Anton always thought that he was just here to make up for this pre-war meeting. He was not from the Arias family, nor did he hold any important position in the castle. He was just a teacher sent by the Silver Moon Church to enlighten children from noble families.
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The reason why he can attend the meeting is probably because the Arias family cares about the Silver Moon Church, so Anton is also very self-conscious. Until now, he has not participated in any discussions, nor expressed his position, nor even said a word.
Never said that.
So he never thought that he would become the focus of this pre-war meeting, until he found that everyone in the hall was focusing on him, and many people looked at him with expectations flashing in their eyes.
The Common Language teacher couldn't help but panic, and stammered, "But...but the church doesn't have an army either."
"Of course we know this, but with the relationship between the Silver Moon Church and the major families in the Western Region, if we are willing to come forward, we can surely persuade them to send troops." Lucio said full of hope.
"This..." Anton was embarrassed, and finally decided to tell the truth, "I'm just a teacher, and I don't speak much in the church. Of course, I don't want to watch those lizards and their evil gods burning, killing, looting, and killing people on this land.
Believers of the goddess tarnish the glory of the goddess, so I can write to the church, but I can’t guarantee whether the church is willing to help, or how much it can help.”
"Just ask the goddess to send an oracle." Someone whispered, "So many believers have died, including nobles..."
Anton's face turned red, but he still tried his best to explain, "The goddess has her own arrangements, and she cannot always keep an eye on things on the ground on the Holy Mountain. All we can do is pray with our hearts."
That is to say, Miss Rabbit is offline at this moment, otherwise she would definitely jump up from her seat, shouting and praying in vain, because she had prayed for a long time about the election before, but she almost lost in the end.
If it hadn't been for meeting Li Yu and Saturday behind him, Blanca and his mother Vanessa would be the ones sitting here with a headache right now.
And everyone present is not a fool. Listening to what Anton said, you know that most of the time, the Silver Moon Church cannot have high hopes.
In fact, the current time is enough for everyone in the hall to evacuate and run to the nearest Black Rock City. However, no one has mentioned this until now.
Most of the people present were members of the Arias family, or old people who had worked for the Arias family for many years, and they all knew what this castle meant to the Arias family.
As long as it does not fall for a day, even if the entire green field turns to scorched earth, this land will still belong to them, and their descendants will still fulfill the sacred oath made by their ancestors to the Figuerola family.
But if they abandon the city and flee, even if the lizardmen are eventually driven away, their return may not be so smooth.
However, Ona still picked two children from the Arias family and sent them to Black Rock City just in case.
Seeing that no one had anything to say, the meeting came to an end.
Then everyone went about their own business, gathering refugees, sending letters for help, counting supplies, and Alfred climbed to the top of the city again to patrol the city defenses.
When the first ray of morning light fell on the rabbit flag above the castle, Ilea finally regained some energy.
After running away in the middle of the night, experiencing severe emotional fluctuations, and having not had any water until now, the girl looked a little weak.
But with the help of the maid, they climbed the city wall together.
With her previous experience, Miss Rabbit is now more and more familiar with throwing coins. With a wave of her hand, she added a gold coin buff to the soldiers and civilians defending the city.
As for the pain of bleeding, that is something that will happen later.
If she lost the Teacup Castle, let alone the money, she would not have the shame to meet the ancestors of the Arias family after her death.
Speaking of ancestors, the girl thought of the ancestors hanging around her neck.
I don't know if it's because she hasn't been serving the ancient spirits as hard as she used to in recent times, which made her ancestors angry, so she caused such a terrible disaster.
But Ilea then thought again, no matter how dissatisfied her ancestors were with her unworthy descendants, there was no reason to trap their descendants to death. Besides, the ancestors of the Arias family should not be able to control those lizard men in the swamp.
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From this point of view, it is more likely that the evil gods behind the lizard men are at work.
What to do? I don’t know if the Silver Moon Goddess has noticed that her followers are in urgent need of her help.
Miss Rabbit felt that she must be embarrassed, otherwise her earlier acquiescence to Li Yu secretly preaching to the four children, and her plan to transfer her uncle's fief to Li Yu would have been discovered by the Silver Moon Goddess Pisiya.
So who else can save her and the people living on this land now?
The girl walked down the city wall with a heavy heart and came to the open space in front of the stone castle. When she passed a cedar tree, she suddenly stopped.
The accompanying maid watched with some confusion as the head of the Arias family pulled out the ruby dagger from his waist.
After hesitating for a moment, he rowed it towards the cedar tree in front of him.
Miss Rabbit worked hard to carve the beach, palm trees, deck chairs and parasols into the bark according to her memory.
Because she remembered someone once told her that this was a ritual to communicate with a certain great being.
Although the girl is not even a believer in it, those patterns carved by her are also specious.
However, after she took back the knife, she still folded her hands and prayed devoutly under the old tree.
The accompanying maid seemed to have thought of something, her expression changed slightly, and she quietly took two steps back, not knowing whether she wanted to distance herself from the strange patterns on the tree or from the female lord who was falling into paganism.
Fortunately, at this time, the castle was still accepting refugees coming from all directions. There was a lot of excitement everywhere, and no one paid attention to the little incident that happened here.
Even Ilea herself tried her luck everywhere with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and did not really believe in Saturday's ability.
After all, this great being that Li Yu said could not even keep his spokesperson in the human world, and it seemed that he could not help her keep the castle.
When she thought of Li Yu, Miss Rabbit's eyes, which were already swollen from crying, began to hurt again.
Afraid of being seen crying, he quickly lowered his head.
At this time, the lord must set an example and not show any sign of weakness, otherwise it will be more difficult to maintain the morale of the people below.
Ilea still understood this truth, and she wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes as quickly as possible. Alfred had to worry about defending the city, and she couldn't do much to help except to boost morale.
So the girl decided to devote herself to the work of resettling refugees and making arrows.
Time came to dusk in a blink of an eye, and the sun set in the west, disappearing into the horizon little by little.
Villagers from several villages near Teacup Castle were either taken into the castle, or they fled on their own in the direction of Blackstone City.
In the end, nearly five hundred people gathered in the castle, most of whom were old, young, women, and children.
This is not beyond the expectation of the old knight, because the first choice for those who run fast is definitely Blackstone City, which is undoubtedly safer. Most of the people who hide in the castle have less convenient legs and feet, and are worried about being caught up and killed by the lizardmen on the way.
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Fortunately, these people were also accompanied by their relatives, and Alfred still selected one hundred and twenty young men to help defend the city.
In this way, the security of the castle has been reinforced again.
Seeing that the sky was about to darken completely, the old knight ordered all the cavalry on guard duty to be withdrawn and closed the city gate.
The important people in the castle were now concentrated on the city wall, with solemn expressions on their faces, stretching their necks and looking to the west.
Many people's feet were almost cramped when they stood on their tiptoes, and they didn't see the legendary lizard-man army.
Some of them were even lucky enough to speculate whether the lizardmen would be satisfied after looting a few knight fiefs and turn back to the swamp.
But soon, their dreams were shattered by cruel reality.
I saw a group of small black dots running towards here quickly from where the sun was setting. As they got closer and closer, the people on the city wall gradually became able to see their appearance clearly.
Just like in the records, they have ugly heads and long mouths with fangs growing on the top of their heads. Everyone, regardless of gender, is naked from the waist up and holding a variety of crude weapons in their hands.
Some of them were made by themselves, while others were grabbed on the way, including some farm tools.
In the center of the team, four sturdy lizardmen were carrying a seat made of bones from an unknown animal spliced together.
There is also a figure on that seat.
This chapter has been completed!