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"After all, no one can speak Cyclops language, and the island can't fly on the ground. Someone might take the opportunity to attack."
Li Guang said at this time: "In this case, you should not keep Donor Marika, but leave me to lead the lizardmen to guard the island."
Wang looked at Li Guang: "Can I trust you...you?"
Li Guang: "Donor, you are wrong. You are our Dragon God's messenger. You have saved each of our lives."
Wang: "I don't have that for you, do I? You are a transcendent monk, and I am just a fourth-ring mage."
Li Guang: "Without you, I don't even know where the enemy is, and I don't know who has attacked my village. You have done me a favor. I and all the survivors in our village don't recognize anyone except you."
Flint: "If Lizardmen weren't bad at music, I would have composed a hymn to the Dragon God's Messenger for you."
Wang: "In that case, we will take Marika away, and you stay and lead the lizardmen to protect Rosalie and Oscar."
Li Guang clasped his hands together.
Wang looked at the others: "Once again, we are the only team to act. This time, my right eyelid skipped a beat. I am afraid that something big will happen in Shallow Water City. Considering that the cult has been operating here for many years, it may be a very dangerous situation.
"You want to quit... I want to say that, but we have been adventuring together for so long, I know you won't quit. No matter what happens, we will face it together. It's decided. Check the fireball scrolls, healing potions, and antidote potions in your respective dimensional bags. We will set off when you are ready!"
Marika: "As the captain's mobilization speech, it was not very inspiring."
Wang: "I'm not known for my infectiousness. How about Elizabeth do it?"
Elizabeth: "Eh? Me?"
"You should have learned how to give a speech in front of the nation, right?"
"I have learned it, but it's the kind of speech that requires ten clerks to review and polish. I was just responsible for reading it." Elizabeth shrugged. "I'm a naive person. How can I finish the speech by myself?"
Wang: “That’s true.”
"Don't answer like that! You should be complaining about me here!"
Xiao Bai: "There's nothing to complain about. It's the truth after all."
"You two!"
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Just as the rescue team boarded the captured dwarf airship and headed for Shallow Water City, the news had already spread in Shallow Water City.
After all, the floating city took off yesterday, and it took a whole day for it to float above the river under the watchful eyes of so many sailors on the river.
The Grand Duke of the Principality of Frank and a group of nobles were discussing this matter in the Grand Duke's study.
"Fuck these plague gods," the Archduke's intelligence chief cursed, "wherever they go, the nobles there shed blood! The key is that it wasn't the cult that killed them, it was all infighting among the nobles. In Langdon, Bruce the Kingslayer launched the Bloody Supper, and in Monrovia, the emperor personally ordered a blood transfusion among the middle and upper class nobles - a literal blood transfusion."
The Foreign Affairs Minister nodded. "We all know of his existence. We have had many dealings with them and have gained a lot of benefits from them."
The financial steward quickly agreed: "Yes, the cult has a way to quickly deal with the troublemakers among the people below and erase the evil ideas that came from Cecil."
The Grand Duchess who was present at the meeting, the Grand Duke's wife, said quietly, "I just don't know if the Order will use their methods to deal with troublemakers on all of you present. I think it's a question of whether you are loyal to the Principality or the Order."
Several managers looked at each other.
Silence fell.
The intelligence chief broke the silence, "Let's get down to business. We believe a group of shadow thieves came from Monrovia and have entered the city, but the situation in Shallow Water City... We can't locate the base of these shadow thieves anyway."
The city of Shallow Water City was able to exist entirely thanks to the giant swamp across the Masunya River.
There are many shallow swamps like this in the entire river region, but most of them do not block the Mayunya River. After all, the flow of the Mayunya River is so large that any swamp will be washed into a river.
Only this swamp is different. The Principality of Frank organized several explorations of the swamp and finally concluded that the swamp was the result of some large-scale legendary magic.
The dwarf explorers from the Thorn Islands believed that this might be a swamp artificially created by the human empire in the Second Age to resist invasion and block the invaders' attacks.
Regardless of the specific cause, the existence of this swamp created the Shallow Water City.
Initially, there was only a group of pilots responsible for guiding ships through the swamp. Later, a group of Cao workers joined the pilots, risking their lives to open up and maintain the waterway in the swamp.
Then the mercenaries joined in.
In this way, Shallow Water City grew like a snowball.
It did get bigger, but the layers of slums became the symbol of Shallow Water City. Later, the nobles who occupied this place and declared it their territory never extended their ruling power deep into the shantytown next to the swamp.
Everyone present here is well aware of this.
The residents of the shantytowns seemed to regard the nobles as their own human shields. After all, it was much cheaper to support nobles than mercenaries.
The nobles only know how to collect taxes, and if the mercenaries betray them, it will be their death.
The nobles are bound by the vain thing called "territory" and are less likely to betray.
The relationship between the shantytowns and the nobles is more like the symbiotic relationship that can be seen everywhere in the rain forest than a relationship of rulers and the ruled.
Because of this, even though the intelligence chief knew the location of the shadow thieves' base in the shantytown, he did not dare to send people to clear it out. At most, he would greet the local bosses in the shantytown to see if they were willing to take action against the foreign shadow thieves.
