Brando understood that the knight of the Inner Court named Trevor was talking about what had happened a day earlier, and after leaving Vargus, they had made their way north along the Milky Way, and on the north side of the Leaf Avenue they encountered a battlefield left behind by a fierce battle, apparently between the private armies of the Imperial nobles and the underground creatures of Jorgane, the battlefield that stretched across the long riverbank and woodland avenue was littered with the corpses of humans, earthwalkers, griffons, cavemen, and harpies, and the blood of the wilderness had long since frozen in the biting heat of winterThe nobles of Cruz recognized familiar faces in the pile of corpses—Sir Moore was among them, and a bone arrow pierced his throat, causing him to fall on his back on the battlefield, one of many cold corpses.

Such a scene usually represents the crushing defeat of the Empire, and the Cruz nobles will not lightly abandon the bodies of their comrades for the sake of decency, and even the corpses of the nobles are ignored, and it is almost conceivable that the Count of Orcons and his men will step on the icy river and try to flee north.

As for Jogandigan, the creatures of the Underground rarely pick up the corpses on the battlefield - unless they are short of food, and the disease has little effect on them.

"Brando, they seem to be planning to sneak into town." Roman suddenly whispered as he reminded that Miss Merchant's eyes sparkled in the twilight, like a cat's eye in a dim light.

Brando also noticed this at this time, and he immediately said to Rogers, "Mr. Knight, is there any way you can contact them?" ”

Rogers thought for a moment, "I know there's a code in the local army in Anzeruta, maybe you can give it a try." ”

"You try, but don't let the things above your head spot us."

"I understand." Rogers nodded, and crawled into the bushes, where he glanced at the dark bushes below, then inserted his thumb and forefinger into his mouth. He whistled vigorously - the whistle echoed through the twilight forest, sounding like the screams of a night owl, but noticeably sharper. The roar of the owl unsurprisingly attracted the attention of the harpy overhead, and the monsters drew a huge figure of eight in the air and flew in this direction, and the people in the grass remained motionless, quietly waiting for the eyes of the sky to be patrolled away. After a few moments, the flat-haired beasts didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, and flew back again.

Brando himself was slightly relieved when he heard the long voices of others around him, but the merchant lady beside him didn't seem to be scared at all, as if she had no heart or lungs.

The surroundings fell silent, and gradually only the faint sound of insects chirping in the darkness remained.

The figures in the hornbeam bushes also froze, and Rogers' forehead was covered with nervous cold sweat. He knew several code words of the Imperial Army in the Anzeruta region, but he couldn't say that it would definitely come in handy at this time, and he knew best in his heart what kind of virtue the private army of these local nobles was. What he was most worried about was not that these guys didn't hear the code, but that they misunderstood the code and did something out of the ordinary, in case it attracted the attention of the garrison in the city, it would be a hell of a life, and then he suddenly realized that maybe he might be the right choice not to speak just now.

The silence lasted for a while. The bushes below moved again, and there was a rustling sound.

"Huh." Charles looked at the other side and looked a little surprised: "There are magicians among them. ”

It was as if the wind had suddenly risen in the mountains and forests. The mountain wind blew through the canopy, whistling the branches, but everyone heard a human whisper in the rustling noise: "Yes...... Face...... Be...... Who? ”

This is the Wind Signal, one of the few teleportation spells that can be used in areas that are suppressed by magic, because it uses the power of nature rather than the laws of space, so spells such as Dimensional Anchor cannot work on it. Top-level elven envoys and druids can even transmit the news to regions thousands of miles away. However, one of the characteristics of the wind is that it is slow, and the flow of trade winds from one area to another sometimes takes a week or even months, not to mention that for most Elemental Envoy apprentices, the wind signal is generally just a close communication spell that does not exceed the visual distance, and is often used by mages in the army as a supplement to sign language and lip language.

Brando turned back to Charles and said, "Sue them." We are the men of Count Guinn. ”

Charles looked at his lord in surprise, wondering if Count Jean, who was a prisoner of the rank at this moment, would be angry to death when he heard this, of course, he still acted according to his words. Although he is not an elemental envoy, there are commonalities among several common magics, not to mention that one of the characteristics of law spells is the law of simulation, and the almost trick of wind communication is not difficult for him to imitate for a being of his level, and he easily transmits the message, and even the words in the wind are obviously more fluent than the other party.

Charles's methods obviously surprised the other party, and after a short silence, Brando saw six or seven people standing up one after another under the hornbeam bushes on the hillside, and they looked over this side, Rogers deliberately waved his hand to them so that these people could confirm their location, and after the latter saw Rogers, he immediately ran to the top of the hill with a cat's waist, the vegetation on the hills was very dense, and their short running obviously did not attract attention from the sky for a while, and after a while, They came to a circle of bushes on the top of the hill, and those who ran first saw the Eruin envoys behind Rogers.

