The villain really doesn't want to steal the heroine.

【Experience value is full, level up! 】

[Magician Level: LV54-LV55] (Current Experience Value 0.01%)

[Warrior Level: LV54-LV55] (0.01% of current experience value)

[Level of your familiar Xingyi: LV54-LV55] (0.01% of current experience value)

In one week, Wanxing leveled up twice, from LV53 to LV55. This speed can be said to be fast - after all, the experience points he needs for each level up are astronomical, and the key is that he has to fill up three experience bars at the same time.

However, what followed was a feeling of emptiness - Wanxing, who had finally filled the LV54 experience bar, looked at the even larger experience value requirements of LV55 and immediately decided to leave work early today!

You have to indulge yourself occasionally, strike a balance between work and rest, and not push yourself too hard.

Thinking of this, Wanxing took Xingyi and Luo'er out of the Russell Maze and returned to the dormitory early, only to find that there was a guest at home - the ancestor grandmother Latifa.

Chapter 128: Lure the Tiger Away from the Mountain

Sylphy, who had been training in the indoor pool, was now entertaining her ancestor, Latifa, who had suddenly visited her in the living room.

The return of Wanxing and the other two naturally attracted their attention immediately.

"I'm back!" Wan Xing pushed open the door and shouted habitually.

"Welcome back." Sylphy habitually said the welcome words that Wanxing taught her, then pointed at Latifa and said, "Auntie has something to talk to you about."

"Grandma, is there anything I can do for you?"

Wanxing asked curiously.

Although he had been busy killing monsters, practicing, and sleeping with a team in the past week, the butler still sent him a report on the intelligence in Russell City every day.

Wan Xing usually takes the opportunity to take a quick look at the intelligence during breakfast every day, so he has a certain understanding of the current situation in Russell City.

According to intelligence, a large number of adventurers have poured into Russell City in the past week. There are more than a dozen large adventure groups alone, and countless other small and medium-sized adventure groups and lone adventurers.

And this is just the beginning. As long as the dragon's nest is not found, in the short term (several years), the number of adventurers who come to look for the dragon's nest and try to get rich overnight will continue to increase.

After all, the adventurers who have arrived at Russell City now are all from a short distance, and the farther the distance, the longer the journey will take.

As the number of adventurers increased, the public security in Russell City became worse and worse. The incidence of robbery, theft, murder, arson and other incidents had increased by more than ten times compared to the same period last year, and the trend continued to rise.

As the saying goes, when you have a sharp weapon, you will naturally want to kill. You cannot expect every powerful adventurer to have noble character.

Therefore, at this time, strong external force intervention is needed to keep those adventurers with criminal capabilities calm and restrained.

Adventurer criminals of super-class and below will naturally be dealt with by the Duke's Palace's City Guard Knights and super-class guards.

As for the heroic adventurer criminals, they can only be dealt with by Latifah - although Duke Russell is also a heroic existence, when facing heroic adventurer criminals, he can only defeat them at best, and it is difficult to kill them. He cannot stop them from running away, and it has no deterrent effect.

So they could only rely on Latifah. Although the legendary mermaid's combat power was weakened on land, the gap of three major realms made it impossible for those heroic adventurers and criminals to even escape.

In just one week, Latifa had killed seven heroic adventurer criminals, an average of one per day.

Wanxing, who knew the above information, would be curious about how Latifa, who was so busy, had time to come to see him.

Latifa didn't keep the conversation a secret and directly stated her purpose: "Your father, Joe Russo, has just received a call from the Empire and has already set out with half of the City Guard Knights..."

After listening to her explanation, Wan Xing roughly understood the situation:

As everyone knows, as long as a heroic monster does not invade major human cities and kill people indiscriminately, no adventurer will go to fight it even if its mission is posted in the Adventurer's Guild.

If a heroic monster really breaks into a big city, the country to which the city belongs will be responsible for conquering it.

Coincidentally, just yesterday, a brilliant-level monster was enraged for some reason, roaring and rushing out of its territory, and broke into the main city of Duke's territory with a group of monster minions.

According to the Continental Convention, this Brilliant-class monster should be conquered by the Magic Empire's royal family—in fact, the Royal Knights have already set out to conquer it.

However, according to the human race's principle of mutual assistance, when a city is attacked by a tide of monsters, the surrounding cities are obliged to provide assistance.

If you choose not to help others, then when the beast tide has finished wreaking havoc on them and turns to attack your city, no one will come to help you.

Moreover, if you go to help, it is equivalent to putting the battlefield on someone else's territory, which can prevent your own territory from being baptized by war.

More coincidentally,

The Duke's territory is right next to the Duke of Russell's territory.

