"Your Royal Highness, it's time to go. ”

Layla looked back at the things behind her almost three times, knowing that the trip was dangerous. This may be the last time she will see everything in her homeland.

After repeated reminders from the maid, Layla finally made up her mind to step into the long-awaited carriage.

A country is a country, and kinship is kinship. For the safety of Princess Layla, Loya is selfish. did not hesitate to send all the members of the strongest three squads under his command, and even the Ranger unit under Casta's jurisdiction also transferred many elite soldiers and strong generals to serve as the guards of the princess's guard mission this time.

Because the summer is about to enter the north, which is not long. After leaving the fortress and stepping into the snowfield, the convoy began to gallop all the way. They must cross the snowfields and enter Belmar before summer begins.

Once in the summer, glacial rivers melt. The pavement on the ice sheet will disappear, and the surrounding snow-capped mountains will even avalanche. Although for several Ranger outposts who have been patrolling the border for many years, they have a way to deal with this kind of thing. However, the convoy does not. Soldiers from other units also had no experience in dealing with such situations.

The roar of horses' hooves on the ground, the splashing of snowflakes. The speeding convoy suddenly stopped,

"Wei'er, go ask what's going on?"

As a princess, after embarking on the trip, Layla is not allowed to show her face casually.

In the carriage, the maid sitting opposite the princess bowed in response. Twist and stick your head out of the field,

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

The chief of the guard, who was waiting beside the car, drove over. Close to the window of the carriage,

"Mistress Vale, you're about to cross Brix Canyon. Everyone is making final preparations. ”

There was a shout from the striker in the distance.

[All dismounted!]

The two close guards glanced at each other. Although I was puzzled, I saw that everyone else had dismounted, so I dismounted.

A soldier hurried over and stuffed the two men with a package containing thick animal skins. Then, there was a hurry to leave.

"What is this?"

The two opened it and looked at it, and compared for a long time.

More than a dozen pieces of fur of different sizes are not suitable no matter where they are wrapped.

"Poof!"

One of the people next to him couldn't help but laugh, "Hey! That's for it!"

"Huh?"

The two looked in the direction of each other's fingers and turned their heads to look at the war horse behind them.

"Look at them. ”

The two of them looked around. Sure enough, everyone was wrapping their horses with kicks and mouths.

The soldier wearing a full-cover combat helmet looked at the two in a daze. He bowed his head and took off his helmet and shook his head. showed his beautiful face, it was none other than Luoya's deputy, Herara.

Herara took a cursory look at the busy team members around her,

"Charles, go help them. ”

"Yes!"

"That's right! After dark, we entered the canyon. ”

"Got it!"

The young man who had been replaced by Charles answered, and ran to help. Being able to be summoned by the goddess is a happy thing for these big men.

Three times five divided by two, Charles quickly helped the two chief guards who came out of the palace to wrap their respective mounts.

Then he turned around and beckoned a few of his teammates to begin the final protection of the carriage. All four horses were wrapped in hooves and mouths, even the wheels of the carriage were wrapped in fur, and the wooden axes were re-drizzled with fresh fish oil. (Qingluo fish - a unique fish in the north, the skeleton of the fish oil will not solidify at dozens of degrees below zero.) ）

"Why don't you go with Valemeer?"

Faced with the question of the chief of the guard, everyone rolled their eyes.

In the north, during the short summer months, the Livile Rummel melts completely. The entire snowfield turns into a drift of ice, and dense ice tides squeeze the surrounding ice sheet until it all shatters.

On a geological level, Belmar is separated from Amestris not by land, but by sea. It's just that after entering the freezing period, the sea surface will freeze into a thick ice sheet.

This is also the reason why the two countries have been at peace for many years, and Valomele is both a bridge between the two countries and a natural barrier.

In the summer, there will be no other creatures set foot in the summer, except for the small animals that rely on the ice tides to hunt.

Herara walked up to Charles and whispered,

"The one who greeted you. Attention, the two captains of the guard. ”

"Roger!"

To be able to ask such a mentally retarded question, the identity of those two people is a little questionable. Perhaps, perhaps, it is not the chief of the guard at all.

Herara was considering whether or not to contact Elpa, who was in charge of the striker. In this extraordinary period, she had to be doubly careful.

"Why don't you leave?"

One of the princess's chief guards looked up at the sun that had risen overhead. Looking around again, all the soldiers were sitting on the ground covered with animal skins, resting, or eating, and there was no sense of hurrying before.

After exchanging glances with the other partner, he walked over to the soldiers who were sitting and resting.

"Why don't you leave?"

“......”

After waiting for a long time, a man said lazily, "We won't leave until the evening." ”

"At night?"

The thought of the scene where a pack of snow wolves would appear in the snow field at night made the guard shudder. After all, he was only a temporary promotion of the chief of the guard, and he didn't have the ability to be the chief of the guard. However, there are many family members who do not belong to their own jurisdiction, and they all look like they don't want to answer. I could only stomp my feet and return to my post.

"How?"

"The gang said they wouldn't go into the canyon until night. ”

"Has our identity been discovered?"

"How do I know?"

"I think we're probably exposed. Something has to be done, or ......"

"If you don't sue the princess, you can say that the gang is ....... ”

The two of them were leaning against their horses, muttering quietly.

A few minutes later, an older captain of the guard walked up to the carriage and knocked lightly on the door.

Vile stuck her head out and asked, "What's the matter?"

The chief guard whispered a few words in Vale's ear.

"What you said is true?"

The chief of the guard nodded approvingly.

"Okay, I'll report to the princess, you go get busy first!"

The head of the guard, looking left and right and seeing that no one was paying attention to him, immediately quietly returned to his place.

"That's it!"

"Hmm"

"Now they look good. ”

In the carriage, Vile wanted Layla to tell her what had just happened. It's just that the taste has changed a bit. Even the words that intended to plot against the princess were added.

Layla shook her head with a wry smile, looking into the distance through the gap in the curtains, and didn't speak.

If someone really wants to murder him, it will only be the nobles who are far away in the imperial capital, after all, they are the ones who do not want peace talks.

Layla has been away from the palace for as long as she can remember. There are many things in the palace that she doesn't know. She asked her father for the opportunity to visit the emperor, but she felt that she could share something for her father.

There was another thing that she had never figured out, why Belmar suddenly made a cross-border move.

With my aunt's style of doing things and the relationship between the two countries, I would not have made such a decision.

Could it be that something happened to my aunt?

No, it won't. Didn't Cousin Ximena write to herself a few months ago?

In the constant affirmation and denial, Layla imagines what happened to Belmar.

(Flower arrangement: Valemier – Chinese homonym for Russian, meaning white world.) ）