Scene 76 Turning an Enemy Into a Friend

Sure enough, as Brando expected, Earl Jean and his army entered the area one night in advance. They didn't see any meteors or burning flames in the sky, and there was no resonance response from the artifact. What he saw was no different from what Brando and Nimesis saw last night, only the galaxy stretching across the sky, the starry winter night sky full of stars.

Now why is this earl left here alone, as if everything has come to light, whether it is the earl of Alcons, the Moore family, the Walker family, or the Cooper family, after all, the Cruz nobles gathered here are obviously watching When the artifact fell into the world, he realized it immediately. Compared with the artifact, what is a mere earl of Aruin? Therefore, they rushed to the north immediately, hoping to be the first to arrive at the place where the meteor fell, even if they could not take the artifact as their own, but as the discoverer, they were the first to dedicate it to the supreme existence of the empire— ―Or the Temple of Flame, then they and the families behind them will share this unimaginable glory, even if they reach the sky in one step, it may not be impossible.

The inner court knights belonging to the royal family are no exception. As the supervisors of the Floating Cloud Hills, it is impossible for them to ignore such a big thing that happened on this land. In fact, Rogers is very aware of the weight of the artifact, so he brought a All the inner court knights in Hirat Villa, beware of those nobles doing irrational things.

But the problem is-

Earl Jean didn't see it. He didn't know what was happening in the area of ​​Vargos and Linye Avenue less than 20 miles away. He happened to be leading his subordinates to scout the battlefield under the darkness that night, occupying a favorable position terrain. So everything that happened overnight can be explained.

Rogers' face was a bit ugly, he was sure that the strange scene last night should be clearly visible at least a hundred miles away, not to mention the hilly area very close to Forest Leaf Avenue and Vargus.

"Could it be that," the female knight seems to have realized, "...is this a trap set by Qiao Gendi Gumbo?"

Large hallucinations.

The first thing Rogers thought of was this term, but when he and Fred turned back to look at the black-haired young man, the latter shook his head affirmatively: "That's the artifact resonance." The young man replied affirmatively, and then Then he stopped talking, as if whether you believe it or not has nothing to do with him.

"Qui, this doesn't make sense." Trevor said: "Well, I know you are the best, but the problem is that you are still young, and you have to admit that there are many old and immortal guys in this world who are better than you If there are too many, it’s actually not a big deal to fall into the hands of those people.”

Before he finished speaking, he saw the young man glance at him indifferently, making the second half of his sentence stuck in his throat, so he spread his hands and said, "Okay, pretend I didn't say anything."

Trevor didn't finish his sentence,

He heard a soft chuckle: "It's so sad, those who are stupid and don't know it." The inner court knight suddenly changed color, raised his head and looked in that direction, only to find a short little girl looking at her with her chin up. looked at himself contemptuously. Trevor was so pissed off that he wanted to have an attack, but then he thought that it would be unseemly for him to frighten a little girl as an imperial knight, so he curled his lips and said, "Forget it, I'm not like an uneducated yellow-haired girl." care about."

But what he never dreamed of was that the little girl dared to snort lightly, and replied with great disdain: "Shut up, people without brains are not qualified to speak!"

"you……"

"The law of artifacts is the upper law, and the law of magic power is the lower law. The upper law can simulate the power of the lower law, but this process is irreversible. This is also the basic principle of the tiamat scripture. Otherwise, what is the difference between magic resonance and artifact reaction? You even You don’t know this, you really don’t deserve to be human!” Chiara shook her head in disappointment, the little lady of the Sifah family had a soft voice, but she spoke clearly and logically, giving people a very weird contrast feel. But to Trevor it sounded like a slap left and a right slap hit his face until his face was swollen—although he didn't understand most of it. Finally, the little lady concluded crisply: "Quickly apologize to your companion, because you have insulted knowledge. If I have the slightest sense of shame, I will choose to ram my head against that red pine tree over there."

"Do you know why?" She snorted slightly: "Because the red pine tree is called the fool's tree by the mountain people, this title is prepared for your Excellency thousands of years later."

Trevor was dumbfounded, but even the companions behind him couldn't help snickering. If the Eruins made provocative words, they would naturally defend their companions. But the problem is that the one who spoke is still a child, who would care about a little girl? The black-haired young man couldn't help but give Chiara a second look, and the female knight patted the shoulder of the tall companion very sympathetically: "Trevor, who said in Ino that as long as you pass the swordsmanship class Can you graduate as well?"

The inner court knight had a bitter face, his guts were turning green with regret. Of course, what he regretted was not what he said at the beginning, but that he shouldn't have offended this eloquent little lady.

Brando knew the horror of the eldest son of the king. He only found out later that the other party's mentor was Xia Zi'an. An important plot npc. He has seen the kind-hearted little old man, but he has never met Chiara, and he doesn't know how the other party dotes on this talented girl from the Sifah family, and has cultivated her the character of a little witch.

