When the morning sun dried the dew on the green grass, the breeze blew the choking smell of blood. The two of them stood there, as if time had stood still.

On the blood-stained face, there was a terrible scar that ran from the left cheek to the left chin, and the crooked nose was broken, making the ugly face look particularly terrifying. Kane saw clearly that it was the "scavenger" Franz.

Kane ...... Major General?!Why you?!" Franz's eyes widened and his head shook like a rattle, and he took a few steps back in surprise, "Impossible, how can you be corrupt? How can you be a traitor?"

"Treason, no, I'm here to assist Lieutenant General Barrett as regent. Kane gritted his teeth and argued. His image of incorruptibility and courage collapsed in an instant in the eyes of his friends, but he had no choice. He took the opportunity to stand up, tightened his shield again, pointed his sword at his friend, and attacked.

"Barrett? I don't understand. Franz frowned and assumed a defensive posture.

"Got it? The empire is still Emperor Caesar's, but Barrett was regent until he came of age, so it's not treason. ”

Franz lowered the tip of his sword to block Kane's slash and shouted, "Hell! Forcing the Emperor to hand over power, isn't this treason? Don't be carried away by rhetoric!"

Kane shook his head and smiled wryly, "You don't understand how bitter I am. I am the son of a blacksmith and my family is poor, but I want to be a knight and a hero. Because of the family business, wandering knights and riders would come to our house to get some weapons and harness. I seized this small opportunity to learn swordsmanship and horsemanship from them. ”

A member of the capital garrison shouted and rushed over, and Franz stopped the young team with a gesture. Kane ignored the hedged enemy, he knew Franz was who he was, and he only had to think about how to defeat the big man or convince him.

"I finally entered the CSKA and climbed up the ranks step by step to become a major general. 'Kane adjusted his pace and looked for the right angle to attack.

"Oh, you're so much luckier than me. Franz was puzzled, still maintaining a defensive posture, "I have been in the CSKA for a long time, and I am all small soldiers digging dung. ”

"Lucky?" Kane laughed, his tone full of helplessness, "Remember Bultan? Oh, you don't remember that kind of aristocratic boy." He relied on the title of viscount, coupled with his father's background, when he first came to CSKA, he was a young lieutenant, and he couldn't even ride a horse. I was just a lieutenant at the time. ”

"To me, you're all big shots. Franz grimaced.

"CSKA garrisoned the Cambuur Plains to defend Fort Thunder, and in the eyes of the nobles of the empire, it was a warm garden, always far away from the battlefield, where children could smoothly advance and cling to the powerful. If you're lucky, you might be able to get close to the core of power. As soon as Kane said this, he felt sad, "Do you know what the garrison generals in the outer provinces say about CSKA? The ladder of the powerful, the breasts of women, a man wants to climb up, comfortable and safe." ”

Franz looked stunned, he spat blood on the ground fiercely, and said: "Then you should go to the war for a year, many of the survivors have been promoted to military ranks, such as Cassieu." ”

Kane snorted. He shook his head with a wry smile, Franz really knew too little about high-level things. He recalled: "The polar people attacked the empire, and a year of war broke out. At the fortress of Snowy Mountain, I heard that the mage troops were in battle, and now it sounds like the names are thunderous: Duke Willen Madison, Holland Patton, who later became the president of the Magic Academy, Schultz, Cassiu, and Walter...... The noble young masters of the CSKA are ready to move, full of hope to make a military achievement. So my request to join the war was denied. ”

"Maybe you should thank the person who rejected the request. Franz gasped, "You're alive, they're dead." ”

"Are you making fun of me?" Kane slashed three times from three angles, and Franz kept parrying, "How did my major general come here......? Got it?"

"I know! Sebastian thoroughly investigates corruption in the military, so you chose treason!" Franz swung his one-handed sword horizontally, the blade brushing the tip of Kane's nose.

"Circumstances forced me to make a choice. Kane received Franz's thump of blows, the oak shield making a dull rattle that numb his arm from the impact, "The nobles weave a complex web of relationships, and my blacksmith's son can't break through it, so I can only learn to buy officials." ”

"You wretched, coward!" rebuked Franz, "you reinforced me during the Brotherhood of the Black Rain crusade, and I still regard you as a friend, I saw the wrong person!"

"The eagle fluttering in the net of shameless nobles, your so-called integrity and honor, only makes the wings heavier. What if you can break through that net and become a worm? Either die like an eagle caught in a net, or wriggle its ugly body like a worm and penetrate everywhere. Is there still a choice?" Kane sighed deeply.

Franz was stunned, his eyes widened and he stared blankly at Kane, and he could see that he was chewing on Kane's words repeatedly. After a while, he said: "You buy officials, Sebastian investigates thoroughly, you just turn yourself in, why do you want to participate in the Barrett rebellion?"

"It's pressing, brother. Kane said bitterly, his mind filtering through what he had experienced over the past few months, saying, "Sebastian has given me hope. I heard that he did not have the right to inherit the title, and he openly selected the best talents, and promoted the little-known Adams Bradley, and I thought he was the hope of making the empire clear. But what about after that?"

"You say Sebastian planted his own people by purging corruption in the army, is there any evidence?" Franz flicked his wrist, his sword whirring in his hand.

After that, both Sebastian and Ludwig were publicly executed. Kane changed the subject. Ludwig framed Sebastian, and what Barrett told me, I can't say.

"Even then, it's not a reason for you to raise your sword at the Thunder Throne. Franz emphasized.

