In the winter in the south, the snowflakes will melt when they land, and the more they accumulate, they will become a puddle of muddy water.

The horses' hooves stomped heavily on the muddy water, and the knights galloped through the woods, led by a silver-haired boy in rich costumes, his clothes wet and pale, and the storm and snow could not stop them.

Even though the knights passed through the village, they did not intend to slow down their horses, but fortunately, the young man in front of them slowed down first, and the knights stopped.

The banner depicting the golden plum blossom was erected on the high watchtower, and the young man led the knights to pass through the village and town at a slow pace, and shook the whip in his hand vigorously, striking the back of the horse, and speeding up again.

After passing through three castles and a magnificent fortress, I saw the destination of the boy and the others, Meicheng Kellyd.

Heavily armored pikemen stood on the walls of the city at a height of thirteen meters and four meters thick, and all kinds of people passed by, and the soldiers outside the gates would collect some coins, and then ask some questions before letting them go.

From time to time, a group of twenty cavalry would pass by to ensure the order of the troops entering the city.

A guard spotted the knights from afar, and then beckoned the surrounding soldiers to disperse the long queue of people.

The young man's face was sorrowful, and he led the knights in.

The city built in the Middle Ages, a place that could be called a trading capital in this era, is adjacent to the endless sea on one side of the city, and there are hundreds of merchant ships from various continents at the port, all kinds, and the duke's fleet is stationed in the distant Dongyu to protect the coastline of Meicheng.

The boy dismounted and hurried towards the castle in the distance, and the knights could easily follow with heavy armor.

The castle guard knelt on the ground as soon as he saw the boy, and pressed his left hand into a fist on his right chest to show that he had seen the honorable person.

At this moment, in the castle, everyone seemed to be in a hurry, some temple witches wearing black robes and white clothes were discussing, the temple pope in Meicheng was performing holy mu on an old man lying on an ancient bed, the old man's face was covered with black and purple meridians, as if there was a terrible toxin devouring his life, the holy light rain was constantly swaying down between the pope's fingers, and it could be seen from the sweat beads on the pope's forehead that he had cast this high-level holy light spell for quite a long time.

The high-rise people in Meicheng stood at the end of the bed, without seats, and of course they didn't have that mind......

"Poison in the Grand Duke...... The teeth of the Creek Dragon, the five-eyed demon of Selin, the bone powder of the troll, and the ...... of the Salt Mountain Monster" Wearing glasses, the witch doctor popped out his name as he rummaged through the ancient books in his hand that were much thicker than the usual dictionary to confirm his judgment.

The young man's pale face had a gloomy expression, and the people who were still in a hurry saluted when they saw it.

"Murfar Kerrysti, the Grand Duke is still being treated...... "The castle's governor, Palant, bowed his waist out of the crowd and pointed apprehensively to the room.

Merfal waved his hand, and the knight behind him quickly occupied the corners of the surrounding area, his hand on the hilt of his sword, ready to obey his orders.

"I'm going to talk to my father, and everyone but the priest and the witch doctor are waiting outside!" Merfal's words were simple and cold, and his eyes swept around, and after the people around him quickly obeyed him and walked out of the hall, he entered the Grand Duke's hospital room with vain steps.

The air in the room smelled of all kinds of medicines, and on the long table on one side, there was even a half-cut body of an unknown monster, which had been broken open and some of its organs removed......

Brilliant holy light continued to fall in the hands of the Pope, falling on top of the old man, and the witch doctor on the side was using a kind of medicinal smoke, and the purple smoke made Merfal, who had just come in, cover his mouth and cough heavily, compared to this strange smell, the Chinese medicine that Merfal had eaten was nothing.

When the witch doctor saw Merfal's arrival, he also saluted quickly, and explained: "Merfal, this is a kind of fungus flesh that only attaches to the belly of the white whale in the Ice Sea, and he can dissolve the poisonous ...... dragon tooth by himself without spells."

A knight brought a bench, but Meufar refused, and he sat down beside the old man's bed, nodding at the witch doctor's words.

The old man's breathing was rapid, the blood vessels on his body were clearly visible, and the black and purple meridians had already surfaced to his throat. His expression was pained, but he still opened his eyes.

"Meufar, I'...... Successor...... You're finally, ahem, ahem...... Here it comes. The old man's words were intermittent, and he lost even the strength to turn his head, and he was sick.

Mofal's expression was in a trance, and he responded to the old man's call: "I am here, father. ”

Grand Duke Meicheng's coughing finally stopped, and the corners of his mouth were already spilling black blood, and his teeth were pitch black.

