Vol 5 Chapter 68

The autumn twilight scenery of Anzeruta is very beautiful. After mixed with the mottled rusty red, the forests between the mountains are like the colorful colors flowing on the canvas. It depicts the narrow misty valleys and sporadic areas of the Anzeruta area. Distributed in the plains of the basin between the mountains and hills. But in late winter, the scenery here has changed again. The forest is stripped of leaves and branches. The bare woodland shows the steep cliffs and cliffs. It is snowy and steep, as if guarding the giants of the canyon basin. Warmth, suddenly transformed into winter's fortitude and grandeur.

Four seasons change, this is the most fascinating natural scenery here. In the season away from the war, every year, adventurers from all over the world come to explore here. But at this moment, the lion's army is approaching, and the wind elves of Saint Osor are fighting the Imperial Army in the four borders of the north. This charming mountain is rarely quiet.

Brando was wrapped in a thick fur coat and stomped in the snow under the pine trees. His gaze looked down at the foot of the mountain towards the western stripe of the plain or should be called a basin, scattered sporadically in the rolling hills. However, the further west, the hills become shorter and flatter, and gradually become a vast plain, and then the west mountains rise again, forming a mountain shadow far from the sky-there is the Broken Sword Mountain Range.

"Let them stay in their own castles and reflect," Brando replied, watching the valley below. He replied that Miss Ouni had asked him how to deal with the Cruz aristocracy he had arrested. The Duke Qianjin stood in the woods and kept a certain distance from him, as if he was a little closer. What trouble would he cause in the future? It's like coming and going to implicate her. He didn't care about this, and continued: "Count Count Alcons and Count Jien seem unwilling to pay us a ransom, and that is to prepare to continue revenge."

The Duke stood there reluctantly, thinking that this was nothing more than a normal ambassador, but she later became a rebel, and now it is something similar to bandits-hostage ransom for noble war, Thanks to the Earl, this name is wanted.

But she couldn't say no, what could she do? Now she was on the thief ship and **** with this **** embarrassing envoy, even if she wanted to deny that it was all Brando. Come out, okay, then you have to wait until you meet Her Majesty the Queen of Cruz or return to Eruin; as of now, she ca n’t leave the team alone to return to Eruin, or simply surrender to the Cruz aristocracy Go over there, although she really wanted to do that a few times, but after thinking about the consequences of doing so, she gritted her teeth and held it down.

"Master Earl ..." The Duke took a deep breath and finally asked: "I would like to ask what you want to do. You broke a fortress of the empire and swept the face of the nobles in Azeruta. Defeated the Cruzers' knights, well, these are all forgotten. The former can be said to be a lesson for the arrogance of the Rogerian Legion. As an envoy representing the Eruin, we do have the right to do so. And the latter is because they took the initiative to attack us, and we just fought back and made sense, but now why are you doing this, and you turned to the Cruzs for ransom? "

"That's right, so what?" Brando asked back.

Onni was almost fainted. The ordinary Eruin nobles almost couldn't wait to show more respect when they faced the Cruz aristocracy, but the Count was good. As if there was a pain in the face, he slapped in the past, as if he was afraid of Cruz. The Empire is not ashamed. But the aristocracy of Eruin can be shameless, but the empire cannot. How many empires are owned by the empire, how many eyes are staring at every move of this behemoth, how can it make Eruin ride a small country on his own, the Empire ’s The rulers have at least a little IQ, and it's not hard to realize this.

And this is what she has never understood the most. What advantage does the Count do? To build reputation? Well, he is now famous enough. The kings from the south of the Eruin to the Cruz are almost everyone knows. In most of the empires, in the whole kingdom, all the nobles have reduced since winter. After the outdoor activities, you should discuss the glorious deeds of the Earl every day.

However, this reputation is probably not good because according to what she learned, even inside the ambassador, some people bet when the Earl is unlucky.

Of course, Brando is unlucky and has nothing to do with her, and she can't worry about it, but what makes the Duke sad is that they are now on a boat. If the Earl overturns the boat, she It is inevitable to fall into the water.

Thinking of it, she looked at Brando angrily, and the indifferent look of the latter almost made her grit her teeth--what does this idiot know and don't know what he is doing?

