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They were still relatively lucky. Compared to those unlucky guys who were hit head-on by the fireballs and had no trace of their bodies or even ashes left, at least they still had some corpses left.

There were many corpses outside the fortress, both human and monster, roughly numbering in the thousands. Of course, this does not mean that the Black Beast Mercenaries only lost a few thousand people. On the contrary, their losses were extremely heavy, with at least more than 10,000 people killed, because too many Black Beast mercenaries were directly hit by the fire meteors and disappeared.

Walter, who had finally reorganized the Black Beast Mercenary Group, was the most aware of this. After being hit by a wave of forbidden magic with almost no preparation, his originally mighty military force, which was the best among the seven countries, was reduced to ashes in a short moment. His more than ten years of hard work was burned to ashes overnight.

Now, he could only gather more than 4,000 Black Beast mercenaries, and most of them were injured or frightened by the forbidden spell last night. Less than 1,000 dark soldiers could still maintain their combat effectiveness, and this was the result after being baptized by the dark energy. If it were ordinary human soldiers, it would be a blessing for there to be 100 of them standing here.

Compared to the human mercenaries who suffered heavy losses, the monsters and aliens also suffered great losses, but compared to the human soldiers who lost two-thirds of their number, their losses were still relatively light. Only less than a quarter of the monsters were unfortunately hit by the fireballs at close range and turned into monster cakes. As long as the others were not hit at close range, they could still hold on with their strong bodies and hard skins.

However, the fact that more monsters survived was not a good thing for Walter, as it meant that the power under his command was completely out of balance. The soldiers in his regiment who were originally responsible for checking the monsters were severely damaged, and now the remaining human soldiers were no match for these monsters. This meant that if the monsters wanted to turn against him, Walter would not even be able to counterattack.

And this is not the worst, because Walter's recent series of failures has greatly undermined his prestige. Now the entire Black Beast Mercenary Corps is filled with an atmosphere of restlessness, and many of the surviving human mercenaries are secretly planning how to escape from the Black Beast Mercenary Corps or counterattack.

It was not surprising that such a result would occur. After all, the Black Beast Mercenary Group had suffered too much loss at the hands of Roy in recent times. The number of casualties dropped from 100,000 to a few thousand, which was too much.

In ancient cold weapon combat, an army that survived a 10% loss could be considered a first-rate army, and an army that survived a 30% loss could be considered one of the most elite in the world. However, Walter's army rioted only after losing nine-tenths of its troops, which was already an incredible thing. If the Black Beast Mercenaries are still determined to follow Walter, then this is no longer something that can be explained by personal charm and control. Only complete brainwashing can achieve this.

Walter was fully aware of the human subordinates' eagerness to make moves and the evil intentions of the monsters in the Black Beast Mercenaries. If he could not come up with some means to stabilize these hungry wolves and tigers, then he would be the next one to be torn to pieces by the Black Beast Mercenaries. His subordinates would be very happy to take his head to Alicia in exchange for a way to live.

Fortunately, as a shrewd and capable leader, Walter had already made preparations to counter the rebellion of his subordinates. By the way, he also secretly put chains on the so-called allies, the monsters and aliens.

As early as during the dark energy baptism and blood sacrifice, Walter had added some ingredients to these two rituals. There was nothing special about it. If the corresponding rituals and medicines were not performed regularly to replenish the energy in their bodies, the dark soldiers and blood sacrifice warriors would suffer from the backlash of the energy in their bodies in a very short period of time and then age rapidly and die suddenly.

Walter initially disdained the use of rituals and drugs to control his men. He always advocated stimulating the soldiers' fighting desires by guiding their desires. However, after being defeated again and again by Roy, he knew that in the event of another possible loss, he needed an ultimate means of control to protect his position. So after some hesitation, he still used it.

And this insurance that he thought he would never use was finally used.

With the help of drugs and rituals, Walter successfully suppressed the discordant voices within the mercenary group and restored his supreme power as the leader. He also let the monsters and aliens who had already harbored ill intentions know that they had truly been chained up, allowing them to once again become part of the Black Beast Mercenary Group.

Although he managed to stabilize the Black Beast Mercenary Group again, Walter knew that this peaceful situation was only temporary. The discordant voices were only suppressed by him but not eliminated. Moreover, his men were absolutely full of resentment because they knew that he controlled them through rituals and drugs. Once the rituals and drugs became ineffective in the future, this accumulated resentment would instantly burst out and devour him.

