Proof of the Sun King

The next day before dawn, around seven in the morning, the mercenaries got up one after another, began to pack their things, and prepared to leave.

Ryan was already up, leaning on the warhammer, standing at the door of Teresa's tent, watching the mercenaries packing their things, shaking his head secretly inside: Yesterday's battle mercenaries lost too much, and everyone was injured, in such a situation Under the circumstances, Ryan had no way to force them to march, so their bodies would not be able to support them.

But he couldn't leave the group of mercenaries to go after Belt by himself.

Teresa's situation is very bad, the sorceress is just holding on, everyone knows how vulnerable she is now, if the sorceress's magic power continues, then the mercenaries will not dare to make trouble. Now this is the situation, if the mercenaries are Someone in the group really had bad intentions. Teresa might really get what she wanted by the little mercenary. Ryan felt that these mercenaries were not worthy of complete trust, at least the blood axe mercenary group. no.

Again, as long as there is enough profit, mercenaries can sell everything.

Then leave the mercenary group first, and take Teresa with you to chase first?

No way, what a cunning witcher Belt is. If this happens, the fallen hunter kills the carbine and confronts him directly, then the weak sorceress becomes a burden again, Ryan not only has to fight, but also Protect her. In this case, Ryan is really not sure that he can defeat Belt. Belt has been famous for more than ten years and has destroyed countless monsters. He is a legendary powerhouse who was awarded the title of Demon Hunting Master by the Demon Hunter Association. Before he fell. It's hard to say that Ryan has a 100% certainty to win him. God knows how much stronger he has become after investing in Chaos?

In the final analysis, Teresa had too little combat experience, and the sorceress did not reasonably allocate her magic power, nor did she take into account the loyalty of the hired mercenary group. In her opinion, these mercenaries were just like the servants. , must have fallen under the power of magic, but Ryan didn't think so. There were not many witches who were betrayed by his own guards and finally died tragically or even sold as slaves.

Marienburg is the largest "talent market" on the mainland.

This is also the reason why Ms. Aurora entrusted Teresa to him for protection. A sorceress with little combat experience needs a strong and experienced melee protection very much. Ryan is a very good choice.

She learns fast, doesn't she? Most spellcasters are wise, and they err because of unfamiliarity, but not because of stupidity.

Today's weather is no longer snowing, but a cloudy day. The clouds in the sky are not thick. You can faintly see the gray sky through the clouds. The cold wind blows constantly from Ryan's ears. The knight's cloak is in Swinging behind him, combined with his height of 1.85 meters and heroic posture, his handsome face is like a battle veteran who is guarding the pass, always ready to deal with the enemy.

But in fact, I'm just giving another woman the wind... Listening to the sound of changing clothes in the tent, Ryan thought.

It feels so inferior.

Ryan understands why many legendary powerhouses are reluctant to go on the road with the female spellcasters of the Garland Council. How can this be a companion? This is clearly a babysitter!

The little mercenary had already packed up his things, and was probing his brain nearby. Ryan knew what he wanted to do. The little mercenary wanted to find a chance to talk to the goddess.

A slender hand wearing white lace gloves raised the curtain: "Good morning, Ryan."

Teresa's beautiful face appeared in the cold wind, with ice muscles and jade bones, and a pair of moving silver eyes that seemed to be able to speak. She was still wearing the sea blue mink coat from last night, but the pearl necklace on her chest was covered with It was replaced by a slender sapphire gold chain, and the triangular golden earrings engraved with magic runes dangled on both sides. Ryan felt the fluctuation of magic from these jewelry.

Really rich, Ryan has heard of the wealth and temperament of these Garland councilors more than once. It is said that a lord of the Nord Kingdom once came to the door to ask Teresa's mother Aurora for help because of the wild beastmen in the territory.

The lord has been addicted to alcohol for a long time, has poor strength and a bad reputation, and Aurora happened to be doing an important experiment. The result was that the poor lord had not had time to speak, and was teleported by the angry Great Wizard Garland with a teleportation technique. In the big lake near Tianqiongbao, it was directly immersed in the lake and almost lost his life.

So people, strength is the most important capital.

"Ready to go, feel better...?" Ryan noticed that Teresa's spirit was much better, and was about to ask, but then he found that the long legs under the sorceress's mink coat were still a little trembling , knowing that she still hasn't recovered, she just doesn't want others to see it: "I'm going to lead the horse, please wait here."

