Law of the Devil

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(Two in One Chapter ~)

Chapter 518: Gabriel's Choice

When he mentioned the rite of passage, Gabriel's divine colour was quite acceptable, but when Dewey mentioned the word "fiancée”, Gabriel's expression became so unnatural that he seemed to look at his brother and deliberately jumped away from the topic: “I heard you killed a holy knight or a great knight chief. ”

Gabriel looked at Dewey's face.

Dewey frowned slightly, and then smiled: "Oh, so fast. ”

Gabriel sighed, slightly worried: "Brother, I know what you're going to do, there's always a reason for you. So whatever you do, I'll be on your side… But don't forget, our mother, is a devout believer in the Church. Mother was sad to hear about it. ”

Dewey thought about it and suddenly laughed. “Huh, it's a church house on the Rollin Plains. What did you say at home? ”

“… the Archbishop of the religious institute in the province of Cot came to my house once before I left, nominally giving me a few gifts to congratulate me on my forthcoming bar mitzvah, but… it must have been deliberate to pass some words through the mouth of the servant of the family and into the ears of his mother. ”

Dewey hey chuckles: “These gods, they always like to play these tricks.” He glanced at his brother: “How did you do that? ”

Gabriel's eyes revealed a hint of perseverance: "What else can we do? Before I came out, I broke the legs of two servants of my family who chewed their tongues in front of my mother and threw them out, telling my mother that the struggle for imperial and divine power had always existed, and now that our family was tightly tied to the royal family, there were things that had to be done. As for the churches in the province of Cote d 'Ivoire… I have ordered that this year's tax on religious contributions be reduced by 50 percent, and that these guys would not dare to come to Didu to report. ”

Dewey smiled and was very happy with his brother's growth. After all, the person who will be in charge of the Rollin family in the future cannot be a gentle sheep, but must be a lion who dares to fight everything that provokes his territory!

“By the way, after your bar mitzvah, there are two big things, one is naturally getting married, marrying your fiancée, and the second... is your future. According to the old tradition, the successors of the Rollins are naturally going into the military. Do you have any idea? ”

The two brothers rode together on horseback. After Dewey's question was asked, Gabriel did not immediately answer, but bowed his head for a while. When he raised his head, the boy's face was filled with a sincere expression: “Brother, where do you want me to go? ”

Dewey glanced at his already grown brother and smiled: “You've grown up, you don't have to listen to everything I arrange. You should have your own ideas. I can only give you some advice, but I can no longer help you decide what to do. ”

As he said, Dewey suddenly strangled the horse, looked at his brother sitting on the horse and straightened his spine, suddenly laughing. He untied his cape and threw it to Gabriel, softly saying: “After all, the emperor is not in the south, it is still cold at night, you put this thing on. ”

Gabriel looked at his brother, looked at his face, and the two brothers looked 50-60% alike, but in contrast, Gabriel, 14, was more focused on the image of the Rollin family tradition: stronger, more facial contours, even less than 15 years old, and his face had given rise to some light, plush, soft mustaches. Dewey, the oldest son of the Rollins, seemed a little thinner than his brother, and his shoulders were not as wide as Gabriel's.

From this point of view, when Gabriel grew up, he feared that he would be more like Count Raymond, an Imperial Warlord than Duvi.

Dewey, on the other hand, is more like a literary minister.

After looking at his brother, Gabriel immediately wrapped the cape without hesitation. Dewey laughed with satisfaction: "Well, come on, what do you have in mind? You tell me first, how can I say this now that I have some status, which department you want to go to, I will make sure you get what you want. ”

“I want to go to the army and be a general officer, even from junior officers, just like my father did back then.” Gabriel's voice is strong: "I don't want to be a civilian soldier directly in the command department, that's too boring. ”

“To be a junior officer in the army?” Dewey shrugged for a while and stopped talking.

Both brothers remained silent, but Gabriel sneaked up on Dewey from time to time and watched Dewey's eyes change. He was also a little confused, wondering if his brother would support his decision.

He made that choice for a reason. Their father, the late Count Raymond, a descendant of the Rollins, when Raymond was young, after the bar mitzvah, entered the Imperial Army directly as an Earl, instead of choosing to do civilian service in the Commander's Department, and went directly into the Northern Storm Legion, where he was a junior officer for three years, starting as a rider, then as captain, and for the last three years as a commanding officer.

