387. The curtain of dawn opened
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didn't wait for the other party to answer, and she didn't want to wait for the other party to answer, but directly flew up and kicked the other party unconscious.
Then she stood like this, and after a few moments, she crouched down, took off the knight's helmet, looked calmly at the familiar but somewhat unfamiliar face, stretched out her hand, stroked his face, put it on for him again, and then stood up, and walked out of the valley.
In the city of Noorlist, the flames are still burning, and there are shouting and panicked crowds everywhere, and Virtok and the Black and White Mage Regiment have caused chaos and destruction here, even the guards of the Norolister royal family and the mercenaries they hired, the demon hunters, and the mage wizards have no way to resist the most powerful force on the magic side of the Empire, and by the time Crimson arrived, it was already full of traces of fire and magic.
Virtok is amazing, but he is not conceited and arrogant, otherwise he would not be able to become the head of the black and white mage group, although he is happy to see the hunt, but he also knows the main purpose and task of his business, so after wreaking havoc, and a flame-to-flame confrontation with Crimson in the sky above Noorlist, before Youlan rushed back, he had already taken the black and white mage group that slaughtered most of the royal family away, leaving a mess for Youlan and Crimson, as well as the Noorliste royal family.
As long as after dawn, Noorliste did not belong to the Holy Roman Empire and the Church, and could not be allowed to become a transit point for the Church's army of knights and priests and monks, then the plan was complete.
As for the fact that it is the royal family of Noorlist. It doesn't matter if it's someone else. its ownership. You can fight for it slowly in the future.
That's why Virtok and the mages came like the wind and fire. He walked without hesitation or the slightest bit of mud and water, leaving only a city of weeping fire and magic everywhere.
Cold and cruel, efficient, destructive, without compassion or mercy, this is the two iron-blooded, or one of the two cruel combat mages of the British Empire - the Black and White Knights.
Rog crawled out of a collapsed house, only to see his friend Leo staring at the sky.
"They're gone?"
"Gone." Leo was still looking at the sky, then turned his head sharply. "Rogge, I've decided, I'm going to the Holy Roman Empire and join the army!"
Rogge looked at his friend as if he was looking at a nervous disorder: "Are you crazy? Didn't you see the horror of the British mages just now? ”
"It's just that I saw it, and I'm going to the Roman Empire." Leo's eyes burned with a fanaticism that Rogge couldn't understand, "If you want to fight against this group of magicians like crazy people, you must become a hero, if you can't become a hero." Then on the side of heroes and justice, I must go! ”
"I can't talk about you." Rogge patted the dust on his body, "I need to go back and pack some things, and find a chance to sneak out of town." God knows if those mages will come back, but I think most of my house has burned down, and I have no place to go if I want to pack up my things......"
I just didn't expect to finish speaking. Turning around, he could already see Leo's figure disappearing around the corner of the ruins of the street.
Rogge sighed. didn't chase after his friend, but stood there and was stunned for a while. He decided to leave Noorlister at this time, instead of having some illusions to see if his little house had been burned down.
Thinking so, he walked forward, and then saw a convoy of chariots and horses and people passing by, and he was stunned for a moment, and chased after him.
"Wait."
The carriage and horses stopped, and the group of people who knew at a glance that it was the Norse temple were looking at him vigilantly, not only looking, but the berserker's axe, the guard's spear, and the sacrificial staff were actually aimed at him.
"The ......," said Rogge, a little cautiously, but cautiously, "are you out of town?" Can you take me with me, no. ”
He saw that in the most beautiful carriage, a middle-aged man who looked like a butler and a groom, was looking at him, and his eyes fell on the ......
Damn it! Rog was quick to see it, and he tore off the badge of the Noorliste City Guard on his clothes and threw it to the ground.
The middle-aged man smiled: "What will you do?" ”
What will I be? Rogge was stunned for a moment, and hesitated a little: "I will patrol, I will be vigilant, I will use basic weapons, I will follow orders, and I will ...... Yes, I can also cook. ”
In fact, Rogge himself doubted whether he could hear it clearly, what he said was not something that others would not have, and the last one was added by him alive and dead, if he said what he would, others would not, probably only this.
But the middle-aged man's eyes lit up: "Do you know how to cook?" ”
As if grasping hope, Rogge exclaimed: "Of course, my grandfather and my father are both chefs, and they have all cooked in the most famous tavern in Noorliste, bacon from Great Britain, Sicilian cabbage from the Holy Roman Empire, roasted snails with foie gras from Franks, I will do it all!" ”
"At least you don't have to eat Scandinavian flavors all the time." The middle-aged man muttered, then said to him, "Keep up, don't fall behind." ”
Rogge immediately followed.
There are many people like Rogge and Leo who left before dawn, and of course there are people who see the royal guard and the city guard still trying to put out the flames and maintain order, and who still have hope for Noorlist, but Noorlist, no doubt, has experienced a night of disaster and nightmares.
"Are you still sure what you originally planned to do?"
Youlan stood at the top of the Noorliste Palace, looking at Noorlist, who still had a lot of fire, and asked Alessandro beside him, he was obviously going through a painful baptism and struggle now, maybe he didn't expect that he needed to pay such a heavy price, and Youlan didn't force him. Instead, they waited for his answer.
Whatever his answer was, it wouldn't affect Youlan. Or the apostle's plan, he just had to make a decision. Decisions that may or may not be important to him.
Looking at Noorliste in the firelight, there was a cry in his ears, and Alejandro was silent for a long time before nodding.
"I'm sure."
