Although about 600 of Magellan's remnants and exiles died on the eve of the cold winter that came to be known as the Winter Night Incident, these rebellious exiles did not suffer much damage in one night in order to keep the time secret. Although after this night, there was a great rift between the two most important forces in the camp, the remnants of Magellan and the new people of Magellan, even to the point of serious antagonism, for a long time after that, Qi Tianci did not organize an army composed of these former exiles. However, it was also from this night that the camp began to transfer the absolute core from Sterns to Qi Tianci. From then on, the order of the camp was not chaotic, but all concentrated in Qi Tianci's hands.

The next day, Stelts made the announcement from the central square. All the members present, including Xinmin and the remnants, had no opinion on this. There was no opposition. After all, since a very early on, the camp has been completely in charge of Qi Tianci, and this time it is just a fait accompli. It is also of historical significance that in the camp, Qi Tianci had an official title, that is, the auxiliary minister of the Kingdom of Magellan, and received the title of duke. Since then, Qi Tianci has become the highest person in the existing kingdom of Magellan in terms of title and position, higher than both Sters and Vilen.

Qi Tianci, who was standing on the wooden platform temporarily erected in the central square, looked around at the calm crowd around him with a complicated expression, and felt a little heavier inexplicably.

Within the Danmos Empire, Lady Sigh and the Auxiliary Chancellor are getting closer and closer to the line of courage. Sure enough, as Lady Sigh expected, just a few dozen minutes after their team left the capital, the first wave of assassinations had already arrived.

The Auxiliary Minister's entourage consisted of about 300 people. Nearly 200 of them were escorts selected by the Auxiliary Minister from among the most elite troops defending the capital, and the other 100 or so were retinues of various kinds. With this level of strength, it would have been extremely easy for the Vice-Chancellor's team to get from the capital to the Courage Line within their own empire. Including these guards think so. They thought that the reason why the Auxiliary Minister had selected them from the army was only to enable them to be on the front lines of the battlefield, and that the journey must have been easy and pleasant. No one could have imagined that the attack would take place not long after they left the capital.

This is a large dense forest on the border of the Danmos Empire, in which there are avenues that have long been trodden by explorers and travelers, and the road is wide and flat, even if two carriages drive side by side, it will not feel any crowded. However, to ensure safety, the entire avenue is flanked by a long line of elite guards, with a carriage used as a decoy at the forefront. After that, there were carriages loaded with various supplies and servants. And near the end, it is the carriage that the Auxiliary Secretary is called. As for the Lady of Lightness, she refused the Auxiliary Minister's invitation to let him ride in the carriage with him, and only rode on a pure white horse. In addition, in order not to be too conspicuous, she put on the magic robes of the magicians who accompanied her, and walked with the dozen magicians and magic apprentices. And have all the magicians put their hoods on. Not long after the group marched through the dense forest, the carriage at the head was attacked by more than a dozen rockets, and in just an instant, the carriage and the surrounding guards were ablaze.

However, the close two hundred guards selected from the elite army of the Danmoth Empire reacted. When the guards in front were burned into fireballs, the guards in the rear immediately formed a defensive formation, and several magicians who specialized in supporting began to bless the guards with their own good magic, and at the same time, those soldiers who were burned but not seriously injured were quickly healed by their companions, so that they could return to battle as soon as possible. Soon after, there was a roar from the mages at the back of the group, and they managed to detect the direction of the attackers. The guards immediately divided into several teams and went under the nearby trees to shoot at the trees with their longbows. As several screams rang out, several attackers armed with rockets fell from the trees.

However, this was not all, as the sound of neat horses' hooves sounded, and the escorts became happy, which was characteristic of the sound of the horses of the Imperial Cavalry. They were even a little dissatisfied, because this was within the territory of the Danmoth Empire, and it was near the capital. But here they were attacked. And to their disappointment, just as they were in full swing, these cavalry suddenly appeared.

It was a team of 100 people, all wearing the standard military uniforms of the Danmos Imperial cavalry. Seeing their arrival, some of the closest guards began to vent their frustration. However, the cavalry suddenly began to charge, and the target was the auxiliary minister and his party on the avenue. The faces of the guards changed, and they were about to reprimand why the cavalry had suddenly charged, but a huge saber made it impossible for them to ask the question. The tremendous force even caused the head of one of the guards to leap a distance of several tens of meters and land on the carriage behind the group.

"Enemy attack!" Now, no matter who knows that these cavalry are not here to help them destroy the attackers, they are the main force of the attackers! The auxiliary minister at the rear of the team turned pale and muttered, "I didn't expect him to really dare to attack us... “

In the face of the onslaught of a large number of cavalry, the first to react were the few magicians, and clusters of flames and ice arrows formed in their hands, and then galloped towards the cavalry on the opposite side. Immediately afterwards, the cavalry at the front of the cavalry line fell in response, and some of the cavalry behind them also had no time to react and were taken down by them. In this instant, more than a dozen cavalrymen died due to the attack of the magician. But this was only a drop in the bucket for a cavalry force of nearly 100 men, and as the cavalry appeared, the attackers lurking above the surrounding trees also appeared. Together with the remaining eighty or so cavalry, the attackers actually reached one hundred and twenty or thirty people. Obviously, the leader of the attackers took great pains to carry out this attack.

