The Amber Sword

Just when Brando first encountered the Silver Valley and the Dragon Queen Gwendoline, outside the Bear Lake area - the offensive of the Jorgendigan Army did not stop for a moment. After the Vargas region first lost track, Naphir and Taris declared defects. At this point, the Krutz finally figured out who their enemy was - the Lizard King, ‘Grey-Eyed' Moksha, Moksha commanded its army to march north, sweeping across the Merlin area north of Bear Lake, past where the only remaining resistance forces in the Anzlova area had collapsed, and the intentions of the Jorgendigans had been revealed.

Obviously, their goal is Yasa--

If Yasa fails, the Empire will be in danger of losing the Changqing corridor, thus isolating the four realms from the wilderness. Until this moment, the Empire appears to have been overshadowed. Lords and local regiments everywhere quickly mobilize to go to support only at Her Majesty's command, and the White Legion pushes south to the vicinity of the Changqing corridor, ready to defeat the most important lifeline in the southern part of the Empire.

But how easy is it to talk about saving the war?

Even the presence of dragons was observed in previous offensives, as confirmed by news from the Rokozy high and low, that two of the five underground kings were involved in at least this war, which shook the entire empire.

As if the Empire had never faced such a dangerous situation since the last war, going up to the politicians, down to the civilian population, almost everyone was listening from all sides to this sudden war, and the nobles were concerned about what harm it would do to their interests, while the civilians feared that the war would spread uncontrollably, dragging them all into the mud of the war.

At this moment, the battlefield of Anzlova is plunging the south of the empire into a haze of mist, from the Valley of Violet to the Mets area in the northern part of the sublime Inland Sea, from the Bay of Cloaks to Banquer, where countless lights are gathering in various ways, and everyone awaits with anxiety, awaiting news from Yasa--

But someone has to think further.

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“What happens if Yasa has failed? ”

The question was posed by a young girl with bright crystalline blue eyes and a blonde shawl like a wave, who was wearing a princess dress, sitting on a chair, behaving with her hands in a proper fold, on a skirt, and at first glance a well-educated aristocratic lady who was staring up at Mrs. Merrier - their history and nobility teacher. And not far from here, Faina is sitting in a tall backrest chair looking out the window - a landing arch window, a view of Fort Lowoff's wild winter season, with a dark green forest yet lined with snowy mountain peaks above the canopy.

Mehotofen, this is a basin surrounded by hills and plains south of the snowy Chongshan in Ludwig, where melting snow converges into rivers to wash out this wilderness. Whenever winter springs, the flowers are everywhere, and the hillbillies from the Alkash region to the east call this a place for spring flowers, because the cold wind from the eastern glaciers allows Gracius to snow all year round, compared to this wilderness region to the south.

And it did come to be named after that, the flower and the leaf collar, which is exactly the name of this land.

And his master, before the year of Tachibana, was a noble Brooke, the Grand Duke of Brooke died of typhoid disease in the year of the wheat ear, and then what is now known as the gloomy Grand Duke of Helix inherited the position of Duke and became the actual owner of the land. The Duke was not an oblivious ordeal, but a widowed son, he had only two sons, his eldest son died in the last war, and under two sons, he had only one granddaughter.

Faina looked at her carefree sister with some envy. The silly question of each other has long been despised without mercy, but this despise has not been manifested in any way out of the love of some sister for her sister.

The relationship between the two sisters has always been very harmonious.

Elise is a well-known little angel with a leaf collar in close proximity, and Faina, the latter's spleen Brando has taught herself, she has always been lawless out there, with a group of her fox puppy friends in Didu, only recently came back from the ring of the wind to converge slightly, appearing a little ladylike, which has been called Grand Duke Helix thank goodness.

But what she has been doing for some time is compiling her adventure stories into a book when she returns to her territory, preparing to take them to Rusta in the future as a bragging capital - before that, of course, these stories were heard by her only sister, who was not bored by the little girl in her period of understanding, but was so full of admiration for her sister that the latter was so full of admiration for the outside world that she just couldn't be as bold as her sister.

