Roxin Harbor, located between the Drake Forest and the Bunwright Plains, is the only port city in the Mage's Tower's territory, and its sea trade relies more on the export of magic to spawn giant trees and spices, as well as salt, which is indispensable for the entire continent.

Fifty miles to the west of the port, the Luoxin city authorities spent a lot of money to build a villa area that seemed to rise out of the sand. Outside of this villa area, there is a summer resort that is famous throughout the human world of the Eastern Continent... Gold Coastline.

This villa area was originally a temporary camp built by the emperor when he came to take a vacation 30 years ago, and later because the upper nobles of the empire loved the beauty of this area and often came to vacation with their families, the Luoxin city authorities built this villa on the basis of the camp to provide accommodation for the nobles who came to vacation.

Moreover, the villas here are only rented out and not sold.

Some time ago, due to the ravages of the undead legion in the Drake Forest, this villa was closed for a period of time, and now it is finally open to the public, but it is closed indefinitely because of an order from the upper echelons of the Mage Tower.

When the news came out, countless nobles from various countries who wanted to come on vacation were annoyed, but they were helpless.

Because, the mother of King Pedi Reagan of the Kingdom of Cruria, Mrs. Saviara and her little daughter, lived in this villa complex and had to rest here for a long time.

The arrival of their mother and daughter made the lively coastline extremely deserted overnight.

...

Although it's still hot in summer, the never-ending sea breeze can melt away the heat and bring comfort and coolness.

After picking up her mother, Phyllis came to the resort after a brief meeting with several members of the Board of Directors at Drake City. After arriving at the holiday villa on the shoreline and taking a break, Phyllis took her mother and ran to the beach, regardless of the hot sun outside.

Although Mrs. Saviara was a little tired from the long journey, she did not refuse her youngest daughter's request.

Phyllis was surprised by the deserted beach, and she picked up a baker that she thought was beautiful, looked sideways at her mother, and said, "I remember my sister telling me that this beach should be full of people who come to vacation at this time, and there are countless campfires here, the aroma of barbecue can be spread for miles, and the sound of people playing can be comparable to the loud sound of waves crashing against rocks." ”

"Have you ever seen a scene when you're out and about?" asked Saviara softly.

"Huh?" Phyllis was stunned for a moment, and her originally flawless eyes were suddenly infected by a certain emotion, "I met it when I was in the imperial capital, but I rarely encountered it again since I left the imperial capital... I used to be bustling with activity when I looked out at the neighborhood below from the Mage Tower, but every time I went down, the people on the street were nowhere to be seen. ”

"This is the royal power attached to it, your brother's royal power. Saviara looked out at the sparkling waters of the sea level, "We have something to lose while enjoying some privilege... Something very important. ”

Phyllis sensed a sense of dissatisfaction in her mother's words, and she smiled deliberately "with a bell", her eyes flashing with an incomprehensible gaze, and said, "I've always liked to be quiet since I was a child, so ...", she pointed to the empty beach, "That's not bad!"

"Do you really like it?"

"Of course, I don't like to go out in the imperial capital, I like to stay alone in my room and study magic instead of wandering the streets. Phyllis spoke in an emphatic tone.

"Won't you be bored?" asked Saviara casually, her eyes still staring at the glowing water. She tried her best to hide the guilt on her face, she was afraid that her little daughter would think that she asked this because of guilt, so she didn't dare to look at the other party's face.

"Brother Pedi comes to accompany me every day after the Paladin's training. Phyllis's eyes suddenly turned crescent-shaped at the mention of her brother, and her tone became much more pleasant.

"What about Penny, what did she do every day in the Imperial Capital?" Saviara turned to look in the opposite direction to Phyllis's gaze, bent down, took off her shoes, and walked towards the beach where the waves could lap.

After her mother's questioning, Phyllis subconsciously took off her shoes after watching her mother's movements, and walked along the beach with her mother, and replied: "Penny has endless friends, and every morning when the guards at the mansion have just finished their shifts, her friends will come to her. So, most of the time she was her so-called friends embroidering boring embroideries, occasionally talking about masterpieces, and eventually, abominably, she would go into the tea-room after dinner and disrupt my private tea party with Brother Pedi. ”

"Are you angry with your sister?" Saviara felt the heat of her little daughter holding her arm, and her mood suddenly became much better, and her tone of asking questions became lighter and more natural.

"Or do you hate her?" Saviara smiled, "I used to hate my sister and sister, too. ”

"Maybe, but..."Phyllis kicked the cold sea with her bare feet, perhaps feeling the hot light, she subconsciously raised her head to look at the sun in the blue sky, and said, "I hate her for being inconsistent... The smirk she showed to her friends was disgusting to me every time I thought about it... However, she's my sister, so it's not like I hate her, it's just... I don't know how to put it. ”

Phyllis frowned in anguish, her distress seemed to be due to the glare of the sun, and as if she was thinking of something in the imperial capital.

"Do you think Penny did something wrong?" asked Saviara again.

"About what?" asked Phyllis.

"You know. ”

"What do I know?" Phyllis recalled the events of the Imperial Capital, everything in the Imperial Capital since she could remember had been monotonous and boring, but now she recalled it was a different feeling.

"All I know is that Penny can't even laugh the way she wants, she can't express her anger even if she is angry, and she can only eat half full. Phyllis seemed unwilling to recall these events, and she kept kicking the water with her feet, keeping her head down to prevent her mother from seeing her expression at the moment.

"I used to like that to Penny, I thought she was like a harlequin, but now I know it's not up to her. Phyllis took a deep breath and turned her head to look at her mother with a smile on her face, "It's not Penny who did wrong, it's the rotten imperial capital." ”

Saviara looked at her youngest daughter's expression now, and understood that the Reagan family magician lady in front of her did not know that her brother and sister had turned against each other and were preparing for a life-and-death battle in Tyre.