The immediate reaction was followed by the elite guards guarding the auxiliary minister's carriage, and unlike other guards who usually only carried short weapons such as swords, these elite guards also carried small short crossbows. Despite their small size, the range was not compromised, reaching about eighty paces, and now the cavalry had just stepped into the best range of these short crossbows. With the sound of more than a dozen slight bursts of air, more than a dozen cavalrymen fell with arrows. Then, the difference in strength between the attackers and the elite guards selected by the Danmoth Empire was most profoundly reflected at this moment. Even if the strength of these attackers must have been selected by thousands of people, compared to the escort team, they are like the new recruits who have just entered the battlefield and the battle-hardened guards. This, coupled with the fact that the number of attackers had been hit before, had left them completely at a disadvantage now. If it weren't for some cavalry that fell off their horses but survived and joined them, I am afraid they would have been annihilated long ago.

But even in such a favorable situation, these attackers still did not have the slightest hesitation or hesitation, they still had high morale, even if the form was becoming more and more unfavorable to them, but it was impossible for the guards to eliminate these attackers immediately.

The elderly Vice-Chancellor looked at the sighing lady who had not moved all this time with a pleading gaze, and pleaded, "Ma'am, can you help us?"

The sigh lady shook her head, "It's not time yet, this is just the beginning." “

Sure enough, as if to confirm the prediction of the lady sighing, more and more people appeared behind the group of cavalry. One of them has a green background and a large flag embroidered with a horse waving in the wind. After seeing this banner, the auxiliary minister's heart seemed to fall to the bottom. This is the banner of the Regent family. Subsequently, a force of about 500 people appeared in the eyes of the auxiliary minister. These five hundred people are not the same as those cavalry or those ordinary raiders, they are the private soldiers of the Regent family, although they are private soldiers, but they are equivalent to the most elite troops of the Danmos Empire, and their strength is the same as that of the auxiliary minister's guard.

A low horn sounded, and both the cavalry and those attackers stopped their attack and regrouped into battle formation. Then, from the side of the banner, five knights dressed in gorgeous costumes or wearing high-grade armor slowly urged their horses to the front of the line, sneering at the auxiliary minister's guards. The middle-aged man in white at the head of the group said with a smile and in a deep voice: "Your Excellency the Auxiliary Minister, we are the retainers of the Regent. We're here to make a deal with you. ”

"What, what deal?"

"It's very simple, exchange the lives of your lords and your guards for the lives of all your family members in the capital. How?"

The Auxiliary Minister sat in the carriage and was speechless.

The man in white smiled and continued: "It's a good deal, isn't it? Your Excellency, please think about it, here, there are only more than 300 people around Your Excellency, but your relatives and retinue in your official residence are more than 2,000 people. What a bargain it is to trade your and these people's deaths for their lives. Rest assured, our Lord Regent will explain to His Majesty the Emperor that you have all been martyred by the apostles' surprise attack. Your eldest son will succeed you as Auxiliary Minister. As long as he knows how to judge the situation in the future, then Lord Regent will not do anything against him. “

After giving the Auxiliary Minister a few dozen seconds to think about it, the man in white's expression suddenly became gloomy. He said coldly: "On the other hand, if your lord thinks that your life is above everything else, and thus ignores your relatives and servants in the capital, we will not be as polite as we are now, and you will be attacked by us every ten kilometers you advance, knowing that this place is still a thousand kilometers away from the Courage Line. Plus, after you die, the Lord Regent won't spare any of your family. In other words, if you die, your family will be there for you as soon as possible. Of course, not in this world anymore. Hahahahaha... “

The man in white was still laughing to himself, while the Auxiliary Minister had aged by more than a decade in an instant. The hair on his head also turned white in an instant. Sitting alone on the seat of the carriage, he kept muttering, "What should I do, what should I do... “

Not only him, but the entire Guard was in a commotion. Since these attackers were determined to be retainers of the regent, it meant that they would definitely do it. All the members of the guard and servants present were stationed in the Auxiliary Minister's residence, which meant that the Auxiliary Minister's next decisions were closely related to them.

The Auxiliary Chancellor once again looked at the sighing lady who was covered in magic robes. With a pleading tone, he asked, "Ma'am, if you were me, what would you do at this moment?"

And the lady sighed more than she spoke: "What he means is that as long as you don't die, then that regent will never hurt your family, and their family, am I talking about that?"

The Auxiliary Minister nodded blankly. However, he whispered uncertainly: "However, he said that he would attack us every ten kilometers." Can you protect us from being attacked?"

"Of course not. The Lady smiled, "But I can protect you from being killed in the attack." “

But the Auxiliary Minister was still a little hesitant, he looked at the guards around him who were also fighting fiercely in their hearts, and he didn't know what they were thinking. If they decide not to resist, no amount of support from the Lady of Light will help.

Suddenly, one of the guards standing beside him clenched his weapon and whispered, "My lord, keep fighting." ”

The Auxiliary Minister suddenly woke up, looked in the direction in which he was speaking, and found that it was the captain of his guard. The middle-aged man in his forties looked firmly at the auxiliary minister in the carriage. "We're men, and we're going to put everything on our shoulders. Stick to what we insist on, even if we give everything for it, as long as we are worthy of our hearts, as a warrior, even if we die immediately, we will die as we deserve!"

"What do you mean ... “

"Fight!" the captain of the guard suddenly shouted, and then, the surrounding guards also shouted, and for a while, the momentum was like a rainbow.

The man in white, who thought he could succeed, turned pale and tried to make a final attempt: "My lord, please think about it carefully, don't say that it was the attack from behind, now it is a question whether you can get out of here alive." Huh?"

The man in black looked down at his chest in shock. Just now, a sharp black arrow had just pierced through here. But that's just the beginning. The man in black wanted to say something more, but the scar on his chest gradually spread, slowly eroding his entire body. After a few moments, all that was left of the corpse was the bones on the horse, his left hand pressed against his chest, and his right hand stretched out in the direction of the guards, and finally turned into pitch-black fragments of bones scattered on the ground.