Act 257: The War Without Smoke (Part II)

Ampesel was cloudy, and Tonigel, far south, was also filled with an atmosphere of preparedness.

Immediately after returning to the territory, Brando convened an emergency meeting.

The venue for the meeting was chosen in a forest not far from New Valhalla, where the Tree Elves planted a wide field surrounded by ten ancient banyan trees, and Brando liked the place so much that he was asked to use it as a meeting place for the time being, and because of the prior notice, he had almost all the core members present, including those who had been following him since Lydenburg.

Ulliel, Voltaron, Mano, Leto, and Bartom were mostly members of the Bronze Dragon Mercenary Regiment earlier, and although Ulliel was the captain of the Ridenburg Security Cavalry, he had also joined the group since Ridenburg. Only Voltaron is a little special, he was originally the master chief of the white-maned infantry regiment, and for various reasons, he walked with their group and became a rebel in the eyes of the world.

Brando stood under an ancient banyan tree, looking at these people, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Several of the familiar faces of the members of the Bronze Dragon Mercenary Regiment are no longer visible, several old men have died of illness during their long migration, and a large number of the rest have died in the Second Tonigel War. However, the will of the dead seems to continue in the body of the living, and the rest of the people become stronger and more resolute.

The change is evident -

Ulliel used to be a lackey of the aristocracy who bullied the market in Ridenburg, and when he first appeared in front of Brando, he was a little white face who was out-and-out and middle-class. But now, because of the perennial activities outside, the skin is slightly tanned, and there are more scars on his face and arms from the war, although the whole person looks a lot rougher, but it also looks more mature and stable: among the refugees who migrated with Lidenburg, there are not many of them, because not all of them are willing to leave their homes, and most of the people who originally knew this security cavalry captain hated and feared him, but now there are more and more people who must take the initiative to stop on the road and call him Captain Ulliel.

But what is more important is the strength, in just one year, from a horn sè who is not up or down the edge of black iron to the top of black iron, not only in Ulliel: most of the people who came out of Ridenburg are like this, Voltaron, the gambler Mano Redbeard Bartom and Leto are also similar, and within a few months, there are faint signs of breaking through the peak of black iron and entering the silver level.

The changes in the Sea of Magic are changing the whole world, but only those who have experienced the trials of life and death can experience this change most clearly.

Brando's gaze passed over the crowd at Fort Riden, and then fell on another group of gray wolf mercenaries. These people who were abandoned by Macaro and taken in by him have not joined this group for a long time, but many of them have also improved their strength in different ways, including Sanfud, whose strength has also increased to the level of the upper level of black iron after the dragon blood potion is divided.

In fact, regarding the order of the dragon's blood medicine brake, in fact, Antitina advocated that the old man of Ridenberg should be given priority, and the others would observe according to the situation. However, Brando felt that he didn't have to follow him so far, and that those who had experienced two wars so far could be considered loyal and reliable, and that it would take courage to be an enemy of the nobility in this era, and if it weren't for Makaro and Grudin, these mercenaries would not have come this far with him.

Although the current production of dragon's blood potions is not much, it is obviously more convincing to the public by merit and contribution than seniority, not to mention that most of the first group of people who followed him were also people who retained incomparable loyalty and contribution to this collective. Brando convinced Antitina with this, and also won the hearts and minds of the people, although according to the actual proportion, the Red Bronze Dragon Mercenary Group still got the most dragon blood potion, but at least the others could see that everyone had an equal opportunity in this group, and even the latecomers had the same chance as the predecessors in the group.

As long as hard work can be rewarded accordingly, people will be full of motivation. Brando's comparison is to keep this group alive. He had been the head of the Amber Sword for a while, and he had a certain understanding of the modern organizational system, so he was naturally much ahead of the nobles of this era.

And in the eyes of this noble lady from Pragus, the lord's construction had a surprising effect that she had not foreseen at all. The people's hearts are more stable and cohesive, which is an expected change, but she vaguely feels that there seems to be something more in the group, as if it is a spirit, everyone has become more motivated, the new members are working hard, the old people are also feeling the crisis, and even she herself is infected by this atmosphere, and she has become full of energy during the day.

This change is subtle, and has formed a good cycle within the entire fir collar group, Antitina, who has learned some imperial techniques from the ancient inheritance of the Nematsu family, is secretly frightened, she understands that this atmosphere is deliberately done by many nobles and even monarchs and cannot achieve the effect, but her lord seems to have completed it with a gesture.

The aristocratic lady thought about it carefully, and although she had always been conceited, she had to admit that she couldn't do it herself. She always had loyalty over justice as her first consideration, and she felt that she couldn't understand why Brando could always ignore this, wasn't her young lord afraid of cultivating talents for his opponents? It is common to change the court in this era, and almost all nobles have a headache about how to maintain the loyalty of their subordinates.

