Chapter 174: I Hope It's Still Too Late [4K]

Chels was surprised and delighted when he saw Ryan and the others, and even Baron John, who was not very well received by him, became amiable.

"It's so good Ray, it's a blessing to see you again." Chels was full of emotion in his heart, but in a short period of time, the entire Terte County has undergone earth-shaking changes, how can it not be embarrassing.

Ryan could see at a glance that Chels was pretending to be relaxed, and he saw in him a sense of exhaustion that he had never seen before.

After pondering for a while, he said, "What is the current situation on the main battlefield?" โ€

Chels looked at him fixedly for a moment, sighed, and said, "Oops, very bad. A few days ago, during the night, Count Wilhelm had suddenly rebelled, and his army had stormed the battalions of the various legions, and the rebels had also taken advantage of the situation to counterattack, and we suffered heavy losses.

The Holy See Judgment Legion was directly abolished, the ten main legions lost more than one-sixth, and the losses of the rest of the troops under the command of the nobles were not small. โ€

Ryan sighed in his heart, those ten main legions are the real elite, and the army under Ryan is completely incomparable with them, after all, it is a powerful legion against the border army, and the loss is too great.

"Now ......"

As if seeing Ryan's eagerness, Chels smiled reluctantly: "Don't worry, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke has re-established the defensive line and is accumulating strength to prepare for a counterattack, and we still have a chance." โ€

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, Chels would not comfort him with such a thing, and he had to give a thumbs up to His Royal Highness, the Archduke who had never been faceless.

In the case of Count William's rebellion, he was able to stabilize the defensive line and prepare for a counterattack, which is enough to see his superb military qualities.

But at the thought of the information he learned from the Holy Lord's memory, the smile on Lane's face stiffened a little, and he was silent for a while and said, "Can you take me to meet His Royal Highness, I have important information here." โ€

Chels's expression suddenly became more serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you have to see His Royal Highness the Grand Duke?" His Royal Highness the Grand Duke's pressure at the moment is beyond imagination, and if your intelligence value is not enough, it is very likely that you will be punished. โ€

Ryan met his eyes, nodded heavily, and said, "This matter must be seen by His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, the importance of intelligence is related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of troops!" โ€

"Okay, I'll go and ask Earl Donald." Seeing that Ryan's expression was determined, Chels also gave enough support, and he didn't ask what the information was, he knew that if he could say it, Ryan would have told him a long time ago.

On the way back, Ryan suddenly asked, "How many of the nobles who carried out the blockade plan have returned?" โ€

Chels's body stiffened, and he said a little dejectedly: "You are the second team to return, after Count William rebelled, we urgently sent a team to respond, but it was a step too late, and the city has been completely occupied." Most of the garrisons and nobles in the city were wiped out. โ€

Although he had known that this was the result, Ryan was still shocked in his heart, the army stationed in the city had more than 100,000 people, except for almost half of the rebels, it was also tens of thousands of troops, dozens of nobles!

"How did you rush out, the establishment is so well preserved." Chels had wanted to ask this for a long time, after all, Ryan and his party still had 3,000 people, and they had to know that there were more than 1,000 people left in the first returned army.

"If you want to say that we are also lucky," Ryan then roughly explained the cause ......and effect of the incident, of course, not saying that he killed Brace, but focused on describing Gabriel's ambush on them.

Chels looked at him deeply, and didn't say anything after all, he already had a rough guess in his heart about how Blaise died, but he didn't plan to find out the truth, and he still knew how to choose......

When they reached the city where the army was stationed, Chels took the lead to Count Donald, and when he heard that he wanted to see the Grand Duke, he was reluctant to see him, after all, the Grand Duke's time and energy were now precious.

But after Ryan stated the stakes, he finally compromised and expressed his willingness to take Ryan to meet His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, but he had to bear the consequences.

Ryan has nothing to do, this information is very important, he can't help but say, believe it or not, it's not something he should consider.

Following Earl Donald, after much scrutiny and questioning, he finally came to the Grand Duke Douglas's tent, surrounded by fierce knights riding hurricane wolves.

