From the point of view of the "negotiation" strategy, Camilla's behavior at this time can be called completely "stupid" -- because showing the cards at the beginning of the negotiation is tantamount to completely giving up the initiative and allowing others to slaughter it.

It's not that she didn't want to go over and play a tug of war with Roddy, or to distract him, and then bring up the topic of "Nephi" after negotiating some other conditions... But thinking of Roddy's pursuit and hard work for his ideals, Camilla no longer wanted to communicate with him in a "bargaining" way.

Because Camilla admires him - it's a heartfelt emotion.

"I'm afraid the Holy Congregation will sooner or later condemn me as an 'apostate,' and if they knew where I am, they'd continue to use me—so... I decided to trust you. ”

Camila exhaled softly, after knowing Roddy's experience, even if she just looked at his calm eyes, Camila always had the feeling of facing the elders of the "Holy Order", and her heart was inexplicably a little stressed.

"It's great to hear that you've made that decision. ”

Luo Di did not directly reply to her request, but sat up slightly and said with a serious expression: "The Holy Congregation is bound to become my enemy - what the city of Elson has is more attractive to the 'Holy Congregation' than anything else, so the best way is to not let anyone know what is going on here." ”

"If you're just 'missing', they're going to keep sending people here to track you down. So I wonder if you can convince the Church that your team is here... Nothing?"

Camila immediately understood his intentions, thought about it, and replied, "There is a way." ”

"That's it. ”

Roddy nodded, still not mentioning Nefi's matter, Camila hesitated a little, but her intuition told her... Roddy's reply just now already means that he agreed to his request.

But he didn't make an oath, he didn't give himself a verbal affirmation, so... Okay?

This hesitation only appeared for a moment, and Camilla bit her lower lip lightly, and then made a choice: "I will write a letter to you before noon." ”

After saying that, she turned and left, without asking any more questions.

Roddy didn't stop her, just a little stunned - to be honest, Camila and Nephi's eccentric personalities are very different, and their styles of behavior are quite different, but when they hesitate to choose, they are almost identical...

In a trance, Luo Di seemed to see the back of the smiling and bouncing away, and his heart suddenly hurt terribly.

He didn't promise Camilla anything, because no "oath" was more important than the firm conviction in his heart - Roddy wasn't looking for Nephi for the oath, he had to do more than the oath.

Towards noon, the soldiers in the inner city had assembled and were ready to go out again.

Three months ago, Roddy entered the city with forty knights and eighty warriors, and after the battle outside the Pachar's Magic Tower, the number of this team was inevitably reduced to twenty-four - but this astonishing "battle loss ratio" was piled up by sophisticated weapons and armor, a large number of intermediate potions, and scrolls, and they were almost overdrawn several times in the battle, so that within three days after the battle, eighty percent of the soldiers were completely incapacitated, and Akasha rested for a full week before recovering from it.

However, this kind of fierce battle can improve the combat effectiveness and willpower of the soldiers more than a hundred trainings: the average of the servants who were originally only four levels has been increased to around the eighth level at this time, and the basic level of the knights has directly jumped to an average of 13 levels.

Counting the attribute bonuses brought by the equipment, their combat power at this time is already nearly ten times stronger than when they were in Nolan Village!

This level has surpassed more than eighty percent of the "knights" in the kingdom, and is even stronger than the personal knight guards of the great lord.

"Queue, forward!"

Under the sun, all the soldiers were walking towards the edge of the inner city with the sound of orders, not preparing to leave the city, but their destination was the "temporary cemetery" where twenty-four fallen soldiers were buried.

"Stand upright!"

Under the order, all the soldiers stood still - at this time, all the living people in Elson City stood in the queue, including Nata, Akasha, Camilla and others, all silently looking at the humble tombstone in front of them, each thinking about it.

Roddy stood at the front of the queue, did not make any feelings or impassioned declarations, just silently gave a military salute, then turned around and said softly: "A stone monument will be erected here, and all those who participate in this battle will be named on the stone monument." ”

Where there is a battle, there is sacrifice, and if you want to get it, you must lose it - when it comes to the death of a soldier, the guilt itself is meaningless, and all Roddy can do is make such a simple promise.

A promise that will go down in history.

"Get ready to go. ”

He took a deep breath and gave the order to leave the city.

