"Shani, please stay by Carol's side and protect her and Dalemond. When it is found that victory is not possible on the battlefield, those people are likely to have the wrong idea. I told Cook to protect the family at Shaki Manor, but Carroll didn't want to go there. I'll have to leave her to you. ”

Shani nodded. She was wearing a long purple dress today, with a wide golden belt tied around her waist and a soft sword hidden inside. The silver bracelet stretched from the wrist upwards to cover most of the forearms, and what appeared to be silver was actually Mithril, a very light but tough metal that was strong enough to block the slash of the sword and disperse the impact, making it an excellent piece of protective equipment.

The same material was used on the inside of the dress, forming a protective force like a chain armor, enveloping all the vital points of the chest and abdomen, and a magic necklace that formed a shield was worn around Shani's neck, which was made by Feiqi himself, enough to block the giant's full force, and teleport her to the three-barrel circle when ordered to do so.

The kind-hearted Shane wants Feige to give the equipment to Carol, saying that her keen snakehair and paralysis abilities are enough. "But you're my weakness, never someone else. Feige persuaded her, and dressed her with her own hands. "If you can help me, I will feel at ease and be able to focus more on the problems of the Noble United. ”

"Feiqi......" Xia Ni hesitated for a moment, but said anyway, "Is Carol upsetting you a little? ”

"Understand, understand her. Andrew had just died, and the blow was very big, and it directly exposed her to the onslaught of ugly aristocratic politics, including me. I also have self-interest in this matter, so I can't call it a good thing. So what I can do is I hope you can be considerate of her, help me watch her, and don't let her have an accident. ”

"Don't say you're a bad person, I never thought so. Shani pulled Feige's face over with both hands and pecked at it. "Alright, you go and busy your Jinge Iron Horse, and I'll go play with the queen and the little prince. ”

Feige nodded, he bid farewell to Xia Ni, and walked alone to the highest balcony of the palace. His knights of the guard were waiting here, and saluted at the sight of him. Feige didn't think he needed a Guard Knight, but doing so would keep the average person familiar and help him gain understanding.

Looking out from the edge of the balcony, if you can see as good as Feige's, you can see a long line of aristocratic coalition troops entering the arena along King's Road. Feige had set up a grand welcome ceremony for their arrival, including a rope around the border and a sign saying "Do Not Approach" and "No Spators." Outside the preset battlefield, about a hundred meters apart, are the trenches of the Hell Knights.

With the help of nearby ready-made houses, barns, and cellars, the Knights of Hell have set up a line of magic spear defense, which is usually used to guard the noble coalition and prevent them from fleeing in battle. In the direction of the battlefield leading to the city of Tawu Harbor, traps and tripwires to prevent rapid cavalry assaults are everywhere, and a few simple traps are enough to cause a delay for the Knights of Hell to organize a counterattack.

The City Guard is the second line of defense, used to hold the city while avoiding the destruction of Tawu Harbor. If there is a battle in the front, and there is fire in the back, then this battle will not be fought. The defense consumes the combat power more continuously than the offense, and the city defense army has been tense these days.

Hydes, who recuperates from his wounds in his nest, is also an important force, but it makes it clear that it will not be involved in the wars of the human nobles, and at most when there are fires everywhere, it will use its own power to create torrential rain to prevent the fire from spreading and protect the inhabitants of the city. Hobbes's sailors, as a reserve, had to keep an eye on the direction of the sea on the one hand to prevent being touched from behind, and on the other hand, where they needed to go.

The knights and soldiers of the Hall family guarded the palace, forming a defensive line along the mountain road leading to the palace, and strictly checking the people and goods entering and leaving the palace in recent days. Feige knew that the knights of these families also complained that the removal of the entire aristocracy would also affect their interests. What can maintain their loyalty now is the idea that "following the winner will benefit" and the habit that has been cultivated for a long time. Therefore, Feige chooses to let them defend and protect, not wanting to take them into battle at all.

In fact, he didn't want to take anyone to the battlefield.

