readx;?“ My lord, this is the latest report..."A young man walked up to Byrne's side, holding a document in his hand and placing it on the table next to Byrne. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Read it..."

"Yes—" glancing at Byrne, who was busy with other business, the young man flipped through the papers. "The patrol has just reported that during this month's patrol, the patrol army has been attacked seventeen times, with two hundred and thirty-six wounded and one hundred and thirty-one killed, for a total of three hundred and sixty-seven casualties..."

"In addition, three captain-level soldiers were killed, and one accompanying mage was killed..."

"Alas..."Hearing the news, he sighed deeply, and Byrne's face was full of helplessness. "This is the third month that the number of dead has been more than two hundred, and this year the conflict between the gray dwarves and the dark elves against us has become more and more intense..."

"yes," the young man looked worried, closing the file. "My lord, will something happen..."

"There's no information on this yet, I just hope not—" Not in the mood to continue on business, Byrne got up from his seat.

As a high-ranking member of Blaine Fortress, Byrne is well aware that the current situation in the fortress is not very good. In the past year, the fortress has been harassed by various races in the Dark Regions, and there have been more and more conflicts between the two sides. In half a year, the number of casualties in the fortress alone was as high as more than 1,000 people, especially on several occasions when patrols went out to patrol, and even were ambushed by the other side and wiped out.

Such examples were rare in the past, but now they are becoming more frequent.

"What the hell is going on—" Byrne pondered as his fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop.

As I said before, this kind of thing is not unheard of in the past. But it has never been so frequent, after all, there are deep contradictions between the gray dwarves and the mind snatchers, the dark elves and the gray dwarves, even if they will come to find some trouble from time to time because of the interests of the entire dark region, in order to avoid being attacked behind the other party's back, at least most of the military power will stay in the lair.

With each other in check, it is conceivable how much strength they can exert to find trouble.

But now...

"Are these underground residents uniting again?" Byrne shuddered at the thought of this possibility. But he quickly shook his head and threw out this possibility, after all, they have been rooted here for hundreds of years, and they have some knowledge of the dark region, and even a certain intelligence system has infiltrated the interior of the dark elves and gray dwarves.

After all, the arrogance of the Mind Flayer is notoriously...

According to the information they received, the gray dwarves, dark elves, and other races are undoubtedly in the midst of a civil war.

Thinking of this, Byrne felt a lot more relieved.

Historically, every time the Fortress of Bryne was destroyed, it occurred after the inhabitants of these underground worlds united. It's just that the alliance between the dark elves and the gray dwarves and other races may still be far away, but the frequent conflicts are imminent...

Just then, there was a knock on the door outside.

Turning his head to look at Byrne, the young man opened the door and walked in from the outside, an equally young soldier.

"Your Excellency...", the young soldier reported directly. "Just got word from the city guards that they intercepted a suspicious person, who claimed to be a subordinate of Captain Manan..."

"Manan—" Closing his eyes and thinking for a moment, Byrne remembered the man. "It seems that more than half a year ago, the captain of a team that was ambushed and wiped out during a patrol, is it possible..."

Thinking of a possibility, Byrne looked up with some excitement.

"Could it be that their team is not all wiped out, and there are survivors?"

"It's not clear, my lord, do you want to bring him to meet you first?" the young soldier whispered, standing in the doorway.

"Well, bring him here, I'd love to know how their team is doing..."

"Yes!" the soldier turned and left the office.

After the soldier left, Byrne suppressed his excitement and looked at the young man beside him.

"Matthew, do you think, this thing..."

"It's not clear yet, I'll have to wait for the 'survivor' to arrive, but I'm curious about what caused him to return to the fortress after half a year, and whether he was alone or with other people for half a year, and if he was alone, how could he survive for such a long time..."

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In fact, Byrne himself has always felt that the fortress has gradually become a bit bureaucratic, and things are always procrastinating. But this time the matter was more efficient than he had imagined, and before Yasin could even be brought to him, a report on Yasin had been delivered to his desk.

“...... According to the information we have received, there is indeed such a person in the patrol force..."

Nodding, Byrne didn't answer, just continued to look at the information.

It also includes Arsen's hometown, origins, and why he was sent to the fortress, and when he sees that Asin has been convicted of theft just because he picked something up at a banquet, Byrne frowns.

Despite being from an aristocratic background, he has always been disgusted with this kind of thing...

But just as he was about to say something, there was a sudden knock at the door outside, and the young man who looked like a secretary glanced out and spoke quickly. "My lord, that person was brought here..."

"Let him in..."

"Understood!"

Without Byrne's orders, Matthew walked out of the room, and in a few moments saw Arsin walk in after him.

By this time, Yasen's robes had been removed, and his sword had been lifted, except for the half-length armor given by the gnomes when he left Carmotte.

Seeing Yasen's appearance, Byrne was also taken aback.

For he could see that Arsin was obviously much stronger than ordinary soldiers, even to the level of captains, although those so-called captains were not at all in Byrne's eyes, and even Manan, if it were not for the total annihilation of his team, Byrne probably would not know what his name was.

Isn't it strange that a marshal would go and know the names of all his soldiers?

And the armor on Yasen's body doesn't seem to be quite like a soldier can wear, at least this kind of equipment, most of the officers in the fortress don't have...

"Now, it's really interesting...", looking up at Arsen, Byrne nodded. "Sit down, young man, it seems that you do have a lot of things on you that interest me..."

"That's right. Yasin smiled bitterly. "Even though I don't want to..."

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