Of course, the speed of this promotion is naturally rocket-like, after all, his identity is the heir of the Imperial Rollin family. But even so, it is rare among the nobles, because most Homen nobles will not send their heirs to suffer at the base of the tough army, but will choose to get a good position in the various departments of Didu, then slowly mix qualifications, at a certain age, then send them to the local army, directly as senior officers, mix for a few years, get some "bandits” and “local policing” and other achievements, can return to Didu with honor, get a general rank in the military, or get a position of no lower rank in the commanding ministry...

This is the way most of the noble heirs to the House of Lords go, smoothly and without too much suffering.

In that year, Raymond was an odd number. He refused to stay with the military commander in Didu. Instead, he ran to the most difficult of the four main battle regiments of the Empire, guarding the Storm Legion of the Ice Sealed Forest in the North. Although he rose to the rank of commanding officer in three years, he also relied on the influence of the family. However, he was willing to suffer, but everyone admired him. Moreover, the Storm Legion was considered the most difficult place of the Empire. He had personally fought with the army and the beasts in the Ice Sealed Forest, and had also fought, injured and stood up to the real guns of those smuggling mercenaries who poached. These were the actual credit for not injecting water.

By doing so, he was enough to make people admire him. Everyone believed that, as the heir to the famous Wuhun family of the Empire, he was good enough to demonstrate his excellence, so he should be able to go back to the Empire to enjoy it.

But he didn't!

He's back in the Northwest Legion! Served as the leader of the Cavalry Regiment for a year, taking people to the northwest and those brutal horse bandits, killing them with the Prairie People for a while!

It can be said that the two toughest regiments of the Empire, he has been there, suffered, bled!

Two hundred years of imperial peace, the Haumen nobility, including many of the so-called Wuhun families, has gradually become mediocre and obsessed with peace, and few are willing to suffer and hone themselves like Raymond.

Now, it is clear that Gabriel also wants to recount his father's footprint.

Dewey was meditating and did not immediately reply to Gabriel, but the two returned to the Duke's House in Didu.

Coming to the doorstep, looking at familiar houses and courtyards, though expanded, the Duke's House now looks more gorgeous than it used to be.

“Your Count House has not chosen an address yet.” Dewey laughed, “There's been so much going on lately. Besides, I'm sorry about you, this house is supposed to be yours, but Your Highness gave it to me to be a duke, so you'll have to move in some time. ”

Gabriel laughed: "Well, my brother, this family is yours, that is, mine, there is nothing to split between the two brothers. ”

The servants came and grabbed the horse, and the escort cavalry who entered the capital with Gabriel went to rest. Dewey took his brother directly and went back to the study first.

A moment later, the servants sent dinner, and the brothers sat at the table in the study and simply ate a barbecue.

Gabriel ate very sweetly and finally wiped his mouth. “Speaking of barbecue, it's still delicious," he said. ”

“Anyway, you're here now, and there will be opportunities in the future, and I'll make it for you.” Dewey smiled.

Then he gently dropped the knife in his hand and regained his seriousness, looking at his brother: "Okay, let's talk. ”

Gabriel also looked sober, and Dewey and I sat back at the desk, looking at the brother's serious face and slightly frowning. Gabriel can feel that as the elders grow older, the titles and titles grow higher and the power in their hands grows heavier and the threat between the eyebrows grows heavier.

Sitting in front of his brother at this moment, Gabriel suddenly had a wonderful feeling in his heart: looking at his brother now was like looking at his father in dignity.

“I'm proud of your courage to go to the bottom of the army and hone yourself.” Dewey said slowly, his voice was low: "Which army do you want to go to? ”

Gabriel laughed, and he heard that it seemed that his brother was supporting his idea: "Naturally, the local guards don't have to think about it, you know what those local guards look like! A tray of sand, going to that place, I was afraid it would make me lazy too. ”

“No, Gabriel.” Dewey shook his head: “You may not know that for the last two years, His Royal Highness the Regent has been revamping the local guards, disarming a large number of redundant members of the local guards, and the daily training and military record has been revamped, much better than it was then. ”

“I don't want to go to the local guards anyway.” Gabriel mumbled.

Dewey laughed, "If you don't go, then you want to go to the main army? Or the Royal Guard? ”

“Forget the Royal Guard! The Royal City Guard is still stationed in Didu, I just don't want to stay in Didu. ”

Dewey sighed and implicitly guessed his brother's intentions, but to respect his brother, he asked: "Where do you want to go? ”

Gabriel laughed, and he wrapped his finger: “I was interested in the whip of the new Thor God. I heard that the new regiment was quite well equipped. Many new weapons are their priority, and I would love to go. But the commander of this regiment is Alpai, although I have been staying on the Rollin Plains, but I also know that this Alpai and his brother are enemies of our family, so naturally I can't go to his men, otherwise I won't give him half a death. ”

Dewey smiled and looked at his brother's face revealing his familiar childhood, warm in his heart.

