The Amber Sword - 913. Chapter 913 The Time Node of the 68th Act I

The scenery of Anzeruta in autumn is very beautiful. The mixed forest between the mountains is mixed with mottled rusty red, and it is like the colorful colors flowing on the canvas. It depicts the narrow misty valley and scattered stars in the Anzeruta area. Distributed in the basin plains between the mountains and hills. But in the deep winter, the scenery of this place changed again. The forest was dressed with branches and leaves, and the bare woodland showed the steep cliffs and cliffs. The snow-capped, steep and majestic, seemed like a giant guarding the canyon basin; the delicate and delicate autumn The warmth is instantly transformed into the fortitude and vigor of winter.

The changes in the four seasons are the most fascinating natural landscape here. In the season away from war, adventurers from all over the world travel here to explore this place every year. But at this moment, the lion army is approaching, and the wind elves of St. Osor are also fighting the Imperial Legion in the four fields of the north. This charming mountain is rarely quiet.

Brando, wrapped in a thick fur coat, stomped his feet in the snow under the pine trees. His gaze looked at the west-striped plain or basin under the foot of the mountain, scattered scattered among the rolling hills. Sometimes, but as it goes west, the hills become shorter and flatter, and gradually become an endless plain, and then the mountains rise again to the west, forming a mountain shadow far in the sky—there is the Broken Sword Mountain Range.

“Let them be locked in their own castle and reflect on it,” Brando replied, looking at the valley below his feet. What he answered was that Miss Ouni came to ask him how to deal with the Cruz nobles who were arrested by him. The Duke’s daughter stood in the woods, keeping a certain distance from him, as if he was a little closer, and what trouble would he cause in the future. It seemed that she would be implicated in it again. He didn’t care about this, and continued: “Earl Alcons and Earl Jean don’t seem to be willing to pay us a ransom, and that is to prepare for continued revenge.”

The Duke’s daughter stood there reluctantly. She originally thought it was nothing more than a normal envoy, but later became a rebel army, and now it has become something similar to bandits-the hostage ransom for aristocratic wars. Thanks to the Lord Earl who thought of this title.

But she can’t say no, what can she do, now she’s already on the thief ship, tied to the bastard’s embassy, even if she wants to deny that all this is Brando It came out, okay, that would have to wait until she met Her Majesty the Cruz people or returned to Eruin; as for now, she can’t leave the team and run back to Eruin alone, or simply surrender to the nobles of the Cruz people. Go over there, although she really wanted to do that a few times, but after thinking about the consequences of doing that, she gritted her teeth and endured it.

“Master Earl…” The Duke’s daughter took a deep breath and finally asked: “I want to ask what you want to do. You broke a fortress in the empire and swept away the face of the nobles in Anzeruta. The knights who defeated the Cruz people, well, forget it. The former can be said to be a lesson for the arrogance of the Legion of Rogelia. As the envoys representing Eruin, we do have the right to do so. The latter is because they took the initiative to attack us, and we just retaliated, which makes sense, but why are you doing this now, you actually asked the Cruz people for a ransom?”

“That’s it, so what?” Brando asked rhetorically.

Ouni almost fainted. The general Eruin nobles almost wished to be more respectful when facing the Cruz nobles, but this Count Lord was not bad, as if there was a slap in the face and slapped him, as if he was afraid of letting Cruz. The empire is not embarrassing enough. But Eruin’s nobles can be shameless, but the empire can’t. How many vassal states the empire has, and how many eyes are staring at this behemoth’s every move, how could it be possible for Eruin to ride a small country on his head, the empire’s The rulers have at least a little bit of IQ, so it is not difficult to realize this.

And this is what she has never understood the least. What are the benefits of this Lord Earl? To accumulate fame? Well, he is famous enough now. Almost everyone is famous to the king from the south of Eruin to the Cruz people. In most of the empire, in the whole kingdom, all the nobles have decreased since the beginning of winter. After the outdoor activities, you should be discussing the glorious deeds of the Lord Earl every day.

However, this reputation is probably not good, because according to what she has learned, even people in the envoy bet when the Lord Earl will be unlucky.

Of course, Brando’s luck has nothing to do with her, and she can’t worry about it, but what makes the Duke’s daughters worried is that they are now in the same boat. If the Lord counts overturned the boat, she It is inevitable to fall into the water.

Thinking of this, she looked at Brando angrily, and the latter’s indifferent look almost made her grit her teeth-does this idiot know what he is doing?

