The Amber Sword - 914

In Warnd, the Sabbath day is used as the dividing line in each year, marking the end of the year. After this day, both ordinary people and nobles will gradually reduce their outing activities, whether it is work or private travel; It seems that the hustle and bustle of the whole year has quieted down in this month, and people have begun to hold various celebrations and banquets, from the northernmost ten-armed city to Silman and Fir Castle on the southern border of Eruin. In the region, every household has begun to prepare and pray for the coming year, praying that the gods will bless the new year to be calm and everything goes smoothly.

But it seems that since a trivial conflict that was staged at the border between the Kingdom of Eruin and the Empire of Cruz at the end of the year of the Year of the Sword, a farce has officially been staged from south to north on the southern border of Cruz, breaking this past. From the beginning of the Frost Moon, people seem to have become accustomed to one after another of the best news coming from the south. At first, the Eruin captured the fortress of the empire, and a Count from Eruin tried to challenge the empire. The majesty. However, in the subsequent rumors, the Lord Earl became the party occupying the axioms. What he did at the Black Sword Barrier was just to give some color to some arrogant nobles-in this year and month, The pride of the Cruz people has not reduced to the need to show superiority in a small country. On the contrary, the tolerance of a big country makes the citizens of the empire pay more attention to moral legitimacy and legitimacy-so they are more willing to stand emotionally. On Brando’s side, he went to share the same hatred with those arrogant, stubborn and rigid images of the imperial aristocrats who usually dominate. Therefore, every time Brando wins, he is applauded among the empire’s civilian class and even the lower aristocracy. Voice.

‘We should teach those noble lords a lesson so that they can understand. ‘

This is the common view of almost all people in the empire. This is not to say that the upper layers of the empire have been greatly disappointed, and the pyramid structure will be crumbling. As long as Brando raises his arms, the empire will fall apart. Most of the above mentality is a mentality of having nothing to do with oneself and gloating. This kind of counterattack is always a drama that the civilians love to see. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that a small number of conspirators were ready to move, and even planned a few small rebellions, but these unlucky people who misjudged the situation were instead seized by the Silver Queen and organized several operations to eliminate dissidents. In this respect, the supreme man of the empire really wants to thank Brando.

As a result, the south of the empire is unprecedentedly lively, and the center of the empire is unprecedentedly stable.

In any case, whether willingly or unwillingly, Brando and his envoy continued to advance north, and rumors about the Lord Earl still gathered from all directions to the center of the empire.

On the last day of the Moon of Winter Qin, the Sleeping Day of St. Osor, which is called the celebration of recovery in other regions, Brando is defeating the private army of the imperial aristocracy and a famous local squire. After the Knights of the Summer Solstice Knights formed by the children and the Anzeruta Local Defense Corps led by the Earl of Jean and the Earl of Alcons, the size of the envoy has been expanded from the original medium size of a hundred and ten people. A large convoy of hundreds of people, in addition to the carriages of the envoy itself, there are also dozens of large caravans behind the team. They are all imperial nobles in custody, old and young, and most of them have names and surnames in history. At the beginning, this’hostage’ convoy was no more than one or two carriages, but after every battle, one or two more were often added, which eventually formed the scale of the long carriage dragon now.

For these imperial nobles, Brando did not embarrass them, at least to keep them at least decent, and even allow them to keep attendants and close followers-of course, the range of abilities of these followers is limited to running errands to prepare points for their masters. Eating and drinking are nothing more than solving the problems of protection from the cold and life. In this way, Brando doesn’t even need to worry about the rations of these captives personally, and they have their own solutions. Of course, it is not ruled out that there are some hardliners who want to cause trouble for him, and hold people who would rather starve to death and consume the rations of Brando’s envoy. His handling method is also very simple, and he will provide them to those who usually pamper him. Basic rations, but after the guys didn’t eat two hard breads, they went to contact their attendants in tears.

Brando didn’t worry that these people would run away. There were magical warnings provided by wizards around the convoy around the clock, and there were gargoyles patrolling in the air. How far can ordinary people run in this snow-covered wilderness? At first, there were a few people trying to escape. Brando didn’t even stop them. In a few days, the hapless ones were cold and hungry and returned to the convoy like savages. They consciously wanted to continue to be prisoners, Bran. How deliberately relaxed the surveillance of these hapless guys in the convoy, and through their mouths, everyone soon knew what happened to them, and it had a good deterrent effect for a while.

The climax of the second escape came from the envoy passing through the relatively prosperous area near Russef. The successful “escape” of several nobles gave the entire fleet of hundreds of prisoners like a shot, and then they started. Large-scale escape operations began every evening, and people fleeing the convoy were in an endless stream, but they were arrested almost without exception. Then the unwilling imperial nobles began to contact the people outside the convoy through their entourage, and launched a battle of wits and courage to rescue the hostages again and again.

