A long time ago, even after Prince Tomund led the remnants of the final empire, he swore by the stars above him that it was only a suburb in the northeast of Eternal Star City before the Kingdom of Stars was established here. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

With the rise of the kingdom of the stars and the expansion of its territory, the power structure of the upper echelons of the kingdom began to swell, and there were more and more lords, nobles, and officials, and the dignitaries of the royal capital did not want to live in the same area as the vulgar merchants, ordinary citizens, and even those dirty prostitutes, thieves, and thugs, so they built homes in the suburbs of the northeast.

Gradually, this area became a gathering area for the nobles to establish the royal manor, and was soon incorporated into the rule of Yongxing City by the City Hall, becoming the most important city district after the Central District and the Morning Star District. Lords who guarded the four directions, celebrities of the royal court, and even foreign exiled dignitaries liked to build their villas and estates here.

It was full of large and small nobles and officials' estates, and there were almost no residences and bazaars for commoners, and even the people who came and went were mostly servants and subordinates of various families and powers. In addition to the ridiculously high land prices, there are also unwritten rules in Dongcheng District: those who buy land, the selected lot must match the corresponding status qualifications (you don't want to know what happens to those who break this rule), and the six wealthy families and the thirteen noble families, even if they all have their own estates in the suburbs of the royal capital, have built their own properties in Dongcheng District, and naturally they are all located in the best locations - whether the nobles of these families often come - whether or not the nobles of these families come often.

It is precisely because of this that in the already huge Dongcheng District, different manor villas are far apart. On the contrary, the grass and trees between the manor and the manor are maintained by the town hall to flourish and thrive, and the main road is also built wide and atmospheric, flat and stable, and every 20 meters, there is a large inextinguishable lamp provided by the city hall.

And the guards and city guards patrolling this avenue, one must be cautious, the consequences of offending these big men can not even bear their superiors, and the other is also relaxed, under normal circumstances, when encountering incidents that require the intervention of the guard hall and the city defense team, those nobles often have their own methods to deal with them, and do not bother.

As the captain of the city defense team who patrols the main roads of Dongcheng City all year round, the sword and crossbow on Jenard's body have hardly been used in the past ten years, but the helmet and armor are as bright as new - when they encounter the carriages of the great nobles on the road, they are used to sorting out their armor, and then retreat to the side to take off their helmets and salute (in the words of the head of the Dongcheng Alert Department, they should have replaced their heavy helmets with hats, and it is too funny to take off their helmets and salute).

Jenard cherishes his job very much, and he knows how much effort his comrades-in-arms have spent to dispatch him, who should have been disbanded with the army and fended for himself, to the royal capital city defense team, and it is a stable, calm, and tip-off Dongcheng District.

As a farmer from the countryside of Southern Daolun County, Jenard's colourful experiences are definitely worth singing about by the bards.

More than ten years ago, almost nineteen years old (Jenard no longer remembers his birthday since his father's death), the whole village was hit by a natural disaster, and then was attacked and plundered by the bandits who gathered together.

Brave and bright-minded, he survived the treacherous Battle of the Emerald City and was lucky to survive;

He had ventured to hold two sacks of flour and keep up with the great retreating forces of the Vola Corridor, heroically breaking through the Fangs encirclement with the Duke's own army ("We all owe you two sacks of flour until we join up with the rest of the troops. - Duke John);

Under the orders of his superiors, he also rushed to the welcoming banquet of the Earl of Dale's house with his troops, and watched how the duke, who was a guest, did not change his face to collect their private soldiers;

He even rushed through the bombardment of the magic gun in the decisive Battle of the Plains of Fire and slashed a battle axe;

He also led a team under the Duke's nine-pointed star to withstand the rebels' desperate counterattack at the end of the blade gap.

Until the final siege of Sodara - Jenard sighed deeply, cursing the day of victory and sorrow, and waved his hand at the team, making way for the knights holding the fleur-de-lis banner on the opposite side.

The knights of the Cavendier family, thirty-four, were not accompanied by a carriage, probably the subordinates who worked for the master's family.