He also didn't want to provoke Chiara, because he knew that the other party was still thinking about his "Buga people's knowledge", so he changed the subject and said: "Mr. Rogers, I want to ask you a question. Is there anything out of the ordinary that happened along Stanley, Forest Leaf Avenue, and even Hemlock Town?"

Rogers glanced at Brando, and instinctively felt that the other party seemed to deliberately not mention the falling meteor, but he quickly put this vague premonition behind him, thought carefully and replied: "The resonance of the artifact occurs at nine o'clock After that, it has been very calm until then, and most of the nobles did not leave their residences, except Earl Jean, who set off from Linye Avenue in advance to go to this place." He glanced at Brando and continued to answer: "In fact until the last time our eyeliner sends a message before evening, it should be relatively normal."

"Have your eyeliners contacted you after that? You should have used magic to communicate, right?" Brando knew that these inner court knights were mainly responsible, but they should have many outside informants.

"My lord, the magic communication in the entire area has been interfered with by human spells." Rogers replied.

Brando was startled for a moment, and then it dawned on him that dimensional anchors and suppression spells are not uncommon in Warnd, and the underground army of Jorgendigan obviously has the ability to make these spells cover the entire area-the lair lord and the blind priest are very Excellent spell caster. He wanted to ask more questions, but saw that the female knight hesitated to speak, but said something to Rogers in a low voice, and the latter nodded, and she mustered up the courage to answer: "My lord, there is one more thing .”

"Speaking."

"Before the resonance of the artifact, there was quite a long period of time when the whole area of ​​Vargos could hear a very ear-piercing tremor, and that sound should have come from above the clouds," the female knight replied.

Brando patted his forehead, and he had never heard this sound before. He thought for a while and asked, "Does that sound sound like the sound of a fleet passing through the clouds?"

The non-commissioned officer from Yanilasu Province raised his head keenly when he heard this sentence, and glanced at Brando curiously. The airship is still a new weapon in this era, and not many people are familiar with it . But the female knight shook her head: "That sound sounds more like thunder, rumbling."

Brando exchanged glances with Nimesis again before continuing to ask: "You met the caveman halfway, right? When was that?"

"Early morning." Rogers replied affirmatively.

Brando pondered for a while: "Okay, let's assume that all of this is a conspiracy of the Georgian people. Mr. Rogers, do you know what natural entrances and exits lead to the underground in this area?"

"I know there's one near Hemlock Town." The tall knight replied, "Once I wanted to go in and explore. It's terribly big, but unfortunately I didn't go deep."

"Is it dark inside, Mr. Knight?" A crisp voice asked, and the inner court knight looked at it and found that it was a little lolita who was asking himself, so he quickly shut his mouth without saying a word, as if Aruin came The little lolis are all demons with horns on their heads.

The one who spoke to him was naturally the daughter of Grand Duke Golan-Elson, but this little loli never expected Trevor to put on a straight face as soon as she saw her speak, and glared at her angrily, scaring her. The little girl was about to cry.

"There is also one near Forest Leaf Avenue." Rogers also replied.

Brando thought about it for a while, and it was almost in line with his memory, and he looked at Nimesis again, who also nodded. "That is to say, when you meet the caveman, it will not be more than an hour before the time when Qiao Gendigang launched the attack." He thought for a moment, then replied, then turned his head and said to Metisa beside him: "Take Get our map."

Metisa smiled and nodded.

Probably noticing the doubtful eyes of Rogers and the others, Brando explained: "The people of the underground are gloomy and cunning, especially the Minotaur and the Harpy. They rarely fight unprepared wars. They are launching a surprise attack. I must have figured out your deployment before. Except for Earl Jean, we have not found any traces of other noble troops so far, which can explain the problem. Your stronghold in Hillat Villa is not a secret, they must have been eyeing it early in the morning You, from the underground exit of Linye Avenue to the farm where you encountered them, according to the speed of cavemen, it takes about an hour's journey."

Rogers and others are inner court knights. Their task is to monitor the movement of local nobles rather than to be responsible for defense, so it is not surprising that they do not understand these things, so Brando patiently explained that if the knights of the Folding Sword Knights are here, even these Can't tell, then Brando probably thinks this guy is a liar.

"Then what should we do now, Lord Earl?" After listening to Brando's analysis, Rogers seemed to have some confidence in the Earl of Aruin, so he asked.

Brando didn't answer him directly, but waited until Metisa brought the map. Rogers and others could understand the map, but they were blind to how to infer the movement of an army. Most of Brando's tactical knowledge is inherited from the original memory of this soul. The militia team will teach some superficial map knowledge. In his previous life, he was the head of the player adventure group and the mercenary group, and presided over the local defense. Knowing some scraps of military knowledge, coupled with the fact that he has commanded several battles in this life, large and small, he can barely judge Qiao Gendigang's offensive intentions.