The corners of the sorceress's mouth twitched. This man knows how to save face for himself, which is indeed different from those reckless men who only know how to fight and kill. It was a correct decision for my mother to choose him as my companion.

Most of the female spellcasters are knowledgeable and well-informed, which makes their eyes higher than the top. Until this moment this morning, Teresa understood and accepted Ryan as a companion.

The group packed up their things and went back on the road. Ryan was not interested in the topics of the mercenaries, such as drinking, eating meat and grabbing women. He took the initiative to chat with Oliver from the empire: "Mr. Oliver, your dress... eh? Quite Fashionable, isn't it fashionable to wear it like this recently in the Empire?"

The dress of the merchant today is very strange. This imperial merchant wears a helmet and a white fox fur coat, but has a breastplate on the outside of the fox fur coat. It is not surprising that he has heavy trousers and riding boots. Yes, but he also wears a greaves (aka shin guards) on the outside of the riding boots, which looks nondescript and funny.

"Well~ Mr. Ryan, you have to understand that after going through something like that, adding some protection properly will always make me feel better." Oliver was a little embarrassed, but the businessman's face naturally made him recover very quickly. Come over: "Life is more precious than anything else. If I die, my mother-in-law may be very happy. She can remarry with a lot of money."

"But your lover will be very sad, and your son will be bullied by his adoptive father, right? They are the vines climbing on your big tree. Once you fall, everything will be over." Ryan complained.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" Whether it is the mercenaries or the guards of the businessmen, all of them laugh, and even Boris, who is inconvenient to act on his body, laughed madly, and it was painful after laughing.

Only Teresa, who was riding on the horse, hummed, thinking that this person has a good grasp of these doorways. After thinking about it, she couldn't help but smile. The mature and gorgeous style made Banda who was following her beside her. looked stunned.

Female spellcasters are not as experienced in adventure and actual combat as those knights who fight all day, but they are a hundred times better than them in the court and high society. Lane is young and unmarried, even maids and lovers. No, it is really surprising to know so much about these high society things.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Oliver, you are from the empire, can you tell me what business you came to Nord to do??" Ryan stroked his horse, which he named Pine Cone .

"Ah, this, this is nothing to keep secret. I came to Nord this time to trade commodities. We started from Marienburg, filled with armor and food, and then came to Nord. After I got rid of my hands, I bought a large amount of gold and silver ore, animal skins, and, um, magic crystal ore. I wanted to get some fiery oil, but I didn't get it."

"How much can I make this trip?" Ryan asked.

"The estimated profit is five to six hundred gold dinars, but judging from the recent situation, I may earn a little more. Just like the war a while ago, I made a lot of money."

"Well~ I heard that a war broke out between Britannia and the Empire some time ago? In the end, the Empire won and the two sides re-signed a covenant?" The group walked along the dirt road. Fortunately, it was the middle of winter The temperature is very low, the roads are frozen hard, and there is no obstruction along the way. God knows how muddy and impassable the roads will be when the snow melts after spring begins in early May next year.

"Exactly...but not as you think, the two sides of this war are not the Empire and Britania." Oliver coughed and began to talk about the first two months, between the Empire and Britania. A war broke out.

The empire is the largest and strongest human country in the world. During the cataclysm about 1,800 years ago, a human tribe leader named Charlemagne rose rapidly and finally established an empire. Crowned as the only emperor of mankind, he spent about two hundred years conquering the entire world. At that time, the empire was vast, and the territory of the ruling included the entire continent now. It powerfully made all races kneel at its feet. Master of the world.

The current empire was only a part of the empire at that time.

The empire has resisted foreign enemies for nearly a thousand years. Until hundreds of years ago, civil wars continued. The empire, which was surrounded by foreign enemies, finally gave up most of the country except the core territory under the vote of the emperor and the Senate. The province of Tania is one of them. When this country was suddenly abandoned by the empire, all the nobles and commoners fell into despair. At that time, Britannia had to face the undead, barbarians, and other people. There are pillages from other abandoned human factions, and there are also hordes of Chaos Beastmen in the east and greenskins in the south, which will not only pillage, but destroy everything they see.

A young baron named Arthur led his knights to fight alone, struggling to resist the external threat, but to no avail. Seeing that the people of Brittany were facing the danger of destruction, Arthur fought several times in a row. After being separated from his own army, he was seriously injured. In desperation, he came to the Fairy Lake where the legendary gods lived, knelt down in front of the Fairy Lake, and prayed with tears in his eyes, no matter what he wanted to give. , Arthur only hopes to save the people of this place and save this land abandoned by the empire.

