In early February, the weather in early spring was still cold for Crewe.

Today, the steel-poured gates of Crewe City slowly fell at dawn as in the past, in a thick sound of gear rubbing, and the merchant ships of the canal outside the city shouted louder at the moment when the city gate drawbridge fell, and the movements of the workers unconsciously accelerated the speed of unloading.

On the wide trade road outside the city, merchants, travelers, and mercenaries with caravans, nobles and farmers who entered the city quietly lined up and waited for the city garrison soldiers to check them.

Although Crewe City today may not seem to be anything special on the surface, the merchants who often sell goods find it different today.

First of all, there are at least twice as many soldiers of the garrison patrolling the city gates and main streets as usual, and secondly, the inventory is much stricter than in the past, and all large items related to iron tools are strictly forbidden to be brought into the city, and flammable fish oil, gunpowder, and even some specific ink have become contraband, and there is no special pass, and they will not be transported into the city for the next half a month.

When people entered the city, they found that the inner city was closed to the public today, and in the main neighborhoods and morning markets of the outer city, there were patrols led by castle knights.

Clever people, combined with yesterday's announcement of the trial at the police station that accompanied the evening, quickly thought that some important events might take place in Fort Kawal today. As a result, some of the merchants felt that they might be able to make a lot of money, and all the goods they were supposed to sell were hoarded in the city warehouses, while some of the more cautious merchants were the opposite, and they quickly sold all the goods at a price lower than the usual two, and left the city as quickly as possible.

However, the sprawling city of Crewe has not changed much because of the slight change of merchants, the morning market is still extremely lively, the streets of the various factory districts are still extremely crowded, and the workers get up early in the morning to rush to work, so that the breakfast stalls at the street corners are still busy.

Inside the high walls of the inner city, a brigade of the garrison corps is fully armed and guarded by the high walls of the inner city, but the intersections of various blocks are exactly the opposite of the bustle of the outer city at the moment... It was incredibly quiet, quieter than late at night.

The wide streets, which used to be crowded with pedestrians after dawn, are today devoid of any other idlers except for the officials of the Royal Government, police officers, and garrison soldiers, and not a single boat is missing from the wide canals. The villas and manors in various neighborhoods were closed, and the bustling commercial street closed for business before two o'clock yesterday evening.

In the Sacco family manor area of the seventh block, Wipo Sacco got up two hours earlier than usual today, and he had been walking in his wide yard since he got up, not caring at all that there was no passing garrison on the street, let alone the commotion in the nearby manor.

At seven o'clock in the morning, Vepo Sacco welcomed his first wave of guests, and after he had explained his views intuitively in the simplest of terms, some of them left decisively, while others decided to stay. In the next hour, a few more people arrived one after another to talk to Veypo Sacco, some left and some remained.

In the garrison headquarters, Sir Fred also welcomed a group of guests of all kinds during the hour. At the behest of Baron Hanina, Sir Fred made a random promise to them, and on the orders of Queen Kavalburg, stationed a garrison of 2,000 soldiers at the junction of the 6th and 7th blocks next to Twilight Square.

At half past eight in the morning, when the mild winter sun broke through the clouds and brought some warmth to the earth, a black four-wheeled carriage of the aristocratic standard of Crewe City slowly drove into the twilight square, and the soft sound of the silver bell of the carriage "Jingle Bell" was so eye-catching at this moment, and its lonely drive on the twilight square attracted all the police officers and garrison soldiers in the square.

"Jingle bell..."

"Jingle bell..."

The silver bell of the carriage rang incessantly until it reached the castle gates.

Under the watchful eyes of the castle knights and guards, the door of the carriage opened silently, and a young nobleman, dressed in a red aristocratic dress and wrapped in a red fluffy cloak, stepped down from the carriage without hurry, and walked towards the castle gate with a kind smile.

