"Where did this ore come from?!" After a few seconds, Annie turned to look at the white-haired old man and asked in a quick tone, "How much is the quantity? What's the price? I want it all!"
"Oh, right." The white-haired old man didn't show any excitement after hearing what Anne said, as if there was no commission for the consignment. As before, he glanced at Annie indifferently and said slowly: "I have to think about this. I am getting older and my memory is a bit bad. I remember it was-"
Halfway through, the white-haired old man's tone kept prolonging, and then... nothing more, and then...
Annie waited for a full half minute and found that there was no follow-up. She felt that a wave of anger could not help but spread upwards from her lower abdomen. He raised one hand, ready to drag the white-haired old man out from behind the counter and violently interrogate him.
At this moment, she noticed that the white-haired old man suddenly looked towards the door.
Um? What
With curiosity, she followed the old man's gaze and looked toward the door, and saw a young woman about her age walking in, with shoulder-length hair.
Her eyes and the other person's eyes naturally touched each other.
"You..." Annie opened her mouth, wanting to ask.
As a result, there was a "boom" at this time.
Outside Newburgh, somewhere, there was a huge explosion, and the shaky wooden frame in the store suddenly made a "creak" sound that was unsupportable.
this
Annie was stunned.
She was also stunned when she saw the young woman walking in. She obviously didn't know what was happening as much as she did.
On the contrary, it was the white-haired old man behind the counter who realized the truth first. He quickly ran out from behind the counter, shouting.
"There's a war! The wizard has cast a spell! Run! Run!"
"Wow!"
There were some chaotic sounds on the streets outside and throughout the city of Newburgh.
Annie's body tensed up, and out of stress reaction, mana fluctuations began to appear in her body. Then she noticed that the young woman at the door also looked wary, and there were also mana fluctuations in her body.
The two of them looked at each other with expressions like "You turn out to be just like me", and then looked towards the outside of the city together.
"What happened?" Annie whispered.
After a moment, she heard the woman at the door reply: "I don't know."
"Well… "
…
In the wilderness more than ten miles outside Newburgh.
"boom!"
With the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, a figure fell from the sky.
The figure that fell down was an army wizard from the Soma Alliance. He had the cultivation level of a first-level wizard. Logically speaking, his status was not low at all, but he was in an extremely embarrassed state at this time.
I saw that the clothes on his chest had been burned by the flames, exposing his charred and blackened chest, and most of his hair was burned away by the flames. He was lying on the ground like a beggar, with blood flowing out from under him, his eyes closed tightly, and it was very difficult to see. Clearly seriously injured.
"Wizard Chester, Lord Chester!" Two young men's figures quickly ran close, one shouted, and the other's hands emitted a faint green light and pressed down on the injured wizard's chest. They were two wizard apprentices accompanying the army, and their mission was to assist the wizards in fighting. Now seeing that the person they were assisting had been severely injured, they tried to treat him in a panic.
The wizard known as Chester was not in extremely bad physical condition. He regained consciousness under weak treatment.
Opening his eyes, Chester saw the nervous expressions of two wizard apprentices close at hand. Going a little further away, he saw a wizard from the Sika Kingdom wearing a blue-grey robe, flying towards the distance.
Just now, it was the opponent's sneak attack that seriously injured him, and now it was the magic-equipped knight who was preparing to raid a reconnaissance outpost of the Soma Alliance.
Yes, the other party is raiding the reconnaissance post.
Chester's eyes widened, and with the help of his eyesight that was far beyond ordinary people, he could clearly see that the Sika wizard produced rolling flames in his hands and spread them to the ground. Below were several magic-equipped knights from the Soma Alliance who had just become conscious. They had no time to attack and were engulfed in flames the next moment.
After the wizards from the Sika Kingdom army killed several magic knights, they did not stop and flew towards another reconnaissance post not far away, trying to repeat the same trick.
Chester felt his body heat up.
He knew very well that there were three Soma Alliance reconnaissance outposts nearby, jointly guarding a garrison stronghold, thus forming a relatively forward defense line on the border. In some cases, they could occupy a certain advantage.
Now, the Sika Kingdom is obviously preparing to destroy this section of the defense line, including the reconnaissance outposts and garrison strongholds.
Behind the Sika wizard, on the distant horizon, there was the sound of "rumbling" horse hooves, which was the cavalry preparing to support the Sika wizard.
Damn it, this is the Sika guy actively provoking a war!
Chester felt that the blood in his whole body was boiling, and he couldn't help but want to fight desperately so that the Sika people could learn the lesson they deserved. However, the strong pain in his chest and back reminded him that it was impossible to complete this task. In the previous sneak attack, he had suffered irreversible injuries. He was no match for the wizards of the Sika Kingdom's army, not to mention the large number of cavalry that followed.
"What to do, Wizard Chester?"
"What should we do, Lord Chester?"
The two wizard apprentices kept asking questions with pale faces and trembling voices, which sounded as annoying as mosquitoes to his ears.
"Shut up!" Chester yelled, struggled to stand up, and looked at the Sika wizard who had destroyed the second reconnaissance outpost and flew towards the last reconnaissance outpost.
He took a deep breath, suppressed his injuries, and ordered the two wizard apprentices: "Calm down!"
"Now it is obvious that it is the Sika Kingdom that is provoking, and they must not be allowed to succeed."
"Now, I will pass the information to the military. However, it is difficult for them to know the detailed information, so I give you two a task, which is to bypass the garrison stronghold, rush to the military camp separately, and tell the military what you saw Everything we have arrived. I hope the garrison can hold on until you return with support."
"What about you, sir?" the two wizard apprentices asked.
"Me..." Chester's expression became slightly solemn, "Of course I tried my best to hold back that damn Xikalao wizard, otherwise how could the garrison hold on and how could you two leave safely."
After saying this, Chester took out a crystal ball from his waist and quickly injected mana into it to activate it.
After a moment, the vague information agreed in advance was transmitted, and Chester crushed the crystal ball with a "crash". Then he stepped forward, hunched his body, coughed in a low voice, and rushed towards the army wizards of the Sika Kingdom, his eyes bloodshot.
"Let's go!" Chester made his final voice.
The two wizard apprentices shook their bodies and looked at each other without hesitation. One left and one right, they ran quickly towards the depth of their own defense line.
"Boom!"
As they ran, the sky above them roared.
The two wizards started a fierce battle.
"Ta-ta-ta!"
In the distance, the sound of horse hooves approaching on the horizon.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
In the garrison, the soldiers who reacted began to fire large crossbows, trying to help their own wizards, but it was of no use.
Further away, whether it was the Soma Alliance or the Sika Kingdom, there were a series of chain changes in the military camps of both sides.
An increasingly fierce battle is about to break out.