Black Scepter Chapter 43: Mercenary

Five days later, the magic circle at the center of Kossene Castle was completed, and it was inlaid with advanced crystal nuclei from the "gift" of Earl Watley, and the trial operation began.

In ten minutes, the Koseni Castle and its surroundings were shrouded in heavy fog, with visibility less than ten meters.

Morpheus, who was very satisfied with this, did not stop the depiction of the Magic Circle. After working continuously for five days and five nights, he carried a bag of dry food and began to depict on the compacted land outside the castle.

The edge increases and the overlap expands.

There are endless variety of magic arrays. How can overlapping magic arrays avoid each other? How to enlarge the scope of the magic circle? These problems must be achieved through the work that Morpheus is doing now, but he has just received a report from the blood clan servant that he has not been busy for long.

The war between Byzantine and Caslandi is about to begin.

According to the news of the scouts, a group of patrol cavalry appeared 50 kilometers away from Feileng, and had patrolled regularly for three days. They belonged to the Byzantine empire, but the other party’s patrol site also included The border part of Caslandi.

From the name of the reported knightly war flag, Morpheus quickly understood the cavalry regiment to which this team belongs-it is not difficult to guess that there is only one Byzantine knightly regiment coming to the front: the medical knighthood led by the Duke of Windsor .

That is to say, the father of Morpheus, Duke Windsor, should be within 50 kilometers of him at this moment.

A long laugh at the banquet of Prince Longinus, the regimental commander, has now come true, but the Morpheus, which has undergone a series of transitions from the sacred Gabriel Empire, is now hiding in the corner under the name of "Empire Enemy" In the meantime, Morpheus's sadness was originally diluted by the coming battle. Suddenly, I heard the news. Even if he is young, he will be a little unhappy even if he has a strong mental capacity.

Hesitating again and again, he took his wand and dagger and ran across the border himself.

Riding on Sphinx running in the dark without any sound, he followed the cavalry reconnaissance team patrolling the border at dusk to the headquarters of the Byzantine troops. Morpheus looked at the campsites in the night and the campfire was a long time. There is no action.

It just seems that someone has been waiting here for a long time.

"It is not wise to do this, but you are still here."

Familiar voice, familiar tone.

The attitude of the bystander, the attitude of the peerless.

Morpheus turned back suddenly, and in the field of vision, Della stood ten meters behind her, and even Sphinx didn’t even notice it-Sphinx, who could completely hide her body in the dark, did not attack this sudden The strange woman appeared, it did not even dare to show a bit of hostility. For an overlord-level Warcraft, the woman's breath in front of him was terrifying enough to make it tremble.

"Teacher..."

Thousands of words, eventually turned into two words, Morpheus salute, raised his head, facing the face of the tutor still without any expression, but settled down for no reason in his heart.

Frustration, resentment, unwillingness, anxiety, and the negative emotions accumulated over the past days, such as being washed by a rainstorm, disappear in a blink of an eye.

"Originally, I still need at least two years to teach you, but now it seems that you have passed."

Dela's black robe looks exactly like she did when she was a student at Tarrens, quiet and nonsense.

"Are you leaving?"

Morpheus is not surprised by any decision made by the tutor, but he still has a small regret in his heart-he regrets that he has not been able to get more book lists or listen to more teachings.

Dela still seems to be able to see what he is thinking and replied softly: "Everything today is just the result of your countless choices. You choose to accept my teaching. You choose to meet Ashkan in the Chamber of Secrets. Di signed a contract, all of which is inevitable."

"And I, never came, never left."

The woman who was the first set of Tarot chief magicians gently took out a slightly stale notebook and said, "This is not my gift, but the last task I need to complete. , It belongs to you and only to you."

The black leather cover does not have any elemental fluctuations, but what is taken out of Della’s hand, Morpheus will not be underestimated no matter how silly.

With both hands taken, Della didn't have any extra movements, just nodded her head slightly, just turned around and disappeared into the darkness without bringing up even a hint of magical fluctuations.

......

Morpheus didn't do anything stupid to go alone in the barracks.

The appearance and departure of mentor Della calmed his originally chaotic emotions. After experiencing so many things, he has become more realistic than the jungle hunter he used to-in order to survive, he learned not to waste extra time to go have a bee in one's bonnet.

Returning to Fort Corsini, Morpheus opened the black notebook, but found that he could only flip the first few pages, and the content behind was completely sealed. He did not continue to study hard, but read it again. After only four pages of travel notes, he pondered for a long time, and then continued to perform peripheral magic array depiction without any influence.

In less than two days, Fort Corsini’s formation was completed, but he didn’t stop there. Instead, he ordered the main roads of Feilengcui town to be blocked, and he continued to work alone.

