Chapter 2: The Shield of Justice and the Sword of War

"Why did he appear here alone, as if he were out of the ordinary?" Bill seemed to wonder as he reached out and scratched the back of his head, turning his head to look at the snow behind him.

"Perhaps, this is the so-called 'dangerous message' circulating in the Holy Wing Empire... Are you going to meddle in this?" suddenly flashed a look of suspicion in the man's eyes on the left, and then he smiled slightly.

Indeed, we should not linger here for a long time, so the three horseshoe prints left here should be a testimony to our strange experience. Bill said lightly, however, the eyes above his handsome face suddenly lost their luster again in the next moment.

"Blood... See? He's bleeding, he's been in a fight to the death. Bill said.

"Are you sure?" said the man on the left curiously, as Bill rolled over and dismounted, leaned over to approach the horse's hoof prints, and then picked up a pile of snow in both hands.

The crystal snow should not be mixed with any impurities, but the middle part of the snow in the palm is impregnated with a mysterious and bewitching red.

It's the color of blood, and it seems to blend with the snow from top to bottom, but it's particularly shocking. The man on the left frowned.

Bill looked at the snow around him, and sure enough, drops of red blood were spilled along the horseshoe prints along the way, stretching into the invisible sky.

"All the drops of blood are distributed on both sides of the horseshoe prints he left just now, and it is indeed the blood of the real Lockdan, and we can be regarded as having encountered something. Now, do you want to follow him and protect him, or do you want to continue on your original route?" asked the man on the left.

Bill said: "If nothing else, being able to let Lockdan's noble blood leak out of the world is definitely not something that ordinary people can do, for the sake of the Holy Wing Empire, we don't have to risk ourselves." William Knight. ”

William smiled, "Having said that, I don't know when you started to become more cautious and fearful, but if you keep doing this, it may be difficult to become a 'griffin knight'." ”

Bill said indifferently: "The selection of griffin knights is too strict, and it is said that the intensity of training can even destroy the world, there are countless excellent knights in the entire empire, but less than ten people can be selected to become one of them every year, my swordsmanship, it is indeed still a little hot, please don't sprinkle salt on the wound, okay." ”

William smiled: "Then again, why is the Silver Wing Kingdom ruled by the Lockdan family called the 'Shield of Justice'?"

Bill was a little surprised and said: "I don't think you know this, the answer to this question began with a war that has not ended to this day, and this war began with a notorious mercenary group. ”

"Tell me about it. William said curiously. Bill paused, then began to recount what he knew in the snow.

"Legend goes sixty years ago. In the territory of the Holy Wing Empire in the center of the continent, there is a huge mercenary group called 'Hanu'. It is said that they do not abide by any moral bottom line, do all kinds of evil, and vainly try to make huge profits or huge wealth for themselves through improper terrorist acts. ”

"They even openly burn and loot in the villages of the empire, but only to satisfy their own selfish desires, they have a spirit and personality that is incommissible to ordinary people, and some say that all this is due to a kind of 'mysterious magic'. ”

"But the specific truth has long been impossible to verify, in the first twenty years of their establishment, the number of members of 'Hanu' has experienced several explosions, all of them are extremely vicious, outlaw thugs, carrying all their own net worth and lives to come to defect, and they never refuse. In this way, they have the population and resources to create an evil kingdom. ”

"Over the past twenty years, the crimes they have committed against the commoners and lower-class nobles of the Holy Wing Empire have caused the empire to be shaken several times, and even threatened the daily lives of the upper nobles and the royal family. Forty years ago, the enraged Emperor Arthur Pendria led all his noble subjects to the very top of the 'Altar of the Sun God' in the center of the empire, and made a collective vow to expel such evil from the borders of the Holy Wing no matter what. ”

"Then came the years-long war against bandits, under the attack of the warriors' blades and the griffons' minions, their survival resources were almost exhausted, and in desperation, they moved to the west of the Denario continent, and at this time, the human Silverwing Kingdom in the western part of the continent was in the midst of civil strife, and the management of the 'western wilderness' was lax and powerless. Eventually, the thugs made it to the Wild West with the seeds of their sins, attacked the lord's castle there, and razed it to rubble with wildfire, before taking over the area. ”

"The nobles of the Silverwing Kingdom have ended up paying a heavy price for their internal chaos and short-sightedness. After the Hanu occupied the western wilderness, they used everything they plundered to build castles and settlements, they called themselves the tenacious 'Kingdom of Khastan', and with their prestige among all the evil gangs in the four corners of the continent, they quickly gathered an army of 500,000 people, and without officially declaring war, they suddenly attacked the castles on the border of the kingdom, and repeatedly defeated the Silver Wing army that came to support. ”

