"There's a place near Rosaleen called the Pirate's Cove. It used to be a pirate's lair in the Taurus Strait. After we cleaned it up, we rebuilt it into a secret dock. There's a secret passage there that's connected to Rosaleen. It was left behind by the smugglers who colluded with the pirates."
Unlike Incirsta, Tarkus was a steady and pragmatic man. Since he had already made a plan with his partner, he would not cause any more trouble. He brought Brando and Phoenix Flame to his meeting room and ordered his men to bring out a map of the Taurus Strait and the vicinity of Rosaleen. He then told Brando the location of Madara's secret dock nearby.
In the dim light, Brando clearly saw the location marked on the rough map by the one-eyed general. In fact, the ghosts did not need any light. The gray oil lamp was just for the convenience of him and Phoenix Flame.
"I don't need any secret passage. I just need to know the location," he replied. "How many ships are there?"
"Three. They're all medium-sized two-masted sailing ships."
"Are there any sailors on board?"
"Some, but they're all ghosts. We usually disguise ourselves as pirates when we go out to sea."
"Maybe it's better for you to disguise yourselves as ghost ships."
"Good idea." The soul fire in Incirsta's eyes lit up slightly, as if he did not hear Brando's sarcastic tone. But then he shook his head in frustration and said with some dissatisfaction, "It's a pity that His Majesty won't lend us Salva's ghost army. Those things are now under the management of that woman, Yalvete."
"The Queen of Banshees?"
"Yes, she's the woman who betrayed the Dark Lords." He did not seem to want to talk more about this issue. He shook his head and shut his mouth.
But Brando knew that the dark nobles in the west of the Sea of the Dead Moon had always thought that Yalvete had joined the Mercury Staff before the supreme of Madara showed dissatisfaction with the Dark Lords. This showed that this woman was scheming and two-faced.
In fact, the root of the problem was that Yalvete betrayed the Dark Lords in the south, which made these ghost lords feel a sense of crisis. Although they were the first to follow the Mercury Staff, they were also on the opposite side of the supreme in the battle between the supreme centralization of power and the local governments.
With such a standpoint, these dark nobles could not be nice to the Queen of Banshees who played the role of the emperor's loyal dog. Incirsta, who had the same background and standpoint, was no exception.
As a member of the vampire family who was closer to His Majesty the Emperor, Tarkus appeared to be much more rational. Of course, this might have something to do with his calm personality. He did not say a word about his companion's complaints.
He only raised his head and glanced at the latter.
Huang Huo stood silently behind Brando and watched quietly. It was as if she wanted to remember every detail of this Nine-headed Phoenix opponent in her heart to complete her understanding of the Dark Kingdom.
"How do you plan to deal with this stronghold next? I still need to find two people." Brando looked around and asked the two.
"There's no need to deal with it. The undead don't need food. After we leave, no one will leave this place until His Majesty appoints a new person to be in charge. This place will remain the same." Tarkus looked at the skeletons standing guard around and answered.
Brando did not comment, but he still felt a little emotional about the natural advantages of the undead in some aspects. They had no morale, almost no need for food, and did not need to excrete or rest except for the necromancers. In these aspects, humans were no match for the undead.
Fortunately, they also had their disadvantages. First of all, it was difficult for them to sneak into the human world. Although they could establish a secret stronghold in a place like Rosalyn, which was not heavily guarded, it was also because the humans turned a blind eye to it. Otherwise, the Holy Temple would only need to use detection of the undead or life to scan for the undead hidden in the human world.
On the contrary, humans were very common in Madara. First, there were the merchants and travelers who crossed the Sea of the Dead Moon from Nine-headed Phoenix and Rubic, then there were the necromancers, dark acolytes, and all kinds of exiles, criminals who were exiled by various countries and people who could not see the light of day.
If Madara wanted to capture all the humans living in its territory, it would be a mess.
Second, the basic command unit of the undead was based on the number of necromancers, and the necromancers themselves were not very intelligent. Therefore, except for the Black Knight Guards established by Incirsta, the undead rarely used complicated tactics. Before the Battle of the Oblique Forest, the players said that the undead in Wohnde liked to use a sea of skeletons to charge blindly. It was not an exaggeration. In fact, it was a choice made by the dark lords because their basic officers were not enough to support complicated tactics.