After carefully observing the situation and engineering of both sides of the battlefield on the balcony, and confirming that the Knights of Hell had completed his previous deployment, Feige was relieved. "Alright, you all go to protect Shani, and I'll go to the battlefield. ”

"Lord Count, please let us help you on the battlefield. ”

"Thanks, this time I want to be in the limelight, and I need to be in the limelight myself. Feige patted the knight on the shoulder, "Dubois and Tuttle, when Andrew came to me, I said: I may leave you alone but in danger of the moment, and the only good thing is to be able to witness the change of the world in the nearest position." Only this time I'm sorry you can't go to the nearest location. ”

"My lord, if you go to the battlefield alone, you will be laughed at by the guys over there. ”

"What I'm going to do is not what a knight and a nobleman should do. My hands are going to be covered in blood, and many of them are probably innocent. You don't need to do such a thing, I command you to stay. ”

The two knights of the Guards agreed, but their eyes were still full of resistance. Feige patted them on the shoulder again, then summoned a magic matrix, creating a spatial passage, and with a light step, he was already in the center of the battlefield.

There is a thin layer of snow on the wheat field, which just fell this morning and should disappear by dawn tomorrow. It couldn't cover the dirt and straw ash underneath, and the pale white was incompatible with the black and yellow earth, but it could already make a creaking sound when stepped on. Feige paced left and right for a few steps, listening to this natural sound for a moment before looking up at the noble coalition on the opposite side.

The banners are waving, the voices are boiling, the continuous camp tents have taken shape, and the arrow tower has a height of more than three meters, and it is continuing to climb to the sky. Hundreds of columns of white smoke rose in the camp, and even if there was only a light breeze, you could smell the cooking food in the distance.

The length of the battlefield is a thousand meters, and the width is more than seven hundred meters, and the terrain on Feiqi's side is slightly higher, but it is negligible for war horses. When Feige arrived, three horns sounded in the camp opposite, and then many people were seen riding out of the camp to scout on the battlefield. Correspondingly, the Knights of Hell blew even sharper horns, poking out magic spears from chest-deep trenches, also on alert and defensive.

Feige pressed his hand down, signaling that the Knights of Hell didn't have to make a fuss. The coalition consisted of nobles and knights from more than a hundred families, who brought catapults, heavy crossbows, large numbers of cavalry and infantry, bows and spears like dense forests, armor and shields that could be piled up into hills. They came from afar, but they still had the advantage of numbers, and what they called "the power of unity."

"If a country wants to be strong, it must first build up the determination that I can be strong. Feige looked across the camp with a lot of thoughts. "A country that wants to love peace must first have a strong enough combat capability. If the magic spear is combined with trenches and barbed wire, and with an ample supply of elemental gems, the Knights of Hell can also sweep away the opposing coalition forces, but ......"

Once again, Feige made a firm determination for himself: "Remember, this is not the only way, but it is the most necessary. The new country was destined to be built around me at the beginning, and I could only highlight the strength of my own individual, so that I could carry out my will. Feige, in this war, everything has only one goal: to establish sufficient deterrence. ”

Then, in front of the entire coalition army, he began to warm up and move his limbs. The cat teaser was summoned and inserted into the wheat field on the right hand, the pit sword on the left, and the eye of Koktar shrunk into a pearl and turned into a ring to wear on his hand. For this battle, Feige also hung a boxy lantern with a lid around his waist. This is the Soul Trap Lantern, something he used in the bloody battle of Hell.

When he had done all this, he stood quietly, his eyes squinted, leaving only an undetectable slit, as if he were asleep. The nobles of the coalition army were puzzled: "There is still a whole day before the appointed date, what is he doing standing there?"

No one understands why, but the Knights of Hell probably do. They all know that during the time Feige was trapped in Hell, he was completely "supported by magic" and could survive in extremely harsh environments, surely avoiding hunger and thirst, and even not having to sleep, but was it worth it?

In the eyes of ordinary people, Feiqi just stood in a daze, but if he is very sensitive to mana fluctuations, preferably someone who has studied magic, he will see a different scene. Feige is gathering mana and shooting runes around him, transforming the battlefield environment while making them invisible. He has the confidence to win, but the fruits of victory are never easy to come by, and it takes effort and care enough to ensure that the desired result is achieved.

Judging from the bonfire, the number of troops on the opposite side is about 7,000, and it is likely that it will continue to increase tomorrow. In the tents, which were heavily covered with thick canvas, huge trebuchets were being prepared, and it seemed that they were trying to suppress me with siege weapons. Feige had envisioned many ways to fight, and in each of them, it was important to get ahead of the curve.

