"Sir Gerald."

As Gerard and his party left the harbor and returned to their temporary church in A Coruña, Rodria expressed his confusion: "We must have received the help of the Castile royal family to see the battleship, how did it suddenly turn into a deal between you and the general?" ”

"This is half forced and half voluntary." Gerald rubbed his temples. He didn't like the feeling of being calculated, but he didn't mind the benefits he could get, which made him a little uncomfortable. "This trade is his own will, and I can get a big windfall from this deal, and he knows that I can't give up these things...", he laughed.

"But I remember when I saw him three years ago, he was like a normal moth, without any bright spots. How can it change now, it seems to be a different person. ”

"The last time I saw him was five years ago, a little earlier than you." Gerald said, "When I saw him, he still looked like he didn't know the height of the sky, and he was completely unscrupulous. Now it seems that his career in the army has changed him a lot, and he actually calculates these things. But this deal is good for both of us... But it did make me feel a little uncomfortable. ”

"He must have done these things on his own hands, does King Castill's side know?"

"He is the only male blood of the Castile royal family, which means that he is the future king. Even if you know, you won't say anything. Gerard stopped, "Rodriard, when the operation begins, you will act on a ship with this prince, if you really want to help, then do something, don't damage the boat you grabbed too badly." If he can really get the ship, it will be of great help to our search work. ”

Rodria nodded in agreement, but he stopped talking.

Gerald realized what "there are questions that don't need to be asked. Whatever I say, you can do it. ”

"But is it really worth it? Although it was because of my dereliction of duty, his identity is indeed unusual, but it took us so long... Is it worth it? "The question was raised by Minai Hills. But he helped Rhodría ask the question in his heart.

"Xiu Kaslana is irreplaceable. The mere fact that he is the son of the head of Kaslana's family makes him irreplaceable. It had nothing to do with his strength or potential, just because of his blood. ”

"Isn't Karen?"

"Karene has grown and has received enough attention and expectations. And Xiu is currently in this piece, there is nothing at all, and it is even a blank piece of paper. There was no one on his body, not even Kaslana's. Gerard lowered his voice, "What I need is the full support of the Kaslana family in the future!" So you pray, pray that Xiu is still alive. You are the leader of that operation, if Xiu really dies, you can't make up for this mistake with nothing. I've endured Francis's wrath, but if death is confirmed... You will bear my wrath. ”

Rodria froze on his feet, and his eyes were in a trance, which caused Lilum, who was behind him to have his head down, not knowing what he was thinking, accidentally bumping into him.

It took him a moment before he caught up with Gerrard again.

"Yes, I'll do my best to search for traces of him."

"Then you go and prepare first, in addition to the people present, I will send you some extra manpower. Minahears, you come with me to the prison to meet the two captives. Gerald took the horse he had brought and turned over on his horse, "I'll be here and pry enough information out of those two people's mouths." ”

While Gerald was in full swing preparing for his operation, the action from Caslana's house did not stop.

However, unlike their actions in the realm of ordinary people, the Kaslana family is preparing for the next war against Honkai.

"Commander Arthur, the third, fourth, and sixth remnants of the Legion have been assembled and are waiting for your orders!"

Arthur Kaslana was a Valkyrie in her prime, but her face was not very good-looking.

She was the former leader of the Sixth Knights of the Mandate of Heaven, managing a thousand Knights of the Mandate of Heaven, but they failed to withstand the pressure in the last impact of the Honkai power, causing the Honkai front in that section to collapse suddenly, and the Alps were once infected by the Honkai energy, and even...

Gerald's only son also died in that rout.

The poor legionnaire could not forgive his mistakes and imprisoned himself in prison awaiting the judgment of Destiny.

But she was not waiting for a messenger from the Church, but Arthur of Caslana.

"Haiwei, this is your chance to atone for your sins." Arthur said solemnly, "Whatever happened before, I don't think it's your fault. So, this time, I want you to retake the battle line and push the Honkai back into the Otherworld! ”

"Never live up to your expectations... Thank you for the opportunity, Master Arthur—" Hawei lowered her head, her body trembling slightly.

"Stand up, Hywei." Arthur said.

"Yes." Haiwei stood up.

"What is your trembling cause?"

"I—" Hewei clenched her fists, "I was angry because of my failure, and I was scared because of that failure. She looked into the old man's eyes and plucked up the courage to speak of the confusion in her heart, "I used to think that my courage, my strength, could break through all the obstacles that stood in my way, but that disaster tore my courage, what I believed in, and I watched my camp be destroyed and my men killed. They were begging me for help, but I had to give the order to retreat and abandon them... We used to live and die together, but I think... I betrayed them..."

