The Amber Sword: Time node i of Act 68 Holy War

Anzeluta The autumn scenery is very beautiful. After mixed with the mottled rusty red, the forests between the mountains are like the colorful colors flowing on the canvas. It depicts the narrow misty valleys of Anzeluta and scattered in the mountains. The plains of the basin between the hills. But in late winter, the scenery here has changed again. The forest is stripped of foliage. The bare woodland shows the steep cliffs and cliffs. It is snowy and steep, as if guarding the giants of the canyon basin. Warmth, suddenly transformed into the fortitude and grandeur of winter.

Changes in the four seasons, this Correct's most fascinating natural landscape. In the season away from war, every year, adventurers from all over the world go here to explore. But at this moment, the Leonin army is getting closer and closer, and the Wind Elf of Saers is also fighting against the Empire legion in Four Borders Plain in the north. This charming mountain is rarely quiet.

Brando wrapped in a thick fur coat and stomped in the snow under the pine trees. His gaze looked at the plain below the foot of the mountain, which should be called a basin, scattered in rolling hills. Between, but the further west, the hills become shorter and flatter, and gradually become a vast plain, and then the west mountains rise again, forming the mountain shadow -- far away from the sky, where Broken Sword Mountain Range.

"Let them stay in the one's own castle and reflect on it," Brando replied, watching the valley below. He answered that Young Lady O'Neill had asked him how to deal with the issues of Kirrlutz noble that he had arrested. Duke stood in the woods and kept a certain distance from him, as if he was a little closer. In the future, if he caused any trouble, As if implicated her. He didn't care about this and went on to say: "Orkens Count and Jean Count seem unwilling to pay us a ransom, that is to prepare to continue revenge."

Duke stood there reluctantly, she thought it was just a normal envoy, but later became a rebel, and now it is something like bandits. -- noble The hostage ransom of the war. Thanks to this Lord Count, I want to get this name.

But she ca n’t say no, what can she do, now she has been on the thief ship and **** with the **** damn envoy, even if she wants to deny that it ’s all Brando made it, okay, then you have to wait until you meet Her Majesty the Queen of Kirrlutzian or return to Aouine; as of now, she can't leave the team alone and run back to Aouine, or simply surrender to noble of Kirrlutzian, Although she really wanted to do that a few times, after thinking about the consequences of doing so, she gritted her teeth and held it down.

"Lord Count ......" Duke deeply breathed in, finally asked: "I would like to ask what do you want to do, you broke a empire fortress, swept the face of Anzeluta regional nobles, defeated Knights of Kirrlutzian, okay These are all forgotten. The former can be said to be a lesson of arrogance to Roselia legion. As the ambassador representing Aouine's, we do have the right to do so, and the latter is because they took the initiative to attack us, and we are just fighting back, also justifiable , But now why are you doing this, why did you find Kirrlutzian for ransom? "

"So is Correct, so what?" Brando asked back.

O'Neill is almost fainted. Generally, Aouine noble ca n’t wait to be more respectful when facing Kirrlutz noble, but this Lord Count is better, as if slap in the face there, slapping past, as if afraid that Kirrlutz Empire will not lose face of. But Aouine's noble can be shameless, but the empire is not. How many empires are owned by the empire, how many eyes are staring at every move of this behemoth, how can it make Aouine a small country ride on its head, the rulers of the empire are at least slightly IQ, it is not difficult to realize this.

And this is what she has never understood the most. What good is this Lord Count doing? To build reputation? Well, he's famous enough now, almost everyone knows royal capital from Aouine South to Kirrlutzian. In most empires, in the whole kingdom, all noble should reduce outdoor activities since the beginning of winter. Discuss this brilliant deed of Lord Count every day.

However, this reputation is not good, because according to what she learned, even inside the ambassador, some people bet when this Lord Count will be unlucky.

Certainly, Brando has nothing to do with her, and she can't worry about it, but what makes this Duke sad is that they are now on a boat. If the Lord Count capsizes, she It is inevitable to fall into the water.

Thinking of this, she looked at Brando angrily, and the indifferent look of the latter almost made her grit her teeth --. The idiot knows what he is doing?

