Chapter 54: Guardian of Leno

The whole army only rested in the capital of Leno for one day, and the next morning they had already bid farewell to the lord of Leno, and despite his best efforts to keep him, Kase resolutely decided to march in the early morning.

This abrupt decision also caused Edward's displeasure, although this place was not particularly welcoming to the people of the Black Cloud family, but Edward, who had always been extravagant, could not stand the hardships on the march, and Cassel completely regarded these pampered nobles as real soldiers, and cracks had been quietly created in this army.

This march required crossing the entire southern border of Leno, five provinces, and it took a full six days, and the banners were raised along the way, and they did not make contact with the provinces, passing by the edge of each province, and on the third day of the march, they were already gradually approaching the edge of the Storm Desert.

The banner of the Leno Empire is the best in the Leno Empire, so the Prince of Leno, Ledittian, served as the vanguard officer, led the light cavalry, played the banner of Leno, and marched quickly all the way.

The heavy cavalry led by Edward could only be used as a rear army, sucking up the dust left by the cavalry and carriages along the way, and the speed of the heavy cavalry was not as good as that of the light cavalry, and Edward was dissatisfied with the arrangement of the Kase, and deliberately slowed down the march, which also made the military meeting every night less harmonious, and there were many arguments based on reason.

The heavy cavalry led by Edward accounted for one-third of the number of people, and the combat power was more intimidating than the light cavalry on the plains, and the generals were not at odds, which made Argo have a bad premonition.

And as the troops got closer to the edge of the Stormwind Desert, the stronger Ago's feeling became, why did Kase adjust the stay time in the capital of the Leno Empire, and suddenly accelerated his march, shortening the original ten-day journey to six days, and it seemed that he deliberately avoided Leno's towns along the way.

In fact, Ah Ge sat in the carriage, looking at Qiandu's decadent appearance, he also had back pain, the carriage would definitely not be more comfortable than the horse's back, not to mention the high-speed march and uneven road conditions, the bumpy Ah Ge was not in the mood to sleep, let alone teasing the languishing Qiandu, even Feng Qingyu and Feng Jiuge rarely came to visit Ah Ge and Qiandu these days, and the two carriages were moving forward rapidly dozens of meters apart.

Argo had a reason to find some amazing secret, so he chose a dirt path that was not an official road despite everyone's opposition.

In fact, Casse did receive a note from outside the window last night, "The Leno Empire has bad intentions and wants to delay its troops in Leno."

Kasai had also doubted the authenticity of the note, but Leno had absolutely reason to do so, and in a few days, when the Leno Empire was completely in control, the future high-level leaders of the countries from the Nordir Academy would only be able to drink the northwest wind.

The Leno Empire couldn't resist the voice of the people and couldn't cover up what had happened, so it had to generously report this matter to the countries, and turned to the Nordir Academy for help, trying to prevent the countries from interfering, but in fact, the countries did not interfere, but only sent their own personnel through the name of the Nordir Academy.

Kasai hesitated again and again, decided to leave early in the morning, march quickly, abandon the flat official road, choose a rugged path, try to avoid danger, if it is in the army, the order is forbidden, Kasai's plan of action will definitely be vigorously implemented, but this group of people can't.

Edward alone had complained many times, and even expressed dissatisfaction with his command at the military meeting every night, and the others did not understand Kasai's approach, which had greatly delayed Kasai's plan, and Kasai was also very distressed in his heart.

As a well-known thief in the Stormy Desert, Mael has gained a firm foothold in the Stormy Desert, and all the caravans passing in the Stormy Desert need to pay a lot of tolls to themselves, as long as they pay the caravan toll, Mael will escort the caravan through their territory, so she never thinks of herself as a robber, calling herself a merchant, a merchant who does business in the Stormy Desert.

Ordinary caravans will pay a lot of tolls to themselves, so Mael and his thieves rarely commit killings, and the Leno Empire did not exterminate this gang of 20,000 thieves, not to mention, every year he will pay a large number of rare treasures to some officials of the Leno Empire to protect himself.

But today, things are a little different, Mael is discussing military affairs with several of his leaders, preparing to plunder a group of caravans from the continent of Stillanci, and use the treasures inside as a tribute to the officials this year.

