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The eight of Fidel's party didn't have any flags, so when they went to the town, no one noticed them at all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But it's normal that no one will pay attention to these eight people, after all, the mercenaries of the Mercenary Guild are all here, so they should be noticed.

A group of mercenaries left the town, they did not belong to any of the nine mercenary groups, but mercenaries formed by the guild leader himself, and directly obeyed the guild leader. These mercenaries will not hold any banners, but they will have a "Nine Rings" mark on their armor and weapons. Nine laughing rings buckle together to form the largest ring, which is the mark of the mercenary under the guild leader.

"It's strange, it stands to reason that there should be a small number of these mercenaries, and they all stay with the guild leader, why do they appear far away from Red Bean City?"

Fenrir: "If you go up and ask, Captain Luka." ”

"We've just returned from Red Bean City, so we don't dare to take any chances. Lukka ignored Fenrir's instigation.

"I'll ask!" Mustang took the initiative, pretending to be a passing mercenary and quickly bringing back what he had learned.

It turned out that the mercenaries directly under the guild leader were on a mission to provide assistance to the head of the Birrell group. Behind this information, there is a surprising news - the Blue Flame Mercenary Regiment, the Guinea Pig Mercenary Regiment, and the Widow Mercenary Regiment have left Red Bean City and are marching rapidly to the north of the Duchy of Delaman.

Fei De didn't know that the three mercenary groups had left on the day they left Red Bean City, and they thought that the people from the Mercenary Guild would stay until the end. Now it seems that the Mercenary Guild must have a very important task assigned to them, and they will rush over there.

"Fed, the direction of the three mercenary groups seems to be the route of our mercenary group..."Patrick estimated the distance, "Selena and Jasmine should be about to reach Dawn City, and it will take us five days to get to Dawnlight City from here. ”

"The Mercenary Guild is going for my mercenary group?"

"Not necessarily... However, the person who sent three mercenary groups could only be the guild leader, and only he had the power to send three mercenary groups. ”

Feder recalled the words of the communicator, and all the signs gave Feder a special feeling that the guildmaster was deliberately taking something from him. Did the other party know that he had taken some parchment scrolls from the Decree City, and what was the relationship between the other party and the "cat's eye" Seamoth?

Fed touched the sheepskin scrolls in his arms, and in addition to these ruined scrolls, which could be of immeasurable value, the inconspicuous shield could also become a target for the guild leader. According to Ayana's words, the moon shield was placed in a most ordinary chest, and that box contained some other small weapons, and no one who opened the box would first pay attention to the ordinary wooden shield.

"Luca, you rush directly to Morning Light City, as fast as you can!"

"Commander, what about you?"

"We're following those three mercenary groups... With more than 10,000 mercenaries, they shouldn't be much faster than us. If Selena and her large army hadn't arrived when they arrived in Morninglight City, something might have happened. ”

Seeing Fidel's rare solemnity, Lukka didn't hesitate to turn over and walk away. Claude and Mustang were worried, they more or less knew that there was a holiday between the Potato Mercenary Group and the Mercenary Guild, but if those mercenaries were going to deal with the Potato Mercenary Group, then why didn't they attack Fidel and them in Red Bean City?

Those three mercenaries had a slim chance of going for the potato mercenaries, but it was enough to make Fidel feel threatened. He didn't stop on the road, he hurried in the direction of Morning Light City, and after a day and a half of pursuit, he finally saw the traces of the three mercenary groups in the wild. However, in addition to the Widow Mercenary Group, the Guinea Pig Mercenary Group, and the Blue Flame Mercenary Group, there are also some mercenaries that Fei De did not expect.

"Those are the mercenaries of His Majesty's Knight Mercenary Regiment!!"

I saw that on the plains in the wilderness, a big battle was about to break out. Standing on the southeast side of the plain are the mercenaries of the Blue Flame Mercenary Group, the Widow Mercenary Group and the Guinea Pig Mercenary Group, and the number of mercenaries is about 10,000. They were faced by mercenaries who held the banner of His Majesty's Knight Mercenary Regiment, but the sharp-eyed Octavia noticed that those mercenaries were mixed with militia and ordinary soldiers, and the number of them was less than 5,000.

"His Majesty's Knight Mercenary Regiment... Aren't all of their men knights-trained hired horsemen, right?

Fenrir's disparagement of the rebels was met with an angry scolding from Octavia, and judging by the weapons of the militia, they did look a bit like the rebels. But if you look closely, the ordinary soldiers are wearing the uniforms of the Duchy of Deraman.

