Chapter 0722 Mulanhe
Taranta Plain Kingdom, also known as the country of mercenaries.
This is a completely free and casual mercenary country, with hundreds of mercenary groups of all sizes. Even more than a dozen medium-sized mercenary groups with more than a thousand people, and as for the small mercenary groups with only a hundred people, there are even more.
However, in this vast land, there are three large mercenary groups with more than 10,000 members.
Tiger, Scarlet Battle Flag and Ainodia.
These three large mercenary groups each occupy a core city and radiate to cover the huge surrounding territory. Among the three core cities, the three mercenary groups take over all the businesses and formulate their own unique rules and ruling orders to manage the city in a model of managing mercenaries.
As for other large and small mercenary groups, they could only crowd in the remaining dozen cities, and maintained the operation of the city through mercenary co-governance. It can be said that the three major mercenary groups are role models for all remaining mercenary groups.
There are fierce competition and infighting in every mercenary city. Each mercenary group fantasizes about being able to squeeze out all competitors like the three major mercenary groups, occupy a city itself, and then formulate its own laws.
So in the Taranta Mercenary Kingdom, a city is a country, and each region has unique laws and regulations. If you walk here and do business, you can easily fall into the trade traps laid by locals without a familiar guide.
However, commerce here is not only without the intensive and tycoon taxes, but also avoid the ubiquitous faith testing of religious forces. Therefore, it is still the first choice for major merchant groups to conduct cross-border trade. In many countries, slave transactions that are explicitly prohibited, stolen goods, prohibited goods, and black market transactions are often unimpeded here.
Muranhe, as the large city closest to the business road on the Senna Plain, is also the headquarters of the large mercenary group of Scarlet Battle Banners. Although there are more than a dozen affiliated mercenary groups in the city, everyone knows that there is only one force that can talk about, that is Scarlet Battle Banners.
As one of the three major mercenary groups of the Tarata Mercenary Kingdom, there are as many as 4 legendary powerful men on the Scarlet Battle Flag.
The commander Nina, the magic swordsman, and the legendary rank, was a powerful figure with a lightning fast sword, and his background was unknown.
Deputy Head Bi Suo, a Bachelor of Science (advanced profession of scholars), is said to be a senior member of the Miyin Society (a loose organization composed of scholars).
The consultant mage Filizart is a spiritual master, a legendary level, possesses a legendary level spiritual spirit, and has a strange and changeable attack method.
The secret probe leader Warrens, Mu Blade (Assassin's advanced profession), legendary, with an ominous attack method and unknown origin.
Due to the strong and high-pressure policies of the Three Kingdoms of the Mage and the Four Religious Kingdoms, most of the warriors could only join together under the pressure of survival and became free mercenaries in Taranta. It is precisely because of the existence of such a huge warrior group that the Taranta mercenary country was able to stand on the vast plains in a deformed way of survival.
Basically, in order to maintain a strong deterrence, the three major mercenary groups all spent a lot of money to hire legendary casters. In order to win over these powerful casters, the mercenary groups even built a towering magic tower for them.
Magic Tower, this kind of magic building may not be an exaggerated matter in the Mage Guild, but it is a real killer among a group of warriors, assassins, barbarians, and bards. A magic tower hosted by a legendary spellcaster can easily kill a team of legendary warriors who mainly engage in melee battles.
Therefore, the three mercenary groups have built magic towers in their core cities and provided with a legendary caster, which has established the unshakable dominance of the three mercenary groups.
However, the cost of supporting a legendary spell caster is too high, and the expense of maintaining the magic tower is enough to make most of the medium-sized mercenaries go bankrupt, so they are unable to provide more legendary spell casters. Otherwise, recruiting three or four legendary mages in one breath will not be able to unify the mercenary world!
It’s not that they don’t want to, but that they really can’t do it.
As the most difficult profession to advance, spell casters have experienced the extremely cruel natural elimination. Most of them are no longer keen on the world's powerful and wealth. The only thing that can impress them is the precious knowledge that they have never seen and the rare resources that help them experiment with magic.
If you want to recruit a legendary wizard, you must at least build a magic tower that matches his identity. This item alone can kill everyone's delusions. Therefore, even if the three major mercenary groups have strong troops and are making money every day, they can only barely support a legendary spellcaster.
One more is a delusion!
So when Li Xun entered Muranhe in a shaking and dilapidated carriage, the first thing he saw was the towering magic tower in the middle of the city.
According to convention, when entering the city gate, he paid the entry tax according to the head of the people, and Li Xun was able to enter the city in a swaggering manner.
