A month later, the Crusaders finally regained Constantinople.

The above sentence is an understatement because this recovery process is very understated.

Since the Clauder Sword mercenary group opened the way to Constantinople and expelled all the demigods in its path, it was easy for the Crusaders to clean up.

It only took more than half a month for the Crusaders to be outside the walls of Theodosius and began to fire artillery at the Seljuks in Constantinople.

Another week passed, and the city's artillery forces began to thin out. Sensing that something was wrong, the Crusaders launched a tentative siege that resulted in the capture of the city walls.

As the scattered Seljuks in the inner city of Constantinople surrendered their weapons in a sparse manner, the Crusaders realized that Emperor Suleiman had initially fired at the Crusaders with artillery, and had secretly moved most of his forces through the Golden Horn towards Asia Minor.

Over time, the artillery fired outwards in the city also increased the proportion of smoke bombs, and the large amount of smoke was used to mask the reduction of artillery fire itself, so that the Seljuks succeeded in stealing the sky under the noses of the Crusaders and smuggling the living forces to the East.

There are good and bad results:

The good thing is that Constantinople was preserved intact. In order to keep the crowd as secretive as possible, Suleiman did not have the time and capacity to transport the citizens of Constantinople, so they were not looted or killed as expendable in the brutal siege battles.

The disadvantage is that the next reconquest of Asia Minor will be difficult to fight. First of all, the goal of the Crusaders from the beginning was to recover Constantinople, and Asia Minor was not part of the Holy War Pact, in short...... Gotta add money.

Secondly, the population and resources of Asia Minor are placed here, and if Constantinople is not recovered, then Constantinople will face the threat from the east, and it will not be a matter of one or two days.

If he chooses to defend Constantinople, then the Crusaders, who have the advantage of troops, can first cross the sea to recover western Asia Minor and cut off Suleiman's eastward retreat.

In short, although it was said that Constantinople was recovered and the foundation of the restoration of the Eastern Solomonic Empire was completed, Theodora really did not have any happy mood at this time.

To be more precise, from the enthronement and restoration to the counterattack on Asia Minor, a lot of things diluted her joy and sense of accomplishment, but made her even more annoyed.

For example, there is no trustworthy bureaucracy at hand to complete the integration of the remaining resources of Constantinople; For example, the military threat to the east became more and more serious, and the departure of the Seljuks took with them a large number of fleets, so that there was almost no navy available in the city.

Another example is that the diplomatic confrontation with the Crusaders involved a lot of her energy, especially the tragic experience (referring to the fact that the Crusader leaders deliberately delayed negotiations with her in the first volume, and secretly incited the Crusader knights to plunder Constantinople) made her even more afraid to take it lightly.

Another example is a man who promised her to become a co-emperor, but now he took the other girls out and played in Constantinople with him, so that His Majesty Theodora almost had the urge to bite him to death.

Compared to the hectic and boring situation on Theodora's side, the rest of the Azure Sword were relaxed, retrieving their memories in various places.

"Look, it's the St. Orri's Hotel!" Nora pointed to the high-end hotel across the street and said, "Ellie, remember?" I once lived in it for a month. ”

"Later, I brought Asker over to introduce you." Eleanor smiled and said, "I remember that Peggy also performed the characteristics of the flesh sequence, which scared you to tears. ”

"I'm scared, thank you." Nora said seriously, "My psychology is not so fragile. ”

"I remember Asker's house was nearby, right?" Medea suddenly said, "Do you want to go?" ”

"Well, I'd like to go to the 'Sunken Palace'!" Miya raised her hand and said, "Maybe everyone from the Thieves' Guild has returned?" ”

"Then I want to go to the Colosseum of Constantinople too." Sidlifa also said seriously, "Although there is a high probability that our teammates will not survive today, maybe we can see one or two familiar faces?" ”

"Okay, then you guys go first." Aske agreed.

So Mia took Mi'er to the Sunken Palace, and Sidley walked slowly towards the Colosseum. Asker took Nola, Eleanor, Peggy, and Medea in the direction of Achilles' mansion.

Achilles' mansion is still intact on the outside, but it is still in tatters on the inside. When Asker reported a family of vampires to the Orthodox Church, the Iron Paladins rushed in and smashed everything inside. Later, although some new furniture was added, when he left, he was taken to the Hearthfire Island, so that there was nothing left.

Probably because of this, although the lock on the door of the mansion was picked open, there was no sign of habitation inside, and apparently the intruder did not expect it to be an abandoned house.

The Peggy family mansion next to it was originally burned to the ground for vampires, but later it was cleaned up for the construction of the Hearthfire Manor and used as a temporary building material placement point - now it has been erected and occupied by a poor family.

Peggy stared blankly at the ruins, where a little girl in tattered clothes was slapping a ball at the door, and soon her mother came out of it and pulled the little girl into the shack.

"What are you doing?" Asker suddenly tapped her on the shoulder, "Let's go." ”

"Oh." Peggy hurriedly followed.

A group of five people walked through the empty hall, and many of the wooden planks had been pried away and used as fuel for heating in the winter.

Turning to the second floor and going up to the study on the third floor, everyone saw five chairs arranged around the central carpet.

It was here that Asker, together with Medea, popularized some introductory knowledge of the transcendental, opening the door to a new world for Nola, Eleanor, and Peggy.

So everyone sat down in their original position with some nostalgia, you look at me, I look at you, and they couldn't help but laugh with emotion.

"Ahem." Medea cleared her throat and chuckled, "Do you want to be transcendent?" I have here's the potion recipe for the Mind Sequence. ”

Eleanor was slightly stunned when she heard this, but Nora immediately understood that she was playing the original scene, so she pretended to be a new person who didn't understand anything, and said timidly:

"Mind sequence? What exactly is the ability? ”

"Mind I, which allows the transcendent to perceive the existence of the surrounding mental bodies......" So Medea said the knowledge of the mind sequence.

Of course, Nora was already familiar with these things, but she still made serious movements with a notebook and a pen, and pretended to write seriously.

"So, what exactly is a mental body?" She asked Medea with a smile.

"Well, the mind is ......," Medea could finish when Eleanor interrupted her, "No, I remember when you said you were going to charge for it!" ”

"Really?" Medea pretended to be stupid and said. She actually remembered the price of 15 pounds, but now it seems that it was too embarrassing to bother with that kind of money.

"Where did we go after that?" Aske asked.

"Looks like I'm going to some transcendent gathering." Medea said with her finger poking her chin.

"And then I said I was going to collect the materials." Peggy was also impressed.

"Yes." Aske remembered, "I went to the Thieves' Guild to find the materials that Mia bought......"

So everyone sighed again.

At that time, everyone was still Lv.0-Lv.2, running around for recipes and spiritual materials, and now most of them are already at the demigod level, and in retrospect, it still feels like yesterday, vividly.