Chapter Seventy-Nine: Preparation

On a small hill outside the Cursed Lands, an old man stood here looking out into the distance, looking at the Demon Gate in the center of the Cursed Lands in the distance. I don't know what I'm thinking www.biquge.info my mind. A young man in a black robe walked over.

"Teacher, something has already been sent to those demons." The black-robed man said respectfully.

The old man listened to the words of the black-robed man, and took out a scroll from his hand, the scroll was simple in style, with a golden color on it, and there were simple words written on the scroll, only some people who were proficient in ancient characters knew that it was the text of the ancient gods.

"Send this scroll to the camp of the Elok Empire and give it to Archpriest Clifford of the Temple of Dawn." As he spoke, the old man handed the scroll to the black-robed man, who took the scroll and turned around to leave.

The old man ignored the departure of the black-robed man, and muttered to the demon gate in front of him: "This big drama directed by me is finally about to start, how wonderful will this performance be?" Let's wait and see. ”

After attacking the city of Gray Valley, the troops of the Soloran Kingdom won a brilliant victory, although they paid the sacrifice of more than 10,000 soldiers, but basically destroyed all the servant power of the fire demon Barot, just the fire demon above level 50 fell more than 50,000, and the strong people of the holy rank legend level also annihilated a lot, in the face of this unprecedented victory, the king issued a commendation order, and all the captains of the knights were all added by one rank.

These knight captains are generally from the children of great nobles, and it is almost difficult to find land from the territory of the kingdom to seal them, and the Demon Gate has not yet been conquered after all, so the kingdom cannot get any territory, and there is nothing to reward without territory. The king's reward for this battle was to be exempted from taxes and military service on the Demon Gate for the nobles in the future. This was also a major headache for the nobles, so when the king promised that it could be solved once and for all, they preferred to make a little more sacrifice to settle the matter once and for all.

As far as Cecil himself was concerned, the ultimate goal of participating in the battle was to be made a baron for his exploits in the war, but this goal was really difficult to achieve, and the kingdom had grown to the present day, and the long-term succession of peace had led to an increase in the titles of nobility, and the development of wasteland had reduced the number of new lands that could be obtained. Generally speaking, the kingdom rarely promotes new nobles, because the land of the new nobleman is not transferred from his benefactor, but the king himself needs to give him his royal territory, which requires the willingness of the king or the master of the knight, but the current situation is that neither the king nor the earl have this will. So if there are no exceptions, it is basically difficult for a mud leg to become an aristocrat.

Therefore, Cecil can only find a way to make as many achievements as possible to accumulate merit for himself so that he can become the exception, Cecil snatched Mithril is a great feat, and then repelling the attack of the other succubus in the battle of Ash Valley City is also a feat. But that wasn't enough, Cecil knew that the next step was to clean up these small strongholds on the outskirts of the Cursed Lands and continue to follow the large army without fighting, so he offered to take Anne back to the Count's team.

His immediate superior, Ophelina, happily agreed to his request, and since that night of drinking and gaffe, Ophelina has regained her usual eight-sided personality, as if the things of that night were done by another person, and Cecil can't help but admire Ophelina's ability to take and put it down, although there are occasional times when she is emotionally disturbed, but after all, she is still a person who can afford to let it go.

Archmage Antonio didn't want Anne and Cecil to mix together, so when he heard that Cecil was going to take her to the Earl's troops to continue the front-line battle, the archmage expressed his stern opposition, but Anne's feelings for Cecil had developed to a very deep point, so at Anne's insistence, the old mage could only reluctantly let go, and Cecil took Anne back to the Earl's garrison in Solo City.

When Cecil and Anne returned to Solo City, the Count happened to receive an order to attack the three strongholds left by the demon outside the Cursed Lands, and naturally welcomed the return of Cecil and Anne, these two people are now in the Earl's team and are already absolutely high-end combat power, I am afraid that no one can surpass the two of them except for the Count himself who has reached the Holy Land, only Yellen is barely between them and them.

Since the demons lost the four largest cities in the Cursed Lands, almost all the demons in the strongholds have adopted a closed turtle shell-like state to meet the attack of the human legion, and the situation faced by the Count is the same, the Blade Demon and some high-level fire demons who live in the attack stronghold have stubbornly defended the first three strongholds, making it difficult for the Earl to do anything.

Cecil is still following Baron Curesta to act, but Talis was transferred to the Temple of Life to be with Ophelina, probably Ophelina is afraid that the last gaffe will happen again, in this case, as a good friend, Talis is always more trusted than Cecil, so after Cecil took the initiative to apply, Talis was transferred to take his place. However, this also played into Cecil's hands, there was really nothing to do in the Temple of Life, and there was no more opportunity to make a contribution.

The baron's squad of 20 people is clearing a small demon's stronghold, and there are not even any decent high-level demons in the stronghold, which makes Cecil, who has always been a cross-level challenge, even a little uncomfortable, but the quality of the 20 barons is too far from the king's regular knights. Except for himself Anne and Saunders, only the Earl himself has a higher level than an ordinary Blade Demon, and the weakest is even only level 20, and an ordinary level 20 soldier is far from being able to defeat the weakest Rank 5 Blade Demon.

And this squad of the baron doesn't want those soldiers of the knights to be well-trained, and they can even use the Kratos battle formation to deal with the strong people of the holy rank, these people are basically militia in nature, their own quality is poor, and they can't keep up with their training, so they basically can't learn anything, and they only rely on their own quality to fight.

Cecil felt that it would be more efficient to carry out military operations with them than to come with him and Anne, and his holy light always had to take care of these ordinary people, and when this stronghold was cleaned up and all 50 blade demons fell, Cecil suddenly found that what he paid most attention to in the battle was not the enemy, but the blood of his own accomplices should not be killed so that he could replenish blood at any time.