The winter of the year the War of the Black Roses broke out was unusually cold, and the gray sky seemed to be frozen into powder.

Jert lurked in the bushes on the top of the hill all night, almost freezing.

He reached out to catch the powder that fell from the sky, and the palm of his hand was slightly cold, and the ice crystals melted into snow in his hand. The young man, still wearing his cyan string mage apprentice robes, which seemed to have remained unchanged for thousands of years, looked up at the sky.

It's snowing.

The first snow of the year.

He couldn't help but think of the regular conversation between Lord Charles and the young lord, mentioning the situation in the north, the ......fate of the combined forces of the Grand Duke and Her Royal Highness the Princess, "The war in the north dragged on until after the first snow"

Jert himself is just a noble son of a small gentry family, his hometown is in Karasu, which also belongs to a remote area of the kingdom, although it is a noble family, but after all, his knowledge is limited, at most he can only watch those big people live.

It's better than the average person, but the recent years have been getting worse every year.

Jert came out on an adventure, and he knew very well in his heart that it was to change his fate. He systematically studied magic for a period of time under a wizarding mentor, communicating with the mentor and learning about the outside world, a chaotic world of the times, which had a fatal attraction for young people like him.

The chaos seems to be full of opportunities.

So after the death of his mentor, Jert embarked on the journey of his dreams.

But his luck was not as good as he had hoped, and several of his acquaintances, who were from similar backgrounds, fell ill and died during the journey, and they had to rest in the fir collar before considering whether to return the way they had come and move on.

Unexpectedly, Grudin killed all his companions, and the desperate Jert just wanted to stay and die with the nobleman.

But sometimes fate is so changeable.

It was that night that he met the young lord, who had been involved in the battle, and had the privilege of following him ever since, and he became the first member of the Charr's wizarding order.

As Charles' lieutenant, he had the opportunity to participate in the discussion between Brando and the wizard's servant, and of course, the young two of them could not interject to talk about the situation in the north, about the invasion of the Black Rose in Bramanto, and about Cruz.

The lord's vision made it seem as if he had seen a whole new world, a height he had never imagined before.

It was also something that his first mentor never talked to about with him.

At that moment, Jert knew that he might have seized the opportunity, and that the path to realizing his dream was close or realized.

Since then he has become a wholehearted supporter of Brando, and this time he went deep into Pallas to get information, which he also volunteered to do.

However, the Scout Squad needed a talent who was proficient in spells, so he was the only choice.

Charles also complained to Brando, saying that he had robbed one of his right-hand men.

However, Jert did not regret it, and he felt that it was better to come out and attract the attention of the other party with practical actions than to stay with the adult.

He was an adventurous man, otherwise he wouldn't have left home to come here.

The young man stared at the sky and thought for a long time, and finally came back to his senses. Then he rubbed his hands together and didn't dare to make too many movements, so as not to attract the attention of the sentries below.

He looked out over the hill at the gray-yellow tents and the crowded camps in the forest below.

Then he heard a loud noise behind him, his companion on the alert in that direction, and a voice that was clearly his own, and of course there was another possibility, not to mention.

Jert immediately tensed the divine path "white ...... Dish ......"

A strange password came from the woods, supposedly taught to them by the Charles.

Jert immediately relaxed, it was his own person, he turned around and replied: "Lai Yi is a thorn"

"Yuo Ma."

Jert could tell the name as another wizard apprentice on the same team, who had only a nickname and no name—the lord had given him the name.

What a lackey luck guy, Jert couldn't help but think so.

"How's it going, Jerter, is this the camp of the Knight of Pallas down there?" The wizard's apprentice in a gray robe came up to him and crouched beside him and whispered, "But the rats said there was no camp here."

"This is not Pallas's camp."

Jert shook his head.

"Isn't it?" Ma Youfu was stunned.

The young man nodded slowly, and he moved his frozen and stiff limbs slightly: "They are mountain people." ”

"Mountain people?"

"Aren't they fighting Pallas?" Surprised, Ma asked "Why are they here?" Could it be that they are planning to invade at this time? God help us! ”

But Jert shook his head, it wasn't that simple: "There are many mountain people, and they may be coming at us. ”

"What?"

