Alpha had no intention of a quick victory. After capturing Sophie City, he actually ordered the construction of fortifications again, but the construction location changed from around the just-completed Yilan City to around Sophie City. Regarding this, the Lions
Although officers at all levels were confused, they did not question it.
The officers who were belatedly realized that Alpha had previously ordered the Lion Legion to parachute into Elan City. This move was a strategic success. Based on this, the officers blindly followed Alpha's unconventional decision-making.
In fact, Alpha's plan was just to delay as much time as possible. Although he knew that giving the Norland Army more time would only create more instability in the battle situation in Kay State, he had to
Do this.
Alpha set up the command headquarters of the Lion Legion at the Torchlight Tower in Elan City, and he never left it.
The news of the victory over the capture of Sophie City was immediately transmitted back here. Alpha took out the white magic paper specially used for war communication from the miniature magic circle. His eyes skipped directly over the full page of praises and stopped at the end of the statistics of the death toll of both sides, but he
After just one glance, he threw the piece of paper into the corner of the desk.
"We won?"
Vera stood in front of Alpha and asked directly.
"Yes."
Alpha nodded in response, and then said in a slightly cold tone: "Also, Vera, you seem to have forgotten all the etiquette I taught you recently."
"I'm very sorry, Lord Marquis."
Vera seemed to have realized what she was doing. She bent down and her voice became the same as all the servants, explaining: "Maybe it's the devil in my body that makes me restless."
"Only the devil can control people's minds, and the devil can only make people fear."
Demons and demons are two different races. They are enemies of each other, but they are equally evil. Demons once used space gaps to frequently appear in the Continent of Thorns. Not only are they powerful, some demons also have the ability to control people's hearts. Relatively speaking, humans
We know a lot about demons, but we know nothing about demons that rarely show signs. Precisely because of the unknown, the biggest emotion that demons give people is fear.
Alpha looked directly into Vera's eyes and said, "Are you afraid?"
Vera did not avoid Alpha's gaze, but replied: "Maybe it's disappointment."
A hint of astonishment finally appeared on Alpha's unchanging smile, but he quickly covered it up. He even expanded his smile a little before saying: "The weak have no right to choose how to die. As long as you are not afraid, you will win."
Devil, this shows that you are not weak, doesn't it?"
A flash of light flashed in Vera's eyes, and she nodded.
"Okay, there are more important things waiting for us to do."
Alpha immediately changed the subject and said, "Is there any news from Elder Goethe?"
He told Goethe the secret that Vera's body was a spatial coordinate, and used this as a way to keep in touch with Goethe.
As for the spatial coordinates of Vera, it came from accident. Alpha once built a magic circle based on the real devil altar in the Torch Light Tower, and exchanged a small amount of devil's blood for Vera through a blood sacrifice. After a certain blood sacrifice
, Alpha accidentally discovered that Vera had a fixed set of spatial coordinates.
Alpha knew that the appearance of this set of spatial coordinates was definitely not a good thing, but he tried his best to eliminate it. Then, Alpha changed his mind and tried to hide this set of spatial coordinates and make use of them.
"Just as you guessed."
Vera answered Alpha and said: "Elder Goethe has confirmed that the mercenary king group also knows the fact that Duke Alsis colluded with the orcs. He also added that maybe we can spread the information on the mercenary group.
And use this to cooperate with the other party. Although there are conflicts between the founding king's line and the mercenary king's line, before the overall situation of the family, he believes that the mercenary king's line will compromise, and so will you."
"cooperate?"
Alpha sneered. His facial expression seemed to be more expressive today. He said: "What I want is not just to overthrow a family leader. Well, since the mercenary kings also know about this, they will definitely do it."
"Come on, let them go make trouble first, we will wait until they are done making trouble before we take action!"
"That……"
Vera hesitated and asked, "How should I reply to Elder Goethe?"
"No need to reply!"
Alpha said decisively: "His use value is just to confirm whether the Mercenary King Group has received the information. Now that it has been confirmed, he has no use value. We don't care about him, he will definitely join the Mercenary King Group."
Let’s go find Alsis to make trouble together, haha.”
Vera rolled her eyes and asked again: "Can't you confirm it yourself?"
Alpha didn’t know why Vera asked such a question, but still replied: “The first people to know that Duke Alsis colluded with the orcs were Aranza and Elita. I know Aranza, and the mercenary kings did not have any information during the robbery.
To help him, he will definitely not take the initiative to tell the Mercenary King a series of relevant information... As for Elita, this is something I can't confirm. I thought she was a rigorous person. If she was smart enough, she should keep it secret, but now
It seems that she has pushed her branch into the abyss... This is also the reason why I formed an alliance with Elder Goethe before. If it is confirmed that the Mercenary King's family has not received relevant information, let Elder Goethe tell them."
