Half an hour later.

"Brother Roddy, will there really be a fight later?"

At this point, it was already completely deep into the Da Vinci Forest, but the atmosphere in the team was very relaxed. Although he knew in advance about the possible events, Nefi was not nervous at the moment, but took off his hood and looked left and right, very curious.

"Yes, there are no accidents, so you have to stay close to Akasha, I didn't leave you at the manor because you'll be safer with me, you know? ”

"Oh, you've said it so many times... Of course I'm not going to run around!"

"I was wrong, I was wrong, don't be angry. ”

Roddy pretended to touch Nefi's head, and little Lori squinted and smiled, but in such a relaxed atmosphere, Roddy turned back to Sodlore and said, "Prepare for battle, I don't want to fake it." ”

Sodrore, who seemed to have changed since he entered the forest, nodded, did not speak, just raised his palm and made a gesture - in an instant, the originally loose team stopped moving forward in an instant, and all the soldiers dismounted en masse and began to help each other in pairs, quickly putting the light armor in their horses' bags on their bodies...

Their armor was not as silver as Viscount Senna's personal soldiers, but rather had a dull blue-gray sheen - a rusty and worn scrap metal that only a knowledgeable mage would recognize... This is a reflection peculiar to the "Barretton Iron".

The discarded armor that Roddy took out from the ruins of the High Elf "Wagra City" has now been re-smelted, and in more than a year, eighty sets of standard light cavalry armor have been created!

These rare metals are more precious than Thurium, and a set of armor stacks up to weigh only ten kilograms, so soldiers can easily carry it in their bags - but in terms of defense, it is several times stronger than the "Mithril Armor" under Viscount Senna!

You must know that this is the armor that only the "Royal Guard" of Wagra City was qualified to equip at the beginning, even if it was a rare resource during the period of the resource-rich High Elves. Putting them on your body, it's not an exaggeration to jump your defense level tenfold.

So this hunting party, in the blink of an eye, has become a light cavalry regiment that can charge at any time.

On the breastplates of all the soldiers there is a blue dragon head with a spear piercing. In all epic stories, this mark means only one thing: "slay the dragon".

"Knights of the Dragonlance... Although the name is a bit clichéd, the 'dragon slaying' thing is really not bragging. ”

Roddy looked at the newly refreshed team and nodded with satisfaction.

Sodrore took off his thick cloak, revealing his demonic armor made of a mixture of dragon bones and rare Thorsilver, and nodded the insignia on his chest meaningfully: "That Emperor Conn used the same dragon head for the insignia. But he doesn't have this riding spear on his dragon's head..."

"If there is any similarity, it is pure coincidence. ”

The corners of Roddy's mouth furled, and he did not comment.

Before that, these young people who started as scouts did not have a fixed "flag" and "name", and today, they finally have their own emblems and flags.

"Knights of the Dragonlance, march, march!"

"Yes!"

The mental outlook of the knights who have completed the costume change is simply different from before, although it is still a silent action, but the sense of glory in the chest has begun to condense rapidly...

"Turn and head towards the Mel Beach. ”

This was the planned rendezvous with Sally - Sally was surrounded by many other nobles after entering the forest, and by now, she probably had sent those guys away.

"Let's hope everything goes well. ”

With a flick of the reins, Roddy turned the horse around, and at the same time, the pintail sand cone above his head "swished" across the sky, bringing a gentle breeze.

"Catherine, didn't you think to go in and take a look?"

In the camp outside the Da Vinci Forest, the noble maidens left behind were gathering and chatting.

"A bunch of stinky men are snorting and drinking, what's there to see?"

Catherine did not wear the sexy and revealing long dress today, but a dark green short coat similar to the style of hunting clothing, with hand-sewn riding boots by master leather craftsmen, this wild and uninhibited beauty made the squires who stayed behind next to her couldn't help but look sideways.

However, Catherine turned a blind eye to this, she was used to the **** gaze of men. Speaking of which, she's never seen a man look at her without revealing his inner desires - oh, except for the annoying "turtle".

"Viscount Senna is so handsome, I bet there is probably no nobleman in the kingdom who is more like the knight of my dreams. ”

"Cut, nymphomaniac. If you really want to hook up, go straight away, what's the use of **** here?"

Catherine reached out and tucked her long hair together, feeling a little bored - she thought that the baron she had made an appointment with last night would make her have a pleasant night, but it turned out that the other party was a silver pewter gun, and it was hastily over in a few minutes...

What a disappointment.

Looking at the Da Vinci Forest in front of the camp, Catherine felt that it was not pleasing to anyone today, and remembering the silent taunt of the "turtle" last night, she was even more angry, and raised her foot and kicked a stone far away, as if Roddy was this stone...

