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Ten days later, under the city of Elebrock.

Gehr and Fenos hid in the bushes by the side of the road, and looked at the city with a strange expression.

As one of the most important subordinate towns in the Merzai region, Airiblock acts as a southern barrier and is also the most important granary of the nearby area, responsible for the collection and distribution of crops in the nearby area, and is a thriving commercial regional center with grain merchants coming and going here all year round.

However, due to its location in the heart of the Duchy of Haysting, where Merzai withstood threats from outside the borders, the town's walls have been known for being low and narrow over the years, and are a mixture of brick and wood, far more beautiful than defensive. Moreover, Elebrock is only equipped with a second-level mercenary group of the Traveling Council to defend, and it is usually only used to deal with those scattered bandits and merchants who try to evade taxes, so when the church army of Slarkna arrives, it is no suspense to capture the town.

Of course, this kind of city defense capability also gave the refugees the opportunity and confidence to counterattack, and if it was a strong city defense system like Bern and Haiwarsaw, Geer would not have brought people over to send them to death.

Now Gell came with Fenos because he had heard from the hunter who had taken the lead in his reconnaissance that he had discovered a strange situation.

Sure enough, Gehr saw a banner erected on the city wall under the guidance of Fenos, a three-sword interlaced pattern flag belonging to the Principality of Hysting, and it was not the black-armored soldiers of Slark who walked around the city wall to guard, but some miscellaneous troops wearing all kinds of armor, which was quite like the style of the second-line mercenaries of Hasting.

This is not at all the same as what they have seen as having been overrun by the Church of Slarkna.

Did the Church of Slarkna abandon this stronghold?

Or is there something else going on?

Unfortunately, it is not known in the nearby area whether the Slakna church is too much of a rampant. Except for the fact that the town has not been able to see any human activity in the wild, and the nearby villages have long since become a dead land. No one can be found to know the specifics.

Gehr thought for a moment, but did not immediately go up to confirm his conjecture. Instead, a more experienced hunter was sent into the city in disguise to check the situation inside, and wait for the exact news to make a decision.

After waiting in the bushes for nearly two hours, Gehr finally saw the figure he had sent out to hunt the hunter back, but it was different from when he went, and when he returned, there was one more person.

......

"Your Royal Highness, a member of the Furstaron family, has come to greet you by order of the Patriarch, and to inform you of the good news that Elebrock has been completely restored by the concerted efforts of our army and civilians. Return to the banner of the great King Haysting......"

Gehr stood with his companions as he watched as the middle-aged man, who had returned with the scout and claimed to be the emissary of a certain family, knelt on one knee in front of Sylvia and performed a dramatic aria.

After an aristocratic foreshadowing, the emissary's words finally turned to the events of Eeribrock, giving Gehr and the others an idea of what was going on.

Among the aristocracy, having their own domain and army can be called "princes", such as Gehr, who can be counted as a prince before exchanging his territory to the royal family, and the nobles who work in the royal family and lead the royal family to pay high salaries.

Princes have been an important part of a country for thousands of years. Due to various constraints, the nominally dominant royal family could not effectively control all the land, so it was necessary to divide the princes to ensure regional stability in places beyond the reach of the royal family.

With the passage of time, the royal families of various countries have realized the danger of princes to national sovereignty and have been looking for ways to weaken the princes in their countries. As an emerging country, Haysting is no exception.

However, in order to ensure the overall stability of the country, the methods used by the royal family are not too drastic. The successive monarchs of Hai Siting have also always used relatively mild methods to reduce the strength of the princes, and at the same time, they no longer canonize the princes and other powerful nobles. If this means can last for tens or hundreds of years. Then the princes of the country will naturally eventually dissipate like a cloud of smoke, but at this point in time. There are still quite a few princes in Haysting.

The Vorstaron family, who control the Asako Fire Brigade, is one such prince.

As a member of the foundation that followed the foundation of the Principality of Haysting, the leader of the Asako Fire Brigade Mercenary Regiment, Amunle Verstalon, as a mercenary, was a legendary story from the beginning to the most popular and later crowned princes, and the name of the Assako Fire Brigade was also inherited, as the name of the private army of the Furstaron family, and sometimes took on some mercenary missions.

The fiefdom of the Vorstaron family is located in a semi-hilly area about thirty kilometers away from Eriblock, the location is somewhat remote, and the people of the Vorstaron family have always kept a low profile, and all the people in other places do not know much about it except for the locals.

It was also for this reason that the Vorstaron family did not become the primary target after the Church of Slarkna conquered Elebrock, which gave the Vorstrong family sufficient time to react to contain the fleeing people, rearm themselves, and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

It just so happened that the new ruler of Eeribrok, Bynes, led an army to pursue Golthem, which caused the city defenses of Eeribrok to be empty, and the patriarch of the contemporary Furstaron family, Viscount Eric Verstaron, decisively gave the order to attack, and personally led the army to participate in the raid on Eeribrok, and as a result, he recaptured Eeribrok.

It was ten days earlier, the day of the decisive battle between Gehr and Baines.

These days, when Eric was preparing the defense of Erichblock City to prevent the retaliation of the Church Army, he also captured a lot of Church soldiers who escaped from the Grizzly Hills, and learned that there was another force in the deep mountains and old forests to resist the invasion of the Church of Slarkna, and also defeated the main army led by Bynes, which made Eric Furstaron, who now rules Eric Furstaron, pay great attention to the situation of this refugee army, and also estimated that Gehr's target must be Erylbrock, so these days there are dense outposts outside the city. to find out all kinds of news.