The two leading ones seemed to have superior strength, and as for the others, judging by their movements on their horses and the position of their weapons, they were all fancy ones, and Jenard pouted unknowingly and stepped aside.

In just over a year, he was promoted from an ordinary baggage soldier to a combat levy, then to a sword and axe soldier, an infantry combat captain, and then to the most glorious duke's personal guard, Jenard went from a peasant who didn't even know how to hold a sword to an excellent officer who had experienced a hundred battles. The rare battlefield experience made him even more rare to become a mortal, as long as there are three or five companions in the formation, he will not be afraid of the super-level warriors at all. Even in the days after the disbandment of the Starlight Legion, Jenard remembered that the guidance of the respected Duke's personal guard commander in the Starlight Legion never fell behind in training.

He had seen countless knights on the most perilous days, horsemen known for their striking power, both the brave and the noble, to the cowardly, and the hard-hearted, fearful of the hard—of course, far more than the latter under the hands of Duke John.

Therefore, Jenard could see at a glance that the two leading knights, with calm expressions and smooth movements, were able to exert force on their horses at any time with a slight posture, and had a sword on each side of their waist and saddle, very close to their dominant hands, and were obviously masters who had more or less experienced the battlefield. These super-level masters are definitely officers of a combat squadron on the battlefield, whether it is charging, raiding, guarding, reserve, or even the commander's personal guard, these people are the indispensable backbone and even the core, such as the famous Baron Arka Mu in the kingdom.

Now, the two knights, who were supposed to have crossed them with more than twenty men, stopped their horses and rode towards Genad.

"City Defense Team!" This is a knight with sparse hair, more than thirty years old, and the blue-green light tracing plate armor looks like a hand-refined aristocratic heirloom, and he is facing a straight face, and asks the leader Janard, condescendingly: "We saw the horse's hoof prints of the brigade on the road, and at this time, there shouldn't be so many cavalry in the East City - have you met them?"

Should you show up?" Jenard said with contempt as he looked at the noble knight under the tricolor irise.

But after ten years of work in the city defense team, he has long been rubbed off by reality, and he saw the former duke's personal guard bow his head humbly and obediently, and replied: "Honorable lord, the people who can mobilize a large number of private soldiers in Dongcheng District are the lords. We don't dare to intervene in their affairs. ”

Seychelles, the Duke of Jenn's henchman, frowned: "Have you met these cavalrymen?

Jenard was silent for a moment.

Ten minutes ago, the thirty-two horsemen who passed by, ranging from mortal to super-rank, the leading nobleman was neat, but obviously not a soldier, and he was even followed by a woman, but Jenard didn't see them raise their banners.

However, how could he, who had served under Duke John for many years, not recognize the movements, equipment, and shield styles of those soldiers? In those years, many people in the Duke's personal guard were once the Duke's private soldiers brought out of the family, and became his personal guards as the Duke went south.

Some of those people have saved his life, and he has saved theirs, almost all of them are enough to give their backs (don't think crooked, don't dirty). by a swordless man with a serious face) - oh, a good woman - worthy of a warrior under the nine-pointed star.

Yes, Jenard told himself again: those thirty or so cavalrymen were members of the Bright Star Family, private soldiers of the royal family.

The most important thing was the man of the Duke John's family for whom he had sworn to die.

"Yes, my lordship," replied Jenard categorically, "we met them, just now. ”

"They didn't show any flags, and I don't know where they went. ”

The former guard of Duke John saluted - ironically, no one under Duke John, the king's younger brother, taught him how to salute the nobles, and the day after arriving in the capital, a low-ranking official of the town hall angrily asked him to learn the standard salute ("They are nobles, you know?"—Jenard's former boss in the city guard).

But this ordinary captain of the city defense probably didn't know how much impact the information he had withheld would have on himself and the future of the entire star.

Seychelles frowned, reached into the money bag and grabbed a handful, threw the two silver and gold coins that he had inadvertently grabbed back into the bag, and then scattered the remaining copper coins to the soldiers of the city guards.

