After the meeting, Ryan met the Grand Duke Moriarty again.
Ryan didn't have much pleasantries with this person.
"I think you should know that City of the Furnace is no longer the same as before. Grand Mage are already planning to evacuate."
"Evacuate?!"
The Grand Duke looked at Ryan in shock.
"Where else can we retreat to? Could it be..."
Ryan shook his head and said:
"It's not that I broke through the Saint Realm, but I plan to go further south to find hope on the glacier."
"The flames of City of the Furnace can no longer resist the cold of Winter's Chill."
Ryan spoke, and the facts he told made it impossible for the Grand Duke to remain calm and rational.
"Mages are preparing resources for evacuation, but I think if City of the Furnace cannot withstand the cult's attack, many nobles will be unable to leave."
"Those dependents of Demons, if they enter City of the Furnace, do you think they will go to the east? Or the west?"
There are two parts, east and west, one part belongs to civilians and slaves, and the other half belongs to nobles and Mages.
Food can only appear in the hands of nobles like them and Mages.
"So, before that, we must block Cultists's attack."
"Keep them out of City of the Furnace so that the nobles can safely follow Grand Mage and leave."
"Grand Duke, you don't want to have to flee for your life in a hurry, right?"
Grand Duke Moriarty looked at Ryan.
"Wittman, this matter..."
"Leave this matter to me, but I need food to cheer me up. Otherwise, how can those hungry mud-legs stop Demons's family members? As you know, the last cult invasion relied on Mages's spells."
Moriarty nodded and agreed.
"I will give you food. You must resist those evil cults."
"Don't worry."
Ryan said, patting his chest, then turned around and left here, heading to the Mage Academy again.
In front of Grand Mage Amethyst, Ryan still had firm eyes, as if he was a battle-hardened warrior.
"Those Cultistss are here for food, but the Abyss Demons behind them need a sacrifice of flesh and blood."
"I think you are not willing to let Mages from the academy go to the battlefield before leaving."
"If you cannot stop the attack of these cults and City of the Furnace is occupied by the cult, your plan may not be able to be completed. Then, on the vast glacier, without the protection of the fortress, the cult will continue to hunt down you. How many of the fifteen thousand people you took away will survive in the end?"
Grand Mage Amethyst looked at Ryan and said after a long time:
"What do you want?"
"Food, food that can at least allow half of the people in City of the Furnace to survive this winter."
"With food, I can send them to the battlefield to fight Cultists."
"At the same time, I also want to ask you for a means. During the last war, the cult Lava Giant appeared. If you leave, I can't think of any way to stop such a monster. City of the Furnace will still be breached."
"Food can attract the attention of those Cultists to City of the Furnace, and a large number of well-fed soldiers can attract the attention of Demons. At least until City of the Furnace's flesh and blood are sacrificed, those Demons's dependents will not hunt you down."
"I will stay here to wean you off."
"I swear in the name of Viscount Whitman that for three months, at least for the three months it takes you to leave, the cult will not cross over to City of the Furnace."
"As for three months later, maybe I will die, maybe I will become the only lord noble of City of the Furnace."
It is impossible to get food from Mages by talking about human relationships and supply relationships. The only thing that can be talked about now is profit.
In the end, Ryan got nearly 500,000 kilograms of grain from the Mage Academy. Mage Academy was indeed wealthy.
After placing the grain in the granary, Ryan asked Harrington and Brandt to guard it with some people.
On the other side, Grand Duke Moriarty and some nobles also joined forces and sent part of the food to Ryan.
In three days, the entire City of the Furnace seemed to come to life. Both civilian slaves and Noble Mage were extremely nervous and each made their own movements.
Ryan took over the defense of City of the Furnace, but there were no soldiers under his command. The five hundred soldiers who were supposed to be standing on the city wall had been called back by their respective nobles.
After knowing the truth, these nobles are no longer willing to use their wealth to fight Cultists outside.
Ryan can only temporarily mobilize slaves and tell them that as long as they become soldiers, they can eat two meals a day.
This temptation soon caused the city walls to be covered with fearless soldiers. They suffered a lot of hunger, and now they felt that nothing was more terrible than hunger.
What's more, Cultists outside looks similar to them, with a sallow face and thin muscles, but his eyes make people feel scared and uncomfortable.
On the fourth day, Cultists began to attack. Those hungry Cultists rushed towards City of the Furnace with their teeth and claws. Facing the tall city wall, they used siege ladders made of felled tree trunks to climb up. Faced with stones falling down one after another, these Cultists soon suffered a bloody head.
"These useless losers, hurry up and rush forward!"
City of the Furnace Outside the cult's base camp, a middle-aged man in a black cloak roared angrily. A bone scepter in his hand was inlaid with a blood-colored orb. The people next to him just glanced at it, and it seemed that their souls were about to be swallowed up.
"Pope-sama, just activate Abyssal Blood."
"Otherwise, it would be impossible for those mud-legged people to rush up to Furnace City."
"Now activate the Abyss blood. What should we do next? Do we have to fight in person when we enter the city?"
Urtado looked at the elder who spoke next to him, wishing he could slap his scepter on the head and cause a violent blow.
"But the Lord has said that those Magess of City of the Furnace are running away. If the flesh and blood of those Magess cannot be sacrificed, the Lord will punish them..."
Hearing this, Urtado also shuddered, thinking of the appearance of the flesh and blood slaves who had been sacrificed before.
"Let all the slaves rush to me. As long as the city gate of City of the Furnace can be opened, I will directly activate the blood of Abyss. Let those people also feel the Extraordinary Legion from Abyss!"
City of the Furnace South, the huge waves with hairs like Ice Crystal dragged the huge team away towards the depths of the glacier ocean.
On the coast, Ryan held a Magic Factor extremely violent amethyst in his hand, watching the team disappear from sight with calm eyes.
Returning to City of the Furnace, a deafening roar came from the distance, but Ryan believed that the two of Brandt could hold on.
He came to the parliament of nobles again. There were not many people here, and there was not a single nobleman left here.