Blue Sword

A month later, the Crusaders finally recaptured Constantinople.

The above sentence is an understatement because the recovery process is an understatement.

Since the Blue Sword Mercenary Group opened the road to Constantinople and expelled all the demigods along the way, it was extremely easy for the Crusaders to clean up.

In just over half a month, the Crusaders had already deployed heavy troops outside the walls of Theodosius and began to fire artillery at each other with the Seljuks in Constantinople.

Another week passed, and the artillery power in the city gradually became sparse. Sensing something was wrong, the Crusaders launched a wave of exploratory sieges, and actually occupied the city wall directly.

As the scattered Seljuk people in the inner city of Constantinople gave up their weapons and surrendered sparsely, the Crusaders realized that Emperor Suleiman had initially fired at the Crusaders with artillery, but secretly sent most of his troops through Golden Horn, moved towards Asia Minor.

The artillery that fired outwards from the city also used to increase the proportion of smoke bombs over time, using a large amount of smoke to cover up the decrease in the artillery firepower itself, so that the Seljuks successfully made a sudden change under the eyes of the Crusaders, and The living forces were smuggled to the East.

This result has both good and bad consequences:

The good thing is that Constantinople was preserved intact. In order to cover up the public as much as possible, Suleiman did not have enough time and transportation capacity to transport the citizens of Constantinople, so they were not plundered or consumed in brutal siege battles. Kill for taste.

The disadvantage is that the subsequent battle to recover Asia Minor will be difficult to fight. First of all, the initial goal of the Crusaders was to recover Constantinople. Asia Minor was not included in the jihad contract. In short,... more money was required.

Secondly, the population and resources of Asia Minor are here. If it is not recovered, Constantinople will face the threat from the east. Recovering it will not take a day or two.

In turn, we can see the insidiousness and cunning of the emperor Suleiman. If he chose to defend Constantinople, the Crusaders, who had the advantage in military strength, could first cross the sea to regain western Asia Minor and remove Suleiman's retreat to the east. Cut it off.

In short, although Constantinople was recovered and the foundation for the restoration of the Eastern Solomon Empire was completed, Theodora was indeed not in a happy mood at this time.

To be more precise, from the restoration of the throne to the counterattack in Asia Minor, a lot of things diluted her joy and sense of accomplishment, and instead made her even more worried.

For example, there is no trustworthy bureaucratic team on hand to complete the integration of Constantinople's remaining resources; for example, the military threat in the east has become more serious, and the departure of the Seljuks has taken away a large number of fleets, so that the city is almost No navy available.

Another example is that the diplomatic wrangling with the Crusaders involved a lot of her energy, especially the disastrous lessons learned from the past (referring to the first volume of the Crusade leader deliberately delaying negotiations with her and secretly inciting the Crusader knights to plunder Constantinople). Don't even dare to take it lightly.

Another example is a man who originally promised her to become co-emperor, but now he was leisurely taking other girls to play around in Constantinople, which made Her Majesty Theodora almost bite him to death. His impulse.

Compared to Theodora's busy and bored situation, the others in Cangqing Sword were relaxed and comfortable, and were currently retracing their memories in various locations.

"Look, it's the Saint-Oli Hotel!" Nora pointed to the high-end hotel opposite and said, "Ellie, do you remember? I stayed there for a month."

"Later, I brought Aske over to introduce you." Eleanor said with a smile, "I remember that Peggy also performed the characteristics of the flesh and blood sequence, which scared you to tears."

"I was so scared that I vomited, thank you." Nora said seriously, "My psychology is not that fragile."

"I remember Ask's home is nearby, right?" Medea suddenly said, "Do you want to go?"

"Well, I want to go to the 'Sunken Palace'!" Little Mia raised her hand and said, "Maybe everyone from the Thieves Guild has returned?"

"Then I also want to go to the Coliseum of Constantinople." Hidrifa also said seriously, "Although there is a high probability that our teammates will not survive today, but maybe we can see one or two familiar faces?"

"Okay, then you go over first." Asik agreed.

So Mia took Mi'er to the Sunken Palace, while Sidley walked slowly towards the arena. Ask took Nora, Eleanor, Paige and Medea and walked towards the direction of Achilles' mansion.

Achilles' mansion is still intact on the outside, but still in tatters on the inside. When Ask reported a family of vampires to the Orthodox Church, a team of armored paladin rushed in and smashed everything inside. Although some new furniture was later added, they were taken back to Fire Island when they left, so there was nothing left at all.

Probably because of this, although the door lock of the mansion was picked open, there was no sign of living inside. Obviously the intruder did not expect that this was an abandoned house.

The Peggy family mansion next to it was first burned to rubble due to the vampire incident. Later, due to the construction of Hearth Manor, it was cleared and used as a temporary storage place for building materials. Now, a shack has been erected and is used by a poor family. occupied.

Peggy stared blankly at the ruins of her home. A little girl in rags was shooting a ball at the door. Soon her mother came out and pulled the little girl into the shack.

"What are you doing?" Ask suddenly patted her shoulder and said, "Let's go."

"Oh." Peggy quickly followed.

A group of five people walked through the empty hall. Many wooden boards had been pried away and used as heating fuel in winter.

After turning around the second floor and going up to the study on the third floor, everyone saw five chairs placed around the carpet in the center.

It was here that Asker and Medea worked together to popularize some introductory knowledge about extraordinary beings, and opened the door to a new world for Nora, Eleanor and Peggy.

So everyone sat down in their original positions with some nostalgia. You looked at me, I looked at you, and couldn't help but laugh with emotion.

"Ahem." Medea cleared her throat and smiled sweetly, "Do you want to become a transcendent? I have a magic potion formula for the psychic sequence here."

Eleanor was slightly startled when she heard this, but Nora immediately understood that she was acting out the original scene, so she pretended to be a newbie who didn't understand anything, and said timidly:

"Psychic sequence? What is the specific ability?"

"Psychic I allows extraordinary people to detect the existence of surrounding mental bodies..." Then Medea explained the knowledge of the psychic sequence.

Of course, Nora was already familiar with these things, but she still made serious gestures of holding a notebook and pen, pretending to write seriously.

"So, what exactly is a mental body?" she asked Medea with a smile.

"Well, the mental body is..." Before Medea could finish speaking, Eleanor interrupted her, "No, I remember you said there would be a fee!"

"Really?" Medea said pretending to be stupid. She actually remembered the original price of 15 pounds, but now it seemed that it was too embarrassing to worry about such a small amount of money.

"Where did we go after that?" Ask asked.

"It seems like I went to some extraordinary gathering." Medea said, poking her chin with her finger.

"Then he said he was going to collect materials." Paige was also somewhat impressed.

"Yes." Ask remembered, "I went to the Thieves Guild to look for materials to buy from Mia..."

So everyone felt sad again.

At that time, everyone was still at Level 0-Lv. 2, running around for formulas and spiritual materials. Now most of them are at the demigod level. Looking back on it is still like yesterday, vividly in their minds.