Shield Wind Fortress.

Both Justus and Titus, of course, were taken by Rimuske.

In fact, Rimusk originally didn't plan to care about Titus, but he knew that if he planned to draw a line with the Kairos father and son and throw himself into Emperor Marius and Justus as a 'loyal servant', he would need a witness.

So, he had Titus rescued as well.

“…… My family is in Miss Alina's hands, and I have to trade you for my family. That's the whole thing, Lord Justes, and I'm not going to hide the fact that I ever cheated on you, but you know, it's just that we take sides. But now, the father and son Kairos and Antonius have gone mad, and they are just going to turn the empire against the entire continent......"

Rimusk drove away all the guards and explained everything he thought to Justs on the top floor of the inner fort.

“…… Rimuske, you still think that the Kairos father and son are for the position of the Shadow Legion? No! ”

Titus next to him interjected hatefully: "They're for the Noldor Elves!" Antonius now lives entirely on bloodsucking! It takes a lot of Noldor Elven blood to keep him alive! They're going to get the Noldor Elves to go to war on the Empire......"

Rimske was stunned: "How do you know?" ”

"Antonius tortured me all night, and it was all his own words...... And you know, he's not human anymore, he's a monster now! ”

Titus pointed to the bloody whip wound on his body and said through gritted teeth.

"That's true......" Justes sighed, "After all, it's still the sin of the snake cult......"

"Alas...... Whatever they're for, I don't want to be a part of it anymore anyway. Lord Justus, Miss Alina will be coming to pick you up soon, and I swear that I will take my family to Siyuan City to surrender to His Majesty Marius. But I hope you can testify for me that I really have nothing to do with the Snake Cult...... Titus also proves that we were all coerced by Antonius. ”

Rimusk really wants to get out of this whirlpool.

Just as he was saying this, a guard came to report: "Lord Rimuske, there are several knights outside who claim to be from the 'Imperial Intelligence Service' who have asked to enter the Shield Wind Fortress. ”

"Looks like Miss Alina is here......"

Rimusk followed the guards downstairs to meet the city gates.

The only people left in the penthouse room were Justus and Titus.

Titus looked at Justus, then at Rimus's back, and suddenly asked, "Lord Justus, what if...... I want to marry Miss Alina, will you say yes? ”

Justes was stunned.

And then, he shook his head with a wry smile and sighed, "Titus, don't do anything stupid...... You can try to marry another noble lady, and I can help you intercede......"

Titus also smiled bitterly and sighed: "Lord Justus, I don't want to do this, but I have no other way out...... No one will treat me as their own......"

He pulled a small knife from his waist.

……

The people who entered the Shield Wind Fortress as the 'Imperial Intelligence Service' were, of course, Leon and Alina.

They came to exchange hostages.

But upon entering the room on the top floor of the inner fort of the Shield Wind Fortress, Rimusk was dumbfounded......

"What about people? Are you kidding us? ”

Looking at the empty hall, Leon drew his sword and pointed it directly at Rimuske's neck.

"No...... I was still here, just a few minutes ago...... Titus! Titus, you bastard! ”

Rimusk glanced left and right a few times, then rushed to the window and shouted and cursed.

The view from the top floor of the castle was very good, and from the window, you could just see the back of Titus with a van in the distance, and Justus was also in the cargo box.

This guy ran through the back door of the Shield Wind Fortress!

"Someone! Go and get that bastard Titus back! Life or death! ”

Rimusk jumped to his feet and roared.

"Can you catch up? He's run so far, and he's still holding hostages...... Rimuske, since you've gone wrong here, this deal won't count......"

Leon and Alina also saw Titus driving away outside, but they were not in too much of a hurry, but instead pressed towards Rimusk together.

"Miss Alina, I swear I didn't play tricks, that's really ...... Alas! ”

Rimusk sat down against the wall, holding his head in annoyance.

"Get up...... How many troops did you bring back? ”

Leon stepped forward and kicked Rimusque.

"Close to a thousand...... Except for the Shadowfoot soldiers under the original Levius, the others are all recruits......"

Rimusk stood up with his head bowed, he thought Leon was going to beat him, and replied very neatly.

It appears that the Shadowmen were redeemed by their respective families and re-followed Rimuske.