"Y-Are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure, I'm more familiar with them than you do, okay, go and get the message to the newspaper team and we're ready to retreat...... Jett replied: ...... It's snowing, and there's no hiding people here. We'll have to change our clothes. ”

Ma Yufu looked at his companion and nodded.

"Mountain people?"

The snow in the sky became a little denser.

Not long after leaving the South Gate, Brando was confronted by a mercenary, a young man who recognized this man as Charles's subordinate.

At Brando's behest, Charles selected from among the mercenaries and adventurers, wizards who knew how to do tricks, third-rate elementals, liars, witch doctors who pretended to be ghosts, and a large number of apprentices to form a so-called wizarding group.

Because of the wizards of the golden realm of Charr as a signboard, this initiative did not take much effort, and even many wizards voluntarily left the mercenary group to join this so-called wizarding group: although this matter once attracted criticism from the various mercenary group leaders, "but because of Brando's support", it did not really encounter any trouble.

Brando knew that the advantage of using spellcasters in a concentrated manner had already been proven by both players and NPCs in later wars, of course, Charles had complained to him more than once that these people didn't deserve to be called "wizards" at all, not that it was better to say that it was a hodgepodge of people of all religions, but Brando didn't care, at least in his opinion, this was the first formed wizarding group under his command.

What's more, there are many talented people among these people, and if they are cultivated a little, there is no problem in forming the backbone of the future wizarding association. It's a pity that although Charles has the strength of a mentor, he has no experience in cultivating apprentices, so this so-called wizarding group still seems to be an empty shelf at present. But it's not completely useless" These spellcasters with even a little bit of strength more or less follow a certain mentor, or at least have been apprentices for a while, and there are even academics from academic backgrounds, and they have one thing in common.

That is, they are all literate and hyphenation.

As a result, Brando, Antitina, Sparrow, and Charles usually use them for intelligence and some paperwork. Apparently the one he is now encountering is none other than one of the so-called Tiger Sparrow's "intelligence services."

In response to Brando's question, the elemental envoy nodded: "Yes, my lord, Lord Charles let me tell you" You may be in urgent need of this news. This information is "those people in the north, sent back, it says it is related to the mountain people~"

Those people in the north?

Brando paused for a moment before remembering that he had indeed sent Tiger Sparrow and Leto to infiltrate the Pallas region in order to gather news of the Count Denel's army.

Tiger Sparrow was solely responsible for this, but he also knew the specific plan, "Charles had his third-rate wizards or apprentices gathered from among the mercenaries to be mixed into these scout squads, disguised as adventurers in order to send messages back to the rear."

The method of sending the message back is also very simple, but this method is proposed by him himself, the animal messenger. Of course, this is not a new method, but a method of using demons, which was already used by the Cruz people in the November War before the year of the cave beasts, but few people in this era have thought of sending wizards to the front line", so this method is far from being spread in this era. But it wasn't until the outbreak of the War of the Black Roses, a few years later, that the first wave of magic came, and the number of people with wizarding talents increased day by day, and this method gradually spread.

In the later stages of the war" this is already a very mature method. However, at that time, there was already a more stable alternative, "For example, with the help of magic tools, but Brando didn't have this condition yet, so he thought of this for the first time, the local method,.

With the animal messenger to transmit information, it takes about a day and a night for an apprentice to transmit information, and theoretically the way to pass through the Guò station is to send the information back from one station to another, and the information that used to be delayed for almost a week can now reach the fir realm in an instant.

However, Tiger Sparrow and Charles have limited manpower at their disposal, especially those who have both spell-casting ability and scout skills, so in fact, there are only two or three such eyeliner squads.

As a result, their surveillance of the Pallas Knights was actually quite limited, and Brando had not expected to receive useful information so quickly with this kind of surveillance. But now it seems that the nobles still look down on them, the mob.

Perhaps they paid enough attention to being the opponents of the war, but outside of the war, Pallas was still negligent in guarding against them. However, it is understandable that although Brando does not have many men now, he does not have the consciousness of using means even more than Eruin's regular army, but a traditional soldier like Sir Pallas can deal with it with headaches.

Throwing wizards on the front lines as scouts? In the eyes of the aristocracy, does this kind of thing seem like a human thing?

Only Brando, who is accustomed to this practice, will get used to it, in fact, when he first proposed this idea, it was not only the always conservative Antitina, but even Charles was shocked.