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Chapter 1241 Chapter 163. Qiong'an's Misfortune

The Broken Mountains are located next to the Kingdom of Dimon, and are geographically closer to the center of Middle-earth. Because of the abundance of minerals, gold and mithril mines are common here, so there is no country, only a loose alliance formed by a great lord leading a group of small lords.

Sir Makarov is one of the small lords, and the main minerals in his territory are coal and iron ore.

So when the evil dragon landed in the territory, his first reaction was that the sky had fallen, and his second reaction was that could it be that a gold mine had been discovered in his territory... ?
Greed strangled his soul uncontrollably. Sir Makarov sent out several waves of troops in the name of clearing out the evil dragon, but coming back alive was already the greatest victory.

Because of the heavy casualties, Sir Makarov was ridiculed and coveted by other small lords... He was not the only one who believed that there were treasures around the dragon's lair.

But no one wants to confront the dragon head-on. They are all waiting for some idiot to defeat the dragon and then reap the benefits.

Sir Makarov, who suffered heavy losses, almost thought he was going to say goodbye to his treasure. At this time, a girl named Joan, surnamed Montreal, from Liberty City, was like a god sent from heaven, giving him a chance again.

Joan needed a coal mine, and Sir Makarov needed to get rid of the dragon, and the two quickly reached a consensus on cooperation: Joan helped him solve the dragon, and Sir Makarov sold the mined coal to Liberty City.

"What kind of dragon is that? A red dragon?"

"The men who escaped back said it was at least a young blue dragon..."

"Young Blue Dragon..."

That's a bit of a hassle... Usually if you spot a blue dragon, it means there are more blue dragons around.

In the Mercenary Guild's subjugation guide, the Blue Dragon is a dragon with a higher subjugation level than the Black Dragon.

Joan looked at the two elite warriors behind her who were responsible for protecting her. They probably, perhaps, possibly... could not defeat the blue dragon.

Let Liberty City come to help?

But she came here on her own initiative, without an anchor, so it would take at least a week to go back and forth. And Sir Makarov said that several lords around him had already set their sights on him.

Let's fight! When I was a businessman, what kind of dangers did I not see? There is also a blue dragon in Liberty City, maybe they know it!
Joan asked an elite to rush back to the capital of the Kingdom of Damon to tell Liberty City the news here, while she led another elite to explore the surrounding area.

Ser Makarov praised Joan's courage and sent his own guards to escort her personally.

The name of the Broken Mountains comes from the fact that there are many undulating mountains here, and there are basins between the mountains. The lords live in these basins of varying sizes, like islands in the deep sea. The gaps between the mountains form the sea routes between the islands.

The place where the blue dragon was found was about thirty miles away from Sir Makarov's "island". It did not threaten the territory, and at most it would make the surrounding mining area unavailable for mining. So Sir Makarov was anxious, but not too anxious.

Before setting off, Sir Makarov reminded Joan: "You must pay attention to the locals, especially those who are not my subjects..."

"why?"

"Because the people here are more... 'rustic'."

Joan didn't realize what "rustic" meant at first. Isn't it a compliment? But as she walked out of the basin, she soon realized what the fucking "rustic" meant.

Less than ten miles out of the basin, she encountered at least four waves of "robbers" who jumped out to block the road. They were called robbers, but they were just a group of homeless people who couldn't even afford cotton clothes, shivering with cold, dirty, and holding stones tied to wooden sticks.

Where could someone be hiding in this desolate wilderness with rocks and rubble everywhere?!
Sir Makarov's guards told Joan that the Broken Mountains were rich in minerals, and mining required a large number of laborers. Without miners, they could only capture people from outside, slaves, and vagrants. Some of them escaped and became bandits...

"Your Lord too?"

"Master Makarov is better, he was bought as a slave!"

At this moment, Joan looked at the Broken Mountains, with their sharp peaks that were like a spectacle, and it was as if she saw a man-eating devil's cave. When she encountered bandits again, Joan only asked her guards to drive them away. As if they found out that Joan was not a local, or that the bandits had their own information, the new bandits who appeared in front of Joan dropped their weapons and begged Miss Joan to save them.

Joan is not a soft-hearted young lady. She has seen all kinds of ugly things since she started doing business at the age of fifteen or sixteen.
However, she now represented Liberty City, and the bandits were all young and strong, so she gave them each a silver coin and asked them to go to Sir Makarov's territory to wait for her.

After walking for a whole day, at dusk, when they were about to approach the mining area where the evil dragon was lurking, a group of people came from the darkness in the distance.

When Joan thought that the bandits were preparing to throw money to get the person, the guards suddenly felt like they were facing a great enemy.

Because that group of people were fully equipped, and the leader was holding a staff and wearing a wizard's robe.

They blocked the route that Joan and the others had to take, and were forming an encirclement.

"Who are you?" the other wizard asked arrogantly.

"We should be the ones asking," Joan said with equal pride.

The guards shouted at them: "We are Sir Makarov's men, who are you?"

"who is she?"

The wizard only had eyes for Joan, the center of the team.

"I am Joan Ecosella Jeanne d'Arc Behdad Clement Montreal!"

"It looks like we found the right one."

The wizard showed a hint of greed, raised his staff and chanted, and a fireball as big as a fist suddenly flew towards them.

"Kill them all except this woman!"

The unlucky guard who was hit by the fireball had a burnt bloody hole instantly exploded in his chest, and fell down without a sound.

"Protect Lady Joan!" The captain of the guard drew his sword to meet the enemy.

But the other side had more people and stronger strength than them, and a wizard attacked from the side. After a few minutes, only the elites who followed Joan were left.

The enemies stopped and surrounded the two of them.

"What are you going to do? Do you know who I am?" Joan suppressed her inner panic and pretended to be calm and asked.

"Of course I know. Don't worry, we just want to invite you to visit our territory." The wizard saluted Joan.

"You killed all my guards, and you still want to invite me?"

"They are just a bunch of mudbloods." The wizard said sideways, "Miss Joan, please come with us."

Leaving the corpses on the ground, they took Joan and the guards and headed towards another road.

Not long after walking, Joan turned back as if aware of something, and saw a group of shadows quietly approaching the bodies of the guards in the dusk...

On her first sunset in the Broken Mountains, Joan witnessed the chaos and disorder here.

(End of this chapter)