Although the hunters sent by Gehr are very sophisticated, at this time to prevent the return of the church army. The men of Eeribrock tensed their nerves, paying attention to any unfamiliar face. As a result, the hunters sent by Gehr were targeted as soon as they entered Eriblock, and then the people of the Assako Fire Brigade came directly to them. After a relatively peaceful contact, the two sides temporarily confirmed each other's identities, and Viscount Eric sent an emissary to follow the hunter back and begin formal contact.

Of course, this hunter will not say anything, but only some basic information, and there is ambiguity about the identity of the leader and the origin of the main members, which Viscount Eric also understands. The sending of emissaries also had the intention of identifying them.

Gehr and Fenos carefully interrogated him before bringing back the blindfolded messenger.

Along the way, Gehr also took the messenger around several times, while Fenos dragged behind to check if anyone was following him. After ensuring the safety of the way, the messenger was brought to Sylvia.

After learning of Sylvia's identity, the messenger, who had always been a little arrogant, suddenly changed his face and performed the above scene in front of Gehr and them.

Seeing the thoughtful and excited messenger look groveling, Lucarine looked suspicious. He leaned over to Gehr beside him and said, "Geer, are you sure he is telling the truth?"

"That's right. Gehr nodded slightly in affirmation. He even used model analysis when he interrogated this messenger before, and made sure that the other party did not bring it back after lying.

"What do you think of this person, Carmelita?" the beautiful female adjutant turned her gaze to the Goddess Officer, who was in a wheelchair to the side.

"The oil cavity is slippery. The mouth is full of oil, and the quality of the oil is not very good. But as a messenger, he is very qualified. The beautiful goddess official gave her evaluation.

This time. Sylvia's conversation with the messenger also came to an end.

"I already understand what you said, so you should step back first. I'll get back to you later. The young princess ended the conversation.

"Yes, Your Highness. The contemptible people retired first. ”

The emissary left the place under the leadership of several cavalrymen who had previously belonged to the Knights of the Silver Crown, now Sylvia's personal guards.

"What do you think, Gel, Mankic, and Sister Carmerita?" Sylvia turned her inquiring gaze to the three of them, who could be considered the decision-makers of the refugee ranks.

"Let's see, then decide. Gehr replied briefly.

"I agree with Lord Colborne. Mankic expressed his approval of Gehr.

"Decisions have to be based on a good understanding of the grassroots, and I think it's worth seeing. This is the reply of the goddess officer.

"Well, that's how it was decided. Sylvia, the titular supreme leader, made the decision directly.

"But you can't just go over like this, I'll bring someone over for formal contact first, and then you can come over and meet after making sure there are no problems. Gehr spoke again.

"Then please. ”

......

When Gehr returned to Elibrock with more than twenty soldiers and the emissaries of the House of Furstaron, it was the moment when the afternoon sun was at its strongest, and the bright sunlight poured down like a waterfall, and everything in sight was golden.

When Gehr met Eric Furstaron, they were bathed in a golden waterfall and stood at the gate of the city smiling and waiting for them.

Viscount Eric was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with long brown hair, a handsome face, but his face was a little pale, and what was amazing was his eyes, one black and one blue, two colors. The black is bottomless, while the blue is clear and pure, and it has a different kind of charm that makes people feel deep at first sight.

"Warriors, welcome back to Elebrock, because of your heroic performance, this city can return to the royal banner so easily, here I only want to express my sincere gratitude to the people of this city for your actions, and I hope that in the future, with your help to restore the peace of the past, thank you!"

As soon as Eric came up, he didn't show his enthusiasm to Gehr and his party, as a powerful nobleman, he even shook hands with the soldiers led by Gehr one by one and saluted, and finally gave Gehr a warm hug, which didn't seem to be pretentious.

Suddenly, Gehr's civilian-born subordinates had a good image of this young nobleman who had recovered Elriblock, and the resentment that he had taken advantage of the Refugee Force and the Bynes Army dissipated in an instant.

"I am Griezmann Wolfgang Kolbensen, and I am now in the service of Her Royal Highness the Seventeenth Princess. Gehr nodded slightly, and introduced himself succinctly, after all, his title was comparable to Eric's, and he was also the title of Konatas, one of the three great powers, and the gold content was not as bad as that of the real power nobles, so he used a more egalitarian tone between his words.

"Her Royal Highness the Seventeenth Princess?"

Eric apparently didn't expect this to be the answer, and turned his gaze to the messenger to the side with some surprise. "Brice?"

Gehr stepped back and stood with his soldiers, indicating that he did not understand the emissary's intentions in making a report.

Eric gave Gehr an apologetic smile and pulled the messenger aside.

After a while, Eric walked back, the smile on his face even brighter. "I didn't expect it to be Her Royal Highness the Seventeenth Princess, worthy of the blood of the Anslin family, and now I am even more looking forward to meeting Her Royal Highness the Princess immediately, with Her Highness, the people of the entire city will be more at ease. ”

"There was an opportunity right away. However, for the sake of safety, I must first take over the defense of the city and ensure that it is safe before I can notify His Highness to come, so please forgive me. Gell stared at the strange pair of pupils as he spoke, staring at every fluctuation in them.

"Of course, that's as it should be. Eric was slightly stunned, and then smiled even brighter, shining brightly and softly in the sunlight, as if he did not look like a person in this world.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Geer's mouth also contained a hint of a smile, but the charm in it was only known to him. (To be continued......)