Amber found some clues that Gawain had not expected - he had guessed that Surrey?? Randolph may have been a down-and-out nobleman, or he may have been stripped of his title for a crime and had to remain incognito, but he was not expected to be a defected royal shadow guard, but he still defected during a mission to find Gondor's legacy...... This is inevitably evocative.

It seems that the Ansu royal family is not really ignorant of the secrets buried in the Dark Mountains, although most of the relevant inheritances have been lost due to the civil strife in the Foggy Moon, they should still have some clues, at least, they know that there is something in the Dark Mountains.

Of course, the premise of this speculation is Sarri?? Randolph was looking for a fortress of disobedience, not another legacy of Gondor.

"We haven't found any other entrances to the Fortress of Disobedience, and as for the entrances that have been found, there is no sign of anyone opening them," Gawain said as he thought about it, "and even if he did enter the Fortress of Disobedience, it wouldn't explain his defection - it was just an ancient research base, what could there be in it for a royal shadow guard to betray his king?" ”

"I don't understand it either...... In retrospect, he really was a man who never mentioned his past, and his life was a mess," Amber shook her head, her voice a little low, "he always took me around, frequently changed my address, forged my identity, and stole chickens and dogs under the noses of the local nobles to make ends meet, and most of our energy was consumed on this, which made me have a lot of opinions about him for a long time...... But now that I think about it, there was a reason for all of his actions. ”

"The royal family won't let go of a defector royal shadow guard so easily, they must have been looking for him in the south for a long time, so he must hide in Tibet, and he can't use his status as a transcendent to seek a more decent job - because all the affairs related to the transcendent are monitored by the nobles, so he can only be a thief, or occasionally take on some mercenary tasks as a wanderer, and he can't contact other mercenaries for too long, in case those mercenaries are the black gloves of some nobleman behind them."

Amber flattened her mouth: "That's probably what happened......"

Gawain began to ask for some details about the year: "Was Pitman already with you at that time?" ”

Amber scratched her hair: "For as long as I can remember, Pitman and my adoptive father have been friends, but I don't know exactly when they met - the half-elves have no memory ability in their childhood compared to humans, and I seem to have a more serious memory in me, and my memories of that time are vague." ”

"Don't you think it's strange that a defected royal shadow guard who went into hiding would make a friend like Pittman while in hiding?" Gawain raised his eyelids, "A person who is on the run from the royal family would not normally associate with a stranger unless there is a reason why he has to—did your adoptive father mention it to you?" ”

Amber frowned, "He didn't tell me, I only heard the two of them brag about aspiring to be the strongest rogue group in the South - but this reason is definitely not reliable." ”

"You don't know, Pittman must know," Gawain said, "and maybe he'd be willing to say it if he had the chance." ”

Pittman, a druid who is both the Eternal Sleeper and the Priest of the Dead of Everything, hides a lot of secrets behind his seemingly scruffy little old man figure, and Gawain knows that he must be hiding a lot of things, and maybe there is something about Surrey?? Randolph's.

In the past, Pitman didn't tell anyone these secrets, which may have been a protective measure, but now that Amber has found clues about his adoptive father, and more importantly, the former Ansu royal power has ended, and Amber herself has even co-opted all the royal shadow guards, then some things that could not be said back then should be able to be said at this moment.

"I'll ask him," Amber nodded, "after all these years, it's time for him to tell me about the past." ”

"Well," Gawain thought for a moment, then continued, "On the other hand, can you roughly tell when you were killed by Sarri??" Was Randolph adopted? How long after he arrived in the South? Was it after years of incognito, or did he have an adopted daughter by his side when he decided to defect? ”

"Then I don't know," Amber grabbed her hair again, her ears shaking, "why do you ask this?" What comes to mind? ”

"An assumption that seems to me to be very likely," Gawain looked at the amber in front of him, his associative abilities on full display, "Have you thought about it, Surrey??" Could Randolph's defection have something to do with you? ”

"Me?" Amber glared at herself with a "you're kidding me" expression, "What do you say!" I was a kid then! ”

"What if the tasks recorded on this are fake? What if he went to the Dark Mountains not to find some Gondor relic, but you? Gawain gestured to the scroll on the table, "We can venture to assume that perhaps his real task is to find a half-blood elf with a special bloodline and give it to the Ansu royal family, or something more extreme...... The mission required him to kill the half-blood elf, and he couldn't do it at the last minute, so everything would be explained. ”

Amber looked at Gawain dumbfounded, as if she was deeply shocked by the other party's imagination, and only spoke after a while: "Speculation is not speculation, association is not imagination...... You're almost making up a story, what about the evidence-the dignified Ansu royal family, what are you looking for a half-blood elf to do when you're full, and you even put in a royal shadow guard for this......"