Seeing this, the knight in charge of guarding the drawbridge under the castle gate immediately greeted him with a serious face, but just as the knight was about to scold the young nobleman, the other party stopped at the right place. Seeing this, the castle knight swallowed the words he wanted to scold and frowned, looked at the family crest on the collar and cuffs of the other party, and turned his head to look at the chief on the city wall.

Today, the garrison of the castle gates is in the hands of the young knight Eden. As a former servant of the King, he had received an order from Her Majesty the Queen herself to guard the gate last night to ensure that no one could enter the castle without the Queen's consent.

Eden looked at the inquiring gaze from the knight below, at the nobleman who was outside the drawbridge of the castle, and then at the indifferent police officer in the nearby square, and made a 'ignore' gesture to the knight below.

Just as the knight below nodded, there was another "jingle bell" sound in the twilight square in the distance. This time, the ringing of the silver bell was no longer as lonely as just now, but connected one by one.

Eden followed the prestige, and his eyes appeared in the shape of rows of carriages that seemed to be in sight, slowly moving towards the castle gates, and beside these carriages, countless nobles in regular clothes rode on war horses to approach the castle gates.

"Do you want to report to Her Majesty the Queen?" Eden's aide-de-camp was a middle-aged sergeant major, and his first reaction after seeing the scene in front of him was to report the matter here as quickly as possible.

Although Eden's subconscious thoughts were also to report to Her Majesty the Queen, after hearing the adjutant's suggestion, he immediately vetoed: "Her Majesty the Queen is to let us guard the gate of the castle, and no one is allowed to step through the gate without the permission of Her Majesty the Queen." However, Eden then changed his tone and said, "But Her Majesty the Queen has the right to know everything that is happening here, and you will now go to the King's office to report this matter yourself." ”

In the middle of the conversation between the two, the garrison that had been patrolling in Twilight Square began to retreat towards their station at the entrance of the block, and the officers of the police station also surprisingly retreated towards the police station building.

Eden calmly watched everything that happened in Twilight Square, although he was nervous for the first time to carry out such a mission, but he was smart and immediately understood the plans of the garrison and the police station, he looked at the huge team that was getting closer and closer to the castle, looked at the smug smile on the face of the young nobleman under the castle gate, suppressed the nervousness in his heart and ordered the herald beside him: "Tell everyone that our purpose is to prevent them from entering the castle, and not to use force without my order." ”

"It's better to just put down the city gate..."

"Even during the Orc Wars, the gates of Fort Kaval were never lowered during the day. Eden immediately scolded coldly, "Do you want the entire kingdom to laugh at our incompetence and your majesty's weakness?"

When the adjutant heard the warning from his superiors, he immediately looked serious and said in the most affirmative tone: "Your Majesty is the bravest warrior in the kingdom!"

...

Outside the high-walled suspension bridge of Kaval Fort, the nobles parked their carriages and horses in the square outside the castle that was specially used to park carriages, and then walked unhurriedly towards the castle gate.

At the forefront of these nobles was Viscount Weisz-Burst, who today wore a crimson spacious aristocratic gown, and the family crest at the collar and cuffs was outlined with golden lines, so that people would unconsciously look at his family crest when they looked at him.

Viscount Weisz-Berg was in high spirits at the moment, and he and the nobleman who followed him were the same as the nobleman at the beginning, and after stopping outside the drawbridge, whispering a few words to some of the people around him, he strode forward with his chest open to meet the castle knight on the drawbridge.

"We have come with good intentions, and we need to enter the castle to discuss something with Her Majesty, knight... This is our power, the power given to us by His Majesty. "Viscount Weisz-Berg behaved mildly, but not with the majesty of a nobleman.

"I don't see any kindness on your part... Moreover, Her Majesty the Queen has issued an order that from yesterday afternoon until a long time to come, it will only be possible to pass through this gate through the passes issued by the Prime Minister's Government, the Office for the Analysis of National Conditions, and the King's Office. Although the castle knight was nervous in the face of the black nobles outside the drawbridge, his tone of voice remained calm.

