While the Cecil's armored griffons swept through the sky, Count Urrell still had the leisure to take in the view of the Raven Terrace, a high ground that once housed several watchtowers and a small fortress and was one of St. Sunil's garrisons, but now destroyed by the fire, and the scattered ruins could only see the banners and equipment left behind by the defenders' hasty retreat and the torn corpses of the Crystal Giants, and the new banners were now fluttering between the broken ruins, with a wonderful contrasting beauty.

The cool wind blew, and there was some strange smell of the battlefield in the wind, and Count Urrell took a deep breath and said with a smile, "The last few days were really difficult—but fortunately, those difficult days are finally over. ”

"We've met little resistance, and there's only a few mortally wounded and dying monsters in this place," said a viscount, "and I'm afraid they're not enough, are they?" ”

"It's all right, we can put away these ready-made wreckage," said Count Urrell casually, "and our king will be busy next, and he won't have time to discern these little things." ”

"Our new king......" the viscount next to him chuckled, then glanced up at the sky curiously, "Strange, why have those griffons been wandering around here?" ”

"That's the griffon of the Cecil," Count Urrell looked up at the sky, "are they here to greet us?" ”

The armored griffin circled over the Raven Terrace for a moment, then suddenly flicked its wings and flew diagonally into the distance.

Count Urrel's eyes narrowed, and after a moment a sense of unease finally came to his heart.

He thought of Count Lucre, who had been executed by the king.

"It's a trap—"

Count Urrell roared in alarm, but a shrill howl was already heard from afar......

The Raven Terrace was shrouded in a shattering explosion, flashing and clouds rising into the air.

Wales stood on the walls of St. Sunil, calmly watching all this, and only then whispered: "He is so decisive. ”

And the other men, those who stood on the walls of the city and knew what was on the crow terrace, the nobles who supported the king, the soldiers who defended the city, and others who had been left behind by Wales for various reasons, all watched with shock and horror the horrible scene in the distance.

The crowd exclaimed, and chaos arose on the walls, and some people rushed in the direction of the king, wanting to ask for further orders, but Wales raised his long sword in his hand, and a voice blessed with magic resounded through the city walls: "Quiet—nobles of the inner court, stay guards, follow me out of the city, and go to meet the Duke of Cecil." ”

"Your Majesty!" An inner court nobleman exclaimed, "Absolutely not! They've just bombarded the Raven Mesa and they've just killed ......"

"Do they know that there is a noble knighthood on the Raven Mesa?" Wales asked calmly, "Do they know my orders in Silver Castle?" ”

"Your Majesty, this ......"

"This may be a terrible misunderstanding, and therefore it is all the more necessary to clear it up in person," said Wales in an unquestioning tone, "in any case, the Cecilians have saved the royal capital and swept away the monsters of the plains." Their legion is just outside the city, and we must meet them. ”

The king's last words woke everyone present, and the nobles of the inner court, who were in shock and fear, realized whose real initiative lay - and those who were more intelligent suddenly sensed some truth in the perverse attitude of Wales, smelled a terrible bloody truth in the sun, and after a brief moment of confusion, they found themselves with no more choice.

Regardless of the truth behind the bombardment on the Raven Mesa, they must now go out of the city to meet Cecil's legions, as the king has ordered.

……

"The meeting place is in Mill Town, which is already in ruins," Victoria said after finishing her magical communication with Duke Bardwin, turning to Gawain, "The Welsh and Inner Court nobles have departed. ”

Gawain nodded: "Let's go too." ”

His calm attitude made even Victoria feel an unspeakable fear, who couldn't help but say, "Aren't you worried that it's a trap?" ”

"I'm worried, so I'll take a tank battalion with me - but I don't think I'll need it. Wales is a smart man, Bertwin? This is even more true in Franklin. ”

Victoria was stunned for a moment, then her gaze swept over the ravens standing not far away.

