In the city of Coennas, the atmosphere in the palace is somewhat depressing.

The army of thorns had been besieging the city for fifteen days, and this was the first time that their emissaries had been allowed to enter the city.

The envoy, who was in his fifties, dressed in a light blue gown and had a friendly face, asked to meet with King Auston in the name of negotiations, but in fact, everyone, including the king, understood that he had come to persuade him to surrender.

In the current situation of the war, listening to the other party's conditions is already a forced choice.

The city of Coennas was well defended and fortified, and unless the Thorn army was willing to pay more than half of its casualties to storm it, there was no other way but to besiege it. And with the Silver Finchflower Federation watching, of course the Thorn Army would not do this.

The Thorn Empire is worried that the war will drag on for too long and that there will be variables, and the royal family of the Fermon Empire, seeing that the war situation is decided, is powerless to turn the tables, so they can only take advantage of the other party's psychology and try their best to strive for a decent result.

The messenger brought King Edward's meaning: Lucia was still married to Edward's second son, Geoffrey, and on this basis, Auston was promised the status of a duke, and the fief would be arranged in the southern part of the Thorn Empire. These moves were clearly aimed at weakening the influence of the Femon royal family in order to better control the Femon Empire.

King Auston readily agreed to the marriage contract, but demanded that the status of a state within a state be retained, and that the Duchy of Feimon be established with the city of Coenas and the surrounding land of 500 leagues.

Princess Lucia, who was sitting beside the king, heard her father's words, her face was pale, her eyes were blank, and she remained motionless, as if she were just a beautiful doll placed there. As the princess of the dead country, she no longer has the power to be willful.

This is the first negotiation between the two sides, and the differences are too great to be able to negotiate at all. The Thorn Empire sent a kind and kind emissary, presumably to appease King Auston first, and in the future, if the negotiations do not go well, there will definitely be an emissary with a style diametrically opposed to his appearance in front of the king. These are to be expected.

Therefore, even if they can't reach an agreement, the attitude of the two sides is very rational, especially the envoy of the Thorn Empire, who still treats each other as a king.

After the negotiations, the emissary did not leave immediately, but made a small request to King Auston.

"Your Majesty, when I came here this time, I received a commission from General Klee, who misses her daughter very much, can you let me see her?"

"General Klee's daughter?"

"Yes, Captain Corey. ”

"Captain Corey?" King Auston looked at the ministers and generals beside him, and no one could answer his question.

The messenger was slightly surprised to see King Auston's reaction, and then said, "Captain Korei was in charge of opening the secret passages in the Tedder Mountains, but more than 4,000 of her men were killed, the huge fortifications erected on the Ava River were destroyed, and she herself was captured by a young mage. Before the Battle of the Gunta Grassland, the mage had been active in the occupied territory, but until now, we have not found the leader of the Kore. ”

"Four thousand men......" King Auston heard this news for the first time, and it was the only good news he had heard since the beginning of the war, but why did it come from the mouth of the enemy envoy?

General Baird did not seem to want to talk about this achievement, and kept his head down and remained silent.

"General Baird?" the king asked.

"Your Majesty, the secret passage in the Tedar Mountains must have been discovered by the Young Reserve......" Baird explained.

"Young Reserves, didn't you say they had escaped?" said King Auston was even more puzzled.

Lucia, who had been at a loss since hearing her father's consent to the envoy's marriage contract, seemed to be out of the way, and it was only then that she suddenly woke up and her eyes became active again.

Soon after the war began, she heard that Donner's Young Reserve Army had escaped, and with what she knew about Donner, she would never believe the news, and she had a big argument with her father about it. Since then, she hasn't heard from Donner's army.

"At the moment of the great enemy, they do not obey the command and act on their own...... Moreover, the so-called secret passages do not have much impact on the situation of the battle...... "Baird continued.

The envoy of the Thorn Empire suddenly spoke, interrupting Baird's words, "The general's opinion seems to be somewhat different from the opinion of the general of our army. ”

"What's the difference?" asked King Alston.

"The secret passage to open the Tedr Mountains is a secret plan made by our army before the start of the war, and it has been prepared for three years. Of the more than 4,000 people who died in battle, in addition to 3,000 elite mountain soldiers, there were also 1,000 elite knights and venerable Arahan mages. If it weren't for the destruction of the secret passage, our army's losses would have been much smaller. When King Edward heard the news, he was furious. ”

"Baird, why haven't I heard you talk about this victory?" questioned King Auston.

General Baird understood that the greater the victory, the more incompetent he became, and continued to bow his head and remain silent.

