"That's what he said?" Marshal Mencius looked at his proud disciple Rudolf Gezette and asked with a frown.

"That's it." Rudolf Gezette nodded, and then said solemnly: "Headmaster, he wants to fight us!" It's just that whether it's a real hope or a bluff, students can't completely decide. ”

"How?" Sitting next to the gatekeeper sent the number two in the military, the chief of the gendarmerie, Halda Dandy Lane, asked.

"I can only tell you what I have seen and heard. At present, Lucy Belencaster can only use the 2,000 cavalry of the Fourth Legion and the 6,000 veterans of the Sixth Legion. And the main forces of the Fourth Legion, as well as the Thirteenth Legion stationed in Blackman, have not yet arrived. Although I knew that he had called up all the transports, his capacity was limited, and it would take at least three or five round-trips to transport fifty or sixty thousand troops and food from the Nords to Roshure, which would take at least two months...... Ahem, cough, cough ......" Because he said it so quickly, Gezette couldn't help coughing dryly a few times, hurriedly picked up the silver glass in front of him, and poured more than half of the wine into it.

He's really miserable now. The originally handsome little white face was full of fatigue, and his cheeks were even sunken a little, the color was gray and almost bloodless, but his eyes were full of bloodshots, and he looked like he hadn't rested seriously for several days. His well-dressed robes were also covered with stains and dust, and there were even tears, and even the smell of sweat was unpleasant all the time.

We need to know that any robe that is qualified to be brought into battle is a magical equipment made of special materials, with a tough texture, and basically solidifies the cleansing technique. As an Arcane nobleman, decency is very important. After all, many of the so-called family gate valve lineages are "crickets" for hundreds of years, if you don't pay attention to it, how can you hold your head up in front of those wealthy families on the mainland who have been thousands of years old?

However, Brigadier General Rudolf Gezet, the younger generation of the Gatekeeper faction, is now such a one. It is said that he fell into the cave, first was blasted to death by a Xu Dela, and then was turned by a thousand goblins, all of whom believed it.

What the hell have you encountered? Marshal Mencius looked at his proud protégé and wanted to ask this, but he felt that he might touch some memories that he did not want to recall, so he held back again.

"But then again...... Poor little Rudolph, what has life done to you? Dandy Lane looked at Rudolf Gezette, who was dressed in rags as if he had just escaped from the lair of Hurdra and the goblins, and spoke in a tone that seemed to have a bit of a tragic aria, but there was a clear urgency in his eyes.

Therefore, this kind of son-in-law who was born wrapped in a feather blanket is particularly unemotionally intelligent, and it is different from my son-in-law party who succeeds by personal struggle! Mencius thought.

"After I escaped from the fortress of Daroshul, I rushed over as soon as I had informed everyone in Oktalia City. A fast mail ship was scrapped, plus five horned eagles, and it didn't stop for half a month. Gezett said.

"Just to bring us his words?" Halda Dandy Lane asked with a smile. His subtext was, isn't this kind of thing okay with messenger crystals? Although this natural treasure is precious, there are still two or three sets between Elichar and the front line, so that it will not lose contact with the main force of the mobile fleet in the Octaria Line.

"I think it's important to tell you all about it in person." Gezet said solemnly, and his serious expression even revealed a bit of solemnity and majesty. Of course, as a decent, glorious, powerful, and proud Arcane nobleman, he would not tell anyone that I wanted to be as far away as possible from the evil star with a beautiful face even if I was blind. Ah no, the evil star is so fierce, it's clearly a demon god. There were nearly 100,000 troops and hundreds of warships in and around the city of Octalia, but he still felt very unsafe with only a Hillen cloister separated from the fortress of Daroshul.

Of course, in order to make his reasons more sufficient, Gezette thought about it and said to Dandy Lane: "...... Plus, you can rest assured that Dunbolay has escaped. ”

"Of course I'm relieved. He had returned to Elichar three days earlier. ”

…… Oh, it's back, huh? Why do you have the face to come back? I've never seen a guy who can run like this, and the face of the Offa Gate Valve has been disgraced by this bastard. If you have the ability, you can appear in front of me, see if I have a fireball in his face, and see if that guy's squinting eyes will open a little wider......

As soon as Gezett thought this, the door was pushed open, and Dunbury Dandilein, holding a large stack of papers, his old partner and his boss had already walked in.

"Hey, Rudolph, you've escaped! Then I'm relieved. He greeted in a flat, tone that bordered on greetings, and then placed the papers on the table.

"Yes, I can see you safe, and this is the best news I've ever heard in this time. God bless! Gezette smiled brightly and sincerely, and even made a gesture of prayer.

