After several days of panicked retreat, our troops finally retreated to the Naudoran River on the edge of the imperial city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Naudoran - This is now the last bulwark on which our army can rely.

By the time we were stationed across the river from the Tayeks, our proud Order had been reduced from the original surviving 8,000 to less than 6,000. And because we survived the Battle of Shaylis, we were appointed empress by the bastards of the military department - in order to delay the enemy's pursuit, I had to order death squads to stop the enemy step by step. Looking at the groups of members who were personally ordered by me to send them to death, my heart was dripping blood.

"Sometimes, it is also the duty and responsibility of the regiment commander to order his subordinates to die!" Oshin replied to me.

Then he took the lead in the death squad and never returned......

After that, Beckway,

Axes and Siris......

"Buddy! watched them go to their deaths...... Why did I be the head of the group, why did I ......" I cried bitterly in Sakura's arms during the break.

And Sakura, but she could only helplessly accompany me to tears.

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Today is the first military meeting after the cantonment.

Actually, it's not a military meeting anymore.

Those capable and qualified generals were basically sacrificed in the bloody Shaylis Plains.

Tina, the leader of the Water Cavalry, has a bandage on her arm and has been looking into the unknown distance with a lost look - Gatus, the leader of the Fire Cavalry, has been missing since the Battle of Shairis

And Marshal Shivaka could not withstand such a crushing blow, and just sat there with a blank expression.

The conference room, which was once full of generals, is now filled with a chattering group of civilian officials.

"We're going to fight back! We're going to fight back! ”

"How to fight back? Do we have soldiers? ”

"National mobilization! Let all men take up arms! ”

"Where's the weapon?"

"How to mobilize?"

"Where's the horse?"

"Conscription takes time, how to solve it?"

"Then we will ask for help from the Northridge and the Desert Kingdom!"

"Is there time to do it? Will they come? ”

"Don't forget that we still have a ground cavalry!"

"I haven't heard from you in a few days!"

"Maybe they're just out of touch?"

"Sum, sum! Only sum! ”

"How to sum up? The enemy is just across the Imperial River! ”

"The Imperial City is very strong, they can't get in!"

"What if they smash it down with clods of dirt again?"

"Run! Let's flee to Northridge! ”

"This is an insult to His Majesty!"

"This is the Imperial City! What would the king's subjects think of fleeing the imperial city? If that group of barbarians occupies the Imperial City, it will be the greatest insult to Your Majesty! ”

"Good! Then you are here to guard the Imperial City, and I will advise His Majesty to escape! ”

The group of civilian officials quarreled noisily, but they couldn't come to a conclusion.

Half-ringing......

"Everyone, be quiet!" Marshal Shivaka, who was wooden, finally came back to his senses, "What can be the result of such a quarrel?" - The enemy is on the other side of the river! ”

One sentence calmed everyone, and the blank eyes of Tina, the leader of the Water Riding Regiment, finally brightened.

"Now we are facing the moment of imminent annihilation...... I am ashamed of Your Majesty, and I am ashamed of everyone......" Marshal Shivaka burst into tears, "Shame on my ancestors!" Now I really have no choice, now I beg everyone, can you come up with a solution? ”

The group of officials was about to start arguing again.

"Be quiet!" Tina looked at me, "Thresten, huh?" Do you have any thoughts? ”

"Me?"

"Well, I'd love to hear what you think," Tina lowered her head, her eyes starting to redden, "If I had listened to your analysis more, maybe we wouldn't have lost so badly—"

"yes—" Marshal Shivaca sighed, too, "I heard that your team was the only one left intact in the battle, and that you saved many troops along the way—"

"But my entire army has also been made incomplete by you people!" Thinking of Osin, Beckway, Axes, and Siris, I couldn't help but stand up and shout at them, "Why do we have to go to the Queen's Palace?" Why?! ”

"Because if you don't make a queen, we will all be destroyed...... "One of the officials replied.

"Get out!" I glared at him fiercely, "Why don't you go to the queen of the palace yourself?" Why don't you waste go to the queen of the temple? Let our last remaining troops go to your death, and now you want us to find a way to protect you?? Where are there people now? Where are the soldiers?! ”

"Calm down, Threstine," Tina said to me, as she stood up and comforted me, "thanks to you, we're all alive here - we're going to avenge them!" ”

"Yes, I will definitely report the merits of your team to His Majesty the King one by one." Marshal Shivaka interjected.

