Act Eighty-Nine: The Gathering of the Storm (Part 1)
"On the 17th of the month of autumn, write a thousand tonigals, cold * barony of Zqi * Rifein? Korkova? His Highness Odysphes. In the battle the night before, the undead army of Mada from the side of the "Black Lord" Instaron bypassed the Four Southern Realms and launched a sneak attack on Leng Gui Fort, which not only caused heavy casualties, but also killed Baron Grudinin in the battle. As a result of the baron's hospitality, the pioneer knight of the kingdom, and the lord of the Valhalla region, he thought it was his duty to temporarily take on the defense of the locality. After a night of fighting, the undead have now been repulsed, but in order to prevent the undead from invading again, from today onwards, I will temporarily take charge of the defense and administration of this place until the arrival of a new lord appointed by Her Royal Highness the Princess—"
Macaro took the letter, and only halfway through it did he become a little strange. However, he was not very knowledgeable, and he coughed and continued to read: "And I will ask here the responsibility of the Count of Denel, why he did not release the news of the undead army of Instaron's army in the south, and the dereliction of duty of letting the army of Mardara cross the four realms without permission. Secondly, I hope to get the understanding of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and finally enclose a magic stone that records the battlefield image to prove that it is conclusive. ”
He looked up.
"The magic stone is here," Her Royal Highness replied without changing her color, "Please continue to read Makaroqing." ”
"No," Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”
"No, there's one more." The princess's thick eyelashes drooped slightly.
Macaro picked up the letter, and sure enough, he saw a line of small print underneath. Seeing the small lines, he suddenly felt his eyelids jump, and his eyebrows raised slightly: "One-Brando." ”
There was silence on the scene.
Macaro put the letter back in place with a strange look on his face, then looked at the others and joked, "I know that Baron Grudin's devotion to his duties is not enough, but this little fellow is a little too daring...*......"
He thought about it for a moment, but couldn't find a word to describe this boldness: "simply" ridiculous! Master Lewoods said coldly, "This is a challenge to the kingdom, and he is breaking the rules of the game among the nobles. ”
Princess Griffiin frowned when she heard the word rules of the game, and this subtle change in expression did not escape the eyes of the observant Count Violet.
"What do you think?" She asked.
"I believe Mr. Brando," said the first to speak, to everyone's surprise, and it was Eco, the young man, who stood up though a little cramped, and said, "The Monsieur Brando, whom I know, is a true knight. ”
"People can be disguised, lad." Master Leo Woods said.
Indeed, Macaro and Count Violet nodded slightly, as nobles who had experienced a long period of struggle, they knew much more about human hearts and human nature than ordinary people.
And the half-elf girl's expression was a little flat, she didn't say a word, and there was neither approval nor opposition in her expression. She just fanned her hair slightly, and her pale silver eyes looked at the young man who spoke for the first time.
"Master Lewoods" Eco saluted the old man respectfully, but did not flinch in the slightest: "Between life and death, people do not lie, and what I see is action" is not just words. ”
The childishness on the young man's face gradually faded," he said, looking around at everyone present, except Princess Griffyne, and said, "Otherwise, I would not have thought that Mr. Brando could have rebuked us so righteously, and even the legendary artifact would have agreed with him—"
"Huh?"
The half-elf girl was slightly stunned, she had heard Macaro and the others mention the artifact induction before. But what does this young man named Eco mean when he says that Brando reprimanded them harshly and caused an artifact to induce it?
She looked at the others curiously, not unlike the curiosity of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl about the outside world, "only with a little more restraint in the princess's manners."
Lewoods didn't expect Eco to pull this matter out, they had planned to hide this little process, after all, it was not a glorious thing; But when he saw Her Royal Highness the Princess's rare little girl-like gaze, he knew that he couldn't hide it, and if Her Royal Highness wanted to know something, then she would definitely know about Zha - in terms of her ingenuity.
The master coughed and nodded to Macarlo.
Macaro was even more helpless, because he was the one who was reprimanded the most in the first place. But in desperation, the cunning fox could only repeat the whole thing.
After speaking, he also added: "Your Royal Highness Princess, we are not deliberately trying to hide such a trivial matter. ”
Princess Griffiin nodded and said tolerantly, "It's not surprising that there are different positions and different opinions, which can lead to conflicts. But when it comes to "Mr. Leo Woods, this is what you taught me."
