"Any questions? I can answer whatever I can. ”

Lisa looked at Jessica a little strangely, she heard something special in the wolf-eared girl's voice.

"Why did Her Royal Highness die because of the two Terrible Minotaurs and the large Chaos Egg of a Chaos Beast? After becoming the champion, Jessica has been a little puzzled by this question, although Jessica is the tenth champion of Midland, but she also has the power to defeat three or four Sadistic Minotaurs. Jessica had seen the battle of His Excellency Chris, who had killed the seven-headed Sadistic Minotaur in the First World War......"

The wolf-eared girl paused slightly, then continued to ask her question. Her voice was low, as if she was afraid someone would hear her.

Moreover, the generals seldom mentioned the affairs of Her Royal Highness the princess, and even Marshal Loeb almost regarded it as a taboo, which made Jessica very strange. Jessica knew that you were the person next to Her Royal Highness the princess back then, and you ...... Can you answer me?"

Jessica ...... This is a complex issue. By the way, have you seen my power? I remember seeing it a year ago when you became a champion. How many times more power do you think I showed at that time than you?"

The black-armored waitress frowned slightly, her voice suddenly grim. At this moment, the third champion of Midland, who has a tall figure and slender legs, seemed to show her fighting posture, and the bold Jessica involuntarily took two steps back, looking very scared.

"Probably...... It must have been seven or eight times more, but I could feel that Miss Lisa hadn't done her best at that time. ”

"Yes, your vision is accurate, and this is also a unique talent of beast-type war mages. I can tell you that I used seventy percent of my strength at that time, but I can also tell you that Her Royal Highness the Princess was at least three times stronger than me in her heyday. Her Royal Highness was once the second greatest warrior in the entire Midland, second only to His Highness the Wolf Lord, and also the greatest warriors in the entire empire! The prestige of the Martial God Princess was a myth that shook the empire twenty years ago, and she harvested the heads of the Grey Prophet of the Demon Rat and the Great Witch of the Dark Spirit Temple under her holy spear!"

In the midst of the stirring words, Lisa seemed to be a different person, her arm swinging like a sword that cut everything. Jessica, on the other hand, looked surprised and opened her round eyes wider.

"But she was sick at the time...... After giving birth to His Highness Hyde, her health was not good. Then something special happened, and it involved the Royal Court, the Grand Inquisition, Midland, and Mariaburg...... It was too complicated, it was a trace that has been erased from history, and I don't want to go into it with you, but I can tell you that after that incident, Her Royal Highness was so badly wounded that she couldn't even exert one-tenth of her original strength, no, maybe even one-twenty or thirty-tenth of her original strength! Otherwise, how could she have died in the Heschenberg forest! You know? My little wolf?"

Lisa became agitated, her voice tinged with deep melancholy, and her beautiful eyebrows drooped involuntarily. The atmosphere suddenly became solemn, as if everything was going to freeze.

"I see...... Thank you, Miss Lisa. ”

Jessica hung her head, and Midland's tenth champion was also a little at a loss for what to say by the sudden secret. At some point, the sudden snow had stopped, the dark yellow moon of Manasrib revealed its strange shadow from the clouds, the endless camp was still sleeping, and the dawn was still far away, only two silent warriors continued to stand quietly, reminiscing about the secrets that had been erased by history......

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"Now, I should take the liberty of calling you Your Excellency Captain Hyde von Midhaerland, a regular captain appointed by the Imperial Court himself! ”

General Chris looked at Hyde with a serious face, and let out a sigh with a smile. The army had already been drawn out, and the vast procession of heads and tails had stepped on the vast wasteland, and countless halberd spears and armor shone brightly in the sun. Now that he and Hyde marched side by side under a legion banner embroidered with a green background and a gold warhammer and harp, the half-griffin General Midland looked idle.

"Your Excellency, Captain Chris, I think it's better to be on the front than in the High Command, and I don't want to leave these comrades-in-arms who are with me day and night. By the way, you are now my direct superior, please advise me in the future. ”

Hyde graciously gave Chris a military salute, and he had great respect for Midland's sixth champion. In fact, now Hyde has been officially appointed as the third captain of the 115th Wing of the Right Wing of the Ninth Army of the Empire, and Chris is the captain of the 115th Wing, and they have become superiors and subordinates.

Theoretically, in addition to the Imperial Forbidden Army under the direct jurisdiction of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the Imperial Court also invested four directly subordinate legions in the first line of rescuing Kislev, they are the Third Legion with a strength of 15,000 men, the military flag coat of arms is a half-white and half-red background of foot warriors and horned eagles, the sixth army with a strength of 6,000 and three hundred, the military flag coat of arms is three knights and lightning marching side by side on a white background, this legion is famous for its cavalry, so it is less than the other legions, the ninth legion with a strength of 17,000 men, the flag is a green and gold war hammer and harp, and the last and most famous Winning Legion--- the thirteenth legion with a strength of 16,000 troops, which is also known as the Magician Yang Legion, their military flag coat of arms is a white eagle embroidered with a pedal cannon on a black background.

However, theory and practice are two different things, and of course there is a gap between the establishment and the actual troop strength. Months of fierce fighting could not have been without losses, and non-combat attrition due to sickness and fatigue was inevitable, so the total strength of the various legions on the Kislev front at the present time was about thirty-six thousand. Except for the relatively complete strength of the newly arrived Yang Corps, the original three corps were all suffering heavy losses.

For example, when the Fourth Army Corps, which theoretically had 5,000 cavalry and 1,000 cavalry artillery and engineers, set out with Marshal Yang three days ago, it had only about 2,100 cavalry and 6,700 cavalry and artillery, which was about less than half of the theoretical strength. And the worst of all--- the Ninth Legion, the Meritorious Legion that first entered Kislev and joined forces with the southern front of Kislev to defeat the Chaos Vanguard attack on the harbor city of Erlengrad and save the distant Kharkiv Citadel at a critical moment, is also the one that Princess Anna once commanded, and where Edelman and Frey once served. After four months of more than a dozen battles, there were only about 17,800 left-line troops, only one-tenth of his strength.

Of course, this is not to say that the Ninth Legion is an empty shelf of more than 1,000 people, in fact, the Ninth Legion has regained nearly 10,000 troops, and the scattered troops that have arrived one after another have been temporarily supplemented into this legion, including the remnants of the northbound troops led by Hyde for a time, as well as the Second Cavalry Wing of Midland, the Ninth Reserve Infantry Wing of Ototmark, the Combat Escort Artillery Regiment of the Metal Graduate School, and a group of motley troops from the Tyril Federation and the Frontier Duchy, and even fifty knights of the Kingdom who traveled thousands of miles from Bretonnia, these troops re-erected the battle flag of the Ninth LegionThis practice is a common occurrence in Great Holy Wars.