Chapter 24 Journey to the Royal Capital

Gawain did not go very fast.

Although Rebecca seemed a little anxious along the way, Gawain arranged the trip at his own pace. He asked the team to stop in every town they passed, and after the stop, he would arrange for those soldiers to disguise themselves as travelers or mercenaries to mix in. Crowd, to spread the news of "The Founding Grand Duke Gawain Cecil's Heroic Spirit Resurrection" and "Grand Duke Gawain will arrive in Saint-Sunil City in the near future", and will also bribe local bards and gangsters to spread similar content But the more bizarre version - the funding from Viscount Andrew is enough for him to do these things.

Originally, Gawain was still worried that neither he nor Rebecca had any experience in dealing with similar local snakes, and whether they would encounter difficulties when doing these things, but he did not expect the Byron Knights who accompanied him to show extraordinary abilities. The strength of a middle-aged knight may not be high among his colleagues, but his ability to deal with those idle people in society is impressive. Basically, it doesn't take long for him to be able to deal with those "rats" after arriving in a city. Get on the line, and before the soldiers spread the word, all kinds of gossip about the southern border began to spread at the bottom of society...

Gawain thought of the origin of this Byron knight-according to Rebecca, Byron was not a serious nobleman, but a mercenary who traveled far and wide. Viscount Cecil took in and was able to become a knight. Now it seems that the experience of this former mercenary gentleman has not been wasted.

The other person who helped a lot was not beyond Gawain’s expectations. Amber was indeed a good hand when dealing with those ruffians, and it should be said that he had a high professional quality or a strong business level… Gawain gave this The half-elf lady used a little money to buy those gangsters. After she finished her work, she came back with more money...

Of course, this kind of behavior was strongly condemned by Rebecca, who was well-educated. In order to maintain his tall image in front of future generations, Gawain had to hold Amber's head and ask her to promise to return all the stolen money. Go back, and promise never to do it again.

This made Amber especially injured, as if the value of life had been denied - Gawain felt that it was probably impossible to establish a normal view of the shame of this elf.

In addition to stopping and going all the way to let gossip ferment, Gawain's other purpose is not so easy to say: he needs to know more about the world.

Not because the memory in his mind is seven hundred years old, but because he is not from this world at all. After all, the pictures seen in the sky can only be used as maps, and the inherited memories lack enough sense of substitution and flexibility-this is when he tried to search for memories several times, but because he did not understand the corresponding "keywords", the effort was in vain After that, I realized that, for the current Gawain, the most urgent need is to understand the world.

The process went smoothly.

He saw the poor and backward southern villages of the Ansu Kingdom, the bustling and bustling central cities, the mountains and jungles, and the fortresses built by humans, and all of these are gradually and he remembered those in his mind. The top-down map blends together.

By judging some details, he confirmed that the "latest" top-down map in his mind should not have been out of date for too long. It was probably a record left about ten years ago-the one he hung in the sky. Last look.

In this slow-paced world, maps from ten years ago are perfectly fine.

As for leaving the southern border for so long, will there be any problems in Tanzania, Gawain is not as worried as Rebecca. He believed in Hetty's ability, and he was basically certain that Viscount Andrew would earnestly fulfill the content of the transaction—not in the character of the Viscount, but in his belief that interests could tie the other party and the Cecil family firmly together. Together.

Before leaving the southern border, he arranged for Knight Philip to spread all kinds of gossip. In addition to letting everyone know about the resurrection of Gawain Cecil, he also made the surviving Cecil citizens become everyone. The focus of attention also gave Viscount Andrew, who had taken in those territorial residents, no choice - he could only continue to raise those refugees until Gawain Cecil returned from the capital and everything settled down. Just one day.

No matter how long the journey took, the journey would have its end. Two months after leaving the southern region, the towering city walls of San Sunil finally appeared in front of Gawain and his party.

This is a city built on the plain, and its scale is far from those of the poor and backward southern towns. City" and "Blue-topped Crown".

Since the founding emperor Charles I led his people to reclaim fields and build a city on this plain seven hundred years ago, the city has undergone countless expansions and renovations, and the most primitive earth and stone city walls have long ceased to exist. , only a few monumental walls were left in the old part of the city, while the newly built megalithic city wall was ten times larger than the original one. , The bricks are poured with molten copper and lead, and in such a thick and strong city wall, a crystal blessed by the earth element is buried every 100 meters to ensure that it will not crack and disintegrate - its luxurious level , the ancestors who pioneered this far back then probably could not have dreamed of it.

