He had gradually begun to let this girl, whose loyalty was almost absolute, start learning some secrets.
Although he hadn’t told her about Dawn City, she still knew that he had a not-insignificant force on the frontier.
This little maid never tried to pry into anything. She always believed that Li De would tell her anything she should know, and anything he didn’t tell her must be something she was not yet suited to know.
“You are truly incredible,” Vina’s eyes shone with deep delight at Li De’s words. Dark Pact’s name wasn’t only famous in the underworld, even the nobles of Green City were quite familiar with this faction.
And now, as the newly rising noble of Green City, Vina was naturally no stranger to it.
In fact, to curry favor with the Crimson Mage Tower and the White Tower, just a few days ago, a great noble had already sent an official letter to the royal capital to formally grant Vina noble status. According to estimates, news of this would be announced in no more than half a month.
When that time came, this representative of the Crimson Mage Tower and the White Tower would become a true noble.
Vina had been able to become the spokeswoman of both mage towers thanks to Spark’s relationship with Li De. At present, the White Tower and the Crimson Mage Tower were working extremely closely together.
Not only were they cooperating commercially, but the White Tower had even dispatched a formal team of high-level mages to train mages for the Crimson Mage Tower.
So in Green City, the Crimson Mage Tower and the White Tower were almost synonymous.
Seeing Vina’s delighted expression, Li De chuckled. In this entire world, there were precious few who didn’t care about his status and position, Vina was definitely one of them.
Before the appearance of his Holy Priest, this girl was almost the closest and most trusted person to him.
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Three days passed in a flash.
Li De stayed in Green City for three days, because after his population-raiding plan began, he likely wouldn’t have any time to return this winter.
During these days, the reports of undead invasions coming from the north grew ever more intense.
Especially in Solins City, a large city with a population of over five hundred thousand, which had sent out multiple calls for help, and the news that undead had breached the city itself caused a tremendous uproar.
Even in Green City, over a thousand kilometers away, there was a palpable sense of looming disaster.
The undead, these beings had long since disappeared from public view. Apart from adventurers and mercenaries occasionally encountering these creatures of death, ordinary people might never see them in their entire lives.
But now these legendary beings had returned in force, and their appearance had caused such a great commotion that it was a huge shock to both nobles and commoners alike.
Reportedly, the undead catastrophe inside the Radiant Empire was even more terrifying.
Especially because one of the Otherworldly Chosen adventurers had played an important role in this disaster. It was said that the Otherworldly Chosen known as Broken Sword Knight was riding a Ghost Dragon, leading countless undead legions to sweep across city after city.
They had stirred up a true undead scourge.
Because of this, Broken Sword Knight became an existence the Radiant Empire loathed beyond measure. Unfortunately, this Otherworldly Chosen’s identity as an Undying meant that, despite being killed several times, he remained completely unharmed.
In fact, because of Broken Sword Knight, the Radiant Empire began ruthlessly hunting all Otherworldly Chosen adventurers. Many players were permanently exiled outright.
As a result, the surrounding empires also started enforcing much stricter control over players.
When Li De heard this news, his face was full of astonishment. He hadn’t expected that this incident really was caused by a player.
He immediately returned to Earth to check the forums for related information. But compared to the tense atmosphere in Glory, the forums were filled with nothing but envy, jealousy, and resentment.
Other people were riding Ghost Dragons and unleashing undead scourges, while they themselves were still miserably grinding away at jobs just to make ends meet, it almost brought them to tears.
Because of this, Broken Sword Knight, who already had quite a reputation, was spontaneously crowned by all the players as the Supreme God of Glory, the Undead Emperor.
Of course, this so-called Undead Emperor was actually just a newbie who had only acquired a hidden class and was still just Level 3.
Rumors and gossip, combined with the fear of the undead, plunged this giant city in the Southern Province into a wave of anxiety.
At the same time, news of a beastman invasion reached the ears of ordinary people in Green City.
Just like last year, the beastmen’s dire wolves had appeared inside Nolan Empire territory before the Months of Deep Winter even began.
The fortresses that had been built along the frontier to defend against the beastmen basically didn’t put up any resistance, after spotting the beastmen’s tracks, they immediately retreated.
This left countless residents fleeing the frontier en masse, heading to the major cities to seek refuge.
There were quite a few cities in the Southern Province. Among them, there were ten large cities with populations over five hundred thousand, but Green City was the only giant metropolis with over a million inhabitants.
This was the political, military, economic, and cultural center of the south. Most of the refugees still set their sights on Green City.
Because all the other cities had a history of being attacked or even conquered by beastmen. Only Green City had never seen beastmen appear under its walls.
And this was also where transcendent beings resided.
When Harrison sent word that Dawn City’s army was fully prepared and about to launch their first operation to seize population, Li De bid farewell to his little maid and to Isha, then returned to Dawn City.
The Crimson Mage Tower had the White Tower looking after it, Spark’s influence supporting it, and even Dark Pact secretly protecting it.
Even if the Magic Factory made countless people jealous, no one dared act rashly.
And with Betty stationed there as well, he had no worries at all.
By contrast, Dawn City’s population raids were something he absolutely had to oversee personally.