"Whoa."

The sound of porcelain shattering, followed by a frantic roar, came from behind the closed bedroom door.

"Rubb, rubbish, the plate can't hold it, drag her down for me, throw her into the edge and turn into a mutant, no, wait for the next gladiatorial day to throw her into the dog cage and feed the dogs."

Even with the most luxurious decoration and the best sound insulation, the roar can be heard from afar. Soon, with a burst of cries and pleadings, the castle fell silent again.

This is the second floor of the castle, at the entrance to the master bedroom of the Lord's Mansion.

The atmosphere at the door was very depressing, and a group of men in various dresses gathered at my door, with heavy faces, occasionally lowering their voices and exchanging ears, and from time to time they sighed with a worried face.

The bedroom door was still closed, and there were sometimes bursts of hoarse roar from inside, and the exact content of the roar could not be heard, but the anger in it could be heard from each roar.

The two maids carried a set of tea sets, and gently pushed open the bedroom door with a desperate face and walked in, less than a minute, they retreated the same way, and only after coming out did they tremble and slump at the door, and after a long time, they were happy to support each other and struggle to leave. As the two of them entered and exited, the faint roar in the bedroom became clear for a moment.

"I still have at least two catapults, six bed crossbows, twenty longbows in my arsenal, and counting the equipment rescued from outside the West Gate, we are well armed, and the enemy is just a mere leader-level monster, so let you retreat? The glory of the East Valley City will be a shame on your cowardice, you shit. ”

Although the scolding soon became indistinct again as the door closed, the faces of a group of officials in the gathering place outside the door became heavier, and several of the noblewomen in gorgeous clothes did not even control their emotions, covering their mouths and crying in low voices. However, someone immediately persuaded the weeping women, and then pointed to the staircase, and after a rush of footsteps, His Royal Highness the Baron took Babu and Monica up to the second floor, and this time, Karl did not wait outside the castle, but also followed, not leaving an inch.

"Your Highness." Seeing the main hall go down and return, and brought a few outsiders who had never seen it, these high-level officials tried their best to maintain solemnity and bowed to the highness, but two officials who had met in the restaurant of the money bag casino before recognized Monica and Babu, and took the initiative to nod to the two, but did not say anything, but smiled bitterly at the baron, "Your Majesty is still angry, we are worried that his body will not be able to support it if this continues, or, you will go in on our behalf to persuade Your Majesty?" ”

"Huh?" His Royal Highness asked thoughtfully, "What do you think you should persuade me to go?" ”

"Of course, I am persuading Your Majesty not to make such a big fire, Your Majesty has just fainted from being too excited, and if you are angry again, it will cause great damage to your body, for the sake of Donggu City, you should also ask Your Majesty to take care of your body." Several high-ranking officials exchanged glances with each other for a while, and finally the oldest one stood up, touched his beard and persuaded him, "In addition, Your Majesty is discussing military affairs with General Matthew and several commanders of the personal guards. The battle this morning had been a heavy one, but His Majesty seemed to have plenty of confidence in the final victory, and although he severely reprimanded General Matthew and his commanders, from what we know of His Majesty, it seems that he intends to let General Matthew lead the rest of his troops to fight again. ”

The baron subconsciously turned his gaze to Babu, but only to see that Babu's eyes were lowered, and he didn't say a word. In his heart, he was amazed by Babu's guess, but on the surface, the baron still smiled calmly, and listened to the high-ranking official on the other side continue.

"We admire Your Majesty's desire for victory and the pursuit of honor, and of course Your Majesty's courage is worthy of everyone's admiration, but ......," the old official pondered for a moment and said euphemistically, "but now is not the right time." Now that your troops have died in the line of duty, and the First Legion of Your Majesty's Personal Guard has also died this morning, only the troops of the Second Legion are now available in the city, and oh, and the dozen or so secret monitors of the Inspectorate who cannot see the light. Now I want to take a risk and fight, if I win in the end, of course there is no problem, the monster is cleaned up, and Your Majesty's prestige will be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and no one in Donggu City dares to question any of Your Majesty's decisions, but what if you lose? ”