At first the pleas did not get any response, Arthur fell into complete despair, but the young lord did not give up, he gritted his teeth and decided that he would die in the battle tomorrow.

In the early morning, a white light suddenly shot through the sky from the Fairy Lake. A deity called the Fairy of the Lake responded to his request. The Fairy of the Lake used the holy water from the Holy Grail to help him heal his wounds, and gave him firm belief and peace of mind. Eternal blessing, with the help of the fairies in the lake, Arthur regrouped his troops and erected the battle flag blessed by the fairies in the lake. The blessed knight army fought **** battles and won a great victory.

The victory of the knight lord was like a beacon in the dark, the Brittany army united again, and in the following epic battle career, it won twelve games in a row, completely eliminating all invading Brittany. The enemy of knights, Brittany, the kingdom of knights, was established.

Under the mediation of the fairy in the lake, the kingdom of knights established diplomatic relations and alliances with the empire on an equal footing. Since then, the relationship between Britannia and the empire has been good. Although wars occasionally broke out between hundreds of years of history, they have They are very abiding by the bottom line, never killing prisoners, and even if they put down their weapons on the battlefield, they can guarantee not to die. This is because there are too many threats from outside. There is a deep understanding between the Empire and Brittany. Consume precious human and material resources in infighting.

"It's Marienburg, Mr. Lane, the emperor of the empire has tried to take back Marienburg for the third time, but the Grand Duke of Marim is not to be outdone, because the empire violated the founding ceremony written by the crown of Ludwig, Bree Tania chose to join the Marienburg side. At this time, the ranger knights of Brittany who were eager to make contributions suddenly rushed into the army of the empire without warning, and for this reason triggered a comprehensive The war." Oliver slowly talked about the development and progress of the matter: "The war lasted for a whole day, and the emperor and the king of knights were sober-headed. The result of a one-hundred-thousand-man army fighting for one day only killed and injured more than 3,000 people. His Majesty the Emperor and Brittany concluded a peace treaty and re-signed the covenant, returning the captured nobles, and His Majesty the Emperor can only renounce the recovery of part of the sovereignty and governance of Marienburg."

"The annual income of Marienburg is almost one-fifth of the total revenue of the empire. It is normal for His Majesty the Emperor to covet this port city. If I am not mistaken, those knights must be inspired by the Grand Duke of Mariin. Did you just rush into the imperial army next?" Ryan asked with interest.

"Yes, after this failure, it seems that the prestige of the current knight king is no longer, but I don't know which duke will take over the position of knight king." Oliver nodded: "Who will take over the knight king is not important, as long as With the Lady of the Lake, there will be no problems in Brittany's trade~www.wuxiaspot.com~Brittany's system is very interesting, the whole country is surrendered to the Lady of the Lake, that is, the Lake Under the skirt of the fairy, the king of knights is the ruler on the bright side, and the fairies in the lake are the ones who really rule the kingdom. After each king of knights abdicates or dies in battle, the fairies in the lake will gather all the dukes of the principality together. , voting and discussion to decide who is the next king of knights.

In addition to these things, the most important thing about the fairy in the lake is that she personally established and standardized the "eight virtues of knights", and her priesthood includes "knights" and "eight virtues". She is an important benchmark and code of conduct, so her belief is not limited to Brittany. There are also many people in the whole continent, especially knights, who believe in the fairies in the lake. For example, Ryan occasionally prays to her twice.

"By the way, can you tell me about the empire? I heard that a few years ago, Brescia elector Andrea led his army to launch a full-scale war against the red-horned beastmen tribe on the edge of the territory, but unfortunately they fought Death?" After thinking about the Holy Grail Knight, Ryan asked about the Empire again.

This time, Oliver didn't answer right away, the imperial merchant pondered for a while, and then he spoke slowly, his tone was low, even a little sad:

"Yes, the war was lost, the elector was killed, the Beastmen retreated to the forest before the emperor led his army, several towns in Brescia were washed with blood, no one survived, and the elector Yinxin also disappeared. "

"The only direct daughter of the Brescia elector family also disappeared during this turmoil, and the Bernardino bloodline perished like this, and the holy sword 'Fire of the West', which symbolized Brescia's electoral power, also disappeared. Of the twelve holy swords at the time of its establishment, only four remain in the hands of the empire."