A dozen fast horses rushed into Viper Town under the setting sun. The knights on the horses, waving several noble flags, rushed along the circle of streets to the high tower in the town. When they entered the door, two people
The knights couldn't rein in enough and fell off their horses. One of them screamed in agony, and the other rolled on the ground several times and then lost his voice. He actually died before he fell off his horse.
The people in the porter hurriedly rushed forward, holding the reins of horses and helping others, and dismounted the other knights.
These knights were covered in blood, and none of them could stand firm on the ground.
One of the leading knights only said in a hoarse voice: "We are in urgent need, please call the mayor." After that, he could no longer hold on and collapsed on the ground.
A servant rushed in to report, and the housekeeper quickly arranged for someone to notify the healing magician in the town. After the remaining people brought water, they hid aside and secretly looked at these knights who were only half alive... about ten of them.
They are all injured, some people have blood dripping from the cloth wrapped around their heads, some people are missing an arm, and some people have arrows in their backs that have not been pulled out yet...
"What's going on?" Not long after, the mayor hurried out. Seeing the miserable state of the knights, he was stunned for a moment. Then he bent down and grabbed the collar of the warrior leader, shouting loudly, "You are from the hunting team.
What happened?"
The warrior leader put his head close to the mayor's ear, and after saying a few words, the mayor's face turned pale, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. In the end, he let out a long sigh and shook his body.
He staggered and was a little unsteady on his feet. The butler, who was quick-sighted and quick-witted, stood behind him. When he saw something strange about his master, he hurriedly stepped forward to support him.
"Something's happened! Something's happened!" After calming down for a while, the mayor turned around and ordered: "Immediately make 300 beds available and gather all our healing magicians on standby. Even the wizards outside the town will be arrested by me.
Come. Gather all the horses and vehicles, and gather all the warriors. From now on, no one is allowed to leave Viper Town without my order! Also, tell the messenger to prepare to leave."
After issuing this series of orders, the mayor turned around and entered the tower before the butler could reply.
"Do you know? I just did the math." In the high garden, while using a table knife to cut the meal in front of him lamely, Cohen said to the people at the table: "Since the first day we met, you have already
You owe me a lot of money. Especially you! Dear Mr. Dark Eyes, you also owe me more things, such as...favors."
"I don't want to owe you a favor. If you can convert this favor into gold coins, I will be very grateful." Swiss Hepburn put down his wine glass and answered slowly, "Actually, I have been confused by another question for a long time. I
I have been thinking about it for several days and I still don’t understand why the dark circles on my face haven’t dissipated after such a long time? Mr. Asa Gutai, what do you think?”
"I think it's good! With such dark circles on your face, others will think you are a very powerful guy."
Cohen said seriously: "I told you before I hit you, this attack is unbelievable, and the key to it is that the scars will not disappear."
"Let's see! You are obviously pretending to be confused. There are no scars that will not go away." Miss Xenia, who was drinking juice, said: "But it's okay, the Duke will no longer be the heartthrob.
Audrey Hepburn."
"The second half of your sentence, both in tone and tone, is very problematic!" This sentence made Cohen laugh. He pointed at Shania, "It's particularly ambiguous."
"Sir." Tiantian, who was standing by the door, came over and said, "The mayor wants to see you. It seems that something very urgent has happened."
"No problem, invite him over." Duke Swice nodded to Heaven, then turned to Cohen and said: "Five hundred gold coins, teach me to remove these traces. The price should be very high..."
"Your Majesty, Duke, this is terrible!" The mayor rushed over in three steps at a time, standing at the dining table and yelling, "Something big happened on the dividing line! Your Majesty, please help me come up with an idea!"
"Relax, my mayor, what big thing can happen on the dividing line at this time?" Duke Swice turned around and looked at the mayor, and joked: "Seeing that you are so anxious, could it be that Cohen...
Did Al Qaeda call?"
After hearing what Duke Swice said, the mayor's waving hands suddenly froze in the air, his mouth opened wide, and the expression on his face became extremely idiotic...