"What merit do people have to die—" I sat down sadly, "and I know that they must die for everyone—but it's really miserable...... Friends, Partners......"

Tina patted me softly, also with tears in her eyes.

After a long time, I exhaled, calmed my mind, and said, "I think it is time to ask for the help of the clergy of Hagia Sophia—they are less than two days away. ”

"But now that the Pope is seriously ill and the Church Barrier is at its weakest, the Clergy Corps have been sent to guard the Barrier—or they wouldn't have just hired the Holy Flame Mercenary Corps to help us before the war," Marshal Shiwaka interrupted.

"Then please too! Rather than guarding the barrier, it is the duty of the Church to maintain order and rules on the continent - the huge clods of earth in this battle are due to Tayek's use of life-blasphemous forbidden drugs, as well as necromancy, although the origin of the forbidden drugs and spells is not clear, but from the information collected by our head of the Hieroni regiment, it may be related to the demons - they blatantly ignore the rules of the church! That's why we turn to the church for help, and if they send out a clergy, we'll be saved—and that's the only way! ”

"But can we wait until then? What if the church doesn't send people? ”

"I don't know, I don't even know why Tajek hasn't crossed the river to attack so far." I sighed, "But this is the quickest way, whether the church sends a clergy or not, we should at least leak the news of our appeal to the church to Tayek, or scare them, maybe a few more days to recruit troops—how many people we can mobilize in these days." ”

"That's—" Marshal Shivaka pondered for a moment, "that's all it can be, a few days if it lasts, Tina, just do as Thresteen says!" ”

"Hmm," Tina nodded.

Just as Marshal Sivaca was about to announce the adjournment of the meeting, he heard a shout from the guards outside the door: "Your Majesty the King has arrived—"

“！”

His Majesty the King is here?!

We all hurriedly got up, bowed our heads and saluted to the door

"No need to be polite!" A majestic voice came.

We looked up as we were told.

In front of him is the king of our Dorakian Empire, Sarabonte.

With the same purple hair and purple eyes as Lagers, he is about fifty years old, and although his body is slightly bloated, he reveals the majesty of the royal family.

"I've heard it all," said King Sarabont, looking reproachfully at Marshal Shivaka, "you've played well this time!" ”

Marshal Shivaka hurriedly knelt down: "The minister is guilty!" ”

"I also have the responsibility to choose you as a marshal." King Sarabont then asked, "What is the situation now?" You didn't tell me, so I had to come by myself. ”

"We failed miserably...... The Knights were almost wiped out, "Marshal Sivaca did not dare to hide it in front of the king."

"Annihilation?!" Sarabont was shocked, "How much is left?" ”

"Less than six thousand—" Marshal Shivaka trembled and tried to find himself a step down, "but there is no news from the Ground Cavalry so far—"

"The Ground Cavalry can't come back!" At this moment, someone shouted outside the door.

It's Alves, the leader of the Holy Flame Mercenary Regiment.

I saw that his face was covered with blood, and the priest's uniform on his body was torn and tattered.

"Alves! How are you—" Marshal Shivaka asked.

"Annihilation!" Alves grabbed the water glass on the table and poured it into a puff, "Just as we were preparing to raid, clods of earth fell from the sky, followed by a new breed of zombies - I was the only one of the two regiments to survive!" ”

"......" Everyone fell silent for a moment.

Although we don't have much hope, in times of despair, the uninformed Ground Cavalry is one of our pitiful hopes, and now-

"Now the enemy is on the other side of the river...... Can you hold it? King Sarabont asked through gritted teeth, his tone revealing a fierce anger.

"If ......," Marshal Shivaka recounted my plan just now.

"Ask for the help of the Priesthood? Joke! King Sarabont waved his hand angrily, "Come, read the news you have received today to our marshal!" ”

The guard took out a piece of parchment and read it.

It was an announcement.

A Tayek's special? The crown prince's proclamation to the whole continent.

He openly confessed to the Church that Tayek had committed his mistakes, acknowledging that Tayek had used forbidden drugs and necromancy in battle.

For this reason, Tez made amends to the church, escorted the mastermind of this incident, the current king who was bewitched by the demons, his father Tenor, to the Hagia Sophia to face God's sanctions, and promised to provide the church with an additional 10,000 gold coins every year as atonement to wash away the sins of his father's soul.

