Kane, is a young soldier in the Desik Border Guards. A year ago, he was a farmer in the countryside of Desik, and the harvest in the field had been bad for several years, and sometimes he could not even fill his stomach. The aristocratic lords are frantically collecting grain, and the farmers are a little unable to survive. When the army was expanding, Kane, who was young and vigorous, left his family's farm tools behind and joined the army.

Because Kane was born tall and big, and at the same time his brain was relatively flexible, he quickly stood out among the young border guards, was appreciated by the commander of the regiment, and was promoted to the captain of this squad.

The commander of the regiment was a knight lord from White Rock Castle, who was said to be related to a certain general, and wore the rank of golden snowflake. This frontier regiment is one of the six newly formed frontier regiments under the command of Western generals. Three thousand peasants who had just laid down their farming tools, as well as aristocratic officers who had been transferred from the southern border, formed this new frontier regiment.

The standard weapon of the border regiment is the spear, a wooden handle with a length of four grams and a steel spearhead with a three-inch length, which is the life-threatening companion of the soldiers. Border guards generally did not have armor to wear, which was the prerogative of noble officers, mainly animal skin jackets, supplemented by some black iron sheets covering vital parts.

Kane, this will lead his own team, carrying spears, to patrol the border of the Grand Canyon, not far ahead, is the bridgehead of the Westside Bridge. Their squad, which had recently been stationed in the bridgehead fort, in the bridgehead of the Westside Bridge, had a total of ten such squads, four of which were stationed in turn, and six patrolled along the vicinity of the bridge.

In the entire Grand Canyon, on the border between Desik and the Shang Alliance, there are more than a hundred squads stationed around more than a dozen bridges across the Grand Canyon.

These squads are responsible for checking the crowds coming and going on the bridge. In view of the growing tensions between the Merchant Alliance and Desik, the caravans, which had been flowing in previous years, have recently plummeted by more than half. However, although the flow of people became less and the orders were stricter, the rest of the caravan was searched more carefully, and the atmosphere on the bridge became increasingly tense.

The bridgehead is about to be reached, the day's patrol work is coming to an end, and the patrol work of more than 20 miles a day has to be walked down step by step on two legs, which is not easy for these farmers who have just become soldiers, not to mention, the spear is also a big burden.

When you return to the fort, you can eat a meal of hot wheat bread, sleep beautifully, and wait until the next day, you can take turns to guard the bridgehead and be responsible for searching for those passing merchants, which is a beautiful difference, so these ten teams are all carried out in turn.

Kane looked at the red and blue planets to the west, hanging crookedly on the hill opposite the Grand Canyon, about to fall. The brothers were about to enter the fort, and the mood of the tense day was relaxed.

Thinking about bread and a hot bath, Kane's ears suddenly heard a sharp and piercing whistle, "Woo!

The Desik soldiers were very well trained, and as soon as this shrill whistle sounded, it called for rapid reinforcements from nearby friendly forces. Although it was the first time that he had encountered a horn in the actual situation, Kane was immediately alert, and he turned his head and shouted at his soldiers, "Quick, move, it's the bridgehead, quickly reinforce!" Before the words fell, he galloped towards the bridgehead first.

When Kane arrived, he found that his own team was the first to arrive at the field, except for the four squads stationed at the bridgehead, dozens of soldiers. All the soldiers present raised their spears, and their sharp weapons four degrees long were pointed at a man and a woman who were surrounded in the middle.

This man and woman are none other than Green and Setie, who have followed clues all the way from the Business Alliance. Saitie didn't expect that he had just hit his horse and galloped up the Western Bridge, but before he could get off the bridge, he was stopped by the sentry post at the head of the bridge.

As a checkpoint on the border between the Merchant Alliance and the Desik, the four squads at the checkpoint of the Western Bridge have very strict control over the personnel going to Desik from the Merchant. Frequent traders need to have three notaries who are familiar with each other in the territory of Desik, and then they will act as a guarantor to issue a passage document at the office of the Western general, and the trader can only enter the Desic after paying the tax with the passage document.

For more than a year, the traders who came and went from the powerful military threat of Desik had become accustomed to these practices, and every time they arrived at the bridgehead, they would prepare the corresponding documents and a large amount of Desik or Merchant Alliance gold coins.

But Green and Setie, one of them lives in seclusion, and the other is busy investigating cases, so they are naturally not very clear about this "small" change in Desik's border. The border guards were stunned when they saw that they had neither supporting documents nor prepared "gold coins", so naturally they would not give the two of them any good looks.

The two people who were anxious to investigate the case were not willing to entangle with the border guards. Green tossed his adventurer badge to show that he was a member of the Adventurer's Guild. Most of the soldiers at the checkpoint were illiterate farmers who had just entered the army, and the officers who led the team did not recognize the badge in time. Therefore, this badge may not be useful for gold coins.