At first, Victoria wondered why he hadn't contacted him directly through the magical teleportation, after all, he had already arrived in the St. Sunil area, and reached the range that the magical teleportation could contact, but she soon figured it out - the guardian of the western realm knew her very well, and he knew that he would definitely not agree to this bold and extreme "conspiracy", and contacting her in advance would only allow her to stop it from happening.

Duke Bodwen, who is in charge of Ansu Commerce, may be like a merchant...... The best interests for the country were calculated precisely and then everything was done to achieve it...... This is something that Victoria, who has always been trapped in the archaic aristocratic fence of Ansu, will probably never be able to imitate.

Gawain had already walked towards the outside of the command post, and Victoria quickly regrouped and followed, but before getting into the car, the Duchess of the North suddenly noticed that there was no one on the scene: "Where did that Miss Amber go?" ”

Gawain walked to the magic guide car parked in the camp and said casually, "She's going to investigate something." ”

Deep in the camp, in a barracks tightly guarded by soldiers, a magic net terminal is humming, and the printing device connected to the terminal is constantly spitting out white paper one after another, with a large amount of text printed on the paper, as well as black and white pictures and detailed hand-painted insignia.

Amber sat at the Magic Web Terminal, flipping through the printed paper with a strange smile that was three points of satisfaction and seven points of mockery.

"That's a lot...... It's a shame that Wales was able to hold the city to this day with such a group of people holding it back......"

……

Cecil's legion detached a detachment of guards and proceeded at the appointed time and place to the ruins of the mill town outside Saint-Sunil, where Wales had arrived before they arrived.

The ruins, which were almost nothing but ruins, had no need to occupy or repair them, and the legions of the Crystal Giants had leveled it, tearing down almost all of its buildings and walls, and it seemed that the only way to deal with it was to completely bulldoze and rebuild.

The Royal Knights sent here cleared the scattered monsters roaming the ruins with little effort, and then planted the Ansu banner on a piece of rubble.

When the rumbling cannon was heard from the direction of the Raven Terrace, the Knights were silently stationed there, and they had been ordered not to leave the place no matter what happened, and if nothing happened in the Raven Terrace......

Their mission is to intercept and kill the returning nobles here.

Ansu's flag flutters on the edge of the town in ruins, broken bricks and crumbling walls glow desolate in the sun, and a silent order of knights guards the broken bricks, Wales? Morn led the surviving nobles and soldiers loyal to him to stand outside the town, watching the hideous, eerie steel war machines sail into the open field.

Wales could visibly feel everyone around him tense at the sight of the spinning tracks, the steel armor floating with the glow of shields, and the railgun muzzles glittering in the sunlight, and heard several guttural agitations.

In fact, even he himself was inevitably emotionally disturbed when he saw those chariots.

The magic guide car in the middle of the chariot opened the door, and Gawain stepped out of it, followed by Victoria, the Duchess of the North, wearing a long white dress and a cold and detached face.

The nobles and knights around Wales were slightly commotional, but no one made any more noise, and Victoria simply stood quietly behind Gawain's side, even though she knew very well what it meant to be by her side after Gawain shelled the Raven Terrace.

In this way, she was fulfilling her original promise to Gawain.

The atmosphere at the scene was delicate and tense, and an unspeakably embarrassing silence enveloped everyone, and Gawain could certainly feel this special atmosphere, but he only showed a faint smile and calmly walked towards the new king of Ansu in front of him: "We finally met safely, Your Majesty the King - but the atmosphere here doesn't seem to be very good?" ”

"For we may need to clear up a terrible misunderstanding," said Wales, meeting Gawain's gaze, and before the other nobles could speak, before the other nobles next to him could speak, "we need to talk, Duke Cecil." ”

Gawain stared at Wales for a moment and nodded, "Of course." ”

The town had been destroyed, but it was not difficult to find a room where the king and the duke could negotiate their affairs, and a sturdy chapel was the only one that had not collapsed, and after a simple cleanup, the chapel was turned into a place for the two to talk.

Everyone except Gawain and Wales were barred from the church, including the nobles and bodyguards who had followed the king, the commander of Cecil's legion, and Victoria, who had come with Gawain.

