"Hey, boy, does Chief Mage Antelli taste right?" The stout officer who was fighting alongside Rhodes at Nameless Intersection, a middle-aged man he now knew surnamed Monterey, nodded at him, "It's a bit unacceptable in terms of orientation, but you can't deny that she's a beauty." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Rod smiled awkwardly and shook his head, "No, Ms. Sasha went to find somewhere else to sleep last night." ”

"She's going to let you go?" said Sir Monterey, with a look of disbelief, "is it because you swear to die, that she can't take you?"

"Don't giggle there, don't want to leave today!" came a cold, resolute voice, and Sir Dick, who had always been unfriendly to Rhodes, stared at the boy with fiery eyes.

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Rhodes saw the situation at the entrance of the cave clearly, Monterey was standing with hundreds of soldiers and a dozen guards sent by the queen to block the entrance of the cave, and Sir Dick with about twice as many men surrounded the cave in a semi-circle, with a posture of never letting himself go.

"The Queen ordered Sir Hart to leave, do you want to disobey?" Monterey looked at his fellow Resistance soldiers who were confronting him with a cold face, and turned to Rhodes and said, "Boy, don't worry, with us here today, no one will want to touch you." ”

Rod looked at him, and at the people who had stopped in front of him, and saw that there were many familiar faces among them. At least a third of the Queen's Army that Monterey had pulled up during the Great Scorched Earth Retreat was here, most of them soldiers who had participated in the bloody battle at Nameless Crossing, and Rhodes nodded to them in greeting, receiving a friendly response from many.

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"The queen has ordered that if it is reasonable, of course we will obey it, but now we have finally caught a big man in Midland, and let him go like this?

"When did the soldiers have the power to pick and choose to obey the orders of their superiors?Is this the new military rule you invented, or is that what your instructor taught you when he trained you, Sir Dick?, which unit were you part of before the Resistance was formed, and I wonder how many victories such an army of junior officers, with its own judgment, has won?" the stout officer unceremoniously taunted the young junior opposite, "what do you want to do with Sir Hart— Kill him without trial, or hold him for ransom from Midland, or tie up a young man with the knighthood of our own country to blackmail the enemy?"

"The knighthood he obtained with a false identity is illegal!"

"We don't know Rod Foster, we only know Rolick Hart, the valiant soldier who fought alongside us in the Great Retreat and repelled the pursuing Midlands!" shouted a soldier who was guarding Rhodes, "You are now holding us back from carrying out the Queen's orders, this is a mutiny!"

This was echoed by all the soldiers of the former "Rear Force", and the soldiers blocking the entrance to the cave stood in several rows side by side in front of Rhodes, far more determined to protect their former comrades than the other side had expected.

"Whether it is a rebellion or not, there will be comments from later generations. Brothers, follow me and take this kid down!"

"Soldiers, take up arms!" Monterey shouted in the same-for-tat, slightly outnumbered but much louder than the other, "send someone to inform the queen that there is someone here who is going to openly disobey her orders!"

The crisp and neat sound of the sword unsheathed sounded at the mouth of the cave, and the people led by Dick on the opposite side also picked up the guy, but the forward trend of oppression was stopped by the murderous soldiers of the troops behind the original palace. Only the thirty or so people who completely obeyed the orders of the young officer directly belonged to him, and the rest were temporarily pulled to support the scene, although they also felt that it was unacceptable to let Rhodes go like this, but they were not happy to have a real fight with the veterans who were also resistance fighters.

The scene froze, and Rhodes only then had time to feel afraid: if it weren't for his friends stopping at the mouth of the cave, he was afraid that someone would be pulled out of bed this morning, tied up, hanged, or thrown into a wooden cage. Nothing is taken for granted, and in just a few hours of sleep, I don't know how many brothers from the rear of the palace army guarded him at the entrance of the cave before he could sleep until he was woken up. I wonder when they came to the entrance of the cave and how long they guarded it.

The sun rose, and the base camp of the Resistance gradually woke up in the light, and more soldiers began to watch through the mouth of the cave, and from time to time a few spontaneously joined the ranks of the outer circle to block the way, and seemed to be very hostile to the son of the commander of the Imperial army. After a while, a group of dwarven soldiers also hurried over to join the Monterey side with their armor, and Hawk Blackstone, who heard about the situation here, didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so he called the Qi brothers to help Rhodes. Seeing that Rhodes could have so many friends in his own army, the soldiers on the periphery knew that they couldn't help him today, and they couldn't withdraw because of their face, so they could only continue to block the way.

"What's going on?" a group of brightly dressed soldiers, who stood out from the resistance sergeants' strokes, trotted in a neat line at the other end of the valley, squeezing between the two groups of men, separating the two sides of the conflict.

"Sir Caro, so many of our brothers, we all think that the Midland boy can't be let go!"

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Rod's face became a little strange, was Antelli too young, or had he seen too many people? He actually saw another acquaintance - on the way out of Sardenburg, the second knight Argyle Carlo, who was fascinated by his women's appearance, was actually the leader of this group of white-armored soldiers!

Argyle frowned and glanced at Rhodes, of course not recognizing him: "Sir Dick, I understand your thoughts, but it is the Queen's orders that are carried out. His Majesty has just repeated the order to let Sir Rowick Hart leave, and no one shall hinder him. Now, please get out of the way of all the brothers who stand in the way, and I can act as if nothing happened, and if not, be charged with military justice for disobeying military orders!"

The second knight who had been fascinated by the women's clothing Rhodes seemed to have a lot of voice in the resistance, and the roadblocks suddenly became commotional, put away their weapons, and began to hesitate whether to disperse.

But it didn't matter how this turmoil ended, with a thunderous sound in mid-air, a portal appeared out of thin air at a height of more than ten meters, quickly stabilized with the surging of magic power, and a woman's figure stepped out of it.

Rhodes subconsciously scanned the crowd, and sure enough, he saw Sasha standing on a high place not far behind the crowd, looking at the place where the portal appeared with burning eyes...... She had already sent a magical message at dawn, waiting for the most beautiful woman in the world to appear.

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