"War...... We can't bear the weight, Merfal...... Promise me. Grand Duke Meicheng's face suddenly became even more painful.

“……”

The cold expression represented Merfar's attitude at this time, and he said: "Before the cold winter, I will end this war before the cold winter." ”

The old man's eyes were bloodshot, and the appearance of clenching his teeth made the young man's heart ache, and after twenty years of companionship, he finally became his only relative in this world from a stranger......

"Uh......"

The old man's fist suddenly loosened, and the blood instantly spread along the meridians of his throat to other places on his face, and Murfar couldn't keep calm after all, grabbed the old man's hand hard, and shouted: "Father! My father! Edmund Carristi ...... Lord of Plum City! ”

The old man's hands grew colder.

The Pope on the side stopped the holy bath, leaned against the wall weakly, and the priest on the side hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and the two of them bowed and exited the room, and all the knights followed out.

Time passed by until it was close to night, when the door opened, and Merfar's silver hair was a little disheveled, and the silver in his eyes was so silver that all the servants waiting outside the room did not dare to look directly.

Gork was a great knight, and he stepped forward and saluted, "The Emperor's messenger has arrived. ”

Merfal nodded indifferently: "Let's go." ”

The hall of the castle was now filled with executives from all regions of the city, as well as some people dressed differently from the people of the city, who had come by order of the Emperor of the Empire of Qatar, Hiska Ephranton.

Merfal's presence caused all the noise to cease, and he walked to the high seat and sat down, several tall guards standing in the corners of the hall.

Everyone consciously moved away from the central position, and the envoy of the Qatar Empire straightened up his clothes, and then came to the center of the hall, and after saluting, he said loudly: "The son of the Holy Spirit Serdis, and the co-lord of Qatar, the name of the Holy Light, Ephranton VII, bear witness with the gods and saints that Edmund's son, Murfar Keristi, is the new Grand Duke of Kellyd." ”

All of Metshire Kellyd's men fell to their knees and swore allegiance.

Murfar became the new owner of Plum City, and his eyes were so plain and calm.

At the end of the ceremony, the envoy's restraint returned to normal after the crowd had dispersed, and he said, "The war is still going on, Grand Duke Meicheng, we need more support from you." ”

Merfal frowned, his hands grasped the armrests of the bench, and he looked down at the envoy from above, with a hint of danger on his cold face: "The news of the Red Plains has already reached my hands, and it seems that our Emperor His Majesty has failed again, Generalissimo Gonverd led 30,000 people to die, and all that can be seen under the walls of Mong City is the corpses of the soldiers of the Qatar Empire who are half a city high......"

The messenger was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to respond, only Merfal continued.

"For ten months, Meicheng has provided His Majesty the Emperor with his army, and I have paid 300,000 gold coins for it, and every day there are no less than five Meicheng fleets delivering food, potions, and those damn wine!"

"All this is Meicheng's loyalty to the emperor, but Meicheng will not serve the war indefinitely without complaints, please tell His Majesty the emperor these words......"

The brim of the envoy's hat was a little wet, he was afraid of Mofal's many notoriety, for fear of offending him, after all, the entire Qatari Empire knew that Mofal, the son of the Grand Duke of Meicheng, was decisive in killing and provoking a lot of chaos and war, even the Emperor of Qatar was afraid of his achievements, and the powerful Mofar had repeatedly openly expressed disdain for the current crown prince of Qatar.

He wiped the sweat stains on his forehead and nodded: "Your Majesty will definitely know these words of the Grand Duke, the war is almost over...... The Emperor asked Meicheng to provide three more ships and two thousand Meicheng soldiers...... There are also some material needs. He held a roll of parchment in both hands, and the guard next to him took it.

Merfal frowned and grabbed the parchment from the guard's hand, a list: "Thirty barrels of beer, two barrels of the best rosé, and a hundred fans of pork every day...... The Emperor should pay for that stupid war! He may only have the bankers' debt collection books in his treasury, so why not exchange his land for it? ”

The messenger, apparently anticipating the attitude of the Grand Duke of New Plum City, took out another piece of parchment from his bosom and offered it again: "The Emperor has drawn a new bond from the Tieyu of the State of Setikan, a total of 250,000 gold coins of Setikan to pay for these ......"

"Okay, then so be it, I hope the emperor can end the war soon." Merfal closed his eyes, he waved his hand, and several guards standing at the door pushed the door open for the emperor's messenger.

The messenger retreated, and the door closed again, and Meffar rubbed his temples with a headache.

