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Unlike the Northwater people, known as the "Horseback Riding People", the female lords of the Flower Moon City did not have an interest in hunting as a pastime, nor did they have the interest, time, or venue.

Therefore, she only rode her beloved horse when she was leading the army into battle, "Swift Shadow", a horse with a pure white body and a pure bloodline. It is very appropriate to say that "steed", because this horse can no longer find the slightest merit except for being attractive.

"Yes, not only is the horse not very slow, but his endurance is also very poor, and he has to stop and rest after a few steps. Well, it's so temperamental, and it takes a lot of effort for someone else to ride it, and the strange thing is that it's very powerful at this time. ”

"Then why are you still ......?"

"Because riding a horse is just a 'compromise' that I have to make. What kind of comical would it be if the commander of an army charged on horseback, but on foot or in a carriage, instead of riding a horse, on the battlefield?"

"But that's not why you chose such a 'strong outsider' mount?"

"Tsk, my 'little bird', don't you understand, for me, the value of a mount is only in its appearance. And those 'good horses' in the true sense of the word are still rationed to those who really need them. For example...... Kyle is a good fit. ”

“...... How can I comment on you?"

Unpleasant and leisurely conversations echo between the mountains and fields, but they do not match the surrounding scenery in the slightest. This is the border between the Peninsula Alliance and the Brusken Empire, one of the lowest, most secluded trails in the mountainous "Wailing Mountains".

Secrecy was decades ago. The perennial flames of war on the border have made every accessible place thoroughly studied, and the warring twin peaks have already built forts and checkpoints at each end of each route, and stationed heavy troops nearby, and it is completely wishful thinking to pass through without being aware of it.

And now, the two of them appeared on this road that should have been full of "eyeliner", without causing any alarm. Fitted with a full set of light silver armor that didn't look like steel, the horses looked imposing, but the outfits of the two people sitting on them were very strange, the former in a light gauze and the latter in the clothes of a maid.

The de facto controller of the Peninsula Alliance, Ikavia Trodu, the female lord of the City of Flower Moon, sits sideways on her slender legs bound with black muslin to the side, and her posture is still solemn and elegant, but it does not look like "riding a horse" at all.

And behind her back, the girl wrapped her slender arms around her front waist. With a flat face and a dull heart, she didn't know where to complain, and Berdeona could only hold on to the female lord in front of her, who was calmly laughing.

She had never ridden a horse before.

But that's not the point, it's not too weird at this moment. As the "current" head maid of Ekavia, isn't Berdeona a "killer" sent by the "enemy" to lurk around Ekavia?

Assassination is always a high-risk and high-reward affair.

If successful, the tide will be reversed.

Even if it is a failure, the price is only the life of "one person".

This raises doubts.

Why didn't Ikavia kill her but keep her in the face of the killer who used the methods of "poisoning" and "assassination"? And why, if the assassination of the female lord was her mission, why did Baldeona herself look the same as usual after the assassination plan was exposed? Is it just that she didn't realize that the other party already knew everything?

Beyond that, what was the result of the elusive Black Shaman's "visit" to the Lord of the Peninsula, and did there be some kind of agreement or agreement between the two, and what did he do after he suddenly appeared in the pirate camp at the end of the battle not long ago?

"There's so much to hide, isn't it?"

"Huh, what are you talking about......"

"Nothing, just talking to myself. Raising her proud neck, her gaze slanted to the female lord behind her, her face still watching and discerning as if nothing had happened, and Berdeona was shocked for a while, "Ah, I almost forgot, we should have arrived." ”

As soon as the words changed, the head maid also diverted her attention from the words that seemed to have magical powers, but she immediately screamed in surprise.

"Wow......"

"Hmph, it's here. ”

As he said, the green trail ended here, and the ground went from relatively steep to gentle, which meant that the two of them had successfully crossed the Wailing Mountains and reached the territory of the Brusken Empire.

The mottled rocks are deposited with the blood of past soldiers, and the dark red is a silent indictment of war. War has taken too many lives, too many sons of parents, and too many wives and husbands.

――So, do you hate war?

Ikavia asked herself in her mind.

As far as the eye can see, there are sentry posts and camps that have been destroyed and rebuilt more than once, and the rust-colored wooden gate looks fragile, but the protective magic attached to it makes it difficult for ordinary siege equipment to damage it.

In front of the door were two groups of soldiers with machetes in hand, patrolling back and forth. On the watchtower, the scouts held up a telescope with an effect equivalent to eagle eye, and kept scanning the wind and grass around them, but they could not see the "intruder" who was so obvious.

"Stay on the horse. ”

"Hmm...... Huh?"

Giving the order in a tone that suddenly became serious, he gave the order without rebuttal, and before the panicked chief maid could react, Ikavia's body had already disappeared from the horse.

The leaning figure was gone, and before she could think about how the adult had "broken free" from her embrace, Berdeona lost her center of gravity and fell forward.

At this moment, the orderly scene in front of the girl's eyes became "hell".

First something shattered and there was a loud bang, and in the blink of an eye, the silence of the place was completely shattered by the firelight and a terrible black mist, and the heart-rending wail was the best appetizer for the madmen, and the earth became a palette, and blood spilled from the limbs that had been divided by unknown weapons, painted into a cruel and cold painting.

"I've been waiting. ”

The shock had not yet faded, and a familiar voice was already ringing in her ears.

"Ikavia...... My lord?"

"It's me. ”

The handsome and dashing figure came from a distance, leaving behind him a flood of sorrow, and the blood covered the sky. Both the walls and the magic shield had become a joke, and at this moment, Ikavia, who had not even a drop of blood or a trace of dust on her body, walked back with a smile in the girl's trance.

How long did it take her, three seconds, five seconds? Am I dreaming?

The shocking reality made her doubt what she had seen, but the gentle voice that followed made Berdeona know that it was all true.

"You, will you be afraid of me?"

Her voice was like a quiet dream.

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Just when Troy and the others received a new mission sent by the "Society" to the southernmost port of the peninsula, the lighthouse capital, and boarded the cargo ship to Gloriland without wasting any time under the arrangement of Ikavia, an urgent secret letter was also transmitted to Plevence, an important economic and military city in the south of the Brusken Empire, and handed over to Garfield, the general of the Imperial Army.

The letter reads: Seven of the Empire's camps and fortifications near the Wailing Mountains had been attacked by unknown persons within a few days, and all of them had fallen, and the garrison numbered 1,500 men, all of whom had been killed.

A letter, a few dozen simple words, made the high-ranking generals of the empire who were known for their "mediocrity" look at each other, and no one knew what to say or do.

The curtain of war had just begun, and no one knew that what was recorded on the letterhead was only the beginning of what was described as "the worst defeat in the history of the Brusken Empire."

No one would have imagined that the Peninsula Alliance, which is known for its defensive counterattack and has never taken the initiative before, under the leadership of Ikavia, the lord of the Flower Moon Capital, has driven straight forward and is like a bamboo, and in just thirty days, it will triumphantly attack the city of Provence all the way, and besiege this famous and impregnable city in the history of Southover for several months.

During this period, even if the number of people was doubled, all the reinforcements sent by Brusken were still defeated by Ikavia, and this situation finally began to change until one of the "Imperial Twin Walls", the "Light Division" Sivi, led Goddani's men from the north to the south.