Valkham!

Lord's Mansion!

"What did you say?"

Laura, who was thinking about the next development of Valkham, looked at Phoebe in disbelief.

Phoebe repeated with a serious face: “My Lord, the sea creatures have come ashore again.

And this time, they rushed directly out of the Aie Mountains and attacked the stronghold towns established by adventurers and merchants near the Aie Mountains!

Now the adventurers are retreating while exploring the movements of the sea people.

According to the latest intelligence provided by the adventurers, the sea tribe's troops are heading towards Valkham."

"What about the number?" Laura asked with eyes wide open, "Do you know the number of sea creatures?"

"About a thousand people! However, this is only the first batch of teams.

A hunter adventurer stayed in the Aie Mountains to gather intelligence and discovered that there were even more sea creatures in the Aie Mountains.

The intelligence used the word "all over the mountains and plains"! "

"You dare to go deep into the Aie Mountains at this time. You are truly a warrior."

Laura admired this hunter very much. She stood up and said very quickly: "Where is he? I want to ask him for details."

Phoebe sighed and said, "The adventurer used his flying pet to send the information to his teammates outside, who then passed it back.

As for the adventurer...

In the intelligence, he mentioned that he had been surrounded by the sea tribe, and stressed that his teammates should not go back to rescue him, but must send the intelligence back to Valkham. "

Laura, who was about to go out, froze for a moment.

Intelligence: It would take at least five hours for the adventurers to travel from the Aie Mountains to Valkham even if they rode non-stop.

That hunter...is most likely dead.

Laura sat back down at the table, called the guards, and ordered, “Go and invite the president of the Adventurer’s Guild, Salo, to the Lord’s Mansion.

The information about the sea tribe was passed to Viscount Renault in the Royal City and Gray City respectively, requesting support.

One copy was sent to all surrounding cities.

The morning and evening bells were rung, and the entire city entered a state of wartime alert, notifying all residents and professionals to prepare for war..."

Laura had previously experienced the [Great Battle of Valkham] and had a preliminary understanding of war.

After taking over Valkham, Laura thought about what she should do if she encountered a war next time.

To this end, Laura and Salo brought together soldiers and adventurers to conduct several war exercises.

When Laura and Salo announced the commission for the war exercise, they thought that not many adventurers would participate.

It's a waste of time and energy, and the reward is pitiful.

For adventurers at level 2 and above, it is almost like working for nothing.

But only those who have experienced war can understand the horror of war.

Not only did the adventurers strongly support the exercise, but even the residents of the city expressed their participation.

The main street of Valkham was crowded with carriages and pedestrians.

A team of adventurers was about to go to the guild to take on a mission. The team leader, Rubin, was a level 17, rank 3 warrior. Due to the existence of the Aier Mountains, the quality of adventurers in Valkham had also greatly improved.

The warrior captain looked at the other team coming towards him and greeted the other team's captain with a smile.

"Captain Martin, I heard that you recently killed a third-level monster and made a lot of money."

"Captain Rubin, you guys are not bad either. I heard that your team is already preparing to become a silver-level team."

Just as the two captains were greeting each other, a few bell sounds suddenly rang out in the city, seemingly able to pierce people's hearts!

“Boom~!”

“Boom~!”

“Boom~!”

“Boom~!”

“Boom~!”

When they heard the five bells, Martin and Rubin's faces darkened at the same time.

"Normally, the bell would ring only three times. But now, at a time like this, it rang five times! Rubin, you know what this means, right?"

"Oh, of course I do."

Rubin glanced at the pedestrians around him. After the initial surprise, they hurried home. Many soldiers appeared on the street to maintain order. He said in a low voice: "In the previous military exercise, the five bells indicated that Valkham was threatened by war. War may come at any time!"

"According to the rehearsal, we adventurers will go to the guild and wait for the order from President Salo."

"Walk!"

…

In the Aier Mountains.

In the sea tribe’s camp, several sea tribe members were discussing together.

One of the catfish people, with two long beards on his lips, questioned the marlin people next to him: "Can we just send a thousand-man force? Don't forget our mission."

“Of course I will not forget the mission, but the life of every sea creature is precious.

We were exposed last time because of that dragon.

No one knows whether there are any high-level beings in that human city now.

If we fall into the trap set by humans, we will probably be wiped out.”

Marlin said calmly, "It is very likely that Lord Rutherford has returned to the arms of Lord Poseidon. We don't have many people to mobilize, and we cannot let our people sacrifice in vain."

The catfish man beside him turned and looked in the direction of the Storm Sea, and said with a sacred face: "Every sea creature must return to the embrace of the Sea God. As long as we can restore the glory of Atlantis, it is not a pity for us to die!"

"Didn't we capture some humans before? Bring them here."

After the marlin gave the order, a shrimp soldier left.

Not long after, nearly thirty adventurers from level one to level three were dragged to the front of the marlin by a group of shrimp soldiers, covered in blood.

"What are you going to do?"

One of the third-level hunters looked at this group of high-level sea creatures, and a hint of uneasiness flashed in his eyes.

In order to gather intelligence, Andre stayed alone in the Aie Mountains.

After being discovered by the sea creatures, I thought I would be killed.

But he didn't expect that after the battle, the sea tribe simply imprisoned him.

Now that these sea creatures have gathered the imprisoned humans together, nothing good is bound to happen.

The marlin man said a few words to the catfish man, and the latter turned and left.

Andre and others couldn't understand the language of the sea people and looked confused.

Soon, the catfish man came back.

The marlin man squatted in front of Andre and the others, and said in the common language of the continent: "Humans, I don't intend to force information from you because I don't trust you. But the time has come to test your will to survive. If you don't have a strong desire to survive, you will slowly die in endless pain."

Before Andre could think about the meaning of these words, the catfish man took a tube of red reagent, pinched Andre's mouth and poured it down.

“Uh…uh…ah~…”

When the medicine was poured into his throat, Andre only felt that he was being fed a cup of freshly boiled hot water.

An intense burning sensation spreads from the mouth to the throat and then to the stomach.

It feels as if the internal organs are being eaten away bit by bit.

That kind of pain had already exceeded the limit that Andre could bear.

In less than three seconds he passed out from the pain.

But he was soon awakened by the pain, twisting on the ground and roaring hysterically.