"You're the Dawn Myth Rescue Team that came to help resettle the refugees? I've heard of you, but those people don't look like clergy. ”

The soldier guarding the gate looked at the letter of introduction in his hand, then pointed to the heavily armed members of the team in confusion.

"They are volunteers to escort the rescue team, and although they are not part of the army, they are also part of Bologna."

The leader explained to the guards that out of a little selfishness as a lord, Dio did not invest a lot of Bologna's original military force in the construction of the alliance army, and in order to limit the participation rate of the local population and foreign refugees, Dio even greatly increased the recruitment standards of soldiers in the army, many lords were very dissatisfied with this, but smart people agreed with this approach.

It is not just the troops themselves that make up the fighting power of the legion, it needs a solid rear, and Bologna fits that.

The population of Bologna had now swelled to over 200,000, twice as many as it had been in its heyday, and the territory had been perfectly absorbed by the abundance of gold and the order brought about by the new faith, and the farmers and craftsmen who had migrated here were happy to accept the rule of a generous new lord, and the scholars and nobles who had fled here felt safer.

"A member of Bologna? In the past, we were the most respected army in Bologna. The world changes so fast. ”

The leader's words softened the guard's eyes a lot, and after carefully checking the team again, he waved his hand to let him go.

Before Dio became a tyrant, he recruited local Franks and other horse-riding peoples, as well as some Goths who were gifted with horsemanship, to form this patrol corps, which was used to protect the resources and settlements in the territory from wild beasts and bandits.

They were a true team of young men who had been put together one by one, more elite than the family guards who had guarded Bologna and had been loyal to the Hearn family for generations, and it was they who put an end to the chaos and chaos in and around Bologna and the surrounding areas after the Great War.

In the eyes of the people of Bologna, these warriors who were at odds with the Gothic military tradition were heroes, who had crushed an army of bandits four times their own number head-on, who had put an end to the wolves that had plagued the Ortogothic region in a month, and who were now given the responsibility of keeping an eye on the undead monsters on the border.

Because these warriors were all 'bitter children', when they joined the army, Dio had not yet fully controlled the territory he had inherited from his father, so there were very few resources available to them, which caused the patrol corps to be very unaccustomed to using functional buildings to camp.

The entire structure of the camp was all artificial, and if it weren't for the fact that they had to house civilians fleeing from the opposite side, the soldiers would not even have functional houses, wooden walls, and watchtowers in their defense area, and they hated a molded building.

Only three of the eight wagons were used to carry people, and the remaining five were loaded with supplies for the support of the Bologna border fortress, including medicines, daily necessities, tools, processed food, and other artefacts that could not be quickly produced through functional buildings.

As soon as the convoy arrived at the resettlement site, the priests were in good health, and as soon as they got out of the car, they unloaded the supplies with the guards and carried them to the houses used as storehouses, which had been built in advance.

Because it was not known how many refugees would come here at first, and the resources at hand were very abundant, the soldiers of the patrol regiment built hundreds of houses in the rear of their station, and this number later grew to thousands, but most of the refugees only rested here, and their final destination was Bologna, so many houses have been idle.

"Hah! You have come at a good time, hundreds of people fled here just the other day, and you can go and see the poor people, who are relying on an abandoned castle. They held out for a long time under the siege of the undead, but they eventually failed. ”

The officer who led the way for the rescue team said with a look of pity that many of the refugees did not know that there was a small fortress on the border that could provide them with sleep, food and hot water because of the fact that the outsiders did not know about the situation in the Otogotic region.

"That's right. Keep your men out of the fort's protective perimeter, it's not as safe as you think, a week ago one of our scouts fought the six ghouls while they were scouting on the other side, and the monsters have been ...... Well? Child? ”

The officer suddenly saw two short figures climb down from the car, although they were tightly draped in cloaks, but the height of the two made people see the identity of the two children at a glance, and the children should not come to this kind of place, and the officer suddenly became suspicious.

"The two of them are also believers in the myth of the dawn, orphans who came to Bologna with the refugees, they have come mainly to find relatives who may still be alive, their identities are registered in the Lord's Palace, this is the document of Lord Theodoric."

