Act 120: The Shadow of the Fleet (Part II)
(I feel like Kaka's, or try to write a chapter.) It's better to help Xiao Hei's "Calamity" ask for a monthly ticket. )
Shadows swept across the plains like a great scythe across the meadows, causing waves of grass to fly, and cavemen screaming and fleeing in all directions. A dragon beast was skimming through the sky from a low altitude, followed by a second, and then a third, rolling in one after another, its huge wingspan covering the sky and the sun, and the dragons walking in the air. The wind raised her long black hair, and the strands of hair swept across her face, and Modette looked up at this scene with a little playfulness, from her vision to the extreme, the vast horizon seemed to form a flat arc on the horizon, and at the farthest end of this arc, as far as the eye could see, the tips of the human walls and towers were glittering.
That's where the port of Rune is.
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At this moment, the bells of the warning were ringing in the harbor of Rune, and fast horses carrying the heralds of the harbor guard were shuttling up and down the streets and alleys, and the sound of horses' hooves falling on the stone slabs like a storm seemed to fall on the panicked hearts. The wharf was in a gloomy place, and from time to time the many port officials and the Cruz nobles who had gathered here had fled with Brando looked gloomily at the bay - as if the sight of a plank floating on the surface of the sea would have reassured them a little, but unfortunately, the waters between the dozen or so piers that jutted straight into the bay were clean and empty, not even a single superfluous wave.
On the plains, cavemen are gathering.
The griffon knights, who had flown back from the plains, also spotted signs of a horde of drakes of beasts.
It was evident that the army of Jorgantigan behind them had spotted them and was preparing to attack the city. Bad news followed, but there seemed to be none, and Rogers and the others who were mixed in the crowd at the moment did not look better than the others, although they had some confidence in the young Earl from Eruin. But as time goes by, it seems that it becomes more and more difficult to say how much of this confidence can still be determined.
"The smell of sulfur in the air is getting heavier," Trevor sniffed, muttering with a frown, "The wind is blowing from the sea, and we can all smell sulfur here." I'm afraid that the dragon beast herd is already very close. ”
"Maybe the lord is coming soon......" Rogers reassured in a low voice.
"Is it really fast?" Trevor looked up at the sea, not to mention the ships in the direction of the docks, not even a single guard in sight, it didn't look like a fleet would suddenly appear.
"Trevor, there's no need for that lord to deceive us," Nasha replied weakly as she lay on the stretcher, "Even if the dragon beasts do arrive, the city defense can still hold up for a while, and there are Pegasus Knights in Rane Harbor......" She seemed to give her companions a little confidence. But his face is not much better, after all, if the Pegasus Knight can really be used, the ship in the port of Rune will not be burned to the ground, everyone understands this truth. In the end, she couldn't say any more, so she stopped and asked in a low voice, "Kui, tell me about ......"
Rogers and Tfrey also turned their heads to look at the brunette young man. Although the youngest of the four team members didn't speak much, they were always in the right words. Calm and calm, the more you get to this time, the more reliable the other party's judgment becomes.
Kui raised his head and replied calmly, "I'm thinking about what he said before, I don't know if I heard it wrong." ”
"What did you hear wrong?"
"I didn't pay much attention at the time, but now I think about it. The berth that the Lord Earl had asked for the Count of Orcons to prepare for him seemed to be a special berth......" replied the black-haired young man with a rare frown.
"What did you say!?"
It seemed that the wind had suddenly changed direction over the field, and dark clouds began to gather on the surface of the sea.
More than ten minutes passed in a solemn state, but there was still no movement on the sea. Anxiety was spreading among the crowd, especially among the aristocrats of Cruz, and many of them still had a pitiful hope that Brando would conjure a miracle at the last moment, but as the minutes passed, that hope was becoming more and more dim.
After the disappointment, doubts grew—and when you think about it, you can understand how it is possible to conjure up a fleet with white fangs, because they still believed it before.
The Cruz nobles looked a little ugly, and some even suspected that Brando and his party had secretly abandoned them and left, but before this word spread, Enid and Princess Magdal came with an Eruin envoy to refute the rumors, and the commotion was suppressed. But then another story spread among the crowd, that although not everyone was present at the handover between Count Orcons and Wallas, there were always some nobles who had witnessed the situation, and when these nobles reacted from their uneasiness, some people finally remembered like the black-haired young man that Brando had asked Viscount Wallas to prepare for them a special berth in the harbor.
Floating fleet?
Everyone subconsciously looked up at the sky, and the white ivory towers were neatly arranged in the sky above the port area like the teeth of a grate, but the space between the towers was still a clear space, except for some faintly glowing rings rotating.
"Could it be that the Earl could really conjure up a floating fleet here?" The Cruz nobles present couldn't help but have another wave of suspicion in their hearts.