Although supplies and ships were very precious in the time of war, they were nothing to Merfal, and the important thing was the death of his father, the old Grand Duke of Meicheng, so that Merfal, who was still developing land in the north, had to accept a new identity.

As a grand duke with a territory, he is in charge of the two main cities of Meicheng Kailide and Dandong, a seaside city, as well as dozens of nearby towns. Tens of thousands of soldiers worked for the city of Merfal and Edmund, and the wealth of the city attracted all the merchants and bankers, which had ample ports and complete laws, which allowed more and more wealth seekers to pay taxes, and money provided the power and loyalty of Merfal's army, so that he could wield his sword and lead his soldiers to open up more forests and wastelands.

Murfar never shed tears, but that doesn't mean he wasn't sad, and his grief made him not want to think about anything else at the moment.

He swore revenge and would torture and kill him by the most brutal means......

Thoughts are interrupted! The door was pushed open and Murfar frowned and looked at the people who came his soldiers guards couldn't be rude no one dared to be rude in front of Murfar unless.

The one who came in was a young man who was somewhat familiar with Merfal, with two two-handed swords on his back, and his face looked somewhat similar to Merfal, but there was an extra scar on the right side of his face, all the way to the jawbone, and more small scars made him look a little vicissitudes, and he looked at Merfal with a sad expression: "My brother." ”

"Coming back?" Merfar looked down at him, this was his own brother, but the two of them did not show much closeness, Merfal's tone seemed to look at an ordinary friend of his, and said lightly: "You will have to meet our father in a while, you will have to stay in Meicheng during this time, the Pope has arrived, and you cannot go anywhere during the time of holy sacrifices and sacrifices." ”

His tone was still so cold that he couldn't refuse.

The witcher didn't bother to refuse, nodded and walked into the room under the guidance of the guards.

The dead Edmund had been covered with white and holy white gauze by the Pope, and Edmund could be seen with a silver coin in each of his eyes.

There was another strong stench on Edmund's corpse, and Perandon's brow tightened, and the silver wolf heart pendant on his chest emitted a strange faint halo.

The Pope and several saint-pastors were also stunned when they saw Perandon walk in, apparently unexpectedly coming back.

Perandon remained silent, the strangeness on his face reverted to a sad expression, and then he knelt at the end of the bed, bowing his head in honor of the deceased, his silver hair covering his face.

The temple pays tribute to the former duke, and a one-week curfew is imposed throughout the city.

During this period of time, Meicheng still looked densely crowded, and there were still Meicheng soldiers guarding the port, but there were more than a dozen Lunlai warships with huge hulls that made people marvel at one side, and a column of soldiers dressed in Dandong City armor came down from above, and there were two warships on which someone pushed down a well-made ballista.

Some of the merchants who traveled the world saw it from afar, and they also crowded into a port to discuss.

Rumors had long spread throughout Qatar about the collapse of diplomacy between Medcheng and Horadona, and the Emperor did not want such a big change in his own internal situation when he started a war with Serdis.

At that time, Mefar, the son of the Grand Duke of Meicheng, suppressed the nobility of the principality in the most rapid way, and he indifferently launched an attack on Horadona, and the undeclared war of Meicheng caused the unity of the entire Horadona people, but under the terrifying fighting style of Merfal and the charge of the Meicheng cavalry, Horadonna lost three battles in a row, except for adding more records to Merfar, it was useless.

"It seems that a larger war is coming." Andre had a cigarette in his mouth and watched depressedly as those Dandong soldiers formed a phalanx of two hundred people on the golden sand under the command of the officer. The Dandong soldiers carried a square steel shield that could cover most of their bodies in their left hand, and the shield was carved with a sea giant with exquisite gifts, and in their right hand they held a steel one-handed sword with a short blade hanging from their waists.

The armor is on top of the red coarse cloth cotton coat, draped in a set of upper body plate armor, the entire Dandong army looks too extravagant, and the price of steel plate armor can be said to be very expensive today.

Several corps commanders in Meicheng were chatting with the corps officers in Dandong, and Andrei looked at him from afar.

Andrei's partner Reilly patted him on the shoulder: "It is said that in the next few days, several Dandong warships will arrive, and they are not allowed to go to sea." ”

Andrei had some headaches, and the war undoubtedly disrupted his life as a fisherman who lived by the sea, and the winter belly sturgeon could only be caught in winter......

"What? Let's go to the tavern for a drink. Andrei asked, dropping the cigarette in his hand.

Reilly smiled and waved his hands, "No, I made an appointment with an old friend today. ”

Andrei shrugged helplessly and left alone.