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At noon, in the warm sunlight, the two men left the town through the north gate on horseback, and galloped through the desolate suburbs for a while, and then reached the blockade line a mile away, and the three hundred black knights and their subordinates who formed the barrier quickly spotted the two and divided a part of the men and horses to surround them.
After indicating their intentions, the knights did not make any further moves, and guided the two to the knight leader's place, and monitored their every move, once the two tried to escape, they would be stabbed to death by the knights.
After a few minutes of riding slowly and impassively, they finally reached the outskirts of a simple camp, a tent with dozens of knights, and a tall black steed tethered to a red-background tombstone banner fluttering in the wind, and its owner was equally intimidating - a cold man with red hair and red eyes in black leather chain mail.
"Meet again, you two adventurers who have crossed the border......" The red-haired man pinched his chin with a little red stubble, and the expression on his face was very unwilling.
"I'm sorry I attacked you that day, Sir Bravo, but I was just trying to cover my partner's retreat, and although I was kicked in the chin, there was nothing wrong with that!" Kay didn't feel the slightest nervousness even when he was in the enemy position, but teased their enemy, Angel Bravo.
Although the other party was already angry, as a high-ranking nobleman, the well-educated Ingres still held back his anger and said coldly: "Kebrek, you thief from the west seduced my sister, but for her sake, I won't kill you, forget the purpose of your original here, stay in Zonzar and be an immigrant, so it will be beneficial to both parties, and you can stay with Catalina for a long time." ”
Shi Ang felt that he was being ignored, and was worried that Kai would really accept the other party's proposal because of personal feelings, so he took the initiative to draw his big sword and pointed at Angel, "Although I also hope that Kai can be happy, unless you take people to withdraw and lift the blockade of the forbidden area, we will definitely not give up." ”
"I can tell, Freeman. And the untouchables of Zenzar, you have different reasons for wanting to enter the forbidden zone, and the ecclesiastical Yumengander wants my father to give up the regency and return the occupied land to the people, so that the increasingly strained population in the south can be better settled, but I don't care. And you two went to the Exclusion Zone in search of something forgotten, perhaps related to heresy, right?"
"Oh...... He didn't want to discuss it too much, because they had only followed the slightly mentioned parts of the ancient book to find this place, and they didn't know what they were looking for, and from all the circumstances, Kai no longer put all his heart into his original goal, but Shion's yearning for it remained the same, and he wanted to get some clues from Angels' mouth.
Angel snorted, shielded Shion's sword with his hard leather hand armor, and said, "You are Calradians, and you have wandered between the beliefs of the ancient gods and heretics in ancient times, but the degree of contempt for religious beliefs is really disgusting, and you have pursued conflict excessively, and once again fallen into the situation of civil war, there is no heresy in the whole land, and even the old gods that you once believed in have gradually been forgotten. But unlike the people of Charlonay, especially our Druas, after being abandoned by the god of darkness in ancient times, we once believed in Menas, the god of heresy that symbolized aggression, until the ancient gods personally ascended Lord Medius to the divine realm and guided our people as the new god of darkness, and the heretical belief was slowly forgotten. What you are looking for is supposed to be the legacy of heresy, the Altar of Menas that was sealed by order of the Lord of Darkness hundreds of years ago. ”
"Since you know that we are only trying to find out these things and will not have any impact on your country, why not let us do what we want, and it will also reduce your worries. ”
"Do you really think that you two can shake our country by fighting like this? My father has paid for the land under the circle one by one, and the forbidden area has not been abused, but it is just a garrison for the growing army, if I let people into the forbidden area with a word from the two of you, what will be the face of the family?"
At this point, Ingres was no longer polite, took a guerrilla gun with chains in his hand, threw out the chains between the lightning and flint to lock Shion's big sword, grabbed the previous heel and forced the opponent back, and at the same time swept Kai's side knee with the blade of the spear that was easy to swing, and started a duel with the two at the same time in the murderous atmosphere.
Kai also quickly took out three sticks, combined the bayonet to form a shock spear to block the next shot, as agreed at the beginning, Shi Ang did not help Kai, as agreed, the knights around the camp also formed a circle nearby, with the weapons in their hands to draw a stage, let the two start a fierce fight.
Dozens of rounds back and forth between the two guns, neither side showed any flaws, Angel's brute force and Kai's agility were perfectly played, but the battle situation came to a stalemate, which showed that one of the sides will definitely break the situation with powerful stunts.
"Clear Sky Flame!"
Taking advantage of an opportunity, Kai broke free from the grappling and unleashed the power of the impact spear to blast out the flame waves, pushing the burning tip of the spear straight into the chest of his opponent, and Ingres did not dare to fight the flame thrust head-on, and took a few steps back and turned the handle of the gun to flick the chain to the front, locking the blade of the impact spear, and dodging the second devastating pulse attack.
However, after grasping the blade of the spear, Ingres felt that it was a little too easy, and before he could figure out what was happening, the pain in his heart had reached the reactive nerves, and the second wave of impact from the impact of the spear was like lightning, and the electric shock was applied to him through the chains connecting the two weapons, paralyzing him and forcing him to surrender.
"You don't have any singing anymore, let's take your life!"