"If you give the order to live and die, we will lose the entire Sixth Legion." Arthur said, "I can tell you unambiguously that there is nothing wrong with your orders, and the reason why you have the idea you have now... Because you're still too young, Hewei. He patted Haiwei on the shoulder and walked to the door of the tent with his hands behind his back, "If I remember correctly, you're only 28 years old now?" ”

"Yes, I'm 28 years old, you remember well."

"I'm more than twice your age, so I feel like I've been through a little bit more than you." Arthur smiled.

“... Actually, I've always grown up listening to the stories of the Kaslana family, and yours takes up a lot of space..."

"Hahaha... Don't believe that, the first time I heard it, I didn't realize it was me. The old man half-jokingly said, "Legend is such a thing, people only see the result, but no one notices his process, everyone's efforts are simply summed up by the word "effort", no one knows what kind of despair we went through to achieve the results we wanted." Therefore, the content of many so-called legends is found to be ridiculous by the parties. ”

"That's... Is something about your story being obscured? Hela asked, hesitantly.

“... Brutal death, and blood in the sky. ”

"I remember you have a lot of stories, are they all like that?"

"All of them."

"Then, I heard that when you were young, you once caught an Emperor-level Honkai Beast alone, and there was something covered?"

The old man was stunned for a moment, with some bitterness on his face, "I just asked this," he sighed, "Do you want to know the truth?" ”

Haiwei nodded.

"My capture was based on a painful failure. That almost cost me everything. The old man's first words made Hela's eyes widen.

"Let's talk about the simple things first... Behind every captured chariot-class Honkai Beast, there are at least five dead knights. It's very common, I think you know it. ”

Haiwei thought for a moment and nodded.

"As for the emperor level, you don't have experience yet, so how many people do you think an emperor level will die?"

"Fifty?" Haiwei said tentatively.

Arthur looked at Hewei quietly and did not speak.

After a long while, he said faintly, "When we captured the first Emperor-level, only sixteen members of the Second Knights I belonged to survived. He quietly looked at Haiwei's increasingly incredulous eyes, "The name of the dead person, I still remember... How I don't remember, I spent five years with them, five whole years! He took a deep breath and continued slowly, "The appearance of the emperor level means an outbreak of the Honkai Beast Tide. The high-ranking Honkai Beast is born with the aura of attracting other Honkai Beasts, as long as it is not detected in time and eliminated in advance, it will be a terrifying disaster when it officially explodes after it has been accumulated. On that occasion, the line of defense I was stationed was hit head-on by the Honkai Beast... In just one night, the situation that I had been operating there for five years collapsed, the entire line of defense was torn apart, my soldiers were eaten alive, and my brothers were trampled to the ground. He seemed to recall the tragedy of that night, and his words were filled with desolate anger: "They are mighty warriors, they run faster than horses, their strength is greater than that of bears... But that night, they were pointlessly torn apart by that sudden attack... In the aftermath of that disaster, the town of Leicester in the rear was full of black-clad funerals, and they all lost their loved ones in that disaster. He looked into Hela's increasingly dull eyes, lowered his voice and asked, "It's a disaster, isn't it?" ”

Hela lowered her head and did not answer.

"It was the first failure in my life, but it was also the first success in my life..."

"At that time, I swore that I would take revenge." The old man turned back to Hela and said vigorously, "I swear to pay for it, I swear to break its neck with my own hands, and I want it to regret why it lives." ”

"At that time, human beings had just experienced the torture of the Black Death, and the loss of the Mandate of Heaven was very large, and that wave of collapse broke out at the most critical moment, so that the Mandate of Heaven could not give me much support later..."

"However, I succeeded anyway... No, we still succeeded! "I gathered the rest of the Second Knights, and we didn't have much complete armor, because many of them were torn off by the dead in the chaos. We didn't have many complete weapons, and our swords were almost chopped and covered with cuts. We didn't even have any horses, and a couple of old fellows followed us on mules. ”

"However, we have the most terrifying weapon of mankind!" He spat out the word "hatred." ”

"Hatred burns painfully in our hearts, reminding us all the time of what happened that day... This went on for two days... Two whole days! ”

"But we don't want to put up with it for a second, let alone two days! We are desperate for revenge! ”

"The emotion of revenge gives us more strength than we can imagine. We are more fearless of death than the dead, we are more terrible than Honkaimon, and we are more crazy than Honkai! ”

Arthur watched her quietly, watching Hela's eyes gradually begin to burn with something

"We're almost burning with our lives, swinging our blades, and we're losing our minds and confronting Honkai Beasts head-on with our flesh! And we were even enjoying the process until we rushed in front of that thing! ”

"It's terrible, he's so powerful, he's bigger, so powerful that it almost once brought us to the back of our hatred... But I still found my chance. I broke his joint, and I broke his spine while it was out of balance. ”

"Then I smashed every bone of it with my own hands, and then we tied him in chains and dragged it back with horses."

