1373. Warsaw
The Enchanted Quarter of Ivorson City
The four-story magic tower was actually built in the center of a square, and a large garden and road were built under the magic tower, and even some green plants were built in the shape of magic symbols, and there were many separate pools in the square, and the fountains of these pools should be linked, and the water sprays reflected seven colors of light in the sun.
There are a lot of people playing in the square here, there are no vendors setting up stalls in the square, and the square is surrounded by some magic shops.
Signa and Nika play in the square garden, tending to the two horses tethered to the stone pillars.
Surdak walked along the paved road into the Magic Tower.
There were only a few magicians in the hall on the first floor of the Magic Guild, and the whole hall seemed a little deserted.
A magic apprentice stood in front of the reception desk and saw Surdak approaching before asking, "Is there anything you need help with, sir?" ”
"I wanted to see Wizard Antonio, so I told him that a friend from Bena wanted to visit him!" Surdak said to the young magic apprentice.
The apprentice immediately beckoned his resting companion to take his place, and he ran up the stairs to deliver the letter.
Surdak was placed in the lounge area of the lobby on the first floor.
By the time the apprentice had accompanied a magician in Calemian's magic robes down the stairs from upstairs, Surdak had risen from the couch in the lounge area.
Antonio looked at Surdak suspiciously, and there was even a hint of suspicion in his eyes.
Surdak recognized Antonio at a glance, his appearance basically did not change much, except that the magic robe had become advanced, the collar and cuffs had dark lines of magic runes, and the mana fluctuations emitted from his body were much stronger than before.
It wasn't until he walked in front of Surdak and looked at it carefully for a while that his face showed a hint of abruptness, and he stretched out his hand and pointed at Surdak and said excitedly:
"You're the retired Bena Provincial warrior Surdak, I remember, I remember, uh! How did you become a nobleman? Oooooooo......oo Or the Earl. ”
Surdak saw that Antonio finally remembered himself, so he stepped forward, stretched out his arms and hugged Antonio vigorously.
"I thought you had forgotten about me as a friend!" Surdak said with a smile.
Antonio said with a look of chagrin: "How come! It's just that I didn't expect you to change so much, if you were dressed as a knight, I would be able to recognize you for the first time. ”
He kindly pulled Surdak to sit down in the rest area, and said excitedly:
"After returning to Pena City, your life must be very rich, from a reserve knight to a nobleman at once, this span is really a bit large, you go to Ivorson City this time...... You're in that reinforcements too? ”
Surdak nodded, "Hmm. ”
Antonio frowned, lowered his voice and said, "Obviously, they all ran out, you also know how deep this quagmire is, why do you have to run back?" ”
Antonio then took Surdak out of the Magic Guild's Magic Tower, where it was not convenient to talk after all.
Antonio led Surdak to a café opposite the Wizarding Guild, and the two of them found a secluded corner to sit down.
Surdak could be seen across the street with Signa and Nika standing by the pool, and they occasionally glanced over to Surdak's side.
"Speaking of which...... We haven't seen each other in almost five years! Antonio said with emotion.
Surdak nodded and said, "Yes, time flies so fast!" ”
Then he said: "I am in the province of Bena, it is difficult to inquire about the situation here, and this time I have come to you to want to know the situation in the city of Evorsen and the situation in the plane of Warsaw......
There are many shops around the Magic Square, and there are many vendors in front of the street shops, but these vendors look a little down, but they are still dressed in decent clothes.
"You see all the aristocrats who set up stalls everywhere on the streets, most of them fled back from the Warsaw plane, gave up their domains and estates, and then spent all the possessions they had brought with them, and if they wanted to continue their lives in Ewalsen, they had to find a way to make money, and turning into small objects of more value was their first step......" Antonio sighed as he spoke.
Surdak never thought that the nobles would come out to set up stalls......
"It's okay if they have an estate, but those who don't have any property, especially some small aristocrats, can only sell what they bring back to support their daily expenses."
The waiter brought two cups of tea, and only after he had left did Antonio say:
"Speaking of which, Duke Ryan shouldn't offend the royal family of Angelboy, it doesn't matter if he is so willful, the people of the entire province of Ewalsen have suffered, since the Royal Knights withdrew from the Warsaw plane, the situation over there has been collapsing step by step, and now four of the seven counties of Warsaw have completely fallen."
Surdak had heard that there were seven counties in the Warsaw plane, and when he left the Warsaw plane, all seven counties were still in the hands of the Imperials.
"You're saying that four of the Seven Great Cities have been captured by the Demon Legion?" He asked.
