On the way to the royal city of the Far South Empire.
General Helauren raised the sword in his hand and stabbed it into the shoulder of a knight. The sword easily pierced the knight's shoulder and nailed him to the ancient tree behind him.
"Betrayer, answer my question."
General Helauren had blood on his cheek as he carried out the mission of escorting the priest of the Eye of Conquest back to the royal city.
This priest of the Eye of Conquest can be said to be the 'real mother' of all the blood crystal beasts in the Far South Empire, and her importance is comparable to that of nuclear weapons on Earth.
This escort mission was carried out by his direct troops, and General Helauren carried it out very cautiously. His intuition played a role again, that is, there was a traitor in his direct troops!
These traitors were not smart. General Helauren found a woman to substitute for the priestess of the Eye of Conquest, and indeed, he lured the traitors out.
"Where does your power come from!"
General Helauren gently turned the hilt of the sword in his hand, and the blade that pierced the knight's hilt stirred his flesh and blood. The knight groaned in pain but didn't say a word.
General Helauren knew this knight. He knew every soldier in his troops, so General Helauren did not expect that his confidant would be a traitor.
As for the reason for his betrayal, General Helauren could conclude that it was due to the special power that this knight possessed.
"If you don't answer, your wife and son will answer for you!" General Helauren suddenly drew out the sword in his hand, and blood gushed out from the blade.
The knight who was originally stubborn was stunned when he heard General Helauren's words...
This knight was not born into a noble family. He was once an excellent gladiator in the arena. General Helauren took a fancy to his abilities and made him a member of his own knightly order.
He probably didn't expect that General Helauren would actually investigate his past as a gladiator, until General Helauren mentioned the names of his wife and son... The knight finally couldn't hide the secret in his heart, and just as he was about to speak, he suddenly covered his chest.
"Damn it! The same thing again!" It was too late for General Helauren to call for a healer. Fine scales like a lizard began to appear on the knight's neck.
The scales began to spread rapidly over his body, and within a few seconds he gradually transformed from a human into a lizard...
General Helauren simply raised the sword in his hand and cut off the opponent's head cleanly, and this transformation gradually stopped.
"Is the general an assassin sent by Shenghui?"
The knights nearby seemed to have gotten used to this change, but some of the new recruits were still frightened by this terrifying change.
"He's not an assassin, he's a traitor." General Helauren turned over the other's body with the blade of his sword. The scales on the body gradually faded after death. "Someone cast a curse on him, or drank some medicine... Damn it! Shenghui's dragon disease has spread here."
The reason why General Helauren could act so calm was that he had been leading his troops to fight against the Holy Light Kingdom for many years.
The soldiers of Shenghui will show this symptom when they are on the verge of death. Their bodies will be covered with scales and turn them into a kind of lizard man. Their strength will increase greatly while they will lose their sanity.
People in the Far South Empire called it the Dragon Transformation Disease. They had always believed that only people of Shenghui would get this disease, but now it seems... this is not a natural disease, but a man-made curse!
"General, what should we do with his wife and children?" General Helauren's deputy came out and asked.
"Treat him as if he had died on the front line and give them a pension. No one among you is allowed to leak this matter! Do you understand?" General Helauren's voice was filled with murderous intent, because he didn't know how many people... infected with the dragon disease were lurking in the Far South.
If there were traitors like this among his own troops, how many more were there among the nobles in the Far South? General Helauren felt a chill at the thought.
He must report this matter to his emperor as soon as possible and then carry out a purge!
… … …
Earl Lionheart has returned to Lionheart Territory, and along with him also returned to Lionheart Territory with Captain Sina's two cargo ships full of cargo.
The cargo ship traveled by water and arrived at the main city of Lionheart Territory almost at the same time as Earl Lionheart, and Captain Sina’s first distinguished guest was... Earl Lionheart.
The first thing Earl Lionheart did when he returned home was to buy a whole ship full of alcohol and daily necessities without thinking twice.
The price was agreed upon by Captain Sina and Earl Lionheart on the way, and he was wondering whether the Earl would go back on his word and swallow up the goods after arriving at the destination.
As a result, as soon as Captain Sina entered the gate of Lionheart City and arrived at the port of Lionheart City, the guards carried a large box of gold coins and threw it in front of Captain Sina.
"There are only 150 cases of liquor?"
Earl Lionheart stood at the harbor and watched his family's servants board the Smiley and unload boxes of various beverages one by one.
There are an average of sixteen bottles of wine in each of the one hundred and fifty boxes, which adds up to a total of two thousand four hundred bottles. Captain Sina thought that even if you have a good alcohol tolerance, you can't use up so many bottles of wine for a bath, right
"Do you want more?" Captain Sina didn't dare to speak his inner thoughts.
He knew that Earl Lionheart was not a rough man, and he was very shrewd when negotiating business with Captain Cinna along the way.
Instead of sheltering Captain Sina and letting him sell these products in his own territory and other places in the Far South Empire, Earl Lionheart would have chosen to buy them all himself and then set up a separate chamber of commerce to sell them.
"There's never enough wine! What else is there on this ship?"
Count Lionheart seems to be celebrating after successfully returning to his territory
Lu Cheng looked at the earl in the crowd, who had some of Aobai's temperament. He always felt that he would walk up to Captain Xina in the next second, raise his right hand like a grab and say, "I want them all."
"Count, let me introduce them to you." Captain Sina hurriedly led Count Lionheart onto the ship and began to introduce the various goods from the Celestial Empire one by one.
Lu Cheng could only say that the vision of the Earl of Lionheart was just so-so. He seemed to disdain those women's cosmetics. However, these cosmetics were indeed not high-end stuff. They were all sold on Taobao for RMB 9.8 with free shipping. Well... the alcoholic beverages were also sold on Taobao for RMB 9.8 with free shipping. Lu Cheng bought them directly from acquaintances with his own money. The brands were definitely there, but the prices were definitely not as expensive as the market price.
All the things on these two cargo ships were bought by Lu Cheng himself through his acquaintances. Of course, there were subsidies from the Celestial Empire, but this was Lu Cheng's own idea, so the bulk of the money was still paid by Lu Cheng personally. However... money must be used.