Have you ever seen the appearance of the worker bees after collecting honey? It is not as light as it used to be, but it is laborious, as if it is being dragged forward.

Alice's current state is more or less like that, as a descendant of humans and dragons, although the half-dragon has inherited the dragon's brute strength and flight ability, but because the dragon is a race far higher than humans in terms of rank, she can only appear in the form of a human and cannot change into a real dragon.

"We think it's better to rent a few griffins. ”

Nagi and the others were now in a huge wooden barrel that was supposed to store fresh wheat wine for the back kitchen of the Kite Wings Society, and above their heads, Alice was holding a few ropes in place with her hands, and then gritted her teeth and desperately instigated the two huge dragon wings behind her to keep them in the air and not stall and fall.

"Normally, if Alice only flies alone with me, it's not such a big problem!"

After getting acquainted with Nagi, Eliza also changed her shy and timid appearance at the beginning, and became very talkative.

"Hmph, think about things before you do them, you idiot!"

Nagi put her shoulder against Eliza's arm, and since the space in the barrel was so small, and with the addition of Mr. Fogg, who was tall among the four passengers, it was even more crowded.

"Don't squeeze it! it's already like canned sardines, it's time to lose weight, Miss!"

Eliza pulled down her eyelids with her index finger and made a grimace at Nagi with her tongue out.

"Verbosity! You're the one who should lose weight!"

Nagi pulled open his neckline and fanned hard, sweating profusely due to the overcrowded environment.

"Ahhh

Nagi wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, and stood up with her hands on Eliza and Martina's shoulders, tiptoeing on the rim of the barrel, and then gulping down the fresh air with relief.

"Tap, hey!"

Eliza protested by hitting Nagi's calf with her fist in her white cotton socks.

"Cut~"

Nagi didn't bother to talk to Eliza anymore, and although she didn't know how much time had passed in the big barrel, she spent most of her time arguing with Eliza.

Alice flew fast, and as soon as Nagi poked her head out, a strong wind blew Nagi's eyes narrow, so Nagi held down her fluttering bangs with her hand, and by the way, blocked the wind that was coming straight towards her, and looked left and right in the air.

Nagi found that they had already flown away from the range of the imperial capital, and were flying along the outer edge of the majestic Yangyan Mountain Range, and the surrounding area was no longer as tall as the imperial capital, but a large area of wheat fields, and the wheat that had just been sown for a few days was green at this time, and from a high place, it looked more like a patch of grassland.

Compared with the interior of the Yangyan Mountain Range, there are no monsters in the periphery of frequent human activities, for a long time, the farmers who have grown here for generations have already formed a tacit understanding with the monsters, even if a woodcutter hits a monster when collecting firewood, the monster with a certain wisdom will probably only scare him away, and the number of people who die every year because of the monster is actually pitiful.

Sometimes Nagi looked at the vast countryside near the northeast, and sometimes looked at the lush deep forests in the Yangyan Mountains, and the fatigue just now was swept away, and he felt refreshed for a while.

"What's that?"

However, just as Nagi was looking at the idleness, a large black spot appeared in the sky, and it was quickly coming towards them.

"Griffon, it's the griffin knight of the Empire!"

Alice had also inherited the dragon's extraordinary eyesight, so she could see more clearly than Nagi, and the black and overwhelming locusts that were coming at them were all powerful mobile units that the Yang Flame Empire regarded as the jewel in the palm of their hands, the Gryphon Knight.

"What?"

Hearing Alice's words, Martina and Eliza were quite calm, but Mr. Fogg, who could always be very steady, changed his previous calmness, grabbed the edge of the barrel in shock, and stood up, looking into the distance.

"Shouldn't they be on the border with Fort Hadrian on the border with the Duchy of Mosca?"

Mr. Fogg asked, weeping a little helplessly.

"Does this have anything to do with you, uncle?"

Nagi glanced at Mr. Fogg with a suspicious look.

"It's nothing, I'm just surprised, after all, they are a luxurious lineup of all demon knights, what is there to mobilize them in the empire? This is the direction of going to the imperial capital. ”

Mr. Fogg also seemed to realize his gaffe, and he quickly adjusted back to his original state, and replied lightly with a slightly worried expression of concern for the country and the people.

Ordinary knights, although they are good at melee combat, have difficulty taking advantage of flying units, while mages can take advantage of the air-to-ground advantage, but their bodies are mostly too weak to withstand the demands of high maneuverability in the air. The Demon Knights are different, they are selected from the noble heirs, and they have been trained in both physical fitness and magic since they were young, and with the support of a very high elimination rate, those who eventually become Demon Knights are the elite of the elite, they can paste you with a hammer, and they can use a fireball to paste your face when they lift a staff.

"Could it be that our wise and martial Empress finally can't get used to the arrogant and domineering St. Lawrence Academy, and is ready to clear the portal for the imperial capital?"

Martina said half-jokingly, now that the imperial capital is in a state of singing and dancing, if there is anything that even the Imperial Capital Guards and the royal Praetorian Guard can't solve and needs the griffin knights to come from thousands of miles to support, I'm afraid only the academy master can have such a big face.

"How come, the Academy Master is a great benefactor of our royal family!"

Eliza listened to Martina's speculation and shook her head in trepidation.

"You royalty?"

Nagi asked, tilting her head puzzled.

"Ah, that, I, I mean our great Yang Flame Royalty, compared to Her Highness Elizabeth I, who was favored by the Master of the Academy. ”

Eliza stammered back.

"Maybe they're just out on an outing. ”

Martina winked at the group and told a bad joke.

"Flying thousands of kilometers on an outing, the Griffin Knights are really idle!"

Mr. Fogg sat back in the barrel and replied with a sneer.

The real strength of the Griffin Knights does not lie in how strong their own combat effectiveness is, in fact, the knights of thousands of people alone face a field legion of 10,000 people in any power in the pan-continent is just a delivery, in today's continuous development of magic technology, more and more anti-aircraft weapons have begun to appear, and the suppressive power of the flying arms on the ground forces has long been less than before. What is really powerful about them is that even if they travel thousands of kilometers from the far northern border of the empire to the imperial capital, it will only take a week to march quickly, while it will take at least a month for ordinary lightly armed knights, and it will take a full half a year for the field regiments on the border to rush back.

The griffin's body is limited, and after such a long-distance maneuver, the knights must rest for a long time before they can regain their combat effectiveness, how can the empire easily mobilize such troops? This means that the entire empire will no longer have any high-mobility forces for at least a month after that.

"We're going to avoid them, it's not far from Devil's Cry Gorge now, let's rest for the night in the village ahead and let's go. ”

Alice said lightly above everyone's heads.

"It's fine. ”

Nagiya sat back down in the barrel, and she looked around at the three remaining people in the barrel, all of whom had their heads down, thinking about the same question from different angles.

Imperial Capital, what happened?