The Shire.

Maple Leaf Plaza in Xialin City.

Under the protection of guards and with the help of several senior wizards, Earl Robert was giving a loud speech to tens of thousands of Xialin City residents gathered in the square.

"Ladies and gentlemen of Xialin City, I know you have suffered a huge loss of property. Many people have lost their life savings because of this."

"But I want to say that after the bankruptcy of Dawn Bank, no one can escape unscathed, and Xialin City's finances have also suffered a severe blow!"

At this point, Earl Robert waved a thick stack of Morning Bank deposit certificates, making a rustling sound.

"Here, there are a full 200,000 Oggs!"

"I had originally planned to build an advanced magic research institute to provide employment opportunities for more mages, but now it's all just waste paper!"

The more the Earl spoke, the more distressed he became. His emotions rose and his voice became louder and louder: "This is all the fault of the Duke of Dawn!"

Just as he was about to give a passionate speech, his attendant Asan suddenly came up to him and reported in a low voice:

"Master, news just came from the White Sturgeon Island that they are planning to set up a new bank, and the new bank will recognize all the Dawn certificates of deposit."

Count Robert was shocked, then ecstatic, but soon he became confused: "Does the White Pelican Island have so much money?"

“This is not a small amount.”

"The White Sturgeon Island said that they intend to confiscate all the money of the Earl of Southern County to pay for this loss."

The earl's eyes widened when he heard this: "Confiscate? But the war hasn't even started yet."

Although the war can certainly be won given the current state of the South, the Southern Earl still has many private soldiers and a real fight would surely result in heavy losses. The best way is to use gentle tactics to persuade them to surrender.

If you forcefully confiscate it, won’t the other party fight back? Asan also had doubts on his face: “White Sand Island said that you should look up at the sky.”

"In the sky?"

The Count was puzzled.

"It is said that the Baron created a very, very powerful flying magic weapon."

The Count was even more puzzled, and neither did Asan.

I can understand flying magic tools, but I can’t imagine what they look like.

"Is it a flapping wing or a flying blanket?" asked the Count.

Asan shrugged: "Master, you are asking a blind man for directions."

Just when the master and servant were shrouded in a cloud of suspicion, a "buzzing" sound suddenly came from the eastern sky.

It sounded a little like thunder, but if you listened carefully, you would find that it was a sound you had never heard before.

No one noticed at first, but gradually, everyone in the square noticed it.

Those who came to listen to the speech were all people who suffered direct losses in this bankruptcy incident. They were people from the middle and upper classes of society and were quite knowledgeable.

People were puzzled and looked in the direction of the sound.

"What's going on?"

"I saw two black spots in the sky over there. They looked like birds."

"How can a flying bird make such a big noise?"

"Where can you find a bird like this?"

"It's flying towards us!"

The Count saw it, too.

In the eastern sky, at an altitude of about two hundred meters, two objects similar to triangles were flying side by side, one on the left and one on the right.

When you look at it from a distance, it is just a tiny dot, but when you fly over it today, you will find that it is actually quite huge.

The length is unclear, but the width is close to 20 meters. It clearly has a strange and dazzling silver-white metallic luster, and the lines are very smooth and precise, just like a piece of seamless steel!

But how could such a huge piece of steel, which should weigh 20 or 30 tons, fly? This seriously violates common sense!

Now, such a huge steel object, flying more than 200 meters high, and making a strange and huge roar, exerted such great pressure on the people on the ground that it was like a god descending to the earth! Many people couldn't help but wonder, could this be the body of God? A group of people even began to pray directly to the sky.

"God, please have mercy on the world and don't punish us!"

The Count also stepped back subconsciously, and the battle master Asan couldn't help but touch the weapon at his waist, his face turning pale.

Most of the audience in the square also retreated and dispersed.

Looking from a high place, it looked like an invisible giant hand was brushing over the ants on the ground.

At this moment, a magnificent voice from the sky came from the flying steel giant.

"Residents of Xialin City, we are the Sky Vanguard of the White Sturgeon Island!"

"We will head south to show the magic power of Baron of White Sturgeon Island~~"

This voice answered the confusion of the people on the ground, but it also made everyone feel even more shocked.

“It’s actually a magical creation?!”

"Oh~ Mother Nature, how can something this big fly into the sky and fly so steadily?"

"It flies so fast! I've never seen anything so fast!"

"It's rising~ rising~~"

I saw two flying magic tools that looked like steel creations began to accelerate, rise into the air, and circle back and forth in the sky at an incredible speed.

As the speed increased, the sound of airflow began to become extremely violent, like muffled thunder rolling in the sky.

What’s even more terrifying is that the giant creature actually displayed extremely advanced and delicate flying skills in the sky.

Rolling, spinning, diving at a large angle and rising, and every time this happened, the air would explode with a thunderous roar.

The people of Vilan still rely on animal power as their main power source, and Blackstone warships are rare commodities. How could they have ever seen such advanced stuff?

Everyone was stunned. Except for their eyes that subconsciously followed the two dark shadows in the sky, everyone looked up with their mouths wide open, unable to utter a word.

