"So...... Your Constructed Knights have been stationed in Pereira lately?" I asked Zack.

Zach and Ernestine came to visit me at the Royal Academy of Magic and Wizardry, and I took them to a bar near the west entrance of the academy.

Zach watched enviously through the glass window as the students of the academy came and went, dressed in beige or light brown Misoli magic robes, with their hair draped and their spiky mage hats on their heads, as they walked out of the academy in twos and threes.

Zack was wearing a shirt made of light blue water film canvas fabric, if it weren't for the 'Zhenwei Xiufang' dark embroidered emblem on the cuffs, it would be difficult to see that this shirt was out of the top tailor shop in the imperial capital, he didn't wear any badge on his chest, just the scar on his broad chest, the dark gold demon pattern saber on his belt, the lazy and confident smile on his face, and the faint killing intent exuded from his body, all of which would make people recognize his identity as a knight at a glance.

Even if Zack's stiff leather pants with fine armor pieces scratched the booth sofa, the waiter in charge of serving tea could only pinch his nose and pretend not to see it.

"Occasionally, I will take the assembled knights of the regiment to the Black Forest between Pereira and Tanton to do some necessary reconnaissance, those Nibru spider people have set up a large number of sentry posts in the Black Forest, and without the hoplite regiment and logistics, our knights can't go too far. Zach retracted his gaze and said with a gloomy expression.

I thought that Pereira City was currently actively preparing for war, but I didn't expect that the army that was shrinking in Pereira City did not have any counteroffensive plan at all.

I asked Zach, "Isn't the Duke of Samoyed ready to recover the fallen cities on the outskirts?"

Zach shook his head with an ugly face.

Ernestine, who was sitting next to him, had cut her short hair, her face was very three-dimensional, her eye sockets were slightly sunken, her nose was straight, her lips were angular and she seemed to have ancient Viking blood, and she was wearing a metal bust with pure gold demon patterns on her upper body, which looked heroic.

She actually liked this low-cut style of bust as much as Karantso, this kind of armor could only protect the heart and abdomen, but could not cover it, and the chest exposed a large area of skin, and it needed an extended hard leather shoulder pad to wear it, otherwise this kind of bust like an iron hoop would compress the chest cavity to the point that people could not breathe.

Ernestine explained to me: "The main reason is that the opinions of the various lords within the province of Durva have not been unanimous, and after two defeats, the main battle faction has not been convincing in the Council of Lords of Durva, and Zack and I want to lead the Knights of Construct to open the passage from Pereira City to Tanton City, this matter has dragged on for a month, and it has to be discussed at the Council of Lords every day." ”

She shrugged her shoulders helplessly, a helpless expression.

"However, as far as we know, the number of Niburu spider scouts around Pereira City has decreased significantly lately. Ernestine held the glass full of ale in both hands, looked at me and said, "There has been no large-scale fighting in the past two months, and we guess what is holding back the attack of the Nebru spiders. ”

She glanced at Zack beside her and said, "Zack guesses that it should be the Hierro natives south of the Black Forest, but I think those natives have long been disabled by the Nibru spiders, and they shouldn't have such strong combat power, maybe the Nibru spiders are clearing the wurm nests on the Pillar Mountain." ”

Zach retracted his gaze, his side face was very similar to that of the Duke of Samoyed, but there was some dark cyan in the deep layers of his skin, this skin color I had only seen on the orcs of the Pai Plateau, and he said to Ernestine: "It's true that the Spider-Man Overseers like to eat dragon eggs, but it hasn't reached the point of changing the battle plan of the Black Forest because of dragon eggs, I guess there are other powerful species that threaten the survival of the Nebru spider-people in the Black Forest, maybe more powerful magical beasts, maybe they are from the aboriginal powerhouses outside the Black Forest." ”

Ernestine raised her head and looked at me, now her state of mind was much better than before, at least she could look at me very calmly, she said to me: "Jijia, tell me about your visit to the Hiero plane last month! You entered the Hiero plane with Princess Yingli and Princess Ledie, and you passed by Pereira City and didn't come to see me and Zack, you really didn't regard us as friends! Why did you suddenly think of coming to the Hierro plane to hunt the Spider-Man Overseers?"

I had long thought that this would be the end of the conversation between us, so I told Zach and Ernestine about the tragic fate of Princess Ledie on the Hierro plane.

