Chapter 1417: Imperial Messenger

Allen looked him up and down, and said, "Are you serious?"

Melanie was noncommittal.

"Okay, then my answer is this." Allen shook his hand, took out the Red King from the space wrist wheel, and pressed the long knife flat on Melanie's shoulder, the blade was only a few millimeters away from the side of his neck. As long as Allen is willing, he doesn't even need to make any movements, just exhaling the knife air is enough to cut Melanie's fragile neck.

"Space equipment?" Melanie's pupils shrank, and her tone finally changed slightly.

Allen nodded: "The spoils I got from Baal. Alright, Mr. Melanie, ask again, are you willing to manage Mokdan for me?"

"If I refuse, will you kill me?"

"Yes, after all, I don't have that much time to entangle you with this issue, and I don't worry about a person who knows Mokdan staying in this prison. I am not Gurant, so I don't have that kind of leisure and patience."

"Then to change the question, if I agree, what good is it?"

Allen laughed and spit out two words: "Freedom."

"free?"

"Yes, as long as you serve me for three years. In these three years, in addition to managing Mokdan well, you must also train me in internal affairs. If you do these two things, you will be free after three years. Whether to go or stay, it is up to you." Allen said "Oh" and said: "Of course, if I die in battle, then you will be free immediately."

"That's not enough." Melanie shook her head, raised a finger and said, "During my service, I demand that I be paid the corresponding salary according to the salary given by the empire to the consul of the important city. At the same time, I want to get back the My estate. Everything!"

"Of course." Allen took back Chi Wang: "So what does Mr. Melanie mean?"

"Of course I agreed. Lord Alan doesn't seem to give me a third option, and death is definitely not an option for me. Otherwise, do you think I have been in prison for three years just to wait for death?"

Allen threw the Chi Wang back to the space wrist ring, and then called the warden to bring Melanie a set of clean clothes. The man in the new clothes followed Alan out of the prison. When he saw the sun again, he squinted his eyes in the sun and murmured, "The air outside is better."

"That's for sure." Allen said to the warden next to him: "Call your men and report to the military headquarters in the afternoon."

The warden froze for a moment, looked at the prison behind him and said, "My lord, what about here?"

Allen patted Melanie on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Everyone is out, what are you doing with a prison, don't waste my money."

The warden quickly answered yes.

Melanie looked at Allen's eyes with some changes: "This prison doesn't cost much, right?"

"Not much, but now, I'm poor." Alan smiled.

Then the two got into the car, and after returning to the City Lord's Mansion, Allen introduced Melanie to Gris, and said to him: "I will be away for a few days, I hope you can plan this project after I come back. The city's next development plan."

"I want to know what the adults expect from this city?"

"A solid late-stage base should be enough to support the kind that I can hit under the Demon Ring City."

Melanie was stunned for a full two seconds before she squeezed out a few words: "My lord, you have such a big heart."

Allen laughed and walked towards the gate.

Melanie stopped him again: "Master, you are making an enemy of the Phantom Empire. Normally, His Majesty may not intervene in the border rebellion, but if he comes in person, what should you do?"

"If Spinak comes, I will fight him. You will know the result after the fight, won't you?" Allen said, "Are there any other questions?"

"there is none left."

As Allen left, Melanie looked at the re-closed door and murmured, "Is he confident or stupid?"

"This question, as long as you stay with him, you will know the answer." Gris said with a smile.

Melanie nodded, and then asked Gris about Mokdan's current situation. He spent three years in prison,

There is still a lot to know.

In the afternoon, a fleet lifted off at the port of Mokdan, and a total of more than a hundred warships broke through the sky. Allen was on one of the battleships, and in front of his eyes at this moment, an officer was showing him a map of the empire's southern front. Starting from Mokdan, this road goes northward, and there are three cities within 200 kilometers. Two of them are average in size, but the other Undercurrent City cannot be taken lightly.

Undercurrent City is presided over by an imperial general. This city is not as large as Mokdan, but it is above the other two cities. Undercurrent City is the largest concentration of workshops on the southern border. The Dark Night Mountains on which it is backed produce several precious mineral materials, one of which is called night iron, which is an important material for the armor of starship shells. Most of the workshops in Undercurrent City processed the collected night iron into iron embryos, and then sold them to other places.

Allen used his hands to put a lot of pressure on Undercurrent City, which was the main goal of his trip, and the second was to get the other two cities into his pocket. After this operation, the hundreds of square kilometers on the southern border of the empire will be his control area. Only then will Allen's territory have any depth at all.

