"Summoning the Silver Radiance Iron Guard, and carry out the second defensive strategy within thirty meters of the palace. ”

"Light the fire and don't leave a blind spot. ”

"Send a signal to the nearby garrisons to come to support. ”

......

Gehr stood up, staring in the direction of the screams, handing the badge of the Silver Radiant Iron Guard to Lucarin, uttering a barrage of commands.

"Yes!" Lucarin subconsciously took the badge, but then reacted and felt that something was wrong. "Aren't you going to command?

"Let's go, let's go, hurry up, don't stay!"

Gehr's low drink was tinged with sternness, and Epheros had broken free from the sheath, his shiny sword shining in the glow of fire.

"You be careful......" Lucarin, who rarely saw Gehr so serious, paused slightly, immediately realized something, glanced at Gehr deeply, and after leaving a few words, ran towards the direction of the palace with the other three companions without hesitation.

"Come out. ”

After his companions had left, Gehr stood in front of the campfire, facing the darkness beyond the reach of light, and whispered.

The location of the campfire was the only access to the palace, and the other directions were steep cliffs, and the firelight illuminated a large open space, giving Gehr the best visibility possible, and no one who wanted to pass through it could escape Gehr's eyes.

In the darkness, a vague figure slowly emerged, and the sound of heavy armor trampling on dead branches sounded in a series of sounds, and in a short time, a terrible silver mask appeared in front of Gehr.

It was a man with a silver mask. The black armor shimmered with an ominous light.

This Mask Gel had seen it before at Sanssouci Palace, and since he was here, it was clear that he hadn't come here with good intentions. Gehr didn't have to think about his purpose and reason anymore, so talking with a sword was the most appropriate thing to do.

A strong wind blew. The sparks that had been blown away from the campfire flew in all directions, and as they flew in front of the silver mask, they seemed to be blocked by something invisible, and bounced back, forming a small vortex between the two of them, which dissipated after a few moments.

If Ger had been able to speak non-human voices and converse with so-called invisible elves like Camerita, he might have been able to hear a powerful warning voice.

Of course, even without this ability, Gehr could feel the smell of danger in this obviously ill-intentioned opponent. Undisguised malice struck Gehr like a wind sweeping across the desert.

"Hello, meet again, I didn't expect it to be this time. "The voice that comes out of the mask is the same as the appearance of the person who speaks, revealing an ominous aura.

Obviously, there is no need to say any more useless words.

Gehr was bearing the murderous aura of the other party, and his body had already manipulated Epheros to attack according to the instinct of a warrior.

The silver masked bowed slightly and made a swordsman salute, and the long sword flashed continuously between the fire and darkness, and also put on an offensive stance.

Both sides understand that the other is a fierce rival.

The whining night breeze is here again. The bonfire was lit up, and the light was magnificent.

At the same time, the two people facing each other had disappeared from their original location, and the next moment. The sound of gold and iron clashing sounded, and the two had already collided heavily together.

The sound of the swords striking was very dense and intense, after the initial sword exchanges. Gehr took the initiative to launch a suppressive offensive, but for several rounds in quick succession. Gehr couldn't even get close to the other party's body, and the long sword seemed to have life in the hands of the silver mask. Flexibly and unusually block Gehr's attacks one by one.

A shudder rose from Gehr's back, and it was the body's instinct to convey the danger of his opponent to Gehr.

You can't fight like this!

Gehr immediately changed his tactics, retracted his offensive, took a step back, and switched to a defensive position.

Under the influence of one another, the attack of the silver mask suddenly broke out, and the long sword turned into a sword curtain one after another, like a rushing river, sweeping towards Gehr.

The offensive and defensive momentum was reversed in an instant.

Silver Mask attacks violently, but he soon finds himself in the same position that Ger had faced - he faced Ger's equally impeccable defense.

Slashes came from all directions, remnants of sword light flew through the air, and sparks kept flashing out of the battle, and both of them knew that they had encountered an unprecedented opponent.

The blades of the sword and the blades of the sword kept intersecting with a strong momentum, and finally stopped in mid-air as if they were facing each other. The distance between the two people's faces was close to the close of the technique, and the sound of each other's breathing overlapped and reached each other's ears.

Gehr stared back at the cold gaze that flowed out of the gap in the mask, and instantly changed his breath, exerting force in his hand, and at the same time he felt the same force coming from the other party, and under the interaction, the two retreated at the same time, pulling out a relatively safe distance.

"Report your name. There was a hint of admiration in the cold voice of the silver mask.

"Griezmann. Gehr briefly gave his name, and out of respect for his opponent, he did not use the pseudonym Thule.

