2nd floor

After walking through the mountains and forests for three prayers, when the sun was gradually setting into the distant mountains, Roy, Nicole and the others finally walked out of the mountains and went up the mountain path from the outer mountains to the nearby city of Medding.

Because of his success in leading the way, Oliver Xun became the star of the team. Now, all you have to do is follow this fé dog along the way. The path it chooses is definitely suitable for people to walk, and it is also safe to get close. Unlike other hounds, as soon as they go up the mountain, they burrow into the grass and bushes, let alone follow, and they can't even see.

But this fé dog is very reserved. Nicole and Eva hugged her, stroking and complimenting, almost taking out what little, making the guy wagging his tail a little and being a little affectionate. But as soon as it dealt with Billie and Ryan, it immediately held its chin high, its chest held high, and it looked like it didn't care.

Pushed out of the crowd by a dog, Julie gritted her teeth in anger at one point.

But when they first encountered the vine ape, she and Ryan did see that there was no danger to make a move, so the coldness and vague rejection of their companions were also reasonable.

Lai Yi didn't know what Ryan thought, although she was also arrogant and indifferent on the surface, but she knew that the feeling in her heart was very uncomfortable.

I don't know why, but I hate that Roy more and more.

On the periphery of the Warcraft Mountain Range, the mountains and forests are much sparser, and the height of the mountain range has also decreased. Large areas of hilly slopes appear. Gradually, you can see the traces of human life.

But along the way, all he saw was a desolate scene.

The farmland has been deserted, and the wilderness is overgrown. The piles of grain and grass piled up on the roadside have long since rotted, and the bones of dead domestic animals can be seen everywhere. The pasture, which was originally green and grassy, has not been taken care of for a long time, and thousands of wildflowers are blooming all over the place, although beautiful, but against the backdrop of the almost ruined houses on the edge of the pasture, it looks extremely desolate and deserted.

When passing by a small mountain village on the way, from the entrance of the village to the end of the village, no one was met. Many of the houses still have black marks of being burned down, and there is a foul smell all around. Occasionally, a scrawny dog popped up, also skinny, cowering through the disrepaired fence with its tail between its legs, and disappeared from view in the blink of an eye.

"Is this?" Roy paused, staring at a collapsed house.

The house in front of me is made of ashlar stones, the building is three stories high, the beautiful windows and blue roof, and a square courtyard outside, all of which are realistic of the owner's solid family background. The style of the room is very similar to Bollabelle, especially the yellow sè stones on the white walls and the blue sè roof, which makes him feel like he has returned to the past.

It's just that, in addition to familiarity and beauty, there is also desolation and desolation in the field of vision. Weeds grew in the gaps in the walls, and half of the building had collapsed. The courtyard was littered with the things left behind by the owner's hasty escape, perhaps someone had stationed here, and many of the furniture had been removed and chopped up, piled up in the center of the courtyard to become a pile of ashes left behind by a bonfire.

A gust of wind blew, the weeds swayed at the head of the spear, and a rusty swing creaked as it shook.

"It's all gone!" Meng Meng said in a low voice as he stood beside Roy, "The Ferrets have taken over most of the southern coast, and at one point they have reached the city of Medin. After the Red Leaf Knights and the Fifth Imperial Legion came to reinforce them, Grand Duke Adolf drove them thirty kilometers south, but the civilians in this area were either killed or fled. No one dared to live any longer. ”

As he spoke, Meng Meng pointed to a wall next to him and said, "Look." ”

Roy turned his head to look. I saw that on the wall, there were large swaths of blood spraying shè-like stains. Over time, the blood stains had solidified into black and red markings on the walls. Traces of blood flowed straight to the corner of the wall, connecting with the markings on it, like a blood-stained forest painted by someone mischievous.

"Every once in a while, there are reports from the academy about the front. We know a lot more than the average person. Luke also stopped beside Roy and said slowly, "Grand Duke Adolf has summoned all the nobles and their personal armed forces from more than three hundred large and small territories in the province of Lulian. A corps was formed. The Bavarian Knights were dispatched again, the coastal mercenary regiment was recalled, and many mercenary regiments were hired at the expense of the fifth legion and the Red Leaf Knights. ”

"Do you know how many people died in the early stages of the war?" asked Luke, tilting his head to Roy.