By that time, the monsters that have been chained will definitely take advantage of the situation and even stab him back like they betrayed the Dark Queen.

The most important thing for him now is to stop stubbornly confronting the evil woman Alicia, but to choose to go to other countries to develop and recover. The Black Beast Mercenary Corps with a scale of four to five thousand people can no longer rank in front of the Seven Shield Alliance.

However, it would be inaccurate to say that the Black Beast Mercenaries are doomed to fail. Although the Black Beast Mercenaries are small in number, their strength should not be underestimated. Although Roy's previous wave of Skyfire Meteors severely damaged a large part of the Black Beast Mercenaries, this is not all bad news for the Black Beast Mercenaries.

Because the dark energy baptism and blood sacrifice magic used by the Black Beast Mercenaries, who were the driving force behind the evil will, had some hidden abilities. That was, the more people from the Black Beast Mercenaries died, the stronger the others who survived would be. Roy killed a large number of Black Beast mercenaries with forbidden magic, but at the same time, the other Black Beast mercenaries who survived were strengthened several times in their essence.

However, this kind of enhancement requires eating a lot of food and a certain amount of time to manifest, so now the members of the Black Beast Mercenary Group and their leader Walter don’t know that they can still get stronger by eating the dead benefits of their teammates.

However, even though he didn't know that he could become stronger, Walter still made a very bold move. He took his 5,000 troops and directly raided Fortress No. 6, which was the farthest from Alicia. If the raid failed this time, he would die. Walter had no way to retreat. If he failed again, what awaited him was cold death.

He put all his remaining chips into this life-and-death gamble. His life or death depended on whether the church could withstand it.

Chapter 173: Continue the Reform

Roy did not take the remnants of the Black Beast Mercenaries too seriously at this moment. If it was the Black Beast Mercenaries before they were hit by the forbidden spell, Roy would have paid more attention to them, but now that there were only a few thousand people left, Roy did not take them seriously at all.

Of course, this does not mean that Roy does not value or despise the Black Beast Mercenary Group, but Roy no longer regards reducing the size of the Black Beast Mercenary Group as his primary goal. Now, the top things in his mind are to implement his reform policies and seize the opportunity to take the second and fifth fortresses.

After talking with Kaguya, Roy discovered a blind spot in his thinking. Alicia's identity is not only used as a shield. If used properly, the second fortress can be easily taken and even the Black Beast Mercenaries will be needed.

As for what would happen to Alicia's reputation by doing this, Roy didn't care at all. After the reforms of the First Fortress and the Third Fortress, Roy's mentality had changed in the fierce class struggle. He deeply re-recognized what it meant that history is written by the victors.

At the beginning, when Roy used Alicia to force reforms in various places, the nobles whose interests were affected began to counterattack Roy like mad dogs. Alicia's originally good reputation turned into a stigma in a very short time. Roy had only one way to deal with this, which was to physically destroy her.

After Roy physically eliminated most of the nobles who jumped out, a magical thing happened. Although Alicia's reputation was known as a bloody butcher by some people, her original reputation miraculously turned around and improved, even better than before. The reason for this was of course that Roy was the winner, and those nobles who jumped out were losers, and the same was true for the winners and the losers.

Of course, Roy's actions were not without other effects. After hundreds of years of marriage, the nobles of the Seven Shields Alliance had formed a deep-rooted network of relationships that spread across the seven countries. Roy's violent act of overthrowing the table had caused the nobles of other countries to feel deep hostility towards Queen Alicia. If it weren't for the Black Beast Mercenaries, which claimed to have an army of 100,000, the nobles of other countries would probably have already begun discussing how to jointly send troops to "set things right" in the First Fortress.

But of course not all nobles of all countries have intervened in this way. The two countries to which the sixth and seventh fortresses belong are indifferent to how nobles of other countries want to punish tyrants and purge the court, because these two countries, as the base camp of the Goddess Church, have become thoroughly theocracy.

In these two countries, the privileged class of the nobility has been deeply integrated with the church, becoming a theocratic state where politics and religion are combined, and the clergy are the officials who manage the people, the lambs.

Although these two fortresses and the third fortress sound similar, there is actually a huge gap between them. Because of the existence of the spiritual power system in the third fortress, most of the priestesses, in addition to their faith, are devoted to the research of the spiritual power system. Although these two religious countries also believe in the goddess, the lack of a spiritual power system and the goddess' preference for beautiful women have led to most of the clergy in these two religious countries being completely rotten.

