The Knights of the Royal Family Guard of the Knights of the Royal Family of Crane are essentially a top-level military organization directly under the royal family.

It is composed of the sons of many nobles, and when it was first formed in the past, the so-called Knights of the Royal Family Guard was actually just an organization for the balance of power with a handsome name. In order to increase the control of the nobility in the country, the royal family of Crane ordered the nobles to send their male heirs who had reached the age of sixteen to serve the king for ten years.

Claiming to be high-sounding, but in reality these "knights" are nothing more than hostages used by the royal family to restrain the nobles so that they dare not resist.

For a time in history, this organization became something like a prison for the nobles to throw their second sons they didn't like, and it even gave rise to a popular saying among the Crants: "Those who enter the royal family guard knights are children that no one wants." But that's a thing of the past, as the royal power waned decades ago, the province of Monroe rose and prospered, and the current King of Crant once again wanted to take power back into his own hands, and other nobles who were not accustomed to seeing the Monroe Grand Duke enjoying the cake for himself gathered to form this new royal guard knights.

The strength of today's Krant Knights, which is composed of the royal party, has excellent cohesion and high combat effectiveness, but its disadvantage is precisely that it is too united.

"......" Henry looked at Donald in front of him and did not speak.

Monroe is getting hotter and hotter in April, with the sun's rays shining from 8 a.m. to noon, and if you step on the masonry road without shoes, the soles of your feet will soon be burned.

The sage wears a freshly made plate armor. In the southern style, it is made of light brown hides that are not easily heated, compared to their northern counterparts, which are usually tanned in black. Mira stood behind him. The cunning girl uses the tall sage as a shade and hides in the less hot shadows.

The chief mage of Krant stood in front of them. Standing next to him were a group of knights of the Guards who were red and sweating profusely because they were standing in the sun in plate armor.

"Please help me, Your Excellency. Donald spoke a second time, but instead of looking at him, Henry glanced at the knights around him.

As we said earlier, the strength of the Knights of the Royal Guard is unity, and their weakness is unity - in derogatory terms, xenophobia.

During this time, both Henry and Mira were placed under martial law like any non-royal guards who remained in Monroe.

In other words. They were placed under house arrest.

While Herman's side was in full swing with all sorts of moves, the two sages who had helped the sheriff Vega and even the royal capital to protect themselves were placed under house arrest, which seemed strange to Mira, but Henry had expected it.

We have mentioned that what happened in Avenella last autumn would not have been the same if it had not been for the wise Prince Edward who entrusted everything to the sage and trusted him wholeheartedly, even if he had indeed been in Avenella at that time, and even if he had the knowledge that could change everything.

And now it's happening. That's exactly what happened.

Although Henry had helped Herman and had awakened his blind spot with a few words and provided a direction for investigation, the Count had not done much to reuse him afterwards. On the contrary, after having the ability to conduct an investigation on their own. Herman excluded Henry and Mira, and even sent elite men to watch them twenty-four hours a day.

The reason is actually very simple: first, Henry and Mira are unknown, they are outsiders. Outlander. Herman knew nothing about them, not even Vega, who had asked them for help in the first place. It's just because I can't do it.

And the Grand Master of the Royal Family Guard Knights, who has the power to investigate on his own, and has sufficient resources and manpower. Naturally, there is no need to rely on the power of such unknown guys.

The first reason comes from the two of them, but the second reason is due to the difference between Herman and Edward.

Herman is more conservative, more steady, and older.

The young Prince Edward was so desperate to change his country that he couldn't do it, and even if he did have the ability to judge the authenticity of a sage, he would choose to let go and trust the other party, apparently because of his youthful and desperate adventurous spirit.

Herman was more like Henry's late friend Bernie Cleveland.

The same age, similar status, decisive middle-aged leaders who prefer to be completely in their own hands, who hate those who are more capable and intelligent than themselves, who hate variables, who are thoughtful and like to follow the rules - all of this leads to Henry and Mira being excluded from the investigative circle of the entire royal guard, without any voice, and even limited in their actions.

-- Until today.

"Your identity...... The younger generation has already learned through the investigation that there have been many offenses before, and now please don't be surprised in order to avoid more bloodshed and sacrifice, and help me and others. Donald folded his hands and bowed solemnly, this time he used the lingua franca, Henry knew that the guy was calculating, he deliberately spoke words that Mira could understand, so that the girl would also be interested, and put pressure on himself from another angle.

"Young man's trick......" The sage sighed slightly in his heart, the meaning of doubt in the sparkling eyes of the girl next to him did make him feel a little difficult, but Henry was not the one who would change his mind because of this, he planned to do it or not, it was decided from the beginning.

"Let's go to you first, and then explain everything to me. Henry nodded, and Donald let out a long sigh.

"Thank you, Sage. ”

As he said this, several knights from Krant next to him immediately looked at each other because of this title.

If ordinary people mention this name, they will only think it is a joke. But the person who uttered this was the most knowledgeable magician in the entire Five Kingdoms, though not the highest-ranking in the whole country, and he must have been the most knowledgeable. Henry immediately became unattainable in their eyes.

With a hint of awe that had just arisen, the group quickly arrived at the caravan inn.

Herman, frowning, had been waiting for a long time. A series of bloody attacks by Grand Duke Monroe's house killed hundreds of people on this side with only a few dozen troops. The number of reserve troops urgently requested from the royal capital was larger, and the Grand Master corrected his previous mistake and popularized the skills of dealing with the black bracelet to every soldier.

Among the new recruits, there were more long-range archers and crossbowmen, and heavy bed crossbows large enough to pierce the cuirass were placed on the avenue—Herman was cautious, but even though he was more prepared, he was still reluctant to act.

