The atmosphere in the camp was getting tense.

On the one hand, life was so depressing, since the forced closure of the army bazaar, the soldiers and knights had no place to spend their time in their tents, or they were sent out to fight against machines that did not know what pain and life were.

On the other hand, there are rumors that a certain knight was killed and taken from him by the infiltrated Chéng Rén assassin, who then killed thirteen of his comrades in a row in the form of a knight.

This rumor quickly made the people in the army panic, although the knights above were just rumors, but the bladed warriors who were strictly guarded at the access control of various checkpoints were hinting that a similar infiltration had indeed occurred**.

Who knows if the companions around me have been silently replaced by the steel monster?

Under such intense pressure, one day in a tent, a soldier and his companion got into a heated verbal altercation, resulting in a gun drawn and shot at his companion.

The soldier who killed his comrade without permission was soon subdued by the knights who arrived and eventually became one of the hanged corpses hanging outside the camp, but similar ** continued to occur in various other camps.

Most of them are rough catharsis under tense pressure, while a few are secretly chained together, pointing resentment and spearhead at the knights, dukes, and even ......

Emperor.

However, none of these things have anything to do with the Azure Sword Mercenary Group.

While everyone else slept in small, dark, damp tents, and couldn't sleep listening to the snoring and grinding of their companions, the girls were sleeping comfortably in the manor on the island of Hearth, in the comfy queen bed in the bedroom.

While everyone else was bored to death in the camp, sitting on a stake with their weapons in their hands, and looking at the superior knights walking around with dark eyes, the girls were planting flowers, practicing martial arts, reading books, or studying weapons given by the two demigods in the sunny Hearthfire Island.

As a reward for helping to conquer Sarmatia, Marson the Wasteland Bear gave him a shield, supposedly mixed with a material called Chaos Rock. This material from the abyss is an existence between ** and minerals, which can automatically carry out shock when it is damaged by external forces.

Leopold, the god of war, was rewarded with a short knife made entirely of turquoise glazed material. Of course, this kind of glass is not ordinary glass, but through a special forging technology, it forms a stress distribution of external pressure and internal tension, and its dense structure is enough to block the frontal impact of the bullet, and it is very light in the hand.

These rare weapons made of special materials are indeed powerful enough for the Azure Sword team - after all, ordinary steel weapons are too fragile on the battlefield of hot weapons.

The shield was given to Eleanor, and the dagger was given to Mia.

"There's been something wrong with Ellie lately." Nora said worriedly, "She's training harder and harder, learning that sword almost all the time, Aske......"

"I know." Aske replied, "Have you read her mind?" ”

"Nope." Nora looked at him with disgust, as if to say, "Am I the kind of person who will casually peek into other people's minds"?

Then she read it, and Asker silently asked in her heart, "Aren't you?" ”

In any case, Nola's meaning is clear, we have to talk to Eleanor, otherwise her mental state will deteriorate even more.

Walked around the Hearthfire Island, but still couldn't find Eleanor's shadow. So the two of them teleported to the plane of reality and saw Sidlifa, who was in charge of preserving the ancient book today.

"Did you see Eleanor, Sidlifa?" Nora asked her.

Sidlifa was sharpening her battle axe—though the Axe of the North Wind was so hard that it could not be sharpened at all, she was bored grinding on the whetstone, and said:

"She's gone to a family meeting."

Only then did the two remember that every day at four o'clock in the afternoon, the Weissbach family had to hold a family meeting, and Eleanor, as a member of the family, of course, had to attend.

The situation on the side of the Duchy of Bavaria has not been optimistic recently, and the superior knights have reported that there is a general war-weariness among their soldiers, and a few squads tried to sneak out of the camp a few days ago, but were captured by the Flame of the Furnace.

It's okay just to have deserters. It is said that just this morning, three knights from the Duchy of Franconia with dozens of soldiers ambushed at the gate of the emperor's camp, trying to hold His Majesty hostage.

Although this immeasurable "military advice" was quelled by the blade warriors at the first time, it still greatly stimulated the emperor's suspicions:

First of all, the Duke of Franconia was imprisoned, and all his knights were co-opted by the Blade Warriors, and the restless ones were even directly killed and hanged.

The second was a large number of clerks of the Blade Warriors, who began to fully garrison the armies of the various dukes as overseers.

According to the original feudal system of the empire, the emperor, as a feudal monarch, could not go beyond the vassals to manage the vassal army.

But now His Majesty the Emperor really wants to be willful, and everyone is helpless. As a result, the Weissbach family, like the other great families, began to urgently discuss how to deal with His Majesty's crazy moves.

The two arrived at the gate of the Weissbach camp and waited for Eleanor to come out, only to see Eleanor at the door, arguing with her second brother Henry.

"You don't understand!" Henry grabbed his hair irritably, "I'm a graduate of the Imperial Affairs Academy, a reserve member of the Blade Warrior!" In this case, I can only stand with His Majesty! ”

"Did Your Majesty ask you to arrest all the knights of our family?" Eleanor was furious.

"It's not a catch! Just review, review! Henry explained impatiently, "These knights have recently left the camp!" And the kind of Chéng Rén assassin who can disguise himself, you have also seen it from your father! Can you guarantee that these knights who left the camp were not quietly replaced by Chéng Rén? ”

"I've also recently left the camp! And with the two demigods of Thuringia and Carinthia! Eleanor said coldly, "Why don't you arrest me and the two demigods, honorable Blade Warrior?" ”

"Of course you and the demigods are different." Henry didn't know how to explain it either, "But these knights ...... I can't take that risk. ”

"That's right!" He suddenly remembered something, "That is, the rest of your team has also been out with you recently?" Are you sure they never left your sight? ”

"Henry!" Eleanor almost jumped up, "If you dare to attack my companion, I will never let you go!" ”

"Got it, got it." Henry rubbed her head helplessly, just like his sister who had coaxed her angry sister countless times as a child.

However, he soon realized that the knight girl in front of him was no longer the sister who followed him at the beginning.

"Where are they being held?" Eleanor was also slightly stunned, and then straightened her messed hair and sighed.

"In the prison of the Blade Samurai." Henry turned his gaze and saw Aske and Nora walking by, "I'll take you there." ”