“Needless to say, the Southern Legion was too peaceful to radiate the South until it was perennially in that swamp, and the Southern Legion had been disarming and drawing people for many years, the Navy had expanded, a batch had been drawn from the Southern Legion, and another batch had been drawn from the Southern Legion during the cleansing of the Royal City Near Guard. This time when the Thor Whip was established, a batch of backbones had been drawn from the Southern Legion. Now there is only one empty shelf left in the Southern Legion. Actual combat power, I'm afraid it's better than the local guard army! I'm not going to that boring place. ”

“Do you want to go north?” Dewey's face is clotted.

“Yes, Storm Legion is my first choice.” Gabriel laughed, “You know, when my father was young, he was first in the Storm Corps, and now General Rostock, the leader of the Corps, was a good friend of my father's, and if I did, he would have taken care of me, so don't worry about me. ”

Dewey sighed in his heart, but his face was silent. “Except for Storm Legion? Do you have any other options? ”

“It's also good to go to the Northwest Independent Division.” Gabriel laughed: “But that's your place, and the Northwest Independence Division is also controlled by you, the Northwest Secretary of State. It's kind of your army, and although I'm interested in where it is, I'm worried that people will talk. I want to sharpen myself and not stay under the wing protection. ”

The last sentence revealed Gabriel's heart.

Dewey hid his eyebrows and locked them.

Because he knows very well that both options are bad! Very bad!!

In peacetime, of course, Dewey had no objection to his brother going for a bitter meal, and it would be nice to go to the Storm Legion. Although the ice-covered forest might be a little dangerous, there should be no major problem with sending more expert guards from several families.

Isn't that how my father came?

But it's different now!

Gabriel doesn't know, but Duvi does!

Within the next year, the Sinners will invade from the North, when the Storm Legion will take the lead!

Though Dewey doesn't want to discourage his brother, he is also selfish as a brother! In future wars, as a Storm Legion defending against the first line of the Empire, it will be the first army to engage a large army of criminals, and the casualty rate is bound to be very high!

He doesn't want to risk his brother!

And the Northwest Independent Division... In fact, this army is simply a front for Prince Duwei and Prince Chen!

This Northwest Independence Division is not actually the Army! Because after the fall of the Northwest Regiment, the threat on the prairie had been blocked outside by Dewey, then there was no need for the Northwest Army to be stationed. This Northwest Independence Division was actually sneaked out by Prince Duwei and Chen...

Future Empire Air Force!

Over the past two years, the Empire has built a large factory in the northwest, producing a continuously hot air balloon spacecraft. After technical modifications and updates, massive equipment has begun to be supplied to the Northwest Independent Division, and a lot of training has been carried out. This army will be put to use in future wars!

This Northwest Independent Division, the prototype of the future Imperial Air Force, is bound to fight the sinners on the battlefield. Dewey doesn't want Gabriel to be a pilot for the safety of his brother's life!

Remember the power of the sinners described in the letter sent back by the White River to himself by witchcraft.

Rhinoceros fighters with the power to compare human middle-class warriors, as well as veterinarians and soldiers who can maniacally increase their fighting power at any time… Dwarf warriors have created powerful fighting machines.

And look at your younger brother's face.

Dewey shook the head resolutely!

“Brother, as I said, I respect all your choices, and I will not force you to do anything. But as your brother, I need to make my point.” Dewey looked closely at Gabriel, “I personally object to you going to Storm Legion or Northwest Independent Division. ”

“Why?" Gabriel did not immediately and urgently refute, but rather questioned Dewey very firmly.

Dewey was very satisfied with this performance. Good, my brother finally got a few grown-ups instead of being a furry little kid.

“I'm not hiding you.” Dewey sighed, and he lowered his voice: “The matter is still a secret, but in six months it will be revealed. ”

He suddenly pulled out a map of the Empire from under the table, laying it on the table, lifting his fingers where the frozen forest was: "I think you know what happened to the beasts in the frozen forest two years ago, which cost the Storm Legion a lot. ”

“Yes.”

Well, I'll tell you what, it's just a prelude. ”Dewey's voice is full of cold smells:“ Within the next year, the North, north of the frozen forest, will be a massive... an evil race invasion we never knew and never knew! They're not human beings, they're heterogeneous, they have at least a million armies, and they're powerful! Their goal is not to leave for a while like those warcraft. It's for the annihilation of mankind! It's a big war! Ice Sealed Forest will be the front line! ”

Gabriel was shocked.

