should be the current leader of the tribute team. One of them was wearing the clothes of a Jagong noble. He knelt down immediately when he saw Sean for the first time.

"Your Highness, you... you actually came here in person."

Although I have never actually seen Sean, the clothes worn by the royal family are not something that any noble would dare to wear, and there is a unique sun tassel on the chest, which is the symbol of royal identity.

prince? ! !

When the people nearby heard the official's address, they immediately followed suit and saluted.

When Sean walked towards them just now, he could clearly see the expression of "anger!" on their faces. They were probably preparing to call for an explanation.

But it would be different if the royal family came. Even if they had complaints, they would not dare to say them to their faces.

"Get up, are you the sheriff of Abuza?"

"Yes, Your Highness." The other party gave his name. Anyway, the local indigenous nobles all had a long list of surnames and given names, and Sean had no interest in remembering them.

"This is our Prince Sean. After hearing that the tribute team was attacked by bandits, the Sun King was furious and personally sent Prince Sean here."

In such situations, Sean doesn't need to speak, Mel Susa behind him will speak actively.

The two people who saluted in front of him tried their best to put on surprised expressions, but their hearts were in a different state.

"I'm so grateful to the Sun King for his attention to us. It's all because of us not being careful enough... and being too relaxed that the bandits took advantage of us."

Blow~At this time, you always have to say the best words.

"It's not your fault. It's us who failed to protect the safety of the desert."

Sean looked at the official next to him, and the other party had no choice but to bow his head and plead guilty!

"Let me first see how much damage has been caused..." Sean said as he asked the other party to take him to see the damage and listen to what happened at the time.

Now the official with the highest title in the entire tribute team is Pike, who is also a diplomat.

But his status was lower than the deceased one... He was originally a diplomat assisting the two countries in trade, but who knew that the leader was dead, and died in the nearest tent.

After that you can only do it yourself!

Pike told Sean what happened that night. Basically, everyone set up camp and prepared to rest as usual, then the yellow sand began to blow, and finally the team fought with the bandits when the only light was destroyed.

"Fortunately, our team is very strong, otherwise we would have lost more goods."

Pike took Sean to look at the tribute items, especially the precious utensils that were easily broken. Most of them were broken into pieces, but the ones that were a little harder were okay.

Then the cloth was fine, and many other things were left under the protection of everyone, but the two most precious things among all the tributes were lost.

"What a pity. We were very careful not to put the Immortal Wine and the Alchemist's Stone together with all the tributes, but they still found and took them away."

In Pike's story, all these tributes are almost just a foil to those two. For the wealthy Jagun, he can buy them all with money, but those two are not something he can get just by wanting them.

So before coming, he asked diplomat Bercy to take it with him alone, but unexpectedly it was still stolen.

"Since this can be discovered, there must be someone on the inside," Sean said.

"We've considered this, Your Highness. But it won't be easy to find next week... For now, the team can only quickly reach a nearby city during the day to provide protection, and then deal with these issues later, while we await your arrival."

"I'm sorry...it was our mistake to let you be attacked like this in Jagun."

Sean spoke in standard international etiquette.

"Your Highness, please don't say that. The fact that you came here so quickly is enough to show Jagun's sincerity... By the way, Your Highness, why don't you go and see the bandits we killed? Maybe you can find out where they came from."

Some people were also killed by the tribute team in the battle at night.

There are no living people.

In this kind of battle, even if they could capture the enemy alive, they would try their best to commit suicide...

If you try to steal the tribute from the Sun King, you will have no chance of survival in the entire desert. Anyone who dares to do so is destined to die.

Sean followed Pike to a tent where corpses were placed...

The weather is very hot.

As soon as I got close, I could smell a strong stench of decay.

It's nauseating.

Usually people who die in the desert are buried naturally...

They will either be eaten by swarms of desert insects, or even if they are buried in the yellow sand, they will be weathered and buried by the night winds, and almost no human intervention is required.

Perhaps it was to facilitate the research of Jagon's team that the other side left some people behind.

Sean is not familiar with the local organization in Jagun, and the only one who has real experience is Mierke!

She squatted down and took a few looks, and especially searched the back and thighs, which almost no one would pay attention to, to see if there were any special marks.

"Did you find anything?"

"Your Highness, these people are pagans!!!" Mierke turned around and looked at everyone with a pair of silver-white eyes.

Pagan.