On the rugged mountain road, torrential rain pours down, and a group of grizzled young men lead their horses on the mountain trails.

The leader is a woman, with peach blossom eyes and a small three-face, and she is Her Majesty the Queen of Fran, and this group of people who are struggling to move forward is the Knights of the Royal Capital (pseudo) who have just left the royal capital.

"We are all cavalry, why do we have to take mountain roads?"

"This is probably the hardest road I've ever walked in my life!"

Even if the buff of chivalry is still there, this mountain road is too difficult to walk, and these young people with knightly dreams still can't help but complain.

The mountain road in the rain is a mud puddle at one foot, and it is extremely physically demanding to walk, not to mention leading the horse.

Occasionally, the horses' hooves would sink into the mud, but fortunately these people were trained as knights, and even if they were not professionals, they were far more powerful than ordinary people, and the two of them could have dragged the horses out of the mud, otherwise they would not have been able to travel in such weather.

After dragging the mount out of the mud for the third time, the bearded man grinned in distress as he watched his beloved horse turn into a mud horse alive.

He hesitated and said to William, "Cousin, can you ask Your Majesty how long we have to walk on the mountain road? ”

That's right, this bearded man is actually surnamed Van Gus like William, and he is William's distant cousin, as for why he is not a cousin...... This bearded second-order professional is actually seventeen years old, can you believe it?

Out of some kind of bad taste, William directly recognized this guy who was one year older than himself as his cousin, since you are my deputy in the position, it is okay to take advantage of the relationship and come back.

He reached out and patted his bearded cousin on the shoulder, and even though it was raining heavily in the sky and the mountain road was muddy under his feet, his voice still didn't tremble with a hint of trembling, and it sounded as cold and hard as ice.

"Cousin. ”

"Hey, cousin, I'm listening!"

"Are you really seventeen?"

The bearded man pursed his mouth, and the "black hedgehog" lying on his mouth squirmed twice, as if muttering something. He shook off the muddy water on his beard, and complained with some dissatisfaction:

"Cousin, I really don't lie to you, I just had my seventeenth birthday last month, but I'm just a little more mature. And cousin, don't interrupt, everyone is very dangerous now, a few of our professionals are okay, those reserve knights are too tired, what if you encounter an enemy?"

William wiped away the mud splashed on the silver armor without changing his face, and instead of answering his cousin's question, he asked faintly:

"You're a second-order Iron Wall Knight, right, I remember that this profession has two big shields, why didn't I see your shield?"

"Well, yes, don't look at me as only seventeen years old, but I'm a recognized genius, maybe in two years I will be able to reach the third order. As for my shield, I can't bring that thing, a shield is heavier than a horse, and I usually have to rely on the logistics of the monster to drag it, by the way, cousin, why are you asking this?"

"I was just thinking about what to do if I met an enemy, and now I know that if I meet an enemy, I can just run away on horseback with Her Majesty in my arms. ”

The bearded man looked confused. "Cousin, are you crazy, how do you ride a horse on this mountain road?"

William's expression remained indifferent. "Isn't there still you? You don't have a shield with you anyway, so why don't you run away with our horses?"

“......”

Hans Van Guins feels a bit unpromising.

When Her Majesty rushed into the station, he recognized at a glance William behind Her Majesty.

He was also present when the Van Kings family was banned, and he was extremely impressed by the cousin who had attacked the queen in a brazen manner. After being sent to the Knights of the Royal Capital, he paid special attention to the news of William's cousin, and even went to the gate of the palace to see William, who was in charge of guarding the gate.

This cousin looks like an ordinary facial paralysis, and even the dead face feels a little kind after seeing too much, which makes people always want to talk to him. But the more Hans looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong with William's face, and although there was never an expression on it, he always felt that there were piles of bad water hidden behind it.

Hans had great trust in his instincts.

When he was ten years old, his mother touched his head and said earnestly: "Hans, let a four-year-old child cheat out of the money for food, I think you should not use your brains, right? ”

Hans took this very well and took it as a guideline. Now, however, his instincts told him that Cousin William was certainly not a simple man.

The act of beating the queen's suffocation seems stupid, but isn't my cousin doing well now, but the people who laughed at my cousin are destitute one by one.

I have a good life, not only the help of the clan but also the salary of the knights, but after deducting the money for the maintenance of horses and weapons, life is still tight.

But Cousin William only had to stand at the gate of the palace occasionally, but his salary was much higher than his own, and not only was he rich, but he also had a lot of time to go to the theater and dance, and I heard that his dancing skills were not bad, and he was quite popular in the circle of noble ladies.

Mom once said that to see whether a person is smart or not, it is not about what he does, but about what he gets in the end. So, on the one hand, he is so poor that he can't eat, and on the other hand, he has a very nourishing life, who is the smart person?

Later, William was transferred to the queen's side as a guard, and for two years he had been fighting, and Her Majesty the queen, who personally commanded the battle, often stayed at the front line, and the death and casualty rate of the guards around him was extremely high. Everyone thought that sooner or later Cousin Wilhelm would be carried back like those people, but Hans didn't think it was necessary.

Sure enough, in the past two years, dozens of wars, large and small, the guards around Her Majesty the Queen were killed and wounded, but Cousin William has always been alive and kicking, and even mixed up with Her Majesty's guards.

His intuition told him that if he followed this cousin, he would do whatever he wanted, and there would definitely be meat to eat!

Soon, the opportunity to eat meat came. When the rebels were about to hit the royal capital, his colleagues around him ran thirty percent, and he felt that it was a bit early to run, so he did not follow.

Then, a massive earthquake collapsed his dormitory, and a babbling weirdo attacked the royal capital. The rest of his colleagues ran more than half of the time, and he wanted to run with him, but he had several years of savings in the dormitory, and if he ran now, the past few years would be in vain.

Just as he was digging hard, Her Majesty the Queen actually came with her cousin, and Cousin William was not only still alive, but also changed into armor that looked very expensive, and felt more nourished than before.

Hans was overjoyed, and his instinct told him to follow this cousin...... Hmm, why do you suddenly feel like it's going to be miserable to follow him?

While Her Majesty the Queen was giving a speech, Hans quietly took out the coin left by his mother and tossed it, and followed his cousin on the front and ran on the other side, and the coin turned out to be heads.

Hans, who had given up his thinking, got on the thief ship, took enough food for a week, and followed his cousin and Her Majesty the Queen out of the royal city. Unexpectedly, as soon as they left the city, it rained heavily, and everyone was walking well on the main road, but Her Majesty the Queen actually ordered a group of them cavalry to lead the horses along the mountain road.

Isn't it sick to let the cavalry walk on the mountain road!

Hans couldn't figure out what it was for, but the smart man's cousin didn't say a word, so he must still trust the smart man.

It's just that this mountain road is too difficult to walk, and his little white horse has been stuck in the mud several times, and every step is very difficult, and even the belly that can't be poured by the rain is tired and sweaty. Hans is not afraid of being tired, but he really feels sorry for his beloved horse, which was given by the Marquise de Giber, and this breed of horse is very precious!