The room suddenly fell into death-like silence!

Young Gabriel looked at his brother's eyes and looked at the location of the frozen forest on the map.

Such a message may be hard for anyone to believe and accept for a moment!

The continent has been at peace for hundreds of years! The only enemy known to the Roland Empire for a long time was the Northwest Legion, the dividing warlord, now leveled by Dewey.

And there are grasslands outside the Kilimaro Mountains, the savages of the grasslands, but it's just a local scourge, not a big threat.

There may be the Southern Ocean if we push any further... but the proud Roland will not consider the indigenous people with spears paddling small boats as “enemies” - they are ineligible!

“North? ”

“North of the Frozen Forest? ”

“Not a human alien? ”

Gabriel asked three questions in a row.

He can tell, my brother is not kidding!

“Those who know this now, the Emperor, only His Royal Highness the Regent, may have told Lord Robustschel, but it is also confined to the core circle of power of the Empire, no more than five people. Apart from that, only the Pope of the Temple... and the President of the Magic Union, Jacob Doug, should have been informed. ”

Dewey slowly moved his finger: “As you know, in the north of the Empire, we built a military defensive line, a long line built at the level of the Imperial First Military Fortress - the Kabaski Defensive Line! If only to prevent the onslaught of warcraft, do we have to build such a line of defense at all costs? My brother..."

Dewey's voice is filled with ruthlessness: "Outside news, this line of defense was built in accordance with the imperial-level military fortress, but it is actually much more expensive in terms of building standards and costs! I put 16 million gold in this line of defense! The Empire also paid more than 100,000 labourers and civil servants, almost half of whom were mobilized to the north. The lowest walls of this line are fifteen meters high, where we are equipped with dozens of crossbows and defensive equipment, military fortresses behind the line, large enough to hold more than three legions of troops, as well as quantities of weapons and grass stockpiles… Over the past year, the grain of the South has been continuously transported to the North, and the Northwest, where I have spent countless energies squeezing dozens of sheep and horses out of the northwest prairie. Including the newly formed Legion of Thunder's Whiplash, and my Northwest Independent Division, will be on the northbound in the near future, meeting with the Storm Legion, and then… this line of defense will be our wall against the invaders! ”

Gabriel finally opened his mouth and his lips crept several times: "Are these invaders powerful? ”

“Very powerful.” Dewey laughed bitterly, and for the first time in his three years of stress, he could tell his loved ones: "It's so powerful that I'm not sure! These invaders have a monolithic fighting power far above us humans. And… they have wisdom, hatred, determination… and so much more! ”

Dewey sighed and his face looked exhausted.

In fact, he's been exhausted for three years! Only in front of his own people, he was a leader, he could not show any weakness, but now, in front of his trusted brother, he could show his fatigue.

“It's not a Northwest War, it's not a local warlord like the Northwest Legion, and it'll be over in two or three months. Nor was the Prairie War twenty years ago, which could have ended in a year or two… It was a Patriotic War, or ‘Human Defense War’, and I even suspected that it would have lasted for ten, twenty years… even longer! ”

Dewey remembered the two "Mythical Age Wars” 10,000 years ago.

It's been 100 years in that dark age!!

Silence……

The two brothers ignored each other.

Dewey suddenly laughed, turning around and touching a crystal bottle from the shelf, which was a well-hidden wine - a habit that Dewey had also learned from his father, Old Raymond.

He unscrewed the cap and handed it to his brother: “I'm sure you need two sips now. ”

Gabriel laughed bitterly: "It seems I do need it. ”

He grabbed the bottle and poured a little and a half hard because he drank too fast and choked a few more times.

Watching his brother cough blush, Dewey finally smiled gently: "You're brave, Gabriel. At least after you know the news, you're not afraid to pee in your pants. If ordinary people knew that we humankind were about to face such a great extinction crisis, most of us would panic and collapse. ”

“This… why hasn't the news been published?” Gabriel smiled bitterly.

“The news came out three years ago.” Dewey laughed bitterly: “But we need time to prepare! Do you have any idea how much panic and chaos would have erupted in the human world if the news had been made public? Under that fear, there was a lot of civil unrest in the Reich. In despair, everyone has no intention of producing… that is not possible! We need three years, three years for farmers to continue to cultivate so that the Empire can store food. If the craftsmen continue to produce, the Imperial Army will be adequately equipped with weapons. If merchants continue to circulate, the Empire's finances can wait for enough military spending! Besides, over the past three years, we have done whatever it takes to sweep the warlords of the Northwest Army and eliminate the insides... you think, if this news had been published early, we wouldn't have known what was going on inside ourselves! But now it's good, most people don't know, so we're ready for the army, the army's reorganization, the accumulation of weapons, grass, the financial reserves, and the construction of the northern line of defense..."

