Chapter Twenty-Five: The Ambush Scheme

Arashihara walked outside the tent and felt the morning breeze in the northeastern part of the Nagasaki Plain.

It had been seven days since Lan Falcon passed through the watchtower next to the Imperial Palace in Source Heart City, and the "Boundary Burst" summoned by the sloppy old man Batten came to the Yaohui camp near Ilaghar.

The whole barracks area was full of noise, and it was the many members of the Knights of Yaohui who were getting ready to get up, wash, and pray, and before long everyone would put on their armor and mount their horses to begin a hard day's training.

Despite the hardships and tediousness, Arashihar endured it, and by the end of the seven days, according to the custom of the Order, he had been given a personal mount, and he had received an indirect reward from Setton for his usual outstanding performance, that is, he was allowed to ride his horse every morning and gallop through the grasslands near the village of Ilaghar.

Arashihara cherishes this privilege very much, but at the same time is proud and vain about it, after all, he is a disciple of the leader of the Knights, Seton. However, he also knew that this could not be shown in the slightest, because he did not yet have the power and ability to control this army.

And he was very annoyed - that no one here had told him the details of the "Ilaghar Incident"!

Just as he was saddling his horse and preparing to go out, three figures appeared on the distant horizon, coming towards Yaohui's camp.

This was by no means a common occurrence for the Knights of Yaohui, and Lan Falcon shouted loudly, "Someone is approaching!" and then more than fifty knights in silver armor squatted down in a line at the door, and the same silver shining shields stood in front of them, and the sharp spears and spears passed through the gaps in the shields, pointing at the figures coming from afar.

At some point, Sethon had come to the camp gate, and the handsome leader did not draw his sword at his waist, but stood at the camp gate with his hands in his hands, facing the three figures.

"Stand down, it's not an enemy. Seton ordered, and the knights, who were on guard, immediately withdrew their lines, walked quickly to the camp, and then dispersed and returned to their ranks. This is the strict military discipline of the Knights of Yaohui, and Seton also intends to let his subordinates raise their prestige first, and then return to the team in an orderly manner, so as to show the might of the Yaohui Knights in front of those three people.

"Marshal Seton, don't come unharmed?" the three comers were all dressed as travelers, but they didn't mind revealing their expensive and extravagant jewelry, as if they didn't take the robbers of the Changmu Plains into account.

Arashihara immediately noticed the young man at the forefront—a ruffian aristocratic man, Toron Stan, known as the Kingdom of Ioho—the only legitimate heir to the throne of a small country on the southwestern frontier of the Celestial Empire. Even in the past two or three years, Arashi has often seen his impassioned, incendiary speeches on the streets of Source City, and he bets that if it weren't for the fact that the inhabitants of Source City didn't care about the throne of the Iho Kingdom in the slightest, there would definitely be a few young people or powerful residents who were keen on fame and fortune to follow this seemingly comical careerist. "What's more, such a so-called emperor also had a fight with a cheap slave of the 'Conqueror of the Sacred Mountain'. ”

When Arashihara was furious at the thought of this, and the thought of being beaten hard by the boy he had always looked down upon, which was the source of all his anger, he gritted his teeth and imagined in his mind that he would lead the Shadow Army led by the great Knights of the Emblem, Eimah, Seton responded to Toron Stan.

"The future emperor of the kingdom of Ioho, have you had a long journey?" Seton looked polite, neither humble nor arrogant. But Arashi immediately felt that something was wrong: "This Toron Stan, even if he is a person of Yingma's status, is not afraid to fight with him." And his own master, the most powerful person in the empire except for the emperor and the court mage, actually paid great respect to this scoundrel.

Lan Falcon didn't dare to say anything, although he was already angry, and the other warriors of the Yaohui Knights had never heard of this person, but they were embarrassed to say that he was an emperor.

However, the two people behind Stan suddenly spoke: "Marshal Sedon, you left directly from the 'Boundary Rush', while the three of us had to run for seven days and seven nights to come to Ilaghar. ”

"How did the three of them get here? I didn't see a carriage or a horse. Seton frowned.

Nastan replied immediately, "We gave the Shadows the sweaty, sweary-talking coachman we hired a mile from Camp Radiance. Of course, it was to prevent this kind of talkative countryman from being angry with the location of Gui Yaohui's camp," Lan Falcon was shocked: "Give it to the Shadow? Isn't this a common saying that kills people and kills people?

"That young man, are we worth your hatred?" said Stan's two retinues, pointing at Arashi. Arashi immediately stared at him, a tall, thin middle-aged man, with a lewd appearance and reddened skin, a man who could smell a stream of southern tobacco just by looking at him.

Lan Falcon is not Yingma's bursting temper, and his mind has already turned three times at this moment: "He can spy on my mind? He is a typical annoying fellow, and the master is still very polite to him? So he immediately bent down and was about to speak, but Stan immediately recognized him and shouted, "Arashi, Renjie?"

