Vol 5 Chapter 78

The four inner court knights are still persuading Earl Gion.

Earl Kean is obviously not convinced about the invasion of Gorgendega, just as Rogers and others who persuaded him would not believe that the underground army of Gorgendane would suddenly appear on the surface, like a hive. After all, the world below is too far away for them. Cavemen, minotaurs in the maze, are terrible creatures in bedside stories. Although he could not explain the reason why his allies disappeared, he could only assume that this was a private plot of Brando's scheme, but he could not see through the other party's plot.

But whether he wants it or not, Brando's so-called "persuasion" is not so much a threat as a suggestion. In the end, he also has to reluctantly surrender his command.

The setting sun sets, and the setting sun sinks into the mountains to the west. The whole hilly area seems to be in a strange silence. In the north of the Chung Yin Valley, you can no longer see the lights of Vargus. After coming down, the silence was creepy.

The four inner court knights silently walked on the edge of the red pine woodland. After walking for a while, the horsewoman Nasha finally couldn't help but said, "Maybe Earl Jien is right, the situation is not so bad, maybe it appears It ’s just a rogue from Georgia, does n’t it?

Rogers frowned tightly without answering.

"What about the weird beams of light and meteors across the sky that we saw last night, and Kui's magic of messing up is disturbed, this is a premeditated attack," Trevor shook his head: "Ji The old Count Eun was simply unwilling to bow his head to the Eleuins, and you and I understand that the noble masters in these places have always been stubborn and good-looking. "

Nasha was silent for a moment, as if trying to find a reason to refute, but unable to convince herself. In the end she asked with some concern: "How bad would it be for the Empire if Jorgendegan really invaded us?"

"It depends on how big the invasion of Georgia is," Rogers answered in a deep voice.

"How big do you think this invasion is, can they really threaten the empire's southern defense?" Nasha asked incredulously.

No one seemed to be able to answer this question. They felt that Brando was more or less alarmist, but neither Rogers nor Trevor was familiar with the forgotten country underground. In fact, most people even recognize the underground ethnic group. People are rare. What suddenly occurred to Rogers and Trevor, they set their sights on the dark-haired boy in a robe.

Kui replied calmly: "Georgendigan is slightly different from us. They have no unified kingdom. Only dark and large lords exist in the dark underground. The only exception is the dark elves."

"Kui, what kind of strength can the biggest lord have?" Nasha asked.

"Approximately the equivalent of a moderately powerful kingdom on the surface."

"Are there many such lords?"

Kui shook his head: "In addition to the three black dragons exiled by the dragons most commonly known, they are the famous king of the minotaurs, Gerat, and Medana after Perth, they are called the king of the underground. "

"If you want to threaten the southern defense of the empire, is such a lord enough?" Nasha asked again.

"It may be enough to give it all, but the underground world wars rarely do their best to guard against enemies in the dark. It is a more reliable guess that the two lords joined forces, but such lords are also second to none in Jordan. They rarely come to the surface world that is also unknown to them. If it were not for these underground kings, ordinary lords would probably need ten or even twenty to join forces to launch a war of this scale. "

"Queen, how likely is that?" Trevor asked back.

"Maybe, the underground world is a world that believes in the laws of darkness, and fraud is the norm in the dark. They rarely trust each other, let alone form alliances," said Kudah.

Nasha looked at her companion with some admiration: "Is it possible that they could form an alliance under special circumstances?"

"Maybe," said Kui, "but I'm not sure. The Earl of the Tonigel probably knows more about these underground people."

"Why did he say that, maybe he was alarmist?" The knight was obviously not happy to hear him say that.

The black-haired boy replied: "He and the horsewoman around him are quick and confident in judging the movements of the Georgian army. I can't do that."

Trevor felt that his companion's statement was a bit overdone. He shook his head. Although Kui had a genius mind, he was slightly worse in the world. He was well aware of the tricks inside. It can be loaded. He listened to Nasha's previous question, and his heart was a little shaken. Can Jorgen Degan really pull out an army of dozen lords to trouble the empire? The empire is indestructible in the hearts of its people. It may encounter bad luck for a while, but it can never happen to happen to the worst. Trevor can't even imagine Rokozi—the broken sword mountain fortress group will suffer Threat, it is not a fortress with two towers, but a line of defense with a depth of nearly a hundred miles and complete facilities.

He somewhat agrees with the female knight's claim. Perhaps the enemy in front of him is just a rogue army that fights the autumn wind from the underground world. They may be composed of an army of one or two lords. Come to make trouble in the Empire, distract the Imperial Army, and seize it.