Roy shook his head. Luke's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said: "More than 150,000 civilians died, and more than 20,000 soldiers and knights died on both sides. At least 2,000 knights were killed in battle. ”

Roy gasped. Two thousand knights. Even if most of them were ordinary knights of the border army knights and mercenary groups, it would be a full four knights. Luke continued: "If it weren't for Grand Duke Adolf's announcement that the knights who died in battle, whether they had children or not, their wives and NVs would continue to enjoy the fiefs, I'm afraid the coalition would have collapsed long ago." ”

"Hmph, even if that's the case, I am afraid it won't last long. Meng Meng said indignantly: "There is a war in front, who doesn't know what those guys are doing in the back? Let's just say that Medin City, if it wasn't for the Ferray people who came to fight and became the front line, I'm afraid it would have been annexed by the Wenger Lordship a long time ago." Hearing that the Philae had retreated to the south, the tax collectors of the Wenger Lordship had begun to collect taxes in Medin again. At the slightest disobedience, he drew his sword and intimidated and beaten, which made people panic. ”

Hearing Lord Wenger, Roy's heart jumped suddenly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked, "Does Archduke Adolf care?"

"The Grand Duke wants to take care of it. According to the rules of wartime, it is not an exaggeration to raze the Wenger Lordship! But whoever makes the family behind the big tree of the Holy Sect and Donald, the Fifth Legion that went south in the early stage is Donald's descendant. With their backing, these guys in Lord Wenger's Lordship, if they don't take the opportunity to loot money, are they still waiting for the Firetes to come and run empty-handed?"

Meng Meng said, snorted heavily, turned and left.

Although they did not participate in the conversation, Nicole and the others listened all the time. After hitting here, everyone's feelings were much lower, and they only buried their heads in the road, trying to get to the city of Medin before it was completely dark.

When I stepped on the dead branches and rotten leaves, split the branches and thorns, and walked out of a jungle, my vision was open.

At this time, everyone is already on the slope of a small hill. Standing on the hillside, you can see a muddy avenue coming from Ranfang, winding towards the tip.

"We're coming out!" said to the lively Eric and Eva.

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, and for a while, they only looked at the scenery in the distance, and their hearts were relaxed.

In this actual combat trial, although he experienced the danger of being attacked by a fifth-order demonic beast, the final result was unexpectedly beautiful. Getting here basically means it's safe. As long as you return to Edin City and then return to Mani City through the public carriage of Edin City, with a pair of vine ape claws and a magic core, the glory of the team's first combat performance is certain!

"Let's go!" Nicole patted Oliver on the head, smiled at the group, and walked down the hill to the main road.

As soon as the group reached the middle of the hilly slope, they suddenly felt the earth tremble, and a hurried sound of horses' hooves came from a distance.

Roy, who was keenly sensitive, stopped and stared at it, only to see a large cloud of dust rising from behind a small hill not far away. Moments later, a dozen horses escorted a silver-armored knight with his shoulders on his shoulders leaping out of the hill horizon and rushing down the hillside. In an instant, the dirt rolled up by the iron hooves of the war horse left a black trace on the verdant hillside.

"It's the Momiji Knights!" Eric had sharp eyes, and at a glance he could see the flag snatching on the cavalry spear in the hand of the flying knight.

Everyone stared at it, and sure enough, on the long flag with a white background waving in the wind, the bright red dragon fire leaves were extremely eye-catching.

Just as everyone was looking curiously, suddenly, more than two hundred meters behind this small group of red leaf knights, twenty or thirty knights appeared. The one who was riding under the seat of the five knights in front of him turned out to be a snow-white giant wolf!!

As soon as they saw the white giant wolf and the knights grabbing the flag, everyone's faces changed suddenly.

"It's the snow wolf knight Tian of the Feilie people!"

"Oh my God, they're chasing the people of the Momiji Knights!"

After the screams, Nicole and the others glanced at each other, and suddenly their hearts sank.