"You-!"

The man obviously recognized Brando, his face changed, and he was about to retreat subconsciously, but how could Brando give him this opportunity, he was afraid of making a difference, so he raised his hand directly, and the lines of law distributed in the vast space lit up at the same time, like a net enveloping the seven people, and then he pulled his hand, and the seven people appeared around them at the same time, and then fell heavily to the ground.

Seven men landed on the ground one by one, and when Rogers saw one of them, he cried out in astonishment, "Sir Cooper, you are still alive!" ”

The man whom he called Sir Cooper looked to be in his early forties and fifties, but he was short in his five statures, and a bit of a thief by nature, and his appearance was obviously very unworthy of his aristocratic status, but those who knew him well knew that he was a shrewd fellow, and he realized that it was not good when he heard his captain of the guard whisper. subconsciously turned around and wanted to escape, but unfortunately it was still a step too late, and before he could take a step, he felt his body being pulled up by an invisible force, and the whole person rose into the air, and then fell heavily to the ground; He fell to the ground. When his soul was scattered, he suddenly heard someone calling his name--those monsters of Jorgandegon naturally could not recognize his identity, and the other party's Cruz was also the standard Anzeruta's local accent, and his mind was spinning quickly, and when he heard this whisper, he immediately settled down.

"Don't scream!" He hurriedly whispered to his men before he raised his head and looked around suspiciously—his gaze first fell on Brando, and then his face changed, apparently recognizing the Earl who had turned Anzeruta upside down. But then he noticed Rogers who was calling him on the side, and there was a slight surprise in his eyes: "I know you, your father is Berjat, aren't you selected into the Royal Knights, how can you appear here?" ”

"It's a long story," Rogers didn't dare to reveal his true identity, and said with a wry smile, "I came to Anzeruta because of a special mission, and I didn't expect to encounter this kind of incident." Now I'm about the same as you, a prisoner of Lord Earl. But the Earl promised to take us to safety, and the Earl only needed a ransom in comparison. Sir Cooper, you don't want to be a captive of those monsters, do you? ”

Cooper shuddered, those monsters were meant to kill, and he had seen the cavemen decapitate a nobleman and stick their bloody head into a stake. He hurriedly shook his head and directly ordered his subordinates to untie their swords. Then he handed it to Brando, and bowed to the latter, and said much more calmly than the twisted Earl Jean: "Lord Earl, the safety of your subordinates depends entirely on you, for your reputation." I am absolutely trusting. ”

Brando smiled, he didn't know what kind of credibility he had in the hearts of these people, his only friendship with these local nobles of Anzeruta was to take a large number of hostages from them, just half a week ago they called him a demon, but now he seems to have become a reputable Lord Count. Not to mention Brando, even Averam, who was hiding in the forest behind, couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this scene, and the chubby young man couldn't help but turn his face away and ask the duke's daughter who was squatting in the bushes with him: "You sue me that I didn't dream, Oni?" ”

The duke's daughter's face was very complicated, and she answered softly.

Brando knew that Rogers was turning the corner to remind Cooper of his attitude, but he didn't care, the knight of the court was very good at talking.

"Sir Cooper," Rogers continued, noticing Brando's attitude, "why are you here, and the others?" ”

When Cooper heard this question, his already wrinkled face was crumpled: "Don't mention it, Count Orcons has been captured by those monsters. ”

"What! Lord Earl, he's not dead? Rogers was taken aback, drawing Brando's attention as well.

"This ...... As far as I know, he is not dead, but I can't rule out what happened during this period that I don't know yet. Cooper was visibly taken aback by Rogers' reaction and had to carefully weigh it back.

"No, no, I thought you were all wiped out at Lin Ye Avenue." Rogers realized that he had misunderstood, and hurriedly changed his words.

"Not really, but it's pretty much there." Cooper sighed: "It's all to blame on those damn monsters, we were all in a hurry to the north that night, these rats were waiting in the dark to ambush us, Sir Moore who was at the front was the first to be attacked, hey, poor old Moore, he was as strong as a cow, we all thought he could live to the end of the earth, what a world is impermanent!" None of us knew in the darkness who the enemy was, and they were coming from all sides, in heaven and on earth, and we were soon and utterly defeated, and I was in the southernmost part of the city, and I saw only the Earl, and they fled north across the river. ”

"And then, how did you know that Count Orcons had been arrested?" Brando asked suddenly.

"I saw with my own eyes that after I was separated from the Count that night, I had been trying to find out where the others were, and I later learned that they had gone to Boos."

