Chapter 222: The Dilemma (2)
Lack of water and lack of rest was a major dilemma, but the situation was even stricter in the early morning, when some soldiers began to develop a high fever and vomit after a night of rest.
"What's going on?" The stubble after stubble of questions had already made Dreyus anxious, who would have thought that such a situation would happen again in the morning.
"Your Highness, they should have been poisoned." Twilight, who was following behind Dreyus, looked coldly at the vomiting soldiers around her and whispered.
"Poisoned?"
"In yesterday's battle, those three improvised trebuchets were supposed to drop a kind of bomb with poison gas." Twilight whispered, keeping her voice as low as possible so that it didn't reach the ears of the soldiers around her, whose morale would not be able to withstand the blow.
Hearing what Twilight said, Prince Dreyus also thought of the green bomb in the previous battle, and then Twilight said, "Your Highness, let the paladins with higher strength and the priests in the team try it, if you can cure it, you can cure it, and if you can't cure it!!"
Twilight didn't say anything further, but Dreyus understood what Twilight meant, and he narrowed his eyes and thought that he should let the paladins and priests in the army take a look.
However, in terms of medical treatment and detoxification, paladins are obviously not as good as professional priests, under the spells of these priests, some soldiers who are not very infected are quickly vomiting and fever are alleviated a lot, but even the priests in the eyes of those infected have no good way, it is good to suppress them temporarily.
The situation of the infected soldiers was temporarily resolved, and the troops continued to move forward, at which point Dreyus asked, seemingly unintentionally, "Twilight, you seem to know a lot about necromancy!"
Dreyus's words startle Twilight, who hears a hint of suspicion from the Prince's mouth.
The thought flashed quickly in her heart, and Twilight said with a blank expression: "Yes, you know something, and you also know that because of Andre. Brooke's affairs, I have already had a bad relationship with the Shadow Church, so I specially investigated the Shadow Church secretly, and it was at that time that I accidentally learned about necromancy, and there were people in the Shadow Church who mastered necromancy thousands of years ago. ”
Hearing Twilight's explanation, Grand Prince Dreyus thought for a moment that there was nothing wrong, and he turned his head to look ahead, "Do you know that the Church of Shadows is behind this incident?"
Twilight curses at this point, apparently because of his knowledge of necromancy and his constant persuasion to retreat.
Hey, it's hard to be a good person these days! Sighing inwardly, Twilight said, "Your Highness, after knowing about the Northland Rebellion, I thought that this time was not simple."
"Did you know that just a few months ago I happened to meet Sister Amaran and her son Virio. Brooke, at that time, they were being attacked by three black-robed people, these three were from the Shadow Church, and the Shadow Church dared to appear so blatantly and attack others in broad daylight, from which it is not difficult to see that the Shadow Church is acting more and more without taboos, and because of saving Virio. Brooke, Preto also secretly fought with the Shadow Church twice, which also made me more sure that the Shadow Church is becoming more and more blatant, and I immediately thought of the Shadow Church as soon as the Northland Rebellion came out, but I didn't expect it to be the Shadow Church. Twilight's words are true and false, and from his slightly mocking tone at the end, it is not difficult to hear that he is very dissatisfied with Dreyus, after all, he has worked hard to help here, and he has not listened to the advice in the early stage, but in the end he has ended up with suspicion, and anyone will feel uncomfortable.
Dreyus is not a fool, of course, he also heard Twilight's dissatisfaction, and he hurriedly smiled bitterly, "Twilight, don't take it to heart, I was indeed a little out of proportion by this change."
Looking at the dissatisfaction with the blood in his eyes, the white lips and the violent Prince Dreyus, Twilight can't say anything after all, fate is not something that can be changed by one person who wants to, Twilight is now thinking more about how to escape.
But now there are tireless pursuers, and the team is jealous of the lack of water, and it is not easy to take the soldiers alive, and now it is preliminarily estimated that it will take 4 days to leave the Northland, that is, the troops will have to walk for at least two days and two nights day and night, and Twilight estimates that if they really go like this, 90% of them will be buried in the Northland.
Twilight's worries are also those of the eldest prince Dreyus, but Dreyus can't think of any way, and the army has been walking for most of the day, and some soldiers are already unable to go.
"Your Royal Highness!" A shout stopped Dreyus and the others in front of them, and Twilight turned to see that it was Ragus, the commander of the First Legion's infantry, who had come with several officers.
"Your Highness, I will ask to go to war." Seeing the prince turn his head, Ragus looked up and saw Dreyus kneeling on one knee, hammering one hand to his chest and saying loudly.
Following Ragus's words, he saw several other officers behind him also follow him and knelt on one knee and said loudly.
"Your Highness, I'm waiting for a request to fight!"
The sudden change stunned Dreyus, Twilight, and the others, and then Dreyus jumped off his horse and walked to the front of Ragus's officers and frowned, "Ragus, what's the matter with you?"
"Your Highness, now that the team is out of water, our strength is decreasing, and in our current state, sooner or later we will be caught up by those undead monsters behind, and we can't help but let our first legion stop those monsters from breaking off for Your Highness." Ragus said in a loud voice.
Ragus's words shocked Dreus, Twilight didn't expect Ragus and his officers to be so resolute, staying would mean death, the First Legion is indeed the First Legion, worthy of the title of the Royal Legion.
At this time, the commander of the Royal Knights beside Dreyus, Sarich, suddenly had a trace of shame on his face after hearing Ragus's words, and then saw that he also turned over and dismounted and knelt in front of Dreyus.
"Your Highness, the Royal Knights request to break off!"
"Whatever trouble you make, get up for me." As he spoke, Dreus picked up Ragus, who was on one knee on the ground, but Ragus couldn't get up.
"Your Highness, it is an honor for a soldier to die on the battlefield, please agree with us to break the queen."
"Listen, you've all been with me for so many years, and I'm going to take you back this time." Dreyus said, but his face was more determined than ever.
Good persuasion can be regarded as appeasing the officers of the First Legion led by Ragus, while Dreyus breathed a sigh of relief, the gloomy color on his face became even heavier, he also knew that what Ragus said made sense, these people he brought were likely to be caught up by the tireless undead in the rear before they left the Northland, and who knows if the Shadow Church still has a backhand. (To be continued......)
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