Camilla walked over and handed him a secret letter, carefully explaining the method of passing it to the "Holy Order", then turned her eyes to the infantry who were about to leave, and said: "From here to Mogra Village, if it goes well, it may take two months... And it seems that only two days have passed since we realized it. ”

Roddy sighed a little, but didn't know how to answer - thinking of Nephi, he remembered that Camilla, who couldn't tell her age, had the identity of a "prospective mother-in-law".

Now there is no conflict between the two, but Roddy thought about it carefully and felt that if he wanted to communicate with Camilla normally, he should not be too attentive at the moment. So his attitude at this time was to treat Camilla as a friend to talk to.

"I'll try to come back within half a year, there will be a lot of orders and support materials during this period, if I can help, I hope you can help. ”

After Roddy finished speaking, he immediately pointed to the library in the distance and said, "I found the ruins of Wagra in the Silent Forest, there are some precious unique books in there, maybe there will be more analysis of the city, I don't know if they can free you from the comfort and limitations of the 'Guardian', but... Even if there is a glimmer of hope, you should give it a try. “

Hearing these words, Camila's eyes widened slightly, and her heart suddenly accelerated?--Although she had gradually accepted the fact that she was imprisoned here, her desire for "freedom" in her heart had never diminished, and Roddy said this, which was tantamount to giving her a hope, and telling her a fact from the side: he did not want Camila to stay here for the rest of her life.

"Alright, it's time for me to go. ”

Roddy looked at the faint excitement in Camilla's eyes, but there was some sigh in his heart - she could survive, after all, it would be better than the ending of being plotted by Turing in another history...

Camila didn't wave goodbye reservedly, but simply said "goodbye" and stood where he was, watching him leave.

Seeing this, Akasha, who was not far away, hurriedly caught up with Roddy, said something with a red face, and then stuffed a scroll in his hand into his hand, followed the team all the way to the outer city, and finally stood on the tower of the city wall, rubbing her red eyes, and reluctantly shouted the words that Roddy could no longer hear, until the back of the last soldier disappeared into the forest on the outskirts of the city, and her somewhat thin face was inevitably dyed with a layer of loneliness...

In the great city, there were only forty-two living people left.

With a wave of his hand, Akara manipulated the legions of the dead to guard the city walls, and silently strolled back to the inner city. In the days without Roddy by his side, every minute and every second seemed to be an ordeal... Akasha looked at the huge Pachar Tower, and when she looked away, she found that there was a library next to her.

She looked up at the sun in the sky, and thought that reading should be enough to kill a lot of time, and she walked in.

And in the distance, as the lord of the city, Roddy has already embarked on a new journey at this time.

Roddy already had a detailed plan for the future: he needed to help Duke Angmar solve the troubles of the nobles, and when the crisis of Evta was gone, he would set off for the village of Mogra in the south of the kingdom to find the "Charged Crystal" and return to Elson City by September.

The reason for this is because Roddy knows that in 589 the kingdom will encounter an unprecedented "cold snap" - half of the kingdom will be affected by heavy snowfall, countless civilians will be frozen to death due to lack of preparation, and the population will suffer heavy losses...

Roddy didn't want to be stranded in the southern part of the kingdom, so he had to hurry as fast as he could.

"Speed up!"

The snow had melted, and the soldiers' footsteps in the forest were a little muddy, and they occasionally looked back at the huge wall, with pride and worry in their hearts.

This is a city that is destined to not be peaceful, and everyone knows it.

Elson fell silent, and Roddy's team faded away, but at the other end of the newly rejuvenated forest, a two-meter-long pit viper struggled desperately, hissing and turning its white belly over.

Its body twisted and twisted, the outstretched snake letter trembling desperately, and the vicious triangular eyes were unfocused, for it had no idea what had happened to it!

The struggle gradually stopped, and the pit viper lay on the ground with its body twisted and white, as if it was dead at first glance - but just as its body stopped trembling, a vague black shadow flew out of the shadows and covered the pit viper's body.

In an instant, the stiff snake's eyes glowed blood-red, and then its body regained its mobility. It's just that the first thing this pit viper "woke up" was to keep its eyes firmly fixed on the direction of Elson City, and did not hide its shocking resentment.

But in the end, instead of crawling in the direction of the city, it headed out of the forest in a clumsy manner... Occasionally, the pit viper's faint "hissing" sound can be heard, as if announcing that it will one day return.

[This volume is coming to an end, tomorrow should be the last chapter of this volume, and by the way, tomorrow will write a summary of the first three volumes & million words.] Also, tomorrow is my wife's birthday, so I guess it will be updated later. 】