The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 242 The storm is coming
"Climb, grab my hand."

At the border between the wizard-controlled area and Morik's Empire, a female fire lizard was calling her child to hold her hand. Below the child, a male fire lizard raised his hands high, lifting his child as high as possible.

Around the female, a group of fire lizards, whose highest strength was no more than that of senior knights, were waiting for the last family of the team. Although this family slowed down the team, the team still did not abandon them.

Marching faster did not help them avoid the patrolling teams, but the silly-looking little guy named Papa was able to inspire the morale of the team.

They were located at the edge of the Ash Mountains of the Morik Empire. This mountain range, which stretched for thousands of kilometers, was a natural dividing line for both fire lizards and wizards.

What this group of fire lizards are doing is the legendary smuggling.

It has been thirty-five years since the war between wizards and Salamanders began, and taxes within the Salamander Empire have been increased again and again. In some areas, at the request of some corrupt officials, 70% of the annual revenue must be handed over to the Empire.

Few fire lizards can bear such a high level of taxation.

Riots and civil unrest broke out one after another within the three empires. The riot in the Linksa Empire even spread to half of the empire, forcing the commander of the Dragon Beast Knights, Balasar, to send troops personally to suppress it.

The light of the Fire Lizard King became dim under the harsh taxes, and there was a rumor among the Fire Lizards that wizards had no interest in ordinary Fire Lizards like them, and in that dark land without the light of the Fire Lizard King, the Fire Dragon Grass even became more luxuriant.

The female fire lizard exerted force and pulled the child into her arms. The male fire lizard below saw that his child was already on it, and immediately climbed up nimbly.

A group of people looked at the gray col not far away. As long as they crossed the col, they would enter the wizard-controlled area.

By then, they will have the sea wide enough for fish to swim and the sky high enough for birds to fly, and vast lands waiting for them.

"Let's go." The leading fire lizard said, "Hurry up and get out of this valley before the sun sets."

Everyone remained silent upon hearing this, and just clenched their mountain climbing sticks.

It's finally over.

The leader led the way, and the rest followed. There were a lot of obsidian in the Ash Mountain Range, and after being broken, the obsidian was as sharp as a steel knife. If you rolled down the mountain, you would die halfway if you were lucky, but if you were unlucky, it would be like rolling on a mountain of knives, with blood all over your body as if you were tortured.

Suddenly, a fire lizard slipped and rolled down the hillside. The fire lizard was soon covered in blood due to the scratches of the obsidian.

"Save me! Save me!"

But all the fire lizards silently turned their eyes away - this fire lizard was beyond saving.

Soon, the fire lizard hit a huge piece of obsidian, and a bloody hole appeared on its head.

Some of the fire lizards sighed. They had seen this kind of situation many times and had become numb to it.

After walking for half a day, the group finally reached the bottom of the mountain. Once they passed the col, they would be able to get rid of taxes and embrace a new life.

"Stop, you traitors!"

A voice came from the top of the mountain. The fire lizards looked back and saw a fire lizard wearing a red robe with a golden dragon claw shield printed on its chest looking at them.

"Stop right now, or I will treat you like traitors!"

The leader of the fire lizards looked at the mark on the red-robed fire lizard's chest and his face suddenly turned pale.

"It's the Shield of Morik!"

The Shield of Morik, an organization that rose rapidly during the war against wizards.

Under the leadership of Azuhan and Akara, the Shield of Morik has become the Royal Guard of the Morik Empire, integrating investigation, arrest, trial, and imprisonment. It is completely independent of the judicial system and is directly responsible to the King of Salamanders.

In the battle against the dark wizards in Morik, the Shield of Morik showed amazing effectiveness.

Among the three empires, the Morik Empire was the least affected by the dark wizards, followed by the Mias Empire, which had the shortest battle line with the wizards. As for the Linksa Empire... the dark wizards could even control the candidates for the Eye of Linksa. If the Dragon Beast Base Operation had not caused heavy losses to the dark wizards, the Linksa Empire would have become the garden of the black wizards.

In order to reduce the efficiency of the Shield of Morik, the dark wizards began to spread rumors among the people, vilifying the Shield of Morik as a dark organization that disregarded human life and killed people at will.

In the current Morik Empire, there are even words to scare children: If you don't obey, the Shield of Morik will take you away.

The team looked at the salamanders on the top of the mountain, and suddenly someone shouted.

"Run! It's better to die here than to be captured by them!"

In an instant, the entire team scattered like birds and beasts, and the fire lizards ran desperately towards the dark land at the end of the valley where there was no light from the fire lizard king. When the fire lizard standing on the top of the mountain saw this scene, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

If you stay, this incident can be treated as if it never happened. But if you run away, he will have no choice but to perform his duties.