Adrien, who had been standing aside, suddenly reminded: "Your Majesty, there seems to be a prisoner of the Young People's Army who has withdrawn with General Baird......

Baird didn't know that while he was unconscious, his soldiers had brought the young prisoner back.

"Is it, where is the man now?" asked the king.

"I should still be in prison. Adrien replied.

"Your Majesty, can you let me see him, maybe he can know the whereabouts of the head of the Ke Lei. The messenger asked politely.

Not long after, a poorly clothed prisoner with a foul smell was carried in. This man was Quissar, who risked his life to deliver the news, but was imprisoned by Baird. The wound on his right leg, which had now become as big as the mouth of a bowl, was festering and bleeding pus, crawling with maggots, and the stench came from the wound.

The king frowned slightly, glared at Baird, and then asked, "Are you a Young Army soldier?"

Quisal seemed a little delirious, looked left and right for a moment, and then asked in a low voice, "Is the Celtic Grand Duke here?"

When King Auston heard this name, his face changed greatly, and he was about to have a seizure, but Adrien immediately preemptively said: "The traitor is not here, the king is asking you." ”

"The King...... Your Majesty, the Celtic Grand Duke is, a traitor, a general, a general, he won't believe me...... Quick, get the Celtic Grand Duke arrested......"

King Auston stood up suddenly, ignored the stench of Quisar, walked up to him, and asked, "How do you know that Celtic is a traitor?"

“...... Roger, son of Duke Celtic, Roger...... He defected and was killed by Donner...... He told us to come back and tell the news...... We died, and many people died...... Kill more...... Killed thousands of people, all blood, the secret passage is real. Quick, King, send the army to the mountain, there are only two people left...... Donner and Wesley," Quisal struggled to crawl to the king, and reached out a hand to the corner of the king's leg, and said incoherently.

Watching Quissar climb to the king's feet, despite the injury on his leg, the onlookers couldn't help but be moved.

"Roger is dead? Donner...... Donald, how's he?" Hearing this haunting name, Lucia also jerked to her feet and rushed towards Quisar, only to be stopped by King Auston halfway through.

"Baird!" King Auston shouted, "You already knew that the Celts were treasonous, and you gave him the front line!?"

Baird suddenly fell to his knees and argued loudly: "Your Majesty, the youth army has only three hundred people, how can it be possible to kill thousands of enemy soldiers...... The wife of the Celtic Grand Duke was ......"

Baird didn't go on, the wife of the Celtic Grand Duke was the queen's sister and Lucia's aunt.

King Auston trembled with anger, and he could not have imagined that Baird did not suspect Celtic for such reasons.

"There are only three hundred young men...... Lucia shouted to Baird, "but did you know that Donner's magic wand killed Eli ......?"

"Yes, Donner's magic wand!" Quisar's voice sounded: "He used his magic wand to kill all the elven archers, thousands of mountain soldiers, and when the magic power ran out, we stayed behind the cliff and cut them down one by one, three thousand, Mino said that we killed three thousand enemies, and we killed many people......"

Hearing this, the envoy of the Thorn Empire finally couldn't help but speak: "So, that young Blue Bird Mage, whose name is Donner, was captured by him?"

"Donner, what happened to him?" Lucia asked Quisar.

"I don't know, he and Wesley stayed on the hill and told us to come down and report it...... Why am I here? Is the war over? We're holding on?"

No one answered Quissar's question.

"Have you ever seen a silver-haired female officer?" the messenger asked.

"Female officer, no ......," Quisal replied.

"That is to say, Captain Ke Lei was captured after you came down the mountain...... the envoy frowned, and then turned to Lucia: "Your Royal Highness, I know the whereabouts of that mage. "Where is he now?"

"He's dead. Before he died, he destroyed our largest grain warehouse, and almost all of our army's logistics were buried in his hands, what a great guy. If you hold out for ten more days, we may retreat. "The war situation is settled, and the emissary of the Thorn Empire doesn't mind revealing this news.

"Before he died, you mean, Donner, he's dead?" Lucia suddenly collapsed to the ground.

"Didn't hold on? Donner died? We died so many people and we didn't hold it either?" Quisal muttered to himself, tears rolling down the dirt from his face.

"Ten days...... Just hold on for ten days...... I have given you the strength of the whole country, as long as you hold it for ten days......" King Auston coldly repeated the words of the messenger and walked up to General Auston, who bowed his head and did not dare to look at him.

"You didn't hold it for a day!"

The king roared and swung his sword, and Baird's head flew up, blood gushing out.

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