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The news we received along the way was still very bleak.

As the party declaring war, Tajek unconventionally used the mercenary group as the main force, and after fully confusing the border garrison, he actually drove straight in.

Generally speaking, the mercenary group is less loyal, and the mercenaries who fight for money are not particularly willing to work hard for their employers, not to mention that the scattered mercenary teamwork ability is not very good, and the command is far less convenient than the troops of their own country, so as the main force of the war, it is the knights of their own country, and the role of the mercenary group is only auxiliary, and more often it is arranged in the weak areas of the flanks of the group army, playing the role of temporary blocking. Even if the mercenary group is used as an offensive force, it must at least be interspersed with the supervision of the knights of the same military strength to prevent them from defecting.

However, Tayek's invasion route was to attack two distant stronghold castles at the same time, and the two armies responsible for the sneak attack were clearly demarcated, one was the Tajek cavalry regiment, and the other was a pure mercenary group led by the burial corps.

Originally, according to the conventional tactics, Tajek should at least wait until the Knights and the Mercenary Regiment converge and redeploy before continuing the attack, or order the Mercenary Regiment to move closer to the Knights' attack direction and finally converge. Therefore, our border garrison set the assembly point of the army in the possible direction of attack of the Tajek Knights.

However, unexpectedly, the Tajek mercenary group did not move closer to the knights at all, but instead took a straight line to attack the imperial city after invading the border, while the Tajek knights only marched to the border garrison that had been basically assembled, and crucified the border garrison there alive.

Even the strategic main attack is handed over to the mercenary group.

I can trust the mercenary group to this point.

――Is it just because the Burial Corps is the first in the mercenary group?

- Or is there any plan for the head of Ashetaro, who may be a demon?

With these questions in mind, Rusya and I rushed to the Windrider station in the evening.

After temporarily placing the exhausted Rusya in the reception room, I went to the door of the regimental commander's room alone.

"Report! Thresteen, the captain of the Wind Cavalry, came to report! I reached out and knocked on the door, and I shouted.

"Come in!"

"Yes!"

There was only one captain in the room.

He sat at the table and looked at him strangely: "Coming back?" So fast? ”

"Yes!" I saluted with my right hand on my chest.

"Sakura and I both think that if you heard about the war, you'd come back - why so fast? The news shouldn't have reached Kesiel so quickly? The regiment commander's expression was puzzled.

"Ahh Sakura has returned—oh, this is information from Lord Kesir, and I was only going to send back information about the possibility of war—but now it seems that there is no need for it. As I spoke, I hurriedly handed the documents prepared by Barkuv to the regimental commander.

"Balkuf, this guy! It's late-" After a slight look at the documents, the regimental commander shook his head with a wry smile, and then said, "It's good that you're back, there's a mission I haven't decided to send yet--I'm missing a helper when you're not there!" ”

“……”

"Let's go rest first, and I'll be here tomorrow."

"Yes! That, that, Sakura......" I asked in a hesitant manner.

"Sakura and Cana are in the Imperial City right now - who told you to come back so early?" The regiment commander smiled and said, "I'll send someone to inform her later." ”

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Back in the reception room, Rusya was curled up in her chair and asleep.

Fool, I must be tired and paralyzed after barely accompanying you on the road these days, right?

Lovingly picked her up, and gently walked across the square into the dormitory.

The attention and whistles of the members along the way really made me blush.

Luckily Rusya was asleep, or the bunch would have rushed up to watch - wouldn't that scare Rusya to death?

――Tomorrow is a mission, what are you going to do?

Looking at Ruthia's sweet sleeping position, I couldn't help but worry about her.

It was impossible to go on a mission with her, and she was too tired these days.

Looks like she's the only one left here.

The trouble is that Sakura is not there either.

You fool, you sleep so soundly—do you know I'm worrying about you right now?

I couldn't help but poke her tender and smooth little face with my hand.

Rusya didn't wake up, but pushed my hand away in a daze, rolled over, and still fell asleep sweetly.

Forget it - we'll see what happens tomorrow.

Roll over and lie down beside Ruthya, then staring blankly at the ceiling.

-- To be honest, I'm very uneasy about the unknown tomorrow.

I always have a vague feeling that some door of fate is gradually opening to me, or that somewhere I don't know, someone is planning something against me.

-- The appearance of the masked man six days ago made me even more sure of this feeling.

Masked Man......

Who the hell is it?

What is the purpose of stopping us?

And why commit suicide?

Although Rusya and I were confused at the time, in hindsight, I vaguely felt that I had caught something.

The swordsmanship of the masked man.

Although I had never seen it before, the smooth movements and quick reactions reminded me of a person - Boss Bai

Boss White didn't show his true strength, but his moves and footwork were always so fast when he trained me.

The same goes for the Masked Man.

- Oriental swordsmanship?

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"Xia Nan, you have been in contact with him, what do you think?"

"What else can you see? If you pay attention to Roktar's house, you might as well go and chat with some elves! ”

"Be serious!"

"Yes...... Yes, Thresteen is just a kid and not much use. ”

"Why?"

"You're so annoying! Alas! To put it simply, Thresteen only cares about his own business, lacking the sense of mission and responsibility of his ancestors - what is the threat of such a person? ”

"Why?"

