Lord of War

An old man with a haggard face is supporting a young woman as he advances cautiously in a dense forest. ??? Hunting? ???? ???????????

Surrounding it were six men of different age groups, including teenagers aged 17 and 18, young people aged 23 and 4, and middle-aged men in their 30s and 40s. Although there is a huge age gap between them, what they have in common is that they have extremely vigorous and strong aura, and each of them has awe-inspiring murderous intent, obviously not ordinary people.

But looking at the six people around him, the old man sighed helplessly.

Originally, there were thirty people following them.

These people are the true direct descendants cultivated by the old man. They can be said to be the elite among the elite. The growth of each of them has cost the old man a lot of effort and resources. Among them, the three most powerful were given names by the old man himself, namely Shadow Ghost, Shadow, and Shadow Demon.

Three Shadows, these are the three leaders of the famous Black Feather Nightingale under the Marquis of Floris.

There is no doubt that this old man with a gaunt face and gray hair is the Marquis of Flores. It's just that at this moment, he seems to be much older than he was a few months ago-if a few months ago, Floris looked like a middle-aged man in his thirties, then at this moment, Floris It looked like an old man who was over fifty years old and was dying.

And there is only one person who can be supported by the Marquis of Floris himself.

Her Royal Highness Princess Voorhees.

"Lord Marquis Flores, let's take a rest here." After advancing for a short distance, Princess Voorhees suddenly said.

The breath of Marquis Floris was a bit disordered, which was obviously caused by lack of physical fitness. He knew the reason why Princess Voorhees asked for a rest, so he said: "It's okay, Your Highness, I can still persist, let's move on."

Voorhees glanced at Floris, who was out of breath, and walked forward a few steps before saying: "But Lord Marquis Floris, I'm tired, can you let me rest for a while?"

The Marquis of Flores looked at Her Royal Highness in front of her. She was dressed plainly, a village woman's clothes stolen from a small village a few days ago, but after so many days of long journey, her clothes were already worn. There are many damages, and even the arms and face have several scars scratched by thorns. However, although this princess looks ashamed, her spirit is obviously very good, and her whole person has also undergone a great temperament change.

no matter how you look at it,

At least at this moment, Her Royal Highness doesn't look tired.

However, before Floris could speak, Her Royal Highness had already walked aside and sat down to rest.

As a result, the Marquis of Floris couldn't say anything more, so he could only say to the black-feathered nightingales around him, "Then let's rest for ten minutes."

"Ten minutes is not enough." Her Royal Highness Princess Voorhees said, "It will take at least half an hour."

"Your Highness, it's okay, ten minutes is enough for me to recover some strength." Marquis Floris sighed softly, and then sat down directly on the ground, "Our current situation is still very dangerous, and if we stay too long, we will be easily exposed. So ten minutes is the limit."

"Okay." Seeing that Floris was so persistent, Voorhees didn't say anything more, and nodded in agreement with Marquis Floris's arrangement.

Six black-feathered nightingales of different ages also each found a place to sit down and rest. Although they didn't need to rest in terms of their physical fitness, they would definitely not waste ten minutes of rest time, after all. The actions in the past few months are extremely difficult tasks even for him. Especially now that there are only six of them left in a team of nearly thirty people, and even the strongest three shadows in the team known as the Black Feather Nightingale have been damaged. One can imagine how much they were exhausted.

Moreover, they don't know when the action will end this time, so they will definitely not waste this kind of relaxation time.

It's just that although the six people are in a resting state, the scattered positions of the six people perfectly protect the Marquis of Floris and Princess Voorhees in the middle, and at the same time, they can monitor everything around them This is enough to show the training quality of these six black-feathered nightingales.

Ten minutes is not a long time, it will pass quickly.

The Marquis of Floris's control of time is almost accurate to the second level: when the second hand of the pocket watch just skipped the last second, he immediately got up.

Following the Marquis of Flores getting up, the six black-feathered nightingales also stood up at the same time, and then began to move closer to the middle, and Princess Voorhees also stood up.

The attack on guard did not appear, and the group of eight soon set out on the road again.

