Sword of Daybreaker

Matilda Augustus, one of Rosetta ’s finest children, is known as the Kaolin Flower of the Empire and the most dazzling pearl of Aldernan.

These dazzling auras are superimposed on her already good temperament, which can make many people involuntarily awe their hearts and dare not approach.

But even so, she still has her own close friends.

One of them is the heir to the Wendell family who has inherited the title of General Wolf.

"We've seen the ceremony and can relax," the imperial princess smiled and nodded gently to Andesa. "We haven't seen each other for almost two years? Last time you returned to the capital, I happened to be in the fiefdom. Handle things, just missed that. "

"Necessary rules are still to be observed," Andersa relaxed a little, but still stood upright and quite scrupulous. "The last time I returned to the Imperial Capital ... it was because Parameer's confrontation was defeated, which is not so much. Glorious, when you and I met, I'm afraid I would be a little embarrassed ... "

"Parallel's confrontation ... I heard it," Matilda, in a black dress, said with a little sigh. "You can't push your faults on your head. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. Your judgment At least almost all the soldiers were brought back to Winterwolf. "

"... It's too much to say." Andersa recalled that rainy night, ending with a sigh.

The members of the mission following Princess Matilda were quickly arranged to rest in Winter Wolf Castle, while Matilda left the main hall of the castle with Andersa, and they came to the fortress's high walls. Up, follow the daily patrols of the soldiers and walk along the front line on the northwestern edge of the empire.

The cold winter wind blows through the city walls and raises the flags hanging on the city walls, but this cold wind cannot affect the powerful high-level extraordinary people. Andesa, who wore a sword and walked steadily on the outside of the city wall, looked serious, as if examining the fortress, and Matilda, wearing a black court dress, walked silently beside him, the gorgeous and light and long The skirt should be completely incompatible with this cold and windy east boundary and the mottled and thick city walls, but in her body, there was no sense of disobedience.

The Alder South Pearl walked slowly on the towering walls of Winter Wolf Castle, still as elegant and magnificent as walking in the court cloister.

"You look as if you are reviewing your troops, as if you are ready to take the knights to the battlefield," Matilda glanced at Andersa next to him, and said gently, "when you were at the border, have you always been this way? "

"It's always going to be a battlefield here," Andersa said solemnly, "the border cannot be relaxed."

There seemed to be a helplessness in Matilda's eyes, and she smiled and shook her head: "Talk about the Cecilians, and talk about your impressions of them. I was instructed to envoy that country, but I am only familiar with the past "Ansu"-how different is that new empire from Ansu? "

"Cecir ... Cecir is far more dangerous than Anzu," Andersa paused for a moment, then said while continuing to move forward. "Ansu is a decaying old beast, once strong, The scenery has passed, but it has become rotten with the rigidity of its own system and the elimination of internal contradictions. Although it still retains the strength of the final counterattack, as long as it delays for a few days, it will fall into dying;

"Cecile is a new beast born in the flesh of this old beast, and it develops and matures faster than we think. It has a very intelligent, knowledgeable and experienced ruler, and a very efficient A high official system helped him achieve his rule. From a military perspective alone—because I'm also most familiar with this—the Cecil Empire's army has achieved deeper reforms than us.

"No, this statement is not accurate. It is not reform, because the entire Cecil war system has been rebuilt. I have seen their speed of movement and ability to execute. It is because the old army cannot reform it no matter how it is reformed. Efficiency-at this point, maybe we have only a few Legion of Transcendents to match. "

Matilda couldn't help slowing her pace, and looked at Andersa with a little surprise: "Sounds like ... you're not optimistic about the situation at all?"

"I'm just stating the facts."

"... your temperament is really not suitable for staying in the Imperial City," Matilda shook her head helplessly. "Only the facts you state frankly are enough to allow you to receive countless questions and criticisms in parliament. Now. "

"Speaking in parliament doesn't make our army more," Andesa said directly. "Ansu was weak at the time. This is a fact. Now Cecil is strong.

"... In your opinion, is Cecil better than us?" Matilda asked suddenly.

Andersa didn't answer immediately this time, but thought for a moment before seriously saying, "I don't think so."

"Oh? This is inconsistent with the string of" statements "you just made."

"I have been collecting their intelligence. Although the spies we placed there have been hit hard, they are still active. With this, my advisors and I have analyzed the situation in Cecil," Andersa Suddenly she stopped, and she looked at Matilda's eyes with a certain glow in her eyes. "That empire has a place stronger than ours. They are stronger in more efficient official systems and more advanced magic guidance technology. But these two things need time to transform into 'national strength', and now they have not completely completed this transformation.

"The order after the war needs to be reshaped, and a large number of officials are struggling in this regard; a large number of people need to be appeased, destroyed lands need to be rebuilt, new laws need to be promoted; sharply expanding lands and relatively small military forces have led them to send a large number of soldiers It is used to maintain domestic stability, and the newly trained troops have not had time to form combat effectiveness-even if the magic guidance equipment is easy to operate, soldiers need a learning and familiarization process;

"They have relatively advanced magic guidance technology, but those drawings can only be lined up in the factory, because the ore can not be mined in a short while, and the steel cannot be turned into a machine in an instant. Their emperor set up a new school, But how many students can be trained at the same time, and how many of these students can be successfully transformed into workers, officials, and soldiers?