But Brando never cared, but his group was the most loyal and cohesive she had ever seen.

Brando's answer to this is this: If you have a fair and good system, why worry about the flow of people in that system? Loyalty is not given because of praise and favoritism, but because the collective is worth it, and I am confident that this collective is the best choice for those who follow me, and I maintain the system while others pay loyalty. It is because of this confidence in the community that all people can trust and attach themselves to it.

The noble lady seemed to understand Brando's understanding, but she still remembered the calm and confident air with which her lord said this, and she had never seen such calmness and chic in any nobleman...

If you come, I will greet you. If you abandon it, I will not stop it. She felt that perhaps only such a xiōng placket could create such a unique and charming collective.

One for all. Even a group like Ulliel, who had a bad past can find their place.

With the thoughts of the recent period, Antitina slowly walked into the Banyan Tree Field, and she couldn't help but raise her head to look at Brando not far away, just in time to meet the young lord's gaze.

"There are really more and more girls around the lord, and even boys like Mordface look much cuter than herself" For some reason, an inexplicable thought suddenly flashed in the noble lady's heart, and the heart that had been calmed down because she didn't want to compete with Little Roman moved inexplicably.

"Maybe it's not like there's no chance."

And Brando, who was leaning on the banyan tree, couldn't help but laugh when he saw his staff lady enter. Of course, he noticed Antitina's gaze, but he only thought that the other party was reminding him to pay attention to his appearance as a lord and a nobleman of the kingdom, and he could almost imagine Antitina's tone when she said this, and he had to smile slightly at the thought of the serious look of the staff lady.

Antitina is always so serious, but there is also something cute in it.

Brando involuntarily criticized the girl, but he reacted immediately, quickly shaking his head and throwing the thought out of his mind. It seems that since he was forced under the tomb by the deer-body banshee royal sister with the same name as the goddess of fate, it has caused something strange in his heart to be agitated Speaking of which, the current Brando is only nineteen years old and about to be twenty years old, and Sophie in the previous life was still a high-level magician, so at this moment, there is still some ignorance and unknown about the feelings between men and women, and it is full of curiosity that belongs to teenagers.

He patted his head to sober himself up, and his gaze shifted from Antitina to the others. At this moment, the other people on the field entered one after another, and the people were almost all together, and Brando noticed that his subordinates had unknowingly had such a large collective.

Akane, Mordfeth, and Metisa, as well as the new vampire girl Andreg, and a little further away, Ropar, Charles and his fireclaw spearman, and the fire djinn who communicates with a group of wind spirits and light spirits, are all elemental creatures, though they barely interact with each other in their own realm. But the common language was then the formation of a circle of young non-commissioned officers of the White Lion Infantry, such as Courland, Karglis, Meria, and the experience of marching and retreating together in the Black Forest had allowed them to develop a comrade-like bond.

The two holy archangels and Roman stood together, they had now almost become Roman's exclusive bodyguards, and the dead air on his body had disappeared. In fact, on the way back, Brando summoned the Book of Life and removed it from the battle, killing all the cards from the grave. The Book of Life is currently on cooldown, and the Graveyard Resurrection card has returned to the library from its enchantment state.

Brando's marriage was done to prepare for Ampesel's party, but he also knew that he might not be able to use the Book of Life in the entire Ampesel group, but it was more important to weigh it and let a few cards in the graveyard be more important.

Although the Book of Life is the core card of Pure White Heaven, in fact, after the Adversity Paradise is merged into one, the Book of Life card only strengthens the defense of the deck on the field, and Brando's means of recovering his life as a traveling mage are actually not many, at least the pile of various types of holy water obtained from Amman in his dimensional cave may be unprecedented in ancient times.

At least Amman's logistical supplies for an army are more farther away, it is the three Grand Masters of Fern, Juta, and Clenthia and their subordinates, who stand with the Tiger Sparrow, Rocco and others of the Lubis mercenaries, on the other side of them, is the circle of the Red Bronze Dragon Mercenary Regiment, and finally the villagers of Green Village, standing with the druids and tree elves, Funya is like a fish in water in that circle, she has been living with her father for a while now, and Brando doesn't want to let Funya and her family because of the druid. The people of the village were alienated.

Brando looked up, there were still xué people in the forest, Tajib was doing well under him, and the chief of the xué people had expressed his willingness to submit to him several times. They are not despised in this group as much as the underworld, on the contrary, many people who are loyal to this group speak of the xué dwellers as being protectors, and it is true that before the tree elves joined, the xué dwellers were indeed the strongest in Brando's hands.