In the itinerary of these days, the transformation of Princess Voorhees is undoubtedly the biggest one, and it also allowed the black-feathered nightingales to see a princess who is completely different from the rumors: she did not cry and cry, nor was she tired. Having complained about anything, she was working hard and learning alone as far as she could, and she did not maintain the habit of a princess during this escape journey.

Of course, Princess Voorhees is really not good at surviving in the wild, that's why she has so many scars on her body.

"Hold on for a while longer. After leaving the dense forest, we can reach Wendeling, which is one of the few areas that has not been controlled by Black Hawk." Marquis Floris said, "But it is very close. The Tonis Fortress is here, and I heard that the Void Empire has officially declared war on the Ryan Kingdom, and the battle has become a little fierce."

"War has been officially declared?" Princess Fursis bit her lower lip, her face turned ugly, "My idiot brother! What stupid things did he do!"

"If we hadn't officially declared war, we wouldn't be able to act now." The Marquis of Floris sighed softly, and then said, "The Void Realm of the Void Principality has already infiltrated the Ryan Kingdom on a large scale. The intelligence organization on the side can't resist this kind of infiltration, so the Wendeling will escape from the control of the Black Hawk....As long as we reach there, we can try to communicate with the Void Realm."

Voorhees nodded: "Then... Grand Duke Asuna, is there no news yet?"

"We can't contact the shadow now, so I don't know the specific situation." The Marquis of Floris sighed. If Asuna and Vivienne hadn't blocked them from the back at the beginning, they wouldn't have been at all. Impossible to escape. After escaping, they heard that Vivienne was killed in battle and Asuna was captured. They, including Elizabeth, were naturally in a very sad mood, and at the same time they began to plan to rescue Asuna.

It's just a pity that because of Floris' carelessness, he didn't expect that his intelligence department had been planned by the Black Hawk, so he naturally fell into the trap set by the Black Hawk. At that time, if it were not for Elizabeth and the shadow ghost to fight back desperately, everyone including him, Floris, would not have survived, because Grain was determined to kill Voorhees-this is already considered official. It's an act of tearing face apart, because as long as Voorhees dies, the orthodox succession of the Ryan Kingdom will fall on Glenn.

Prince Adams, because he was isolated and unable to return to the country, his inheritance rights had been removed long ago.

This is a common dispute in the royal family when there is no designated heir - originally the orthodox heir of the Ryan Kingdom has been determined to be Allan, but in fact, when he attended the Libra meeting, he was already regarded as a quasi-king It's over, and he will be officially crowned king after the meeting is over and he returns home. So in terms of ethics, the Kingdom of Ryan is currently running for the second election for the heir to the throne—choosing one of Grein and Voorhees.

However, according to the situation at the time, the one who could inherit the throne could only be Voorhees, not Grain, let alone Adams who was excluded by the entire capital and the southern nobles. It is also because of this that Grain designed to frame Voorhees, and even simply ordered the arrest and attempted murder. However, as Sean went berserk and the Peace Council was completely destroyed, and things got out of control, Grain That's why he wants to save Asuna's life.

Otherwise, according to Grain's plan, Asuna would also die.

But now, with Sean's whereabouts unknown, Grain finally officially broke up with Voorhees - as long as Voorhees dies, Grain is the only orthodox heir to the Kingdom of Ryan, and he can officially take over the entire Ryan Kingdom command. The real reason why Grein was so frantic was naturally because of the madness of the current Queen of Phoenix, Cecilia.

After the Void Empire captured the Taurus Fortress, beheaded all the members of the royal family of the Fascist Kingdom, and completely cut off the blood of the Fascist Kingdom, it quickly withdrew its troops from the Fascist Kingdom and donated the entire territory of the Fascist Kingdom to the Chinese Empire. After that, under the joint efforts of William and Hela, in less than a month, all the territories of the entire Kingdom of Lane except the Tonis Fortress were recovered, but Cecilia had no time to manage these territories, so he All these territories were given to members of the seven-member alliance, including the Duchy of Garrod and the Duke of Tequila.

Therefore, it is currently responsible for fighting the Kalosa Tribal United Nations and the Robin Knights. The Duke of Garrod, Duke of Tequila, and Duke of Black Mandala, led by Elizabeth and Simi, formed a seven-member alliance with Sean in the past. a member of.