“But it's always public.” Gabriel whispered.

“Yes, within a few months.” Dewey sighed: "Then, confusion is expected, but fortunately, we are ready for the chaos of bullets, the restructuring of the local guards, and the elimination of the warlords in the northwest, at least we don't have to worry about the inside. As for the people's panic… this is inevitable. But enough food and weapons have been produced. Panic is panic, and as for that... trust our spiritual leader, His Holiness the Pope of the Church, will find a way to quell this panic. After all, he is a spiritual leader. ”

Cool, hoo, hoo.

Gabriel poured a few more sips.

At this moment, stimulated by alcohol, the young man's trembling heart can gradually calm down.

He was not cowardly, but when the news of such a great event arrived, there would always be confusion among men, even Dewey, when he knew.

“I'm still going to the army!” Gabriel actually poured out a bottle of wine.

He was blushing and placed the bottle heavily on the table.

“You are the successor to the family!” Dewey is a serious reminder.

“But I'm a Rollinist!” Gabriel proudly said: “As the head of the Rollin family and the head of the proud Wuhun family, how can the Rollin family back off at such a great moment!! Our family is the guardian of this continent! Our ancestors fought for the blood of this empire, and our father bled for it! I, how dare I lag behind! ”

“You'll have a chance.” Dewey smiles bitterly: “But I still don't think you should go to the front now. You will most likely die in the first wave of showdown. ”

“I'm not afraid to die.” Gabriel shook his head: "Son of the Rollins, not afraid to die. ”

“I know." Dewey still shook his head: “But you're the chief. If you die, who's going to inherit the family? Don't forget, you don't even have a son now. You've only just grown up. You have to leave at least one heir to your family before you die. Otherwise, would you look at the Rollins, whom I have painstakingly restored? ”

A very tranquil question, to silence Gabriel at once!

Indeed, when the Rollins arrived, Raymond died too early, and Gabriel had just grown up, and his eldest son, Dewey, had left the family to become one.

If Gabriel suddenly dies, I'm afraid the Rollins can't even find an orthodox heir... waiting for the end of this great family is nothing but ash and smoke!

“As soon as you get married after the bar mitzvah, the wedding begins with Jane. Then… I need you to get your wife pregnant - or faster - within a year. This is a responsibility to the family. As for your position… I would not recommend you to go to the Storm Legion of the North, because you are now there, and the role is just an ordinary junior officer, with little value for contribution. And me, there are other arrangements for you… of course, it's all based on your consent. You're my brother, but you've grown up, and I won't impose my meaning on you. You can think about it if you stick to your plan…"

Dewey laughed bitterly: "Well, I can only agree, but I'll send someone to protect you and try not to let you die in a junior officer position. It would be humiliating if the Count of the Rollins, a junior cavalry captain, had died. You should have a bigger stage, my brother. ”

Gabriel stood up and looked at Dewey: "You're my brother and I'm willing to listen to you! ”

After a pause, he suddenly whispered: "Brother, how sure are you about this? ”

“You mean war?” Dewey shook his head: "Not sure. I'm afraid this war will be fought for decades, even longer, so... I have a plan, and three months from now, I'll find a way to get my mother out of her home and send her on a boat to Nanyang! Nanyang there, I made some preparations, sort of my sphere of influence. ”

“Nanyang?” Gabriel stunned for a moment, but he immediately caught a message: "Do you think the Kabaski line might not be able to block each other? Are you worried about the fall of the Rollin Plains? ”

“Anything is possible.” Dewey shook his head: “This is not a war between humans and humans. Humans war against humans ends when one side admits to losing and surrenders. But this is a war of extermination! The target is most likely to be the annihilation of mankind! Such wars have never been fought by humankind in thousands of years. ”

Gabriel looked at Dewey for a while and said, "You're my brother, I believe you, I believe you unconditionally! I'll do what you want me to do! ”

Dewey smiled and his eyes were bright, holding his brother's hand hard: "Don't worry, I'm part of the Rollins family too! I won't let the Rollins fall into prestige. My brother, I was hoping that after you became a father, another general of the Rollins! ”

Gabriel suddenly looked a little strange: "Brother, can we discuss the marriage...”

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