I said to the two of them, "This matter has to start from last summer, Princess Ledie raised from childhood to adulthood of the dragon died on the Hiero plane at the hands of the spider-man overseers for some reason, which has made it difficult for her to untie the knot, Prince James in order to erase the shadow in Princess Ledie's heart, so he decided to let Ledie take a team of knights to hunt a spider-man overseer on the Hiero plane. ”

Everything has an original cause, and Zach and Ernestine also wanted to know the reason why we went to the Hiero plane to hunt the Spider-Man Overseers, but they didn't expect that the cause of this incident was a knot in Princess Ledie's heart that she couldn't let go.

I recounted, "That is, last month, when Prince James found me, the Royal Academy of Magic had just opened, and Ying Li and I still had many compulsory magic classes to take here at the academy, and we never thought of going to the Hiero plane. ”

Zach asked me, "And how did you change your mind?"

I was a little embarrassed and said, "Prince James thinks that I have been training in the Hiero Plane for some time, and at the beginning of the year, I sent several followers into Tanton City on the Hiero Plane. In order to prepare for the town of Trum, they gathered information and were familiar with the situation around Tanton City, which is why James suggested that I go to Hierro with the hunting team. ”

"You and Princess Winley accepted Prince James's suggestion?" Ernestine asked me.

I nodded, and said with a smile, "Ying Li and I finally agreed to James's proposal, and went to Hierro with Count Reze and Knight Jason and their first guard team. ”

Zach praised me with admiration: "The first guard of the South Wind Legion is really worthy of its reputation!"

Ernestin also praised: "Actually went deep into the enemy-controlled Black Forest region alone, captured a spider-man overseer alive, and brought it back safely!"

Zach hesitated for a moment and said to me, "Actually, our Durva Legion also planned to hunt down the Spider-Man Overseers, but after one failed after another, no one was willing to talk about it later. ”

It seems that they both agreed that it was Count Reze and Knight Jason who had subdued the Spider-Man Overseer.

Ernestine raised a delicate eyebrow and asked me, "Jiga, are you really going to build a town in Trum?"

I patted my chest and said, "Of course it's true, it's the territory I bought for a thousand magic crystals, how can such a large rich territory be easily abandoned." ”

Both Zach and Ernestine frowned, seemingly disapproving of my decision.

"But it's not that you don't know the current situation on the Hiero plane, and the current Tanton City can't even protect itself, how can you take care of your Trum Town. Zach frowned and said to me earnestly.

"It's just slowly being built!" I said to Zach.

Ernestine next to her immediately thought of another point, and she asked me, "By the way, you said that your servants have been collecting information about the surrounding Nibru spider people in Tanton City, what is the new progress in Tanton City over there?"

I smiled and asked her, "Shouldn't you have asked the Knight of Disraeli for this kind of information? ”

Zach waved his hand, pressed one hand to his forehead, and said distressedly: "That guy from the Knights of Disraeli is almost a war fanatic, and he has always advocated gathering thirty Constructed Knights, advancing south from Pereira City, all the way to the southern region of the Black Forest, and recovering all the lost territory. Recent intelligence has reported that the Nibru are no longer visible around Tanton City, and that these Nibru spider men have completely evacuated the area around Tanton City, and asked Samoyed to send five heavy cavalry regiments to regain the lost territory of Tanton City. ”

Then he said with a bitter face: "The person who dares to make such a statement now is a heretic in the eyes of the lords of Durva, who are eager to burn the knight at the stake, where will they believe the information he has gathered." ”

Ernestine added, "If it weren't for the fact that no one but him wanted to defend Tanton City, I think his position as lord might have been replaced by the Council of Lords long ago." ”

I asked frankly, "So the magic airships and supplies to Tanton City continue to decrease?"

Zach looked embarrassed and said to me indignantly: "The magic airships and supplies bound for Tanton City have actually been distributed by the logistics department of the Duke's Palace for a long time, and the supplies on those ships are probably raised by the Disraeli Knight through various channels, some of the money is from his own pocket, some of the main battle lords secretly donated, and some are privately raised from the lords who fled from Tanton City to Pereira City. ”

"It's just that people's confidence in recovering Tanton City is gradually decreasing, and it is becoming more and more difficult to raise a whole shipload of supplies, after all, no one wants to keep out of their pockets to fund such a lonely city that has no hope of recovery. He sighed slightly, after all, he was the leader of a knight formation like him, and he couldn't control it at all.