Ryan secretly admired, this is one of the ace troops of the Tistan Kingdom, the Hurricane Knights, the knights of Yishui, it is really inhuman.

"You go in by yourself for a while, remember the aristocratic etiquette, don't anger the Grand Duke, otherwise no one will be able to protect you, you know?" Count Donald stopped and said solemnly.

"Understood, thanks for showing the way." Ryan nodded, and then followed one of the knights into the tent.

It was on this day that Ryan met the legendary Grand Duke of the South for the first time.

The majestic figure sat at a desk, although the current situation was critical, his face was still as calm as water, without the slightest anxiety, which made Ryan's anxious heart calm down.

In that body, Ryan felt a powerful power that he had never felt before, he was like a majestic mountain, just sitting there quietly made Ryan feel unattainable.

When he came in, Douglas also stopped what he was doing and looked at him with a majestic face.

"This is the Grand Duke of the South!" Ryan was a little excited in his heart, this is a character in the story, and his legendary life is not enough to express in words.

Ryan stepped forward with a standard knightly salute and said in a respectful tone, "Praise you, great Guardian of the South, Pioneer of the Kingdom, [Celt Eagle], Legendary Knight...... Marshal of the Kingdom, His Highness Douglas. Baron of Cana, Lane. Thunder. Black salutes you! โ€

Douglas nodded lightly and said in a serious tone: "Baron Blake, it is said that you have brought important information related to the safety of the entire army?" โ€

"Yes, Your Highness."

"If your information is really that important, I will personally ask Your Majesty for credit after the battle, and if you dare to lie or exaggerate, then I will personally send you to the noble court." Douglas's tone was flat, but his eyes were fixed on Ryan, making him feel stressed.

Ryan didn't answer his words, but said straightforwardly: "Your Highness, my information is that those cultists are planning to hold an evil sacrifice with the city of the blockade plan as the main body.

They slaughtered the civilians of the city as sacrifices, intending to create a huge evil formation covering the entire county of Telt to wipe out our army, and it may be in the final stages at present. โ€

Douglas hugged his arms, looked at him calmly and said, "What else?" โ€

Looking at his facial expression, Ryan was a little unsure of the thoughts of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, did he believe it or not?

After a deep groan, Ryan finally gritted his teeth and planned to increase his chips a little more, and he said word by word: "That evil array can allow the power of the evil god to descend on the mortal world!" โ€

Douglas's eyes finally changed a little, but he was still very calm and said unhurriedly: "What is your source of information?" โ€

So Ryan retold the story he had told Chels, but this version was more detailed and more lies, especially in the attack on the city gates.

In his mouth, he witnessed the massacre of civilians by the rebels, and saw the sacrificial altar, which they had been hunted for for two days and two nights.

He was assassinated by the cultists some time ago, on the grounds that he saw the rebels' plans and claimed that the cultists planned to take him away after the assassination failed, but his soul was strong and finally won, and he "saw" the memories of some cultists.

Nine points of these words are true, and only one point is processed by Lane's art, because he said it without psychological pressure, and he is very sure of the accuracy of the content.

In order to improve his persuasiveness, he also slightly revealed his powerful soul power in front of Douglas, and said that he could turn in the cultist's corpse as evidence.

After this wave of operations, Douglas has believed Ryan's words for six or seven percent, he suddenly smiled, and said to Ryan: "Actually, I have heard your name, you are very good, Baron Blake, I know what you want to say, you can go and rest, if the information is true, I will give you a great credit." โ€

This can be regarded as a direct eviction order, Ryan naturally didn't dare to refute, the other party is a dignified duke, and it is already very face-saving to take the time to meet his small character, and he can't be embarrassed.

He bowed respectfully and retreated, and finally left the heart of the aristocratic coalition under the guidance of a Hurricane Wolf Knight.

On the way, he carefully reviewed his performance and found that there was nothing wrong before he put his mind at ease. Douglas said that he had heard of him, but he had some guesses that it should be because of the military exploits reported last time.