As for the whole process during this period, it is full of aristocratic wisdom and whimsical. For example, a passing circus invites the Lord Brando to visit, or the aristocratic daughter in trouble asks him, a foreigner, for help or something, full of For the romanticism of the knights, some even made Brando dumbfounded. As for the result, Brando severely taught several times to pretend to be robbers, merchants, prostitutes, mercenaries, family members of nobles and even circus members. After the various noble knights, the caravan convoy behind the embassy group unexpectedly added another section.

After a month of tricks and tricks, the nobles of the Empire finally realized that their futile escape plan did not work in Brando’s eyes. Although the Lord Earl seemed to be only twenty years old, But they are shrewd like the heads of the old mercenary regiments who have walked on the mainland for a lifetime. The disguise and ghost tricks used by adventurers, mercenaries, and Nightingales are not nearly the same in front of him. Of course they didn’t expect that cloth While Lando was teaching these whimsical guys, he was laughing at the same time, these people actually played these things with him-these were things he had played badly in the previous life, and the adventurers of the players were in the next half of the world. The play is much more exciting than these naive nobles, some things they didn’t even think about.

In the Second Age, there is a famous example. In order to ambush the mountain king Xalifinger, a player used illusion to shape an exactly the same rock fortress in a place less than five miles away from Alice Anna, and then used barrier spells to The entire Alice Anna was shielded from the map and disappeared. No one thought that someone would play such a big trick under the eyelids of countless people, even the famous NPC of the mountain king Xalifinger was the same. If it hadn’t been for the player’s guild at the time to make a mistake, I am afraid that the great cause of killing Xalifinger would really have to be completed. It can be seen that the tricks of these nobles are really boring and boring in Brando’s eyes.

He, Sophie, in his previous life, he served as the head of the game intermittently for almost thirty years. This is not a particularly outstanding experience among gamers, but it is very good when placed among NPCs. Even old mercenaries such as Fern and Yuta may not be qualified.

Not to mention that there is an older leader beside him, Nimesis. Although the female knight is not willing to recognize her own identity, this does not prevent her from exerting her experience.

The two people often studied the tricks of these nobles in the carriage all night, and the result was naturally that some unlucky ones were eaten to death.

Leaving Russef, the envoys began to gradually leave the realm of Anzeruta. At this time, some of the little noble families in the long convoy were finally unable to bear it. They began to make redemption requests one after another. For these people Brando is not particularly embarrassed. After receiving the money, he generously releases people. This kind of generosity has won him a reputation among some little nobles. The rumors about Kicking Swordsman and Mad Earl are not like the beginning. So bad. Of course, this is only one aspect. On the other hand, the nobles whom Miss Ouni let go under his instruction finally began to play a role. Under their added propaganda, Brando’s identity has succeeded in becoming a different from a foreign country. The regular and unwelcome stranger has evolved into the image of a great devil.

Their propaganda is actually understandable. After all, if Brando is not described as insidious and cunning, and how good at playing with people’s hearts, wouldn’t it appear that these guys who were arrested by him are very incompetent? After all, losing to a strong opponent may indicate that you are weak and incompetent. Losing to a wise opponent may indicate that you are a complete idiot. Losing to an old opponent may point out your naivety and innocence, but if Your opponent is despicable and shameless, so at least you can win the sympathy of the audience. After all, kindness is innocent, isn’t it?

So in their description, Brando’s treatment and dignity to the nobles disappeared. The nobles who were captured by Brando were living a life inferior to hell every day. They were not clothed. Sheltered and can’t eat enough–Although people probably suspect that a Count Eruin was doing what they did by snatching their clothes and rations, this description is in line with the imperialist’s speculation about the effect of the savages in the Panbang. The statements of the nobles successfully aroused the indignation of almost all the nobles of the Empire in Anzeruta.

当然，这种愤慨事实上从一开始就一直存在，只不过姬恩伯爵和奥尔康斯伯爵一时还没想到怎么在道义和公理上站住脚跟，好让他们可以有理由继续向这支埃鲁因人的使节团出手而已，现在终于他们在来自于维埃罗的公爵小姐‘手把手’的教导下，找到了开战的理由，不过这个理由听起来多么荒谬和不可信，不过用来说服女王陛下应该就够了。

于是在整个帝国的众目睽睽之下，两位伯爵大人开始了他们讨回面子的行动。

就如同一开始所描述的，这场从帝国边境开始一路上演至帝国腹地地区的闹剧又再一次上演，眼下显然是它的第二季，至于还有没有第三季和第四季度还很不好说。

埃鲁因人的使节团这个时节终于穿过了安泽鲁塔群山的最后一道屏障，他们现在所处的这个位置在帝国的版图上叫做浮云丘陵，对于帝国来说这是一个相当有名的所在——在圣者之战中，这里就是大平原的起点，从这儿往东看，是一望无际的原野——也就是四境之野的最西南端。而在此地往北，通过一条名为长青走道的狭长的走廊，与北方著名的花叶领相连；而在此地的东方，紧靠着断剑山脉，是罗科齐高地，那里是最接近托奎宁大平原的地方，在群山交界之处有数不清的要塞和壁垒，阻挡着来自于狮人攻势。

