The fleet sailed out of the Golden Horn, and everyone on board finally breathed a sigh of relief. Whether it is a soldier, an old man, a woman or a child, they all congratulate each other on deck.

"It's good that the Grim Reaper appeared at the last moment, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable." The officer in charge of commanding the fleet Herod took a deep breath of his cigarette and said with emotion. Looking back at the homeland that was getting farther and farther away from him, the city of Constantine the Great, the new Rome of the Romans became smaller and smaller in sight, and although he escaped, there was a little more pain in his heart.

"Uncle, when will we be back? Dad said he couldn't go with me and Mom, why? Below, a milky little boy grabbed the officer's trouser leg and asked.

Officer Herod crouched down and touched the top of the boy's head, and said with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, when you grow up." We'll be back, and your dad will be happy to see you grow into a man. ”

"Well, I'll definitely grow up quickly and become a man and come back to help my dad get rid of the Rastins!" The little boy clenched his fists and said solemnly.

Does a child of this age understand this? Herod's heart twitched.

Suddenly, an early warning signal from sailors came from the observation tower. Everyone looked up in unison.

"Enemy attack!"

The warship quickly deflected its left rudder, and with a loud bang, white spray bloomed on the port side. That's an artillery attack!

The warship was tilted violently and lost control, and the sailors staggered to their positions, and the deck was suddenly in chaos. Officer Herod immediately ordered the sailors to return the boy to the ship's cabin, while he himself ran back to the command room.

"What's going on!" The Commander asked, growling.

"Report to the captain, an unknown battleship has been spotted at four o'clock!"

Battleship!? Commander Herod suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, if the navy of the new Bullard Kingdom appeared at this time, the consequences would be unimaginable. But how could there be a Rastin warship in such a situation? According to intelligence, three days ago, Rastin's battleship sailed to the Aegean Sea.

"Everyone is ready to fight!" There was no time to hesitate, the commander gave an order, and led the sailors to rush to the gun position, Herod's battleship was small in tonnage but also equipped with several huge cannons, although it was enough to deter ordinary pirates, but if it encountered a real naval fleet, these warships were vulnerable.

To the southeast, unidentified groups of warships slowly approached and appeared in the sight of the Herodians.

"OMG!" When the Herod saw the huge fleet slowly approaching in front of him, he finally lost his voice.

That's an incredibly large steel fleet! And on the military flag in the wind, there is an incomparably fierce griffin, with teeth and claws, as if it wants to devour everything in the world.

"Hehe, His Highness Ether was really prescient, and sure enough, there was a remnant of Herod who wanted to escape by sea." On the heavy battleship at the front, Duke Brandt, the Minister of the Admiralty of the Kingdom, looked at Herod's tiny fleet at sea with a cruel smile on his face. With a wave of his hand, Brandt ordered, "Finally, we can completely kill this group of lowly inferiors." Tell all the ships to fire at them. None were left."

"Yes!" The Rustines had no mercy on the Herodians, and saw the steel beasts of the sea baring their fierce teeth at the Herodians.

・・・・・・

"At 4 o'clock, everything is normal."

"At 4:15, an unidentified group of warships was spotted in the southeast."

"At 4:30, confirm and engage the Lastin Southern Fleet."

"At 4:55, the flagship was shot, the cabin was flooded, and the rest of the ships were sunk."

"At 5:15, we completely lost contact with the evacuation fleet." The communications corps reported the contents of the heavy telegram to the old man in a wheelchair.

Merrides looked at the presented message and was silent for a long time, and finally let out a long sigh and covered the message over his face, "It's my fault!" The old man's voice was extremely guilty and self-reproachful. Obviously, the kingdom has also been prepared for a long time, although the Herod people have reservations about their strength and are caught off guard by an opponent, but in the intelligence estimation of the kingdom, Merides also made a huge mistake. And the price is thousands of lives!

"General, I'm back." Outside the headquarters, Nikita, who was in the dust, walked in and immediately felt that the atmosphere was not right. "What's wrong!?"

Merides looked at Nikita who came back with a little relief in his eyes, and just sighed: "Our evacuated fleet has been ambushed-"

"The whole army is annihilated."

With a buzz, Nikita felt a blank time in her mind.

