Blue Sword

Return to Hearth Island.

As soon as he entered the demiplane, Ask saw the girls working enthusiastically.

I saw that on the flat ground in the center of the mountain top, the area had been enclosed with ink rulers and thin lines, and a cement foundation had been laid.

Eleanor and Hildelifera were carrying the wood and putting it into the frame made of steel bars.

Nora, on the other hand, held the construction drawings and pointed at the construction site with Medea and others.

"What are you doing?" Ask asked, dumbfounded. "Have you finished training? Are you so free? Have you started building a house?"

"It's all done." Medea came up and said, "My arms are still numb now... Who is this little girl?"

Her eyes fell on Mi'er next to Ask, and she raised her eyebrows.

"Mi'er, our new gunner." Asik introduced.

"Oh." Medea said in a long voice, looking at the scars on Mi'er's face and body, and said with a smile, "She is much more difficult to deal with than I was before, right? She is quite ruthless in order to recruit people, Tuan long?"

Asker:? ? ?

"Oh my god, what happened to you?" Nora saw Mi'er's miserable appearance, and immediately exclaimed in distress, and hurried over to treat her.

Fortunately, the wounds on her body were all small and not serious, and they healed quickly through the healing touch. Nora took out the handkerchief she carried with her and wiped the dust and stains from her face.

"Where is your father?" Nora asked while squatting to wipe her.

"I don't have a father." Mi'er replied.

"Sorry." Nora pursed her lips, "What about your mother?"

"She... passed away." Mi'er's eyes were a little dazed. "Last week, she had malaria and had no money to buy medicine. She will never wake up again."

"Sorry." Nora didn't know what to say, so she thought for a moment and said, "Then you don't have any relatives who are still alive?"

"I have an uncle." Mi'er was silent for a long time, biting her lower lip under everyone's gaze.

After hesitating for more than a minute, she looked at the gentle-looking young lady in front of her and whispered: "He... said he could take care of me. But he brought people into my house and took away everything my mother left me. Money, but also...bringing a bad guy back."

"Bad guy?" Eleanor frowned.

"...As soon as he entered the door, he pushed me down on the bed and wanted to take off my clothes." Mi'er's eyes lost focus and her voice seemed to be trembling. "I struggled a few times, and then he beat me... I I hid the pistol my mother left behind under my pillow, so I..."

"Took out the gun and shot the bad guy to death." Asik signaled her not to say any more and explained to everyone, "When I found her, she was wanted by the police for killing a noble."

"Of course, now she has carried more than thirty lives on her body, all of which are police and mercenaries chasing her. The little girl's marksmanship is quite good."

"Oh!" Hildrifa exclaimed with admiration, "She killed more than thirty people by herself? That's great. I want to discuss her killing experience with her. Was it a headshot? Or a shot in the chest?"

Nora gave Hidrifa a bitter look: "Don't say this!"

"If that's the case, I'm afraid she won't be able to leave Hearth Island now." Eleanor said calmly, "For such a big murder, there must be a large-scale search and investigation in Constantinople at this time. As soon as she returns to reality, I’m afraid he will be discovered and arrested.”

"Not bad." Aske said, "This is not a problem for us. She can stay here for a long time."

Besides, Constantinople can't last more than a few months... He added in his mind.

"By the way, you said she only killed the nobles who tried to invade her, and the police and mercenaries who were searching for her?" Hildrifa suddenly remembered something, "Then her bastard uncle is not dead yet?"

"You mean..." Asik pondered.

"Kill him!" Hildelife said matter-of-factly, her tone as understated as "Let's go have a meal." "It would be a pity to let such a villain let him go. Why don't we use him to make a 'blood eagle'" Bar."

"Blood Eagle?" Eleanor asked.

"That's the traditional way to treat enemies in our hometown." Hidliba said excitedly, "Tie him head down on the execution rack, first feed him a bowl of herbs to stop bleeding and prolong life. Then, use an ax on his back. Carve the outline of an eagle on it, dig out the flesh and blood inside the outline, and break out the ribs inside, and that will be the eagle's wings..."

"Sidrifa!" Nora was about to explode, "Can't you just shut up?"

