"Baron, do we really just need to escort the goods here?"

Wen Ze was confused as he watched the coachman and mercenaries being directed to separate the horses from the carriage.

What's the big deal about leaving 700 fully loaded trucks here in this desolate mountain area?

Wen Ze learned about Anno's identity through the previous conversation between Anno, Cass and Howell.

He could never have imagined that Anno was actually a noble of the Kingdom of Nigar and was related to Duke Howell.

The gap in status widened instantly.

Therefore, Wen Ze did not even receive any payment for this escort mission.

The purpose is to make up for the "mistake" of accepting 500 gold coins from An Nuo last time.

Anyway, the mission only requires escorting the goods to the mountains ten kilometers away from Zijinlan City, which is not difficult at all.

An Nuo turned around and smiled, "With so many supplies, it takes who knows how long to transport them normally, and there's a possibility of monster attacks on the way, so we have to transport them quickly and safely."

"A quick and safe method?"

Wen Ze's eyes widened and he asked, "Is it teleportation magic?"

An Nuo smiled but said nothing.

But Wen Ze had already determined in his heart that Annuo was going to use teleportation magic or similar abilities to transport these supplies to the royal city.

As for why he used teleportation magic in such a place, it was probably because Annuo didn't want others to know that he had this method.

Sure enough, after all the horses and carriages were separated, Annuo asked Wen Ze to take the coachman back to Zijinlan City.

“Is this for us to avoid?”

Wen Ze, who had already guessed this, was not surprised at all.

Afterwards, he led his confused subordinates, the coachman and the horses back to the city in the direction of Zijinlan City.

However, after walking about two or three kilometers, when his vision was blocked by the mountain next to him, Wen Ze's curiosity made him unable to help but go back to check the situation.

He left behind a few good fighters and asked the others to continue returning to the city.

Wen Ze sneaked all the way to the top of the hill near where the trucks were parked and looked down. He was surprised to find that hundreds of trucks full of supplies had disappeared, leaving only an empty valley.

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm not dreaming, am I? It's been less than ten minutes, how come so many supplies are gone?"

The mercenary next to Wen Ze rubbed his eyes, his face full of disbelief.

“Roar~!”

The dragon roar that echoed through the mountains and forests made Wen Ze and his companions' faces change drastically. They immediately drew their weapons and looked around.

Then they saw a red dragon flying into the air from another hilltop and then descending into the valley below.

There are three more people at the red dragon landing site.

"That's the Baron and the two maids beside him."

The hunter in the team used his skills to see An Nuo from a distance and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Captain, should we go and rescue... Wait a minute, that dragon doesn't seem to have any ill will towards the Baron."

"We all saw it. Do you need me to tell you?"

Wen Ze looked at the red dragon that bent over to let An Nuo ride on it, and then flew away into the sky, with too many doubts in his mind.

But no one could answer their questions, so they had to turn back.

Another three days passed, and the soldiers on duty on the walls of the Iron Fort saw a giant dragon approaching in the sky from afar.

When the distance got closer, the dwarves realized it was a red dragon.

And on the back of the red dragon, there are several particularly familiar figures.

After landing in the city, Annuo wanted to find Kim and others, but unexpectedly he saw Lord Owen in the council hall.

After careful questioning, Annuo learned that in the past week, the dragon scorpions that occupied Sagunto had begun to spread around.

Some cities around Sagunto have been attacked by dragon scorpions.

Fortunately, the high-level dwarves who came for emergency support from the royal city and the original high-level dwarves of Sagunto were scattered in various cities to assist in the defense.

The Dragon Scorpion God has been staying in Saguntum, which is an important reason why many cities have not fallen so far.

As for the problem of dragon scorpions spreading everywhere, Annuo had already seen it when he rushed back.

Nowadays, there are a large number of low-level dragon scorpions scattered on the wild grasslands.

"Right now the dragon scorpion problem is secondary. The food in the city has run out. In two or three days, everyone will starve!"

Lord Owen's tone was filled with worry.

Even though the dwarves of Saguntal fled to the Iron Fortress, everyone received as little food as possible.

But there were too many refugees and too few supplies in the Iron Fort.