The more I thought about it, the more angry Eunie became. I thought that a good mission was completely messed up by this young and arrogant. Originally, she came to this mission with a traveling mentality, but she didn’t expect it. In the end it turned into a war. A furious woman is very terrifying. This elegant and decent daughter of the Duke finally lost her mind at this moment and decided to completely tear her up with Brando. She said loudly in a tone that she had never used in her life: “My Lord Earl, I know You will be overwhelmingly powerful in Eruin today or in the future. In your opinion, an insignificant daughter of a duke like me is slight, but I still want to remind you that there are still many people in this envoy, including your students, the kingdom. The future king, your subordinates, and many innocent people. We don’t want to be ruined with you because of your waywardness. Can you understand me?”

Brando turned his head and looked at the daughter of the Duke, thinking that it’s hard for the daughter of the Duke to endure for so long. Guys like Ephraim were so scared that they hid in their own carriage and did nothing. The ostrich policy started, which is funny. He replied: “You are serious, Miss Ouni, I never wanted to harm anyone.”

“I don’t want to listen to these high-sounding words, Lord Earl, I have had enough! You said you have a sense of measure, then please tell me why you caught those nobles and the young people of the Alcons family and the Jien family , If you don’t let them go, you will find other people in their family to ask for a ransom?” The Duke’s daughter asked angrily.

Hearing this question, Brando scowled: “Miss Euni, although I accept your opinion, I also want to tell you one thing. These people are now my prisoners. As for why they became my prisoners. , That’s because they took the initiative to provoke us, rather than we hit their territory for no reason. They want to vent the failure of the Black Sword Barrier, and from a logical point of view, the conflict of the Black Sword Barrier is the empire. It’s not us, so since they planned to bully the weak from the beginning, they should be mentally prepared early.”

He patted the snowflakes on the fur collar. In fact, he didn’t need such thick warm clothes for a long time because of his strength. He just didn’t want to look too special. Besides, people like to take things easy and hate to work. If it can be warmer, He didn’t need to make himself like an ascetic monk. Then Brando continued: “As for what you said I asked them to pay the hostage ransom, isn’t it a matter of course? Could it be that the war between Eruin and the Cruz people in the history of the nobles to redeem the hostages is so noble that there is no need to pay the bills? ?”

“You are arrogant,” Now that you have completely let go, the Duke’s daughter no longer tries to use any euphemisms. She has read no more books than Bran, so she replied directly: “My Lord, you and I Everyone knows that it is a Cruz, and the disputes between the Cruz and the Cruz, the Eruin and the Eruin, and the Eruin and the Cruze are different. In name, The people of the kingdom and the empire are born equal under the rule of the Temple of Flame, but in fact, this is just empty talk. Everyone knows that the empire can not give the kingdom face, but the kingdom can not fail to give the empire face. , If you act fast today, and tomorrow, when the empire is waiting for an opportunity to retaliate, what shall we do?”

“I don’t believe you don’t know these truths, Lord Earl, you don’t have to pretend to be crazy. Outsiders say you are a madman and gave you the nickname of ‘Mad Earl’. They call you ‘Kick the Gate Swordsman’, but The people in our envoy can see clearly. You understand better than anyone else. Your subordinates can come out in large numbers. Even if you don’t see this, I think they will remind you, but your subordinate named Charles The wizard, as well as that lady elf knight, they are super-minded, but let you do whatever they want. This shows that you have already understood that everything you do has always had a clear purpose.”

Euni replied coldly: “But this purpose is to keep all of us in the dark except you and your people. You said that you are fighting for the reputation of the kingdom, which is to treat all of us as fools. .”

Having said that, Brando knew that this Duke daughter really came to show him today.

He nodded and said: “Well, you are right, all I did is indeed for another purpose.”

Euni looked at him coldly with a gaze like that, as if she was saying: “You’d better tell me all this clearly, otherwise this lady won’t be with me-I don’t want to lose the card except There is a third way besides tying and winning, and that is to raise the table.”

“But Miss Ouni, you still made a mistake.” Brando shook his head again.

Euni looked at him suspiciously, as if wondering what tricks the Lord Earl was playing.

Brando looked back at the direction of the valley, and then replied: “Eruin’s strength and weakness have nothing to do with you, but it is very important to me. You may find it incredible to say that, but in The Black Sword Barrier I want to teach the Loggerians a lesson, indeed for legitimate reasons. As for why I will do this in the future, it is precisely to prevent the Empire from taking revenge on us.” He paused, as if waiting. The Duke daughter digested his words, and then continued: “Do you think that if we stop here, the imperial nobles will give up? If we return the hostages in our hands, they will let us leave Russef smoothly? ”

“Then I can only say that you think too much. Miss Ouni, you are very smart, but your knowledge of the empire is often influenced by others. I told you earlier that the empire is nothing more than that, but if we are today Sending these people back unscathed, don’t you tell them that they can provoke us without cost?” Brando shook his head: “This is impossible. I will let them understand and provoke me once. They will feel the pain once, until they can’t afford the loss.”