There is some belief in the goddess but not much, but this little belief also makes them not care about interfering in the affairs of other countries, because the existence of the goddess belief does not allow them to actively attack other countries. This is the iron rule of faith and political correctness. The last pope who touched this iron rule was directly expelled from the political center of the church along with his family.

While the nobles from other countries were secretly preparing to deal with Roy, Roy was also thinking about how to sweep these nobles into the trash.

Roy knew that the Black Beast Mercenaries were heading towards the Sixth and Seventh Fortresses. The two rotten religious states there needed the Black Beast Mercenaries to clean up first. As a result, Roy couldn't use the Black Beast Mercenaries as a raft to intervene directly in the Second and Fifth Fortresses.

Although Roy no longer cared much about his reputation at this time, after two revolutions, Roy also knew that sometimes strength was important, but sometimes it was more important to have a legitimate reason and a righteous purpose.

If the two previous battles had not seen a large number of nobles colluding with the Black Beast Mercenaries and the Black Beast Mercenaries almost breaking into the city, Roy could have achieved this step through magic, but it would definitely not be so smooth. With a righteous cause in mind, the resistance to anything he does would be much smaller.

Without the greater cause of fighting against the Black Beast Mercenaries, the enemy of the Goddess, how to carry out a comprehensive reform of the second and fifth fortresses became a problem.

A random killing would definitely not work. Although this would solve most of the problems, the tone of rule would definitely change, which was not in line with Roy's plan. After all, Roy had already planned to build this continent into his own logistics base. In most cases, collective strength is always stronger than individual strength.

After thinking for a long time, Roy finally decided to use Alicia's identity. As far as he knew, the Flower Moon Princess Prim of the Second Fortress admired Alicia very much and hoped that he could do what his cousin did.

So seeing Alicia carrying out reforms in the First Fortress, it makes sense for her to also carry out reforms. And if the reforms fail and there is a backlash, it is also reasonable for Alicia to step in and take over.

Roy gradually came up with ideas on how to transform the Second Fortress into his own image, so he used teleportation magic to bring Alicia, who had evolved into a homegirl, to the Second Fortress quietly to find Prim and have a conversation with him.

Princess Prim, who was as pure as a blank sheet of paper, had no resistance to Roy's words. After hearing that he cared about the people and could make life better for the people of the kingdom, she was deceived into selling the second fortress to Roy and also handed herself over to Roy.

Well, it means she is treated like a stay-at-home girl, just like Alicia. This is Prim's initiative. Roy did not expect that this naive princess who wants to compete with her cousin in everything would even want to compete with Alicia in this area.

By the way, Prim also made a request that he hoped "she" would perform no worse than her "sister" during the reform. Roy agreed to this without hesitation. He would have done it even if Prim hadn't mentioned it. After all, if he wasn't tough, how could he get those parasites to take collective action?

After Roy reunited the sisters Alicia and Prim, the Second Fortress also entered the preparation stage. However, Roy did not stay in the Second Fortress but rushed to the Fifth Fortress without stopping. This time he wanted to reform two fortresses at once.

Chapter 174: Lulu, the card-fever guy

On the way to the Fifth Fortress, Roy did not continue to use Alicia's identity this time. Instead, he put on his previous identity as a wandering painter who traveled around the seven countries. Compared to Alicia's identity, the painter identity that once convinced Lulu could better achieve his goal.

With the help of magic, Roy only took one day to complete the journey, which would take an average person a month. He successfully arrived at the Fifth Fortress. And because he was a well-known wandering painter in the Fifth Fortress, Roy didn't need to look for the Fifth Fortress's lolita fortress chief. The proud chief of the Haflin (dwarf) tribe came to him following the news.

"Hahaha, Da Vinci, you, a heartless fellow, are finally back. Are you coming back to me because you can't make it out there?"

Lulu walked in swaggeringly, wearing a set of bright silver light armor and holding a square-headed hammer that was half her height. She had the aura of a strong person, but the floating red cloak behind her made her image a little bit out of place.

Roy, who had his back to Lulu, heard the girl's unique and coquettish voice. He didn't even need to turn around to know that Lulu, the arrogant loli, had come to him, and the biggest reason for her coming was probably to play cards with him.