All these people on the field are not easy to see on weekdays, such as Antitina who has been directing agricultural production in the Mintai area for a while and has rarely appeared in the fir collar Tonigel's winter crops are now entering the jointing and leaf pulling period, and Brando almost doesn't know anything about it, but Antitina, who is a noble lady, is an expert, Vawend's agriculture basically relies on magic, and the yield is very high, and the wizard and the monks of the temple play a great role in it, but the monks of the temple cannot serve the rebels, Fortunately, Bran has had druids for many years, and the Deinjs are far more skilled in cultivation than the monks of the Flame Temple.

But when the men gathered, Brando realized that his wings had grown fuller.

He couldn't help but count it carefully, Akane, Mordfeth, Metisa, and Ropar are the four golden ranks, as well as Charles and Andreg, the two golden-level wizards, in addition to Kuran, the fire djinn also has the strength of the golden lower rank, counting himself, there are a total of nine golden ranks, not counting the strength of the tree elves and druids. In terms of numbers alone, it is only second only to the famous Grand Dukes such as Eruin Anlek and Sifah.

Brando remembered that there were a total of twenty-two Golden Rank members who served the Eruin royal family, but not all of these twenty-two followed the royal party in the south, and some also joined the camp of the king's eldest son, the Sifah family. In other words, the strength of the royal family is only a dozen golden ranks, which can be said to be the national power of Eruin, not much stronger than him, and it may not be as good as it in terms of quality.

You must know that the gold rank under Brando's hands is almost above the middle level except for Kuran and the fire djinn, and Medisa has the strength to be in the upper position. And Akane has reached the level of the golden peak in one fell swoop after transforming the dragon bloodline, and after the pseudo-mother true blood ghost accepts the sacrifice, it is the manifestation of the element, and it is only a thin line away from breaking through the wall of the element, you must know that in Vaughnde, the manifestation of the element is actually regarded as the strength of the element level in the recognition.

And further down, the Silver and Black Iron Ranks are also full-fledged, and most of the people who have been named by Bran alone are the three Grand Master Lubis Mercenary Regiments, the Fire Claw Spearmen when the Holy Angel Lord is on the field, the Goddess Meria Officer of Karglis and his little lover of Sīben, and then there are the mercenary groups and the combined forces of the Tree Elves who came out of the Black Forest with him, and the number of them is no less than a count, and among them, the leader of the Fire Land Warband, Fern, has entered the peak of silver, and it seems that it is another gold level of combat power.

It is worth mentioning that Brando's own "Rock Garrurummon", a silver-level black wolf with several heads, is also a hidden and terrifying force.

And down from the silver, the Red Bronze Dragon Mercenary Regiment is the main force of the near silver, and a large number of black iron peaks steadily form the mainstay of the middle and lower level officers, and then below are Uliel, the old dwarf Oldem, the wind spirit pseudo-dragon and the Xué dweller, as well as the shadow beast, and even the alchemist Tamar of the auxiliary people has recently had the strength of the black iron rank, except for a few people who sell cute and pure civil officials, such as Roman and Antitina, Brando's combat power is almost full of talents.

The only drawback is the lack of the most high-end combat power, the princess side has at least Buga and Liwoods is elemental civilization, and the hidden elemental civilization combat power of the Corkova royal family for several years is definitely more than that, as for the duke's side, on the surface, Anlek is a retainer with two elements of civilization, and there are three in the duke's coalition army in the north, in addition to Viero has one, and Carasu has two (one of them is a wizard), compared with these forces, Brando's top combat power is a little insufficient.

Except for the Gray Sword Saint, but the Gray Sword Saint Mephistopheles is not a person in his group after all.

If Brando wants to win in the elemental level battle at this moment, the only means he can think of is the Golden Radiant Battle Banner, although there are many restrictions, but as long as he is inserted on the field, he at least has the strength to compete with the other Grand Dukes of Eruin.

By this time, the field had fallen silent from the tumultuous scene, and the people had gathered, and all eyes were on this direction, waiting to see what the excessively young lord suddenly called them together and wanted to say. At this time, Brando came back to his senses, his gaze slowly swept over the audience, and in a short moment, his thoughts had become clear again.

"Let's talk about the recent past." Brando set his eyes on Antitina first.

The next thing he wanted to say was about Ampesel and his party. However, he needed to prepare, this matter was related to the future of the entire group and the territory, and Brando thought to himself that it was time for these people who followed him to understand his thoughts. What exactly is the future of Eruin? He didn't know how many people would agree with that, but after a period of subtlety, Brando wanted to see the results.

How many people are like-minded with him, and how many people want to save this ancient kingdom that once wrote the glory on its banner.

"My sword is pointed ahead, and the first nobles of Eruin trace the glory of the ancients, and march along the path of the ancient sages. , a pioneer Eke @.