Lewoods hurriedly bowed his head in fear, knowing that this was the student's faint complaint that he was trying to hide the past, which made the old man both frightened and relieved; The panic is naturally the suspicion of the thousands of superiors, but the relief is that His Royal Highness the Weeping Gonggui conceals an attitude of complaint, not blame, which can also be regarded as a kind of closeness.
Macaro and Count Baal glanced at each other, and they were relieved that Her Royal Highness the Princess had already indicated that she would not pursue it. Although the Earl of Violet is nominally the deployment of the Grand Duke of Lune, since his lord has chosen to take sides, he must serve this nascent alliance of interests wholeheartedly.
But the half-elf girl asked again, "But when you say that the young man named Brando reprimanded you, he had a connection with the artifact, and I wonder what he said that would cause such a big movement." ”
He asked us if we remembered the beliefs of the previous kings. Macaro replied in a low voice, in fact, Brando's questioning had shaken him greatly, and every word the young man asked was to the point.
At least for the Wang Party, this is a question of their ideals and pursuits, which sounds intolerable, but the other party is reasonable, so that they cannot refute it.
"Oh?"
Griffiin was really intrigued, and she suddenly remembered the story that Overwell had told her. The story of a knight leading a group of refugees to charge against the heavy army of Madara seems to shine in the ancient times, when the blood in the bodies of the Eruin nobles had not yet become indifferent.
But what makes people's hearts flutter is that this story really happened in the same era as her.
So she remembered the knight in the story forever.
But today, Makaro's words made her can't help but recall that scene again: "Can you talk about it? Her Royal Highness asked subconsciously.
Macaro was a little embarrassed.
For the first time, the Count Violet beside him took the initiative to stand up, and he replied, "I'll repeat it." ”
"Thank you." The half-elf girl nodded slightly.
The count's face became a little stern: "I remember, in the most glorious years of Eruin.
The knights of Eruin sounded their trumpets and fluttering swallow-tailed flags, and the Kingdom Blade was unstoppable. ”
There was a sudden silence in the room.
Makaro sighed and took the words of Count Baal: "I remember that the battlefield was a sea of flags, embroidered with the coat of arms of the golden Korkova, the coat of arms of Goran-Elson, and the coat of arms of Anlek. I remember that the nobles of that era "still kept their oaths—"
"Remember that oath?"
"Of course I do."
Her Royal Highness closed her eyes slightly, clasped her hands together, interlaced her fingers, clenched them, and placed them on the tip of her nose as if in prayer. The answer in her heart should be clear to everyone else, and she silently reads, "I make a sage vow under this sword!" ”
"I swear to lead my people—to turn them away from strife and slaughter, from the arrogance and greed of the nobles of the empire; I swear that in order not to repeat this cold-blooded mistake of history, I will make the nobles of this new kingdom obey the spirit of chivalry, which is just and strict, upright and heroic, merciful and generous, and I will keep it with all my life! ”
When the last syllable fell, the weak and strong half-elf princess was in a trance.
What the young man said was so clear that it seemed to strike at the weakness of her heart—Griffiin had always thought she was strong enough, but when someone could understand her lifelong dream.
The strong, half-elf girl was still stunned.
It's like she doesn't know that there is another self in another world, and she is practicing this qiē with the same determination and hard work.
In that world, Eruin was like a stormy boat in the dark sea, but she guided the ship through the stormy seas with great faith.
The dream that runs through the main line of Eruin in the Amber Sword is like a light in the darkness, attracting all the moths that put out the fire.
Whether it is the Valkyrie or the players of Eruin, countless people have made dreams overlap one after another, just to realize such a dream of the princess regent.
In that dream, King Eck swore under his sword that he would lead his knights through the darkness and bring warmth and peace to all.
That dream was shattered.
But at this moment the dream had just been born, and Princess Griffiin opened her eyes, and the hesitation of the days seemed to be swept away. Although the clouds were gathering in the northern sky, and the first snow seemed to be on the verge of moving, she felt like she had found her way.
"He's right." The half-elf girl's expression was a little stern: "But dreams can only be called realized if they break through reality, and difficulties will not be reduced by half a point because we become firm, the question is how we should deal with it." ”
"What do you think?" She asked, looking up.
"Tell me what you think of this—"! ~!