"You—" An inner voice of the old lady drove her to tell her little daughter about it, but when a word came out, the eager look in her little daughter's eyes made her swallow back the words she was about to say.

"How are you doing at the Mage Tower?" the old lady stretched out her hand and gently stroked her daughter's hair.

"It's not bad, the seniors and seniors are very good to me, but Tutor Cornelia is very strict in class. Phyllis's smile became even more pronounced when she heard her mother's words, "The most important thing is that I can study magic here to my heart's content... Mother, magic is really amazing, she can change the world. ”

"All I know is that magic has the power to destroy everything. Saviara spoke with a warning.

"No, magic not only has the power to destroy, but she can also create, has the power to create everything. When Phyllis talked about magic, she subconsciously remembered her experiment, and the whole person suddenly became excited, "The Mage Tower is working on the study of magic energy, and Brother Pedi's laboratory is also doing experiments in this area, believe my mother, the magic of the future is not only the power of destruction, but also the power to change our lives." ”

"Of course I believe you. Saviara naturally noticed that something was wrong with Phyllis, so she immediately changed the subject, "The sun here makes me dizzy, I see a bamboo umbrella in the villa, can you help me get it and install it?"

"You wait for me, Mother. Hearing her mother's request, Phyllis lifted her dress and ran to her side, the maid Ina, who was not far behind.

Saivia stretched out her hand to block the sun's rays, walked to the shore where the waves couldn't catch it, and squinted at the way her little daughter ran under the scorching sun, feeling happy and at the same time giving birth to an indescribable bitterness.

...

On September 28, a late-summer rainstorm swept across the Sook Plains.

The Duke of Mond-Jean personally led a mixed army and knightly order in the heavy rain to march north towards the city of Sooke.

In just two days, the Duke of Jean's army swept through all the towns and cities along the way, and his troops were on the outskirts of Suke.

Suker City, on the other hand, did not react to this.

On 5 October, the Duke of Jean's army invaded the area of Sooke and forced the surrender of most of the towns south of Sooke.

Inside the city of Suke,

Although the torrential rain has long since stopped, the light rain is still continuous, and the hazy sky is overwhelmed by evil energy.

The city was under martial law three days ago, and farmers and herders outside the city had been forcibly relocated to the area around the town of Hatis ten days earlier.

In the drizzle, the city first established by mankind will usher in another war.

From the day the Duke of Jean's army was crushed, in the morning markets and squares throughout the city, officials were vigorously proclaiming the significance of the city council waging this war: "... Speaker Penny has led us to overthrow the Elven rule, and she will reunite the Suk Plains and restore humanity to its former glory. ”

"We are invincible!"

“... The tyranny of the Elven Kingdom will be suppressed, and the city has ushered in a new dawn!"

"This is a just war, a war that must be won!"

The propaganda plan was developed by Dempto Bob, and Penny Reagan didn't expect it to work, but it turned out to be a surprise to many.

The sluggish morale of the military was quickly gathered because of the propaganda slogan of 'justice', and the turbulent situation was also stabilized because of the propaganda of 'winning the war'.

In the daily slogan of 'victory', the citizens do not have the panic when the orcs broke through the fortress of Anku three years ago, nor the confusion of the elven coalition two years ago when they besieged the city. The city's factories were still open, and the tavern business had been booming since the day the city gates were closed.

On the southern walls of the city, Penny Reagan looked up at the clouds in the sky, letting the fine rain fall on her face. Her face did not have the makeup that had been carefully prepared in the past, and the blonde hair that hung straight down to her waist could only fall to her shoulders at the moment, and the armor inlaid with iron armor on her body made her fade from the feminine softness and reveal the fortitude of a ruler.

"Are those nobles in the city really reliable?" Penny Reagan wiped her hand on her face, the moment the rain slid down, she felt a tingling pain in her cheeks, she subconsciously opened her palm and looked at it, what caught her eyes was no longer the ruddy and delicate palm, countless small wounds and blood blisters were left by her knight course in the last few days.

At Penny Reagan's side was Woz Perrod, the most influential patriarch of the Old Empire's Five Protectorates, the last Imperial Prime Minister, and the former leader of the conservative wing of the City Council. And now, he's just a personal advisor to Penny Reagan alone.

"Those people are smart, but sometimes being smart isn't a good thing. Woz-Perrod wore plain leather armor, and a few months in prison had made him look like a servant, and his untreated gray hair made him look much older than ever.

"I need to defeat Mondstadt Jean within a month, otherwise we simply won't be able to deal with the incoming Krullian army. Penny Reagan maintained a woman's characteristic care, pressing her hands on the wet battlements and looking beyond the official horizon.

"Although Mondstadt-Jean is menacing, in fact, the Gene family has long since declined. "After the Elven invasion and civil war a few years ago, the Jean family was left with only Fort Norma, which was captured by betrayal, and now all the elite troops they have managed to assemble are buried in Tyre, and hundreds of family knights are wailing in your dungeon. ”

"What's more, the main elven force led by Felder is unable to take care of the Suke Plain because of the sudden southward movement of the undead legion, and Mondstadt-Jean can only rely on the strength of his family to fight us now. Woz-Pedro gestured with his hands respectfully, "And you, unlike him, have the entire northern part of the Sukh Plain as a support... Therefore, this war has already had a result before it has even begun, and the injured bucks will never be able to defeat the giant bear. ”

"But I don't want to wait, I want to see the Gene family buck torn to shreds. Penny Reagan's mind suddenly remembered the vicious curse of her husband and mother before she was executed, her eyes narrowing and her thumb pressing the rain-soaked battlements.