Chapter 321 New Journey, Revenge...

From the perspective of the "negotiation" strategy, Camilla's behavior at this time can be called "stupid"-because showing her cards at the beginning of the negotiation is tantamount to giving up the initiative and letting others slaughter her.

It's not that she didn't want to fight with Rody in the past, or distracted him by talking about it, and then brought up the topic of "Nafei" after negotiating certain other conditions... But thinking of Rody's pursuit of his ideals and After working hard, Camilla no longer wants to communicate with him in a "bargaining" way.

Because Camilla admired him—it was a heartfelt emotion.

"Sooner or later, the Holy Council will label me as an 'apostate'. If they know my current situation, they may continue to use me—so... I decided to believe you."

Camilla exhaled lightly. After knowing Rody's experience, even if she just looked into his calm eyes, Camilla always felt like facing the elders of the "Holy Society", and felt a little pressure in her heart for no reason.

"Glad to hear you made this decision."

Rody didn't answer her request directly, but sat upright slightly, with a serious expression on his face, and said: "The Holy Council will definitely become enemies with me—the things in Elson City are more attractive to the 'Holy Council' than anything else. Big, so the best way is not to let anyone know what happened here."

"If you're just 'disappearing', they will definitely continue to send people here to track it down. So I want to know, can you convince the 'Holy Council' that your team is here...and found nothing?"

Camilla immediately understood his intention, thought for a while, and replied, "There is a way."

"That's it."

Rody nodded, and still didn't mention Naifei's matter. Camilla hesitated in her heart, but her intuition told her... Rody's reply just now meant that he agreed to his request.

But he neither swore an oath nor gave himself a verbal affirmation, so... okay?

This kind of hesitation only appeared for a moment, Camilla bit her lower lip lightly, and then made a choice: "I will write a letter to you before noon."

After she finished speaking, she turned and left without asking any more questions.

Rody didn't intend to stop her, but was a little dazed—to be honest, Camilla and Nefer's eccentric personalities are quite different, and their behavior styles are quite different. However, when they hesitated because of their choices, but almost the same...

In a trance, Rody seemed to see the back of the smiling and bouncing away,

The heart suddenly hurts badly.

He didn't make any promises to Camilla, because any "vow" was not as important as the firm belief in his heart - Roddy wasn't looking for Naifei for the vow, he had to do far more than the vow.

*****

Near noon, the soldiers in the inner city had assembled and were ready to go out again.

Three months ago, Rody entered the city with forty knights and eighty guards, and after going through the defense battle outside Pasha'er Tower, the number of this team was inevitably reduced by twenty. Four people—but this astonishing "combat loss ratio" is made up of excellent weapons and armor, a large number of intermediate potions and scrolls. They almost exhausted their bodies several times in the battle, so that within three days after the battle, Eighty percent of the soldiers had completely lost their ability to move, and Akasha had to rest for a full week before recovering.

However, this kind of fierce battle can improve the combat effectiveness and willpower of soldiers more than a hundred times of training: originally, the average level of squires was only four, but now all of them have been raised to around eight levels, and the basic level of the knights has directly jumped to the average level. 13th grade.

Counting the attribute bonus brought by the equipment, their combat effectiveness at this time is already nearly ten times stronger than that in Nolan Village!

This level has surpassed more than 80% of the kingdom's entrusted "knights", and is even stronger than the personal knight guards of the great lord.

"Line up, move forward!"

Under the sun, all the soldiers were walking towards the edge of the inner city following the sound of orders. They were not planning to leave the city. Their destination was the "temporary cemetery" where twenty-four dead soldiers were buried.

"stand at attention!"

Under the order, all the soldiers remained silent—at this moment, all the living people in Elson City stood in the queue, including Nata, Akasha, and Camilla, all silently looking at the man in front of him. The simple tombstones have their own thoughts.

Rody stood at the forefront of the queue, without expressing any feelings or passionate declarations, but silently gave a military salute, then turned around, and said softly: "A stone monument will be erected here, and all those who participated in this battle Everyone will leave their names on the stele."

Where there is battle, there is sacrifice, and if you want to gain, you must lose—for the death of a soldier, guilt itself is meaningless, and what Rody can do is such a simple promise.

A promise to go down in history.

"Get ready to go."

He took a deep breath and gave the order to leave the city.