But the most professional of all is obviously Nimesis. This female knight is a top student who graduated from Wangli Knight Academy. She is a standard academic. She glanced at the map and said to Brando: "The distance between the hills of floating clouds Rokozy - The closest places to the Broken Sword Mountain Fortress are too far away. There are not only two entrances and exits leading to the underground world all the way south from here. If they want to raid the fortress from behind, there is no need to enter the surface from this place world."

"That is to say, if Qiao Gendigang has indeed allied with Toquinen, the one in front of us may not be the main force?" Chiara asked at this time.

"This is a harassment force," Brando replied, looking at the map, "Their goal is to prevent the gathering of the emperor [***] in the hinterland behind the fortress group."

His gaze crossed Hemlock Town, Vargos and Forest Leaf Avenue: "To achieve this goal, they must attack several most critical points."

His and Nimesis' eyes fell on a town at the same time.

Yasa.

To the north of Anzelu Tower, among the dotted towns among the mountains, this is undoubtedly the most dazzling star. This city is called the White City of Cruz. Compared with the White City of Faenzan, except that the two cities are built with the same white rock walls, another thing they have in common is that they are important land transportation hubs. , Asaph is the end point of the southern end of the Evergreen Corridor. This corridor connects the central region of the empire. Its north is the flower and leaf collar, its east leads to the wilderness of the four realms, and its west is the heart of the empire—the north of the Violet Valley. Once the city fell, it would mean that the two wars in the south of the empire from Rokozy to Anzelu Tower and then to the Four Realms would collapse.

Although Rogers and the others couldn't understand the strategic intentions of the Georgetown army, they still understood the importance of Asaph. Seeing that Brando and Nimesis' eyes fell on the map, several imperial knights His face turned pale, and he clearly understood what the empire would face once those rats from the ground succeeded.

However, Brando was not so nervous. First, it had nothing to do with him. Second, he understood that the situation was not that bad. The eagle on the Cruz Heights was an eagle after all. How could it be possible that it would fail completely due to a sneak attack? . The geographic location of Asa is so important, and there are powerful local legions in its four directions, not to mention the imperial navy stationed west of Rocchi. Then they are not harassing troops, but the main force.

The intention of this army is obviously to attract the attention of these local legions, so that they have no time to rescue Rokozy—the Broken Sword Mountain Fortress Group. If this 'rat' really achieves its goal, even if it only arrives In the vicinity of Asa, it was basically declared that the empire's defense line at Anzelu Tower was over. Just such a blow was absolutely unacceptable to the empire.

Brando's eyes moved back again, and fell on the north side of Vargus and Linye Avenue.

"Hemlock Town, crossing Vargos and Leaf Avenue will not be their goals, they should have crossed these places earlier today." Nimesis replied.

Brando nodded in agreement with this point, and the results of the investigation also proved this judgment. He stared at the map in silence, but several Cruz inner court knights seemed a little anxious, as if they slowed down a step, and the empire would fall into chaos in a blink of an eye. A point of no return yes. Brando seemed to be aware of the obvious anxiety of the other party. He looked at them deliberately, and Rogers finally couldn't help but said: "My lord, I don't know if what you said before is true or not?"

"What?" Brando asked pretending to be ignorant.

Chiara watched the conversation between the two with interest again.

Rogers licked his lips before replying: "My lord, you said that you have a more perfect idea. If we can hinder the footsteps of these uninvited guests, maybe the situation in the southern part of the empire will not become as bad as imagined."

Brando seemed to think of this sentence, and he nodded: "My army is here. Assuming that the Jorgendigan's harassment force is a whole army, do you think it is possible for us to defeat them?"

Rogers thought for a moment and shook his head.

"Then assuming that all of us here fight to the death, at the cost of everyone's life, we can delay the pace of the Qiao Gendigang people, do you think we might do that?" Brando asked again.

A look of hesitation appeared on Rogers' face, and then he shook his head heavily: "My lord, although you are an ally of the empire, the empire has no right to require you to make such a sacrifice."

Brando looked at this guy in surprise, thinking that this guy still has a bit of chivalry, but I don't know if he said that out of helplessness. He shook his head and replied: "Then suppose I tell you that I might be able to do the things I said above, would you believe me?"

Rogers had already given up hope at all. His only hope now was to break out with the Earl, and then send a message to His Majesty in the shortest possible time, but when he heard Brando's question in a trance, he couldn't help being stunned. , raised his head in disbelief and asked, "...My Lord Earl, what did you say?"

"Why, what I said is difficult to understand?" Brando replied with an original sentence.

"No, but—"

Rogers wanted to say something else, but Brando interrupted him: "This is not a question of yes or no-I only have one request, and that is to obey my orders, and you also understand that it is impossible for us to shake Joe Gendigan’s army, so I must get your help. Of course, if you don’t want to accept the command of an Eruin, then we will choose the first option.”

Rogers and his companions glanced at each other, and the inner court knight nodded immediately: "I understand, Lord Earl, what do you want us to do?"

Brando glanced at the red pine forest.

"It's very simple. You go and persuade Earl Jean to join us. He still has more than a thousand people under him. We can't let them disband right away, right?"

... (To be continued.)

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