也就是说，这个地方恐怕是此时此刻对于帝国来说除了四境之野与断剑山脉东麓之外最接近战争的地方，自从七月开始，此地就进入了戒备状态，时至今日，这里已经看不到其他地方节庆的气息，城镇与城镇之间，商站与商站之间的道路上，行人稀少，反倒是巡逻队开始出现得频繁起来。

这个地方目前是两个战场的大兵站，也是帝国最为薄弱的环节之一，若在平日里，布兰多还真担心安泽鲁塔的两位伯爵大人会想办法说服南北两个军团某些大帝国主义者来对自己进行围追堵截，不过现在嘛，帝国的军人们正在浴血奋战，显然是不大可能来参与这些贵族之间小打小闹的游戏的。

And at this time, Brando finally contacted some of the imperial nobles who favored him through Lenaret’s influence in the empire-but the nobles he first came into contact with were not the hardcore supporters of the emperor’s eldest son- After all, the military aristocracy’s sphere of influence is mostly in the north, and the south is the traditional sphere of influence of local aristocrats and temples. The nobles that Brando came into contact with happened to be some local forces that favored the eldest son of the emperor in terms of emotion. Some say it’s soy sauce.

But these soy sauce audiences seem very important to Brando at this moment. Through them, Brando finally understands some conditions within the empire at this time-especially the key is the return of Veronica and Mangrove to the empire. What happened afterwards, after the entire history has changed, although Brando still has a forward-looking judgment on the customs and customs of the empire of this era and the habits of the nobles in handling affairs, he still has a forward-looking judgment on the jihad of the empire after the big explosion. The specific direction of the previous details was a rare smear. In fact, this is the first time he has encountered such a situation since he returned to this era.

After contacting these small families, he finally understood what happened after that. As Veronica expected, she was deprived of her military power as soon as she returned to the empire, but the Silver Queen did not condemn it. The Erica family, instead, let Veronica’s brother succeed the legion commander, and at the same time took over the position of the Erica family’s parent. She apparently hoped to appease the military and not to offend the people she was going to use, but Brando knew there were deeper reasons, because he knew Ms. Veronica was actually It was just a scapegoat in the whole incident. In the eyes of those who don’t know the truth, this incident was punished because Veronica accidentally embarrassed the royal family, but in fact this was just a cover-up, and Her Majesty knew it. Ming her role in it, she is so pacifying the Erice family, it is inevitable that she is a little guilty of conscience.

But what makes Brando a little puzzled is that Veronica was not put back into her own territory, but was put under house arrest in the Imperial Capital, which made him a little bit unable to understand, could it be that Her Majesty really Hard-hearted, want to cure the guilt of the corps commander? No matter how he thought about it, he felt that it was unnecessary. The Silver Queen wouldn’t be ignorant of Veronica’s ability. She didn’t seem to need to offend the other party to death.

But Brando didn’t think deeply after learning the news. He didn’t realize until Nimesis reminded him that there might be a conspiracy in it-something was indeed wrong.

After Nimesis learned the truth of the whole incident, the original words to him were: “Your Majesty the Emperor of the Cruz people will make big moves.”

“What’s the matter?” Brando knew that his political experience would not be much better than the righteous knight in the regiment, Eco, so he didn’t feel anything wrong, so he asked directly. road.

Nimesis glanced at him with a rare look of hatred for iron and steel. This look is very similar to the eyes of the senior sister when he looked at him: “Do you think about who Veronica is? Can my brother become a great weapon? Since you and I know this, how can the Silver Queen not be clear? She did this to say that the Blue Legion was suspended. What forces are there in the central area of the empire? Without the Blue Legion, strength The balance is easily broken. A mature politician would not make such a risky move, but if she did, it shows that she has attempted to eradicate the logic that risks are proportional to returns. Her actions must be Not small.”

The female knight paused for a while, and then faintly replied, “It’s just that we have too little information to infer what she wants to do.”

Brando’s heart jumped slightly. He saw this lady Cavaliers who was usually taciturn, and only occasionally said a few more words when discussing tactics against the nobles with him during this period of time. For a while, she was so familiar. She felt as if she had returned to the other person. When she said that before, it was almost like the scene when the senior sister analyzed the task for them. It’s just that at that time, Bai Jia-senpai was much gentler.

He pursed his lips, and thought about Nimesis’s remarks in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more he realized it was possible.

But whether the Supreme One’s actions are good or bad for them, just as Nimesis said, because there is too much information missing, it will not be inferred for a while.

“This matter is really getting more and more complicated,” Brando couldn’t help but mutter to himself: “But your majesty’s actions, presumably will not have anything to do with what we are going to do next, we are going to do it now. The matter is still dealing with certain two Count Lords. Only when this matter is done well, we can take the initiative in the next trip to the empire.”

After listening to the female knight, she was noncommittal, but Metisa on the side replied: “Lord Lord, I think it is a good thing to focus on one thing, but we’d better inquire about this.”

Brando nodded this time. In fact, he already had a suitable candidate in his heart.

Speaking of which, the other party was the only person he knew in the empire.

Coincidentally, at this moment they are still very close geographically.

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