Dumbley responded with an equally friendly smile and continued, "Twenty warships in all, and fifteen thousand soldiers. That's all the troops they can deploy. I have regrouped them and are on standby at the camp in the north of the city. Your Excellency the Headmaster, do you need me to lead them to capture Dugu Castle, or do you ......"

"Prepare for reinforcements in the direction of Octalia City." Mencius sighed and said faintly, "That's the only thing I can do for Oster." ”

Dunbury was stunned for a moment, and his thin eyes seemed to flash with thousands of emotions, but it only turned into a still calm voice: "Understood." ”

"If the worst is the worst, you should know what to do, right?" Halda said again.

"I understand, uncle."

The subtext is that if the situation is not good, then take the people back to Elichar and do not have to die.

"Rudolph, come with me. We have a serious shortage of senior officers with combat experience, and besides, I'm used to partnering with you. Dunburley said again.

"Well, okay...... Wait, that's not the point! At this time, Gezette had no time to think about the problem that he had to go to the front line to face the demon god again, and couldn't help but say loudly to Mencius: "Headmaster, don't you still understand what Lucy Berencaster means? ”

Marshal Mencius was expressionless, but Halda also scoffed: "Literally, he made us surrender completely, kneeling under the banner of the Rainbow Rose and begging for his forgiveness." If we really have to do this, won't everything we do become a joke? In the history books of later generations, he can only play a harlequin. When the time comes, even a child who is just beginning to read will be able to condescendingly despise our intelligence and courage. Speaking of this, his words changed again: "However, little Belencaster is a decent person after all, even if we are asked to kneel in front of him and give him the crown with trembling, we will take some decent way, and we will never speak such vulgar words...... This time, he is actually telling us that he is not ready to compromise, and wants to force us to quickly use all our strength to fight him. ”

"Yes, he wants to fight fast!" "He also hopes that the main forces of the mobile fleet, which are being repaired at the front, will go out to fight him!" ”

"But that doesn't make sense, does it?" Mencius said, "The main force under his command is the main force of the Sky Rose Legion, as well as those mercenaries who are on standby in Gloren Harbor. Now, how many people are under his command? ”

"Including the Sixth Army Corps, that is, seven or eight thousand people, a dozen warships, and a considerable part of the troops must be set aside to guard the prisoners." Dumbley Road.

"So, it doesn't make sense." Marshal Mencius said.

"Headmaster, I've dealt with Lucy Berencaster a lot of times. No matter how we calculate, how we arrange, how we fight, how we think we have an absolute advantage, but in the end it always turns out that it is actually us who do not know whether to live or die. I now understand that if you want to beat him...... No, even if he just wants to have a slight advantage, the only way is that no matter what he wants to do, even if we don't understand his purpose, we can't make him succeed. Now, if he wants us to come out and fight him quickly, then we can't fight. ”

There is really no logic in this statement, but several people present inexplicably find it very convincing.

However, one of the most important things in the world is that it is a very convincing suggestion, but it can't be done.

"Actually, before you arrived, yesterday, Drake Eurentian had taken over the position of commander of the Mobile Fleet and ordered the entire army to be regrouped." Marshal Mencius smiled wryly.

“…… That peacock from the Eulentian family? Why is he? ”

"He has orders from the old men." Halda pointed to it, smirking sarcastically.

"It took you half a month to get from Octalia to Elichar, and during this time, our young old boss was very lively." Dumbley smiled very complicatedly, a little helpless, but also a little admired: "He is letting that bluebird go out day and night, with an almost inexplicable high speed, all the time to disturb the airspace around Octalia City. In particular, the estates, mines and factories belonging to the families of Wilambat, Eurentian and Ils. ”

As we all know, Octalia City is the largest aerial city in the eastern part of the Federation, and it is also the basic land reserved by the Violet Vilambart family. Outside of the main island of Octalia, there are hundreds of floating islands scattered around the surrounding airspace. Its air currents are warm, the flora and fauna are abundant, and many of the islands are home to a large number of gem mines and precious timber, and at the end of the island is a treasure trove of feng shui (by the standards of floating islands). Since it is such a good place, of course, it cannot be monopolized by the Violet family, although this family is already the number one wealthy family in the Federation, but after all, it does not have the strength to suppress the heroes by itself, so it still has to consider eating appearances. As a result, the two families that are most closely related to it, Eurentian and Ils, also have a considerable scale of industry in this airspace.

However, during the days when Gezet traveled from Octalia to Elichar, these properties, which provided nearly a third of the income of the three families, were wiped out.

It took hundreds of years and countless golden millas for the Federation to finally build a huge fortress complex along this dense string of floating islands. The bigwigs of the Federation felt that even if the Darroshur and Hillron Sky Corridors were lost, it would be impossible for the undead and the Black Flag Wingers to gnaw at these fortress groups. The core territory will not be affected too much.