In the previous inspection of the entrance, the guards did not check the appearance of these two children, and it is no wonder that the officers of the patrol regiment were suspicious, and the leader who originally wanted to hide the existence of these two children saw that the officer's face was wrong, and immediately took out the official document.

When there is chaos, there are always many people who challenge their lower limits, such as the thugs who are holding refugees hostage and want to make a slave fortune

The rabble of bandits who wanted to plunder from the Otogots, who regarded the small fortress of only 800 men as a piece of fat, and considered it as disorderly as any other place that had been attacked by the undead, but it was a pity that they underestimated the elite that Dio had built, whether it was slave traders and speculators disguised as refugees or robbers who fought in open flames, all of them had their heads cut off here, and their heads were hung in front of the gates of the fortress facing the stricken area, and their bodies were burned.

The officers of the Patrol Regiment knew how to distinguish the authenticity of a lord's official documents, and they knew some of the details of them even better than the guards of the lord's mansion, for the patriarch of the Hearn family had already begun to follow him when he was a young boy.

"I see, these two children are the heirs of a noble family with a complex background? In order to prevent being used to make a fuss, that's why they came here secretly with your convoy, and since the lord ordered so, I will keep this matter a secret. ”

The officer, who was satisfied with the result, turned to leave, and the leader of the group breathed a sigh of relief and came to the two children who had got out of the car.

"Great Light, this place is not safe, although the accompanying guards are all elite selected from the lord's manor, but please try not to contact the refugees who have gathered here to rest, and they may be mixed with the assassins of the Cult of the Damned."

I saw that the priest bent down slightly and said to one of the children, looking respectful as if he was worshipping a god.

Only five or six people in the entire rescue team knew the true identity of this child, and she had won the great light of the fanatical faith of 100,000 people with her miracles and virtues in a few months, but many people who believed in her had blurred her appearance under the disturbance of intelligence.

But he was not such a fool, he had witnessed a miracle in that church, and he knew better than anyone what the Great Light really looked like, and had witnessed her grace, so he believed more fanatically.

The rest of the people who know are in the escort of the rescue team, they are all warriors who followed the Great Light to purify the fortress of the dead, this group of people was shrouded in the light of the coming along with the lord, and then fell into the spring of life in the first earth, it is said that they all gained the same power as the black knight beyond ordinary people, in order to protect the great light, the lord sent this group of warriors.

In fact, Theodoric just wanted to keep Dongdong out of the vortex of faith in the myth of the dawn, although the influence of this belief is currently positive, but God knows if this group of hot-headed people will do something out of the ordinary like the Cult of the Cursed God?

The number of people who initially believed in Dongdong and saw the child with their own eyes was very impressive, but in Bologna, where the population had more than doubled, their influence had been diluted to a relatively safe level, and it was better to know that the Great Light was in good shape.

The reason for sending Marisa out with him is similar, there are already many Goth lords who have approached him privately, and these people think that Dio is planning to re-establish the Gothic kingdom, and they also have enough reason to think so - Dio now has enough prestige and army, the faith of the Dawn Myth Sect and the wealth that seems to never be spent, and he also has a recognized descendant of the orthodox royal family!

The slogan of the coalition is 'Fight for an unbreakable alliance!' But a lot of goths think it's really about fighting for goths.

Throwing Knock and Marisa in front of him seemed dangerous, so Dio prepared a second letter that would allow the Rangers to abandon all of their current tasks and escort Knock and Marisa to safety at all costs.

Dio was confident in his strong men, and his orders would be carried out firmly.

The Franconian army has been in the affected area for a long time, and at first they had an intelligence exchange with the Alliance, but then they took the initiative to cut off the intelligence exchange, and like a vicious dog guarding the food, they blocked the surrounding neighbors.

Dio learned of the Frankish army's victory through some trivial information, and they seemed to feel that the natural disaster was no longer a threat, so they turned to wary of the alliance where the army was gathered.

But many people have a feeling that this war will not end so easily.