"Alas...... Everyone, why are you crying and sad?"

In the middle of the night, in a makeshift camp on the bank of the Jewel River, the fire at the head of the castle can be seen not far away, flickering under the starry sky blown by the sea breeze.

"Anyway, it took a lot of effort for people to get you out - this is the second time, is that how you talk to your life-saving benefactor?"

The blue-haired elven girl with her waist pouted unhappily, looking at the elven warriors around her who were either silent and lost, or with sad faces, and the short Azorean sword hung on her waist, swaying with the hem of her battle skirt:

"Also, His Royal Highness Rodria has said it, the dignified Azorean warriors of the Four Courts can't always be so sad and demoralizing......"

"Have you said enough!" Alexandra, who had always kept her head down, spoke coldly, interrupting the elf girl, her tear-stained eyes scarlet.

"I was almost done......

The elven girl's eyes narrowed, and she tilted her little head to Probe in front of Alexandra: "But since the dear Chief Adjutant of the Overseer has spoken, I want to say a few more words!"

"You...?!"

Alexandra looked up sharply, and almost at the same time, the elven girl's juggling right hand flipped over, the short knife behind her waist was held in the palm of her hand, and the tip of the knife was pressed against Alexandra's jaw.

"——! Shark"

The sound of swords being drawn exploded over the camp one after another, and behind them, the elven warriors of the Overseer and the Imperial Court raised their swords to confront each other, and the collision was imminent.

"What am I... Your Excellency the Chief Adjutant of the Overseer?"

Ignoring the long knife pointed at her beside her, the elf girl smiled even more: "Don't forget, you're just an adjutant; Sheira is the second seat of the Imperial Court, and she was personally recommended by the Chief of the Imperial Court. ”

"A mere adjutant dares to be disrespectful to the second seat... Or do you think cutting off someone's head is the best way for you to repay your life-saver?"

The scarlet-eyed Alexandra clenched her teeth, staring at Shela's smug baby face, and forced her anger to squeeze out the words between her teeth:

“...... Put your weapons away!"

Hearing this, the court elf warriors retreated one after another, squatting on the ground with their long knives sheathed, while the court warriors on the opposite side still stood with their swords in their hands, coldly looking at this group of embarrassed but still unwilling to let go of their "arrogant" guys.

"Well, that's right... For Eugen's sake, you will not be cured of your sins of disrespect. After playing with a knife flower, the second seat of the Imperial Court Xue La was satisfied with the knife and retracted the knife into the sheath, and the eyes of the water spirit blinked smartly:

"Now that the main force has been safely returned, in order to pay tribute to Lord Eugen and to be loyal to His Highness Rodria - I have a very interesting proposal to ask you here......"

“...... Do you want to avenge Lord Eugen?"

As soon as the words fell, all the elven warriors immediately understood her thoughts.

"You... You madman!" the elven warrior couldn't help but speak: "This morning's battle has revealed our purpose, the enemy will definitely be on guard, and if you attack again at this time, you will definitely ...... with the enemy's main force."

"It is precisely because the enemy will definitely be on guard that we must seize the last chance tonight!" said Shira, as if she had a steal, clenching her little pink fist and saying very seriously:

"Otherwise, when the enemy strengthens the garrison here, His Highness Rhodría will definitely mobilize heavy troops to besiege this place - when the time comes, may I ask you Overseer warriors, what else are you going to use to redeem the shame of the two defeats?!"

The elven warriors of the Overseer fell silent one by one, and only Alexandra couldn't help but ask, "But... His Highness Rodria ordered not to say ......"

"His Highness Rodria ordered to take the fort, destroy the enemy's blockade of the coast and then capture Ebolden—" the petite Shera laughed slyly, "tsk" raised the index finger of her right hand:

"As for the method... It doesn't matter. ”

....................................

Inside the castle, the black blade who came with his mercenaries was leaning against the city gate boredly, watching the legionnaires who had changed their guards evacuate in batches, and couldn't help yawning.