"In the Parameer Heights, a war fortress blocked our Knights. We thought that it was a trap prepared early by the Cecilians, but later intelligence showed that the war fortress reached the Parameer Heights. It may only be less than an hour earlier than us! Before that, the Changfeng Fortress did not have enough soldiers or enough 'sky fire devices'! "

Andesa said a lot in one breath, while Matilda just listened quietly and seriously, and did not interrupt her friend, and did not speak until Andersa stopped: "So, what's your conclusion?"

"The Cecil Empire is still weaker than us now, because we have several times as many professional superhumans, superhuman armed forces, griffins, wizards, and knights that have been stored for decades. These things can be opposed, even Defeat the magic machines.

"But we have to train a mage for more than ten years, and after death, we ca n’t replenish it for a short time. They only need a moment to produce a machine. The soldiers who operate the machine only need months or even weeks of training. Last time they only sent them out. A 'war bastion', but I am very doubtful that their second war bastion is probably coming out of the factory! And do we have a second Iron Knight?

"Like I said just now, Cecil's advantage is their magic technology and the system called the" government hall ", and these two things cannot be transformed into national power immediately, but this also means, Once these two things are transformed into national power, we will never have another chance! "

Andersa's tone gradually grew excited.

In the winter wind, standing on the wall of Winter Wolf Castle for a hundred years, the young female general in charge of the Winter Wolf Legion clenched his fists, as if trying to grasp an opportunity that was gradually passing, as if trying to remind The royal son in front of her, let her and the royal family behind her notice the brewing crisis. Don't wait for the last chance to miss before you feel regretful.

"I have written to Her Majesty the Emperor and stated this point to the aristocratic council of Aldernan," Andersa said sharply. "Cecile is very dangerous to the empire, very, very dangerous. I I can feel that I can actually feel that they are still preparing for the war. Although they have been sending out signals that seem to be peaceful, the changes in the Changfeng Fortress are visible on the border. I think they are now doing all kinds of Action-whether it is to increase commercial circulation, or to establish embassies, exchange students, railway cooperation, investment plans, there are problems in it ... "

This time, before Andersa became more excited, Matilda suddenly interrupted her friend: "I understand, Andesa, I understand what you mean."

Andersa paused, and she finally noticed that there seemed to be meaning in the expression on Matilda's face.

Solemn again with some helplessness.

"The Office of Magical Technology and Government will quickly increase Cecil's national strength, so they will soon become an exceptionally powerful enemy, and now may be our last chance to wipe out this enemy-otherwise, if we keep the current In the direction of development, this opportunity is slim for every day of delay-that's what you want to say. "

Andersa nodded slowly: "... Yes."

"Similar conclusions have been sent to Obsidian Palace's case in Aldernan."

Andersa stared at Matilda in solitude.

"Curious who got the same conclusion as you?" Matilda looked at her long-time friend quietly, with a little sigh, "It is the aristocratic council that you call 'spoken' and the royal family. Immediate advisory group.

"The conclusion comes three days after your last departure from Aldernan.

"Andersa, the advisory board of the Imperial City is much more than you. The gentlemen and ladies in the parliament are not fools. Under the triple spire of the aristocratic parliament, there may be selfish people, but there is no stupidity. man of."

Andersa opened her eyes.

Faced with this unexpected truth, she did not feel embarrassed and embarrassed, because before these emotions spread, her first thought was the question: "But ... why ..."

"Late, for that reason," Matilda said quietly. "The situation is no longer allowed."

Andersa couldn't help but say, "But we still occupy ..."

"If there are only two countries in the world, Cecil and Tiffon, the situation will be much simpler, but Andersa, Tiffon's border is not just a line of defense for the Wolfwolf you guard," Matilda interrupted After Andersa ’s words, "We missed that probably the only chance. After you left Oldenham, and even after you evacuated the Paramel Heights, we have lost the ability to easily defeat Cecil. Opportunity.

"Now, even if we still have an advantage, after the war, we will be obscured by the flesh and blood of those steel machines.

"And to the south, the Gao Ling Kingdom has a bad relationship with us, and the silver elves ... don't you think that the elves living in the forest love art and love peace too?"

Andersa was silent.

She is just one of the empire's frontier generals. She can sniff out some international trends, but she has already surpassed many people.

But after all, she can only see part of it. The long border of the entire empire is too wide for her.

Beside her, Matilda slowly said, "We are no longer the only strong empire in the human world, and there are no longer weak city-states and heterogeneous communities around us to annex, my father, and you. His father, as well as parliamentarians and advisers, are carefully combing the foreign policy of the Tifeng Empire over the past century, the current international situation, and some of the mistakes we have made. Earl Hallmark is working to do just that-he went to the Blue Rock Hills to negotiate, not just to do business with the Kaolin kingdom and the elves. "

The walls were quiet for a while, and only the roaring wind rolled the flags, agitating behind them.

Matilda broke the silence: "Now, you should understand the significance of the presence of the mission I and I lead?"

"Sorry, Matilda," Andersa exhaled, "I think of something too simple."

"Don't care-as a wolf general, you're just doing what you should do."

Andersa nodded, but his face looked ugly.

"What's wrong?" Matilda couldn't help but be concerned, "what did you think of?"

"It's nothing," Andersa sighed. "Awkward ... come up."