"Three months later, the Hastan army entered the Silverwing King's capital 'Star City', and the Silverwing Kingdom was forced to the brink of destruction by this sudden disaster. ”

The people in the streets and alleys conveyed the ominous news of the imminent demise of the Silver Wing, the blades of the soldiers trembled uncontrollably with the fear of impending death, the towering walls seemed to shatter under the raging artillery fire at any moment, and the glory of the king lost its foundation like a reed in the autumn wind. ”

However, just when everyone was about to despair, Prince Karl, who had been traveling for many years and had never kept in touch with the kingdom, suddenly returned from afar and took the throne from the old king Dali. ”

In the face of the unprecedented and difficult situation in front of him, he made the right judgment and decision. ”

"While securing an alliance with the Holy Wing Empire, he boldly recruited elite elites from among the loyal militia and civilians and sent them to the front line to defend the city, and at the same time, as king, he quickly ordered the removal of all dissident or unmotivated vassals in the kingdom, and then issued hundreds of Pegasus treasured in the royal stables to the most powerful and valiant knights, and made an oath to defend the glory of the Silver Wing with them in front of the statues, and most importantly, during this time, Karl ordered many skilled mages from the elven kingdom to be hired at high prices, and explained that they must do everything they can to support the Silver Wing army on the battlefield. ”

"A fierce group of mercenaries has surrounded and sealed off the city, and all the unfortunate lives that pass through it will not escape the grasp of death, including the birds in the sky that have been brutally shot and killed. ”

A few days later, the battle under Xingyu City finally came, however, it was unimaginable that at this time, it was indeed the Silver Wing Kingdom, which had lost its land one after another, that had an overwhelming advantage in power. ”

With the help of magic, countless high-spirited Silver Wing Guards roared out of the city gates, their blades turning into lightning of vengeance, and the silver Pegasus banner fluttering high above the city walls fluttered in the wind. ”

"The valiant knights rode on sturdy and beautiful horses, soaring nobly and freely through the sky, first cutting through the clear sky and then cutting down the earth, and then with a sharp edge, the horses' hooves trampled, and the line of mercenaries gradually disintegrated under the powerful attack like a dangerous tower under artillery fire. ”

"However, the most unexpected thing is that Karl is holding the holy sword, and the strength and bravery of the enemy line with the power of one man. Unstoppable, the silver sword qi like a meteor frantically overturned the bodies of all the opponents present, the light shone, it is said that when the fierce battle is in full swing, no one's eyes can keep up with the speed of Carl, as if... That's right, it's like a 'light', a silver streamer. In this battle, Silver Wing alone defeated more than 20,000 enemy troops, which is the largest in the history of Denaleo's war..."

"The soldiers of the kingdom of Hastan have receded like a tide, and the whole kingdom has regained its vitality, and the internal affairs are clear, and the war has been remarkable, and under the leadership of Karl, the former kingdom of the Silver Wing has ushered in an era of knighthood and magic. ”

"After the war, Karl announced the formation of the symbol of today's Silver Wing: the 'Knights of Tianhe', and recruited laborers to establish the 'Storm Mage Tower' in the center of Xingyu City, which is a magnificent building with a sharp roof that reaches into the sky, a simple and heavy and mysterious appearance, and an infinite and bizarre inner world, where all the magicians in the Silver Wing are employed and engaged in various magical research. ”

"Later, in the war on the front line, the Silverwing Army swept away the decline and began to launch a continuous attack on the kingdom of Hastan, which was already at the end of its power, and soon regained the lost ground and began to conquer the western wilderness, however, due to the stubborn resistance of the opponent and the 'mysterious magic', the war continues to this day. ”

"All the glory comes from the 'Miracle War', which is also the positive evaluation of this battle given by the continental countries, because the Kingdom of Hastan was once an enemy in the Holy Wing, the Holy Wing Empire has since single-handedly contained its opponent in the western Silver Wing Kingdom, respectfully called the 'Shield of Justice', and the hero Carl Lockdan, since then, has been dubbed the 'Sword of War' by all righteous and loyal people. ”

"These are all things I saw in the Imperial Academy after I got permission, from the "General History of the Denario Human Knights", if you are interested, I will take you with you when I go back. Bill said indifferently.

"But are all the blue-eyed heirs really buried in the sea of fire, as the current king said?