The Amber Sword

Indeed, as Brando had predicted, Count Jean and his army had entered the area one night in advance and had not seen any meteors and flames burning from the sky, let alone any artifact resonance. What he saw was no different from what Brando and Nimaisi saw last night, except the stars in the middle of the sky, the stars in winter and night.

Now, why is this Earl left here alone, as if everything were true, or the Earl of Olcons, or the Moors, or the Walkers, or the Coopers, after all, the Cruz aristocrats gathered here apparently reacted the first time they saw the artifact fall, and compared to the artifact, what could a Count of Eluin in the district be? So the first time they raced to the north, hoping to get to where the meteor had fallen, even if they could not take possession of the artifact, but as the first discoverer to dedicate it to the very highest being of the empire - or the temple of fire, then they and the family behind them would share this unimaginable glory, even if it were a step up in the sky, it would not be impossible.

Naturally, the royal knights of the inner court are no exception, and as the watchman of the cloudy hills, it is impossible for them to ignore what is happening on this land. In fact, Rogers is well aware of the weight of the artifact, so he brings with him all the knights of the inner court in Hillat Hills in case the nobles do anything irrational.

But the problem is...

Count Jean did not see, he had no idea what was happening in the area of Walgus, Forest Avenue, less than twenty miles away, and he was scouting the battlefield with his men that night, taking advantage of the favourable terrain. So what happens after one night can be explained.

Rogers looked a little ugly, and he could be sure that last night's vistas should be at least 100 miles away, not to mention the hilly areas close to Forest Leaf Avenue and Vargas.

“Is it true," the knight seems to have reacted: "… is this the trap of Jorgendi Gambu? ”

Big fantasy.

Rogers first thought of the term, but when he and Fred looked back at the young man with dark hair, the latter shook his head with certainty: "That's an artifact resonance.” The young man answered with certainty and then stopped talking, as if it were none of his business to let you believe it or not.

“Quinn, that doesn't make sense.” Trevor said, “Well, I know you're the best, but the problem is that you're young, and you have to admit that there are a lot of old undead guys in the world who are much better than you, and it's no big deal to plant them in their hands. ”

Before he finished, he saw the young man look at him lightly and let the second half of his sentence get stuck in his throat. He had to stare at the stall: "Okay, forget I said it. ”

Trevor's voice went down, and he heard a slight laugh: "What a pathetic, stupid, unknowable man.” The knight of the inner court suddenly discolored and looked up in that direction, but found a little girl of a short man looking at herself with contempt on her chin. Trevor was so angry, he had a heart attack, but then he thought of an Imperial Knight in his own hall to scare a little girl like she had another loss of decency, and he had to skip his mouth and say: "Forget it, it's not compared to an uncultivated yellow-haired girl. ”

But what he never dreamed of was that the little girl dared to grunt and replied with disdain: “Shut up, you brainless bastard! ”

“You…”

“The divine law is the upper law, the magic law is the lower law, the upper law can simulate the power of the lower law, but this process is irreversible, which is also the basic norm of the Tiamat Scriptures, otherwise what magic resonance and artifact reaction are distinguished? You don't even know that. You don't deserve it!” Chiara shook her head like she was very disappointed, and the little lady of the Sifah family sounded young, but with a very strange sense of contradiction. But Trevor sounded like a left-handed, right-handed slap on his face, swelling his face -- though he didn't understand more than half of it. Finally, the little lady summed it up vividly: "Apologize to your companion because you insulted the knowledge and if I had any shame, I would have chosen one of them to crash into that red pine tree over there. ”

“Know why?” She hummed softly: "Because the mangrove is called the Fool's Tree by the mountain folks, the title was reserved for Your Excellency thousands of years later. ”

Trevor could not help but laugh at one of the companions behind him, who naturally had to defend their companions if the Eruins provoked him. But the question is, who would compare to a little girl if she were a kid? The dark-haired young man couldn't help but look at Chiara twice, and the knight patted her tall companion on the shoulder with great sympathy: "Trevor, who in Eno said he could graduate as long as he passed the sword lesson? ”

The Knight of the inner court suffered a face and regretted that his bowels were getting blue. Of course, he regretted not what he had said, but that he should not mess with the little lady with her teeth.

Brando knew the horror of the eldest son, his sister, and he later learned that his mentor was Shazhan, an old friend of Tulaman's, this era of Eruin's ancient linguistics of Taidou, an important plot NPC in the age of the Stonewall War. He had met the charitable old man, but had not seen Chiara, and did not know how to spoil the genius girl of the Sifah family. He had given her the character of a little witch alive.