"Then come with me," he answered.
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Many scavengers would choose to buy or rent a house in the west of Rosaleen City because most of the people who made a living in this area knew about the secret passage that led to the outside of Rosaleen City. The secret passage was first built by a group of vicious pirates in the past. It was mainly used for kidnapping and extortion. They kidnapped the residents of the city and sold them to the necromancers in the south of Madara. Then, they would blackmail the relatives of these people in the city.
However, these people went overboard. They kidnapped the son of the Rosaleen Lord, who was the brother of the current Rosaleen Lord, and threw this unlucky fellow into the sea. Then, these pirates were wiped out by the Rosaleen family's fleet at sea. Most of them were captured and hanged, and the few survivors went to the Swift Plains in secret. From then on, this secret passage fell into the hands of the smugglers, and it continued to be used until today.
Until today, the true owner of this secret passage had always been the army of the Rosaleen Lord. After all, the army had always been the uncrowned king of the smugglers. A few Knight Captains controlled this' business', and it had been passed down from generation to generation. It had almost become an industry, and through it, they maintained a tacit understanding with the various forces in the city.
Therefore, for a long time, almost everyone who walked on the dark road or wandered on the sea (Rosaleen's nickname for pirates) knew this fact. Most of these people who needed to stay in Rosaleen knew that they were not very popular in the world of order, and their safety and lives might not be guaranteed. Therefore, they needed this escape route.
In other words, in a sense, they were 'receiving protection'.
Of course, these desperadoes had a tacit understanding with the army of the Rosaleen Lord, so naturally, they had to avoid the wise eyes and ears of the Rosaleen family.
In such a situation, Na Xin was no exception. However, he was generally considered a 'respectable person' in the Scavengers, so he sold an entire building at No. 52 West Street, and used it as the nominal headquarters of his caravan.
During the busiest period of the dark road, this building was quite famous in the circle. The customers who came here were merchants who entrusted him with transporting goods, and many of them were merchants with official identities who traveled through the Taeya Strait, as well as their butlers. There were even death wizards who specially came here to 'order'.
However, ever since the skeletons of Madara suffered a crushing defeat in the Bone Wilderness, the business here, or rather, the entire Scavengers' ecosystem, withered day by day.
Many of them switched careers and became pirates. Some of them stopped and left the dirty slums, never to return. Some became mercenaries, but that was usually the choice of a penniless pauper. In the Taeya Strait, mercenaries on merchant ships were not much different from cannon fodder.
When Na Xin raised his head to look at the rusty signboard in front of the building, his heart was filled with memories of the past. There was a triangular symbol on the iron signboard, which was the logo of the company that he and his earliest partner had decided on. Unfortunately, that partner of his had a short lifespan. He died of lung disease early on and was buried in an unknown grave in the outskirts of Rosaleen. God knows if anyone had cleaned his grave after that.
He sighed and took out the key from his pocket to open the door. Back then, he had promised that he would return to Ninephoenix together. Now that he had earned a lot of money, the hope of returning to his hometown was still slim.
It was so different from his original plan. The family business that he earned from running the dark road for half his life did not seem to be of any help to his goal. On the contrary, it was a young man that he accidentally saved during his last trip between Tormlo and Rosaleen that gave him hope of returning to his hometown.
He did not know what that guy would think if he knew about his situation.
He opened the door, but there was no one in the hall. It seemed that his men had not returned yet, and he did not know if they had found out the information that the lord wanted. His mind was filled with distracting thoughts when he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps. A person was walking down the stairs from the second floor.
"Sebas?" He raised his head and saw a dark-skinned young man in a gray apron walking down the stairs.
When the latter saw him, his eyes were filled with surprise. He shouted happily, "Uncle Na Xin? You scared me to death. I thought you guys went to the underworld again and I wouldn't meet you guys again. "
"I just came back from the dark road," Na Xin replied. At the same time, he frowned and looked at the young man. This young man was the only descendant of his poor partner. He did not want him to walk the same path as him, so he spent a lot of money to send him to become an apprentice of the lord's blacksmith. "Why did you come out? Who allowed you to leave the castle? Did you sneak out?"
"Of course not. I don't have the guts. Uncle Na Xin." Sebas quickly explained, "A lady asked me to come out. She asked me to help her with something in the city."
"Then what are you doing here?"
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