"Boos!" Rogers, Trevor, and Nasha couldn't help but blurt out the place name at the same time when they heard the answer.

"What's wrong?" Cooper looked at them in bewilderment.

"Nothing, you continue." Brando replied.

Cooper nodded with a little suspicion and continued: "Actually, it's not Boos, the Count hasn't arrived at Boos yet. Just as the North Mountain sentry post was surrounded, and when I got there, I saw them being captured by the cavemen. ”

"The North Mountain Sentry, but how could Count Alcons go in that direction?" Rogers asked, puzzled, "It's a dead end on Buos's side." ”

I had asked Princess Magdal about Boosbrando, and knew that there was a crystal mine there before the Year of Thunder, but that place prospered because of the mine. It has also fallen into decay due to the mines, and since the severance of the mines, the town famous for its mines has also decayed day by day, gradually becoming a forgotten corner. However, he thought that the Count was probably trying to find a place to hide, and the other party knew that he would definitely not be able to outrun the cavemen, and he did not have delusions about breaking through the siege and escaping to Asaph or Rune, and could only hope that the first target of the underground creatures of Jogandigan was Asaph, and that they would not go to the mountains to trouble him.

But alas, it backfired.

"I think the Earl underestimated the size of that monster army. According to my observations, there were at least four different Dungeon Lords on the battlefield of Anzlova, who were sure to take Asaph at the first opportunity, and also divided their forces to deal with the defenders of Buos. Cooper shook his head.

"No one would have thought of that, we didn't even expect them to come," Rogers shook his head with a wry smile, "Those underground rats know us so well, we don't know who is leading them, but they know us very well." ”

He was just complaining on the surface. But carefully concealing the real chilling speculation in his heart, he did not forget that the cavemen were besieging them, although the existence of the knights of the inner court was a semi-open secret within the empire. But their identities on the outside were rarely known, and the way the knights of the inner court were connected up and down was only in the hands of a few people, and he really couldn't imagine how those cavemen found them.

Whether it was a coincidence or a human factor, several names could not help but come to his mind, and any one of these names would be an unimaginable disaster if they betrayed the Empire.

He could only pray. Hopefully it's just a prank by Mistress Martha.

Brando listened to the conversation between the two, but his eyes fell far away in the valley that seemed to contain a ghost, and he suddenly asked with feeling, "Count Orcons is in Greystone now?" ”

Cooper paused to talk, looked back at Brando, and then spoke for a moment, "I saw them enter Greystone." At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, before the sun had set, a long procession passed through the valley, and they came from the direction of the North Mountain sentry, and it was clear that there were quite a few human captives in the procession...... Assuming the Earl wasn't dead, I think he would be inside. ”

"Was Greystone captured before that?"

"It was captured before that."

"How can we confirm whether Count Orcons is still in town at the moment, or if they have already left the town on the other side of the valley and have been moved elsewhere?"

Cooper opened his mouth: "Honestly, I didn't think about it. He looked at Brando suspiciously, he didn't expect the young Count Eruin to think so carefully.

Brando didn't care about Cooper's question, and then asked, "Has the Harpy on the Heavenly Patrol changed shifts?" ”

"Once." The latter replied truthfully.

"And was there a harpy in the army that attacked Count Olkans?"

"This ...... It doesn't seem to be. ”

"That's right," replied Brando, tugging at the collar of the Count's trench coat so as not to pour the night wind into his collar, "the Sardell Cavemen have two famous lords, one is Gerald the Sorcerer and the other is a servant, and neither clan is allied with the Harpy. That is to say, the garrison of Jogandigang in the town has not handed over the defense to the Saddell troglodytes—"

"They're gone?" Cooper asked cautiously.

"Not necessarily, I mean it's possible that there is more than one lord's army stationed in this town." Brando's brow furrowed, which wasn't good news for them.

Cooper also subconsciously closed his mouth, a little unsure of what the Earl was thinking.

"Sir Cooper, are you sure that the army of Jogandegang in the afternoon has returned from the North Mountain outpost?"

"What do you mean by that, Lord Earl, my scouts won't lie to me." Cooper looked angry as he felt questioned.

"Don't be upset, I'm not suspicious of you, Sir Cooper, I'm just trying to confirm one thing, your scouts really saw that Jorgandegon army return to Greystone after attacking Earl Orcons at the North Mountain Outpost?"

Cooper was about to say yes, of course, but he only said half a byte before he froze, then looked surprised.

Roger's reaction was even stronger than he was, and he almost jumped up and shouted, "They went straight back to Greystone Town after attacking the North Mountain Outpost!?" What about Buos, did they just go for Count Orcons? ”

"This ......" Cooper looked dazed, "I don't know what the hell is going on!" ”

…… (To be continued......)