Just as Roy had this thought in his mind, Lulu said, "Da Vinci, let me make it clear in advance that it is not an easy thing to surrender to me. As long as you play with me, uh, and beat me in three games of card duel, I will reluctantly accept your surrender."

Roy couldn't help but twitch his face when he saw Lulu taking out a deck of cards from somewhere in her armor and starting to shuffle the cards skillfully without caring whether he agreed or not.

As expected, this child has been seriously addicted and has become a heavy chess and card enthusiast. If I had known earlier, I should not have taught her to play cards. She was such a sharp-tongued and arrogant blonde loli at the beginning, but now she is a veteran card player, and a big sucker.

When Roy was traveling in the Fifth Fortress in the guise of Da Vinci, he unexpectedly came into contact with Lulu while investigating the local situation. He experienced some interesting adventures with her, and it was also at that time that Roy taught Lulu how to play cards.

Originally, Roy just wanted to use it to kill some time during the journey, but after the tsundere girl Lulu came into contact with card games, it was as if she had discovered a new world. Her favorite 1v1 fighting suddenly became less interesting, and she devoted herself wholeheartedly to this new field of playing cards.

It's OK that she likes playing cards, but the key is that Lulu always likes to chant some particularly childish slogans when playing cards, such as "You small fish Da Vinci, you can beat me in seconds with 17 cards, accept death, you waste..."

It would have been fine if she just shouted some childish slogans, but she shouted extra loudly as if she was afraid that others wouldn't know she was playing cards. This also made Roy regard playing cards with Lulu as something that could very likely lead to social death.

And once Lulu gets into playing cards, she won't stop until she's satisfied. The three rounds she mentions might mean three hours or three wins to her satisfaction. The former is still okay, but if it's the latter, then the game will take at least half a day.

Of course, Lulu's annoying card-playing craze was not without benefits to Roy. Although Roy spent a lot of time on it, he had a very good impression of Lulu. This could be seen when Lulu played card and stripping games with Roy without a care in the world after getting drunk.

This strip game is real, where you take off one piece of clothing if you lose. Lulu was wearing very little and her card skills were poor, so she lost all her clothes in less than ten minutes. Lulu is a person who will accept defeat once and for all, so she really took off all her clothes. After losing again naked, she went straight to Roy.

If Roy hadn't been wearing a vest with a middle-aged uncle's face, and if the loli girl hadn't had a special attack on mature women, Roy would have suppressed his desire and didn't kill Lulu on the spot. But this time, it's different.

Looking at Lulu, who had followed his instructions before he left last time and dressed up like Thor, Roy's eyes flashed with a hint of complexity.

As a person who had been teased by several aunts, he was naturally very clear about the emotion of admiration and love. The way Lulu looked at him was almost exactly the same as the way Mrs. Yukino, Sister Aso and Marina looked at him, so he actually knew that Lulu liked him.

But now he seems to want to use this emotion to achieve his goal, which is a very unpleasant thing for Roy, because he also has a good impression of Lulu, the proud little girl. After all, she threw herself into his arms naked.

Moreover, having been mentored by Akizuki Aili, the originator of tsundere, Roy can almost instantly transform Lulu's tsundere and sarcastic words into her true feelings. The sarcasm and tsundere that others find annoying is actually a very cute thing in Roy's eyes.

It was precisely because he had a good impression of Lulu that Roy had a headache about how to explain his identity to Lulu. After all, knowing his origin and the purpose of his trip, it was hard not to make people think that he had ulterior motives in approaching her.

"Well, never mind. Let's talk about it first. As for whether or not to believe this kind of thing, let time prove it."

As a man with his own ideas, Roy would not drag on emotional matters for too long. After hesitating for a while, he decided to confront Lulu directly.

"Lulu, don't worry about playing cards. I'm not here to seek refuge with you this time. On the contrary, I'm here to recruit you. Don't be surprised. I have something more surprising to tell you. In fact, my identity..."

After Roy told Lulu everything he could about his identity, he thought Lulu would act like a child and sulk like before, but Lulu's reaction was very calm, which surprised Roy a little.

This shouldn't be the case. According to Lulu's personality, she should have taken out the hammer in her hand and hit herself with it, and then yelled, "Is this the price you pay for cheating me?"

But the next second Roy's doubts were explained. Lulu took out an envelope with a faint body fragrance from her light armor. On it was the letter stamp and seal of Alicia from the First Fortress.

