The Amber Sword

After the year of running the wolf, the most outstanding military strategist in the history of the wind elves and then the general of the Marshal Shagriffin said in his book: 'If you cannot The corpse witches form effective kills, then it is impossible to really defeat an undead army. . ', But when the black rose of Bromanto was truly defeated, the bone skeleton that was defeated in the river valley was not much different from a scattered human army, and the undead fled back and forth across the mountain. After losing their command, the corpses woke up with their summoned skeletons, each in the shape of a piece of loose sand. Although the undead lords from the sea of ​​the dead moon can still restrain their subordinates, they only want to escape, they have already No fighting spirit, the blood stick army at present can no longer be called an army. It has lost the purpose and will of the battle from top to bottom, and struggled only to save itself. With the defeated North during Ampelsel The aristocratic army is the same.

However, if you look closely, there are still some subtle differences. The fleeing of humans under the defeat of the army is often caused by shaking and surrendering to the panic in the heart. There are no two factors in the feelings of the undead. They save themselves only because of reason. Choose, there will not be situations that trample on each other because of panic, or are killed by people like driving ducks and dare not turn back to resist. If they are overtaken, they will stop and fight back, just because of the selfish name of the dark creatures, and they will never help their colleagues who are attacked nearby-even if they do, it may be better for them.

Earl Jacques and Brando rode side by side in the valley, and were very moved to see this scene: "It was the same with the undead army, they will make mistakes."

"Dead spirits are not natural things. No one understands the mystery between life and death better than them, so they eliminate the unease of mortal hearts from unknown death. They have no attachment to life, so they will not feel impulsive. No fanaticism, but impulses and fears are just one of all negative emotions. Greed, arrogance, arrogance, and selfishness will make them make mistakes. "Brando looked at the valley on horseback. As the battle progressed, he explained to the close friend next to the Archduke Viero.

The Earl of Jacques nodded silently, and he glanced a little deeper at the lord, who was also an overly young lord: "Mr. Earl seems to know that dark country well?"

"I always try to understand my enemies, the enemies of the kingdom," Brando looked at the Earl from the region of Jacques-Jean, who knew this person; Jacques-Jean was in the province of Viero with On the border of the province of Karasu, the Earl was also a man who had dealt with Madara in history. Although the other person had some problems common to Eruin nobles at this time on the south side, The understanding of Black Rose is still much deeper than that of other noble adults who are useless. It is rare that this person has won the trust of Archduke Viero in history.

"Mr. Moberto," he continued, "I suggest you don't underestimate the black rose across from us because of what we saw today."

"Naturally, I dare not to underestimate. When I was young, I watched my parents bring back prey like bears and wolves in winter hunting. I always thought that these beasts in the forest were just like this. Later, I was lucky enough to let a sly guy on me Leave a mark, the scar is still on the back, and it made me understand that I must not belittle any of my opponents. "Count Jacques made a parable to let Brando know that what he said was actually what he said today , Meaning what happened today, he will never easily forget.

Brando also believes that this battle will leave a deep impression on the other party, which is also one of his original purposes: to prevent these nobles from learning, they will not understand what kind of enemy they are facing Only by letting these people understand the real threat, under the persecution of external forces, the kingdom can embark on the path he wants as soon as possible. He shook his head with a slight smile and continued to expose Madara's old bottom: "But what Mr. Moberto thinks now must be that he has mastered the weaknesses of these bones and skeletons. If he thinks so, it would be very wrong. Now. "

The Earl of Jacques looked a little stunned: "Why do you say that? I think what you described, Earl, makes a lot of sense, and those bones do have such weaknesses."

"That ’s the name of the undead. It ’s like a surname. Mr. Moberto, humans will be afraid, but the Tonigers, Vieros, and Lantonilan people will not be defeated without facing the undead. Humans will Impulsive, greedy, and surnames are also arrogant and selfish, but our kingdom, civilization and order have not collapsed because of this. We also have the second surname of the social surname, the Madara It's the same. They used to be a piece of loose sand, but the blood stick we defeated today is far different from the past. I think you must understand it.

