The meeting place where the Queen will meet the Great Swordsmen is a lakeside town southeast of Northern Europe.

It is not connected to major rivers and is a separate lake created by meteorites, just like the Heinzswerm meteorite lake.

Scholars speculate that the source of the water comes from the dark river at the bottom of the lake, but in short, it is impossible to get there by water.

Even if you take the land route, it is not possible to go directly south from Heinzswerm Meteor Lake because of the dense forest. You need to go around the entire forest and take a curved route that resembles a C-shape. It was on this way that the queen and her party encountered the giants, and they fled into the path in a hurry, and only then did they strayed into Talva-Suta.

After merging with Grand Master Weimar Menisdor's team, the Queen still has no intention of changing her goals.

My words are that "it is because of the hardships that I hope for peace even more" – but to be honest, not many others share her optimism.

The well-prepared Grand Master of the Dragon Wing has taken all aspects into account. Not only were the medicines prepared, but the female knights in the team carried simple tents and a change of clothes, so that the three of them, including the archbishop, could finally return Henry and Mira's clothes.

It is better to say that it is the surplus of the superior, or to say that it is a difference in focus. After all this and finally returning to the plan, Her Majesty's concern is whether she is dressed appropriately, and whether the accident will be dissatisfied with the other party if it drags on for a few more days.

It may be difficult for our Roan Maiden and Galeva from civilian backgrounds to understand all this. Of course, the latter was stunned for a long time when he later learned the identities of the three people who had happened to his group—or by his standards, a little more dumbfounded.

Mira, who came from abroad and knew Edward on Avenella's side, was unaware, but she had far more contact with the nobles than the average commoner. When I was still young, I went to Ottolo and saw the imperial pomp and circumstance there, and in the subsequent travels, various princesses, princes, archdukes and counts also emerged in an endless stream. The first assignment after arriving on the East Coast was also our noble lady. The figure of the high-level aristocracy seems to be never lacking around her, and it is natural to get used to it, and the more people she has seen, the Luoan girl will no longer be as easily frightened as ordinary people.

This kind of confidence and ordinariness seemed extremely strange to the members of the Dragonwing Knights, and compared to her and Henry, Caleva's approach was more common among the knights.

The young man was nervous when he identified Archbishop Roman by his clothes, but he had thought that the other two were just wealthy merchants traveling together. After the arrival of the Dragonwing Knight to reveal his identity, Caleva felt more and more unable to breathe. He felt uncomfortable, he felt that even the clothes on his body were not properly dressed, and he was fiddling with his clothes every now and then, and an untimely fold looked like a great offense to him at this time.

He was a Suomir after all, and even though he was born and raised in Porusaro, Galeva had the traditional Suomir strict sense of superiority and superiority.

The huge class and lifestyle gap caused the air in the entire team to make him feel extremely uncomfortable.

The difference in vision and the world you come into contact with is evident here. As a commoner, if Galeva encounters what happened to the queen, in addition to mourning his companions, he is most likely frightened and returns to his original place of life, and does not go out.

And after all this, the queen cares most about whether her clothes are decent.

This may seem to the disgruntled commoners to be naïve and self-centered, but if you know anything about the way the aristocracy and upper class socialize in various countries, you will understand that this is really a very important question.

Aristocrats pay attention to face and pomp, which is not only a love of vanity, but also a display of their own strength. The armor of the high-ranking aristocratic military attachés was decorated with brass and even gold, and the time-consuming edge cut-outs and inscriptions were used to show their opponents their wealth and prevent them from being killed in defeat.

Those who can afford such sumptuous armor must be very rich, and it is more cost-effective to capture them and extort them for ransom than to kill them.

Mercenaries with tattered and dirty armor and weapons are not treated like this in comparison. Therefore, in terms of preserving life, the appearance of magnificence is indeed quite important.

And in addition to this, the same is true in terms of social class, where the aristocracy is easy to compare and show. The battles that take place on this bloodless battlefield are sometimes more important than the battle between swords and soldiers—and in this case, we can switch concepts into the Queen's thinking.

The disgruntled commoner would feel that she was self-centered, and that she only cared about her own grooming after so many people had died—because she valued these returning Great Swordsmen so much.

She worries that the clothes she has changed into are not enough to show the dignity of the lord of the country, and make the other party feel that she is being despised by her.