So that's what happened. Actually, I knew it a long time ago. Sister Alicia told me your identity in a thank-you letter last week.

Why is he involved with Alicia again?

After asking, Roy got the result. The reason was still due to himself. While traveling and painting under the vest of Da Vinci, he painted portraits of very famous heroines such as Alicia and Lulu, which led to their contact with each other in advance. When Roy borrowed Alicia's identity before, he did not restrict Alicia's freedom to communicate with the outside world, so Lulu had already known Roy's identity from Alicia's letter.

And she didn't care about Roy hiding his identity, she only cared about Roy as a person.

After learning of Lulu's attitude, the issue of identity was skipped and the next thing was about the reform of the Fifth Fortress. Lulu agreed to this point even more readily, so readily that it didn't seem like she was losing her rights but rather throwing away something she had wanted to throw away for a long time.

This is indeed the case in practice.

"Oh yeah, I'll teach you all the official duties, and I'll also leave the matter of Chief Haflin to you, Roy. I don't want to deal with those documents that give me a headache just by looking at them."

Amid Lulu's cheers, Roy easily took control of the fifth fortress by himself.

The wind of reform has successfully blown across the lands of the Fifth and Second Fortresses. The red tide has unknowingly spread across four-sevenths of the continent of Sernus. The remaining three-sevenths is a place of tit-for-tat and mutual fighting between black and white.

Chapter 175: The Knights of Dawn were easily defeated

While nearly half of the continent of Sernus was in the midst of a revolution, an extremely fierce battle was taking place in the Sixth Fortress, the church's stronghold.

One side of the battle was the Black Beast Mercenaries, which had suffered serious casualties, and the other side was the Knights of the Dawn, a guard division directly under the church. At this moment, the city wall had been lost and the two sides were now engaged in even more brutal street fighting.

Compared with the original plot where the thieves were captured without any resistance after opening the door, although it is tragic now, it is in line with the common sense of war.

Of course, it is reasonable for this situation to occur. According to a more fantasy theory, Roy's repeated victories over Walter robbed him of his original luck. Walter's lack of luck prevented the traitors who were supposed to join him from showing up. If it is said in a more realistic way, the current Black Beast Mercenary Group is not strong enough to make those traitors desperately betray him.

Compared with the Black Beast Mercenaries with at least hundreds of thousands of troops in the original plot, the Black Beast Mercenaries now only have a few thousand people. Any noble with a normal mind will not open the door to welcome them as traitors. On the contrary, the size of a few thousand people will make these nobles who bully the weak and fear the strong regard it as an opportunity to offer military merit.

The Black Beasts viewed the Sixth Fortress as a soft persimmon that was easy to bully, while the nobles in the Sixth Fortress viewed the attacking Black Beast Mercenaries as military merits that came to their doorstep, so the battle between the two sides entered a fierce climax from the very beginning.

Graf, Claudia's father-in-law, was so eager to make a contribution that he bypassed Claudia and began to command the defense forces in the fortress. Under his unauthorized command, the church's elite Knights of the Dawn gave up the advantage of the city walls, rushed out of the city gates and engaged in a field battle with the Black Beast Mercenaries.

In Graf's eyes, the Black Beast Mercenaries with only a few thousand people could be easily defeated by the five thousand Dawn Knights head-on. What's more, the Black Beast Mercenaries arrived outside the Sixth Fortress by forced march, which made it even easier. They had no physical strength concerns, no equipment advantages, and no numbers advantages. How could the Black Beast Mercenaries defeat the Dawn Knights that they had carefully built?

Although the Black Beast Mercenaries are indeed inferior to the Knights of Dawn in all aspects, one thing is unquestionable, that is, their physical fitness is far superior to their opponents, the Knights of Dawn, and the physical fitness of every ordinary soldier is comparable to that of the centurions in the Knights of Dawn.

Don't underestimate the centurion of the Knights of the Dawn. You should know that the church that indirectly controls the entire Seven Shields Alliance has expended a huge amount of resources to create a 5,000-member Knights of the Dawn. Every member of the Knights of the Dawn was carefully selected by the church and created with a lot of resources. The resources spent on each Knight of the Dawn can easily feed an ordinary family of three in their lifetime.

The officers who can become centurions in such an army that can be regarded as the foundation of a country are all powerful, and their strength is ranked in the upper-middle level in this world.

