A strange world

Chapter 584 Chapter 241. Unexpected Assassination

What is Liberty City most famous for? It's not Annan itself, nor the disputes with the Mad Dog Archduke, the Kingdom of Ruikan'er, or even the magical images and magical newspapers.

But playing cards.

The cards that Annan first casually tinkered with for the filming of "The Fall of the Mage Tower" were brought from Breeze City to Xingyue Bay, and from Xingyue Bay to Liberty City, but they did not receive much attention.

A deck of cards only costs 10 copper coins, and selling a thousand pairs only costs 1 gold coin. To earn 1 gold coin, you have to sell 3,000 pairs, and anyone can do it. So Annan just perfected it, replacing the king, queen, and nobles of the four colors of spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds with various characters from the Allen continent and ignored them.

But precisely because of the cheapness of playing cards, it started from the tavern and spread outward. From nobles to refugees, everyone can always find their own ways to play.

Even children can get down on the floor and pat the cards around.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable to accuse Liberty City of being a cultural invasion in "The Glory of Rekaner".

The husband hurried to the tavern with a magic newspaper under his arm and an umbrella to play cards with his friends. The wife and her friends were enjoying lemon soda in the cafe and were about to go to Diagon Alley to buy a corset. The children who clamored to see the magical images stayed at home and were soaped by maids in Fast suits.

This is dangerous.

If it were the Tatooine Empire or another country, an impact of this magnitude would definitely arouse the vigilance of major families. But Annan and his Free City are too young and charming... Who would worry about the ambitions of a city that was built less than a year ago?

Moreover, Annan's main market is in the Tatooine Empire. Do you think Mount Montreal will care about it... The ancestors of the Golden Family are guests in Liberty City.

The empire is almost becoming that warlock’s garden!

If the King of Bones hadn't been a young and upright emperor, they would have thought that Annan had used some method to charm him.

The week-long autumn harvest is over.

There is no shortage of food in Liberty City. The plan of the city lord's palace is to send all the food to the Winter Territory and Count Ulmit because the situation in the north suddenly becomes serious.

The rat tide encountered by the Winter Territory has changed from once every ten days to once every few days, and the number is also increasing. It even almost broke through the city wall once. It happened that because the fixed portal time was approaching, the Hellfire Team was dispatched urgently. Only then can the crisis be resolved.

Annan proposed for the second time that Mrs. Winter move to Liberty City, and her reply was to wait.

Count Ulmit stopped accepting the inheritance and retreated to the newly built seaside town because there were suddenly more ratmen around him. The count cursed that these were rat men, who always appeared one after another like the autumn harvest.

Towards the middle of the month, the Ruikaner Kingdom, which was strategizing, began to lose ground. Two legends lead the team, two major knights, and an entire army of magicians.

Disturbing news came from people lurking in the Kingdom of Rekaner from all over the world: these rat people were being driven out by something.

At this time, Mount Montreal suddenly announced that a Great Wall would be built in the north of the empire.

The Tatooine Empire, one of the Thirteen High Kings, will never be aimless, which means that they foresee a certain pessimistic ending: the North will fall.

Officials from the Montreal Mountains also came to Liberty City and offered 100,000 gold coins to buy the "cement" invented by Annan.

It seems they know everything.

"Do you represent the Ministry of Interior or the Golden Family?" Annan asked these unfamiliar officials.

"We represent the Empire."

"So is it the Ministry of Interior or the Golden Family?" Annan continued to ask.

The leading official frowned and said, "What do you want to say?"

"If it's the Golden Family, I will agree to your offer. If it's the Ministry of the Interior..." Annan asked Ingrid to hand over the September finances of Liberty City to the officials of the Ministry of the Interior.

That string of numbers made their eyes twitch... They knew that magic images made money, but they didn't know they could make so much money.

"How do I know if this is true?" one official said.

"I pay nearly 10,000 gold coins in taxes to the Imperial Treasury every month. You can check it." The monthly tax revenue of Mount Montreal is about 700,000 gold coins... Annan himself contributed one percent.

"That's a lot...can you guarantee that you haven't evaded taxes?" the official sitting in the back sneered.

Faced with the threat, Annan lowered his voice: "Shh... keep it down, don't disturb the ancestors who are resting in the garden."

"..."

Imperial officials returned without success. They stayed in the embassy for three days. On the fourth day, they came to the city lord's palace again and made a new offer: 300,000 gold coins.

This is almost a one-time income, and Liberty City will never be able to do it again - there will be a lag of one or two months in the south, allowing the Steel Duo Territory to find a good price.

Annan happily handed over the formula, and the imperial officials also happily handed over a magic ring containing 300,000 gold coins.

Next, Annan should worry about the problems of Liberty City.

The northern wall hasn't been closed yet, but it's not a big problem. Trouble is coming, and the new Archbishop will stand in the way.

With the empire's three hundred thousand gold coins and the income earned during this period, Liberty City purchased another arcane energy core. The floating diameter expanded to one thousand meters, covering about half of the urban area.

Then there are the Musketeers.

If Liberty City is expanded further, all the people will become soldiers. So this time we just added 6,000 musketeers, expanded the three musketeers from 1,000 to 2,000, and canceled the reserves. The Hellfire and the Third Musketeers are stationed in Winterland, half of the Guard is in Liberty City, and the other half is in Mrs. O'Rourke's Sweet Home, and the war on the Prairie Peninsula is coming to an end.

Liberty City's attention is all on the north, and even Annan's original plan to go to the south has been temporarily postponed.

As time went on, it became colder and colder day by day, and the betrayer finally couldn't bear it anymore.

The ambitions of the Rekaner Kingdom were shattered by the Ratmen, and coupled with the constant "smear" from Liberty City, they tried to break the situation... They couldn't deal with the Ratmen, and they couldn't deal with Annan?

On a slightly cool October night, a blazing beam of light suddenly rose from the garden of the City Lord's Mansion.

Before Annan could react, Della jumped out of the shadows and told Annan that magic fluctuations occurred high in the sky.

Annan has already felt it, the terrifying tide of magic bursting out in the air, making his magic vortex almost stagnant.

Two haloes of light were constantly twisting and hanging in the sky, similar to the original "little bats". A beautiful woman filled with confidence and pride faced them, her eyes seemed to be shining with the light of stars.

Annan, who saw his ancestor's true appearance for the first time, waved on the terrace.

She seemed to glance sideways at Annan at this moment, exactly like the oil painting... no, more beautiful than the oil painting!

The terrifying magic began to be released, blooming with magnificent brilliance in the sky of Liberty City, but the people of Liberty City didn't think so.

The blazing flame suddenly bloomed with the ancestor as the center, like the endless waves of the deep sea surging in the sky, covering the Liberty City like fire burning the city.

When the people of Liberty City fell into panic, the flames in the sky suddenly melted and turned into countless falling flame petals.

People's uneasiness disappeared as the night sky returned to coolness.