"Don't dream, where did the Eruin get their floating fleet?" This time it was the port officials of the port of Rune who broke everyone's illusions, most of them were local gentry and nobles, who were very different from the other nobles who had fled on the docks, and who had not been willing to give up the port to others, especially to a group of Eruins, but were driven out of the airport by Charles with the authorization of the Count of Orcons, and had been greatly embarrassed in front of everyone, so that although they knew that the Eruin were there to maintain the special berths of the airport, they deliberately looked on coldly.
In fact, in their hearts, these people didn't believe that these Eruins could conjure up a floating fleet, and besides, they hadn't seen Brando's abilities, and as Cruz, they would never believe that a group of hillbillies would be better than them—a mentality that all the fleeing nobles present had before, but after the night of fighting in Blackstone. It's more or less reversed.
“…… That said, as far as I know, the Eruin royal family still has a floating fleet. A voice in the crowd retorted, not giving these local nobles face at all, in fact, the fleeing nobles were not familiar with these local nobles, even in terms of birth status. It was even more noble, after all, most of these port officials were just vassals of Count Orcons, and there were still a few other nobles present whose status was not inferior to that of Orcons himself.
Hearing this rebuttal, the face of the port official who spoke earlier suddenly became a little ugly, he actually didn't know that the Eruin royal family had a fleet of its own, but in the eyes of the arrogant navy of the Cruz Empire, the navy built by the wind elves with the help of the wind elves, which was not even as strong as the local fleet, could not be called a real fleet at all, but was just a child's toy. And as the port personnel of the Empire, they were more or less influenced by this kind of thinking, and directly ignored this worthless fleet.
"That's also called a fleet? A bunch of unsightly landlubbers! He cursed secretly in his heart, but he still understood that the other party's identity was higher than himself after all, so he didn't dare to say this, so he only sneered and said: "Since you also know that it is the fleet of the Eruin royal family, it is difficult to say whether the count can be transferred, if I remember correctly, the count is not a member of the royal family." It's not an extraordinary minister, it's just an envoy. Take 10,000 steps back. Even if he can mobilize this fleet, it is different from most people's imagination, in fact, the floating battleship itself does not have the ability to teleport, and the fleet's teleportation relies on the wizards in the fleet and the large portals arranged in advance, which is unique in the empire that relies on the temple. But I don't think the Eruins have the capital. ”
Although the status of these local officials was not as good as that of most of the fleeing nobles present, after all, they were familiar with the situation, and their understanding of port affairs and even maritime affairs was much greater than that of other people present. Indeed, the Eruins have a fleet. But that is the only fleet in that small kingdom, not to mention whether Brando is qualified to be transferred at will, even if he is qualified to transfer, the distance from Eruin to Rune is far more than thousands of miles, to teleport the fleet to such a far place, do the Eruin people have the ability?
At least in the minds of most Cruz, the Eruin are certainly not capable of this.
Although they had to admit that the young Earl Eruin in front of them was better than all of them, it was just a few after all, and it was not surprising that one or two geniuses might be born in a kingdom, not to mention that there was also the example of Sword Saint Daurus there, which was not unacceptable to these imperial nobles. But the fleet is different, the comparison of naval strength between the two countries shows the gap in comprehensive strength between the two countries, which is obviously not something that can be changed by one or two geniuses, and the gap between the Eruin Kingdom and the Empire is obvious and cannot be calculated.
Even if the empire wants to teleport a local fleet to a place as far away as Eruin, it needs to arrange a magic circle in advance, and even activate the flame gate, which consumes a lot of materials and energy to do so, how can a mere envoy group carry these things to the market, unless they were ready to attack the imperial capital in the first place?
However, in the eyes of the nobles present, this was clearly impossible.
The port official couldn't help but feel a little proud when he saw the other people's faces turn worse - although if Brando couldn't conjure a fleet out of thin air, he probably wouldn't be able to run away from the harbor himself, but unlike the others who were full of expectations at first, he never thought that the Eruins were capable of it, and only regarded them as unashamed liars. At this moment, he was naturally very happy to stomp on the other party's feet to breathe, so he continued: "Saying this may disappoint everyone present, if you want to teleport the fleet to any place without preparation, even the Empire can't do it, let alone those Eruins." ”
As soon as he said this, the nobles present couldn't help but feel even lowered, after all, no matter how much these Cruz people thought that Brando was capable, they would never admit in their hearts that even the empire could not do it, and the Eruin people were capable of doing it - after all, this was not a competition between one or two people, but a comparison between the strength of the country, after all, even those who had confidence in Eruin would not dare to say such a ridiculous and generous thing that Eruin was stronger than the Cruz Empire.
