"Adele!"

Adel involuntarily smiled softly at the familiar call, which he had expected when the eunuch agreed to inquire about his master, and instead of waiting in the tent as the merchants had requested, he stood outside it, and he saw the young spellcaster, and was delighted to find that he was unharmed, as he had been in the temple of Rosada, and he greeted Cremar with an outstretched arm, and they hugged each other tightly until Berdwin pounced on him and threw them to the ground with the elf Kerryben- His intention may have been to have a big hug, but he forgot that he only had one arm now, and the weight of three hundred pounds plus the momentum resulted in four people rolling on the ground, Cremar laughed, and Kerry and Adel laughed after realizing what was going on, and Birdwin laughed as he hurriedly tried to get up from his friends, Cremar and Kerry were all right, the elves' bodies were not as slender as they seemed, and Cremar belonged to the kind that could face orcs with his bare hands, and Adel was once healthy, but the prison and the brand, and the tragic deaths of his companions and teachers, and the subsequent exile severely destroyed his body, and Baldwin's hand rested on his chest, and the bulging ribs could still be felt through the heavy linen clothes.

Because of this, it was not easy for Baldwin to get up, and not a single bone of Adel looked like it could withstand his press, and finally Leona, who couldn't help but laugh, walked up and grabbed Baldwin's hand and pulled him up from his companion.

And the merchants and slaves looked at them dumbfounded.

"Your Highness......" Adel was still the first time he had seen the Norman princess of the Highlands, but the redhead and Berdwin had already made him guess her honorable status, he bent his knees and wanted to salute her, Leona grabbed him by the shoulders first, and the former priest of Rosada found himself lifted up by a woman all at once, as if carrying a cat or a doll.

"It was a touching goodbye. Gülen said sourly.

"I remember you. Adel said good-naturedly that, as far as Gülen was concerned, the former priest of Rosada gave him a hug as well, and the thief was taken aback and almost gave him a dagger.

"You're blushing. Mame said that after Adair walked away—she and Adair only had to bow slightly to each other, and although Adel was no longer the priest of Rosada, she couldn't give him a kiss as Pastor Flo was customary.

"Shut up. Gülen said.

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It was certainly a joy to see Adel again, but the news that Adel brought was not so pleasant.

"What the hell is Dylan Donclay thinking?" said Leona weakly.

"He wants to create a city of spellcasters. Kerribben said calmly, "There are no elves, and there is no need for too many human armies. As long as there is a caster, it will do. ”

"Has he been drained of his brain by the devil?" said Baldwin bluntly, "Spellcasters are not trustworthy - sorry, I'm not talking about you, Cremar, but it must be admitted that some spellcasters are dangerous and selfish, they have no faith, or hypocrites, and they have nothing to sell, including their own souls. ”

"The orcs have gold and precious stones. "They don't have to buy a lot, a tenth, no, a hundredth," Gülen said. The calamity that a few casters can cause is not at all the same level as the calamity caused by a few soldiers. ”

Adel was silent, his hair was already white, covering his face like frosty dead leaves on the ground, and the imprint on his face was still deeply dark. But I don't know if it's a delusion or something else, but the pain it brings is getting worse day by day. In its place was another kind of pain.

After Dylan became the master of Thundercastle, the first thing he did was to streamline the army, he brought more than fifty spellcasters to stick to Thundercastle, and there may be more in the future, he regarded the soldiers of Thundercastle as a distracting burden, especially those soldiers who still had nostalgia and reverence for Baldwin, he had nothing to say to them, and he was not prepared to beg for their trust and love, he decided to take a completely different path from old Don Clay and Baldwin- The soldiers were expelled, and their families' homes in the outer city were taken away, either assigned to the caster's apprentices and disciples, or demolished to build new mage towers.

As a friend of Cremar and Birdwin, Adel was one of the first to be chased away after being issued a few silver coins, and he was alone and accustomed to wandering, much better than the soldiers who had to trek through the wilderness with their families— Among them were old men, babies still in swaddling clothes, and even several pot-bellied pregnant women, and if it weren't for the merchants and craftsmen of Castle Thunder who sold them a few wagons at very low prices out of mercy, they might have walked day and night in the outer terrain of Castle Thunder, which might not have been able to leave Castle Thunder in the time Dylan had allowed.

