Nestled in the mountains and surrounded by large areas of farmland, Onna Castle was an important gateway to the south of the capital of the Bischberg Kingdom, Seven Hills and an important granary.

It is divided into two parts, the upper town, which is located on the top of a flattened hill and is the military camp and administrative center, and the lower town, which is located on the flat land on the other side of a river below, and is the center of handicrafts and commerce, and the large and small villages are located in the farmland between the mountains.

The upper city was a military fortress with high walls and a castle inside, which was heavily guarded. The lower city only has a wall to deal with ordinary monsters, and the specifications are only stronger than ordinary villages.

According to the idea of the local controller, Duke Beretta, the local security is guaranteed by the garrison, and there is no need to spend money to repair the city walls.

At night, in the nine-turn and eighteen-bend mountain road, the speed racing is not much faster than those beasts, twisting over a mountain, and the beasts go directly to the straight line over the mountain.

Charles: They hadn't been running for an hour before the roar of a monster appeared in the distance behind them.

Fortunately, the endurance of the machine is incomparable to the muscles, and the two sides gradually opened up some distance.

As the day began to lighten, Charles and his wife descended into a valley that was not spacious and steep on both sides, and came to the tax card on the edge of the Onna City area.

The card was stuck at the narrowest point of the valley, no more than ten meters wide, and the doorway was just enough for two carriages to pass.

After a long period of unmaintained racing in the mountains, Charles's motorcycle broke down and slowed them down, eventually having to stop here.

The tax card was manned by five soldiers and a tax collector, and by the time Charles had stopped in front of the card with the roar of a beast not far away, they had already run out to find out.

Charles shouted at them, "There's a beast tide......!"

Before he could finish shouting, the few guys who saw the figure of the demonic beast a few hundred meters away immediately jumped off the wooden wall more than one person high, and ran away without looking back.

Charles put away his motorcycle and took Genaro and Deborah into the tax card, where there were several houses between the two walls, and the walls were lined up with tree trunks stuck in the ground.

Fortunately, there are many horses here, and there are still three shivering working horses.

Charles immediately said to Genaro: "This is not far from the village in the valley inside, you should at least go to the city of Enna to show your identity to the Duke of Beretta here, and tell him about the beast tide." ”

Charleston paused for a moment, and then said, "You ask him to send a griffin knight to take you to the city of Seven Hills, and then meet Antoine II in my name and tell him about this place and that I am here." ”

After Charles finished speaking, he took out a bunch of things and stuffed them into Deborah's hand, and said: "Take this dagger to the Temple of War Church in the city, take this identity tag to the Temple of Life Church, bring a letter to the Temple of Light Church, take this hammer to the Forge Temple Church, take this flame crystal to the Flame Temple Church, and tell them that I Charles McCaden is here and needs their support urgently." These churches are in the lower city. ”

He had a gut feeling that perhaps Duke Beretta was not reliable.

Charles, who has inquired about the situation near Onna City, is now afraid that these demonic beasts will rush into the valley without any preparation in Onna City, and when the time comes, not to mention those villages, I am afraid that even the lower city will not be able to escape the fangs and claws of demonic beasts.

All he could do now was to let Genaro and Deborah report the news, where he himself would buy time for the evacuation of the village.

Gnaro nervously asked, "What about you?"

Charles said, "I'll set fire to them, so hurry up." ”

Seeing this, Genaro immediately mounted his horse and left the tax card with Deborah, who could not ride.

As soon as the two of them left, Charles stopped hearing the sound of claws scratching the wall outside the wooden wall.

Not long after, a wolf jumped over the wooden wall and jumped in, and when it landed on the ground, it had already turned into a good man.

Charles lifted the dead wolf's head and took a closer look, and found that its eyes were red and bloodshot.

Soon another monster jumped in, a giant ape that was good at climbing.

Charles also lifted the head of the giant ape after hacking it to death, and found that its eyes were also bloodshot.

It's just that the wooden wall that was used to make it was quickly knocked down by the powerful monster, and Charles also took out his weapons, as well as compressed biscuits and other things in the food reserve that could be used for breakfast, and then he had to be busy.

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

Genaro ran out of the valley with Deborah and saw the city of Onna bathed in the morning sun in the distance.

Deborah, who sat in the back, held Gnaro by the waist with one hand and a dagger in the other, and from time to time pricked the horse's ass as Genaro instructed.

The horse's level was average, and in order to get it to run as fast as possible, Genaro chose to run in a way that overdrew its vitality.

At this time, Deborah suddenly asked, "Who are you who can meet the duke and the king directly?"

Gnaro sighed in his heart and said, "I am the son of the Grand Duke of Milan. ”

Deborah's hand stiffened suddenly, then let out a soft "oh".

The horse, which had been squeezed to its full potential, ran away for a while, and Gnaro said: "Wait until I let you down not far from the city gate, and be careful when you enter the city, for it will be said that someone in the family is sick and needs the help of the monks of the Temple of Life, and I am a kind person who will give you a ride along the way." ”

"When you see the elves, tell them all about Charles's instructions, and ask them to help you contact the other temples. ”

Deborah asked, confused, "Why did you do that?"

"It may have been that Charles had discovered something, or had doubts about something, that led me to the king," said Gnarro. ”

"The Duke of Beretta was the younger brother of Antoine II, and he had a share of the credit for Antoine II's accession to the throne. ”

"We have never been able to figure out what the Duke of Beretta did, except that Antoine II canonized his younger brother as a duke immediately after he ascended the throne, which is rare in the world. ”

Genaro was raised as the reserve successor to the Grand Duke of Milan, which has something to do with Charles's family. Charles's great-grandfather abducted the princesses of other countries back then, which made those countries and families keep an eye on them, and the successor had to back it up.

The Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Bischberg are closely related, and Genaro naturally knows some stories about this country, not to mention that Genaro and Duke Beretta are not very distant relatives and have met before.

Charles's decision to send Gnaro to Antoine II puzzled him, and he pondered the possibility of a rebellion from Duke Beretta to Charles, but none of them were convincing.

Deborah dismounted a few hundred meters from the gate of the lower city, and she ran to the gate with an anxious face, and quickly entered the city as Genaro had taught.

He hadn't gone far on his horse when he stopped at a freshly harvested field, jumped into the field and rolled on the ground as if he had fallen.

When he stood up, his clothes, pants, and hair were covered with dust, and he was a little better than a refugee, and he looked very embarrassed.

It didn't take long for the dirty Gennaro to arrive at the gate of the upper city of Onna, and the unlucky horse, which was a few dozen meters away from the gate, finally died of exhaustion under Genaro's control.

Genaro jumped off when the horse fell, only to stumble and fall again when he landed.

He walked up to the knight guarding the door, showed the ring he had never used since he ran away from home, and asked the knight to meet with the Duke of Beretta.

The knight deliberately kept his face so as not to laugh, and it was rare for a baron to fall off his horse and roll a few times.

Moreover, the knight was knowledgeable, and he saw where Genaro was a nobleman, and he also knew the relationship between his country and the Duchy of Milan, so he asked him to lead the horse and lead Genaro towards the castle.