"Boss, those officials can't feed anything, why should we pay them more gifts each time," said a bearded thief in the cave.

"Stupid Harvey, do you want to test the blade of the regular army of the Leno Empire with your own head?" Mael obviously knew the strength of the regular army of Leno.

"The army of the Leno Empire is busy on the southern border, how can they have time to take care of us, if they really come to the Storm Desert, if we don't do it, the sandstorm will engulf them" Harvey raised the knife in his hand and blew on the loess in front of him.

Harvey's language elicited the throbbing of many of the leaders present, with those in favor and those disapproving.

"Quiet" Mael scolded heavily, and the audience suddenly fell silent, even Harvey didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore, in this team of thieves, no one dared to challenge Mael's authority.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to try the military might of the Leno Empire," a faint voice appeared in the quiet cave.

"Who's talking?" Mael's vigilance was high, and his right hand was already touching the weapon at his waist.

Everyone looked for the sound, and under the light of the lamp and the crystal ball, they saw that on the last seat of the cave, an old man in a gray robe had sat at some point, quietly tasting the inferior red wine on the table, the wine glass seemed to be just a work of art in the old man's hand, and the white hair under his cloak was observed through the reflected image.

"Who is Your Excellency?" Mael looked at the leaders of the cave quietly, trying to determine which leader brought in this mysterious old man, and signaled to his cronies to prepare to break through, Mael's intuition was very accurate, this old man should be a bad person. But as long as you let yourself break out of the cave, you can command the troops and trap this daring person with crowd tactics.

The old man took a sip of his wine glass, and made a "tsk" sound in his mouth, as if he was recalling the delicious food of the past.

"I remember that when this seat came in, it was Jayla who was sitting, what about Jayla kid," a ringleader's confused voice came from the cave.

Jera is a new small leader, because the last time he robbed the caravan, he turned out a precious fourth-order elixir and presented it to the thief leader Mael, who was exceptionally promoted to a small leader by Mael, and he was in charge of more than a hundred and ten people.

Mael remembered the little boss named Gela, who was missing at this time, and instead sat on a mysterious old man, whom Mael knew must be a bad person.

"Your Excellency is really amazing, you actually sneaked into our cave without knowing it" Mael couldn't see anyone else, and finally felt a little more steady.

The leaders of the cave finally knew, and it turned out that the old man was not good, so they all drew their weapons and shouted, and the war was about to break out.

"Sneak in?" the old man frowned, as if he didn't like the phrase very much, and then put down the wine glass in his hand and stood up.

Looking at the thieves who were ready to attack, the old man waved his sleeves heavily, and a cold sword rain shot out from under the robe, and then there was a crackling sound, Mael was the first to react and turned back, but there was still a scar on his face.

The others present were even more unbearable, everyone was injured, neither light nor serious, but all of them were hands-on abilities, not even a dog in the corner was spared, with blood dripping in his eyes, and he was lying on the ground with a chirp, trembling.

This kind of power, earth-shattering ghosts and gods, whether it is power or precision, does not seem to be released by an old man, and already belongs to another transcendent status.

"I don't know if we have a grudge against Your Excellency" Mael's eyes were full of horror, but he still pretended to be calm.

"No," the old man replied to Mael's question.

There was no resentment in the past, and there was no enmity in the near future, Mael finally breathed a sigh of relief, this strong man was fully capable of destroying the entire legion in a positive situation, but he didn't do that, there must be some purpose.

"Then what is your intention in coming to our legion?" asked Mael cautiously, not daring to resist in any way.

"Legion, a rabble," the old man did not approve of Mael's claim to him.

"Yes, yes, you're right," Mael had to let go of his old arrogance.

"I want you to help me do something, the reward is your life" Human life seems to be a worthless straw in the old man's mouth.

"Mael is willing to do his part" people under the roof, have to bow their heads, if they refuse, believe that they and their men will not survive tonight.

The old man waved his robe again, and a white piece of paper fell in front of Maer, Mael looked at it, nodded to the old man, and then the paper spontaneously combusted and disappeared in front of Mael's eyes, and the old man disappeared with it, Mael couldn't even remember when the old man disappeared, when he looked at the paper, or when he talked to himself, or when he conquered everyone by force, the old man seemed to be not in the same space as himself.