"But Mr. Earl, I'm afraid you haven't thought about it. The Madara we are seeing today is still an illusion." Before Earl Jacques nodded, Brando continued, and the latter opened his mouth after hearing this sentence. Looks very surprised, but Brando did not give him the opportunity to speak: "The reason why we beat the blood stick today is based on its ignorance of us, but also because it still maintains a set of stale Mr. Earl should have heard about the military reforms of the kingdom, but such reforms had begun seven years ago, and they had basically ended this historical mission before the Black Rose war. Today, Madara has at least one thousand imperial missions. These are not the same as the army of blood staff you saw in the sky. The blood staff is not tame, but in fact it is not the supreme one of Madara. The relationship, it ’s defeated by us here today, most likely because the Supreme Man of Madara needs us to help him clear away his aliens— "

He paused: "And the real Madara army, they have a complete system of middle and lower rank sergeants, will never fall into a state of sand because of the collapse of the upper-level command system. Such an undead army can really fight to Before the last corpse witch fell down, Mr. Earl, you can imagine how Eruin should fight against such an enemy so as to win. "

Count Jacques stared at the young lord, and if Brando had told him all this in the morning, he would never have believed it, it would be ridiculous and nonsense. But at this moment, Brando's demonstrated strength and insight into Madara made him unable to doubt it easily, especially the thousand emperors in Brando's mouth were more like a thunder that shook his mouth. For a moment, my mind was in a mess.

His sallow-yellow, unthinkable appearance had long been expected by Brando. Brando will certainly not tell him that although Madara ’s expansion is Eruin, their main enemies are the wind elves of Saint Osor and the Farnzans to the north. Madara has more than a thousand. More than half of the Imperial League should be used to prevent these two huge empires, or to scare this guy, so as not to let them have delusions.

In fact, this is not bad. The number of troops that Madara has at this moment is actually of little significance to the small kingdom of Eruin, because even after that, even if it is a legion of the Black Jazz, it may not be able to afford it. . Today's Eruin has only a first-line opportunity to let the undead feel a jeopardy. There are a lot of duchyes on the border between St. Osor and Faenza. Anyway, the wind elves will meet with Madara anyway. The bones of his bones were smashed, and now it only needs to make the undead feel that Eruin is more difficult to deal with than those of the Duchy.

In the history, Eruin awakened too late, Her Royal Highness was powerless, and the Cruzs were too diligent and indulgent, which led to the final tragedy of the kingdom.

This time, it may not be so.

But first, the kingdom still needs the courage and ability to fight one battle.

He looked at the Earl of Jacques, who turned pale, and wiped his forehead with his hands. He didn't know whether it was rain or sweat, and his mind seemed to be immersed in the one that Brando described earlier. Among the fear brought by the Thousands of Emperors, he whispered, "Master, are you saying the truth?"

"Mr. Moberto, even if my information is only one-third accurate, assuming that Madara has only three hundred regiments, what difference is there for the kingdom?" Brando looked absently at the undead who had fled in the rain. The army, while stroking the mane of the war horse with his hands, asked in no hurry. He wasn't in a hurry, but Earl Jacques was anxious. He didn't know what Brando said was true or false, but he didn't seem to have any need to please him, as Brando said, even if his words were only one third One exact, or even a quarter accurate, what difference does it make for the kingdom?

There is no difference at all.

What is the German surname of the kingdom? In fact, the nobility of them knows best. Since the Anson era, the struggle between the local and the central government has greatly damaged the strength of the kingdom itself. And after the battle of Ampelsel, the north-south confrontation made it even weaker. In contrast, the dark country on the east has always maintained a strong army and war tradition, but in the past it was scattered, and the dark lords went their own way and fought against each other, so they could not pose a threat. Today, Madara is already there Integrated under the rule of the Most High, the dark nobles gathered under the mercury rod that reappeared after a thousand years, and Count Jacques suddenly realized that Brando might not have lied, but the traditional thinking has always made them like This has been neglected.

Madarabono has a huge army, and now they are integrated, so who do you want to fight next?

Naturally, it cannot be the wind elves and Faenzan, and the rest is self-evident.

Some things are actually like a layer of window paper, which is hard to think of before being broken, but once they are lifted up, the rest are suddenly bright. Earl Jacques is almost in this mood at the moment, although he may prefer not to realize it, at least the fool can still live happily, and now whenever he thinks of the three words of Madara, he must think of that branch Undead army ready to go.

It's an undead, an existence that is incompatible with the living. You can't surrender except death.

Count Jacques thought coldly and thought again, and for a while, he couldn't think of a solution. For today's Eruin, it seems that there is only one way to perish besides perdition. That dark country was already powerful and seized the opportunity. What is ridiculous is that the aristocrats of the kingdom are still alive and dreaming. In the face of such a country, he really does not know how to resolve the immediate crisis.

Perhaps only Cruz in exile?

When Earl Jacques looked up to see Brando again, his eyes were a bit distracted. Brando knew that he was scared to the extreme, and he sighed. In fact, the truth is simple. These nobles may not have thought about it, but they always It is believed that Madala has not yet reached a step. In history, even before the Second Black Rose War, some people believed that Madala was still in a civil war. Today, he personally told the other party that Madara's reunification process had already been advanced. Sure enough, the Earl immediately responded to what the kingdom was facing.