He was thinking so, but Rogers suddenly asked, "Quui, how strong will the entire Georgian power be?"

The dark-haired boy suddenly looked up at the companion who had been frowning for a long time, his face inexplicable for the first time.

"That is impossible," he replied.

...

Although both Trevor and Nasha hoped that the invasion of the Empire by Jorgendegan would be nothing more than a private act of one or two lords, but south of Rutherf, at the end of the Rokozi Heights, everything that happened was clearly contrary to expectations. The mountain pass was once a majestic fortress, but now only gravel and rubble are left. The entire fortress seemed to be hit by the terrible force from the front. The original intact city wall opened a huge gap, and the gap was bathed in the moonlight. The entire section seemed to have been burned by flames. Even the masonry showed a black and bright color after carbonization, and the rubble shone. It was gravel after crystallization. There are such scenes everywhere in the fortress. In addition to the dead dead things, there are charred and twisted corpses, there are animals-cattle, horses, donkeys, and even large, almost burned skeletons. The dragon, leaning empty on the side of the street, which was also burned into a frame structure, has no traces of struggle. People can't help but think that when the death is coming, the extremely high temperature will instantly turn this behemoth from the body to the soul. Into ashes.

But it ’s not just animals. Human corpses are also everywhere. Some of them are wearing armor—but now they have become molten metal solutions that have re-solidified after melting. Some are just civilians, but whether they are elderly or children, men or women. , All turned into an unrecognizable coke. Such corpses were scattered throughout the street. Their location indicated what they were avoiding during their lifetime, but time remained at this last moment.

The entire fortress seems to have been plowed from the middle. The streets and buildings in these areas have become fragmented, but the other blocks are still well preserved, except that the street and the slopes on both sides are full of sharp wooden stakes. Unidentified human bodies were inserted into these wooden stakes, and their bodies stared blankly at the dark sky, with clouds in the sky, and their eyes had long lost their vitality.

The broken fortress has become a dead city. There are no Cruzers and no enemies. It is like death passed by here, taking all life silently.

Such a scene is not only the only case above the entire Rokozi Heights, east of the Broken Sword Mountain Range, but is performed simultaneously in many places. This is the Pasilian fortress, the Rokozi of the Empire-although the Broken Sword Mountain Fortress group is composed of thousands of forts, levels and forts, only the Claw Claw Fort, Elno Fort, and Pasilian Fortress are three. The fortress is the true core of this line of defense. The other fortresses were built around them to protect them. The Pasilian fortress is the last level of this line of defense in the direction of the empire. In the history of thousands of years, It has never been captured or even attacked, but today an army of Cruzs has never dealt with this history.

When Fries woke up from under the rubble, he still couldn't forget the most memorable scene in his life he had seen before. He remembered that the fortress was attacked by a group of hawks from nowhere. The commander determined that this was a monster attack, and perhaps a new nest was created somewhere near the fortress. This kind of thing often happened in the border area. The desolate Rokozi Heights was originally a wandering place for monsters. The Empire soldiers Join the fight without surprise. Fris is an imperial crossbowman and naturally wants to participate in the battle, but he is relatively safe in the shooting room with other people-although the noise on the wall is a bit unbearable, the heavy equipment of the militia was pushed to the slide The creaking noise behind the duokou was also soothing. At that time, he was using a heavy crossbow winch to make a string, put a crossbow, and then went to the perforation to observe.

Then at that moment--

He seemed to hear a scream of screaming from above the city wall, the sound was like falling from the sky, and the cry of a ghost at midnight, a sharp howl made him feel cold hair upright, and then he saw through the perforation A huge, cold, unemotional eye like a black cast iron ball, that eye, just one glance, made him fall into the abyss, and the chill of the bone was rising from his feet, freezing him there Although he wanted to scream, he couldn't make a sound.

He faintly heard the terrifying shouts of his colleagues from the wall, the shouts humming together, as if describing a monster that scared them.

But Fries hadn't had time to hear what it was, and then the ground shook, and he saw the wall of the shooting room collapse towards him, and after his feet were empty, the world fell into darkness.

After Fries was awake again, he realized that it was the collapsed masonry that saved his life.