Antonio nodded, but did not speak.
"How's the situation in Handanaarshire going?" Surdak asked again.
Antonio said casually: "It should be okay, the demon army has suffered a lot of losses on the side of the Bena army, so it has been occupying Moyun Ridge, suppressing the Bena army and unable to expand eastward......"
The two were chatting in the corner of the tea restaurant, when they heard a woman in the back kitchen say urgently:
"Angela, what are you doing here?"
A childish voice said softly: "Bednar's reinforcements are here, Dad should be able to come back from there, and I am going to prepare a gift for him." ”
Hearing the little girl say this, the questioning voice softened, and then said: "Angela is so good, what she said is right, the Bena reinforcements are coming, and the Warsaw plane should be able to win the battle, and the land we lost will be recaptured little by little." ”
"When I have money, I'll prepare a big cake for him, with a thick layer of peanut butter on top, a layer of strawberry jam on it, and a thick layer of nuts on top ......," the girl tried to imagine the delicious cake.
"The days will get better and better in the future." The woman's tone was expectant, mixed with some lamentation.
Surdak didn't continue to listen, he looked at Antonio.
The magician Antonio shrugged his shoulders and gestured 'This is what the city of Evorsen is now'.
Then he took a sip of tea, and then whispered: "Duke Ryan is about to die, and now Quentin has begun to take over the Bussman family's property, territory, and army, but now the Bussman family is like a broken ship that is about to completely rot, and it has long been full of holes, even if you want to repair it, you don't know where to start." ”
Surdak asked Antonio:
"I never figured out that Ryan . . . Duke Bussman went to the imperial capital because of the great victory in the Battle of Kepato in the Warsaw Plane, and in order to gather more lords to invest in the Warsaw Plane. Can...... How did the good situation make him collapse? ”
Wizard Antonio blinked and said:
"I also learned from the inside information from the Magic Union, when Duke Ryan attended a ball in the imperial capital, and at the ball he competed with a young magician for a widow in the imperial capital, it is said that at that time, Duke Ryan also released some cruel words, which almost caused a conflict between the imperial capital magician nobles and orthodox nobles, and he didn't know how to restrain afterwards, it is said that the young magician had a deep relationship with the Prince James and the Prince of Wales, and the royal family of Angel Boulder came forward to protect the young magician, After receiving the news, the Royal Knights withdrew from the Warsaw plane overnight......"
"After the Royal Knights withdrew from the Warsaw plane, the noble lords of the imperial capital did not dare to easily send troops into the Warsaw plane, but some small lords wanted to gamble, but with the defeat of the small lords one after another...... From that moment on, the situation in the Warsaw plane began to gradually collapse. ”
"If you shouldn't say something, I'm actually not in favor of you entering the Warsaw plane, because the battle situation over there is almost completely eroded."
"Now Quentin is staring at Old Ryan, he doesn't dare to enter the battlefield even if he has soldiers in his hands, he has to wait for Old Ryan to die, and he has soldiers in his hands to control the situation of the Bussman family."
"The Warsaw position is a mess that Quentin can't give up and can't clean up."
Hearing Antonio's analysis of the situation in the Warsaw plane, Surdak was a little speechless.
“……”
Who would have thought that the Warsaw plane had become like this.
Now that this situation is already in place, the Duke of Newman still does not want the Bednar army to withdraw from Warsaw, and now he has mobilized the lord's army to reinforce it.
Surdak suddenly felt that Duke Newman's transfer of troops from Pena Province should not only be to liberate the Bana Legion to Warsaw......
At least his intentions shouldn't be that simple.
Speaking of Handanaarshire's output, it can't support a Bena legion, and now that so many reinforcements have entered the Warsaw plane, Surdak knocked his forehead with some pain.
After catching up with Antonio, he turned down Antonio's invitation to dinner.
Surdak watched Antonio return to the Magic Tower, then joined up with Signa and Nika who were waiting in the square, went to the clock tower of Evorsen City again, and finally walked around the perimeter of the castle of the Bussman family, and saw a long line of people coming out of the portal in the back garden of the castle.
Obviously, even if Bednar's reinforcements arrived in Epson, they still failed to increase any confidence in the people of Epson.
The people of the Warsaw Plane seem to have become disillusioned with the situation over there, and they don't know how many people are waiting in long lines to pass through the portal.
It is the constant influx of people from the Warsaw plane that makes the city of Ewalsen particularly crowded, with the streets full of old people, women and children.
"Dark, I suddenly felt ...... It's actually nice to live in Highlandsa! ”
These were the first words of Signa after she walked out of Ewalsen City.