And he didn't want to mess with Chiara either, because he understood that he was still thinking about his' Buga knowledge ', so he turned away and said, "Mr. Rogers, let me ask you a question, before the artifact resonance happened, did anything unusual happen with Vargas, Forest Avenue, and even Tieshen Town? ”

When Rogers glanced at Brando, he instinctively felt that the other party seemed intentionally not to mention the meteor fall, but he quickly threw the implicit premonition behind his head and thought carefully and replied: “The artifact resonance occurred after nine o'clock, and until then it had been very calm, and most of the nobles had not left their premises, except for Count Keane's early departure from Forest Avenue to this place.” He looked Brando in the eye and continued: “In fact, it should be more normal until the last time our line of sight passed the message before dusk. ”

“Have you had any contact with your eyeliners since then, should you be using magic contacts?” Brando knows that these inner knights are mainly in charge, but they should have a lot of outside informants.

“Lord Count, magic summonses throughout the region have been manipulated by magic.” Rogers replied.

Brando flashed slightly, and suddenly, dimensional anchor and repression spells were not uncommon in Warnde, and it was clear that the underground army of Jorgendigan had the ability to cover the entire area - both nest lords and blind sacrifices were excellent practitioners. What else did he want to ask, but he saw the knight stop talking, yet he whispered something to Rogers, who nodded before she gathered the courage to answer: "Count, there is one more thing. ”

“Go ahead. ”

“Prior to the resonance of the artifact, a very harrowing sound was heard throughout the Vargas region for quite some time, and it should have come from above the clouds.” The knight replied.

Brando patted his forehead, and he didn't hear it at all, and he thought, "Does that sound like the sound of a fleet traveling through the clouds? ”

The soldier from Janilassou Province looked up at Brando with some curiosity when he heard the phrase. The floating ship was an emerging weapon in this day and age, and few people were familiar with it. But the knight shook her head: “The sound sounded more like thunder and rumbling. ”

Brando exchanged his eyes with Nimaisi again before continuing: "You met the caveman halfway, right? When was that? ”

“In the morning.” Rogers answered with certainty.

Brando shrugged: "Well, let's just assume that all this is a Jogentigans plot, Mr. Rogers. Do you know any natural entrances or exits to the underground in this area? ”

“I know there's one near Cedar Town.” The tall knight said, “Once I wanted to go in for an adventure, it was terribly big, but unfortunately I didn't go in very deep. ”

“Is it dark in there, Mr. Knight?” A crisp, raw voice asked, when the Knight of the Inner Court looked at it, he found another little Laurie asking herself, and he hurried to shut his mouth and not say a word, as if the little Laurie from Eluin were all demons with long horns on her head.

Naturally speaking to him was Grand Duke Goran-Elson's gold, but this little Lori never expected Trevor to look up at her as soon as he saw her opening, not staring at her with anger, scared the little girl to cry.

“There is also a place near Leaf Avenue.” Rogers replied.

Brando thought about it, and it almost matched his memory, and he looked at Nimmasis again, and the latter nodded. “That means when you meet a caveman, it won't be more than an hour before Jørgen Deokan makes his attack.” He thought for a moment, answered, and turned to Metisa beside him and said, "Bring us our map. ”

Metissa nodded with a smile.

Probably noticing the bewildering gaze of several Rogers, Brando spoke out: "The people beneath the ground, especially the Minotaurs and the Eagle Witches, rarely fight unprepared wars, they must have figured out your deployment before launching a raid, and so far we have found no trace of any noble army other than Count Gian, which is quite illustrative. Your stronghold in Hillat Hills is no secret, they must have been watching you all morning, from the underground exit on Forest Leaf Avenue to near the farm where you met them, almost an hour away at the speed of the cavemen. ”

Rogers et al. are the knights of the inner court, whose task is to monitor the movements of the nobles in the locality, not to be responsible for defense, so it's not surprising that they don't understand these things, so Brando patiently explained that if the knights of the Knights of the Folds can't even see these here, then Brando would probably think that this guy is a fraudulent thief.

“What shall we do now, Count?” After listening to Brando's analysis, Rogers seemed to have a little faith in the Earl of Eruin and asked.

Instead of answering directly to him, Brando waited for Metisa to bring the map, Rogers and others to understand it, but blackened their eyes about how to infer the movement of an army. And most of Brando's tactical knowledge is inherited from the soul's original memory, and the militia will teach some shallow map knowledge, and he has served as head of the player adventure and mercenary regiments, presided over local defense, and barely understood some square-and-a-half claws of military knowledge. Plus, in this life, he commanded several battles, big and small, barely judging Jorgendigan's offensive intentions.

