Above the Crussard Gate, large purple flags in the shape of bows and arrows and trees were lined up, and they hunted in the wind.

Elizabeth stood on the edge of the gate, looking up at the vast wilderness of the Kingdom of Hori. She was dressed in a pure black gown, with a white flower pinned to her chest, and her emaciated cheeks were motionless in the wind, and she looked very cold and hard. Behind her, several soldiers waited quietly not far away, their waists straight.

"The garrison of Crewe Town is all gone, and if you send your troops, you can take it now. Suddenly, a figure appeared from the stairs, walked slowly, and reported calmly.

The man said as he stopped beside a few soldiers. Then he reached out and tapped the soldiers on the shoulders and winked at them. Seeing this, the soldiers nodded knowingly, turned around without saying anything, and left the top of the gate.

Elizabeth also turned around.

"I don't know how to thank you......" she said slowly, "Miles, without your infiltration, I don't think we would have been able to break through the defense of the Crusade Gate, even if we had more troops. The Wood family owes you a favor. ”

Miles smiled undeniably when he heard this.

"Lord Duke's last wish, of course, I will do my best, as if I should repay your family for their kindness to me in the past. ”

Elizabeth also nodded, thoughtful: "Yes, father's last wish......"

"I'm afraid even he didn't expect that the Duke had prepared so many things, and it wasn't really revealed until after his death. Miles sighed softly, bowed his head suddenly, and said, "Miss Wood, I'm sorry for your father's death, no one could have predicted that things would turn out like this. ”

Elizabeth came back to her senses, but her face did not show sadness because of this, but quickly returned to her composure.

"Thank you, though...... Call me Duke Elizabeth, I'm not the same little girl I used to be. ”

Miles raised his eyebrows, seemingly surprised, but did not object.

And with Elizabeth's words, directly below the position of the two, the city gate slowly opened. Soldiers waving purple flags rushed out of it, shouting "Fight for the Wood Family", and rushed towards the abandoned town of Crewe.

The two of them looked in the direction of the battlefield, and after a while, the town of Crewe was also planted with a flag belonging to the Wood family. So, they looked back again.

"Are you going to look for him?" said Elizabeth, turning to look at Miles.

"yes. Miles smiled and said casually, "If it weren't for him...... If it weren't for his academy, I might have turned into an undead completely, or simply stayed in the world on the other side of the rift forever. It took a lot of effort for them to wake me up, and now ...... He seems to be in some trouble, and I can't just sit idly by. ”

Hearing this, Elizabeth also nodded.

She turned her gaze back and continued to look at Crewe—or the wider land of the kingdom of Hori, her lips pursed and her expression determined, but for a moment, there seemed to be a slight confusion in her eyes.

"Give him a few words for me. "The church era has finally come to an end, and I, along with my dead father, are very grateful for his efforts to make it happen. Other than that...... Give this thing to him. ”

As she spoke, she pulled a diamond ring out of her pocket and turned to throw it to Miles.

Miles caught it, frowning and looking at it a few times. The ring looks old, with scratches in some places, but the workmanship is exquisite, and it seems to have a vague name engraved on the inner ring of the ring, which must have been worth a lot of money at the beginning.

"This ...... What am I going to say to him?" he asked, looking up.

"Just give it to him, and he'll understand. Speaking of this, Elizabeth looked down and thought about it, and followed a little to herself, "Maybe you don't understand ......"

"Huh?"

Elizabeth hurriedly raised her head and waved her hand: "No matter what, you just give him the ring." ”

"Okay......"

Miles put away the ring and nodded. He turned and walked straight to the edge of the gate, leaping down and quickly disappearing from Elizabeth's sight.

So, in the end, Elizabeth was the only one left on the gate. She looked at the flag flying on her right, suddenly closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and when she opened her eyes again, her gaze became as cold and hard as it had begun.

The news of the fall of the Crussard Gate spread like a plague. And this time, looking at the family badge printed on the military flag, everyone knew that the army that occupied the gate had a background, and the great nobles of the Hori Kingdom had not been completely wiped out.

No one knew what was going on, but soon, the Wood Army issued its own proclamation - revenge. Duke Colin died in a raid by the Church, and his only daughter, Elizabeth Wood, an exiled mage, officially declared her father's title. She raises an army and returns to the kingdom to take revenge on the Church.

It sounds like the story is a bit too sagour, as if someone had deliberately arranged everything this way.

But...... In any case, this is good news for most of the populace of the Kingdom of Hori. They don't want to see the church continue to occupy the royal capital, and they don't want the kingdom of civil strife to be invaded by foreign enemies, and a prince of the kingdom who leads the rebellion is also what most people are looking forward to at the moment.

At the same time, though.

Benjamin's reaction was more of an accident than an expectation.

"The Crussad Gate? The defenses of that place were terrifyingly strong, and heavy troops might not be able to defeat them, so how could they be breached like now?" he looked at the report handed over by the person in charge of the dark department, and immediately raised doubts.

He still remembered that he had occupied the gate at the beginning, played an unknown number of intrigues, and finally relied on teaching himself carelessness to successfully occupy the place. How to ...... now? That impregnable fortress as if anyone could break it?

"I don't know, but ...... They seem to have captured it in a very quick time, and there was very little movement. The only possibility is that there is a mutiny within the defenders of the gate, or ...... Someone can accomplish an almost uncanny task and sneak in from the outside. ”

Benjamin shook his head and rubbed his temples gently.

The Wood Family......

While the news of her death was brought to Elizabeth, Benjamin knew that she might come to the Kingdom of Horry in a state of emotion. But he really didn't expect Elizabeth to come with such fanfare. If memory serves, she seems to have set up a mercenary group in Freden, but ...... The Kingdom of Hori is now facing not a mercenary group, but an army!

Where the hell did she get the army?