Costana's voice echoed around the land for a long time, and after a while, a voice came from inside: "Come, Kostana, come in!" Central Square, I will give you a satisfactory answer! ”

Lieutenant General Costana with her general guard and Malan prepared to enter the village of Crane. As soon as Costana slapped her horse, Malan and the General's Guard followed her, and they entered the village of Crane. However, before Costana could take two steps, her horse trigger ripped off the tripwire set by Arturius, and a violent explosion came from the ground, blowing Costana away!

"Lieutenant General!" Malan and the guards shouted in unison.

The dust cleared, and Kostana's horse was dead, but Costana's fighting spirit protected her in time, and she stood firmly on the ground, only with some dust on her armor.

"I'm fine, all dismount!" Kostana patted the dirt off her body and ordered the soldiers to dismount, and then she was full of courage and shouted: "Why, Arturius, or is it the trick of these little children!?" ”

"But you still got it! Isn't it, Kostana? ”

"Hmph, if you can apply the wisdom of these little tricks to your cultivation, you can now shout at me with your fighting spirit instead of using a megaphone!"

"This is the invention of the Segu Military Science Department! What does that mean? Oh yes, Segu Tech, it's amazing! It took me a lot of effort to get it from you at the time! ”

"It's okay, Arturius, it's true that I can't tell you every time in twenty years, but wait, Arturius, and let me see how your sharp teeth can withstand the blade of the Empire!" Kostana was speechless, pursed her lips, uttered a harsh word, and walked with her soldiers into the village of Crane.

At this time, in the central square of the village of Crane, Arturius was waiting with the militia.

Arturius looked at the militiamen and shouted with a megaphone: "Brethren! Lift up your heads and look up at the sky! Today, the village we live in is about to be destroyed by its brutal rulers! In front of us is Costana, the lieutenant general of the Segou Empire, the commander of the 3rd Frontier Corps of Ségou, and the commander-in-chief of the Ségou-Roai Southern Frontier, the strongest shield of the Segou Empire! She has protected countless citizens of Segou from the poison of war! And now, she has become a brutal emissary, a blade in the hands of darkness, and a harbinger of a decaying and depraved empire! She came to announce the fate of our village. There is no doubt that for the Segou Empire, we must be destroyed!

She found that in this village, people did not accept the blueprints designed by the Segou Empire, and in this village, not everything worked according to plan. Cold logic deduces that our village is not worth saving. However, it does not take into account the power of free will. It is incumbent upon each and every one of us to prove that this is a village worth saving. Because our lives ...... It's a life worth prolonging.

"We may die today, and the village of Crane will be destroyed, but our spirits will not! Hidden in this body is a free mind, and the mind is not afraid of the sword! Come, brethren, let these tyrannical lackeys see if the blood of the Mardonians, the blood of liberty, is hotter and more red than the blood of their submission! ”

Arturius put down the megaphone, the militia began to roar, and Costana approached with the general's guard and Malan with a black face. They were getting closer and closer, the militiamen also drew their weapons, and the general guards, naturally, could not bear to show weakness, took up arms, and prepared for battle. Costana walked calmly, she didn't charge, she just walked slowly. Just as the two men were about to engage in a close fight, Kostana stopped in front of the militia. Arturius stepped out of the militia and looked at Kostana.

"Don't you give me a hug? After today, you won't have that chance. Costana looked at Arturius coldly.

"No need, I can't live today, so why bother me? Draw your sword, Kostana, today you are not my commander, not Trisa's mother, not my love, and today you stand before me with your soldiers, and there should be no other communication between us than fighting! Arturius assumed a fighting stance.

"It is true that today you are no longer my lieutenant, but Arturius, today I do not care about you, and I never have cared about you, but, my daughter, Theresa, where is she?"

"You don't have to know, Kostana! When you threw Theresa to me that night ten years ago, you didn't deserve her as a daughter! Arturius roared angrily and rushed forward, and the militia also charged, and in an instant, the two groups of people met each other!

The battle was short-lived, and in the blink of an eye, more than forty militiamen were slaughtered by Costana's general guard. Kostana's general guard has been on the battlefield for a long time, and the weakest one is also a bronze start, not to mention that Costana herself is already a person who is about to become a hero. Arturius slashed at Costana's body, and with a sound of gold and iron, Arturius was directly bounced back by Costana's protective fighting spirit, and Costana snatched the long sword in Arturius's hand like a wind, threw it on the ground, grabbed Arturius's collar with one hand, and lifted him up.

"I ask you one last time, Arturius, where is Theresa? After all, we have an old affection between us, Arturius, and I don't want to use those tactics against you. I have brought you the greatest glory of a warrior - death on the battlefield, Arturius, what more could you ask for? You know what kind of crime it is to rebel against the Empire and plot to riot! ”

"I know...... Costana, I have to say, I love you even now. But, Costana, you are by no means a good mother, and your love for the Empire is far greater than your love for me, for Theresa, and even for Carmelo back then! You can give up Carmelo for the Empire, so why can't you give up Theresa for the Empire? Kostana, I know you too well, I know your stubbornness too well! You think you can take everything into your own hands, but what about the truth? Carmelo chose the little girl from the Clinton family instead of you, didn't he? After all these years, Kostana, you haven't grown a bit. Ha, Kostana, Kostana, I said that you will not be able to move an inch without me, and it seems that my prophecy is right! You still haven't been in the Central Military Department for ten years, you're still a hero who hasn't been promoted, Kostana, even though I love you, I still feel pleasure in all this, Kostana, this life stops here! I have entrusted Theresa to a young man with more potential than you, and in less than ten years, he will surpass you like Carmelo, and you and I are just a speck of dust in the vast history! ”

Annoyed, Kostana threw Arturius at him, who flew three meters away and slammed into a wall.

"Haha, Kostana, you're scared!" Arturius spat blood, spoke weakly, and then he took out a dagger and plunged it into his chest like a wind, and as the blood gushed out, Arturius died.

Costana was silent, and after a while, she spoke: "Put these corpses in order, and burn them all along with this village in a moment!" ”

"Yes!"

As Costana walked into the village chief's longhouse, she pushed open the door and saw two bodies hanging from the beams, and she fixed her eyes on them: it was the Pachels! With a long sigh, she put the two bodies down, bowed slightly, and began to search the house. She turned over room by room, and judging from the traces, there was a little girl who originally lived here who left here two days ago. She knew it was Theresa.

She immediately went out to look for possible traces, but there were so many women and children who had left two days ago that for a while, Costana could not find any trace of Theresa. She could only sigh and silently bless her daughter, praying that her daughter was entrusted to a suitable person. But she wasn't worried about that, after all, Arturius saw people accurately—and so did himself.