Chapter 979 965. Chase
Suldak sighed softly, turned around and walked back to the yard.
It can be seen that the lives of the people in the remote mountainous areas of the Ganbu plane are very difficult. The Lord Army has to collect taxes here twice a year, which also increases the burden on the people.
The young people in the village did not walk out of the mountains, and they seemed to have nothing to do in the town.
There is no doubt that there should be rebels here, and the rebels here should have some close ties with Tanley Town.
The children subconsciously avoided those topics, probably because they had been interrogated similarly, and the adults in the family had warned them in advance.
Suldak sat back on the chair next to the campfire. The magician Avid asked Suldak curiously: "What did you say to those children just now? How did you come back and become so depressed?"
Evening in the mountains always comes earlier, and the color of the sky dims.
The firewood in the bonfire was burned to the point where only some red coals were left, and with the sporadic crackling sound, some fire coals exploded and splashed some sparks.
Suldak sat down, picked up the cup and took a sip of water, and said with some concern:
"There should be rebels here. After the lords stabilize the situation in Takale Town, they will definitely wipe out the rebels everywhere. It is difficult for the residents of this town to be implicated..."
Avid stared wide-eyed, struggled to sit up from the recliner, and asked Suldak:
"You mean this is the lair of the rebels?"
Suldak shook his head and said: "Probably not, but there should be some rebels here."
Hearing what Suldak said, Avid exhaled, lay back on the wicker chair again, and said, "Why do you think there are so many rebels on the Ganbu plane?"
Suldak thought about what the child said just now. In the province of Bena and even the entire Green Empire, the taxation of private lands is controlled by the lords. Normally, taxes are collected once a year, almost after the Harvest Festival. This is also the time when the residents of the territory have the most money.
If there is a famine or a year of war, the lords must reduce or exempt taxes appropriately.
Encountered even greater natural disasters, many lords still need to pay out of their own pockets to help the residents of the territory to tide over the difficulties.
But this is obviously not the case on the dry cloth plane.
When he owned the territory of Pustule Mountain, he hadn't considered these things.
Suldak gradually came into contact with this aspect of affairs after owning a large piece of land in the Invercargill Forest. After all, there are 37 aboriginal tribes in the territory. How to appease the indigenous tribes, Suldak also had Seriously thought about it.
He put down the water glass in his hand, and said to the magician Avid:
"It may be that the taxation of the local lords is set too high. Lord McDonnell must have a lot of gold coins and magic crystals when he dared to fight the Bena coalition forces in Tarapa. Except for part of the savings from their treasury, the rest is doomed It must be shared among the people of the Ganbu plane."
Magician Avid was slightly taken aback.
As a magician nobleman, he doesn't need to pay taxes, so he is not very sensitive to these things, and usually doesn't even think about them.
Samira jumped off the roof and whispered close to Suldak: "Our whereabouts have been exposed, and a black mage over there is chasing us."
Looking towards the direction of the town's entrance, his light red eyes were full of murderous intent.
"How many people are here?" Suldak asked.
Samira whispered: "Three black mages!"
Suldak thought for a while, and said to Samira: "Maybe it just happened to be here to search..."
Samira bent her knees slightly and jumped onto a mango tree in the courtyard. The moment she stepped on the branch, her body stretched out, she easily stepped on the roof over ten meters, and jumped onto the chimney in a few steps, heading towards the entrance of the town. look away.
"They stopped on the sentry tower at the entrance of the town, and they are interrogating the guards at the sentry post of the town..."
Suldak rubbed his forehead. Originally, he only wanted to wait for the magician Avid to recover his mana, repair the temporary teleportation circle and return to Bena City, but these black magicians always followed behind with lingering spirits. is annoying.
Thinking of the demon stuck in the door in Lord McDonnell's manor, Suldak felt that these black magicians should be given a little more color.
"Then teach them a good lesson, go, get rid of them!"
Suldak put down the water glass and said to Samira on the roof.
Gulitham hurriedly stood up, ready to go out to fight together with the stick, worried that the beef leg on the bonfire would be scorched, so he also took the beef leg that had been picked to reveal the bones in his hand.
"Gulitham, you stay to protect Avid and Siya, Samira and I are enough to deal with those black mages."
After finishing speaking, Suldak took out the set of magic pattern structure from the magic waist bag, and quickly put it on his body. Xi Ya hurried over to help him fasten the shoulder strap.
The two-headed ogre sat down again.
Samila put on the 'Magic Serpent's Fang' on her body. This set of magic pattern structure almost completely wrapped her body, and the two quickly walked out of the hotel yard.
The evening light in the small town was a bit dim, and Samira was walking...the whole person disappeared beside Suldak.
There is only such a commercial street in the town. There are not many pedestrians on the street in the evening. The young people playing cards under the tree opposite the hotel have dispersed. Suldak holds the hilt of the broadsword in one hand and walks towards the entrance of the village step by step. As he walked, his eyes became extremely firm.
The three black mages were still standing on the sentry tower at the entrance of the village. Although the two guards put on a submissive look, they didn't say a single word that was useful.
A magician had no choice but to take out two silver coins from his pocket, and said the question again.
"Yes... There are five people in total. I saw them passing here at noon. That ogre looks really vicious, with two heads on its shoulders..." The guard immediately said with a smile on his face when he took the silver coin.
They don't care who the other person is...
The eyes of the three black mages lit up, and they felt that they could ask each other about their situation in more detail. They looked at each other and felt that the harvest this time was quite big.
"Apart from that ogre, who else are there?" The magician continued to ask while standing on the crude sentry tower.
"Two more women covering their faces, a knight and a magician..."
The guards felt that the two silver coins were worthy of their information, but that was all they knew.