"So I said, maybe it's because of your special bloodline, don't forget that you only know that half of your bloodline is an elf, and who the other half of your bloodline comes from is a mystery, do you know that your biological father is an elf, do you know who your mother is?" Gawain tapped lightly on the table, "And don't forget one important point: the Shadow Seal. ”

The expression on Amber's face froze for a moment, apparently she had recalled the origin and properties of the ring.

Gawain looked at her and said slowly, "You can also use Francis II's Shadow Seal, and you still have an identical ring on your hand that has lost its magical powers, this clue ...... Don't you care? ”

Amber thought about it, and suddenly pressed her chest nervously, and gasped: "Mom...... I can't really be the remnants of the previous dynasty!! ”

Gao Wen's expression was almost unmaintained, and he was finally serious: "That's not how the word remnants of the previous dynasty was used!" ”

"Don't correct my words at this point," Amber waved vigorously, "This possibility you said really makes me doubt myself a little, it's just a guess with no evidence...... Okay, there's some evidence now, but is that possible? ”

"I'm just talking about my thoughts, the specific situation, I'm afraid except for Sarri?? No one else knows about it except Randolph himself," Gawain shook his head, "but no matter what the truth was back then, even if it was the same as I suspected, it didn't make much sense now - the Ansu throne was over, and whatever the king wanted your adoptive father to do in the south, that purpose had already disappeared with the end of the dynasty, and you are now free, so you don't have to think too much about it." ”

After a moment of silence in thought, Amber finally exhaled and smiled again, "That's what you said...... The old royal family is gone, and I'm still worried about what I'm doing so much. ”

As if she had let go of some baggage, she quickly returned to her usual appearance of not caring about anything, and after this topic was over, she asked Gawain about her next step: "Now that the order of Saint-Sunil has been largely stabilized, the transfer of power in all aspects and the formation of a new management structure have been completed, should you consider the next step?" ”

"yes......" Gawain leaned back, his fingers tapping on the armrest of his chair, "we've been in this city long enough. ”

After tapping the handrail a few times, he turned to Amber, "How's it going in the East?" ”

"The men sent by the Archduchess Victoria have converged with General Maryland, and the local nobles in the east are basically cooperating with the recruitment, and they have even cobbled together a reserve army to consolidate the defense line of the Long Wind Fortress with Cecil's legion."

"Unexpectedly," Gawain nodded, "the nobles of the Eastern Realm should be the most saved, among the many corrupt nobles of the old Ansu Kingdom, although they also have a full set of problems of the old nobles, but because of the perennial threat of Typhon and the effective governance of the Loren family, the local nobles are still very sober when facing the situation of war." However, the reserves they cobbled together should not be of much use...... The true elite of the Eastern Realm has all been wiped out in the Holy Spirit Plain, and only the garrison corps of Changfeng Fortress is left with reliable combat strength, and the reserve army and leading nobles from other places will not be much stronger than ordinary nobles' private soldiers. What about other than that? ”

Amber sorted out the information she had and continued, "There doesn't seem to be much movement on the Typhon border, but Maryland is worried that the other side may be secretly accumulating strength, and is now trying to gather information and be vigilant against Typhon's invasion.

"The White Sands Mining Company has taken over the mine and has begun work on repairing the railroad damaged by the giant deer, and in accordance with your orders, the engineering team is continuing to extend the previous Eastern Railroad in order to be able to drive the Iron Throne to the vicinity of the Wind Fortress in the autumn - with the armored train, we won't have to worry about Typhon so much.

"As for the repair of the Iron Throne...... It's about half a month. It lost two Arsenal Sections, and the body's power ridge and shield group were also overloaded, which was quite badly damaged. Two heavy-duty factories in Gülen and Cecil are working overtime to compress the cycle even more. ”

"In any case, the Iron Throne must be restored as soon as possible, even if only half of the train is transported to the border," Gawain said in a deep voice, "After the war, we are short of troops, and even with advanced weaponry, the current defenders of the Fortress of the Long Wind may not be able to stop the Typhon people's formed Transcendent Legion." ”

Amber frowned, "Do you think the Typhonians will really go to war in this window?" ”

"They've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, but intelligence errors and delays may allow them to miss this opportunity," Gawain said. Augustus must have been watching the war on the Plains of the Holy Spirit, but it was difficult for him to accurately grasp exactly how much we had lost in the war - whether we had won a crushing victory or a big victory, which directly affected whether he would order an attack or not. ”

The Typhonians were waiting for Ansu to shed blood, Gawain understood this early on, and in fact the Rosetta Emperor's plan had been mostly successful - despite the variable of Cecil's rise, on the whole, all areas of Ansu except the southern border had been badly damaged in this war, large areas of grain production area were scorched, a large amount of grain reserves were polluted or burned, and a large number of youth forces were consumed.

The Emperor Typhon had indeed waited for the great decline of Ansu, and he would strike once and for all—but given the inefficiency and inaccuracy of the transmission of information in this era, he himself may not have had time to realize it.