"Let me tell you, most of the Central Army is Barrett's men. You and General Mach escaped, and the rest of those who were not him were eliminated. Kane pointed in the direction of the iron gate, frowned, and retorted, "There are nearly 9,000 people outside, do you think there is still a chance of victory? As long as Emperor Caesar nods after the opening of the city, Lieutenant General Barrett will become the legitimate regent." What's the point of your resistance? I don't want to die, I'll choose the side that is advantageous. ”

"Is it legal to forcibly seize power? Franz laughed, "The rest of the Imperial forces are more than 9,000 men, and it is only a matter of time before Barrett is destroyed." ”

"Don't you understand? Whether it's Sebastian or Ludwig, it's the first thing to get close to the water. Barrett is closest to Fort Thunder, and that's the situation, and the situation forces a choice. He remembered Barrett's visit that night, "It is better to open the gates with me and wait for him to enter the city." ”

Franz raised his sword, anger distorting his ugly face: "I have nothing to talk to you about, die on the battlefield, traitor!"

Kane raised his sword. Franz has a stinky temper and doesn't know how to be flexible, so he can only do everything according to his ideas. Although Franz has great strength, he also fought for a day and a night, and if Kane wants to, he blindly blocks, parries, and dodges, which can consume reinforcements to open the iron door. But he didn't want anyone else to open the gates, he knew Franz's weakness, his swordsmanship's weakness, and—

Franz raised his sword high and slashed down, Kane flashed sideways, Franz turned his wrist, relying on the movement of his feet and the strength of his waist, turned the sword into a horizontal swing, and suddenly, his friend's left knee hit the ground, and his huge body suddenly lost his balance.

Franz suffered a knee injury in his left knee and could not withstand a long and intense fight. Kane didn't miss the opportunity, stabbing his sword into the back of Franz's thigh, which was not protected by chain mail.

"Kane—Kane—" Franz lay on the ground, calling his name. However, Kane turned a deaf ear, and his eyes only saw the chains near the iron gate, as long as the iron gate was raised, he could choose which side to be the hero.

Suddenly, a wall appears in front of Kane, and he runs to the left, and another wall blocks him.

"Simon Freeman!" a fireball slammed into the gray-robed mage to Kane's right. The gray-robed magician waved his hand, and a third wall appeared in front of Kane.

"Your opponent is me!" Blanca waved his hand, and a flame ignited over Simon's shoulder, but it was quickly extinguished.

"This can't be! Why doesn't burning work for you?" Blanca shook his head, and a fireball flew towards Simon, Simon couldn't dodge, his chest was hit by the fireball, he took a few steps back, white smoke coming out of his robe, but it didn't burn.

"You! you're ......" Blanca clenched her fists and screamed, "Your second magic is actually flame!"

Simon smiled playfully and teased, "Who told you that you are not good at learning and only chose the flame system as your specialized magic? ”

Blanca is defeated, and his fire magic can't hurt Simon. Kane understood the conversation between the two.

"As long as I live," Simon suddenly became hideous, "None of you will try to pass me!" I saw the gray-robed magician wave his hands, and the ground near the iron gate continued to rise, rising higher and higher.

He's piling up more earthen walls to keep us from entering the city. Kane immediately sensed Simon's strategy, and he picked up a crossbow on the ground and shot it. Simon, who was standing on the earthen wall, screamed and fell.

"You're a good mage. Kane walked over and looked at Simon who was dying, "The gray robe level can have such powerful mana, it's a pity that you chose the wrong team." ”

"Powerful mana? Simon smiled bitterly, looked at a few bulging dirt bags next to the iron gate, and spat out a mouthful of blood, "I can only do this to scare you." ”

Kane sighed, and he stepped away, the iron door was about to be slammed open, and he was about to meet the reinforcements. Suddenly, he felt a tingling pain in his abdomen, and when he looked down, he saw the tip of a sword exposed outside his abdomen. He turned his head, trying to deliver a sword to his enemy, only to see Blanca's distorted face.

"Who told you to meddle!" Blanca's expression grimaced like a gargoyle, he twisted his wrist and the sword swirled in Kane's abdomen, who felt his internal organs being pulled and rolled up, and he fainted in pain.

Blanca drew his sword, strode up to Simon, and shouted, "You have better grades than me, rob my woman, even learn my magic!You send me hell, hell!" The mad flame mage slashed his sword at Simon again and again.

Crazy, that's what madness is. Kane clutched his wound, his warm internal organs shaking in his palms with blood. With every step he took, he lost a little bit of strength. Iron Gate, open the Iron Gate. That's all he had in mind.

Suddenly, he heard a trumpet. Attack is the clarion call for attack! He blotted up his spirit and worked hard to climb forward. But after a while, he noticed the shouting of killing surging behind him like a wave. He looked back and saw that the inner gate had opened, and the walls of the inner gate were covered with the royal Lightning Eagle banner, as well as a Templar flame flag!

I need to hurry, as long as Lieutenant General Barrett's main force enters the city, what will the Knights Templar and Templar count for? Kane fell to the chain, gritting his teeth and pulling at the chain, which seemed to grow on the ground, not moving.

Hurry, hurry, his wound was tearing his consciousness apart, and he realized that the chains needed more men to pull, but the Templars began a bloody crackdown on Kane's remnants. At the moment, he is alone.

The iron door was smashed open. Kane suddenly felt deflated, and the first hero to open the city gate was no longer him. Maybe Lieutenant General Barrett will still reward him, without his Kane's hard work, where would the capital garrison be cleared so quickly.

Kane struggled to look up to see Lieutenant General Barrett's appreciative expression. He thought his eyes must have blurred after being injured: at the iron gate, a snow leopard flag fluttered in the wind.

I just want to say, I don't cheat.

(End of chapter)