"Hey, what did I say wrong?" Sidrifa said dissatisfiedly, but when she saw Mi'er's eyelids twitching, she leaned down again and said apologetically:

"I'm sorry. If you want to take revenge on your own, my sister won't steal the opportunity to kill your enemy with you. Of course, if you want to be a blood eagle, my sister can teach you step by step..."

"You can consider revenge." Asik said thoughtfully.

This is not out of any reason of righteous indignation, but because after helping Mi'er take revenge, on the one hand, she can win the heart of Minervanas, but on the other hand, she really doesn't have any living relatives, so she can only give up her life. Follow the team.

Just like the bosses of some entrepreneurial teams, they will issue low-value loans to their employees.

"I'll go with you." Eleanor said coldly, "I want to ask this scumbag how he could do such a sinful thing."

"Count me in too!" Hildrifa shouted excitedly, "I haven't seen blood for so long, my ax is almost rusty!"

Eleanor and Nora held their foreheads helplessly at the same time. This silly girl is usually as innocent as anything. When it comes to enemies, she will "kill" and "torture" her at every turn, and she still says it with an innocent expression... What kind of education did this guy receive in his childhood? There must be something wrong with the enlightenment teachings of you Northerners!

"Okay." Asik nodded and said to Hidrifa, "But you are not allowed to use that 'blood eagle'."

"No problem, I also know a kind of boat torture." Hidliba high-fived and said, "Tie him on the boat, cut his belly with a sharp knife but not hurt the internal organs, then stop the bleeding near the wound, apply honey, and then When the ship is put into the sea, the flies that smell the smell will come..."

"That's enough, Sidrifa." Asik couldn't help but interrupted her with a straight face, "No punishment is allowed, understand? There is no point in torturing the enemy, just kill him."

"You sound like the most rigid elder in our village." Hidrifa curled her lips and said.

………………

In the Golden Palace, Theodora and His Majesty Zoe had been discussing the empire's military mobilization plan with the Prime Minister all morning. They only felt a splitting headache and their brain cells were almost dead.

On the almost undefendable Anatolian Peninsula, how to defend an army of 100,000 with 20,000 troops is almost an unsolvable problem.

In the ancient Republic of Solomon, one hundred thousand people could only airdrop a few cloud bombs. However, now the empire is no longer able to produce cloud bombs - at best it can only produce crude aviation incendiary bombs, guidance devices and so on. Don't even think about it.

There are still 12 aircraft in the hangar, and they are all currently on duty. They continue to fly to Anatolia in the east and drop bombs on detected enemy barracks. The military factories in the Golden Horn are also working overnight to continue producing aerial bombs. .

However, this did not seem to slow down the Seljuks' advance - the Seljuks equipped almost every unit with extraordinary beings with psychic sequences, so there was no so-called morale problem.

Even if half of them are killed by aerial incendiary bombs, the remaining half can still charge forward with full morale under the influence of the psychic sequence. Therefore, to defeat the Seljuk army, we can only kill all these 100,000 people. There is no hope of morale collapse or anything like that.

Even if one aviation incendiary bomb can kill ten people, at least 10,000 aviation incendiary bombs are needed.

When 100,000 people gather and stand still, the fighter crew needs to collectively drop bombs at least 833 times. This does not take into account the service life and fuel consumption of the aircraft. If you take into account this battle, it is almost impossible to fight...

So Theodora proposed another beheading tactic, which was to organize the most elite extraordinary forces to carry out targeted attacks to kill Emperor Suleiman, who led the Seljuk army.

This leads to another question.

In terms of extraordinary power alone, the number of extraordinary people of the Seljuks is far greater than that of the Eastern Solomon Empire. The negative consequences of the Orthodox Church's long-term suppression of extraordinary people in the country are revealed here.

After much deliberation, other than borrowing troops from Western countries or borrowing Templar Knights from the Holy See, their majesties really couldn't think of any other way.

After taking a break at noon and having a sumptuous lunch, His Majesty Zoe went back to Brachna Palace to take a nap.

She is extremely concerned about the maintenance of her appearance, and even chose the "alchemist" bloodline route for this reason.

