At the same time, in the Second Sons' camp north of Myr, Mero, the Commander of the Second Sons, known as the Titan's Bastard, uncharacteristically neither drank nor called for prostitutes.
He only kept Ben Plumm, the Second Commander, and Kasparo, the Guard Captain, inside the tent.
The three sat quietly on the rug, seemingly waiting for someone.
The tent flap was lifted, and a person entered the tent with a smile; the guards outside the tent made no movement, as if they had all disappeared.
"The Rat King of Myr." Mero's eyes narrowed slightly, and he reached out to stroke his beard, giving a signal to Kasparo beside him.
Kasparo stood up and walked to the tent entrance, lifting the flap to look outside.
He found that all the guards had fallen to the ground, and a dozen short dwarves stood around them.
"The Rat Guards truly live up to their reputation." Kasparo lowered the flap and did not return to his seat.
Instead, he walked to Mero's side and stood there like an ordinary guard.
The person who came to the Second Sons' camp was none other than Dahaks, the underground emperor of Myr, the Rat King.
He left his lair this time on Lynd's orders.
"Speak! What terms has that Lord offered me?" Mero asked directly.
"Lord Lynd's terms for you all are to grant you a way out," Dahaks said, looking at the three in front of him, "After you open the North Gate, you can leave through it, and the god of calamity's followers outside the city will not stop you."
"What? That's it?" Ben Plumm couldn't help but ask angrily, "You want us to open the city gate without giving us anything?"
Dahaks retorted very seriously, "No, Lord Lynd has given you the most precious thing, and that is your lives."
"Are you mocking us?" Mero's face turned fierce, and he stood up, his hand touching the hilt of his weapon.
Dahaks looked at him calmly and said, "I am not mocking you, because what I say is the truth.
In fact, whether you open the gate or not is irrelevant.
Even as we speak, Commander Imonton has already surrendered to us, and the Miracle Fleet has landed at the docks without any damage.
Your continued defense of the North Gate will only make it slightly more troublesome for us to take over Myr, but the final outcome will not change.
And your Second Sons, if you miss this opportunity, will cease to exist forever."
He then ignored these hostile mercenaries, turned, and prepared to leave.
However, as he reached the tent entrance, he suddenly stopped and looked back at the Second Sons, saying, "Speaking of which, it seems there aren't many people guarding the Governor's Mansion in the city right now.
Everyone has been moved to the city walls and docks.
This is truly dangerous; what if someone harbors malicious intentions?"
Having said that, he lifted the tent flap and walked out, his footsteps quickly disappearing outside the tent.
Inside the tent, Mero never dared to draw his weapon, because he could feel that if he truly did, all three of them would die there.
So, when Dahaks left, Mero actually breathed a sigh of relief.
He then pondered for a moment and commanded, "Wake everyone up; we're making our move."
Ben Plumm and Kasparo were stunned upon hearing this, but quickly understood what their Commander meant by "making our move," and a sinister grin appeared on their faces in unison.
That night, the Second Sons betrayed the Governors of Myr, directly ransacking several Governor's Mansions near the North Gate, and then fled Myr through the North Gate they were guarding.
At the same time, the god of calamity's army entered Myr through the opened North Gate without any obstruction, beginning to clear out the resistance forces within Myr.
Almost simultaneously with the god of calamity's army entering the city, the Miracle Fleet from the outer sea of the docks also sailed into Myr's docks, occupying the port, while Myr's navy made no move to resist.
As resistance forces were cleared out one by one, Myr was completely conquered.
The next day, at the Council of Governors in Myr, just like the meeting in Tyrosh, the Governors passed a resolution to pledge allegiance to Summerhall, and also added a clause not mentioned in Tyrosh's proposal of allegiance: the recognition of Lynd's sovereignty over the Disputed Lands.
The sudden changes in the Three City States of the Disputed Lands astonished everyone.
Just a while ago, news came that a great plague had broken out there, and the next moment, the plague disappeared, and then the Three City States were divided up by Volantis and Summerhall.
Throughout the entire process, apart from some naval battles and landing operations when Volantis captured Lys, Summerhall's capture of Tyrosh and Myr did not even involve a single decent battle, as if these two Free City had long wished to pledge allegiance to Summerhall.
Tyrosh's defection to Summerhall did not come as a surprise to people in other Free City.
After all, with Summerhall's army entering Tyrosh and Tyrosh completely abandoning its defensive forces, Tyrosh's fall was already common knowledge; the only question was when it would fall.
However, Myr's swift surrender completely caught everyone off guard.
Myr's own fleet was not destroyed and still possessed some naval power, and Myr, like Tyrosh, was protected by high walls.
If a portion of people from each Governor's hands had been drawn to join the city's defense, they could certainly have withstood several waves of attacks, at least holding out until Lynd made his move.
But no one expected that Myr's fleet would collectively surrender when the Miracle Fleet approached, which many found incomprehensible.
On the other hand, the betrayal and escape of the Second Sons, who were responsible for defending the city, was more understandable.
The final result was that Lynd did not even appear on the front lines during the entire conquest process, yet he took two Free Trade City States.
And with Myr's proposal of allegiance, declaring Lynd's sovereignty over the Disputed Lands, Tyrosh immediately issued the same statement.
At the same time Tyrosh issued the statement that Summerhall held sovereignty over the Disputed Lands, some unusual situations also appeared in Lys.
Perhaps it was because the conquest of Lys was too smooth, making the Volantene generals complacent, or perhaps the Trade Princes and Governors of Lys were too compliant during the conquest, leading Volantis to believe they posed no threat.
The result was that they surprisingly did not restrict the activities of Lys's Governors and Trade Princes.
In the Purple Rose Courtyard of Lys, Lysene nobles, dressed in aristocratic robes and hooded, were led by servants through secret passages into a hidden room beneath the brothel.
When these people removed their hoods, the faces revealed were all well-known in Lys.
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