Scene 103 Tony Geer and the Young Lord (3) (First update)
The winter of the year when the War of the Black Rose broke out was unusually cold, and the air in the gray sky seemed to be frozen into powder that fell in droves.
Jert lurked in the bushes on the top of the mountain all night, almost freezing to death.
He stretched out his hand to catch the powder falling from the sky. There was a slight coolness in his hands, and the ice crystals melted in his hands - they were snowflakes. The young man who was still wearing his blue string mage apprentice robe that seemed to have remained unchanged for thousands of years raised his hand.
Start looking at the sky.
Snowing.
The first snow this year.
He couldn't help but think of the frequent conversations between Lord Charles and the young lord, mentioning the situation in the north, the fate of the Grand Dukes' coalition and Her Royal Highness...
"The war in the north was delayed until after the first snowfall——"
Geert himself is just a noble scion from a small gentry family. His hometown is in Karasu, which is also a remote area of the kingdom. Although he is from a noble family, his experience is limited after all. At most, he can only watch the lives of those big shots.
I am finally living better than the average person, but the recent years have been getting worse every year.
Geart went out on an adventure, and he knew very well in his heart that he wanted to change his destiny. He systematically studied magic for a period of time under a wizard mentor, and communicated with the mentor to understand the outside world - the chaotic world of this era is very important to people like
It has a fatal attraction for young people like him.
Chaos seems to be full of opportunities.
So after the death of his mentor, Jeter embarked on the journey of his dreams.
But his luck was not as good as he expected. Two of the companions he met who were from similar backgrounds died of illness during the trip. They had to take a short rest in the fir collar before considering whether to return the same way or continue onward.
Unexpectedly, this happened again. Grudin killed all his companions. The despairing Geert just wanted to stay and die with the noble.
But sometimes fate is so changeable.
It was that night that he met the young lord, participated in the battle, and had the honor to follow him since then, and then he became the first member of the wizard group under Charles.
As Ciel's deputy, he had the opportunity to participate in the discussion between Brando and the wizard's retinue - of course, young people couldn't get in - the two talked about the situation in the north and Bramanto's situation.
Invasion of the Black Roses, talking about Cruz.
The lord's vision made Geert seem to have seen a whole new world, a level he had never imagined before.
It was also something his first mentor never discussed with him.
At that moment, Jerte knew that he might have seized the opportunity and that the road to realizing his dream was close at hand, or that he had already realized it.
Since then, he has become a whole-hearted supporter of Brando. This time he went to Pallas to gather information, which he also voluntarily applied for.
However, it happened that the scout team needed someone who was proficient in magic, so he was selected as a matter of course.
For this reason, Charles also complained to Brando, saying that he had robbed one of his capable lieutenants.
However, Gert did not regret it. He felt that rather than staying in obscurity by that adult's side, it would be better to come out and attract the other person's attention with practical actions.
He is a person who yearns for adventure, otherwise he would not leave home and come here.
The young man stared at the sky and thought for a long time, and finally came to his senses. Then he raised his hand - not making too big a move, so as not to attract the attention of the sentry below.
From the top of the mountain, he looked at the gray-yellow tents and the campsites with people coming and going in the forest below.
Then he heard a rustling sound coming from behind. His companions were on guard in that direction. The voice coming from him was obviously one of his own. Of course, there was another possibility, needless to mention.
Geert immediately tensed up his nerves.
"Chinese cabbage……"
A strange password came from the woods, which was said to have been taught to them by Charles.
Geert immediately relaxed, he was one of his own, he turned around and replied: "Xi Letu - who is it?"
"Ma Youfu."
Jerte recognized that this name belonged to another wizard apprentice in the same team. The guy originally only had a nickname but no name - the name was given to him by the lord.
What a lucky guy, Geert couldn't help but think.
"Jelt, how are you? Is this the camp of Knight Pallas down there?" The wizard apprentice wearing a gray robe walked over and squatted beside him and asked in a low voice: "But the mice said that there is no camp here.
Camp—"
"This is not Pallas's camp."
Geert shook his head.
"No?" Ma Youfu was stunned.
The young man nodded slowly and slightly moved his limbs, which were stiff from the cold: "They are mountain people."
"Mountain people?"
"Aren't they fighting with Pallas?" Ma Youfu asked in surprise: "Why are they here? Are they planning to invade at this time? God help us!"
But Jerte shook his head, it was not that simple: "There are many branches of mountain people, they may be coming for us."
"What?"