It was not until the shadows turned into two black dots in the sky and gradually went away that the silence of the square was broken with a bang! There was no shortage of mages in the square, and they all understood the basic principles of magic, but these two flying creatures completely overturned their common sense of magic.

"How did such a large piece of steel fly?!"

"Even if I can fly, I won't be able to fly far. I don't have enough mana!"

"No, why can it fly so high? So fast!"

"Is this the Baron's magical power?"

"I heard that there is a huge Ring of Truth on the White Sturgeon Island, which can lift dozens of tons of water into the sky with pure power. Could it be that this is a creation of pure power?"

"Oh, the Baron's wisdom is as deep as the ocean!"

"This is a wizard's creation. What does it have to do with the Baron?"

"How come it doesn't matter?! There are mages everywhere, but why didn't I see Weilan, Aaron, or Kao make one? Why can only White Sturgeon Island make one?"

Podium.

Earl Robert was also deeply shocked.

Only after the two flying magic weapons had completely left did he recover a little.

He patted the bank deposit slip in his hand and said casually, "Let us pray for the southern earls~"

He appears relaxed on the surface, but feels unusually heavy inside.

Since there was such a magical creation on the White Sturgeon Island that could be called a miracle, the fate of the Earl of the South was naturally as tragic as a candle in the wind.

But as both are earls, the fate of the Earl of the North depends entirely on the kindness of the Baron of White Sturgeon Island.

Swallowing his saliva secretly, Earl Robert felt a glimmer of hope again: "Fortunately, my sister is the Baron's mentor."

But this time, he felt that relying on this relationship was a little unsafe.

After all, the Baron had graduated and he no longer needed his mentor's knowledge.

Then, a thought popped into his mind: 'It's not easy for my sister to be alone for so many years. She is still so young, she can't be a widow forever, right? '

"I've always heard that the Baron has a magic gun. My sister is his lover. She is definitely happier than most women. Not as good as..."

Just as Earl Robert was having some ridiculous ideas in his mind, two Roarers arrived in Hongyuan County, south of Shire County.

Earl Lawrence of Hongyuan County is a die-hard mainlander, and to the south of Hongyuan County is Liming County where Dawn City is located.

Because it was close to Dawn County, Earl Lawrence directly dispatched troops to loot three branches of Dawn Bank and stole countless gold and silver coins.

He transported all the gold and silver back to his castle and began to recruit soldiers frantically.

If not for anything else, just to protect ourselves in the upcoming chaotic times.

During the leisure time in the afternoon, when Earl Lawrence was patrolling the castle grounds, a strange "buzzing" sound suddenly came from the sky.

When the Count was feeling strange, someone discovered two strange triangular creatures appeared in the sky.

"There's something in the sky!"

The soldiers in training all looked up, and the count looked up too.

Everyone saw that the strange creation in the sky was constantly circling in the sky. It was impossible to estimate how high it was, but it must have been very high.

Just when everyone was confused and puzzled, a magnificent voice from the sky descended.

"The Baron declares that the Lawrence family is a traitor to Veran! The Lawrence family and any warriors who follow the Lawrence family will be completely wiped out!"

Earl Lawrence was feeling strange at first, but when he heard the horrible sound, he felt his heart pounding so hard that it almost jumped out of his throat.

He shouted immediately.

"Shoot an arrow~~Shoot it~Shoot it down~"

"Where's the new flame gun? Take it out and use it now!"

"Where's the mage?! Battle mage, cast a spell on it!"

For a moment, the troops on the ground attacked the flying objects in the sky.

But these two flying objects were actually very high, and all attacks from the ground could not reach them.

"Battle Mage, chase after him and fight!"

the Count roared.

But at this moment, the voice from the sky sounded again: "Taste the power of the Baron's magic~"

Before the people on the ground could come to their senses, an incomparable spiritual power descended from the sky.

This force came down from the sky like a torrent hundreds of meters thick, violently washing over the troops on the ground.

It is the zero-ring mental spell "Deterrent Aura".

The level is not high, but the scale of the spell is surprisingly large.

It was as if nearly a thousand masters of magic had poured all their magical powers into it and cast spells on the ground together.

The power was so great that there was no way to stop it! The warriors who had been attacking the sky just a moment ago could not help but scream like women, and some weak and timid warriors even began to run away with their heads in their hands.

The battle mage who had just taken off and tried to catch up fell directly from the sky, suffering from broken bones at best and death on the spot at worst!

This is because there are enough warriors in the parade ground, more than five thousand, which greatly shares the effect of the spell.

If there were only a few hundred people, they would have fainted from fright by now.

The Earl bore the brunt of the attack.

He was just a mid-level fighter, how could he withstand such a blow?

He squatted on the ground, holding his head, screaming at the top of his voice, just wanting to find a crack to crawl into and hide.

Immediately afterwards, one of the planes made a dive towards the training ground.

With this movement, at least five hundred soldiers in the direction the plane was pointing were shocked and then fell limply to the ground, their life or death unknown.