After Elise asked the question, there was a moment of silence in the lobby, and Mrs. Merrier seemed to be thinking about it - not in a practical sense, but purely in academic theory - so she was completely unaffected by the current situation in the Empire, pushed her glasses, and thought for a moment: “In terms of purely military factors, the Empire is likely to lose the Changqing aisle, but the symbolic significance of the attack on the Empire is far greater than the practical significance. The Empire lost the battlefield of the Four Kingdoms, which is a rare opportunity for the Grand Duke to support the Four Kingdoms from the flower leaf collar. If it weren't for the bad luck of Finn, the geographical location of the flower leaf collar, in fact, it would be no less than the Changqing aisle...”

The woman's vital interests were closely related to the flower leaf collar, and when she mentioned that the last jihad had caused the flower leaf collar to fail in commerce, she immediately spoke of it.

Elise heard it, and Faina was already bored. She didn't know she'd heard it hundreds of times, and she could hear the cocoon in her ear.

More importantly, at this moment, she had no mind to listen to these things, all because of the letter that her father's housekeeper had handed over to her the night before.

Letters come from Tidulusta, and the Kirk family, like many other large families in the Empire, have many lines of sight and relationships at the centre of the Empire's power. In both critical moments and weekdays, there are many lines of communication between these families and their lines of sight and network of relations. These letters are no longer a secret in the Empire, but they are extraordinarily different from the one sent to Faina.

This letter contains some special secret symbols of this ancient family, which can only indicate that the letter came from certain important members of the family.

For example, the Duke of Helix and the father of Faina, Count Effie, are in Didu at this moment.

The contents of the letter are very simple, just to say that the Emperor's trip has encountered some problems and may take some time to return to the Territory.

But it was this letter that prompted Fayna's suspicions.

There is no male member of the family at this moment, and it is absolutely impossible, given her grandfather's and father's character, to solemnly inform her with such a letter - a precedent that has never existed before and which has cautioned her; she has been spying on the Emperor through housekeeper Elliot since this week, but strange things have happened, and the family's eyes in Rusta were as vaporized as they were in the past, and none of them are connected.

And the news about her grandfather and her father, which was half real and half false, that Grand Duke Helix still lived in the ‘Tulip House' in Didu, but in return for eradicating the people that Elliot had sent out, was false information that the Duke and Count had left two weeks earlier.

Conflicting news, like a cloud of clouds covering Faina, she only began to regret that she had not listened to her grandfather's instructions to seriously participate in the day-to-day affairs of the territory, until now she had to start over, and under the circumstances that no one could rely on, she felt her eyes blackened.

“The last of them should be back soon.” The lady sits on a needle felt and thinks to herself, and the rambling Lady Merrier can't help but become more hateful in her eyes at this moment, "this damned old virgin! ”

Faina's heart was boring and she could not help but curse, but unfortunately Ms. Merrier had a noble place in the territory. In the past, her grandfather, Lord Helix, would never have done anything to the latter because of her rhetoric. Most of the result was that she was confined to punishment, which was already a matter of routine for Faina. Now, flower leaf collar can be said to be her own, but she is not in the mood to retaliate against each other.

And just as she was about to hear her sleepless knock outside the hall for a long time, Ms. Merrier stopped again and swept her stare hard at Faina - the latter hurriedly made an apologetic gesture to her, jumping off the high chair, three steps and doing two runs outside the door - and she didn't reveal a single word about what had happened over the past week and a half, even to Elise, because the noble lady at least knew what it meant.

Outside the door, the housekeeper in the castle had been waiting for a long time, and Faina saw this close friend of her father's, and she asked him, “Well, Mr. Elliot, have you heard from my grandfather and my father? ”

Halfway through her words, she suddenly stopped talking naturally.

Because Fayna saw that her father, Elliot's butler, looked terrible, and for the first time, she saw such a divine color on this guy who always showed his poker face.

Without warning, Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Leaf Collar raised a bad feeling in her heart. She hesitated a little and asked, “Elliot Butler, is there something wrong with Grandfather? ”

Elliot nodded at the stiff spot: "Ma'am, something has happened to Di, and I think you should be ready. ”

“What the hell is going on!” Fiina seemed to have hit a stick in the face, and her face turned a little pale, and she couldn't help but ask somewhat frightened: “Is it my grandfather and father he...”