"Your tips. He said, then turned his horse's head and caught up with his companions.

"Don't think too much, and don't worry about other families. Just do what the duke tells you to do. Both of us are here, as long as we don't go to the Fuxing Palace, there is nothing that the king can't solve. If those vampires don't cooperate, they will only die. Seychelles returned to the front of the cavalry and listened to another noble knight beside him, a calm Cassian, said softly.

"If it's any other family, then why don't you raise the flag?Thirty or forty people, unidentified cavalry galloping into Dongcheng at night - how long has it been since there has been such a thing?" Seychelles was still careful to say, he had traveled in the night war of the Eastern Continent, and learned from the people of the Eastern sages and the finesse.

"Your Majesty's forty-eighth birthday is approaching, this birthday is too crucial, the noble messengers from all over the country, the envoys of the lords, the envoys of various countries and states, and even the spies, the Tower of End, the representatives of the Church of the Gods, and the large and small forces in the secret, it can be said that the eyes of the whole world will be focused on the royal capital. ”

"And the major families in the country are also moving in many ways, either bright or dark, which is normal, aren't we the same, and we are working hard for it. Cassian turned his head and said lightly, "If you're really worried, just go back and report when you're done—it's not about our mission." ”。

"I hope so......" Seychelles touched the sword at his waist, thinking about the sharp-eyed city defense captain just now, and said again:

"I hope it's not the actions of other families. ”

"Peace of mind, Lord Seychelles. Cassien said leisurely: "At this moment, except for the wrestling with the royal family, all actions towards the nineteen nobles will be regarded as betrayal. ”

"How can a traitor of the nobility succeed in 'electing a king'?"

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Ji Ni's eyes flashed, dodging the two blood slaves who rushed madly, the silver chain sword in her hand shook and tied them up, and the other two Bright Star Clan's finishing swordsmen stepped forward and stabbed the silver sword in their hands into their hearts.

But the court lady sensed something in an instant, and she fell to her knees and rolled to avoid a sharp claw that suddenly flashed.

The female blood clan Lolana missed the blow, turned around and parried the two silver swords in hatred, and then screamed, and her figure flashed in the sound of "sizzle" and quickly retreated.

The newly grown right arm was still rusty, limiting my strength—Lorana thought hatefully—the damned half-crippled Adept.

"Blood-sucking, find it right next time!Vampire crimes in the city--the old lady has seen too much, and she has even captured a blood-borne count of the Aura family with her own hands!" Jenny sat up violently, her slender arms shook, and the chain sword instantly locked on Lolana's left leg.

I saw her roll the chain sword on her right arm, and an inexplicable huge force surged out and pulled it fiercely!

Avoiding a sword light, Lorana stumbled and was pulled directly to the ground!

The strength of this female short-born - is she a monster?

Lolana roared and gripped the ground, resisting Geni's strange power, but before she could steady, another silver sword stabbed at her.

This damn sword formation!Lorana cursed in her heart, facing such an enemy, her extraordinary speed and special abilities could not be used at all.

The Starlight Array is a circular defensive formation, the main body of the formation, each outer edge can highlight a few slightly smaller squads, acting as the tentacles and temptations of the entire formation, and in the melee, it can also flexibly advance and retreat.

And the blood slave - Lolana carefully avoided the silver sword, while resisting the great power of Ji Ni, kicked away the swordsman who attacked her - the blood slave was surrounded and suppressed by the sword array, and there were fewer and fewer blood slaves, after all, how could a monster without reason be able to defeat a swordsman who had been in a hundred battles?

"Gilbert!" Gini roared, tightening the chain sword in her hand, "What about that kid, we've been dragged by these two guys and a bunch of crazy people for so long, you'd better have a plausible plan!"

On the other side of the formation was at the door of the big house, where Gilbert, with a sword in one hand and a staff in the other, worked with several finishing swordsmen to besiege the blonde Easter.