Seeing Count Donald waiting anxiously outside, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute and say that everything was going well, which relieved him and led Ryan back to the camp......

After Ryan left, Douglas suddenly said to the empty tent, "Do you think what he said can be trusted?" โ€

A thin old man in a black robe emerged from the corner of the big tent, and said in an old voice: "There is no problem with his origin and origin, I also explored his consciousness space just now, and I didn't find any abnormalities, and his spirit didn't fluctuate greatly when he spoke, so I didn't find a problem for the time being." โ€

Douglas nodded thoughtfully, as the Grand Duke of a realm, he naturally couldn't listen to Ryan's words so easily, as the so-called incompetence of a general and exhaustion of the three armies, these means are necessary.

"Go down there and check the truth of what he says, remember, be hidden."

"Yes, Your Highness." The black-robed man replied respectfully, then merged with the shadow beneath his feet and vanished......

Ryan came back with all his beards and tails, and Chels was very happy, after all, in this situation, once he angered His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, it was very likely that he would have to sing Liangliang directly.

"You must be very tired, go and rest first, your army is temporarily divided into independent troops, and I will inform you if there is a combat mission."

After receiving the order, Ryan followed a knight under the command of Chelse back to the temporary station, but he did not expect that the soldiers under his command were all carrying a large bowl and sucking it, and when they walked in, they saw that it was actually vegetable soup, and there was still stewed pork in it.

Nearly 3,000 people in the whole army ate a bowl of black bread with less impurities.

Ryan was suddenly surprised, it seems that the food here is well arranged?

He looked at the young knight who was guiding him and said, "Is this the normal food of the troops?" โ€

His original intention was just to confirm the following, but the knight thought that Ryan was not satisfied with this arrangement, and he quickly explained: "Lord Baron, after Count William's rebellion, we lost part of our supply of grain and grass.

So at present, the army can only provide a bowl of vegetable soup and a pound of black bread per meal, and I ask for your forgiveness, the difficulty is only temporary, and we will give the soldiers extra meals every three days. โ€

Looking at the apologetic young knight, Ryan suddenly felt that he didn't know what to say, although such a meal standard was a little worse than usual, but it had greatly exceeded his expectations, after all, he thought that the army was short of food at the moment, but he didn't expect him to think too much.

The words in his throat were forcibly choked back by him, and he forced a smile: "It's okay, we can understand." โ€

Looking at the bowl of vegetable soup with oil flowers floating on it, Ryan had to sigh once again at the methods of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, how could such a high standard of food be maintained in this situation......

At this point, the black-robed man returned to Douglas once again and said that everything Ryan said was true.

Although he didn't know what methods he used, Douglas obviously trusted the black-robed man very much, he stood up, walked to a huge and detailed military map, and said softly: "That's right, I said why the rebels began to shrink back again during this time, it turned out that such a big gift was prepared for us."

Tonight you go for yourself, I currently suspect that this is the place where they set up the altar, only this can match the information provided by Baron Black, you only need to find out the progress of the rebels' sacrifice, and I will send someone to pick you up. โ€

The black-robed man looked at the place of Douglas's finger, nodded calmly, and then disappeared into the shadows.

Douglas felt the black-robed man leave before returning to the map, frowning and thinking.

Before Count William rebelled, he had made other preparations, and it was because of his prudence that he did not face the dilemma of running out of food.

Originally, it would take some time for the counteroffensive to take place, but now, no matter how far the rebels' sacrifice progressed, he had to launch a counteroffensive earlier.

If the evil god really came, even if it was just a trace of his divine power, it would be a devastating disaster for the aristocratic coalition.

Originally, the Inquisition of the Holy See and the Overseer were the means he used to restrain the cultists, but now, half of the Inquisition has been destroyed, and the Overseer has been severely injured by the necromancer and a fallen priest, and now he has no power to resist the evil gods.

"Let's hope it's still too late."

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ps:I don't know why the last chapter was closed in a small black room.,The author is applying for release.,It's not that it's not more.ใ€‚ใ€‚ (รณ๏นรฒ)

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