After shifting their strategic offensive and defensive strategies, William and Hela were finally able to join hands to formally deal with the Kingdom of Ryan.

Not to mention the confrontation in combat power, Grain, who failed to completely take over the entire Kingdom of Ryan, didn't even have the power to mobilize the army - Ryan's strongest sword and strongest shield both found an excuse to refuse to fight, you know this The two control more than one-third of the entire Lane Kingdom's military force; and the northern nobles have always obeyed the command of Prince Adams. Judging from the means that Grayne designed to frame Adams, it is naturally impossible for the northern nobles to send troops south. After all, Gray En has not officially enthroned yet.

So in fact, the only forces that Grayne can really control are the private soldiers of some southern aristocratic factions, the legions stationed in the south, and the forces of the king's capital. And this force is not even one-third of the entire Ryan Kingdom. If it weren't for Grain's deep understanding of the importance of the Tonis Fortress, and Black Hawk's firm control of the Tonis Fortress from the very beginning, Maybe the Tonis Fortress has already opened its doors wide open to let the army of the Void Empire enter.

And when it comes to Tonis Fortress, one has to talk about the Nibelungen magic circle that Sean gave Asuna back then.

When Asuna moved out of Fortress Tonis, she handed over the map of the magic array to the Royal Family of Lane. Later, under the joint efforts of Grein and Marquis of Floris, Fortress Tonis was rebuilt on a large scale, completely turning it into a new one. The Nibelungen magic circle was built. It is precisely because of this that the army of the Void Empire is unable to completely level the Tonis Fortress, and can only rely on the most primitive and ancient siege warfare methods to attack.

Today, the defenders of the Void Empire and the Tonis Fortress have left more than 100,000 corpses in total. Although more than two-thirds of them were the corpses of soldiers from the Void Empire, even if the Kingdom of Ryan as the defender only paid less than one-third of the battle damage, this is still an extremely heavy loss for the Kingdom of Ryan After all, they don't have any reinforcements—Although Alexis, Kozilek, and Ulamog can't directly attack Tonis Fortress, they can go around the back of Tonis Fortress to prevent the arrival of enemy reinforcements.

Letting a super strong man rampage in the area behind enemy lines is simply a terrible disaster.

And what is more terrible than this disaster?

That is to let the two superpowers rampage in the area behind the enemy - now Alexis and Kozilek are making trouble in the rear of the Tonis Fortress, completely cutting off all reinforcement possibilities of the Tonis Fortress. And Ulamog is in charge of the main attack on Fortress Tonis: Even if he can only summon 30,000 void creatures every month, this is still a terrible and powerful aid.

After all, everyone in the Void Empire can see that the Tonis Fortress after cutting off all reinforcement possibilities is a pure tortoise shell. If the defenders die or the will of the defenders completely collapses, then the Tonis Fortress will fall. when.

Of course, in this case, Cecilia's resentment towards Sean is naturally extremely strong-she knows that Sean gave the Nibelungen Magic Circle to Asuna, so she also started from the beginning. I recognized the Nibelungen Magic Circle rebuilt in the Tonis Fortress.

But compared to resentment towards Sean, what Cecilia wants to do now is to kill Grein.

If it wasn't for Grein, nothing would happen to Asuna.

If Asuna hadn't had an accident, Sean wouldn't have rescued her.

If Sean hadn't gone to rescue Asuna, he wouldn't have gone to Ryan.

If Sean hadn't gone to Lane, then he wouldn't be missing.

Because of these interlocking relationships, Cecilia not only wanted to kill Grain, but also lost the little good impression she had of Asuna.

But he knew that Asuna was the person Xiao En wanted to save, so she was willing to spend more time and create more pressure to force Grein to give up all resistance and send Asuna back. Of course, if Grain kills Asuna, then Cecilia doesn't mind going to the capital of Lane immediately and trying every means to torment Grain, but Cecilia knows very well that someone as smart as Grain Guy, he will never kill Asuna.

It was also because Grain was so smart that there was no trace of him now.

But all of this is exactly what William wants.