The scarred wooden doors creaked shut, and a ray of sunlight shone through the cracked stained crystal windows, and Gawain stood opposite Wales in front of the crumbling statues and pulpits.

Gawain looked at his surroundings: "I didn't expect that the first time we had a serious conversation would be in this kind of place. ”

"It's cleaner than Silver Castle," Wales said with a laugh, "at least there aren't so many pairs of eyes looking at it here." ”

"But there's a lot of eyes out there," Gawain said, "and I'm curious what you're going to do next." ”

"What about you? Have you considered what you would do in such a situation if this was a trap, if I was only trying to put you in a position of injustice and trick you into bombarding the Raven Terrace, if I was only trying to purge dissidents and hold on to the throne? ”

"There's nothing to think about," Gawain said, glancing at Wales, "because of the swords and guns out of power." ”

Wales looked at Gawain for a moment, stunned for two seconds, and then suddenly burst out laughing.

The new king laughed loudly in the abandoned chapel, laughing without aristocratic demeanor, without concealment, and even laughing breathlessly, as if he had never laughed heartily once in his previous life, and all of them had accumulated to laugh together today, until a few minutes later, the laughter gradually stopped, he slowly straightened up, took a deep breath, and still had a smile on his face: "Yes, yes...... You're really that kind of person......"

"Our generation is full of such people," Gawain unconsciously brought in Gawain? Cecil's memory, sighed, "What about you, what did you decide." ”

"You know, for the last year or so, all sorts of reforms have been being implemented in the Whitsunday Plains and in the northern and western regions, and we've tried all sorts of things," Wales said slowly, calming down, "new factories, new town management, new army drills, even new schools, new freemen...... All of this is challenging the old order, but the two dukes, Victoria and Bardwin, have done their best to promote them, because we all believe that these things can make Ansu strong again......"

A faint noise came from outside the church, sounding far away, but it seemed to be getting closer.

Wales turned his head to look at the closed doors of the church, turned back and continued: "But in the end, almost all the reforms failed...... Factories have become a new means of accumulating land, military discipline has been ineffective, new systems have not been promoted, schools are ...... The school was never built at all. The only change was that the royal aristocracy was divided into-for-tat reformers and conservatives, with constant quarrels and internal strife......

"But did you know that this isn't the only time Ansu has worked for change?

"Before your resurrection, we had tried many times in the past ten years, if not decades—of course, at that time I was far away from Silver Castle, and strictly speaking, it was my father and several Protector Dukes who had tried many times.

"Silas? Duke Loren brought a restructuring plan based on Typhon.

"My father had considered a parliament.

"The previous Duke of the North had implemented the Constitution of the Kingdom.

"Archduke Berdewin has pursued a new commercial policy.

"All failed."

The noise outside the church became more and more obvious, but it didn't affect the conversation between Gawain and Wales, who nodded slightly: "I know some of them. ”

"I've left Silver Castle, but I'm watching it all," Wales continued, "and I've been wondering for a long time what is holding the kingdom back from changing for the better—are we not wise enough?" But before Typhon's New Deal, they had no more scholars and advisors than Ansul; Is it our lack of enlightened aristocracy? But the king and every duke were reformers, and there were always those in the aristocracy who supported reforms; Are we short of money? Short on food? Short on time? But in fact, Ansu didn't start out much from Typhon when he started reforming.

"So what are we missing?

"In the process of comparing with Typhon, I vaguely found some keys, and after the rise of the South, after we followed your new order and carried out more drastic reforms, and encountered more fierce backlash and contradictions, I think I figured it out......

"The problem lies in the entire Ansu system, with the king as the head, the feudal lord system as the skeleton, and the land and serfs as the flesh and blood.

"I don't agree with Edmund and Duke Loren's approach, but now I have to say ...... They did me a favor.

"Duke Cecil, do you know what is the hardest part of getting change from the top down?"

Wales smiled and looked at Gawain quietly.

But before Gawain could speak, he had already spoken the answer himself.

"That's to overthrow yourself."

Wales strode towards the church door, pushing it open as the noise outside had turned into a roar and shout.