Gawain knew that he was a ruler who was determined enough and cautious and cunning enough to ensure that as long as the Emperor's order was given, all the war machines of the Typhon Empire would be in full swing to attack the fortress of the Long Wind in an instant, but his caution ...... If used properly, it may be able to give Cecil a life-saving respite.

He said to Amber, "Somehow, so that the Typhonians can't figure out what Cecile really is, and find a way to make Rosetta??" Augustus overestimated the defenses of the Strongwind Fortress and overestimated the strength we had retained after the war. ”

Amber thought for a moment: "I will help General Maryland formulate a plan, let him show the message of 'Cecil's great victory', and try to make the Longwind Fortress show that the army is full......"

"That's not enough, Rosetta?? Augustus is a very formidable opponent, he will not just stare at the fortress of the Long Wind," Gawain said in a deep voice, "The domestic propaganda must be quickly unified, this war in the Plain of the Holy Spirit must be a great victory with minor damage, our reserves are sufficient, young men are motivated by victory to join the army, the downfall of the Ansu royal family must be publicized more decently, and the royal knights must not be publicized such as the near-total annihilation of the royal knights, and the absence of one in the army in the north."

"So far, our propagandists have done a good job in these areas, but the propaganda efforts in the east are much weaker than in the south...... This must be remedied immediately.

"In addition, our trade with Typhon must be maintained, not only maintained, but also expanded—and with Cecil taking over this vast land, our demand and output can only increase, not decrease, and must increase considerably...... Only in this way can Rosetta be avoided?? Augustus guessed how much population we had lost.

"Don't worry that Cecil can't eat such a large scale of trade, the throughput capacity of the magic guide industry is amazing, and I have already arranged for Bai Dewen?? The Grand Duke of Franklin has gone to negotiate with the Oguray tribe, and the gray elves and dwarves there are very interested in our alchemical potions and textiles, and through trade with them, we can transfer most of the pressure......"

Gawain spoke his mind one by one, and his goal was very clear, which was to mislead the ruler of Typhon.

As long as we grasp the rules of information transmission in this era and identify its backwardness and various loopholes, it is possible to achieve this goal.

Of course, Rosetta?? Augustus is by no means short of wisdom, Typhon also has his own intelligence department, even if this kind of misdirection is successful, it should not last too long, but what Gawain wants is a short period of misdirection - all he needs now is time to "catch his breath" after the war, as long as the Iron Throne recovers its combat strength and arrives at the border, this year's grain harvest is abundant, and Cecil's next batch of recruits complete training and equipment, then he has the confidence to block Typhon's offensive, and if he can mislead a little longer, he can even survive this winter, Let Rosetta the Great react next spring...... At that time, he was even more relieved.

Amber has taken Gawain's instructions to heart one by one, and has already begun to select trustworthy subordinates in her mind - she is not only the head of the intelligence department, but also a participant and executor of many secret plans, especially this time Gawain will definitely have to do something with the participation of a large number of MIA agents, so she must prepare from now on.

After writing down everything one by one, she raised her head, her ears twitching slightly: "In addition to these, there are other things that should also be on the agenda, right?" ”

Gawain raised his eyebrows: "Huh? ”

"A grand coronation," Amber said with her hand drawn a large circle, as if to reinforce the word "grand", "the situation is stable, the transfer of power is complete, and the governing body is formed, shouldn't the ruler of the Cecil Empire declare a new era?" And it's also a window for Typhon to send a signal......"

After following Gawain for so long, this half-elf has also learned a lot of novel and useful words, and listening to this guy say such a reasonable thing seriously, even Gawain couldn't help but nod: "That's right, this matter should also be on the agenda." ”

He didn't care about the so-called "coronation ceremony" before, because stabilizing the situation and resuming production was the top priority, but now the "coronation ceremony" has a special role, and as a person who grasps the value, he has to pay attention to it.

"When are you going to be crowned?" Amber blinked, expectantly.

I don't know what this guy is looking forward to.

"Wait until a particular 'cargo' arrives at St. Sunil from the White Sand Hills," Gawain said, "but before that, preparations can begin." ”

"Special cargo?" Amber reacted, vaguely guessing what Gawain meant, "...... Ah, that's a fitting decoration for the coronation of the new emperor...... But were you going to be crowned in St. Sunil? ”

"Actually, I was thinking about Cecil City at first, but Hetty's suggestion made me change my mind," Gawain raised the corners of his mouth and his gaze fell on the wall on the side of the study, where Ansu's sword and shield emblem once hung, but now it was replaced by a banner of swords and ploughshares, "Ansu's kingship ends here, and the new empire begins here." ”

The coronation ceremony, to put it bluntly, is for people to see, since this is the case, then let it show the best effect-

Gawain wanted to let the old nobles of Saint-Sunil see clearly, let the church, the army, and the old royal courtiers here, let them see the transition between the old and the new with their own eyes, and be deeply impressed by this process, only in this way can the stability of the follow-up process of the restructuring be further ensured.

This ancient and young country really can no longer withstand the slightest confusion and hesitation.