Edge of the Apocalypse
Chapter 909: Failure To Report (2)

Ante rolled his eyes and his nose was sweating. He was still a little tender. When he was young, he was protected by Daniel's wings. Although he had diligently practiced swordsmanship and read books after taking over the position of Lord, his temperament was still that of a teenager. Alan's gaze was not stern, and he was even a little indifferent. However, the more this happened, the more he didn't know what the man in front of him was thinking. Without any speculation, he could only follow his intuition and bitterly smile, "Your Excellency wants to settle the score with me this time?"

Ellen laughed, "If I'm looking for you to settle the score with, I'm afraid it's not my turn. Edward alone can change the course of your territory. You can sit here because you've finally made the right choice. And I'm here today to hope that you can follow the previous choice."

"It won't be long before I head north."

Ante's heart skipped a beat.

Up north? The youth's breathing quickened as he vaguely guessed Alan's intention to head north. Actually, this wasn't hard to guess. With his current momentum, if he had a few more years to develop. If he managed his business smoothly, he would probably be able to reach the same status as Hoey the Iron Spear. However, he didn't want to live a peaceful life. He chose to go to the northern border of the empire because he had made up his mind to make a bigger plan in the imperial capital.

What else could there be that was more powerful than a Marquis?

The Grand Duke of the Empire!

Such ambition!

Ante calmed down and finally faced the man, "What do you need me to do?"

Ellen narrowed his eyes and shook his head, "As long as you manage your territory, it will be of the greatest help to me. Young Master Unte, it is only at this time that I have dismissed the idea of using a puppet to manage the viscount's territory for you. If you had just heard that I was going north in ecstasy, you might have been able to meet Sir Daniel by now."

"Fortunately, as I said before, your choice has been very correct until this moment. Tell me, do you still want revenge?"

"Before this morning, I still had this thought, but now I don't have it anymore." Ante said calmly, "Because what you said just now woke me up. You've already seen the mountains and seas, but I'm still staring at a low mountain. Not to mention the difference in combat strength, not to mention the management methods of the territory. Just my horizons alone, I've already lost. If I still want revenge, I probably won't even be able to see your back for the rest of my life."

'"Believe it or not, Viscount Daniel wanted to kill me first, but I didn't hate him. With his status as a viscount, being able to manage such a situation, Duke Daniel is already very impressive." Allen tapped the table gently, "Believe it or not, Viscount Daniel wants to kill me first, but I don't hate him."

Ante's eyes reddened, and he couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

After a moment of silence, Ante shook his head and changed the subject, "Don't tell me you came to me specifically to say these words?"

"Of course not. Don't tell me I have to curry favor with a little brat like you?" '"I'm going to Mountain City. Do you want to come and take a look?" Said Alan, taking it for granted.

"What are you looking at?"

'"When I was away, this old man Rackett gave me a lot of trouble. You have to thank Edward, or Sir Daniel would have stolen all the things he had built with great difficulty. I'm actually a very simple person. He treats me well, and I always protect him. Whoever wants to hit on me, I'll knock his front teeth out." Alan patted Red King beside him and said with a smile, "So this time, I'm going to kill Rackett. I'm going to groom a successor in Mountain City and let them fight amongst themselves. It's best to fight for ten or eight years so that I don't have to worry about going north."

Ante gritted his teeth and said, "If I had insisted on revenge, would the unicorn collar have treated me the same way?"

Ellen stopped on Red King's palm and asked, "What do you think?"

Early the next morning, at the border post on Mount Lyon Road.

Before the morning mist had dissipated, a caravan had arrived at the border post from the unicorn. They had produced the relevant certificates and had the soldiers of the post quickly switch on and off. The Lyon Mountain Road was a mountain overflow, led by the unicorn. It gradually widened around the mountain range, and two days later, it turned into the Absolute Shadow Heights. In a few days' time, they would arrive at the mountain city where Earl Rackett was.

Mountain City was rich in steel and other materials. This kind of raw material brought endless wealth to Mountain City, and it also allowed Mountain City to develop rapidly. Rackett's family had operated for several generations. They owned large raw materials mines, promoted the development of weapons workshops, and allowed the weapons and equipment produced in Mountain City to flow to all parts of the southern border. This was the cornerstone of Mountain City's growth. However, in the past ten years, rumors had it that Mountain City's mineral resources had been completely exploited. Perhaps this was the motive behind Rackett's expansion of his territory.

Expanding the territory was not something that could be accomplished with just a single word. After all, not every territory already had a master, and the empire had already passed the era of splitting the land. As long as the empire didn't expand, the Lords would have to fight honestly if they wanted more Lords. Apart from the fact that the unicorn collar had been empty for a period of time and was able to take advantage of the gap to enter, Yang Mou had also conspired to take down the territory without any bloodshed. The rest, we need real sabers, real guns, start a war to snatch them away.