Originally, the actual combat cultivation location they chose was located on the periphery of the Demon Beast Mountain Range to the west of Medin City. But no one expected that after a single road, these people would appear in the small hilly area southwest of Medin City on the verge of the front line.

Unfortunately, the hill where everyone is at the moment is right in front of the route of the Red Leaf Knight and the White Wolf Knight. When the other party appears in front of him, his unobstructed self is also exposed in front of the other party.

"What should I do?" the students suddenly made a mess

No one has the ability to do that! Not to mention six or seven unequipped cadets, even if there are twice as many people and ten times more combat experience and fully armed border knights, they may not be able to play a role. , the Feilie people who pursued the Momiji Knight not only had an absolute advantage of 28 to 11 in numbers, but also were a cut above the Momiji Knight in terms of knight rank.

The Momiji Knight has six armed knights, four brave knights, and one wounded just knight. On the other hand, there were ten brave knights and one just knight. Especially the impartial knight who ran in front of a giant white wolf taller than a war horse, I am afraid that one person can easily eliminate everyone on this hillside!

But if they encounter compatriots who are fighting bravely on the front line but do not save them, for them who are the students of the first training camp of the empire and the future imperial forces. What's more, as long as there is a Red Leaf Knight who testifies to what this squad has done, I am afraid that everyone present will be expelled from the academy mercilessly, and may even notify the Knight Palace.

Seeing the fleeing Momiji Knight rushing towards him, Nicole and the others all set their eyes on Luke, who was the strongest among them.

To everyone's surprise, Luke, who has always been decisive, set his sights on Roy beside him.

"What?" Roy's eyes narrowed slightly as he met Luke's gaze, "You don't want me to make this decision, do you?"

"In such a situation, only the strongest person in the team has the right to decide. Luke said as a matter of course, "No matter how arrogant I am, I don't think I'm better than a four-star mage." ”

Although Luke and Roy spoke quietly, no one knew what he was talking about. However, the demeanor with which he asked Roy for advice could not have been more obvious.

"If you had to decide on me, my decision would be simple," Roy said slowly, pulling out his axe.................. Prepare for battle. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Luke yell.

"Prepare for battle!"

With Luke's roar, Nicole, Meng Meng, and Eric, gritted their teeth, and drew their long swords without saying a word.

"What do you want to do?" Ryan, who was pale-faced, suddenly jumped up and said in shock, "Are you crazy? The other party is a field knight, a white wolf knight." It's not something we can compete with!"

Seeing that Eva, who was standing beside him, also took off the war bow from his back, Ryan was so anxious that his face turned blue and white, and suddenly pointed at Roy and shouted to Luke: "Luke, why are you asking for his opinion." Please be sober, this is not the time to joke about heroes! We have no equipment and no mounts. What kind of battle are you fighting? One charge can kill us all!"

"Shut up!" Luke snapped back.

"Crazy, you're all crazy!" Lai Anxin looked at the horse team that was getting closer and closer, took two steps back, glared at Roy fiercely, and suddenly pulled his legs and ran up the hill, "If you want to die, you will go by yourself!

"Coward!" Eric spat viciously and took a deep breath. Although his body was trembling, his legs were nailed to the spot like nails and he didn't move!

"How?" Luke seemed to have expected Ryan to do this, and didn't even look at him, only locked his eyes on Roy.

Did Luke really ask Roy for advice?

For a while, Roy suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention.

"What about you?" Roy didn't have time to be polite, standing in the middle of the crowd and turning to ask Benry.

Riley's god looked nervous. There was fear and hesitation in his eyes. Seeing Roy looking at her, she suddenly bit her lip violently, and drew her long sword with a pale face. Then he turned his head and stubbornly ignored Roy's existence.

"Smelly nv man!" Roy withdrew his mouth and turned to everyone, "I have a plan."

"Plans?" everyone except Luke was a little dumbfounded. I know my own business, and a group of rookie students only have a little strength, so what other plan can they have other than rushing down to help the Red Leaf Knight?

Originally, this chapter was 7,000 words, but I can't finish it for the time being, so I'll come out first. Continue during the day. Ask for a commuter pass!!

The loneliness of the ancients......