Seeing the mayor's reaction, Duke Swice was also stunned. After a moment of silence, Duke Swice put down the knife in his hand, his face became a little cold, "It seems like it's really Cohen.
Al Qaeda is coming? Where is he attacking?"
"Yes, but I don't know much." The mayor swallowed and answered with great difficulty, "About two days ago, the army of the Sbia Empire attacked our hunting team. It seems now that there is
Several hunting parties were attacked, and all at the same time."
"If they were attacked at the same time, then it was not the work of the same army." Duke Swice wiped his mouth with a napkin, without any expression on his face, "How do you know that it was the army of Korn Keda that attacked the hunting team?"
"They are an army, flying the flag of the Sibia Empire. Their equipment is much better than our army, and their armor has blouses." The mayor replied: "Just now, some warriors came back to report the news.
The attacking nobles will arrive soon."
"I want to see these warriors." Duke Swice looked at the mayor coldly, "Immediately."
"Yes, sir, I will bring them immediately."
The mayor just turned around and ran away. Duke Swice punched the table with a bang. Several wine glasses jumped up and the soup splashed everywhere... While he was talking to the mayor,
, Cohen was already walking around with Miss Senia. At this time, everyone looked at him with strange eyes, especially Miss Senia. This was the first time she saw the Duke in a bad mood.
"Sorry!" Duke Swice retracted his hand, "I couldn't control myself when I heard the news."
"No matter what goes wrong, you can't vent your anger on anything!" Miss Xenia walked over and naturally used a napkin to help the Duke wipe the soup on his clothes, "You are the Duke of the Empire! You are not a little kid.
child."
"What a heartwarming scene." Cohen sat back down and showed an evil smile, "It makes me envious."
"You need to take care of it! You are so cold-blooded." Shania told Cohen the central issue. Her face turned red and she was a little worried. "Ignore you two guys who only know how to kill. I will go back to my room to pray."
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"I really didn't expect that there would be times when you couldn't control it." After Miss Shania threw down the napkin and left, Cohen put away the smile on his face, "Why, do you hate this Cohen Keda very much in your heart?"
"You think I hate him?" Duke Swice smiled faintly, "How can you see that?"
"Because you called the Sibia Empire's army the army of Cohen Keda. Although it is not wrong to call it that, you stubbornly continue to use it." He tapped his fingers on the table and looked into the distance, Cohen analyzed slowly.
Looking at the Duke's psychology, "You two, one is the emperor of the empire, and the other is an important minister of another country. You are enemies of each other. You should have never met. Why do you hate him?"
"He is the emperor under the Divine Alliance, and I am a noble under the Demonic Alliance. With such a hostile relationship, it is normal for me to hate him." Duke Sivis said in the same cold tone: "But you,
Why are you so interested in this matter?"
"Because your reaction after hearing the news was very strange, and what you showed was not just hatred." Cohen supported his chin with his hand, "You are angry, you are anxious, and you are surprised, but it is not because of the Sibia army.
Attacking the hunting party."
"I have to admit that you are smarter than I thought." Duke Swice raised his eyes and looked at Cohen with extremely calm eyes.
"I've always been so smart. It's your negligence that you didn't notice." Cohen grabbed a wine glass and put it in front of him, "You spoke to me in such a tone... It's not because I said what's on your mind.
You just want to silence me, right?"
"Let's not mention that this is not a shady matter. Even if I want you to keep it secret, I don't have to go to the trouble of silence." Duke Swice shook his head gently and said, "Don't you like money very much? I
Just give me money."
"It seems that my guess is correct." Cohen laughed and poured himself a drink, "I don't know much about this matter, but it makes me curious that you would have such a complicated mentality for a person.
If you don’t mind, you can tell me about this person. What excessive things did he do to you? Was it because of the war between gods and demons? "
"As you said, I have never met Cohen Keda, and I don't want to meet him. All the hatred in my heart comes from the war, and of course it should end in the war. At the same time, Cohen Keda
Keda is also qualified to be my opponent." Duke Swice looked at Cohen's eyes, "As a citizen of the Camp Empire, doesn't Mr. Camp Mad Wolf know what Keda did in the war between gods and demons?
thing?"