But the most professional of all was obviously Nimmasis, the female knight, an honorary graduate of the Royal Knights College, a standard college pie, who took a look at the map and said to Brando: "Floating cloud hills are too far from the closest place to the Rococci — Broken Sword Mountains Fortress, and all the way south from here are not the only two entrances to the underground world, they do not need to enter the surface world if they are to storm the Fortress from behind. ”

“So if Jogentigan is already in alliance with Tokenin, is it possible that this one before us is not the main force?” Chiara asked at this time.

“It's a harassment force," Brando answered looking at the map. "Their goal is to stop the rebellion of the Imperial Army in the rear hinterland of the fortress. ”

His eyes crossed Iron Cedar Town and across Vargas and Forest Leaf Avenue: "To achieve this, they must attack some of the most critical points. ”

His eyes fell on a town at the same time as Nimmasis's.

Yasa.

To the north of Anzeluta, between towns with stars in the mountains, this is undoubtedly one of the brightest stars. The city, known as the White City of Cruz, compares to the White City of Farnzanese. In addition to the fact that both cities use the same white rock stacked walls, the other common denominator is an important road traffic hub. Asa is the southern end of the Changqing corridor, which connects the central part of the empire, with its leaf collar to the north, a wilderness leading east to the four realms, and the heart of the empire - the plain area north of the Violet Valley - to the west, once the city has collapsed, it means that the entire empire will collapse from Rococci to Anzeluta to the two wars in the wilderness of the four realms.

Even though Rogers didn't understand the strategic intentions of the Georgendigan army, they did understand the importance of Asa. Seeing Brando and Nimaisis' eyes fall on the map, the faces of several Imperial knights are all white, apparently understanding the situation the Empire will face once those mice from the ground succeed.

But Brando wasn't so nervous, he didn't care. Second, he realized that the situation wasn't that bad. After all, the eagle above the Cruz Heights was an eagle. Could it fail altogether due to a sneak attack? Yasa's geographical location is so important that there are strong local corps in all four directions, not to mention the Imperial Navy stationed west of Rokozy, and if the harassing forces of Jorgendigan can take down Yasa, they are not the harassing forces, but the main ones.

The intention of this force is obviously to draw the attention of these local regiments so that they do not have time to take their hands out to rescue the Rokozy - Fortress of the Broken Mountains. If this‘ mouse 'actually reaches its goal, even if it only reaches the vicinity of Yassa, it will basically declare the line of defense of the Empire in Anzeruta dead, and such a blow alone is absolutely unacceptable to the Empire.

Brando's gaze shifted back again, landing north of Vargas and Forest Leaf Avenue.

“Iron Cedar Town, crossing Walgus and Forest Leaf Avenue, will not be their target, and they should have crossed them earlier today.” Nimaisie replied.

Brando nodded and the results of the investigation proved this judgment. He stared at the map silently, but several Kruznetin knights seemed a little anxious, as if they were one step closer, and the Empire was in a state of immolation. Yes. As if Brando had noticed this obvious anxiety, he looked at them deliberately, and Rogers finally couldn't help but say, "Count, don't you know what you said earlier is true? ”

“What?” Brando asked ignorantly.

Chiara watched with interest the dialogue between the two.

Rogers licked his lips before answering, “My lord, you said there was a better idea, and if we could get in the way of these uninterrupted guests, maybe the situation in the south of the empire wouldn't be as bad as we thought. ”

Looks like Brando nodded, "My army is here, assuming that the Joggendigans' harassment unit is a whole legion, do you think we could beat them? ”

Rogers thought about it and shook his head.

“So assuming that all of us here have fought to the death and risked everyone's life to slow down the Jorgendigans, do you think we might do that?” Brando asked again.

Rogers shook his head with hesitation: "Lord Count, although you are an ally of the Empire, the Empire has no right to ask you to make such a sacrifice. ”

Brando looked at the guy quite astonished and thought he still had a bit of a knight spirit, but didn't know if he was forced to say so. And he shook his head, and he said, "Well, suppose I told you that I might be able to do what I said, do you believe that? ”

Rogers had no hope at all, and his only hope now was to follow the Count around and summon to His Majesty in the shortest possible time, but when he heard Brando's question in a trance, he couldn't help but look up incredibly and ask: "… Count, what are you talking about? ”

“What, what I'm saying is hard to understand?” Brando answered in one sentence.

“No, but--”

Rogers wanted to say something else, but Brando interrupted him and said, "It's not a yes or no problem —— all I ask is that you obey my orders, and you understand that it's impossible for us to shake the army of Jorgendigan, so I have to get your help. Of course, if you are unwilling and unwilling to accept the command of an Eruin, then we will choose the first option. ”

Rogers and his companions glanced at each other and the knight nodded immediately: "I see, Count, what do you want us to do? ”

Brando glanced over at the red pine forest.

“It's simple, you go first and convince Count Jean to join us. He still has over a thousand men, and we can't let them disband us there, can we? ”

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