Chapter 624: Choice

Rubens was taken aback, and immediately remembered that this was Rody's mount... After all, when the other party came to deliver the letter last time, it crushed the pigeon coop of the temple, which cost him a lot of money. Seeing you again now, he rushed out and used magic to send a signal to Koda Duck, and successfully removed the two letters bound on it.

One letter was in Sally's handwriting, and the other was sealed with Bishop Benjamin's wax seal.

He was a little surprised why these two letters were together, so he opened Sally's letter first, and the contents made him feel as if he had been struck by lightning.

His hands that had just calmed down trembled. He picked up Benjamin's letter, but after reading three or four sentences, the sweat on his brow broke out...

After staying in the "Holy Temple" for a long time, Rubens was actually infected by the comfortable atmosphere here, and his heart has lost the vigilance he once had. This place is not full of dangers like when he went to Efta, and his life is stable all day long. There is hardly any threat that can make the "temple" take it seriously.

"Viper Cross" has become a distant term for him, and he hasn't heard any news of the other party's actions for more than a year. Although he still made a reminder at the meeting today, Rubens himself doesn't believe it. What impact can the other party really have on the "temple".

After all, this is the stronghold of the "Rosicrucian"... With so many temple guards, believers, and cardinals, how daring does the opponent have to be to attack here?

The contents of the credible letter ruthlessly crushed this idea. When Rubens carefully calculated the strength of the troops in the city, he felt his entire back was drenched in cold sweat...

The two letters were not many words, but Rubens read them three or four times, not to remember the information, but because he didn't want to face this fact at all.

"How come... Benjamin thinks so too..."

Facing the sudden dilemma, he suddenly remembered the simple idea of ​​"loyalty to the Rosicrucian" when he was just a bishop.

Now I seem to have forgotten what the "Rosaceous Cross" is, because all I can see in front of me is the rivalry among the cardinals.

It has been too long since I have spoken such words as preaching the Lord and saving more believers...

What counts as salvation?

Rubens suddenly remembered the words that Mograine, who was about to collapse, said to himself when he was standing here

"You will eventually become the person you hate."

Unexpectedly... finally,

Still come to this day.

The letter paper was burned by the sudden light, and instantly turned into scattered ashes. Rubens took a deep breath, and what echoed in his mind were the words suppressed and ridiculed by the cardinals...

"Is it death, or rebirth?"

He whispered, and his figure disappeared at the end of the corridor.

*****

July 1st.

Earl Mirno's progress was not fast, because "supply" had indeed become a more difficult problem than imagined.

One of the main reasons is the newspapers that spread throughout the Karen Kingdom: the nobles who learned that they might be "requisitioned" were unwilling to lend their grain for the winter to the army, so many nobles simply hid their families with grain. When they went elsewhere, Mirno's grain requisition team went over and found that the other party's territory was empty except for the farmers, and there was no food at all.

Even if the "Viper Cross" had made enough preparations before, the speed of travel was delayed again and again. There are 10,000 combat troops, and more than 6,000 auxiliary soldiers to support such a large army. This is because there are not many cavalry. A total of 16,000 people needed an astonishing amount of food to march all the way, but because they could not collect much food after entering the territory of the temple, everyone found that the quality of daily food was plummeting.

At this time, the team arrived at a fork called "Gerqi" and camped near the fork, which was still about 20 kilometers away from the city wall of the temple. According to the plan, the team will march directly westward when they break out of camp tomorrow, preparing to enter the area where Efta is located. But at this time, Rody, who was sitting in the camp, was looking at the city hidden in the night, wondering what to think.

"This group of goddamn sticks!"

The chatter around the bonfire never stopped. A group of knights and lords were complaining that the hard, rock-like bread for today's terrible dinner was too hard to swallow. Rody chose to give up after taking a bite, because he felt I am chewing a piece of wood.

"Damn, this kind of bread, I suspect that a knife will curl its blade! God knows how many years these things have been stored, I guess they have to be in three or four years!"

Zac held the largest piece of bread in his hand, and patted the hard surface twice with his big fan-like hand, but he couldn't shake even a crumb of bread, instead a few weevils burst out.

"What the hell... What the hell is the Rose Cross trying to do? Why don't they just declare that they belong to Efta!"

"Those nobles hid in advance with food, it must be the ghost of Rose Cross... these blood-sucking sticks!"

Roddy turned his head, and found that the direction of talking about the "Rosaceous Cross" seemed to have quietly changed. Before that, he had heard their complaints about the "Rostic Cross", but these people were not true believers, so they continued to work together. I didn't say a few words when I got up. But after being hungry for several days, the complaints about the "Rosie Cross" became more and more serious. He can be sure that this is the result of human guidance, because the current knights are generally uneducated, and the cost of inciting illiteracy is too low Not to mention that the current famine is also a fact, as long as the blame is pinned on the "Rosicrucian", it is not difficult to make the "Crusaders" hate.

The cursing voices around did not stop, but Rody did not continue to remain silent. He has now integrated into the small circle in the camp, but because of his young age and weak performance, these pretentious knights all around Except for those who don't answer him, except for the boring competition with daggers every day, what Rody hears the most is the "instructions" given to him by those knights.

"Your kid's posture with the sword is not right, do you really know what to do when you go to the battlefield?"

"Hey, I'll teach you one and a half moves, do you want to learn? This is what I learned from the great knight Neilko, I guarantee you can survive on the battlefield, but such exquisite swordsmanship requires money, ten silver coins I will teach you!"

Knight Neilko can be regarded as a powerful existence. In Roddy's impression, this guy died in the battle of 596. At that time, he advanced to level 41. As for now...

"You mean Neilko? Wasn't he directly rushed to death by the orc army?"

"That's why his swordsmanship has become a unique skill! How about it, young man, do you want to learn it?"