O'Neill became more and more angry, thinking that a good ambassador was completely messed up by this young and arrogant arrogant. At first, she joined the mission with a mentality of traveling, but Unexpectedly, it turned into a war in the end. A furious woman is very terrible. At this moment, the elegant and decent Duke has lost her mind and decided to tear it off completely with Brando. She said in a tone that she had never used in her life: "Lord Count, I know you are Aouine will be powerful today or in the future. My insignificant daughter, Duke, seems to you insignificant, but I still want to remind you that there are still many people in this mission, including your student, the future king of the kingdom, And your subordinates, and many innocent people, we don't want to be destroyed together with you because of your waywardness. may I ask, can you understand me? "

Brando looked back at the Duke, and thought that the noble young lady could bear it for so long. Like a guy like Ivoram, he had been scared into the one's own carriage for a long time. , Funny. He then replied, "You speak a lot, Young Lady O'Neill, I never wanted to harm anyone."

"I don't want to listen to these sounding words, Lord Count, I've had enough! You said that you have a sense of proportion, then please tell me why you seized those youngsters of the noble, Orkens and Jean families. With them, instead of asking someone else in their family to ransom? "Duke asked angrily.

Hearing this question, Brando embarked on his face: "Young Lady O'Neill, although I accept your opinion, I also want to tell you one thing, these people are now my captives. As for why they became my captives, That's because they took the initiative to provoke us, not that we hit their territory for no reason. They wanted to breathe for the failure of the Black Sword Barrier, and from a philosophical point of view, the side of the Black Sword Barrier's conflict was the empire. It ’s not with us, so since they intended to bully the bulls from the beginning, they should have been mentally prepared early on. "

He patted the snowflakes on the fur collar. Actually, he didn't need such thick warm clothes for his strength. He just didn't want to look too special. forget it/that's all, not to mention that people are easy to work, if it can be warmer. At least, he doesn't need to make himself like bitter monk. Then Brando continued: "As for what you said I asked them to pay the hostage ransom, isn't it taken for granted. The war between could it be that Aouine and noble in the history of Kirrlutzian to redeem the hostage already is noble enough to pay the bill?"

"You are arrogant," Since already is completely liberalized, Duke is no longer trying to use euphemism. She has not read much less books than Brando, so she answered directly: "Lord Count you and I know that it is Kirrlutzian, and the disputes between Kirrlutzian and Kirrlutzian, Aouinian and Aouinian, and Aouinian and Kirrlutzian are different. In nominal terms, the people of the kingdom and empire under the rule of Holy Cathedral of Fire are All are born equal, but in fact, this is just empty words. Everyone knows that the empire can't give the kingdom face, but the kingdom can't help the empire face. You will be tempted today, and tomorrow when the empire waits for revenge, What shall we do? "

"I do n’t believe you will know these things, Lord Count, you do n’t have to pretend to be crazy, outsiders say you are crazy and gave you a nickname of 'crazy Count'. They call you '你 门 Sword Saint', But the people in our mission can see clearly, you understand better than anyone else, your people are capable, and even if you can't see this, I think they will remind you, but your name is Ciel's wizard, There is also the elf Knight Young Lady, who has a superb mind but lets you do whatever you want, which shows that you have known for a long time that everything you do has a clear purpose.

O'Neill replied coldly: "But for this purpose, except for you and your people, we have all been in the drums. You said that you fight for the reputation of the kingdom, that is, all of us as if I'm a fool. "

Then already talked about this, Brando understood that the Duke Qianjin really came to show him today.

He nodded and said, "Well, you're right, all of what I have done is indeed for another purpose."

O'Neill looked at him with such an eye coldly, and that eye seemed to say, "You better tell me all about this, otherwise this Young Lady will not be with you, -- wants to not lose the card except to play There is a third way besides peaceful win, and that is to lift the table. "

"But Young Lady O'Neill, you still made a mistake." Brando shook his head again.

O'Neill looked at him suspiciously, as if wondering what Lord Count was playing.

Brando glanced at the direction of the valley before answering: "Aouine's strong and weak has nothing to do with you, but it is very important to me. So you may think it is incredible, but in the black sword The barriers I want to teach Roselia people are indeed for legitimate reasons. As for why I will do these later, it is precisely to make the empire unable to retaliate against us make a move, "he paused, as if waiting for the Duke to digest one's own spoke, and then continued: "Do you think we will just end this, the empire nobles will give up? We will return the hostages in our hands, and they will let us leave Rutherf smoothly?"