Ou Ni grew more and more angry, thinking that a good ambassador was completely messed up by this young and arrogant arrogant. She had originally participated in the mission with a mentality of traveling, but did not expect It turned out to be a war. A furious woman is terrible. At this moment, the elegant and decent Duke Qianjin finally lost her mind and decided to tear it off completely with Brando. She said in a tone never before in this life: "Master, I know You ’re going to be so powerful today and in the future in Erouin. My insignificant daughter, a duke, seems to you insignificant, but I still want to remind you that there are still many people in this mission, including your students, the kingdom. The future king, as well as your subordinates, and many innocent people, we do not want to be destroyed together with you because of your waywardness. Can you understand me? "

Brando looked back at the Duke Qianjin, thinking that it was difficult for the Miss Qianjin to endure for so long, as a guy like Efram had been scared to hide in his carriage and did n’t ask for anything. The ostrich policy was funny. Then he replied: "You speak loudly, Miss O'Neal, I never wanted to harm anyone."

"I don't want to hear these sounding words, Lord Earl, I've had enough! You say you have a sense of proportion, then please tell me why you caught the nobles and the young people of the Alcons and Jien families. Instead of letting them go, they asked someone else in their family to ransom? "Asked the Duke Qianqi angrily.

Hearing this question, Brando stood up: "Miss Ouni, although I accept your opinion, I also want to tell you one thing, these people are now my captives, as for why they became my captives That's because they took the initiative to provoke us, not that we hit their territory for no reason. They want to breathe for the failure of the Black Sword Barrier, and from a philosophical point of view, the side of the Black Sword Barrier's conflict is the empire. It's not about us, so since they planned to bully the bulls from the beginning, they should be prepared early on. "

He patted the snowflakes on the fur collar. Actually, he didn't need such thick warm clothes for his strength. He just didn't want to look too special. Besides, people are happy and hardworking. If it can be warmer, He didn't need to make himself like a monk. Brando then continued: "As for what you said I asked them to pay the hostage ransom, wasn't it taken for granted. Could it be said that the redemption of hostages in the war between the nobles of Eruin and Cruz was noble enough to pay the bills? ? "

"You are arrogant," Now that it has been completely let go, the Duke will not try to use any euphemism. The book she has read is no more than Bran, so she directly answers: "Master, you and me Everyone knows that it ’s the Cruz, and the dispute between the Cruz and the Cruz, the Eruin and the Eruin, and the Eruin and the Cruz are different, nominally, The kingdom and the people of the empire are born equal under the rule of the Temple of Fire, but in fact, this is just empty words. Everyone knows that the empire can not give the kingdom face, but the kingdom can't help it. Today, you will be in a hurry. What will we do when the empire waits for revenge tomorrow? "

"For these reasons, I don't believe you will not know, Lord Earl, you don't have to pretend to be crazy, and outsiders say you are crazy, and they gave you a nickname of" Earl Crazy ". But the people in our mission can see clearly. You know better than anyone else, and your people are capable. Even if you can't see this, I think they will remind you, but your name is Shire. The wizard, and the elf knight, who are so clever and let you do whatever you want, shows that you already know that everything you do has always had a clear purpose. "

Onni replied coldly: "But for this purpose, except for you and yours, we have all been in the dark. You say that you fight for the reputation of the kingdom, you are all treating us as fools. . "

Having said that, Brando knew that the duke had really come to show him today.

He nodded and said, "Well, you're right, all that I have done is really for another purpose."

Oni looked at him coldly with such a gaze, and that gaze was like, "You better tell me all about this, otherwise Miss Ben will not be complimented-except to lose the card except There is a third way to tie and win, and that is to lift the table. "

"But you missed something, Miss Ouni." Brando shook his head again.

Onni looked at him suspiciously, as if wondering what the Count was playing.