The Grand Duke was shocked: "The Shadow Thief is here, where are the people from the south?"
Intelligence Manager: "The people from Catalonia arrived earlier than the Shadow Thieves. After all, the airship in the report came from Catalonia. They must have noticed the movement of the Cult a long time ago."
Archduke: "I have always wondered what the relationship is between the Catalan royal family and the Order?"
The intelligence chief shrugged, "Maybe they are a family, maybe not. We have to be on our guard anyway."
At this time, the foreign minister said: "Ah, speaking of Catalonia, before I came here, I received an official visit application submitted by their ambassador. They have a princess who will come by dwarf airship."
The Grand Duke was shocked: "Don't ask, Princess. This is for the 'Princess Collector'."
Princess Collectors, this is the nickname of the Savior Team. The Savior Team only uses this name in public, and in private they are the Princess Collectors.
At this time, the female leader who had been silent since she interrupted spoke up: "You guys! You only care about unimportant things. You don't care about the really important things."
The Grand Duke hurriedly said, "Madam, please tell me what is really important."
"It's a floating city! We found it on our land!"
The Grand Duke frowned: "Madam, do you want to rob the floating city? It's not realistic. Whoever finds it gets to take it. This is the rule of archaeology."
"Idiot! Who said I want to take over? Think about how you got your position! We, as well as the people in the shantytown, are all outsiders. As for that floating city, if they really find a legal expert to make it up, it will be evidence of legitimacy! He might even be able to be the king here!"
The view of the family.
The intelligence chief frowned: "According to the intelligence, the captain of the salvation team has no interest in these worldly things. You know, both Kusanya and Monrovia want him to be the prime minister."
The Grand Duchess killed his objection with one sentence: "What if?"
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This is the rescue team.
Wang intuitively felt the speed of the dwarf airship.
"Damn it, I'm afraid I can't stand the slow pace of the floating city anymore," he said.
Xiaobai: "You sound like you'll give up the floating city."
"We definitely can't give up on that. We worked so hard to get it."
Flint: "You guys are so ashamed to say it took a lot of effort? It was obviously me who took a lot of effort, and you just watched."
Wang: "No, we spent a lot of effort to get the floating city."
After all, most of the automatic defense machines were destroyed by the barbarians swinging the dwarves.
Flint: "I'm warning you, don't let the barbarians swing at me again! I'm not a weapon! Last time you tricked me into thinking that Kailin would upgrade my ring, so I put up with it, but in the end I didn't! I think it's no fun if the ring is upgraded too quickly."
Flint froze suddenly.
"That's not what I said just now!"
Wang: "It means Kailin is paying attention to you, and she's using your mouth to speak. You're going to level up soon, be happy!"
"He didn't give me a ring last time he used my mouth! Caris Newman's horns!"
Nini couldn't help but ask at this time: "I wanted to ask before, why does Flint recite the dwarfs' protector all day long?"
Flint asked, "What else? Should I use the dwarven god or Cailin to curse? I am a priest after all."
Nini: "And then you disrespect the dwarf's patron all day long?"
Dwarf: "It can't control me."
Nini: "Even human or elf protectors can't control you, but can't they be used to curse?"
Wang: "I just said it casually. Don't ask so much."
Nini glanced at Wang and said, "The teacher is right."
At this time, the barbarian who had been standing in front of the airship pod shouted: "City!"
Everyone immediately gathered in front of the pod. The huge Shallow Water City showed its shape on the horizon.
Elizabeth frowned: "It looks like a giant toad."
Marika: "That's a good description, especially the shantytowns, which look like the lumpy skin of a toad."
Marika's words turned everyone's attention to the huge shantytown.
Barbarian was the first to comment: "Garbage dump?"
Xiao Bai rode on Wang's neck and said, "It should be said that it is a super huge garbage dump."
Elizabeth: "I don't want to go into this area."
Nini: "It's strange, this kind of thing without any aesthetic sense has a unique aesthetic value. I still can't understand this value. After all, I'm just a little elf girl. An elf who is 500 years old may have more discoveries."
Dwarf: "What the hell are you talking about? Can you let me see it too?"
The barbarian picked up the dwarf and raised his sight above the window frame.
"Oh, you mean this, the aesthetic value? You can only feel it when you look down from a high altitude. This place is filled with the smell of rotting corpses at all times. If you go in and do nothing, you might get sick if you stay there for a few days.
"And the mosquitoes are endless, just like the druids' spells that always shroud me."
The dwarf then looked at the king and said, "Let me tell you, this kind of place is a wizard's paradise. No one can concentrate enough to cast a spell in the shantytowns. Even the most powerful wizard will mainly rely on tearing scrolls to face the enemy when entering this area."
Wang: "So exaggerated? Then I want to enter this area to verify my concentration ability."
Marika: "If we want to hire craftsmen, we don't have to go to the shantytown. Do you see the port area over there? The shipyard is over there. Many craftsmen have moved out of the shantytown and have a decent life. The main workplaces are over there.
“The artisans in the shanty towns…are people with special skills.”