The Amber Sword - 915

The candidate Brando thought of was naturally the daughter of the Duke with a flower and leaf collar, Miss Faina. This lady was a student of Veronica, and at the same time at the top of the imperial aristocratic circle, through her to understand this. The news is the most suitable candidate. What’s even more commendable is that there is no real interest entanglement between him and the Duke’s daughter, and there is no need to worry that the other party will lie to him for no reason. Although the young lady performed in the trade wind ring To be arrogant and disrespectful, but doesn’t look like a cunning person.

What’s more, he really needs someone to prove from the side whether the eldest son’s supporters in the south are reliable.

When dealing with the local aristocrats of the empire, he has been very cleverly avoiding the topic of the eldest son of the empire-he described himself as Veronica and Mangrove as a part of the military forces in the north of the empire overseas. A friend, this identity is innately close to a family of nobles who have a good feeling for the eldest son of the emperor, plus Lenaret exposed some of the informants who were loyal to him to Brando, through these people, Brando and his envoys easily established relations with the royalists on the side of the empire.

But these people are not worth relying on after all, and Brando knows this very well.

He immediately wrote a letter to Faina. There was still a long way from the floating cloud hills to the Huaye collar. He did not expect to receive a reply for a while, but at this time, the aristocrats in the south gave it again. He brought a new message.

This information was also commissioned by Brando to ask them for help. It was mainly about some news about the current jihad. Almost at the same time as the jihad began, the Eruin envoys set out on their way to the empire, after passing through Ampereser. In the prosperous areas of Seoul, they could still more or less inquire about the war, but as they entered the Balta Plateau, and then turned into the mountains of Anzeruta, in these uninhabited areas , Really isolated from the world, in the past two months, except for this conflict with Earl Jean and Earl Alcons, they have been completely blank with all information from the outside world.

According to the Cruz nobles, since the big explosion in July and August, the retaliatory action of the lion man and the wind elves on the border has opened a vigorous jihad. This war is fought between October and November. Each stalemate, and completely silent in the last month of the Year of the Sword, the farce between Brando and the southern nobles of the empire seemed to have attracted everyone’s attention for a while, but made the ongoing war trivial; wind; The elves began to shrink after the first round of offensive in the Wild of Four Realms. After all, this was a revenge action based on the tragedy of Aukins. Although it was regarded by all parties as the curtain of holy war, the curtain has not yet been drawn. Open, compared to the private actions of this local legion, the two huge empires still need time to react to this war. This is a unique spectacle in the third holy war, as if the limbs of the body have already acted, but the brain Still operating slowly.

On the Lion’s side, it’s even more bizarre. When these people of the earth began to attack the fortresses in the Rokozy Heights-Broken Sword Mountains, they seemed to fall into silence. I don’t know if it was because of scrupulous failure or because of the winter. The logistics is difficult, and there is always no progress.

These news, with the exception of the Torquinine part, are not fundamentally different from what Brando and the others heard when they were in Ampersel two months ago.

However, the offensive actions of the wind elves are predictable. In this era, with the exception of Madara, the central authority of the empires is actually very limited in terms of local binding. Among them, the Cruz Empire is slightly stronger, and the wind of St. Osor The elves are a little bit slower, because the territory of St. Osor still faces the problem of contradictions between the two main races of humans and elves. This problem has not been resolved in Brando’s time until the Slate War, and Faenza Secondly, Faenzan is a loose alliance, with the Iner people as the main body, and there are franchising nations such as the Knights of Grace, and the north is a fertile land for the city-state, if it were not for the temple powers. , It’s almost hard to call it a country. Of course, it is very rare for the domestic situation to be so degraded as that of the Kingdom of Eruin. The three empires are all undergoing internal reforms. In this case, Wind Elf and Faenzan are at the forefront. The Cruz people At present, it seems that there are also attempts by the Silver Queen to make a highly centralized empire, and Lenaret is also ambitious, but for a while, these huge empires still rely on local nobles to maintain their operations.

