The Amber Sword

Brando coughed lightly.

Seriously, he really doesn't know how to begin with this topic. Should we tell these people directly that the Supreme of the Empire betrayed the Empire and led the wolves into the house? But what does she plan? A person always needs motive to do things. If the Silver Queen lured Jorgentine and Toquinin into the invasion just to clear up the country's differences, don't say that other people don't believe it. I'm afraid even he won't believe it. How naive and naive does it have to be in politics to do this?

Unless the Silver Queen tolerates the empire losing a large part of its territory forever in exchange for its own stability, an idea that sounds tempting to some lunatics, but is actually ridiculous, because that means that she must make this whole thing a secret forever, her throne is like an aerial pavilion, and more importantly, neither the Jogentigans nor the Lions can threaten her with it and make such a choice in the nature of the Silver Queen.

No matter how crazy that queen may be, there is no denying at the outset that she is a decades-old emperor in a vast empire and no one dares to take her for a fool.

Brando wanted to think about it, thinking that there was only one possibility that Chiara would come up with what she said.

That is that Her Majesty has supreme power among the Lions of Jorgendigan and Tokenin, so of course she can use her power to defend the King with diligence, but the idea sounds like nothing but a nightmare. Brando thought about it for a while before finally saying, "Chiara, I still have to make sure, why do you think it's 'her'? ”

Nearly everyone but Chiara and Roman understood who the so-called ‘she' was in Brando's mouth, and Chiara snorted bambooshly: “It's not easy, I told you before, about what that dumb dwarf did, a little bit of intelligence would tell you that the whole empire could do this, but only a few people, how many people? ”

“The Supreme One of the Temple of Fire, Lord Chancellor, several Dukes, plus that woman.

“That's all...”

There seemed to be a cold wind passing through the woods, hovering over the crown like a ghost, making a whining noise, and Chiara stopped for a moment before continuing to open her mouth.

“But I've ruled out all the previous ones, and the Chancellor doesn't think he's going to expose himself to his daughter. First of all, he doesn't have to take this step of chess, even if we think about it the other way around, assuming Chancellor Nidwon did it to clear the suspect, but what's the point of his doing it, letting the suspect fall on that woman? It's unnecessary, because it's too much of a night for anyone to believe, just like you don't want to believe now, do you? ”

Brando nodded, that's true.

Chiara laughed with disdain: "This is the inherent rigidity of your human mind, and they think —— how could she betray, why would she betray herself? It's ridiculous, and people rarely think about it: the Empire is hers, but it's not hers. ”

What do you mean, you humans, Brando couldn't help but flip a white eye, this little girl is fine, it's just sometimes too self-righteous, just like the Buga people, it's a shame that this guy doesn't go to be a wizard, her head and her personality. But to think of it, he had to interact to act as that ‘stupid human’, otherwise the honorable Sister Chiara would not be able to get off the stage: “So what do you think, Sister Chiara? ”

Chiara was obviously very satisfied, she squeezed her eyes and suddenly felt that this guy was not so obstructed. She revealed her pointy canine teeth and replied: "Just simply imagine another situation, but under normal circumstances, the truth as we know it is difficult to happen, that is, whether the Supreme One of the Temple of Fire, the Prime Minister of the Empire, or the woman, the average person would not easily suspect them, they would not even make a similar association, the traitors of the Empire, in any case, could not be the three above, so for them nothing is done, which is the best cover - assuming that they are truly traitors. ”

“But they did, does that mean that the traitors were among the Grand Dukes?” Chiara shook her head: “Perhaps the odds are that before we met Ms. Misserille, the great dragon and the mortal divide was like the divide between mortals and ants, and I knew that those dukes and dragons had no connection whatsoever, and on the contrary, in the Cruz Empire, I knew that there was a man and dragons with deep roots ——”

Everyone's eyes fell subconsciously on Misserille - the dragon lady in the room, who laughed embarrassingly and said yes, just wondering if she agreed with the first or second sentence.

“Perhaps you're right, but that's the same for 'her',” Brando asked at this point, precisely so, because if, according to Chiara, the Queen's suspicion is the least of these three, because no one's first suspicion is ever going to point at her, then there's no point in her wanting to make amends, is there? In fact, Brando already feels hidden at this time that the truth is likely, as Chiara put it, especially the reference to the origins of ‘the woman’ and the Dragon Nation, which is an irrefutable reason.

