The Amber Sword

Brando understands what this inner knight Trevor said about what happened a day ago, after they left Vargas, marching north along the galaxy, facing a battlefield left behind after intense fighting north of Forest Leaf Avenue, apparently between the private armies of the Imperial nobility and the underground creatures of Jogan Deegang, which stretched across long rivers and Forest Avenue. With the corpses of humans, dragons, vultures, cavemen and hawks, wilderness bloodshed solidified in the cold temperatures of winter bones, forming a red colour on the pebbles, the nobles of Cruz recognized many familiar faces from the pile of corpses - Sir Moore was there, and a bone arrow penetrated his throat, causing him to lie on his back on the battlefield and become many One of the cold corpses.

Such scenes often represent a tragic defeat of the Empire, and the Cruz nobility, in order not to easily abandon the remains of its companions in dignity, and even the noble bodies are ignored, can almost imagine Count Olkons and his men stepping on the cold waters of the river in an attempt to escape north.

As for Jorgendigan, underground organisms seldom clean up bodies on the battlefield - unless they run out of rations, the epidemic has a minimal impact on them.

“Brando, it looks like they're going into town.” Roman suddenly whispered, "Miss Merchant's eyes sparkle in twilight, like cat's eyes in a microlight environment.

Brando noticed that too, and he immediately said to Rogers, "Mr. Knight, what can you do to reach them? ”

Rogers thought, "I know there's a code in Anzeluta's local army, maybe try it. ”

“You try, but don't let those things over your head spot us. ”

“I understand.” Rogers nodded and crawled into the bushes, where he glanced down at the dark painted bushes, then inserted his thumb and index finger into the mouth, blowing the whistle hard - the whistle echoing back into the dusked mountains, sounding like a nightingale scream, but clearly sharper. The howling unexpectedly caught the attention of the eagle witches above their heads, who painted a giant eight-word flying in this direction in the middle of the sky. The people in the grass were motionless and quietly waiting for the eyes of the sky patrol to leave. A moment later, the flat-haired animals did not find anything abnormal before flying back.

Brando heard the long breath of others around him, and he took a slight breath of relief himself, but only the businesswoman next to him, as if she had no heart or lungs, was not afraid at all.

The silence of the surroundings gradually leaves only the sound of fine insects in the darkness.

The shadows in the goose ear bushes also stopped, Rogers had all this nervous cold sweat on his forehead, he knew several words of the Imperial Army of the Anzeruta region, but he could not say that it would definitely be useful at this time, what the virtues of the aristocratic private armies in these places were, he knew best. His biggest concern was not that these guys didn't hear the code, but that they misunderstood what the code was doing, and if it caught the attention of the city's army, that was living hell. At that time, he suddenly realized that maybe it was the right choice if he hadn't just said something.

The silence lasted for a while before the bushes below moved again, sending the sound of sand.

“Huh.” Charles looked a little surprised over there: “There was a magician among them. ”

It was as if the wind had suddenly risen in the mountain forest, and the mountain wind had swept through the forest canopy, screaming branches, but everyone heard a human whisper in the murmur of the sand: “Yes… the face… is… who? ”

This is wind communication, and a handful of communication techniques that can be used in magically repressed areas, because by natural forces rather than breaking the laws of space, spells such as dimensional anchors cannot work on them. Top Pokémon enable and Druid to deliver wind even thousands of miles away, but one characteristic of wind technology is the slow flow of wind from one area to another, which sometimes takes a week or even months, not to mention for most elements to make the apprentice generally a close-up communication technique that is often used by magicians in the military to supplement sign language and lip language.

Brando turned to Charles and said, "Tell them we are from Count Jean. ”

Charles looked at his lord with amazement and wondered if Count Jean, who was a prisoner of the ranks at this moment, would die vibrantly when he heard that, of course, his belly was defamatory, and he still acted according to his word. Although he is not an element, but there is commonality among several common magic, not to mention that one of the characteristics of law spells is the simulation law. This near-magical trick of wind communication technology is not difficult to imitate for his presence at this level. Easily, it conveys the message in the past, and even the words in the wind are obviously more fluent than the other.

Charles' methods apparently surprised each other and silenced them for a moment before Brando saw six or seven people standing one after the other under the goose ear bushes on the hillside. They probed and looked this way. Rogers deliberately waved at them so that they could confirm their position. The latter immediately saw Rogers, and the cat ran up against the top of the hill, and the vegetation on the hill was so dense that their short run apparently did not attract a glance from the sky. A moment later, they came around the top of the hillside to the side of the bushes, and the first person in front saw the Eluyne mission behind Rogers.