How could it be... That Constine Dante boy and Sophia girl, isn't it... Nikita suddenly felt the world spinning. The two children who have been with him for many years are not relatives but relatives, obviously just now, who would have thought that yin and yang would be separated. Nikita felt like she had been stabbed in the heart, and it hurt to the bone marrow, and she couldn't breathe. "It's a good thing you insisted on staying at the time, otherwise I would never have seen you." Merides looked at his old subordinate and sighed, according to the original plan, Nikita, who could not drive the mecha, would also retreat to Nicaea in Asia Minor with others, but because Nikita resolutely asked for his life, Merides reluctantly agreed, and now that he thinks about it, Merrides is really glad in his heart.

"Nikita, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Nikita's face was wrong, Merides was a little puzzled. "Because he almost killed someone." A languid and impudent voice sounded, and the ochre-red cloak fluttered, and the blonde boy strolled in, but none of the guards stationed there stopped him, for no one dared.

Seeing some frivolous teenagers and what he said inexplicably, Merides couldn't help but frown, but he didn't have a seizure. For, only for him, this incomparably mysterious young man, Merrides, known for his cunning, felt the elusive feeling for the first time.

In the name of the Grim Reaper, this young man who feared all won the respect of all and was glorified. Even the relationship between Merrides, the head of the Resistance, and this mysterious young man was only cooperative.

And behind the young man, there is an elegant aristocratic girl, even if she is a prisoner of the stairs, but she still has an inviolable grace and bearing. It is precisely because of this that the soldiers of Herod who escorted him did not dare to be rude, but were ashamed of themselves.

The moment he saw the girl, Merids' cloudy old eyes suddenly bloomed with the brilliance that a young man should have, and what Bashiles said just now was thrown out of the clouds.

This is exactly what he has been thinking about for a long time, the third princess of the new Brad kingdom, Ann Lotter, please don't get me wrong about this old man, he has indeed been waiting for this day, and the key person in all plans has already mastered one of them. The next key is the Grand Duke Tudor, who is also prominent in the kingdom of New Brad.

His Highness Ether, who had a notorious reputation as a prodigal but had always been feared by the Herodians. The number one dangerous man who once inflicted huge losses on the Resistance in the First World War of Thrace!

He even received a formidable title - the Butcher of Herod.

"Now it's just that person, the last link in Your Excellency's plan, but I can't help the rest of it. After all, there are some things that are beyond the reach of human beings. Bashiles looked at Merrides with an inscrutable smile on his face, looking playfully.

"It's true that you don't have to worry about it next, we still have some confidence in the Holy Armor Knights." Merides said with some displeasure on the boy's face.

The young man shrugged his shoulders, walked out the door, and said, "Then I hope so, but are you really prepared and qualified to bear that guy's horror?" The man who once brought you infinite terror, do you really have the courage to face him? With that, the uninhibited boy walked away, leaving Ann Lostt in the command post.

The silence of all is terrible.

"You are Lord Merrides." Ann Lotte finally broke the silence and said without humility or arrogance. Although she was in danger, Her Royal Highness still did not want to give up. Even if the other party wanted to use her as a hostage, Ann Roste wanted to minimize unnecessary sacrifices as much as possible.

The old man looked at the young lady of the kingdom in front of him, bowed his head slightly, and said, "The old man is already old, and he is an enemy country, so he can't salute His Highness." Although the means of inviting you here are not bright, I still ask Your Highness for forgiveness. ”

The girl shook her head disapprovingly, and said earnestly: "I don't want you to surrender or anything, and I know that the grudge between us cannot be written off in two or three sentences, but I still came here, and all this is my own volition." Speaking of this, a hint of gloom appeared in Ann Lost's eyes, "But I really hope that there will be no more bloodshed and sacrifice between each other, after all, it is only those ordinary ordinary people who yearn for stability to suffer innocent destruction, and I am willing to swear in the name of the crown prince that I will end the attack between you and me." Is peace really not precious? ”

Hearing the girl's innocent promise, the old man smiled, this is really a childish promise, just like when he was young, but it is simply lovely, simple and respectable.

But Merrides rejected the mere kindness. Some things are not solved by kindness and forgiveness.

"Your Royal Highness, even this is impossible. The moment the Rastines invade our homeland, it's already our fight—"

"Doomed to never die."

There was a cold chill in the old man's words, and the last ray of hope in Ann Lost's heart was extinguished.