The negotiation with the city lord of Derimpel was very smooth, because the other party was a businessman and did not put up any shelf, Nangong Rong did not say anything about the content of his commission, after all, this was a reasonable deal. The boy wants to rescue his compatriots, and the lord of the castle has his own ideas, and only mutual benefit is the best solution here, and there is no point in always being hostile and confrontational.

At this point, the merchant must be much more sober than those stubborn nobles, as for which side Octavir belongs to, Nangong Rong said that he doesn't know, but it doesn't matter, anyway, the two will meet again soon.

Although Rydana had been captured by the Abyss, Drinker had not been affected much for the time being, so Nangong Rong was able to leave the camp with peace of mind and take his cheap sister who had returned to his hometown to get new equipment to Mangrove Ridge, a place where he didn't know where he was even if he pointed it out on the map for the boy.

Yes, there were only two people, and the group of members of the alliance did not act with the teenager, but said goodbye to the trouble of taking the initiative to find Rogge. In other words, they were going to go to the territory of the alliance to operate, if there was no trade request from the city lord of Dressper, maybe Nangong Rong would be able to go with him, but now it was impossible at all. However, neither side paid much attention to this, because they both knew that the other was doing what they had to do.

Although as far as Nangong Rong is concerned, it is estimated that the young man may be a little unhappy in his heart, he has no idea at all that he wants to take the initiative to go to Octavier to meet the girl, and he does not have half a pack of spicy noodles - even if the young man is a hero to save the beauty, although he does not know it now.

As if to prove that Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess would bring disaster to everyone, Octavir rested in the town near the entrance to Mangrove Ridge for one night, and the next day before the pass was lit up, he was violently attacked.

The enemy is neither the abyss nor the three lords who took the initiative against the royal family, but robbers. Octavier had a lot of fanfare when she arrived at Dresspel, after all, the girl needed to put on a show for others at that time, but when the army was defeated by the Abyss, the imperial capital Ridana was also declared lost and had to flee to Mangrove Ridge, the girl was targeted by the robbers who learned the news.

You must know that this girl came out of the rich city of Dressper, why would she bring some valuable things with her team, right? Take 10,000 steps back, even if Octavier didn't bring anything valuable, it would be a happy thing to tie up this noble and good-looking girl back to be the lady of the village.

However, the defeated troops are also regular troops, not to mention the elite handpicked by the eldest princess, even if only the remnants are left, their combat effectiveness still makes the robbers can only kneel and look up. After an unstoppable bandit group ambushed Octavire's convoy halfway, only to fail to grab anything, but its leader's head was also taken off by Charlot, the rest of the bandit group no longer dared to act rashly.

Octavir thought that after entering Mangrove Ridge, the bandit group that gathered more and more along the way would choose to give up, no matter how many of them were, it was impossible for them to have siege equipment, and they would not be able to break through the heavily guarded mountain pass, if they really wanted to force an attack, they would only be covered with corpses outside the pass, and the other party should not be so stupid.

But it was clear that she was wrong.

As mentioned above, the robbers attacked before dawn, so when the door of the hotel where the girl was staying was smashed, she was still in a state of half-sleep.

Naturally, he didn't get up and open the door - Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess was lying in bed.

The matter was so urgent that Charlot, who was standing in the corridor outside, did not have the leisure to wait slowly, and after a secret faux pas, he kicked the girl's door open.

Lying in bed and not being alert are two different things, and the knight kicked the door open, and Octavire, who was frowning and unwilling to open his eyes, quickly rolled out of bed and lowered his body and took a defensive and assault posture towards the door, and there was an extra gauntlet sword with a faint blue luster in his right hand.

Her long green hair bloomed like flowers behind her because of the girl's movements, and the white silk nightdress on her body danced without wind, and the little light seeping in through the window reflected the girl's fair skin, and at the same time, her slender figure that the nightdress could not hide was completely displayed in front of the man.

Normally, Charlotte would probably swallow his saliva and look stunned, but now he didn't care about this, and walked straight into the room and said to Octavier: "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, the pass has been attacked!"

"What's the matter, who attacked it?" the girl immediately forgot about her current clothing, stood up straight, put her sword back into the scabbard, and asked coldly, "Don't you tell me that the robbers are attacking, if it's really them, you need to kick open my door?"

"I'm sorry, but please forgive me for my faux pas. But the men who attacked the pass were indeed the bandits who followed us along the way, and they seemed to have abandoned their prejudices to form a great alliance. Charlotte paused eerily for a moment before continuing in a serious tone, "And now, the other party has occupied the gates. The garrison is trying to recapture it, but the robbers pouring in through the gate are so numerous that it is likely to ......"

"Wait a minute, what you just said is that the gate of the pass has been occupied, and that is the group of bandits who don't even have individual anti-tank weapons, not to mention artillery!?"

Octavier had an expression of disbelief on his face at the moment, and Charlotte on the other hand had a standard egg-sore look: "Yes." By the time I received the report, the gates had been lost, and some of the robbers, freed from the garrison, were heading towards the town, and would soon arrive. ”

So what kind of god is this, and now even the robbers can break through the mountain pass that is said to be the first to be the best in this place, and the troops of the three major lords who are more elite come to defend it, won't it become like paper? Octavier suddenly felt that the old man Toronso was probably really old, and if it weren't for his lack of energy and inability to take care of many aspects, how could his troops be so weak?