After hearing these words, the Duke’s daughter felt that the Lord Earl was simply stubborn. She couldn’t help but asked coldly: “Okay, maybe you make sense, sir, but have you ever thought that things will get worse? The greater the trouble, do you know who is behind the Alcons family and the Jean family? It is Grand Duke Palut, the Palut family can even be said to be the most powerful noble in the empire, if they come to the stage To deal with you, Lord Earl, can you still make such rhetoric to make them feel pain?”

It is indeed possible. Although Brando is confident, he is not arrogant enough to claim that he can challenge such a behemoth as the Parut family.

But things will not develop to that point.

He shook his head again: “Don’t worry, Miss Ouni, things can’t get to that point.”

“Why do you say that?” The Duke’s daughter asked angrily: “Does it rely on your so-called intuition?”

“You don’t believe it?” Brando raised his eyebrows: “Then how about we make a bet?”

“What’s a bet?” Ouni said in a pissed way.

“You help me persuade the nobles of Cruz and convince them that I will do what I say. If they can’t pay the ransom, I will tie them to Rusita, take them to see Her Majesty the Queen, and go before her. Make sense.” Brando replied.

The Duke’s daughter looked at him in surprise, “You still want to make things worse, are you crazy?”

“I’m not crazy, didn’t you say that, I understand,” Brando looked back at the daughter of Grand Duke Viero and asked in a provocative tone: “Why, don’t you dare to make this bet with me? ”

“How dare not?” Euni gritted her teeth and replied angrily: “But you only said half of it. If I did, what about you?”

Brando replied: If you do this, I assure you that after this incident, it will not affect me, you, the entire mission and the kingdom at all. Not only that, but this time the mission You will also achieve unprecedented success, and you will also get the reputation you want, so that your father will not marry you to an unknown country aristocrat at least so early, let alone a well-known scholar and master. Fancy your talents and learning, accept you as a disciple, and you can fulfill your wish. ”

This sentence obviously shocked the Duke’s daughter. She couldn’t help but looked at Brando in shock: “You, how do you know, did you use any evil spells on me?”

“No,” Brando said teasingly. “I bought your maid.”

“Shameless you!” The Duke’s daughter finally couldn’t help but utter a foul language.

Brando smiled secretly. He had no intention of buying the maid, but only occasionally learned about the deeds of this young lady. In the previous life, the other party was just an ordinary NPC. What he knew about this young lady, In fact, it only ends here, just casually use it, I didn’t expect it to really bluff the other party. He smiled and continued: “Well, now this is good for you and me. If you look back now, whether you go to Cruz or return to Eruin, you will not escape the blame. You have offended the Empire and Yan. The sanctuary’s crime will ultimately fall on you, but in case I have any credit in the future, you will not be able to share it because of today’s hesitation.”

Eunice glanced at him, and gritted her teeth and replied: “What credit can someone like you do? It’s a misfortune for the Kingdom, but since I promised to bet with you, I will do it naturally.”

She paused, and suddenly became suspicious: “You told me this, naturally, not because of conscience, but then again, it seems that you have better people around you to complete this matter. Why do you want me to do it? Do it? The wizard named Charles, and the fairy lady, are they loyal to you, aren’t they better staff?”

Brando couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed, wondering if he seemed so untrustworthy, he even doubted it.

He thought for a while, and then replied: “It is precisely because the Shire and the others are loyal to me that they are even more unsuitable to do this.”

“Why?” The Duke’s daughter was a little puzzled: “What on earth do you want me to do?”

“Forgot to explain to you, I asked you to persuade those Cruz nobles, and at the same time, you have to pretend to let away one or two of them, and at least make them believe that-you and I are not in the same group-yes Yes, it’s the same as your current thinking, you just need to explain to them, I’m driving all this crazy, and the rest of the envoy is held hostage by me, just tell them in the original words, and then Let them go and let them report the news.” Brando looked at Eunice who was staring at her dumbfounded, and couldn’t help but shook her head: “Don’t look at me like this, I know that’s what you think now.”

“You know yourself,” the Duke’s daughter gritted his teeth and replied: “But I don’t understand it again. What are you doing this for? Isn’t your purpose to stop those Cruz people from coming to us in trouble, but it’s up to you. Seems to be afraid that his trouble is not big enough?”

Brando held up a finger and shook her.

“Because you kill a snake, it’s that simple.”

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