Chapter 168 Big Hand

A lush market was opened at the entrance of the city, welcoming merchants and guests.

The blacksmith clanged his tools inside the house, the jeweler fiddled with the necklaces on his hands, and batches of vegetables and fruits were transported by farmers and workers for sale.

There are also large amounts of timber piled in nearby open spaces for the construction of new houses and defense projects.

It looked prosperous and safe.

However, in a town with a large population, it is never possible for everyone to be prosperous and happy together. Under the appearance of prosperity, there must be oppression and shadow.

Unless that town is Levi's territory.

Obviously, not here.

"Hurry up!"

There were guards in armor shouting loudly, driving a group of workers to pull up wooden piles, or dig deep pits for construction somewhere.

This scene is in sharp contrast to the prosperous scene not far away.

It's difficult to act here.

Alatar sat down in a corner of a house on the roadside and raised his head to look at the scene on the street.

Groups of guards shuttled through the market, stopping by from time to time. The nearby city walls were also full of soldiers on alert.

For such a heavily armed town, it is obviously very difficult to influence from the outside.

"Coming."

After sitting in the corner for a long time, several people finally walked out of the garden in the center of the town. One of them was wearing golden armor and was quite tall, and the other was wearing gorgeous clothes.

The two of them were walking together toward a carriage.

Alatar stood up and walked in the opposite direction - a construction site.

"A bunch of lazy guys, I don't have time for you to rest, so get to work quickly!"

The soldier angrily scolded a group of laborers carrying heavy loads, as if if he shouted loud enough, the laborers would become stronger.

"You continue to watch, I'll call someone to take over."

The other soldier said something to him and left temporarily.

Now there is only one soldier left on this construction site.

"Huh? Where did you come from, homeless man, get out of here..."

Boom!

The cane was knocked down unexpectedly, and the soldier fainted and fell to the ground.

"I hate it when people call me that."

Alatar moved the fallen soldier aside with his feet and walked towards the group of workers.

He cleared his throat and shouted: "Are you so willing to be enslaved for the rest of your life?"

"Those nobles and their guards enjoy the life of the upper class, but as people who live in the same town, you are treated like slaves, and your time and health are bought with a few coins."

"It's just a few coins that they don't value. With such a low wage, you may not be able to have a full meal after working for a whole day... Do you know how much a piece of dark, hard bread costs now?"

The wizard quietly used his magic power.

After a moment, the place erupted in cheers, and the usually honest farm workers seemed to be controlled by something, picking up the things in their hands that could be used as weapons.

"Hey, what are you doing!"

At this time, the guards who came to hand over arrived.

"Do you want to rebel against those nobles?"

Alatar asked him.

"Why should I rebel?"

The soldier looked a little confused.

"You'll think about it."

A hand suddenly grabbed the soldier's head. The soldier's body froze and he was immediately unable to move, and his breathing became difficult.

A huge shadow shrouded his heart, and the bright eyes of the old man in front of him gradually turned cold. The color of his robe changed from sea blue to dark blue, and became darker and darker - until it was stained with a touch of black.

"Obey me!"

Consciousness is confused.

When the soldier regained consciousness, he found that he had somehow picked up a weapon, surrounded by several similarly confused comrades, and behind him were the laborers.

At this moment, they were standing in a beautiful garden. There were screams and angry screams all around. A richly dressed nobleman was paralyzed on the ground and couldn't stop crawling back. Next to him was a man in golden armor. A tall warrior, he raised his sword high and struck at the soldiers.

Wait, that's not our city lord... "Sir, I -"

Before he finished speaking, the soldier fell down.

The city was in chaos, and blood flowed from the side into the garden pond.

The old shoes stepped on the blood and left marks on it.

But the owner of the shoes turned a blind eye to the chaos around him and the person lying on the ground, as if everything had nothing to do with him.

Alatar stepped onto the gorgeous carriage that was smashed by the angry workers in a grand manner, took away the letter on it, stopped a noble who was trying to escape, knocked him out with a stick, and searched and groped him.

"That's all."

All the news that should be conveyed was now in hand, and the workers and soldiers who were suddenly about to rebel as if they were possessed were quickly suppressed by the armed forces in the city.

There is no reason to stay here anymore.

Alatar suppressed the violence and darkness in his heart and walked quickly outside the city.

"This is all necessary."

He murmured to himself: "Strength, in order to resist the enemy, I need strength..."

"Only with enough power can we make the enemy retreat, or even... make him surrender."

[Corruption degree+]

This year, a Dongyi historian recorded that a riot broke out in one of the many armed towns in the east. The laborers were dissatisfied with the low wages and slave-like treatment. They persuaded the soldiers guarding them by some unknown method and attacked the central garden. The city lord who was walking with the royal envoy in the garden immediately reacted and organized people to suppress this small riot.

"No one knows what happened to those guys."

The matter came to an end for the time being. When the envoy who was frightened and collapsed on the ground hurriedly climbed onto the smashed carriage, he felt only panic. There was nothing on it.

"What happened?"

The city lord asked anxiously.

"I don't know, please forgive me, I have no right to check the letter, I will go back to the royal capital to apologize..."

No matter how the process was, Alatar's goal was achieved. He successfully delayed the enemy's footsteps.

Even if the means are a little difficult to evaluate.

…

On the other side.

The pass city in the south of Dongyi.

In the highest, most conspicuous and largest hall, someone huddled in a room on the upper floor dedicated to entertaining VIPs, tremblingly picked up a pen and wrote the first sentence on the paper:

"When I wrote this line, my spirit was on the verge of collapse."

"I'm tired of such days and don't want to continue like this. Some thoughts keep lingering in my mind, making me unable to fall asleep, and I can't even feel the sweetness in the cake."

"It all originated from one thing..."

"A few days ago, I obeyed the king's order and sent a letter to the pass."

"On the way, a daring man blocked my way and tried to snatch the letter from my hand. I took out the letter He challenged him: "If you want it, you have to come and get it yourself," and then ordered the accompanying imperial guards to arrest him and interrogate him. "

"Something I didn't expect happened. I obviously underestimated the man's strength. His black armor was invulnerable to swords and guns, his weapon would spit fire, and there was a terrifying golden light flashing on his body. After a while, all my guards were lying on the ground, roasted to death by the flames from his weapons."

"That flame, it's hard to tell whether it came from his weapon or from his mouth. I prefer the latter - after all, is he really a human, or a monster in human skin?"

"There was no time to investigate. I was so terrified at the time that I didn't care about anything. I immediately jumped off the carriage, cut the rope, and rode my horse as far away as I could."

"Everything was getting farther and farther away from me, like a nightmare. I don't know how I got back here. I only remember that several guards helped me down from the horse. They were all frightened by my terrified look."

"Although I have left that place and completed my mission brilliantly, everything that happened that day is still tormenting me and I will never forget it."

"I prayed and asked the missionary sent by the Great Demon Eye. Although he comforted me, his words were full of sarcasm. He knew nothing at all."

"He knew nothing, yes, nothing. I don't know, because he has never seen it, nor heard it, it's like a sound from hell. "

"The black armor seems to blend into the night, always appearing in my dreams, he is like a nightmare, a nightmare that will never end, always following me behind."

"Even now, there seems to be some footsteps outside the door, and it seems that something is knocking on the wall, causing cracks in the wall."

"When I looked over, the knocking sound and the cracks on the wall disappeared immediately. I think I have been tortured by hallucinations for too long."

"Whether it's a person or a monster, I won't let him find me"

"Magic Eye! Window! Someone! ! !"