After Ask and Peggy both became demigods, the Cangqing Sword bid farewell to the Plantagenet mercenary group stationed here and set off for the city of Valencia.
Arriving at the Bull Mercenary Group's station on the outskirts of Valencia, everyone saw a carriage driving out of the town. The leader was a young nobleman, riding forward slowly on a horse.
When he saw the Cangqing Sword group, especially Asik's face, the noble young man's face twitched for a moment, and then he quickly lowered his head in panic, tremblingly swung his whip, and urged the horse to speed up.
, so as to get out of the other party's sight as soon as possible.
After three attempts and three defeats, Prince Ferdinand no longer had the courage to make a fourth attempt.
Mi'er looked at his figure urging the horse to go away, sighed, and heard Aske ask:
"Who is that person?"
The leader with the intuition sequence was naturally aware of the complex gaze of the other party, but he had never seen that prince from beginning to end... Thinking of this, Mi'er chuckled and shook her head.
"Mi'er?"
"It's nothing." Mi'er said perfunctorily, "I remembered something happy."
"Oh." Ask didn't ask anything and continued walking inside.
As soon as he entered the station, he met old Pablo, the recruiting officer. The old man seemed to have just drank wine. When he saw Asker and his party, he immediately ran over with a bright face:
"Your Excellency Asker...get out of here! Your Excellency Asker!"
"What the hell?" Ask's face darkened.
"Ferdinand!" Old Pablo laughed loudly, "That bastard prince...get out of here!"
Everyone:???
After confirming with old Pablo for a few words, Asker finally understood:
It turns out that in the Bull Mercenary Group, Prince Ferdinand, who has been fighting for power with Grand Commander Deslar in an attempt to integrate the Bull Mercenary Group into the Aragonese royal family, officially announced yesterday that he would step down from the position of deputy commander.
left.
It is said that the reason seems to be pressure from foreign countries. The Iberian Peninsula is different from Britannia. The latter is isolated overseas after all. It can openly integrate the Plantagenet Mercenary Group regardless of the surprise of its allies... The Kingdom of Aragon is still a mainland after all.
In part, after receiving diplomatic inquiry letters from the Holy See and HRE, it is said that even the Prime Minister was alarmed.
Under the persuasion of a large group of powerful nobles and the Prime Minister, the king had no choice but to withdraw Prince Fernand and gave up the plan to recruit the Bull Mercenary Group.
As the members of the royal family left in despair, the mercenaries from the regiment leader's group immediately got into revelry, moved a large amount of wine and meat from the warehouse, and began to celebrate the victory in the station.
Asike continued to move forward, and saw that the road ahead was tightly blocked, and there were mercenaries everywhere singing, heckling, drinking, and fighting.
"Forget it." Asik sighed and handed the mission contract to old Pablo, who was following him. "Help me give this to your group leader."
"What is this?" The drunken old Pablo unfolded the scroll and found out that it was a contract to go to Segovia to support the Plantagenet mercenary group.
At the bottom of the contract, there is the signature of the client confirming completion, as well as the signature and seal of Eric, the leader of the Southwest Branch of the Plantagenet Mercenary Group.
In the grand leader's office, Deslar was also having a few drinks.
It was naturally a big surprise for him to drive away Ferdinand and free the Bull Mercenary Group from the constraints of the royal family. Not to mention that he did not invest any cost in it... The real efforts were made by the Holy See and the HRE Empire.
As for why the Holy See and the Shinra Empire would blatantly intervene in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Aragon, it was of course because some members of the Blue Sword had extremely valuable identities.
On Deslar's desk, there are two pieces of information that were only recently investigated:
One piece of information comes from the Iron Cross Mercenary Group. They have confirmed that Miss Eleanor of the Blue Sword is the biological daughter of Emperor Otto II. This news has been circulated within the Grand Palace of Aachen.
Come on, it seems that the Dragon family is letting the outside world know in advance to mentally prepare the public opinion.
Another information comes from Italy and Canada, saying that Miss Nora of the Blue Sword Mercenary Group is a direct descendant of the Licinius family, which has the highest status among the thirteen wealthy families of Italy and Canada.
Together, these two people are the alliance between the royal family of the Shinra Empire and the Licinius family, and they are a huge force that would make the entire continent tremble. Although I don’t know why they are mixed up in a small mercenary group...
...I don’t care about that much anymore, Deslar has decided that when they come back, they must work hard to develop their relationship.
Our Bull Mercenary Group will be your permanent allies of Cang Qing Sword from now on, okay?
Deslar, who was immersed in his own thoughts, was suddenly interrupted by a knock on the door, so he stood up and opened the door.
After listening to old Pablo's intermittent narration, Deslar was a little dumbfounded. When he rushed out of the office to find the Cangqing Sword people, he looked around and saw that they were all mercenaries who were still drinking and drinking. The other party had already
He has already left the station.
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In a port town southeast of Valencia, everyone from Cangqing Sword welcomed the ship coming from Solomon.
This is a strange ship, with black smoke burning in the chimney. It looks like a coal-burning ship in the early industrial revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries. It has a very steampunk flavor.
However, the streamlined shape of the entire metal shell and the busy synthetic people on the ship show that the technical content of this ship is actually not simple.
"Your Excellency Asker." The leader was a synthetic man wearing a captain's uniform. He took off his three-cornered hat and said, "The wrath of the sky is ready. Next, you only need to take this and go inside the Gibraltar Fortress.
Just stay there until the red light on the device lights up."
"Tell me about the situation in Fortress Gibraltar," Ask said.
"Gibraltar Fortress is a base point of the dark sky." The synthesizer continued, "There, the undead opened the entrance to the underworld, causing the space to be distorted. When the gyroscope inside the missile calculates the inertia, it will
A large number of changing and uncontrollable errors are produced, so the hit rate of relying solely on inertial guidance is extremely low, and a signaling source must be carried and matched with another tracking system for locking."
"Well, I don't understand scientific principles." Ask interrupted, "What I'm asking is, what is the defense situation in Gibraltar Fortress? How many troops are there, and how many demigods are there?"
"There are currently more than 3,000 extraordinary beings and six demigods stationed in Gibraltar." The synthetic man answered fluently, "In addition, due to the circulation of the underworld, the death energy inside is extremely strong, and the living are as obvious as lights in the darkness.
They have placed banshees on a large number of main traffic roads and blind corners of buildings to monitor whether non-undead beings enter. It is recommended that you send the undead in your team to sneak in with the source of the message."
"What is the specific length of time required for locking?" Asker asked.
"8.3742 seconds," the synth replied. "Floating upward."
I received the source device from the synthesizer. It was something like a walkie-talkie, with a vertical pole antenna and two indicator lights on it.
"The signal source contains precision devices, so please be careful not to shake or shake, and don't fall to the ground. Up, up, up, up, up..." Before the synthetic man could finish speaking, he saw Asker casually put the
The source of the message was thrown to Peggy, and she was so surprised that its sound-producing device jammed abnormally.
Fortunately, Peggy caught it steadily, causing its nearly overloaded central processing core chip to slow down slightly.