Blue Sword

After Asker and Peggy both became demigods, Cang Qing Sword bid farewell to the Plantagenet mercenary group stationed here and set off to meet the city of Valencia.

Arriving at the Bull Mercenary Group's station on the outskirts of Valencia, everyone saw a carriage driving out of the town. The leader was a young nobleman, riding forward slowly on a horse.

When he saw the Cangqing Sword group, especially Asik's face, the noble young man's face twitched for a moment, and then he lowered his head in a panic, trembling with his whip, urging the horse to speed up. , so as to leave the other party's sight as soon as possible.

After three attempts and three defeats, Prince Ferdinand no longer had the courage to make a fourth attempt.

Mi'er looked at his figure urging the horse away and sighed, only to hear Aske ask:

"Who is that person?"

The leader with the intuition sequence was naturally aware of the other party's complicated gaze, but he had never seen that prince from beginning to end... Thinking of this, Mi'er chuckled and shook his head.

"Mi'er?"

"It's nothing." Mi'er said perfunctorily, "I remembered something happy."

"Oh." Asik didn't ask anything and continued walking inside.

As soon as he entered the station, he met old Pablo, the recruiting officer. The old man seemed to have just drunk. When he saw Asker and his party, he immediately ran over with a red face:

"Your Excellency Asker...get out! Your Excellency Asker!"

"What the hell?" Ask's face darkened.

"Ferdinand!" Old Pablo laughed loudly, "That bastard prince...get out of here!"

Everyone:? ? ?

After confirming with old Pablo for a few words, Asker finally understood:

It turns out that in the Bull Mercenary Group, Prince Ferdinand, who has been fighting for power with the Grand Commander Deslar in an attempt to integrate the Bull Mercenary Group into the Aragonese royal family, officially announced his resignation from the position of deputy commander yesterday, dejectedly. left.

The reason seems to be pressure from foreign countries. The Iberian Peninsula is different from Britannia. The latter is isolated overseas after all. It can openly integrate the Plantagenet Mercenary Group regardless of the surprise of its allies... After all, the Kingdom of Aragon is still part of the mainland and has received diplomacy from the Holy See and the HRE. After the inquiry letter, it is said that even the Prime Minister was alarmed.

Under the persuasion of a large group of powerful nobles and the Prime Minister, the king had no choice but to withdraw Prince Fernand and gave up the plan to recruit the Bull Mercenary Group.

As the members of the royal family left in despair, the mercenaries of the regiment leader immediately got into a carnival, moved a large amount of wine and meat from the warehouse, and began to celebrate the victory in the station.

Asike continued to move forward, and saw that the road ahead was tightly blocked, and there were mercenaries everywhere singing, heckling, drinking, and fighting.

"Forget it." Asik sighed and handed the mission contract to old Pablo, who was following him. "Help me give this to your group leader."

"What is this?" The drunken old Pablo unfolded the scroll and found out that it was a contract to go to Segovia to support the Plantagenet Mercenary Group.

At the bottom of the contract, there is the signature of the client confirming completion, as well as the signature and seal of Eric, the leader of the Southwest Branch of the Plantagenet Mercenary Group.

In the Grand Master's office, Deslar was also having a few drinks.

It was naturally a big surprise for him to drive away Ferdinand and free the Bull Mercenary Group from the constraints of the royal family. Not to mention that he didn't invest any money in it... The real power was the Holy See and the HRE Empire.

As for why the Holy See and the Shinra Empire brazenly intervened in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Aragon, it was of course because some members of the Cang Qing Sword had extremely valuable identities.

On Deslar's desk, there are two pieces of information that were only recently investigated:

One piece of information came from the Iron Cross Mercenary Group. They had confirmed that Miss Eleanor of the Blue Sword was the biological daughter of Emperor Otto II. The news has been circulated within the Grand Palace of Aachen. It seems that the Dragon family is letting the outside world know in advance to psychologically prepare public opinion.

Another piece of information comes from Italy and Canada, saying that Miss Nora of the Blue Sword Mercenary Group is a direct descendant of the Licinius family, which has the highest status among the thirteen wealthy families of Italy and Canada.

Together, these two people are behind the alliance between the royal family of the Shinra Empire and the Licinius family. They can stomp a huge force that would make the entire continent tremble. Although I don't know why they are hanging out in a small mercenary group... I don't care so much. In short, Deslar has decided that when they come back, they must build up and develop their relationship with each other.

Our Bull Mercenary Group will be your permanent allies of Cang Qing Sword from now on, okay?

Deslar, who was immersed in his own thoughts, was suddenly interrupted by a knock on the door, so he stood up and opened the door.

After listening to old Pablo's intermittent narration, Deslar was a little dumbfounded. When he rushed out of the office to find the Cangqing Sword people, he looked around and saw that they were all mercenaries who were still drinking and drinking. He has already left the station.

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In a port town southeast of Valencia, everyone from Cangqing Sword welcomed the ship from Solomon.

This is a strange ship, with black smoke burning in the chimney. It looks like a coal-burning ship in the early industrial revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, very steampunk-like.

However, the streamlined shape of the entire metal shell and the busy synthetic people on the ship show that the technical content of this ship is actually not simple.

"Your Excellency Asker." The leader was a synthetic man wearing a captain's uniform. He took off his three-cornered hat and said, "The wrath of the sky is ready. Next, you only need to take this, within the confines of the Gibraltar Fortress. Just stay there until the red light on the device comes on."

"Tell me about the situation in Fortress Gibraltar," Asker said.

"Gibraltar Fortress is a base point of the dark sky." The synthesizer continued, "There, the undead opened the entrance to the underworld, causing the space to be distorted. When the gyroscope inside the missile calculates the inertia, it will A large number of changing and uncontrollable errors are generated, so the hit rate of relying on inertial guidance alone is extremely low. It is necessary to carry a signaling source and cooperate with another tracking system for locking."

"Well, I don't understand scientific principles." Ask interrupted, "What I'm asking is, what is the defense situation in Gibraltar Fortress? How many troops are there, and how many demigods are there?"

"There are currently more than 3,000 extraordinary beings and six demigods stationed in Gibraltar." The synthetic man answered fluently, "In addition, due to the circulation of the underworld, the death energy inside is extremely strong, and the living are as obvious as lights in the darkness. They have placed banshees on a large number of main traffic roads and blind corners of buildings to monitor whether non-undead beings enter. It is recommended that you send the undead in your team to sneak in with the source of the message."

"What is the specific length of time required for locking?" Asker asked.

"8.3742 seconds," the synth answered. "Floating upward."

I received the source device from the synthesizer. It was something like a walkie-talkie, with a pole antenna and two indicator lights on it.

"The signal source contains precision devices, so please be careful not to shake or shake, and don't fall to the ground. Up, up, up, up, up, up..." Before the synthetic man could finish speaking, he saw Asker casually The source of the message was thrown to Paige, and she was so surprised that its sound-producing device jammed abnormally.

Fortunately, Peggy caught it steadily, causing its nearly overloaded central processing core chip to slow down slightly.