Hello, is this a letter addressed to Demon Fortress?

Night falls.

As the last guest left, Lin Gui got up and closed the door, the wooden door making a dull thud behind him.

The post office fell silent, with only the magic stone emitting a faint glow, casting a small, cold white halo on the counter.

Lin Gui turned around and looked at Elvia.

"Monica will be going to the City of a Thousand Towers with the returning Golden Adventurers tomorrow at noon."

"You can go with her."

"I will pay the Golden Adventurers."

"They're coming back at this crucial moment to earn the ridiculously high transportation fees these days, so they won't refuse."

Upon hearing this, Elvia's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but she swallowed it back.

She was somewhat reluctant, but she couldn't argue with it.

This is indeed the safest approach.

The Golden Adventurers would never take such an outrageous path as Lin Gui.

They would strictly follow the golden route taken by the transport team, bypassing all forbidden areas.

Although the journey is long, at least it's safe.

It's much safer than following that madman Lin Gui.

This arrangement seems better.

Elvia sighed, her shoulders relaxing as if a heavy burden had been lifted.

"Thanks."

After she finished speaking, she turned around, pushed open the door of the post office, and walked out.

The door closed behind him, and the footsteps faded into the distance, finally disappearing at the end of the street.

……

After Elvia left, Lin Gui returned to the counter and began to count the letters he had received that day.

Since opening, the queue has been long all day, and he has only received a little over four hundred letters.

Compared to the capital of Carter and the city of Karan, there are far too few.

Moreover, he was quite certain that he wouldn't receive any more letters in the next few days.

He closed the door early today, and almost everyone who wanted to deliver a letter arrived.

Considering the size and population of Dragonbone City, this number is far too small.

Lin Gui could probably guess the reason.

Dragonbone City and the frontier are fundamentally different.

Located on the central edge of the continent, it is the place where the Kuroshio Current erupts most frequently.

The demons isolated all the city-states long ago.

Most people's lost relatives either die in the mouths of demons.

Even if some people survive in the outer city-states.

The long span of more than forty years had long since numbed them, and they had accepted that the other party was dead.

Most of the people sending letters are elderly, which shows that...

But the situation is different in border regions.

Before that great evacuation ten years ago, even high-level adventurers could safely traverse the wilderness.

Communication and transportation were not completely cut off.

The first influx of demons was merely a tributary of the Black Tide, and not particularly dramatic.

Quite a few evacuees survived.

Lin Gui sighed and put the last letter into his backpack.

The Dragon Bone Mountain Range, a natural barrier, protected the border region.

Other places outside the border regions were not so lucky.

The city-state he's going to next will probably be similar to Dragonbone City.

Each city-state doesn't receive too many letters.

But the number of city-states can make up for this.

A city-state might have a few hundred fiefs, so ten city-states would have several thousand.

Take it easy.

Lin Gui began sorting and classifying the letters.

To save storage space, he no longer uses wooden boxes to store letters.

Instead, they used a mail carrier's backpack.

He pulled out several canvas backpacks from under the counter and stuffed them with letters destined for different places.

In Dragonbone City, leave a bag.

Leave a bag in Baiya City.

Leave a bag in Wind Whisper Canyon.

Leave a bag at Watchtower.

……

Each bag was stuffed full, piled up on the counter like a small mountain.

As he was tidying up, a glass bead suddenly floated out of his robe.

A pale blue halo illuminated the dimly lit post office, and the chibi version of Shadow Blade Lin emerged from the bead.

She floated in mid-air, arms crossed over her chest, tilting her head to look at Lin Gui.

That look was strange and subtle, as if he were looking at something incomprehensible.

"You... want to overthrow the city-state alliance?"

She listened silently to the conversation between Lin Gui and Elvia.

Whether it was when that blond human initially tried to rape him, or what they just said.

Lin Gui activated his Netherworld Eyes, glanced at her with his gray eyes, and nodded.

"Yes, Lady Shadow Blade Lin."

Shadow Blade Lin tilted her head, her small body spinning in mid-air.

Why?

Lin Gui chuckled and put the backpack in his hand aside.

"Isn't this a normal thought?"

He asked rhetorically.

"Don't you want to?"

"Don't those oppressed city-states, those city-states reduced to resource exporters for the core city-states, want that?"

"Don't those laborers who gave their all, just to contribute to the dawn of hope, feel the same way?"

"Too many people want to overthrow that city-state alliance that was originally established to protect everyone from the Black Tide."

"So it's not surprising that I'm included."

Shadow Blade Lin pointed out casually, her small finger tapping her chin:

"No one can shake the alliance of city-states that brings together almost all the strongest people on the continent."

"When I died, there were a total of thirty-nine titled masters on the mainland."

"All thirty-four were from the city-state."

"Including me."

"We are dissatisfied with the city-state, but no one will take the initiative to shake it."

"because."

Lin Gui added with a smile, tapping his finger lightly on the table:

"Because the city-state alliance protects your interests, protects the interests of the nobles, and protects the interests of all those above."

"So you may be dissatisfied with some of the actions of the City-State Alliance, but you won't do anything to them."

For the vast majority of ordinary people, laborers, miners, and adventurers.

The alliance's oppression is comprehensive.

As for the upper-class nobles, knights, and powerful legendary figures...

The alliance of city-states is paradise.

It will provide them with everything they want.

Resources, power, money, beauty, reputation...

However, most of these things come from oppressing the lower classes.

Shadow Blade Lin nodded, her small body rising and falling gently in the air.

She then warned Lin Gui, her tone unusually serious:

"Therefore, your ideas are all very dangerous."

"No one in the leadership would want the alliance to be overthrown."

Lin Gui said with a smile, leaning back in his chair with his hands on the armrests:

"So, Lady Shadowblade Lin, who was once a member of the Alliance, intends to stop me?"

Shadow Blade Lin chuckled softly, a subtle, enigmatic expression appearing on her small face.

"if……"

"You can help me come back to life."

"I can get you out of here before the Alliance catches you and burns you."

"As long as I regain my strength, and as long as I want to leave, no one can stop me."

"So let's speed things up."

"A little mage trying to stop a chariot with his bare hands."

After she finished speaking, she shrank into the glass bead.

The bead spun in the air and floated into Lin Gui's robe, where it remained motionless, leaving only a small, slight bulge on the lapel.

Lin Gui stood there, looking down at the bulge in his robe, his eyes filled with disappointment.

He desperately wanted Shadow Blade Lin to join him.

Epic rise to the top...

Even within a city-state alliance, there are only five such top-ranking individuals.

The Great Sage, Merlin Ambrose.

Death, Xiu.

The invincible hero, Eren von Grenbel.

The Trial at Dawn, Augustus Lorendan.

Beastmaster, Gronn Bloodaxe.

And Lin, the Shadow Blade who died more than a decade ago.

Shadow Blade Lin did not mention joining.

But Lin Gui was not disappointed.

In the early stages of the plan, top-tier combat power is not needed.

When the day comes that we need titles of master...

Lin Gui's eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

If it really comes to that, he can handle them all by himself.