"How pessimistic are your judgments about the future?" I said, looking at Zach and Ernestine in surprise.

The two of them looked at each other again, nodded slowly to me, and Zach said, "Unless the Prince of Wales and Prince James's Loch Plane Strategy is changed to the Hierro Plane Strategy, then we hope to recover the entire Black Forest by this summer." Otherwise, I advise you that the plan to rebuild the town of Trum would be better put on hold for the time being. ”

"Actually, have you ever thought of uniting some of the natives of the Black Forest?" I think Zach and Ernestine said, in fact, I would like to tell them the secrets of the War Tree, if their Constructed Knights can get the help of the War Tree, then the balance of victory will be tilted in their favor.

"You mean those Hiero natives?" but before I could say anything, Zach said with a look of disdain.

It was just that I remembered Elder Singhal's repeated instructions to me not to divulge the secrets of the Green Valley War Ancient Tree, so I said, "Yes, I think they must be eager to drive these Nibru spiders out of Hierro at this time." ”

Zach sneered and said, "Come on, what use can those Hiero natives do except serve as food for the spider-men and cannon fodder on the battlefield?"

It seems that Ernestine also had the same idea as Zach, and they didn't listen to what I just said.

At this time, Ernestine said to me, "Giga, if you can help us convince Prince James's Nangerian Legion to expedition to the Hierro Plane, Zach and I can propose to the Council of Lords of Durva that the entire part of Tanton City be given to you as your private territory." ”

"I said you guys, that's a ...... I'm quite willing to pay for it!" I looked at Ernestine and Zach with a stunned expression, I didn't expect them to promise me a city.

But I refused, knowing that it would be impossible to convince James to change his battle plan at this point.

I said to both of them, "James and Wales' plan for this year is to reclaim the Lochge, and they've been preparing for at least three months, and most of the supplies have probably arrived in the Loch. ”

Then I thought of Marquis Hasrab, and although he had suffered some injuries, it should not affect the fact that he would lead the Constructed Knights to the Loch Plane in a few days.

I added, "In the last few days, there should have been twenty-five elite Constructed Knights cobbled together by seventeen minor lords heading for the Lochi plane. ”

I decided to give Zach some inside story and get him to give up this unrealistic idea, so I said: "The most important thing is that the waters of the Lochi plane are well connected by rivers and tributaries, and for Wales, this is the basis for victory, you don't think he will change his mind, you don't know, there is also the will of His Majesty Charles, and the royal family of Angel Ball has built ten ships for this expedition, and this matter is destined to be unchangeable." ”

Zach and Ernestine looked frustrated, took a dull sip of ale, and whispered, "It seems that we will continue to hold on, and after Prince James wins the Lochi plane, there will be no hope of the Hiero plane to regain the lost ground." ”

"I don't have to wait until then, maybe I can think of other ways. I said to Zach and asked the waiter to refill him.

"What can you do?" Zach asked me suspiciously, and then his eyes lit up, and he actually gave himself a definite answer: "Oh, the Galloping Horse River should be opened at this time, do you want to persuade Duke Jingyue to mobilize the North Wind Legion to expedition to the Hiero plane?

"......" I looked at Zach a little speechless.

Just looking at him with expectation, I could only bite the bullet and say: "I will write to Duke Jingyue and try it to see if I can persuade her to send her Constructed Knights, after all, she was seriously injured in the Kenda plane last year, and I hope this matter will not have any shadow in her heart." ”

"It's too perfunctory to write a letter about this, I think you should personally go to the Grand Duke's Mansion in Sloit City, so that it is more likely to convince Duke Jingyue. Zach said.

Ernestine and Zack are entangled in official business, and then they have to visit some small lords who have Constructed Knights, trying to persuade them to go to the Gyro Plane to make war money, but in this situation, probably no one wants to take the Constructed Knights to the Gyro Plane.

In the evening, I rode a magic caravan to Arya's house, and when I passed by the mansion of the Marquis of Hassa, Quentin's distant relative, I found that the magic caravan came out of the manor, and a large group of knights in costume also left in a long line on their horses.