Brando glanced back at the direction of the valley before answering, "Eruin's strength and weakness have nothing to do with you, but it is important to me. You may find it incredible, but in The Black Sword Barricade, I want to give a lesson to the Rogerians, indeed, for legitimate reasons. As for why I will do this later, it is precisely to prevent the empire from taking revenge on us, "he paused, as if waiting. The Duke digested his words, and then continued: "Do you think we will end this, and the imperial nobles will give up? We will return the hostages in our hands, and they will let us leave Rutherf smoothly? "

"Then I can only say that you think too much. Miss Ouni, you are very clever, but your knowledge of the Empire is often influenced by others. I told you long ago that the Empire is just the same, but if we today Give these people back unscathed, don't you tell them that they can challenge us for no cost? "Brando shook his head:" This is impossible, I will let them understand and challenge me once, They will feel the pain once, until they cannot afford the loss. "

After hearing these words, the Duke Qianjin felt that the Earl was stubborn. She couldn't help but ask coldly: "Okay, maybe you have a point, but you haven't thought about it. The trouble is bigger, do you know who is behind the Alcons family and the Jien family? It is the Grand Duke of Parut. At present, the Parut family can even be said to be the most powerful noble of the empire. If they come to the stage Against you, Lord Earl, can you still let out such eloquence that it makes them feel pain? "

It is indeed possible. Although Brando is confident, he is not arrogant enough to claim to be able to challenge a behemoth like the Parut family.

But things will not go that far.

He shook his head again: "Rest assured, Miss O'Neill, things cannot go that far."

"Why do you say that?" The Duke Qianjin asked indignantly, "by your so-called intuition?"

"You don't believe it?" Brando raised an eyebrow. "So how about we make a bet?"

"What bet?" Ouni said angrily.

"You help me persuade the Cruz nobles and convince them that I will do it. If they can't get the ransom, I will tie them to Rusta and take them to meet Her Majesty and go under Her Majesty. Make sense, "Brando replied.

The Duke looked at him in surprise, "You still want to make things bigger, are you crazy?"

"I'm not crazy, haven't you said that, I understand," Brando looked back at the daughter of the Archduke Viero and asked provocatively, "Why don't you dare to make this bet with me?" "

"How dare you?" Oni gritted her teeth and replied angrily: "But you only said half of it. If I did it, how about you?"

Brando replied: If you do this, I assure you that this incident will have no effect on me, for you, for the entire mission and the kingdom, but not only this time, this mission You will also get unprecedented success, and you will also get the reputation you want, so that your father will at least not marry you to an unknown country noble so early, let alone which well-known scholars and masters will Fancy your talents, accept you as an apprentice, and you can fulfill your wish. "

This sentence obviously frightened the Duke, and she couldn't help looking at Brando in shock, "How do you know, did you use any evil spell on me?"

"No," Brando chuckled, "I bought your maid."

"It's shameless!" The duke couldn't help but say a swear word.

Brando smiled secretly. He had no care to buy a maid, but only occasionally learned some of the story of the young lady. In the previous life, the other party was just an ordinary NPC. His understanding of the young lady, In fact, that's all there is to it, just use it casually, I didn't expect to really bluff the opponent. He smiled and continued: "How, now it's good for you and me. Now you go back, whether you are going to Cruz or Eruin, you can't escape the blame, offending Empire and Yan. The accusation of the temple will eventually fall on you, but if I have any credit for it in the future, you can't get any share because of today's indecision. "

Onni glanced at him, and gritted his teeth and replied, "What kind of merit can you have for a person like this is really the misfortune of the kingdom, but since I promise to bet with you, I will certainly do it."

She paused, suddenly a little suspicious: "You said this to me, of course, not because of conscience, but then again, it seems that some of the people around you are better to do it, why do you want me? Do it? The wizard named Shire, and the elf lady, are they loyal to you, aren't they better manpower? "

Brando couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Does he seem to be so untrustworthy that he should even doubt it.

He thought for a while before answering: "It's because of their loyalty to Shire that they are more unsuitable to do this."

"Why?" The Duke was a little puzzled. "What on earth do you want me to do?"

"I forgot to explain to you that I asked you to persuade the Cruz aristocrats, and at the same time, you also pretended to let go of one or two of them, and at least convince them-you and I are not in a group-yes Yes, just like what you think now, you just need to explain to them, all of this is that I am going crazy alone, and the rest of the mission is held by me, just tell them the original words, and then Let them go and let them report. "Brando stared at Ouni, stunned, and shook his head." Don't look at me like this, I know this is what you think now. "

"You know it," the Duke replied with gnashing his teeth. "But I don't understand a bit. What are you doing for this? Isn't your purpose to stop the Cruzs from coming to us, but see you It looks like he's not troubled enough? "

Brando raised a finger and shook her.

"Because it's as simple as killing a snake."

...... (To be continued. Please search for floating astronomy, novels are better and faster!)