The shabby carriage was slowly driving on the spacious bluestone avenue of Mulanhe. The whole street was full of traffic and people were crowded with people. All kinds of people were called to buy, and the shouts of hawking were also heard one after another. Although it was a little messy, it was also very lively.
The shops on the street are filled with lingering eyes, with a variety of goods filled the shops, and the flow of people coming and going in and out, endless. There are many merchants in the crowd, but there are adventurers and mercenaries talking with swords and swords. Guys like them must be listed as dangerous elements in other countries and are strictly monitored by urban law enforcement officers, but here they are free and casual as if they are at home.
Although fighting and killing are prohibited here, there are not stealing, so there are quite a few people in the crowd who look like thieves. This is simply a paradise for thieves and wanderers. If you stay here for a long time, you can easily practice your theft skills to the full level.
Li Xun was still picking up the curtains on the side of the carriage with great interest, and Maggie, dressed as a coachman, had already whispered: "Master, we are almost at the Blood Rose Mercenary Group!"
Li Xun took the gods and noticed that as the dilapidated carriage turned left and right in Mulanhe City, it was getting farther and farther away from the center main street. The road ahead gradually became narrower and shops began to be scarce. The houses along the way had already felt dilapidated and old.
Every distance, you can see a large area of tall and sturdy stone houses, which look like a large warehouse, and there are groups of fully armed mercenaries guarding the door. The equipment of these mercenaries is undoubtedly many times better than those wandering mercenaries. Not only are they neat leather armor and weapons, but also have a unified chest emblem.
However, Li Xun had never been with Muranhe and was unfamiliar with these rare beast-like beast-like portraits. Therefore, he listened to Maggie explaining the mercenary groups belonging to the chest emblem and the unknown interesting stories behind each mercenary group.
It can be seen that the entire Mulanhe is a large loose market. Except for a few main streets in the hands of the Fierce Battle Flag Mercenary Group, the rest of the streets and residential areas were sold to different mercenary groups in the form of outsourcing, allowing them to serve as headquarters or storage warehouses. If you want to build commercial facilities such as taverns, hotels, casinos, and auction houses, you can do it, but you need to hand over a lot of taps to the Fierce Battle Flag.
Therefore, along the way, each block is a camp belonging to different mercenary groups. The armored mercenaries are in and out, which is very lively. However, this freedom and looseness are only for one's own people. Once outsiders enter their defense zone, they will be subject to strict investigation and interrogation.
Perhaps it was the towering magic tower that gave the Scarlet Battle Flag an unparalleled confidence, or perhaps it was the four legendary strong men who were enough to suppress all external thorns, which allowed them to carelessly allow each mercenary group to blatantly have their own independent armed forces in the city.
If this is in a country with strict laws and regulations, they may have confiscated all their weapons when they enter the city. How could they allow them to shout with their swords and swords on their backs and form their own system?
Half a quarter of an hour later, the carriage stopped at the gate of the Blood Rose Mercenary Corps.
Li Xun got out of the car and surrounded him, and couldn't help but nodded secretly. It seemed that his group of subordinates knew how to keep it secret!
The one standing in front of Li Xun was not the common wooden building, nor the exquisite and gorgeous noble mansion, but a huge square fortress. The main building made of huge stones was also built outside with a wide and thick high wall. Below the wall was a dry moat, with countless horse-rejected fences and pointed fences inside. No one could think of not paying any price to pass such defense.
Seriously, this is still a large warehouse with strong fire protection. However, compared with the warehouses I have seen along the way, it is closer to military-purpose camps and war forts.
Through the heavily guarded patrol, he entered the building and shuttled between the piles of chaotic huge wooden boxes and the containers for a long time. Maggie, who led the way, pulled some mechanism on a pile of large wooden boxes in the middle of the warehouse. She just pushed the unmovable wooden boxes downward and turned over, revealing a dark hole that was gradually tilted, and the bluestone steps were vaguely visible.
After walking about half a mile underground, the two of them re-eared out of the ground. In a gloomy room, three guys in noble clothes had been waiting here for a long time.
"See Master!" Seeing Li Xun appear, three noble blood warlocks bowed to one knee at the same time.
This is the eyes and whistle detective that the Blood Demon guy was inserted in Muranhean.
As a large cemetery, it has long adhered to Li Xun's will and regarded the Klein plane as its main plane to take root. Therefore, it is also striving to control the basic development trend of major countries. In order to more conveniently obtain domestic intelligence, the large cemetery is also working hard to install strongholds and intelligence personnel in various countries.
As an assassin, as a spy, the shadow killer may be qualified, but if they want to establish open strongholds and offices, their too undead bodies cannot be concealed.
Chapter completed!