The revenge of the elves of St. Osor was initiated by Orgins’ legion commanders and lords, although they were actually allowed by the elven king’s acquiescence; the counterattack launched by the Cruze’s Red Legion was not actually made by silver. The Queen gave the order to initiate the war, but it also got the acquiescence of the supreme, and even the Temple of Flame did not oppose it. The tricky thing here is that both sides are already interested in continuing this war, but both sides are not fully prepared at home.

Therefore, it is also predictable that the wind spirit will come to a halt after suddenly launching an offensive.

But the movements of the Lions seem very strange.

Toquinine is a tribal country. This country has two main races, lionmen and dwarves, as well as some ethnic groups of orcs, or lycanthropes. Lions, dwarves, orcs and lycanthropes are formed respectively. Small and small clans and tribes are scattered among the great plains and the mountains in the north. They have kings, which are the great chiefs that are nominally recognized by all clans and tribes, and spiritual leaders, which are the high priests of the Earth Temple, or rather Prophet, in theory, these tribes gathered together under the call of the chief and the prophet and decided to launch a holy war, then it also means that this golden kingdom is ready for this war.

But the current situation is that the lionmen, dwarves, orcs, and lycanthropes have gathered together to form a large army, but this large army has hesitated to move forward. This situation is propagated by the empire that the Toquinines are not good at all. Siege of the city, and the Rokozy Highlands-Broken Sword Mountain fortress group has a dangerous terrain, and the walls are high and strong. Therefore, these barbarians are simply unable to launch an effective attack on the empire. They can only look at the wall and sigh. When winter passes, they will naturally persist. Live naturally and return to teacher.

Most of the nobles who brought this information to Brando believed this. The imperial wall was high and the city was strong. Unless it was an opponent of the same level as Saint Osor, how could it be possible to break the imperial fortress group? But for these blindly optimistic people, Brando really wants to remind that one of their empire’s fortresses was breached not long ago, and the person who captured the fortress was just a Count’s master from a small border country, the Count’s master. Now in front of you, shouldn’t you think about the occasion as well?

But in the end he shook his head. The pride of the empires is traditional, and it seems that a deep-rooted concept has already formed. Once this concept is formed, it is basically no different from superstition, and it is impossible to listen to different opinions. of.

In private, he and Nimesis knew very well that Toquinine’s golden-maned lionmen were not good at attacking cities, but there were also mountain dwarves in this army, and the mountain dwarves were a group of people living in the mountains in Warnd. The dwarf tribe among them, in fact, they only exist in the Earth Temple, in the Broken Sword Mountains north of the Holy White Plain. They have been living here since their migration from the Dark Ages, digging through the mountains and digging tunnels. Building underground palaces and halls, they have considerable research on architecture and mechanics. They are both craftsmen and warriors. They are the army that is best at siege warfare, and they are especially good at digging tunnels.

These Cruz people seem to ignore the artisan warriors who are best at siege.

As for another widely circulated theory, the stagnation of the Torquinin army is due to the problem of the winter supply line. In fact, it is also nonsense. When did you hear that nomads and clan people need supply lines, they fought Habits are plundering along the route and raising their own money on the spot. For such an army, it seems strange that they suddenly stop.

Brando looked at the map and looked at it, but finally couldn’t figure it out.

But he was thinking about another thing.

In history, when the jihad started, the Lions had a fierce offensive. They once broke through the Rokochi Highlands-Broken Sword Mountain fortress group. At the most critical time, they even almost jeopardized the battle of the Scarlet Legion in the Four Realms. However, at that time, the players of the empire were really too vigorous. They used their bodies to drag the Toquinine Lions into the north. It is said that it was the first time the players changed the course of history in the game. You must know the players of that era. The average level is not more than thirty-five, and the Toquinine side also has a large army of players. That battle can only say that the players on the empire are too united and too powerful.