"Well, then our agreement is still valid." "From this moment on, until the day the Spear of Longinus appears, Noorliste will always be under your control. It is not subject to any force and encroachment. ”
When the first glimmer of light appeared on the horizon, Zhou Chu and the others had already stepped on the airship to Great Britain, at this time, probably on every road, there were thousands or tens of thousands, I don't know what country and powerful army were heading towards this once most neutral free area, at such a time. Only flying in the air is the fastest and least troublesome route and way.
Also on board the airship were Ralmi and Judbris, not to mention Ralmie. But on the side of the vampires of Zhilu Dao, someone needs to follow Zhou Chu to keep in touch and connect at any time. And after not being injured by mistake on both sides in the next war, Judblis took the initiative to find Zhou Chu. This made Zhou Chu a little strange, but he didn't refuse.
After all, from Zhou Chu's point of view. Not easy to be discovered, not even considered a vampire, no matter the figure, appearance, and even personality are outliers among vampires, Juddbris, who is as silent as a mute, is also more in line with Zhou Chu's requirements.
And he didn't have anyone more familiar, although Lilith wanted to follow him, but obviously as the witch of the night, and the amount of power that Iphitrith needed to borrow, she had more things to plan, or conspiracies to plan, and Calissit, the strategist and tactician of the younger generation of vampires, was an indispensable one in the future, rather than changing to a new vampire to adapt, it was better to just continue to let Judbris follow.
It seemed that he was bored, and Gao Ming didn't know that Lu Dao had found a metal monocular unique to an alchemist in this era that would only be made by an alchemist in this era, and looked down with great interest.
Zhou Chu stood beside him, the height of the airship was not high, and the strengthened vision power could still allow him to see things on the ground more clearly, so he asked Gao Ming while watching.
"What about the wolves and the magicians?"
"They have other tasks and won't go together, and don't worry, their route won't touch any army, and even if they do, most of them will be the other party's loss, what's the matter, interested in them?"
"Not really." Zhou Chu thought of the red-robed and white-haired Wiltok, "At most, I'm just curious about the iron fist and methods of the one who allowed these two great forces to exist." ”
"You'll see you soon." Gao Ming is still watching, "This is also one of the reasons for choosing him, he always reminds me of the kind of big man who is iron-blooded and courageous, determined and dares to break all the obstacles and rules in front of him." ”
"The Iron Blooded King?" Zhou Chu smiled, Gao Ming used to be a special soldier, and it is not surprising that he has a good impression of this kind of person with obvious modern military personality traits, "Then I really want to take a good look, but what are you looking for?" ”
"The army, or rather, the legions." Gao Ming said, and then after a moment, he pointed in a certain direction, "Found it, that is currently one of the three major knights of the Holy Roman Empire, which is currently the most powerful and largest on the continent, with theocracy and the church as the core power hub." ”
Zhou Chu followed the direction of his finger, and did not use a monocular, with his excellent vision, he could also see in the southeast direction, between the lush green mountains and the yellow-brown mountains, there were white tides as small as ants, but densely walking forward.
After receiving the clever monoculars, I can see this scene more clearly: between the abundant woods, between the hills and the flatland, on the roads, beside the streams, almost everywhere are knights wearing silver-white armor and riding white and gold-striped war horses, each knight is accompanied by one or three attendants, either carrying the knight's horse spear, or carrying a shield, the lens of the telescope moves up, it is such a knight, moving down, it is also such a knight, left, right, also such a knight.
And behind this silver like an ant tide, there is a gray-brown, but more dense crowd, just seeing their dress and grooming, as well as the things they carry, the large and small carriages, trailers, Zhou Chu knows that this is the axle weight team.
Zhou Chu returned the telescope to Gao Ming.
"How many people do you estimate?"
Obviously, Gao Ming is better at estimating these than him, and after taking the telescope and observing it for a while, Gao Ming said an approximate number.
"This knight order, the continuous heavy team, the logistics guys, and the infantry are counted together, about 70,000 to 80,000 people, and the combat unit should be 30,000 to 40,000 people."
"I remember that the population of England in the eighteenth century was more than 10 million, and the First Crusade, even if the two teams were combined with the homeless and the peasants, it was possible to reach 100,000 people."
Zhou Chu expounded on the part of the memory in the real world, in fact, the First Crusade supported only about 50,000 people, so this knight order is already 70,000 or 80,000 people......
"The world is different, the population of Europe also declined rapidly during the Black Death, and increased again during the Renaissance, but because of the existence of various strange things and races such as gods and demons, magic and magic, almost every powerful country is a military and population power, and military strength and magic are almost everything."
Gao Ming explained to Zhou Chu like this, and added: "What you see is only a part, the silver-edged white background and gold stripes are the Holy Knights, the silver-edged white background and red stripes are the Punishment Knights, the black and red are the Ruling Knights, and the color of the Adjudication Institute, this is probably only a part of the Holy Knights, after all, the Holy Knights are known as 300,000 people, and the Ruling Knights are the least and most elusive......"
Listening to Gao Ming's explanation, Zhou Chu nodded: "You mean, the Holy Roman Empire is pouring out this time?"
"No one will miss a rare opportunity for expansion and war, whether it is the Holy Roman Empire, or Great Britain, or vampires and Norse temples, this time I am afraid they will all fall out."
Zhou Chu glanced at the dense silver-white "ant colony" that occupied a whole field of vision in the southeast.
"We've opened a Pandora's box."
"Even if we don't open it, someone else will open it, and when it issues a mission and the Awakened come to this world, it's all doomed."
Zhou Chu didn't speak, just looked at the "ant colony", he knew that in the invisible place, there were more, similar or completely different "ant colonies", or densely packed like a tide, or scattered in groups of threes and twos, heading towards the same destination, or diametrically opposite destinations, whether it was right or wrong, or whether it should or shouldn't, the flames of blood and war, the fight between conspiracy and trickery, life and death, have kicked off on this continent at this moment of dawn. (To be continued......)