The empire had always turned a blind eye to the civil war of the Lords. As long as it didn't violate the rules of the game, the empire rarely interfered. The territory of the Bailey Empire was built entirely on the map, and this tradition seemed to have continued. The current emperors were all laissez-faire, and the blood in the empire was not fake. However, it was precisely because of this that the empire had been established for five hundred years, and its national strength had only increased but not decreased. Even though the battle prowess of the Southern Territory was inferior to that of the Northern Capital, it was still difficult for outsiders to ascend to the heavens if they wanted to open up a gap in the Southern Territory. It could be seen that this strategy of nourishing the country through war was not entirely impossible.

Besides, Count Rackett wanted to expand in Mountain City. He had planned to annex the Unicorn Collar and Ark Harbor, and then turned his spear around to eat Allen's Viscount Collar. He had never thought that this old count would be too greedy, and his appetite would be too much, instead, he would be able to kill himself. First, he stopped the troops secretly transferred to the unicorn territory by Edward's arrangements, and then beat Gills up as if he was letting the dogs go behind closed doors, causing Rackett's calculations to fall into vain.

Right now, there was no other way to get out of here than to start a real war. Therefore, in the past half a year, Rackett had remained silent on the surface and had been secretly recruiting troops to buy food. Shancheng was rich in copper and iron ore, but food had to be bought from other territories. Amongst them, several places in Allen's territory were large grain producers. Originally, Rackett thought that the other party might not be so generous in selling food to him, but he still sent someone to take a detour to collect food. Unexpectedly, Edward's door was wide open. Not only was he willing to sell grain, he also allowed the caravans to transport grain to Mountain City to sell it. Of course, Edward had collected enough tariff money to sell the grain to Mountain City at 30% higher than the market price.

This is clearly to take advantage of Rackett. If you want to buy food, I'll give it to you. Just buy it at a high price. Luckily, Rackett was able to swallow this breath, and the count was very careful. If you don't get food from Edward and buy it from elsewhere. The journey, not to mention it, was half as expensive. In this way, Edward could only increase the price by 30%. Thus, Rackett acted like a turtle that had its head pulled back, pretending that it didn't know about it, causing the Chamber of Commerce in the city to keep buying it.

Right now, this caravan that was heading to Mountain City was going to ship a batch of grain to Mountain City for sale. The first thing the caravan did was to stabilize the market price of grain. Although the tariff for going to Mountain City was a little higher, the difference in price was enough to make up for Guan Rui's loss, and it was 20% higher than the price sold elsewhere. Even though the price difference was only 20%, this amount was still astonishing.

In the past six months, the army of Mountain City had been constantly expanding. Currently, an infantry regiment of more than 2,000 people had been established, and the Blood Wolf Knights had also reached 500 people. The amount of food used in this army was astonishing, not to mention the consumption of ordinary citizens in Mountain City. Therefore, the current Mountain City was a large grain absorber.

A caravan naturally had guards.

The guards of this caravan were the Thousand Bird Mercenary Corps. This mercenary corps was not large in scale, and there were only about fifty people old and young combined. However, Qianniao could be considered a veteran mercenary group amongst their peers. Their mission failure rate was maintained at around 10%, and their reputation in the industry was pretty good. Some short-distance caravans were willing to hire Qianniao as a guard, especially the caravans that went to Mountain City frequently in the past few months. Thinking of it as Qianniao, the mercenary group had already gone to Mountain City three or four times.

Qianniao was no stranger to the path from Mount Lyon to the Absolute Shadow Highlands and back to Mountain City. This time, Guild Leader Woqi personally took action. Originally, Guild Leader himself rarely took action for such a mission. But this time, there was a lively girl of fifteen or sixteen years old in the mercenary group, and Worthy had no choice but to come on his own. Who told her to be his daughter? Wasn't Woody afraid that his daughter would suffer on the road, so he set off with the team?

The young girl, Ferlyn, was at the age of innocence and romance. Under her father's guidance, she had the strength of a twelfth rank. His swordsmanship was sloppy and careless. It wasn't a problem for him to deal with ordinary bandits, but he lacked actual combat experience. This time, Walker had the intention to let her experience and sharpen her mind when he brought her out.

Fei Lin did not refuse. This lively girl would always ride her own little white horse to and fro in the caravan. Sometimes he chatted with mercenary soldiers, sometimes he fought with mercenaries. With her around, the journey became much livelier.

Walker was already over forty years old, and his strength at Level 18 was neither high nor low amongst his peers. It was just that his accomplishments in this lifetime were just like that. Watch knew what he was capable of, so the Thousand Bird Mercenary Group had never expanded. A small and medium-sized guild of about 50 people could accept the tasks of caravan guards without being too ostentatious. Although they weren't as lucrative as the large mercenary groups at Ark Harbor, Wozzie was very satisfied.

He had already planned to marry Fei Lin to the vice captain's son, Darang, when she grew older. That year, he had already reached Level 15 after only twenty years of age, so he could probably take over the mercenary group's youngsters in the future. It was because Darang was young and mature, his temper was too deep, and Ferlyn, who was full of vitality, was always out of place with him, which gave Walker a headache.

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