At this moment, the two pieces of parchment were quietly laid flat in front of Eric, the ends of the battle report were slightly upturned, and after glancing at Reginord's good news, Eric focused his attention on the second battle report.

"I hereby report that the army of the Grand Viceroyalty of Droiana has suddenly attacked the provinces of Dominia and Rosa this morning, and now the Governor of Dominia has been martyred, and the army of Droiana has captured the whole territory of Dominia, and most of the province of Rosa has also fallen, and the army of Rosa has decided to retreat to the province of Bondres, and the succession of matters will be decided by His Majesty!"

Eric re-read the battle report, the struggle within the empire had already overwhelmed him, and now the good news had just come from the north, but his own uncle had done this kind of thing, which made him almost faint, you know, although he was the emperor of the empire, he was also only a seventeen-year-old boy.

"Lord Minister, I think you have also read this battle report, if you have any opinions, let's talk about it. Eric looked at the four men in front of him, and then said to the Minister of War.

The military minister is a title for the Minister of War, just like the chief of staff is called the chief of staff, which also reflects the emperor's closeness to his subordinates.

The guards had long since retired, and there were only five Eric left in the hall.

The Minister of War, Earl Bradlick, now fifty years old, as the supreme commander of the military affairs of a country, his experience is undoubtedly rich, graduated from the military academy, served as a low-level officer, once died in the great plains of Odo, and later became the governor of a province and was appreciated by the former Minister of War, and soon entered the military service, and since then he has risen to the top until he became the Minister of War five years ago. Although it doesn't say anything. But his experience. That's enough to write a novel.

Bradrick, who had always been a modest man, looked at Atberg beside him, took a step forward, and then lowered his head and groaned as if he had something on his mind.

"The military minister has any opinions, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Thinking he had some concerns, Eric spoke.

When it comes to hate, Eric doesn't actually hate his uncle too much, in his heart. The two seemingly loyal guys in front of him are the people he should hate the most.

Atberg didn't speak, just glanced politely at Bradlik and looked at Eric with a smile on his face again.

The battle between the two major groups of the empire has always been fierce, whether it is an open battle or a secret fight, and the anger of both sides is also increasing, and with the accession of Eric to the throne, gradually, almost all the battles have surfaced.

"Back to Your Majesty, I still have a battle report here. Bradlick's voice was soft, but it was still clearly heard in the quiet hall.

"Oh?"

Eric frowned slightly. "What kind of battle report, why didn't you send it together just now?"

said. Eric reached out and took another report from Bradlik.

Eric, who had been idle all day, received three battle reports in one day, which had never happened before.

Eric silently chanted 'Don't Happen Again' as he opened the third battle report.

There is only one sentence on it, and it is hereby reported: The Grand Viceroyalty of Orion, the Grand Viceroyalty of Oruna, and the Grand Viceroyalty of Nisiriya have declared their independence and established a principality.

Although there is no name on it, from the information obtained from the second battle report just now, Droiana must have completely fallen into the hands of Adonis.

Seeing this news, Eric couldn't support it at all, he stared at the third battle report closely, and then sat back in his chair in a daze.

In just a few minutes, Eric has lost half of the empire, although the situation in the north is getting better, but the great viceroyalty in the west has declared independence one by one, plus his restless uncle, and the demons in the northeast, although there is no war, but it is also eyeing the empire, and the empire is completely embattled.

Looking at Eric's appearance, Bradlik took two more steps forward, staggering slightly.

He looked up at Count Bradrick in front of him, and then at Aitberg, "Military minister, counselor, the two adults are old ministers of the empire, but they want to save the empire." ”

Eric's words trembled a little, and as he spoke, he slowly braced himself up with his hands.

"Your Majesty, the southern thieves are vicious, for the sake of today's plan, only by withdrawing the army from the north can they resist the attack. Earl Bradrick spoke, his toes reaching the table in front of him.

"Majesty, Majesty, Majesty!"

As soon as Bradlick's words fell, Aitberg on the side also hurriedly took a few steps forward and shouted at Eric, compared to Bradlick's voice, his voice was much louder, as the supreme commander of all the regular regiments of the Empire, his loud voice has always been famous.

Etteberg was forty-three years old, and he had only been in the post of General Staff for two years, that is, in the eighth month of his tenure, when the old emperor kicked his legs.

He is in middle age, but now he is above ten thousand people under one person, and Aitberg, as a backbone of the General Staff, often disagrees with Bradlick.

As a real soldier of the empire, he not only protects the imperial power, he also protects the people of the empire, and in his opinion, 'how can those imperial moths in military uniforms in the military affairs department know about leading troops to fight'.

It is also true that the Military Affairs Department is to control the military affairs of the whole country from the name of the name, but many high-ranking officials in it have not even held swords, and many officials in the Military Affairs Department are held by some nobles.

But it can't be said that the Military Affairs Department is all stragglers, take Bradrick as an example, the position of Minister of War is really earned by real skills.