He drew a black gold scimitar from his waist and jumped down from the top of the mountain.

In front of the elite fire lizards of the Shield of Morik, these fire lizard civilians had no choice but to be slaughtered.

Soon, Salamander came to the last person in the team.

The little guy stared around blankly, seemingly not understanding what was happening. Next to him, a female salamander was lying on the ground, with a sharp piece of obsidian cutting off half of her neck.

"Child, what is your name?"

“…Climb.”

"Papa, that's a good name. My son is also named Papa."

"Uncle, what happened to my mother? She is bleeding a lot."

The fire lizard did not answer. He didn't know how to explain the meaning of death to the little guy in front of him.

He walked over to Papa and lifted him up from the ground.

He had no hesitation in killing these traitors. Treason is treason, no matter what the reason is. But the child should be innocent.

"Where are you taking me, uncle? My mother won't let me go with strangers."

Papa didn't struggle when he was suddenly lifted up. He still had that dazed expression on his face, looking blankly at the fire lizard that lifted him up.

The fire lizard didn't answer. He flicked his finger and knocked the reptile unconscious.

He really had no experience in raising children, so he decided to leave the problems with crawling to the professional fire lizards at the back.

……

The capital of the Morik Empire, a pyramid-like building that looks very magnificent.

"Azuhan, there have been more and more cases of illegal immigration recently."

Akara lay on the table and spoke weakly to the male fire lizard opposite him.

This is the headquarters of the Shield of Morik and the former residence of Akara.

Azuhan on the opposite side was looking through documents. Hearing what Akara said, he sighed helplessly.

"That's normal. The Empire's taxation has reached its limit, and those dark wizards are still wreaking havoc within the Empire. There will be more and more cases of smuggling in the future."

"Is there any solution, Azuhan?" Akara turned over like a salted fish, "The people below have been asking me for suggestions recently. They would rather pretend to be slaves and sneak into the inner circle of the black wizards than to investigate and eliminate the stowaways.

Is it so difficult to catch illegal immigrants? "

Azuhan raised his eyes and looked at Akara: "There is no way. Killing the weak is a burden for most people. Only scum will slaughter those civilians who have no ability to resist without any pressure."

As he spoke, Azuhan sighed again.

"I never thought that strict recruitment conditions would become a burden one day. If it were the Eye of Linka next door, they would probably all be vying for this job."

"So do we have to recruit a bunch of scumbags to do border inspections as well?"

Azuhan shook his head. "It's not necessary. If we really recruit scum, the rumors about the black wizards will be proven true. Besides, investigating and suppressing illegal immigrants is only a temporary solution. As long as the domestic taxes are not reduced, there will be more and more illegal immigrants."

As he spoke, Azuhan took out a document from the drawer and threw it to Akara.

"What is this?" Akara took the document blankly and began to flip through it.

Soon, Akara's expression changed from lazy to serious.

"Are you going to close the net?"

Akara put the document down, his eyes as sharp as a knife.

Azuhan nodded: "It will be too late if we don't close the net now. My father and Marshal Donal's plan has been completed. What remains is the mobilization of resources and the allocation of troops.

During this time, we must ensure the security of intelligence within the empire."

"What about the other two empires?"

"The Minar Empire is still hesitating, but Marshal Balashar of the Linksa Empire has responded and will fully cooperate with our actions."

Akara frowned: "Minal is still hesitating?"

"Yes." Azuhan said calmly, "Those bastards are still thinking about asking the wizard to drain more blood from us so that they can reap the benefits later."

Akara couldn't help but shake his head. They were still calculating at this time. Could their counterattack really achieve the expected effect?

"I'll take care of closing the net. These dark wizards are a bit tricky. I'm afraid ordinary silver horns can't do anything to them."

"Oh, is our princess going to go to the battlefield herself?"

"Azuhan! Call them by their positions when they are working!"

"Hahaha, I wish you a triumphant return, my Excellency the Deputy Minister."

……

Nine Star Chamber of Commerce store.

"Our dark wizards in the Morik Empire suffered a major blow?"

Richard looked at Bob in astonishment.

"It's not just Morik," Bob said mysteriously, "our arrangements in Linksar have also suffered a great blow. I heard that several three-ring masters have died."

Richard took a deep breath. What on earth was wrong with this world?
Are these fire lizards trying to defy the will of heaven?

"No, this is wrong. Why would the Salamanders suddenly attack the dark wizards on such a large scale? Could it be that..."

Richard didn't finish his words because Bob sitting opposite him had already expressed his guess.

"Yes, the Salamanders' counterattack is about to begin."

In the thirty-fifth year of the war, the first wave of Salamanders' counterattack is finally coming.

(End of this chapter)