"My life, everything about me belongs to me. Don't even think about having me in a ghost place like Camp. I hate war, so in the war between gods and demons, I don't care about what Cohen Keda did in Camp."
Concern." Cohen raised his glass, "By the way, no matter how you look at it, I haven't prayed to anyone since I left home."
What Cohen said at this moment is very consistent with the personality of the real "Camp Crazy Wolf", who is also a lawless person.
"When you say this, it's tantamount to rebellion." Cohen's words still startled Duke Swice, and he lowered his voice, "I should arrest you and send you to the Demon Palace, and let the priests take care of you.
"
"What you want to do is completely your freedom." Cohen smiled and took a sip of wine, "Let me tell you frankly. Once you say something like this, you will feel very good. There is a feeling that the whole world is in your heart.
Pride."
"I'm sure you will lose your life for this kind of pride." Duke Swice concealed his true thoughts and warned Cohen in a low voice, "I am a firm believer, and I don't want to hear this kind of thing from you again.
Speech.”
"Really? Congratulations to you then." Cohen replied disapprovingly, "Having firm beliefs is a good thing."
Duke Swiss wanted to say something more, but the mayor had already brought the warriors up, so the Duke walked over to ask about the situation. It was obvious that he did not understand the strange actions of "Koen Keda's army", so that he
After asking the question, he frowned.
"Duke, I want to evacuate these nobles from this town. What do you think?" The mayor knew that the Duke in front of him was a major general-level officer who served in the Demon Alliance Army, so he carefully stated his plan, "Nobles
Most of them were injured, so I prepared a carriage. Can you and your friends go together? We only need three days to reach the border."
"No one can leave except the person who delivers the message." The Duke shook his head and rejected the mayor's proposal. "The hunting team was attacked two days ago. If they come to Viper Town next, they will arrive at dawn tomorrow at most.
When they see an empty town, they will naturally chase after you. However, you who are walking halfway have no resistance, and you cannot leave the nobles and escape. In the end, you will only be slaughtered by others."
"Then what should we do?" The mayor almost cried, "We can't even stay here!"
"Okay, the convoy needs to travel three days, and the cavalry will take less than one day. Including the round trip, it will take one day and two nights, so it is safest for us to stay here." Duke Swice took out a token that symbolized his special status.
Seal, said calmly: "In the name of the Demon Palace, I order you to gather men, and I will give you a defense plan in half an hour."
The golden ten-pointed star seal, the holder's status is equivalent to the high priest of the local demon temple, and can temporarily control a city.
"Yes, sir." The mayor changed his title, "I will do it right away."
Without waiting for instructions, Heaven had already ordered people to light many magic lamps in the garden, removed the dishes on the table, and laid out the map. The Duke walked over and within a short time had prepared a complete defensive plan, written it on paper and handed it to
Heaven.
"Don't you usually talk a lot?" In the silence, Duke Swice, who was buried in the map, suddenly raised his head, looked at Cohen opposite and said, "Why are you mute now?"
"I don't know... let's put it this way, has anyone ever told you that when you concentrate on looking at a map, the feeling is very..." Cohen frowned and tapped his head with his finger, "It's very... very...
It's more appropriate to say calm and steady, but it's not entirely correct."
"Thank you very much for your evaluation. Do you know how people in the past evaluated me? They would only say that my posture is light, my face is charming, my silhouette makes people feel ashamed, etc." Duke Swice's finger slid across the map.
Go and say casually, "Although your words remind me that you haven't studied much, it sounds good."
Hearing Duke Swice's self-deprecating words, Cohen almost choked on the wine in his mouth. The reason why he stuttered just now was because he felt that the defensive plan drawn up by the Duke was very careful. He was thinking about what he would do if he brought his troops to attack.
It was just a matter of tearing apart the defense. I didn’t expect that the reason I made up casually would arouse the other party’s emotion. But having said that, the evaluations of those people in the past were not without any basis, because the beauty of Duke Swiss is an ironclad fact... even if
There are dark circles on his face.