"Then I can only say that you think too much. Young Lady O'Neill, you are very clever, but the understanding of the Empire is often influenced by others. I told you earlier, in fact, the Empire is just that, but if we Today, I returned these people without any damage. Did n’t I tell them that they can challenge us without any cost? ”Brando shook his head:“ This is impossible, I will let them understand and challenge me once, they They will feel the pain once, until they can't afford the loss. "

Duke Qianjin heard these words and felt that this Lord Count was simply stubborn. She couldn't help but coldly asked: "Well, maybe you have a point, but you haven't thought about it. The trouble is bigger, do you know who is behind the Orkens family and the Jean family? It is Palut Archduke, and the Palut family is currently even the most powerful noble in the empire. If they come to the stage to deal with you, Lord Count, you can still release Does such a rhetoric make them feel pain? "

It is indeed possible. Although Brando is confident, it is not arrogant enough to claim to be able to challenge such behemoths as the Palut family.

But things don't go that far.

He shook his head again: "Rest assured, Young Lady O'Neill, things cannot go that far."

"Why do you say that?" Duke Qianjin asked indifferently: "With your so-called intuition?"

"You don't believe me?" Brando eyebrow raised: "So how about we make a bet?"

"What bet?" O'Neill bet.

"You help me persuade those Kirrlutz noble and convince them that I will can do it. If they can't get the ransom, I will tie them to Lucita and take them to meet Her Majesty and talk to him below Make sense, "Brando replied.

Duke Qianjin looked at him in surprise, "You still want to make things bigger, are you crazy?"

"I'm not crazy, haven't you said that, I understand it," Brando looked back at the daughter of Archduke of Viero and asked provocatively, "Why don't you dare to make this bet with me?"

"How dare you not?" O'Neill gritted his teeth and replied indifferently: "But you only said half. If I did, what about you?"

Brando replied: If you do this, I assure you that this matter will have no effect on me, for you, and for the entire mission and the kingdom. Not only this, but this time out You will also get unprecedented success, and you will also get the reputation you want, so that your father arrive in person will not marry you to an unknown country noble so early, let alone which well-known Scholar The master will fancy your talents, accept you as an apprentice, and you can complete the one's own wish. "

This sentence obviously frightened Duke, she couldn't help looking at Brando in shock: "How do you know, did you use any evil spell for me?"

"No," Brando grinned, "I bought your maid."

"It's shameless!" The Duke finally couldn't help but say a swear word.

Brando smiled secretly. What did he do to buy a maid, but he only occasionally learned something about this ojou-sama. In previous life, the other party is just an ordinary NPC. His understanding of this Young Lady is actually That's all there is to it, just use it casually, I didn't expect to really bluff the opponent. He smiled and continued: "How, now it's good for you and me. Now you go back, whether you go to Kirrlutz or Aouine, you can't escape the blame, offending the empire and Holy Cathedral of Fire , After all, it will fall on you, but in the future, if I have any credit, you can't get a cent because of today's indecision.

O'Neill glanced at him, and reciprocated, "What kind of merit can you have for a person like this is really the kingdom's misfortune, but since I promise to bet with you, I will certainly do it."

She paused, and suddenly hesitated: "You and I said this, naturally not because of conscience, but then again, it seems that there are better people around you to do this. Why? Let me do it? That one is called Ciel's wizard, and that elf Young Lady. They are loyal to you, are n’t they better people? "

Brando can't help but feel a little embarrassed. Does he seem to be so untrustworthy that he should even doubt it.

He thought for a moment before answering: "Correct is more unsuitable to do this because Ciel they are loyal to me."

"Why?" Duke is a little puzzled: "What on earth do you want me to do?"

"I forgot to explain to you, I asked you to persuade those Kirrlutz noble, and at the same time, you also deliberately let go of one or two of them, and at least make them believe that -- you and I are not a group. -- is Yes, just like what you think now, you just need to explain to them, all of this is that I am going crazy alone, and the rest of the mission is held by me, just tell them the original words, and then Let them go and let them report. "Brando looked at one's own O'Neill in a stunned look and couldn't help shaking his head:" Don't look at me like this, I know this is what you think now. "

"You have a sense of self-knowledge," Duke replied with a gritted tooth, "but I don't understand a bit, what are you doing for this? Isn't your purpose to stop those Kirrlutzians from coming to us, Looks like you are afraid that one's own is not troublesome enough? "

Brando raised a finger and shook her.

"It's as simple as killing a snake."

…… (To be continued. Please search for floating astronomy, novels are better updated and faster!)