Yes, these fortress groups were designed with the Undead Empire of Henas and its potential allies in mind. It was Kazan, the plague king, a council of thousands of lichs, necromantic knights, and bloodlines that could easily pull together an army of the undead, numbered in millions. Of course, it also includes a sizable number of Black Flag Winged bandits, and even the orc tribes in the Great Orgrimmar Wasteland. A fortress group that can withstand enemies of this size can be imagined to be strong.

It's just that when designing, the federal bigwigs probably never thought about how to prevent a warship that was speeding faster than the phoenix from shuttling back and forth in the gaps of the fortress group as if it were in a no-man's land.

After all, it is only a ship of "crickets", although it is equipped with a main gun that is more fierce than the fortress cannon, and although even the trainee sailors who wipe the deck are legendary legionary soldiers before the era, it is not enough to really turn the hundreds of inhabited islands and urbanization around Octalia into a sea of fire. However, today I came to blow up the two mines, packed up all the gems and took them away, and by the way, I liberated all the miners who worked hard and gave them weapons, and tomorrow I came to burn down the two manors and drove all the livestock and beasts away, and by the way, I liberated all the serfs and gave them weapons, and the day after tomorrow I came again to attack the two workshops and liberated all the slave laborers, and still gave them weapons, and the day after tomorrow, I bombarded the barracks, ports, and outposts with artillery from a distance. It's been a whole week like this, and even if you're a natural turtle, you can't help it.

"Admiral Faneuil feels that there is no other way than to rely on defense. However, if this continues, the industries of several major companies in the east will be wiped out. Moreover, if we sit back and watch a single ship of Little Belencaster run rampant without restraint, we will be swept away. Dumbley explained, looking out the window at the floating island fortress suspended in the distant sky, and shook his head and sighed: "Although, there is still such an enemy, and we are already in a state of disgrace. ”

Marshal Mencius's expression was a little stiff, thinking to himself, do I lose face? I don't know that the little Dugu Castle that I can't take down has become the pain of my life? Why are young people so low in emotional intelligence now?

As for Gezet himself, he was speechless, although reason told himself that once he gave up the defense and attacked on all fronts, it would be completely in the other party's wish. However, considering that he also has a lot of property in Octalia City, it is completely unacceptable to sit back and watch it all be robbed and burned down.

After a long while, he whispered, "...... Can you make Lieutenant General Eurentian on the front line a little more patient? We can also find a way to recruit more troops to send reinforcements. ”

"I'm out of arms now. The fifteen thousand men you are going to bring to the east are all the reinforcements. Groren Harbor now has more than 20,000 elite mercenaries with rich combat experience, and there are 40,000 soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Legions who have just surrendered but are unstable and untrustworthy. All the rest must be in the capital. Marshal Mencius said expressionlessly, "Of course, if you can accept it, I can also recruit a group of slave soldiers." If you work hard, you can make up an army of 100,000. I heard that there are several powerful countries in the continent of Sosnes that are quite capable of fighting, and they rely on slave soldiers to fight. ”

It's just a monster who writes slaves and reads professional soldiers, and we feel like we're going to turn against each other at any moment! Gezet thought to himself.

"Little Rudolph, you see, we don't really have any other choice." Halda shook her head, "You should have been informed of your uncle's death, right?" ”

Rudolf Gezett's uncle was actually Lieutenant General Aemon Wielambart, who had died in Steelrose Castle, and the second commander of the (rebuilt) Fourth Army (after the reconstruction) commonly known as "Uncle Norweed". Now, with the bad news that the Fourth Legion has "completely reversed", it has finally reached Elichar.

Gezette nodded, squeezing out a sad face. In fact, his relationship with his second uncle is not very good, but at this time, apart from sadness, he doesn't know what expression to make.

"Besides, Lieutenant General Drake Eurentian is not without a reliable battle strategy." Halda said again.

Mencius nodded, looked directly into Gezet's eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Lucy Berencaster has lost a hand, and he has also lost his eyesight. You've met him face to face, are you sure? ”

Gezet couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and the fuss quickly began to turn, and soon reproduced the picture when he met Lu Xi.

He showed a prosthetic hand made of metal and mechanics to support his chin. He kept his eyes closed the whole time and never opened them. There was nothing inconvenient for him to move, after all, the Legendary Caster's ability to perceive was not lost by a pair of eyes. However, if you think about it carefully, such as documents, pens, and other "dead things" that have no life, no temperature, and no energy fluctuations, so they cannot be detected by perception, are indeed handed to the other party by Sesileu himself.

What's more, he was visibly weak—Gezette didn't know the basis for his realization, but he was able to be sure. As a spellcaster, at this time, he chooses to trust in his own realization.

"Yes, I'm sure!"

Field Marshal Kyle Mencius and Admiral Halda Dandylane exchanged a glance and bowed their heads at the same time. 8)