So Greenbeth threw the badge and was still not allowed to pass. The mud bodhisattva still has three points of fire, Green is not happy for a while, Green, who is too lazy to talk to these soldiers, as soon as he pulls the reins, he is ready to break through, after all, he is still somewhat well-known among the Desik nobles, and he is not afraid of trouble afterwards.

De Sick's military quality is indeed high, although he is a recruit who has just been trained for a short time, seeing that Green has the intention of breaking through, he quickly formed a formation and blocked the horse without waiting for the officer's order. "You!" said Grimm, who grabbed his horse's head and raised his mount's hooves, nearly knocking Grimm off his horse.

At the same time, a clever soldier had already sounded the alarm signal, and in just a while, dozens of soldiers at the bridgehead all gathered. Although he was superb in martial arts, in the face of this scene, Green was also a little tricky, and he was stunned for a while.

When Kane arrived at the bridge, he saw such a scene, and he didn't think much of it, and immediately joined his companions.

Green sat down on his horse and looked back at Mage Set. "Relax, soldiers, we have come to Desik on behalf of the Adventurers' Association to follow the lead to the assassination of your Crown Prince Ferdinand." The formalities for entering the customs, we will go to the Western General's residence to make up for it later, now please get out of the way, okay?"

No one seemed to listen to Setie's words, and she even saw a few soldiers who looked like recruits, leaning in to the people around her and asking, "What is the Adventurer's Guild?"

The captain of the team leader was also a fool, "The order we received was to guard the border, and you set foot on the sacred territory of Desik without our consent! Therefore, no matter who you are, you are not allowed to pass without my order today!"

Green and Setie looked at each other helplessly, Setie sighed, untied the burqa on her body, revealing a set of delicate clothes inside, the clothes were shining, inlaid with a few spars, and on her chest, a flaming book coupon was shining.

"What is this?" Kane was a farmer, so he didn't know the magic badge at all, and the soldiers who were also farmers like him didn't recognize it. The group of people still held their spears and stared at the two of them without reacting.

However, just because Kane doesn't know the magic badge doesn't mean that no one does. Hearing the alarm, the soldiers around rushed to the bridge, Kane They were the first batch, and while speaking, several groups of soldiers galloped over, including more than a dozen horses, and the commander of the border guard regiment here arrived in time.

The regimental commander was of noble background and wore the rank of golden snowflake, and he had accompanied Prince Ferdinand on missions to the San Jose Empire, so he recognized the badge on Setie's chest at a glance.

"Magician!" exclaimed the Commander, stopping his horse abruptly.

"Ahh Just because you haven't eaten pork doesn't mean you haven't seen a pig run, and in folklore, magicians are very scary characters, and Kane was so scared that he almost didn't hold the spear in his hand.

"All stand down!" the regimental commander was still calm, and hurriedly beckoned the soldiers to put away their weapons. It's one thing to stop some troublesome vendor, it's another to stop a magician. There are quite few magicians on the continent now, and the nobles who understand the market have a clear understanding of the destructive power of magicians. Besides, dark mages have done so much on the mainland recently, mages and dark mages, they can't all be mages!

So, the head of the regiment dispersed the group, walked up alone, and talked to Green and Setie.

Kane, who had closed the team, secretly stabbed the captain of the team next door, "Hey, old Martin, magician, I've never seen him." ”

The old captain next door glared at Kane, "You haven't seen it, I seem to have seen it!" I've heard that in Manning, a dark magician, he went on a killing spree, killing hundreds of people (Note 1), and those were all great nobles. ”

"Damn it's horrible," Kane shuddered. He looked back at his soldiers, and everyone craned their necks and looked at the three people in the middle curiously, "Look at what, look at what, don't look at it!"

The soldiers were doing nothing, and their regimental commander looked at the two in front of him nervously.

Green had just explained to the Captain why they were crossing the border, and the Commander looked at Mage Setty, who nodded in approval of Green's statement.

"Do you mean that the assassin of our Crown Prince Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Desik, has just crossed the border from here, and may even be within a radius of dozens of miles?" asked the regimental commander in shock.

"Yes, I don't even know if they're hiding in a nearby city or in your army!" Green said worriedly.

The regimental commander thought for a moment, "In this case, you come with me, I will take you to Tarim City, the regimental commander and the western general are there, this kind of thing is not something that my little knight lord can decide." ”

Green and Setie exchanged ideas and thought it might be beneficial to track them down if they could get help from the Desik border guards. "Indeed, go with them, by the way, wait for the hunters of the hunter group behind, I have a hunch that this hunt will not be easy. ”

"Lead the way!" said Setie to the regimental commander.

Note 1: Dozens of diplomats were killed in the Manning incident, and Prince Ferdinand and his bodyguard were more than 20 people. But the rumors on the mainland have become rumors that the dark mages have killed hundreds of people. These border guards are ordinary people, and they are naturally gullible.