Since then, the Lion can only look at the northern part of the Great Plain where the Broken Sword Mountain Range and Anzeruta are divided into two, and has never recovered from then on.

Brando is thinking at the moment whether this history will happen.

Of course, he is not talking about the history of the player repelling the Lion Man, but the history of the Lion Man breaking through the Rokozy Heights-Broken Sword Mountain Fortress. As far as he knows, the Lion Man breaking through the Rokozy Heights-Broken Sword In the battle of the mountain fortress group, the role played by the players of Toquinin is extremely limited, because the main force of the siege is the dwarf, and the dwarf is one of the races with the least player group. After all, the lion is tall and mighty. However, dwarves are not necessary, let alone women have beards. A race that cannot attract female players will certainly not attract male players. This is an iron law of history.

The significance of this news for Brando is that if history is less disturbed, then the Vaughan in this world is more likely to repeat itself.

But when he asked Nimesis about this possibility, he got a negative answer.

“It’s nearly three years ahead of the holy war I saw in my dream, Brando,” the female knight said, looking at his face, “It’s because of us. You won’t be unclear about this. One point, the current situation is completely different from that time.”

Brando did not think so. The timing of the jihad was advanced, but this is not necessarily a bad thing for Toquinine. The mobilization of the clan people is very fast, and it is a great advantage to not have to prepare for logistics. What’s more, their mobility is very strong on the prairie, but for the empire, it means less time to prepare, so the current situation seems to be more favorable for the Lions than in history.

He raised this point to Nimesis, but the female knight shook her head: “It looks like this, but the actions of the Lions are very abnormal. They did not behave like this in previous wars. In that dream, What’s more, their battle to capture the Rokozy Heights-Broken Sword Mountain Fortress group was not very clean and tidy, but the whole process appeared to be very active, completely different from the current situation.”

Brando frowned when he heard this. He knew that in the details of the game history in the Spring Dawn, Senior Sister Bai Jia was superior to him. His knowledge of that period of history came from the forum and some later players. It’s a memoir-like statement, but for Sister Bai Jia, it is mostly personal experience. There is a key difference. Before the 30th level, the game content and plot that the players are exposed to are very low-level, and the senior sister happens to be one of the few players above the 30th level in that era.

He listened to Nimesis’ description, and couldn’t help but pursed his lips, thinking about where the difference appeared.

Seeing his thinking look, Nimesis reminded him aloud: “Did you hit the lion man of Torquinin?”

Brando nodded, making no secret of Nimesse. These days he has become accustomed to discussing such issues with the female knight. The feeling seems to be back to the past, making him faintly expecting: “History On the Cruz player… Cruz’s adventurers, you know it’s people like us who dragged Toquinine’s army until July until the White Army joined the battle. The war started in May, but it was in spring and summer. At the turn of the day, in winter, the White Legion will be in Leru further south, and their response time may be faster. We only need to find a way to delay the pace of the Lions for a while to succeed.”

He paused, and continued to answer: “My arrangement, you should see it too. I need a certain amount of prestige. My grandfather’s identity is a big advantage, but Brando is too young to be so young. May inherit Darus’s position in the imperial army. But fortunately, his starting point is high enough, people are always willing to believe in some superstitions. If I can act just right to confirm some of their visions, then I It is still very hopeful to gain a relatively high position in the future jihadist army.”