"It's on the ground, like a puddle of rotten meat, and we're dragging it back. That's the whole process. ”

"Hela, and now, it's up to you to do it."

"I know that your heart is full of anger and hatred right now. You hope for a chance to get revenge, but you're afraid, you're afraid what will happen if revenge fails! ”

Arthur suddenly lifted the curtain and let Hela see the remnants of the Knights of Destiny outside the tent that had been assembled from the three legions.

They were all dressed up, with battle armor with battle scars, bloody swords at their waists, and restless war horses beside them.

"You now have three legions of knights waiting for your orders, and they are now, there are more than a thousand people in total!"

"They've just experienced defeat, but their hearts are full of hatred now!" Arthur stepped out of the tent and roared with rage that almost covered the entire barracks. Hela followed him out in a daze, looking at the old man's strong back.

"Do you see the scars on their bodies! Every one, every hideous, ugly trace! These are all left by the Honkai, and they are all traces of pain left by the Honkai on us!

"Honkai treated us cruelly. He humiliates us, destroys us, kills us! Rag us in the most brutal way! ”

Arthur and Hela stood in front of the assembled three squares and pointed to one of the squares, "The Third Legion, in order to defend the front line of Honkai, the commander of the legion died!" ”

The formation of the phalanx trembled a little. There was no way they could forget the moment when the Valkyrie died in battle.

He pointed to the second phalanx, "The Fourth Legion, in order to protect the living forces, Drake of Shaniyat was killed in battle, and there are seven excellent captains!" ”

The phalanx made a slight clash of armor, and bowed its head to the knight.

When the backs of those people rushed into the tide of collapse with the knights who regarded death as home, the despair in their hearts even overwhelmed them for a time.

He pointed to the last phalanx, "The Sixth Legion, which suffered a frontal impact from the Emperor-level Honkai Beast, held on for a day and a night, and did not leave the front line until all the civilians in the towns behind them were evacuated!" There are only three brigades left in the entire corps that can still take up arms! Hela's fingers clenched harder.

"Knights, think of what happened that day, of your companions roaring before they were brutally torn apart by Honkai!

"Remembering the humiliation of having to retreat cowardly in the face of a sworn enemy for generations!

"Remembering the powerlessness of our ever most beautiful and precious things when they were all crushed!

Arthur took a deep breath, his face flushed and roared, "Tell me!" Is there anyone who wants to face such an insult again! ”

"No!" The voice erupted suddenly from the square. The knights' pupils began to swell with blood-red threads.

"Does anyone want to try their home again and be trampled under the feet of that bunch of things!"

"No!" This time the voice of response has already stirred up anger.

"Is there anyone who has forgotten the lives of the dead!"

"Nope!" The knight's voice was already tinged with hatred.

"Is there anyone who is afraid of death?"

"No!!" The knight's voice was already full of determination.

"Knights of Destiny, we are the strong, proud knights against Honkai! All of us who joined the Order have sworn an oath to our souls! Now, it's time for us to deliver on our promise! Arthur drew his sword from his waist and held it high, "Draw your weapons!" ”

The silver-white sword suddenly unsheathed, and the long sword was raised high like a dense forest.

"Now, the Emperor-level Honkai Beasts have reappeared, and the Honkai Beast tide has gathered again, and their next attack point is here. Knights, you have been defeated, you have been ravaged, but today you will tell them what war is!! Hold on to your sword and cut off its minions! Ride your horse and smash it to the bone! Today, we use their blood, their flesh, to wash away the pain that they once carved into their bodies! Arthur's neck swelled with a few green tendons, and he roared as if he was about to use all his strength, "Kill them all!" ”

"Kill them all!" The roar of the Knights shook the entire camp, and the tents shook with it.

"Kill them all!!" Arthur roared again.

"Kill them all!!" The roar of the Knights shook the land, and the swords in their hands trembled slightly.

"Kill them all!!" Arthur almost roared out the air in his lungs, his face flushed, but his eyes were like a lion staring at his people, as if they contained endless majesty, but they were as deep as a king.

"Kill them all!!" The morale of the knights was almost at its peak. They no longer looked like the remnants of a rout, but avengers who had taken up the sword of revenge, and their roar had resounded through the heavens, and even the clouds in the sky were showing signs of being shaken apart.

"Let's go! Hela! The old man put the sword in his hand into Hela's hand, "I want you to take them, with the knights of destiny, and the warriors of revenge against Honkai!" Towards Honkai, towards death! Charge towards the end of the world! ”

Hela took the sword and turned over and sat on the horse she had prepared.

The horn sounded, and the vengeful knights of Destiny turned over and sat on their horses, clenched their swords in their hands, and rushed out of the camp, with a thickening billowing smoke and dust, turning into a silver-white torrent of steel and slamming into the converging, scarlet sea!

5,000 words...... Isn't that two chapters......

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