"Are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure, I know them better than you do. Okay, let's go and deliver the message to the reporting team. We're preparing to retreat," Jerte replied: "It's snowing, and we can't hide anyone here. We have to change our clothes."
come over."
Ma Youfu looked at his companion and nodded.
…
"Mountain people?"
The snowflakes in the sky have become denser.
Not long after leaving the south gate, Brando ran into a mercenary. The other person was an elementalist - the young man recognized this person - Ciel's subordinate.
At Brando's request, Charles selected those with the ability to cast spells from mercenaries and adventurers - wizards who knew some magic, third-rate elementalists, liars, witch doctors who pretended to be magic, and a large number of apprentices -
—Formed a so-called wizarding group.
Because Charles, a wizard from the golden realm, was there as a sign, this move did not take much effort. Many wizards even voluntarily left the mercenary group to join this so-called wizard group; although this matter was once in the hands of various mercenary groups.
It attracted criticism, but because Brando was behind him, he didn't really encounter any trouble.
And Brando knew that the advantage of using spellcasters concentratedly had been proven by both players and NPCs in the later wars. Of course, Charles complained to him more than once that these people were not worthy of being called a 'Wizard Group' at all.
It’s not that a hodgepodge of people from all walks of life is better, but Brando doesn’t care, at least in his opinion——
This was the first formed wizard group under him.
What's more, there are many talented people among these people. If they are trained a little, there is no problem in forming the backbone of the future Wizards Association. It is a pity that although Charles has the strength of a mentor, he has no experience in training apprentices. Therefore, this so-called wizard
It seems that the group is still empty at present.
However, it is not completely useless. These spellcasters with even a little bit of strength more or less follow a certain mentor, or at least have been apprentices for a period of time. Some of them even have academic backgrounds. They have one thing in common.
That is Du Shiwen and hyphenation.
Therefore, Brando, Antitina, Tiger Bird and Charles usually use these people to handle intelligence and some paperwork. Obviously the person he met now is one of the so-called Tiger Bird's 'intelligence department'
people.
In response to Brando's question, the elementalist nodded: "Yes, Sir, Lord Charles asked me to tell you, Sir, that you may need this information urgently. This information was sent back by 'those people in the north', and it said
It’s related to the mountain people——”
Those people in the north?
Brandol was stunned for a moment before he remembered that he had indeed asked Huque and Leto to organize people to infiltrate the Pallas area in order to collect information about the gathering of Count Denel's army.
Huque was solely responsible for this matter, but he also knew the specific plan. Ciel asked his third-rate wizards or apprentices who had been recruited from mercenaries to be mixed into these scout teams, disguised as adventurers——
In order to send the message back to the rear.
The method of sending back messages is also very simple, but this method was proposed by him personally, animal messenger. Of course, this is not actually a new method, but a method of using familiars - as early as the Year of the Cave Beast
The Cruz people had used this method to convey information in the November War before, but in this era few people thought of sending wizards to the front line, so this method was far from popular in this era.
But it was not until the outbreak of the Black Rose War, a few years later, that the first wave of magic arrived, and the number of people with wizard talents increased day by day, and this method gradually spread.
In the later stages of the war, this was already a very mature method. But at that time, there were already more stable alternatives - such as using magic tools. However, Brando did not have the conditions yet, so he immediately thought of
This 'local method' was adopted.
With animal messengers transmitting information, the range for an apprentice to transmit information is about one day and one night. Theoretically, the information is transmitted back station by station. Information that used to be delayed for almost a week can now reach the fir tree in an instant.
collar.
However, the manpower currently available to Huque and Ciel is limited, especially those who have both the ability to cast spells and are familiar with scouting skills. Therefore, only two or three such spy teams have been established so far.
Therefore, their surveillance of the Knights of Pallas is actually quite limited, and Brando did not expect to get useful information so quickly with this level of surveillance.
But now it seems that those nobles still look down on these 'mobs'.
Perhaps they have paid enough attention to them as opponents in the war, but outside of the war, Pallas still neglected to take precautions against them.
But this is easy to understand. Although Brando does not have many men now, his methods even surpass Eruin's regular army. Although he himself does not have this consciousness, traditional soldiers like Sir Pallas can have a headache to deal with it.
Already.
Putting wizards on the front line as scouts? In the eyes of the nobles, does this kind of thing seem like something human beings do?
Only Brando, who is used to this approach, will take it for granted. In fact, when he first proposed this idea, not only Antitina, who had always been conservative, but also Charles was shocked.