“You...! ”

The man obviously recognized Brando, and his complexion changed and his subconscious was about to fall back, but how could Brando give him the opportunity, he feared the extraneous branches, raised his hand directly, and the lines of law scattered across the vast space lit up at the same time, like a net covering the seven men, and then he pulled his hand, and the seven men appeared around them at the same time, and then he fell heavily on the ground.

Seven people landed in turn, and Rogers saw one of them, shouting in surprise: "Sir Cooper, you're alive! ”

The guy he called Sir Cooper was only in his early 40s and 50s from the outside, but five short statures, a bit of a thief's eyebrow, his appearance obviously didn't match his nobility, but everyone familiar with him knew that this was a clever guy, and when he heard his captain whisper, he realized it was bad, he turned consciously and tried to escape, but unfortunately it was too late to make it. Legs, he felt his body dragged up by an invisible force, the whole person vacated, and then he fell heavily on the ground; he fell so fast, his soul was scattered, suddenly he heard someone calling his name - the monsters of Jorgendioka naturally couldn't recognize him, and the other Krutz was the standard local tone of Anzeruta, his mind turned fast, he heard this Lower your voice and let Ann down immediately.

“Don't scream!” He hurriedly asked his men to lower his voice, then raised his head to gaze around with suspicious eyes - his eyes first fell on Brando, then his face changed, apparently recognizing the Count, who had upside down Anzeluta, but then he noticed Rogers calling him by the side, slightly surprised in his eyes: “I know you, your father is Berjat, didn't you get elected to the Royal Knights, how did you show up here? ”

“It's a long story," Rogers dared not reveal his true identity and smiled bitterly: "I came to Anzeluta because of a special mission. I didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing. Now I'm almost in the hands of the Count, but the Count promised to take us somewhere safe, as opposed to the Count, it's just a ransom. Sir Cooper, you don't want to be a prisoner of those monsters, do you? ”

Cooper fought a cold war, and the monsters were trying to kill, and he had seen the cavemen behead an aristocrat and stick their bloody heads in the stakes. He shook his head and directly ordered his men to unwrap their swords and give them to Brando. He bowed to the latter and behaved much more frankly than the twisted Count Gian: “Count, I have absolute confidence in your credibility. ”

Brando laughed, he didn't know what credibility he had in the hearts of these people. His only relationship with these Anzeluta aristocrats was to take a large number of hostages from them. Just half a week ago, they called him the Devil, but now he's a reputable Count. Don't say Brando, even Avram hiding in the woods in the back couldn't help but see this scene. This fat young man couldn't help but ask beside himself the Duke who was squatting with him in the bushes. "You told me you weren't dreaming, Ernie? ”

The Duke's golden face is very complex and softly echoed.

Brando knew Rogers was turning around to remind Cooper of his attitude, but he didn't care, and the knight of the inner court was good at speaking.

“Sir Cooper,” Rogers continued, noting Brando's attitude, "What are you doing here, other people? ”

When Cooper heard the question, his wrinkled face was rubbed together: "Forget it, Count Olkons has been caught by the monsters. ”

“What, Count, is he still alive?” Rogers was surprised and caught Brando's attention.

“This… as far as I know, should not be dead, but it does not exclude what happened during this period that I do not yet know.” Cooper was obviously surprised by Rogers' reaction and had to answer carefully.

“No, no, I thought you were all dead on Forest Avenue.” Rogers realized he misunderstood and hurried to explain.

“That's not true, but that's about it.” Long Cooper sighed: “It's all the damn monsters, we were all in a hurry to the north that night, these rats were waiting to ambush us in the dark, and Sir Moore, who was at the front, was attacked first, hey, poor old Moore, he was strong like a cow, we all thought he could live to the ground. God is wasted, what a mess! None of us knew in the darkness who the enemies were, they came from all sides, all over the sky and beneath the earth, and we were soon completely defeated, and I was in the southernmost part of the country, only to see Lord Count, and they fled north across the beach. ”

“And then how did you know Count Olcons had been arrested?” Brando suddenly asked.

“I saw it with my own eyes that I had been trying to find out the whereabouts of the others since the night the Count and I were separated, and then I found out that they had gone to Buos. ”

“Buos!” Rogers, Trevor and Nasha heard the answer and couldn't help but say it at the same time and repeat the name.