Just when he wanted to say something more to make the information more worthwhile, his companion secretly tugged at the corner of his clothes and pointed to the figure on the street in the town who was walking towards the sentry tower.
The black mages immediately rode on the handle of the magic scorpion, and flew into the air with a 'swish'.
They received the news from above that the group of people stranded on the Ganbu plane are all second-rank powerhouses, and only by riding the magic handle can they be invincible.
The three black mages did not have the urge to do anything. One of the black mages flew out of the town on a magic scorpion, obviously wanting to return to Takale town to rescue soldiers.
The other two black mages are going to stay in town to keep an eye on the knight...
They ignored an important factor, the opponent was a five-man team.
The black mages thought that Suldak happened to be walking towards the entrance of the town, and they wanted to fly behind a building at the entrance of the town on a magic scorpion. They were not going to be exposed too early.
The magician who returned to Takale Town to rescue the soldiers had just flown out of the town when he felt as if something was staring at him from behind. .
He sent mana into the magic pattern circle with all his strength, and the magic pattern circle on the handle was completely lit up, and the speed immediately increased a bit.
The black mage even made an evasive action on his magic handle, twisting out an 'S' shape in the air, but he still felt the sharp pain from his back, and a sharp arrow pierced through the back of his heart. , the tip of the arrow protrudes from the throat obliquely.
He raised his head, his Adam's apple gurgled, and a stream of blood rushed out of his throat.
Hands could not hold the handle of the magic bundle, and the handle of the magic bundle lost its magic power and fell directly from the sky.
When the two black mages saw that their comrades who were about to report back to Takale town were shot dead by the archer, they were so frightened that they pulled up the magic handle quickly, trying to get out of the range of the archer hiding in the dark. .
Unfortunately, it was too late for them to realize this. Two arrows were shot from under their feet at the most tricky angle, avoiding their sight. In the body of the black mage.
Black mages are like birds with broken wings, falling from the sky.
Suldak walked over slowly and searched the three black mages carefully, not letting go of any valuables.
The corpse was dragged to the tidal flats by the river outside the town, a large hole was dug in the sand of the river bed, and the black mage's body was thrown in and buried together.
When Suldak returned to Tanli Town, many town residents had already gathered at the gate of the town, and everyone looked at him coldly.
No one spoke, but the indifference and resentment in their eyes could not be concealed.
Suldak stood under the watchtower of Tanley Town, spread his hands and said to everyone: "I know what you want to say to me. You think I will bring disaster to you by killing these three black mages..."
"They came to catch me, I don't want to catch them without a fight, I can only kill them." Suldak said standing at the entrance of the town.
Right in the crowd, a bolder townsman said loudly:
"Knights, please get out of here!"
Suldak knew that since these black mages could rush over, there would definitely be black mages coming after them.
Even if the townspeople don't say anything, he will leave tomorrow morning.
Now that the situation has become like this, I have to leave early, and I have to sleep in the wild tonight.
"Okay, let's go..."
Suldak didn't even argue, strode into the hotel, called out the two-headed ogre, Avid magician, and Sia, walked through the town in the night, and continued to walk north.
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After the residents of the small town left behind Suldak and his party, a group of young people took advantage of the darkness to touch the river, and relying on their familiarity with the river, they quickly removed the three black magicians from the sand on the river beach. After they were dug out, they carried the three black mages to the entrance of the village in groups of two.
Everyone hurriedly searched the three black mages who had been dead for a long time, and then took off the last clothes and placed them on the wooden table.
The town residents who just stood up to speak, came out at this time and told everyone: "Put them here, and wait for their people to come and claim them..."
"knew!"
The young people in these towns were very convinced by this leader, and quickly took care of everything.
The corpses of three black mages lay under the big tree.
…
It was not until noon the next day that the second wave of black mages from Takale town arrived in the town. When they saw the big tree at the entrance of the town, they happened to see three companions lying on the wooden board corpse.
The black mages asked a few residents of the small town to inquire about the situation. The general information they got was: the three mages found an adventure group, and they fought last night. The three mages were unfortunately defeated...
"The one who killed them was an archer..." One of the black magicians said, "What should we do now?"
"Keep chasing, go and notify the garrison in Takale Town to come here and round them up..." said an elderly black mage.
After finishing speaking, he took the lead in riding on the magic handle, and continued to fly north along this mountain road.
"Cheer up, everyone. This time we are chasing a team of second-rank powerhouses. Don't end up like them in the end." The older black magician said with a frown. "Customize three coffins in the town, and take them back with you when you return!"
"is teacher!"
A black magician stood by and said respectfully.
…
Suldak originally wanted to find a small town to live in, and wait for the magician Avid to recover and return to Bena City, but he didn't expect these magicians to catch up.
Now they can only continue to head north, but the group of people did not go far. They found a piece of woodland without many shrubs and weeds in the forest, set up a few tents in the forest, and rested overnight.
Waiting until the next morning, before the three of them got out of the forest, they saw a burst of dust flying in the direction of Tanley Town.
A group of cavalry came out of Tanley Town carrying the flag, and continued to pursue north along the mountain road...
Suldak and the others hiding in the forest couldn't help but look at each other in blank dismay. They didn't expect the cavalry of the lord army to catch up so quickly, and more importantly, they actually chased ahead.
Since this mountain road cannot be walked, Suerdak thought about walking up the river valley, so that at least Xiya would be more comfortable.
After walking upstream for a whole day, the pebbles along the river turned into rocky beaches. The river sometimes passed through some canyons. One road, otherwise it can only be waded through.
Fortunately, with Siya around, even if the team cut a few logs and tied them into rafts and pushed them into the water, they could barely pass through the turbulent canyon waterway...
(end of this chapter)