William, who is well aware of the work of information transmission, knows very well that unless Grain gives up the Kingdom of Lane, it will not be easy to find him. It's a pity that Grein, who wants to become the king of Ryan, can't give up this throne, so no matter how well he hides, he still needs to remotely control the affairs of the entire kingdom. The order he sent out has traces to follow, as long as you find these traces and clues, you can follow the clues to find out Grain thoroughly.

It's just that there is only one such opportunity, so William will not act rashly before determining Gray's final hiding place.

Contrary to what the outside world speculated, after getting rid of the entanglement of the three battlefields, more than two-thirds of the members of the Void Realm have infiltrated into the capital of Lane King. It can be said that the entire King Lane has fallen into William's monitoring. In addition, the Void Empire is also well aware of some things in the Kingdom of Ryan, so they are also very clear that the Marquis of Floris and Princess Vorshees are trying to find a way to go to Wendeland to try to communicate with the Void Realm. Trying to leave the Kingdom of Lane and go to the Principality of Garrod.

It's a pity that the Marquis of Floris and Princess Voorhees, who were involved, didn't know that their whereabouts had been completely exposed.

They are still advancing cautiously in the dense forest.

From the perspective of the itinerary, they still have at least one day before they can leave the dense forest and enter Wendeling.

A black-feathered nightingale suddenly raised his right hand, and quickly made a gesture.

This gesture is clear: someone is approaching!

Because the dense forest is relatively quiet, even the Marquis of Floris kept his voice down as much as possible when communicating with Princess Vorshees. After all, they are still fleeing this time—if they had a choice, they would The character of Marquis Flores would never take the risky move of taking the princess across hundreds of miles, but they had no choice.

The shadow lost contact with Floris in the royal capital; the shadow ghost and the shadow demon died in battle one after another: one died in the joint counterattack with Elizabeth, and the other died in the enemy's surprise attack a week ago. It was precisely because of that surprise attack that Floris had to take the remaining black-feathered nightingales to protect Voorhees and escape overnight, but he didn't expect that the elites under Black Hawk's command were also dispatched this time, so he fled all the way. In the final battle, only these six black-feathered nightingales were left beside Floris, and even he himself was seriously injured.

After seeing the gesture, two of the other black-feathered nightingales quickly stepped forward, one turned and disappeared into the dense forest, and the other two approached Floris and Voorhees.

The six people had a clear division of labor, and their movements were as proficient and natural as flowing clouds and flowing water, which made Voorhees feel more at ease.

But soon, the black-feathered nightingale who made the first gesture immediately made a more complicated gesture, but this gesture made Floris' face ugly. Even Voorhees could feel the suddenly tense bodies of the two black-feathered nightingales beside him and the subtle tension that emanated from them.

"What's the matter?" Voorhees asked in a low voice.

"There are a lot of people here." Marquis Floris smiled wryly, "It should be the enemy who is hunting us...Unexpectedly, some nobles chose to join Grein."

Voorhees immediately heard the subtext from Marquis Floris's words: this time, it was not the Black Hawk subordinates who had been fighting against the Black Feather Nightingale before entering the dense forest, but a nobleman who began to formally intervene for his own benefit. Come to this royal dispute.

But in this way, Voorhees was even more confused.

No matter how you look at the current situation, it is obvious that Glenn is at a disadvantage. The Void Empire will obviously not let Glenn go, but why do some nobles still choose Glenn knowing this? Is it really because the chain of interests has been bound too deeply, and it is impossible to break free? People with a little sense would definitely choose to wait and see in this situation instead of continuing to support Grein.

It is precisely because of this that Voorhees and Floris were able to cross hundreds of miles in just one week. Otherwise, as long as the nobles along the way made a little effort, it would be absolutely impossible for the Marquis of Floris to take Floris with him. Alice escaped. After all, any noble in the field will definitely manage his territory like an iron bucket. It is impossible for two groups of people to fight in their own territory, but the lord who is in charge of the territory does not know anything about it. Condition.

"My lord, hurry up, let's break the queen!" The black-feathered nightingale who went outside to spy on the situation had already returned, but the news he brought was obviously not good, "I don't know which lord's private Soldiers, family emblems and all markers have been removed. The scale is about 100 people, but this is just a vanguard. I observed it just now, and there are probably more than 200 search and arrest troops a little far away. A large encirclement network is forming."