"Turtles who can only pretend will end up with no good end!"

After cursing, Catherine remembered that this was not a ladylike gesture, and she immediately restrained her demeanor and prepared to find a place to sit and rest, but then she noticed that a private soldier was striding towards her.

"Miss, there is urgent news to report to the master!"

The other man was panting and sweating profusely, and the horse he had just ridden in the distance was also drenched in sweat, apparently galloping from a long distance away. Catherine was able to become the "eldest sister" in a group of women not only because of her good figure, she just glanced at these details and concluded that the other party was from the territory of Burton, so she didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Father just led the team into the hunting area, tell me something." ”

It took the soldier half a day to pant and whispered, "I just received news in the morning that the villages of Elli, Peric and Levine in the territory have been attacked!"

"Attack?"

Catherine's first reaction was not fear or excitement, but only endless confusion: "Who dares to attack these places? The guards there are not weak at all, I remember that the Clyde Knight is in Levine Town, right?"

Clyde is one of the strongest knights in the territory, only below Titus and Wellington, in terms of strength, he is a strong guy who has advanced to the "guardian knight", and once made a name for himself for beating and crippled more than 30 bandits.

"The heads of the knights of Gram and Clyde are hung at the entrance of the town... The man who found it said that the whole town was, all-"

"What's wrong?"

“... All are dead, and there is not a single one left. The same is true for those villages, with thousands of inhabitants... There are no survivors. ”

These words made Catherine shiver uncontrollably. The unprecedented situation made her a little at a loss all of a sudden, which couldn't be blamed on her youth, because no matter which lord this kind of thing was placed on, I am afraid it would cause a blank in her thinking.

Someone declared war on the Bolton Territory?

Or is it that the rival is taking advantage of the situation and is ready to teach the family a lesson?

Catherine was not a hairy boy after all, and she tried her best to calm down and anticipate all possibilities, but no amount of guessing was to avail—for she had never heard of a nobleman who would use such a horrific method to provoke a war.

Nobles rarely killed commoners, and even if they caught a hostile nobleman, they would often stay alive and wait for ransom.

So what's going on right now?

"You... Wait, tell my father about it as soon as he returns!"

Catherine is in a hurry, although she has some power, she does not have the ability to make decisions at will in such a big matter-"Is there any other information? ”

"No, there is no information, Butler Bram asked me to report as soon as he received the information in the morning, and he said that the lord had better go back to preside over the overall situation immediately, because I am afraid that this matter will be difficult to deal with with with a few orders..."

"I know... I know that, but—" Catherine took a breath and waved her hand decisively, "You go down first, and I'll send someone to call him back now." ”

"Yes, miss. ”

Catherine knew that the stakes were high, and immediately sent a group of soldiers into the Da Vinci Forest to find her father, and her hurried appearance made several other girlfriends a little strange, and they came over to shush and ask for warmth: "Are you okay?

"No, it's okay, my stomach is not very comfortable in the morning, maybe I didn't sleep last night. ”

"Hehehehe, where did you not sleep well, I'm afraid I haven't slept all night, right?"

Catherine's best friend's teasing made Catherine completely uninterested, she felt that her face was a little stiff, and she had some uncomfortable premonitions in her heart.

What the hell is going on...

"It's true that no one wants to do thankless work. But... What if something happens that you can't imagine?"

This sentence suddenly popped up in her mind, and Catherine, who was pacing back and forth, was startled, and then remembered that this was what the "turtle" said at the banquet last night.

Catherine was very impressed by the way he answered while eating cherries, and she was so dismissive of such a statement at the time, but in retrospect...

Isn't what I'm encountering now exactly "unimaginable"?

Catherine stopped abruptly, feeling that the warm sunlight could not bring her the slightest warmth.

However, just when she was gone, a commotion suddenly sounded in her ears, and when she turned her head to look, she saw a group of people suddenly rushing towards here from a nearby town...

"Who is this? Which lord is late?"

The temperature in the forest is even cooler than outside, and it is a spring day when everything is recovering, and even if you don't have the heart to hunt, you can see many animals in sight, and hares, wild deer or black wild boars are often frightened away from afar.

Roddy's team marched silently through the forest, knowing that a battle was about to take place, and everyone was actually secretly accumulating momentum, and the veteran soldiers kept moving their wrists and joints to warm up their bodies as much as possible in the slightly cold air.

However, before the team reached its intended destination, an undisguised sound of horses' hooves suddenly broke the silence.

There were many figures in his field of vision, and at first Roddy thought that there were other nobles chasing prey, but when he saw the long sword unsheathed and fierce eyes in front of him, he realized that these guys were probably not "hunting"-

"Where did this come from?"

Sodrore was also surprised, these guys... It's not the enemy you expected.

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