Fidel and his party did not dare to get too close, and some of the caravans on the road also noticed the tension on the plain, and they all hid outside a small wood, just like Fidel, watching from afar what might soon break out in the scuffle.

"Are you a traveler or a mercenary?" said one of the caravan leaders, pulling out a small bag of silver coins, "if you're a mercenary, take our hire and protect us from here!"

"We don't want to!" another lone tourist merchant came in, "I can only pay... It's a small amount of money, but can you make me a protected object?"

The other travelers, peasants, and merchants, alike, would have to go around the plain before them if they chose to move on and enter a town not far away within the present day. But to get around the plains, you might have to go from the woods into a mountainous area, where there are bandits who are even more unreasonable than the mercenaries, so they can either stay here and wait for the two groups to disperse, or take the risk and head for the mountains. Another option is to turn back the way they came, and one in three people who have just come here have chosen to go back, but going back may have to spend the night on the road, so the unsafe option is not what they want the most. Either way, it's safest to hire someone to protect them, after all, the sword in their hand can only bully a child.

Octavia didn't ask for a single silver coin, so she decided to protect the poor passers-by. In addition to the seven of them, there were twenty-four passers-by who chose to stay in this grove and wait for their time, and there was actually an elderly couple who couldn't get a single silver coin.

"Won't they be afraid of you mercenaries?" Fenrir had been a mercenary for a while, but he was still a knight at heart, especially in front of outsiders.

"Captain Fenrir, your words are really strange, and we are not thieves, why are we afraid?"

"A mercenary is no different from a thief when it comes to money, otherwise he would not kill for a little money. ”

Patrick didn't want to say more to the other party, "You should keep those crooked reasoning, and think about how to deal with possible situations first." Patrick was referring to the imminent battle. The three mercenary groups of the Mercenary Guild have been adjusting their formations, so that the three mercenary groups are separated in three places, among which the mercenaries of the Blue Flame Mercenary Group are closest to this small forest, less than a thousand meters away from Fei De, and it is estimated that some of the mercenaries of the Blue Flame Mercenary Group have noticed that there are people on this side of the forest.

On the other hand, the Knight Mercenary Regiment did not move, and Fei De looked at it with great eyes, but did not see the Marven in the purple plate armor.

"His Majesty's Knight Mercenary Regiment has been removed from the guild, and this time these mercenaries were sent to purge their former companions. ”

"But hasn't the King's Knight Mercenary Group long since disappeared?" Octavia also heard about the King's Knight Mercenary Group when she was in Red Bean City, probably because this mercenary group has been cut off from the Mercenary Guild for a long time, and their mercenaries have completely disappeared, and Marven has completely disappeared.

At this time, Ayana, who had climbed the tree, suddenly pointed into the distance: "That flag is very strange. ”

Fidel followed the direction of Ayana's finger and vaguely saw a flag hidden in the militia. The pattern on that flag was something that Fielder didn't recognize, and no one around Fielder had ever seen the pattern of that flag. The pattern on the flag consists of two parts, one of which is a pair of wings like a wild goose, and the other part is a four-like animal. When one of the caravan guards told the banner pattern, the two old men gave their answer.

"That's... It should be the flag of the Old Kingdom..."There may have been an eighty-year-old woman leaning on her husband, and when she said this, her wife nodded in agreement.

"Old man, you can't even see clearly..."Before the caravan guard could finish speaking, Octavia drew his dagger and immediately covered his mouth in fright, not daring to say anything disrespectful to the two old men.

"The Old Kingdom..."

Fed recalls the history of the continent that his father had taught. The Old Kingdom is only a thousand years old, but its impact on the entire continent is profound. Not only is it powerful, but also because the kings of the Old Kingdom are very virtuous, which overshadows the rest of the continent in comparison. Those more than ten generations of monarchs did not advocate force, they subdued people with virtue, and influenced the surrounding countries with etiquette and culture. The Papal States, which practiced the Cult of Light, were supported by the Old Kingdom and carved out a regional state from the territory of the Old Kingdom. The purpose is to let the people on the mainland have faith and awe.

When the Old Kingdom was founded, the continent's great powers, the Kingdom of Sahlins, the Kingdom of Kose, and the Empire of Oguna, were far less powerful than they are now. There were also a number of small independent states, but they were eventually annexed by these large powers one by one, and the Republic of Marvil also stood out in the midst of the war and became a special country.

It is a pity that the Old Kingdom did not escape the fate of decline in the end, even if the old Kingdom's national calendar is still used as a year record on the mainland, but the matter about it has become a text in the history books, as if it never existed.