However, these strong men were mass-produced low-level soldiers in the Black Beast Mercenaries, which was why the Knights of Dawn were almost crushed in a head-on confrontation.

Originally, if the Knights of Dawn relied on the geographical advantage of the fortified city, they still had a hope of keeping the Black Beast Mercenaries out. However, a wave of people leaving the city and giving away their lives directly led to the loss of the gate of the Sixth Fortress.

In just three charges, the Knights of Dawn lost nearly one-third of their members, and their achievement was only to kill more than one hundred low-level Black Beast soldiers. The casualty ratio of both sides reached a staggering twenty to one. The most terrifying thing was that none of the middle and high-level soldiers such as Warcraft aliens of the Black Beast Mercenaries died in the field battle. On the contrary, they were strengthened again by reaping the lives of the Knights of Dawn.

Several monsters have already broken through the ten-meter limit and become true war beasts or giant Titans. Their breakthroughs also caused the Dawn Knights to be defeated faster. Each little giant could easily create a bloody storm in the Dawn Knights' army. Any Dawn Knights touched by them would either die or be knocked away with internal injuries.

Except for a few strong men in the Sixth Fortress who could deal with them, no one else could match them. If Claudia hadn't led new reinforcements from the Seventh Fortress to support the battlefield in time, the Knights of the Dawn, one of the foundations of the church, would probably have been reduced to ashes in just a few hours.

However, even with Claudia's desperate support, only less than one-third of the members of the Knights of the Dawn were able to safely withdraw to the city, and even the reinforcements she brought from the Seventh Fortress suffered heavy losses because of the rescue.

After easily defeating the rumored indestructible Knights of Dawn, the members of the Black Beast Mercenaries regained a lot of confidence. It seems that they are still quite strong. And as the King of Black Beasts, Walter, who has extremely rich war experience, naturally will not easily let go of this war opportunity that has been delivered to his doorstep.

The Sixth Fortress was not given any chance to breathe. Less than a few minutes after Claudia commanded the army to retreat into the city, the fierce attack of the Black Beast Mercenaries began. With the help of several giant monsters that were almost as tall as the city wall, the white wall that was said to be unbreakable was captured in less than an hour.

The sudden disadvantage of the war caught everyone in the city off guard, including the nobles who were preparing to divide the merits of war. Due to the urgency of time, they did not even have time to escape before they were attacked into the city.

It was too late for the nobles in the city to surrender to the Black Beast Mercenaries at this time. Not to mention their previous push, just look at the Black Beast mercenaries who were now killing crazily in the city to vent their desires. They might not even have a chance to explain their intentions before they would be hacked to death by those Black Beast mercenaries with black tattoos on their faces. This was a fact they verified only after the deaths of dozens of their servants.

It seemed that they could not escape, so this group of cowardly nobles began to use their family assets to resist these black beast mercenaries who were almost becoming aliens.

Claudia is worthy of being the commander of an elite force like the Knights of Dawn. Even in such a chaotic battle, she can still delay the Black Beast Mercenaries' entry into the city through her skillful command of the troops.

Although the individual strength of Claudia's Knights of Dawn is far inferior to that of the Black Beast Mercenaries, the church also has a lot of background, such as war buffs and blessing secret potions.

At Claudia's strong request, the church urgently used its resources to strengthen the members of the Knights of the Dawn. Claudia used a series of means and under the command of Antelope Hanging Horns, fighting and retreating. After sacrificing a large part of her forces, she withdrew to the Seventh Fortress with half of the people in the Sixth Fortress. As for the remaining people in the Sixth Fortress, they all became victims of the pursuit of the Black Beast Mercenaries.

The Sixth Fortress lasted just one day before it fell into the hands of the Black Beast Mercenaries. This was after the church had put in a lot of effort.

Everyone who knew about this understood that the church was in real danger this time!

Chapter 176. Walter's Method

The Black Beast Mercenaries who captured the Sixth Fortress vented the negative emotions accumulated during this period of time in the city. However, because Walter had previously shouted the slogan of establishing a country of service, most of the women and children in the Sixth Fortress were safely evacuated to the Seventh Fortress under the cover of the Dawn Mercenaries.

Most of the people who stayed in the Sixth Fortress were young and strong adults, and the other part were nobles from the aristocratic district. Compared with ordinary people who had nothing to be nostalgic about, they were wealthy and could not bear to give up the wealth they had exploited their families, and they were spoiled and could not stand the speed of the forced march.