Through the Eye of Koktar, Feige discovers some strange people in the nobles' camp, they don't look like nobles, their eyes and mannerisms are out of place with the others, but they look very capable. It is likely that this is the mercenary that the nobles paid for, and wanted to use their strange tricks to pay for the odds. Some of them also have mana fluctuations in their bodies, and although they are far weaker than Feiqi, there are too few casters now, and they are too precious.

After thinking for a moment, Feige whispered through the Eye of Koktar: "I see you, go back, don't get involved in this troubled water, while there is still a chance." The spellcaster was smart, nervously looking up and down, left and right, and casting spells to detect the mana fluctuations around him, but the phantom snake had gone elsewhere by this time, and he couldn't find anything.

A one-word reminder would suffice, and these people had already considered it when they joined the aristocratic army - and if they didn't, it wasn't worth reminding. Feige circled around the enemy's tent several times and found a strange guy in black leather armor, with a black mask covering his face tightly, and even his eyes hidden under sunglasses. He stayed in the tent and didn't come out, sitting cross-legged and meditating, with an exaggerated bow beside him. Fei Qi estimated that the great bow was almost equal to his height, and it was so well made that it looked powerful. Obviously, this is for Feige.

A bow requires an arrow, but Fitch searched the tent several times and found not a single arrow. This guy in black clothes, there is not a single piece of equipment on his body that exudes the aura of space spells, that is, there are no items such as space bags, where are the arrows? Feiqi refocused his gaze on the giant bow, most of the brown hardwood bow was wrapped in thick strips of rough cloth, because it was very tight, it was rubbed a lot, and in some places you could faintly see the marks carved by the runes.

"It's still a spell bow. Feige looked closely at the few runes on it, barely making out the symbol of the Abyssal Language. In other words, it's a chaotic bow created by demonic spells, and perhaps it can generate mana arrows on its own. At a distance of nearly a kilometer, even the best archers with the best arm strength can hardly shoot material arrows and still maintain their lethality. Spell arrows are a good idea.

Interesting, very interesting, Feige also became interested in the identity of this shooter. However, he is very tightly wrapped, Koktar can penetrate inanimate matter, but cannot penetrate the body to observe—and Feige does not use the appearance of his body organs to identify his opponent!

"Beware of the enemy's mana arrows, beware of the enemy's spells. At the beginning of the war, they will use all means to kill me as quickly as possible with a mixed attack...... They were afraid that I would teleport to the noble commanders and assassinate them. Fei Qi watched the dishes and continued to improve his magic circle against the methods of the aristocratic alliance.

He stood motionless, exerting heavy mental pressure on the noble coalition with this firm posture of "silence". That afternoon, however, his isolation was broken, and Du Bois and Tuttle, his two knights of the Guard, dressed in delicate full-body armor and carrying heavy tower shields in their hands, came like walking fortresses, leaving two deep and clear footprints on the wheat field.

"My lord, His Majesty King Andrew told us to stay at the castle, we failed in our duty to protect him, and we failed. You trusted us, but you also kept us at the castle and said it was an order. Dubois adjusted his breathing as he said, "My lord, we have disobeyed your orders and are not qualified knights of the guard. But we still have to come over, firstly, we don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, and secondly, we want to be a qualified knight. We may not want our lives or our honors, but we must fulfill our duty to protect you!"

"You two are tired like this, how can you protect me?" Fei Qi turned around and shook his head slightly: "You disobey the order, you should be punished, but this is not in a hurry, and it can be reduced according to your battlefield performance." Since you must come, then I will arrange a battlefield mission for you. ”

"Go back and find a flag. The flag is square in shape with a red background and two black and white wings in the center, tightly folded together to form an approximate heart shape, while the back is crossed diagonally with a golden thunderbolt. Yes, you can go to the painter, I guess you two have average painting skills. ”

"It is my honor to make the flag, bring it, and erect it on the battlefield with a spear. It's your job for both of you to protect this honor and keep it from falling to the ground. ”

"Yes, hurry up. Feige urged, "Oh, take off your armor and shield and throw them here, won't you be faster?"

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