"I can't stand it! I'm tired of talking to you! Don't you have brains? When is the perfect time to learn mission and responsibility, what is he doing? Practice swords every day! Just look at his status in the Wind Cavalry, is he the kind of knight who likes to build meritorious deeds? Special Fifth Detachment - what's the difference between what those mercenaries do?! ”

"Hieroni's daughter is learning Eastern Taoism from the people of the Bai family?"

"Ask what this does? Don't worry~ The Bai family is not a fool - Sakura, she doesn't even know what she has learned. ”

"What do the people of the Bai family think?"

"What does Boss Bai mean? You'll be fine if you don't care—his exact words! ”

"Let's care?! How can it? Several artifacts are gathered, and the center point is that Threstin! ――To be on the safe side, I think it's better to let him disappear! ”

What if no one had taken care of it four years ago? Will he still be alive? Besides, do you want to get rid of him with us?! Hahahaha......" Xia Nan turned his face with a smile, "No one knows the arrangement of fate - do you say?" Threstin?! It's time to get up! ”

…… Dream?

Xia Nan's voice "Get up!" "Wake me up from my slumber.

With a groggy head, he stared blankly at the ceiling again.

――Not a dream...... This is like a scene that Xia Nan deliberately let me "see".

A conversation mixed with messy information.

It seems to carry a warning, but also with an exhortation.

- Someone is trying to kill me?

Who is it?

Xia Nan, what the hell do you bastard want to do? Can't you just click on it? Damn it!

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"Interception?"

"Well, interception." Commander Hieroni motioned for me to look at the map, "Look here, here, and here," he said, pointing to the red dots marked on the map.

The red dots don't appear very regularly, and you can't probably tell that they all appear near the stronghold castle around the Imperial City.

"Is this—?" I looked up in confusion.

"Almost at the same time as the war began, a detachment of thirty light cavalry appeared in the territory, and they attacked the grain collection teams in all directions, and sometimes even the private army of the lord who had come to the imperial city to support the royal city under the orders of His Majesty. These red dots are where they attacked. ”

"The Einsatzgruppen sent by Tayek? Just thirty people? So bold? Even the lord's private army dares to attack? ”

"Although they were few in number, they were strong, and the Duke of Noval and his army of fifty men were wiped out. - Norval is a future-proof. ”

"Didn't you send a raiding party?" I asked.

"A total of two expeditionary teams of 100 men were dispatched, and the expeditionary teams were completely wiped out. If you send a large army, you will not be able to catch up. And according to the survivors of the raid party, there seems to be a mixture of flying demons in the group - but the survivor died after saying this, and there is no way to confirm whether it is true or not. ”

“……”

"This force is indeed strong and mysterious, and no one who fought them is alive except for the survivor. We've reached out to Hagia Sophia for help, and the Pope has promised to send a digital priest to investigate, but because the priest has little experience with human groups, we need to send a sub-team to help. ”

"Oh...... Indeed, this task is very suitable for me. I scratched my head and deflated, "Then I don't have a chance to participate in the battle, don't I?" ”

"You don't have to worry about this," said the regimental commander with a smile and tapped my head on the map, pointing to the castle of Terdian on the map, which is at least ten days away from the Imperial City, "Tayek's mercenary group has been attacking for two weeks, and it seems that it is already the limit, and it is now stationed here. Confronting them was one of our main forces, the Ground Cavalry Regiment, which they could not break through, and our counteroffensive was scheduled for half a month later. ”

"So late? Maybe the cavalry themselves ate them - why? "I feel like I can still wonder.

"Dio, the head of the Ground Cavalry, is a steady guy, good at defense but not good at offense - but mainly the old stuff in the military department - Tajek is afraid of the slightest violation of the rules, and always says that Tajek has another purpose~ There is a trap in front of him~ You can't act rashly before you understand Tayek's purpose......" The regiment commander shook his head helplessly, and said regretfully, "If you send us the Wind Cavalry - maybe you have driven the enemy back by now." ”

"It's just- where is my team meeting up with the Digital Priest?"

"The village of Braksh, seventy kilometers north of the Imperial City, according to the intelligence of the past few days, that team should also be active there."

"Oh......"

Digital Priest.

It is said that they are the elite of the elite of the battle priests in the church, twenty people in order of strength number, and if they want to obtain this title, they must also crusade against the superior demons alone-send them, and we need to send people to help-is the Pope too serious?

But in any case, they must not bring Rusya - if they find out that Rusya's demon blood is in trouble.

"That girlfriend of yours is called Rusya? Don't worry, Sakura and Cana will be back in the afternoon. The regiment commander said.

Oh, what about me......

"Your team is ready to go outside - get ready for me! Don't even think about waiting to see Sakura! The regimental commander seemed to guess my thoughts, "Don't be late—don't let the priests think we're rude!" ”

I guessed that I was thinking.

"Hah!" I laughed and stuck out my tongue, "Yes!" ”

However, Rusya was still sleeping. If she wakes up and finds me gone—

I can only apologize to her when I come back.

"I'll leave now, but ...... Captain, Rusya is still sleeping, and I'll trouble you to say sorry to her on my behalf! ”

"Bastard! You want me to comfort your girlfriend - and expect my daughter to come back and take care of her for you," the head rubbed his forehead helplessly, as if he felt a headache, "There should be a limit to excess!" I really want to beat you up! …… Well, I'll go for it - huh? What are you still standing there for? Why don't you get out of here?! ”