"They were one step ahead—" Tina asked, after hearing the announcement, "did the Pope agree?" ”

"The Pope is seriously ill, and now it is Bishop Molotov who is acting in the Church - he not only agrees with the proposal of the Crown Prince Tayek, but also pays special tribute to his loyalty to the Church!" The guard replied.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... Now what?! King Sarabont glanced at the audience with a cold look and asked coldly, "Do you really want the Imperial City to be buried with me?!" ”

"The minister is guilty!" Shivaka bowed to the ground again, and stole at me as if he were looking at a lifesaver.

I really can't help it.

I looked at him and shook my head.

Tajek has blocked our only hope.

It is likely that the mastermind behind this is Crown Prince Tajek and not his father, but-

If the Pope is not ill, he can send someone to investigate in detail. This Bishop Molotov was so quick to reward Crown Prince Tayek - it is likely that Bishop Molotov, who now holds real power, is in league with Tayek.

It's over, Dorakia is over.

I thought desperately.

"Rubbish! It's all rubbish! King Sarabont scolded, "Judge yourself, Sivaka!" Tina! If you take his place, you must defend the imperial city for me! ”

"Can't hold it," Tina shook her head desperately, "there are nearly thirty thousand troops on the other side - their reinforcements have arrived at Tayek, and we have less than eight thousand, and more than a thousand of them are wounded - Your Majesty, please ...... Please run away. ”

"What?" Sarabont laughed angrily, "Where did you tell the king to flee?" Northridge? Desert? What is the use of a king without a territory? How can I be worthy of the blood of the royal family of the Dorakian Empire?! ”

"Your Majesty......"

"Don't say it!" Sarabont waved his hand, "This king will live and die with Dorakia!" ”

"But......" Tina still wanted to try.

"Report!" Suddenly, a soldier shouted at the door, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Tayek asks for a meeting!" ”

"Send a messenger now?" Sarabont frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "Let him in." ”

"Noringe, little envoy, see His Majesty the King," said the messenger who called Norringer entered the door and saluted Sarabant.

"Your crown prince Tez sent you to make me surrender, right? Tell you, Crown Prince, that I will live and die with Dorakia! Sarabon looked at the messenger and said with some exasperation.

"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood," the envoy Noringer smiled and saluted again, "The king of our kingdom has been bewitched by the demons and made such a big mistake, how can His Royal Highness the Crown Prince continue to offend and return to the country?" This time, the envoy came for peace talks. ”

"Peace talks??"

"Yes! The crown prince? His Royal Highness deeply felt that his father had sinned deeply and caused the lives of the two countries to be miserable, and he was very worried about this. His Royal Highness succeeded in the coup d'état, exposing his father's conspiracy, in order to show the whole continent his special intentions. His Royal Highness is absolutely selfless, so special? His Highness decided to withdraw his troops and return all the occupied territories! ”

"What? How can it be?! "Everyone here was as surprised as I was.

"Also, special? His Royal Highness poured all the gold coins of our country together as an apology for the fallen soldiers of your country, and it is now on its way to the Imperial City of Gurumbel. ”

"What the hell do you crown prince want to do?!" Sarabont was surprised by the sudden situation, and he pondered for a while, and asked suspiciously, "It's too much to show us favor!" - What kind of conspiracy is there?! ”

"Your Majesty, did you really misunderstand us? Your Highness's kindness," Norlinger's smile remained unchanged, "We're special?" Your Highness is sincere, and as a sign of sincerity, our army is now ready to retreat - you will know when you send someone. ”

“……”

"Of course, do you want to talk about selfishness? Your Highness is also a little," the messenger Norringer bowed respectfully to Sarabont again, "We? Your Highness hopes that Your Majesty will reward him with a treasure of your country! ”

Sarabonte replied coldly: "His Highness Tez is laughing - it seems that our country does not have a treasure that can afford such generous conditions!" ”

Norlinger smiled again and bowed to the ground, "Your Majesty, please listen to the little envoy - special?" Your Highness has heard of the beauty of Princess Lagersis of your country for a long time, and the special envoy came to ask for marriage! I beg Your Majesty to marry Princess Lagersis to us? Your Highness, since then, our two countries have been in harmony and reconciled forever! ”