The soldiers' minds were already seriously affected by the deterrent aura, and now they saw such a horrific scene with their own eyes. They thought that all 500 people were killed! In fact, no matter how large the scale of a zero-ring spell is, it cannot kill people directly, nor will it leave serious sequelae, just like no amount of cold water can cook a duck.

In addition, the power of psychic weapons also has an upper limit, and the height of the upper limit is determined by the control limit of the inspiring mage.

If it exceeds the control limit, it will easily cause indiscriminate killing of both the enemy and ourselves.

But the key point is, this thing appeared on the battlefield for the first time, and no one knew the trick!

“Ah~~~~”

The entire training ground was instantly filled with women's screams, and at least 30% of the soldiers suffered from incontinence on the spot.

At this moment, on the parade ground with five or six thousand people, only senior soldiers and above could still barely stand, and this group of people accounted for less than one-tenth of the total number.

Even if they were standing, they had no fighting spirit and all looked at the flying creatures in the sky with eyes of great awe.

It's like a mortal looking at the God in heaven.

The magnificent voice from heaven descended from the sky again.

"The Lawrence family must be eliminated, and the wealth plundered by the Lawrence family will be returned to the Weiland Citizens Bank."

"The Baron's army is about to march south, and the end of the Vampire Count is at hand!"

Amid the sound of the sky, two terrifying flying creatures flew higher and higher, and finally disappeared into the sky.

Look at the parade ground again.

The Deterrent Aura is only a zero-level spell after all, and the direct effect of the spell quickly dissipates.

But the huge psychological shock brought by the arrival of the terrifying flying creature was deeply engraved in the soul of every warrior.

When the soldiers stood up again, their eyes involuntarily turned to Earl Lawrence.

In the past, this look was one of awe and obedience.

Now, there was an indescribable meaning in his eyes, a kind of indifference as if he was looking at a corpse.

Earl Lawrence felt as if every pore in his body was exploding and he couldn't help but roar.

"What are you doing? What do you want to do?!"

"Guards~~Guards~~Protect me! Protect me now!"

There was a dead silence in response to Earl Lawrence.

Baron White Sturgeon Island controls the miraculous sky army, which is naturally impossible to resist.

Since Baron of White Sturgeon Island said that he wanted to kill the Lawrence family and their followers, the warriors had no choice but to stop following the Lawrence family in order to survive.

In the silence, someone shouted.

"What baron? It's obviously a duke! The Duke of Weilan!"

"Yes, yes, it's Duke Weilan!"

"We are all citizens of Weilan, and citizens of Weilan should listen to Duke Weilan!"

"Since the Duke wants the Earl to die! Then the Earl must die!"

The fire buried in Hongyuan County was ignited.

The Howler continued to move forward, following the coastline of Veran.

They traveled from east to west, passing through Dawn County, Oran County, White Lake County, Volcano County, and Green County in turn. They turned a corner, passed through the remaining nine counties, and finally returned to the White Sturgeon Island.

Whenever they arrived at a county town, they would light the local fire.

Except for the princess's Adrian family, which was not declared rebellious, the other 14 southern earls were all publicly declared rebellious.

But that's not all! The Island Intelligence Bureau also has a list that contains the names of all the great nobles in the south.

Anyone who had private soldiers, such as the Shahram family in Dawn City, was also labeled as an unforgivable traitor.

When returning to the island of Sturgeon, Neferoniya asked through the collective voice of the heart:

"Rosen, are you planning to kill all the big families in the south?"

Rosen nodded calmly: "Yeah."

“Isn’t that too cruel?”

The one asking the question was Laltris in the back seat, who now felt that the human lord in the front seat was extremely cold-blooded and heartless.

She thought this was Rosen's true nature and suddenly felt a little scared.

Rosen could naturally understand her emotions. He raised his hand and squeezed her palm, and also responded with the collective voice of the mind.

His tone was calm, but with a hint of suppressed heaviness.

"The average annual income of the great nobles in the South is over 1 million Ogg."

"But in the wealthy South, about 90,000 people starve to death every year, and millions of people go hungry."

"Now, do you still think I'm cruel?"

Laertris was shocked. "How could this happen?! What do they want so much money for?"

The status of banshee sisters in the sea is quite equal. The banshees collect pearls and various golds for the queen, which is a hobby used to show respect for the queen.

Although the banshees witnessed the obvious class differentiation among humans after arriving on the White Sturgeon Island, the situation on the White Sturgeon Island was still acceptable.

But I didn't expect that there would be such a terrible vampire on the giant island of Weilan.

Ninety thousand people starved to death in one year, which was nearly three times the number of banshees in her and her mother's tribes combined.

This is horrible.

"It should be to show off, to squander, to please their masters in Aaron, right?"

The one who answered was the goddess Melchilina.

Rosen nodded: "Lina is right."

"These lords would rather let the food rot in the warehouse than give it to the hungry people. They would rather spend 2,000 Oggs on a pearl necklace than spend a few krens to help a dying civilian."

"So, I think they are not living people, but demons."

"Oh~ They are indeed demons." Lartes looked angry.

"Then it's too late for them to die," said Neferoniya.

(End of this chapter)