Two hundred kilometers passed in the blink of an eye at the speed of the spaceship, and when the alarm sounded over Underflow City, Allen had already jumped off the spaceship. Below him is an energy shield that is desperately raised, but unfortunately the grade is too far from the gemstone wall. Allen didn't even use the Anthem of Destruction, he just took out the Red King, swept his sword, and smashed the shield that had just been closed with one stroke.

When the shield shattered, a powerful aura rose up in the city, but no matter how you looked at it, this aura seemed to be strong on the outside but dry in the middle.

In two days, Allen swept three cities including Undercurrent City. The general of Undercurrent City immediately abandoned his weapon and surrendered after receiving Allen's knife, making it clear that the shot was just a show, so as to give the empire an explanation. Allen was angry and funny, but he didn't kill him. Instead, he let the general named Zhuo De continue to manage Undercurrent City. Such a relaxed attitude made the general both surprised and suspicious. After several trials and results, he did not dare to disagree, and obediently obeyed his orders.

It didn't take Allen even an hour to go from airborne Undertow City to controlling the city. If Zhuo De had a different mind, the time would only be shorter next time. And next time, he would have no chance to surrender. Zhuo De is also aware of this, so he chooses to obey orders. Unless the empire killed Allen, that's another matter.

After spending more than a day to stabilize the control, Allen left the fleet and soldiers and returned to Mokdan by himself.

It took four days to go back and forth.

Four days was enough for Melanie to make an initial plan.

"Since the adults hope that Mokdan can become a logistics base to support your war, it means that this city needs to have workshops that recruit and train soldiers, master a large amount of mineral materials, and have the ability to process these mineral materials, and even We need an arsenal that can open and produce weapons and equipment by ourselves. As for airships and chariots, I personally tend to buy them from outsiders. After all, it takes too much budget to build a production line in this area, and it will not take a few years to form. Assembly line work."

In the study, Melanie briefly talked about his plan. Generally speaking, Melanie planned to start from the source. Invite the bigwigs from various commercial firms in Mokdan to invest in the stock, and first invest in the construction of a series of processing workshops, at least to ensure that weapons and equipment can be produced by themselves, which will help Allen save a lot of money. At the same time, open up some business routes and sell the abyss crystals in the relics to Dobia to exchange for their spaceships and chariots.

In addition, there are other plans. These plans seem to have nothing to do with each other, but if they are carefully considered, when the goals of these plans are realized, the strength of the entire Mokdan will be multiplied several times. If governance is also divided into levels, then Melanie's ability to govern should be in the top group. The height of his focus is like ordinary people who can't see the scenery in Allen's eyes. God knows where Grunt recruited such a talent, but leaving him in the cell for three years is really reckless. But then again, if Gurant hadn't been vacant for Melanie for three years, I don't know what Mokdan will become now, I'm afraid Allen will have to work harder to get in.

Thinking of this, Allen has to thank Gurante for his suspicion.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and the butler came in and said in a panic, "My lord, there was a message from the military department just now."

"What message?"

"It's from the Demon Ring City, saying that an envoy will come to see you tomorrow for the purpose of capturing the ransom. However, that envoy is not an ordinary person."

Allen said "Oh" and asked, "Who is it?"

"I heard it's Lord Lamer."

When Melanie heard the name, her whole body tensed up, and she lost her voice, "Lammer, the potential demon?"

The butler nodded.

Melanie immediately looked at Allen: "My lord, then you have to be careful. Lamer is also a general of the empire, but his combat power cannot enter the top three. But he is not as dangerous as other generals in other aspects, especially assassination On the one hand, Lamer is simply the ancestor of all killers in the entire empire. He came to Mokdan himself this time, so you have to be on guard."

"I've also heard of his reputation. Speaking of which, I was the one who knocked out their stronghold in the wasteland of the Crazy Shadow Army. Don't worry, I won't take it lightly." Allen thought that Belmode and Triss should be killed Li Ming was by his side. Although the two of them were not comparable to the generals of the empire, they were also good at concealing assassinations. With them by their side, if Lamer wanted to do something, he would be able to detect some clues after all.

At noon the next day, a fleet with the imperial logo came to Mokdan. This fleet is basically composed of transport ships. After docking at the airship port, someone got out of the hatch in one of the airships. He squinted his eyes and sighed: "It's not long since I left, and it's bad luck to come to this place where the birds don't shit."

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