Bridge bean sack, now is not the time to think about these messy things, it is only right to find a way to solve the trouble in front of you. The eldest princess took a deep breath and walked towards the door, and at the same time ordered categorically: "Go and meet those guys, and you must not let them enter the town." The robbers came here with me, and it is my duty and duty to protect the townspeople from it. ”

"That's true, but Your Highness, aren't you going to wear it like this?"

Charlotte scratched her cheek with her index finger and turned her head in embarrassment finally made Octavier realize that she was wrong, and the girl was thinking about whether to use the cute method of screaming and throwing pillows to drive the other party out or the cool method of waving her hand to let the other party get out by herself, but the sudden panic shouts outside interrupted the eldest princess's train of thought.

"It's a robber, a robber has broken in!"

The punishment for criminals in the Salturin Empire is quite severe, so those who become robbers never think that they will die in peace, each of them is a ruthless master, and it is no wonder that the townspeople will be so panicked when they find out.

The girl's footsteps paused for a moment with the shout, and then she continued to walk towards the door firmly and quickly: "It's too late, let's go straight to the battle like this, the right is a trivial and customary killing plot." ”

"It was a waste to the rough robbers, and I suddenly felt that I had an excellent reason to shoot them directly in the eye. ”

The eldest princess didn't pay much attention to the flattery of her knights, and she walked out of the hotel quickly, and on the street outside, dozens of elite soldiers who had been following the girl from the imperial capital to Dresspel to Mangrove Ridge were waiting for her in a neat line.

Of course, Octavier's stunning nightdress and slippers caused a little confusion among the loyal soldiers, but they quickly calmed down - because everyone saw the magic weapon in the eldest princess's hand, the girl definitely didn't come to sell cute meat shows, she was here to prepare for a fight.

After seeing the soldiers nodding in satisfaction, the eldest princess suddenly shouted and asked loudly for no reason, "Who are you?"

"Soldiers of the Salturin Empire!" replied in a uniform manner, without even the slightest murmur.

"What is your mission?"

"Destroy all enemies that stand in the way of the Empire!"

"What is our ultimate goal?"

"Wherever the Imperial army goes, it is the territory of the Empire!"

There were many awakened townspeople on the street who were packing their bags in a panic and trying to flee for their lives, but at this moment, they all stopped their movements and looked at the eldest princess. Unlike the team that maintained law and order in the town, the momentum displayed by these elites in the true sense of the word could almost feel its essence to ordinary people, which caused a great shock from the bottom of their hearts.

The empire may have declined, decayed, and been gnawed away by moths, but its spirit passed down from time immemorial remained, at least in the armies directly under the royal family.

"Very well, board your chariot and join me to wipe out all the uninvited barbarians!" Octavir said to the crowd with her thin sword and holding the beautiful and gorgeous sword flower in her hand, of course, she used the skills used for performance, and there was no actual combat value, "Let's use practical actions to tell each other what kind of fate will happen if we are enemies of the Empire!"

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Nangong Rong took Nakiris and Lin Weiyin to Mangrove Ridge in a flying puppet, although the boy did not have the slightest experience in long-distance flight, but his cheap sister did, and she helped to look at the map and help find references, and the journey was quite smooth.

At least they didn't deviate too far, just a little bit, so that the three of them were not able to reach their destination before dawn as scheduled, and were delayed for a while.

"It's already dawn, and that's not good. Nangong Rong looked back at the rising sun behind him and sighed with a painful face, "Flying over in the broad daylight, I wonder if it will be taken down by Octavir as a hostile target and ordering the troops? Well, absolutely, because she is that kind of person." ”

Nakiris, who was lazily lying on the puppet's back, immediately took over the conversation unhurriedly: "I bet Taver must be sneezing right now, even if he didn't see it in person." Sao Nian, are you really so unkind to see her?"

"Why should I be with a guy who once tried to take his own life?"

There is no refutable reason, and after being embarrassed for a while, the snake girl Lori returned to a lazy state of basking in the sun.

Lin Weiyin, who had been paying attention to the flight situation, suddenly turned sideways and looked down, and at the same time stretched out her finger and said, "Now, there seems to be something on the ground." ”

The boy and his monster partner couldn't help but look curiously, and found that there was a long black team on the ground, although it did not raise dust in the sky, it was still quite large, after all, the height of the people was unusual, and the high-rise buildings were like matchboxes.

And now this team can spread to the extent that it makes Nangong Rong feel very long, who believes that the scale is not large?

"Would you like to fly closer?" suggested Nachilles, wagging his tail like a curious baby, "with a team of this magnitude in the middle of nowhere, it's not a trip in the middle of nowhere." ”

Nangong Rong immediately shook his head and vetoed: "No." It is precisely because we fly so high that the people on the ground do not notice us, and if we actively lower the altitude, we will be exposed immediately. If that were the troops of the abyss, wouldn't it be tantamount to stabbing a hornet's nest? For the sake of safety, let's fly into the mountainous airspace. After passing through the pass between the two peaks, you can see Mangrove Ridge. ”

After saying that, the puppet immediately turned around and left the main road as a reference, but fortunately it was quite close to its destination at this time, and it didn't matter if it was a reference or not.

However, it didn't take long for everyone to discover a very special situation. In the distance, a lot of smoke rose from the position where you could faintly see through the mountain peaks, and the posture seemed to be about to float into the sky and blacken the white clouds.

"Smoke? Is there anyone making a barbecue?"

Nakiris's confusion did not affect Nangong Rong's judgment, and the young man's heart became tense on the spot: "If it's a barbecue, the fire is inevitably too big, and the materials are not right, because human flesh and blood are used." ”