Chapter XXII: Letters from the Empire

The icy demon moon has risen in mid-air, and the usual jubilant scene in the village is no longer there, and the small village is illuminated by a bonfire, with the help of which a group of lost knights can be seen.

Some of the horse armor was deformed, some of the coats of arms were stained with blood, and the dejected knights were sitting around the campfire, some wiping their blades, some weeping bitterly, and many more were dejected.

Bruno of Leonis put his sword into the bonfire and said to Sammy, "It's all over, my knights are dead, more than sixty dead." ”

"All...... It's all the fault of those Rick cavalry. ”

Sammy nodded: "Let's get out of here quickly, those undead may attack us at any time." ”

Bruno grabbed his long brown hair uneasily, and said coldly, "I'm really crazy to follow the princess as a pioneer." ”

"But I can't retreat now, and if I retreat, the king won't spare me."

Sammy hurriedly said, "Why don't we take the princess back!" ”

Bruno was slightly stunned, he clenched his fists, and under the light next to the campfire, his face became extremely hideous, and beads of sweat dripped down his forehead: "If it weren't for Princess Estria's nonsense and wanting to be a pioneer, we wouldn't have ended up where we are now." ”

Bruno's face showed obvious anger: "We can't go on like this, if we continue to stay here, we will die." ”

The ghostly cries from time to time in the forest not far away made Bruno's face turn pale for a while, and he looked at Sammy beside him.

Sammy comforted Bruno in front of him and said, "The messenger I sent not long ago, believing that he has received the king's order, will definitely make us retreat." ”

"When the time comes, my lord, your family's reputation will definitely be saved."

Bruno nodded, clenched the sword in his hand, and looked at Princess Estella and Lu En with cold eyes, and then said coldly: "What a lowly mud leg, I will let the princess follow us out of here later." ”

Not far away, by the campfire, Lu En was sitting next to Estria, and although he could smell the faint body fragrance of Princess Estria's body up close, Lu En did not pay all his attention to it.

"We are in a terrible situation, and the spirits of the dead will not give up on destroying us," Lu said. ”

Estella nodded.

Lu En continued: "In the whole of Musilon, in addition to the army led by the Red Duke in the castle, there is only the army of the White Knights who are operating in the field. ”

"In other words, as long as the White Knights' army is dealt with, then it means that Musilon has no mobile forces."

Estella hesitated and asked, "How can we deal with the White Knight?" ”

Lu En was silent for a moment, and then shook his head slowly: "From the current point of view, it is very difficult, although the battle not long ago weakened the army of the White Knight, but the corpses on the battlefield will still increase the strength of the White Knight, and what is even more terrifying is that we don't know how many mobile troops Mu Xilong has." ”

He looked at Princess Estrida in front of him seriously, and said seriously: "From now on, it will not be less than the undead army that fought on the battlefield before. ”

Estella nodded, and then she said, "I...... I feel scared. ”

"It doesn't matter if we can win or not, but if we fail, we might become part of these undead as well?"

Estella said this sadly, and her whole body began to tremble slightly.

This was frightened by herself.

Lu En's face also fell into a depressed mood, but those who are familiar with Lu En know that when Lu En shows this depressed mood, it means that Lu En is thinking of a way.

But this time, in the face of the absolute suppression of the undead army, Lu En only sighed slightly.

He can't scatter beans into soldiers, so trying to defeat the undead army with absolute superiority is actually an even more difficult act than ascending to the sky.

On the other side, Bruno of Lyonis saw a cavalry appear in the forest not far away, and a smile appeared on his face when the cavalry ran in front of him.

"It's finally here, I've finally waited for you."

The cavalryman walked up to Bruno in Leonis, handed the letter to the nobleman in front of him, and then left Bruno after a respectful salute.

After carefully reading the envelope in his hand, a soothing look gradually appeared on his face, and he immediately walked to Princess Estria's side and said, "Your Highness Princess, I have something to tell you. ”

"Letters about your father, and letters from the Emperor of the Sigmar Empire."

Princess Estella raised her eyebrows slightly, and then asked, "What exactly did you say, you just said it directly." ”

Bruno nodded and said, "The king of Bretonnia has asked Princess Estrida to leave Musilon immediately, and she must rush back to the main army of Bretonnia as soon as possible. ”

Without waiting for Princess Estella in front of him to speak, Bruno shifted his gaze to Rick's janissary Bella, who was leaning against the trunk of a tree not far away, and said, "The Sigmar Emperor has ordered that all Rick's Praetorian Knights who participate in the Bretonnian Holy War must be purified of the evil vampires before they can leave Bretonnia, and leaving without permission will be regarded as deserters." ”

When this sentence was uttered, it was as if a pebble had been thrown into the water of a lake, and it instantly caused a burst of exclamations.

"How is that possible!"

"We will not be abandoned on this land."

The desperation of the defeated army was instantly radiated, and the Rick Janissaries quickly fell into despair at the thought of continuing to fight in this land of death.

"At all, it's impossible to win, those undead just don't have the concept of morale, they will fight until the last moment, but we can't!"

"No, I miss my mother."

At this time, Bella, who was decadent on the side, suddenly roared angrily: "Calm down, crying and crying, we were originally here to help Bretonnia exterminate the vampires, what should we do, you must make a good decision in your hearts earlier." ”

Bella trembled and shouted, "We must do something to destroy the vampires, we must win, we must purify them." ”

Everyone fell silent, except for the "crackling" sound of a campfire not far away.

These words broke the silence of Estella, who was not far away, and she shouted: "Even if the undead are powerful, it is possible for us to defeat them, because although those undead are powerful, the soul connection connected to the undead body is a very fragile existence. ”

"As long as we break the soul connection, we can still win."