"Lost?" The baron said indifferently, "Even if you lose, there is a last line of defense, and asking her to come forward will always solve the problem." ”

"Your Highness." The old official's voice was suffocated, and he took several deep breaths in a row before continuing, "Your Highness, in the past few days, the most elite and loyal warriors in Donggu City have lost more than a hundred people, and they are all children of Donggu, and they are warriors who were born and died for the city and His Majesty, we can't afford to lose, and we can't afford to lose it." ”

"Ah, indeed." After being reminded by the old official, the baron realized what he was struggling with, and said with a little perfunctory, "After all, it is the life of a warrior, and it really shouldn't be lost too much." ”

The old official sighed regretfully, shook his head and said: "What's more, if all the troops are really lost, Donggu City will have no defense ability at all, and if it encounters the invasion of locusts on the edge, it will not even have the ability to resist, and can only watch the enemy loot." What's more, if the city residents have any different intentions, they don't even have the power to deter them, they are too passive, and it will take a long time to recover slowly, which is a very dangerous thing for Donggu City. Your Highness, you also know Your Majesty's physical condition, even if it is for your own future, you should persuade Your Majesty, don't fight hard, bow to the temple once, everyone is a believer in the goddess Ira, and it is not a shame to ask for help from the temple. ”

"I see." The baron nodded with a straight face, and somehow led Babu and his party to the door of the bedroom, pondered for a moment, swept around Babu and Monica with a look of help, and only knocked on the door after the two nodded in response, and after a short wait, he led Babu and the three into the bedroom.

"Gather all the weapons in the city, distribute them to the Second Legion, and then pull out all the weapons of war from those warehouses and give them them. As long as the Second Legion is equipped with enough equipment to join the battle, everything will be fine. The city lord glanced at the few people who came in, but ignored it, and continued to roar, "I'm not discussing with you, this is an order, you are my warriors, the order is for you to execute, not for you to question, understand, waste." ”

"But, Your Majesty......"

"Gear Vault ......"

Several military officials spoke slowly, constantly making eye contact, and finally General Matthew was ruthless and said directly: "There are not so many war equipment in the equipment arsenal at all." ”

The city lord Wesley helped the head of the bed, and said nothing with a calm face.

"All that can be used for a short time is a catapult, two bed crossbows, one of which is in urgent need of maintenance, and as for the longbows, there are only five left in addition to those that were brought out in the morning and lost." Matthew hung his head and said, "This number is simply not enough to arm the Second Army, and ...... There wasn't that much equipment in the city anymore, and it was barely enough to even get everyone fully armed. ”

"I provide a budget of hundreds of gold coins every year for you to expand your weapons of war and increase your armaments, have you spent all this money on dogs?" The city lord Wesley grabbed the fruit plate at the head of the bed and smashed it on Matthew's head, the plate shattered in response, and although Matthew was not injured due to active energy protection, his face was covered with broken porcelain, and he looked extremely embarrassed. Wesley gritted his teeth and roared, "It costs so much money every year, and as a result, I can't even deal with a leader-level monster, a bunch of useless things, I should clean up all of your wastes one by one, and leave none of them, saying, where are all my weapons and equipment, and those gold coins were swallowed by any of you?" ”

"Your Majesty, in recent years, the arsenal has been cleaned and maintained by your direct department." Matthew said very directly, "In the past three years, the person in charge of the arsenal has written many reports reporting that he has led the development of new weapons and equipment maintenance technology, which can save a lot of maintenance costs. For this, you gave him several awards, and finally the knighthood of a lord. ”

"Enough, I don't want to hear that." Wesley suddenly burst into a louder roar, "I don't care what your reasons are, no matter what difficulties you have, you are my personal guard, and you must obey my orders." I ask you to overcome all difficulties, I don't care what method you use, in short, destroy that boss-level monster outside for me. ”

"Your Majesty......"

"I don't want to listen to nonsense, I have raised you for so many years, just to let you share my worries at critical moments, not to let you reason with me. Do you want me to be on the verge of death, and you still have to bow your head and beg their temple to help? If it had come to that, I'd rather die right away. Didn't you have this purpose from the beginning, trying your best to force me to live without a face......"