This time at the time of the national crisis, Eric, as the emperor, originally consulted the opinions of these two imperial heavyweights, but the two could not unify at this time, which made Eric's heart really angry, but he couldn't really be angry, so he relied on his Senate and the Praetorian Guards who didn't know if they had defected?

Glancing slightly at the Praetorian Guard commander standing aside, Eric didn't speak, and sat back in his seat in a daze.

"Your Majesty, the province of Dominia has fallen, and the province directly under the imperial capital has been exposed to the army of Droiana. If there is no effective resistance. The Droiana army could come to Osvia at any moment. ”

I don't know why. Bradlick's voice was noticeably hoarse, like that of an old man with a somewhat weeping voice.

"Hmph, are the garrisons of Osvia all pigs, and we just need to hold on to each other, can't we wait for reinforcements to arrive?" Atberg's voice was full of anger, to be honest, he really wanted to punch the old man now, but he was afraid of knocking out the other party's front teeth.

"Pigs?"

Bradrick slowly turned to look at Aitberg. Osvia was garrisoned by the Central Army.

Who in the imperial capital didn't know that the Central Army was a unit of the General Staff, and this old man dared to scold his subordinates for being pigs, and Aitberg's anger suddenly rose.

But then he calmed down, now that the national crisis is at hand, it is not the time for infighting, so he said: "Even if the central army of the empire is a pig, even if you stretch out your neck for the enemy to cut and want to kill the 180,000 central army of the empire, it depends on whether the enemy's sword is rolled or not!"

Still loud voice. Hearing this was a lift, and Eric nodded at him. In fact, in Eric's heart, he was also reluctant to let the northern army withdraw, after all, it had consumed nearly half a year, and if he couldn't drive the orcs out of the territory in one fell swoop, then what he had done before would not be in vain.

Bradlick saw Eric nodding, and his heart suddenly became angry: "Since Your Majesty has already made a decision, why do you want to ask our opinion, the minister is old and frail, and he feels unwell, so he will retire!"

With that, Bradrick turned to leave, and immediately there was a sound of footsteps in the hall.

In this way, a simple discussion ended, and in front of the gun, the imperial power could not help but decline.

The war in the south burned more slowly, and after Droiana had eaten two more provinces, there was no big move, and the great governors of the west, oh no, they should have called them kings now, they didn't move.

But this did not alleviate the fighting in the north, and the 36th Corps continued to advance, reaching the border of Tambul Province, where the 36th Corps General Roft was facing the orc army of the Tiger Salen.

Looking at the main force of the tigermen waiting in the distance, Roft grinned, and galloped back from a high place.

In a small col in the northern part of the province of Tuna, on the edge of the deep forest of Tuna, which is still part of the remnants of the Kus Mountains, low hills here and there, making it a natural hideaway.

Suddenly, a familiar figure came into view, Xilin was sitting in a clearing and looking into the distance, after a long time, only to hear Xilin exhale slightly, and then said: "It's been six days, I don't know how the situation is with Dostol." ”

As soon as Cillin finished saying this, Augustine appeared behind him at some point, "What? worried?

"It's not that I'm worried, it's just that waiting in this place is not always the way to go. ”

Reaching out to take the water bladder from Augustine, Sirin replied as he unscrewed the cork.

"It's not going to be easy," Augustine said with one hand on the ground, then sat alongside Cillin, "we can go inside, maybe there will be some surprises." ”

Augustine laughed, and snorted angrily into the deep forest to the north.

"I'm going to you, I've heard that the dwarven friends of the Kus Mountains are still very hospitable. Cillin took a sip of water, but he didn't have time to wipe the droplets from his mouth and spoke.

When it comes to dwarves, even Cillin himself can't help but shudder, in fact, he has never seen what dwarves look like, but he has only seen illustrations of dwarves in the academy textbooks, which is called a vicious.

Sirin clearly remembered that it was a dwarf holding the bones of an unknown beast and smashing the dead human head, and its bloodiness could be rated four and a half stars.

Textbook illustrations, but that's enough to influence a generation.

In the distant age of the gods, the various races on the Qur'an continent were still very friendly, and many races also had close ties with each other, and often exchanged things for each other.

Until one day, the light of the sun is no longer bright, the darkness is slowly budding, the continent has never received the gospel of the gods again, and there are often wars, conspiracies, killings, and disasters between races, which affect the living beings on the continent all the time.

In the northern part of the Koran continent, in the vast wasteland north of the Kus Mountains, there are countless orcs who yearn for the richness of the human world in order to fill their stomachs in the cold winter. They will cross the ridges of the Kus Mountains. War after war against humanity.

And at the confluence of the Kus Mountains with the mountains to the northwest. It's a huge dwarven kingdom.

"Cillin, do you think those dwarves are really like what the books say?" Anyway, it was okay to be idle, Augustin simply chatted with Sillin.

