"My lord."
"There's a captured lord here. You might be interested!"
At the New World Alliance's frontline camp.
Lilith walked over and spoke.
"Oh?"
"Who is it?"
"I know him!"
"That shouldn't be."
"Bring him over and let me see."
Fang Yuan said curiously.
Not long afterward.
A petrified lord appeared before Fang Yuan.
"This..."
"I don't recognize him either."
Fang Yuan looked at the petrified lord and spoke.
Lilith then said,
"Before leaving, Lord Wang Heng gave me a list of the captured personnel."
"I saw a name on it: Ronan."
"So I found him and brought him out."
Hearing that name,
Fang Yuan lowered his head and murmured,
"Ronan..."
Then he suddenly remembered.
"The Curse Lord who was planning to attack Gondor."
"Wait."
"Curse Lord."
Fang Yuan's expression brightened slightly.
He had previously heard Vice Alliance Leader Jing mention it.
There was a lord in the New World Alliance who was skilled at using curses.
He possessed a Curse Fragment.
His name was Ronan!
"Could it be him?"
He quickly asked,
"Is he the one who has a Fragment of the Book of Curses?"
Seeing that Fang Yuan remembered,
Lilith nodded.
"That's him."
"My lord, should I remove the Petrification Magic from him?"
"According to the message Lord Wang Heng left before departing,"
"these people were all lords who opposed surrendering to us."
"To prevent them from leaking information, he petrified them."
"After being petrified, a lord can't use their Lord's Mark."
"However, Petrification Magic usually lasts for twenty-four hours. After that, its effect disappears."
Fang Yuan understood as soon as he heard this.
The lords of the Middle Continent were accustomed to betraying others.
They had long since worked out an entire process for surrendering and tricking their allies.
This Deputy Alliance Leader Wang Heng was truly