"Let your troops keep the Shieldwind Fortress under control, and since you failed to protect Lord Justus, then you should protect the Shieldwind Fortress...... Stop all the Bacchus troops who have retreated here from Fort White Hart! Otherwise, you won't want to see your family again...... Alina, let's go! ”

Leon stared into Rimuske's eyes and said what he wanted, then looked out the window and led Alina downstairs.

Titus was no longer visible outside the window.

Titus was running fast, and looking at the direction, he should have run west.

But Leon and Alina really weren't in a hurry.

Because many Scorpio Assassins were staring at the back door - a few days ago there was a knight running through the back door of Wolfinnburg, and the Scorpio Assassins didn't catch up, although there was no need to chase at the time, but Ramon felt that this kind of thing couldn't happen again.

So this time, Ramon himself was watching from the back door, and Wendy was too.

Titus had just run a few miles west in his carriage when he was surrounded by Ramon and his men.

Hostage-taking is tricky for ordinary people, but for Ramon, an unprofessional kidnapper like Titus is a good deal to deal with.

Scorpio knives aren't just used to kill, Ramon showed how to deal with hostage-taking kidnappers at auctions......

By the time Leon arrived at Ramon's side, Titus had been restrained—like Ikram at the beginning, Ramon had shot one of his eyes with a throwing knife, and had a Chinodo arrow in his right hand, and his palm was nailed to the carriage.

"Lord Just, you've been kidnapped too many times......"

Leon looked at Justes, who was safe and sound, and was completely relieved.

"It seems that I should indeed find a few masters to protect me...... But I can't command the Noldor elves like you do......"

Justes shook his head and laughed at himself.

"Father...... What the hell is all this going on? Is the mastermind Kyros? Why did he start the war? Is it just to stop the reforms and allow the Shadow Legion to regain power? ”

Alina hugged Justus and asked about the cause and effect.

"This is the ...... Alas, Leon, and that Noldor girl, be mentally prepared...... What Kairos wants to start is not a war between Fort White Hart and the Empire, but a war between the Noldor elves and humans...... As for blocking reforms, that's just incidental. ”

Justes tells Leon and Wendy about the cause.

A few years ago, when he had just found a way to immunize against the Red Death, Anson had to return to Karen Deer Fort to preside over the popularization of horse pox.

At that time, Antonius had recovered his vital signs, but he had been unconscious, basically in a vegetative state, and Anson could not take Antonius away - he could not afford to toss at that time, and the bumpy road would be fatal.

His poison was too complex and extremely weak, requiring a long period of recuperation, so Anson asked the Knights of the Radiant Cross of Knowledge, to take over this particular patient.

Later, when Anson was the consul of Karen Deerburg, he also corresponded with the Knights of the Radiant Cross frequently, and had been trying to treat Antonius, who had already found a way, and Antonius was also showing signs of recovery.

But unexpectedly, Leon was struck by lightning and disappeared, and the Bacchus Empire quickly recovered Karen Deer Castle, and Anson could only return to Changhe Town with his people.

Since then, the Lion Realm has been locked in a long war, and Antonius' treatment has been delayed once again.

And after Keros chased Azz Dahaka to Descha, he also disappeared for a long time.

Until half a year ago, Keros returned to Siyuan City - he came back by boat.

Shortly after Kairos returned to Siyuan City, Justus received news that Emperor Marius was seriously ill.

So Justus prepared to return to Siyuan City to visit His Majesty the Emperor, but was kidnapped by Antonius as soon as he left the city.

Antonius coerced Justus into replacing most of the rank and file commanders of the First Legion with his men - but the new ones weren't a mess, most of them were qualified Imperial soldiers or centurions who had been Shadow Legion.

These people lost ground and were transferred two years ago, and now it looks like they have been reassigned back to serve in the First Legion of the Empire, so they are not at all noticeable.

Subsequently, Kairos summoned the Shadow Legion in the Imperial Harbor and led the army all the way north as the Imperial Marshal, taking all the lords who were once part of the Shadow Legion under his banner.

When he arrived at Bozhi City, Keros also met with Justus.

At that time, Justes knew that the current Kairos was not the same as before......

"Both Kairos and his son Antonius were cursed...... Or maybe they've been poisoned in some way, and they all look like snakes now. Antonius, in particular, doesn't look like a human at all......"

