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The man was not annoyed, with the identity of the girl in front of him, if he was in the imperial capital full of nobles, he was not qualified to let her take a look at it, but fortunately, her brother and himself were not a little friendly, but he was not afraid that he would ignore him.

"This military raid by the Imperial War Department has really done its job of secrecy to the extreme, and even the troops on the front line only learned the truth at the last moment. The night before I received the order to cross the border into Antaili, I thought I was just doing a normal change of troops. Victor explained helplessly to Rhodes: "When we first met two months ago, I was afraid that this war was already being planned, when I led the army to search the mountains and forests near Shadow Town for possible hidden wild hunts, and after separating from the caravan you followed, I rushed to the predetermined location to prepare for the handover of defense. But somehow the handover work has not been carried out smoothly, we were forced to wait in place for orders, we were not the only troops in this situation, at first everyone thought that the department in charge of scheduling and arrangement of the military department was seriously derelict in its duties, who knew that everything was just a part of a big game of chess. At last...... We waited for the notice of crossing the border into Anteli, and most of my men were infantry, so they were slow, and they were left behind to take charge of occupation and security, and then we met Dieter, who was released by Anteli, so we finally turned around and turned here. ”

Roy snorted contemptuously: "Yes, the secrecy work is really good, even my brother almost fell into it." ”

"Ahem...... Blame me, if I could immediately remember that Foster was still in Antaili and report the matter to my superiors when I received the order......"

"The result will not change much, it was not the Imperial army that really threatened my life on a few occasions, but I ......" but I killed more than a dozen Imperial soldiers, intentionally or unintentionally, Rhodes did not continue the second half of the sentence.

"Let's talk on the way, don't stand. Roy was impatient, turned and walked to a carriage, and got into it.

"Yes, ready to go. The baron gave the order, and the soldiers arrived at the position and turned on their horses, and then he seemed to remember something: "Oh yes, there are some things that I guess the prince will like, bring them over." ”

A soldier approached with a horse, and Rhodes recognized it at a glance and was so surprised that he exclaimed, "Rose!"

"Previously, Antelli officials pursued you as a suspect...... All the things you left in the inn were confiscated, and the Imperial army captured all the supplies after taking Windsardenburg, and captured the entire administrative system of the Anteli royal capital, so it was easy to get it back, along with your weapons...... It was in a prominent position in the warehouse, and I got it all back. ”

On the horse's back hung a large-looking piece of the two-handed sword that Rhodes named "Dragon Slayer" and the matching wind-pulling scabbard.

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Morvin did not escape capture, so the sword was also stored in the warehouse as a trophy by the Anteli military. Dieter explained, "But fortunately, no one likes to wield such a tiring weapon, otherwise I am afraid that the officer who would have seen it would have gone away." ”

Rhodes touched the little mare in amazement, and it seemed to recognize him, and he rubbed his long face against him as meekly as he had when he first saw him, and then took off his greatsword and swung it, and the boy remembered the scene when he had obtained both things, and everything seemed like a world away. At that time, he was still a second-year teenager who dreamed of slaying dragons...... But this sword, not to mention slaying dragons, was almost slaughtered before even the blood had time to see the master, which is really ironic.

There were some ripples in his heart, and the boy intuitively felt that he should write a poem to express his feelings at this moment, but unfortunately his literary literacy was not enough to give up in the end, and he put things down with a sigh.

"Let's go, put this sword in the carriage, I'm afraid I'll tire my horse on my back." Although he didn't want to admit it, although he no longer wanted to carry this sword on his back, the boy found that he was indeed glad to see them again, although the baron had the impression that he was a bully and a flatterer, but the other party was careful enough to get all these things back with Dieter's help, and Rhodes really couldn't give him a cold face anymore. "Besides, don't keep calling me Childe-sama or something, I have a name. ”

"Of course, Rod. Baron Victor was overjoyed to see that the great effort to find out and recover had worked, and he nodded hurriedly, took his two-handed sword, and put it in a carriage behind him.

"Big brother, what should I do?" Nikita appeared out of nowhere, flung two braids and ran in front of Rod, his movements were quite flexible, and someone tried to stop him.

"Huh?" Rod had almost forgotten about the little girl's existence.

"I was going to arrange for her to be adopted by a childless local family, but she refused. Dieter frowned and explained to Rod: "You saved her, you decide what to do with her." ”

"I'm going to mess with big brother!" the girl cried, and tears welled up in her eyes again, "Big brother doesn't want me?" ”

Rod couldn't bear this trick the most, so he had no choice but to compromise: "Alas, okay, okay, you can just find a carriage and stay." ”

"Okay big brother. The girl ran to the convoy with joy.

Re-riding the truly fine horse that Dieter had given him, Rod chatted with Victorore, Dieter and Grom as they led the convoy down the street to its next destination.

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Although it was a small talk, Rhodes really got a lot of useful information: "What, the commander of the advance army was suspended and transferred back to China?"

"Yes, two days ago he ordered the massacre of all the civilians of an Anteli village, and ordered the army that discovered you to arrest you immediately, saying that you had killed his son. Hey, how is that possible? "Minimizing civilian casualties has been repeatedly emphasized at the beginning of this military operation, and as a result, he has also committed crimes...... It's just looking for death. ”

"He ordered the slaughter of a village?" Rhodes jerked in his chest, "for...... Why?"

He sent his youngest son to search a village where he was allegedly secretly assisting the Resistance, where the young man was ambushed and killed by the Resistance. So the old guy went crazy and not only ordered the slaughter of the village, but also declared that the son of the Imperial Marshal, that is, you, had treason and joined the Resistance Army...... But now that the advance corps has been taken over by the deputy commander, there is no need to worry about the threat of this poor old fellow. ”

Rhodes' eyes darkened, and he couldn't help but tremble, not for the treason charges he had suffered, but for the slaughtered village of Antaili, the woman who hired her and Ryan to chase her son, and her son who ran away from home to join the Resistance, and many more villagers whom he had probably only met once, all of whom were slaughtered? Did the Resistance detect a few who had escaped from the misfortune situation? Why didn't the Resistance remind the villagers to evacuate after they had succeeded in ambushing the son of the commander of the advance army?

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