The carriage walked along the way and walked through the entire Gaoting City, and it never stopped except because of the congestion of the road.

Just sitting in front of the carriage window, Jones watched quietly, thoughtlessly, and said nothing. He got off from the high court and walked all the way to the city-state, and it felt like he was walking from heaven to hell.

Of course, it is the heaven and hell that people generally know, not the actual one. We all know this.

It took six hours to walk from the foot of the mountain to the edge of Gaoting City. Fortunately, there is no difference between day and night except for the clouds, otherwise it will be dawn. During this period, there was also a light rain, which made the already wet city even more humid.

Walking to the edge of the city, Jones suddenly turned his face and said to Adair, "Where is the military camp? Do you know where the military camp is?"

"You want to declare war?" Adal was shocked.

Belle was even more shocked.

"No, I just want to see it." Jones said with a smile: "I'm a little curious about how the alert is in High Court. Now, except for the castles on the mountain, I don't see any military buildings or any established army."

"To the west." As he said, Adal knocked on the panel of the carriage behind him and shouted to the butler who drove: "Military camp!"

"Okay, Master! Go!"

Adair looked at Jones meaningfully. Belle was full of horror, and his eyes kept going back and forth on Jones and Adair.

The carriage slowly turned around and continued to gallop on the muddy streets of the high courtyard. Behind it, two little bats were always chasing.

Well, Nicklaus's, there is no doubt.

...

At the same time, the news that the lord of Giant Snake City, Jones, arrived early had spread in the high court.

"So, where is he now?"

"I don't know. The news said that he left the castle with Adele of Sambo's family, and now he doesn't know where it is. I heard that the daughter of the Rizzo family is also with him, and they also attended the ball held by the Rossel family for the Nicklaus family."

"So, now the Nicklaus family, Sambo family, Giant Snake City, have the three parties joined forces?"

"have no idea……"

...

"He must have seen someone in the city now. It is said that he is just a child in his seventies, but now it seems that it may not be."

"How could a child in his seventies build a giant snake city that would make us a headache?"

"So it's really his adoptive father, Lich King Gray, behind him?"

"Isn't this obvious? Otherwise, where did he get the support of the lich?"

"Will he already go up the mountain? I mean the top of the mountain."

...

"Tellis of the Gangro's family went to see him when he arrived."

"My God...so the Gangro family wants to betray us too? What should we do?"

"We should be more determined! These big families have never believed it. Do you know it now?"

...

Jones' early arrival was like a stone thrown into a calm pool, causing ripples in an instant. After all, both opponents and friends, even passers-by, would think of a question: What is Jones' early arrival for?

The castle of the Gangro family was crowded with blood clan lords. They wanted to know whether the Gangro family betrayed them as anti-Jones leader. At the beginning, Teslis tried hard to explain to them, but soon found that the explanation was not understood, so they simply locked everyone outside.

The doorstep of the Nicklaus family, which had not been moved, was also crowded with people, especially Harrez's castle. The lords wanted to know Prince Harrez's attitude toward the upcoming hearing.

Among them, most of them are the blood clan lords whose assets were damaged due to Giant Snake City.

Even the gate of the Adair house castle was crowded with people. Well... not everyone opposed Jones. There were many blood clan lords who wanted to get a share of the combination of the Sambo family and the Serpent City.

As mentioned earlier, the blood clan has never been united, and the blood clan in the High Court has fully reflected this disunity.

...

At this moment, Jones was standing on the top of a hill outside the High Court, looking out from afar at the Vampire Barracks located west of the High Court.

Adale and Belle stood behind him.

"Is this... a military camp?"

"Yes, this is the military camp."

The building in front of me looks very strange. It is not wrong to say that it is a castle. After all, the materials and layout are completely like castles. But it is very different from ordinary castles.

First, the area is large, hundreds of times that of ordinary castles. Then, compared with its huge area, the height is simply insignificant. It is probably as high as four floors, shorter than many castles, and even shorter than the small castle at the beginning of Jones Snake City.

The whole square, when you look from top to bottom, you can clearly see the hollowed-out yard in the castle. It is like grids. There is no moat or something like that on the outside.

Normally, the castle is a military building and it is impossible to build it like this. But the huge military camp in front of you has grown into this way.

Not only that, looking around, all of them are zombie soldiers.

You know, although the zombie soldiers are very powerful, they are slow... This is not a strategic advantage.

