The city of Pettus was named after Lord Pettus, and it was really hard to give up this city.
Previously, the Phoenix Kingdom stated that it could accept people, but Pettus himself had no arrangements for the problem, which made him very upset.
There is no need to talk about hatred. The safety of Pettus City has nothing to do with that kingdom. The terrain determines that even if Pettus City is bombed, most of the demons in this direction will move east instead of turning to the southwest. .
He just couldn't let go of the power in the lord's hands.
After sending an envoy to inquire about the conditions of the Phoenix Kingdom, he looked for an escape route from the lords in other directions, especially the several large lords in the east.
Unsurprisingly, the great lords were nominally willing to leave a retreat, but did not allow Pettus City to move.
The one with the best conditions is only willing to support a small number of soldiers and a little money.
This situation makes Petters quite depressed.
If you go to the Phoenix Kingdom, you won't have anything to do with yourself in the future. Since you don't know how to do business, you can only sit back and have nothing. Staying to blame others... I'm afraid the consequences will be even more ugly, but at least you can survive for a few years and make some money.
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Time passed day by day as he hesitated, and when he checked the tax form one day, he realized something was wrong.
"Nine thousand people? All the young men are dead? Are there still a few thousand left?"
The tax official said helplessly: “I can’t find anyone.”
Petters' eyes widened: "Can't find anyone? Where's the house? Don't you know how to collect furniture?"
"The house is empty and there is nothing valuable. If you like their wooden tables and chairs, I can find someone to get some for you."
"……roll!"
"Hey!" The tax officer hurriedly ran.
Petters was depressed for a while and called the captain of his own army: "Go and inquire and see where the civilians have gone."
The soldiers took the order and left.
It was not easy for the lord's personal soldiers to find out the truth in the city. It took a little time to hire blind people to inquire, and it took two days to report back to the lord.
"Sir, most of the civilians have gone to the Phoenix Kingdom, and some have gone to the east."
"How do they know the way?"
Because Pettus had not made a decision, the negotiations with the Phoenix Kingdom were naturally not made public. Under normal circumstances, people would not go through the mountains to the dark land, so it would be strange to know about the Phoenix Kingdom.
"Didn't find out."
Pettus dismissed his guards, feeling a headache.
Although he said that he had not heard about it, after thinking about it, he knew that it was either the envoy sent by his family to the Phoenix Kingdom, or the news was spread by the other party's people. Ordinary businessmen may also know the information about the Phoenix Kingdom, but they will not take the initiative to advertise it widely.
Do you want to check it out?
It seems to be of little significance. Even if the culprit is found and beheaded, it will not change the fact that the population is losing rapidly.
While he was still struggling, the demon clan sent a "surprise".
The slave catchers operating around Pettus City have captured a large number of intermediate demons in the past few months, estimated to be one or two thousand.
This number is not big for the demons, but it is enough to anger the little leaders who are causing trouble in the exile.
Lord Yellow Star had previously sent Gertrud to the Exiled Land to establish territory, but then there was no movement. Later, when he sent some men with some brains to check, they found nothing.
Because the wild demons are very chaotic, and most of them have intellectual problems. Although they can understand that Gertrud promoted the group action before, they cannot accurately point out the details of the battle between the two sides.
The unlucky man who came to the penal colony in place of Gertrude was named Akhber, a serious devil.
When the demon world was still called hell, demons were the ruling class. It's still okay now, but there hasn't been a demon king in the past thousand years, so things are getting worse.
Demons like to eat people's hearts, but in the situation at hand, if they only ate people's hearts, they would have starved to death. It was also the first time Aheber ate a mixed-race heart after coming to the exile, but he still didn't see the people's hearts.
In order to avoid making the same mistake as Gertrude, Akhbor hid some information from Lord Yellow Star.
For example, an intermediate-level demon told him that Gertrud was killed in the south, or that he had found a mixed-race settlement in the north... The only news he reported back was that "a few villages were found and had been massacred by wild monsters." .
The reason for concealing the news is naturally so that I can enjoy it for a while longer.
The south side must not be touched, otherwise sooner or later we will have to follow the same path of our predecessors, and have to climb over the mountains from the north and rely on the support of a few small settlements to survive.
But the southeast direction was too much, causing intermediate-level demons to disappear continuously.
I was worried that the intermediate demons would spread the news back to the demon world, so I decided to take care of it.
Aheber lay dormant for a while and realized that this wave seemed to be different from the one just south of the lava lake, so he got angry.
It was similar to the method used by the seniors. After a while of fussing at the back, he pushed a large number of low-level demons and a few intermediate demons to rush forward.
This fighting method is very crude, but effective. It has always been the magic weapon for the demons to win.
There is no comparison between the defense system of Pettus City and that of the south. Before the demon army reached the city wall, most of the slave catchers who had caused trouble before were wiped out.
Although they were prepared to take precautions, the number of demons was tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands at a time. Several stations in front of them found out the status of the forwards and fled back home, which did not act as a hindrance at all.
It was the same as not taking precautions, but the result was that the fight started directly in front of the city wall.
Pettus is a small town that evolved out of the need for adventure in the humid forest. Even if it has a higher city defense level to protect against monsters, after all, the population gap is too big, and there are very few people who can attack the monsters from a distance.
Facing the overwhelming demon clan, it was impossible to build an effective defense, and most of the city was burned down on the spot.
Lord Pettus regretted it now and remembered many stories about "making prompt decisions".
But there is no regret medicine in the world, and even magic can't produce it. Seeing that I couldn't bear it anymore, and hearing the roars and wailings of beasts everywhere, I decided to do something to make up for it.
Together with my bodyguards and a few slave traders who had no time to escape, I relied on rank suppression and paid a small amount of losses to buy some time to save the family property, which also allowed some young and strong civilians to escape from the city.
However, the level of the demons is very strict, and the slightly more advanced demons will not share their spoils. The huge number of demons that still have no harvest can only continue to spread outwards. There are still a large group of demons pursuing them all the way, and the victims will soon be blocked in the mountainous area.
The mountainous area south of Pettus is the eastern section of the volcanic belt. There are no active volcanoes, but the vegetation density is still not high. The mountains form a good fighting environment, but in the absence of vegetation cover, if you want to sneak out from under the eyes of the demons It's also very difficult.
In desperation, the victims formed a stronghold in a place with favorable terrain and endured the disaster, hoping that the demons would retreat when they lost interest.
Obviously a bit whimsical.
Pettus had no choice but to take two women and one soldier, find an opportunity to join the slave traders, and leave thousands of people on the hilltop.
It was also at this time that the Phoenix Kingdom discovered the sudden change in the situation, or because the pilot of the Gale 2, which was responsible for drawing the map of the east, happened to be one of the temporary envoys who had been in contact with Pettus before. On the way, he thought of checking on Pettus. Tes, only then did he realize that something had happened.
With a population of several thousand, Wang Qi was really unable to leave behind, and the spread of demons in the eastern end of the dark land would threaten the safety of the Magic Academy and the new city under construction in the north of the new city. The garrison was immediately required to rescue them with all their strength.
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