“You think too much, miss,” Elliot realized, hurrying to explain, conscious of the misunderstanding, “The Duke and Count are supposed to be safe at the moment, but just a few days ago Her Majesty issued an order placing them under house arrest. ”

“Home arrest?” Faina slightly flashed, as if she was relieved and somewhat puzzled to ask: “Why? ”

She knew that the relationship with the Kirk family had not been very good since Her Majesty's arrival, but it did not seem bad enough that a duke would be arbitrarily placed under house arrest, which represented a public break-up between the Imperial Royal Family and a powerful family. She believed that for Her Majesty the Queen, and for the Empire as a whole, it was something that she did not want to see.

“Her Majesty considers the Duke and Count to betray the Empire.” Elliot replied stubbornly.

“Betray the Empire!” Faina almost jumped: “That woman is kidding, how is that possible! ”

Elliot didn't dare to take this sentence, because it was a bit too offensive. Good thing there were no outsiders here. He took a careful look around and reminded himself of the young master: “Be cautious, young lady, the Duke and Count are already under house arrest in Didu. Her Majesty will definitely do this to us before the news gets out, you have to come up with an idea. ”

Faina stunned for a moment.

If she had an idea, but what idea could she have, the only one she could rely on at this time seemed to be her teacher Veronica, but the problem was that Veronica had long been under house arrest for her previous trip to Eru. After listening to Elliot, she couldn't help but have a feeling of isolation. She felt confused and couldn't help but say to her father's butler: "Elliot, I get it. You leave me alone. I'll tell you what to do later. ”

The old housekeeper seemed to see the embarrassment of his little master, but he didn't break it, just nodded and replied: "If you need anything, you can always call me.” Then he turned around and left.

Only Faina stood beside the door in chaos.

She never dreamed that her grandfather and father's common imperial journey would turn into this. She wondered whether she was mad or the queen's majesty, because under normal circumstances, even if her grandfather and father had truly betrayed the empire, the royal family should not have been so hasty. After all, the impact here is too great, and there is another reason why Her Majesty's hand sees it, but the key is that she can't think of where the real problem lies in her head.

“It would be nice if the guy were here now, he must know what happened, as if nothing could be hidden from him.” Faina couldn't help muttering to herself.

She stayed at the door for a moment and was about to turn around and tell Elise about it - something that she knew could no longer be hidden, and that the Kirk family was at risk of being wiped out by an inadvertent situation. Of course, it's the same for Her Majesty, and that's exactly what Faina couldn't figure out, why the Supreme of the Empire seemed suddenly insane - and that's when a guard ran in from the outside.

When the guard saw her, he blurred slightly. He didn't expect the young lady to stand by the door and hurry to say, "Miss, there are a bunch of knights out there. ”

“A bunch of knights? ”

“No, it should be a bunch of knights and another man, to be exact.” The guard quickly explained.

“What a bunch of knights and another man,” Fiina replied in disgust, "I'll give you a chance to explain what you want to say, or I'll throw you in the dungeon! ”

The guard was frightened, apparently unexpected to crash into the anger of the venerable princess of the flower leaf collar, hastily and cautiously explained: "There were two people outside the door, one seemed to be the knight of the town, and the other only one seemed to be a messenger. ”

“Knight?” Faina's mind jumped slightly, so to speak of the knights of the town, in fact, the knights of the inner court, whose presence in the private lands of their nobility has long been an open secret - in remote places, local lords may know only that there will be such people in their territory, but not necessarily who they are. In a Grand Duke like the Leaf Collar, the royal family had to care about the attitude of the dukes, so most of the knights stationed here were semi-public.

And these people, as watchmen, and their relationship with the people under surveillance, naturally don't go anywhere, and they come to the door, and it's probably not a good thing.

Faina almost immediately contacted Elliot and frowned and wanted to say no, but at this point she stopped and asked, “Isn't the messenger with them? ”

“Yes.” The guard answered honestly. I couldn't help but be thankful that the little witch princess was out of algorithm. She didn't really throw herself into the dungeon under the castle. This was not a joke. Last time there was a waitress, but slightly less than this young lady said, she was thrown down for a few days. The little girl still had some nerves.

“Is it our messenger?” Faina asked again.

The guard shook his head: “I don't think so. He says he's from Anzlova. I think he's a liar. The place is blocked now. ”

“Shut up," Faina interrupted him coldly: “I didn't ask you that. You said he was from Anzlova? ”

The guard nodded.

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