He didn't know how long it took to lie in the dark before he recovered a little strength, then he couldn't care about his soreness, gritted his teeth to cut a passage from the gravel and rubble. As if it was miraculous, he found that he was not seriously injured. Except for the faint pain in breathing that made him suspect that he had broken one or two ribs, his hands and feet were very flexible, only scratches, and he used his hands and feet from the rubble. He climbed out, and the next moment, the bleak miserable scene in the fortress came into his eyes, and Fries gritted his teeth for a moment. It all seemed to have appeared in his dream before. Although he had expected it, he couldn't help it. He shivered.

He looked up in the direction of the mountain pass, which was the direction where the monster army disappeared. From there was the mountain road leading to the Claw Claw Fortress. Behind it was Rokozi, the heart of the Broken Sword Mountain Fortress Group. His heart was cold. It has been realized that this is not a monster attack at all, but a planned attack.

That eye ...

Fries was thinking about the scene he had seen before. He seemed to want to convince himself that it was just an illusion. The real fear hidden in his mind reminded him what it was.

That's a dragon--

A black dragon.

...

Cruz has a saying: every day of the empire is calm, every day of the empire is turbulent. This phrase may not be appropriate to describe the entire Cruz Empire, but it is more appropriate to describe Emperor Rusta.

From three days ago, the White Rose Garden was shrouded in a depressing atmosphere. The lifelessness of St. Contepe's Palace seemed as if every person who walked in would have bad luck. In the past, this usually means that Her Majesty's mood has changed again. Generally speaking, there are many factors that cause Her Majesty to be angry-for example, a certain aristocrat has brought her upset, or disappointed her, for example The Temple of Fire offends the majesty of the Supreme One. The Temple of Fire and Her Majesty often offend each other. This is a well-known fact, but besides the two main reasons above, there are some side branches. In the last days, for example, the mountain people, Anzerutans, or some other barbarians killed the empire's tax officer, or the granddaughters who were married to the royal family sent someone to a banquet of Her Majesty. What—The Silver Queen and her relatives in these empires have a very poor relationship, which is recognized by the entire empire.

In fact, there have been some new names recently. For example, an Earl from Eruin is said to have become a thorn in the eyes of Her Majesty's Her Majesty. In addition, there are rumors about the female mountain Count, and it is said that every time When Her Majesty summoned her, her mood became very bad.

But this time, neither the nobles caused trouble, but the Temple of Flames was also divided. Although the carriage of the seventh prince accidentally fell into the cliff on the way back to the imperial capital last month, the mountain people were seriously injured. They also showed great obedience. They even sent an envoy to explain the matter. This envoy was about to reach the imperial capital. This attitude was obviously to completely surrender to the supreme empire of the empire, and Her Majesty did not seem to have. There is a need to get angry about this.

On the other hand, there seemed to be no news from the flower-leaf collar and Ludwig, and the rumor of the Earl of Tonigel was also sinking into the sea these days, according to the news from the maid next to Her Majesty. His Majesty has not called a female Earl in recent times.

The only thing that counts as news is as if a few rare artifact reactions have been reported in areas such as Bankel and the Valley of Violet a few days ago, but these artifact resonances have only occurred independently in a very small number of areas, but not in the wider area. It has been observed that the warlocks of the Star and Moon Tower have not yet concluded whether this is a fantasy or a real fact.

But in fact, only a few well-informed people in the circle of the high-level aristocracy of the empire understood that since that day, the empire had lost news of areas south of Anzlowa. The news here refers to the secret report of the inner court knights belonging to the royal family. The original report was once a day. From three days ago, from Vargus to the Bear Lake area, to Rusef, and even the entire Rokozi. The area south of the fortress group seemed to disappear from the map and lost its audio.

If it is on weekdays, the two-day delay is nothing, but just before that, almost the entire empire's eyes are still focused on this area. The nobles of the empire are still waiting for Brando and Anze. The results of the last battle of the nobles in Ruta, but all of a sudden, the area disappeared. Whether private or sent by the royal family, as if the world had evaporated, it is gone forever.

Everyone thought for the first time that this was the ghost of the Earl of the Tonigers.

But the news that followed sent the entire empire into a dead silence.

Early morning on the third day.

Constance summoned her two knights into the White Rose Garden--

At this moment, in front of the queen, Mr. Travis, the head of the Royal Knights, and Mr. Kevin, the head of the Imperial Dragon Cavalry, were wiping the cold sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief. Both of them came from Paru. Family, and another family from the nobles trusted by Her Majesty the Queen. They are clearly the heads of the two embargoes at Constance, but as long as they live in Rusta Everyone knows that these two gentlemen have in fact been secretly in charge of the foreign affairs of the Knights of the Inner Court.

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