Faced with this rare opportunity, Shi Ang shouted, drew his sword over Kai's head, and prepared to take Ingres' life with a powerful crack, but Kai let go of the gun in his hand, kicked upwards with the force of his palm, shook the sword in his hand, and locked Shi Ang's waist with his knee joint, dragging him directly from the sky.
"That's enough, there's no need to be like this, Sir Bravo is a man who understands, he'll make the right decision, so that's all for today. He persuaded Shion and left the choice to the defeated Angels.
Stopped by his partner, Shi Ang's heart was full of thoughts, but he could only compromise and retrieve his sword from his feet, Kai had already put away the impact spear and set out on the way home, and he didn't want to stay here, so he left a word.
"Your men and horses have caused a lot of trouble to Zenzar, withdraw immediately, as for entering the forbidden area, we will not give up on this, we can't turn the sky just now, but there will always be people who are unhappy in their hearts, right?
After Shi Ang's vicious warning, Ingres also felt a chill coming from behind him, and the two sides tasted a crushing defeat in the first head-to-head confrontation in several years, and he began to take a keen interest in the two outsiders.
As the many knights of the Order prepared to pursue the two who had gone away, Ingres stopped them and reminded them: "Freeman's words must have a deep meaning, is it true that Eumont Gand intends to lead the people to rebel? ”
On the same day, the patrol withdrew to the north, and seeing that their original intention had been achieved, Shion and Kai hurried back to Zenzar as fast as they could, and consulted with Yumengander about their next steps.
"That's all we can do, Lao You, if you want to overthrow the dictatorship of the Knights for the people, you need to lead them to revolt, Zenzar may have less than a thousand people, but the surrounding Black Veil Fortress can also contribute to this goal, right?"
"While I know that the Order will not attack civilians indiscriminately, I still don't want to risk putting the Legionians in danger, give me some time to think about it, and you can be more prepared......
Previously, the actions of Shion and Kai were tantamount to foreshadowing a revolution in Druya, and as Ingres returned to the north with the news, it would make it more difficult to enter the forbidden area, and the only possible way was to convince Yumengnd to lead the national revolt, but the negotiations did not seem to go so well, as the head of the land and a loyal subject of Druya, Yumengande was slow to give a decision, and time gradually passed in the long wait.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed, and Eumengande was looking at the increasingly consolidated blockade in the north from the watchtower of the town, constantly engaged in a psychological struggle, whether to rise up and lead the people across the stairs, or to continue to tolerate the dictatorship of the Knights, so that the church would lose its place in the Drua forever, and when he found a crow flying here from the north, he had already made a secret choice.
On this day, a black-robed and hooded warlock visited Zenzar, and the townspeople had become accustomed to paying less attention to the outsider, but Eumengnd greeted him himself, summoning Shion and Kai to discuss the subject of Drua's dominance outside the workshop.
"This is Ganif, from Minella Rocks. I used to be a mentor to the Holy See and a close friend of mine, and I specially invited him back to break the status quo, and he will tell you what to do. ”
When Eumengander introduced the black-robed warlock to the two, he took off his hood, revealing long gray hair and a long beard on his wrinkled old face, which looked much older than Eumengand. He leaned his man-tall cane against the wall, found a seat near the furnace, and began his narration.
"As a Calradian, you are very enthusiastic, you must know that the old hatred cannot be resolved, this is the state affairs of Drua, I didn't want to involve you, now it seems that there is no need to discuss, I will restore the majesty of the Holy See, and I also need Lao You to continue to lead the people, and the problems of the Bravo family will be solved by you. The roads to the north are all blocked, but my majesty as a former papal tutor is still there, and the people of Daist dare not guard against me, I will use my power to mobilize the defenders of the blockade line to go to the Holy See to standby, and you need to lead the people of the south to break through the weak blockade and go to the castle where Daist is located, and end his regency career. ”
Hearing this, Shi Ang began to think about the future, and he didn't want to hand over all the things to Garnif, who met him for the first time, so he said: "Once we attack the forbidden area, the Knights will not sit idly by, and we will have no chance of winning in the event of a head-on conflict, but Kai and I are still confident that we will break into the Shadow Castle to complete the mission, and all you have to do to return to the Holy See is to give us the right to free passage in the country, how about it?"
"Freeman, Mr. Garnif is an elder worthy of our respect, and you should not be so rude. Yumengnd naturally couldn't get used to the tone of his old friend, and reminded him.
"Shion, you're enough. We've found a new life, so why dwell on old ideals? If we succeed, it will be a feat that will be remembered through the ages, not a transaction. ”
After Yumengand, Kai also began to blame, Shi Ang felt that he was no longer trusted by his friends, and shook his head: "Okay, I can't stop you from planning to live a new life, but I don't want to give up my former pursuit, this is a condition put forward in my personal name, and it depends on your words to agree or not." ”
In the end, Garnif agreed to the deal, and informed the three that within a few days, the Southern National Guard he had summoned on his way here would be stationed in Zenzar, and about 1,800 armed civilians would face only 500 knights who had been strategically transferred, and the plan would be officially launched in three days, and the crow message would continue to be used as a signal to attack. (To be continued...) )