Weisz-Burst was not angry at the knight's refusal, he still smiled and said, "Everyone here has sworn allegiance to His Majesty, and His Majesty has promised us that there is a place for us next to his fireplace, and everything we do now is in accordance with the laws of the kingdom, and we have not broken our oaths. ”

"Have you forgotten one thing. The knight asked, clenching the sword in his hand.

"What's the matter?"

"Obeying orders is also part of your oath, and today Her Majesty the Queen has ordered that no one shall pass through this gate without a pass, you... Do you want to disobey orders from Her Majesty the Queen?"

"I respect any order of Her Majesty the Queen, but this order is clearly unlawful..."

"Are you questioning Her Majesty's orders, are you doubting your oath?"

"You should know you can't stop us. The gentle smile on Weiz Burst's face was fading, "There's no real use in your way here. ”

"Then, you should also know that I really can't stop you from the consequences of breaking through this gate, but there is a squadron of knights in the school field behind the castle, and a thousand castle guards. ”

"My lord, these people are the guard dogs raised by Pedy Reagan, their owners are not alive or dead at the moment, and they still care what these dogs do, rush in first!" The nobleman beside Weiz Berg looked impatient, and his words shocked the castle knight and unconsciously pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword.

The castle knight's voice was cold, "Do you know what this place is? You are insulting His Majesty here, what you should do now is to rip off your family crest and follow me to the police station." ”

"Don't you know that your master was assassinated in Elok, and I'm afraid it's already been—" The nobleman shook his head with a peculiar expression of regret.

Eden on the city wall had been watching what was happening below, and his face immediately turned a little ugly as he watched the gesture translation given to him by the sergeant major in charge of the drawbridge's defense.

And Weisz-Burst, on the other hand, was silent at the moment, neither helping the nobleman who spoke to cover it up, nor echoing what he said.

The foul language of the nobles continued, leaving the knights on the drawbridge in a state of inadequacy and inconsistencing, while there was no movement on the police station or the garrison of the neighborhood.

"My lord!" The adjutant who had just left to report to the King's Office rushed back at just the right time, he quickly glanced at the confrontation below, and said in a low voice in the ear of his superior: "Her Majesty the Queen has sent an order: No one who has not been issued a pass by the Prime Minister's Government, the National Situation Analysis Office, and the King's Office is not allowed to step into the castle. ”

"That's it?" Eden furrowed.

"Her Majesty the Queen has given you full powers, she said," the adjutant's voice lowered, "'If the nobles dare to use force, you can take any measure, and your duty is only one, and that is... Make sure that my command is not shaken by any force!' These are the exact words of Her Majesty the Queen. ”

Eden raised his eyebrows, watching the more and more excessive words conveyed by the sergeant major on the drawbridge, a frustration in his chest that could not be vented made him uncomfortable, he couldn't look at the police station and the garrison, there was still no movement.

"Whew!" Eden felt his heart pounding uncontrollably.

"Take him!"

After a short period of thought, Eden's indifferent voice penetrated the brief space and reached the ears of the castle knight on the drawbridge, "Insulting His Majesty the King in public and slandering the kingdom's national policy, according to the law, any kingdom nobles and knights have the right to arrest you!"

The castle knight on the drawbridge wanted to draw his sword at first, but his duties kept him suppressing his thoughts, and after getting the permission of his superiors, he could no longer bear to draw his sword as fast as he could, and quickly leaned forward, and at the same time, the sharp sword extended forward at a very fast speed, and it seemed that it was about to be put on the nobleman's neck.

"Dang" The nobleman also decisively drew his saber and flicked away the sword attacked by the castle knight.

"I'll give you a chance to take the sword back, what does it mean to draw it here... You should know that!" the castle knight was loud this time, warning the nobles who drew their swords, and even more so the crowd behind them.

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