......

The team of the Earl of Valtray did not immediately rush to Feileng from the Fording Empire with the vengeance of anger.

Perhaps because the Earl realized that the war at the border was not suitable for his own private troops to send out directly-to be honest, as a lord who was as strong as the private soldiers and the territorial area, Earl Watley said that he was calm Unless there are other countries involved, basically no one can stop it.

It feels like a strong male teacher has been provoked by ants, saying that revenge, you can shoot dead with a slap, but because of the few elephants standing in front of the ants, you can’t make a blatant past—— Because any redundant action will be considered by the ready Byzantine army as a signal to provoke and prepare to attack.

So... At this moment, an ancient military institution played an important role.

Mercenaries.

The killing with a knife is the easiest and most effective means. The Fording Empire is not only famous for heavy armored cavalry, but also high-level mercenaries with many types of arms and powerful, so along the hidden mountain road, a simple mission After the army was assembled, the secret march towards Feileng Cui began.

Their mission has only two words: "Destroy".

The hidden army marched day and night. When they were traced by the blood scouts, they were less than three days away from Feilengcui Town.

And Morpheus, who has portrayed the magic circle outside of Feilengcui Town, has not slept normally for nearly twelve days. With the ability to sleep, he is still working efficiently, it seems that the other party has more than 700 people. The news of coming to sweep Feilengcui Town had no effect on him.

Connor has returned with a suitable thug, and everything is ready to go.

It's just that all this deployment seems to be broken by a sudden variable.

The road leading to the central part of the sacred Gabriel empire was deployed by three scouts of the Hollier family, but the three of them suddenly disappeared.

Morpheus doesn’t think this is a defection or other behavior, the only and the biggest possibility is that these three blood groups belonging to the dark order were killed by someone.

The scouts sent to investigate once again damaged one, and Morpheus will no longer send his few hands to die, killing the scouts with agile action, the other party must be bad, since this is the case, Morpheus Temporarily changed his combat plan.

Finally, on a seemingly warm and sunny afternoon, three kilometers outside the town of Feilengcui, mercenaries from the Fording Empire were ready to fight.

Military capacity is neat, not by any means.

More than two hundred and fifty infantrymen, one hundred heavily armored knights, a logistic convoy and engineers, and more than two hundred strong followers.

Elemental magicians, high-level magicians, alchemists, puppet masters, various unexpected occupations and characters, immense and powerful.

The leader looked up at the clear sky above him. A chain of armor was hidden under a brownish-grey cloak. His expression was cold and he waved gently. He gave the only direct command to the adjutant.

"Offense."

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The thugs brought by Connor did not disappoint the long-awaited Morpheus.

After a trip to Kasrandi, he was not interested in finding the group of Kaslandi cavalry known as unparalleled in combat power. After all, those guys have basically been executed cleanly. Pass the defense line of Byzantine.

Holding the list that Morpheus didn't know when to list, Connor took the "friendship" of the owner of Fei Lengcui in Kaslandi to find the "nest" that exists in every country.

"Lens", this is a general term for dark creature strongholds and information exchange, similar to the existence of mercenary unions, but more loose and lack of order~IndoMTL.com~ Crystal core, magic props, these are not essential Things that can be circulated only when exchanged for gold coins, for the creatures in the "nest", they can be the objects of the transaction, and the transaction is their life.

Fate, sometimes that's so cheap.

A group of dark creatures that have been tossed around by religious ruling agencies in various countries and have to gather here are willing to sell their lives for anything. As long as the price is enough, it is not difficult to kneel and lick your boots.

Twenty-seven werewolves, thirty-four Burgess dogs from Caslandi, and fifteen "farmers" carrying thousands of vampire bats--this is for no family willing to stay and can only rely on In the name of the blood race that breeds vampire bats for profit, there are also three violent kakus who are kept in cages.

If it weren’t for Ashkandi to list and elaborate on its characteristics, Morpheus estimated that there was no way to allow Connor to bring so many suitable thugs with limited gold coins.

And these dark creatures, who were still carrying some scent of darkness, came to Fort Corsini and saw the young man holding the scepter of Sulfuras, one by one without any unnecessary nonsense.

Worship.

This is the only attitude of these lowly creatures towards the scepter of Sulfuras. For the werewolves and "farmers" who retain human reason, it is only a simple coercion, but the eyes are burning with fire and are as small as calves For the Beagle dog and the blood spider Kakus, who is larger than the carriage, Morpheus is their god.

Absolute control brings absolute command efficiency. When the mercenary regiments from Fording began their first attack in the distance, the group of dark creatures did not swarm, but was completely hidden by Morpheus.

There are only three people standing in front of Feilengcui Town.

Morpheus, Compton, Connor.