“What's the matter?” Cooper looked at them inexplicably.

“Nothing, you go on.” Brando replied.

Cooper nodded with some suspicion and continued: "Actually, it's not Buos, Count. They haven't arrived in Buos yet. They were surrounded at the North Mountain post. When I got there, I saw them captured by the cavemen. ”

“North Mountain Sentry, but how did Count Olkons get in that direction?” Rogers asked, quite incomprehensibly, "There's a dead end to Buos. ”

Regarding the fact that Buos Brando had asked the Princess Magdalene beforehand, knowing that there was a crystal mine there before the thunderous years, but that the place had prospered because of the mine and had also faded because of it, and since the destruction of the vein, the town, famous for its mines, had become an increasingly forgotten corner. But he thinks that the Count is probably trying to find a place to hide. He knows that he can't get past the caveman, and he has no delusions about breaking through the fence to Asa or Rune. He can only count on the first objective of the underground creature of Jorgendigan to be Asa, not to find him in the mountains.

But unfortunately, it is against your will.

“I think the Count underestimated the size of that monster army, which, according to my observation, had at least four different underground city lords on the battlefield in Anzlova, who were confident that they would take Asa in the first place and would be able to divide their forces against Buos' garrison.” Cooper shook his head.

“Nobody would have thought of that, we didn't even know they were coming," Rogers shook his head with a grin: "The rats underneath knew us too well, we had no idea who was leading them, but they knew us all. ”

He appeared merely to complain, but carefully concealed the truly chilling speculation in his heart, that he had not forgotten the siege of the cavemen - the existence of the Knights of the Nativity, although a semi-public secret in the Empire, was rarely known outside, that the way the Knights of the Nativity communicated up and down was in the hands of only a few people, and that he could not imagine how those cavemen had found them.

It was a coincidence or an artificial factor that compelled several names to appear in his mind, and any one of those names that betrayed the Empire would be an unimaginable disaster.

He can only pray, I hope it is only a prank from Lord Martha.

Brando listened to the conversation, but his eyes fell as far away as a valley of shadows, and suddenly he asked with a sense of heart: "Count Alcons is in Graystone now? ”

Cooper stopped talking and looked back at Brando for a while and said: “I saw them in Gray Rock Town. At 4: 00 p.m., at 5: 00 p.m., the sun was not set yet, and the long teams crossed the valley, and they came from the direction of the North Mountain Sentinel, clearly observing that there were many human prisoners in the ranks… Assuming the Count was still alive, I think they would be inside. ”

“Was Graystone taken before that? ”

“It was captured before that. ”

“How then can it be ascertained whether Count Alcons remains in town at this moment, or has already left town on the other side of the valley and been moved elsewhere? ”

Cooper opened his mouth: “To be honest, I never thought about it.” He looked at Brando with confusion and did not expect this young Earl of Eruin to think so thinly.

Brando didn't care about Cooper's questioning, and went on to ask, "Have the eagle witches on patrol in the sky ever changed shifts? ”

“Once.” The latter answered truthfully.

“So is there a hawk witch in the army that attacked Count Orcons? ”

“This… does not seem to be the case. ”

“Then that's right," Brando pulled the Earl's trench coat collar, lest the cold wind poured into his neck at night, staring into the valley and answering: "The Shaddle Caveman had two famous lords, one a sorcerer Gerard and one a tambourine, neither clan allied with the eagle witch. That means the Georgendigan garrison in town has not handed over defenses to the Shaddle Cavemen..."

“Have they left?” Cooper asked cautiously.

“Not necessarily. I mean, there could be more than one lord's army in this town.” Brando's eyebrows are screwed together, which is not good news for them.

Cooper also subconsciously shut his mouth, some wondering what the Count was thinking.

“Sir Cooper, are you sure that the Jogentigan army returned from the North Mountain post this afternoon? ”

“What does that mean, Count, my scorn will not lie to me.” Cooper seemed a little angry because he felt questioned.

“Don't be angry, I don't doubt you, Sir Cooper, I just wanted to confirm one thing. Did your scouts really see that Jorgendigan army return to Graystone after attacking Count Alcons at the North Mountain Sentinel? ”

Cooper was just about to say yes, of course, but he just said half a byte and stunned.

Roger was more responsive than he was, and he almost jumped up and shouted, "They went straight back to Graystone after attacking the North Mountain post!? Where's Buos? Are they just headed for Count Alcons? ”

“This...” Cooper blurred: “I don't know what the hell is going on! ”

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