"You are really..."
Vera took a deep breath, but found that she couldn't find the right adjective to describe her master.
"It's terrible."
Alpha himself added.
At the same time that Alpha received the good news, Aranza also received the news of the fall of Sophie City. Of course, this was definitely not good news for him.
At this time, Aranza is not in Norland City, but in an airship. The destination of the airship is Alexia State. Aranza will pass there, cross the border into Skyrim State, and travel by land to
Snowman City. Since Tianji State was notified by the snow elves, its airspace has become a restricted area for human airships.
Although Kim Gates and Old Follett were not positive about the idea of cooperating with the Snow Elves, or Yvette, they did not object to it. Therefore, Aranza still set off on the road to Snowrun City to discuss the matter.
He is probably the only one who might be able to convince Yvette.
The person traveling with Aranza was naturally Cyril. Although Aranza was somewhat avoiding being alone with Cyril, it seemed that there was nothing else she could do except take her with her.
Aranza put the magic circle recording the battle report on the table, sighed and said, "Well, Sophie City has fallen."
Cyril, however, showed no surprise and said, "Didn't you say that this is inevitable?"
"Yes."
Aranza nodded and said: "Well, although the overall number of the Norland Army is similar to that of the Lion Army, the equipment is a little better... After all, it is the standard equipment of the former Principality of Lane, but most of our soldiers are new recruits, and the Lion Army
Although the legion is at the bottom of the several legions of the Lane family, it has fought several battles after all. Just like a ball of sand hitting a stone of the same size, the sand will always scatter. But...even if you guess this,
After seeing this information, well, I’m still a little disappointed.”
"Speaking of which."
Aranza tapped the magic paper with her hand and said, "That guy Haru did a pretty good job, much smarter than Mirok."
Cyril did not hear the next words, but asked: "You said that...then we can't win?"
"That's not necessarily true."
Aranza shook his head and said: "Aren't we on the way to find reinforcements now? And... when the enemy clenches their fists, we can't resist them, but when they open their palms, we have a chance."
Cyril didn't quite understand Aranza's explanation, but he nodded anyway.
Regardless of the consumption of magic crystals and the airship traveling at full speed, Aranza and Cyril arrived at a small town with a tower on the border of Alexia State early the next morning. Aranza asked the airship pilot to
Waiting for the order, he took Cyril and a guard of less than ten people to buy several good horses in the market of the town, and bought a magic weapon with a mark in a local magic shop.
The magic ball on the map of this area left the town and crossed the border along the map's route.
This journey was not smooth. The Snow Elves once occupied the Alexia State and later the Natasha State, just because the former Dawn Guards were tightly guarding the border between the Natasha State and the Sara Falco State.
, the snow elves stopped their pace of expansion. Then the snow elves entered a quiet stage, and the humans gradually regained their lost territory. However, Alexia State, which had just recently returned to the hands of the humans, was not stable. The wilds were full of bandits and bandits, and
There are also various unscrupulous merchants with armed forces in the city.
Of course, Aranza did not encounter any trouble in the city. The merchants were always shrewd. When they saw a well-equipped team behind Aranza, they knew that this person could not be messed with. Therefore, although Aranza spent more money than usual,
A few horses and magic balls were purchased at a price that was still within the acceptable range.
While crossing the border, Aranza and his party encountered many bandits and bandits who blocked the road. Aranza was surprisingly kind to these people, killing them along the way, and actually took in several bandits with good fighting skills.
The leader, he knows that most of these people were originally soldiers, but they became bandits after their army was defeated. Moreover, through the soul sensing ability, Aranza can judge which bandit leader can be safely accepted as his subordinate. After all, the bandit leader
They are also talented people to use troops, and what Aranza lacks most right now is talent.
After crossing another withered forest, the sight in front of everyone suddenly opened up to a vast expanse of white snow.
At this time, a newly joined bandit leader stood next to Aranza. No, he was now a new squad leader under Aranza. He respectfully said to Aranza: "Sir, when you walk into this snow, it's
It’s the territory of the ‘Awakened Ones’.”
Aranza's brows widened and she said, "Well, it's winter now, the season of snow elves. I didn't expect them to come out."
"I heard..."
The team leader hesitated, but still said: "For snow elves, winter is not a season of fighting, but a season of reproduction."
"oh?"
Hearing this, Aranza couldn't help laughing, and then said: "Well, this is really interesting. Then I have to guess carefully, what our Princess Yvette is doing now..."