"Your Majesty, your subordinates will never dare to have such thoughts." Hearing Wesley's suspicions, Matthew, who had been arguing with reason before, turned white, knelt down on one knee and said loudly, "My subordinates will take their direct subordinates to fight to the death against monsters, and defend Your Majesty's honor with flesh and blood." However, Your Majesty, the soldiers of the Second Legion are your Majesty's precious treasures, please Your Majesty or ......"

"General Matthew, please wait first." Since he came in, Wesley has not paid attention to His Highness, and His Highness has been hanging his hands and shrinking to the side and not daring to speak, until this time, Babu stabbed him in the arm before he reacted, and plucked up the courage to interrupt Matthew's words, "Your Majesty, I have an immature idea, I don't know if it can meet your requirements, please give me a chance to show it." ”

"Did I let you speak, something that doesn't understand." Wesley's eyes glared at him viciously, and he scolded him fiercely, but the baron seemed to have long been accustomed to it, and listened honestly with his head down, and never said a word. Wesley scolded for a long time, until he stopped breathing, and said with a sneer, "Okay, I'll see what you can say." Say, are you waiting for me to beg you? ”

"Your Majesty, General Matthew, I have heard all your discussions just now, and if you force the battle with insufficient armament, you will indeed lose a lot of manpower in vain. Before I came in outside, the Earl of Kanter had taught me that soldiers are very important to us in East Valley City, and it is still heart-wrenching to lose in vain. ”

"So, do you want to tell me that my order is wrong, and that it is not time to fight, but to kneel at the door of the temple and pray for mercy?" Wesley's tone became dangerous, and his expression gradually became hideous, as if he could explode at any moment in the next moment.

"No, Your Majesty, on the contrary, I think you are right, and now is indeed the best chance to fight." The baron affirmed, "It just takes the right time and the right means." The method is right, a mere leader-level monster, under the deterrence of His Majesty's might, will definitely be easily broken by General Matthew, and it will no longer be a threat, and Your Majesty's glory will inevitably shine on the entire Donggu City again. When the time comes, the entire Donggu City will shout the same name and the same slogan, that is, Long live His Majesty the City Lord. ”

"Oh? Have you already thought of what to do? Looks like I'm underestimating you. Wesley leaned back on the pillow and looked his son up and down with interest, but for some reason, Babu always felt that there was a subtle banter in Wesley's attitude, and there was a chilling coldness in the banter, "If you have any suggestions, just listen to them, if they are feasible, if they are not feasible, you just wait for me to take back your medal, say quickly." ”

"The problem now is actually that our attack power is insufficient, and the First Legion failed to kill monsters in a short period of time, resulting in variables in the back. Now that it has been replaced by the Second Legion, the equipment is even less equipped, the attack power is weaker, and the victory rate of a forced attack is indeed too low. His Highness bowed to the City Lord and General Matthew, revealing a smile of confidence, "Then as long as the problem of insufficient attack power is solved, Your Majesty's plan will be completely feasible, General Matthew." ”

Matthew had some confusion in his eyes, but he still nodded with a straight face.

"That's easy, some time ago, I just found an easy way to make powerful weapons from other sources." The more His Highness spoke, the more coherent he became, "It's just that due to material problems, I haven't been able to make a sample, so I haven't been able to offer this new weapon to Your Majesty." ”

"But the day before yesterday, I was lucky enough to receive a large number of scrap vehicles from the Eastern District, and extracted enough main raw materials from them, and the rest of the auxiliary raw materials were just enough for Monica and Babu. As long as you have the materials, it's easy to actually craft, and give me a day and I can get my minions to craft enough weapons. As long as it takes one day, I promise that General Matthew will have enough attack ability to damage monsters, and I ask Your Majesty to give me this opportunity. ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on the city lord, but Wesley didn't answer immediately, after a moment of silence, he sneered, nodded and said: "One day, only give you one day, tomorrow now, if you haven't solved the monster, Matthew, you don't have to come back." ”

"Yes." Matthew thumped his chest.

"Tomorrow, I'm going to solve everything." Wesley said meaningfully, "It's time for a new page in East Valley City." Go ye and look forward to the good news tomorrow. ”