Theodora chose the bloodline of "Quality Mage" and is now at level 2. The power of arcane magic surges in her body, causing her to be energetic all the time and there is no need for a nap at all.

According to the tradition of Emperor Solomon of the East, each royal child must be a level 1-level 2 extraordinary person, so that they can understand the importance of extraordinary power without losing too much fertility due to their bloodline.

However, at this time, Theodora simply wished that he could rise to level 20 or above and become a demigod. Even at the risk of being drained of his spirituality, he would wipe out those hateful Seljuqs in the east.

The empire still lacked high-ranking demigods, she sighed quietly.

Arriving at the imperial guard officer corps barracks, Her Majesty Theodora was pleased to see that the officers and guards were training hard. Her trusted guard captain, Michael, was training the officers and guards fiercely while pointing at the screen opposite. The video of the fight shouted loudly:

"You see clearly, how the Tiger Kiri is used, severing the throat with one knife! While cutting off the trachea just right, the neck bone will not be cut at all! What about you? Are your arms so weak that you can't lift the sword? The Tiger Kiri uses You're here to cut your throat, you bastard! Put your arms up!"

"Andres, are you performing a bat cut that sticks to the floor? If you like lying down so much, you will be cleaning the bathroom floor today!"

The officers and guards did not even dare to cry out, they could only grit their teeth and practice silently. Suddenly, they saw Michael half-kneeling with his sword in hand - they also immediately turned around, half-kneeling with his sword in hand:

"Your Majesty Barcelius!"

(Basileios, "Emperor" in Cyrus)

"No courtesy." Theodora said calmly, staring curiously at the video on the screen. Asker was slicing the throat of one gladiator with his sword, then slashing at another gladiator, cutting off the weapon, slicing the helmet, and killing the cracked top with a clean chop.

"This..." She considered her words, "Who is the warrior on the screen?"

"Your Majesty, this man is Aske Lepios Achilles." Michael quickly replied, "He is the only son of the Achilles family in this generation."

"The Achilles family?" Theodora closed her eyes and thought for a moment, and finally recalled, "It's the family whose ancestors came from the Eastern Kingdom of Dragons. I remember that was..."

"In the early Fourth Age of the ancient Solomon Empire, Emperor Trajan was on the throne." Michael reminded, "When the emperor's eastern expedition army attacked Parthia, they encountered a group of dragon people from the east in the Persian Gulf. The envoys headed by It’s called ‘Ganying’.”

"Ganying." Theodora tasted it and said, "I remembered it. It's such a rhythmic name. The language of the Kingdom of Dragon is like a ballad. It is born with a beautiful tone... You continue."

"That was the first time we knew about the existence of the Dragon Kingdom." Mihail continued, "During the great colonial period of the First Age, colonial spaceships actually landed on the territory of the Far East. Unfortunately, due to the first demonic wave, some Too much information has been destroyed in the course of history.”

"After confirming that there was still a human kingdom in the Far East, His Majesty Trajan was very happy and took this envoy team to Solomon. He also built the Ancient Solomon Commemorative Pillar as a monument to the first connection between the East and the West."

"On the way the envoy was returning, a soldier from the Kingdom of Dragon got pregnant with a local girl in Apollonia, in the province of Siris." Michael said with a bitter smile, "He originally thought that the other party was a prostitute, but he didn't expect that The other party is actually the daughter of a prominent local family. She fell in love with him because she was greedy for exotic customs. The girl’s father was very angry and would force him to detain him and marry his daughter.”

"That is, the ancestor of the Achilles family." Theodora nodded and said.

"Yes." Michael agreed, "The people of the Kingdom of Dragon are similar to us Solomons in terms of skin color, hair color, and eye color. They are also natural warriors. That soldier is also good at using swords and spears. , has superb and weird fighting skills, even the Spartan warriors who are also good at fighting are no match for him, so the woman's family named him 'Achilles (?χιλλε??)', which means 'the one from the Styx' warrior'."

"The warrior from Styx..." Theodora chewed the word, "I want to meet this warrior. Michael, can you make arrangements?"

"I can have someone summon him to the palace to see him." Michael said immediately.

"No." Theodora thought for a moment and shook her head, "Find him. Then take me there. I want to observe this person personally."