Justes gestured to the position of his eyes: "When Kairos disappeared and went to the continent of Amara, he found a prescription from the temple of the Serpent Cult, and then dispensed a potion in Siyuan City. That medicine did save his son, but it also turned Antonius into a serpent-like monster...... And, ever since Antonius was rescued, he has been drinking blood for a living - only the blood of the elves can keep his son alive, says Carlos! ”

"What medicine is so scary? Can turn people into vampires? ”

Leon frowned, vaguely feeling that this might be the after-effects of Kavala's creation of those Azi Dahaka.

"I don't know...... For the time being, let's call it the 'Siyuan City Potion', His Majesty Marius was also aggravated by the potion, and Keros said that he took a little imperial blood to use to dispense the potion......"

Justes replied.

"Imperial blood? Based on this naming, it can be imagined that this must be a deliberate conspiracy of the Serpent Cult to kill the Emperor of Bacchus or the Ash Descendants...... How could Keros be fooled like this? ”

Leon sighed, "There should still be elven blood in the prescription, right?" So he wants to kidnap the entire empire to be my enemy, and he wants to force the Noldor elves to be the enemy of humans......"

"That's right...... He said that the prescription was made up of blood and tears. The blood of the king, the blood of the elves, the blood of the brave, the blood of the wise, and the tears of the dragon......"

Justes folded his hands and counted.

"Alas, this is the trick of the cult, in the name of the curse, the victim kills those who pose a threat to the cult in order to lift the curse...... The blood of the brave and the blood of the wise, whose one does he use? ”

Leon asked, shaking his head.

"He took a bowl of blood from me earlier. He also said that the blood of Agathon is the blood of the brave......"

Justes looked at Leon, "But I think he must have made a mistake...... Agathon is a brave man, but I'm probably not a wise man. ”

"You are called a wise man, and there is nothing wrong with saying that you are a wise man...... But Keros is an idiot! I'm going to kill him, his whole family is stupid, and this kind of stupid shouldn't live in the world! ”

Li Ang sighed a little depressedly: "Fortunately, you didn't have any accidents, if you were killed by them in White Deer Castle...... Then the Bacchus Empire can really only fight the Noldor elves to the death......"

"Oops...... Leon...... Look, look at the heavens! ”

Wendy suddenly exclaimed, "That's ...... What?! ”

The northeast sky darkened, and billowing smoke and dust reflected a flickering red light, obscuring the entire sky......

That's fire.

It was an unprecedented fire......

"They set the Noldor Forest on fire? Bastard ......"

Leon's eyes widened, and he muttered, "I don't have a choice now...... I must destroy the Bacchus Empire with the Noldor Elves...... Your Excellency the Governor, you can't return home...... I'm sorry. ”

……

Early June 358 in the year of Pandeh calendar.

In early summer, the weather is dry and dry.

The fires in the Noldor forest have been spreading for dozens of miles, and in an age when there are no excavators and fast cutting equipment, there is no way to stop them.

Instead of pursuing the retreating Bacchus, Vendatil was busy fighting fires and organizing her people to move to Fort White Hart.

Staying in the forest to be burned or smoked, a large number of Noldor elves were forced to migrate to Castle White Hart - perhaps, the only good news was that there were no accidents along the way.

And Leon was at the Shield Wind Fortress, trying to hold off the enemy with the enemy's troops - the Bacchus army retreating from White Deer Fort returned to the Shield Wind Fortress.

This is always the way things happen in this world, and it is up to people to make their own choices.

The Kyros father and son started the war, with the ultimate goal of conquering and raising some of the Noldor elves like livestock, and they needed the blood of the Noldor to survive, and in their opinion, they had no choice.

Titus had previously tried to kidnap Justus, also in order to survive. He had offended both Marius and Antonius, and no one was going to help him as an outsider, and he wanted to kidnap Justus to go to Fields or Deschal, or else he would only be in prison or in the gladiatorial arena, and he felt that he had no choice.

The Noldor elves have a forest fire that cannot be extinguished, and the elves who have lost their homes must take revenge and fight their way out of the human world, and they have no choice.

Leon is an ally of the Noldor, and the Noldor Elves have been helping Leon, and if the Noldor Elves are lost, Leon will lose his greatest capital, and he must stand with the Noldos. Moreover, the father and son of Kairos also planned to ask for his blood......

While both Leon and Justes knew that it was caused by the Kairos fathers and sons, for many more people, it was a war between nations and clans, and when such a war happened, no one cared about the names of the one or two people who caused it.

Leon could only declare war on Bacchus, and he had no choice.

(End of chapter)