“按照维罗妮的说法，帝国的局势风雨如晦，历史已经完全不是你我在梦中看到过的那一个了，无论是女王陛下也好，还是皇子殿下，路德维格公爵和班克尔的军方势力，还是圣殿，或者说我们，要想在这盘棋局之中占据先手，就必须能决定自己的命运，唯一的办法是做棋手而不是做棋子。我本来还有些犹豫，但是茜的遭遇最终让我决定了走上这条路，我以前确实想得太过天真了，以为埃鲁因可以偏安一隅，从开发黑森林之中找出一条属于自己的道路。”

“但事实上，大潮来临之时，是谁也躲不掉的，你我都见证了这一点——”

“所以眼下有些事情，我必须去做，也不得不做。”布兰多沉声答道：“给南方贵族们的教训，不过是一个开始，我需要他们来作为垫脚石，让帝国明白埃鲁因的存在。但真正能让布兰多和剑圣达鲁斯联系起来的，还是只有圣战，但目前我们的实力十分弱小，不可能去找圣奥索尔的风精灵的麻烦，唯一的机会只在托奎宁。”

尼玫西丝听完布兰多的话，沉默了半晌。

“你做这些，就是为了去救一个山民小姑娘？”她忽然开口问道。

“从个人感情上来说，是这样的，”布兰多答道：“就好像当年你在布诺松谋划将我们从玛达拉救出来一样，本身缺乏理智，但对于人性来说却是理所当然。你救我们，是因为你是我们的团长，许诺过保护你的每一个团员，而我救出茜，也是因为同样的理由，我许诺给她自由和未来的希望，我就必须做到这一点。”

“这是一个执念。”尼玫西丝听了布兰多的话，嘴动了动，似乎是想要办法他的后半段话，因为她明白他听到的‘你’是指的她的另外一段经历，但从本能上，这位女骑士并不认同那是她，她认为那只是她的一段梦境而已。但这一次，她却最终没有将反驳说出口，而是如此答道。

“这个执念，是我回到这个世界以后的原动力。”布兰多答道：“我不想再放弃第二次了，学姐。”

“I’m not…” Nimesis finally sighed: “Well, I want to tell you a little, Brando, you are too dependent on everything you have seen in your dreams. I don’t know why. You always believe in that dream, as if it had actually happened. But dreams are dreams after all. For me, the greatest help to me is that it gave me a different life experience and made me mature quickly. Get up and stand out from my peers, but I never thought of confirming anything from this dream, because in that case, the world would seem too illusory to me.”

“And when I am in you, it is as if I see another me. You are always very forward-looking, but the more you rely on that dream, the less you can get free from it. For you—for a lord, one For the empire’s earl…”

The female knight looked at Brando’s eyes, paused, and then replied word by word: “It seems too naive.”

Brando was completely stunned. He never thought that Nimesse would say such a thing to him, but the other party’s tone was completely as if he had taught him how to become a qualified person. The head of the man.

“But?…” he replied.

Nimesis seemed to have expected what he was going to say, and shook her head and said, “You already know what to do, Sophie.”

Brando froze there as if struck by a flash of lightning, looking at the female knight as if possessed by a demon.

“It’s just because of your dependence on that dream that you can’t believe your own judgment,” Nimesis shook her head, and changed her name again: “Do you understand now?”

Brando stayed for a long while, as if he had just understood what the female knight meant. He took a deep look at the other person: “You mean, I should analyze by myself what the Lion of Toquinine will do?”

“Didn’t you analyze it well just now? I once taught you how to analyze the task and how to arrange the pace of the task. Today I can at least see that you have learned well,” Nimesis smiled slightly: “If I were your Baijia-senpai, then I should be very pleased, but unfortunately I am not. And you are not Sophie anymore, Brando, you have more knowledge that even Sophie can’t have, you are Egypt Lord Luin, you should be able to understand this.”

Brando took a deep breath.

He moved his gaze back to the map.

“Okay, I understand,” he replied softly: “In short, we still arrange the tasks with priority. Since the guests have arrived first, we as the host can naturally not neglect the guests. This is the Eruin ancient nobleman. Demeanor as it should be.”

Nimesis nodded: “Exactly.”

In the last ten days of the Moon of Winter Qin, the eyes of the entire empire were focused on a war that was not only unexpected but also expected. On this day, the army gathered by Earl Jin and Earl Alcons finally Arrived at Fuyun hills.