Gawain stood under the city wall of Sunil, looking up at the stone bricks shining in the sun, and found that there were no corresponding details in his mind at all.

This city was completely different from the small town Gawain Cecil remembered.

With legal travel documents and reliable aristocratic identity certificates, Gao Wen and his party did not encounter any setbacks when they entered the city.

His Majesty Francis II, the king who ruled the entire Ansu Kingdom, was waiting for these visitors from the south in his palace, the Silver Castle, especially for a special guest from seven hundred years ago.

In fact, he has been waiting for many, many days, and he has even been waiting for a nervous breakdown.

The old ancestors are too tossed, and this king said that he will not take you to play like this - secret reports from all over the south and information from every town along the route from south to north almost never stop, official information from officials at all levels And the gossip collected from the folks can add up to almost a meter high on the desk, and there are at least more than 100 versions of the content - not including the dialect version, no matter which version, the central content is in Talking about the old ancestor who suddenly lifted the coffin and led his descendants to the capital, but only these news kept coming day by day, the old ancestor himself...

Why don't you come! ?

The plan made after initially receiving the secret letter from Viscount Andrew has long since been abandoned, and the countermeasures negotiated with the cronies and advisors have also failed one by one in the old ancestor’s travels and swaying in the city, and now Gawain ·Cecile's return is already well known - of course, considering the efficiency of information dissemination in this era, it is an exaggeration to say that everyone knows it, but at least the business travelers and small nobles who have the ability to inquire about news must be Everyone knows this.

So what Francis II can do becomes very limited.

Sitting in the Silver Castle, I received the returning legendary grand duke in an open and open manner, talked to him openly and openly, and then sent off this living ancestor openly and openly.

At least in every link that will be paid attention to, it must be upright.

However, Gawain didn't intend to let His Majesty the King free so soon—or, in other words, his goal in the first half of the paragraph had been achieved, and now he wanted to test the attitude of the King and the attitudes of those around the King, so he did not In a low-key way, the convoy went directly to Silver Fort, but not long after entering the city, he ordered all the soldiers to take out the flags that had been prepared in the car.

On the flag were drawn the emblem of the Cecil family, and the sword and shield of the Ansu royal family. The two emblems were side by side. It was exactly what Gawain restored according to his memory, in Gawain Cecil as the southern border The flag used by the Grand Duke while he was still alive.

Even if there are only twelve big-headed soldiers, they have to step out of the guard of honor.

The Cecil family has indeed been weakened, but even if it is weakened to the current level, this family that once followed the previous king to expand the territory and established the Wu family still retains the last bit of pride, defending the people and the land, and on the battlefield. Uncompromising - Rebecca, who is only seventeen years old now and can only use fireballs, can be said to be the weakest generation of lords in Cecil's history. She can lead the last few family soldiers to guard the castle and let the last civilians break out, relying on the glory that has been passed down to this day.

Therefore, the Cecil family has the poorest and weakest fief in the South, but still cultivates the best warriors in the South.

Even if only a dozen of these soldiers have died so far.

The soldiers raised their flags, rode on horses and lined up in two rows, looking at the emblem flying on the flag, they seemed to be infected too, their heads raised high, and behind them, Rebecca and Gawain had also come from Get in and out of the car, ride on horses and march with the soldiers.

Byron opened the way at the forefront. The knight who was a mercenary and a half monk did his best to make himself look like a real noble, so as not to humiliate the face of the family he was loyal to. Wen Kuai drove his horse to his side and told him in a low voice, "Relax - put those manners and rules aside. When we came here, some people even had logging axes on their backs."

At the end of the line, in the carriage that was supposed to be driven by Gawain and Rebecca, Miss Thieves and the dozing maid Betty were sitting there.

"Nobles are really sick creatures, aren't they?" Amber looked out of the car and poked back at Betty's arm, "If you don't have a car, you have to go out and ride a horse, and you have a pit in your head."

Little by little, Betty's head seemed to be nodding, but suddenly a small snot bubble appeared.

Amber blinked and looked at Betty, and suddenly noticed the frying pan that the other party was putting in her hand, and suddenly she had the idea of ​​a prank. She played her excellent skills as a thief and silently approached the frying pan...

Betty suddenly picked up the frying pan and held it in her arms, staring at Amber with a look of astonishment: "No! The master said, this is mine!"

amber:"……?"