Camilla came over and handed him a secret letter, carefully explaining how to deliver it to the "Holy Council", then turned her gaze to the infantrymen who were about to leave, and said: "From here to Mogra Village, if all goes well, It may take two months... and it seems like only two days have passed since we met."

Rody sighed a little, but didn't know how to answer - thinking of Naifei, he would remember that the ageless Camilla in front of him had the status of "mother-in-law".

Now there is no conflict between the two, but Rody thought about it carefully and felt that if he wanted to communicate normally with Camilla, he should not be too attentive at the moment. So his attitude at this time is to treat Camilla as a friend who can chat.

"I will try my best to come back within half a year. During this period, there will be many orders and support materials. If it can help, I hope you can help."

After Rody finished speaking, he pointed to the library in the distance and said: "I found the ruins of Wagra in the Forest of Whispering Whispers, and there are some precious solitary copies in it. Maybe there will be more analysis about this city. Don't know if they'll free you from the comforts and confines of the 'Guardian', but... if there's even a sliver of hope, give it a try."

Hearing these words, Camilla's eyes widened slightly, and her heart speeded up?—Although she has gradually accepted the fact of being imprisoned here, her desire for "freedom" has never diminished. Roddy said, It was tantamount to giving her hope, and telling her the truth from the side: he didn't want Camilla to stay here forever.

"Okay, I should go."

Roddy looked at the faint excitement revealed in Camilla's eyes, but he felt a little sigh in his heart - she could survive, after all, it would be better than the ending of being plotted by Turing in another period of history...

Camilla reservedly did not wave goodbye, but simply said "goodbye", then stood where she was, watching him leave.

Not far away, Akasha quickly caught up with Rody, said something with a blushing face, and then stuffed a scroll into his hand, followed the team all the way to the outer city, and finally stood on the city wall On the tower, rubbing her red eyes, she reluctantly shouted words that Roddy could no longer hear, until the back of the last soldier disappeared into the forest outside the city, her thin face was unavoidable. stained with a layer of loneliness...

In such a huge city, there are only forty-two living people left.

Akara waved the army of the dead to guard the city wall, and walked silently back to the inner city. Without Rody by my side, every minute and every second seems to be a kind of torment... Akasha looked at the huge Pashaer Demon Tower, and when she looked away, she found that there was a library next to her .

She looked up at the sun in the sky, and felt that reading should be able to kill a lot of time, so she walked in.

*****

In the distance, as the city lord, Rody had already embarked on a new journey.

For the next plan, Rody has already made detailed arrangements: he needs to assist the Duke of Angmar to solve the troubles of those nobles. Power Spar" and return to Elson City by September.

The reason for this is that Rody knew that in 589, the kingdom would encounter an unprecedented "cold wave"—half of the Jieshi kingdom would be affected by blizzards, and countless civilians would freeze to death due to lack of preparation. The population loss was huge...

Roddy didn't want to be trapped in the southern part of the kingdom, so next he had to travel as fast as possible.

"Speed ​​forward!"

The snow has melted, and the soldiers' footsteps in the forest are a little muddy. They occasionally look back at the huge city wall with pride and worry in their hearts.

This is a city destined to be restless, and everyone knows it.

*****

The city of Elson fell into silence, and Rody's team gradually drifted away, but at the other end of the newly revived forest, a two-meter-long Viper was struggling desperately, hissing and turning its white belly over. come over.

Its body was twisted and twisted into a ball, and the stretched out snake letter was trembling desperately, but the vicious triangular eyes were out of focus at this moment, because it didn't know what happened to it at all!

The struggle gradually stopped, and the Viper's body was twisted and lying on the ground with its white belly. At first glance, it seemed to be dead—but just when its body stopped shaking, a vague black shadow flew out from the shadows. , covering the Viper's body.

In an instant, the already stiff snake's eyes burst into a blood-red light, and then its body regained its ability to move. It's just that the first thing this viper did when it "woke up" was to keep its eyes fixed on the direction of Elson City, and it didn't hide its astonishing resentment at all.

But in the end, it didn't crawl towards the city, but headed out of the forest in a clumsy posture... Occasionally, it seemed that the vague "hissing" sound from this viper could be heard, as if Declare that it will return here one day.

[This volume is coming to an end, tomorrow should be the last chapter of this volume, by the way, I will write a summary of the first three volumes & a million words tomorrow. Also, tomorrow is my wife's birthday, so I guess it will be updated later. 】