Therefore, this beast tide that should have had nothing to do with Duke Russell now requires him to bring the City Guard Knights to support it, which can be regarded as an unprovoked disaster.

"There are too many coincidences. There must be a huge secret behind this!"

After hearing this, Xi Erfei frowned, realizing that the matter was not simple. He rubbed Wanxing and asked, "What do you think?"

"It's a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain," Wan Xing said to Latifa with a smile. "It seems that you, Grandma, have killed so many people that those lawless adventurers are frightened. That's why they came up with this stupid idea to try to lure you away."

Latifa looked at Wanxing approvingly and nodded, "Your father and I thought the same thing, so he asked me to continue guarding Russell City while he took the Knights to go there."

"Just to lure my aunt away, you triggered a beast tidal wave to attack the city, killing countless compatriots," Xi Erfei said with a smack of her lips. "You humans are so cruel! You don't even consider your own people as human beings."

"All races are the same, there are good people and bad people," Wan Xing shook his head without further explanation. After all, humans are a race that loves to fight among themselves.

Fortunately, this world still has threats from other races and monsters, otherwise humans would have started a world war and beaten their brains out long ago.

Wanxing looked at Latifa and changed the subject, "Why didn't my father call me?"

"This is his love for you!" Latifa said with a kind smile, "This is how my descendants should be, loving each other and moving forward courageously..."

Okay, Wanxing understands.

Duke Russell had sent him to the Sea Tribe for help last time because the danger wasn't great. He also wanted to get him out of trouble and protect him. After all, it would take at least several months for an average person to go to the Sea Tribe and back, so by the time he returned, the danger might have passed.

Who would have thought that he would ride a dragon away, teleport back, and complete the rescue mission in less than a week.

This time, going to support Duke's territory is extremely dangerous, after all, we need to fight against the beast tide.

So Duke Russell didn't call him.

"I understand," Wan Xing nodded. "Grandma, you came to me so that I can secretly protect my father, right?"

"Yes, my dear child, you are very smart," Latifa patted Wanxing's shoulder with satisfaction. "Although I don't know why you hide your strength, I believe that with your ability, you can definitely protect your father and bring him back safely."

"Okay, then I'll get ready and leave." Wan Xing said very easily, without any sense of urgency.

After all, at the speed of the Knights, it would take at least half a day to reach Duke's territory, but Wanxing could catch up in just a few minutes by riding a dragon.

"Be careful, I'm here to protect your home, don't worry!" After Latifa finished her instructions, she got up and left, returning to her exclusive villa in the Duke's Mansion.

Chapter 129: A Beast Tide Unseen in a Hundred Years

Wanxing watched Latifah leave, and then heard Sylphy ask curiously beside her:

"By the way, why is it called luring the tiger away from the mountain instead of going out to sea to fish? My aunt is a mermaid, not a tiger!"

Wan Xing then remembered that there was no such thing as luring a tiger away from its mountain peak in this world, but he could probably understand it by looking at the literal meaning.

Isn’t this mermaid princess arrogant and sharp-tongued?

How could you ask such a silly question?

He spread his hands and laughed, "Because luring the tiger away from the mountain may fail, but the fishing man will never come back empty-handed!"

"???"

Xi Erfei looked at Wanxing in confusion. Although she didn't understand what a fisherman was, she felt that he looked very powerful.

Wan Xing reached out and ruffled her long golden hair. "Okay, don't worry about these details, let's go!"

He only planned to bring Sylphy, Loelle and Xingyi this time. After all, the enemies on this trip were very weak and not all of them needed to be mobilized.

It would be better to let Davilia and Claires practice at home and improve a few more levels - they have already broken through to the hero level and also need time to consolidate their realm.

Wanxing first asked Xingyi to use space movement to teleport everyone to the Lanshan Mountains 100 kilometers north of the city. The population there was sparse, and it would not be easy to attract attention if he transformed into a giant dragon.

With Sylphy and Loelle on the dragon's back, the Ten Thousand Stars team flew towards Duke Duke's territory.

Flying in the sky is indeed much faster than running on the ground.

After a while, the Wanxing team caught up with Duke Russell and his knights who had set out earlier.

Thousands of stars are hidden in the high-altitude clouds, and you can look down from above.

The knights advanced mightily, like a silver torrent bursting forth from the dawn light. Each piece of armor gleamed with a cold, dazzling brilliance in the sunlight, like a galaxy flowing across the earth, both magnificent and majestic. The clatter of their hooves was like thunder, shaking the very earth, echoing across the vast plains. Their momentum was overwhelming and unstoppable.