"Yodel is entangled by the other party, and that guy is also in the Extreme Realm!" Gilbert said with a frown, "But since we are dragged here, we can only trust him!"

"You're — what useless men!"

Ignoring Ginny's insults, Gilbert turned his attention back to Eastron in front of him, the Bloodline of extraordinary speed, who had snatched Tails under the noses of the eight guards, taking their lives in the process.

Easteron's special talent is a speed far beyond that of ordinary bloods, and he is still at the super level, and in terms of speed, he is enough to surpass most of his peers, but only tonight, he has met two opponents in the short breed who are also at the super level, but are not afraid of his extraordinary speed at all.

One is Nekla of the Blood Vial Gang, the guy's first few moves, Eastlon saw it clearly, Nekla couldn't compare the speed with Eastron at all, but for some reason, after a few moves, Nekra's speed and reflexes turned out to be faster and faster. At the most critical moment, Niekra's fist speed and body reaction were even on a par with the blood clan, and if it weren't for Chris's sudden intervention, Easteron even felt that the other party's speed would eventually surpass his own!

Second, Eastron's scalp tightened, and it was the middle-aged nobleman in front of him who looked elegant and noble, but made him fearful! Like Nekla, Gilbert couldn't keep up with his speed, but this nobleman used his own methods to restrain the high speed that Eastrom was proud of.

The silver sword in Gilbert's right hand was very steady, and his footsteps were full of the grace of a noble duel, but Easteron was not worried about his sword, the blonde bloodline could easily handle such a sword speed, and could also overturn two swordsmen by the way.

What he was worried about was the cane in Gilbert's left hand!

Compared to the mediocre swordsmanship, that staff is simply another person in use! Every time Eastlon dodges or sets up the silver sword, and is about to make a counterattack, the strange cane will hit him in the air, impartially, which happens to be the direction he is ready to counterattack, or else it is the key point of power, knocking Eastlon back aggrievedly, and then falling into the siege of other swordsmen.

Just for that strange cane, Eastlon even felt that it was not he who was holding Gilbert back, but Gilbert who was suppressing himself!

But Eastron didn't know that he had fallen into Gilbert's trap from the beginning - the key to Gilbert's family martial arts was not the cane, but the seemingly ordinary sword in his right hand!

"Master Chris!" the blonde nobleman's ears moved, and he heard his cousin Lolana whispering in the melee.

"It's hard for us to hold on any longer-hasn't His Highness woken up yet, if it really doesn't work, let's retreat with the ancestral coffin!"

They didn't know that at this moment, Chris, who was clutching the yodel's dagger, had a face full of surprise and disbelief.

This emotion even reached the opponent in front of him, the yodel behind the mask.

Chris whispered something that only the yodel on the other side could hear, and the bloods with extraordinary hearing.

The two Extreme Realm masters stopped fighting, let go of each other, and stepped back.

Lolana and Easteron heard Chris's whispers and opened their mouths wide at the same time, but then quickly retreated, dodging all the way without fighting back.

Soon, the people who were scuffling in the open space were surprised to find that the blood slaves were also roaring, and they stepped aside, even ignoring the heads cut off by the swordsmen around them.

Ginny in the sword formation looked at Gilbert in surprise, while the latter was still frowning, thinking about the situation in front of him.

They didn't wonder for long.

"Hoo, kick, kick!"

I heard only a few children's steps, hurrying from the house.

Along with the footsteps, there was also a childish boy's voice.

"Everyone!"

Everyone in the clearing, just like that, saw Tails, who was shirtless, panting and pulling behind him, a little silver-haired girl in his shirt, ran out of the door on the first floor of the house and came to the open space of the manor.

Before he could see the situation before him, Tails used all the strength of a seven-year-old boy, with a confused brain, and with all the expressions he knew, to the sky:

"Stop it all!"

"We are allies!"

“friendly_fire！”

“knock_it_off！”

As soon as the words fell, behind Tails, the little silver-haired girl who was in a hurry and couldn't stop the car, hit her head on the back of the traverser and fell to the ground with him.