They were almost at a loss, the last time they had been driven out like this was because of the orcs, and this time it was the lord who was supposed to protect them, they walked through the waist-high grass, not knowing where they were going, carrying with them very little food and water, and they were quickly consumed. To add insult to injury, they were discovered by some scattered orcs, they were attacked, women and children were captured, and men were killed- It was in that chaos that Adel became the leader of this group of terrified men, teaching them to erect rudimentary fortifications, arrange patrols and lookouts, dig traps, cut poisonous herbs and cook them and smear them on sharpened wooden thorns (pity that they were not even allowed to take their weapons with them when they left, which are now rusting in warehouses), extracted drinking water from the mire, collected berries, grass roots and edible leaves, and caught prey, and after losing nearly a third of them, more than 4,000 people walked out of the wasteland full of sorrow and pain, but the bigger problem was that there was nowhere to contain them。

Although many nobles coveted the 3,000 soldiers, knowing that they were brave men who had truly faced death and blood, and that their enemies were not humans but fierce orcs, they were also afraid of the moody new king, about Dylan Don Clay, Berdwin Don Clay, the entanglement between the old king and the new king was about to become one of the gossip on the streets, and Baldwin had the princess Leona as her protector, but they didn't, it was quite unprofitable to be hated by the new king for containing the soldiers of Baldwin, and who could guarantee that these soldiers would really be loyal to them？

At a time when the soldiers and their families who had been expelled by the new lords of Thundercastle were exhausted and almost hopeless, Archduke Luzel generously extended a helping hand, he could not contain the enemy's army, but could give them a buffer in the middle of the deserted land between the Norman and the Duchy of Luzel in the Highlands, but he only gave them thirty days. Thirty days later, the knights who were eyeing each other would use their spears to drive away the uninvited guests.

"It seems that we really owe a debt of gratitude to Luther of Ruzel. Berdwin said sincerely.

"No," said Gülen, who knew the story, "we can save him half a million gold coins." ”

"How do you know we're here?" asked Cremar curiously.

"I didn't know you were here," said Adair, "I just asked the merchants to show me here, it is said that there is always a shortage of soldiers on the Dragonfire Islands, and there are many empty islands, but as soon as I got here, I heard that there was a black-haired spellcaster on the side islands as its new master, and he had an elf by his side, and I thought it might be you, my friend." ”

"That's me. The otherworldly soul said simply, "And we need soldiers, Baldwin, can we?"

Birdwin stood up and bowed deeply to the dark-haired spellcaster, "Thank you very much. He said, his voice trembling slightly, his heart was about to be shattered when he heard that those brave and fearless soldiers were treated so mercilessly by Dylan, they had been his brother, his friend and his son, and he had been glad that the old king had not died in Thundercastle and that his subordinates could be preserved, but he did not expect that the hatred of the new king would spread from him to these innocent people.

"Let them go from the Starlight River," said Kerribben, "the elven ships will carry them, and the message that Ji Zhen has brought has been built a dock closest to Cape Beach, where they will disembark and pass through Tip Castle to the Dragonfire Islands, where their health and safety will be guaranteed. ”

This time it was Leona who bowed deeply to the elf: "I thank you on behalf of my people, Ranger Kerryben, for your kindness to be remembered forever. ”

Ranger stood up and saluted, "It's not just because of you, or Birdwin, they're also my friends, we've fought side by side, and there's no reason for me to stand by when they need to." ”

"Well, if you're done polite," said Gülen, "I think you can sit down first—and let Dada bring our new friend a piping hot, hearty meal, which I think he hasn't had in over a year." ”

Adele's stomach growled in a very cooperative manner.

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This is the day before yesterday, yesterday and today's update, there is one more thing that needs to be notified to all readers, my parents suddenly want to travel, I need to be accompanied, the next four to five days may not be updated, but I will save three days of text in the deposit box, send it on time, but the remaining two days have to wait for me to come back and make up...... (To be continued.) )