The knights, clad in silver armor and wearing ornate helmets emblazoned with the Russell crest, shone with determination and fearlessness in their eyes. Their figures stood tall and straight, like moving steel fortresses, embodying the glory and power of knighthood. The swords and spears in their hands gleamed in the sunlight, and each swing was accompanied by a whistling sound that pierced the air, creating a feast for the senses and the will.

At the front of the column, Duke Russell sat atop the broad back of a walking dragon. Beside him, a banner embroidered with symbols of the Russell family's honor fluttered in the wind, leading the entire knights forward courageously. The formation was rigorous and orderly, as if united. Each step was embodied by unwavering faith and unyielding will, forging ahead resolutely towards their goal.

As far as Wanxing knows, the knight order of his family is called Silver!

Now it seems that it is indeed worthy of the name.

Here we have to mention the military overview of the Magic Empire.

Simply put, it is similar to the ancient Chinese feudal system, where the emperor is the strongest, and each prince has his own army.

There are two types of nobles in the Magic Empire: those with fiefs and those without.

Generally, only nobles with fiefs have the ability to form their own city guard knights and freely name them.

Nobles without fiefs only had guards - it was not that they could not form a knightly order, but they had no money or land and could not afford to support it.

The size of the City Guard Knights is generally related to the noble's title. The higher the title, the larger the fiefdom, the more wealth, and the larger the size of the Knights.

For example, the Russell family's Silver Knights have a total of more than 10,000 people, which is about the same size as the knight orders owned by other dukes.

A normal marquis's knights usually have 3000 men, an earl can only afford 1000, a viscount 300, a baron 100...

Of course, the above is just the normal situation. The Magic Empire also has a title that goes beyond the normal one - the Border Earl.

Border earls are all powerful new nobles. Because they are responsible for guarding the border, the territories granted to them by the emperor are particularly large, so they can form a large number of knights - at least 10,000 people, and their strength is comparable to the knights formed by the duke.

It is precisely because each territory has its own defense force that the defense pressure on the royal family of the Magic Empire is greatly reduced.

The royal family established five royal knight orders, but they were generally stationed near the imperial capital and did not need to garrison the entire country.

If the Royal Guards are the Emperor's shadows, then the five Royal Knights combined together are the Emperor's fists, kept hidden at ordinary times and sent out to smash the enemy's head at critical moments.

Wanxing hid in the clouds and observed his own Silver Knights through the power of analysis and identification.

Duke Russell only brought half of his subordinates with him on this expedition. In addition to himself, a LV59 heroic warrior, there was also a LV59 heroic magician and a LV51 heroic assassin.

The others are 100 super-class captains and more than 5000 high-level knights.

Most of these people are former graduates of Russell Academy, and their loyalty is much higher than those directly recruited from outside.

This shows that establishing an academy is extremely convenient for forming a knight order.

After watching for a while, Wanxing lost interest in the slowly advancing Silver Knights and ordered Xingyi to advance at full speed towards Duke's territory.

Although the Silver Knights' speed was not slow, at nearly 100 kilometers per hour (horses in the other world were faster than those in the real world), it still took most of the day to reach their destination.

Wanxing can't wait that long.

Anyway, his mission is to secretly protect Duke Russell. If he can resolve the beast tide in Duke Duke's territory in advance and eliminate the enemy, then he will have completed the mission goal.

More than ten minutes later, the Wanxing team arrived at Duke Duke's territory's main city, Duke City.

At a glance, he saw a huge LV69 firebird, venting its anger at Duke City's protective magic circle. Every time the huge firebird flapped its wings, a blanket of fire feathers fell, seemingly as light as a feather, but in fact heavier than Mount Tai.

Every fire feather can make the magic circle protecting the city shaky, and it needs to replenish a huge amount of magic crystals to barely hold it up.

The giant firebird has eight LV59 bird monsters under its command. Although they are only at the hero level, their combat power is not weak.

There were countless other lower-level bird-like monsters. They did not attack the city-protecting magic circle, but were killing people crazily outside the city. After all, only nobles, wealthy businessmen and a small number of civilians could hide in the city, and farms and villages were all outside the city.

Such a large-scale beast tide has not occurred in the Magic Empire for hundreds of years.

Although Duke City's protective magic circle seems to be able to hold on, the magic crystals in the city are almost exhausted, and the magic circle itself is full of cracks. Even if there is an adequate supply of magic crystals, it will not last long.

Chapter 130: The Great Battle

Wanxing observed the enemy situation and was about to launch a sneak attack on the giant firebird.

I saw a flash of golden light in the distant sky, followed by the sound of galloping horses.

Just looking at the banner with Ten Thousand Stars, you can tell that [Hope], one of the five Royal Knights, has arrived.

The five royal knight orders each have their own duties.