"Based on the current situation, I'm not sure whether Cohen Keda will call. After all, he is an out-and-out lunatic." Duke Swice dropped the pen in his hand and walked to the platform fence.
"If his troops come, I am the one with the highest rank here, and my responsibility requires me to stick to it until the last moment... So I have something to ask you for help, and I hope you can agree."
"Tell me in detail why you were angry just now, and I will promise you." Cohen sat on the railing and swung his feet back and forth.
"You agreed to this without even asking what it was about?" Duke Swice was a little surprised by Cohen's answer. "You should know that if I asked you, it would be a difficult task to complete."
"I don't care." Cohen whistled, "Do you care?"
"Of course not!" Duke Swice smiled faintly, "Speaking of which, I was just angry about one thing... In order to defeat Cohen Keda, I collected all useful information. I know this person very well, and I understand him very well.
his empire, even his army.”
"It sounds like there is a lot of bitterness and hatred." Cohen frowned at the side.
"There is a person I respect very much, the former commander-in-chief of the Demon Alliance, Marshal Verlaine. Because Cohen Keda successfully escaped from trouble in the war between gods and demons, he and others took the blame and committed suicide." At this point, the Duke's voice sounded a little bit.
Trembling, "The marshal left me a last letter, asking me to defeat Korn Keda no matter what, and wash away this shame for him and for the countless sacrificed soldiers of the Demon Alliance."
"Then you should be happy that he called." Cohen naively wanted to resolve the grudge, "You have a chance."
"No! What I'm looking forward to is not this kind of petty battle. I want to lead the army to the Holy Capital City, the capital of Sbia, and have a big fight with Cohen Keda! I want to be in that place, in that place
Defeat him in a war of this scale and achieve a huge, uncontroversial victory." Duke Swice was a little excited, "But what is this situation now? Thousands of people came here like thieves! The time is wrong, and the place is wrong.
, and what makes me even more angry is that Cohen Keda would actually waste national power on such a meaningless attack!"
"Have you seen what Cohen Keda is thinking?" After saying his name, Cohen felt very strange in his heart, "He just sent a few thousand people, maybe just to have fun during the hunting season...
"
"No, this madman would not do such a ridiculous thing." Duke Swice interrupted Cohen, "He has a purpose in everything he does. These thousands of people are just a vanguard. What he wants to do,
It’s about mastering the dividing line between gods and demons.”
"What's there to be angry about? Just beat him back..." Someone pretended to be a military idiot.
"This is his first step. Behind these thousands of people, there must be tens of thousands of troops..." Duke Svijin lowered his head, "Koen Keda is preparing for war. I am sure he will do it in three months." We will invade the Demonic Alliance within a few days."
"Although I don't understand fighting, from what you said, it seems to be a very funny thing." Someone nodded fiercely at the side.
"He is going to fight with just one country. This lunatic, his target this time will most likely be the extremely weak Camp Empire." Duke Swice shook his head, "But he will not succeed, as long as he breaks through At the national border, the swarming demon coalition forces will drive him out, and his offensive behavior will become a big joke."
"If he becomes a joke, you should be happy."
"Why should I be happy? His return from a disastrous defeat means that he has wasted his country's power and lost his military power. With his character, he will launch another attack and then fail again! He will fall into this damn cycle. Until next time When there is a war between gods and demons, what capital does he have to go to the battlefield?" Duke Swiss pointed out the key point, "The empire is newly built and the country is in difficult times. To start a war rashly at this time... Under the internal and external troubles, I am not even sure about him. Will survive until the next battle between gods and demons."
"I heard that this guy is good at fighting." Someone was a little dissatisfied, "Why do you say that the coalition forces can drive him away as soon as they arrive?"
"Because there is me in the coalition." The Duke stood in the wind, his clothes flying, his eyes like lightning, "I am Svez Hepburn, and I am the person destined to defeat Cohen Kedar."
"I have nothing to say." Someone lowered his head and gave the Duke a thumbs up, "You are so handsome." (To be continued)