"It'......s not Thule? My name is Marcela. ”

Silver Kamen nodded slightly, and also reported his name.

At this time, the direction of the palace not far away suddenly lit up, and in the flames that soared into the sky, it seemed that the sun had fallen on this mountain again.

"It seems that the time has come, and today can only end here, and this contest can only be held in the future. ”

"Why save what you can do today for tomorrow?" Gel leaped forward, and Epheros had already slashed away with a violent sound of breaking wind.

Come and go, when this is your back garden.

This was something that Gehr didn't say, but it was already expressed with his sword.

The silver mask turned to the side of his body and skillfully took the blow with a magnificent move, and after removing the force attached to the sword, the counterattack turned into a flash of light and rushed towards Gehr in the opposite direction.

The speed of the attack was surprisingly fast, and the blade of the sword stretched straight forward, leaping at high speed like a snake's forward movement, and it was close to Gehr. Gehr's face was solemn, and Epheros was on the general route of the attack, barely flicking off the blade that finally cut from the side, but his steps were also a little scattered, and he had to retreat half a step back to adjust.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Silver Kamen jumped into the woodland behind him and cut down two small trees to block a possible pursuit.

The moment half of the silver mask's body disappeared into the shadows, Gehr gave up the pursuit.

Behind him, the sound of ironclad action came, and before that, a throbbing fire was rapidly approaching, and support had arrived......

......

After daybreak, under the escort of the nearby garrison, Salorath and the Seventeen Princesses returned to Bern.

During the night attack, the attackers were not too determined, and only engaged in a brief exchange of fire with the outermost Hagesa battalion, which did not go too deep, so the Silver Radiance Iron Guard suffered almost no casualties, and all the casualties were borne by the Hagersa battalion.

According to statistics, the Hagersa battalion lost about one-sixth of its strength in the battle, which is quite a lot of casualties for this team of more than 300 people.

The attackers also left behind more than 30 corpses, and it is estimated that if they are injured and run away, the casualty rate will not be much worse than that of the Hagesa battalion, after all, although the Hagersa battalion is not disciplined and has poor combat ability in the military formation, its personal strength is still very strong, especially under the condition that the environment is not very good, and they can only fight separately, they have given full play to their personal strength.

The identity of the attackers has also been preliminarily determined, and they are all bandits from the border area.

This news made the garrison nervous, and now there were different numbers of bandit groups in all four directions of the whole Haysting, and skirmishes were being fought with the local army, and if those bandits had spread to the Bern area, then the problem would be serious.

The garrison's troubles have nothing to do with Gehr, and besides, there are very strange places in many key places in between, if the attackers are bandits, then what does that silver mask have to do with them? Silver Kamen has also seen Salorath before, but it is obvious that he did not come with good intentions during the attack, so what does it matter? And after Gehr reported the matter of seeing the silver mask to Saloras, Her Royal Highness Princess Celestia was also very vague about this matter, obviously she seemed to know something?

But after all, these things are all internal events of the Principality of Haysting, and Gehr's mission is just to be the head of the bodyguards of Saloras and the Seventeen Princesses, and those things have nothing to do with him, even if the bandits hit Bern, he and his team will run further south at most, and they can still find their way back to San Rotaro if they run directly to Emlock, at most a little farther.

So Gehr just told Lucarin about the problems he had discovered, and asked her to continue her research if she was interested in this area, and he put the matter aside and did her own thing.

But upon his return to Bern, Gell found himself underestimating the impact of the incident on the inhabitants of Bern.

As the party cleaning up the battlefield, the corpses of the friendly side were traditionally brought back to the public cemeteries of nearby cities for burial, so there was a slick ox cart behind Salorath's team, covered with this white cloth, and the corpses of those members of the Hagersa battalion were naturally inside.

The inhabitants of Bern have seen many corpses, as a country located on an important trade route, it has been inseparable from bandits since ancient times, many residents have killed bandits with their own hands, and there are no empty places on the wooden poles hanging human heads at the city gates, so dead people are not a thing for the inhabitants at all.

But this time, the label of Celestia Celestia was added in front of the dead man, and the situation was completely different.

When the king was seriously ill, the eldest princess Salorath was already one of the rulers of Bern, and such people were attacked in what seemed to be quite terrible, which could not help but make some of the inhabitants of Bern panic.

But what brought this situation to another high was the latest news from the fast horse in Bern half a day after Salorath returned to Sanssouci Palace.

The Knights of the Silver Crown, which nominally belonged to Princess Celestia, failed miserably!(To be continued......)

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