The entire Glory Banner Regiment is here, and Dinah is in charge of the temporary command, in fact, it's nothing, it's just some things to defend and sentry, and there are also Jeffrey and Yin Eun, so naturally nothing will happen.

Chat like this. "Who knows," Sirin replied, "I haven't seen it again, you should go find some explorers and ask." ”

"Explorer?" Augustine glanced at Cillin, "there's not even a town here, damn it, we don't know how long we're going to have to wait." ”

"You're tired of it, too? Cillin looked at Augustine and said.

The two of them chatted like this, and just like the two of them, many people in the entire Glory Banner Regiment were also chatting with each other, and the chat was very pleasant. Time passed quickly.

Another day of idleness, I have to say. The people of the Glory Banner hate this kind of day, everyone is used to fighting, and they really don't know what to do when they want to be idle.

But on this afternoon, when everyone was waiting for another boring night, Arrin brought Sillin something that sounded bad, and he came to Sillin as usual, "Sir. ”

"Huh?" At this moment, Xilin was sitting on a fallen tree, only to see him with his head down, as if thinking about something, and when he heard someone calling him, Xilin looked up, "Yarlin, is there something wrong?"

"My lord, there is something, maybe we should pay attention?" said Arrlin, leaning over.

"What's the matter?"

"One of our sentinels, missing!" Jarrin's face was ugly, missing, and he knew very well what that meant.

"Missing?" Cillin stood up, then glanced at Arrin, "You come with me." ”

With that, Cillin walked towards his big tent, and of course, Arlin followed behind him.

Speaking of the big tent, this can only be regarded as a large tent, compared to the big tent of Clarence in the time of Odo, this place is far worse.

In the corner, a few slightly regular stones propped up some tree trunks, and then some weeds were laid out, which was considered a bed, and on the other side, there were a few huge stones that the soldiers had easily found, and in this environment, they could barely be used as stools.

The two sat on the stool one after another, and saw Xilin's solemn face and said, "Yaerlin, what happened, tell me more specifically." ”

"That's right," said Arrin, standing up again, "My lord, the defense has been in charge of the two days under the responsibility of Chief Dyna, and three groups of sentries will go out and return every day, but one of the sentry spies this morning has not returned yet. ”

"Huh?" Cillin furrowed his brows, "Then why did you come to sue me now?" ”

Seeing that Xilin was frowning, Yarlin knew Xilin's temper, so he hurriedly said: "Chief Dana thought that something was going to come back later, and sent some people to look for it, until the group of people who went out to look for it just now came back, but they still didn't find the missing sentry, and only found this in that direction. ”

As she spoke, Arrin handed Sylin a silver-blue object.

Xilin stretched out his hand to take it, but as soon as he started his hand, he was shocked, and he couldn't help but look curiously at the strange piece of metal in his hand.

The reason why I said that it was a piece of metal was because Cillin felt a unique texture of metal, that is, a metallic feeling, and besides, when Arrin put this piece of this thing into the palm of his hand, his hand was pressed down slightly, if it wasn't for metal, what else would be so heavy.

"What is this?"

Although Xilin was born in the upper class, because he had been in the army since he could remember, he naturally lacked some knowledge.

"I don't know, Lord Dinah, I'll be over in a moment, he probably knows. Yarlin replied.

"My lord, this may be a good thing. As soon as Arrin finished speaking, Dana appeared behind Arrin.

Seeing Dina come in, Arrin turned to the side, only to hear Dina continue: "I remember that one year when I went to the imperial capital to do business, there happened to be an auction held at that time, and one of the things that was auctioned was similar to the one in your hand. ”

As he spoke, Dana also pointed to Cilin's palm.

When Sirin heard this, he asked, "Do you know what it's called?"

"What do you think it's called...... Jing ...... "Diner is not very sure.

"Adamantite?" Hearing Dyna's words, a name immediately came to Cillin's mind.

And after Xilin said this, Diner also immediately remembered: "Yes, yes, yes, it's called pure gold." ”

After getting Dyna's confirmation, Xilin smiled slightly: "It seems that our neighbor has come to the door, Captain Dana, where did you find this thing." ”

Hearing what Sillin said about 'neighbor', Dana didn't know what Sillin was talking about for a while, so he said: "This was found in the direction where the sentry was missing, and a soldier sent to look for it picked it up after seeing it." ”

After Dana finished speaking, Cillin stood up with a smile, "Let's go, let's go and have a look, and by the way, see if we can visit our neighbors." ”

Hearing the word 'neighbor' for the second time, Dana couldn't help but ask, "My lord, where is our neighbor?

As Dina spoke, Sirin had already left the tent, and Arrin turned sideways to Dina and said, "Of course it's the original inhabitants of the Kus Mountains, and Captain Dina hasn't heard of it?"

"Aboriginal inhabitants?" Dai Na pondered for a moment, but immediately his face changed, and his body couldn't help but shudder, and he strode towards Xilin while shouting 'Lord Xilin'. (To be continued......)