A few days delayed by encountering a giant and getting lost will have the same effect. As the supreme leader of the country, she is indeed entitled to make the other party wait, but these people are already dissatisfied, and if they release their pigeons and let these people hang there, I am afraid that they will become more and more angry as time passes.

She has to show enough attention, so pomp and appearance are very important, and the timing needs to be mastered.

Now the plan is almost completely out of order. In order to prevent the pent-up discontent of the Great Swordsmen from exploding, the queen did everything in her power to get everything back on the right track, and immediately hit the road after merging with the Dragonwing Knight. It's not that she is cold-blooded and careless about those who sacrifice, but that there are more important issues in her mind that must be addressed herself.

Naive, maybe some. Doing things impulsively is not an over-evaluation. But Her Majesty is not ignorant, she knows what she is doing, and she hopes that it will achieve certain ends.

— but perhaps this is just wishful thinking on the part of the Queen. Under her command, even Grand Master Weimar Menisdor, who was most loyal to her, could not be so optimistic.

Her Majesty, who lacks military knowledge, could not understand it, but the location chosen by the Great Swordsmen was very suspicious.

The waterway is impassable, and the lake is a lake formed by a meteorite that exists independently, and only the bottom of the lake has a dark river. The land route is almost entirely forested, and although there are trails in all directions, this is a bad thing, because small armies can easily touch the back.

The neighboring dukedoms are at odds because of the previous events, and now although the queen has rescued them, the duke's army is fully armed and ready for battle, while the Dragonwing Knights only have two brigades. Although Menisdo didn't think it was possible for them to attack the queen directly, he chose to lead the team around the trail in order to avoid danger.

There is a lack of reliable aristocratic armies to support nearby, and the number of these great swordsmen who have quietly infiltrated the country is unknown. The site they chose was remote and isolated, with a lake in front of a dense forest. Although it can be said that it can be said that it is past to avoid suspicion, secret meetings and talks.

But Grand Master was not so naïve.

In military terms, this kind of location is called pocket terrain.

It can only be entered but not exited, and it is an excellent place for ambush parties.

Menisdor would not open his mouth to resist the opinion of his monarch, as the most typical and outstanding aristocratic representative of Suomir's class relations, the Dragonwing Knights were the sword of the gods and the royal family.

He's a professional, and he's got a way to be vigilant, but it's not like the mercenary-style direct obstruction that our Sage would do. Even knowing that the monarch's naïve optimism could lead to death, he could only do his best to pave the way with blood until the monarch decided to withdraw.

Some of the troops were divided and went to other trails. They carry horns and some ranged weapons.

This is to prevent a single large force from being outflanked, with additional vigilance and pathfinder scouts, which will make them more responsive and more resistant to attacks.

He thought about a lot of ways to deal with those great swordsmen, because the great swordsmen were good at foot combat, and this line of troops was all cavalry, at least they still had the advantage of mobility.

If things get worse, Menisdo has a myriad of methods of warfare in his mind at his disposal.

— but that's not all he does.

Grand Master Longyi, who was in front, turned his head and looked at the group of people who were surrounded in the middle.

The trio of queens, who could not ride horses, rode with the female Dragonwing Knights, and by their side were Henry, Mira, and Caleva.

Nominally, he volunteered to join the guards, and did receive a hefty reward of 10 gold coins from Menisdor. But in reality, they did not give the sage and others a chance to refuse.

The moment was the Queen's gratitude, but it was clearly Menisdo who made the idea.

Her Majesty the Queen, the Archbishop, and the Princess did not notice, and when they were invited, the Dragonwing Knights faintly formed a formation of some kind of encirclement. After that, whether it was camping or marching, Henry and the others were arranged in the center of the queue with the three queens.

The Queen's benefactors are also to be guarded in a safe place, but in fact, the team of guards has become a cage to prevent them from escaping.

The perceptive Loan Maiden noticed all this, and Henry didn't need to mention it. As for Kaleva, he was as dumbfounded as ever, unaware of all this, and still only cared about whether he behaved well enough in front of his superiors.

"Stay close to my friends, but closer to my enemies. The sage uttered this military quote in the Lamangu language as he took the bag of gold coins, and from the way Menisdo raised his eyebrows, it was evident that he did know it.

The word proximity in Lamanite is not only socially relational, but can also be understood as proximity in real life.