"Why are there basically zombies? Are there no other legion?" Jones asked.

"It's been a zombie all the time." Adale spread his hands and said, "Zombies are cheap, powerful, and very useful."

"I also have a lot of zombie soldiers, but I never think zombies are easy to use. They are slow and have a ranged attack power almost equal to zero. Unless the opponent has to fight head-on with him or have an absolute advantage to surround the opponent, the zombie legion may not be as good as the Skeleton Legion."

"Hey!" Adair smiled: "You have to see who your opponent is and who their opponent is."

"These are just troops that suppress the riots?"

"Yes."

"What about the other armies?"

"No." Adale spread his hands and said, "The blood clan does not need an army. It has not fought a war for thousands of years. Raising a lot of troops is wasting resources. Moreover... no other race that is active on the Collin Peninsula can beat the blood clan itself, except for the lich legion under your command."

Jones looked quietly, took a deep breath and asked, "Where are we going next?"

"Do you have nothing else to go to?"

"No more, it depends on your arrangement. How long is it before the hearing?"

"And..." Adair looked down at his pocket watch: "There are thirty-seven hours left."

"Why don't we go back first?" Jones asked.

The butler who was guarding the carriage not far away had reached out to help them open the car door.

...

"He went to see the military camp?" Harriz was stunned.

"Yes." As the owner of the dance that Jones and Adair attended before, Earl Rossell responded respectfully: "Their carriages went to many places, but they didn't stop. They stopped only in the barracks. Not only that, Jones, the lord of the Giant Snake City, also got out of the car and watched there for a while."

"Nothing is seen, just look at the military camp..." Harriz couldn't help but twitch slightly, and his hand holding the scissors was in the air: "What do he want to do?"

"I don't know this..."

...

The dim hall, huge round tables, and seven high-back chairs. The dim red flames illuminate the surrounding magnificence.

Located in the High Court, in another castle of Sambo's house, the seven princes of the family have gathered together, including Adair's father, Prince Louis.

At this moment, the other princes were looking at him.

Prince Louis said helplessly: "Actually I object, but Adair insisted on coming to the High Court early."

"You can't even control your own son?" asked a prince with a long beard.

"No, of course not. However, if I can control my son, it does not mean that I can control the Lord of the Giant Snake." Prince Louis had no choice but to spread his hands: "Now many people are asking me about the intention of the Lord of the Giant Snake to arrive at the High Court in advance."

"Yes, including us." Another thin-faced prince slowly opened his snake-like eyes: "For the past year, thanks to the investment in Snake City, we have become the only family among the three major families to keep growing. But frankly, I am worried. So far, we have no idea why Lich King Grey Grugru asked his adopted son to build a city on the Collin Peninsula. At this time, they should focus on fighting heaven. We would like to know how Jones would deal with this hearing. Do you have anything to tell us?"

"Sorry, my answer is the same as before. Adal has told me that he will respond directly and follow the existing laws set by the Presbyterian Church of the Blood Clan."

"What if the law is extremely unfavorable to him?" asked a prince with a pair of thick eyebrows: "Will he start a war?"

"He wants to resolve the issue through peaceful means as much as possible."

"As far as possible? It means that the use of force is not ruled out?"

"I think...that's what it means."

Suddenly, the originally quiet hall seemed to be active. There was no longer only one voice.

Some of the princes sighed, some reached out to hold their foreheads, some turned their faces and seemed to be thinking about something. Each of them moved. They seemed to be not satisfied with this answer.

"I'm worried now whether we tied the Giant Snake City to our chariots, or whether we tied the Giant Snake City to our chariots."

"If he chooses to resist by force, we will not be able to stand on his side. Even if it is just a threat or intimidation, we must draw a clear line with him immediately."

"The people standing behind him have to fear us. After all, that's the entire Lich Council."

"The key is that we know nothing about him, we have not even met him, and we don't know what kind of person he is. We have no idea of ​​his intention to create the Giant Snake City. In fact, if the Lich King had the need to establish a city-state, there would be better land in human territory than Giant Snake City."

"Maybe we should draw a clear line with him now, otherwise it would be too late."

"Hey, that's not what you said when you invited you to invest half a year ago." Prince Louis said quickly.

"Half a year ago, you only told us that this was a good business, and you didn't even tell us that there were more than a hundred lichs in the Giant Snake City."
To be continued...