"In other words, the hundred people who surrounded them are 'shepherd dogs'?"

Shepherd is a tactical term for military operations in the Miracle Continent. It usually refers to the troops responsible for driving the enemy army. Their goal is to drive the enemy army to the designated combat area, usually the entrance of the encirclement net; and the driven enemy army, are called flocks.

The black-feathered nightingale nodded, but did not speak.

The expression on Marquis Flores' face became even more haggard: "Oh, it seems that we won't be able to reach Wendeling. ... Black Eagle has arranged shepherd dogs here, so all our routes leading to Wendeling must be They're all locked down."

But at this moment, there was a scream in the dense forest.

The Marquis of Floris and the others all looked at each other in blank dismay, obviously not understanding the development of the situation.

And then, the situation changed completely beyond their expectations.

The sudden shout of killing resounded in the entire dense forest, and from the sound, it was obvious that it was not only around the Marquis of Floris and others, and the enemies who had opened the encirclement net a little further away were obviously also attacked. For a time, the entire dense forest fell into a melee.

One black-feathered nightingale soon left again, and the other five black-feathered nightingales had obviously given up their vigilance and surveillance. It was impossible for them to turn around the current battle situation. After all, no matter how strong they were, it was impossible. Fighting a bloody path in the encirclement net of the regular army—maybe it's okay to just escape alone, but it is obviously impossible to protect the seriously injured Marquis Flores and Princess Vores.

But this time, the black-feathered Nightingale who left to spy on information returned quickly.

"What's the situation?" Marquis Floris asked.

"It was the Gray Night Guard of the Rhodes family who fought against the unknown enemy army."

"The Gray Night Guard of the Rhodes family?" Marquis Floris muttered to himself, "Why are they here?"

But before the sound of footsteps suddenly sounded, several black-feathered nightingales quickly made a defensive fighting move.

Floris looked at the source of the rustling of footsteps on the grass, and then saw a young man in armor walking out of the bushes with a helmet under his arm, and said in a deep voice, "Robd?"

"We meet again, Lord Marquis of Floris." Robud greeted with a smile, "However, meeting under such circumstances really makes me feel a little delicate."

The Marquis of Floris snorted coldly and did not speak again.

However, judging from what he heard, it is obvious that the Gray Night Guard is gaining the upper hand, because the shouts of killing have become smaller and smaller, and the sound of the clash of weapons is also gradually decreasing. All this fully shows that the identity of the team is unknown. His army is no match for the Gray Night Guard at all. Moreover, judging from the gray night guard soldiers gradually appearing around, it is also completely impossible for Marquis Floris and others to escape.

As if feeling the hostility from the Marquis of Floris, Robud chuckled, "Lord Marquis Floris, I don't have any malicious intentions. So you don't have to be so hostile to me. This time I was also entrusted to come to rescue you , and escort you back to my Rhodes territory."

The Marquis of Flores obviously didn't trust Robud's words, "Can you represent the entire Rhodes family?"

"Of course." Robud nodded, "Isn't the fact that I can command the Gray Night Guards the best evidence? Oh, I almost forgot, Mr. Floris, your current situation is not very good for outside intelligence. I understand too well... Well, I am now the patriarch of the Rhodes family."

"You?" The Marquis of Flores looked in disbelief, because he remembered clearly that the possibility of Robud inheriting the Rhodes family is very small, unless someone helps him, "Who are you entrusted to rescue us? ?”

"Entrusted by Her Majesty Queen Phoenix of the Void Empire."

Two highland elves came out of the jungle, and behind these two elves were about thirty other highland elves and grassland elves in similar costumes. The Marquis of Floris, who is familiar with elf culture and has dealt with the Pofeng tribe in the wild land, immediately recognized the identity of the elf army in front of him: it is a special elf guard unique to the Pofeng tribe and the Xuefeng tribe. : Breaking Wind Sword Dancer and Snow Wind Guard.

And the identities of the two highland elves, a man and a woman, walking at the forefront of the two elf guards are naturally self-evident.

That male highland elf was obviously Marton Xuefeng.

And that female highland elf is Vinia Brofeng. (To be continued.)