If the support materials are to be delivered to the Iron Fortress, they must first pass the dragon scorpions that are scattered throughout the wild.

“In addition, in this atmosphere of panic among the refugees in the city, some cultists appeared at some point.

Although it was discovered in time, no one knows if there are any hidden cultists."

"Cultists?"

An Nuo frowned and asked, "What religion is it?"

"According to the information obtained during the interrogation, it is the Bakr Cult!"

"Baker, these guys' church is really simple and crude!"

An Nuo rubbed his forehead and thought to himself: Just now, Zijinlan City dealt with the Adrian Cult, and the Bakker Cult appeared in Iron Fortress.

So will Leopoldism and Gallaherism follow?

Annuo could guess a little about the reasons why the Bakr religion emerged.

It is highly likely that ordinary dwarves in the current situation are not well fed and sleep well, and some dwarves may have lost their loved ones and are in urgent need of spiritual faith.

And those cultists who had been hiding in the dark took the opportunity to seduce civilians into joining their cult.

There must be cultists among the dwarves of Saguntor. Temple, the seventh-level dwarf who betrayed Saguntor, was a cultist.

However, as long as everything is back on track and civilians return to normal life, they will naturally not believe in cults.

Those cultists can only hide in the dark again.

"Lord Owen, I left this time to look for supplies. I brought back about 3,500 tons of supplies, enough for the Iron Fort to last a month. If we save a little, it should be no problem for two months."

If 3,500 tons of food are consumed for a month, the daily consumption would be about 116 tons, or 232,000 kilograms of food.

If distributed among 200,000 dwarves, each person can get more than one pound of food every day.

If you're going to be eating it for two months, you'll need to be more frugal.

However, the Iron Fort does not have 200,000 dwarves now.

No matter how slow the support from the Dwarf Kingdom is, it is impossible that it will take a month to arrive.

So some of this batch of supplies can actually be distributed to other dwarf cities.

"3,500 tons?"

Lord Owen looked at An Nuo in shock and asked, "Where did you get so many supplies?"

"I went to Zijinlan City in the Roland Empire and bought it from the nobles there at a high price."

"Where is it? Where are the supplies?"

City Lord Owen grabbed An Nuo's arm, his eyes red, afraid that An Nuo would leave.

He was afraid that Annuo would say that the supplies were on the way.

There are several high-level dwarves in the Iron Fortress now, but they cannot create food out of thin air.

"Find me a warehouse!"

Annuo originally planned to drop the supplies on the grassland outside the Iron Fortress, and then have the dwarves send soldiers to bring the supplies back, so that others would not think that he had super-large storage equipment.

But now there are dragon scorpions in the wild, and Annuo has no choice but to change his mind.

In a warehouse, only Anno and Liz were there.

"Master, what should we do?"

"Just draw a magic circle on the ground, and then send the goods out little by little."

Owen and others outside the warehouse waited anxiously for more than an hour before the warehouse door opened.

In addition to Anno, there were four more fully loaded trucks.

"Let's transport it out first!"

When Owen saw the four carriages carrying supplies, he quickly asked the soldiers who had been waiting outside for a long time to push the carriages out.

"Annuo, don't force yourself. There's no need to send all the supplies over at once."

Owen looked at the magic circle engravings on the ground and realized that he had been led astray and entered Annuo's mental 'trap'.

Seeing that Annuo looked exhausted, he thought that it was because Annuo consumed too much transporting supplies.

In fact, this was the result of Annuo spending more than an hour setting up a magic circle in order to make it look more realistic.

"It's okay. It's mainly because etching the magic circle is a bit troublesome. It will be easier next time. However, you still need to step aside first."

"Understood! We'll get out right now, right now!"

Owen trotted out of the warehouse.

Then, in less than ten seconds, the warehouses were opened again, and four fully loaded trucks once again came into the sight of the dwarves.

In this way, Annuo relied on the method of delivering goods in batches, misleading the dwarves into using teleportation magic, and delivered all the goods out little by little.

In the warehouse, An Nuo, who was destroying the magic circle, rubbed his aching brow and said with emotion: "It's hard to be a good person. But with this favor, I'll ask the dwarves to make a few sets of high-level magic equipment, and they won't be able to refuse."