Chapter 172: Internal Disputes
The young man's answer caused an uproar among the generals and officers of the resistance: the son of the commander of the enemy army infiltrated the royal capital under a pseudonym, won the jousting tournament and obtained the title of knight, and even attended the banquet on the night of the king's assassination?
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"Quiet!" shouted behind the young queen, and a woman approached from the shadows out of the firelight. Rhodes recognized her as the chief court mage of the former Antelli, but he didn't expect her to follow the Resistance.
The female mage did not look the slightest different from the last time she saw her, whether it was the style of dress, or the slightly charming but not smile on the corner of her mouth: "Sir Hart, what does your mother look like?"
"Silver-haired, dark-eyed, as tall as you, Lady Sasha, but slightly thinner. ”
"And it's beautiful?"
Rhodes nodded, in his eyes, his mother was undoubtedly the most beautiful woman in the world.
There may be many beautiful women with silver hair and black eyes in this world, but there are female mages with silver hair and black eyes who are beautiful and incredibly powerful...... The mage and the young queen looked at each other, and both felt that there was no need for more information to verify their identities.
One of the Resistance generals in the crowd excitedly proposed: "We should hang this guy - just hang him on the road outside the forest, so that his army can see it all!"
"Why?" Lady Sasha glanced at the proposer, "to execute him because of his fathership?"
"This is revenge, just like we sent the elite to intercept the son of the commander of the Imperial Occupation Army!"
"No, no, Sir Filip, I think you've made a mistake. We sent our elite to intercept that fellow, not just because he was the son of the commander of the occupation forces, but because he was in military uniform as an intruder on our land, and his barbaric behavior seriously violated the interests of the people of Anteli. Assassinating him will deal a heavy blow to the enemy, but it will be an additional bonus. The mage stared at the proposer, "But Sir Rowick Hart has neither worn a Midland uniform, nor has he done any work that threatens Antelli's interests, nor has he harmed any of the Anteli civilians, so what are we killing him for? ”
"Big brother also saved me. Nikita interjected, "Moreover, the son of the commander of the occupation forces you are talking about was also killed by him." ”
"Indeed, Your Majesty, the target was dead by the time we arrived, and Sir Hart was fighting another Midland officer. The dwarf immediately stood up to confirm the little girl's words, he was very nervous now - he didn't know Rod's true identity before, so he insisted on bringing him to the resistance headquarters, if he had known that he was the son of the commander of the Midland army, he would have chosen to pretend not to know him when he met. If he brought his friends to see the queen and killed him, the dwarves would feel guilty for the rest of their lives.
"You were fighting the soldiers of your own country?" asked Queen Elaine curiously.
"I saw that they were treating the villagers with cruelty and cruelty, and I swore to King Ilith that I would do everything I could to protect his people. Rod said half-truthfully, quieting the scene for a moment.
"Hmph, that's a high-sounding statement. ”
"As far as I know, there is not a single law or custom that precludes a Midland nobleman from being knighted as a knight of Anteli. Rhodes gradually controlled the depression of not being able to return home smoothly, and his mind became active and clear: "Maybe some people here think that the oath is just a cover for flowery lies and ugly deeds, but the education I received told me to keep my vows. ”
Naturally, it was not easy to refute these words, but soon someone who lived in the royal capital recognized Nikita: "Isn't this the little guy who cheats at the south gate of Sardenburg every day, how did he get involved with the son of the marshal of the Midland army? Could it be a spy sent by Midland?"
"You speak in a weird way, I think you look like a spy!"
"Don't talk, there's no mess here. Rod patted Nikita on the head and stopped the pile of expletives she was about to blurt out.
"But he is still suspected of assassinating the king?" said the Resistance officer, who first revealed Rhodes' identity, "and we have not caught the Assassin now, and Sir Hart miraculously escaped from Salenberg on the day of the assassination, and there must have been someone present who was involved in the pursuit of him that night......, could it not have been forgotten?
"If you'd seen a Guardian, you wouldn't say anything like that. The smirk on the mage's face was hidden, and she sneered a few times, "When his mother found out that her child was tortured and forced to confess to the crime, we were hanged, even if the Resistance base camp hid on the other side of the world, the guardians would find it and raze it to the ground." ”
"I don't know what a Guardian is, but no matter how strong she is, she's just a female mage, and we're an army!" the officer was furious, "I don't know what kind of coward it would take to be a coward to order the whole army to surrender!"
"I was the one who used the Mage's Tower to send the surrender order to avoid unnecessary casualties, and I was the one who followed the queen to create the Resistance to protect the people out of a sense of duty. Lady Sasha said displeased, "'It's just a mage?' Sir Dick, how many soldiers do you have now?"
"More than thirty. ”
"If you have any opinion about the female mage, I will give you a chance now, call all your thirty-odd people, whatever weapon you use, if you can touch a single hair of my hair, I will support all your opinions. ”
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If you can get close to the sneak attack when the mage is unsuspecting, let alone thirty, three is too many. But if you want to deal with a high-ranking archmage who has already become famous without the knowledge of the other party, if there is no special anti-magic weapon, let alone thirty ordinary soldiers, even three hundred may not be successful, Sir Dick turned his face indignantly.
"Why, do you think thirty soldiers can't deal with me, a 'mere mage'?" Sasha glanced at him with contempt, "and I can tell you very clearly, thirty of me can't deal with the Guardian Lady." ”
"If the Guardians are as strong as you say, then there may be a conspiracy here, and the Empire cannot support such powerful mages in the war. Someone in the group of Resistance officers said. "But if you use the means to get her son into the battlefield and force the Guardian Lady to intervene in the war......"
"Damn, no one came to tell me sooner. A loud voice suddenly came from outside the cave, and a stout figure appeared in Rod's field of vision, and the man grumbled as he walked into the group of onlookers, "Where's the damned son of the Guardian, which one?"
The next moment, the belated Resistance officer stared at Rhodes with shining eyes: "It's you kid! I asked you if you were interested in joining the army, and you said no, why did you come here by yourself?"
Rhodes also recognized the comer, and at first thought it was a coincidence, but soon realized that it was inevitable - how could the resistance army be without him if he could pull up a rear army with courage and a loud voice in the face of a rout on all fronts?
Rhodes smiled bitterly at the visitor, and the latter quickly learned Rhodes' identity from his colleagues: "What, it turns out that your little cub is the person we were looking for before!
"Sir Monterey, please don't make any noise, you can wait until it's over. The mage stopped the stout officer's loud voice, "I think it's possible that the Lady Guardian may be being used by a conspiracy, and I'll inform her of this speculation the next time I have the chance...... But now, please leave, Her Majesty has something to speak privately with Sir Hart. ”
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