Earl Jacques did not speak again, and Brando no longer demanded. He patted the horse's mane, allowing the sitting horse to speed up to keep up with the White Lion Guard chasing in the valley. He knew in his heart that what he said today could only give these nobles a hint, and sooner or later they would understand how Eruin could survive. At that time, if there are still stubborn spirits, then blame him for being ruthless.

The fate of the kingdom had already been used in the war of Ampelsel, but then it could only be reversed slowly.

Brando pursed his lips silently. He didn't want to make radical reforms in his heart. The sharp sword gave the kingdom a new life, but the longer he came to this world, the more he understood the difficulty of this matter. Nobles have ruled this kingdom for too long, and the tradition has long been ingrained, not to mention that they do have their excellence. Although this class of Eruin has long decayed in long history, it still has considerable power. He may This power can be eradicated, but it will certainly cause great damage to this ancient kingdom.

Most of his sergeants, such as Caglis, Antitina, Kuran, Merial, and even the White Lion Knight, are inextricably linked to the traditional nobility, whether they are from the Royal Party or Locals, but they all have more or less old-fashioned marks, and to completely eradicate all this, it will inevitably hurt the people around them. Even Princess Griffin might have turned against him because of this. He knew in his heart that Heruin, her Royal Highness, was not really a new kingdom born on a ruin.

He didn't want to--

"The opportunity has been handed to you," Brando said to himself. "As long as you don't cherish it, it's up to you."

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Soon, the Knights of the Lantonilan came from the east of the river bank to join the White Lion Guard. Humans advanced along the river valley, driving the army of undead to flee south. By the evening, Viero, Lantonilan Allied forces with the Tonigel have virtually wiped out most of the mercenaries from the Undead Lord in the Sea of ​​the Dead Moon. Most of the scattered corpses wandered into the nearby forest, and they will become a law and order problem for the area in the next few months, but at this time Brando and Corwin could not care much about it. These problems are left to the Vatican Army to have a headache. The blood stick and its guards are mixed into the remaining half and half of the skeleton cavalry. At this time, the advantages of the undead have begun to work, and the skeleton cavalry is not affected by the power. During the long march, the distance from the Lantonilan cavalry gradually opened up. Only Brando's Linge army on the horse could catch up with these skeleton cavalry, but of course he couldn't do it.

It can also be said that using a fourth-tier shooter to deal with the skeleton warrior, using it to chase the real cavalry is purely to death.

In this way, until the night fell, the coalition finally lost the trace of the remnant of the undead cavalry. Aiko jumped angrily, and the counts of Jacques also showed some pity. It was the Viero's. The Lord Commander stayed away all day, and Brando heard Caglilis saying that he had sent some commanders to the north, and he knew instantly that the Count really asked the Archduke Viero for advice. What he said during the day was not in vain. Next, it depends on what the nobles think. Although the information on Madara is difficult to obtain, if they are really interested, it is not difficult to get the information he said. .

Nobles in history did not have this idea at all, but this time, they had the opportunity to respond.

Brando is very indifferent to the escape of the blood stick. Not to mention that there is a Cruzian knight in front of it waiting for it to crash into it. Even if it happens to return to Madara, what good results will it have? The banshee king, Alvite, has been waiting for it long ago. As a symbol of her free will and self-improvement, her emperor against Madara, her blood stick must die, and then how she surrendered to the mercury stick Below, that's another story.

Brando stood in the valley to admire the night in the Slovenian region. After entering the early autumn, the sky was dark quickly. The day had not completely disappeared from the mountains, and there was a night of solitude among the trees. This is the last period after the end of summer. The moon in the sky should have been the proud Golden Sea and the flawless Timothy, but in the rainy weather, there was only a black one, and the other side of the valley overlooked the river valley in the Silman region. On the plain, he stared at the flowing river in that direction, thinking that at this time the blood stick should have met its last enemy.

Just what Cruz's young people would look like, he didn't bother to care about it. He privately arranged Corwin to return to the Silman Hills overnight to lead his men to replace the Folding Knights to clean the battlefield after the battle. He temporarily returned Do not want to expose those Cruzians to the public eye. This time Tonigel exposed a lot of power in order to let Madara settle for a while, but if it can be hidden, try to hide it.

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(ps: Today I wrote this chapter from idea to writing. It took me almost 10 hours to write it. I do n’t have the time and energy to write another chapter. I am going to put the second chapter of Zhou Yue today, I ’m so sorry. And find time to make up for it, I hope everyone forgive me.) (To be continued.