After the battle during the day, not only the Demon Hunters of the Firmament Wings suffered nearly half of the casualties, but the 1,000 legionnaires stationed in the castle also suffered heavy losses and urgently needed to rest, so they had to draw an army that was still fighting from the city wall defense line to temporarily change the defense.

So Blackblade was captured—he and his men suffered minimal losses in the daytime battle, for the enemy's main force was almost all held back by the city defenders and the mercenaries of Silver Blood, and by the time he was replaced by his "reserve army", the enemy had already begun to withdraw.

Before the Black Blade could rejoice in his good fortune, he received an order to go to the castle to change the defense night, and appeared under the almost ruined city wall with a depressed face.

The Blackblade mercenaries who took over the garrison were scattered across the lookout points, while the extra manpower was cleaning up the corpses and ruins in the castle, clearing the fortifications that had been turned into a pile of ashes so that the castle could really be inhabited.

Looking at the walls that had been almost burned to ashes by the flames and all the towers were in ruins, the black blade, who was secretly drinking a little wine, looked around curiously, while thinking back to the expression of the serious legion commander before.

I really don't know what it is that can scare that dead man's face like that? Could it be that the Duke of Byrnelai is not a human at all, but a monster dressed in human skin, beating an ogre to death with both fists, and is invulnerable?

Thinking about it, even the black blade that he thought was ridiculous "poof!" burst out laughing, and the wine that burst out of his mouth sprayed his face.

Well?!

The black blade, who was wiping his face with his head down, suddenly got up, drew the saber at his waist and pointed out the city gate.

"Who?!!

At that moment, he clearly heard a faint laugh coming from that direction - he was quite confident in his alertness and reflexes to be the leader of the mercenaries.

In the next second, several people in cloaks and hoods trudged out of the grass, ragged and embarrassed.

"We are the messengers of the Heavenly Dome Palace, and we have come with orders from His Majesty. The leader said in a hoarse voice, "The matter is urgent, please open the door quickly." ”

Heavenly Dome Palace?

Black Blade frowned and walked towards the small gate on the side of the city gate, while alertly beckoning a few mercenaries to come behind him: "Your Majesty's messenger, how can you come from the other side of the Gem River?"

"As soon as we returned from Lothair, we received orders to go to Ebolden. The leader watched the black blade open the door and said:

"Greetings to the deceased former Duke of Lothair!"

Well?!

It was the last thing Blackblade heard.

"Poof!"

At the same time as the door opened, the snowy Azorean long knife had already poked out of the back of his neck.

In the next second, two black shadows jumped down from the city wall, and several mercenaries behind the black blade fell to the ground one after another, blood splashing in front of the city gate.

"Enemy attack——! enemy attack——! enemy ......"

The anxious shouting came to an abrupt halt, and an unseen arrow pierced the guard's throat.

But the mercenaries had already reacted, and the panicked castle was full of torch-waving figures anxiously rushing towards the city gates, and the sound of vigilant horns sounded on the city walls, calling for help in the direction of the city walls.

The elven warriors who took off their cloaks opened the city gates, and the elves hiding behind rushed into the castle.

"Very well, reinforcements from the other side of the city wall will arrive, and it will take a quarter of an hour at the earliest. ”

Glancing at the mercenaries behind her, the elven girl Xuela, who didn't care, thrust her waist and shook her little fingers: "So you must find the tower of the chain of the sea during this period, destroy the device and then escape as soon as possible." ”

"And before that, they will drag the enemies in the castle with the court warriors to buy as much time as possible - if necessary, they will also abandon you and flee for your life, after all, Shera cares about her own life... Got it?"

"Couldn't have understood better!"

Coldly dropping this sentence, Alexandra, who borrowed an Azorean long knife from the elf beside her, snorted softly, and the warriors who brought the Overseer turned around and left without looking back.

"Alas... What a ungrateful and unlovable guy - of course, Sheila is the cutest thing in the world!"

Proudly puffing up her little chest without waves, the elf girl pointed to the sky with her right hand, and looked up behind her:

"Alright, everyone... Go to work!"

"Yes!"

The elven warriors who led the order drew their swords and turned around, rushing towards the mercenaries who rushed towards the city gate.