A bad premonition always surrounds him, as if he has forgotten something important but can't remember it for a long time. The middle-aged earl had not been able to get a good night's sleep for several days, and he looked haggard, but he had become accustomed to all this, and he did not take it to heart, but studied the information desperately day after day, trying to find any omissions, and discovering new clues to solve the anxiety in his heart.

On a tactical level. Herman could clearly understand what had happened the other day.

First of all, they took advantage of the disadvantage of the opponent's scattered sand and scattered their forces in various places in the city, gathered all the soldiers in their hands, and used the local advantage to break them one by one, and easily dissolved sixty percent of the remaining Duke's troops in Monroe City.

After that, it was steady, and even when it was attacked by a small group of elite soldiers equipped with black bracelets of interference spells, and lost hundreds of soldiers as a result, it did not completely collapse - on the contrary. The other party chose to fight like this, even if they did have the ability to fight one against ten, compared to their own side, which could get a steady stream of supplies from Xilin not far away, the Monroe family that was blocked around them was just sitting on a mountain and eating nothing. So this war of attrition is extremely disadvantageous for them.

Able to arm these elite soldiers with a large number of black rings, if they do not disperse to attack their own garrisons but assemble an entire brigade, with superb combat effectiveness and mysterious and evil interference spells. They went directly to the command headquarters, adopted decapitation tactics, killed their own group, and left the rest of the army uncommanded, so that the scene fell into chaos, and it was not difficult to regain the initiative.

- No. They may not even have to force a raid. The scene of the event littered with corpses found black sand, and it didn't even take Herman to realize that it was fine pieces of lead sand. They are used to match with the right size pouch. Apparently the soldiers had sealed the black rings in lead-filled leather bags beforehand, and only took them out when they were ready to use them.

The discovery of this evidence proves that these Monroe soldiers may have used the ring for more than an hour at all, and they could travel lightly and make a long detour and then sneak attack - either way, throwing these elite soldiers out like a fight for attrition, and then there is no follow-up, is extremely incomprehensible to Herman.

His knights of the guard might optimistically mock the Duke of Monroe's family, who had no successors and didn't even know how to fight, but the Grand Master, who had always been thoughtful, would not.

He would make a decision after considering every possibility, and Herman was as steady and rigorous as a mountain - but his mind could not see it all clearly, and in the end, in the end, he had to rely on Henry, whom he did not trust very much.

It was Donald, not Herman himself, who was dispatched, on the one hand, because he knew that Henry's mind must be able to judge the fact that he was under house arrest, and at this moment he had to ask for help in a low voice, obviously he still couldn't pull this face.

On the other hand, it was because Donald seemed to have discovered something a few days ago, and very seriously asked Herman to ask him for help.

The court mage, who knew a lot of things, said so, but afraid of the other party's ability, Herman was still weighing the pros and cons, and it was not until today that there was no way to carry it alone, so he made a compromise.

"......" In the past few days when Henry and Mira were under house arrest and just repeated monotonous study and practice every day, the events and progress made were briefly summarized, and unlike the Luoan girl who only understood a girl who was probably still thinking, the sage directly "snapped" after listening to it and held his forehead.

"Of course they can't be that stupid, Lord Count Hermann......"

"The reason why the Monroe family has repeatedly made actions that seem stupid to you is because their target was not you in the first place!"

"Whether it's the scattered forces that you can easily take, or the elite soldiers with bracelets who are gathered together and die as if they were fighting for attrition, these things have a purpose!" said Henry, and everyone in the room tilted their heads to look at him, including Vega and Franco.

"Connected to the leather bag containing lead sand that can carry the bracelet for a long time without being killed by the magic absorbed by the magic circle, don't you still know what they want to do......" The sage sighed: "Lead sand can isolate magic power, this is not just that the magic circle will not work immediately, and no spell can detect the existence of the bracelet-"

"Uh!" Herman's eyes widened, as did everyone else who realized what the Sage was referring to.

"Spreading your forces is the first step to making you feel like you have a chance, and what are you going to do in this situation? ”

"Bring in more troops to make sure you can win definitely. ”

"And after being attacked and losing hundreds of troops, if you follow this line of thought, you will definitely transfer more equipment and soldiers. These soldiers—" Henry turned his head to look at Herman, the Grand Master of the Krant royal guard's guard stared at him with a blank expression, and the sage continued slowly, "Where did they get it from......

"Xilin ......" Herman was not a fool, he immediately reacted and commanded his subordinates in a loud voice: "The goal of the Monroe family is the royal family, quickly! The whole army retreats! Send a letter to the headquarters of the Knights, and ask them to immediately investigate the refugees who have evacuated to Xilin and those of our captive soldiers! Immediately!!"

A roar echoed in the caravan inn, followed by the chaotic sound of various footsteps, Henry sighed, and the few people standing around him were shocked, and the sage said slowly again: "You want to go directly into the tiger's den and solve all this in Monroe, why don't they......"

He said this, and Herman clenched his fists, staring at the sage who was much taller than him, gritting his teeth and squeezing out a few words: "If I ...... Choose to take your word for it from the start......"

Grand Master's words froze here, his mood was too complicated at the moment to say a single word.

"Trust is a heavy thing, Your Excellency. Henry said this, and Herman nodded heavily at him as if he had finally made up his mind, then glanced back at Vega and Franco, and then turned and declared loudly.

"I declare that the command of the Knights of the Royal Guard at Monroe is to be given to the mercenaries Henry Mayer and Sir Vega Danderick, leaving behind five hundred soldiers and auxiliaries, and the rest, to return to Xilin with me!"

A loud roar echoed through the streets in the afternoon.

Like the drums of war that kick off the upcoming battle. (To be continued.) )

PS: It's sad that no one notices when I change the cover.