"Exactly. "Lan Falcon's heart is not good, this person has also suffered his own losses, if a person like this does not hold grudges, it will definitely be a ghost.

But to his surprise, Stan laughed and asked the tall red-skinned man, "This Arashifalcon is a character, and the first apprentice of Marshal Seton, and our friend. ”

Lan Falcon hurriedly said, "I have offended Lord Stan and this Venerable Driver, and I hope to atone for my sins." The anger and incomprehension in his heart at the moment were suppressed as much as possible, after all, the other party had a possible ability to spy on the mind.

Marshal Seton then said, "Three, why don't we go inside and talk about business?" Aren't you about to ride out on horseback?" Hearing Master say this, Arashihan immediately thought that this was a secret meeting between Seton and Stan.

"Could it be that the Yaohui Knights want to participate in the coup d'état in Ioho, and then Master can make a lot of money? But what is the point of Yaohui Camp being thousands of miles away from Ioho, so what is the point of doing this?" Lan Falcon's mind is a thousand times more delicate than that of his peers, of course, only in terms of scheming.

Just as Lan Falcon jumped on his mount and was about to leave, he looked back and saw three visitors and Seton enter the commander's tent, and there was a trace of conversation, which should have been made by the red-skinned man: "It's okay, I only need to subtract a small fragment from the memories of the knights present, it's not a big problem, but the Lan Falcon"

He didn't dare to listen, so he hurriedly whipped up his horse and rushed out of Yaohui's camp.

The Changmu Plain, which occupies seven-tenths of the empire's territory, and when you reach the vicinity of the village of Ilaghar, the plateau close to the north makes the sky overhead appear particularly clear. The blue sky is dotted with white clouds, the snow-capped peaks of the border mountains are faintly visible in the distance, and the grasses with nutrients twist leisurely in the breeze.

Even with such a beautiful view, Lan Falcon only frowned and thought, but his thoughts quickly drifted to the center of this Changmu Plain, the Imperial Capital Source Heart City.

"Where's Irolyn?" suddenly appeared in his heart the little girl from Source Heart City who was mischievous and liked to stick to herself. He felt very proud at this time, because it was indeed a beautiful girl, and in that girl's heart, his status was far higher than that of the poor slave Yingma.

"I just don't know what she thinks of me after I was plotted by Yingma?" Arashi Hayabusa appeared in front of him again, and Yingma held a candlestick and stared at him viciously. He cursed Ingma, sincerely hoping that the so-called Duke of the Republic who took him that day was really a member of the Seven Swords of Evil Heart.

These ethereal thoughts soon ended as he returned to Camp Radiance.

Just as he approached the camp gate, he suddenly heard a rumbling sound, and hurriedly stopped his horse, only to see a team of Yaohui knights rushing out on horseback, the row of neat and bright silver armor shining in the sun, and the tip of the spear that stood upright and forward bloomed with cold light, this is the Yaohui Knights who defeated the shadow in the Dawn War.

As Arashi was basking in the heroic might of these knights, he also noticed that Seton and Stan were pointing in the distance. "I really can't guess what Master means, he is constantly courteous to these three villains, and he uses my Yaohui Knights to show off his might, is it because Master wants to make these three people believe that my Yaohui Knights have the absolute ability to help them complete the coup d'état in the Kingdom of Ioho?"

Rows of Lance Riders rushed out of the camp gates, finally leaving a gap for Arashiba to ride in. Two of Naseton's accomplices, Toron Stan, also came over.

"We've already learned the divine power of the Knights of Yaohui, and now we want to see the sword skills of the captain of the Origin City Athletic Team? Marshal Seton, this is also part of the plan. Stan said, his tone visibly respectful this time, and he wondered if he was intimidated by the knight's iron horseman, but his two entourage, the red-skinned man and the other short, thin, spotted man, still maintained the look of a street hooligan.

Lan Falcon was taken aback, but Setton walked over and said, "Although you have joined the Yaohui Knights, you still can't forget the skills of the sword competition. You will also participate in the Origin Heart City Imperial Athletic Conference in three months' time. Now these three guests are asking to see your skills. ”

"Master, are we going to help restore the Tolong Dynasty in Ioho?" Lan Falcon rarely had Jiahui who had a conversation with his master, and hurriedly asked, "Master, please tell me, am I still not trustworthy?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Seton said, "Of course, but we ask for much more than that. I'll take a moment to tell you the details of the Iraghar orc attack and the plans I have with Mr. Toron Stan, but you'd better convince me that Arashihar Renjie is a man to be trusted. ”

Arashifalcon immediately understood the second half of the sentence, and what Seton said was not only about these two secrets, but even the leadership of the Knights of Yaohui. The more this great joy was, the better Lan Falcon could hide it, and he immediately lowered his head and said, "I will definitely live up to Master." ”

This brief conversation was of course overheard by the three Stans, but the three of them did not react, they thought that as long as they could help themselves, it didn't matter who they were. But there was one thing they didn't expect, and that was that the handsome young man, Hayabusa Arashi, had a lust for power that far exceeded their expectations.