As blood spilled, the mercenaries, who had lost their leader, were thrown into the chaos, and swords and shields, as well as the laughter of silver bells, played in harmony in the castle!

Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the Imperial Court Vice-President Shera and her subordinates, Alexandra also led her Overseer Warriors to infiltrate the towers of the castle without any problems.

The device that connected the chain to the sea was in the tower near the river bank and on the side of the Ebolden wall, which was theoretically the safest and most heavily defended part of the entire castle;

But from the moment they broke through the gate to the time they entered the tower, the elven warriors met no resistance, except for a handful of absent-minded mercenaries leaning against the corners, and the few defenses were rudimentary.

Probably because the garrison troops were replaced... Although she still didn't know much about the defenders of Ebolden, Alexandra could tell that they were not the same people she had encountered during the day.

As for the reason, the elven warrior didn't care - the only thing she wanted to do now was to break the chains blocking the sea before enemy reinforcements arrived, so that His Highness Rhodría could capture the city.

Then capture the Duke of Byrne, named Loren Turin, and behead him at the city gate in the same way as him, and pay for Master Eugen's life!

With an unrelenting rage, the Overseer's actions were swift - not a single guard was alarmed at all from start to finish, and all the mercenaries who saw them left the world forever before they could shout.

Like a pack of hunting wolves, murderous but without a trace, constantly hunting their targets from the shadows, and before that they can do so without saying a word, without saying a word.

Finally... After searching most of the tower, Alexandra finally stopped in front of an iron-clad gate, the sound of heavy gears turning from behind it.

This is it.

The frowning elven warrior stood in front of the door, looking at the robes behind her, and hesitated for a second.

And then......

"Bang ——!"

With a kick, the door opened.

Then she froze.

In the room... There wasn't a single guard.

There was only one large device in front of him that appeared to be a switch, plus two steel gears that were almost a wall high against the wall, making a constant screeching sound.

That's it?

But why are there no guards, are the defenders of Eberden really not worried about being ...... here at all?

"Of course not worried, because no one is needed to protect it at all. ”

An indifferent voice rang out from behind the elven warriors of the Overseer.

"Because the mechanism was destroyed when the chains were raised, it could never fall unless the tower collapsed. ”

Alexandra looked startled, instinctively drawing her sword and looking behind her, while the remaining elves turned around in alarm and stood guard in front of the door.

In the next second, the elven female warrior's expression changed suddenly.

"It's you?!"

"It's me. ”

The expressionless Lusen was alone, confronting the Raider elf warriors in front of the gate, his right hand slowly raised, and a strange-looking, double-edged Azorean long knife like a war bow was held horizontally behind him.

Almost at the same time, Alexandra's gaze rested on it—it was her saber!

"By order of Lord Byrne, Lord Loren Turin, I am here to welcome your uninvited guests. The gray-eyed boy said coldly, his eyes gradually turning gray-blue as he spoke:

"I'll be sure to entertain you and make you feel the warmth of the people of the Sakran Empire—this time, I won't let you go again. ”

"Poof!"

"Bell!"

Two witchers leaped from the ceiling where they were hiding, one being parried by Alexandra and the other slashing her in the shoulder.

Damn it!

Not yet recovering from the discomfort of losing the double-edged long sword, the frowning elven female warrior roared behind her while hurriedly parrying:

"Everyone, retreat!"

"This is a trap set by the enemy!"

Only then did the elven warriors react, raising their swords and pounced on the gray-eyed boy, trying to break through.

"You're here, and you still want to leave?" Lusin sneered, and the double-edged long knife slashed backwards as it slammed into the enemy's weapon, tearing a bloody streak from his shoulder to his flank.

Disembowelment!

Before he could make a sound, the elven warrior who had died tragically had already collapsed in a pool of blood.

"Stop them!"

The cold-faced Luson raised his long knife horizontally, and his roar was sonorous and powerful.

As the words fell, the witchers who were hiding in all corners of the tower rushed out and pounced on the already panicked elven warriors.

Fight, on the verge of breaking out!