Chiara shook her head: “She wasn't trying to disturb her sight, she was trying to find an excuse. Did she really expect the Joggendigans to fight with the Lions to Tidulusta? You and I both know that's impossible. After all, the empire is an empire, even if it's one enemy or three, it won't defeat the festival. Everything here is just a cover, or a curtain, that Her Majesty's real action must necessarily be in Tito. ”

“She's going to deal with the Old Chancellor's forces first, then the Temple of Fire, or both, but her enemies are too powerful, so she's going to paralyze them first, and it's really hard for the average person to guess that, even if I didn't know the details of the plot, I wouldn't have thought she'd dare, would I? The White Legion is headed for the Changqing Walk in the Valley of Violet. The Red Legion is fighting against the Wind Elves. The Black Legion is further north in Ludwig. There is only the Blue Legion near the Emperor. ”

“The Green Legion is not the line of Her Majesty the Queen, so that the nobles can relax their vigilance. ”

“But the question is, where is their regiment leader Veronica now? ”

Chiara asked softly, as if it were a curse, haunting everyone's ears.

Charles seemed to react half a day later and asked softly: "Well... what I heard correctly, you two seem to be discussing Her Majesty the Empire, and you are talking about Rogers, the so-called traitor to the Empire, who is the Queen himself? ”

With his words out, Misserille was fine, but she frowned slightly, and Duke Chikinownie and Princess Magdalene had both revealed unbelievable divinity.

“How is that possible?” Ernie subconsciously said that she wanted to say it was never possible, but considering what Brando had done before, it seemed that none of them had ever been targeted, which influenced her judgment in an invisible way. But even so, to convince her that the Silver Queen would betray her empire, there were some things that happened at night, and she remembered carefully the Q&A of Chiara and Brando before realizing that the other party was explaining to herself why it was there.

But then what?

She still finds it unbelievable, but the key is, what benefits can Her Majesty derive from it?

Can she still have supreme power?

If she were to completely destroy the Temple of Fire and allow the Cruz to endure a millennium of struggle over their right to teach, it would sound like self-destruction, and not to mention the rebound of the Temple of Fire itself, the other three temples would not sit idly by.

So what else, besides this reason, could have motivated her to make such a crazy move —— yes, madness, the only word that would describe the actions of Her Majesty at this moment -- if Brando and Chiara were to be true. At this moment, the Duke's gold is in the same confusion as Brando's, and the source of this confusion is that, while they have found traces of what Her Majesty might have done, the problem is that they have no idea what the motive is.

The only explanation now is that Her Majesty is completely insane.

But this explanation is clearly not satisfactory.

And as for Princess Ike and Princess Magdalene, she just frowned a little. The former had a blind trust in Brando, who said that Her Majesty had betrayed the Empire, then Her Majesty would surely have betrayed the Empire, and all he had to think about was why she had betrayed the Empire; the latter thought more, Princess Magdalene lipped and said nothing, but it could be seen that she was willing to believe Brando, although she also found the fact somewhat unacceptable for a moment.

She was silent for a while before she asked, “Is the Temple of Fire in danger? ”

“I don't know that.” The Chiara stall replied, "I can only guess what Her Majesty would have done, and as for what she would have done, it might have been a conspiracy to succeed, it might have been self-destruction, but predicting all this work, that's what astrologers do. ”

She added with hatred: "Although they have never predicted accuracy, they will always give you only one ambiguous answer. ”

It's easy to think of when an astrologer might have offended this young lady.

After asking the question, Princess Magdalene went on to remain silent.

Of all the people, only the sergeant from Janilassou asked: “Gentlemen, suppose —— I mean suppose the Count is telling the truth, what should we do now?” He saw Brando throw his eyes at him and gave the latter a gift, then went on to say: "After all this time, we should have built a certain understanding of each other, and I believe that the Count has no need to lie to us about this, the character of the Count, and we have all witnessed it, not to mention that it is in itself a speculation, even a speculation, that could happen. ”

“So what I'm saying is, if things are really moving towards expectations, what should we do? ”

Brando looked at the sergeant with some surprise and didn't understand how he suddenly said good things for himself. In fact, that's not really a good thing, but now he's used to these Eru's traditional aristocracy and singing counterparts to himself. Someone stood by him for a while, and he's a little uncomfortable.

