"A large number of demonic beasts near the two southern cities have launched an onslaught in advance, and Grand Duke West has decided to advance the joint operation?"

"Yes, in order to prevent accidents, the gates of the Roland City Fortress will be closed today, and the defense line along the way has not yet been fully completed, so I suggest that His Excellency Hade and his party immediately interrupt this test of the Proof of Courage and return to Roland City. Ninija calmly put forward her opinion.

Hade frowned, this situation is indeed not suitable for continuing the semi-outing here, but can the trial of the certificate of bravery be interrupted halfway?

Wei Na was obviously also very worried about the battle situation over there, and nodded: "It's okay, I have roughly heard my father mention the outline of this battle, and it is expected that the entire battle period will not exceed five days, and after the end, there will definitely be many remnants of high-level demonic beasts in various places, and then continue to conduct the test of the proof of martial arts of Hade." ”

Everyone began to quickly return in the direction of Roland City, and as soon as they rode out of the edge of the gray mountain on a landing chocobo, they saw a group of hundred-man rangers riding high-ranking chocobos appear not far away.

"It's the family's personal guard. Wella greeted her first.

The captain of the hundred-man rangers stepped forward with relief, sat down on the chocobo and saluted, "Lord Wella, it's great to be able to find you so quickly. ”

"Thomas, I have an idea of the general situation, let's talk as we go. ”

"Yes. ”

The squad leader, named Thomas, then began to explain the situation.

In the early hours of this morning, the joint operation called "Longwei" proposed by the Marquis of Sastan of the Degens family has been officially launched, in addition to the Griffin Knights, the Duke of West has drawn all the 15,000 soldiers of the elite troops of the Ninth Legion of Roland City to form the main force on the right, and the youngest master of the empire, Sastan, is the 10,000-strong army leading the fourth legion to form the main force on the left.

"Everything went well in the early battle, that Master Sastan launched the Beyond the Scope of the Dragon Domain, and then His Excellency the Grand Duke of West and the Red Flame Wolf King resisted the counterattack of the king-level demonic beasts, and now the tide of darkness in the southern city of House has been completely suppressed, and hundreds of thousands of demonic beasts are rapidly dispersing. ”

Wella was very worried: "It's only been six or seven days, and the defense line along the way shouldn't have been completely completed, right?"

"Yes, although a large number of earth-based black mages have been dispatched to build a large number of temporary rock embankments at the edge of the predetermined escape route of the demonic beasts, and a large number of long-range attack troops have been mobilized to defend against flying monsters, it is still relatively difficult. Fortunately, the deputy commander of the Third Legion, Hiro, and the deputy commander of the Fifth Legion, the deputy commander of the Diland, led the elite troops to swim to defend the key points, and the battle report sent back from the front for the time being indicated that everything was going relatively well. ”

Then the squad leader Thomas explained the current preparation of the defense line near Roland City, also because the preparation time is not sufficient, the entire defense line is only beginning to take shape, although a large number of logistics troops are stepping up to work, but it is likely to be completed in time for the scheduled time.

"There is no way, we can only rely on the strong elite to lead the more mobile troops to plug the gap. Wella thought for a moment and came to a conclusion.

"Yes, the operational instructions sent back by His Excellency the Grand Duke are true. In addition, just in case, the gate of the fortress of Roland City has been officially closed, and a large number of white mages are continuously casting the "solidification technique" to strengthen the fortress defense, and more than eighty percent of the combat strength of the Ninth Legion has laid a defensive line outside the city to wait for it, and the military supplies are transported by the moa troops. ”

He then elaborated on the fact that some hunter groups spontaneously formed small mercenary-type units to participate in the defense, and these volunteer armies were currently arranged behind the third line of defense. After all, the entire defense line is too long, and manpower is extremely scarce, and it is not a bad thing to have a small force of volunteer army type to assist, especially these hunters who have been fighting all kinds of demonic beasts all year round and have rich combat experience.

Hearing what the captain of the guard team said, Hede and the others were a little embarrassed, which also meant that they could not return to the city smoothly, so they could only leave the defense line outside the city and wait for the entire battle to end.

Wei Na thought about it for a while, turned her head sideways and whispered to Hade: "The current situation, although it is also possible to let the moa troops send you back to the city, but in the case of intense preparations for war, transporting nobles back to the city to avoid risks is likely to affect morale, Hade, you have just become a family member of our family, although you are not a family member who fights full-time, but I still hope that you can participate in this large-scale operation, even if it is as a backup reserve force." ”

There was really no reason for Hade to refuse such a reasonable request, and besides, the defensive line behind was much less dangerous, and it was only a nominal reserve force, so he asked the uncle and the others for their opinions, and everyone decided to go to the third defense line outside the city to stand by with the group of hunter volunteers. Wella, on the other hand, went with the guards to station near the first line of defense.

Hede casually glanced at the rear, because he left the gray mountain area and entered the Emerald Wasteland, his vision was relatively wide, and the figures of the three people who were walking far away but at an astonishing speed were not too far from here. The eccentric boy of the Insecter family and the two family guards were a bit of a nuisance to Have.

After thinking about it, Hade whispered to Wella: "Your Excellency Wella, those three tails that have been hanging behind us are actually very strong, why don't you go and ask them if they can go to the front line together." ”

Wella nodded yes, and turned back to take a few guards and Hide to ride the landing bird over to negotiate with the other party.

After listening to the red-haired countess's request, the purple-haired woman Eskein regretfully declined: "I'm sorry, Lord Wella, our mission is to protect the safety of Lord Eitreida, and I believe you can see that the situation of Lord Eudreida is a bit complicated......."

But before she could finish her words, the delicate doll-like Euatatririda suddenly spoke, "Led, are you going back to fight too?"

This kid seems to have his eye on me...... Hede was a little depressed, but he still responded politely in an official tone: "It is the duty of the nobles to protect the security of the imperial border, although I am not a soldier, but I will also be on standby in the rear as a reserve force, ready to support the front line at any time." ”

"Then we'll be with you. The eccentric boy of the Insecat family said no more after saying this.

Tsk, I didn't shake off this tail and didn't say anything, but let "her" take the opportunity to follow more closely. This made Hide a little annoyed, but he couldn't force people to go to the front line to fight hard, after all, these three people had no military positions, and it was impossible to restrain them with military orders.

Wella also thought it strange that the Insec child was interested in Have, but she didn't have the heart to think about it now, so she politely thanked him for agreeing to join the reserves, leaving a soldier in charge of leading the way for Hide and the others and hurriedly left.

When Hede and the others rushed all the way to the third line of defense, which was more than ten kilometers away from the fortress of Roland City, they could occasionally see a small number of faster land-type monsters fleeing in the southeast direction on the wasteland isolated by many temporary rock and earth embankments, such as thunder and lightning leopards above the fifth order.

"There have already been demonic beasts that have fled to the vicinity of Roland City so soon......", Hade felt that it was a bit strange that this Tide of Darkness could be defeated so easily, even if there were two powerful masters and tens of thousands of elite troops in strict combat, "It is said that there are more than ten king-level Demonic Beast commanders in this Tide of Darkness, I'm afraid these guys can't be suppressed so easily, right?"