The Sage taunted the Grand Master of Dragonwing for confining them to his side as an enemy—he had said before that he wouldn't take sides, but apparently Menisdor didn't really buy it.

Staying where he could see, surrounded by his own knights, he had to be at ease at such a critical juncture.

It's true that they can't help themselves, but fortunately, they don't feel too embarrassed, and traveling together can be regarded as peaceful.

"You know, these feathers are dragon feathers!" Maybe it's because the age gap isn't particularly big, maybe it's because I'm relieved to be under the protection of the knights. The little princess Lola turned her head to our Loan maiden and said in a conspicuous tone, "It's not a wurm, it's a real dragon's feather!"

"These feathers are magical, they can lighten the armor in half and charge faster!"

"Do dragons have feathers?" Mira looked a little curious, but the topic was clearly beyond the scope of the little princess's answer. She frowned and began to rack her brains to think, and then it was Archbishop Roman next to her who picked up: "Yes, according to H· According to H. Szechotu, dragons are warm-blooded creatures, and the dragons of the Northland are covered with soft, white feathers. ”

"Most people have the impression that dragon scales are like lizards, and most of them come from dragon lizards and various wurms. Real dragons look and feel more like mammals. ”

"Even though he has a huge body, he can easily fly into the sky. ”

"It's amazing. The archbishop said to our Roan maiden, and at the same time looked at the sage: "These feathers are more than 200 years old, but they are always as new and still sparkle in the sun. ”

"Dragons are truly magical creatures. ”

"More than 200 years, but if I heard it in Cuihu Town, the Dragonwing Knights have only been established for more than 50 years?" Mira looked a little confused, and it was the female knight who was carrying the little princess Lola who answered the question.

She is a typical Suomir, with a height of 180 and above. The Suomir race was more like the petite queen than the petite queen, but the Suomir royal family was already of mixed blood, so it was inevitable - in short, the female knight, dressed almost indistinguishably from the male knight, said in a cold, somewhat stiff Lamani: "That's when the dragon died." ”

There is something wrong with her grammatical structure, and the sentence is a bit of a clue. Mira was puzzled, and Archbishop Roman next to him duly added: "It's the Protector Dragon." ”

"Suomir's White Dragon-Rumiqi, this word means white snow in Suomir. ”

"In local legend, it is a wise dragon who guides travelers lost in a blizzard, and also guides kings. ”

"It is said that the Suomirs first followed the footprints of the white dragon to Heinzswerm Meteor Lake and settled here. Archbishop Roman said this, and Mira nodded, looking thoughtful.

"After the white dragon died, white wings fell around the place where it fell. In the past, it was guarded by the Great Swordsmen, and its status was as important as the Holy Land of the Lakeside Church of my Jetina sect, but then the status of the Great Swordsman began to be shaken, and there were no more people to defend the forbidden land, so some magicians secretly ran in to steal the dragon's feathers. ”

"They found that it had been over a century but was completely incorruptible and shiny, and that it had strong air-based magical abilities. ”

"Yes, and then the time came when the Great Swordsman was ordered by His Majesty to abandon and leave Suomir. Since then, we've taken over, the Dragonwing Knights. The knightess took the archbishop's words and continued: "We guarded the forbidden place, sealed the entrances and exits, and collected the feathers outside. ”

"White wings made of dragon feathers are the pride of our Knights, and while the ban on entering the forbidden land has resulted in these being the only ones to pass on, they are more important than armor and swords. ”

"Damaged armor and swords can be replaced, white wings are not viable. Although there are some problems with the grammar and diction of the Lamanite language, you can deeply feel the pride in the female knight's tone.

But none of them have addressed a key issue.

"And how did it die?" Mira asked, the massive dragon always giving the impression of being invincible. Having encountered wurm, she knew this, and the magic contained in these two-hundred-year-old feathers alone was enough to make the dragonwing knight's 28-kilogram armor light in half, so you can imagine how strong this dragon must have been when it was still alive.

"......" Archbishop Roman could not answer, and so did the others.

"Old dead. ”

In the silence, only our Sage Man, who had been silent for a long time, spoke.

"Dragons are creatures too, and their lifespans will come to an end. ”

"What's wrong. Henry shrugged, "I've read some books, too." ”

"Is that really it......" Archbishop Roman stared at this side with her pretty eyes, and did not move away for a long time.

"Really, just, like this. The sage shrugged his shoulders again.