But he actually had an answer to that question in his heart, and he brought them here to give them a bottom in their hearts so that they wouldn't get confused.

It is also a helpless fact that the Krutz are in the Bureau, he cannot believe, and now he can believe, and only these noble young men who brought themselves out of Eruin.

And he thought about it, and he said, "The answer to this question is really simple —— first of all, we need to identify ourselves, and we are the mission of Eruin. ”

Not to say that Brando is okay, he said that the faces of the people immediately revealed a different appearance of divinity, with the exception of a few people who laughed, most of them appeared a little odd - mostly because the Count remembered this identity, and rightly so, they were missions. But the question is, do they come all the way here to do what the mission is supposed to do, knowing that it's okay, knowing that it's a bandit group coming from Eruin, burning and looting all the way - even though it's all about nobility. Of course, they do not dare to say this. The Count is always arbitrary. According to him, they are the glory of the kingdom and teach the Empire a lesson, although it seems like an opportunity to venture out.

But at least one thing that makes everyone oral is that, as Brando said, the Empire doesn't seem to be able to do anything to teach him, and now, rather than teach him, they tend to be heroes of the Empire - if Her Majesty isn't mad.

The rest of the population was uncomfortable, and one of the strong points was that only the Duke Kim Ioni was not used to it, and she asked: “The Count said simply, you mean that the Cruz war had nothing to do with us, that is, there are two options for us at the moment, rather than moving forward or choosing to go back and go back to Eruin. ”

“I'm afraid we can't back off," Charles shook his head: “There are Jorgendiokans behind us. We didn't make it out until we broke out. Can't we just go back? ”

“So the only way left is to move on?” Roman asked.

“Almost," Brando nodded: "But the idea that we wanted to stick to Rune before has changed seems a little unrealistic. After all, there are three dragons on the other side. With them, the walls that are even higher are all ashes under fire. We have to find a way out of Rune by boat to Metz or the Cape Bay area.” He glanced at Ms. Dragon and continued: “Our immediate priority is to get out of the wrong place, send Ms. Misserille out and report to the Dragon Nation, and the rest is no longer in our hands. ”

“But will they let us go easily? It's a triple-headed dragon,” Euni questioned. She looked at Mithril and asked, somewhat presumptuously, "Madame Mithrill, I'm very rude to ask, can you fight in your state? ”

Misserille shook her head: "I'm afraid it's hard, little girl. ”

“We don't necessarily have to face the dragon queen, the elves have a natural affinity crest on them, and they don't dare to move lightly, but I guess they'll go to Port Rune to burn the boat one step ahead of time, which is a trick that dragons often play.” Brando has also thought about this question a long time ago, answering with great breast.

“If the dragons did burn down the ship in the harbor, wouldn't we be stuck with Rune?” Fatty Avram heard the news and frowned bitterly.

“Can we feel Yasa one step ahead of the other?” Macquarie asked further.

Brando shook his head and the army of the North was already everywhere in Jorgendigo. It was clear that the Cruz Empire was losing the festival and that the idea of breaking through the heavy siege and reaching Yassa in front of the Lizard King could only be conceived in dreams.

He replied, "Don't worry, they can't burn all the boats after the dragon. Once we get to Rune, we'll have a chance, so what we're trying to do now is get to Rune. ”

Everyone looked at the Count strangely, not knowing where his confidence came from, but now they have developed the habit of saying that the dragon queen can't burn the ship, so let's just say she can't burn it. "Since the Count says they won't show up personally after the dragon, they will certainly send the Jorgendigans to intercept us, and we need to be careful with the Jorgendigans patrol. ”

“I don't think it's difficult,” Marjorie said after considering the interface: “The primary goal of the Jogentigans is definitely the Asa Fortress. It's impossible to mobilize too many people to look for us. We just have to follow this pre-planned route and go along the northern edge of the Rokozy Heights, the thinnest part of the Jogentigan army, without much trouble, and according to the information they gathered from Rogers, Port Rune should not have fallen into the hands of Jogentigan. ”

“What route do we take after we leave the port? To Metz or Cloak Bay?” This is only the first time Dilfrey has spoken.

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(PS: A little late today.)