And the port official himself thinks so. He obviously felt that his words were already a foregone conclusion, and there would never be any miracles that could happen again, but it was under such circumstances that a calm voice from the crowd asked, "You mean, in fact, it can still be done, but the empire can't do it?" ”
Hear this question. The port official's eyelids jumped, and he immediately looked in that direction in annoyance, wanting to see who was so ignorant: what the empire could not do, the Eruin could do? It's a fantasy! However, before he looked up, he first saw Kui's knight's uniform, and then his eyes looked at the simple badge on the chest of the black-haired young man, "Royal knight?" He almost thought he had seen it wrong, and he couldn't help but wipe his eyes, only to realize that the person who asked him the question was really a real royal knight. Although he was arrogant, he was not stupid, and he knew that most of these royal knights who were wandering around the place were the identity of the knights of the inner court, and after his face couldn't help but change for a while, he didn't dare to reply at all: "That's just a theoretical possibility, unless there are countless wizards who are providing energy for this fleet and casting teleportation spells...... The number of wizards required to do so is probably even a collection of all the wizards in the entire Eruin. It's not enough. ”
What he meant by this was actually to sentence Brando to death for his pledge. The hearts of all the people present who had just been lifted couldn't help but sink deeply at this moment, and everyone couldn't help but subconsciously raise their heads, looking at the gloomy and unchanging sky, there was still no movement between the towers, whether the Earl was a liar or a miracle. It seems that it will be revealed in an instant.
……
"See?"
Wallas stared gloomily at the horizon and nodded, standing on the top of the tower of the airport, he could already see a shadow floating in the sky towards the plain, it was a group of dragons. "The Knights of Pegasus are ready to take off, but...... I'm afraid it's useless. Unless it's the Griffin Knights of the Frontier Guards, I won't be able to delay much......" he replied to Marjorie with some stiffness—not long ago Brando had sent the young non-commissioned officer to deal with him.
After Wolas finished speaking, he couldn't help but glance in the direction of the bridge again, as the head of the port, he was different from the short-sighted officials below, after all, he could see what these wizards from Eruin were doing, and these wizards and wizard apprentices were really maintaining the harbor - not pretending. For a moment even he almost believed it, or maybe the Earl could really conjure up a fleet, otherwise he would not be able to explain what the other party was doing with all this useless work.
The problem, though, was that, like the port officials below, he couldn't figure out how Brando could send Eruin's royal fleet to this place, even if he wanted to.
"Mr. Marjorie," he asked, with some difficulty, "do you really think that your captain will be able to bring the fleet of the Eruin royal family to this place...... I mean, we're running out of time? ”
When Marjorie heard this, his eyes withdrew from the horizon, and he glanced at the old fellow with some strange looks, and replied, "When did you tell you that the fleet of the Eruin royal family would come here?" I am a non-commissioned officer of the fleet, and I can tell you plainly that the Earl is not qualified to move the royal fleet. ”
"Huh?" Wallas was almost stunned, he looked at the latter dumbfounded, and asked in a trembling voice, "Then what are you doing here!?" ”
Marjorie shook his head calmly: "I don't know, but Lord Count has his own ideas, as a soldier, I just need to obey orders." ”
Wallas's eyes almost darkened when he heard this, the only hope for all of them was to hope that Brandor would be able to mobilize the royal fleet of Eruin here, and that's it, it seemed to him that it was a miracle, and now the young non-commissioned officer actually told him with a calm face that their Lord Count might really conjure a fleet for them out of thin air, the question is Martha, is it possible for such a thing to exist?
Viscount Wallas only felt that even if the sun came out in the west, such a thing might not happen.
He looked at Marjorie dumbfounded, and after a moment of dizziness, as if he had just remembered something, he hurriedly turned and ran in the direction of Brando, shouting angrily: "Monsieur Brando, you must give me an explanation!" ”
It's just that he didn't take two steps before he was stopped by a figure, and it was Charles who stopped him, who smiled slightly: "Lord Viscount, don't worry, Lord Lord is in contact with the Eruin side, we are in some trouble, but believe me, my lord, he will not let you down." ”
"You ......" Wallas replied with a look of anger and disappointment, "Well, I'll see how you conjure up a fleet, damn the Eruins!" ”
Hearing this, Charles only shrugged his shoulders slightly.
But he wasn't lying, and Brando was in a bit of trouble at the moment.
The trouble comes from the Bujias.
……
"Lady Tanya, I don't quite understand what you mean." Brando stared at the figure in his palm with a deep face, and replied angrily, "What the hell do you want to say?" ”
"I mean it very simply, little one, you know, the guys at the top of the Silver Academy don't like to play cards by common sense, I just want to remind you not to be too surprised." Tanya replied faintly as if it were boiled water.
"I don't care how you play your cards, as long as we complete our deal as promised."
"Is that so?"
After Tanya said this, she couldn't help but subconsciously turn her head and look out the window with a strange expression.
There, beyond Valhalla's air bridge, and even all the subjects in the entire fir realm, they could see the eastern sky glittering with silver light, and one after another floating ships flashed from the light, anchored in mid-air, but in an instant, they filled most of the sky. More dense dots of light flickered, each of which vanished, leaving behind a wizard in silver robes, and within a few minutes, Valhalla was filled with countless of them.
…… (To be continued......)